Western / Action (1942) 82 Minutes ~ Black & White
Restless, eager for adventure and harboring an insatiable desire for wealth, Paxton Bryce (Preston Foster) convinces his long-time friend and business partner Dan Taylor (Richard Dix) to give up their ferrying business and venture into cattle rearing. By a rare coincidence their paths cross with that of cattle thief Dominique Beauchard (Leo Carrillo) , who provides them (rather unwillingly) with a startup stock of cattle. The ranch grows in leaps and bounds, but not fast enough for Paxton. Paxton’s greed and stubborn refusal to cooperate with his neighbors costs him his son, his wife Abbey (Frances Gifford) and his long time friend Dan. Will he ever learn life’s lessons?
Director: William C. McGann
Writers: J. Robert Bren (screenplay), Gladys Atwater (screenplay)
Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster
Restless, eager for adventure and harboring an insatiable desire for wealth, Paxton Bryce (Preston Foster) convinces his long-time friend and business partner Dan Taylor (Richard Dix) to give up their ferrying business and venture into cattle rearing. By a rare coincidence their paths cross with that of cattle thief Dominique Beauchard (Leo Carrillo) , who provides them (rather unwillingly) with a startup stock of cattle. The ranch grows in leaps and bounds, but not fast enough for Paxton. Paxton’s greed and stubborn refusal to cooperate with his neighbors costs him his son, his wife Abbey (Frances Gifford) and his long time friend Dan. Will he ever learn life’s lessons?
Director: William C. McGann
Writers: J. Robert Bren (screenplay), Gladys Atwater (screenplay)
Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster
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00:05:10Hebla, you up there. I think maybe you thought she outstuck good, eh?
00:05:13Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:05:15That man at the wheel should stay awake when the river she bend.
00:05:18You blubbery knuckle joint!
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00:05:26I'm sorry, my friend, but I don't like the haircut with those harpoons.
00:05:30Shut her off, Ronnie.
00:05:32Now that you've shown us your fancy shooting,
00:05:34how about getting us off this sandbar?
00:05:36You got us on.
00:05:38Maybe we do business. I come aboard.
00:05:42I got an idea. He's got a funny notion about business.
00:05:50Don't bring my bottom.
00:05:5130 years of floating, I'm wearing a high and dry old Texas sandals.
00:05:55You must have done your floating in the bathtub.
00:05:57Ha!
00:05:58I'll float you.
00:06:04Dominique Andre and Police St. Anne. Just your service.
00:06:07Well, that's quite a collection of handles.
00:06:09There is a customer in my Louisiana. And yours?
00:06:12I'm Paxton Bryce. This is Dan Taylor, my partner.
00:06:15What's your deal?
00:06:16Well, I am in quick hurry.
00:06:18You carry my cows and I will pull it off your boat.
00:06:20Ha, ha, ha. Somebody after you, huh?
00:06:22Looks like they're rustling.
00:06:23Ah, that is old-fashioned.
00:06:25The wars here make enough cows for us all.
00:06:27What's a war got to do with it?
00:06:28Everything.
00:06:29The owners, they go into fight, they stay four years,
00:06:31and this cattle travel all over Texas by himself and make plenty of little ones.
00:06:35Ha, ha.
00:06:36These are what we call in French, libre comme l'air,
00:06:38like English, free like the air.
00:06:40Ha, ha.
00:06:41They belong to no one. They got no brand.
00:06:43And, uh, finders is keepers, huh?
00:06:45Sort them all. I have a soft heart.
00:06:47I ask myself, uh, Dominique, these poor cattle,
00:06:50they don't got no home, so I gather them together and I take them to live on my home.
00:06:53That's very kind of you.
00:06:55Why are you in such a hurry?
00:06:56Well, these ranchers, they want to keep all the wild cattle, so they chase me.
00:07:01Ha, ha.
00:07:02Upon this sense, I am telling you the truth.
00:07:04Well, that's good enough for me.
00:07:06What do you say, Dan?
00:07:07I guess it's all right.
00:07:09The Betsy Ann gets paid for what she carries.
00:07:11Oh, I am honest man.
00:07:13I wish to go to Mirio Landing on the Louisiana side.
00:07:16How many cows you got?
00:07:17About 1,000.
00:07:18Cost you a dollar a head.
00:07:19Eh bien, I will get my men started, eh?
00:07:21Tie a rope to the back of the boat.
00:07:22Avis, alor!
00:07:23They're in cattle.
00:07:25It's plumb degradin', Ronnie.
00:07:27Coulda been goats.
00:07:30Hey, Dominique.
00:07:32I'd like to hear some more about those poor orphaned cows.
00:07:52Dan, those cattle are worth a lot of money.
00:07:54All the fights we had to do was pick them up.
00:07:56What's the matter, gender-bearing again?
00:07:58No, sir, but I just laid eyes on who we're carrying.
00:08:00That's Dominique Bouchard, the fellow that raided Parkville.
00:08:02Bouchard?
00:08:03Well, he's the one that's determined to send us to Texas
00:08:05into a shooting gallery.
00:08:06Get below, Jim.
00:08:07We may need a full head of steam.
00:08:08Yeah, we better get our money quick.
00:08:13Well, how about our money?
00:08:15There.
00:08:16Oh.
00:08:17Hi, babe.
00:08:21Later, when I get the money for the cows.
00:08:24Hey, now, you don't take them off, Bouchard.
00:08:27Oh, Bouchard, so you know me, huh?
00:08:29That is of no consequence.
00:08:30Boy, turn the cows off, boy.
00:08:32I say I pay later.
00:08:35Pierre, get those cows off quick.
00:08:38And keep your eyes on this American.
00:08:41Felix, Henry, get the cattle off the boat, quick.
00:08:52Full speed ahead, full speed ahead.
00:08:59Full speed ahead, full speed ahead.
00:09:23Hey, you brass dumbasses.
00:09:24Why didn't you tell me something I don't know?
00:09:26Your cow's just about paid for our trouble.
00:09:33And we never give credit.
00:09:35Eh bien, monsieur.
00:09:36I still owe you something, but I always pay.
00:09:53Well, looks like we're in the cattle business.
00:09:55Sooner he'd handed us the money, though.
00:09:57He handed us an idea that's worth millions.
00:09:59We're way ahead.
00:10:01This whole end of Texas is full of cattle that don't belong to anybody.
00:10:04That's what increased during the war.
00:10:06We buy the land, all the cattle under the railroads.
00:10:09Sounds like a great idea. It's too much of a gamble.
00:10:12Gamble? Someone's running a blockade, but we made money, didn't we?
00:10:15Can't you see it, Dan?
00:10:17This beats any deal we've ever been in.
00:10:19We can take the money we've got, sell these cattle,
00:10:22and if that's the end, we can buy land for the square mile.
00:10:25Round up cattle by the thousands.
00:10:27Sell them and buy more land.
00:10:29We'll have a ranch like nobody's ever seen before.
00:10:32It'll be like owning your own country, wouldn't it?
00:10:34It'll be bigger than that. It'll be like a...
00:10:36like an empire.
00:10:38Our own American empire.
00:10:42When you're flying high, I'll flap along with you.
00:10:44When we get the river, we'll go have a talk with the land agent.
00:10:48Then I think we ought to drink a couple of toasts to a mighty bright future, don't you?
00:11:19Worse than a Nantucket sleigh ride.
00:11:22I'll put the law on you.
00:11:24Oh, where's my customer?
00:11:26My customer!
00:11:49Hello, little fella.
00:11:51What a place to roost.
00:11:55This is the prettiest prize I ever got in a grab bag.
00:11:58Is there any more in here like you?
00:12:00Isn't one victim enough?
00:12:01Or do you gently run them down with a dozen?
00:12:03Let go of my hat!
00:12:08You ain't hurt, Mama.
00:12:09I'll live.
00:12:11Hey!
00:12:12Did you bust the stadium, skipper?
00:12:13Not a one. Not a one.
00:12:15Get out of here. Get out of here!
00:12:17This ain't no corral.
00:12:21And you, mister.
00:12:22It will cost you a lot of money for this damage.
00:12:24All right. It'll cost me a lot of money.
00:12:26There you are.
00:12:27Take that and keep the change.
00:12:28All right, boys. Show's all over.
00:12:30I'll see you down at the music hall.
00:12:31Hey, you got a wonderful store here.
00:12:43Go ahead. Have my luggage, too.
00:12:45I'm sorry, ma'am. Honest, I am.
00:12:47I mean about the whole thing.
00:12:49You ought to be sorry.
00:12:50A grown man playing horseback on a cow.
00:12:53I ought to call the police.
00:12:55You'll have to call awful loud
00:12:56because we're not blessed with them out here.
00:12:59That's too bad. You belong in jail.
00:13:01You see?
00:13:02You're tacking way off your course
00:13:04because he's the finest little skipper that ever tried to deck.
00:13:07My compliments, ma'am.
00:13:10To cool you off.
00:13:11Well, lady, my compliments to hold in your temper.
00:13:16And may I compliment all.
00:13:18I've never seen finer specimens of Duncan Hodlum's.
00:13:22Ooh.
00:13:26Is she upset or something?
00:13:32Well, I've shivered and froze over half the Arctic Circle
00:13:36hunting these here whale bones,
00:13:38so women could hold up their reputations.
00:13:40And what thanks do I get?
00:13:42She reminds me of the Hattie T.
00:13:44Got the lines of a clipper
00:13:46and the disposition of a balky barge.
00:13:48I sure hope we don't sight her again.
00:13:51I have to go back to where we came from.
00:13:56Hey, Dan.
00:13:57Goddamn!
00:13:58What the damn hell?
00:13:59Where am I?
00:14:00What happened?
00:14:01I thought you were going to meet me after you got tied up.
00:14:03Well, something happened that kept me on board.
00:14:05Oh, did you, Mr. Thompson?
00:14:07Yeah, sure.
00:14:08I guess you did the honors for both of us, huh?
00:14:10Better sleep it off.
00:14:11Oh, I don't want to go to bed.
00:14:12We're going back to the music hall.
00:14:13Hey, will you see the redhead I got last night?
00:14:15Well, we'll make it some other night.
00:14:16What's the matter with you?
00:14:17Didn't you hear me?
00:14:18I said a redhead.
00:14:19She's even prettier than the one you sent the violins to
00:14:21in Galveston.
00:14:22I didn't have a girl in Galveston.
00:14:23Must have been Sailor Wayne.
00:14:24Sailor Wayne, my eye.
00:14:25It was you she threw the lamp at.
00:14:26This one, she was...
00:14:27What else did the redhead do?
00:14:30What's she doing here?
00:14:32You know we don't allow women on board.
00:14:34She's no woman.
00:14:35This is my kid sister, Abigail.
00:14:37Abby?
00:14:38This is Paxton Bryce.
00:14:39She arrived this afternoon and had a kind of an accident
00:14:42with a no-account drunk.
00:14:44Well, what's so funny?
00:14:46It was the accident.
00:14:48Well, she said that it was a low-down, no-good rowdy.
00:14:51I should have recognized you, Paxton.
00:14:53Well, I furnish so much amusement.
00:15:01How does she have her cruise in?
00:15:02Did you send for her?
00:15:03Oh, not exactly.
00:15:04That is, I might have mentioned in one of my letters
00:15:06that we had a lot of room on board.
00:15:07Oh, yeah.
00:15:08Sure, sure, sure.
00:15:09And you also told her we're going
00:15:10to make a stab of rear of her.
00:15:11Holy smoke, Dan.
00:15:12We haven't got time to be a couple of nursemaids.
00:15:14Now, listen, Pepperpot.
00:15:15I did send for her.
00:15:16We probably hurt her feelings.
00:15:18That's too bad, but she can't stay.
00:15:24Poor kid.
00:15:25She's probably crying her eyes out.
00:15:26Fine reception we gave her.
00:15:28This country's no place for her.
00:15:30It's going to have to be.
00:15:31And my aunt, who she's been living with,
00:15:33died.
00:15:34Well, naturally, she feels that her place is with me now.
00:15:36I'm very sorry, but our plans don't include kid sisters.
00:15:40She's going back east.
00:15:41Give her any excuse you like, but we've got to get rid of her.
00:15:44Nothing doing.
00:15:45Now, it's up to me to look after her, and she stays.
00:15:48Look, Dan.
00:15:49You know how bossy women are.
00:15:50Before you know it, she'll be telling us
00:15:52why the deuce had the whole place upside down.
00:15:54Well, if that's what you want.
00:15:55You won't even know that she's around, and I promise you.
00:15:58All right.
00:15:59See that I don't.
00:16:04I suppose I'll have to stand for some of these changes around,
00:16:20but the Hattie Tee stays right there.
00:16:22Sorry.
00:16:23I was just going to put up something I like better.
00:16:25Maybe your brother doesn't mind if you make a parlor out
00:16:27of this cabin, but I'll appreciate it
00:16:28if you'll let my things alone.
00:16:30And where are the old curtains?
00:16:31I like them.
00:16:32Those are the old curtains.
00:16:33I just washed them.
00:16:35Would you mind telling me where my pipes are?
00:16:37Here they are.
00:16:38I washed them for you.
00:16:39You what?
00:16:40Don't get so excited.
00:16:41It's only soap and water.
00:16:42Only soap and water?
00:16:43Oh, my.
00:16:44And where are my shaving brushes?
00:17:03So I wasn't even going to know she was on board.
00:17:06In the last two weeks, she's overhauled
00:17:07everything with the engine.
00:17:08Oh, simmer down, Pax.
00:17:09Personally, I like the way she's fixing things.
00:17:11And don't forget the good meals she's been cooking.
00:17:13Yeah, oh, all the comforts of home.
00:17:14If I had enough, I'm going to show her
00:17:16and look at that acreage.
00:17:17Hey, the land agent said I might make
00:17:18a good start up for the ranch.
00:17:19Well, I'll go with you.
00:17:20I better get a couple of cans of beans.
00:17:22Why?
00:17:23Abby's cooked a nice rabbit stew, and...
00:17:25Hey!
00:17:26Hey!
00:17:27Hey!
00:17:28Hey!
00:17:29Hey!
00:17:30Hey!
00:17:31Hey, Sally!
00:17:32Heave two at a time to the West Bank!
00:17:33Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:17:38Sail away.
00:17:39You and Ronnie stay behind and give Miss Abby a hand.
00:17:41This tub has turned into a cruddy old hen house.
00:17:43Bless me for a one-eyed eel.
00:17:45I ain't no cabin boy, Mr. Taylor.
00:17:46Of course you aren't, sail away.
00:17:48And all hands will rest until we take a look
00:17:50at Mr. Bryce's property.
00:17:51It isn't every day that you can catch
00:17:53a glimpse of an empire, is it?
00:17:54No, ma'am.
00:17:56Are we ready?
00:18:02There's the boundary marker.
00:18:03Now, way up in those rolling hills is another marker.
00:18:06And everything in between is a...
00:18:07Is this the Bryce empire?
00:18:11And is that the Cadillac I'm with?
00:18:14Ha, ha, ha.
00:18:15All right, Ronnie, man your station.
00:18:17We'll put the little critter in dry dock.
00:18:19I'll take the bow.
00:18:20You take the stern.
00:18:21OK.
00:18:23Mr. Bryce!
00:18:24Mr. Bryce!
00:18:30Run!
00:18:37Oh, it doesn't look bad at that.
00:18:41There are a lot of things to consider, Pax.
00:18:43We don't know anything about that place.
00:18:45I don't know anything about that place.
00:18:47I don't know anything about that place.
00:18:49I don't know anything about that place.
00:18:51Pax, we don't know anything about the cattle business.
00:18:53Well, we can learn, can't we?
00:18:55Look at that.
00:18:56If I see that, there's only one thing I can think of.
00:18:58How much you're getting and how many cows go with it.
00:19:01You're letting your imagination run away with you as usual.
00:19:03If it wasn't for my imagination, we wouldn't have a nickel.
00:19:05Why, we wouldn't have run cotton and we wouldn't have...
00:19:07Well, this time you're wrong.
00:19:08I think, Dan...
00:19:09I know you had to come along.
00:19:11Please don't buy the thinking.
00:19:13I was just going to agree with you, Mr. Bryce.
00:19:15Oh.
00:19:16Oh.
00:19:17You were?
00:19:18Well, that's a little different.
00:19:20Neither are using any common sense.
00:19:22Who's going to buy beef from us in these parts when they can get it from others?
00:19:25They won't here, but they will up north and back east.
00:19:27Where they're paying $10 a head in Abilene.
00:19:29And that fellow Chisholm proved that cattle can make the trip.
00:19:32That's a point.
00:19:34So why throw away money buying land when you can round up all the cattle you want?
00:19:37Well, it won't always be like that.
00:19:39Someday all this land will be privately owned.
00:19:41Of course it will, Dan.
00:19:42The country's growing this way and before long there'll be a new way of living.
00:19:46Law and order and property rights.
00:19:48There'll be no place for wild cattle hunters.
00:19:50You'll have to have your own range and a lot of it.
00:19:53Well, Dan, we're two to one against it.
00:20:00So you two are pulling together for a change.
00:20:03Well, I know when I'm late.
00:20:05You'll sell the Betsy Ann to that fellow in Riverford.
00:20:12Well, Abby, I guess I was a little bit wrong about you.
00:20:15It's getting to be a pleasure having you around here.
00:20:18It's the first nice thing you've said to me.
00:20:20Better be careful. It might get to be a habit.
00:20:22You couldn't be.
00:20:23A habit is something you're not conscious of.
00:20:26Like that awful frown when you're mad?
00:20:28Well, that's self-defense.
00:20:30Begging your pardon, Skipper.
00:20:32What are we going to do now?
00:20:34You can swap that harpoon thing out. We're going to work.
00:20:37A harpoon on dry land? Why, that's plumb loony.
00:20:40I'm going to get me a buffalo for a pencushion.
00:20:43Cleave in two at a hundred yards.
00:20:45Sail away, you're going to make a valuable man on a cattle ranch.
00:20:48Away you can throw the bull.
00:21:13♪
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00:21:53About as good as it looks, Abby.
00:21:54Better be. I put eight eggs in it.
00:21:56Eight eggs in one cake?
00:21:58You're doing all right.
00:22:00Boy, that's pretty.
00:22:01There it is.
00:22:02Why don't you let it burn a little while?
00:22:04Happy birthday, Sid.
00:22:06Happy birthday, Abby.
00:22:09To the first anniversary of the Bryce-Taylor ranch, we have to drink to that.
00:22:12Yeah.
00:22:14Want to cut the cake right away?
00:22:16Sure, we want to eat it.
00:22:17How about it, boys? Should we wait for the cake or should we do it now?
00:22:20Do it right now.
00:22:21All right, Abby.
00:22:23♪
00:22:29We're, uh, almighty pleased that the way you stuck by us through a pretty tough year.
00:22:35Since this is your birthday, we want to give you these.
00:22:38Gee, I don't know how to thank you all.
00:22:40Come on, open them up. Let's see what it is.
00:22:42Sail away and run it.
00:22:46Oh, look.
00:22:49Isn't that nice?
00:22:50Oh, it's lovely.
00:22:52Oh, of course you don't have to.
00:22:56Don't you like it?
00:22:57No.
00:22:58Because you're twice as big, you get kissed twice.
00:23:02Gosh, I wish I was big as an elephant.
00:23:05Well, ain't you?
00:23:08Well, let's poke up the other one.
00:23:19Oh, Pat, it's beautiful.
00:23:25Gosh, pair of laced chaps.
00:23:32I didn't buy them. The sales lady must have put them in.
00:23:35I'll put the dress away so it won't get wrinkled.
00:23:43How about a little song, huh, Rudy?
00:23:45Yeah, yeah.
00:23:46Come on, a little song.
00:23:47Come on, boys.
00:23:48You better stop that gal, and she's got him earmarked.
00:23:50Earmarked?
00:23:51That lass has got him roped and hogtied.
00:23:53She sure has.
00:23:57Oh, Rudy.
00:23:58Oh, Rudy.
00:24:00She's got him.
00:24:01She sure has.
00:24:05Oh, Pax, it's the loveliest present of all.
00:24:13It's all just beginning, Abby.
00:24:15There isn't anything the future won't give you.
00:24:17All I want and need is right here with me now.
00:24:21Oh, Pax, we'll build something fine together.
00:24:24Something we can be proud of.
00:24:26We can be married before I go to Abilene.
00:24:29Oh, it must make such a lovely ring.
00:24:32Certainly.
00:24:33What do you think I got it for?
00:24:35Pretty sure of me, weren't you?
00:24:37I never heard of such conceit.
00:24:38Well, I...
00:24:39It's just a question of you.
00:24:40I could say no.
00:24:41But I don't see how I can resist the dress.
00:24:45Give me some time to blow the man down.
00:24:49Oh, it's sailors and tinkers and tailors as men.
00:24:52Hey, hey, blow the man down.
00:24:59Had I but known, I would have arrived sooner for our celebration.
00:25:02What do you want?
00:25:03Payment for your cattle?
00:25:04No, monsieur, but you have plenty of cattle now, eh?
00:25:06Yes, plenty.
00:25:08But they're all ours.
00:25:09Oui, oui, ours, eh?
00:25:11Not yours.
00:25:12Ours.
00:25:13The old score is all settled.
00:25:14Oh, absolutely.
00:25:15Don Nick Bouchard always start clean with his new partners.
00:25:19Oh, what do you laugh?
00:25:21You use my ideas to go into business?
00:25:23Eh bien.
00:25:24My ideas, your money, eh?
00:25:26We are partners, no?
00:25:27No.
00:25:28You have no claim, not even for a single hoof or horn.
00:25:31Yeah, but I have a different view.
00:25:33Listen, Bouchard.
00:25:34If we catch you or anybody else taking any of our cattle,
00:25:37I'll give you a dose of stomach pills you can't digest.
00:25:40We understand each other?
00:25:42Hey, I know how you feel, but I, too, have ideas like yours.
00:25:45I would like to be granchie in my Louisiana
00:25:47where I can be a big man of much power.
00:25:49That's your affair.
00:25:50But when you're on this side of the river,
00:25:52you keep your eyes peeled for our boundary markers.
00:25:54Oh, I have seen them,
00:25:56but I don't believe little words on paper.
00:25:59Heh heh.
00:26:00Heh heh.
00:26:01Bonsoir, monsieur.
00:26:02Monsieur.
00:26:03Madame.
00:26:04Au revoir.
00:26:07Au revoir.
00:26:12He wasn't bluffing.
00:26:13We can take care of him, all right.
00:26:15Think you ought to put off the drive to Abilene?
00:26:16Not by a jugful.
00:26:17We need all the money those cattle will bring.
00:26:19You'll have enough men to take care of Bouchard.
00:26:21I'd relish doing it for a fact.
00:26:23Come on, Ronnie.
00:26:24Let's finish the song.
00:26:25Yeah, come on.
00:26:26Oh, sailors as tinkers and sailors as men.
00:26:29Oh, how they blow the man down.
00:26:45Come on, Tex.
00:26:46Good luck.
00:26:47Thanks, Dan.
00:26:48So long.
00:26:49Hiya, Spryce.
00:26:50Take care of yourself, Salloway.
00:26:51Yes, Salloway.
00:26:52Take care of my husband.
00:26:53Mike is not here to take care of me, ma'am.
00:26:56Well, come on, Ronnie.
00:27:01Promise you'll be careful, darling.
00:27:02It's such a dangerous trip.
00:27:04And if anything happened to you, I...
00:27:06Nothing will.
00:27:07Not when I have you waiting for me.
00:27:08I'll be back by Thanksgiving.
00:27:13Goodbye, honey.
00:27:14Goodbye.
00:27:22Goodbye.
00:27:23Goodbye.
00:27:53You're just a minute now.
00:27:55Just a minute.
00:27:56Just a minute.
00:27:57Come on.
00:27:58Come on.
00:27:59Come on.
00:28:00Come back here.
00:28:01Buzzard.
00:28:02I'll tell you, you're running me for a risk in my office.
00:28:06Come back here, you buzzard.
00:28:07Hello, Louisa.
00:28:08Hello, Willie.
00:28:09All right, Mr. Price.
00:28:10Everything all right?
00:28:11I knew we'd have a real Thanksgiving show.
00:28:14How about a piece of that good old apple pie, huh?
00:28:17Why, how about it?
00:28:19How about a piece of that good old apple pie?
00:28:22Pie's waiting, but don't you mess up my kitchen,
00:28:24because you know I know you, cowboy.
00:28:32Tax, I'm so glad you're home.
00:28:34You're gladder than I am.
00:28:39When I got you out of the bay, I sold the cattle.
00:28:42I went right out and bought you the plainest present they had in Abilene.
00:28:48Bring it in, Sailor White.
00:28:49Wait till you see it.
00:28:58We missed you, Sailor White.
00:28:59Nothing like home port, ma'am.
00:29:01Where do you want it? Put it right there.
00:29:03It's the only one in the world I haven't made special.
00:29:09Well, there she be.
00:29:10And not a scratch on her home.
00:29:13You like it, honey?
00:29:14Like it?
00:29:16Oh, it's fit for a king.
00:29:19That's what he'll be someday.
00:29:21Oh, Abby, he's going to make our future complete.
00:29:23Something to build for.
00:29:26What's the matter?
00:29:27Lately, I haven't been so sure of our future.
00:29:30I've been worried, Pax.
00:29:31Well, you get those notions right out of your head,
00:29:33we'll have the best doctor that...
00:29:34It isn't that.
00:29:35It's Dan and the ranch.
00:29:37Foshai's been raiding us ever since you left.
00:29:39Why didn't you tell me in your letters I'd have come right back?
00:29:41Dan thought he could catch him,
00:29:43but he's managed to slip away every time.
00:29:45Guess I didn't take that hombre seriously enough.
00:29:48Where's Dan now?
00:29:49He's gone to Blue Rock Canyon.
00:29:50He put some cattle there to draw Foshai.
00:29:52Oh, Pax, I'm afraid Dan may be walking into a trap himself.
00:29:56Foshai seems to know...
00:29:57If you don't stop that fretting,
00:29:58you won't have any appetite for that turkey dinner.
00:30:00I'll go give Dan a hand.
00:30:12Ronnie, hold it.
00:30:14Wait till I start moving the herd.
00:30:16Augustine, you were a wise old fox
00:30:18to find so many cow in one place, eh?
00:30:20For that, I am going to promise you 100 gold pieces, eh?
00:30:25Pierre!
00:30:27Pierre, you were wrong, Dominique.
00:30:30Now I know where there are so many cows with the glasses of fools.
00:30:33We'll see about that.
00:30:35Come on, let's go.
00:30:36Oh, no, no, no.
00:30:38I'll get you.
00:30:39We'll see about that.
00:30:41Come on, let's go.
00:30:43Let's go.
00:30:44Come on, let's go.
00:30:46Let's go.
00:30:48Come on, let's go.
00:30:50Come on, let's go.
00:30:51Come on, let's go.
00:30:53where the classes are full, I smell a mice behind the woodpile some place.
00:30:57This place is no good, now we must go.
00:31:02All right, comrades.
00:31:23♪
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00:33:00Hi, Pax!
00:33:01Hi!
00:33:02Hello, boys, how are you?
00:33:03Well, you missed quite a rocket.
00:33:04Yeah?
00:33:05I finally got Bouchard.
00:33:06He wound up in the river.
00:33:07Well, that's the best day's work he ever did.
00:33:09I don't want any trouble for the next few months
00:33:10on account of Abby.
00:33:11That's right.
00:33:12How are things going, Evelyn?
00:33:13Got top prizes.
00:33:14Good!
00:33:15Ha!
00:33:33Sucker brother, you are hurt, huh?
00:33:35My friend, give me something.
00:33:37I will not forget too soon.
00:33:39I will.
00:33:46Take it easy, Pax.
00:33:47Abby will be all right.
00:33:51That squeal's pretty high.
00:33:52It must be a girl.
00:33:53It's got to be a boy.
00:33:54I made him a harpoon.
00:33:58Is she all right, Willie Mae?
00:33:59Fine.
00:34:00So is your son.
00:34:01What?
00:34:02Shh!
00:34:03Y'all be quiet.
00:34:05Come on.
00:34:07Cigars are on me.
00:34:15Help yourself, boys.
00:34:16Thanks.
00:34:17How does it feel to be proper?
00:34:19I don't know.
00:34:21Uncle Dan?
00:34:22That's right.
00:34:23Look, it wasn't a girl, Skipper.
00:34:24We'd have had a tough time raising her.
00:34:26Oh, what do you know about raising kids?
00:34:28Everything.
00:34:29I was the last in a 14-kid family,
00:34:31and I never did get enough to eat.
00:34:33The good thing you did.
00:34:35Let me tell you some of the troubles I had when I was a kid.
00:34:38And that, my mates, is how come I had the measles 14 times.
00:34:42How many times?
00:34:4314.
00:34:47Go on in, Pax, and meet your new boss.
00:35:03Abby.
00:35:08I can't tell you how much I love you.
00:35:15It's beautiful, Pax.
00:35:17He has your eyes.
00:35:18Husky little shaver, isn't he?
00:35:20Yes, sir.
00:35:21Top of the husky.
00:35:22Nine pounds.
00:35:25Pax, Junior,
00:35:27for every one of those pounds, I'll get you 10,000 acres.
00:35:31And for every year after that, I'll double it.
00:35:35I'll double it.
00:35:37I'll double it.
00:35:38I'll double it.
00:35:40I'll double it.
00:35:41I'll double it.
00:35:42I'll double it.
00:35:43I'll double it.
00:35:44I'll double it.
00:35:45I'll double it.
00:35:46I'll double it.
00:35:47I will double it.
00:35:50I will double it.
00:36:17Put your weight on your right foot, and bend your knee.
00:36:34Arch your blows!
00:36:37Oh, no, Max, get some heft into it.
00:36:41Bet you I could rope it.
00:36:42What kind of sailing talk is that?
00:36:43Oh, gee, sail away.
00:36:44I don't want to be a whaler.
00:36:45I'm a cop.
00:36:46Listen here, young fellow.
00:36:47Whaling's a noble profession, and you're going to be the greatest whaler...
00:36:48I don't have anything to say.
00:36:49Morning, Pop.
00:36:50I got up that Shirley for a ride, but you'd gone, though.
00:36:51I went into town to get something for you.
00:36:52My pony?
00:36:53Where is it?
00:36:54Ronnie's got him.
00:36:55Oh.
00:36:56Sail away.
00:36:57I don't like to be at you all the time, but you've got to stop spouting that kind of talk
00:36:58to Pax.
00:36:59Well, bless my barnacles, Mr. Bryce.
00:37:00I hate to see the lad grow into a landlubber.
00:37:01He's not going to be a footloose windjammer.
00:37:02He's going to go to the sea.
00:37:03He's going to go to the sea.
00:37:04He's going to go to the sea.
00:37:05He's going to go to the sea.
00:37:06I don't like to be at you all the time, but you've got to stop spouting that kind of talk
00:37:07to Pax.
00:37:08Well, bless my barnacles, Mr. Bryce.
00:37:09I hate to see the lad grow into a landlubber.
00:37:10He's not going to be a footloose windjammer.
00:37:11He's going to go up to be a solid, dependable man that the whole country can look up to.
00:37:12Aye-aye, sir.
00:37:13But I still say he ain't cut out for no cowpoke.
00:37:14Mom, look!
00:37:15My very own pony!
00:37:16He's great, isn't he, Mom?
00:37:17Oh, I'm glad you like it.
00:37:18You haven't even noticed the saddle.
00:37:19Oh, it's wonderful!
00:37:20Just my own pony.
00:37:21He'll be awesome!
00:37:22Oh, I'm glad you like it you haven't even noticed the saddle. Oh, it's wonderful
00:37:35just my size. Thanks. And a real lariat. Yep, made it special for you. You did? Thanks,
00:37:42Rondy. Is it what you ordered, son? Oh, you're the best pop in the world. And you're the
00:37:47best mom. Well, up we go. How are the stirrups? They're just dry. You'll be outriding me
00:38:07in no time. Hatch is awful smart, pop. Shandles easier than a sloop in a fair breeze. Wish
00:38:13you wouldn't pay quite as much attention to the sailorway's yarn, son. Oh, I listen because
00:38:17I like him. Can I go on the next round up? Oh, that might be a good idea. It's about
00:38:22time you learned how the ranchers run. You just keep your eyes open and watch everything
00:38:26I do because someday you're going to be the boss. Am I? If I watch you, will I be a real
00:38:30cattleman? Max, raising cattle is a mighty big job. It's probably the biggest job in
00:38:36the United States. You know, once Abraham Lincoln said, you must get beef to all the
00:38:43south. He was a cattleman like you and me. He left us responsibility, so we'll have to
00:38:48live up to it. Golly, if we're going to feed everybody, we'll have to round up a lot of
00:38:52steers. Lucky I got my new lariat. I'll row calves and help ride herd. You always use
00:38:59a good hand, son. I guess we better get home. Want to race? All right, come on. At the end
00:39:08of the trail, little pal, sun disappears in the west. At the end of the trail, little
00:39:20pal, we will have real contentment and rest. If we should be parted by some trick, wait
00:39:32at the old corral. Watch, I'll go to work. That you'll find me old friend. These figures
00:39:45are impossible. Three thousand head less than last year. Every year your tallies have been
00:39:50off more each time. I can vouch for the figures. We combed every inch of the range. I thought
00:39:57at first it was drought, freezing, normal straying when you consider the size of the
00:40:01herds we're handling. Three thousand head is too much of a leak. I don't like to look
00:40:06up at myself. Pop, will you fix my lariat? Not now, Pax, I'm busy. There's only one answer
00:40:11for it. Other ranchers are driving our cattle to market alongside of their own and burning
00:40:16out our brands. There's a sure way to stop it. Close the range to everybody. That'll
00:40:22cause a peck of trouble, Mr. Bryce. Folks have always driven across each other's land.
00:40:26They're not going across mine anymore. Post no trespassing signs and patrol the range to
00:40:31make sure everybody understands we mean it. Don't you think we better wait till Mr. Taylor
00:40:34gets back from Galveston? I gave you your orders, Ford. Pop, are Mr. Crowder and his
00:40:44friends stealing our cattle? Somebody is and we're going to put a stop to it. Ah, Pierre,
00:40:56the journey was good, eh? Oh, good one thousand times. Such fat cows. I should thank Mr. Bryce
00:41:03and Taylor for raising them for me, eh? Also the saints, that they don't find out it is
00:41:08you who take them all these years. Yeah, but you forget I am a ghost, was I not drowned?
00:41:15Something happened while you was away. Oui. Oui. I buy the Lemire plantation, eh? At St.
00:41:23Louis. You buy? Oui. Oui. Eh? Soon you will be the most rich man in Louisiana. Eh? Well,
00:41:28the most rich and the most powerful, eh? Well, can I help it if my good partners are so careless
00:41:32with their cows, hm? Eh? No, no. Howdy, Mr. Taylor. Howdy, Mr. Taylor. Howdy, boys. Glad
00:41:45to see you home again. Well, thank you. Why all the artillery? No outside herds allowed
00:41:50on the range. Mr. Bryce's orders. Some of the outfits are kind of hot, but so far they're
00:41:55just calling names. There you are. Now we'll run free without grabbing. Thanks, Pop. Max,
00:42:09what are you thinking of? Closing the ranch to outside cattle. Well, you know old Texas is open
00:42:14range. Well, it's about time it wasn't. A man can't raise a decent herd with every scrub bull
00:42:19mixing with his stock. Puts out feet. You can't even run steers on your own land. Somebody grabs
00:42:23them. Just the same, you can't go around stepping on folks. Well, let them keep out of my way.
00:42:27Perhaps you don't have to push people against the wall. Well, if you make those ranchers drive the
00:42:31long way to market, there won't be any meat left on their cattle to sell. You'll force them out of
00:42:36business. This country was made for men that can stand on their own feet. If you want to survive,
00:42:40you have to fight. You can't be a sentimentalist. And you can't play lord and master. You forget it
00:42:47took the little man as well as the big one to make this country what it is. I can do without
00:42:52your lecture. You've gotten so puffed up with your own importance. Dan, please don't quarrel. I won't
00:42:57have it. Have it your own way. But remember, you can only push them so far. Max, what's happened
00:43:06to you? You've changed so. You're hard and greedy. Hard and greedy? Because I'm fighting to keep what
00:43:13I have for my family. I'll see them and... Pa, why is Uncle Dan so mad? Is it because you're
00:43:19turning people off our place? Mm-hmm. We can't let them keep on stealing our cattle when we have none
00:43:24left. So we have to keep them out, don't we? You betcha, Pop. And when I grow up, I'll help you
00:43:28fight them. Sure. Hush, Pax, you mustn't talk like that. What do you want him to be, a mollycoddle?
00:43:32Afraid to fight for what's his? I want him to know there are two ways of putting out a hand. In a shake
00:43:38or a slap. You get back a hand according. Howdy, I'd like to see Bryce, the tailor. Pax, it is a mighty
00:44:00good notion getting this breed. Certainly built to pack a lot of beef. Look, Dad, she's got a pillow on her neck. That's a
00:44:06brain of a bull, Pax. We'll cross him with our longhorns and that'll give us a higher percentage of beef.
00:44:10Bryce and Taylor are sure getting high for lootin', building a castle like this. I wouldn't mind being
00:44:15in their boots. Well, you could be if you pushed folks off the land the way they have. They tried
00:44:21to buy me out. I sent them packing. I told Bryce he wasn't trampling on me. Crowder's got a lot of
00:44:28nerve coming here after running you two hand. I wonder what he wants. I don't know. Howdy, boys.
00:44:33Hello, Crowder. Hello. We came to, uh, well, a bramer. Aren't Texas longhorns good enough for your outfit? We
00:44:47decided that improving our stock might encourage our neighbors to do likewise. Leading ranchers
00:44:52should set an example, or else how is the cattle industry in Texas going to grow? It was growing
00:44:57before you were born, and it'll be growing after you're gone. I'll shove it along while I'm here.
00:45:02My son will carry on where I leave off. I'm learning now, Mr. Crowder. I'm gonna be Pop's
00:45:08right-hand man. Well, how about getting down to business? This Mr. McCabe, he represents the
00:45:13great Southwest Railroad Company. How do you do, sir? Mr. Bryce and Mr. Taylor. Mr. Bryce. How do you do?
00:45:18Mr. McCabe has a deal for you. Concerns every man here. Well, gentlemen, we might as well be
00:45:23comfortable. Sit down, gentlemen. Thank you. Go ahead, Mr. McCabe. Well, gentlemen, our company proposes to build a line
00:45:40from Abilene to Riverford, and we're obtaining rights-of-way. So far, everyone along the route
00:45:46has given us permission, but we must have yours to complete the final link. Sorry, Mr. McCabe, but for
00:45:52my part, no railroad is going through our property. Well, you can't think of yourself all the time,
00:45:58Bryce. This will benefit the whole community. Make Riverford a great cattle center. Maybe,
00:46:04and it'll also bring in a tighter wave of settlers. Before you know it, they'll be demanding roads,
00:46:09town sites. They'll cut up the land and the farms. We cattlemen will be crowded out. Hold on,
00:46:14Fax. Maybe we can get on without a railroad, but I claim some of the smaller outfits are entitled
00:46:21to make a decent profit too, and they can by freighting their cattle to Abilene instead of
00:46:25driving them. You're right. You know the cattle industry needs range. Enormous range, and a railroad
00:46:31will kill it. I say it stays out. You got your sights leveled on the wrong target, Fax. I guess
00:46:39there's nothing I can say that'll switch them. Mr. Bryce, don't you realize you're stopping
00:46:44development in this territory? McCabe, it's taken years to put this ranch together. Years of sweat,
00:46:50struggle, and fight. I'm not letting your railroad tear it down. I'm sorry we can't
00:46:58get together. So am I. Goodbye. Mr. Crowder, looks like our deal's off. None of the land's
00:47:13any good to us without theirs. Well, they're riding high now, but they won't ride on forever.
00:47:17The walking down Paradise Street. Hey, hey, blow the man down. A pretty young damsel that I chance
00:47:29to meet. Give me some time to blow the man down. Where did you get my pet fan? I borrowed it to
00:47:36cheer the flies off the patch. She growed a tail for that purpose. Not on her front end. You don't
00:47:43mind, do you, Mom? If anything should happen to it, I'll buy you another one. You could never
00:47:47replace it, darling. First present your father ever gave me. Oh, I'll be careful. I'll put it
00:47:53away as soon as we get home. A rabbit! Let's chase it! Bryce can drive off some of the smaller
00:48:08outfits, but he can't stop this drive. Not if we all stick together. Still and all, we'll be a
00:48:13trespassing. Well, how are we going to get our cows to market? Why, it'll take a week to circle
00:48:18their range. If we don't, short cut, we have to cross the river and get on through the bayous.
00:48:21We can't drive steers through mud that has no bottom. There's a glutton trying to cut across
00:48:29Dry Creek. Bryce Taylor outfit shot 40 of his steers. Creased him in the shoulder. Well,
00:48:34they're clamping down on us, just like they planned all along. They won't be satisfied
00:48:38until they starve every one of us out. No sidewinder's going to keep me from making a
00:48:41living. Me neither. Just let them try to stop us. Sorry, Mr. Crowder, but you can't cut across
00:48:57Bryce Taylor Range anymore. Well, we've been doing it right along, and we don't aim to change now.
00:49:01Mr. Bryce says different. Ford, you keep out of the way. We're coming through. Crowder,
00:49:05turn those cows. We don't want trouble. Son, you've got it. All right, bring them in.
00:49:35Turn the paddle. The other way, Pat, the other way.
00:50:05Stop!
00:50:35I tried to keep him out, Pop, like you said.
00:51:05Oh,
00:51:15Dad.
00:51:35I've been doing a heap of calculating.
00:51:45I've been going crazy. I can't believe he's gone. I had so many plans for him.
00:51:53How's Abby? She hasn't talked to me for days. She's taking it pretty hard.
00:51:57That swine. I wish they... You're not responsible. You are. You pinned them in a corner,
00:52:04drove them into going against you. They didn't have to kill my son. I'll keep them off this
00:52:08place. I'll fence the whole ranch. I'll put a bullet in the first one that sets foot on it.
00:52:12Then you'll do it alone. When we started this ranch, we wanted to make it something we'd be
00:52:18proud of. Could you turn it into a thing that reeks of greed and oppression? A thing that all
00:52:25decent people hold against us. It's already cost the life of an innocent child. What's happened
00:52:30from the beginning? There'll be more killings, more bloodshed. And for what? So you can have
00:52:38a few more miles of range, a few more cows? I can't stomach your notions any longer. You've
00:52:42gone soft. Well, I won't stop until... Pax, you've done enough. Stay out of this, Abby.
00:52:48I've had my crop full. I'm putting an end to this partnership. Good. I'll buy your interest.
00:52:51Pax, listen. Hate and revenge will destroy you. It won't bring our son back. What kind of a mother
00:52:57are you? You want me to turn my other cheek? Well, I won't. That's not my way.
00:53:05Your way is to rule and trample the people. Grab for yourself at every turn. You're taught it to
00:53:10patch. You're very worried, Senator. It's easy enough to blame me. But if I had it all to do
00:53:16over again, I'd still teach him to fight for what's his. Pax, you're blind and you'll stay
00:53:21blind. There's no place in your heart for love and understanding. I can't go on like this.
00:53:27That's up to you.
00:53:46I'll miss your spouting, you big walrus, but Miss Abby will need me tonight.
00:53:57Goodbye, Sally.
00:54:02You've been awfully kind to me. Thanks, ma'am.
00:54:05Things won't seem ship-shape around here without you.
00:54:10Bye.
00:54:16Abby.
00:54:24Still set on leaving? I'm sorry, Pax. Terribly sorry. We had something fine and beautiful.
00:54:34It wasn't enough for you. Ready, Abby?
00:54:46I'll have the money for you as soon as possible.
00:54:49Whenever is convenient. We'll be in Riverford.
00:54:53Bye, Abby.
00:54:55Goodbye.
00:55:16Mr. Bricey, Mr. Sailaway told me to give you this.
00:55:25He ran out on me too. I ain't running out on you, Mr. Bricey.
00:55:33Sir, you betcha. I tore right into them pirates. I cracked them on their skull so hard, I busted
00:55:39all their toes. Bravo, bravo, bravo. Honor to meet you. Two honors to meet you.
00:55:46Why don't you stay here, Luciana, and come to work with me at the Rancho Opitila?
00:55:51No, I'm going back to the sea.
00:55:53I hate ranches. They change people. Makes them forget to be human.
00:55:58But my boss is almost human. He pays well. He got so many cows, you can hardly see the grass.
00:56:06We find them in Texas by the quantities.
00:56:09I don't care where you found them. From now on, cows is only stakes to me.
00:56:15All right, have it your way. But honor me by meeting my boss.
00:56:18He like to meet men with courage like you.
00:56:21All right, we'll buy him a drink, huh?
00:56:23All right, and we'll drink at it, and we don't care.
00:56:35Are you sick?
00:56:36My liver.
00:56:38Is that your boss?
00:56:40Come and meet him, will you?
00:56:42I'll meet him later.
00:56:43My liver's turning the pedal.
00:56:45Oh, come on. Don't disappoint a friend.
00:56:58As soon as I can figure, Dan's share comes close to a half million dollars.
00:57:01If I raise that much cash, it'll leave us with a mighty small herd.
00:57:07Hi, Skipper.
00:57:08What are you doing here? You're supposed to be halfway to the Gulf.
00:57:11I was, but I ain't.
00:57:13I don't want no shore leave when there's some fighting to do.
00:57:16You're drunk.
00:57:18But just the same, my eyes and ears ain't.
00:57:21I found out where your cow's been going to.
00:57:23Yeah? Where?
00:57:25Mr. Beauchard, Shanghai.
00:57:27Beauchard? Now I know you're drunk.
00:57:30Sure, but just the same, I saw him just as plain as Hector's life,
00:57:35in a tavern across the river.
00:57:38Where you been all this time?
00:58:11A neat job of working these rams over.
00:58:18Looks like they're all wearing them.
00:58:19Round up a couple of them. We'll take them along for evidence.
00:58:27One beller out of you and I'll tie your tongue to your tail.
00:58:41Well, if it is not my old friend.
00:59:11Why you didn't let me know you was coming? I stay home to welcome you.
00:59:14I didn't want to put you to any trouble.
00:59:16Besides, this isn't a social call, Beauchard.
00:59:19In the last seven years, you've stolen 10,000 of my cattle.
00:59:22A normal increase would have raised that to about 50,000.
00:59:25That makes you owe me plenty of hard cash.
00:59:28But I will take my share of our partnership.
00:59:31I keep it.
00:59:33I have men, both loyal and brave,
00:59:35and they will not let you take my cows from my ranch.
00:59:37There's more than one way of collecting a debt.
00:59:40If you kill me, my men will shoot you before you can go a mile.
00:59:44Oh, what you gain, eh?
00:59:48Yes, you're right.
00:59:50I hadn't thought about that.
00:59:53But what can you do about this?
01:00:03Dominique Beauchard, you've been found guilty of the charge of cattle stealing.
01:00:07The sentence of this court is that you'll be confined
01:00:09for the term of two to five years.
01:00:11That's just a vacation.
01:00:13Well, if I was Skipper in this here show,
01:00:15I'd stake him out on a yardage.
01:00:18Mr. Bryce, I understand you have filed suit
01:00:21in the Louisiana courts for the value of your stolen cattle.
01:00:24In view of this verdict, you should get your money.
01:00:29It's bad to lose the money, but it's better...
01:00:32Stand up.
01:00:34I'm not through with you yet.
01:00:35There's another matter.
01:00:38You've been a thorn in the side of law and order in Texas for over 10 years.
01:00:43But the law always catches up with killers like you.
01:00:46For your raid on Clarksville,
01:00:48where you were responsible for the death of poor persons,
01:00:50and on Melford, which you burned to the ground at the cost of more lives,
01:00:54for your attack on half a dozen ranches,
01:00:57the order of this court is that you be remanded
01:00:59to the custody of the sheriff to stand trial for murder.
01:01:04Court dismissed.
01:01:05Thanks for everything, Beauchard.
01:01:13It is too soon for thanks, monsieur. I promise you.
01:01:28You're very foxy.
01:01:29Foxy, yeah, but look, I am in here.
01:01:32Ha ha ha, that's a good one. That sure is a good one.
01:01:45What do you want?
01:01:46I have fresh clothes for monsieur Beauchard.
01:01:48All right, come in.
01:01:52Let's have a look at them.
01:01:52Oh, oui.
01:01:53Oh, they are just handkerchiefs and socks and...
01:01:56The robe.
01:01:57That will keep him warm.
01:02:00Oh.
01:02:01The cord.
01:02:05Oh, to tie around the middle to keep out the cold air, huh?
01:02:10All right, let him have it.
01:02:17Now, same with you.
01:02:32This time I am a fox, eh?
01:02:34Bonsoir, monsieur.
01:02:41Hey, so why keep me wait so many days?
01:02:43The police come to the ranch.
01:02:44We have to hide in the hills.
01:02:46And they have taken all the gold and put in the bank at the rivier port.
01:02:49Oh, that is most convenient.
01:02:55Well, we'll be rolling east in about 10 minutes.
01:02:57I suppose we'll ever get used to living there again after all this.
01:03:00Oh, sure, we will.
01:03:00And it'll be better.
01:03:06Barbed wire?
01:03:08And signed to the Bryce Taylor Ranch.
01:03:09Con found Pax's hide.
01:03:11He's just begging for trouble.
01:03:12Oh, Danny's so wrong.
01:03:14The terrible part is he believes he's right.
01:03:18Now, will you agree that we've got to clip Bryce's wings?
01:03:21That's the cruelest contraption ever invented.
01:03:24And he's using it to fence his whole range.
01:03:26Started coming in last night.
01:03:27And they've carted most of it away.
01:03:29They called it barbed wire.
01:03:30Look at them barbed wire.
01:03:31It'll tear the cattle to pieces.
01:03:32We've got to drive him out of the country before he puts up a foot of it.
01:03:35Well, he's like Jimson weed.
01:03:37He's choking us to death.
01:03:38I'm for making a necktie, soldier.
01:03:40Now you're talking.
01:03:41We'll all meet tonight at Mesquite Flats.
01:03:43Past the woods of the rest of the men.
01:03:45And get to every man in Riverford.
01:03:47Let's go.
01:03:48Let's get out of here.
01:03:49You keep them.
01:03:50I'll get a hold of him.
01:03:52Dan, we'll have to warn him.
01:03:53They'll kill him.
01:03:56I thought I'd stop loving you.
01:03:58But I haven't.
01:03:59When it comes to packs, changing our minds is a tailor habit.
01:04:03I'll ride out.
01:04:04You and Ruddy stay here at the hotel while this thing blows over.
01:04:09And they won't rest until you're swinging from a limb, Pax.
01:04:12Now, come on.
01:04:13Give up the idea of using barbed wire.
01:04:15I run this ranch as I see fit.
01:04:17No mob is going to dictate to me when I'm in the right.
01:04:19You're no more in the right than you were when you accused them of rustling.
01:04:23Now admit it and pull in your horns.
01:04:26Dan, my son died keeping them off this place.
01:04:28And as long as I live, they're going to stay off.
01:04:31If I have to turn Texas upside down, they'll pull this house apart brick by brick.
01:04:36And what do you care?
01:04:37It's not your property.
01:04:38You got your check.
01:04:39Now go on before they show up.
01:04:42All right, I'll go.
01:04:45For 15 years, I've been sticking my neck out beside yours.
01:04:50Now I'm through.
01:04:56Ronnie, where have you been?
01:04:57Dan hasn't come back yet, and I'm worried.
01:04:59I'm going to the ranch.
01:04:59As you can bet, I'll get you out of here.
01:05:01Riverford ain't going to be healthy.
01:05:03Why would you?
01:05:03Oh, nothing yet.
01:05:04I was down by the river and heard two Frenchie boatmen yammering.
01:05:07Beauchard and his pack of scuttlers are coming in from La Combre,
01:05:10and they're going to sack the town.
01:05:12There's nobody here to stop them.
01:05:13Crowder and his men.
01:05:14I know all about it, Cal.
01:05:15Ronnie and I'll try to stop them at the flats.
01:05:17We'll get all the women and children together and put them in a schoolhouse.
01:05:20Well, it looks like every man in town's had enough.
01:05:23Well, it looks like every man in town turned out.
01:05:26All right, men.
01:05:27Mount the horses.
01:05:38Get your rivals from Mr. Price on the porch.
01:05:42Your ammunition's there, too.
01:05:54Got an extra six-shooter for me?
01:05:56I was hoping you'd come back.
01:05:58Fight wouldn't seem natural without the two of us in it.
01:06:00Oh, that's the way I figured.
01:06:09They may have left the flats by now.
01:06:10You go on after them, and I'll shortcut to the ranch and get help.
01:06:12Aye-aye, skipper.
01:06:23Hey, that's a half cent.
01:06:26Every man in town is gone.
01:06:28Only the old ones stay there.
01:06:29Oh, certainly.
01:06:30Those ranchers, they make Mr. Price pay for his sins.
01:06:32And while they do, Dominic Bouchard will collect.
01:06:40Hello, Monty.
01:06:41We march.
01:06:44Remember, the ranches in the valley belong to you.
01:06:48And I give you the town also.
01:06:50But not the bank.
01:06:52That belongs to me.
01:06:55Hello.
01:07:04Hold it.
01:07:04Hey, skipper.
01:07:05It's Miss Abby.
01:07:06Open the gate.
01:07:07Open it, Monty.
01:07:15I thought I told you to stay in town until this thing blows over.
01:07:18Bouchard's at Los Campos.
01:07:19He's got hundreds of men.
01:07:20He's gonna attack Riverford.
01:07:22Let him attack.
01:07:23But Pax, he'll wipe out the entire valley.
01:07:25Those women and children...
01:07:26Let the men take care of them instead of using their mob rule on me.
01:07:29Ronnie's gone after them, but I'm afraid he won't reach them in time.
01:07:32You can't let those women and children suffer, Pax.
01:07:34Your fight's not with them.
01:07:36She's right, Pax.
01:07:37Why should I worry about their families?
01:07:39They didn't worry about mine.
01:07:40Even so, we've got to help them.
01:07:42While we ride to the rescue, that pack of wolves tears my ranch apart.
01:07:46Oh, no.
01:07:47Pax Jr. paid a big price for this place.
01:07:50I'm not letting it go for a noble gesture.
01:07:54It won't make it easier on you to bring agony on others.
01:07:58In spite of what those men have done.
01:08:00They love their families as much as we love Pax.
01:08:06Would you want them to go through with me?
01:08:10No.
01:08:11I wouldn't.
01:08:20You get on to the old ranch house with Willie Mae.
01:08:23You'll be safer there.
01:08:29Well, Dan.
01:08:31I guess this is the end of our empire.
01:08:33Sure.
01:08:36But I've got a notion you're starting to build something better.
01:08:42Sail away.
01:08:43Boys!
01:08:44All you men, get your horses!
01:08:46Bo Shard's got us outnumbered.
01:08:47But from where he is, we'll have to go through bottleneck fast.
01:08:50We're a lot closer to it than he is.
01:08:51I've got a hunch we can even up the odds.
01:08:53You all ready, men?
01:08:54Yeah!
01:09:02Come on, keep working!
01:09:08Come on, boys.
01:09:09Let's go!
01:09:09Let's go!
01:09:10Let's go!
01:09:10Let's go!
01:09:11Let's go!
01:09:11Let's go!
01:09:12Let's go!
01:09:12Let's go!
01:09:13Let's go!
01:09:13Let's go!
01:09:14Let's go!
01:09:14Let's go!
01:09:15Let's go!
01:09:15Let's go!
01:09:29Make those anchor posts good and solid, men.
01:09:31If that firetrap doesn't hold them, this barricade's cut.
01:09:39Horse will crash over.
01:09:40Hey!
01:09:42Hey!
01:09:43Hey!
01:09:44You fellas better find it back to town,
01:09:46because Bo Shard's going to pounce on it.
01:09:48Well, you hold your shirt, Taylor.
01:09:49He's up in jail in Sabine.
01:09:51Taylor told me so himself.
01:09:53Well, this rabbit is just one of Bryce's men.
01:09:55It's a trick to stall us.
01:09:56It is not a trick.
01:09:57I tell you, Bo Shard is head and hooves.
01:09:59You go back and tell your boss we're not giving him
01:10:01time to get set for us.
01:10:05Oh, listen, fellas!
01:10:07Hey!
01:10:07Hey!
01:10:08Hey!
01:10:08Hey!
01:10:09Hey!
01:10:09Hey!
01:10:10Hey!
01:10:11Louder!
01:10:11Hey!
01:10:12Hey!
01:10:12You men lay low and wait for the signal.
01:10:23All right, men.
01:10:24Set down.
01:10:40You want to spoil everything?
01:10:42Then they start coming back out.
01:10:56Come on, Ford.
01:10:58Start plugging that gap.
01:11:03Come on.
01:11:04Come on.
01:11:04Come on.
01:11:05Come on.
01:11:05Come on.
01:11:06Come on.
01:11:06Come on.
01:11:07Come on.
01:11:07Come on.
01:11:08Come on.
01:11:08Come on.
01:11:09Come on.
01:11:09Come on.
01:11:10Come on.
01:11:10Come on.
01:11:11Come on.
01:11:12Come on.
01:11:28I quit!
01:11:38Stand!
01:11:39All right, let him go.
01:11:53Up to him.
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