Buckskin Frontier (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Western | 14 May 1943 (USA)
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Director: Lesley Selander
Writers: Norman Houston (screenplay), Bernard Schubert (additional dialogue)
Stars: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker
Approved | 65 min | Action, Western | 14 May 1943 (USA)
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Director: Lesley Selander
Writers: Norman Houston (screenplay), Bernard Schubert (additional dialogue)
Stars: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker
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00:00Just a minute, Ben.
00:01Yes?
00:02About seeing more of us.
00:04Don't go out of your way.
00:05The town's pretty crowded.
00:07Well, you don't seem very hospitable, Mr. Marr.
00:11I didn't intend to.
00:12And you might pass the word along to your company
00:14when you get back.
00:17Well, I came here to get my mail, Mr. Marr, not to argue.
00:20As long as you've brought up the subject,
00:21I'd like to answer you.
00:23Nobody asked you to.
00:24Well, nevertheless, it might prevent trouble,
00:26and the railroad doesn't want to have any trouble with you
00:28or any other freight hauling outfit.
00:29Will the railway come this far, Mr. Benton?
00:31Well, we hope to go through as far as Santa Fe.
00:34Then we'll meet up with the Pacific short line.
00:36Then we'll have a market west as well as east.
00:38Why don't you tell them the rest of it?
00:41Who'll pay for the engines, the cars, the rail?
00:44The people will.
00:46And a land which will be condemned and taken from you.
00:49And taxes which will keep you and your children poor.
00:52And in sheep and cattle, these trains
00:54will kill on your unfenced land.
00:55It's 50 years too soon for a railroad
00:57through this territory.
01:00Neither railroad's an octopus.
01:02And men like Bent who build it are parasites that'll
01:04live off your blood and sweat.
01:06What do you think we ought to do, Mr. Marr?
01:09Stop them now while you've got the chance.
01:11Don't let them cross the Kansas line.
01:15Now, what do you say to that, Mr. Benton?
01:18Just that I'm surprised that an intelligent man
01:20should make such a statement.
01:22Since Mr. Marr is in the freighting business,
01:24naturally his opinion of his competitors
01:27is bound to be biased.
01:29Sure, you'll have to give up some of your land
01:31for the railroad right away.
01:32And your taxes will be higher.
01:34But that's because the value of your property
01:36will be multiplied a dozen times.
01:39If our trains destroy your stock,
01:41we'll gladly pay damages.
01:42But, and this is the important thing,
01:46our stock cars will take your sheep and cattle fat
01:48and primed to the market.
01:50And what's more, I promise the railroad
01:53will pay back to you in profits twice what it takes away.
01:56I think he's right, Lanny.
01:58Me, me?
01:59You fool.
02:01I'm sorry you feel that way about it, Mr. Marr.
02:05Get out.
02:06Sometimes we're running 25 miles an hour.
02:08Turn loose any one of my wagons
02:09and they'll go faster than that, downhill.
02:12But we were running on the level.
02:14It's dangerous and unnecessary to travel that fast.
02:17Why is everybody in such a hurry nowadays?
02:20They say in St. Louis that someday
02:21trains will go from New York to San Francisco
02:23in less than two weeks.
02:26Who filled you with this interest in trains?
02:28Well, it's just that I've been traveling on them.
02:31Is that what you and Gideon have been quarreling about?
02:35Well, in a way.
02:39Vinnie, I'm an old man.
02:41Nonsense.
02:41You're still the strongest, handsomest...
02:43And there's only one thing left in the world I care about.
02:47You.
02:48And what I've built up for you here on the territory.
02:51Someday it'll all be yours.
02:55Unless they take it away.
02:57That'd be a pretty big job, wouldn't it?
03:00Stephen Bent's going to try.