The Sundowners (1950)
Passed | 1h 23min | Action, Adventure, History | 2 February 1950 (USA)
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.
Director: George Templeton
Writers: Alan Le May (as Alan LeMay), Alan Le May (story "Thunder in the Dust") (as Alan LeMay)
Stars: Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills
Passed | 1h 23min | Action, Adventure, History | 2 February 1950 (USA)
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west.
Director: George Templeton
Writers: Alan Le May (as Alan LeMay), Alan Le May (story "Thunder in the Dust") (as Alan LeMay)
Stars: Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills
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00:03:19You, uh, know Juan Amador?
00:03:21Works for you, doesn't he?
00:03:22He did.
00:03:24He's been missing for three days.
00:03:26We found him this morning in the brush.
00:03:28What's the matter with him?
00:03:30He had a knife in his throat.
00:03:32Any boot prints?
00:03:34Whoever done it brushed him up.
00:03:36So did his horse, I suppose.
00:03:38No, I know what horse he was riding.
00:03:40I ought to. It was one of my own.
00:03:42That's a great help.
00:03:44Where's this knife he was killed with?
00:03:46I don't know.
00:03:48What do you know?
00:03:49You're always in here with something like this.
00:03:51Either you've been robbed or spooked or shoved or butted into.
00:03:53I never knew anything any different.
00:03:55I ask you, who done it?
00:03:57You don't know.
00:03:58Tom, I think he knows.
00:04:00Now, wait a minute.
00:04:02I think he knew before we came in.
00:04:04Jeff, I think your horse is tied a little short.
00:04:10If anyone but an owl-nosed kid said that to me...
00:04:12I think the kid's right.
00:04:14I think you do know who killed Juan.
00:04:16All right.
00:04:17It was you who horned into this valley where there wasn't any room for you.
00:04:19I made room.
00:04:21About 15 mile of it.
00:04:23Yeah, and if you expect me to hold it for you, you can go rope a duck.
00:04:25I don't expect anything from you.
00:04:27I came in here to report a murder.
00:04:29And that's the last I'll hear of it.
00:04:30I'm not so sure.
00:04:32I'm getting pretty sick of the trouble you bring on.
00:04:34Trouble?
00:04:36You don't know what the word means.
00:04:53Tom, somebody's here.
00:04:54What makes you think so?
00:04:56I don't know.
00:04:57Let's get out of here.
00:04:59Let's go.
00:05:25Sam Beard.
00:05:29Hello, neighbors.
00:05:31How are you all?
00:05:33I sure never get tired of looking at that canyon.
00:05:37Must have been a big job hauling her in here.
00:05:40Hey, Tom.
00:05:42I come to tell you that Mrs. Boyce wants to show over a few words with you.
00:05:46She seems to be in quite a tizzy.
00:05:48Jeff, go see what she wants.
00:05:50I'm there.
00:05:52We all kind of feel bucked out about Juan.
00:05:55Thanks, Sam.
00:05:57Been in town snorting and bellering at the sheriff, I judge.
00:06:01How did you know I was...
00:06:04Hey.
00:06:06Never seen that horse before.
00:06:09Too fur to say about the man.
00:06:11How did you know I tangled with the sheriff?
00:06:13Oh, I'm just uncanny, I guess.
00:06:15Maybe you can be uncanny about who killed Juan.
00:06:18Could have been me.
00:06:21You know, some of these two-cent neighbors of yours
00:06:23had hoped to become killers.
00:06:25These two-cent neighbors of yours had hoped to become cattle kings
00:06:27until you came in here and took up this long piece of ground.
00:06:30And paid for the lease.
00:06:32Yeah, but they used to use that land for free.
00:06:35So ain't it kind of understandable why they want to run you out?
00:06:38You too, Sam.
00:06:40Shucks, no.
00:06:42I hate cows.
00:06:44Whenever I think of owning any more cows than I got right now,
00:06:46it just pertinently turns my stomach.
00:06:55Sure never seen him before.
00:07:08Now, you take that happy fellow that's coming in here now.
00:07:10You can tell that he don't own no cattle.
00:07:13Either way, the right things are going.
00:07:25Hey, Tom.
00:07:27That man's a stranger.
00:07:30I know who he is.
00:07:32Do you?
00:07:34Who?
00:07:37Well, I guess I better be going.
00:07:40So long, Sam.
00:07:42So long.
00:07:44Hey, he's setting himself to a fresh horse.
00:07:47Yeah, I knew he would.
00:07:49Did you?
00:07:51Did you?
00:07:57Sure never seen that fellow before.
00:07:59Maybe you're lucky.
00:08:02Ah.
00:08:04Well, so long.
00:08:06So long.
00:08:09He's a pure stranger to me.
00:08:12You know that?
00:08:14Yeah.
00:08:16You told me.
00:08:18Yeah.
00:08:20Well, so long.
00:08:22So long.
00:08:33Hey.
00:08:35No.
00:08:37You ain't seen me in no place.
00:08:48You don't have to strike up no band.
00:08:50I know you're here.
00:08:52It's nice to find you still know me anyway.
00:08:54I know you better than anybody else in the world.
00:08:56You got yourself cooked up in a real slum gullion, ain't you?
00:08:59Have I?
00:09:01I heard about how they run your foreman over the big divide with his shirt tail flying.
00:09:06Last man you had, too, they tell me.
00:09:08How long you been snooping around here?
00:09:11Is this all the pipes you got?
00:09:13I said, how long?
00:09:15Maybe ten days.
00:09:18You know, it's a marvel to me how you never seem to know what goes on.
00:09:22I bet you don't spend hardly any time in the back room of saloons at all, do you?
00:09:26Not too much.
00:09:28You see how ignorant it makes a man to live cultivated the way you do?
00:09:33Well, I haven't worked this range for nearly seven years.
00:09:36And yet I know more about what's happening on it than you do.
00:09:40It's a lucky thing for you I haven't worked this range.
00:09:43It's a lucky thing for you I happen to be passing through.
00:09:46And you're going to keep right on passing through, too.
00:09:49Will you kill me if I don't?
00:09:51You know,
00:09:53someday it might come to that.
00:09:57There's a thing you can do about me and you know it perfectly well.
00:10:02What is it you want?
00:10:04Well, tonight I want to take a little ride.
00:10:06Just checking up on a guest.
00:10:08You want the man who killed Juan.
00:10:10If my guess is right, I'll put him right in the sights of your gun.
00:10:13You want to come?
00:10:15No.
00:10:17I don't want any part of anything you do.
00:10:26Tom, I talked to...
00:10:29Hi, Jeff.
00:10:30Jeff!
00:10:37Hi.
00:10:38That's what I said.
00:10:40This the first day you've worn that gun?
00:10:42I wear it enough.
00:10:43Then why don't you use it instead of climbing the wall?
00:10:46I can see Tom's been neglecting your education.
00:10:49Well, we'll fix that.
00:10:51I got to see you, Tom. Can you come out a minute?
00:11:02What's Wichita want?
00:11:04Nothing he'll get.
00:11:06I saw Mrs. Boyer. She's all spooked up.
00:11:08She thinks something's going to fall on her husband.
00:11:10Like what?
00:11:11Like getting shot.
00:11:14Nobody has enough interest in her old boys to want to shoot him.
00:11:17Oh, yes they do, Tom. Her old boys knows who killed Juan.
00:11:20How?
00:11:21He saw it.
00:11:22She said that?
00:11:24Ain't I just told you?
00:11:26Fetch me a pony, will you? Smoke it up.
00:11:28Now, wait a minute.
00:11:29I'll use the one Wichita thought he was going to use.
00:11:35Well, what's the answer?
00:11:38Jeff, put this on for me, will you?
00:11:44You can stay here tonight.
00:11:46To rest your pony.
00:11:48Tomorrow I want you long gone.
00:11:50I think you're missing out, Tom.
00:11:52I just happen to know something.
00:11:54I'm allowing for that.
00:11:56You've been in the Paladora ten days.
00:11:58And Juan's been dead only three.
00:12:00Why, Tom, you don't think I'd kill a man.
00:12:02No.
00:12:03You wouldn't kill a man.
00:12:05Except for food.
00:12:08Juan was killed by a cow feed.
00:12:10When were you ever anything else?
00:12:12Why, Tom, from Amarillo to Gee Whit,
00:12:15ain't nobody ever proved a thing on me, except twice.
00:12:18No, I can't prove anything.
00:12:20I don't even want to.
00:12:22I just want you gone.
00:12:24I don't think he'd done it, Tom.
00:12:26Oh, you don't?
00:12:28Well, come on, we gotta get going.
00:12:30All we have to do if you think he'd done it is ask her old boys.
00:12:33As long as we got a man who saw it.
00:12:35So he knows who killed him, huh?
00:12:38Get his gun belt off of the bed, Jeff.
00:12:41Right when I had a little soap in my eye.
00:12:43No, you didn't have any soap in your eye.
00:12:46Bring it here, Jeff.
00:12:50What's wrong?
00:12:51What's wrong? Don't you know what you've done?
00:12:53Supposing Wichita did kill Juan.
00:12:55How long would he let a witness live?
00:12:57You just talked her old boys into no breakfast forever.
00:13:00Well, I don't think Wichita...
00:13:02What's the trouble? You don't think?
00:13:04All I can do now is take him over and find out.
00:13:07Come on.
00:13:17Get off.
00:13:19This man's a prospector.
00:13:21The fancy kind from school.
00:13:23Been squatting here for a while looking for kerosene, he says.
00:13:29Say, he's pretty, ain't he?
00:13:33Tom, I don't know if I should have sent for you.
00:13:36You're in a little trouble, Kathleen.
00:13:38Well, I'll be in trouble.
00:13:41Who's this?
00:13:43He calls himself Kid Wichita.
00:13:46Kid Wichita?
00:13:48You've heard of him?
00:13:50I suppose a lot of people have heard of Kid Wichita.
00:13:55Earl, I have to ask you.
00:13:57Have you ever seen this man before?
00:14:00Come on in.
00:14:03After you.
00:14:06Come on, boys.
00:14:07Did I kill Juan Amador or not?
00:14:09Why, can't you remember?
00:14:11It escapes me.
00:14:13I never saw him before in my life.
00:14:17Are you sure?
00:14:20All right, Wichita, your guns are on my saddle.
00:14:23You don't say.
00:14:24It just happens that I don't know anything at all about this killing.
00:14:28Whatever you may have heard.
00:14:30How can anyone's life be saved?
00:14:31Sorry to be so disappointing.
00:14:33It's just that I can't afford the wooden suit.
00:14:35Well, no one's measuring you, Earl.
00:14:37Well, I can't testify.
00:14:39And I wouldn't if I could.
00:14:41Sorry if my wife gave you a bum steer.
00:14:45She wanted you killed, huh?
00:14:46He didn't say that.
00:14:47No.
00:14:49But it's an interesting thought.
00:14:51Yes, isn't it?
00:14:53Look, it's okay, honey.
00:14:55I'll get you off the hook.
00:14:57Tom, Juan Amador was killed by a little pigpen neighbor of yours named Kelsey.
00:15:02Juan caught him branding the wrong calf.
00:15:05Is that true?
00:15:07Yes.
00:15:08You can come out from under the bed now, bub.
00:15:11Your wife and I took care of it.
00:15:14Can I go now, chief?
00:15:17Yeah, you can go.
00:15:18Anywhere you want, as long as it's far.
00:15:22I'll see you around.
00:15:25Oh, say, honey.
00:15:27You best keep your things packed.
00:15:29I'll be coming back for you, most likely.
00:15:32Really?
00:15:36You've seen him before, I take it.
00:15:38Of course not. Never in my life.
00:15:43It's a day in the life of O'Reilly
00:15:48To O'Reilly all days are the same
00:15:52No land ever crossed by O'Reilly
00:15:56Ever again looks the same
00:15:59Now, one thing...
00:16:13Howl!
00:16:19Howl!
00:16:29Howl!
00:16:38Well, you was right again.
00:16:39Why, sure.
00:16:40There were concert-tale meadows tonight.
00:16:43We even got a moon.
00:16:59Come on.
00:17:05There's only four of them.
00:17:07That's too bad.
00:17:08Come on.
00:17:27Now, watch it now.
00:17:28I only want the saddles, not the men.
00:17:31And another thing.
00:17:32You see that swing rider?
00:17:35The one on the pin of horse?
00:17:37He's mine.
00:17:42All right, let's kill those horses.
00:17:58That pack rat took up smoking.
00:18:00Fuss, will you?
00:18:05I think the witcher tossed back.
00:18:08Got people with him.
00:18:10Hooray, hooray for O'Reilly
00:18:15He brings up the sun every day
00:18:19He brings up the sun every day
00:18:23He brings up the sun every day
00:18:28See the sun coming up for O'Reilly
00:18:31Hooray for O'Reilly, hooray
00:18:37Hey, you fellas go on inside.
00:18:38Find yourself some breakfast.
00:18:42All right, who's are these?
00:18:44Why, don't you recognize them?
00:18:45They're all close neighbors.
00:18:49D. Fletcher?
00:18:50Why, sure.
00:18:52And Jim Strake.
00:18:53And that whip-slinger, what's his name?
00:18:55Uh, Gil Batson?
00:18:56Dead.
00:18:57I know.
00:18:59We just knocked off the horses.
00:19:00The men run home.
00:19:02You wake me at sundown, will you?
00:19:03In case I ain't on my feet.
00:19:06Talk.
00:19:08Didn't you know they was the ones
00:19:09taking off with your cattle?
00:19:10Well, naturally I knew they was taking off.
00:19:11Well, now they know you know
00:19:12because I caught them at it.
00:19:14You satisfied?
00:19:15So now I can think up some way
00:19:16to explain those saddles, huh?
00:19:18Well, now, if that ain't pretty stupid.
00:19:21What's wrong with letting the owners
00:19:22explain how come they was driving your beef?
00:19:24Well, were they taking them?
00:19:25Why take them anywhere?
00:19:26They just kill a few heads,
00:19:28skin them out to get rid of the brand
00:19:29and sell the beef.
00:19:30Well, uh, if these men are alive,
00:19:31as you say they are...
00:19:32Oh, yeah, they're alive, all right.
00:19:34They'll be here for them.
00:19:35Uh, bareback?
00:19:37I hope they feel foolish.
00:19:38All I know is they'll be shooting.
00:19:40Let them.
00:19:42Jeff, uh...
00:19:43Take those, uh...
00:19:45Take these howls inside, will you?
00:19:48Go on, git.
00:19:51Now, listen.
00:19:52I don't want to murder my way
00:19:53out of this thing.
00:19:54Well, then, put these saddles
00:19:55on some of your horses
00:19:56and send them to the owners
00:19:57with our compliments.
00:19:58I think the boys will get the idea.
00:20:00Send them back?
00:20:01On my horses?
00:20:02Are you crazy?
00:20:04The horses will come home later
00:20:06and won't cost us a thing.
00:20:08You'll never hear from it again.
00:20:09No, I'll never hear from it again.
00:20:10Well, look what they'd have to say.
00:20:12We was peacefully riding Tom Cloud's range
00:20:14at midnight when he come up
00:20:16and took our saddles away.
00:20:18Now, Tom, there ain't a man in the world
00:20:19game to take the lab.
00:20:20Of all the crazy...
00:20:22I'll show you how to handle
00:20:23these neighbors of yours.
00:20:24Oh, no, you're not gonna show me
00:20:25a thing because you're not
00:20:26gonna be in...
00:20:27Somebody else is coming.
00:20:28You just finding out?
00:20:29I didn't know a thing
00:20:30before he was inside two miles.
00:20:32Then who is it?
00:20:33John Gull with a circle bar.
00:20:35Well, the old brass bull himself.
00:20:39You see how the tone
00:20:40of this dump picks up
00:20:41when I'm here?
00:20:48Say,
00:20:50he's a determined looking
00:20:51old moss horn, ain't he?
00:20:53Hey, turkey.
00:20:54Yeah.
00:20:56Keep an eye on this one.
00:20:57Morning, John.
00:21:02I've owned 20 miles
00:21:03in this canyon
00:21:04for near 30 years.
00:21:05It's almost that long
00:21:06since anybody thought
00:21:07he was big enough
00:21:08to start trouble with me.
00:21:10Somebody starting trouble, John?
00:21:12I hear Kid Wichita
00:21:13has gone to work for you.
00:21:15When a man begins
00:21:16to bring paid killers
00:21:17onto the range,
00:21:18it's my understanding
00:21:19that trouble is what he wants.
00:21:21Why, Mr. Gull?
00:21:23From Amarillo to Gee Whit,
00:21:24with two exceptions,
00:21:25nobody never
00:21:26proved a thing on me.
00:21:28But you never moved in anywhere
00:21:29without murder breaking out.
00:21:31And you never left any place
00:21:32except under a cloud.
00:21:35Shortly after midnight
00:21:36last night,
00:21:38Job Kelsey rode into my place,
00:21:40shot through the body.
00:21:43He fell out of his saddle
00:21:44unconscious
00:21:45and never come to again.
00:21:49This morning he died.
00:21:50Now I can't prove
00:21:51that a known killer
00:21:53shot Kelsey
00:21:54while he was patrolling
00:21:55his range.
00:21:57I don't expect any witnesses
00:21:58to come forward.
00:22:00No, I don't expect
00:22:01none either.
00:22:02Hey, Parson,
00:22:03how's the coffee?
00:22:05I can't prove it
00:22:06and I don't expect to try.
00:22:09But I'll have
00:22:10no more of this.
00:22:12And I'm warning you
00:22:13to get rid of that man
00:22:15and quick.
00:22:16How?
00:22:18You don't seem to realize
00:22:19All right, all right.
00:22:22Seems to me
00:22:23your son is sheriff here.
00:22:24Where is he?
00:22:25I'm fully ready
00:22:26to handle some of these
00:22:27things myself.
00:22:28I'll tell you why
00:22:29he isn't here.
00:22:30Because he's nothing
00:22:31but a bill show cowboy
00:22:32and never could be
00:22:33anything else.
00:22:34Would you put him
00:22:35in here as sheriff?
00:22:36Why, if I'd have done
00:22:37a thing like that
00:22:38to the cattlemen
00:22:39of my county,
00:22:40I wouldn't be sitting
00:22:41there in a saddle.
00:22:42You know where I'd be?
00:22:43No.
00:22:44But I expect
00:22:45you're going to tell me
00:22:46that too.
00:22:47I'd be out in the corral
00:22:48with my head under
00:22:49a pile of stomp straw
00:22:51for fear I might have
00:22:52to look myself
00:22:53in the face again.
00:22:56I'm trying to think
00:22:57how many men ever
00:22:58told me anything like that.
00:23:00Do you know
00:23:01how many I think it was?
00:23:03None.
00:23:04Well, you've been
00:23:05told now.
00:23:06Yes.
00:23:08And by a man
00:23:09with empty hands,
00:23:10what makes you so sure
00:23:11that I can't shoot down
00:23:12an unarmed man?
00:23:15Because there happens
00:23:16to be a rifle bearing
00:23:17square on your chest.
00:23:19I see that too.
00:23:21Now turn your horse
00:23:22and get out.
00:23:24All right.
00:23:26I've told you
00:23:27what you're up against.
00:23:29It's all any man could do.
00:23:39Why, doggone me,
00:23:40you took enough hide
00:23:41off of him to make a shirt.
00:23:44Maybe he was right, witch.
00:23:45Maybe I was wrong.
00:23:46Why, sure.
00:23:47You want fresh ponies?
00:23:48No, turkey.
00:23:50Tom just found out
00:23:51he needs us here.
00:23:52We'll take it.
00:23:55So they like night riding, huh?
00:23:57Now, all right,
00:23:58we'll show them some.
00:24:00Yeah, we'll show them.
00:24:02They want to lift a cow,
00:24:03we'll lift three.
00:24:04They owe me a few already.
00:24:06Last night we give them
00:24:07one dead man
00:24:08and trade for a dead man.
00:24:09But from here on
00:24:10we'll be more generous.
00:24:11We'll give them two for one.
00:24:12Great fog in the foothills,
00:24:13man, it's a pleasure
00:24:14to see you fighting back.
00:24:17All right, witch,
00:24:18you just went on wages.
00:24:20Why, Tom,
00:24:21I don't want any wages from you.
00:24:24I just want half the place.
00:24:35No horses allowed in here.
00:24:38Oh, excuse me,
00:24:39it's you, Pa.
00:24:40Maybe you'd like to hear
00:24:41why I'm not laughing.
00:24:42Oh, it's nothing.
00:24:43Of course, I thought
00:24:44it was pretty funny.
00:24:45I've laughed at your capers
00:24:46for years.
00:24:47But I can't laugh anymore.
00:24:48Well, I'll tell you
00:24:49what you do.
00:24:50Put two teaspoons
00:24:51of common soda
00:24:52and a cup of hot water
00:24:53and...
00:24:54Today a man
00:24:55looked me square in the eye
00:24:57and very quietly
00:24:58skinned me alive.
00:25:00Where's the body?
00:25:01There is no body.
00:25:03I sat in my saddle
00:25:04and I took it.
00:25:05He accused me
00:25:06of putting a gun-shy featherhead
00:25:07in this sheriff's office.
00:25:09He said any man
00:25:10who stuck his Connie
00:25:11with a hoot owl like you
00:25:12would hide himself.
00:25:13You let some son of a daughter
00:25:14say that about me?
00:25:15I couldn't help myself.
00:25:17Because all of a sudden
00:25:18it came into my mind
00:25:19maybe he was right
00:25:20that my son...
00:25:21Shut up
00:25:22when I'm talking to you.
00:25:25Two weeks ago a killer
00:25:26named Kid Wichita
00:25:27come onto this range.
00:25:28Well, I'm watching him.
00:25:29You're watching him.
00:25:30And two men have been killed.
00:25:31Job Kelsey
00:25:32and that man of Tom Cloud's.
00:25:34All right.
00:25:35You're through watching him.
00:25:37I want Kid Wichita
00:25:38run clean out of the county
00:25:39within a week.
00:25:40Oh, you too.
00:25:41I'm not running this county
00:25:42from the end of an apron string
00:25:43I can tell you that much.
00:25:45You're not running anything.
00:25:47But you begin now.
00:25:49I'll have enforcement
00:25:50in this county
00:25:51and I'll have it from you.
00:25:53Kid Wichita is just a start.
00:25:55You hear me?
00:26:11Hello, little neighbor.
00:26:29Tom up ahead?
00:26:30Yep.
00:26:37Hiya, Tom.
00:26:38What you been doing?
00:26:41Just moving the cows
00:26:42up the summer pasture.
00:26:43I ain't had enough help till now.
00:26:45And doing something else too,
00:26:46ain't you?
00:26:48What's on your mind?
00:26:49Them saddles.
00:26:51You shouldn't have never
00:26:52sent them saddles
00:26:53back with Job Kelsey
00:26:54killed that night.
00:26:55I had all reason
00:26:56to believe that Kelsey
00:26:57killed Juan.
00:26:58But that ain't how
00:26:59Kelsey got it.
00:27:00He got it rustling cattle.
00:27:02Don't you see what you've done?
00:27:03Them boys could forgive
00:27:04you shooting at them.
00:27:05But taking the saddles
00:27:06and sending them back.
00:27:08You might as well
00:27:09shot them and killed them all.
00:27:11Think they'd like
00:27:12that better, huh?
00:27:13Somehow I believe they would.
00:27:15Tom,
00:27:17you ain't never gonna
00:27:18be through with this thing
00:27:19now until all three
00:27:20of them boys is dead.
00:27:21That's up to them.
00:27:25Another thing,
00:27:26your neighbors are saying
00:27:27that this Kid Wichita,
00:27:28you brought him on this range
00:27:29here and hired him
00:27:30as a paid killer
00:27:31just to murder you
00:27:32way up and down here.
00:27:33No.
00:27:41I'm missing a couple of them, Tom.
00:27:43Must have run up a draw.
00:27:44Well, you better
00:27:45go back and see.
00:27:46I'm there.
00:27:50You know, Tom,
00:27:51there's not much
00:27:52can happen to a single
00:27:53fellow like you and me.
00:27:54But what about Jeff?
00:27:55You want to see him
00:27:56turn out to be like Wichita?
00:27:57Well, that's why
00:27:58I'm making this fight.
00:27:59So he won't.
00:28:00Well, what kind of thing
00:28:01you think he'd learn
00:28:02by just being around him?
00:28:04Well, he'll never learn
00:28:05to turn tail.
00:28:06You'll never get that
00:28:07from Wichita.
00:28:08Or from me.
00:28:11♪
00:28:41How much has our cattle
00:28:42increased so far this week?
00:28:43Forty-six, Ed.
00:28:45No.
00:28:46Forty-eight.
00:28:47Uh-uh.
00:28:48That ain't enough.
00:28:49I figure every one of our cows
00:28:51should come in
00:28:52with three, four calves
00:28:53this year with a little help.
00:28:54We're giving them
00:28:55plenty of help.
00:28:56Here, take my horse with me.
00:28:58♪
00:29:15What you doing, Ma?
00:29:17I told you I don't like you
00:29:18and I mean it.
00:29:28♪
00:29:37Hey.
00:29:39Not enough salt.
00:29:40Isn't that sad?
00:29:42Why, sure.
00:29:53Well,
00:29:55I'll see you tomorrow
00:29:56where I can stay longer.
00:30:12Come on, let's go.
00:30:14♪
00:30:35If you're looking for Wichita,
00:30:36you just missed him.
00:30:37I know.
00:30:38How often has he been here?
00:30:40Well, enough.
00:30:44Look, Kathleen,
00:30:46if that big owl hoot
00:30:47is bothering you...
00:30:48Tom,
00:30:49is Wichita blackmailing you?
00:30:51Blackmailing?
00:30:53I can't imagine you being
00:30:54mixed up with Wichita
00:30:55unless he has some kind
00:30:56of hold on you.
00:30:57Well, it takes hands
00:30:58to run cattle.
00:30:59Yes, especially knights.
00:31:02Everyone knows
00:31:03he's been making
00:31:04raid after raid.
00:31:06Listen,
00:31:07no one's getting hurt
00:31:08that doesn't need to,
00:31:09believe me.
00:31:10What about Jeff?
00:31:11Or doesn't he matter?
00:31:12Maybe he's all that matters.
00:31:14How long is it going to be
00:31:15before Jeff starts imitating
00:31:16everything Wichita does?
00:31:18I'm working against that
00:31:19as best I can.
00:31:21I believe you.
00:31:24I didn't mean to quarrel
00:31:25with you when we're moving
00:31:26so soon.
00:31:28Oh, it's all right.
00:31:30I, uh...
00:31:34I'm sorry you're leaving.
00:31:36Are you?
00:31:37Well, I'm not.
00:31:39I hate everything
00:31:40that ever happens
00:31:41in this place.
00:31:42Except knowing you.
00:31:46You've been a good friend, Tom.
00:31:48Sure.
00:31:52Tom!
00:31:57Come here.
00:32:11Put your arms around me.
00:32:22You've been thinking
00:32:23about that for a long time,
00:32:24haven't you?
00:32:25Yes.
00:32:27Maybe I have, too.
00:32:30So now that's over with.
00:32:32Where are we?
00:32:34Nowhere, I suppose.
00:32:36That's right.
00:32:38You know that now.
00:32:41So try to get some sleep
00:32:43for a change.
00:32:48I'll send the buck forward
00:32:49for you when you're ready
00:32:50to leave.
00:32:51I'll let you know.
00:33:00There he goes, finally.
00:33:02I was beginning to worry.
00:33:04Come on.
00:33:05I ought to work the far side
00:33:06of the two-fake ridge.
00:33:08Hey!
00:33:33Not one of ours, I hope.
00:33:35Not until now.
00:33:36Where's the cow?
00:33:37She looked like she might
00:33:38bust her legs, so I shot her.
00:33:40Oh, fair enough.
00:33:51Stick it on him, Jeff!
00:34:07Seems like I got one
00:34:08of John Gaul.
00:34:09All right to pull with Gaul?
00:34:11Sure, throw it down.
00:34:13Hey, what's your talk?
00:34:16Tom said leave Gaul stock alone.
00:34:20You see that rock over there?
00:34:22Yeah.
00:34:25I had more trouble
00:34:26with that one rock
00:34:27than I had of digging
00:34:28all the rest of this here.
00:34:30You see that rock over there?
00:34:32Yeah.
00:34:34I had more trouble
00:34:35with that one rock
00:34:36than I had of digging
00:34:37all the rest of this here canyon.
00:35:06That's the way to get rich, kid.
00:35:12Well, I finally sold
00:35:13a few skinned out cows.
00:35:15Only got 600 clams,
00:35:16but it's a start.
00:35:17Holy smoke!
00:35:18I never seen so much
00:35:19money in my life.
00:35:20Say, it was pretty dark.
00:35:21I sure hope none of those
00:35:22cows was our brand.
00:35:23Who bought them?
00:35:24The same people that was
00:35:25buying our beef
00:35:26from the neighbors.
00:35:27Oh, we'll get back
00:35:28some of our own.
00:35:29Gee, Tom,
00:35:30we got a man in here now.
00:35:33Now, when you're learning...
00:35:36That must be the parson
00:35:37coming in.
00:35:38Uh-uh, it's Turkey.
00:35:39Yeah, that's what I said.
00:35:41Now, while you're learning,
00:35:42you hold your gun like this.
00:35:44That's so the bullet
00:35:45won't get out and hurt nobody,
00:35:46because you don't ever
00:35:47want to shoot people
00:35:48except on purpose.
00:35:49Now, when you take
00:35:50your finger off,
00:35:51the gun should go bang.
00:35:53Thusly.
00:35:55Now, when you're learning,
00:35:56you hold your gun like this.
00:35:57That's so the bullet
00:35:58won't get out and hurt nobody,
00:35:59because you don't ever
00:36:00want to shoot people
00:36:01except on purpose.
00:36:03Wait a minute.
00:36:15Fetch me up that fresh horse,
00:36:16will you, Turkey?
00:36:23You roll that can on out there.
00:36:33You see how wonderful I teach?
00:36:37I want to watch out
00:36:38I don't teach you too good.
00:36:40You riding tonight?
00:36:42Me, too.
00:36:47No, not you, too.
00:36:49And hang that gun up.
00:36:51Don't you have a gun?
00:36:53I don't have a gun.
00:36:55I don't have a gun.
00:36:57I don't have a gun.
00:36:59I don't have a gun.
00:37:00I don't have a gun.
00:37:02Do you have any notion
00:37:03what cartridges cost?
00:37:05See you in the morning.
00:37:15All I say is,
00:37:16it's time to lay low for a while.
00:37:18The old man's already been in here
00:37:19pouring the dirt.
00:37:20He sent your tail
00:37:21which died in his ride.
00:37:23We're losing cattle
00:37:24every night ourselves.
00:37:25That Wichita swings a long rope.
00:37:28Well, put some sand
00:37:29in his whiskers, then.
00:37:30You're going streaky.
00:37:33For Pete's sake, Gil.
00:37:39Kid, Wichita ain't no sitting duck.
00:37:43How did they get Kelsey?
00:37:44Wichita dried Kelsey.
00:37:46Well, all right, then.
00:37:47You'll be right there
00:37:48if we ever try that.
00:37:51Scared of them, huh?
00:37:54They fly.
00:37:59When I bushwhack a man,
00:38:00I want it legal.
00:38:02That's what I need from you.
00:38:04And that's all I need.
00:38:06I'll be there.
00:38:07When?
00:38:08I'll come out in the morning.
00:38:09Find out where he's riding tomorrow,
00:38:10and we'll fix up
00:38:11their whole outfit before night.
00:38:13Don't tell me
00:38:14you're chancing yourself.
00:38:15He won't get any chance.
00:38:17Now, get out of town.
00:38:19I'm sick of hearing you squawk.
00:38:23And watch out
00:38:24he don't take away your saddles again
00:38:25before you make it home.
00:38:28Come on, Gil.
00:38:32Come on.
00:39:03gunshot
00:39:08gunshot
00:39:09gunshot
00:39:10gunshot
00:39:12gunshot
00:39:32gunshot
00:39:57Hi, people.
00:40:00I saw your lights,
00:40:01so naturally I dropped in for a
00:40:03shot of stagger juice.
00:40:05This is not a saloon.
00:40:07Well, that's good.
00:40:08Then I won't have to pay for it.
00:40:10Well, help yourself, by all means.
00:40:12Why, sure.
00:40:16This is unbelievable.
00:40:19Yeah, it is a little.
00:40:20Did you make it yourself?
00:40:28You've been bawling again, I see.
00:40:29I want no trouble
00:40:30with you, Wichita.
00:40:31Well, now, that's all right, Earl.
00:40:33Lots of fellas believe
00:40:34in stirring them up a little.
00:40:35Helps them keep their figure.
00:40:37I ain't sure
00:40:38but when it's a good idea.
00:40:41Well.
00:40:43Music lovers.
00:40:45Would you like to hear
00:40:46a little song?
00:40:47All we want from you is...
00:40:52There's a girl
00:40:53in the life of O'Reilly
00:40:55To O'Reilly
00:40:56all girls look the same
00:41:01But a girl
00:41:02who has once seen O'Reilly
00:41:06Will never again look good
00:41:11Say, what's the matter, Earl?
00:41:12Don't you ever tune this thing?
00:41:14There isn't a thing in the world
00:41:15you can do about this, Earl.
00:41:17It's one thing or the other, Wichita.
00:41:20I knew a voice once.
00:41:21Old Honest John voice.
00:41:23Found a million in silver
00:41:24and drank it up.
00:41:26Say, I just thought.
00:41:28Old Honest John had a boy.
00:41:30Went to some fancy pants
00:41:31mining school.
00:41:33Married a rich gal
00:41:34and then found out
00:41:35she didn't have any money.
00:41:38Well, I'll be.
00:41:44So you're her, huh?
00:41:46Get out.
00:41:47Get out now.
00:41:48So you're her, huh?
00:41:49Get out.
00:41:50Get out and stay out.
00:41:51I'm going, I'm going, I'm going.
00:41:55Of course, you want to hear
00:41:56the rest of the song first.
00:41:59It's a night
00:42:00in the life of O'Reilly
00:42:04To him night and day
00:42:06are the same
00:42:09What's the matter?
00:42:10Don't you like this song?
00:42:14But the thing about
00:42:15night with O'Reilly
00:42:19You know, this song was written
00:42:20by one of the best songwriters
00:42:21in the world.
00:42:23I've also written
00:42:24some other songs.
00:42:26O'Reilly, don't you know
00:42:27what he came here for?
00:42:28Not to see me.
00:42:29He's here just to amuse himself
00:42:30by tormenting you.
00:42:33Why, sure.
00:42:35Some people get their fun
00:42:36out of spur-raking women.
00:42:39Others like to rile up men,
00:42:40that's all.
00:42:43If he can prod you
00:42:44into making some foolish move,
00:42:45that's probably just what he wants.
00:42:46That's fairly obvious.
00:42:48I don't suppose there's
00:42:49the least doubt in your mind
00:42:50that you can kill me
00:42:51very easily.
00:42:53But unless you leave this house,
00:42:54that's exactly what
00:42:55you'll have to do.
00:42:57Please, Wichita.
00:43:02I've never asked you
00:43:03a favor before,
00:43:04but I'm asking you now.
00:43:06Why, sure.
00:43:13Don't you forget
00:43:14to keep your things packed, honey.
00:43:18Sweet dreams, Bub.
00:43:20Ain't nobody lives forever.
00:43:28I want you to know something, Earl.
00:43:31There were a couple of minutes there
00:43:32when I was very proud of you.
00:43:34He even knew about the broken catch
00:43:35on the cupboard door.
00:43:37How many times
00:43:38has he been here before?
00:43:39I'd say once was too many.
00:43:40That's not an answer.
00:43:41It never does any good
00:43:42to answer you.
00:43:43No, not when you have to lie.
00:43:45You can't lie to me.
00:43:46I know you too well.
00:43:48I think you do.
00:43:49I ought to kill you.
00:43:51But I think there's something else
00:43:52that needs doing worse.
00:43:54Earl, why don't you
00:43:55put it out of your mind?
00:43:57He'll probably never bother you again.
00:45:19Cloud, I've come to ask your help.
00:45:21You've come to a strange place.
00:45:24What do you know
00:45:25about the murder of my son?
00:45:29My son was shot to death
00:45:30last night in his office.
00:45:32The killer fired four times.
00:45:34Three of the bullets
00:45:35were sent in to my boy
00:45:36after he was shot.
00:45:38The other two
00:45:39were fired at the same time.
00:45:41I don't know
00:45:42how many bullets
00:45:43were fired at him.
00:45:45I don't know
00:45:46how many bullets
00:45:47were sent in to my boy
00:45:48after he was down.
00:45:52I'm sorry, John.
00:45:55Was Wichita in town last night?
00:45:57Don't you know
00:45:58whether he was or not?
00:45:59I haven't found anybody
00:46:00that saw him.
00:46:02But I know this.
00:46:03Men who would hunt down
00:46:04a law officer and kill him
00:46:05in his own office
00:46:06are very few.
00:46:08Wichita might do it.
00:46:10I don't know what for.
00:46:12Maybe I do.
00:46:14I told my boy
00:46:15to run Wichita off this range.
00:46:17I'd like to think
00:46:18he was man enough
00:46:19so that maybe he'd begun to try.
00:46:22You know, after your boy is dead
00:46:23a funny thing happens to you.
00:46:26You can't remember
00:46:27whether he was any good or not.
00:46:29You can't remember him
00:46:30as a man at all.
00:46:32You only remember him
00:46:33as a little kid.
00:46:35I suppose so.
00:46:38It doesn't matter now
00:46:39what he did that wasn't good enough
00:46:40or what part I had in it.
00:46:42All that counts
00:46:43is what is up ahead of us now.
00:46:45Such as what?
00:46:47I'm stepping into my son's place.
00:46:49The time has come
00:46:50to choose upside
00:46:51once and for all.
00:46:53Because I'm going to
00:46:54straighten this county out.
00:46:56Now you can help me
00:46:57or you can work against me.
00:47:00There isn't going to be any
00:47:02on the fence now.
00:47:05Well, uh,
00:47:07you never did give me
00:47:08much choice, did you?
00:47:10I'm giving you
00:47:11your choosings now.
00:47:14Well, John,
00:47:15I'm going to take care
00:47:16of myself here
00:47:17in any way that I see fit.
00:47:24That's your answer, is it?
00:47:27That's the only answer
00:47:28I can give you right now.
00:47:30All right.
00:47:32But I'll tell you this.
00:47:34I'm going to get
00:47:35the murderer of my boy.
00:47:46If I come here again,
00:47:48it'll be to make an arrest.
00:48:06All right,
00:48:07let's get on down there.
00:48:08Come on.
00:48:17You boys better
00:48:18stake out here for a minute
00:48:19and I'll go down there
00:48:20and see if he's loaded
00:48:21for a grizzly or for a squirrel.
00:48:43Hey, Tom.
00:48:44I've been around
00:48:45taking orders for rice pudding.
00:48:48I already sold a batch
00:48:49to them natives of yours.
00:48:51I ain't hungry.
00:48:53All we need around here
00:48:54is a little peace.
00:48:55But, Tom,
00:48:56that's what I brought you.
00:48:57I got here
00:48:58Jim Strait, Gil Batson
00:48:59and Dee Fletcher.
00:49:00There's three cow outfits
00:49:01you can make peace with right now.
00:49:03They're setting them ponies
00:49:04right there.
00:49:05Seems like they got
00:49:06awful peace-loving
00:49:07all of a sudden.
00:49:08Tom,
00:49:09I think you ought
00:49:10to talk to them boys.
00:49:11I wore a whole lot
00:49:12in these britches
00:49:13getting them boys
00:49:14in the talking mood.
00:49:18All right.
00:49:20Tell them to leave
00:49:21their guns in the saddle.
00:49:23Hang up your irons, boys,
00:49:24and come in by hand.
00:49:31And a whip.
00:49:32Gil,
00:49:33put that whip down.
00:49:40I guess you realize, Sam,
00:49:42if Whiteland struck
00:49:43right square in the middle
00:49:44of them three,
00:49:45my troubles would be over.
00:49:51All right, start shoveling.
00:49:52We ain't asking
00:49:53who killed Elmer Gaul.
00:49:54All we know is
00:49:55none of us done it.
00:49:56Well, that's more than I know.
00:49:57And it's more than
00:49:58John Gaul knows.
00:49:59These boys
00:50:00were the last ones
00:50:01to see Sheriff Gaul alive.
00:50:03You know,
00:50:04a mistake like that's been known
00:50:05to turn a man into a memory.
00:50:06Look, boys,
00:50:07if John Gaul
00:50:08sets himself up
00:50:09for a clean sweep,
00:50:10you'll see sweating
00:50:11and hollering.
00:50:12You'll hear a lot of people
00:50:13die with a yell.
00:50:14Well, he's set.
00:50:15Gaul's got his sights
00:50:16set on you.
00:50:17And me.
00:50:18Gil Batson here
00:50:19and Jim Strake.
00:50:20We ain't got any time
00:50:21for any more wham-pusses
00:50:22from Kid Wichita.
00:50:23Had enough of Wichita, huh?
00:50:25No, we like Wichita.
00:50:26We like the way
00:50:27he handled himself.
00:50:28Tom, these boys
00:50:29has been robbing you blind.
00:50:30They admit that.
00:50:31We'll call it square
00:50:32if one thing.
00:50:34If what thing?
00:50:35If Kid Wichita
00:50:36helps us take care of Gaul.
00:50:41And if he don't?
00:50:42Then somebody
00:50:43will have to take care
00:50:44of Kid Wichita.
00:50:45That's all.
00:50:46You see it yourself.
00:50:47And after Wichita,
00:50:48there's Turkey
00:50:49and the parson
00:50:50and me.
00:50:52Four killings
00:50:53before you're through.
00:50:54I make it five.
00:50:57I guess he's counting Jeff, Tom.
00:50:59Jeff ain't in this.
00:51:00He's rode with Wichita
00:51:01every night.
00:51:02I said he ain't in this.
00:51:03Tom,
00:51:04these boys has got
00:51:05Gaul in front
00:51:06and Wichita on the back
00:51:07and maybe they've earned it.
00:51:08But a man's gotta
00:51:09make some way out
00:51:10for himself.
00:51:12What would you do
00:51:13in their place?
00:51:15You want me to tell them?
00:51:16Yeah.
00:51:18You boys just have
00:51:19one next thing to do.
00:51:21And that's to get back
00:51:22in those saddles
00:51:23and ride them out of here quick.
00:51:24Before somebody
00:51:25takes them away
00:51:26from you again.
00:51:31I guess you boys
00:51:32better be moseying.
00:51:33It's the first time
00:51:34you've been right.
00:51:41Tom,
00:51:42I've been thinking
00:51:43about Joe Kelsey
00:51:44all day today.
00:51:46And I don't know
00:51:47what brought him to my mind.
00:51:49You don't, huh?
00:51:51The bullet went into
00:51:52his left ribs.
00:51:53Of course, he'd come
00:51:54right out again
00:51:55on the other side.
00:51:56Somehow, that doesn't
00:51:57seem to reconcile him.
00:51:58Now look,
00:51:59I don't know
00:52:00what brought him
00:52:01to my mind.
00:52:02I don't know
00:52:03what brought him
00:52:04to my mind.
00:52:05I don't know
00:52:06what brought him
00:52:07to my mind.
00:52:08I don't know
00:52:09what brought him
00:52:10to my mind.
00:52:11Now look,
00:52:12if you're trying
00:52:13to have me see Jeff
00:52:14with his face down,
00:52:15I'm seeing him.
00:52:16Oh, Tom.
00:52:25How did you get there?
00:52:27I walked through the canyon.
00:52:28Earl has my saddle
00:52:29locked up.
00:52:30You see what I keep
00:52:31telling you, Tom?
00:52:32No man in the world
00:52:33can make his life
00:52:34safe two minutes
00:52:35on end.
00:52:36Dangerous all right.
00:52:37I didn't mean that.
00:52:38But a man could be laying up behind one of them rocks and throw a bullet in here.
00:52:41And the bullet would get here before you heard the gun.
00:52:44Or he could shoot you from a quarter of a mile as you rode by.
00:52:46Or he'd just walk through the back door like she's done and be behind you.
00:52:50There just ain't no way to take care.
00:52:52Oh, taking care isn't what counts, Sam. It's what comes next.
00:52:56You mean Wichita?
00:52:57He gave him a dead man for a dead man after Warren was killed.
00:53:00Tom, if you need Wichita, well, you do one thing.
00:53:04You keep him away from Earl.
00:53:07From Earl?
00:53:08Oh, I'm just as sure as I'm sure of anything in the world.
00:53:10Earl is going to kill him.
00:53:12Oh, now, wait a minute. Who was that?
00:53:13Oh, I know Earl couldn't kill Wichita unless he used some trick.
00:53:17But if Wichita so much as comes near him again, Earl will find a way.
00:53:21If he bothers you, I'll drop him myself.
00:53:29Man's getting to be the worst insurance risk in the whole world.
00:53:32You want to tell him?
00:53:33No, I don't want to see him at all.
00:53:34Well, now, wait a minute. I'll take...
00:53:37Hmm.
00:53:45Well, neighbor, you sure made history when you brought Wichita in.
00:53:49Oh, the thieves must ruin him.
00:53:51Fighting fire with fire seemed like the only way.
00:53:54Then up went the barn.
00:53:56Yeah, he's got us in deeper every night he's rode.
00:53:59No way to turn back, no way out ever since that first day.
00:54:03Tom, you got a way out.
00:54:05And it's as plain as egg on your face.
00:54:07You had it then, you got it now.
00:54:10Why you don't use it?
00:54:12I'll never know.
00:54:14No, you couldn't, Sam.
00:54:23All right, Sonny. You scared me.
00:54:29I'm going to put a knot in your head the size of a mule's egg.
00:54:33I know who you're trying to be, and you can cut it out.
00:54:35Why aren't you out there taking care of the horses?
00:54:37I come in after a rubber rag.
00:54:40Take that gun off, too.
00:54:44And you leave it off.
00:54:46Tom, I want you night riding with Wichita, I'll tell you.
00:54:49Well, all right.
00:54:50Take that cigarette out of your mouth. Now, get to work, will you?
00:54:52What's it look like I'm doing?
00:54:55Hey, that's my shirt.
00:54:59Well, it looks like a rubber rag.
00:55:01You sure?
00:55:07What do you want a rough-locked jet for?
00:55:09That kid swings a hungry loop.
00:55:11Did you kill him or go?
00:55:13Something happened to Elmer?
00:55:15He was shot to death in his office sometime last night.
00:55:19Well, sooner or later somebody was bound to smoke him.
00:55:23Did you kill him or not?
00:55:27Look, Tom, come on out here a minute.
00:55:32Look, Tom, there's something you ought to know.
00:55:35You see that rock on the far rim?
00:55:37I had more trouble with that there rock than I had with the whole rest of this canyon.
00:55:41That's your answer, huh?
00:55:43Why, sure, I killed him.
00:55:45I ran my horse right over him.
00:55:47Oh, no, you said this was inside.
00:55:50I don't know why I ask you.
00:56:01Now, look, I'll tell you the truth, Tom.
00:56:03Elmer lost his head.
00:56:05His buck saw.
00:56:06Who saw?
00:56:08Nobody. I say there was that buck saw lying right across his desk and I don't know what come over me.
00:56:12All of a sudden there I was sawing off his head.
00:56:18What have you been saying to Kathleen?
00:56:21Kathleen?
00:56:23Let me see.
00:56:24Oh.
00:56:26I said, um, hi, Kathleen.
00:56:30That's not why Earl wants to kill you.
00:56:32Earl wants to...
00:56:34Oh, no.
00:56:36I didn't think he had it in him.
00:56:41Earl's voice isn't important.
00:56:43This is just one thing too many, that's all.
00:56:46Well, what do you want me to do, send him a plate of fudge?
00:56:48I set out to square up this range, not to mash it flat.
00:56:51Any more of this stuff and neither one of us will get out of the state.
00:56:54Hmm.
00:56:55I had a reason for taking to the long rope.
00:56:58Or I thought I had, but I had enough.
00:57:00I swear I don't know where all the money comes from.
00:57:04You're through, Wichita.
00:57:06Yep.
00:57:07It's been a long day.
00:57:09I'm not fooling, you're getting out.
00:57:11When's this?
00:57:13Right now, tonight.
00:57:15Oh, now you hush up.
00:57:17I got a nice little herd all marked out for tonight.
00:57:19Now you let me take care of that and then tomorrow we'll see.
00:57:29All right.
00:57:31You sell off this one last bunch.
00:57:33Then tomorrow you take what share of the money you think is yours and get gone.
00:57:37Why, sure.
00:57:39I know you killed Omer Gall.
00:57:41I know it as well as if I'd seen it myself.
00:57:44But I suppose there's just you and me left.
00:57:47Except Jeff, who knows why I can't see you hang.
00:57:51Wake me up at sundown, mother.
00:57:53I'm to be queen of the May.
00:57:55Mother, I'm to be queen of the May.
00:58:05It's a night in the life of O'Reilly
00:58:10To O'Reilly all nights are the same
00:58:16Just look at this beat for O'Reilly
00:58:21There's a horse coming up.
00:58:23Should be Jeff.
00:58:28How'd you get out?
00:58:29Went to sleep.
00:58:31I suppose you know all there is about this night packing now, don't you?
00:58:34Just only what you taught me.
00:58:36Well, all right. Say, move this meat for a while, will you?
00:58:38Why, sure.
00:58:39I'll catch up with you later.
00:58:41Go on up and ride swing.
00:58:50Just what do you want?
00:59:20I wouldn't fool with that if I were you.
00:59:51If you want a drink, you know where the whiskey is.
00:59:53Only too well.
01:00:20What is it you want?
01:00:50What is it?
01:01:21There's a girl in the life of O'Reilly
01:01:25What a duckaroo widow she'll be
01:01:29For they all turn their heads for O'Reilly
01:01:37It's all the further you boys got.
01:01:39Why, no. Those boys are ten miles further on.
01:01:41What made you think we was here?
01:01:43Oh, come on.
01:01:44I'm not going to tell you.
01:01:46Those boys are ten miles further on.
01:01:48What made you think we was here?
01:01:50Okay, let's knock on them.
01:02:16I brought your gun back.
01:02:47I suppose this gun doesn't mean you killed him.
01:02:50But it might as well.
01:02:52Killed who?
01:02:53Don't you know?
01:02:55Earl?
01:02:57Earl was shot to death in our own house tonight.
01:03:03I suppose it was Wichita, but it might as well have been you.
01:03:07Doesn't matter which one of you pulled the trigger.
01:03:10You and Wichita have come to be one in the same thing.
01:03:14Has anyone gone to John Gall?
01:03:16I'll report it to him as soon as it's light.
01:03:19You'll need this gun.
01:03:21It's evidence, I think.
01:03:23I'm leaving it with you.
01:03:25Why?
01:03:26Give you your chance to run.
01:03:39Well, he sure fixed you now.
01:03:42Well, he sure fixed you now.
01:03:44Yesterday you could have pulled out.
01:03:46He had you in a pretty bad way, but you still had some shattered chance.
01:03:50But not today.
01:03:52If only...
01:03:54If only you'd have gotten rid of Wichita while you still could.
01:03:57I had fired him.
01:03:58When?
01:03:59Yesterday.
01:04:00But he talked me into riding just one night more.
01:04:03One night more.
01:04:05Tom, twenty times I've told you to turn around.
01:04:08Go back?
01:04:09Get rid of Wichita.
01:04:10I said it over and over again.
01:04:12And when you finally did, you just had to give him that one night more.
01:04:17I know you didn't kill Earl, boys.
01:04:21But the law of this county is going to make you or Wichita answer for it.
01:04:25You think you boys stand any chance with a juror in this county?
01:04:28Shucks.
01:04:29They'll hang whichever one of you they lay their hands on first.
01:04:32And it don't seem to me it's likely to be Wichita.
01:04:35So you ought to be getting out.
01:04:37Getting out?
01:04:38I know this is a bitter thing to come to a man like you,
01:04:40but the way Wichita's got you fixed, there ain't no way for you even to go on living anymore.
01:04:44No way but just to run and sneak and hide.
01:04:48That's the only end there is for you.
01:04:55No.
01:04:56That's not the end.
01:05:01Tom.
01:05:02You just can't give yourself up into their hands.
01:05:06John Gall wants the man that murdered his boy.
01:05:09All right, he's gonna have him.
01:05:11You couldn't bring Wichita in.
01:05:14You'd have to kill him.
01:05:16I know that.
01:05:17But Tom, don't you...
01:05:20I buried my brother.
01:05:24James Cloud.
01:05:26Alias Kid Wichita.
01:05:32Burn that thing, will you?
01:05:34I'm just low on my mind.
01:05:50Tom.
01:05:52You think he'll come back here?
01:05:55This might be him now.
01:05:58No, it's Turkey.
01:06:01They nailed it.
01:06:03If Parson's dead, Jeff's down already.
01:06:05Jeff?
01:06:06Is he alive?
01:06:07I don't know.
01:06:08Where is he?
01:06:09They jumped us in Cap Rock Narrows.
01:06:12We lost him there.
01:06:13Well, why didn't you...
01:06:14Come back here.
01:06:17We lost him there.
01:06:18Well, why didn't you...
01:06:19How bad was he hit? Did you see him hit?
01:06:21We got caught in a crossfire.
01:06:24Parson shot the pieces on the first volley.
01:06:28He's dead before he hit the ground.
01:06:30Never mind the Parson. What about Jeff?
01:06:32We didn't see him, Paul.
01:06:34Me and Wichita got away.
01:06:36And after that, Jeff's horse caught up to us.
01:06:40There was blood on the saddle.
01:06:41Where's Wichita?
01:06:43He's still out there fighting.
01:06:45You hear the guns. Wichita's still alive.
01:06:55Put him in the cabin.
01:07:04That Wichita's pony?
01:07:06Yeah.
01:07:07Seems like we could hear him firing.
01:07:08I suppose he keeps moving.
01:07:10Either that or you bit into one with his name on it.
01:07:11Take my horse, will you?
01:07:15Yeah.
01:07:38Hi, kid Parson.
01:07:39I could have killed you then.
01:07:43Where's Jeff?
01:07:44Jeff got knocked off his pony.
01:07:45I know that, but where is he?
01:07:47Well, the brush gang picked him up.
01:07:48They got him up there in them rocks.
01:07:50Right about...
01:07:53in there.
01:07:56Come on, let's get back to our horses.
01:07:58Hey, your horses were ours.
01:08:00I know it. Come on.
01:08:12Is he alive?
01:08:13Well, he was for a while anyway.
01:08:14He signaled me once.
01:08:16I cut the wild bunch out from their ponies,
01:08:17but they got across the canyon on me.
01:08:19I'm going over there, Sam.
01:08:20You can't cut across that open ground.
01:08:22You've got to go around.
01:08:23Try to come in on their flank.
01:08:24No, we're not going around.
01:08:26Are you out of your mind?
01:08:28Come on, let's get over there.
01:08:31All right, let's go.
01:08:37Hey, Jim.
01:08:39The kid's bleeding again.
01:08:41Let him.
01:08:55Yeah, they're going crazy down there.
01:09:12Come on, you fool. Go on.
01:09:14Leave him.
01:09:41Come on.
01:10:12Let's go.
01:10:19Go.
01:10:20Go see the clowns.
01:10:21Don't get in behind us.
01:10:23Pete, go with them.
01:10:41Yeah.
01:11:12Have you seen him yet?
01:11:13What are you worried about?
01:11:14He's there.
01:11:19Why, you...
01:11:23Try it again. Go ahead.
01:11:41Watch it, Batman.
01:11:42Coming up your side.
01:11:43Why did you go down? I'll meet him.
01:11:45Go meet him yourself.
01:11:47I'll meet him.
01:12:11I'll meet him.
01:12:41I'll meet him.
01:13:11I'll meet him.
01:13:41I'll meet him.
01:14:11Shh.
01:14:41I'll meet him.
01:14:42I'll meet him.
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01:15:39Just the one arm, kid?
01:15:41Just one.
01:15:44Ain't it plenty?
01:15:45Yeah it's plenty.
01:15:46Wrap him up with this.
01:15:49Well you looked awful good there, Jeff.
01:15:52He'd have picked me like a grape if it hadn't been for you.
01:15:55Thanks, Wichita.
01:15:56This is pretty near gonna kill you, kid.
01:15:59Never mind that.
01:16:02Say, there must be two or three yet, somewhere in the brush.
01:16:06Wichita!
01:16:07Ah, when I get finished with the kid, I'm coming for you.
01:16:11You are?
01:16:13Now, how can I help you?
01:16:15I don't care where you go or what you do, but I'll find you.
01:16:20Good luck.
01:16:25You're going to be all right, sonny.
01:16:30You ain't never seen nothing the tide.
01:16:32They fought a whole rustlers war, that's what they done.
01:16:34And on one side was just one man and a boy.
01:16:37And somehow they won out.
01:16:39Of course, he was there too, you know.
01:16:41I didn't do nothing. It was Tom Cloud and the boy that cleared out this whole Howlin' Range for us.
01:16:45They got rid of Hal Hooters that spent pestering us for years.
01:16:48You and me ought to be ashamed.
01:16:50Well, we should have done it ourselves. I've known that for a long time.
01:16:52Well, all right then.
01:16:54Not all right. Not with me.
01:16:56I don't care if Tom Cloud pacified the Comanches or invented Heffers.
01:16:58Now listen, when Tom brings Wichita in, he's going to move on.
01:17:01Will he?
01:17:02I don't know. Just waiting the same as you.
01:17:04John, if you'll give this boy just one chance to square himself.
01:17:06If you leave him alone...
01:17:08I've been leaving him alone.
01:17:10I can convict Tom as quick as Wichita, and Tom knows it.
01:17:13Yet I've given him weeks.
01:17:15Tom had to get Jeff on his feet.
01:17:17I begin to think there's a whole lot better reason than that.
01:17:20Yeah? There's a reason, all right.
01:17:22There's a reason to stop any man in the world but Tom Cloud.
01:17:25But it ain't going to stop him.
01:17:28At least, I don't think it's going to stop him.
01:17:30All I want is Wichita.
01:17:32How do you want him cooked?
01:17:34I'll cook him myself.
01:17:36He boils everything.
01:17:39Come on.
01:17:49You hear that?
01:17:51I heard a couple of horses about a quarter mile out, if that's what you mean.
01:17:54Yeah.
01:17:56Oh, it isn't Wichita, Tom. It's two people.
01:17:57This is getting me.
01:17:59All this waiting and listening and waiting, day in and day out.
01:18:03I got to go after him, Jeff.
01:18:05He isn't coming back.
01:18:07Yes, he is.
01:18:09When?
01:18:11Maybe today.
01:18:13Well, how do you know?
01:18:15I can always guess Wichita. Him and me is just alike.
01:18:17Now, you get that out of your head.
01:18:19Oh, I realize Wichita makes mistakes.
01:18:22There's only been one real big mistake.
01:18:24It's one I made a long time ago.
01:18:25Oh, Tom.
01:18:27I got to fix it now or pay for it.
01:18:29You know something, Tom?
01:18:34You and me have been together a long time.
01:18:37We've been the whole family just by ourselves ever since I was 10 years old.
01:18:41That's right, kid.
01:18:43But if I had to choose between standing with you or standing with him...
01:18:48Which way would you go?
01:18:52I...
01:18:54I got to be honest, Tom.
01:18:56I just don't know.
01:18:59Tom, we just saw Wichita riding over the pass less than a minute behind us.
01:19:03You see, I knew it, Tom.
01:19:06Thanks, Sam.
01:19:08Tom.
01:19:11Tom, are you alright?
01:19:13Yeah.
01:19:14Are you hurt?
01:19:16No.
01:19:18You're not hurt at all?
01:19:20No, I'm just numb.
01:19:22You're not hurt at all?
01:19:24No.
01:19:25You're not hurt at all?
01:19:27No, I'm just numb.
01:19:29I'm not hurt at all.
01:19:31You're not hurt at all?
01:19:33No, I'm not.
01:19:34You shouldn't have brought her here.
01:19:41Well, I wouldn't if I'd have known it.
01:19:55I reckon he didn't believe you, Tom.
01:20:05Hey, believe me now.
01:20:07He can't fight Wichita.
01:20:09She's right, Tom. You don't stand a chance.
01:20:11You keep her behind the wall.
01:20:15Leave that alone. Nothing's gonna happen.
01:20:23What are you doing?
01:20:24Taking the shells out of this gun.
01:20:26You try a bluff like that on Wichita and you won't live a second.
01:20:29Wichita would never fire on me.
01:20:31You want to bet?
01:20:33I'll bet my life on it.
01:20:55You know something, Tom?
01:20:59You see that main rock over there on that far rim?
01:21:04After all the trouble I had with that one rock,
01:21:06I do believe I got it about eight feet too far to the right.
01:21:11Wichita.
01:21:14Now what's got into you?
01:21:16I'm gonna take you in.
01:21:18You're what?
01:21:20I'm gonna take you in for the murder of Earl Boyce.
01:21:24I'd have sworn you were fooling.
01:21:27Not anymore.
01:21:28Well, how do you figure to take me?
01:21:30I don't know.
01:21:32All I can tell you is what I'm gonna do.
01:21:35Don't you know you can't shoot me?
01:21:38You couldn't shoot me even if I stood here with empty hands.
01:21:42Because it just ain't in you, Tom.
01:21:45It never has been and it never will be. Don't you know that yet?
01:21:48Maybe.
01:21:50But that ain't gonna change this none.
01:21:52It's a funny thing how you never could raise a gun to me.
01:21:57Because I could very easy put a shot into you.
01:21:59I know that.
01:22:01And yet you stand there and tell me you mean to put an end to me.
01:22:04That's what I have to do.
01:22:06Well, I'll be.
01:22:09You're a sick man, Tom.
01:22:12Where would you say I need to drill you to let some of these ideas run out?
01:22:16Right square through the middle, I suppose.
01:22:19For as anybody else in the world, I wouldn't believe it.
01:22:23But coming from you, I guess maybe it's so.
01:22:26Wichita!
01:22:32Jim!
01:22:41You was losing your bet, Jeff.
01:22:43Jim! Jim!
01:22:46See what a wonderful teacher I be?
01:22:51I finally taught somebody too good.
01:22:54He thinks it was me that died him, don't you see? He likes it that way.
01:23:01What do you know about guns, kid?
01:23:04Just only what you taught me.
01:23:08Well, all right.
01:23:15Well, that's all.
01:23:31Jim.
01:23:33You know, it's a funny thing.
01:24:03It's like John Gall said.
01:24:06All of a sudden I can't remember anything you ever done wrong.
01:24:10All I can remember is when we were kids.
01:24:27He had more trouble with that one rock...
01:24:30...than he had with all the rest of the canyon.