Approved | 1h 21min | Western | 1 September 1950 (USA)
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in Texas Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
Director: Alan Le May
Writer: Alan Le May
Stars: John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in Texas Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.
Director: Alan Le May
Writer: Alan Le May
Stars: John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer
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00:01:32We call this the High Lonesome County,
00:01:35because neighbor, it is high and it is lonesome.
00:01:39See that speck out there in the middle?
00:01:42That's the Horse Davis Ranch headquarters where we live.
00:01:46It took us years of work and war and trouble to get this cow range whipped,
00:01:51and we thought we had it done.
00:01:53Then one night a strange thing happened that we didn't know how to explain.
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00:06:47Go back to it, son.
00:06:49Abby don't want to hurt you, not on her clean floor.
00:06:56What's the matter?
00:06:58Where's those old handcuffs from the time I was deputy?
00:07:00Well, I saw them the other day around their summers.
00:07:02Well, dig them up and lock this critter to a bunk.
00:07:04Tomorrow's Sunday, but I'll back-trail him right after Bible.
00:07:07We'll hang on to him. Come on, you.
00:07:09Come on, the man's set.
00:07:11I heard him.
00:07:14Abby, is that coffee still hot?
00:07:17Should be, Pa.
00:07:24Well, I got them so they'll go on.
00:07:26I don't know whether they'll ever come home or not.
00:07:28That's all right. They'll look good, old man.
00:07:30Hey, watch out for that lamb.
00:07:34Put him on it.
00:07:35Put him on it.
00:07:37Set her down, boy.
00:07:39And why take ye thought of Raymond?
00:07:42Consider the lilies of the field how they...
00:07:44Hey, Abby, where are you?
00:07:47Consider the lilies of the field how they grow.
00:07:50Hey!
00:07:51Consider how that pat had ballast.
00:07:54What's only pat, feral?
00:07:55That's what I say.
00:07:56Abby, no!
00:07:58Hey, Abby, I brought you...
00:08:03Where's the body?
00:08:04Now, you know Pa always reads Bible on Sunday.
00:08:06Sunday? It is.
00:08:08Well, can't stop now. Plate me, Abby. Be back for dinner.
00:08:10I'm back here.
00:08:14Say, I had a horse thief the other night.
00:08:16Run him off before I got anything.
00:08:18Is that your horse thief?
00:08:21Him?
00:08:26No.
00:08:27The great big Indian, I think.
00:08:29Then shut up and sit down.
00:08:33It's so dark I couldn't even see my gun.
00:08:35Shut up.
00:08:36Consider the lilies of the field how they grow.
00:08:39They toil not, neither do they spin.
00:08:42Yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory
00:08:46was not arrayed like one of these.
00:08:48Wherefore, if God so clothed the grass of the field,
00:08:52which today is...
00:08:54Don't shoot!
00:09:03You sure you don't know him, Pat?
00:09:05Why do you think your horse thief was an Indian if it was so dark?
00:09:10Hey, hey.
00:09:13He's thin there. He might look like a tall Indian.
00:09:16I was never near your ponies.
00:09:20No, you weren't.
00:09:23That's my lariat he's got there.
00:09:25What'd you take that for?
00:09:27I'm to get me a horse the same way everything's taken from me.
00:09:30That's what I took it for.
00:09:31If he's so desperate to steal a horse,
00:09:33it's because he's done something worse.
00:09:35Bolt Whistle, fetch my team.
00:09:40Back trailing him's gonna be rough if he's been through them rocks.
00:09:43I got a better idea.
00:09:45Hold this.
00:09:46I ain't gonna wait on you hand and foot.
00:09:48Did you ever see anything so dead set to go free?
00:09:51Just one steady, patient series of wild jumps.
00:09:54He'll try just once more.
00:09:56Hey, there goes your one.
00:09:58Sure, why'd you think I'd give him the rope for?
00:10:10Hey, Dixie?
00:10:11Yeah.
00:10:12Frank's probably getting kind of rough with that kid.
00:10:15We'll see about it.
00:10:17You better not lose any time.
00:10:40You ready to talk?
00:10:42I ain't ready for nothing!
00:10:44Yeah? I'll make you talk.
00:11:04How's that? Better?
00:11:07How's that? Think it'll do you?
00:11:09No!
00:11:11I'll kill you, perhaps.
00:11:13Ow!
00:11:35Well, come on. Wake up. Let's get on with it.
00:11:39Sure, I know you're ready for more if there's no end to it.
00:11:42No. I give in.
00:11:45Well, it's about time.
00:11:47So this is your better idea, huh?
00:11:49Yes, and it works. Shut up and listen.
00:11:53You'll find it now, no matter what I do.
00:11:55Find what?
00:11:58There's a corpse at the wagon road.
00:12:00I killed Jim's shell.
00:12:02Where's the body?
00:12:04On the floor of the trading post.
00:12:07There you are.
00:12:12There you are.
00:12:37This the place?
00:12:39Yes, sir.
00:12:43It's funny how haunted and deathly that thing can look when you know what's inside.
00:12:48Where'd you bed down?
00:12:51Over there.
00:12:53Beside them old busted walls.
00:12:55Planned the robbery there, huh?
00:12:57It was my own money!
00:12:59Yeah? What was Jim's shell doing with it?
00:13:01Well, this road has a bad name.
00:13:04Said he'd better keep it for me until morning.
00:13:06Good idea.
00:13:08No, sir.
00:13:10After a while, two strangers moved in on me and ate up my grub.
00:13:14So I thought I'd better make a night march and get rid of them.
00:13:17But this traitor, this Jim's shell, he...
00:13:19He wouldn't give me my money back.
00:13:21He's really never heard of no money.
00:13:23Two strangers come stood in the door and heard it all.
00:13:26So you shot the traitor?
00:13:28Not right then.
00:13:30I come back out to my fire there in the ruin.
00:13:33Those strangers followed me.
00:13:35That foreign talking one, he...
00:13:37He kept pawing through my stuff.
00:13:39And the other one...
00:13:41The one that kept smiling...
00:13:43He come and stood over me.
00:13:47Why don't you stick a gun in his belly?
00:13:49You got a right to your own.
00:13:51I got no gun.
00:13:52We'll loan you a gun.
00:13:54I wouldn't want to shoot him.
00:13:56Who said shoot him?
00:13:58You just go in, hold a gun on him, and say I want my money.
00:14:01We'll back you up.
00:14:03Oh, we'll be there.
00:14:06Get that gun out of the pack, Roper.
00:14:08You know the one I mean.
00:14:11Hey, wait a minute.
00:14:12You want your money, don't you?
00:14:17It sounded like it ought to work.
00:14:19So I took the gun they gave me and went back inside the trading post.
00:14:26Jim's shell was over by the fireplace fixing a pack saddle.
00:14:34You again, huh?
00:14:36You got it? You know you got it.
00:14:38Them two old agers give you that?
00:14:42I gotta have my money.
00:14:45Not men enough to try it themselves.
00:14:48Have to send a boy in the head, huh?
00:14:50I gotta have it!
00:14:53Are you sure that gun's loaded?
00:14:57Stay back, he'll find out.
00:15:05I didn't know where I was at first when I come to.
00:15:11I thought I was blind.
00:15:15And pretty soon I could see.
00:15:21I thought I was blind.
00:15:24Then I remembered and I knew I'd killed a man.
00:15:35I didn't know what them two strangers wanted to do about it.
00:15:38Couldn't think.
00:15:41All I knew was I'd better run.
00:15:44It's a good thing I did run.
00:15:46It's a good thing I did run.
00:15:52I thought you said the kid was dead.
00:15:59Get to the horses.
00:16:04I kept going.
00:16:06But they tracked me a long way.
00:16:08That's why I got so hungry.
00:16:10I wonder why they'd do that.
00:16:12They'd be blamed, wouldn't they?
00:16:14Unless they could show I'd done it.
00:16:16Those two strangers as guilty as the boy,
00:16:18they planned the robbery, used the boy because it was handy.
00:16:21They gotta be tracked down.
00:16:23I'll string a net across this range a flea couldn't get through.
00:16:26I'll rouse up every rancher for 90 miles around.
00:16:28They're probably a long way further off than 90 miles.
00:16:30That's what we gotta make sure of.
00:16:32Take a look at the ruin, Frank.
00:16:44Hey, wait a minute.
00:16:54Hey, come here, boy.
00:17:00You see him, Pit?
00:17:02Look for yourself.
00:17:08You see him, Pit?
00:17:10Look for yourself.
00:17:14Dust. Inches deep. Everywhere.
00:17:21But there has...
00:17:23Maybe there was a dust storm.
00:17:25Hasn't been any.
00:17:27The place has been deserted for months.
00:17:29I'll tell you something else.
00:17:31There hasn't been any fire inside of that ruin.
00:17:33No ashes, no tracks. Nobody's been near it.
00:17:35I can't even show you a sharp stone in the fireplace right where I leaned that had a move.
00:17:41You know something?
00:17:43I think the boy believes it.
00:17:45Don't you know why?
00:17:47Why, this kid's crazy.
00:17:49He's no more in his right mind than a hydrophobic skunk.
00:17:51Yeah.
00:17:53Makes it tough to know what to do with him.
00:17:55You believe I'm out of my mind?
00:17:57I don't know.
00:17:59Look, I could saw him off on the sheriff of Martha.
00:18:03No, not till I know what he's done.
00:18:05All right, look, I'll give him a horse.
00:18:07Some kind of a horse.
00:18:09We'll give him a head start and run the heck out of him.
00:18:11No, I'm not going to do that either.
00:18:13Why?
00:18:15Because we need him to find out and get the bottom of this thing.
00:18:17Well, you can't just keep him around.
00:18:19Who can't?
00:18:21You can't. With the girls there?
00:18:23Well, I got something to say about that.
00:18:25I don't think you have.
00:18:27Why, you, you cantankerous old moth horn.
00:18:29You can't tell what a kid like this is liable to do.
00:18:37Hey, did you find it?
00:18:39Find what?
00:18:41That there dead fella that was killed.
00:18:43Ain't any. The trading post's been locked up for months.
00:18:45Why would the boy say he killed somebody in his head?
00:18:47Now, how should I know?
00:18:49You'll have a chance to find out, though.
00:18:51Your old man's taken him in to live with you.
00:18:53Oh, he must be fooling.
00:18:55Well, he ain't. I hollered again at him, but he sunk his teeth into me.
00:18:57We went round and round.
00:18:59Oh, Pat, if you've been fighting with Pa again, I...
00:19:03Well, did you find out anything?
00:19:05Did you talk to anybody?
00:19:07No.
00:19:13Now, look, Abby, that kid's dangerous.
00:19:15Anything is with his brains knocked out.
00:19:17Yet that old fool insists...
00:19:19How dare you keep calling him that?
00:19:21Because I'm the only one to take care of you.
00:19:23Look at your men, folks.
00:19:25Two old cripples and a couple of saddle tramps.
00:19:33We still got guns.
00:19:35Who to shoot them?
00:19:37Pat, dear, see that nail holding that dishpan?
00:19:45Maybe that answers your question.
00:19:49Why, you...
00:19:59Well?
00:20:01Oh, I can't hit you, honey.
00:20:03Oh, I can hit you.
00:20:05That's the trouble. No time to leave go.
00:20:09All right, I'll leave go if you will.
00:20:17Pa said all along you were nothing but a loud yell with hands.
00:20:21You want me to call off the Barn Woman?
00:20:23Well, you want your barn warm, don't you?
00:20:25Well, I didn't put on a new roof just to sit and admire by myself.
00:20:27Oh, I'm going through with it.
00:20:29And so are you.
00:20:31Now ask me who we've got to handle a shotgun.
00:20:37Come on, honey. I want to show you something.
00:20:43Bread and butter.
00:20:45Well, I see we're still going to the party.
00:20:53See Big Jim here?
00:20:55Been a big Jim in our family for a long time.
00:20:57My grandpappy rode from Kentucky on the first Big Jim.
00:20:59Yes, you told me, 20 times.
00:21:03This horse here is the only living stud of the Big Jim line.
00:21:07If he should stumble, I'd go lame.
00:21:09Hasn't been hit on the head lately, has he?
00:21:27Pat, you're leaving your horse.
00:21:29That ain't my horse.
00:21:31What?
00:21:33I know it sounds ridiculous.
00:21:35After we're married, it won't matter whose he be.
00:21:37I just wanted you to have the one finest thing in the world.
00:21:41Well, that there's the finest.
00:21:43I guess every man thinks his horse is the best.
00:21:47You're probably right.
00:21:49That's the best horse right there.
00:21:51Did you ride your mother?
00:21:53Sure did.
00:21:55Well, I'm going to keep him here for a while.
00:21:57Boy, you're going to do odd jobs around the place, on foot.
00:22:01Keep off the ponies.
00:22:03I'll let you have the run of the place, for now.
00:22:05He's been dragged.
00:22:07Yes, he'll be dragged again, every time he breaks.
00:22:09He's been dragged.
00:22:11He's been dragged.
00:22:13He's been dragged.
00:22:15He's been dragged.
00:22:17He's been dragged.
00:22:19Yes, he'll be dragged again, every time he breaks.
00:22:21You go help your sister.
00:22:23I never heard such a lie.
00:22:25This creepy kid...
00:22:27You don't know half how creepy he is.
00:22:29Boat whistle, I want you to hear something.
00:22:31Boy, tell him what those two men looked like you saw at the wagon road.
00:22:35Give him the smiling man.
00:22:37Well, he was...
00:22:39He was sort of black-looking.
00:22:43And guarded.
00:22:45And he had a cast in his eyes,
00:22:47so you couldn't tell which eye was pointing where.
00:22:51And a smile on his face like he was seeing you dead.
00:22:55Sort of a sliding smile.
00:22:59Great land of fury.
00:23:01Now give him the other, the one that the smiling man called Roper.
00:23:05Well, Roper...
00:23:07Well, he was sort of...
00:23:09Short.
00:23:11Thick-scented.
00:23:13A foreign way of talking.
00:23:17Well, sir, in all my life,
00:23:19I ain't never heard nothing like that.
00:23:21You recognize him?
00:23:23Why, how could he be mistook?
00:23:25That sliding smile.
00:23:27He's got them both perfect.
00:23:29Now we're getting someplace.
00:23:31No, he never saw them at the wagon road
00:23:33or any other place on this earth.
00:23:35Well, why didn't he see them?
00:23:37Tell him, Boat Whistle.
00:23:39Because both them men are dead.
00:23:41They died fighting horse and me
00:23:43at the fence more than 15 years ago.
00:24:11I keep thinking I see something.
00:24:27Abby, why don't you and Pat
00:24:29live here after you're married?
00:24:31Don't you feel kind of funny
00:24:33going over to the old Jessop place?
00:24:35It isn't the Jessop place anymore.
00:24:37It's Pat's and my place.
00:24:39Why should I feel funny?
00:24:41Oh, that's what makes you so jumpy lately.
00:24:43Everything over there belongs to the Jessops
00:24:45who are dead.
00:24:47The graveyard's right in back of the house.
00:24:49And everybody in it died at the fence war
00:24:51fighting us and hating us.
00:24:53Well, I'll admit, I...
00:24:57Listen, there is something wrong.
00:25:09Hey, get a gun, will you?
00:25:11Come on!
00:25:13What's the matter?
00:25:15There are two strangers up there
00:25:17watching the house.
00:25:19Where?
00:25:21I seen it from over by the storage tank.
00:25:23Come on, I'll show you.
00:25:26Hey, get a gun, will you?
00:25:28Come on!
00:25:30What's the matter?
00:25:32There are two strangers up there watching the house.
00:25:34Where?
00:25:36I seen it from over by the storage tank.
00:25:38Come on, I'll show you.
00:25:45They're right over...
00:25:56They was there.
00:25:58Big Jim saw them. He whinnied.
00:26:00Yeah, we saw them.
00:26:02Two riders without no heads.
00:26:04That was awful, wasn't it, Frank?
00:26:06I was sure scared.
00:26:08Won't you never believe nothing I say?
00:26:10Now, sir, and I'm getting sick and tired of this spook business,
00:26:12so you get that bucket of water and bring it on in the house.
00:26:15Well, forget about it.
00:26:17Let's think about the barn warming
00:26:19and there'll be my wedding.
00:26:21It's the strangest thing.
00:26:23It's gone now.
00:26:25For a minute there, I never felt in worse danger in my life.
00:26:28I'll blow out the lamp and come to bed.
00:26:31Hey!
00:26:33It's gone now.
00:26:34For a minute there, I never felt in worse danger in my life.
00:26:38I'll blow out the lamp and come to bed.
00:26:46In love, in love, oh, Baldy
00:26:51Take the train with the wagon-row train
00:26:56Got a pretty little gal in Carson
00:27:00In a twenty-mile concourse in the rain
00:27:05Stand still, will you? You want to look pretty for the barn-warming, don't you?
00:27:08Oh, I ain't need it there.
00:27:10Well, no one's aiming to stay here with you, that's for sure. Turn around.
00:27:14Hey, Sonny, where'd you get these boots?
00:27:17The rancher gave them to me.
00:27:19Uh-huh.
00:27:20Oh, Whistle, where'd Pa go?
00:27:22Just wasting horse flesh tracking down them spooks.
00:27:25Old fool ain't gonna catch nothing. He's blind in a bat and a barrel.
00:27:29What spooks?
00:27:31The crew cat seen them sitting out there in the dead of night without any heads.
00:27:35Well, you said no heads.
00:27:37Abbie, there's something hanging on this kid's shirt-tail like grim death to a tax lien.
00:27:43And do you think he'll switch from his one same lie?
00:27:47They ain't after me. They would have rode on long ago.
00:27:51Those fellas want to hurt you people here.
00:27:54What fellas?
00:27:56I don't know who your enemies be, mister.
00:27:58But, boy, you got them.
00:28:00Why don't they drop a bullet through one of these windows and be done with it?
00:28:03Oh, they'd never get out of this basin of so much as Megan got away.
00:28:07Every rancher within 90 miles would be on them. Horse Davis said so himself.
00:28:12All right, take that off. Come on, Boat Whistle, show me the tracks.
00:28:16All right, if you got to. But any answer to this is standing right here on this priest's way.
00:28:22Now, honey, if you haven't seen a bat before...
00:28:27Who did that to you?
00:28:30You wouldn't believe nothing I said anyway.
00:28:32Your old man, huh?
00:28:34My uncle. He kept pining on me till I run off.
00:28:38What was he beating you about?
00:28:41Body was full of liquor, mostly.
00:28:43I suppose you robbed him, seeing as you was leaving.
00:28:46Sure. I took $7 for the seven years I worked there.
00:28:50What in heaven's name did he hit you with?
00:28:53Trey's chain.
00:28:56Nobody uses a Trey's chain here.
00:28:59Only a drag rope, huh?
00:29:02Not anymore. I can promise you that.
00:29:05Megan, give him a hat.
00:29:08Hold these.
00:29:10Wait a minute. Let's see which... Yeah, try that blue one on him.
00:29:16No, no, that ain't much good. Here, let me see here.
00:29:20Well, there's one. That ought to look pretty good on him.
00:29:24No, that makes him look too dutish.
00:29:27You ought to have to cut that ribbon off of him.
00:29:29That's no good. Here, let me get rid of that.
00:29:31Here, try it. Now, that ought to be all right.
00:29:34That's pretty good.
00:29:36What's that?
00:29:38The scarecrow's been wearing it.
00:29:40Well, the scarecrow can keep it.
00:29:42Try this one.
00:29:44But that's...
00:29:46Hush.
00:29:50Whose is this?
00:29:52Maybe you don't want to wear a girl's hat.
00:29:54Listen, this isn't a girl's hat. It's my hat.
00:29:57I have another. Let's go, Boat Whistle.
00:30:00Hey, sonny.
00:30:02Hats for town.
00:30:22Hey, Boat Whistle.
00:30:52Hey, Boat Whistle.
00:31:22Bring in some wood.
00:31:49Bring in from our room, huh?
00:31:50No, ma'am. It's outside.
00:31:52I was just beginning to hope.
00:31:55Rush of tallow to the head, I guess.
00:31:57I was only trying...
00:31:59You were in our room. Don't lie to me.
00:32:01Tell it your own way.
00:32:03If you ever set foot in this house again without being told,
00:32:06I'll have you horsewhipped. Now, get out.
00:32:20Megan?
00:32:34Yeah?
00:32:35For heaven's sakes, come in here.
00:32:37What's the matter?
00:32:41Coon cat?
00:32:43Oh, honestly, what a deadfall.
00:32:46Why?
00:32:47Well, I think it's time for me to go.
00:32:49Why?
00:32:50Well, I just gave him both barrels for being in here.
00:32:53Everybody's always giving both barrels around here.
00:32:56What?
00:32:57Trouble is our home.
00:32:59We've been beat over the head with gun wars
00:33:01and dry-ups and burn-outs and blizzards
00:33:03and every other ding-dang thing that wasn't useful.
00:33:06Are we gonna let a dogey kid throw us?
00:33:08Well, it's not that I'm throwing it.
00:33:10Saturday night is the barn warming.
00:33:12After that party and two more, I will have been to three.
00:33:15I don't want to hear another ding-dang thing
00:33:17about Coon cat trouble or any other kind.
00:33:19I'm going to a party.
00:33:21Yes, ma'am.
00:33:30Y'all getting in shape?
00:33:31You two sprouts get in this buckboard.
00:33:33We're gonna take off to that party on the high load.
00:33:35Hurry up now.
00:33:36Come on, get in here.
00:33:37Help me up, Coon cat.
00:33:38Come on, get in there.
00:33:43You ready?
00:33:45Yes.
00:33:46Oh, whistle, you didn't shave.
00:33:48I did so shave.
00:33:49Feel your face.
00:33:50I won't do it.
00:33:51Not I shave.
00:33:55Oh, great land of fury.
00:33:56Get up out of here.
00:34:17You see them old stone walls over there?
00:34:20Listen, sonny, I've been on this range for 20 years.
00:34:24And if there's something following us, I'd know it.
00:34:27Then you know it.
00:34:29Those are the walls of our first house,
00:34:31the one that was burned during the fence war.
00:34:33Used to be a row of hollyhocks along there.
00:34:41Oh, I see them little specks of dust.
00:34:43That ain't nothing but range horses.
00:34:46Sure.
00:34:47Range horses.
00:34:48Running loose with people on them.
00:34:50I got something I want to show you up the road to peace.
00:34:52You'll be interested.
00:34:53Get on there.
00:34:54This here's the line of the famous death fence,
00:34:57like you know all about.
00:34:59I know what I heard from you.
00:35:01And a whole lot more.
00:35:03In a minute I'm going to prove that you do.
00:35:06But maybe there's one thing that you don't know.
00:35:09What?
00:35:10I heard a lot about you.
00:35:12You're a good guy.
00:35:13You're a good guy.
00:35:14You're a good guy.
00:35:15I'm a good guy.
00:35:16I'm a good guy.
00:35:17I'm a good guy.
00:35:18I'm a good guy.
00:35:19I'm a good guy.
00:35:20I'm a good guy.
00:35:21I'm a good guy.
00:35:22I'm a good guy.
00:35:23Here's the thing that you don't know.
00:35:25You see all them bones here?
00:35:27Yes, sir.
00:35:28That's what's left of a great herd.
00:35:31Horse Davis' herd.
00:35:33Do you know how them cattle died?
00:35:36No.
00:35:37Well, every few years we get a blizzard from the north
00:35:40that drives our cattle before it.
00:35:42They always took shelter up in them canyons ahead
00:35:45until our feud with the Jessup family begun.
00:35:48Nobody knows how it started.
00:35:50Oh, some little thing.
00:35:53But one thing led to another, and Miles Jessop built this fence here.
00:35:58That year, the blizzard come,
00:36:01and our cattle piled up on this fence a hundred deep,
00:36:03as far as the eye could see.
00:36:06Them that didn't die where you see them now had their hooves froze off.
00:36:09They walked around on the stumps till they fell down.
00:36:12I've heard the story a hundred times.
00:36:14So now you know what your Miles Jessop done, that we had to fight him,
00:36:18and the fight was never finished while there was a Jessop left him.
00:36:21Miles Jessop hung dying on his own fence.
00:36:24Right over there by that post.
00:36:27Hey, look up there!
00:36:36Won't look, will you?
00:36:38No, I won't look. I'm getting sick and tired of you hollering, look, to.
00:36:42Well, it wasn't you got to. They're there.
00:36:51Oh, you too now, huh?
00:36:57Yeah, it's funny.
00:37:00But it's a mean kind of funny if you're in my place.
00:37:03Anyway, coon cat.
00:37:07Now, do you see what I'm up against?
00:37:10I do see.
00:37:15You're awful anxious to change the subject, ain't you?
00:37:17Caught you knowing a little bit too much, didn't you?
00:37:19Give the whole thing away.
00:37:26Give what away?
00:37:27Miles Jessop that died right here.
00:37:29You described him to me to the last hair when you spoke of the smiling man.
00:37:33The smiling man and Miles Jessop are one and the same.
00:37:38I only told you who I saw.
00:37:41And the roper, that was the nickname of a Cajun fellow.
00:37:45Thick-set foreign-talking man, just like you said.
00:37:48Boat whistle shot him in the throat.
00:37:50Pa said he bled like a flash flood.
00:37:53His brother came over and grabbed him up in his arms,
00:37:56trying to close his throat with his hands until he died.
00:37:59Right over there by that mesquite.
00:38:01And them's the men you say you remember?
00:38:04Sonny, they was dead when you were two years old.
00:38:07I said I saw them because I did.
00:38:09Am I supposed to think that dead men walked?
00:38:12No, dead men don't walk.
00:38:14You was speaking of men you heard tell of so much
00:38:17that you even knew their faces and the way they talked.
00:38:20Now, what I want to know is, who drilled that into you?
00:38:24Nobody did. I saw them, I saw them more than once.
00:38:27Oh, take the hand of fury.
00:38:30I give up. Come on, get in the buckboard.
00:38:33We're going to the party.
00:38:38You can't spin. Your mothers are looking for you.
00:38:45Hello, Debbie, hello.
00:38:47You know something, Horace?
00:38:49There's people here tonight from all over the world
00:38:52and part of Arkansas.
00:38:54I see.
00:38:56What do you have, a car?
00:38:58Yes.
00:39:00Hey, Abby.
00:39:02Yes?
00:39:04You all right?
00:39:06Yes.
00:39:08You all right?
00:39:18Abby, come on.
00:39:20I'm coming.
00:39:22Where's Abby? She go to sleep in the...
00:39:26Well, who's this?
00:39:28Now, you've seen me in a skirt before.
00:39:32I guess I can get used to it.
00:39:37Oh, Pat, I get so tired trying to be a man.
00:39:40Oh, that's all over with.
00:39:42From now on, you're going to wear dresses every day.
00:39:44And I love it.
00:39:53Pat, where are your father and mother? I haven't seen them.
00:39:55Well, they ain't here yet.
00:39:57Then you didn't send them word.
00:39:58Oh, sure I did.
00:39:59You gave them the wrong day.
00:40:01I even sent Ox Timbs this morning to fetch them.
00:40:03Don't forget, it's a half-day's ride by the wagon road.
00:40:05It seems awfully funny.
00:40:07Oh, come on. They'll be here. Let's have some fun.
00:40:13Hey, come on, everybody. You've eaten the barbecue. Let's dance.
00:40:16Come on, Bill, honey.
00:40:18Come on. Come on, everyone.
00:40:21Oh, join in the circle of baby
00:40:24Breaking the trail along that line
00:40:26With the lady in the lead and the judge behind
00:40:30Your left hand in like the dinner gone
00:40:32And the spinning wheel rolls right along
00:40:34You're right, you done done wrong
00:40:37Now over your shoulder with your left arm
00:40:39And wrap them up like a ball of yarn
00:40:41And a do-si-do won't do no harm
00:40:46Now meet your honey and pat her on the head
00:40:48And promenade, that's what I said
00:40:57Oh, join in the circle of baby
00:41:00Breaking the trail along that line
00:41:02With the lady in the lead and the judge behind
00:41:05Your left hand in like the dinner gone
00:41:07And the spinning wheel rolls right along
00:41:09You're right, you done done wrong
00:41:12Now over your shoulder with your left arm
00:41:14And wrap them up like a ball of yarn
00:41:16And a do-si-do won't do no harm
00:41:21Now meet your honey and pat her on the head
00:41:23Come on, Coot. You can't join in this. It's lots of fun.
00:41:25Oh, I can't see no sense in it.
00:41:27The only sense is I want you to.
00:41:29Well, I don't know how.
00:41:31Annie over there can only count up to three.
00:41:33And if she can do it, I guess you can.
00:41:35Come on.
00:41:36Well?
00:41:37Well?
00:41:39Party up, partner.
00:41:41Go corners all. Wave to the pretty girl across the hall.
00:41:45Side to couples, forward and back.
00:41:47Hey, wasn't there one Jessup left alive, a young'un?
00:41:50Bob Jessup?
00:41:51Yeah.
00:41:52He was 13.
00:41:53I knew it. He's the Kool Cat.
00:41:56That's Bob Jessup dancing with Meegan.
00:41:58Except Bob Jessup would be about 30
00:42:00and he's spending a life sentence up in the avenue.
00:42:03Oh.
00:42:08The old cow kicked in the yelling ball.
00:42:10Swing your opposite across the hall.
00:42:13Same two gents, forward and back.
00:42:16Kool Cat, I want to tell you something.
00:42:18We loved our flowers.
00:42:20That's the nicest thing anyone ever did.
00:42:22I don't know what you mean.
00:42:24All right, but I'll tell you something else.
00:42:26Those were the first flowers we ever got in all our lives.
00:42:30Turn your back to spit on the wall
00:42:32and swing your opposite across the hall.
00:42:36Forward and back.
00:42:41Forward again and circle forward.
00:42:43Two little ladies, do-si-do.
00:42:45A little bit of heel and a little bit of toe.
00:42:48Now take your honey and home you go.
00:42:50That's going to be the last, boys.
00:42:52Ain't going to be no more because that is all.
00:42:55Come on, folks.
00:42:57Come on, folks, let's go play 20 miles from Constance.
00:42:59Come on, folks, let's go.
00:43:00Hey, fast, fast.
00:43:01You know I done stolen them jeans.
00:43:03Oh, come on, come on.
00:43:06It just so happens that I've got my guitar right back here.
00:43:13I wrote this myself.
00:43:16What key we going to do it, Larry?
00:43:18So get along, get along, old Baldy.
00:43:23Take the trail of the wagon road train.
00:43:28Got a pretty little gal in Carson
00:43:32and I'm 20 miles from Carson in the rain.
00:43:37Now, Jack, don't go back to Carson.
00:43:41I'm afraid you've lost your place.
00:43:46See? Isn't it nice just to be people?
00:43:49I never knew no people like you before.
00:43:51Oh, you know us now.
00:43:54So get along, get along, old Baldy.
00:43:58Turn around there.
00:43:59Take me over the funeral rain.
00:44:03Cause a poor cow, folks, heart is breaking.
00:44:0820 miles from Carson in the rain.
00:44:12Now, Jack, don't go back to Carson.
00:44:17That gal I'll never keep that day.
00:44:21There's a million men and all
00:44:23passed through Carson since the fall.
00:44:25I'd say you got back too late.
00:44:30So get along, get along, old Baldy.
00:44:33Turn around there.
00:44:34Where's your pa?
00:44:35In the house, I guess.
00:44:36Wait in here.
00:44:37Coon Cat, where are you going?
00:44:39Stay in the light no matter what.
00:44:40Cause a poor cow, folks, heart is breaking.
00:44:4420 miles from Carson in the rain.
00:44:51Now, Jack, don't go back to Carson.
00:44:54That gal I'll never keep that day.
00:44:56There's a million men and all
00:44:58passed through Carson since the fall.
00:45:00I'd say you got back too late.
00:45:02So get along, get along, old Baldy.
00:45:05Turn around there.
00:45:06Where's your pa?
00:45:07In the house, I guess.
00:45:08Wait in here.
00:45:09Cause a poor cow, folks, heart is breaking.
00:45:12Now, Jack, don't go back to Carson.
00:45:14There's a million men and all
00:45:16passed through Carson since the fall.
00:45:18I'd say you got back too late.
00:45:20So get along, get along, old Baldy.
00:45:22Turn around there.
00:45:23Where's your pa?
00:45:24In the house, I guess.
00:45:25Wait in here.
00:45:26Cause a poor cow, folks, heart is breaking.
00:45:29Now, Jack, don't go back to Carson.
00:45:31There's a million men and all
00:45:33passed through Carson since the fall.
00:45:35I'd say you got back too late.
00:45:37So get along, get along, old Baldy.
00:45:39Turn around there.
00:45:40Where's your pa?
00:45:41In the house, I guess.
00:45:42Wait in here.
00:45:43Cause a poor cow, folks, heart is breaking.
00:45:45Now, Jack, don't go back to Carson.
00:45:47There's a million men and all
00:45:50One, two, three, gentlemen.
00:45:52Swing, Sally, good.
00:45:53Now you talk.
00:45:54And now let's take it apart.
00:45:55We saw it now.
00:45:56Sally, good.
00:46:19Good afternoon, Cass.
00:46:42Megan, go back.
00:46:49Both?
00:46:50The girl's scream ran off.
00:46:51Not long.
00:46:53Wait a minute.
00:46:56Right over there.
00:46:58Look past my shoulder by that farm wagon.
00:47:00You see him now?
00:47:02No.
00:47:09Those spooks really get around, don't they?
00:47:12I was looking for your pa to tell him they was here.
00:47:15Oh, coon cat, what are we going to do with you?
00:47:19Well, you people can't even take care of yourselves.
00:47:21Those fellas ain't after me.
00:47:22I'm only in their way.
00:47:23Then why are you running?
00:47:25I can't help you people cause you won't believe me.
00:47:28And I ain't staying around to get blamed.
00:47:30You leave that be.
00:47:31You're not fit to go running around loose.
00:47:33You'll get yourself hurt feeding this way.
00:47:35That's my business.
00:47:36And I'm making it mine.
00:47:37Now get yourself on inside unless you want 20 ropers on your heel.
00:47:41Come on, I said.
00:47:47Wait back there.
00:47:48Go in the back.
00:47:55Well, I don't know, Rudolph.
00:47:56He come riding in here a while ago just as fast as he could.
00:48:05Uh-huh, somebody found out something.
00:48:07What's that to us?
00:48:08I'll find out.
00:48:09Wait at the horses.
00:48:17Where was my ma?
00:48:19Found her in the kitchen.
00:48:20Like as if she was at the stove when he come.
00:48:23Your father was out in the crowd.
00:48:24Looked like he got it as he rode in.
00:48:26How long they been dead?
00:48:28Maybe a week.
00:48:41Pat, dear, I'm so sorry.
00:48:45So now we know what it was the boy done.
00:48:47Those sweet old people.
00:48:56You want megan?
00:48:58Let her come in.
00:49:12When was you over on the Warpaint River?
00:49:16I was never on the Warpaint River.
00:49:19It's a dry creek near the wagon road.
00:49:21Don't you remember a shack and a few sheds?
00:49:23Just a half a day's travel to the east?
00:49:27I must have passed a dozen places like that.
00:49:28That's enough.
00:49:29The boy has the right to speak.
00:49:34All right, I want you to tell the people to go home.
00:49:37All right.
00:49:38Pass the word as quiet as you can.
00:49:42I want your girls to go home, too.
00:49:45I think you better take them.
00:49:47What are you going to do?
00:49:49I'm gonna hang him.
00:49:53I can't let you do it, Pat.
00:49:56What?
00:49:57First I need to know how this boy can describe two men he never saw.
00:50:01But they was here.
00:50:02Tonight.
00:50:04We was face to face.
00:50:06You can tell them.
00:50:07You saw him.
00:50:09You had to see him.
00:50:12He told me he saw him.
00:50:20My pa took a bullet through his lung standing by you.
00:50:23Have you forgotten that?
00:50:25He was the only man outside of your hired hands who stood with you at the death fence.
00:50:28Yeah, that's true.
00:50:30But the fact still stands that we know nothing whatever about this boy.
00:50:34He was so afraid to show his face he risked your guns rather than ask for grub.
00:50:38Frantic for a horse, frantic to get out of the country.
00:50:41I know that.
00:50:42Remember what you said.
00:50:44There's been a crime, a bad one.
00:50:46We got to find out what it was.
00:50:48I said that.
00:50:50You caught him a week ago tonight.
00:50:52It was a week ago my folks was killed.
00:50:55Not a half day's ride away.
00:50:57We found out everything you've been asking and you know it.
00:51:00I don't even know the boy was there.
00:51:02You never will if you hold out for an eyewitness.
00:51:07Two people saw him and they're dead.
00:51:11Horse.
00:51:15Coon Cat was there.
00:51:19I never thought for a minute that that boy done one thing that was wrong.
00:51:24But it was me that fixed his boots.
00:51:30Where'd you get those boots?
00:51:33Rancher give them to me.
00:51:34Pull them off.
00:51:42It's a dry gap.
00:51:44My father's brand.
00:51:46And it was him give them to me.
00:51:48Sonny, what'd you pull the stitches out for?
00:51:51Oh, I knew people say I stole them.
00:51:53I've been wearing castoffs.
00:52:01Are you satisfied?
00:52:02I am not.
00:52:03And I won't be till I know a lot more than I know now.
00:52:06All I've got to know is who killed my ma and pa.
00:52:08And I know.
00:52:09Well, I don't.
00:52:11Mr. Davis, I swear to you he'll never leave this place.
00:52:15He will if I do.
00:52:17Pat, he's right.
00:52:21Are you standing with him or with me?
00:52:24I'm standing with myself.
00:52:30If you leave with that insane killer,
00:52:33not one of you nor any critter of your brand will ever set foot on this place again.
00:52:36Oh, Pat, I don't believe you.
00:52:38And you can have the fence back right where it was.
00:52:41And quick!
00:52:43Walk out that door.
00:52:48Abby, get in the buggy.
00:52:51We'll lead your horse.
00:53:01I have no horse.
00:53:15Come on, get that wagon up here.
00:53:19Come on.
00:53:21Get this hoof in here.
00:53:27I'm going up ahead.
00:53:28Keep an eye out for troubles.
00:53:33Pat, Pat.
00:53:36I never believed he'd do it.
00:53:39I believed it.
00:53:41It's going to be the same terrible thing all over again.
00:53:44No.
00:53:46You know why?
00:53:48That gully over there is where Tommy died.
00:53:5111 years old.
00:53:54I told him to stay home, of course, but...
00:53:57he fell there with his killed phony.
00:54:01I know.
00:54:04We won our fight.
00:54:06It didn't matter anymore.
00:54:09I'll never go to the guns again.
00:54:30Well, I can be in Marfa by midnight.
00:54:32I'll telegraph from there and get the fires in Wichita and Ellsworth and Kansas City.
00:54:36They've got to meet my drive and dodge.
00:54:37Meet what and dodge?
00:54:38Every cow we got that can walk them, selling off the cattle.
00:54:40Oh, you old fool.
00:54:41You ain't going to get through in the teeth of winter.
00:54:43I'll lose every critter I got if I hold them here.
00:54:45And you'll get to dodge all right with about one cow left, and she'll be a skull on a stick.
00:54:49The rest of the herds are as good as this one.
00:54:51We'll get through.
00:54:52Oh, Pa, you're throwing away everything we got in the world for a wretched boy who doesn't even want it.
00:54:56I'm not doing it for the boy.
00:54:58Either a thing is right or it's wrong.
00:54:59There's no half way.
00:55:00Pa, why don't you take Megan to Marfa with you?
00:55:02You ready in seven seconds?
00:55:04I sure can.
00:55:05All right, I'll send down 12, 14 trail hens.
00:55:08Fast I can find them and you can start them rounding up.
00:55:10Oh, this is going to be the end of this brand.
00:55:12You know that, don't you?
00:55:13I want every critter I own bunched and ready to start when I get back.
00:55:17If only Tommy was alive.
00:55:19That's when they broke this outfit's back, when they killed that little kid.
00:55:22Pa didn't say we were beat.
00:55:24No, he didn't say it, but I know as well as I know anything in the world.
00:55:27That fence would come out whistling if your brother was alive today.
00:55:30But he ain't.
00:55:32Now get going.
00:55:33Get up out of here.
00:55:34Get out of here.
00:55:46I don't know, Mr. Davis sent us in for Marfa.
00:55:48Put your stuff in the bunkhouse and grab a snack.
00:55:55You know what your pappy would say to this?
00:55:57He'd say it's too bad she's here instead of Tommy.
00:56:00Now lead out the wagon.
00:56:01You know something?
00:56:02I ain't about to.
00:56:03I'll go if you'll let me.
00:56:04I can cook all right.
00:56:06And stay here with this loony kid.
00:56:09Take that carbon off my saddle.
00:56:11You think I'm Calamity Jane?
00:56:12Well, now, it seems like that you think that you are.
00:56:15Abby, Pat Farrell's brought on just as many cowboys as we got here.
00:56:19Only his is rough and longhorns.
00:56:21They ain't like these cowpokes.
00:56:23You're on the chuck wagon, Dixie.
00:56:24Don't you do it, Dixie.
00:56:25You ought to know who's ramrodding this outfit by now.
00:56:28He knows.
00:56:30Roll out the team, Dixie.
00:56:31Abby.
00:56:32Abby, honey, won't you just listen to me?
00:56:35Come on, boys.
00:56:36Let's go.
00:56:37Abby, you don't know what you're doing.
00:56:39We're going to tear down that fence.
00:56:42Great land of fury.
00:56:55We're in a mall, boys.
00:56:56I don't want a post left standing.
00:56:58We're in a mall, boys.
00:56:59I don't want a post left standing.
00:57:28Hmm.
00:57:39I sure don't like this smoke we're making.
00:57:41It's bound to be seen.
00:57:43No.
00:57:48I'm afraid it has been seen.
00:57:49Right above that knot, Bird.
00:57:51Yes, I see them.
00:57:54Holy cow!
00:57:58Let's go.
00:58:07They're going down there.
00:58:09Don't shoot till they do.
00:58:14Well, we'll have to pull out.
00:58:15We can't do any more here.
00:58:18They can't hear that.
00:58:19Well, fire a shot, quick.
00:58:20Ain't you afraid they'll think...
00:58:21Give me that.
00:58:28Let's go.
00:58:53Oh, those fools!
00:58:54Take this.
00:58:59Stop firing!
00:59:00Hold it! Hold the fire!
00:59:07It's Abby!
00:59:10Abby! Abby!
00:59:13Abby!
00:59:29I hate empty saddles.
00:59:31It's the old fence war all over again.
00:59:34Hey, look.
00:59:37Look, Abby's bones.
00:59:47Ain't no blood in no place.
00:59:49Yeah, here's some.
00:59:51I can't stay here no more.
00:59:53Go in that bunkhouse and fetch me out that box of cottages.
00:59:56We're going out there.
01:00:07Let him go.
01:00:14What did you let him go for?
01:00:16I learned one great thing at that barn party.
01:00:18That kid's my lucky charm.
01:00:20I'm not so sure.
01:00:22They blame him for everything.
01:00:23They don't even believe their own eyes when he tells them what they see.
01:00:27I'll be sorry when they hang him.
01:00:29I don't like him.
01:00:30He'll bring boat whistle now.
01:00:32Go to the horses.
01:00:33Have them ready when you hear my gun.
01:00:43Where's them cottages?
01:00:44Go get them cottages.
01:00:45Go on!
01:00:46Just tell me one thing.
01:00:47Couldn't Miles Jessup be alive?
01:00:49Why, how could he be alive?
01:00:50Maybe only wounded.
01:00:51He was buried by our own boys.
01:00:53Well, maybe you buried the wrong one.
01:00:56Or maybe he come to and bust himself out of the ground.
01:00:59Great land of fury.
01:01:00I'll go get them cottages myself.
01:01:05I'm telling you, please don't go in there!
01:01:17Please, boat whistle, please don't go in there.
01:01:21Oh, sonny, no wonder folks are saying you're crazy.
01:01:26Hello, boat whistle.
01:01:31Miles.
01:01:32Haven't forgotten, I see.
01:01:35Miles Jessup.
01:01:37What's the matter, boat whistle?
01:01:38Didn't you never expect to see a Jessup again?
01:01:43Not this side of the grave.
01:01:45I remember what fun you had putting us there.
01:01:48No, Miles, it was only...
01:01:51Miles.
01:02:21Miles!
01:02:51Miles.
01:03:10More?
01:03:11Not now.
01:03:12Pat tried to stop the fire when he saw you.
01:03:14He was going to do you when his horse was killed.
01:03:16The stud horse?
01:03:17Yeah.
01:03:18You could hear the horse scream for a mile.
01:03:20Pat had to put a bullet in his head.
01:03:22Big Jim.
01:03:26I want all hands saddled at half past four.
01:03:28Can you throw them breakfast at quarter of?
01:03:30I don't know nothing about bread, Mr. Davis.
01:03:32Give them hard tack.
01:03:34By daylight, I want the wagon road closed both ways.
01:03:37And the man in Marfa and all trails stopped off.
01:03:40That way I'll have a chance to head off that boy.
01:03:42Yes, sir.
01:03:50Swelling?
01:03:52Beats quite a bit.
01:03:55It's all my fault.
01:03:57Boat Whistle lies dead out there
01:03:58because I couldn't see what was plain and clear.
01:04:01What's plain and clear?
01:04:02That boy's a Jessup.
01:04:03There's no doubt in the world.
01:04:04I don't believe it.
01:04:06Who was killed first?
01:04:07The Farrells?
01:04:08Boat Whistle?
01:04:09Both with me all through the trouble.
01:04:11But that doesn't explain...
01:04:12That boy has even memorized the faces.
01:04:15Tries to make us think we were haunted.
01:04:17There's your giveaway.
01:04:18Coon Cat wasn't even armed.
01:04:21Where's the house gun?
01:04:34Now go to your room.
01:04:36I have all the contention I can stomach
01:04:37without a lot of sass spread on it.
01:04:49Someone has to go to Pat Farrell.
01:04:52He's got to be told I was wrong.
01:04:54Afraid to tell him yourself?
01:04:59This break between you and Pat was all my fault.
01:05:02And the fence fight and all.
01:05:04I'll stand by what I did.
01:05:06Abby,
01:05:08there's no more reason for fighting now.
01:05:10Men don't fight about a reason.
01:05:13They fight for a reason.
01:05:15Men don't fight about a reason.
01:05:18They fight about they've gotten the fight.
01:05:22Pat won't.
01:05:28Thanks, Pa.
01:05:38Megan, be quiet.
01:05:39Come here.
01:05:41There was a smile on the man who killed Boat Whistle.
01:05:43Right before my eyes.
01:05:44Coon Cat, I believe you, but nobody else will.
01:05:47If only you hadn't come back here.
01:05:50Oh, it's never any different.
01:05:52But I had to tell you.
01:05:54If only you hadn't told that whopper about the wagon road.
01:05:57Oh, I wished a million times I'd never spoke.
01:06:00He even took Pa out there and swore he'd find a body.
01:06:03Yeah, I know now why it wasn't there.
01:06:06You still claim there was one?
01:06:08That's what I came back to tell you.
01:06:10There's no other hope of waking your people up.
01:06:11Are you talking to somebody in there, Megan?
01:06:15I'm making a star count.
01:06:17Seven hundred ninety-two, seven hundred ninety-three, seven...
01:06:20Well, count my fifties like cattle.
01:06:22Get to bed.
01:06:23All right.
01:06:25Quick, tell me.
01:06:27Them strangers, the smiler man and the whopper.
01:06:29They hid the body.
01:06:30They shoveled dust in there and brushed out their tracks.
01:06:32Why would they do that if you killed him?
01:06:35Oh, I never done it, Megan. I know that now.
01:06:38They fired across me after I was knocked out.
01:06:40That's why they covered it up.
01:06:42Men like that wouldn't bother.
01:06:43They'd just ride on in a hurry.
01:06:46They'd bother because they weren't ready to ride on.
01:06:48They came here to do something.
01:06:50And they covered it up so they could stay and get it done.
01:06:53Oh, if we could only prove it.
01:06:55A corpse will prove it.
01:06:57Even if everything's like you say, we couldn't find the body.
01:07:00They could have buried him anyplace within a hundred miles.
01:07:03Or they could have buried him right there.
01:07:06Maybe he's been there all this time.
01:07:11I gotta go there and bust in.
01:07:12I figure I only got until morning.
01:07:14A lot better bet for you is just to ride until your horse drops.
01:07:18Well, if I don't find anything, then I will go on.
01:07:21I've got to stop and try this one more thing.
01:07:23And I'm coming with you.
01:07:24Oh, no, you're not.
01:07:25I only told you so you'd know what to expect.
01:07:27Goon cat.
01:07:43You gotta go back.
01:07:45Your father will follow you.
01:07:47He'll follow me anywhere.
01:07:49I left a message telling him where we went.
01:07:51Oh, great guns, Megan.
01:07:53What did you do that for?
01:07:55I'll have her up trying to find anything now.
01:07:57Of course you will if we get started.
01:07:59Come on, let's go.
01:08:01Come on, let's go.
01:08:03Come on, let's go.
01:08:05Come on, let's go.
01:08:07Come on, let's go.
01:08:09Come on, let's go.
01:08:10I'll have her up trying to find anything now.
01:08:12Of course you will if we get started.
01:08:14Ain't there no way to get rid of you?
01:08:16No.
01:08:18Can't you see you'll need me when he gets here?
01:08:20I'll help you all I can.
01:08:22Come on.
01:08:24No, sir, you ain't going.
01:08:26Oh, yes, I am.
01:08:28Oh, no, you ain't.
01:08:30You want a bet?
01:08:32Yeah, anything.
01:08:34You're not going and that's final.
01:08:36Throw me the end of your rope.
01:08:38Here.
01:08:41Nothing pull?
01:08:43Of course he will.
01:08:49All right, take it away.
01:09:11Coon Cat?
01:09:15Are you all right?
01:09:27What are you doing?
01:09:29Find the lamp.
01:09:34What are you doing?
01:09:36Find the lamp.
01:09:41All this dust.
01:09:43How would they get it spread all over?
01:09:45How do I know?
01:09:47Maybe they threw it in with a shovel.
01:09:49It does look kind of funny.
01:09:52There's rocks in it.
01:09:59Here's where you lay.
01:10:02I'll get it.
01:10:04I'll get it.
01:10:06I'll get it.
01:10:08I'll get it.
01:10:11See that dark stain? That's his blood.
01:10:13Then it is all true.
01:10:15Of course it's true.
01:10:17I've got to find him. I've got to.
01:10:19Or I'll have to tear down this whole place.
01:10:25Coon Cat, hush a minute.
01:10:29I thought I heard horses.
01:10:32I guess I didn't though.
01:10:34It's awful quiet.
01:10:40It's almost morning.
01:10:42I can see a little streak of mustard in the east.
01:10:45It's what those brush wolves are singing at.
01:10:52There's no use going on. There's nothing here.
01:10:55But won't the blood stain prove it?
01:10:57They'd say you spilled something.
01:11:02What are we going to do?
01:11:11I guess I got to run.
01:11:14I was hoping too hard, I guess.
01:11:17I was sure it was here, but it ain't.
01:11:19No, it ain't here.
01:11:21It's in the canyon under a ton of cavedown dirt.
01:11:25Someday a flash flood will wash up a skull
01:11:27about 20 miles downstream.
01:11:29But not soon.
01:11:31Oh, Megan!
01:11:41Stay close to me. They'll be right on us.
01:11:46They got into the brush. Get after them.
01:12:11Yard?
01:12:12It's all right.
01:12:17Smiler man's got our horses.
01:12:19Where is he?
01:12:21He's in the canyon.
01:12:23He's got a gun.
01:12:25He's got a gun.
01:12:27He's got a gun.
01:12:29He's got a gun.
01:12:31He's got a gun.
01:12:33He's got a gun.
01:12:35He's got a gun.
01:12:37He's got a gun.
01:12:38Smiler man's got our horses.
01:12:40Where are they now?
01:12:42Look inside the ruins. We'll get in there as soon as he's gone.
01:12:44Why?
01:12:46It's the only safe place. He's looked in there already.
01:12:52We can start now.
01:13:05I wish Pa had come.
01:13:08They're sure to find us.
01:13:10No, they won't.
01:13:13We gonna be here forever?
01:13:19Maybe quite a while.
01:13:21Might as well just figure we live here, I guess.
01:13:24It wouldn't be so bad.
01:13:26What wouldn't?
01:13:28Living here.
01:13:30I could fix it up real pretty.
01:13:32If it had walls, floor.
01:13:35No job to fix that. I could do it with my own hands.
01:13:36Glass in the windows?
01:13:38Sure. I know how to do things like that.
01:13:41I know how to cook and make rugs and everything.
01:13:44I don't want to think about it.
01:13:46Why?
01:13:49Nothing good can happen. I'm a murderer, everybody thinks.
01:13:52I don't.
01:13:55I know.
01:13:57And I just keep thinking if only things had come different.
01:14:00But they are different.
01:14:02They stood right there and said he did it.
01:14:04He killed Jim's father.
01:14:06He killed Michelle, and you're in the clear.
01:14:13They're back.
01:14:15Smiling men, anyway.
01:14:17I thought I heard wheel.
01:14:19Well, hear them now.
01:14:21There's the rover.
01:14:23Where you going?
01:14:25Look inside.
01:14:27Keep back against the wall.
01:14:29I wasn't in there. Come on.
01:14:31Boss, David's come all right.
01:14:33He's only a little way up.
01:14:35Alone?
01:14:37Two men with him.
01:14:39Pat Farrell's coming up.
01:14:41Take the horses around behind.
01:14:44Everything's going to be all right.
01:14:46Yeah, everything's going to be all right.
01:14:52There they are.
01:14:53Come here.
01:15:09Hold your fire.
01:15:11Let them come, you fool.
01:15:13Easy shot.
01:15:15I've waited for this many years.
01:15:17If you shoot before I tell you,
01:15:19I'll kill you in the same half second.
01:15:21Hey!
01:15:23Hey!
01:15:26I got your word.
01:15:28I said no word for you to come here.
01:15:30Yeah, because you might need me.
01:15:32Well, now don't.
01:15:36Them killers will hold their fire
01:15:38until nobody can miss.
01:15:40You gotta let him know.
01:15:42That's no good.
01:15:44Pa would think you were signaling.
01:15:46Not if I put it close enough to his ear.
01:15:51That shot came from the roads.
01:15:53Nah, the echo fooled you.
01:15:55From the ridge.
01:15:57When he's tired of that, he'll come on again.
01:16:01Dixie, Frank,
01:16:03throw a couple of shots down there to hold his interest.
01:16:05I'm going around the long way by the canyon.
01:16:20Ah, they just lie up there and plunk bullets
01:16:22in them old adobe walls.
01:16:24Do you think they've sent for me?
01:16:26Megan, look!
01:16:28Oh!
01:16:30Oh!
01:16:32Oh!
01:16:34Oh!
01:16:36Oh!
01:16:38Oh!
01:16:40Oh!
01:16:42Oh!
01:16:44Oh!
01:16:46Oh!
01:16:48Oh!
01:16:50Oh!
01:16:55He thinks I'm in there
01:16:58with only this one gun.
01:17:00Maybe he even thinks I won't kill him.
01:17:02No.
01:17:04I've got to warn him!
01:17:06He'll answer and they'll kill him.
01:17:08It'll happen any second.
01:17:11I've gotta go out there.
01:17:13At least make him know.
01:17:15Kolkats!
01:17:17Stay back!
01:17:20That's Coon Cat. He ain't inside.
01:17:35There's another gunman in there. Keep shooting. That's all we can do.
01:17:38It ain't all I can do. You can't get to him.
01:17:41I can't lay here and see the old man get dry ghost.
01:17:50Kill the man that turns. Drop your guns.
01:18:10Now get up. Slow.
01:18:13Face the wall. Now go easy to the door.
01:18:17Don't go out. He's setting us up for the guns on the ridge.
01:18:26Yeah. I thought you'd remember me.
01:18:31They told me Bob Jessup was in the pen. That's right.
01:18:44Or I'd have been here long ago. Him, I recognize.
01:18:48I saw his brother die in his arms at the fence.
01:18:51And what's you? You must have been about 13 then.
01:18:55You remember me. I know your father.
01:18:59This is like as if Miles Jessup walked from the grave.
01:19:02Yeah, exactly.
01:19:14Help the boy. I'm helping him.
01:19:27Handle him easy. Yeah.
01:19:30Here on, he can have anything I got in the world.
01:19:33You better pray he can use it. You came here to kill him and he gave you
01:19:36your life on a plate. From now on, I'll never be without friends
01:19:41or without a home.