Fury - S1E3: The Horse Coper
30min | Family, Western | TV Series (1955–1960)
Jim has to sell some horses or lose the ranch. Pigott, the horse coper (dealer) offers to buy Fury but Jim says he is nor for sale. Later, when Joey wants to show Pigott the tricks that Fury can do, Pigott tricks Joey into being on free government land. Pigott then claims Fury and tries to get away.
Stars: Peter Graves, William Fawcett, Bobby Diamond
30min | Family, Western | TV Series (1955–1960)
Jim has to sell some horses or lose the ranch. Pigott, the horse coper (dealer) offers to buy Fury but Jim says he is nor for sale. Later, when Joey wants to show Pigott the tricks that Fury can do, Pigott tricks Joey into being on free government land. Pigott then claims Fury and tries to get away.
Stars: Peter Graves, William Fawcett, Bobby Diamond
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00:00This is the range country, where the pounding hooves of untamed horses still thunder over
00:08mountains, meadows and canyons.
00:11Every herd has its own leader, but there is only one fury, fury, king of the wild stallions.
00:18And here in the wild west of today, hard riding men still battle the open range for a living.
00:23Men like Jim Newton, owner of the Broken Wheel Ranch, and Pete, his top hand who says he
00:28cut his teeth on a branding iron.
00:30Fury!
00:31Fury!
00:32Why all this fury is, that's the one human voice he's learned to love and obey, the voice
00:45of the boy who once saved his life, Jim Newton's boy, Joey.
00:52Fury!
00:54Fury!
00:56Fury!
00:58Fury!
01:00Fury!
01:02Fury!
01:04Fury!
01:06Here's a mutual trust and affection that everyone can understand, especially a woman like Helen
01:12Watkins, Joey's school teacher and unfailing champion.
01:17Now kneel down and let me get on you.
01:25And there they are together, a great wild horse and the only person on earth who can
01:30ride him, Joey and Fury.
01:35Hurry up!
01:42That's great, Fury!
01:44Do it again!
01:45Hurry up!
01:47That's the way.
01:48Around you go!
02:00That's a good boy.
02:03You like playing circus, don't you?
02:08Now! Kneel, Fury! Kneel down!
02:12Come on! Kneel down!
02:16Aw, come on, Fury. You don't have to be afraid of this stick.
02:20You know I'd never hit you. We're just playing.
02:25Okay, I'll throw it away. Now, kneel down!
02:29That's a boy! Keep going, Fury! That's it! Kneel down!
02:33Come on, kneel down.
02:35That's well, Joey! Say, look, I brought my camera!
02:38That's great, Ted! Hurry up! Get this trick!
02:44Don't take it till he rears up with me on him!
02:49Up, Fury, up!
02:51Get it?
02:52Got it!
02:54Hey, Joey! Close this gate and come in here and lend a hand.
02:57Coming, Mr. Jim! Come on, Jim!
03:06I want to give that picture to Mr. Jim for his birthday tomorrow.
03:09I'll have the print back this afternoon.
03:15What can we do, Mr. Jim?
03:17Sorry to spoil your fun, boys. Kind of an emergency.
03:20Go up to the barn and get curry combs and brushes.
03:23Yes, sir! Come on, Ted, this is an emergency!
03:33How'd we ever let ourselves get stuck with this string of ads?
03:37They made the kind of horses we usually put on the market.
03:40I admit they're not up to our standards, Pete,
03:42but we gotta unload them at the day's sale to pay back that loan at the bank.
03:45Won't they give you more time?
03:47I think I overextended myself when I bought that added pasture land last spring.
03:52Well, looks like sink or swim on today's sale.
03:55I'm afraid if we don't make it, I'll have to put the ranch up for sale.
04:00Gosh, did you hear that?
04:03Much obliged, boys.
04:06That's all for now.
04:09Oh, Joey, run down to the mailbox, will you, and pick up the mail, please?
04:13Sure, Mr. Jim.
04:16I'll write as far as the mailbox with you.
04:19Did you hear what Mr. Jim said? We may have to sell the ranch.
04:22That'd be awful. You mean we'd have to sell Fury, too?
04:25Gee, I never thought of that.
04:27We'll have to figure some way to help Mr. Jim.
04:30You try to think of something and say,
04:33Uh-oh, Jim. Look who's here.
04:37Button your party book.
04:57You'll be caught if you don't walk.
04:59Button your pocketbook, that old horse coper, with his fat smile and thin pocketbook.
05:06Howdy, Phobes.
05:07Morning, Pickett.
05:08Read about your sale, thought I'd drop in.
05:10When did you switch to goats?
05:13That is the crummiest collection of crowbait I've seen this whole summer.
05:17You know, that's the trouble with advertising a horse sale.
05:19Like turning over a rock, you never know what's going to show up.
05:22But if we keep quiet, maybe he'll crawl away.
05:25Oh, that's very funny, Jim. Very funny.
05:29But if these fugitives from a glue factory are any samples of this season's horse crop, I...
05:37Hey, now, there's a real horse.
05:41Here's the mail, Mr. Jim.
05:50That's a fine-looking stallion, son.
05:52Furnace is safe.
05:53Safe? Who is this bright young fella?
05:56Our new foreman. Joey makes all our important beef.
05:59Yeah, howdy, Joey. Pickett's the name.
06:02That's the right nice-looking animal you got there.
06:04You know, he'd make a good circus horse.
06:12He's still wild. Nobody can handle him but me.
06:15He can be handled.
06:18What'll you take for him, Jim?
06:23What'll we take for him, Mr. Jim?
06:26Mr. Pickett, there are some things in this world that just aren't for sale.
06:30And that horse is one of them.
06:32Joey, take care of Fury.
06:34Yes, sir.
06:36Well, I still say he'd make a good circus horse.
06:39I'll give you $100 for him without looking in his mouth.
06:41Forget the stallion.
06:43The only thing for sale here this morning is that string of gentle trail horses.
06:46Oh, so that's what it is.
06:50You won't get them any cheaper by knocking them, Pickett.
06:53They're all good, sturdy mounts and well-broken to mountain trail climbing.
06:56This one looks like he'd just climb Mount Everest.
06:59Tell you what I'll do.
07:01I'll give you $20 a piece for them as they stand.
07:04That is, if they're still standing by the time the truck gets here.
07:07You're wasting your money.
07:09I'll give you $20 a piece for them as they stand.
07:12That is, if they're still standing by the time the truck gets here.
07:15You're wasting your money.
07:18I'll make it $25, but that's tops.
07:21I'd rather turn them out on the range.
07:23So long, Pickett.
07:25You do.
07:27I'll get them for nothing.
07:29You know the law.
07:31Come across them grazing on public lands.
07:33Finders keepers.
07:35Just a friendly warning.
07:37Sure. Friendly like a rattlesnake.
07:39On your way, Pickett.
07:41Your price is too high, Jim.
07:43I can give you $40.
07:45You'd better take it, Jim.
07:47$40 is the best offer you're going to get.
07:50I've got to have $100 to make that bank loan.
07:52Who's coming? Santy Claus?
07:55It's a little early for him.
07:57But I am expecting a visit from that buyer for the dude ranches.
08:00He's in the market for a big string of saddle ponies.
08:03I'll get them for nothing.
08:05You'd better take it, Jim.
08:07$40 is the best offer you're going to get.
08:10He's in the market for a big string of saddle ponies.
08:12I just got to do better than $40.
08:14Well, what's it going to be, Jim?
08:16Take it or leave it?
08:18Well, I guess I'll have to leave it this time, Sam.
08:21Thanks for your offer, anyway.
08:23Okay. Let's get rolling.
08:37Hi, Joy. Think of anything yet?
08:39Things are getting worse.
08:41Nobody's bought any horses yet.
08:46Say, maybe the bank would take the horses.
08:48I could ask my pa. He works in a bank.
08:50Naw. Banks don't want any horses.
08:52They only want money.
09:05Say, I almost forgot.
09:07Take a look at this.
09:13It's swirled, Ted.
09:15Make a slick present.
09:17We got to find someplace to hide it so Mr. Jim won't see it.
09:20Come on.
09:23This is a good place to hide it.
09:25Nobody out here comes in here.
09:30There's a good spot. Come on. Give me a boost.
09:38Oh, boy.
09:40A silver-mounted saddle.
09:43How come you never used this, Joy?
09:45I never saw it before.
09:47I wonder if Jim will let me use it when we get fear he broke the saddle.
09:50Sure he will.
09:54Gosh. Just look at those stirrups.
09:58You know, a saddle like this costs a heap of money.
10:01It does.
10:03Say, maybe we could sell it.
10:05It does.
10:07Say, maybe we could sell it for money and help Mr. Jim.
10:10Joy, my pops been looking for one just like this to buy for my birthday next month.
10:15Well, it ain't doing anybody any good sitting around here.
10:18He said it'd go as high as $25.
10:20$25 would really help Mr. Jim.
10:23It'd feed all of us for a month.
10:25But I can't sell without asking Jim first.
10:27Well, ask him.
10:29He's not here. He's out fixing the fence with Pete.
10:31I got it.
10:32He'll be back soon.
10:34I'll go right over and show it to Pop and then bring it right back again.
10:37And if he says he'll buy it, then you can tell Mr. Jim and he'll be real happy about it.
10:41Well, okay.
10:43But you gotta promise to bring it back before Jim gets home.
10:45Sure, I promise.
11:05We're all ready for inspection.
11:07Here, put this on.
11:08Better just Johnny dirt it off.
11:10Next thing you know, Joy will be putting ribbons in his tail.
11:20Not even a dust mark.
11:22100% perfect.
11:24And I'm not even gonna ask you about the other chores, the tack room and so forth,
11:27because I know they're already done.
11:29You're a good hand, Joey.
11:31There are times I wouldn't know what to do without you.
11:34Come on, I got something to show you.
11:38Come on.
11:44Hey, Pete, where's that saddle?
11:46Can't figure it.
11:47It was there the last time I come in here.
11:49Joey, you know anything about it?
11:51Uh, yes, sir.
11:53Ted and I, we was looking at it and...
11:56Well, go on.
11:58Ted took it home for his father to look at.
12:01What for?
12:02He thought his father might like to buy it for him.
12:04Well, who gave you the right to sell anything belonging to this ranch?
12:07But I was only thinking about selling...
12:09That's just the point, Joey.
12:10You have no right to even think about selling something that doesn't belong to you.
12:13But, Mr. Jim...
12:14That saddle is not for sale.
12:15Now, you get right over to Ted's and bring it back here.
12:17And don't ever let that happen again.
12:22Golly, Pete.
12:23I wasn't gonna sell the saddle without asking Jim first.
12:26I don't take it so hard, Joey.
12:28Jim was just upset because...
12:30Well, he sets a lot of store for that saddle.
12:33You see, the little fella that saddle belonged to was Jim's own boy.
12:39No wonder he bawled me out.
12:41Jim's got a lot on his mind right now.
12:44Yeah, I know.
12:45That bank business.
12:46That's what I was gonna sell the saddle for.
12:48To give Jim the money.
12:50Ted thought his father might pay as high as $25.
12:53Had an idea or something like that.
12:55Now, look, Joey.
12:56Jim don't need $25.
12:58He needs a powerful lot more than that.
13:00Would you stop worrying your head about growing up's troubles
13:02and hustle that saddle back here.
13:04Okay, Pete.
13:10Gosh.
13:11More than $25.
13:20Look, he gave me the money.
13:22The deal's off.
13:24And boy, did I get bawled out.
13:26Come on.
13:27We gotta put the saddle back.
13:29But gosh.
13:30Maybe if you showed Mr. Jim the money.
13:32Wouldn't do any good.
13:33He won't sell.
13:35Besides, $25 isn't enough.
13:38Mr. Jim's off a leap in the hole, kid says.
13:40Might owe as much as $100.
13:43Golly.
13:48How does anybody make that kind of money?
13:50Say, Pop knows all about money.
13:52We can talk to him on the way to the circus.
13:54Circus?
13:55What circus?
13:56Over at Plainfield next Saturday.
13:58Pop's taking me.
13:59He said I could invite you.
14:01Circus?
14:02Of course.
14:03Fury and me could work in a circus.
14:05How do you mean?
14:06Fury can do his tricks.
14:08He likes to play circus.
14:10This time he'd get paid for it.
14:11Big money too, I betcha.
14:13Gee, that's a swell idea.
14:15But how do you get hired by a circus?
14:17You just go find somebody, I guess.
14:19Make them look at your tricks.
14:21But we don't even know where the circus is today.
14:23Mr. Pickett would know.
14:24You mean the horse trader?
14:25Yeah, he was at our place this morning.
14:27Say, he even said Fury would make a good circus horse.
14:30He wanted to buy him.
14:32You can't sell Fury.
14:34Of course not.
14:36But Mr. Pickett would know how to get us hired.
14:38Come on, let's go find him.
14:39Where?
14:42Maybe he's off at the Barbee Ranch.
14:43There's a horse sale there today.
14:45That doesn't fart.
14:46Let's go.
14:54Hey, there's Mr. Pickett!
14:58Mr. Pickett!
14:59Mr. Pickett, it's me, Joey!
15:01Mr. Pickett!
15:08Well, well, well.
15:09If it isn't the young foreman of the Broken Wheel Ranch
15:11and his man killer.
15:12Hello, Mr. Pickett.
15:13This is my friend Ted.
15:14We're going to the Barbee to find you.
15:16Well, good to see you again, Jimmy.
15:19My name's Joey.
15:20We're kind of in a hurry to find you, Mr. Pickett.
15:22I'll bet it's got something to do with that horse.
15:24That's right, the smartest horse in the world.
15:26Do you think you can get us in the circus, Mr. Pickett?
15:29Well, now, maybe.
15:31That all depends.
15:33We've got to make a lot of money real fast, Mr. Pickett.
15:35Do you think you can get the circus to hire me
15:37and Fury do our tricks?
15:39Well, now, I just can't walk up to my circus friends
15:42and say, here's the smartest horse in the world
15:44without some proof of it.
15:45Well, Fury will show you.
15:46Go on, Fury.
15:47No, no, no.
15:48Not right here on the highway.
15:50Look, you see that big pasture over there?
15:52Yeah.
15:53There's plenty of room for him to do his tricks.
15:55OK.
15:57Come on, Ted.
16:19Well, a better arena for an equestrian act
16:25you just couldn't find.
16:27Can you work him running free without a halter?
16:30Put your head down.
16:35How do you do?
16:36I'm a horse.
16:37I'm a horse.
16:38I'm a horse.
16:39I'm a horse.
16:40I'm a horse.
16:41I'm a horse.
16:42I'm a horse.
16:43I'm a horse.
16:44I'm a horse.
16:45I'm a horse.
16:46I'm a horse.
16:47Hurry up.
16:49Come on.
16:50Hurry up.
16:53Say yes.
16:57Say no.
17:01Now, count three.
17:04One, two, three.
17:06That's our boy.
17:07That's our boy.
17:08Splendid, my boy.
17:09Give me a push.
17:13Now, make him do something hard, Joey.
17:16All right, Tosh, you're out of here, Mr. Piggot.
17:22All right, pick it up.
17:25Attaboy.
17:25See, I told you he's the smartest horse in the world.
17:31Well, I never saw anything like it.
17:33Mr. Piggot's gonna get us in the circus.
17:35Go on, give it to him.
17:41That's a boy.
17:43Stop it, Fury, come back here.
17:46Fury.
17:47Stop it, come here.
17:48I agree, my boy, he is a well-trained horse.
17:52Now, all that's left is to get him into the trailer
17:54and then we'll be off to the circus.
17:57In the trailer?
17:58That's right.
17:58Can't I ride him?
17:59Oh, no, Marysville's too far, it's 60 miles.
18:02Fury'll have to ride.
18:03Now, come on, let's see if you can get him into the trailer.
18:05How much do you think the circus will pay us?
18:07Some horse acts I know get a good price,
18:09but I don't know how much they'll pay us.
18:11How much do you think the circus will pay us?
18:13Some horse acts I know get $1,000 a week.
18:16Gosh, $1,000.
18:19Do you hear that, Fury?
18:20Come on, get in the trailer.
18:23That's a boy.
18:30Sorry you can't go with me, Ted.
18:34Go home and tell Mr. Jim so he won't worry.
18:36Sorry to disappoint you, son,
18:37but you're riding double with your friend.
18:39What do you mean?
18:40You're going back to your ranch
18:41and Fury's going with me.
18:42You can't, you son of a gun.
18:51Tell Jim Newton I found Fury running free
18:53on government land.
18:54Go home as fast as you can and tell Mr. Jim.
19:10Where's Joey?
19:11He should have been back with that saddle an hour ago.
19:13Saddle's inside.
19:15Ted brought it back.
19:16I saw him lugging it in.
19:18Two of them rode off someplace.
19:30He was kind of rough on the boy, wasn't he, Jim?
19:32No, I didn't mean it like that.
19:33I mean, he's a good boy.
19:35He's a good boy.
19:36He's a good boy.
19:37He's a good boy.
19:38He's a good boy.
19:39He's a good boy.
19:40No, I didn't mean to beat Pete,
19:42but I can't have Joey selling things
19:43that don't belong to him.
19:45I can tell you something about that.
19:47He wasn't selling that saddle for himself.
19:49He thought that getting $25 for it
19:51would square you with the bank.
19:53Just a minute.
19:54Let me show you something.
19:56You shouldn't be doing this.
19:58I feel like it's kind of cold for her now.
20:00Take a look at that.
20:04Happy birthday from Fury and me.
20:08Your loving boy, Joey.
20:10Don't seem like a boy who could write that
20:12was on the wrong track, does it, Jim?
20:17Mr. Jim!
20:18Mr. Jim!
20:24What is it, Ted?
20:25Anything happen to Joey?
20:26He's in trouble, Mr. Jim.
20:27That man Pickett stole Fury and drove off
20:29with Joey hanging onto the back of the trailer.
20:31Get the sheriff.
20:32Yeah.
20:33All right, now, Ted, get your breath.
20:35Tell me what happened.
20:40We gotta get out of here, Fury.
20:42Maybe you can knock down the tailgate.
20:44Come on, Fury, try to kick the gate.
20:48That a boy.
20:49Hit it a little harder.
21:04Hit it a little harder.
21:05It's giving.
21:06Come on.
21:10Come on.
21:16Come on, kick, Fury.
21:17Kick.
21:22Come on, Fury, kick a little harder.
21:24That's a boy.
21:25Kick it out.
21:40I covered the whole road from where
21:42it meets the main highway.
21:43Didn't see a sign of him.
21:44Well, they must have left the main road
21:46to try Mountain Cut-Off.
21:47The only one he could get through on, you just passed.
21:49We'll ride with you.
21:50Good deal.
21:51If he gets across the county line, I'm sunk.
22:06Once more, Fury.
22:07Come on.
22:10Just a little bit more now.
22:14That a boy, Fury.
22:15Come on out now, Fury.
22:16Come on.
22:36Take him, Fury.
22:37Get over there now.
22:38Don't let him go.
22:39Hold him here, Fury.
22:40Go get him.
22:41You stick him in.
22:44Keep there now.
22:45That a boy.
22:46Hold him down.
22:47That a boy.
22:48Keep there now.
22:49You all right, Joey?
22:50Sure, I'm fine.
22:55You're laying yourself open to charges of false arrest,
22:58Jim Newton.
22:59That horse is mine.
23:00I caught him on government land, like I warned you.
23:02By now, picket that law holds only when the rightful owner
23:04isn't around to claim the animal.
23:06Well, I didn't see you around there.
23:08I'm not the owner.
23:09That horse belongs to Joey, and you
23:11took him against Joey's protest.
23:13Sign?
23:15Wait a minute, Sheriff.
23:16Can't you let him off this time?
23:18Please?
23:19You heard the young horse owner, Sheriff.
23:21He refuses to press charges.
23:24Thank you, young man.
23:25Now, we'll get my rig turned around,
23:27and I'll drive you and Fury safely back to the ranch.
23:30He's much too fine an animal to be
23:32allowed to go that far on foot.
23:35Well, Mr. Jim, I guess that ends my circus
23:37about helping out in an emergency.
23:39Oh, it's a swell idea, Joey, but the emergency's over.
23:41We sold those horses to a dude ranch buyer.
23:43And with you and Fury around, that circus is enough.
23:51Let me set the stirrup.
23:56All right.
23:57How's that feel?
23:58Swell.
23:59You like it, Fury?
24:00Better than bareback.
24:02We both like it, Mr. Jim.
24:04You mean I can use the saddle right along?
24:06You can do anything you want with it, Joey.
24:08It's yours now for keeps.
24:09Gee, thanks, Mr. Jim.
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