Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Mi | dG1fMUJVSlR2SnJBSUk
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00:00 [music]
00:13 Hello.
00:15 Hope I haven't kept you waiting too long.
00:18 Welcome to the farm.
00:20 This is where I spend my time between jobs, doing a little of this and a little of that, like replacing fence posts and so on.
00:26 Now you know, around Hollywood there's been a great deal of talk about new faces, the necessity for new faces.
00:33 Well, MGM has done much more than just talk about it.
00:36 They've done something about it.
00:38 In the last picture we just finished, "Tribute to a Bad Man,"
00:42 I had the pleasure of working with some of the most talented young people I've ever met.
00:46 Now, I'd like to have you meet them.
00:48 First, there's Don Dubbins.
00:50 Though this is his first picture, the role of Steve the Tenderfoot from the East, won Don a long-term contract with MGM.
00:56 I didn't have to hang him.
00:58 Try to explain.
00:59 I said you didn't have to hang him.
01:01 A fella steals horses, he'll kill anybody gets in his way.
01:04 How do you know? You don't know.
01:07 It could have been the other men.
01:09 You'll never know.
01:11 I'll never know.
01:14 Irene Pappas. Remember that name.
01:17 And MGM also awarded her a long-term contract for her portrayal of the seductive Jocasta.
01:23 Take that cigarette out of your mouth.
01:26 You ain't playing piano in a hurdy-gurdy place now.
01:28 I was smoking a cigarette the first time you saw me, and it wasn't such a place.
01:32 You told me you loved it. You said it'd make me look feisty.
01:36 Do you want me to change?
01:39 Big Morrow isn't exactly a new face.
01:43 Anyone who saw Blackboard Jungle is not likely to forget him.
01:47 Again, he proves to be one of the outstanding young actors of the day.
01:50 Get up! Get on your feet!
01:53 Good thinking, boy. Good thinking.
01:57 But it ain't gonna get your horse.
02:00 My pa should have killed you 20 years ago.
02:03 Tribute to a bad man is a story of Jeremy Rodak,
02:07 one of the men who pushed the frontier westward.
02:10 MGM went far from civilization, deep into the Rocky Mountains,
02:14 to catch the true spirit of that western frontier.
02:39 Jeremy knew that the horses he loved and bred
02:42 kept the pony express and the stagecoach spreading ever-widening frontiers.
02:46 He was courageous, reckless.
02:49 He knew how to be gay.
02:51 He was a man completely confident, the master of all he surveyed,
02:57 except for one thing.
03:05 I'm sorry.
03:07 I want to go away. I want to make something of myself, but not without you.
03:11 No, Steve.
03:13 A man turns his back, they steal anything.
03:16 A horse, a woman.
03:18 No one's stealing me. Horses you know, but about human beings you know nothing.
03:23 [Music]
03:37 [BLANK_AUDIO]