A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.
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00:00:00 [Music]
00:00:29 [Music]
00:00:49 Oh, there boy.
00:01:07 Whoa there, sir. Whoa, I'm telling you. Whoa. Whoa.
00:01:13 That's a good horse, eh? Now cover up my little girl, eh?
00:01:19 Ah, that's a good horse. Little Sarah.
00:01:25 Hello, Pop.
00:01:26 Hi, howdy, my friend. How's business?
00:01:29 Ah, yes and no. It ain't good, but it could be worse.
00:01:32 You know how it is. Always this time of the year, when it gets close by Christmas,
00:01:36 the menfolk want to be good to their wives.
00:01:38 So they buy them a lot of wash boilers and pots and pans, you know, Christmas presents to make them happy.
00:01:44 [Music]
00:01:52 I think Bailey, he's still in there, huh?
00:01:54 Yep.
00:01:56 He never took a drink before. It's a shame.
00:02:00 Well, he went on this bend the other day young, when Herman was buried.
00:02:04 Been on it ever since.
00:02:06 Must have been three or four weeks ago, ain't it?
00:02:08 All of that anyhow.
00:02:10 Did you hear any news around about who shot Herman, maybe?
00:02:14 Well, the sheriff claims it was a drunken Indian was around here about that time.
00:02:18 Ah, the sheriff.
00:02:20 I'll bet if the sheriff says it was a drunken Indian that did it, it's because Stack told him to say that.
00:02:24 Well, you couldn't get no better on me on that question.
00:02:27 You see, the sheriff, he wears the badge.
00:02:30 Stack, he runs the county.
00:02:33 You're telling me?
00:02:36 [Music]
00:02:44 Hello, Tom.
00:02:45 Hello, Piper.
00:02:46 A drink, please. A little one. I don't want a big one.
00:02:49 Just about that much to take off the chill.
00:02:54 Ah, well, maybe just a drop more. Just a drop more, not too much.
00:02:58 I'll tell you when to stop.
00:03:02 I take it for medicine only.
00:03:06 Well, you ought to be a mighty well man.
00:03:08 Oh, no, I'm sick.
00:03:10 [Music]
00:03:17 Hey, Dick, what's the matter with you? Are you sick?
00:03:20 No, I ain't sick. I'm hungry, that's what I am.
00:03:24 Me, slow down. I feel a shooting thing.
00:03:29 Moving things, that's what I feel like shooting.
00:03:33 Something that's moving. Anything that's moving.
00:03:36 There don't seem to be anything moving around here, Dick.
00:03:39 Well, let's see if we can't make something move.
00:03:42 Good night.
00:03:45 Let me go. I saw something moving.
00:03:47 Bailey, it's me, Piper. You know Piper?
00:03:50 Yes.
00:03:51 How do you do, Dick? How are you?
00:03:54 How's all your family?
00:03:56 I ain't got any family. You know it.
00:04:00 Sure, I know it.
00:04:02 How could I make a mistake like that?
00:04:05 I was thinking about another fella.
00:04:07 Well, Merry Christmas.
00:04:10 It ain't Christmas yet. You know it.
00:04:13 Would I argue with you? Sure, I know it.
00:04:16 What I mean to say is that when Christmas does come in a few days,
00:04:19 I am wishing you a merry.
00:04:21 Oh, so that's what you mean, is it?
00:04:24 Well, I could mean anything, Dick. I ain't stubborn about it.
00:04:28 Well, do you want to fight?
00:04:30 No. That's one thing I am stubborn about.
00:04:33 Well, you gotta do something.
00:04:35 Could I sell you something?
00:04:37 Maybe you could. What do you got?
00:04:40 Well, could I interest you in some nice kitchen utensils?
00:04:43 A nice washboard?
00:04:46 A nice patten ringer?
00:04:48 Some soothing syrup?
00:04:50 Sheets? Pillowcases?
00:04:52 Oh, listen. I got some pillowcases with colored pictures of the statue of Liberty painted on them.
00:04:57 Oh, how you could sleep with Liberty underneath your head.
00:05:00 [laughter]
00:05:02 Ah, jokers!
00:05:04 [laughter]
00:05:06 Never mind, Piepan.
00:05:08 If I ever do get myself married, maybe you can come around then and sell me some of them things.
00:05:12 That's what you should be doing.
00:05:14 Settle yourself down.
00:05:16 Get married to a nice, quiet girl and have a nice home.
00:05:20 Piepan, that ain't a bad idea.
00:05:23 Sure it ain't. It's a great idea.
00:05:25 A little one for me, please.
00:05:27 It's a bet. I'll do it.
00:05:28 Who you going to get married to, Dick?
00:05:30 I don't know. What's the difference?
00:05:32 A woman.
00:05:33 That's also a good idea.
00:05:35 Any woman.
00:05:36 I can see you getting married.
00:05:38 You think I won't?
00:05:40 Oh, have a drink.
00:05:41 Sure. A drink and a wife. That's what I'm gonna have.
00:05:45 You think I'm fooling, don't you?
00:05:47 But I ain't.
00:05:49 You know what I'm gonna do?
00:05:51 No. Neither do you.
00:05:52 Any old time, I don't.
00:05:54 I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
00:05:57 I'm gonna marry the first white woman I meet.
00:06:00 What's your hurry? Shop around a little while.
00:06:03 Look around. See what's going.
00:06:05 No, sir. Not me.
00:06:08 When my mind's made up, it's made up.
00:06:11 That's a great idea, Piepan.
00:06:13 What do I owe you?
00:06:14 Oh, I don't charge for advice. That's free. Gratis. For nothing.
00:06:18 No, sir. You gotta be paid.
00:06:21 Can't sell me nothing, but maybe some of these other boys around here.
00:06:26 Come on, boys. Step up and buy something from Piepan.
00:06:29 Anything you want. I'll pay for it.
00:06:31 I need a pair of pants.
00:06:32 There you are. Made a sale for you already.
00:06:34 But I ain't got any pants.
00:06:36 Don't lie to me. You got a pair on right now.
00:06:39 I can see 'em.
00:06:40 Yeah, but I couldn't sell these.
00:06:42 You already sold 'em to this gent right here.
00:06:45 Yeah, but what'll I go home in?
00:06:47 I don't care nothing about your private life, Piepan.
00:06:50 What you go home in is none of my business.
00:06:53 How much for them pants?
00:06:54 No!
00:06:56 Ten bucks I'll give you. Get 'em off and hand 'em over.
00:06:59 No! Stop it!
00:07:00 What are you doing to me? I'll catch a cold!
00:07:02 What are you doing to me down there? I never liked you.
00:07:04 What are you doing to me? I never liked pants.
00:07:07 And I ain't meant to take them pants off.
00:07:09 What are you doing to me?
00:07:11 What are you doing to me?
00:07:15 There you are, Dick.
00:07:17 I'm gonna catch a cold.
00:07:18 Not if you run, you won't.
00:07:20 Back when I run without pants.
00:07:21 I don't care where you run. Pick out your own direction.
00:07:25 It won't hurt you tonight, dear.
00:07:32 [laughter]
00:07:35 [gunshot]
00:07:36 [gunshot]
00:07:42 [gunshot]
00:07:44 [gunshots]
00:07:46 [sirens]
00:07:50 [helicopter]
00:08:18 I hope there'll be someone here to meet you, ma'am.
00:08:20 Oh, I'll be all right. Thank you.
00:08:22 All alert!
00:08:24 All alert!
00:08:25 [sirens]
00:08:28 [gunshot]
00:08:42 [gunshot]
00:08:43 Come out of there, you pie-faced looter, or I'll shoot plum through the back.
00:09:04 [gunshots]
00:09:07 What's this?
00:09:16 A woman.
00:09:25 You let go of me!
00:09:28 Come out of there. No use to your acting up.
00:09:33 Come over here. Let's have a look at you.
00:09:36 A beautiful woman.
00:09:42 You let go of me or I'll scream.
00:09:45 You want to know something to scream about?
00:09:48 You and me is gonna be married.
00:09:50 You're drunk.
00:09:51 Sure I'm drunk.
00:09:53 I wouldn't be getting married, would I, if I wasn't?
00:09:56 You can't frighten me.
00:09:59 That's the stuff.
00:10:00 Never be frightened of the man you're gonna marry.
00:10:03 You're crazy!
00:10:04 No, I ain't.
00:10:06 I just made a promise over in the saloon
00:10:11 that I'd marry the first woman I met, and you're it.
00:10:15 If I had a gun, you wouldn't insult me like this.
00:10:19 The woman I marry can have anything I got.
00:10:28 Now what are you gonna do with it?
00:10:30 If you don't let me alone, I'll shoot you.
00:10:34 Well, you gotta know how to use it first.
00:10:38 Look, you point it at what you're gonna hit.
00:10:42 And then you just pull that little trigger there.
00:10:46 Well, ain't you gonna shoot?
00:10:53 I'm sorry.
00:10:55 Sorry it had to be done, ma'am.
00:11:05 Ain't legal to marry a woman that she ain't kissed.
00:11:08 There's another little technicality that has to be taken care of.
00:11:14 What's your name?
00:11:16 Any name will do for me.
00:11:21 We've got a marrying sheriff over here.
00:11:24 I'll be mighty glad to.
00:11:26 You...
00:11:38 You ain't Jimmy Hammond's sister, are you?
00:11:41 I'm awfully sorry.
00:11:46 You stop it.
00:11:48 Honest, I didn't know that...
00:11:49 Oh, I suppose if I hadn't have been Jimmy's sister,
00:11:52 it would have been perfectly all right.
00:11:54 Yes, ma'am.
00:11:55 I mean, no, ma'am.
00:11:57 Listen, Jimmy Hammond was the best friend I had.
00:12:02 And I wouldn't have this happen for anything in the world.
00:12:05 Isn't there something I can do?
00:12:07 Yes, there is.
00:12:09 You could go away and let me alone.
00:12:11 But I can't let you alone.
00:12:13 Somebody has to take care of you.
00:12:15 And there's no place for you to go.
00:12:18 If you'd just let me have my suitcase,
00:12:20 I never want to speak to you again.
00:12:22 Oh, I don't blame you, miss, but, honest, I...
00:12:25 Hey!
00:12:32 How about my pants?
00:12:34 My pants!
00:12:37 You might think that your man would take away his pants,
00:12:46 but never in my life did I see such kind of joking,
00:12:48 taking a man's pants away from him.
00:12:50 Who ever heard of such a thing?
00:12:52 It reminds me of the story of Joseph and his brethren.
00:12:54 But there they took a coat, not pants.
00:12:56 Listen, my man.
00:12:57 Huh?
00:12:58 What's the matter?
00:12:59 That's Jimmy Hammond's sister, and she's here all alone.
00:13:01 I can't do anything for her because I made a fool of myself.
00:13:04 But I want you to look after her until I get sobered up.
00:13:06 That's Jimmy Hammond's sister?
00:13:08 Yeah.
00:13:09 Sure.
00:13:10 Can you imagine that, Jimmy?
00:13:12 Sure.
00:13:13 Miss, miss, will you wait a minute, please?
00:13:25 Well?
00:13:26 I'm the fellow who meets all the trains, takes people places.
00:13:28 And this time I was a little bit late.
00:13:30 Oh.
00:13:31 You know the way to the Hammond ranch?
00:13:34 Oh, yes, yes, sure I know.
00:13:36 Could you take me there?
00:13:38 Why, yes, miss, but there ain't anybody there just now.
00:13:41 Oh, I know that.
00:13:42 I'm Ruth Hammond.
00:13:44 And since my brother died, well, it's my ranch.
00:13:47 Oh, yes, miss.
00:13:48 No, it ain't exactly the kind of place.
00:13:50 Oh, but I won't be a bit frightened.
00:13:52 Where is this cab of yours?
00:13:54 Here?
00:13:55 Oh, you mean my wagon?
00:13:57 Oh, right there, miss.
00:13:58 You just follow me.
00:13:59 And mind the knotholes in the walk because they're very tough on women's shoes,
00:14:02 and I don't sell any.
00:14:03 This way, please.
00:14:05 [chatter]
00:14:07 Give me a can of tomatoes.
00:14:15 A can of what?
00:14:17 A can-- did you say tomatoes?
00:14:19 What you gonna do, a trick?
00:14:20 I'll get myself sobered up and stay sober for peace.
00:14:24 Well, that'll be a trick.
00:14:26 [chatter]
00:14:28 [music playing]
00:14:30 [chatter]
00:14:32 That'll be a trick.
00:14:34 I think I got some tomatoes out back.
00:14:36 I'll go look.
00:14:37 [chatter]
00:14:39 Put that stuff in the safe and lock the safe up.
00:14:56 I'll take care of it.
00:14:57 Don't worry.
00:14:58 I'm worrying plenty.
00:14:59 Get the thing all cleaned up and turn in the money.
00:15:02 This stuff's as good as money, ain't it?
00:15:03 Not for me, it ain't.
00:15:04 Why not?
00:15:05 I can spend money and nobody asks questions.
00:15:08 I never thought of that.
00:15:09 You better start thinking.
00:15:11 I had a cold tonight.
00:15:16 I think I'll move you over and stram us up a hook or a hoot.
00:15:18 Now put that stuff away and don't let anybody get a look at it.
00:15:21 I'll take care of it, Stack.
00:15:23 [music playing]
00:15:25 Hi, Artie.
00:15:43 Hello, Stack.
00:15:45 Hi, man.
00:15:46 Hi, boys.
00:15:47 Hi.
00:15:48 How you doing?
00:15:49 Step up, everybody.
00:15:51 This one's on me.
00:15:52 I said everybody.
00:15:57 I heard you.
00:15:59 I'm having this can of tomatoes just round.
00:16:02 I'm having it by myself.
00:16:05 Well, don't dull your knife, young fellow.
00:16:07 I'll open them for you.
00:16:09 [gunshot]
00:16:10 [laughter]
00:16:12 Slide that bottle down here.
00:16:17 My whistle's sure dry.
00:16:19 [chatter]
00:16:22 [inaudible]
00:16:23 [chatter]
00:16:25 [inaudible]
00:16:26 [chatter]
00:16:27 [chatter]
00:16:56 You use kind of a small bore gun, don't you?
00:17:01 Maybe small, but I hit what I aim at.
00:17:04 You don't always aim at tomato cans, do you?
00:17:07 What do you mean by that?
00:17:09 What do you think I mean?
00:17:12 Are you looking for trouble?
00:17:14 No.
00:17:16 I don't figure you could be much trouble to me, Stack.
00:17:19 Not unless you snuck up from behind like somebody done to Jimmy Hammond.
00:17:24 Why, say--
00:17:26 [chatter]
00:17:27 What's this?
00:17:28 Oh, hello, Drip.
00:17:31 Better teach this young rooster some manners,
00:17:33 or you're going to have a burying on your hands.
00:17:36 Buryings are getting real common around this town.
00:17:40 It was Jimmy Hammond three weeks ago.
00:17:43 Relax.
00:17:44 Come on, now.
00:17:45 Outside.
00:17:47 Be no shooting around here while I'm sure of it.
00:17:52 [whistling]
00:17:55 Don't go on that, Sheriff.
00:17:57 Get them a wheel of friction.
00:17:58 They have a good time.
00:18:00 I should have let that know they car puncher have it.
00:18:02 Got some news for you, Stack.
00:18:04 Jimmy Hammond's sister came in on number three tonight.
00:18:07 I didn't know Jimmy Hammond had a sister.
00:18:09 Yes.
00:18:10 Five fans driving around in his wagon now.
00:18:12 I seen them as they went by.
00:18:16 What kind of a looking quail is she?
00:18:18 Not half bad.
00:18:24 Did you imagine what she'd look like when I drop in
00:18:26 and tell her the news?
00:18:28 [laughter]
00:18:31 [car horn]
00:18:33 [chatter]
00:18:47 I got your wood.
00:18:48 Ouch.
00:18:49 Oh.
00:18:51 Ouch.
00:18:52 If you find a big toe in that piece of wood, it's mine.
00:18:55 Never in my life did I see such wood to saw.
00:19:05 No, that's wrong.
00:19:06 Did I saw such wood to saw.
00:19:08 Did I see such-- never-- see saw.
00:19:12 English is a very difficult language.
00:19:16 You must be all worn out.
00:19:18 Me?
00:19:19 Why should I be worn out?
00:19:21 You drove back and forth to town all night.
00:19:23 You couldn't have had any sleep at all.
00:19:25 Sleep?
00:19:26 Oh, I had plenty.
00:19:27 All the way to town and all the way back, just like a baby.
00:19:31 You can't sleep and drive.
00:19:32 Sure not, but I don't have to.
00:19:34 That old horse of mine knows more about where we're going
00:19:37 than I do.
00:19:38 All I have to do is point it towards town,
00:19:40 and I'll curl up under seat and in two minutes,
00:19:43 you could hear me snort a half a mile away.
00:19:46 Only one thing I had to break myself up.
00:19:49 When I sleep on my left side, I got a habit of snoring
00:19:52 like a fellow saying, whoa.
00:19:54 And I'd wake up, and there we would be
00:19:56 right where we started from.
00:19:58 What's that?
00:20:06 Oh, that was the four cowboys I got for you, miss.
00:20:12 Hey, boys, come in.
00:20:13 Miss Heming wants you to come into the house.
00:20:15 There ain't much to look at, but you know how it is with cowboys.
00:20:22 They get bow-legged and bent up, and their faces
00:20:25 ain't exactly the kind of faces you'd like to take pictures of
00:20:27 if you're going anyplace.
00:20:29 But what's the difference?
00:20:30 Why does a cow or a horse care for a face?
00:20:33 Well, you ain't nothing to sit up on a man, you know.
00:20:37 Oh, my pan tells me you gentlemen are willing to work for me.
00:20:40 Yes, ma'am.
00:20:42 Well, did he tell you that I have no money just now?
00:20:46 Well, you see, miss, we ain't none of us got no money now either.
00:20:50 So that makes everything even.
00:20:52 I ain't never heard no cowboys getting no wages
00:20:55 until some stock or something was sold.
00:20:57 And then mostly they got whatever the boss figured
00:21:00 he could afford to give them.
00:21:01 And many times not even that.
00:21:04 Well, I hate to ask you to do this,
00:21:06 but if it's really the custom of the country, why--
00:21:09 Ma'am, that's the state law.
00:21:11 Didn't you know that?
00:21:12 Why, certainly.
00:21:14 Well, then you men are hired.
00:21:17 And now that you're working for me,
00:21:21 I'd like to know your name.
00:21:23 Well, this one, this kind of long one here,
00:21:26 by name he's Griff Meeker.
00:21:28 How do you do?
00:21:29 Oh, pretty good, ma'am.
00:21:30 Thank you.
00:21:31 And this is Puerto Boots.
00:21:33 Puerto Boots?
00:21:34 Is that a name?
00:21:35 I don't know.
00:21:36 That's what they call him, and he don't fight back.
00:21:39 How do you do?
00:21:40 How do you do, ma'am?
00:21:41 And that's Slick Whalen.
00:21:43 Maybe that ain't a name, neither, but whatever it is, that's--
00:21:47 How do you do?
00:21:48 Howdy, ma'am.
00:21:49 Well, there you are, miss.
00:21:50 They're your boys.
00:21:51 You hired them.
00:21:52 Didn't I tell you they were nice boys?
00:21:55 I haven't met this gentleman yet.
00:21:57 Oh, him?
00:21:58 Haven't you met him yet?
00:22:00 Well, as I'm living and breathing,
00:22:02 I must tell you about him.
00:22:05 You know, he's kind of bashful, like very bashful.
00:22:08 And he's got an experiment in his speech.
00:22:10 He stammers.
00:22:12 That's Dick Bailey.
00:22:14 How do you do?
00:22:17 Oh.
00:22:19 I'm mighty sorry about last night, miss.
00:22:22 I told you I never wanted to see you again.
00:22:25 I know you did, but I heard you needed some help out here, and I--
00:22:28 I don't need any help from you.
00:22:29 I wouldn't be too hard on him, miss.
00:22:31 He means well.
00:22:33 Means well.
00:22:34 Do you know what he did last night?
00:22:36 Well, I know he had a few drinks.
00:22:38 Well, that's no excuse.
00:22:40 Just after I got off of the train,
00:22:42 he came to me on the platform and, well, he kissed me.
00:22:46 Ain't you ashamed of yourself?
00:22:49 Why, no more than touched the tip of her ear.
00:22:51 Will you get out of my house?
00:22:53 Now, hold your horses just a minute, miss.
00:22:56 You see, we four of us, we always stick together.
00:22:59 Ain't that right, boys?
00:23:00 That's a fact, miss.
00:23:01 Yeah, that's right, miss.
00:23:03 I won't have anyone working for me that's even associated with it.
00:23:08 All right, boy.
00:23:09 Come on, let's go.
00:23:10 Just a minute, boy.
00:23:11 Just a minute, miss Hemming.
00:23:12 You can't stay here alone.
00:23:14 And if you looked all over the country,
00:23:15 you couldn't get such wonderful boys.
00:23:17 I suppose you're one of them.
00:23:19 Who, me?
00:23:20 One of them?
00:23:21 I should kick a cow in the ribs for $30 a month?
00:23:24 Oh, I got a business.
00:23:26 Well, you're a friend of his, aren't you?
00:23:28 I am, and I'm very proud of it.
00:23:31 Well, then.
00:23:33 In all my life, I never had to work so hard to be nice to somebody.
00:23:37 Come on, five hands.
00:23:39 We've won it around here.
00:23:41 I'm beginning to believe it myself.
00:23:43 [sizzling]
00:23:46 [sizzling]
00:23:49 [sizzling]
00:23:52 [sizzling]
00:23:55 [sizzling]
00:23:58 [sizzling]
00:24:24 [howling]
00:24:28 [howling]
00:24:31 [howling]
00:24:35 [howling]
00:24:38 (eerie music)
00:24:41 (door slams)
00:24:43 (eerie music)
00:24:46 (eerie music)
00:24:48 (eerie music)
00:24:51 (eerie music)
00:24:53 (water running)
00:25:05 (eerie music)
00:25:16 (eerie music)
00:25:18 (eerie music)
00:25:21 (eerie music)
00:25:23 (eerie music)
00:25:50 (eerie music)
00:25:52 - That Gingy's sure cold tonight.
00:26:13 Wouldn't be surprised if it blew up a storm.
00:26:16 - Who are you?
00:26:18 - My name's Zack.
00:26:20 I knew your brother.
00:26:22 Yes, indeed.
00:26:24 Knew him real well.
00:26:26 Liked him, too.
00:26:28 Everybody likes him.
00:26:29 - I'm glad to hear that.
00:26:31 - Too bad about him being shot and shamed.
00:26:34 You know about it before you come out here?
00:26:37 - Yes.
00:26:38 They wrote and told us.
00:26:40 - Get any letters from him?
00:26:42 Any late ones, I mean.
00:26:44 - Yes, I had a letter from him.
00:26:48 Just the day before it happened.
00:26:50 - Tell you how things were going here at the ranch?
00:26:53 - He wrote that he'd had a rather hard time paying the taxes,
00:26:57 but that he'd managed it last and everything looked all right.
00:27:00 - Mm, wrote that, did he?
00:27:02 - Why do you ask these questions?
00:27:05 - Well, I guess maybe your brother was
00:27:08 writing those things to sort of make you feel better.
00:27:10 - What do you mean?
00:27:12 - He never paid them taxes.
00:27:14 - How do you know?
00:27:16 - Because I paid them.
00:27:18 - You?
00:27:19 - Right after he died.
00:27:21 - You paid them for my brother?
00:27:23 - No, indeedy, miss.
00:27:25 But I ain't in the habit of playing sanny-close.
00:27:29 I paid them for me.
00:27:33 - I don't understand.
00:27:37 - Well, I hate to tell you this, young lady,
00:27:40 but right after your brother died,
00:27:42 I bought this ranch for the back taxes.
00:27:44 - You bought it?
00:27:46 - That's it.
00:27:47 But, uh, if you're gonna have any trouble proving it,
00:27:50 you wanna go down to the sheriff's office
00:27:52 and look up the records.
00:27:53 - I don't believe it.
00:27:55 And the ranch isn't mine.
00:28:01 - No, miss.
00:28:03 Of course, now, you have the right and privilege
00:28:05 to buy the place back.
00:28:07 You wanna pay me what I give for it.
00:28:09 - How much was that?
00:28:12 - $1,876.10.
00:28:15 - But I haven't that much money now.
00:28:18 Nowhere near that much.
00:28:20 - Well, that's just too bad.
00:28:22 But that's the way the world goes.
00:28:25 - Oh, I can't believe it.
00:28:28 I wanted to stay on here
00:28:31 for all of my brother's salary.
00:28:34 - Sure you did.
00:28:36 Of course, now, I ain't gonna be hard on you.
00:28:39 If I could, put you right off of the place.
00:28:42 But I ain't gonna do that.
00:28:44 - I'll leave as soon as I can.
00:28:48 - Oh, now, what the hurry?
00:28:51 Besides, it's kinda homey-like
00:28:54 having a woman around.
00:28:56 We ain't gonna be in each other's way.
00:29:00 - You gonna live here?
00:29:03 - Why, sure.
00:29:05 - You gonna stay here tonight?
00:29:07 - Why, certainly.
00:29:09 - Oh.
00:29:10 - Oh, now, don't feel that way about it.
00:29:14 I ain't a fat fella to get along with when you know me.
00:29:17 Kinda skittish, ain't you?
00:29:21 - Well, I like 'em that way.
00:29:23 I like 'em disguised and frantic.
00:29:25 - Ain't keeping you up, are we, Sack?
00:29:27 - Better not.
00:29:29 Unless you're fixed to shoot three ways at once.
00:29:34 (gun cocks)
00:29:36 - Well, you got me.
00:29:48 What are you gonna do about it?
00:29:50 - Don't mean to do nothing.
00:29:52 Yet.
00:29:53 - Guess I don't have to tell you, fellas,
00:29:55 that the law gets trespassing on a man's property.
00:29:58 - That's right.
00:29:59 You don't have to.
00:30:01 - I was willing to be reasonable with you.
00:30:03 But now I'm warning you.
00:30:06 Get off of my property.
00:30:08 Get off and stay off!
00:30:10 - Good night, Sack.
00:30:12 - It's your pot.
00:30:21 But don't start counting your winnings.
00:30:24 The game ain't over yet.
00:30:27 - Good night, Mr. Sack.
00:30:29 - Sweet dreams.
00:30:31 May your horse stick his foot in a gopher hole.
00:30:34 Oh.
00:30:38 Good night, ma'am.
00:30:40 - Oh, Mr. Bailey.
00:30:41 I'm awfully glad you came back.
00:30:49 - We never went away.
00:30:50 No more than enough to get out of sight
00:30:52 and sneak back again.
00:30:54 - After the way I treated you?
00:30:56 - Shucks, ma'am.
00:30:58 We didn't mind.
00:30:59 - Is it true, Mr. Bailey?
00:31:01 Does that man, Sack, really own this ranch?
00:31:04 - Of course not.
00:31:05 Why, see, that fellow's the lioness man west of the Mississippi.
00:31:08 He just done that to scare you.
00:31:11 - You think so?
00:31:12 - Think so?
00:31:13 I know so.
00:31:15 Now, don't you worry,
00:31:16 and I'll look after the legal end of it for you.
00:31:18 - Oh, would you?
00:31:20 - Say, uh, have you had your dinner?
00:31:25 - Oh, yes.
00:31:26 I cooked it some time ago.
00:31:27 - You didn't eat it, did you?
00:31:28 - No, I...
00:31:29 - Oh, that's all right, then.
00:31:31 - It didn't taste very good.
00:31:33 - We was keeping tabs on you through the window.
00:31:36 - Oh, then you thought...
00:31:37 - Yes, ma'am.
00:31:38 We saw how things was going.
00:31:40 Say, would you mind if I cooked you up a mess of stuff?
00:31:43 - Oh, thank you.
00:31:45 I never tried cooking before.
00:31:52 I didn't know how hard it was.
00:31:54 - Kind of like playing the fiddle.
00:31:55 First time you try it, you're apt to make a mistake or two.
00:31:58 - I expect you think I'm awfully silly.
00:32:02 - No, ma'am.
00:32:04 That ain't what I'm thinking about you.
00:32:07 - Thank you.
00:32:08 - Oh, no more, thank you.
00:32:30 - I thought you said you was hungry.
00:32:32 - I was.
00:32:33 - A person gets that way after a while.
00:32:36 - Well, I guess I'll be drifting along now.
00:32:39 - You don't think that man Stack will come back, do you?
00:32:41 - Stack? Say, you hear anybody prowl around this place,
00:32:45 just let out a screech.
00:32:47 We'll all of us come a-gunning.
00:32:49 - It's so good to have someone near I can trust.
00:32:52 - Well, I guess I'll be drifting along now.
00:32:56 - My, that was good.
00:33:03 - I'm real glad you liked it.
00:33:06 - You see, it's so strange for me here.
00:33:10 So different from what I'm accustomed to back east that I...
00:33:13 - It'll be all right when you get used to it.
00:33:15 You know, I'll bet you get to like it.
00:33:19 - I wonder if I will.
00:33:23 - I kind of hope you will.
00:33:27 Good night.
00:33:34 (footsteps)
00:33:36 - My, isn't it nice out now?
00:33:42 - Sure is.
00:33:44 - Aren't the dogs bright?
00:33:49 - Sure are.
00:33:51 You see that big white one up there?
00:33:54 - Where?
00:33:55 - Look right along my arm where I'm pointing.
00:33:57 - Oh, yes, I see.
00:33:59 - No, you're looking wrong.
00:34:01 Right over that peak there.
00:34:03 - Oh.
00:34:05 - That's Venus.
00:34:07 - Have you studied astronomy?
00:34:09 - Have I what, ma'am?
00:34:11 - Oh, I mean, you've read a great deal about the stars?
00:34:14 - No, I've never done any book studying about them, but...
00:34:17 You know, laying out nights on your saddle alone,
00:34:20 nobody to talk to, nothing to do.
00:34:23 You get to feeling kind of friendly with them.
00:34:26 - I can understand that.
00:34:28 - Just like there was people.
00:34:30 - People?
00:34:31 - Yeah, you get to knowing them that way.
00:34:34 Uh...
00:34:35 You see that kind of reddish one out there?
00:34:38 - Uh-huh.
00:34:39 - Well, I call him Kelly.
00:34:41 - Kelly?
00:34:42 - Yeah.
00:34:43 Out of kind of a puncher I knew one.
00:34:46 Red Kelly, I called him.
00:34:48 Well, he kind of had a reddish beard and a red face.
00:34:53 You know, he was...
00:34:55 He was sort of a ladies' man.
00:34:57 - How do you mean?
00:34:58 - Oh, he always kind of liked to be around women.
00:35:01 You know.
00:35:02 - But what has that got to do with the stars?
00:35:04 - Well...
00:35:05 There's Venus up there.
00:35:08 And there's Red Kelly.
00:35:10 In the winter, she wouldn't have nothing to do with Kelly.
00:35:14 But in the springtime,
00:35:17 he'd come a-courting right up to her.
00:35:20 Well...
00:35:23 I guess I'll be drifting along now.
00:35:27 - I'm awfully glad you're here.
00:35:29 - Yes, and so am I.
00:35:31 - Good night.
00:35:34 Dick.
00:35:36 - Good night.
00:35:38 - Did you hurt yourself?
00:35:44 - No, ma'am.
00:35:45 Not a bit.
00:35:46 Good night.
00:35:47 - Good night.
00:35:48 (cat meows)
00:35:53 (fire crackling)
00:35:56 ♪ Devil got pickled in gin
00:36:03 (whistling)
00:36:06 ♪ And now this old devil got pickled in gin
00:36:09 ♪ And found him a wife without any chin
00:36:12 ♪ Sing "Cherry-Row-Week" or "Wheel-Dee-Week"
00:36:15 (whistling)
00:36:17 - I'd like to know.
00:36:18 Do you season your hard-boiled eggs with garlic,
00:36:21 or do you put strychnine in 'em?
00:36:23 - No, I most generally boil mine in lye.
00:36:27 - You fellas got a lot to do, haven't you?
00:36:30 (whistling)
00:36:33 Say, Pie-Pan.
00:36:35 - Hmm?
00:36:36 - Why do you suppose Sack wanted this ranch?
00:36:38 - I don't know.
00:36:39 One row of galvanized dish pans at 30 cents,
00:36:43 three times four is 12.
00:36:44 People just don't want to spend--
00:36:45 - Where do you suppose he got the dough to pay the sheriff?
00:36:48 - I don't know that either.
00:36:50 But one thing is certain.
00:36:51 If it's worth dollars to him,
00:36:53 it's worth that much to Miss Hammond.
00:36:55 - Slick, isn't there a law in this state
00:36:59 that a man can reclaim his property
00:37:01 if he pays his taxes within a year?
00:37:03 - Yeah, providing he's got the money.
00:37:05 (chuckling)
00:37:06 - That's smart.
00:37:08 - What was that story you was telling us, Pie-Pan?
00:37:11 You know, over at the barrow last summer.
00:37:13 - The story I was telling you?
00:37:15 - Yeah.
00:37:16 - I don't remember.
00:37:17 - There was a sheriff in it,
00:37:18 and a fellow with bow and arrows.
00:37:20 - Uh-oh, he's off again.
00:37:22 He's talking about Cupid.
00:37:24 - Cupid, stupid.
00:37:26 He means Robin Hood.
00:37:27 - That's the critter, Robin Hood.
00:37:29 - Didn't he rob from the rich and give to the poor?
00:37:32 - Say, what are you driving at?
00:37:34 - Oh, that was one smart fellow, that Robin Hood.
00:37:38 Once upon a time, he was going into a little village
00:37:42 where was living a very rich man.
00:37:44 And he says to this rich man,
00:37:45 "I'm awfully sorry to wake you up.
00:37:47 "But I just found a family.
00:37:49 "A mother with six starving children
00:37:51 "has nothing to eat since last Tuesday.
00:37:53 "So I gotta take away from you a few dollars."
00:37:55 And he took away from him.
00:37:56 That is the kind of fellow Robin Hood was, a taker.
00:37:59 (people chattering)
00:38:02 (man humming)
00:38:20 (people chattering)
00:38:23 - I know what I'm talking about.
00:38:48 It wasn't nothing of the kind.
00:38:50 - Well, I was a red heifer, I tell ya.
00:38:51 I can see as clean as I can see you.
00:38:53 - Don't talk so simple.
00:38:54 That was a brimbo bull.
00:38:56 - Tell you was a red heifer.
00:38:57 - Say, you trying to make out I'm a liar?
00:38:59 - Well, I wasn't gonna bring that subject up.
00:39:01 But since you speak the word yourself,
00:39:03 yeah, that's what you are.
00:39:05 - All right, you're a liar yourself then.
00:39:07 - Yeah, don't you call me a liar
00:39:08 while you slap-sided, bull-legged,
00:39:10 little half-pint of nothing.
00:39:11 - Why, you warlike, swayback, door-rackable, I'll...
00:39:14 (dog barking)
00:39:18 - Hey, he hit me, he hit me, I tell you!
00:39:20 Now let me go now!
00:39:22 - Put that gun in your pocket.
00:39:24 - Holy smokesquirtle.
00:39:28 Golda.
00:39:30 Property of H.W. Stack.
00:39:36 Where would he be getting golda from around this country?
00:39:40 Where did he get it from?
00:39:42 Somewhere off the Hammond Ranch, that's where.
00:39:46 That's where he bought the place, eh?
00:39:48 That's what he paid them back taxes with.
00:39:51 What's it worth?
00:39:53 Couple of thousand dollars?
00:39:56 Just a little more than enough for what we need.
00:40:01 But you can't pay the sheriff that.
00:40:03 Well, he'd know right away. - I can't, huh?
00:40:05 You think he wants anybody to know that he had it in here?
00:40:08 Say, we'll give it right back to him for them taxes
00:40:11 and he won't open his mouth.
00:40:14 I'm warning you now.
00:40:16 All right then, Sheriff.
00:40:17 But tell him not to go startling things.
00:40:19 Any more trouble out of either one of you two galoots
00:40:22 and you'll go to the color booth.
00:40:24 I never want to speak to you again, you ornery polecat.
00:40:31 Well, that sure suits me.
00:40:33 I'd have had him if that sheriff hadn't come along.
00:40:37 Yeah, yeah, you mean had you.
00:40:40 Howdy, Sheriff.
00:40:42 Oh, hello, Billy.
00:40:45 What's on your chest?
00:40:48 Just been made the foreman out at the Hammond ranch.
00:40:50 Miss Hammond was telling me that there was some back taxes
00:40:53 amounting to, uh... - 18 grand.
00:40:56 18 grand?
00:40:58 Yeah, 18 grand.
00:41:00 And I'm sure you know what that means.
00:41:02 Well, I'm sure you know what that means.
00:41:04 I'm sure you know what that means.
00:41:06 There was some back taxes amounting to, uh...
00:41:09 $1,876.10.
00:41:12 That was paid by Mr. Stack.
00:41:14 Yeah.
00:41:16 After Jimmy Hammond died.
00:41:18 According to the laws of this state,
00:41:22 if Miss Hammond pays them taxes within a year,
00:41:25 the property goes back to her.
00:41:27 Right?
00:41:29 Yes.
00:41:31 You weigh out the amount from this
00:41:34 and you're getting plenty and some to boot.
00:41:36 Hey.
00:41:38 Where'd you get this stuff?
00:41:47 There's an old saying, Sheriff.
00:41:49 Gold's where you find it.
00:41:51 Hey, you, you... - What?
00:41:53 Oh, I understand.
00:41:55 That fake fight up the street and my safe opened.
00:41:57 Do tell.
00:41:59 Didn't get nothing of value, did they, Sheriff?
00:42:01 You know what they got. You stole...
00:42:03 Nothing's been stole.
00:42:05 Getting it right back, ain't you?
00:42:07 Yes, but that gold was Stack's.
00:42:09 Oh.
00:42:11 Stack's gold, huh?
00:42:13 Maybe you could tell us where he got it.
00:42:15 If that noose wasn't so big, it'd look just like Stack's.
00:42:19 Ain't you clever.
00:42:20 I could tell the law who got in my sink.
00:42:22 You could, but you won't.
00:42:25 You wouldn't want me going around telling people, would you?
00:42:28 I'm warning you, young fella.
00:42:30 Don't hunt in where you don't belong.
00:42:32 I wonder if Jimmy Hammond got that much warning.
00:42:34 What are you getting at?
00:42:35 I'm getting at paying them back taxes
00:42:37 and having you give me a receipt for the Hammond ranch.
00:42:40 How about it?
00:42:42 Listen, fella.
00:42:48 Fair is fair and fun's fun.
00:42:51 There wasn't no sense in you smacking me that hard.
00:42:53 I didn't mean to hurt you, but I had to make it look real, didn't I?
00:42:57 Come on, boys, let's rip.
00:42:58 Doing any good for yourself, Dick?
00:42:59 Perfect.
00:43:00 That's pretty good.
00:43:01 I wonder what that 10 says before, Dick.
00:43:03 Say, how long you been sitting here?
00:43:13 I ain't got no watch.
00:43:15 Did you see anybody go in the ropes of mine while I was out?
00:43:17 Well, now you know how it is with me, Sheriff.
00:43:19 My eyesight isn't any too good.
00:43:21 You can see across the street, can't you?
00:43:23 How far is it across the street?
00:43:25 About 75 feet.
00:43:27 Well, my limit's about 60 feet.
00:43:31 Morning, Rip.
00:43:37 Hey.
00:43:39 What's ailing you?
00:43:40 Buddy, come on in here.
00:43:56 I couldn't grab him, Spac.
00:43:58 Everybody'd find out about this dust, and they'd want to know where it came from.
00:44:01 We'll put that dust where it can't be found.
00:44:06 You give it out, the office has been robbed.
00:44:08 Robbed of what?
00:44:10 Anything you say.
00:44:11 That's up to you.
00:44:12 The office has been robbed.
00:44:14 Dick Bailey and Square Toad Boots done it.
00:44:16 You get yourself together a posit we can trust, we'll go out there and get 'em.
00:44:20 They happen to get killed resisting arrest.
00:44:22 I tell you, I don't like the looks of this thing.
00:44:24 What do you mean?
00:44:25 Well, the state'll get me for malfeasance of office.
00:44:28 There's been talk of removing me, and it kind of gives me the shivers.
00:44:32 Mm-hmm.
00:44:34 You've gone too far to back out now, Rip.
00:44:37 Just what kind of shivers would a wholesale hangin' give you?
00:44:41 You doin' a jigstep with about six foot of thin air under your feet.
00:44:48 [singing]
00:45:08 Hi, Sam.
00:45:09 Huh?
00:45:10 Do you mean to tell me they don't celebrate Christmas down here at all?
00:45:13 By this country, they don't.
00:45:15 Christmas, Tuesday, Thursday, any day.
00:45:18 Every day is the same.
00:45:20 Nobody pays any attention.
00:45:22 [singing]
00:45:39 I'm certainly sorry they don't celebrate Christmas out here.
00:45:42 It would be better for my business.
00:45:44 But there's no Christmas tree.
00:45:46 And do you know why?
00:45:48 Once upon a time, there was a dinosaurus.
00:45:52 And this dinosaurus was spitting fire through his nostrils,
00:45:56 and he burned up all the Christmas trees.
00:45:59 So now there's no Christmas tree, so no Christmas.
00:46:04 [singing]
00:46:24 What's that?
00:46:28 It's nothing. Mice.
00:46:31 Don't go. Let's finish the dishes.
00:46:33 What's this?
00:46:38 Merry Christmas.
00:46:41 Oh, Merry Christmas.
00:46:44 I'm supposed to be Santa Claus.
00:46:47 Oh.
00:46:48 Do you like it?
00:46:51 Do I like it?
00:46:53 Oh, it's beautiful.
00:46:55 You old frog.
00:46:59 Can you think of any more reasons why they don't have Christmas trees out here?
00:47:02 I hope you wouldn't think I'm a liar.
00:47:05 I'll go get the boys.
00:47:10 We didn't hardly know what to get you.
00:47:15 It doesn't make a particle of difference what you got.
00:47:18 It's just that you remembered.
00:47:21 It's a phonograph.
00:47:24 A phonograph?
00:47:25 Yeah, it plays real nice.
00:47:27 You wind it up here, put this thing over here like this.
00:47:31 Listen.
00:47:32 And there's something else on the tree.
00:47:37 Oh.
00:47:45 Come in.
00:47:47 Bob!
00:47:50 You darling!
00:47:52 Glad to see me?
00:47:54 I should say I am.
00:47:56 You think I could stay away from you?
00:47:58 Not much.
00:47:59 What did you say before I came west?
00:48:01 Never mind what I said.
00:48:02 I'm here.
00:48:03 And the ring's here.
00:48:05 And there's nothing else to do but--
00:48:06 Just as sure of yourself as ever, aren't you?
00:48:08 You bet.
00:48:09 Oh, dear.
00:48:11 I want you to meet Mr. Drexler.
00:48:13 Bob, this is Mr. Bailey.
00:48:14 Mr. Bailey?
00:48:15 How do you do?
00:48:16 Bob from my hometown back east.
00:48:18 Oh, is he?
00:48:19 Yeah, I used to carry your books home from school.
00:48:22 Did you?
00:48:23 He's just the same now as he was then.
00:48:25 Stubborn.
00:48:26 Bob tried to argue me out of coming west.
00:48:29 Did he?
00:48:30 Did I?
00:48:31 I went about as far as I could go.
00:48:33 How is everybody?
00:48:34 Oh, fine.
00:48:35 All the old crowd wanted to be remembered soon.
00:48:38 And what do you think?
00:48:39 Ella Higgins teaching English in high school now.
00:48:43 No, honest.
00:48:45 Oh, don't go, Danny.
00:48:46 Well, Swerto said some of the work stock needed feeding,
00:48:49 so I'd better go down and--
00:48:54 Say, what kind of looking guy is this fellow?
00:48:57 You should look like that.
00:48:59 A fellow that's all slick and shined up,
00:49:01 like the kind of a kid you just owe you a gift to a bride.
00:49:04 What's he doing here?
00:49:06 I don't know.
00:49:07 But the fellow that brought him says he's an old friend of Miss
00:49:10 Hammond's from the east.
00:49:11 Did he show her the things, Dick?
00:49:13 Yeah, wasn't she surprised?
00:49:14 Yeah, she liked him real well, too.
00:49:17 Say, boys, I was just thinking it'd be a good idea if we all
00:49:21 drifted down to the border.
00:49:23 What's that?
00:49:24 You was just thinking.
00:49:26 Well, I know lots of things, and one thing is that you ain't
00:49:28 going anyplace.
00:49:29 How do you know?
00:49:30 Because I know you, and you ain't a quitter.
00:49:33 Well, I ain't in the habit of sticking around
00:49:35 where I ain't wanted.
00:49:36 Well, who says you ain't wanted?
00:49:37 Well, I got eyes, ain't I?
00:49:41 Dick, there's an old saying which
00:49:44 says that you should never believe anything you hear
00:49:48 and only half of what you see.
00:49:50 And so far, you've only seen the half that you
00:49:52 shouldn't believe in.
00:49:55 Well, I--
00:49:56 Did I ever tell you the story of Lachenwald?
00:50:01 No matter what kind of looks you give me,
00:50:02 you're going to hear it just the same.
00:50:05 This fellow, Lachenwald, he was a westerner, too.
00:50:08 You know how I know it?
00:50:09 It says in the book he came out of the west.
00:50:11 Once upon a time, this Lachenwald,
00:50:13 he was even worse off than you.
00:50:15 But did he give up?
00:50:16 Never.
00:50:17 He got on his horse and he said, horse, you get up there.
00:50:19 And he rode 16,000 miles to see the princess.
00:50:22 And did he catch her?
00:50:23 Oh, did he catch her?
00:50:25 You betcha he catched her.
00:50:26 That's the story of Lachenwald.
00:50:28 [howling]
00:50:40 [howling]
00:50:43 [whistle]
00:50:58 I don't know how deep it is.
00:51:00 [shouting]
00:51:04 [shouting]
00:51:07 [whistle]
00:51:11 [shouting]
00:51:22 Well, how many do you think we rounded up this time, Dick?
00:51:31 Oh, about 100 head.
00:51:33 Hey, Blake, get him off the corral, then.
00:51:37 Come on, quick.
00:51:38 [horses galloping]
00:51:41 [shouting]
00:51:47 [horse neighing]
00:51:59 [horse neighing]
00:52:02 [whistle]
00:52:03 [shouting]
00:52:06 [whistle]
00:52:09 [grunting]
00:52:10 [horses galloping]
00:52:13 [shouting]
00:52:24 [whistle]
00:52:27 [shouting]
00:52:28 [horse neighing]
00:52:31 Isn't it thrilling to watch the way they handle those horses?
00:52:54 It certainly is.
00:52:56 I'll go down and see how many they got.
00:52:58 Sure got a nice bunch this time.
00:53:08 Oh, that's a great white square toe.
00:53:10 Uh-oh, here comes the Duke of Duhakis.
00:53:13 I'll bet he's a nice boy.
00:53:15 Well, I don't like him.
00:53:17 Well, I don't like him either, but there's lots of nice people I don't like.
00:53:25 He wears the necktie.
00:53:26 So well, he wears the necktie.
00:53:29 Pretty good bunch, huh, Griff?
00:53:32 Yeah, well, he did.
00:53:33 Nice work, fellas.
00:53:35 You pleased?
00:53:36 Very much.
00:53:37 Well, that's fine.
00:53:38 How many did you get?
00:53:39 Oh, about 100 heads.
00:53:41 Oh, you don't know exactly how many?
00:53:43 No, not exactly.
00:53:46 Well, I'll count them later.
00:53:48 Oh, I want to thank you and all the boys on behalf of Miss Hammond for all you've done for us.
00:53:53 You know, I'll be around here for a while, so of course I'll take charge.
00:53:57 He's going to count the horses.
00:54:21 [laughter]
00:54:23 You're going to do what?
00:54:29 I'm going to take charge of things while I'm here.
00:54:31 Did Miss Hammond tell you to take charge?
00:54:33 It isn't necessary.
00:54:34 You see, we're old friends, and we understand each other.
00:54:37 You mean you're going to be the foreman?
00:54:40 If that's what you call it.
00:54:42 Yeah, that's what we call it.
00:54:43 Well, then I'm foreman.
00:54:45 Hmm, that kind of mixes things up.
00:54:47 How so?
00:54:48 Because I'm the foreman.
00:54:50 Not anymore.
00:54:51 [laughter]
00:54:52 I'm hysterical.
00:54:53 Don't you know that a foreman around here must be able to lick everybody on the place?
00:54:57 Oh, is that so?
00:54:59 Yeah, that's so.
00:55:00 All right, then.
00:55:01 I'm the foreman.
00:55:03 That's easy to say.
00:55:05 I guess we might as well settle this right now.
00:55:08 Now, wait a minute, boys.
00:55:09 You've got a very good idea, and I wouldn't stop it for anything.
00:55:11 But you know how it is with women.
00:55:13 If Miss Hammond should see you fighting--
00:55:14 Now, listen, Partan, you start it.
00:55:15 And don't stop for me.
00:55:16 Look, you go ahead and hammer his ears under his armpits.
00:55:19 I'll run down to the house and do something so Miss Hammond don't see you do it.
00:55:22 See?
00:55:23 That's right.
00:55:24 Let's get away from the house.
00:55:25 Come on, fellas.
00:55:26 Come on.
00:55:27 This is going to be good.
00:55:28 Yeah.
00:55:29 Let's go see the Duke, you crown.
00:55:30 [laughter]
00:55:31 Oh, Miss Hammond, ever since you've come, I've been wanting to hear that talking machine.
00:55:38 Could you play me something?
00:55:40 Why, yes.
00:55:41 Haven't you heard it yet?
00:55:42 Yes, I heard it, but not good.
00:55:44 Have you got a loud record, you know, a big band or something like that?
00:55:51 I think so.
00:55:52 That's good.
00:55:53 Well, play it.
00:55:55 Play it quick.
00:55:56 I like good music.
00:55:58 [music playing]
00:56:06 Oh, that's beautiful.
00:56:09 Can't you play it louder?
00:56:12 [music playing]
00:56:14 It's a loud little place.
00:56:16 That's too loud.
00:56:17 [music playing]
00:56:21 I kind of hate to do this.
00:56:23 Don't you worry.
00:56:25 He don't know it, but he's sticking his head smack dab in a bucket of pink poison.
00:56:29 Say, ain't that Pop Skelly coming, yonder?
00:56:32 It sure is.
00:56:33 And he's riding like a trombone horse somewhere.
00:56:35 Wait a minute, fellas.
00:56:36 Wait a minute.
00:56:37 Let's not get a good fight started and have it interrupted.
00:56:39 Wait a minute.
00:56:41 [footsteps]
00:56:49 They're coming, boys.
00:56:50 Who's coming?
00:56:51 Why, Stack and his gang.
00:56:53 The sheriff's leading them.
00:56:55 There doesn't be a gang of killers in the road to get you, boys.
00:56:57 The sheriff's been telling you around town that you robbed his safety,
00:57:00 and he's out to get you.
00:57:02 What of it?
00:57:03 They can't prove nothing.
00:57:04 They're not coming to prove.
00:57:05 They're coming to shoot.
00:57:06 [gunshot]
00:57:07 Break for the house, boys.
00:57:08 Hurry up.
00:57:10 Hurry up, boys.
00:57:12 Come on, get along.
00:57:14 [gunshot]
00:57:15 There they go, boys.
00:57:17 [gunshot]
00:57:19 Come on down here, fellas.
00:57:21 [footsteps]
00:57:27 [gunshot]
00:57:29 Come away from that window.
00:57:31 Come on, boys.
00:57:32 We're in for it.
00:57:33 Pick out a window and keep low.
00:57:35 What's the matter, Walt?
00:57:37 [gunshots]
00:57:41 Say, Bailey, what's this all about?
00:57:42 Walt, get out of here.
00:57:43 [gunshot]
00:57:45 Slow down.
00:57:47 Get him, boys.
00:57:49 You asked for a fight.
00:57:50 Well, here it is.
00:57:51 [gunshots]
00:58:06 [gunshots]
00:58:20 I missed him.
00:58:23 Keep popping on them, boys.
00:58:24 They'll be running out of juice pretty soon.
00:58:26 [gunshots]
00:58:35 [glass shattering]
00:58:39 What's the matter, Pop?
00:58:40 Did they get your band?
00:58:41 Nope.
00:58:42 Just Christmas.
00:58:43 [whispering]
00:58:49 [gunshot]
00:58:52 Spread out, boys.
00:58:53 Circle the house.
00:58:59 [gunshots]
00:59:19 Pipe him.
00:59:20 You watch the window.
00:59:21 All right.
00:59:26 [gunshots]
00:59:28 I've got you, boy.
00:59:28 The stack's rounding the house.
00:59:30 That means we're licked, unless I can get the drop on him.
00:59:32 Well, how are you going to do that?
00:59:33 I'm going to make a break for the crowd.
00:59:34 But that's suicide, Vic.
00:59:35 Why, sure--
00:59:36 It's the only chance we've got, and I'm going to take it.
00:59:37 You keep me busy, and I'll make a run for it.
00:59:40 Well, let's move forward.
00:59:41 [GUNSHOTS]
00:59:43 Vic!
00:59:45 Don't go out there, please.
00:59:47 I've got to, miss.
00:59:48 But you must-- something might happen to you.
00:59:52 Something has.
00:59:52 [DOOR OPENS]
00:59:54 [DOOR CLOSES]
00:59:57 Oh, Vic!
00:59:58 Ruth!
00:59:59 Bob!
01:00:05 Bob!
01:00:06 He's gone!
01:00:08 He's gone!
01:00:10 Ruth, you mean that-- that you--
01:00:16 More than anything in the world.
01:00:20 [SOBBING]
01:00:23 Well, well.
01:00:30 [GUNSHOTS]
01:00:34 [GUNSHOTS]
01:00:37 [GUNSHOTS]
01:00:57 [GUNSHOTS]
01:01:00 Take your hand off that trigger and back up.
01:01:22 [GUNSHOTS]
01:01:25 Well, it looks like you win another pot, Bailey.
01:01:37 I'm counting my winnings this time,
01:01:38 Stack, because the game is over.
01:01:43 Drop that gun.
01:01:44 Call off that man.
01:01:50 Well, man, that's a pot he operated
01:01:51 under the sheriff's orders.
01:01:52 That's just too bad for you.
01:01:54 Because if you can't stop that shooting, then do it pronto.
01:01:58 If I do, what happens to me?
01:01:59 We'll talk about that later, if you don't.
01:02:02 OK.
01:02:08 Hey, you stubborn!
01:02:10 Can you hear me?
01:02:13 Yeah.
01:02:14 Cone it off.
01:02:15 Round up your men and head for town.
01:02:17 What's wrong?
01:02:19 You heard me, didn't you?
01:02:20 You coming along?
01:02:22 Fine by.
01:02:24 Get your men together now and head out of here.
01:02:26 You're the doctor.
01:02:29 Hey, Spike!
01:02:30 What do you want?
01:02:32 Call the boys in.
01:02:34 Bring your horses, we're heading back for town.
01:02:36 Come on, fellas.
01:02:37 Say, what's the idea of him sending us back?
01:02:45 All I know is Stack said go back to town.
01:02:48 [interposing voices]
01:02:51 What's the idea?
01:02:52 Send us all back?
01:02:53 OK so far.
01:03:11 Get in front of this gun and keep moving.
01:03:13 [gunshots]
01:03:15 [gunshots]
01:03:18 [gunshots]
01:03:22 Wait a minute.
01:03:24 Right in there.
01:03:25 Now what?
01:03:41 Who killed Jimmy Hammond?
01:03:49 Why ask me?
01:03:50 I've got a bullet in the chamber of this gun
01:03:53 that I made out of two small bore bullets.
01:03:57 Yeah?
01:03:58 One was the slug that killed Jimmy Hammond.
01:04:02 The other went through that can of tomatoes.
01:04:04 Jimmy Hammond was shot in the back.
01:04:11 Turn around.
01:04:13 Turn around.
01:04:14 Have I got any way out?
01:04:25 You might look for one.
01:04:26 You want to know who killed young Hammond?
01:04:33 I did.
01:04:36 I know you did.
01:04:38 Why?
01:04:40 Found a pocket of placer gold on his ranch here.
01:04:43 Back there in Whitehorse Canyon where
01:04:44 he comes over the falls.
01:04:46 Go on.
01:04:49 Well, he panned out some 2,000 dust to pay his back
01:04:52 taxes on the place here.
01:04:54 Then what?
01:04:55 He met me.
01:05:01 Stack, I don't know whether I'm going
01:05:03 to be able to keep my finger eased off this trigger or not.
01:05:06 No way to make it easy.
01:05:08 No way to make it.
01:05:09 All right.
01:05:13 Get over there.
01:05:22 What a wretched confession, eh?
01:05:32 That's it.
01:05:34 What do you want me to write?
01:05:36 The whole work.
01:05:38 What do you want me to write?
01:05:40 The whole work.
01:05:42 What do you want me to write?
01:05:44 The whole work.
01:05:46 The whole work.
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01:07:04 I wonder where he went.
01:07:05 I got him.
01:07:06 [INAUDIBLE]
01:07:34 Dick, are you hurt?
01:07:35 I'm all right.
01:07:36 Well, what happened, Dick?
01:07:37 What's the matter, Dick?
01:07:38 Dack.
01:07:39 Are you all right?
01:07:42 Hi, Pam.
01:07:44 Give this to her.
01:07:47 Why should I?
01:07:49 You're going to give it to her yourself.
01:07:51 I'm going to get out of here.
01:07:53 I've been beaded away from this place.
01:07:57 Why should I go back?
01:08:00 I'm never going back.
01:08:03 Yep, square toe.
01:08:05 We better saddle up.
01:08:06 We'll be pulling our freight out of here.
01:08:09 What's the use of sticking around?
01:08:12 I mean, mosey on down by the Rio Grande.
01:08:15 No, Dick.
01:08:16 Please don't go.
01:08:17 Now or ever.
01:08:23 But I thought you and--
01:08:29 Yeah, I thought so too.
01:08:32 Well, Merry Christmas.
01:08:36 Oh, ain't that beautiful?
01:08:44 That reminds me of the story of Snow White and the prince.
01:08:48 Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Snow White.
01:08:51 She lived in the mountains.
01:08:52 And there was a prince looking all over the country
01:08:54 for finding himself a young wife.
01:08:56 And he came across a little girl named Snow White.
01:08:59 And he said, oh, mine Snow White.
01:09:02 And she said, oh, mine prince.
01:09:06 And they was married right away.
01:09:08 And they was living happy ever afterward.
01:09:11 [music playing]
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