• 5 months ago
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Your boots, sir?
00:22 Hm?
00:23 If you'd like to clean them on the scraper,
00:24 I'd be glad to brush them for you.
00:26 Sure thing, son.
00:27 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:31 Right up here, sir.
00:38 Just the carpets.
00:45 Miss Megan likes to run the cleanest hotel
00:46 west of the Mississippi.
00:48 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:51 Your boots, sir?
00:56 What about them?
00:57 Well, it's muddy out today.
00:57 If you'd like to clean them on the scraper,
00:59 why, I'd be glad to--
01:00 Nonsense.
01:01 Well, it'll only take a minute, sir,
01:02 and I'd be glad to do it.
01:05 Excuse me.
01:06 What do you want?
01:07 Why don't you let him clean your boots?
01:08 You don't want the boy to lose his job, do you?
01:10 Anyway, think of the carpets in there.
01:12 Who are you?
01:13 Well, I like to think of myself as a gentleman
01:15 who wouldn't track mud into a hotel lobby.
01:18 Won't you blind me for cleaning my boots?
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02:11 Yes, sir?
02:35 Room?
02:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:39 How long will you be staying?
02:41 Oh, May day today.
02:42 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:45 Room 21, head of the stairs.
02:48 Take a left.
02:49 Right.
02:50 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:04 Don't you find that position a little uncomfortable?
03:09 Yes, ma'am.
03:09 I sort of like the view.
03:10 You, uh, staying here at the hotel?
03:16 Yes.
03:17 Uh, you can change that room arrangement.
03:19 Let's make it week to week.
03:20 Yes, Mr. M.
03:23 Well, you're Josh Randall, huh?
03:25 If it's going to help our relationship, Penny, I sure am.
03:28 I'm Megan Francis.
03:30 Jesse's told me a lot about you.
03:32 He didn't tell me anything about you,
03:33 or I would have been here a long time ago.
03:36 Howard, will you please take Mr. Randall's
03:37 luggage to his room?
03:39 I think Jesse's waiting for you in the office.
03:40 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:44 Would you be so kind?
03:49 Yes.
03:50 Uh, Megan, would you mind leaving us alone?
03:52 Of course not.
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04:01 Uh, you own all this, Jesse?
04:05 Megan owns it.
04:06 I run it.
04:08 Who owns Megan?
04:10 Oh, well, I like to think I do.
04:12 Well, it stands to reason a girl like that wouldn't walk
04:13 around very long unclaimed.
04:15 Suppose you're wondering why I sent for you.
04:17 You said you had a job, and you could use my help.
04:20 That's why I'm here.
04:21 You haven't changed much since the last time I saw you.
04:25 There's a lot of money in it, Josh, if we get the job done.
04:29 Well, I didn't come just because of the money, Jesse.
04:32 I know that.
04:34 Well, what's the problem?
04:36 When Megan moved the outrider here from Wichita,
04:39 she had to borrow money.
04:41 Got it from a man named Peter Kovac.
04:43 In return, she gave him the gambling concession for a year.
04:46 Now that year is almost up.
04:48 Kovac's a greedy man.
04:50 He wants it permanently, along with the hotel.
04:54 I want to get rid of him.
04:57 Sorry, Jesse.
04:59 No bounty hunter.
05:00 Not an assassin.
05:02 I don't want him killed.
05:03 I want him destroyed.
05:05 There's a difference.
05:08 Where do I fit in?
05:09 Sit down.
05:10 Now, Megan's always run an honest game.
05:17 Kovac's been sending in a bunch of card mechanics.
05:20 You're a gambler, Josh.
05:21 I need a pit boss who can spot a crooked dealer.
05:24 If I catch enough of them, I can have Kovac run out of town.
05:27 Oh, wouldn't it be a lot easier just to have him shot?
05:31 Well, Megan doesn't like violence.
05:34 She doesn't like violence in this business?
05:37 You want the job.
05:37 You ever hear of an old-fashioned custom
05:42 called knocking?
05:43 Hello, Jesse.
05:44 This is Mr. Kovac, Josh Randall.
05:53 Oh, we've met.
05:55 Never did get those boots cleaned, did you?
05:58 Friend of yours?
06:00 Business, associate.
06:02 What business?
06:04 Outrider.
06:06 I hear you're selling out.
06:09 You've been talking to the wrong people.
06:11 I've made my last offer, Jesse.
06:13 I'm trying to be fair.
06:15 Take it or take nothing.
06:16 Because if you don't, I'll see to it this place
06:18 is closed so tight you couldn't get inside with a crowbar.
06:21 Excuse me.
06:22 What good would that do?
06:24 As mayor of this town, I could then
06:26 open it up on my own terms.
06:28 Talks big, doesn't he?
06:29 I don't talk any bigger than I am.
06:32 The office is still open, Jesse.
06:34 I'm waiting for your answer.
06:35 Oh, why wait?
06:38 Get out of here, Pete.
06:40 Suit yourself, and don't come back.
06:52 You didn't tell me he was a mayor, Jesse.
06:54 He's not, illegally anyway.
06:57 What other kind is it?
06:58 You just met one.
06:59 It's a trailer town, Josh.
07:03 It's never had any formal law.
07:06 Kovac's a smart man.
07:07 He had some cards printed up proclaiming himself mayor.
07:10 So far, nobody's bothered to dispute it.
07:13 What about the marshal?
07:14 Kovac owns him.
07:15 Well, if you lose a cold deck, Jesse, why don't you get out?
07:19 It's not me.
07:20 It's Megan.
07:21 A writer's part of her life.
07:22 She started at Wichita.
07:27 Reformers moved in to clean up the city.
07:30 Business left.
07:32 She tore the hotel down, board by board,
07:34 shipped it here in flat cars, put it back together again.
07:38 Now, if she wants to keep this place open,
07:40 I intend on seeing that it stays that way.
07:42 You, uh, love her, don't you, Jesse?
07:49 You blame me?
07:50 Oh, no, I can't say as I do.
07:52 I'll go upstairs and show you, huh?
07:54 [SHOUTING]
07:55 [GUNSHOTS]
07:57 [SCREAMING]
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08:03 [SCREAMING]
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08:07 Come on, let's go.
08:08 I see out of it, Josh.
08:09 What's the matter with you?
08:10 Look what they're doing.
08:10 I said stay out of it.
08:11 [GUNSHOTS]
08:13 [SCREAMING]
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08:25 [MUSIC PLAYING]
08:27 [KNOCKING]
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08:35 How much do we owe you?
08:50 Here's no charge, Mr. Randall.
08:51 You're Miss Megan's guest.
08:53 She asked if you'd stop by the office.
08:54 Mr. Blight.
08:58 [KNOCKING]
09:00 Come in.
09:06 Evening.
09:11 Good evening, Josh.
09:12 Jesse wanted me to give this to you.
09:15 What's this for?
09:16 Your salary.
09:17 I haven't done anything yet.
09:19 It's not your fault there was no job.
09:21 You should be paid for your time.
09:23 I came here because Jesse said he needed help, and he does.
09:27 But not the kind I can give him.
09:29 I'm sorry about what happened to your place this afternoon.
09:32 I was expecting it.
09:34 Please, keep the money.
09:37 All right.
09:40 Where's Jesse?
09:41 He went across the street to talk to Pete Kovac.
09:43 [MUSIC PLAYING]
09:45 Your luggage, Mr. Randall.
09:50 I'll pick it up later, yeah?
09:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]
09:54 What's up?
10:09 How you feeling?
10:13 I thought you'd gone.
10:15 Well, somebody paid me for a job I didn't do.
10:16 I thought I'd hang around, earn the money.
10:20 I'll stay out of it, Josh.
10:24 See what Kovac and his playmates did to me.
10:26 Yeah.
10:28 Well, just because you don't have any sense
10:29 doesn't mean I don't.
10:30 I'm not about to brace Kovac in that outfit by myself.
10:33 You won't get any help in this town.
10:36 I found this notebook in your coat pocket.
10:40 Johnny Ringo, Clay Allison, Luke Short, John Wesley Hardin,
10:45 Tom Horn.
10:47 You always figured I was pretty handy with a gun,
10:49 but I don't see anybody here I'd care to go up against.
10:51 53 names, and all friends of yours.
10:55 Well, I-- I've been able to throw a few jobs
10:59 their way from time to time.
11:01 Figured if they knew you were in trouble, they'd come a running.
11:06 I'm the only time when you wouldn't back out of a
11:08 situation like this, Jesse.
11:10 You've changed a lot, and I figure I know why.
11:12 But that's your business.
11:15 I'm going after Kovac, but I'm going to have a little help.
11:18 You see, I've, uh, hired some of these fellas.
11:22 Who's footing the bill?
11:24 Kovac.
11:26 I'll see you later, you?
11:27 [MUSIC PLAYING]
11:31 Josh, will you come in here a minute, please?
11:44 [MUSIC PLAYING]
11:47 I'll come right to the point.
12:04 I heard you and Jesse talking a little while ago.
12:06 I heard what you proposed doing.
12:07 I won't permit it.
12:09 I'm not asking your permission.
12:11 It's my hotel.
12:12 I'd rather close it than see any bloodshed.
12:15 There's already been some of that.
12:17 I'll see to it there's no more of it.
12:20 I'll sell out to Kovac if I have to.
12:23 Well, that's up to you, but I still plan to skin Kovac.
12:28 Why?
12:28 Because Jesse's a friend of mine.
12:31 Well, I guess there's no object in talking any further, huh?
12:34 I understand the way you feel about violence.
12:36 I don't think much of it myself.
12:38 But if anything's worth having, it's worth fighting for here.
12:40 Josh, I was married once, very happily, to a man who felt
12:46 just the same way you do.
12:49 He was killed in a gunfight.
12:51 I'm sorry.
12:54 Now, maybe you can understand why I feel the way I do.
12:57 Listen to me.
12:58 If you want a man to do a job, don't take away his tools.
13:02 You wouldn't be in a situation if Jesse had his way.
13:04 But he's working underhandicap.
13:05 He's in love with you.
13:06 And that's why he's in that bed right now,
13:07 beating half to death.
13:08 Well, I've got the advantage over Jesse.
13:11 I'm not handicapped at all.
13:12 [music playing]
13:15 Howdy.
13:33 Howdy.
13:34 What'll it be?
13:35 I'd like to see Mr. Kovac.
13:36 What about?
13:38 Well, let's just say it's something personal, huh?
13:40 Then let's just say I don't think
13:41 Mr. Kovac wants to see you.
13:44 Look, mister, don't cause me any trouble.
13:46 [crash]
13:47 [thud]
13:48 Now, go ahead and do what I told you.
13:55 Who'll I say wants to see him?
13:57 Just tell him the man came by to find out
13:58 if he cleaned his boots yet.
14:00 He'll know what you mean.
14:01 [music playing]
14:05 [door opening]
14:06 All right, you fellas got business somewhere else.
14:13 Let's go.
14:14 [music playing]
14:17 Mr. Kovac will see you now.
14:33 You stay put right there.
14:34 [music playing]
14:38 Command him.
14:42 Keep your hands on the desk.
14:47 You're either a very brave man, Randall, or you're a fool.
15:01 And I'm inclined to believe you're the latter.
15:02 Now, what do you want?
15:04 Take a quick look.
15:05 What's this supposed to mean?
15:12 It means we talk business.
15:13 Some of those fellas are going to be in town here
15:15 looking for you, on Jesse's behalf.
15:18 Why, tell me this.
15:20 I don't want to see this town turned
15:21 into a shooting gallery.
15:23 And unfortunately, you're the only one who can stop it.
15:25 What am I supposed to do?
15:27 Sign these for one thing.
15:29 [papers rustling]
15:32 [chuckles]
15:34 An agreement to give up my gambling
15:35 interests in the outrider.
15:37 What's the other one?
15:39 A life story to make sure you don't back out
15:40 of the first agreement.
15:42 You step out of line a little bit,
15:43 and it goes to the US Marshal's office.
15:47 You don't really expect me to sign these, do you?
15:50 Yes, I do.
15:51 This is my town, Randall.
15:53 I run it the way I like.
15:54 And right now, I don't like you around.
15:56 Now, I'm going to give you three days to sign these.
15:58 I'll give you 30 minutes to get out of town.
16:00 I'll give you just 10 seconds to sign these.
16:02 [music playing]
16:06 Your 10 seconds are up.
16:25 [music playing]
16:28 [panting]
16:30 What about it?
16:32 Hold out for a long time, will you?
16:34 After what you had done to Jesse,
16:35 I want to enjoy every minute of this.
16:36 [music playing]
16:40 [music playing]
16:43 [snoring]
16:52 Must have fallen asleep again.
16:54 Well, that's good for you.
16:56 I brought you some soup.
16:57 Oh.
16:58 I'm sorry.
17:00 Waitresses are getting prettier around here every day.
17:03 And they're getting more expensive, too.
17:06 Well, maybe I'd save money if I married one.
17:09 Maybe you would.
17:10 The offer's been over for a long time now.
17:13 I don't like to make snap judgments.
17:15 [laughs]
17:18 Well, I can always ask again tomorrow.
17:21 I'd be rather disappointed if you didn't.
17:23 Say, what's wrong with you?
17:25 Are you feeling sorry for me or something?
17:27 Among other things.
17:30 Here, have some soup.
17:33 I'd rather have a drink.
17:35 Well, maybe we can reach a compromise.
17:37 I'll get you a drink, and you can use
17:39 the soup for a chaser, all right?
17:40 Sounds fair enough.
17:43 Hey, where's Josh?
17:46 I don't know.
17:48 He stopped by the office about an hour ago.
17:50 Did he say where he was going?
17:52 No.
17:54 May I get?
17:57 Look, Josh is a big boy.
17:58 He doesn't need your help right now.
18:00 Not with all the gun money he's bringing into town.
18:02 No.
18:04 Takes some of those men a couple of weeks to get here.
18:06 Josh can't go against Kovac alone.
18:08 He'll get chewed to pieces.
18:11 Get me my boots.
18:13 We're not going anywhere.
18:14 Now, lie down.
18:17 Here, eat your soup.
18:18 Now, what about the drink?
18:20 All right, I'll get it.
18:22 And don't worry about Josh.
18:24 He'll be all right.
18:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:29 [GROANING]
18:33 [GROANING]
18:36 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]
18:59 What do you expect to get out of this?
19:05 A little satisfaction, for one.
19:08 Well, you enjoy it because that's all you're going to get.
19:11 I'm no fool, Randall.
19:13 I got several men waiting for you outside that door.
19:15 You're never going to get out of here alive.
19:16 Yeah, well, they're not going to get in here alive either.
19:21 [KNOCKING]
19:23 So maybe we'll just sort of sit here, watch each other starve.
19:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]
19:32 Miss Francis.
19:45 Yes?
19:46 Is there something I can do for you, ma'am?
19:48 No, thank you.
19:49 I want to see Mr. Kovac.
19:50 It's about the sale of the Outrider.
19:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]
19:55 [KNOCKING]
19:57 Mr. Kovac?
20:00 This is Megan Francis.
20:01 [MUSIC PLAYING]
20:04 You tell her to come in, but don't say anything else.
20:08 If you do, I'll know this thing right where it's
20:09 going to hurt you the most.
20:10 Do you hear me?
20:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]
20:14 [KNOCKING]
20:17 Mr. Kovac.
20:19 Come in.
20:20 [MUSIC PLAYING]
20:23 Gosh.
20:27 How many out there?
20:29 There's three.
20:30 I think they're waiting for you.
20:32 Here, you take these.
20:33 What are they?
20:34 A bill of sale and a confession of Mr. Kovac's sins.
20:37 Well, why are you giving them to me?
20:39 Listen, I want you to find somebody you can trust.
20:42 I haven't given these to the US Marshal.
20:44 Now, if those men try to stop you or hurt you,
20:47 you just yell real loud.
20:48 You understand?
20:51 Josh, what about you?
20:52 Don't worry about me.
20:53 You just do what I tell you, hear?
20:55 Now, go on.
20:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]
20:59 Thank you, Mr. Kovac.
21:02 I'll have my attorney call on you tomorrow.
21:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]
21:07 I don't think you ought to leave right now, ma'am.
21:13 Not until Mr. Kovac says it's all right.
21:16 Get out of my way.
21:20 You ain't going anywhere, lady.
21:23 Get out of my way.
21:24 You take your hands off me.
21:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]
21:29 You shouldn't be here.
21:33 Where's Josh?
21:35 He's in there.
21:36 Kovac?
21:37 In there, too.
21:39 Get out of here.
21:40 Jesse.
21:41 I can't argue.
21:42 Get out.
21:43 [MUSIC PLAYING]
21:46 All right, you can leave.
21:48 One of two ways.
21:49 I'll let you decide.
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22:04 [GLASS SHATTERING]
22:07 [GUNSHOTS]
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23:02 Well, I'd like to stay for the wedding, Jesse,
23:03 but I got four pigeons all staked out
23:06 in a poker game in Arizona.
23:07 And I want to get back before they're all cleaned out.
23:09 What wedding?
23:10 Well, I thought you two--
23:12 Well, I've thought about it from time to time myself,
23:14 but nothing ever seems to come of it.
23:16 Thank you, Josh, for more things than you know.
23:22 Will you answer one question for me?
23:27 It isn't personal.
23:29 What would you have done if Jesse hadn't shown up?
23:32 Well, I'd be sort of hungry right about now.
23:36 I'll see you in a hair.
23:38 So long, Josh.
23:39 [MUSIC PLAYING]
23:43 [THUNDER]
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