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00:02:10In the Old West, justice and courtrooms
00:02:15The men who had conquered the frontier
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00:02:25A United States Circuit judge needed three things
00:02:30a law book, a horse, and a gun.
00:02:35The further west he got, the less he needed the book.
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00:06:40I noticed a funny thing, Colonel.
00:06:42Every time there's a transfer of property or a dispute over property hereabouts,
00:06:46the amount involved never exceeds $499.
00:06:49That is a strange fact, Your Honor.
00:06:51Especially since the value of $500 or more would bring these cases under federal jurisdiction.
00:06:57Fortunately, sir, you are relieved of a heavy burden.
00:07:00Too bad it rests entirely on Mr. Bannerman.
00:07:04Joaquin Morales?
00:07:05Si, senor.
00:07:06That's 300 acres, $499.
00:07:091,200 acres, $499.
00:07:11750 acres, $499.
00:07:14Mr. Bannerman establishes the price, sir.
00:07:16Keeping it away from federal examination.
00:07:19That is so, Your Honor.
00:07:22I suspect Mr. Bannerman is being very clever, sir.
00:07:25That's what I intend to point out in my report.
00:07:28Well?
00:07:29Si, senor.
00:07:30Illegal entry and so forth and so forth.
00:07:33First question, why'd you do it?
00:07:35Senor?
00:07:36El juez quiere saber por qué usted cruzó la frontera.
00:07:39Porque mi mujer ha muerto.
00:07:41His wife died.
00:07:43No hay trabajo.
00:07:44No job.
00:07:45Este país es muy rico.
00:07:46He says this is a rich country.
00:07:48Además...
00:08:04Well now, Your Honor, I wouldn't be one bit surprised
00:08:08if Mr. Bannerman could get this good man a job.
00:08:11Seems a pity I had to ride 60 miles.
00:08:14That's all right.
00:08:15You will be with me, Max.
00:08:16We'll be together.
00:08:17I'll be with you, senor.
00:08:18Coming with me?
00:08:19Gosh!
00:08:20Don't you think I'm tired of it!
00:08:21I'll take the horse and come with ya.
00:08:22I'd rather ride today than do it tomorrow.
00:08:24But...
00:08:25But why?
00:08:26I'd better go ride some more.
00:08:27I said I'd rather ride some more.
00:08:28We'll be together.
00:08:29I'd rather ride so no one sees us.
00:08:30I told you!
00:08:31You're mad!
00:08:32You're mad.
00:08:33You're mad, man.
00:08:34You're mad.
00:08:35I can't.
00:08:36I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:08:37You're mad.
00:08:38I'm so mad.
00:08:39It seems a pity you had to ride 60 miles.
00:08:42I wrote the governor we didn't need a circuit judge here.
00:08:45We can do real well by ourselves.
00:08:47Last item, population.
00:08:50507.
00:08:54I hope the army don't plan to ride off without affording Mr. Bannerman the opportunity to extend the hand to hospitality.
00:09:01This is dated last week.
00:09:03Well, population doesn't change much here, Boss Judge.
00:09:07It's changed in the last couple of days. There was a funeral yesterday morning.
00:09:10Not a resident, sir. He was a stranger.
00:09:12What was the cause of death?
00:09:14I beg your pardon, sir?
00:09:16What did he die of, this stranger? What was his name?
00:09:20His name, sir?
00:09:22He...
00:09:24His name was Morrison.
00:09:28Died of a gunshot wound.
00:09:30It was a clear case of self-defense, Marshal.
00:09:32That's what they told me.
00:09:34A case? Who tried it?
00:09:36I didn't meet a case in that sense.
00:09:39Your Honor, it was a matter.
00:09:40Mr. Bannerman handled it very well indeed.
00:09:42Did he?
00:09:43Where's the record of the arrest?
00:09:47I didn't make an arrest.
00:09:49Why not?
00:09:50The judge, he was self-defense.
00:09:52Who did the shooting?
00:09:54Well, now...
00:09:57I suppose that would be young Tom.
00:09:59Tom who?
00:10:01Bannerman.
00:10:04The old man's son.
00:10:06His only boy.
00:10:08I don't understand this, Marshal.
00:10:09There's been a killing in your town and the killer's free.
00:10:13Your Honor,
00:10:14folks here used to run their own business and tend to their own affairs.
00:10:19It's a frontier, sir.
00:10:21The garment of social conscience fits loosely, sir.
00:10:24I'm here to tighten it up.
00:10:26Bring in this Tom Bannerman.
00:10:28Your Honor, I don't reckon I could do that without a posse.
00:10:32Form one.
00:10:33Made up of his family?
00:10:35Are the men who work for them?
00:10:37You see how it is, sir.
00:10:40I see how it is.
00:10:46I'll tie it up for you, Mr. Hammer.
00:10:51The judge still in there?
00:10:52Yeah.
00:10:52So?
00:10:53Yeah.
00:10:54And the Marshal.
00:10:55And they're talking about Tom Bannerman.
00:10:59Oh, say,
00:11:01it's been awful hot today, Mr. Hammer, and
00:11:03you know, the dust gets in a man's gut or something fierce.
00:11:06So I thought you...
00:11:07You've got to decide whether you're serving Bannerman or the federal government.
00:11:12Mr. Hammer, sir, this is indeed a pleasure.
00:11:14Your Honor, may I present Mr. Arnold Hammer, the president of the bank.
00:11:18Bannerman Bank?
00:11:19That's the only bank there is.
00:11:20Are you a Bannerman?
00:11:22Hammer, sir, Hammer.
00:11:23Related to them?
00:11:25No, sir.
00:11:25You had to think it over, though.
00:11:28What do you know about this killing you've had in your town?
00:11:30Killing?
00:11:31We don't have killings here.
00:11:32Well, maybe you call them something else.
00:11:34But Thomas Bannerman did shoot and grievously wound one Sidney Morrison,
00:11:37after which act said Sidney Morrison did languish, suffer, and die.
00:11:40That's a killing.
00:11:41Your Honor, you misjudged Tom.
00:11:43I take my oath he's not a bad boy.
00:11:45I haven't misjudged him.
00:11:46I haven't judged him at all.
00:11:48That'll take place at the trial.
00:11:50Trial, gentlemen.
00:11:52I happen to know there's never been one in this town, but a man's been done to death.
00:11:55The law demands a search into the circumstances.
00:11:57I don't know what Mr. Bannerman is going to do about this.
00:12:00We'll hear from him.
00:12:02Your man, Tom.
00:12:04Your Honor.
00:12:05Did you ever hear the recipe for making tiger stew?
00:12:10First, you catch a tiger.
00:12:23He keeps moving it.
00:12:25Well, maybe it takes a man to hit a tiger that won't stay still.
00:12:29There.
00:12:31Pretend this is your bridegroom puckering up to kiss you.
00:12:50Amy Lee, that's no way to treat a nice, quiet bank president like Arnold Hammer.
00:12:55Then don't tell me to marry him.
00:12:59Mr. Bannerman?
00:13:01Amy Lee?
00:13:03Amy Lee, I sent you to that fancy school to learn you some manners.
00:13:06Lose what few you had?
00:13:08Hello, Arnold.
00:13:10Give your fiancée a kiss.
00:13:26Isn't that kind of dangerous?
00:13:27Yeah, a couple of bear cubs playing around are bound to get a few scratches.
00:13:31Where's that judge?
00:13:32I told you to bring him here for supper.
00:13:34Didn't seem like a good idea to invite him. He's looking for Tom.
00:13:37What's he want me for?
00:13:38Sid Morrison.
00:13:40You've been out in the sun too long. That Morrison business is finished.
00:13:43He says no. He wants you.
00:13:45Sounds real stiffening.
00:13:47I couldn't reason with him.
00:13:48I don't know why I tried.
00:13:50Simple thing to me seems to be to go into town, explain how it came to be self-defense.
00:13:56Let the whole thing blow over.
00:13:59Amy Lee, I never said you were wrong about this fella.
00:14:02But who else is there to marry around here?
00:14:05You're loco. If you marry her, she'll finish you off inside of two weeks.
00:14:07He's going to come here to my holdings, my town, and carry himself high, huh?
00:14:12Is it true he carries a gun? A judge?
00:14:14I didn't see it.
00:14:15I'm going into town to have some fun with him.
00:14:17You're going to stay here.
00:14:18I'm going to town!
00:14:20Are you afraid of this judge?
00:14:22No.
00:14:23But you heard a few stories about him, and you want cousin Tom to stay undercover.
00:14:28Tom's a fool. He'll make things worse than they are.
00:14:32What's worse than a bannerman hiding?
00:14:35You still say it was self-defense?
00:14:38Would I lie?
00:14:39Oh, you've got plenty of practice.
00:14:42If I may say a word...
00:14:43Shut up.
00:14:45All right, boy. Take some men into town and bring that judge back here for supper.
00:14:50Bring him back here? I aim to chase him down the road.
00:14:52You're going to bring him back here.
00:14:55We're going to give him the hospitality of the ranch.
00:14:58Show him why it pays to stand well with a bannerman.
00:15:02You bannermen stand above everybody.
00:15:04You're sort of like the royal line.
00:15:07I don't know why anybody should want to marry into it, Harold.
00:15:11It's a great responsibility.
00:15:13Ho-ho!
00:15:43What are you doing here, Tom?
00:16:03You'd better get back to the ranch.
00:16:04Where's this judge they talk so much about?
00:16:06There's reason to talk.
00:16:08You get out of town.
00:16:09Why, I've come here to ask him to put his feet under our table.
00:16:12That's a fool idea.
00:16:15Colonel, never call a bannerman a fool.
00:16:19Somebody will cut your wages.
00:16:27Well, let it happen.
00:16:41Come on in.
00:16:46Good evening, Colonel.
00:16:47A very pleasant good evening to you, sir.
00:16:49That is to say, I hope it'll be pleasant.
00:16:52Why shouldn't it be?
00:16:55Tom Bannerman's here.
00:16:56That's what I wanted, isn't it?
00:16:58Judge, I wish I could make you understand that boy.
00:17:00He's just a reckless, playful boy.
00:17:03He shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun.
00:17:06He's at the bannerman's saloon, no.
00:17:09He's just a playful boy.
00:17:11I should point out, Your Honor, that he's accompanied by several men from the ranch.
00:17:15Twelve is more than several, Colonel.
00:17:18That's what windows are for.
00:17:21Well, that's better.
00:17:23Judge, you're a man of wisdom and perspicacity.
00:17:26No use tangling with the bannermen.
00:17:28Let them tend to their own problems.
00:17:29Someday they'll realize the error of their ways.
00:17:33Colonel, a circuit judge receives very little pay.
00:17:38I understand a federal attorney draws even less.
00:17:40That's purely correct, Your Honor.
00:17:42It makes it easy for a man to choose sides, doesn't it?
00:17:54He's in town.
00:17:58Are you backing me?
00:18:02I'll tell you how it is, Judge.
00:18:04I've been around here too long to have much faith in anything.
00:18:08You go after him.
00:18:09When I see it, I'll back you.
00:18:23All right, here we go. What do you got?
00:18:24Come on!
00:18:29Hang on!
00:18:32Come on!
00:18:35All right, go ahead.
00:18:37Ready? All right, go ahead.
00:18:38All right, then.
00:18:39Hang on!
00:18:42Take it out. Take it out.
00:18:44Take it out. Take it out.
00:18:53What'll it be, Judge?
00:18:54Which one of these men is Tom Bannerman?
00:18:55You want Tom, holler it out.
00:18:57If he wants to talk to you, he'll make himself known.
00:18:59Good evening, Judge.
00:19:02Bannerman?
00:19:03Yep.
00:19:04Give him a drink.
00:19:05No, thanks.
00:19:05Oh, come on now, you gotta.
00:19:07How else anybody gonna tell the men from the boys?
00:19:09We'll manage.
00:19:10I'm glad you came to town of your own accord, Bannerman.
00:19:12It'll count in your favor at the trial.
00:19:15What kind of trial?
00:19:16You're under a charge of murder.
00:19:17It was self-defense.
00:19:19Are you this man's lawyer?
00:19:20I'm Sam Kettering.
00:19:22Oh, one of the family.
00:19:24You must be crazy in the head trying to come in here and haul away a Bannerman to jail.
00:19:27He's charged with murder.
00:19:28We'll decide the charge.
00:19:30In any event, John, I'm sure there's no cause to take the boy to the lockup now he's there.
00:19:34Whatever bail you said will be forthcoming.
00:19:37I'll decide the charge and the bail, and there'll be no bail.
00:19:40You're a hard nose, all right.
00:19:42They tell stories about you.
00:19:44I'm taking you to jail, Bannerman.
00:19:46They say you pack a gun.
00:19:47I don't see no gun.
00:19:48I don't want to turn this into a shooting.
00:19:49You'll have a fair trial with all due process.
00:19:52No.
00:19:53I like shooting.
00:20:00All right, Judge.
00:20:01We know you're a tough hombre.
00:20:03Now, let him go.
00:20:04The court's established a fact, Colonel.
00:20:06The prisoner who pleads self-defense doesn't hesitate to draw on an unarmed man.
00:20:11Jail's across the street.
00:20:25What do you want us to do, Tom?
00:20:27Shut up!
00:20:30What's the matter with you boys?
00:20:31Nobody takes a Bannerman to jail.
00:20:40How strong is your jail?
00:20:41His old man will tear it apart.
00:20:43If we let him.
00:20:44It's the first time since I put this star on I've been able to work at it.
00:20:48How does it feel?
00:20:49Lonesome.
00:21:01Colonel.
00:21:02Thank you kindly, son.
00:21:10Morning, son.
00:21:12Right.
00:21:13Beautiful morning.
00:21:19Good morning, sir.
00:21:21Good morning.
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00:21:23Good morning.
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00:21:25Good morning.
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00:21:27Good morning.
00:21:29Good morning, Judge.
00:21:31I do trust you slept well, sir.
00:21:33I sat in my window watching the street.
00:21:35Well, no need to do that, your honor.
00:21:39This is the Lord Biden town.
00:21:41Well, reasonably Lord Biden.
00:21:44Where's the nearest telegraph office?
00:21:46Well, that would be Cottonwood, sir.
00:21:49That's 47 miles away.
00:21:51I've got to ask Washington to appoint a prosecutor.
00:21:54You do not, your honor.
00:21:55You do not, your honor.
00:21:57I anticipated the need and I already attended to the matter.
00:22:01You did what?
00:22:03I sent a rider to Cottonwood yesterday, sir.
00:22:05He dispatched a telegram to our national capital.
00:22:08I already had the reply.
00:22:11I fully realize my new responsibility, your honor.
00:22:14I'll rise to it in a manner that will be a tribute to Blackstone and our great and glorious Constitution, sir.
00:22:20You work fast, colonel.
00:22:21Well, I knew you couldn't ride to Cottonwood, your honor.
00:22:24Your prisoner might escape during your absence.
00:22:26I might have sent the marshal.
00:22:28Oh, it's a long and difficult ride, your honor.
00:22:30Who knows what accident might befall him on the way.
00:22:34Difficult country, your honor.
00:22:36Indians, outlaws.
00:22:38Bannermans.
00:22:39Exactly.
00:22:41You think we might talk to those witnesses now, your honor?
00:22:43What witnesses?
00:22:44Why, the ones who saw Morrison pull a pistol on Tom?
00:22:47No, Mr. Prosecutor.
00:22:49I think we can dispense with those witnesses.
00:22:51They could establish the boy's innocence, your honor.
00:22:54Isn't the prosecutor supposed to establish his guilt?
00:22:57Your honor, I'm only interested in justice.
00:23:00So am I, colonel.
00:23:02So am I.
00:23:08Good morning, Judge.
00:23:09Everything quiet?
00:23:10Just give him time.
00:23:17How are you this morning?
00:23:22You'll have breakfast in a minute or two.
00:23:24They're sending it over from the hotel.
00:23:28Is there a lawyer in town you want to hire?
00:23:30I'm going to ask you to sign a statement.
00:23:33When are you going to take me out and hang me?
00:23:35Oh, it's a little early to talk of hanging.
00:23:37The tree ain't been planted yet.
00:23:40We'll knock something together.
00:23:42I'm going to drag you behind a horse of iron,
00:23:44an inch of hide left on you.
00:23:46You won't fool with any Bannermans till we get through with you.
00:23:48You'll be picking your hide off every rock and mesquite bush in the county.
00:23:52He's the one who can do it, too.
00:23:54He once killed a Mexican like that.
00:23:57Got mad.
00:23:58Over what?
00:23:59Mexican spilled a pot of coffee on him.
00:24:01When was that?
00:24:03Oh, that was before my time.
00:24:05I guess he was about 16.
00:24:07Self-defense again?
00:24:09Yeah.
00:24:10And that's the funny thing about the Bannermans.
00:24:12Folks are always picking on them.
00:24:16Morrison's widow still in town?
00:24:18Yeah. Next street over, last house in the line.
00:24:26Well, something new has come to town.
00:24:33His honor, I suppose.
00:24:39What a waste.
00:24:41Amy Lee Bannerman, Judge.
00:24:43Cousin.
00:24:44More like his guardian.
00:24:45He's such a fool judge.
00:24:47Good thing you're teaching him a lesson.
00:24:49Oh, I'm not teaching him.
00:24:51I'm bringing him to trial.
00:24:54Do you know where Josiah is now?
00:24:57I locked him in his room.
00:24:59So I could reach you first.
00:25:01If he arrives in and Tom is still in jail,
00:25:04he will burn this town to the ground.
00:25:07It's a serious crime. I'd have to arrest him for it.
00:25:11Josiah?
00:25:13First of all, you couldn't.
00:25:15Second, this town is ours.
00:25:19No, that's a state of mind, Miss Bannerman.
00:25:21The town belongs to the people
00:25:23and laws have been written to protect them.
00:25:26And you're the great big champion
00:25:28who's going to see to it.
00:25:30Whether they want protection or not.
00:25:32No matter what they say, they usually want it, Miss Bannerman.
00:25:38Amy Lee.
00:25:40If the prisoner's family wants to see him,
00:25:42they can have five minute visits.
00:25:44Where? He's human.
00:25:47One at a time at a distance of five feet.
00:25:50Nothing passing from hand to hand.
00:25:52Miss Bannerman.
00:25:55I pity his wife.
00:25:57He's the kind who would have one.
00:25:59Well broken too.
00:26:00Probably nine children all afraid of him.
00:26:05He didn't say.
00:26:10Sid was good to me.
00:26:13He never raised a lot of dust,
00:26:15but I knew about that when I married him.
00:26:18I married him because...
00:26:22because he was Sid.
00:26:27It was about the only thing he could do well.
00:26:29Braid rawhide.
00:26:31He was always braiding.
00:26:33Even when he walked.
00:26:34He knew how.
00:26:36I'd like to buy some of this.
00:26:38I guess I could use a new bridle.
00:26:40You don't have to feel sorry for me, Judge.
00:26:42I've got money.
00:26:44Enough to get home one.
00:26:46Where's that?
00:26:47Pennsylvania.
00:26:49Anyway, that's where my folks are.
00:26:52Sid and I, we never had what you'd rightly call a home.
00:26:55Just drifted.
00:26:57Sid always laughing and saying someday he'd find a gold mine.
00:27:00We'd start a cattle ranch or something like that.
00:27:05He laughed a lot, that Sid Morrison.
00:27:07He wasn't much of a troublemaker, was he?
00:27:09Sid?
00:27:11Even out here he wouldn't carry a gun.
00:27:14They say that he did.
00:27:18They say that he used this,
00:27:20but I never saw it before.
00:27:23I don't see how he could have had a gun and me not know.
00:27:25How'd you come by it?
00:27:28They brought it to me after...
00:27:32A lawyer.
00:27:33His name was Colonel Speeder.
00:27:35He brought it to me with some money from Tom Bannerman's father.
00:27:38Like I said, enough to get home one.
00:27:41Old Bannerman paying your way home?
00:27:44They said they didn't want me on the town.
00:27:48What was the fight about, Mrs. Morrison?
00:27:52The trouble between Tom Bannerman and your husband, what was it about?
00:27:55How could I know?
00:27:57We'd only gotten to town a couple of days before.
00:28:00Everything seemed to be all right.
00:28:02Did your husband know Tom Bannerman before?
00:28:05No.
00:28:06Did you?
00:28:07No.
00:28:11I'll have to take this with me.
00:28:14I don't care.
00:28:15There's going to be a trial.
00:28:17I don't care what you do.
00:28:27Did Tom Bannerman bother you?
00:28:31Did he?
00:28:35I don't want any trouble.
00:28:37If you tell this to anybody, I'll say it's a lie.
00:28:40Even under oath?
00:28:41It's a lie.
00:29:05Thanks.
00:29:24Thanks.
00:29:25It's a hot day.
00:29:32Mr. Kettering?
00:29:35When did the shooting take place?
00:29:37I didn't see it myself, Your Honor.
00:29:39Somewhere near the edge of town.
00:29:41I can ask the marshal. I want you to tell me.
00:29:43It's a small town. Which edge?
00:29:46Past the corral, sir.
00:29:48Show me.
00:29:55I understand young Tom Bannerman is not exactly bashful with the ladies.
00:29:59Well, sir, as a former expert in matters concerning the ladies, I'd say he does right well, sir.
00:30:05I don't like what you said.
00:30:07I said it was a hot day.
00:30:08But I don't like the way you said it.
00:30:11Go ahead.
00:30:22Colonel?
00:30:27A mighty unusual judge, sir.
00:30:30A very unusual prosecutor.
00:30:35Thank you.
00:30:54This is a nice town, Your Honor.
00:30:56Folks get to like it here.
00:30:58Bannerman folks?
00:31:00They are just about like other folks.
00:31:02Like doing things their way, that's all.
00:31:05Folks like you can settle in this town.
00:31:07Get elected year after year.
00:31:09Might even be sent to our national capital, sir.
00:31:12With Bannerman's backing, then?
00:31:13Yes, Your Honor.
00:31:15I'll ask him about that when the trial's over.
00:31:18Who lives there?
00:31:21Oh, nobody of any consequence, Your Honor.
00:31:23Colonel, a man has been killed.
00:31:27A fellow named Webb has that house, sir.
00:31:29Best gunsmith Bannerman ever had, Your Honor.
00:31:32Lives alone?
00:31:33Well, he has a daughter, sir.
00:31:36Mighty affectionate of him.
00:31:38I'll see you later, Colonel.
00:31:40Why, go with yourself.
00:31:44Of course, Your Honor.
00:31:51What are you going to say?
00:31:53I don't have to say anything.
00:31:56I think you do.
00:31:58There's a right thing and a wrong thing.
00:32:01Don't preach to me, Dad.
00:32:03I'm only saying what you already know.
00:32:06There's right and there's wrong.
00:32:07And when you see the difference, you've just got to speak up.
00:32:12That's out of books. People don't live that way.
00:32:16Tom won't ever marry you, dear.
00:32:18He just won't.
00:32:21How do you know about that?
00:32:22Oh, honey.
00:32:31Good morning, Judge.
00:32:32Mr. Webb?
00:32:33Yes, sir.
00:32:34You recognize this gun?
00:32:40Well, a fellow like me handles so many guns for so many folks, it's kind of hard to say.
00:32:46A fellow like you sitting here all day, closing the shooting.
00:32:51Come in, sir.
00:32:55Please stay.
00:32:56My daughter, Judge.
00:33:03I saw it.
00:33:04Dad!
00:33:06But I saw it.
00:33:08I couldn't hear, though. I don't know what they said.
00:33:11Was Morrison armed?
00:33:13That I can't say.
00:33:16Did you see it?
00:33:20Miss Webb?
00:33:24Well, no.
00:33:29No, not the gun.
00:33:31No, not the first shot.
00:33:34I heard it and came to the window just as Tom fired again.
00:33:38Did you see Morrison holding a gun?
00:33:42Well, he was down in the weeds. He was already finished, but Tom fired again anyway.
00:33:50I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:33:54I was going to lie to you.
00:33:55I was even going to call my father a liar because Tom had promised to marry me.
00:34:01It isn't easy for a girl to find a husband out here.
00:34:05It's not like back east.
00:34:08The few men that are here, well, they all bow down to the Bannermans like the Bannermans were kings.
00:34:26Will you repeat what you told me at the trial?
00:34:44Everything quiet?
00:34:46Everything except Tom Bannerman, and he's losing his voice.
00:34:49Everything except Tom Bannerman, and he's losing his voice.
00:34:53I have a little business to tend to out of town. It won't take very long.
00:34:57Be back before night?
00:34:59Why?
00:35:00They certainly accused I haven't seen a Bannerman, a Kettering, or a Taylor all day.
00:35:05I think they're holding a powwow.
00:35:08Awful hot weather for arguing.
00:35:19I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:20I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:21I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:22I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:23I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:24I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:25I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:26I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:27I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:28I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:29I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:30I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:31I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:32I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:33I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:34I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:35I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:36I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:37I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:38I'll tell you something else, Judge.
00:35:39Well!
00:35:40What's this?
00:36:00Go on home.
00:36:01Go home!
00:36:09Well, of all people, oh, um, my horse left me.
00:36:18He threw me and ran away.
00:36:21I'll take you back to town.
00:36:22Why aren't you back at the jail, guarding my cousin?
00:36:27Nat Bell does all right.
00:36:32Judge, you better take me home.
00:36:37You can get a horse in town.
00:36:39You're running like this with a bannerman snuggling up to you?
00:36:43Your Honor, the prosecutor will make you disqualify yourself.
00:37:02You're staying for supper, I hope.
00:37:05I don't think so.
00:37:06Well, I do.
00:37:07Come in.
00:37:12Please come in.
00:37:24What's this?
00:37:26The gathering of the clan.
00:37:28Come on, they won't bite you.
00:37:33She brought him here, Amy Lee.
00:37:35If I had a son like her, I'd turn up my toes content.
00:37:38I don't think you have met everybody here, Judge.
00:37:41This is my uncle, Josiah Bannerman.
00:37:43Don't tell him who I am.
00:37:44He has a sense to know who I am.
00:37:46Sit down, Judge.
00:37:48Have a drink.
00:37:49Let's be friends.
00:37:50I'd like to know the names of all my new friends.
00:37:53What's he, a cousin?
00:37:54Oh, brother-in-law, Chester Taylor.
00:37:56The Taylors, the Ketterings, the Bannermans, the whole clan.
00:37:59And I hear you're marrying into it.
00:38:01I certainly hope so, Judge.
00:38:02I certainly hope so, Judge.
00:38:04Don't you know? Talk up!
00:38:05It doesn't seem that Miss Amy Lee's made up her mind.
00:38:07It doesn't seem that Miss Amy Lee's made up her mind.
00:38:09I wish you wouldn't repeat whatever I say.
00:38:11Go get me some cigars.
00:38:14Every time he opens his mouth, a fool looks out.
00:38:18What have you got against my Tom?
00:38:21Speaking as a private citizen or as a judge?
00:38:24You can forget that judge part.
00:38:27You ain't judging any Bannermans.
00:38:29Well, then, speaking as a private citizen, I don't like him.
00:38:34Well, that's straight out.
00:38:37What have you got against him as a judge?
00:38:39Well, I'm sure the prosecutor must have told you that.
00:38:42This is an odd place to find him, but since he's here...
00:38:44Merely in simply investigating circumstances, sir.
00:38:48I've always been a staunch believer in thorough and careful preparation.
00:38:52Yeah, he's a windbag.
00:38:54Can buy and sell men like him every day.
00:38:57Anxious to get on in the world, please everybody.
00:39:00Warm your chair before you set it.
00:39:03No, no, Mr. Bannerman, sir.
00:39:05Now, you. I couldn't buy you, could I?
00:39:08You haven't made me an offer yet.
00:39:11I could make you some, but bust your britches.
00:39:14You know what I own around here.
00:39:17A man can't ride across it in two days.
00:39:20And all the people I got that counts is Amy Lee and that one boy.
00:39:24No one else counts.
00:39:26They do what I say.
00:39:28But why shouldn't they?
00:39:29Where would they be if it wasn't for me?
00:39:32I took this land. I made it mine.
00:39:35And you know what I started with?
00:39:37With nothing.
00:39:39I was a boy when I started.
00:39:42I was laying out here, right there where you're sitting.
00:39:45A 13-year-old boy with my Ma's body across me and an Indian arrow out of her back.
00:39:52And nobody alive but me.
00:39:54And I said right then, this is mine.
00:39:56This whole piece of country's mine.
00:39:59My Ma's blood's in it like it's in me.
00:40:02She give it to me.
00:40:04The land.
00:40:06I got away.
00:40:08When I was growed, I come back and I took it.
00:40:10What's good here is good because of me.
00:40:12If anything's bad, that's because of me.
00:40:15And I'll fix it my way.
00:40:19You can't come in here, mister, and tell me how to run my land.
00:40:24Not with war, not with soldiers.
00:40:27I got men can handle guns, too.
00:40:30You got a son who's too sudden with him.
00:40:32I'll whip him until he can't stand.
00:40:35But I won't let any other man whip him.
00:40:37You'd do better to get him a good lawyer.
00:40:39He won't need one.
00:40:41He will at the trial.
00:40:44He won't need one.
00:40:48You heard Mr. Kettering.
00:40:58Amy Lee?
00:41:04Excuse me.
00:41:28You've been away so long, I thought they'd bushwhacked you.
00:41:31Maybe they will. They don't intend there'll ever be a trial.
00:41:34Come sundown, I think we'll have trouble.
00:41:36Not if we can run from it. I'm taking the prisoner to Cottonwood.
00:41:39Here? Judge, you won't get very far.
00:41:41As far as an honest jury's, far enough.
00:41:58How strong are you for telling your story in court?
00:42:02Well, we've been talking some about that,
00:42:05figuring things out.
00:42:07It's sure we won't be able to live here afterwards.
00:42:10I don't want to live here anyway. I've had enough of it.
00:42:12Are you willing to go to Cottonwood to testify?
00:42:15When?
00:42:16Tonight, undercover.
00:42:19We wouldn't come back here?
00:42:23What about our things?
00:42:24I've got some curtains I brought all the way from Boston.
00:42:27I don't know why you had to come here in the first place.
00:42:30Everything was fine when you came along.
00:42:32You do what you have to do.
00:42:34We'll wait for you on the Cottonwood road about two miles out of town.
00:42:38I'll try to talk the federal government into replacing your curtains.
00:42:55Hello.
00:43:06Quite a crowd tonight.
00:43:10Sizeable, sir. Sizeable.
00:43:13I hope they're in town tomorrow so we can draw on them for a jury.
00:43:16Tomorrow, Judge? Why, sir, by tomorrow?
00:43:20What about it?
00:43:25As the poet says, Your Honor,
00:43:28there are determined men who act by night.
00:43:33Thanks.
00:43:35Thorn?
00:43:46I see you're carrying a gun under that coat.
00:43:49You've got sense enough to know you can't do that unless you raise your hand.
00:43:53I know.
00:43:55You don't mind seeing blood?
00:43:58I do, Judge.
00:44:00I've been seeing it all my life.
00:44:02I can smell it right now just from talking about it.
00:44:06I'd like to spend the rest of my days never seeing it again.
00:44:11Why don't you sit down here, Judge,
00:44:14have a drink, and let you and me talk this thing over like sensible men, huh?
00:44:19I would leave the marshal alone at the tail.
00:44:21I would leave the marshal alone at the tail.
00:44:47I didn't knock either.
00:44:51What did the horse do this time?
00:44:53He's a mean animal.
00:44:55I didn't want to come, but he brought me anyway.
00:44:58Why?
00:45:00Close the door.
00:45:01Did the clerk see you come up?
00:45:03He may have.
00:45:05He's the talkative kind.
00:45:09Why do I care about clerks?
00:45:13I cared more I might never see you again.
00:45:21Did it bother you too?
00:45:37How could you walk away from me?
00:45:40Why did you leave the ranch?
00:45:42I was angry.
00:45:43Why?
00:45:44I knew it was all a trick. Your horse hadn't thrown you.
00:45:47How could you tell?
00:45:49You didn't have any dirt on you.
00:45:50You looked me over?
00:45:53Carefully.
00:45:55Thanks for what you were thinking.
00:46:00How did you know what I was thinking?
00:46:02I could tell.
00:46:07You're engaged to Arnold Hammer.
00:46:09Not anymore.
00:46:10Since when?
00:46:11Since you kissed me.
00:46:15It isn't gonna work.
00:46:16What won't work?
00:46:17What about all the others?
00:46:19What others?
00:46:20Josiah Bannerman, Tom Bannerman, Kettering, Taylor.
00:46:23Oh, all the Bannermans.
00:46:25Let Tom out of jail and the whole thing is over.
00:46:28Better than over.
00:46:30Josiah thinks you're the best that's ever come to town.
00:46:33He said when you left that...
00:46:37What's the matter?
00:46:39You're a Bannerman, all right.
00:46:42What does that mean?
00:46:44You'd stop at nothing to save your cousin.
00:46:49You're a Bannerman.
00:47:04Just a minute.
00:47:05Where are you going?
00:47:06Tell me now, where are you going?
00:47:08Who wants to know?
00:47:09Old Bannerman, he wants to know.
00:47:11Listen, I'm supposed to tell him
00:47:13anybody that goes in and out of that jail.
00:47:16Why did they pick you?
00:47:17Because they can depend on me.
00:47:19Look, because you wouldn't suspect me.
00:47:23You wouldn't want to put somebody out here
00:47:25that would suspect me, would you?
00:47:27Why, that would be hypocritical.
00:47:29Well, now, look.
00:47:30Why don't you come in the marshal's office
00:47:32and watch me in a nice comfortable chair?
00:47:34Well, I don't need a chair.
00:47:36Maybe there's another jug in there.
00:47:38I don't care.
00:47:40Hey, maybe there is.
00:47:42Let's go see.
00:47:47I've given that fool judge enough time to change his mind.
00:47:50Go get Tom.
00:47:52And no gunplay.
00:47:54What?
00:47:55You'd like to go on a scalp hunt, wouldn't you?
00:47:58You kill that judge and there'll be another fellow
00:48:00just like him snooping around to see what happened.
00:48:02And after him, another and another
00:48:03until they cramp down all the grass.
00:48:06We don't want him killed.
00:48:08Just plum discouraged.
00:48:10Go on.
00:48:17Go on.
00:48:40Tom, wake up.
00:48:42Tom, it's us.
00:48:44Hey, he's sick or drunk.
00:48:45Somebody get a key.
00:48:46Ah, then we'll leave it around.
00:48:47But we need us a blacksmith.
00:48:51Looks like there's something the matter with him.
00:49:00Tom?
00:49:03No.
00:49:06They took Tom away.
00:49:08I've been thinking too tame.
00:49:09All right, boys, get your rifles.
00:49:17Could be around here someplace.
00:49:19Oh, Webb.
00:49:21Vince Webb?
00:49:22And his daughter.
00:49:24What have they got to do with this?
00:49:26Witnesses.
00:49:27They saw the shooting.
00:49:33Well, well, we're getting to be a nice-sized party.
00:49:36Maybe now we can pick up a fiddler
00:49:37and have us some wedding music.
00:49:39Leave her alone.
00:49:40Who's going to leave you alone?
00:49:41How far do you think you'll get?
00:49:42Cottonwood.
00:49:43Well, 47 miles.
00:49:4547 miles.
00:49:46We'll make it.
00:49:47I don't know about that.
00:49:48Get back in that saddle.
00:49:49Judge, I'm tired of riding.
00:49:51A man ought to walk once in a while.
00:49:53Get back in that saddle
00:49:54or you'll come into Cottonwood across it.
00:49:56Let's talk about it.
00:49:59Judge, he looks to me
00:50:00like a prisoner trying to escape.
00:50:02He has all the earmarks.
00:50:04You can't shoot him.
00:50:06That's no better than he did to Sid Morrison.
00:50:11Why don't you button your lip?
00:50:16Come on.
00:50:28Listen.
00:50:31They're coming right behind us.
00:50:32There's going to be shooting.
00:50:33I want protection.
00:50:34I am a prisoner.
00:50:35Shut him up.
00:50:46They're ahead of us now.
00:50:48You're worried, witness?
00:50:50Look, there's a cut through them hills.
00:50:52Ain't much good for night riding,
00:50:53but it'll save us 30 miles.
00:50:55Where will it bring us out?
00:50:56Down on the plain
00:50:57with Cottonwood a mile away.
00:50:58We'll take it.
00:50:59I know that trail.
00:51:00We'll end up over the side of a cliff.
00:51:03We'll take it.
00:51:04I know that trail.
00:51:05We'll end up over the side of a cliff.
00:51:06We'll take it.
00:51:07I know that trail.
00:51:08We'll end up over the side of a cliff.
00:51:33Doesn't appear to be a soul down there.
00:51:35Used to be plenty of room in them trees
00:51:37to hide engines.
00:51:39Thorne doesn't stand to cover.
00:51:40He moves.
00:51:41You like it.
00:51:45It didn't go by here.
00:51:46How could he know that?
00:51:48What do you think, Sam?
00:51:51Well, if he took the other road to Seven Pines,
00:51:54Taylor's likely bringing him in right now.
00:51:56They're headed for Cottonwood,
00:51:58where we don't stand so long.
00:52:00All right, they haven't passed by here.
00:52:03You reckon Bell knows about that fool trail
00:52:05through them canyons?
00:52:06If he does, Thorne would take it.
00:52:09Then we've got him.
00:52:11Sam, I want every man in from the range.
00:52:13Move on into town and bring Taylor and his boys.
00:52:15We're gonna treat this judge.
00:52:18We'll close up both ends of that canyon trail
00:52:20and if he gets by us in there,
00:52:21we'll be waiting for him on the plain.
00:52:24Joe, take some boys and ride this road.
00:52:27Joe, take some boys and ride this road.
00:52:30You come with me.
00:52:31I'll go back with Arnold.
00:52:32I said come with me!
00:52:33And I heard you!
00:52:35Fool women!
00:52:42This is real nice of you, Amy Lee.
00:52:44I didn't expect...
00:52:45Well, you know.
00:52:47Don't expect anything, Arnold.
00:52:49Do as you were told.
00:52:50I don't understand.
00:52:51Seems to me that every time we're alone...
00:52:53Do as you were told!
00:52:55All right.
00:52:56Why don't we forget about getting married, Amy Lee?
00:52:58I don't know what you want, but it isn't me.
00:53:27Oh, I don't go through there with my hands tied.
00:53:30I'll manage this horse.
00:53:31He's right.
00:53:34A man can't ride that trail with his hands tied.
00:53:36And supposing I want to put a loving arm
00:53:38around this sweet, cuddly girl here.
00:53:40We gotta keep the witnesses warm.
00:53:42Judge, let him ride the inside of the trail.
00:53:45I'll keep him from the fall.
00:53:49Think he's looking for us?
00:53:52Think he's looking for us?
00:53:57If he is, he's sure gonna catch up.
00:54:08Amy Lee!
00:54:09You best-danged hombre in the world!
00:54:11How'd you figure it?
00:54:12What are they doing here?
00:54:14Witnesses, he says.
00:54:15I thought Tom had his brand on you.
00:54:17Until we saw him kill Sid Morrison.
00:54:19You turn real fast.
00:54:20Never make a bannerman.
00:54:22You might as well let him go.
00:54:24You can't make it to Cottonwood.
00:54:25We can try.
00:54:26Not by this trail.
00:54:27Josiah's at the other end.
00:54:29I hope you'll be reasonable.
00:54:31Keep an eye on Miss Bannerman.
00:54:33You've come this far.
00:54:35Why turn back?
00:54:49I don't know.
00:55:00Take a breather.
00:55:07You believe the old man's waitin' for us?
00:55:09He'll be there.
00:55:10Bannermans take care of each other.
00:55:12That's their strength.
00:55:14Is there any water?
00:55:15The judge has a canteen.
00:55:17I'll get it for you, Miss Bannerman.
00:55:19Get me out of this.
00:55:20For a chance I see.
00:55:21And see something's done about those witnesses.
00:55:24How'd they get into this?
00:55:26Morrison saw me hankering after his wife, and he wasn't man enough to call me on it.
00:55:31He ran to snitch to her.
00:55:33I had to gun him down.
00:55:36You had to?
00:55:38Sure.
00:55:41I'll give it to him.
00:55:45I'll give it to him.
00:55:59Could I have some?
00:56:01Sure. Go ahead, witness. I'll have to kiss on it for you.
00:56:04Then I'll do without it.
00:56:14I'll give it to him.
00:56:45Stay here.
00:56:47Hold the horses.
00:56:50Get down.
00:56:52You take care of her.
00:57:14Betty boy.
00:57:36Betty.
00:57:54He's a killer.
00:57:56He's no man, I mean it. He's a killer.
00:57:59He pushed her father over to the side. I saw it.
00:58:01He was going to do it again.
00:58:02Do it again. Do him.
00:58:06Shoot.
00:58:07Keep your eye on him.
00:58:33What makes you so bound to do this?
00:58:36What's in it for you?
00:58:37A man believes in a thing and he goes ahead.
00:58:40Like your reason for trying to make me quit.
00:58:43I could see you hurt or killed if you didn't quit.
00:58:46And with my reason.
00:58:48It never cost you a hundred times to keep your life.
00:59:00It looks like we've come to Cottonwood.
00:59:07Not yet.
00:59:16Bloody old buffalo.
00:59:18I told you.
00:59:19It's a far away trial. You got your heart set on, Judge.
00:59:21Now we back up in the canyon and make a stand.
00:59:24We're coming down the way too.
00:59:26Stay on your horse. High as beef.
00:59:28I'll quit it, will you? You're done.
00:59:29I'll talk to you in the courtroom.
00:59:58I'm not letting him go.
01:00:18Thought you were riding back with Arnold Hammer.
01:00:20I made another choice.
01:00:23What's she doing with my son?
01:00:24Oh, a witness.
01:00:25Claims she saw the shooting. It's a lie.
01:00:27It's up to the jury to decide.
01:00:29Judge, I'm trying to be a peaceable man.
01:00:31Then get out of my way.
01:00:32I don't have to. You're licked. Licked!
01:00:36What are you trying to do? Bluff me with a pair of deuces?
01:00:40Any man moves to help him, I'll shoot.
01:00:43What does that add up to?
01:00:45He dies this way instead of by a hangman's rope.
01:00:48I care how he dies, Judge.
01:00:51Nobody comes to where I am and takes out a bannerman to stretch his neck.
01:00:54Even if he's guilty?
01:00:56He's still my family and my business.
01:00:58Call his hand.
01:01:04I'm calling you, Judge.
01:01:07Kill him or let him go.
01:01:38You, get back to your job while you've got a job.
01:01:47Yes, Mr. Patterson.
01:01:49Carolyn, I'll get you home.
01:01:54Is this the end of it?
01:01:58Then why did my father die?
01:02:11How's about somebody cutting me loose?
01:02:15You ought to hang him yourself.
01:02:17He's no good. He's a killer.
01:02:18He killed Vince Webb on the trail.
01:02:20She's a liar.
01:02:21I saw him do it.
01:02:23He never had a chance.
01:02:24Is somebody going to cut me loose?
01:02:27He's my son.
01:02:29If he hangs, I'll pull the rope.
01:02:31No one else.
01:02:33She's double-crossed you, a bannerman.
01:03:03Circle that array and get into the town.
01:03:31Hey!
01:04:01That's enough!
01:04:14I'm trusting you to go easy on that boy.
01:04:17He'll have a fair trial.
01:04:18No favors.
01:04:21You better take Amy Lee with you when you go.
01:04:24I set no table for them that turns against me.
01:05:24The court is in session.
01:05:26Judge Richard Thorne presiding.
01:05:30The people versus Thomas Bannerman.