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**The Legendary Western Movie You Can't Afford**  Set against the backdrop of the untamed American frontier, "The Legendary Western Movie You Can't Afford" is a gripping tale of courage, betrayal, and redemption. The film follows the journey of Jake Thompson (played by a seasoned Hollywood actor), a former gunslinger who has turned his back on violence to lead a peaceful life as a rancher. However, his past catches up with him when a ruthless outlaw gang, led by the menacing Clayton Black (played by an iconic villain actor), threatens his town and the people he loves.  As tensions rise, Jake is forced to pick up his guns once more. Teaming up with an unlikely group of allies, including the feisty saloon owner Belle (played by a renowned actress) and a mysterious Native American tracker (played by an up-and-coming star), Jake embarks on a dangerous mission to rid the town of the outlaws and protect his newfound peace. Along the way, they face treacherous landscapes, high-stakes shootouts, and personal demons that test their resolve.  "The Legendary Western Movie You Can't Afford" combines breathtaking cinematography with a powerful score, transporting viewers to a time when the line between lawmen and outlaws was as rugged as the terrain. The film’s compelling narrative, stellar performances, and meticulously crafted action sequences make it a must-watch for fans of the Western genre.  #WesternMovie #Hollywood #Gunslinger #Outlaw #AmericanFrontier #Courage #Betrayal #Redemption #Action #Adventure #EpicTale #MustWatch #CinematicExperience

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00:05:00He's smacking to Apache country without no gun.

00:05:03This is his third day without food or water.

00:05:06I'm gonna tell one and all that Comanche Todd was the bravest man I ever hung.

00:05:11You cover. I'll trail.

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00:08:50Just enough to keep you alive.

00:08:53Just enough to get you back to that rope.

00:09:04Heard of a hanging-up by Cheyenne.

00:09:07Took nearly half an hour for the fella to die.

00:09:11Just choking to death.

00:09:13You're gonna break that record.

00:09:16You're gonna break that record.

00:09:24Too proud to beg, huh?

00:09:34Hello.

00:09:36Hey.

00:09:40I'm Sheriff Harper from Oak Creek.

00:09:42Got me a killer here on take and back.

00:09:45Sheriff, I'm William Norman,

00:09:47late Colonel Union Army.

00:09:49We're headed for Tucson.

00:09:51You know where you're at?

00:09:53Canyon de la Muerte, isn't it?

00:09:55Apache Canyon to death.

00:09:57How come they let you take this route

00:09:59with no military escort?

00:10:01Work was shorthanded due to the Apache raids up north.

00:10:04All my men are veterans.

00:10:06At what?

00:10:08Fighting.

00:10:09Apaches?

00:10:10Well, no.

00:10:11We're from beyond the Mississippi.

00:10:13You can use an extra gun,

00:10:15at least until you get to Oak Creek.

00:10:18He'll be safe in your custody, I suppose.

00:10:21Just that we've got women and children with us.

00:10:24He'll be safe.

00:10:25The first time he don't look safe,

00:10:27he'll get dead.

00:10:31Come on.

00:10:43Who are the strangers, Colonel?

00:10:45Sheriff from Oak Creek, Mrs. Clinton,

00:10:47with a murderer he's bringing to justice.

00:10:49Clint, form a crescent and tie up at that far pine.

00:10:52Yes, sir.

00:10:54He really a killer?

00:10:56Going to hang him?

00:10:59Why don't we do it here tonight?

00:11:02I don't know.

00:11:04I've never seen him before.

00:11:06I don't know him.

00:11:08I don't know him.

00:11:10I don't know him.

00:11:12I don't know him.

00:11:14I don't know him.

00:11:16I don't know him.

00:11:18I don't know him.

00:11:20I don't know him.

00:11:22Why don't we do it here tonight?

00:11:26Honor of a $1,000 reward from the territory.

00:11:52Sheriff,

00:11:54you can buck onto that fire wagon.

00:12:00Can we camp here, brother?

00:12:02Yes, sis. This is our place.

00:12:04Fire wagon!

00:12:08Can we camp here, brother?

00:12:10Yes, sis. This is our place.

00:12:23Sis! Look!

00:12:34You, stop that!

00:12:37That's right, Tadpole.

00:12:39You keep that gun handy.

00:12:41He's killed more people, and you got freckles.

00:12:43I got no freckles.

00:12:46And I don't care what he's done.

00:12:49He's a human being, and you're treating him like an animal.

00:12:53The young woman's right, Sheriff.

00:12:55Secure your prisoner, but stop the brutality.

00:13:00Oh, look here, you Christers.

00:13:02This here's Comanche Todd.

00:13:04He killed three of my brothers.

00:13:06Ambushed them, like the Comanches he come from.

00:13:09Don't be fooled by the color of his eyes and his skin.

00:13:12He may be white, but inside, he's all Comanche.

00:13:15Lived with them 20 years of his own choosing.

00:13:17And I saw it.

00:13:19I saw it.

00:13:21I saw it.

00:13:23I saw it.

00:13:25I saw it.

00:13:2720 years of his own choosing.

00:13:29And I say any Indian-loving white who chooses Comanches against his own kind is no good.

00:13:33No rotten good!

00:13:37So I don't know, but he gets soft-bellied.

00:13:39I'm sorry for him.

00:13:41He's what they scrape off the bottom of the barrel.

00:13:44An Indian-loving murderer.

00:13:47And still a human being.

00:13:50Come on, Betty, let's feed him more of the tea.

00:14:09Fiddles, everyone! Come and get it!

00:14:11Come and get it while it's hot!

00:14:15Last of the Colorado Isles!

00:14:17Last of the Colorado apples!

00:14:27Time for the feedback, eh, folks?

00:14:29Hello, Sheriff.

00:14:31Mrs. Clinton will fill you a couple of mugs and plates.

00:14:33If you'd like, the sergeant here can guard your prisoner while he eats.

00:14:36He don't eat.

00:14:48Let us pray.

00:14:50Our Heavenly Father,

00:14:52we thank Thee for continuing to guide us through this hostile land.

00:14:57We thank Thee for the comfort that Thou has given to those in need of Thy grace.

00:15:03We ask that Thou guide us, O'er goodness and kindness

00:15:07and love for each other and for our fellow man.

00:15:10With each day, teach us to live with open hearts

00:15:13and to share with our fellow man Thy bounties,

00:15:16Thy infinite goodness,

00:15:18each according to his needs.

00:15:20Amen.

00:15:41You'd like something to wash it down?

00:15:47Come on.

00:16:01What was that?

00:16:03The sheriff.

00:16:05I ain't warning you folks again.

00:16:08I meant what I said.

00:16:10He don't eat.

00:16:12I'll kill the first man that tries to feed him.

00:16:15I aim to deliver him just alive.

00:16:18No more.

00:16:21Put that rifle down, sheriff.

00:16:26How come?

00:16:28We've taken all we can from you, sheriff.

00:16:30For Christian people, we like to think we're civilized.

00:16:33We'd be neither if we left a fellow man to thirst and starve.

00:16:38Unlash him.

00:16:40I don't buffalo easy.

00:16:42Neither do I.

00:16:44Untie him.

00:17:02You've got no right to do this.

00:17:04You may handcuff one of his hands to the wheel.

00:17:06That way, your prisoner will be safe and he'll still manage to eat.

00:17:14Now, if someone will bring this man a plate of food.

00:17:16Here's some.

00:17:19Will you give me your word to behave in a reasonable manner?

00:17:24And you,

00:17:26don't you ever raise your gun against any of our people again.

00:17:30Not even against youngsters a third your size.

00:17:36She's washing his face.

00:17:38Who would be her who'd throw herself at him?

00:17:41Imagine, so man-hungry as to throw yourself even at an Indian-loving murderer.

00:17:48She's just being kind.

00:17:50She's an outsider. She doesn't have to care what people think.

00:17:53Just look at her.

00:17:55Wouldn't surprise me, she even went to him in the night.

00:17:57And the rest of us are sleeping.

00:17:59She's got no shame.

00:18:02You're the shameless one.

00:18:04What do you mean by that?

00:18:07You act so clean and think so dirty.

00:18:10I, dirty?

00:18:12Yes.

00:18:14Like when you say Indian-lover and make it sound so filthy.

00:18:19That's exactly the way I want it to sound.

00:18:22It is something filthy.

00:18:25It was something filthy when my father took your mother as his woman.

00:18:29I suppose you think that was clean.

00:18:32A white man in a Navajo squall sneaking off up some dark wash in the night like a pair of animals.

00:18:38And look what came of him. You.

00:18:41Oh, don't think an education and a white name make up for where you came from.

00:18:46You think I want you for even a half-sister?

00:18:48Well, I don't.

00:18:50You think I'm not ashamed of my father and what he did?

00:18:53Well, I am.

00:18:55I'm sick to my stomach ashamed.

00:19:00You have every right to be ashamed.

00:19:02Of yourself.

00:19:04You know I met Jolie's mother before I knew yours.

00:19:07And I loved her most dearly.

00:19:09Most dearly?

00:19:11Did you ever tell that to my mother?

00:19:13Is that why she died?

00:19:15Did you finally confess to her you had once fallen in love with a filthy Indian and had a baby by her?

00:19:22Get her to the wagon and stay there.

00:19:37I can't even ask you to forgive her.

00:19:41She has reason to be hurt.

00:19:44She's ashamed of me before the others.

00:20:04Is there anything else I can get you?

00:20:06No, this is fine.

00:20:09Are they truly going to hang you, Mr. Todd?

00:20:13Looks that way.

00:20:15Well, aren't you scared?

00:20:17Not yet.

00:20:19Oh, I'd be. I bet it'll hurt.

00:20:22Yeah, I reckon so.

00:20:25Say, uh, what's the name of your sis?

00:20:29Jenny. We're going to Tucson now. Some fellow there wants to marry Jenny.

00:20:33What you want to marry him for?

00:20:35He said he'd see you. I was brung up.

00:20:37Well, I got to help with the chores now, Mr. Todd.

00:20:40All right.

00:20:41I'll see you later.

00:20:42Sure.

00:20:43I'm glad you like her, too.

00:20:56See his nose wriggling?

00:20:59Bet he hasn't had a good smoke in a long time.

00:21:02Why don't you give him a puff?

00:21:05Think I want him slobbering on my pipe stem?

00:21:07Your pipe. It's your paws.

00:21:09What's the matter? You scared of a little old murderer?

00:21:12Give it to me.

00:21:23Smoke?

00:21:26Thanks.

00:21:35I guess it must taste pretty good. I don't smoke myself.

00:21:38Yeah, it sure does. Tastes real good.

00:21:45Your ass gonna get kilt?

00:21:47Don't see it does no harm.

00:21:49Tough plow boy, huh? Just looking for trouble.

00:21:51No, sir, I ain't looking for trouble.

00:21:53But I don't see it does no harm in giving him a puff.

00:21:55You don't, eh?

00:21:59He's hurting better.

00:22:01Leave him alone!

00:22:06Leave him alone!

00:22:24I tell you, Christ, this...

00:22:35Get him!

00:22:43Get him!

00:22:49He'll never try that again.

00:22:51Gosh, I guess Comanches are about the best battle-axe throwers there are.

00:22:55Mr. Todd's not a Comanche.

00:22:57He was trying to help Glenn.

00:22:59Let's go see if he killed him dead.

00:23:01No, stay here.

00:23:06You violated a trust.

00:23:08And I feel responsible because I believed you could act like a reasonable man.

00:23:12Seemed reasonable to me.

00:23:15I had a right to kill him.

00:23:18And then I don't suppose my side of the story interests you none, does it?

00:23:23No. You can save it for the authorities when we get back to civilization.

00:23:27And if you try to escape, we're prepared to shoot you.

00:23:31You understand?

00:23:33Seems reasonable.

00:23:51I brung you something.

00:23:53Oh, thanks, son.

00:23:58Oatmeal cookies with raisins, nuts and cinnamon.

00:24:01Raisins, nuts and cinnamon. Sis calls them hermits.

00:24:04Good.

00:24:05Mr. Todd?

00:24:07Did you really kill all those fellas like the sheriff said?

00:24:12Yep.

00:24:14Well, could I ask you something?

00:24:18Sure.

00:24:20Do you think you'll go to heaven?

00:24:25Why do you ask?

00:24:27Well, I was sort of figuring on going there myself someday.

00:24:30And I thought it'd be kind of nice if you were up there, too.

00:24:33We could go scouting and things like that.

00:24:40What is it?

00:24:42Somebody's moving to the colonel's wagon.

00:24:45I'll look.

00:25:01Come on.

00:25:10Got the nerve to do what we said?

00:25:12My father's mad at me.

00:25:14He's in his tent over there.

00:25:16If he catches us, he'd kill us.

00:25:18How will he know? We'll be back before dawn.

00:25:21It'll be fun. Come on.

00:25:23Sure. Then you go around boasting at the old camp what we did.

00:25:27I never went moonlight swimming alone with a boy in my whole life.

00:25:31Nobody'll know. If we start now, we'll be back before moondown.

00:25:35It'll be dark. Come on.

00:25:37I won't tell anybody.

00:25:39Where would we undress?

00:25:41Down there. Think we'd do it on horseback?

00:25:44Come on.

00:25:46It'll be our last swim in 100 miles.

00:25:48I've saddled my horse.

00:25:50I won't say I will, and I won't say I won't.

00:25:53Never mind.

00:25:55We'll take Jolie anyway.

00:25:59Then go right ahead.

00:26:11Jolie.

00:26:13How'd you know that?

00:26:15I heard.

00:26:17Well, as long as she won't, I will.

00:26:19Ridge.

00:26:25I'm ready.

00:26:27We can't ride three on a horse.

00:26:30I've only got one saddle.

00:26:33Well...

00:26:38Let him ride with you. I'll ride bareback on Bill.

00:26:48I'm coming, too.

00:26:50Shh. This is for grown-ups. Beat it.

00:26:52Who says you're grown-ups?

00:26:54I'll wail the tar out of you.

00:26:56If you're not quiet, none of us will swim.

00:26:58He can ride with me.

00:27:01Put your arms around me.

00:27:03You bet.

00:27:15I guess I sure started to mess when I gave you that puff on that pipe.

00:27:19Don't fluster yourself, son. You didn't have no part of it.

00:27:22Any time I had a hatchet and Bull Harper was handy,

00:27:26what happened was as sure as moss growing on the north side of trees.

00:27:34Have either of you seen my brother?

00:27:36Gone swimming.

00:27:38He what?

00:27:40Went swimming with that show-offy boy and the two sisters.

00:27:42Back to the last fort in place, he said.

00:27:45The little devil.

00:27:47Yes, he's got a lot of devil in him. Real fine boy.

00:27:49Colonel hears this, he'll be raving mad.

00:27:51Let's not make a fuss. We'll bring him back ourselves.

00:27:53Nobody need know.

00:27:55I'm on guard.

00:27:57You run along. Any calls for alarm, I'll holler.

00:27:59Seems kind of wrong having a prisoner stand guard.

00:28:03I'm sure his eyes and ears are as sharp as anyone's.

00:28:08All right, I'll go get the handgun.

00:28:10Thank you, Mr. Todd.

00:28:13You sure smell good.

00:28:20Last one in's an old mule's tail.

00:28:22Where's your swimsuit?

00:28:24I'm going in wrong.

00:28:27You dare not take a switch to our bare bottom.

00:28:30This naughty boy didn't even bring a swimsuit.

00:28:32Neither did I. Beat it downstream.

00:28:34Woo-hoo!

00:28:36Stay clear of the falls and no peeking.

00:28:38All right, let's go.

00:28:40Let's go.

00:28:42Let's go.

00:28:44Let's go.

00:28:46Let's go.

00:28:49Did I hear you correctly?

00:28:51You mean you didn't even bring a swimming costume?

00:28:53That's right.

00:28:55Oh, that must be...

00:29:00And she hasn't either?

00:29:02Ooh, it's cold, but it feels so good.

00:29:06You planned this just to humiliate me.

00:29:09Planned what?

00:29:11She hasn't got a single solitary thing on.

00:29:13How do you know? It's too dark to see.

00:29:15She's a savage.

00:29:17Sure, that makes two of us.

00:29:24I think it's just shocking.

00:29:26And sinful.

00:29:28And too dark to make any difference.

00:29:40Come on down here.

00:29:42Make it a slide.

00:29:47Come on.

00:30:09Ooh, it's so cold, it's gonna shrivel me all up.

00:30:18Spying on us, huh?

00:30:20Where's Billy hiding?

00:30:22I suppose you're going to tell.

00:30:25Why should I? I wish you'd ask me, too.

00:30:28Where's Billy?

00:30:30Don't worry, I shoot him downstream where he couldn't peek.

00:30:32Help!

00:30:34Help!

00:30:39There's Billy!

00:30:41Billy!

00:30:43Billy!

00:30:45There's Billy!

00:30:47Billy!

00:30:49Help!

00:30:51Help!

00:30:53Help! Billy!

00:30:55Billy!

00:30:57Help! Billy!

00:30:59Billy!

00:31:01Help!

00:31:13Help! Billy!

00:31:15Billy!

00:31:17Billy!

00:31:19Help!

00:31:32You saw those falls this morning.

00:31:34Didn't you know the kid could get swept over them?

00:31:36Sure, but I...

00:31:42Stop this!

00:31:44Billy didn't drown, and it'll be daylight before you get back.

00:31:47If you don't hurry, they'll find you're gone.

00:31:49Dawn's almost breaking.

00:31:51Aren't you gonna lick me?

00:31:53I'm too glad to have you back.

00:32:01I'm too glad to have you back.

00:32:31I'm too glad to have you back.

00:33:01I'm too glad to have you back.

00:33:22Oh, dear God!

00:33:31It's gone.

00:33:42Mr. Todd! Under that wheel!

00:33:50You can lower me down on the rope.

00:34:01Ready? Yeah.

00:34:31Can you move any, Mr. Todd?

00:34:34Not much. I'm caught between these rocks.

00:34:37That's what saved me.

00:34:40Anybody left alive up there?

00:34:43Just us, the windswomen. It's real terrible.

00:34:46Are you hurt? No, I don't think so.

00:34:49How'd you get down there?

00:34:52I fell down.

00:34:55You fell down?

00:34:58Are you hurt? No, I don't think so.

00:35:01How'd you get down here? Rope.

00:35:04How can I help you?

00:35:07Can you move the wagon bed that's pinning this wheel down?

00:35:10I'll see.

00:35:13I'm afraid if I do that, the whole thing will go down and take you with it.

00:35:17Let's try it. Go ahead, shove.

00:35:20Can I get on the wheel? Yeah, sure. Go on.

00:35:29Billy! Billy!

00:35:32We're all right!

00:35:35They found somebody.

00:35:42I can't budge it. What'll I do?

00:35:45You got a safe place to roost there?

00:35:48Sure, there's a wide ledge.

00:35:51All right, then, tie the rope down.

00:35:54Jenny!

00:35:57Tally the rope to the saddle!

00:36:04You ready? Go ahead.

00:36:07Start hauling, sis! Easy!

00:36:10Come on!

00:36:13Come on!

00:36:16Come on!

00:36:19Come on!

00:36:22Come on, sis! Easy!

00:36:35Okay! All the way!

00:36:52Thanks.

00:36:54Throw the rope back for Billy, will you?

00:37:04I'll get it.

00:37:06I'll get it.

00:37:08I'll get it.

00:37:10I'll get it.

00:37:12I'll get it.

00:37:14I'll get it.

00:37:16I'll get it.

00:37:18I'll get it.

00:37:20I'll get it.

00:37:42All the way, sis!

00:37:44Here!

00:37:50I'll get it.

00:38:06Are you all right, Mr. Todd?

00:38:08Yeah, I guess so.

00:38:10How can I get you loose of that wheel?

00:38:12Well, let's see.

00:38:14Maybe if you loop the rope through the spokes...

00:38:17All right.

00:38:23He says we'll get a turtle loose.

00:38:25Yes, I left him on guard.

00:38:27Maybe you'd better first tell us why you didn't warn our folks.

00:38:30I did.

00:38:32But before they was full awake, the Apaches swarmed him.

00:38:36Nobody had a chance.

00:38:38How was it they killed our people and left you alive?

00:38:42They didn't think they did.

00:38:45I'll tell you why.

00:38:47Because they weren't Apaches. They were his own Comanches.

00:38:50And he didn't warn anybody.

00:38:52That's why he's alive.

00:38:54If they was Comanches, you think my own people would shove me over that cliff?

00:38:59You've got no right to be living when all our people are dead.

00:39:02You've got no right to be alive!

00:39:04Stop it, Belinda.

00:39:06I won't stop it. Sure, you're on his side.

00:39:08You're nothing but an Indian to yourself.

00:39:10You haven't got any feelings. You haven't even cried.

00:39:13You don't care if our father's dead?

00:39:17What about it?

00:39:21That gal's kind of quick-sprung, ain't she?

00:39:25Now, Jenny, if you just take the slack out of that rope...

00:39:32No, we don't!

00:39:37Say, uh, while he's nursing that rope...

00:39:41If you just take that gun, hold it against these spokes,

00:39:44you can, uh, sort of blow me loose.

00:39:47You do, and you'll kill us all!

00:39:49I got nothing against you folks.

00:39:51Do you think he can survive with that wheelchair into his back?

00:39:54I don't care whether he does or not. He's nothing to us.

00:39:57He is to me and to Jenny.

00:39:59I think he is to each of you.

00:40:01And I think we'd all best face the truth.

00:40:04We're more alone now than we've ever been in our lives.

00:40:07If we can get Mr. Todd to lead us, maybe we'll survive.

00:40:10If he doesn't, we won't.

00:40:12Lead us? Him?

00:40:14We'll find our own way. We'll get our father's mubs.

00:40:16They're burnt black.

00:40:18All we gotta do is follow this rim road west a hundred miles.

00:40:21You do that, and the Apaches will see you from 50 miles off.

00:40:24We can always turn back the way we came, back over the water crossing.

00:40:28Can you?

00:40:30Take a look.

00:40:36You got just one way out of here.

00:40:39Through the canyon of death.

00:40:42So, uh, if you'll just shoot me loose...

00:40:49We're not turning this killer loose.

00:40:51Stand clear. All of you.

00:40:54Tell her to stop, or I'll kill you. I mean it.

00:40:58Well, Sonny, I'll tell you what I think.

00:41:01You might shoot a man if you were scared enough.

00:41:06But you ain't quite scared enough right now.

00:41:10Not yet.

00:41:14Go ahead, Jenny.

00:41:17Get up!

00:41:27Well, now.

00:41:29Since you're in charge here, any of them water barrels still whole?

00:41:33Because there just ain't no water where we're going. None at all.

00:41:38How about food? Any left unburnt?

00:41:41I don't know.

00:41:43If you were anything but a savage, you'd know our first thoughts and duties were to our dead.

00:41:48Your first duties to yourself, presuming you want to live.

00:41:52Our first duties to our folks. We're gonna bury them.

00:41:55I don't think you ought to.

00:41:57I don't care what you think.

00:42:00Are you suggesting we leave our people to the coyotes and the wolves?

00:42:05They're dead, ain't they?

00:42:07You're a beast.

00:42:17Billy. Yes?

00:42:19One of them horses yours? The bay.

00:42:21Go get him, will you?

00:42:24You and your brother help me, and I feel bound.

00:42:28These here people are gonna die soon.

00:42:31If you want, you and Billy can start west with me. Maybe I can walk us through the canyon.

00:42:35We heard that was taboo to whites.

00:42:37That's why we'll take it. We might get through, you and me and the boy.

00:42:42What of the others?

00:42:45Fools just gotta get themselves killed.

00:42:50They'll dig them graves.

00:42:53First party of Apache comes by.

00:42:55He'll read the signs, know somebody lived through the fight.

00:42:59And Apache are almighty good trackers.

00:43:03They won't live long.

00:43:07Mr. Todd.

00:43:10May I go with you?

00:43:13All right.

00:43:15You show a sight more promise than these others, you can come.

00:43:20Mr. Todd knows Indians, and he knows the country.

00:43:23Can't you see he's your only chance?

00:43:25I don't want him along.

00:43:30I understand what you meant now about not burying our dead.

00:43:35But you see,

00:43:38well, me and my mother and sister were awful close.

00:43:42Well, death's a path we're all on, son.

00:43:46The Indians say a warrior dies well if he gives his life for his loved ones.

00:43:53Let's say your folks got a chance now to do that for you.

00:43:58I'd like to come along with you, too.

00:44:01Sure.

00:44:03All right, I'll go along, too.

00:44:05But let's all get this straight.

00:44:07I don't take orders from nobody.

00:44:10I keep the gun.

00:44:13And his bracelets stay on.

00:44:30Starting now, we turn into scavengers.

00:44:43Look for water barrels.

00:44:45Maybe the Apaches left more in this one.

00:44:49We're gonna need every drop of water we can get.

00:44:56And you're gonna have to piece together the makings of a wagon.

00:45:13Well, looky here.

00:45:15I got me a keepsake.

00:45:21That reminds me.

00:45:23Look for something to kill with.

00:45:29I'll take that.

00:45:32I'll take that.

00:45:34I'll take that.

00:45:36I'll take that.

00:45:38I'll take that.

00:45:41Something like this.

00:45:44They don't mind robbing the dead.

00:45:47They're beyond caring.

00:46:10I'll take that.

00:46:12I'll take that.

00:46:41Come on.

00:46:49About 300 Apache back at the water, coming from all over.

00:46:53White Mountains, Mescaleros, a lot of tribes.

00:46:59Seems some whites led a sneak attack on Camp Grant.

00:47:03Slaughtered 110 Apache women and children.

00:47:06They're gathering to make the whites pay up, ten to one.

00:47:10Your folks was first blood.

00:47:13So for the next two days, they'll be gathering, working up the bust loose.

00:47:17Means we got two days and nights to travel as far and as fast as we can.

00:47:21No stopping for nothing.

00:47:23Now, if anything happens to me, you just...

00:47:26Now, come on. You better take a look.

00:47:37There she lies.

00:47:39As far into the west as your eyes can see.

00:47:42And then some.

00:47:44Canyon of death.

00:47:46The Indians say you can hear cries in the night down there that you'll hear all your life.

00:47:51Usually it's only the wind.

00:47:53Now, if anything happens to me, you just keep due west.

00:47:57It'll be eight or ten days to water.

00:48:00If anything happens to me, you just keep due west.

00:48:03It'll be eight or ten days to water.

00:48:06You live to see it.

00:48:08And I ain't saying any of us will.

00:48:11I am saying it's our only chance.

00:48:30I am saying it's our only chance.

00:49:00We hide out here. It'll dark.

00:49:22You drive us two days and nights to get away from Apaches.

00:49:25Now you tell us we roost here all day. Why?

00:49:28Dust. Five miles of it.

00:49:30Cross it now on every Apache for 50 miles. You'll see our dust moves.

00:49:34So start now. We hide out by day. Travel by dark this way.

00:49:40Yeah. Come on. Get a path. Path.

00:50:03Seems safe.

00:50:06Now you've done real good.

00:50:08You see, you can do without no food nor sleep and only a few slurps of water, can't you?

00:50:14We were thinking of our folks back there.

00:50:21I, uh, I know it sounds kind of foolish to most whites, but, uh,

00:50:26Indians don't suffer when somebody gets killed, not like you.

00:50:31You see, uh, Indians believe the brave dead go to the high ground, and that's a good place.

00:50:37The game's never short. Winter's never too hard. Plenty of water, plenty of grass.

00:50:42A savage like you wouldn't know what goes on in the hearts of human beings.

00:50:47No, maybe not.

00:50:51But not long back, the three people closest to me was killed.

00:50:56My wife and two boys, one about sow size, the other about sow.

00:51:07It's good I can keep thinking they went to the high ground.

00:51:11Maybe you could think something like an Indian if you'd try.

00:51:14I hate Indians.

00:51:23It was very kind of you to say what you did.

00:51:27Well, I just figured it'd ease the high sprung one if she could think that way, does me.

00:51:33I think Indians is better off believing the way they do.

00:51:36All right, gather round now.

00:51:40I know you all need rest, but before you do, we got the chores.

00:51:44We're finding food. We're doing it by daylight in these woods.

00:51:47I'll find some plants my people use for food.

00:51:49Good. There, you see, give me an Indian every time.

00:51:52I suppose your people know about little plants with secret buckets of water hanging on them, too.

00:51:56Pigweed's got plenty of water in it.

00:51:58Pigweeds? I'd rather starve than eat stuff like that.

00:52:01I just don't happen to have an Indian stomach.

00:52:04Now, listen.

00:52:10I ain't aiming to finish up a skeleton along this trail.

00:52:13Anybody makes me too much trouble, I'll stick a knife in him and leave him along the way.

00:52:16So start walking soft.

00:52:19And that goes for you, too.

00:52:21Around me, both of you, start walking soft.

00:52:25Real soft.

00:52:28Now go help your sister.

00:52:31Gits!

00:52:35You boys get some bone-dry wood.

00:52:37If you don't find none on the ground, dig down for dead roots, non-smoking kind.

00:52:40Billy, you hunt us up some good tinder.

00:52:43All right.

00:52:45You better come with me.

00:52:49What are you going to do while the rest of us work?

00:52:52I'll be sitting right there in the shade.

00:52:54Do you mind, Sonny?

00:53:00How can I help?

00:53:01Know where the cups are?

00:53:02Uh-huh.

00:53:03Get them.

00:53:16Gonna put Billy in charge of the water cup each night and morning.

00:53:19Horses get twice that.

00:53:21Here, you can scratch your names with this.

00:53:29Your wife, was she a commando girl?

00:53:33Mm-hmm.

00:53:35Young?

00:53:3615 when she come to me.

00:53:39That seems awfully young.

00:53:41Well, girls and ponies both.

00:53:43Younger you break them in, the better.

00:53:45Have to get wild otherwise.

00:53:48You been broke in?

00:53:51To marriage?

00:53:52Mm-hmm.

00:53:53No, not yet.

00:53:55Seems to me you should have been broke in sometime back.

00:53:58Well, I guess Indian girls grow up quicker than whites.

00:54:02They age faster, too.

00:54:05Yeah, I suppose they do.

00:54:07Mine didn't.

00:54:08Didn't have a chance.

00:54:11Only 23 when it happened.

00:54:15Say, what about this fella in Tucson?

00:54:18Billy tell you about him?

00:54:20Said you was aiming to get spliced to him.

00:54:22Is that so?

00:54:23Well, he's been wanting me to for a long time.

00:54:26He'd see that Billy was raised right.

00:54:28Billy ought to be raised out in the open.

00:54:30Towns are no good.

00:54:34What name will I put on your cup?

00:54:36Comanche, Todd, take your pick.

00:54:38Haven't you ever had a real first name?

00:54:42I ain't heard a call since I was a boy.

00:54:45I was baptized Jonathan.

00:54:47My own pop baptized me.

00:54:49He was one of them circuit-riding preachers, you know.

00:54:52Took me with him every place he went.

00:54:54Even learned my ABCs riding behind his saddle.

00:54:59Yeah, guess he lived just for me.

00:55:02And to carry the word of his God to the whole West.

00:55:07His God.

00:55:09Not yours?

00:55:10Nope.

00:55:11Not after my pa got hurt awful bad when it was awful long.

00:55:14I was only eight.

00:55:16Pa died in my arms and I was alone.

00:55:19I never left him for three days.

00:55:21Just waited, prayed for him to live again.

00:55:25Then these Comanches come along.

00:55:28The chief took me for his son.

00:55:31And that's how I become a Comanche.

00:55:37That feels good.

00:55:39Mighty, mighty good.

00:55:42Well, now.

00:55:47Look what we got here, Jenny, my girl, huh?

00:56:37Look for animal signs.

00:56:41Fun ways.

00:56:44Fresh droppings.

00:56:47And barrows like that there, see?

00:57:00You get a stick with a fork on it sometimes, you can twist it.

00:57:04Yeah, come on.

00:57:05Suppose it's a snake hole.

00:57:07Uh-uh.

00:57:08It's badger, maybe rabbit that's took it over.

00:57:12He's in there, too.

00:57:15Let's see what we've got here.

00:57:20Rabbit.

00:57:21We eat good tonight.

00:57:23How can you tell what he is?

00:57:24That's rabbit fur, see?

00:57:26Think you can catch him?

00:57:27Sure.

00:57:28What do I do?

00:57:29I'll show you.

00:57:32Just make yourself a noose, like this.

00:57:37And just lay here, see?

00:57:40Now, the minute he comes out, puts his feet in the thing, yank.

00:57:45You got us a rabbit.

00:57:48Where would you be?

00:57:49I'd close just up canyon, rigging a few snares, try to spot some steel meat.

00:57:53Now, don't you go wandering off.

00:57:55You were here for me.

00:57:58Come on.

00:58:01Come on.

00:58:32Come on.

00:58:54In medicine, like Geronimo,

00:58:57I always come ahead of the warriors to make good medicine for the war trail.

00:59:05Means it's still up there.

00:59:08Come on.

00:59:09Bring your desert turkey.

00:59:28A rattlesnake!

00:59:35Stand still, don't run!

00:59:52Daisy.

00:59:53A rattlesnake, he struck me.

00:59:56I'm gonna die.

00:59:57You sure ought to.

00:59:58You got no more tension to run and pump the poison through your veins.

01:00:04Start a tourniquet.

01:00:05Go get a stick.

01:00:10Billy, hurry up with that stick before the poison gets to her heart.

01:00:17Where was it?

01:00:21I'm gonna die.

01:00:23You sure will die if you don't quiet down.

01:00:32Picks a time when we ought to be hiding out quiet.

01:00:34Instead, we're holding a mass meeting right out here in the open.

01:00:37Head for cover, quick.

01:00:54Come on.

01:01:12It wasn't Apaches. It was our own gun.

01:01:16We got six bullets, and that idiot uses up three on a stinking rattler

01:01:20you could kill with a stick.

01:01:24I found him, and I shot him.

01:01:28Real proud, ain't you?

01:01:30If you wanted to tell the whole Apache nation where we was,

01:01:34you couldn't pick no better way.

01:01:36You don't have to worry.

01:01:38Been up and down those washes, didn't even see a sign of an Apache.

01:01:54Come!

01:01:56Unless you fear one Comanche!

01:02:02You asking them to come down?

01:02:05Have you lost your mind?

01:02:07See, we have no guns, no rifles.

01:02:09They've already seen what we ain't got.

01:02:12Thanks to you, they've seen the girls.

01:02:16Come!

01:02:18Come on!

01:02:24Come on!

01:02:37Here they come.

01:02:39They'll see that we can't defend ourselves. Why'd you ask them?

01:02:41He's been on the Indian side right along.

01:02:43You girls get back to the wagon. Billy, you too.

01:02:46Rich, hand that pistol to Clint.

01:02:49Quick!

01:02:54You seen what the Apaches did to your mother and your sis?

01:02:58If this don't work, don't let it happen to the girls.

01:03:01If what doesn't work?

01:03:03Taking on two now rather than 200 later.

01:03:24You Comanche?

01:03:27Comanche.

01:03:32Always, it's taken two Apache to kill one Comanche.

01:03:40Come on!

01:03:42Come on!

01:03:44Come on!

01:03:46Come on!

01:03:48Come on!

01:03:50Come on!

01:04:20Come on!

01:04:50Come on!

01:05:02Mr. Todd, look out!

01:05:21Shit!

01:05:28Get them horses under cover!

01:05:39Get!

01:05:50Come on!

01:06:08We gotta move out of here. Strip the wagon.

01:06:10Before dark?

01:06:12Sunset. Quick as we can.

01:06:14How's the woman with poison in her?

01:06:16Terribly fevered. Could she die?

01:06:18Look, whatever happens, don't you ever run if a rattler strikes you.

01:06:22I won't, honest.

01:06:24What did you do first?

01:06:26Sit right down and wait for you.

01:06:32Bad fever.

01:06:34She's gonna have some powerful chills, too, for a while.

01:06:39She might die, you know.

01:06:42Do you care?

01:06:45Yes.

01:06:47I didn't think I would, but I do.

01:06:51Thank you for what you did.

01:06:53Thanks for everything, Mr. Todd.

01:07:15Let's go.

01:07:36They'd be the end of the trail. Hide the wagon.

01:07:39Any chance there might be soldiers instead of Apaches?

01:07:42Ha!

01:07:57Am I going to die?

01:07:59Not if you want to live badly enough.

01:08:03I'm so hot.

01:08:05Get some rest, Jolie. I'll watch her for a while.

01:08:13Come on.

01:08:27Drink lots of water, Verinda. It'll help.

01:08:34More?

01:08:43Lots of water?

01:08:47I thought Mr. Todd said we were almost at the end of it.

01:08:51We are.

01:08:53Everybody's shared, but Mr. Todd and your sister have done more than that.

01:08:57They've gone without water since you were struck by the snake.

01:09:01Why?

01:09:03I thought they hated me most.

01:09:06They thought you needed it more than they did.

01:09:10It's got Billy's name on it.

01:09:13He wants to help too.

01:09:15I know.

01:09:17Billy's grown quite a lot on this journey.

01:09:20Maybe you have too, Verinda.

01:09:40Well...

01:09:42When we started out on this trip, I promised nothing.

01:09:46Now it looks like even promising that was too much.

01:09:49We can't neither turn back nor go ahead.

01:09:52And we got three bullets against 300 Apaches.

01:09:56It ain't hardly enough.

01:09:58Are you saying it's an Apache camp?

01:10:00Yep. Big one. Coming from all over.

01:10:02Just to attack us?

01:10:04No. They wouldn't need to gather no war party that size to take us.

01:10:07If they knew we was here, we'd be dead.

01:10:10Come dawn and the scouts head out, we probably will be.

01:10:13So all we can do is stay hid.

01:10:16I don't think there's any Apache out there at all.

01:10:19If I said so, they're there.

01:10:21They're soldiers.

01:10:23The colonel said after five days we'd be meeting soldiers.

01:10:26It's been more than five days.

01:10:28Well, if they was soldiers, why do you figure I'd keep it from you?

01:10:31To save your neck from getting stretched.

01:10:33What?

01:10:35The thing is, we know the troops must be out looking for you.

01:10:38Be only natural you didn't want them to catch up with you.

01:10:41We'd all understand that.

01:10:44You don't think I'd lie about it, do you?

01:10:46No, I don't.

01:10:48Me neither. Nor I.

01:10:59How's the sick one?

01:11:01She's been asking for you.

01:11:03How do you feel?

01:11:05I heard what you said out there.

01:11:08I've been worse to you than anybody.

01:11:11On purpose.

01:11:17Well...

01:11:19Had it since the first day, but I hated you.

01:11:23Key to these.

01:11:25Had it all the time.

01:11:28That took a powerful lot of hate, sister.

01:11:36Billy Goat, you do the honors, will you?

01:11:41You know, Billy...

01:11:44If my sons had lived,

01:11:47I'd like to think they'd have been like you.

01:11:51You know, Billy...

01:11:54If my sons had lived,

01:11:57I'd like to think they'd have been like you.

01:12:08Don't you never forget to be proud.

01:12:11Where are you going?

01:12:13Up on top of that rise.

01:12:15If I see any Apaches, I'll kill them.

01:12:18Ride the horses west as hard as you can.

01:12:21What about you, Mr. Todd?

01:12:23I got nothing to escape to except a rope.

01:12:26Save them bullets, son.

01:12:48Come on.

01:13:18It's me, Jenny.

01:13:49You shouldn't have come up here.

01:13:52Is that where they'll come from?

01:13:55Yep.

01:14:00What you were saying back there,

01:14:02it sounded like goodbye.

01:14:11Billy loves you.

01:14:13He's a pretty big boy to cry himself to sleep,

01:14:16but tonight he did.

01:14:18He's a lot more man than boy.

01:14:29A coyote.

01:14:31Real one, not an Apache.

01:14:33How do you know?

01:14:35Well, after 20 years of your life

01:14:38depending on no one,

01:14:40you either know or you're dead.

01:14:47I suppose Mr. Whelan's already given us a dead.

01:14:54That the, uh, fella from Tucson?

01:14:58He has a fine place of business there.

01:15:01He mailed me pictures of it when he sent for us to come.

01:15:05I-I suppose he'd be fixing a house for you

01:15:09when you got out of town.

01:15:12I-I suppose he'd be fixing a house

01:15:15for you and Billy to live in, wouldn't he?

01:15:18Of course.

01:15:20Don't people usually?

01:15:32Why have the drums stopped?

01:15:35I don't know. Fire's still burning bright.

01:15:40One good thing, we could hear them better

01:15:43should they start out.

01:15:48I wish they'd kept up with the drums.

01:15:53They're still there.

01:16:00Me, uh, I, uh, I never could stand being in a house.

01:16:06Walls creaking, windows squeaking,

01:16:09things rattling all night long. It ain't natural.

01:16:12But folks have to have houses, a roof over their heads.

01:16:15Sky can be a roof.

01:16:18Like now.

01:16:20But in winters...

01:16:22You ever been to Wickiup?

01:16:24Made of willow. Smells real sweet.

01:16:26Easy to build, too, anyplace, wherever you want to be.

01:16:29Come spring or summer, you can up and move on if you don't mind to.

01:16:34That's not permanent, though.

01:16:36Permanent as you'd want.

01:16:38For years, months,

01:16:42or just a night.

01:16:50Three days from here, we could take our choice.

01:16:54The bend of the Powder River,

01:16:57quiet valley, or high place.

01:17:01There's a thousand waterfalls on the Powder, all making music.

01:17:05Please.

01:17:06Long about now, the grass will be turning,

01:17:08making a singing in the wind.

01:17:10You know, it must be lovely, but...

01:17:12I've seen Wickiups 20 feet across,

01:17:15with wind bells in the doorway to catch the night breeze.

01:17:19This is not practical.

01:17:21And a boy'd see his first big buffalo herd.

01:17:24All little calves have grown now.

01:17:28All little calves have grown now,

01:17:31playing like puppies.

01:17:33He needs schooling.

01:17:35He'd need that more than he'd ever find in books.

01:17:38The lasted kind.

01:17:40The meaning of the seasons.

01:17:43The sun and the moon.

01:17:46And friendship.

01:17:48Real things.

01:17:50Never having a real home?

01:17:52Home's wherever we'd be.

01:17:54We'd make it real.

01:17:56It's not what I'd planned.

01:18:12I didn't plan...

01:18:15I didn't know Comanches kissed like this.

01:18:20They don't.

01:18:44You haven't said it right out,

01:18:47but you don't really think there will be any tomorrows for us, do you?

01:18:53You were talking of what we might have had, weren't you?

01:18:58I'm sorry.

01:19:00I'm sorry.

01:19:02I'm sorry.

01:19:04I'm sorry.

01:19:06I'm sorry.

01:19:08I'm sorry.

01:19:10I'm sorry.

01:19:13I'm not going back to the wagon.

01:19:18If it's to be our last night, I want to spend it here, with you.

01:19:23Discover what kind of roof the stars might have made.

01:19:27You're not afraid?

01:19:29Not with you.

01:19:32Not from the beginning.

01:19:42But you're the one who can.

01:20:04While you was asleep,

01:20:06the Mapaches busted camp real quiet,

01:20:09went around that butte.

01:20:11Then I seen why.

01:20:14What do you see?

01:20:16Soldiers.

01:20:18Only a handful, no more than six or eight,

01:20:20against the two, three hundred Apaches

01:20:22waiting on them around that butte.

01:20:26Can you warn them?

01:20:29Yep.

01:20:33But that'll draw them to you.

01:20:41Okay.

01:21:11Soldiers!

01:21:31Don't nobody tell them where he is!

01:21:33They're coming down now.

01:21:41And Jenny's with him.

01:21:43They'll hang Mr. Todd.

01:21:54Ain't you kind of young to be running around loose?

01:21:57We're the daughters of Colonel William Norman.

01:21:59Our train was massacred. We're all that's left.

01:22:04Did a renegade murderer named Comanche Todd

01:22:06happen to run across your path back there?

01:22:12This is my father,

01:22:14Mr. Putnam.

01:22:19You Mrs. Putnam?

01:22:25Are you the one that signaled us?

01:22:27Yeah.

01:22:29It was a good engine trick, you signaling us that way.

01:22:32Indians taught it to me.

01:22:34They'll be teaching you something, too,

01:22:36if you don't get this party to your main body.

01:22:38A few hundred Apaches waiting on you.

01:22:40Where?

01:22:42Around the South Butte.

01:22:44There ain't no main body, Mr. Putnam.

01:22:46We've been scouting ahead for an ammunition and supply wagon escort

01:22:49about a mile back.

01:22:51Only got eight more like us. Just two wagons.

01:22:53Eight more?

01:22:57Maybe we're better off without you.

01:23:02Think you can stay on a horse?

01:23:04I'll help you.

01:23:06All right, get the horses.

01:23:08They're moving fast and light.

01:23:10We'll have to leave the wagon.

01:23:20Where'd you pick up them engine ponies?

01:23:22Back a ways.

01:23:24Are they Comanche or Apache?

01:23:26Never find Comanches this far west.

01:23:28You ought to know that, Sergeant.

01:23:30Thanks.

01:23:38Thanks.

01:24:09How long you been fighting, Apaches?

01:24:11Six months.

01:24:13How about you?

01:24:1520 years.

01:24:17I bow to experience.

01:24:19What do you advise?

01:24:21Well, Apaches ain't any show-offs in battle.

01:24:23They'd like you to head for them woods around that butte.

01:24:26They don't like fighting in the open unless they have to.

01:24:28But we won't fight them their way.

01:24:30We'll fight them our way.

01:24:32Fight? 16 against 300?

01:24:34Don't you think we'd better make a run for it, Mr. Putnam?

01:24:37Run?

01:24:50Which way?

01:25:07Circle wagons!

01:25:09On your mark, forward, cue!

01:25:37Come on.

01:26:07They're filtering down into the trees now.

01:26:38Our people will be exposed to their fire when we start the escape.

01:26:41Them Apaches are going to be too busy running to care.

01:26:45Hope it goes right.

01:26:52You're savvy of Indians. You ought to be in uniform.

01:26:59You're a good shot, Mr. Putnam.

01:27:01You're a good shot.

01:27:03You're a good shot.

01:27:06Or maybe hanged.

01:27:09I didn't figure you for a farmer from the first.

01:27:12You're Comanche Todd.

01:27:16What you aiming to do about it?

01:27:19If we get out of this alive, I'll have to take you in.

01:27:23Seems reasonable.

01:27:26If we get out.

01:27:36You better get your people mounted.

01:27:38All right, men. Fall back. Pass the word. Mount up.

01:27:43I'll take care of things here.

01:27:48I'm sorry I saw that star.

01:27:54Me, too.

01:28:05I'll take care of it.

01:28:35Look out!

01:29:05Look out!

01:29:13Now!

01:29:14We gotta pull ourselves!

01:29:35We gotta pull ourselves!

01:30:05We gotta pull ourselves!

01:30:26The prisoner will please rise.

01:30:36Whether I like it or not, I am at present a law in this hostile country.

01:30:40My name is Howard.

01:30:42I've been known as Bible-reading Howard.

01:30:45But don't hold that against me.

01:30:47It's just that I rely on the good book for guidance.

01:30:50Since you're here accused of killing four men, it is apparent you do not.

01:30:55Four brothers. Harpers, all of them.

01:30:59Did you or did you not kill these men?

01:31:03I killed them.

01:31:05In cold blood?

01:31:07What's that mean?

01:31:09If a man kills another man in hot anger, perhaps even temporary insanity,

01:31:14in hot blood, that is,

01:31:16the law calls it second-degree murder or even manslaughter.

01:31:20But if a man plans to kill and cold-bloodedly sets out to do it,

01:31:25that's murder in the first degree.

01:31:28Punishable by hanging.

01:31:31It was the second way with me.

01:31:34Cold-blooded murder?

01:31:36That's right, I guess.

01:31:38I wanted to kill him, and I did.

01:31:41How many men you killed?

01:31:43You mean on the battlefield?

01:31:45Anyplace. How many?

01:31:46Why do you ask?

01:31:48Man hangs me. I want to know if he knows the meaning of hanging.

01:31:51There's a difference between war and murder. A great difference.

01:31:54Tell me the difference.

01:31:56In war, you kill the enemies of your people.

01:31:59That's what I did.

01:32:01Wasn't them people you killed in the Civil War your people?

01:32:04My people? The Confederates?

01:32:07They was Americans, wasn't they? And they're Americans now.

01:32:10And they're your friends. Now it's over, ain't they?

01:32:13Of course.

01:32:15Then you killed your friends.

01:32:17You see, with my people, it's different. We only kill our enemies.

01:32:20Your people?

01:32:22The Comanches.

01:32:24But you're a white man.

01:32:26I was.

01:32:29Until the day the Harpers come to my lodge...

01:32:32and each of them took my wife...

01:32:35and then killed her.

01:32:38And when my boys went to help their mother, the Harpers killed them, too.

01:32:44Smashed their faces into pulp with their heels.

01:32:48That's what they was doing when I heard the screaming from the river...

01:32:51and run back too late.

01:32:55But I wasn't too late to see them Harper faces.

01:32:59Even while they was pumping me full of lead, I was seeing their faces.

01:33:03Even as they left me for dead, I was seeing their faces.

01:33:08And when I was...

01:33:10when I was burying my wife and my boys, I was seeing their faces.

01:33:16Then the anger in me was hot-blooded, General, like you said.

01:33:20But as I tracked them west, it got cold.

01:33:23Real cold.

01:33:26And that's the way it was when I killed them.

01:33:29Cold-blooded.

01:33:32And I was glad I killed them.

01:33:37You want to hang me for that, General, you go right ahead...

01:33:40because I'd do it all over again.

01:33:43And I'd be glad.

01:33:45And I'd be glad.

01:33:51No matter how deeply provoked...

01:33:53no man has the right to take the law in his own hands.

01:33:56It's the Comanche law to avenge your people.

01:33:59But you're a white man. You are bound by the white man's law.

01:34:02There was no white man's law for hundreds of miles.

01:34:06And even if there was, you show me a white man jury in this land...

01:34:10that'd hang four white men for killing an Indian squad, two Comanche boys.

01:34:14I would. The color of the skin of the victims makes no difference to me.

01:34:18Murder is murder.

01:34:20And law is law, Comanche or white, if it's just.

01:34:23General, you say you'd have condemned them harpers...

01:34:27for killing my wife and my boys, right?

01:34:29In due course of law.

01:34:31Then didn't I just do what you'd have deputized me to do?

01:34:33I didn't have to wear no star to do it.

01:34:35I wouldn't have deputized you to murder them.

01:34:37All right, to hang them, then. No difference.

01:34:39In that Bible, there ain't a justice that counts.

01:34:42Everywhere on Earth, people's...

01:34:44people's got laws that may be different from their neighbors.

01:34:47But justice don't change nowhere.

01:34:49Even in places where they give medals for killing Indians, like out here.

01:34:53Medals like that one you're wearing.

01:34:55I have no need to tolerate abuse from you, Comanche Todd.

01:34:58You're in no position to challenge my motives.

01:35:00I've always done what I believe right.

01:35:02Oh, and so is he.

01:35:04All I've heard here is talk of killing, of the taking of lives.

01:35:08I've heard no one say anything about giving lives.

01:35:11You say he took four lives.

01:35:13Well, isn't there anything in that Bible about giving six lives back and more?

01:35:17Like these others who might be dead if it weren't for him.

01:35:21When he could have saved himself, he saved us.

01:35:24When he could have gone, and I urged him to go,

01:35:27he chose to stay and see us through to safety.

01:35:31Maybe this is a different kind of an eye for an eye.

01:35:35The giving of lives instead of the taking of lives.

01:35:39But I know any one of us is willing now to give our lives for him.

01:35:45He did more for me than save my life.

01:35:48He made me grow up.

01:35:53Gave me something I couldn't have lived without.

01:35:57Pride in myself.

01:36:01We want him to live, sir.

01:36:06I was moved by what you said about the giving of lives.

01:36:12Do you love this man?

01:36:19Of course.

01:36:24Yes, son?

01:36:26So do I.

01:36:28The hearing will come to order.

01:36:30By the authority vested in me by the President of the United States,

01:36:34I am ready to pass judgment on this man Comanche Todd.

01:36:37You've spoken well for the Indian,

01:36:40and through your subsequent actions have helped your fellow whites.

01:36:44And as an alternate to hanging this man,

01:36:47would you both agree to take him into custody

01:36:50for as long as you both shall live?

01:36:53Would you both agree to take him into custody

01:36:56for as long as you both shall live?

01:37:00Oh, yes, I do.

01:37:02Me too.

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