The Rifleman S04E12
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00:00The Rifleman
00:15Starring Chuck Connors
00:30Well, the spring's a little weak. You better order a new one.
00:50Looks like we got some visitors, Pa.
00:55I ain't never seen a rifle fire like that before.
00:57She sure spits out lead, don't you?
01:01Well, why don't we water up here?
01:07Saw those two in town last night. One of them's a troublemaker.
01:10Might get thrown out of North Fork.
01:16The animals would like a drink.
01:18Well, there's the water. Help yourself.
01:20Oh, Gorwin.
01:27Mighty fast shooting gun you got there, mister.
01:31I got some beaver pelts on old Jake over there.
01:34Might be willing to trade you for it.
01:35Sorry, stranger. This rifle's not for sale.
01:39Yeah, son, you better let me give you a hand.
01:43Hey, Gorwin, you bring them beaver pelts out of my bag.
01:47I just made myself a trade.
01:50All right, you were thrown out of North Fork last night for your bad manners.
01:57Now get up and get on your horse and get out of here.
02:00Go on.
02:08Hey, get out of here.
02:20Well, maybe we ought to just go on, Ambrose.
02:27Now, I'm set on getting that gun.
02:29He turned down a fair trade because we was mountain boys.
02:33Well, maybe he just didn't want to give his own gun up.
02:35Oh, now, ten beaver pelts, he could buy himself a new gun for that.
02:39It's like them town people thinking us mountain boys is so much dirt.
02:47I reckon it's dark enough now.
02:50How does it look now, Pa?
02:54Well, that's a good job of braiding, son.
02:56Almost ready to sew on the buckle.
02:58Yep. Think maybe we can use a silver dollar for a buckle,
03:01like those Texas trailhands wear?
03:03Well, I don't know if we have to use something worth a dollar, Mark.
03:06Tell you what, you finish up the braiding.
03:08I'll get that old saddle we bought from Santa Coban.
03:10It's got a silver cinch. Might even look prettier than a silver dollar.
03:13All right.
03:50He's dead, son.
03:54The rifle went off accidentally when the other fella jumped me.
03:58What are we going to do now, Pa?
04:01Well, first I'll tell Micah so he can arrange for a proper burial.
04:05Then tomorrow I'd better return his horse to his folks.
04:08Up in the high country?
04:09Uh-huh. That's the least I can do.
04:12Should I come along with you, Pa?
04:16Well, they're strange people, son.
04:17But they live close to the good book. I'm sure it'll be all right.
04:21Come on, help me hitch the wagon. We'll take him into town.
04:35Ambrose, Tully fetched us news we were hoping is wrong.
04:40Well, cut my right arm off I could make it wrong, dear Marlin.
04:43Gowen was gunned down with no more ceremony paid to him than a sick hound dog ready for his grave.
04:50May the Lord rest his soul.
04:53Do you see this town fella who did it?
04:55I was just telling Mrs. Morgan here.
04:58Having no gun, I had to go scampering off fearing the same thing might happen to me.
05:06Poor Gowen, just like an old hound dog, didn't have a chance.
05:09I like never made it myself. Old Jake broke his leg down on the way, sir.
05:13I took me almost a whole day getting here.
05:16We'll hold proper services, Mrs. Morgan.
05:19Giving proper and respectful attention to your only son leaving us.
05:24Then we'll...
05:28Well, that's him! That's the fella what killed Gowen!
05:31This horse I brought belongs...
05:33We know to who it belongs to, mister.
05:35What we don't know is why you killed my boy.
05:40I didn't kill a man. I didn't know he was your boy. I sure offer you my...
05:44Are you saying you didn't kill Gowen, Morgan, mister?
05:47We got somebody else to kill Gowen.
05:49I didn't kill Gowen.
05:51I didn't kill Gowen.
05:53I didn't kill Gowen.
05:55I didn't kill Gowen.
05:57I didn't kill Gowen.
05:59We got somebody here says you did.
06:01Oh, from what I've seen of this man,
06:03I wouldn't take any stock in what he says.
06:05You saying Gowen Morgan didn't die by your hand?
06:07That's right. It was an accident.
06:09Ah.
06:11Man's got a right to defend himself.
06:13You'll have a turn telling your story.
06:17A turn?
06:19Talking at your trial, mister.
06:21I didn't come up here for a trial.
06:23I don't know what this man's told you,
06:25but I can guarantee you it's far from the truth.
06:28Truth is what we're after.
06:30We'll go inside.
06:32Hold a fair trial.
06:42Move, Clarence.
06:52Well, you come on now. Come on.
06:58I sure swear to tell them the truth.
07:02I just hope this townsman here sees fit
07:04to show the same respect to this book.
07:06Just tell it simple, Ambrose.
07:08Don't fancy up the details.
07:12Well, no sooner than Gore and me set foot into town,
07:14they throwed us into jail.
07:16Yes, sir, right into jail.
07:18No sooner we showed our faces
07:20than we heard somebody yell,
07:22mountain boys,
07:24than they started roughing us
07:27and shoving us around.
07:29They allowed us to get out.
07:31Well, we didn't get.
07:33Now, pride, kinda.
07:35Well, into jail we went.
07:37You know how them town people
07:39looked at us last year when we went into town,
07:41looking to buy them store-bought shoes.
07:45Have we ever been treated right and proper
07:47going into any town?
07:49No, sir.
07:51I reckon we know how they feel about us mountain folk.
07:53Is that what you call a truth?
07:57Make him tell you how drunk he got,
07:59how he smashed the feed store window,
08:01how he insulted half the women in North Fork.
08:03Now, just a minute.
08:05We know Ambrose here ain't no lily-white.
08:09You'll get a chance to talk later.
08:11And I don't see this has anything to do
08:13with this here trial, Ambrose.
08:17Now, suppose you get round to telling us about Gore and...
08:19Well, we left town,
08:21heading back for the hills,
08:23a place where a man can hold his head up
08:25if we're lying and cheating ain't nothing but a word
08:27for book-learning.
08:29And passing this here fella's place,
08:31we thought we'd water the horses.
08:33And maybe that's where our trouble really started.
08:37When he said that hill folk weren't
08:39no account welcome on his land.
08:41That's a lie.
08:45Pa!
08:47Now, the next man that uses
08:49any violence at this here trial
08:51is gonna make an accountant to me.
08:54I'm all right, sir.
08:58You sit down over there, boy.
09:03And you, mister.
09:05I don't know how they conduct trials in town.
09:09But up here, we aim to get all the facts.
09:12Now, you be quiet until your turn comes.
09:18Go on, Ambrose.
09:20Well, we started to leave.
09:22And I saw this gun the fella had.
09:25I ask him,
09:27be a fair trade,
09:2910 beaver pelts for a rifle?
09:31He says, sure.
09:33So he takes his gun down
09:36and turns around real slow-like
09:38with a smile on his face,
09:40like he's thinking of a joke or something.
09:44And that's when he shot Gorwin.
09:46Him smiling like he'd never seen
09:48nothing so funny in his life.
09:51And that squirm in his lifeblood poured out in the dirt.
09:53Liar! Liar!
09:55Liar!
09:58Easy, son. Easy.
10:01Your turn's come, mister.
10:03And keep in mind you're in the presence of the good book.
10:07The truth here is fairly simple.
10:09Ambrose here and Gorwin
10:11came to my ranch and tried to buy my rifle.
10:13I wouldn't sell it.
10:15So they came back later that night and tried to steal it.
10:17My boy would never steal.
10:19I beg your pardon, man.
10:21Ambrose here tried to steal it.
10:23I meant to say your son was with him.
10:25Are you saying you shot Gorwin
10:27when they were trying to make off with your rifle?
10:29Nobody shot Gorwin.
10:31Ambrose chump me tried to take the rifle away
10:33and the gun went off in the scuffle.
10:35Gorwin happened to be standing by
10:37when the bullet hit.
10:39It was an accident, pure and simple.
10:41Give me a boy.
10:49Now, so far
10:51it's your pa's word
10:53against the word of one of our own.
10:55I don't know your pa
10:57if a lie would stick in his throat.
10:59But I know it ain't natural
11:01for a man raised among us to lie.
11:03So what I'm going to do, boy,
11:05is take your word for what happened.
11:09Maybe we'll be releasing a man who's guilty.
11:13But better we don't.
11:16Maybe we'll be releasing a man who's guilty.
11:18But better one man go free
11:20on our misjudgment
11:22than one paying for something he didn't do.
11:28Like pa said,
11:30he started out of the house
11:32when this man jumped him
11:34trying to get the rifle.
11:36It just went off by itself.
11:38You saw all that, boy?
11:40Well, sure I...
11:42Well, boy?
11:46I didn't exactly see it.
11:48I was in the house.
11:50I heard the rifle go off
11:52and when I went outside
11:54pa was going to Gorwin's body.
11:56You heard that gun go off
11:58and you ran outside right away?
12:00Oh, yes, sir.
12:02Where was the rifle, boy?
12:04Pa was carrying it.
12:06He...
12:09In the face of hearing all sides of this story,
12:11anyone thinking this man is not guilty
12:13of killing Gorwin Morgan
12:15can speak his peace.
12:23So be it.
12:27The verdict is guilty.
12:29Now, wait a minute.
12:31If I had one more chance
12:33to prove my innocence,
12:35I would have done it.
12:37If I had one more witness
12:39to back up Ambrose's words against you,
12:41I'd hang you, mister.
12:45But since I haven't,
12:47I'm going to sentence you
12:49to labor five years
12:51in the service of Mrs. Morgan,
12:53replacing that service
12:55you took from her
12:57when you killed her son.
13:01Put the chains on him.
13:03Wait a minute!
13:06Oh, you stay here with your Pa.
13:08You'll earn your keep by doing chores.
13:22I get my hands on you, Ambrose,
13:24I'll shove your lying tongue down your throat.
13:26You ain't going to be doing nothing, mister.
13:28Seeing as I'm marrying into this family,
13:30I'm volunteering to see that
13:32you do your share of the work
13:34for the next five years.
13:36And I'm thinking at the end of that time
13:38you're going to be just as tame
13:40as a two-day-old kitten.
13:54Eat, boy.
13:56Young'uns need growing strength.
13:58I'm not hungry.
14:00It appears to me, boy,
14:03there's a cause to be a-mooning.
14:05If in your Pa was a mountain boy
14:07in a tri-down there in town,
14:09he'd be a-hanging pretty quick
14:11once he was a judge guilty of killing.
14:13My Pa didn't kill nobody!
14:15Bend up, boy!
14:17Nothing unnatural,
14:19a boy believe in his own Pa.
14:21Fix McCain a dish of vittles.
14:25There.
14:27You put a little in that first.
14:33Now you hear me out, boy.
14:35Just yesterday I had a fine son.
14:39And today I'm a-grieving.
14:41I'm a-trying to keep the hate
14:43from my heart.
14:45Now there's no hate in me
14:47for you and your Pa,
14:49but I got services coming to me
14:51for my loss.
14:53It's not right, ma.
14:55My Pa being chained and worked.
14:57Maybe it don't seem right to you.
14:59Because you don't see us
15:01as real people up here
15:03a-having laws and the right to keep the peace.
15:05But it's just as right
15:07as your town folk
15:09a-sending a man off to their prison
15:11for five years.
15:13Now I'm trying to say
15:15that I'll treat you
15:17as my own
15:19long as you deserve the treating.
15:21But don't press me, boy.
15:23Don't stir up the grieving.
15:31You don't look like the kind of man to shoot Gorlin with no cause.
16:00I'll be lying.
16:12Now, just what would you want to do with some silly old saw-fire?
16:16Takes some doing, but it just might cut through these chains.
16:20Just might it that?
16:23Well, I'm sure obliged to you, miss.
16:27You ain't got it yet.
16:31Hey, I ain't good enough for you, huh?
16:34A town man is?
16:44Ambrose!
16:47Stop it.
16:50I catched him and she together.
16:53Get in the house.
16:54I catched him and she together.
16:57Get in the house.
17:02Now, you just give me ten minutes alone with him, Mrs. Morgan.
17:06We'll settle for all time as to what his proper place is around here.
17:10When a whoopin' needs handin' out, I'll do the sayin'. Now, go on to bed.
17:13What?
17:22Mister, I don't intend to be worrying about you day and night.
17:26Now, you'll eat, sleep, do the chores Ambrose sets out for you,
17:30and you'll put in every day of your lawful time to me.
17:33Now, boy, say goodnight to your pa and come alone.
17:37Mark, I want you to try and get out of here if you can.
17:40I'm not livin' without you, Pa.
17:42You can see Mike and bring help back, son.
17:44I can't live without you, Dad. Do somethin' to your...
17:47I want you to do as I tell you.
17:49Come along, boy. It's bedtime.
17:51Go along now, Mark. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
17:54Be careful.
18:11Hey, come on, boy.
18:13Put them buckets on the floor so you can come back and pick up some of this wood
18:16and fetch up the wood bed.
18:19Nobody told you to run away from home, did they?
18:22I didn't.
18:24You didn't?
18:26I didn't.
18:28You didn't?
18:30I didn't.
18:32You didn't?
18:34I didn't.
18:36You didn't?
18:38I didn't.
18:40Get some rest, McCain.
18:43You ever do any plowin', McCain?
18:46In front of a plow?
18:49Come on, boy!
18:54Mark, do everything you're told. We're leavin' here at midnight.
18:58I have a file. One chain link's cut halfway through.
19:03Well, what are you doin', boy?
19:11You sure are clumsy, boy.
19:16Touch that boy again, I'll tear your throat out.
19:19That sure makes you riled, don't it, mister?
19:22Well, it's just a sample, unless you say you killed Gorwin.
19:27Guess we'll have to start by teachin' this young'un some manners.
19:31Let that boy go!
19:37You just watch, boy!
19:38You just watch, mister!
19:41You just watch and see what's gonna get comin' to you, huh?
19:45Let that boy go!
20:05McCain!
20:06McCain!
20:07Stop it!
20:08Stop it! Stop!
20:11Up, mister!
20:22As God-fearin' people, we temper justice with mercy, mister.
20:27But maybe you'll be forcin' us to carry out a hangin'.
20:30You talk like a man, but you're nothing but a hypocrite.
20:33You're all one big sham.
20:36Everybody's got a right to set up a community,
20:39make laws for their own protection.
20:42But this is the first place I've ever been at.
20:45The first kind of people I ever met who based their justice on where a man's from.
20:50Because he's one of your own, you accept blasphemy from him, well, so be it.
20:54But don't you call it law or justice.
20:56Yeah.
20:58Let's see how much talkin' he can do with a rope stretchin' his neck.
21:01Wait!
21:02You hear?
21:04You talk big words, mister.
21:06But words don't mean much when the man who's speakin' them is lookin' out for his own skin.
21:11Would you say, mister, that a liar and a coward are generally one and the same?
21:20I'd say if a man is one, he's usually the other.
21:24Light two torches.
21:25Fetch some tools to take his chains off.
21:34All right, mister.
21:36We're gonna see and look for the coward between you and Ambrose.
21:40And the liar.
21:42Take this, mister.
21:46If he runs, shoot him down.
21:49Make a circle.
21:52All right, mister.
21:53Now, let's see who's the hero.
21:55You're the hero.
21:57You're the hero.
21:59You're the hero.
22:01You're the hero.
22:03You're the hypocrite.
22:05See, I can't have been raised on this torch fightin', mister.
22:09Got a few burns here and there, but you see me alive and jumpin'.
22:33Come on.
23:04You think a liar and a coward are one and the same, Ambrose?
23:07Well, I think he is.
23:08So you just be a brave man and keep sayin' you were tellin' the truth.
23:13Don't.
23:14Don't.
23:15No, I was lyin'.
23:17I was lyin'.
23:18Don't.
23:19Don't.
23:25Don't.
23:27Don't.
23:29Don't.
23:31Don't.
23:33Don't.
23:42Get up, Ambrose.
23:47Put the chains on him.
23:49Well, you can't put no chains on me. I'm one of you.
23:51You ain't no longer one of us. You lied to your own.
23:55Jeremiah, it was an accident.
23:56Now, Miss Morgan, I...
23:58The punishment that was to be meted out to the stranger is gonna be meted out to you.
24:04THE END
24:09Mrs. Morgan, with beef bringin' little or nothing on the market,
24:13I'd appreciate it if you'd, uh, take a heifer off our hands.
24:17Thank you, Mr. McCain.
24:18Fresh milk, somethin' comes in mighty handy.
24:22We're beholden for your forgiveness.
24:27Thanks, Claire.
24:29Come on, son.
24:43It's best we get about our chores.
24:58THE END
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