00:00you can't duck behind that girl poke she's too small to hide all of you step
00:20out in the open before I start carving pieces off you
00:50where were you last night uncle Ned arrived yesterday go man I thought he
01:13wasn't doing till next week some rumors about us reached him since he's my
01:17guardian he felt it was very important to get here and have a talk with you were
01:22the rumors exaggerated this upon killing you well now I really can't allow that
01:27devastated if he did but even in self-defense I wouldn't like to kill
01:33uncle Ned's business won't allow him to stay long in San Francisco to give me a
01:39few days I'm sure I can convince him that ours is is the most platonic of
01:43friendships but it'd be best if he couldn't find you until then suggesting I
01:48leave the city your health
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02:15Oh, there's nothing breakable in that.
02:18Sorry.
02:23Just got word we're telling you we have a big storm up ahead.
02:26We're going to lay over here 24 hours.
02:45Mennonites.
02:50I've never seen them as far west.
02:52Mennonites, is that what you call them?
02:54Yeah, they've been here about a year.
02:56Don't seem to have made many friends.
02:58You know how some people are about foreigners.
03:01They're originally from the Crimea.
03:03Crimea?
03:05Oh, yes.
03:11Well, I'll put you back in the hotel there in case you want to eat...
03:14...where the saloon ain't too bad.
03:16Thanks.
03:21I'm here.
03:29It ain't worth anymore.
03:30Come on, you're going to buy this wheat even if it has got blight.
03:33You'll sell it as mash for stock.
03:36Quit playing games, Culligan. Give us a price.
03:41Ten cents a bushel.
03:43We want to sell it.
03:45We didn't come here to have our crops stolen.
03:47If you want to eat blighted wheat yourself, go to it.
03:52Welcome to North Fork, mister.
03:53Sir, why don't you sit down?
03:55Waitress will be here in a minute.
03:59We'll take it.
04:02Brotner.
04:03So long as I own this story, it won't sell you a thing.
04:09We work hard. We mind our own business.
04:12What do you want, Mr. Culligan?
04:14I want you to get out.
04:16You don't care anything about this town or the people in it?
04:19When the Indians rode through last week, where were the Mennonites?
04:24Our religion forbids us to raise our hand against any man.
04:28Well, you can take your religion somewhere else.
04:31I've offered you a fair price for your farm, but you insist on staying where you're not wanted.
04:36Cause trouble everywhere you go. Mennonites!
04:40That, sir, is either an error or a lie.
04:45What's that, mister?
04:47In Pennsylvania, the Mennonites were model citizens, exemplary neighbors that have been there since before the revolution.
04:53Well, this ain't Pennsylvania.
04:55You get your people out of here.
04:57I won't do business with you.
05:00Am I wrong?
05:02Tell me if I'm wrong.
05:04You're wrong, Culligan.
05:06I ain't bothered nobody as far as I could see.
05:08Well, you can't see nothing beyond your ten cents a bushel wheat crop.
05:14And you won't see even that if you keep on talking.
05:18And don't you try buying supplies for them.
05:21Or you'll find yourself walking 85 miles to the next door whenever you need anything.
05:30Now, you trade your herd out of this store.
05:33You're too easy on them.
05:35Now, if it was up to me, I'd rob them out of the territory.
05:40Why, they're some kind of animals.
05:43Look at the way they stole that old man's daughter.
05:46I chose to live with them.
05:48They're decent people.
05:50My father's a weak spine, lick us up.
05:53How dare you bad telling your own father that way.
05:56Let me show you how to teach your manners.
06:03Don't tell me you're gonna fight.
06:05I don't fight.
06:06What about it, you hymn-singing rabbit?
06:08Are you gonna fight?
06:09Or are you gonna hide behind your religion?
06:11Are you gonna turn the other cheek?
06:16Stop it!
06:18I'd expect anything from you, Judd, you beast.
06:22But the rest of you, you're just standing there while he beats a man who's pledged not to fight back.
06:27Well, haven't you got to be the self-righteous little thing?
06:32It's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago everybody thought of you as the town bad girl.
06:37Leave her alone.
06:40What did you say, mister?
06:42I said leave the girl alone.
06:57There'll be no shooting in here.
06:59You know my rules, Judd.
07:01We could step outside.
07:05No?
07:12Well, some other time maybe.
07:19I'll be in the hotel.
07:22They won't have a room for you at the hotel.
07:25I own the hotel too.
07:28I see.
07:30The good book says that he who is not with me is against me.
07:36We would be honored, mister, if you stayed with us.
07:39The storm up ahead could last for days.
07:42Well, I'm very grateful for your kind offer.
07:44What the hell are you doing?
07:45I'm so glad to have a bunch of drinks for dinner, and I'm so glad to have a really good dinner.
07:50Just let's get some tea.
07:52Tell me the hand we'll have a dist Carroll.
07:54I'm sorry to have a bit of dinner in the afternoon.
07:57We'll have a good dinner in the evening.
07:59Well, it's all about jaquitth.
08:01For me, Tony.
08:02I'm sorry to have the coffee.
08:03I'm sorry to have to have a distinct Judy at that time.
08:05But well, I'm sorry to have a beautiful snack.
08:07It's been a long time since I've been very safe.
08:09I'm sure to have a long time if there is gonna have been that day.
08:10Tildy, it's been a long time since I dined that well.
08:14Well, Bubba baked this especially for you.
08:18She's 87 years old, and she still does all the work around here.
08:21She's remarkable.
08:23Mr. Paladin, what's going to come of these people?
08:28Well, Tildy, that's hard to say.
08:30But they're not easy to defeat.
08:31They have courage.
08:33I feel awful guilty.
08:36A lot of this is my fault.
08:37Well, you see, Judd, he likes me.
08:44He wants me.
08:46He hates these people for taking me in.
08:50For my father, he hadn't drawn a sober breath since my mother died, but I didn't want to leave him.
08:58Two weeks ago, he sold me to Judd Boak for $50.
09:02I didn't want to be jealous.
09:07Tildy, he sold you?
09:10That's right.
09:12He was drunk, but he sold me.
09:15And that Judd actually came around to collect his property.
09:19And you know what?
09:21Everybody in this town was so scared of him that nobody would take me in except these people here.
09:33Mr. Paladin!
09:34I'll get the horses.
09:53Go, Brownie, go, Cricket.
09:56Hi-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya.
10:00Well, it's too bad we lost the barn, but it's a good thing we saved the house.
10:20I'm afraid your night with us wasn't very comfortable, Mr. Paladin.
10:23Mr. Bruckner, I never remember a warmer reception.
10:26And the angel of the Lord appeared to them in a flame of fire.
10:30This was a sign, Mr. Paladin.
10:32We have decided to sell the farm.
10:34I think we must move to Canada.
10:36Mr. Bruckner, is this your coal oil can?
10:39No.
10:40No, it's not ours.
10:41Well, it was lying beside the fence.
10:43I don't believe your fire was started by any messenger of the Lord.
10:46Rather, one from an opposite direction.
10:48Whoever it was, the Lord guided their actions as he does those of all men.
10:54How bad is the damage?
10:55All the corn in the hayfields, only Baba's garden still stands.
11:00Baba's garden?
11:01Five acres of wheat.
11:03She planted it herself with seed from the old country.
11:06She uses the wheat for baking bread.
11:08Blight infested like the rest of the wheat around here.
11:11No.
11:12No blight.
11:13No, that's Baba's wheat in that barrel.
11:16There's no blight at all.
11:18None at all?
11:19No.
11:19No.
11:19Have you ever been bothered by blight?
11:25What about Iowa?
11:27Oh, we planted a full crop there.
11:30All healthy?
11:35Well, we'll have to go in and see Mr. Culloden.
11:38He's wanted to buy our land for a long time.
11:42He's going to pay us $5 an acre.
11:47Hildy!
11:49Baba!
11:51Mr. Bruckner.
11:53Will you do me a great favor, sir?
11:55Of course, anything.
11:56Will you permit me to do your dealing with Culligan?
11:59There's going to be trouble.
12:00You've had enough already, and trouble is my profession.
12:03You're on.
12:04Get Mr. Culloden a horse.
12:07But you must promise there will be no violence.
12:10Well, it might be hard to keep.
12:11You follow in the buckboard and bring some of Baba's wheat.
12:13Oh, you must promise.
12:16Or else the sin will be on our heads.
12:18You might be hurt.
12:20I can only promise you this, Mr. Bruckner.
12:22If there is any violence, it will not be of my making.
12:39Hey, mister.
12:40I want to talk to you.
12:41Do you remember me?
12:42I'm Marty Buchanan, Tilly's father.
12:45I want to talk to you about my daughter.
12:47You sold the right to call her your daughter.
12:49I know, but...
12:50What may I do for you, sir?
12:55Culligan, where's he?
12:56Well, he's in his office, sir.
12:58Uh-uh.
12:59He's not in a very good mood, though.
13:01I don't intend to improve it any.
13:02People usually knock when they come calling.
13:10Somebody called Aunt Bruckner last night.
13:12They didn't bother to knock.
13:14I heard about that.
13:16Stupid, senseless waste of property.
13:19You don't think that I...
13:21Culligan, we can talk a lot better ...
13:22I'd talk a lot better if you take that hand out of the drawer.
13:25You'd never live to draw the gun, believe me.
13:31That's better.
13:33The Mennonites have decided to sell.
13:35Bruckner tells me you offered $5 an acre.
13:37$5 an acre for top, improved land.
13:41Farms are going begging.
13:43You know, hardly one of them hasn't been destroyed by wheat blight.
13:46Mennonites didn't raise wheat. Corn was their money crop.
13:49Yes, but now the corn's been destroyed by fire.
13:52You know, I'm now worried to make this deal.
13:55If it were my farm, you couldn't live long enough to buy it at any price.
13:59But it isn't.
14:01I'll recommend that they take the $5 and they'll be in town to sign the papers later.
14:05Just a moment.
14:07When I offered $5, that included all the standing crops.
14:11Now, with the corn gone, I'll pay three, not a cent more.
14:14You're a disgrace to the human soul.
14:17You stir up prejudice that makes a mockery of everything a decent man holds valuable.
14:23You're a vulture that can't wait to prey on the dead.
14:26You prey on the living.
14:28I'll tell you something, Culligan.
14:31There are a lot of people here who are right to tear you down.
14:35All they need is a good excuse.
14:37And I'm gonna give them that excuse.
14:39You can talk all you want.
14:41People here will stick with me.
14:43I helped them to build this town right from the start.
14:47You think they're gonna listen to a stranger?
14:49An itinerant gunslinger?
14:51I promised a man that I would not commit violence.
14:55I never found it harder to keep my word.
15:13Get it.
15:15Yes, Mr. Culligan?
15:17Find Judd Polk.
15:18I want him.
15:19Yes, sir.
15:24You caused me a lot of needless trouble, Judd.
15:26If you'd kept your hands off Johan, Paladin would be leaving on the afternoon stage.
15:32And last night you burned 200 acres of corn.
15:35Paladin thinks you did it and so do I.
15:37The crop was practically mine.
15:39But I thought that you wanted me...
15:40You thought, you thought.
15:41Your thinking has destroyed a good money crop.
15:44You burned something valuable and that is sinful.
15:47Look, Culligan.
15:48In the past you've had me shoot up a couple of people.
15:50And that ain't sinful?
15:52You caused me the kind of trouble that I don't like.
15:55The kind that's measured in dollars and cents.
15:58I want you to get out of North Fork.
16:00Get out?
16:02Where would I go?
16:04What would I do?
16:05That's no affair to mine.
16:07Well, you make it your affair.
16:09I'm not going anyplace alone.
16:11And with empty pockets.
16:13I'll give you a few dollars.
16:14You'll give me $500.
16:16Or a stay.
16:18And I want the Buchanan girl too.
16:21I'm not going anyplace without her.
16:24Look, the money we can talk about, but I can't give you the girl.
16:27Paladin won't let you take her away...
16:30Away from the Mennonites.
16:32Well, that's the way it's gonna have to be.
16:34All right, Judd.
16:35That's the way it'll be.
16:37Paladin's the only thing that stands in our way.
16:40Why don't you do something about him?
16:43$500 and the girl.
16:46Paladin's the only thing in our way.
16:48I'll take him.
16:49You get that money ready.
16:51I'll be back for it.
16:53Judd.
16:55I'll throw another $100 into the deal.
16:58Buy yourself another man with a gun.
17:00See if Gus is hanging around the bar out there.
17:03He'll be a good man.
17:04Don't try to do it by yourself.
17:06Judd Polk just left Culkin's bar.
17:13He's hired another gunfighter.
17:14He says you'll never leave town alive.
17:15How does that concern you?
17:16Because you're Tildy's last hope.
17:17The Mennonites won't fight for her and...
17:18I can't.
17:19I can't.
17:20Please believe me.
17:36You want to help?
17:49Tell me what I can do.
17:51Any farmers in town?
17:53A few.
17:54I saw Ferris and Billy down at the Staples.
17:56There are a few more around.
17:58Find them.
17:59Ask them to come here.
18:00All right.
18:01But you look out.
18:03Jen and Gus are in town.
18:05I'll look out.
18:19I talked to Culligan.
18:32I told the farmers they'll be here.
18:34Good.
18:35Culligan's trying to steal your place for $3 an acre.
18:38And don't worry.
18:39He won't get it for that price.
18:40And he may not get it at all.
18:42May not get it at all?
18:44I don't understand.
18:45You will later.
18:46Right now, I've got some other business.
18:48The cannon here tells me I may get a bullet in the back.
18:50Our friend Polk.
18:52I wouldn't believe anything he said on a stack of Bibles.
18:55Billy, honey.
18:57I know I never did anything to show it, but I do love you.
19:01You're all that's left.
19:03I wouldn't do you no harm.
19:05After what you did to me?
19:07I was out of my head.
19:09I wanted to kill myself for what I did.
19:12And when you ran away and these good people took me in, I was glad.
19:17That way you tried to drive these good people out of town.
19:20Well, of course it was.
19:22Billy's only chance was to get away.
19:24Away from North Fork and me.
19:26And I hoped that when the Mennonites left, that she'd go with him.
19:30Oh, I don't care whether you believe me or not, Mr. Paladin.
19:34Just help her get away.
19:36You'll have to take cover behind the wagon.
19:38Move.
19:43Don't shoot out the whiskey tower, I don't shoot.
19:44They'll have to take cover behind the wagon.
19:57Don't shoot out of a whiskey towel! Don't shoot!
20:02Turn her loose, Paul.
20:03Now you, back off.
20:07Freeze, Tilda.
20:09Freeze!
20:10She's too small to hide all of you.
20:15Now turn her loose before I start carving pieces off you.
20:24No more!
20:27Don't kill me.
20:28She ain't worth the killing.
20:30Johan!
20:32This one's mine.
20:34And if this is a sin, I'm going to enjoy it more than any other I ever committed.
20:40Do you know the song?
20:42Don't kill me.
20:43Watch the playing.
20:44Don't kill me.
20:45I'll kill you, Baker.
20:46Don't kill him.
20:48You don't tell the sport ever.
20:49He's a good girl.
20:50That's it.
20:51I win the game.
20:53You get to him.
20:54It's all crazy.
20:56Don't kill me.
20:57You don't kill me.
20:58You don't kill him.
20:59You're not a beast.
21:00You're not a beast.
21:01You're not a beast.
21:02He's a monster.
21:03You don't kill me.
21:04You're not a beast.
21:05You're a beast.
21:06You don't kill me.
21:07Come on.
21:37Pelligan, Ferris, Bruckner, all the rest of you.
21:51Now, I never saw a sorry collection of people trying to call themselves a town.
21:56You're not a town. You're a mob.
21:58You always will be a mob until you start thinking for yourselves.
22:01Until you stop being ashamed of trying to act decently.
22:07Now, Tom Ferris, I understand you're the biggest wheat farmer around here.
22:10I suppose you might say that.
22:13How'd you make out with the blight this year?
22:15Lost most of them a crop.
22:17Had to sell it for fodder.
22:19And the rest of these people, how'd they make out?
22:21Most of them lost everything.
22:23So I've heard.
22:25Now, these Mennonites that you're so anxious to drive out of your community,
22:29they're using a wheat seed that resists blight.
22:33I've never heard of blight resistant wheat.
22:36There's almost five acres of it on Mr. Bruckner's lamb.
22:40It was practically ready for harvest.
22:42I believe in Iowa you raised considerably more and it too resisted the blight.
22:46Our labors were blessed by God.
22:49I'm sure they were.
22:51But in addition, you used a seed from the Crimea, where the blight is unknown.
22:58I've never heard the like of it.
23:00All the way from the Crimea.
23:02Well, what good does that do us, mister?
23:05How are we going to get any of it?
23:07Why don't you ask Culligan?
23:08He's planning to own the Mennonite farm.
23:10Culligan, how much would you charge these people?
23:13You'll have almost five acres of this wheat.
23:17Well, I'd give it to them for a fair price, you'll be sure of that, mister.
23:22Yeah.
23:23Mr. Bruckner, how much would you charge your neighbors for the wheat?
23:27Mr. Paladin, we came here to North Fork hoping to make it our new home.
23:33We want to be good neighbors and a good neighbor never tries to make money from a misfortune like this.
23:41We have plenty of seed.
23:43Enough to give some to everybody so they can develop seed of their own.
23:50Anybody who takes that offer better find a new place to buy his supplies.
23:54Remember, I'm the only one who'll give you your stuff on credit.
23:57We'll take our chances, Culligan.
24:00We'll travel the 85 miles to get our supplies.
24:03And we'll get credit there, too.
24:05But you're through in this town.
24:07Here, Culligan, you might need this where you're going.
24:12Well, now, if you feel any gratitude, how about showing it?
24:15There was a fire at Bruckner's last night.
24:17Who's for a barn raising?
24:24Mr. Bruckner.
24:29Mr. Bruckner.
24:33Johan, you nearly committed a sin this morning.
24:35So I think I ought to be allowed just one little one.
24:38Since I'll soon be a Mennonite woman, I shouldn't kiss anybody but my...
24:43I fiancé to my husband.
24:49Thank you, Mr. Paladin.
24:51Thank you, Tilda.
24:57Papa, thank you very much.
24:59I was to, Tilda.
25:02I'll be right back.
25:03I should wait for us, Tilda.
25:06Yeah!
25:07Let's go.
25:08We'll see you all the time to see you.
25:09I'll be right back.
25:10You can't see you.
25:11I can't see you.
25:12I'm going to see you.
25:14I can't remember.
25:15The End
25:45The End
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