00:00This gun says there will be no lynching here.
00:19There's earth enough to bury every man who comes to me with a rope.
00:30Let's go.
00:48Here you are, Mr. Paladin, as you design it, in almost solid blacksmiths.
01:07That's very nice.
01:11I know how difficult platinum is to work with.
01:13It requires great heat.
01:14Yes, sir. The combination of rare metal and great skill makes that quite an expensive ornament.
01:21Naturally. Leave your bill at the desk.
01:23At least...
01:27Thank you, Mr. Paladin.
01:29Leave the bill?
01:30At the desk. Good day, sir.
01:44Uh, Mr. Paladin, he's, uh, wealthy.
01:49Tip!
01:51Always I bring Mr. Paladin's newspaper from every place.
01:55Him, Big Tipper.
01:57I'm to leave a bill for Mr. Paladin.
02:00Is that all right?
02:01Quite all right, sir. This is his permanent residence.
02:04His, uh, credit?
02:06You must be new to San Francisco. No one questions Mr. Paladin's credit.
02:11Uh, he's engaged in business here?
02:13He must have investments all over the West. He's always going away on business trips.
02:18Oh.
02:19Bartholomew Holgate, wanted for murder by the town of Bender in Wyoming territory, was captured in the foothills south of Sacramento this morning.
02:29Holgate pleaded with the local authorities against being returned to Bender.
02:32The prisoner stated that he would be turned over to a mob which would lynch him.
02:36Uh, everything taken care of, Mr. Paladin.
02:42It's a pleasure to do business with a gentleman of taste.
02:52Bartholomew Holgate.
02:56Uh, uh.
02:59Care of jail...
03:02Sacramento...
03:05California.
03:07Of California.
03:26Get out of that way.
03:28It seems to have gotten tangled up in an iron clothesline.
03:33Hey, what part I'll blow you half?
03:36I ought to pull that trigger and finish it right here.
03:39Thanks, mister.
03:43Give me them irons.
03:46You can't blame me.
03:47You'll save me back to be laced.
03:49You don't deserve better.
03:51I step out for a minute and Harry here tries to make you more comfortable.
03:54You kick him in the head and take off.
03:59I'll not be making mistakes of kindness again.
04:01You, I take it up, Otholomew Holgate.
04:03You received my card, I received your wire.
04:05You?
04:06I thought you was on my side.
04:08Who are you, mister?
04:10My name is Paladin.
04:18Your name, Sheriff, is...
04:19Swank.
04:20This young fellow whose lab will blow a holding is my deputy, Harry Dean.
04:23What's your business here?
04:25That remains to be settled.
04:26What makes you think you'll be lynched?
04:28The town was named after Max Bender.
04:30Bender's a well-liked.
04:32It was his son that caught my bullets.
04:34I'll tell you what I'll do.
04:40For $200, I'll guarantee to deliver you alive to stand trial.
04:45All right, Paladin.
04:46I'll see you get your money the moment I...
04:49I step in the courtroom.
04:51And what do you think the chances are of my employer here being lynched?
04:56I think he'll try it.
04:57Will you stop him?
05:00Don't ask him.
05:02I didn't hear your answer, Sheriff.
05:05It'll be a cruel, hard decision.
05:07Then we are on the same side.
05:09The whole town on the other side.
05:11I don't think we'll come out on top.
05:14As the poet Browning wrote,
05:15"'Tis not what man does that exalts him,
05:18but what man would do."
05:21And we three would do right.
05:25Maybe that poet don't mind failing,
05:27but me, when I put my hand to a thing,
05:29I like to know it's going to be done.
05:32A man's reach should exceed his grasp,
05:34for what's a heaven for?
05:36That's Browning again.
06:02Max, Amy.
06:03How'd you know we'd come in on this train?
06:05We waited on all the trains.
06:07I wanted to see the man that killed my son.
06:11He's gonna get a trial, Max.
06:12My brother didn't have a trial.
06:14Amy!
06:15He didn't have a gun and didn't have a trial with a smart lawyer
06:18to trick him to freedom or a prison sentence.
06:20The man who killed your brother will have a trial, Miss Bender.
06:23Who are you?
06:24My name is Paladin.
06:26Holgate hired him to see that he ain't lynched.
06:29So, the gunfighters are all for law and order.
06:32If the price is right.
06:34You don't buy law and order, Miss Bender.
06:36You fight for it.
06:37Once you have it, you don't throw it away.
06:39Your father knows how hard law is to come by.
06:42All this talk won't change the writing on my brother's tombstone.
06:45Your neighbors will come for this man, Sheriff.
06:48And you'll do what's right.
06:49He will.
06:52And so will you.
06:59Come here, Ma...
07:00It's all right.
07:01Come out.
07:02Come on.
07:03Look.
07:04Come out, Ma...
07:05You want to come here.
07:06Look.
07:07Come out.
07:08Come out.
07:09Come out.
07:10Come out.
07:13Come out.
07:14Good job.
07:15You're going to take me home, timbre.
07:18Come out.
07:19Come out.
07:20Come out.
07:21Come out!
07:22Come out.
07:23Come out.
07:24Come on.
07:25Come out.
07:26Go tell your mother you're home, Harry.
07:29I'll be back if trouble breaks.
07:31Good work, Swink.
07:56Now you got the honey in the hive, the bees will be swarming around soon enough.
08:00Sheriff, I'll bet down on one of your office carts and pull the trial.
08:03All right, but I'll be using the other one.
08:07Greetings, gentlemen.
08:10You didn't lose any time, did you, Coombs?
08:13My client and I must start preparing our defense.
08:16And mind you, Sheriff, I expect you to deliver us only to the court.
08:20Exactly.
08:23Who's he?
08:24Oh, but say I'm a deputy to assist the sheriff.
08:27He's all right.
08:29I hired his gun.
08:31He'll see to what I get to the courtroom.
08:33And you see that your attorney turns the fee over to the person I choose.
08:37I'll tell him.
08:39Right now, we'd like privacy.
08:41My client and I must discuss the case.
08:49Go ahead.
08:54Wrap on the bars when you're through.
08:56No, sir.
09:06Well, sir, I have been examining our case.
09:08Talking to the witnesses.
09:11Searching for legal precedent.
09:13You can get me off?
09:14No, however, we might make a case
09:18out of the fact that you assume young Bender to be armed.
09:23What does that get me?
09:25Ten to twenty years.
09:27Perhaps life.
09:29That won't hardly do, see?
09:30I see. Now, Bart, we can merely present our defense.
09:33We cannot command a verdict.
09:35Can we buy one?
09:36No, no, not in the present situation.
09:39And I'd better not stay around for the trial.
09:43Well, you're safer in this cell than you would be outside.
09:46If you fell into the hands of those townspeople.
09:55Town can help me out of this mess.
09:58Yeah.
10:00Let them come roaring up to the front of the jail in a mob, yelling for my neck.
10:05They'll do that right enough.
10:07And Swink, that hidden paladin, will be out there trying to hold them off.
10:13There'll be gunplay and noise aplenty.
10:15There'll be that, too.
10:18Let's see.
10:19I still got a couple of friends, William and Keith.
10:23They still around?
10:25Yes.
10:27They signed on at the Circle X Ranch.
10:29Well, uh...
10:31Have them ride into town.
10:33That's Amy Bender's doing.
10:47She'll keep stirring the pot till it boils over.
10:50She was always such a nice, quiet girl.
10:52I never suspected that there was a streak of pure meanness under it all.
10:55Meanness, Mr. Combs?
10:57Hardly.
10:58Amy Bender hates and with good cause.
11:01It's frustrating for a woman to hate like this.
11:03She can't strap on a gun and settle this affair with her own two hands.
11:06Well?
11:20Miss Bender, I wonder if you'd hold some money for me.
11:23You're not to give it to me until Holgate steps into the courtroom.
11:25If he dies before that, return it to Mr. Combs.
11:28I think I'd hold your blood money.
11:31Blood money for keeping a man alive?
11:34I'll hold that money for you.
11:37Thank you, Mr. Bender.
11:38Well, you don't need me anymore.
11:41If you won't help us, at least stay out of it completely.
11:47Who needs weapons?
11:49Let me a shotgun, Amy.
11:53Double blast the belly ought to cut a man in half.
11:55That man wouldn't be any deader than one with a .45 slug between his eyes.
11:59Yeah, you're a big man with a gun, ain't you?
12:01And you're a big man with a crowd.
12:03I don't need no crowd.
12:05I don't need no gun.
12:25Stay away from the jail.
12:30Don't try to stop us, gunfighter.
12:32There's room for another noose out there.
12:34So there is.
12:36And earth enough to bury every man who comes to me with a rope.
12:39Let's do it.
12:44Let's go.
13:14How's it been?
13:29Quiet in here. Anything building up on the street?
13:31Small groups, big talk.
13:32Nothing will happen tonight.
13:34I'll wait till word reaches the ranches and the nesters.
13:36I make it to party or break tomorrow night.
13:38Feels like it.
13:40Get a good night's sleep, boys.
13:41Don't want you dozing tomorrow night.
13:44Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:51Holgate seems to be in a happier frame of mind than that.
13:54He's got no worries.
13:55We're supposed to look after him in jail and Coombs will look after him in court.
13:59Sure.
13:59If I've got an idea, Holgate can look after himself.
14:01Is there any place around here I can lock this up?
14:10I wouldn't want it handled too much.
14:11Well, this has got a key.
14:13You can put it in there.
14:14Yep.
14:19What do you got in that bag, anyhow?
14:21Just some of the tools in my trade.
14:23Some of them.
14:25Uh-oh.
14:26Look at here.
14:27What do we got now?
14:31So?
14:33William McHeath.
14:35His friends.
14:36That's Fred Coombs' place.
14:38Now, what would he be wanting with Holgate's lawyer?
14:40Sheriff, if you want to sit up tonight, pondering the answers to questions, I've got a better
14:45one for you to chew on.
14:47What's that?
14:48Who do they figure to ride that extra horse?
15:10A man came by and said you wanted to see me.
15:13Now that you've had a night to sleep on it, do you still intend to fight for Holgate?
15:18Nothing's come up to change my position, Miss Bender.
15:20Something might.
15:21For instance.
15:23Mr. Paladin, I don't want anyone hurt.
15:27I just want Holgate to pay for my brother's death.
15:30So far, no argument.
15:32I believe Sheriff Swink can be persuaded not to shoot at his friends.
15:35In that case, no harm will come to him.
15:38The same goes for his deputy.
15:39That's a lot of believing, Miss Bender, but go ahead.
15:42That leaves just you.
15:44You're liable to kill somebody and be killed in turn.
15:47It would seem so.
15:49You're doing this for money.
15:51What if I gave you more money to leave town now?
15:55That's a definite offer, I take it.
15:57Cash.
15:58I'll get it for you.
15:59Don't do that.
16:01Switching sides for money, that's most unethical.
16:03I'm afraid not.
16:04But why?
16:06Have you ever seen a lynching, Miss Bender?
16:08No.
16:09I imagine it.
16:10Your imagination would fall far short of the truth.
16:13No matter what Holgate's done, he won't be handed over to feed the animal instincts of a mob.
16:20What's the matter?
16:21Is your conscience acting up?
16:22I don't want anyone hurt, except Holgate.
16:25That's the trouble with the lynching, Miss Bender.
16:27You can't have it ordered up all neat and dainty like a yard of Flemish lace.
16:31It's something that cowards get whiskied up and mumble over, winding up with screams in the gutters of a dark night.
16:37There's nothing you can do to stop it!
16:46It's all set, Amy.
16:48We'll start tonight from here.
16:49What's the matter?
16:54Nothing's the matter.
16:58You'll start from here.
17:00Tonight.
17:01Tonight.
17:02What?
17:02What?
17:02What?
17:04What?
17:04What?
17:04What?
17:05What?
17:05What are you looking at me like that for?
17:35What are you thinking I'm just wondering what you're thinking
17:39Bob's about ready to move paladin coming well sir see you in court
17:47Moving up this way
17:52Looks like everybody's here I'd say we're all set
18:00You wait here Amy we'll bring him to you you can put the rope around his neck
18:05You change your mind Max yes what are you going to do dad I'm going to the jail
18:12And when this mob comes Amy I'm going to use this rifle
18:18Hold on here Max you're a little turnaround agent
18:21You know when I first came here there was nothing that was good
18:25I wanted to start my family out in a place where there were no guns and no vigilante law
18:30Then you people came
18:33The town started to grow
18:36But it was still good
18:38Because right from the very start we had law and we had decency
18:42And now you
18:44You want to wipe all of this out in just one night
18:48We're doing this for your son don't you use my boy as an excuse
18:52Why you
18:53You better stay here and take it easy Max
18:59It's all right
19:01The sheriff will get me another rifle
19:03Dad don't
19:04Come on men
19:12Let's move
19:13Oh Amy
19:15Amy what have you done
19:17I'm sorry
19:18Wait
19:18I'm sorry I didn't know it would be like this
19:21There's another shotgun in the rack
19:25No thanks sheriff
19:26We might as well stand them off from in here
19:28Harry you take it from this window here
19:32Oh listen to him
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20:31Get back! I'm warning you!
20:56Get back! I'm warning you!
21:01Get back!
21:09Go on, he's shooting high!
21:11Let's get in there!
21:16I'm not shooting high next time!
21:18Why break any more doors open when you can dynamite them open?
21:24Here. You want this?
21:26Here! Here!
21:29Venamites!
21:30Get out of there!
21:31Get out of here!
21:33Get out of here!
21:37Ed!
21:40The police are overtaking.
21:42illary 안됐 hire
21:53What happened to the crowd?
22:05Where's the noise?
22:07That crowd won't collect again.
22:09Mob courage is a momentary thing.
22:10Once it's gone, it's gone for good.
22:12If they were as scared as I was, they're still running.
22:15They're near to join them.
22:19Hey, there's the leaders.
22:21If we grab them, we can tie this thing up.
22:23Hey, you, stay right where you are.
22:26Come on, Harriet, get them.
22:33Something's gone wrong.
22:35Keep your gun handy.
22:37Pull these bars out of here.
22:53You're good.
23:00Very good.
23:03That's what you paid me for.
23:05There's no coal you're mixing in this.
23:08Just collect your money and forget about it.
23:09Well, I couldn't do that.
23:11I can't collect until you walk into that courtroom.
23:13You hired me to see to it.
23:15Look, I see you get $1,000.
23:17Just walk away.
23:18Well, that wouldn't be ethical.
23:19I can't take another job until I finish this one.
23:21Don't be a fool.
23:22I won't be.
23:23Let's go around in front and wait for the sheriff.
23:26We mustn't lose heart now.
23:51Our situation, while difficult, is not impossible.
23:54Oh, shut up.
23:57Paladin?
24:02This is yours now.
24:06Let's go.
24:06You know, Mr. Paladin, nearly everyone in this town is grateful to you today.
24:15Though most of them won't admit it.
24:16I'm invening it.
24:18And with such a long face?
24:21I'm so ashamed and confused.
24:24Why did you want me to hold your pay?
24:27Because it's an honest face as well.
24:29But is it never a smiling face?
24:32Oh, Amy can smile up a storm.
24:34That time wasn't she was all smiles and giggles and fouled her all.
24:39Fouled her all, too.
24:41I deserve to be made fun of.
24:43There's the smile.
24:44And that's the prettiest face of all.
24:51Well, I hope this is a just verdict.
24:53It will be.
24:55After the trial, Holgate will climb on a horse.
24:58He'll fall off that horse while riding under a tree.
25:00His feet won't touch the ground, but the fall will break his neck all the same.
25:05The End
25:06The End
25:10THE END
25:40THE END
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