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The Frontiersmen (1938)
Passed | 1h 14min | Action, Comedy, Musical, Western | 16 December 1938 (USA)

The local school is causing Hoppy problems. First Bar 20 cattle are stolen when Hoppy investigates a problem there. Then the new teacher arrives and disrupts the routine of the Bar 20 hands. Later with the Bar 20 hands at graduation, the rustlers are poised to strike again. But there is dissension among them and this will lead to the break that Hoppy needs.

Director: Lesley Selander

Writers: Norman Houston (screenplay), Harrison Jacobs (additional dialogue)

Stars: William Boyd, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Russell Hayden
Transcript
00:00Why, what's the trouble?
00:03We're a parents committee, Mayor. There ain't been any school for two weeks.
00:06Where's that teacher you promised us?
00:08Oh, I took care of that while I was away.
00:19Folks, your children deserve the kind of education
00:23guaranteed them by our glorious Constitution.
00:27And that is why I went all the way to Santa Fe
00:30to get a competent teacher to handle your children.
00:33A man. He'll be here any day now.
00:39No one can handle the little rowdies.
00:41They'll all turn out to be darned rowdies.
00:52Dr. Hill, move it!
00:57Where's your schoolmaster?
01:06She's here.
01:07My name is June Lake.
01:08Oh, it's very nice of you to meet me like this.
01:11Bet it's your first school.
01:13It is.
01:14Ha! You won't last long with those young pests.
01:19I sent for a man teacher.
01:21There's no place for you here in Crockett.
01:24Well, surely you won't send me away without even giving me a chance.
01:27I'm sorry, but we can't use you.
01:32Just a minute, Miss Lake.
01:37This young lady stays right here.
01:39And you might just as well like it.
01:42Where do you get off mixing in my business, Cassidy?
01:46I thought it was about time somebody did.
01:49So I went to the superintendent of schools at Santa Fe
01:51and explained the situation.
01:54He was going to send us something brand new on the way of school, Mom.
01:58Looks to me like he has.
02:04This is no way to treat a girl after she's traveled all the way out here
02:07to try to help your children.
02:09Thank you, Mr. Cassidy.
02:11But I don't think I'll like it here now.
02:14I think I'll go back east where I came from.
02:17Well, I can't say that I blame you much, Miss,
02:19but we really want you to stay.
02:21Hoppy's right, Miss.
02:22We won't let you leave us if we can help it.
02:25You can come and live with us at the Bar 20.
02:27It's not far from town.
02:32Cassidy!
02:36I'm telling you for the last time,
02:37I'll not have you interfering in my affairs.
02:40You try riding straight and I won't have to.
02:43What are you insinuating?
02:45Figure it out for yourself.
02:50Well, Mr. Cassidy heard that man.
02:51Well, he got what he asked for.
02:53Get in the buckboard.
02:58The west still is wild, isn't it?
03:00Yeah, I am spot.
03:02But wait till you meet your pupils.
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