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Approved | 30min | Adventure, Western, TV Series | Episode aired 17 April 1957
After several people are murdered Hawkeye seeks the help of his friend Benjamin Franklin to stop a would be tyrant.
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: Albert Aley, Nat Tanchuck, James Fenimore Cooper
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Stan Francis
After several people are murdered Hawkeye seeks the help of his friend Benjamin Franklin to stop a would be tyrant.
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: Albert Aley, Nat Tanchuck, James Fenimore Cooper
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Stan Francis
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00:00The immortal pen of James F. Cooper brings you thrilling tales of excitement, blazing
00:14action on the early American frontier, stirring adventures filled with the daring and courage
00:21of Hawkeye, first of the Long Rifles, and his blood brother, Chinguchkuk, last of the
00:30Mohicans.
00:39We can talk better without guns, Barton.
00:41I got nothing to say to you.
00:43You might be a whole lot safer talking fur, Kane, instead of a guinem.
00:46Voting for him would be even better.
00:49I'd rather be dead than vote for that swine.
00:51No!
00:52You're breaking my arm!
00:54A man's neck breaks just as easy.
00:56Now, who are you going to be voting for?
00:59Vote!
01:00I'm losing my patience, Barton.
01:02Now, let me hear it.
01:04Who are you going to be voting for?
01:06Kane!
01:07The whole thing, louder and clearer.
01:09I'm voting for Ryder Kane.
01:15Just the way I'm going to want to hear you say it at the assembly meeting.
01:18Just don't forget, it ain't everywhere in the world a man's got the right to vote the
01:23way he sees fit.
01:37Sun is at top.
01:39Why we hurry?
01:40We reach settlement before dark anyway.
01:43I guess I have been pushed a little, Chinguchkuk.
01:46We've never been to Hopeville before.
01:47I figured on getting there before dark and doing a little sightseeing.
01:51All village same.
01:52We see many.
01:53Houses, roads, people.
01:57One tree in forest.
01:59Much better.
02:01I don't anchor spending too much time in towns myself.
02:07It doesn't look like he's hunting four-legged game, does it?
02:13He'll come to sit in ducks now.
02:19He stopped ducks.
02:20I'll take care of that bushwhacker.
02:29Sam Barton, the dirty bushwhacker.
02:45It appears to me he's the victim of his own ambush.
02:49That shot, did you?
02:50His gun went off out of plain surprise.
02:54But he did run into Mephist.
02:55He'll be coming to in a minute.
02:57That lowdown, ambushing skunk.
03:00He might be all you say he is, mister, but that's no reason to mark yourself with murder.
03:04It ain't murder to kill a snake before he gets his fangs into you.
03:09Snake?
03:10Skunk?
03:12All I see lying there is a human being with a right to a fair trial no matter what he's
03:16done.
03:17I'll give him a fair trial.
03:19Let's take him in, Mr. Kate.
03:24I think it's Cook and me are heading for Hopeville.
03:26It'll be no trouble at all for us to take him in.
03:30I'm the one he tried to murder, stranger, and I'm the one that's going to take him in.
03:35Now, get out of my way.
03:37Lymond, does it matter who takes Barton into the sheriff?
03:39Well, how do we know this stranger ain't going to turn him loose?
03:42I'm sure he won't.
03:43After all, he did save us from an ambush.
03:46Look me up when you get to Hopeville.
03:48I'd like to thank you properly.
03:50Ask anybody there for Ryder Cain.
03:56Angry one.
03:57A very smooth-tongued one.
03:59Like squaw.
04:00There's power in that smoothness, Chingage Cook.
04:03Like a fine steel blade.
04:06All right, Mr. Barton.
04:09You can stop playing possum and get to your feet now.
04:15It's safe.
04:16They've gone.
04:17I reckoned I'd live a mite longer playing dead.
04:23I don't know if I should thank you for keeping me from damning my soul as a bushwhacker,
04:28or to cuss you for stopping me from stamping out them two vermin.
04:31Mr. Barton, I'd choose thanking, because I don't hold a bushwhacking any more than I
04:35do shooting a man when he's lying down.
04:37It weren't easy forcing myself to wait for them behind that tree.
04:41My insides are tortured.
04:42Part of me knowing I got no right to take human life, but most of me hoping the good
04:46Lord will have mercy on me for ridding this territory of the evil of Ryder Cain.
04:50We've heard of Ryder Cain.
04:52Could be part of the reason why we're headed for Hopeville.
04:55What business would you have with Ryder Cain, stranger?
04:57Don't know yet.
04:58Got a letter from a friend of ours asking us to come here.
05:02Seems he didn't care much for Ryder Cain either.
05:05Ain't nobody in Hopeville put anything in writing against Cain.
05:09Seems you don't know Miles Gentry.
05:11Who be you, stranger?
05:12I'm called Hawkeye.
05:14This is my blood brother, Chingagook.
05:16Miles talked about you off and on some time back.
05:19Guess I don't have to worry about you turning me over to the sheriff now.
05:23Mr. Barton, when a man takes the law into his own hands, he's got to answer for it.
05:28You don't mean that.
05:31Turning me over to the sheriff's like throwing me into a lion's den.
05:34I gave my word I'd bring you in, but I'll see that you get a fair trial.
05:38If I lived that long.
05:40Cain's got the sheriff in his pocket, same as he's got the rest of Hopeville.
05:43Mr. Barton, I've never lost a wager playing on the side of the law.
05:47I've got nobody's word but yours.
05:49The law's playing a crooked game in these parts.
05:52What if Miles Gentry backed me up?
05:54Would you believe me then?
05:55Like the gospel.
05:57I'll take you to him.
05:58It's right on the way into town.
06:06Told you I'd take you to Miles Gentry.
06:08Well, there he is.
06:11You see what's written there?
06:13Them's his own words.
06:15It's like he was expecting to be killed.
06:17There's Will Hawkins.
06:19Will could have told you about Ryder Cain.
06:22Or Chubb Wilson.
06:24My brother.
06:26He believed in Ryder Cain, worked for him.
06:29And when he found out what Cain was up to, it tore him up all inside.
06:34He ran to get as far away as he could.
06:36But Cain and his men caught up to him.
06:40Would you call me a bushwhacker for trying to rid ourselves of this murderer?
06:43What you say is true, Mr. Barton.
06:45No jury would pin that name on you.
06:47Them jury men will be thinking of their own necks, not mine.
06:50Cain's got a plan, Hawkeye.
06:52He runs Hopeville.
06:54And day after tomorrow, when he gets himself named permanent chairman of the assembly,
06:57he'll have his grip over the whole territory.
06:59And everybody at his mercy.
07:01Bleeding every shilling and farthing he can out of our sweat and toil.
07:04You got any proof of this?
07:07A letter my brother sent me before he was killed.
07:10Well, anybody could write anything in a letter.
07:12Cain would just laugh it off.
07:14Ralph knew Cain was gonna kill him.
07:16He wrote that down.
07:18And he told everything about how Cain planned these murders.
07:20Name and names, given dates.
07:22Even about Miles Gentry.
07:24I got the letter same day Miles was killed.
07:27Then that letter would be valuable evidence in a court of law.
07:30I'd like to see it.
07:32Where I've got it hid is in the opposite direction from the jail.
07:35I reckon it'll have to keep, Barton.
07:45That's the power of a lie.
07:47Just what I expect from him.
07:49He's a troublemaker, he is.
07:51Ask anybody in town.
07:53I'm not interested in opinions off the street.
07:55I merely mention the notion of Mr. Barton's that that jail cell might be his coffin.
08:00I'm only his sheriff, not judge and jury.
08:03I'll lock him up.
08:04The court decides what to do with him.
08:06You mean Ryder Cain tells you what to do?
08:08I'm beholden to no man.
08:10This is a peaceable town.
08:12We never have no trouble.
08:14Except with him.
08:15He never did have no respect for the law, never will.
08:20I give you my hand.
08:21No harm will come to him whilst he's in my jail.
08:24And here's mine.
08:25If any accidents happen to Mr. Barton, you'll have to answer to me personally.
08:30We'll look in on you.
08:35Get in that cell.
08:49Hello there.
08:50My pleasure, gentlemen.
08:51Have a seat.
08:52No need for ceremony.
08:54Especially since I have my life to be grateful for.
08:57I take it Barton's in jail?
08:59That's right, we just left the jail.
09:01I could have saved you that piece of travel.
09:03If you hadn't stuck your nose in and let me finish that dirty bushwhacker.
09:07Lyman, the matter's settled.
09:09We're all friends here at this table.
09:11Jenny!
09:12A couple of pints of ale for my friends here and don't skimp the brim.
09:15Never mind, Jenny.
09:17Thanks, just the same.
09:18What brings you to Hopeville?
09:19Just looking the country over.
09:21You'll be moving on soon then?
09:22We might.
09:24And again, we might not.
09:26What business you got here?
09:28Come to town, look over.
09:31Maybe stay, maybe go.
09:34I've just realized.
09:36You know my name and Brett Lyman's.
09:39But we neglected to learn yours.
09:41He is called Hawkeye.
09:43By all Indian tribes.
09:45This is my Mohican brother, Chingachuk.
09:48Hawkeye, eh?
09:50That ought to mean you got pretty sharp eyes.
09:53You see that dark spot over there?
10:00And that's without looking.
10:02That's a pretty good toss.
10:24Chingachuk and me haven't had much of a chance to look around town.
10:28So we'll be getting along.
10:38Chingachuk.
10:41Here's yours, Mr. Lyman.
10:44Good day, gentlemen.
10:52Keep out of his way, Lyman.
10:55But make sure that he stays out of ours.
10:59Let's mosey over there and see if we can find out...
11:01...why these folks act like we got the plague.
11:03It's not plague.
11:05All people in this town, afraid.
11:08Like elk, when not have leader.
11:11Scatter when wolf attack.
11:13A wolf won't attack you.
11:15It's not a plague.
11:17It's a plague.
11:19It's a plague.
11:21It's a plague.
11:23It's a plague.
11:25It's a plague.
11:27A wolf won't attack an elk herd with a king elk leading them.
11:30Maybe that's what this town needs.
11:32Someone they can trust.
11:34Someone who'll make them stand up together and fight.
11:36Remember that town that we stopped at early this morning?
11:39Remember the man that we spoke to?
11:41Everyone in the colonies will listen to him.
11:43Go and get him, Chingachuk.
11:45Tell him what's happening here. I'm sure he'll come back with you.
11:47Well, what'd my brother do?
11:49I'm gonna get that letter from Mr. Barton.
11:57I command you, stop!
12:09Hawkeye.
12:11The letter.
12:13Storage shed.
12:15Loose board.
12:17Fine.
12:21I signed his death warrant turning him over to you.
12:24He tricked me. Got out of his cell.
12:26I ordered him to stop. He'd got away if I hadn't shot him.
12:29Maybe you didn't listen when I told you I'd hold you to account for anything that happened like this.
12:33You'll go to the gallows, Sheriff.
12:35Along with those you're working for.
12:41All right, stop shaking.
12:43That there Hawkeye ain't gonna be living another day.
12:48A warm stall for my horse and the best grain.
12:53And see to it you rub her down well, Osler.
12:56I promised her that consideration for her extra duty tonight.
13:01Ah, a bit of warmth.
13:03Be prudent not to let it waste.
13:06Ben!
13:07Ah, Hawkeye!
13:12You're the one man in the colonies I knew I could count on.
13:15Ah, we've got to stand together, Hawkeye.
13:17Woodsman and townsman.
13:19Else, how am I ever going to convince the politicians that my plan of colonial union is vital to all of us?
13:24Ah, but you're the one man in the colonies I knew I could count on.
13:27Ah, we've got to stand together, Hawkeye.
13:29Woodsman and townsman.
13:31Else, how am I ever going to convince the politicians that my plan of colonial union is vital to all of us?
13:34Ah, but you're the one man in the colonies I knew I could count on.
13:36I'll sign the register and we can discuss matters in the comfort of my room.
13:42Thank you, lass.
13:48Oh, I'll not be needing that.
13:50The heat of a pan's only temporary.
13:52And my blood still runs warm enough to keep me in snug dreams all night.
13:56Ching a choo.
13:58That hostler was either half asleep or quite deaf.
14:01I wonder if we'd be asking too much of you to see that my mare is properly bedded down.
14:06My brother Hawkeye tell me you are great white chief.
14:09That all chiefs across great white waters give you honor.
14:13But you are like Papoose.
14:15You have great love for horse too.
14:18Take care of a good servant and you'll have a friend that'll take care of you.
14:23Ah, thank you, lass.
14:25Room three, Hawkeye.
14:28Good night.
14:34Your jaw's hanging loose, Jenny.
14:43A tyrant, no matter how minute he might be,
14:46is like a worm in an apple tree, Hawkeye.
14:49And if it's not plucked out in time,
14:51it'll engulf the whole tree and then the orchard.
14:54Well, we've found the worm in this tree, all right.
14:57Then we must pluck him out.
14:59Ah, at the very bottom.
15:03A little something I invented, Hawkeye.
15:05And now I can peruse that letter you mentioned to me
15:08without having the words dance in front of me.
15:10You'll have to wait till I find it.
15:12From the way you spoke, I assumed you had it on your person.
15:15No, but I knew it.
15:17Then get it, man.
15:19And if it contains all the information you've reported to me,
15:22the least we'll be able to do is get an indictment of murder against Mr. Kane.
15:39Will the rat scurry into his hole?
15:41Maybe.
15:43More than likely, it's just the floor settling.
15:45But be sure and lock your door.
15:47Writer Kane might be fool enough to try violence on you.
15:50A farthing's worth of good advice
15:52is a more prudent investment than a pound's worth of stubborn pride.
15:55Oh, about that letter.
15:57It would be most effective if I were to have it
15:59to present to the assembly before the election takes place.
16:02Good night.
16:04Good night, Hawkeye.
16:15Good night.
16:46Even with those fancy spectacles Ben Franklin made,
16:50he ain't gonna be able to read that there letter.
16:52Three to one.
16:54That's not the kind of odds I like to be up against.
16:56Now give it here.
17:16Cover the door!
17:36Over here!
17:45Come on.
18:12All night long.
18:14Not a word out of you.
18:16Now for the last time,
18:18if you don't tell me what you did with that letter,
18:21I'm gonna finish you off with your own rifle here.
18:23You won't shoot, Lyman.
18:25That letter's worth your life,
18:27not if nobody else ever finds it.
18:29Now I'm gonna count to three,
18:31and your tongue better be wagging before I gets there.
18:34One, two...
18:36Put that rifle down!
18:38That letter's worth my life too, Lyman.
18:41But letter or no letter,
18:43in a few hours I'm going to be elected permanent chairman of the assembly.
18:46Even the permanent chairman of the assembly can walk the steps to the gallows.
18:50Not Ryder Cain.
18:52After today, there won't be a voice big enough to dare raise itself against me.
18:55Not even Benjamin Franklin's.
18:57Today's young yet.
18:59You haven't been elected.
19:01This isn't really an election, Hawkeye.
19:03I'm merely going through the formality of permitting the people to say,
19:05I in my favor.
19:07Keep working on him.
19:10If he hasn't stopped acting like a hero by the time I get back,
19:14I'll let you finish counting.
19:21Much as I want that letter, Hawkeye,
19:23I'm kind of hoping that you won't break.
19:40Me look everywhere.
19:42My brother Hawkeye like mist in morning sun.
19:45He disappear.
19:47If only he told us where he was going.
19:50People are already gathering at the meeting house,
19:52which means the voting will take place within the hour.
19:55Have you seen Ryder Cain?
19:57Last time me see him, he head into woods.
20:00That's strange.
20:02My judgment of such a man is that he's not going to be here.
20:05Him not there.
20:06Nor is Big Mouth.
20:08Big Mouth?
20:09Lyman.
20:10Work for Cain.
20:12You find them, and I'm sure you'll find Hawkeye.
20:24I'm not waiting for Cain.
20:26I'm not waiting for Cain.
20:28I'm not waiting for Cain.
20:30I'm not waiting for Cain.
20:32I'm not waiting for Cain.
20:35I forgot to tell you, it isn't loaded.
20:38Maybe not with ball and powder.
20:41There's something in here, all right.
20:43Looks like a piece of paper.
20:48Couldn't be that letter, could it?
20:51Find something to get it out.
21:04Let's go.
21:29Me take many scalps for this.
21:31Now just untie me and get me on my feet.
21:33Any scalps will be taken around here.
21:35It'll be done by Ben Franklin.
21:37All right, my brother.
21:39And I consider it a great privilege to be allowed to welcome to our midst
21:43that great defender of human rights,
21:45assemblyman at large from Philadelphia,
21:48publisher of the Great Gazette,
21:50representative of Massachusetts and Georgia,
21:53and deputy postmaster general of all the colonies,
21:56Mr. Benjamin Franklin.
21:58Now stand up, Mr. Franklin.
22:00Let the citizens of Hopeville get a good look at you.
22:04Mr. Cain, whenever an old political war horse like myself
22:09rises to his feet before an assemblage,
22:12he has the urge to make a speech.
22:14Do you mind?
22:16Hopeville's a citadel of free speech, Mr. Franklin.
22:19Go right ahead.
22:24And keep your ears open, the lot of you.
22:26You don't want to miss a word of this.
22:28I'll give you something to tell your children and your grandchildren.
22:31You couldn't be more right, Mr. Cain.
22:37Well, don't just stand there.
22:39They're not allowed here. Get rid of them.
22:41Do as I say or I'll break you.
22:43Get out of here, you two, or sit down.
22:45I'm in charge.
22:46Seems to me that Ben Franklin still has the floor.
22:49Maybe you'd better sit down, Mr. Cain.
22:52It is not necessary to recount the crimes committed by Ryder Cain
22:56upon the people of this community.
22:59You know what they are.
23:01It just remains for me to place the contents of this letter
23:06into the hands of the proper authority.
23:08And as fate has decreed for all tyrants since time immemorial,
23:14justice will be done.
23:17Justice will be done.
23:21As for those words Mr. Cain promised I'd give you
23:25to hand down to posterity,
23:28let me add this, my friends.
23:31You are the citizens of a great new world.
23:35In this wilderness, you are planting the seeds
23:38of what must surely become a great and glorious civilization.
23:44Have faith in yourselves and in your neighbors.
23:49White chiefs speak with golden tongue.
23:53Better than that, James Cooper, with a golden heart.
23:56Thank you for their most priceless possession.
23:59Their blessed inheritance of freedom.
24:05Join us again at this same time next week
24:08for another of James Fenimore Cooper's gripping tales
24:11of the early American frontier.
24:13Another exciting adventure of Hawkeye
24:16and his blood brother Chingach Cook.
24:18Last of the Mohicans.
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