Hawkeye And The Last Of The Mohicans E8: The Witch (1957) - (Adventure,Western,TV Series) - video Dailymotion

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Approved | 30min | Adventure, Western | TV Series (1957)   Someone is going to a lot of trouble to convince the townspeople that a witch has cursed them. A bell that rings by itself, a lame horse, milk with the taste of brimstone lead Hawkeye to search for the truth.    Director: Sam Newfield  Writers: Frank Hursley, Doris Hursley, Nat Tanchuck, Endre Bohem, Louis Vittes, James Fenimore Cooper  Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Arch McDonnell

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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.

00:31It's happened again.

00:32Well, that's funny.

00:52People usually head for the meeting house when the bell tolls, not run from it.

01:02Well, it's not to be seen, the rope motionless, there's not a soul up there.

01:08We're bewitched, I tell you, Preacher Hale.

01:10And I tell you there's an earthly explanation for it, Mr. Burns.

01:13There must be some reason for it, the bell doesn't ring by itself.

01:17The wind, perhaps.

01:18There isn't breeze enough to blow a feather.

01:22Witchcraft, that's what it is.

01:23Come now, Snead, witches in a house dedicated to worship?

01:27Poppycock.

01:28Then what made the bell toll with not a human hand to touch the rope?

01:31Bewitched, that's what we be.

01:33The whole town's bewitched.

01:36Hawkeye, Chinguchkuk, Squire Greggs, these are the men who guided the first settlers

01:47into this township.

01:48You're more than welcome.

01:50Preacher Hale's been telling me he sent for you.

01:52We're going to need more than ball and powder to help us chase away witches.

01:56Maybe we should have brought our broomsticks.

01:59It's not anything to be made light of.

02:01He speaks gospel, Hawkeye.

02:03Wayneville's beset with superstition and fear.

02:05The Preacher can tell you what we've been enduring after a bit of refreshment.

02:09Oh, I'm sorry, you've come a long way, but this evil that's abroad has been very upsetting.

02:15I not believe in witches, but when belly is full, ears are more willing to listen.

02:21Just mentioned food and Chinguchkuk starts thinking about his stomach.

02:24Well, it'll be potluck, but there'll be plenty to fill your thoughts, Chinguchkuk.

02:38I told you no a dozen times.

02:40Your animals bewitched.

02:41Now, get it out of here.

02:43It's the Bradleys.

02:45They're one of our oldest families.

02:47They just can't be leaving.

02:49We best try to stop them.

02:54Sneed, this is all the money I have.

02:56You can have it and my horse to boot.

02:58No, not ten times that a man would get me to trade horses with you, Farmer Bradley.

03:06Oh, your wagon.

03:08You've all your household goods on it.

03:10And a lame horse to pull it.

03:12But pull she will even if she drops to get me and my family out in this cursed land.

03:16What are you saying, man?

03:18You've cleared a farm, held on to it through a year's Indian fighting.

03:21You can't leave now.

03:23Think of Ruth and Prudence.

03:24You can't be footloose now.

03:26I came here thinking of them.

03:28And I'm leaving for the same reason.

03:30But think again, Farmer Bradley.

03:32You've got a good farm.

03:34Years of toil in building a home.

03:36You've no valid reason deserting it.

03:43Look at this.

03:44This is the witch's warning.

03:47For two days I laughed at it.

03:49And then, without reason, my horse went lame.

03:52Well, it would take more than an ordinary rag doll to lame a horse.

03:55Besides, if you'd pull a knitting needle out of that,

03:58that doll would make any little girl happy.

04:02May my arms shrivel before I let Prudence touch this cursed puppet!

04:08Paul, I've seen your face murdering savages without turning your back.

04:12Trusting in the Lord and the right of standing in your land.

04:15You've seen Kilbane do the same.

04:17And Matthews and all the others.

04:19And they've gone.

04:21Their engines are flesh and blood.

04:23But how's a man fight a rag doll?

04:25A horse that goes lame?

04:27Bradley's right. I shot that horse.

04:29Its legs are sound as a shilling, but still it's lame.

04:32A horse doesn't go lame unless there's some hurt to its leg.

04:35Paul, come with me to the meeting house.

04:37We'll pray together.

04:39Time for prayers is past, Preacher.

04:51There's nothing out of the ordinary about this doll.

04:53That's what I've been telling him, Hawkeye.

04:55Same as any good wife uses for knitting.

04:57Why, even the Preacher's wife keeps her hands busy with him.

05:00Throw it away, Squire Criggs.

05:02Let it fly out of your hand and pierce your heart.

05:10Bradley, you'll not get through the wilderness with one lame horse.

05:13Another family gone, soon the township will be deserted.

05:17And the King's charter won't be worth the parchment it's written on.

05:20And all we've worked for gone.

05:22Better to lose a grant of land than stay in this accursed place.

05:25Do you mind if I keep this doll, Squire?

05:27Glad to get rid of it.

05:29Still hungry?

05:31Long time on trail. Much hungry.

05:34Well, just a little longer and you'll be hungrier.

05:37But, Hawkeye, I have much to tell you.

05:39Where are you going?

05:41To the meeting house.

05:43Chingiz Cook and I have got some important thinking to do.

05:50You find something?

06:00It's nothing to eat, but mighty interesting.

06:13What do you make of this?

06:20It's hair from horse's tail.

06:22Yeah, and it's strong enough to ring that bell without pulling on the rope.

06:25But I never hear of horse climbing ladder.

06:28I never heard of witches that fly.

06:30But a clever witch could stay out of sight up there.

06:33That horse hair'd be mighty hard to see from down here.

06:36Mighty hard to see up close.

06:50Why don't you come?

07:04That suits us, Mr. Bradley.

07:06We just want to take a closer look at that lame horse of yours.

07:09Your doubting won't cure, stranger.

07:11Just take my word for it, she's bewitched.

07:14Well, supposing we prove to you that she isn't,

07:16would you still be heading away from your home?

07:19Well, I...

07:48There's your witch's curse.

07:57If you tie a horse hair tight enough around a horse's pastern,

08:00then he'll soon go lame.

08:02But who'd do such a thing if it weren't a witch?

08:05Maybe you've got the answer to that.

08:07That's an old cavalryman's trick.

08:09There ain't no cavalrymen hereabouts that I know of.

08:12Well, you never know what people were before they came out here.

08:16But what about Kilbane?

08:18We saw him draw the milk from his cow.

08:20Brimstone it had in its taste and in its smell.

08:24Brimstone is sulfur.

08:26Cow licks it up, it'll taint the milk.

08:28I know every square inch hereabouts.

08:31I ain't seen no sulfur.

08:33Maybe the same human hand who tied that hair around your horse's leg

08:37fed the Kilbane cow sulfur.

08:41Well, one thing for sure, by the time you get back to your farm,

08:43your horse will forget the limp.

08:56I got rid of that once.

08:57Throw it away.

08:59Oh, a nice doll like this?

09:02You're not afraid of it, are you?

09:05Sometimes grownups forget what a doll really means.

09:14You holding it like that, Prudent, it don't seem no harm in it whatever.

09:20Doll and little girl.

09:23She'll be loving it with tenderness, Mr. Bradley.

09:25I'll be holding to you, stranger.

09:28There'll always be a welcome for you and your friend at Bradley Farm.

09:42We hunt witch, chase out of white man's head.

09:46Now, we look for food.

10:00That looked good.

10:02Good start convincing Bradley to go back.

10:05The whole town's a-buzzin' with it.

10:07Truly a victory against evil.

10:09Well, it's no more than the eye of a needle.

10:11There's a tolling of that bell to answer for.

10:14Remind me tomorrow to take a look at the cow that Kilbane's left behind.

10:17What need?

10:19Just might take us one step closer to whoever's trying to get this town to believe in witches.

10:24Only a man with a warped mind could be spreading this terror amongst us.

10:28Or a woman.

10:31Man or woman, a disciple of the devil himself.

10:37Well, the bottomless pit's filled.

10:59You killed her.

11:01You.

11:03Convinced me to come back here.

11:05Give her that cursed doll.

11:08You.

11:10You sport of the devil.

11:29Strong.

11:31Little girl.

11:32Not able to push in.

11:34Could have crumbled.

11:46What do you make of those marks?

11:48Looked like cut with iron.

11:52Chiseled through.

11:54Little girl leaning over to get water would have never noticed it.

11:59Even men don't notice.

12:01Looks like our witches didn't care which one of the Bradleys fell in.

12:26Hold it.

12:28He get away.

12:29I want him to.

12:30I've got a hunch there's more than one witch in these parts.

12:33Shooting him will only leave us a cold trail.

12:35You see face?

12:37No.

12:38But there's nothing more than a couple of saddle horses in this settlement.

12:40Shouldn't be too hard to find out which one's been out for a gallop.

12:54Always liked watching a smithy work.

12:56It's real interesting.

12:59Don't let me stop you.

13:00Gotta strike while the iron's hot, don't you?

13:04Hawkeye.

13:12Nice looking mare.

13:14Yours?

13:15I've got no time to dally.

13:19I might be interested in buying her.

13:22Ask Preacher Hale.

13:23It's his.

13:26Well, thanks anyway.

13:37My word on it, Hawkeye.

13:39I didn't put saddle to that mare today.

13:41That's good enough for me.

13:43But somebody had.

13:44She was still lathered up when I touched her at the blacksmith's shop.

13:47Your pardon for bursting in, Preacher Hale.

13:50But I found this in my pasture.

13:52Smell it.

13:55Sulfur.

13:56Looks like our witch has been real busy.

13:59Few more salt lick blocks like that and nobody'd have milk fit to drink.

14:04Where would anyone around here get sulfur?

14:06Well, blacksmith sometimes uses sulfur to cure his iron.

14:09So he does.

14:11He always talk.

14:13Say, witches bring magic curse.

14:18Maybe he talk too much.

14:20Well, one thing's certain.

14:22My mare's been ridden.

14:24With only Sneed and myself having access to her.

14:27What makes you think that Sneed's been riding your mare?

14:30A man about Sneed's size tried to shoot Chingagook and me at the Bradley farm.

14:35Got away on the mare.

14:36Did you get a good look at him?

14:38Not good enough.

14:43Mrs. Hale.

14:45Could you spare a little time from your knitting?

14:48When a good cause.

14:50Do you spare one of your knitting needles?

14:52Why, I suppose so.

14:53What's a knitting needle got to do with Sneed?

14:57You're not accusing him of being the one behind all this witch business.

15:01I'm not accusing anybody of anything yet.

15:04I was just wondering.

15:06What would Sneed do if he found one of those rag dolls in his blacksmith shop?

15:10Save him some patches for a quilt.

15:12It'd be just the thing to make a rag doll.

15:24I'm getting out of here.

15:26And not even you can stop me.

15:28You said all we had to do was scare him by acting like witches.

15:31Well, I'm not so sure there ain't none.

15:33Otherwise, how did I get this?

15:37You sent it.

15:40How did I get this?

15:43You sent it.

16:10Poor Sneed.

16:12Did you see his face?

16:14The fright of the devil on it.

16:16Now, Mary, you're not to blame.

16:18I hadn't thought it would lead to more killing.

16:20You're not to blame any more than the rest of us.

16:23If anyone's to take the blame, ma'am, it's me.

16:29What have you found out, Hawkeye?

16:31Nothing very much.

16:32Afraid the only thing we've got to go on are some hoof prints.

16:35Hoof prints?

16:36Whoever murdered Sneed must have run off on your mare.

16:39Chingitskook and me are going to try and track him down.

16:41A hard chore for a man of foot to run down a horse.

16:44Even man on horse must stop sometime.

16:51May the good Lord be a beacon to them.

16:54Otherwise, before this day's over, not a soul will be left in town.

17:10I beg your pardon, squire.

17:12Ludkin here wants to know what the preacher's wife was blaming herself for.

17:17Long years, haven't you, Ludkin?

17:19Well, he ain't the only one who wants to know what's going on.

17:22And as squire of this township, it's your duty to tell us.

17:26I don't rightly know there's much to tell.

17:31Except when this was found by poor Sneed's body right in the blacksmith's shop.

17:37Why, that puppet's made of patches.

17:40And I recognize them.

17:43Come now. Patches of patches.

17:46Not when you've fingered them as much as I have.

17:49And that red one?

17:51I gave that to the preacher's wife.

17:54Are you sure?

17:56Should know my own flannel.

17:58What's wrong with you people?

18:00The way you're acting, a body would think you were ready to accuse Mrs. Hayward.

18:04The way you're acting, a body would think you were ready to accuse Mrs. Hale of being a witch.

18:08Maybe she is.

18:10Come on, let's put the question to her.

18:19Hold on.

18:21How can you even think that our good preacher's wife is a servant of darkness?

18:26Why, he's been a blessing to all of us.

18:28Sometimes blessings turn to curses.

18:31And even good men get taken with bad spirits.

18:34We'll talk to both of them. Get the real truth.

18:42And that needle.

18:44I recognize that too.

18:46It's her.

18:48To the preacher's house.

18:49You'll commit a great wrong if you act in haste.

19:01I'm sorry.

19:17Horse stop here.

19:19Someone get off. Walk back to town.

19:21I wonder why that someone went to all the trouble of stealing this horse.

19:25Maybe try to leave false trail.

19:27Lead us out of town.

19:29I think you've got some chance, Cook.

19:31With us out of town, the witch might be planning to start a witch hunt.

19:35We better get back there.

19:59Now you made this, now confess.

20:02I confess only my love and devotion to our Lord.

20:05Blasphemer.

20:06Preacher, renounce her or burn at the stake with her.

20:09What madness is this?

20:11Spurns. Won't you see reason?

20:13Just because Mary Hale made that doll, you can't...

20:15Stay out of this, Squire.

20:17Or people will begin thinking she's the witch you too.

20:19But I'll threaten them with the stake.

20:20Well, think yourself.

20:21We're doing more than threatening.

20:23To the fire with them.

20:25We've always served our Lord, Mary.

20:27If this is his will...

20:39Shoot anybody who tries to set fire to the wood.

20:42Where are you going, my brother?

20:44You keep your eyes and ears open, you'll find out.

20:49I told you over and over.

20:51If I'm guilty, my husband isn't.

20:54Let him go.

20:55If...

20:56If you're a witch, confess and death will be swift.

20:59She is innocent. She cannot confess to a lie.

21:02Squire Griggs, I appeal to you.

21:04I appeal to you.

21:06Just admit that your wife's bewitched and you'll be saved.

21:11You never believed in witchcraft?

21:14You're behind all this?

21:16What are you, a madman?

21:18An accusation from a man possessed means nothing.

21:22Get flame.

21:26Listen to me. It's Griggs.

21:29He's the one. He's behind all this.

21:32You've lost your flock, preacher.

21:34They followed you, but they do my bidding now.

21:37And before your ashes are cold,

21:39the fools will be fleeing and the town will be mine.

21:42Mine.

21:43May you always have the taste of our guts in your mouth.

21:46Mary, if our Lord wishes us to die,

21:49Griggs is only his instrument.

21:55Speed!

22:16Speed!

22:18Dead men don't ring bells.

22:20He would to get even.

22:22He always hated me.

22:24Even when we were in the cavalry.

22:27But I'm his commanding officer.

22:29He'll have to obey me or I'll kill him again.

22:35Speed!

22:36Stop those bells!

22:39Speed!

22:51Stop it!

22:52Stop it!

23:23There's your witch for you.

23:25When he comes to, he'll be fit for hanging.

23:39You certain you can't stay for service, Hawkeye?

23:42We've got a long way to go, preacher.

23:44If you want us to spread the word that there never was a witch in this town...

23:47Well, whenever we give thanks, we'll be thinking of you.

23:50Goodbye.

23:52Goodbye.

23:54Goodbye.

24:06Bells.

24:07I always liked bells.

24:09Kind of got a song of their own.

24:11Like men singing when they're happy and free.

24:21Join us again at this same time next week...

24:24for another of James Fenimore Cooper's gripping tales of the early American frontier.

24:29Another exciting adventure of Hawkeye and his blood brother Chinguchkuk.

24:34Last of the Mohicans.

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