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  • 5/26/2020
Approved | 30min | Adventure, Western | TV Series (1957)

Hawkeye sets out to help the Tuscarora tribe, which has been devastated by a long and harsh winter, avoid starvation.

Director: Sam Newfield

Writers: Orville H. Hampton

Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Jonathan White
Transcript
00:00The immortal pen of James Fenimore Cooper brings you thrilling tales of excitement,
00:13blazing action on the early American frontier, stirring adventures filled with the daring
00:20and courage of Hawkeye, first of the long rifles, and his blood brother, King Nutcook,
00:28last of the Mohegans.
00:39Time for Top Gun. Words no good. This answer, and this.
00:45With these, we drive out white men. With these, we take their scalp.
00:51It was great Manitou, brought bad winter. It was snow and ice, to draw out animals, not pale face.
01:00Thunder Sky once great chief, mighty warrior, now grows old, afraid like woman.
01:07Empty bellies sound loud, but long rifles of white men speak louder.
01:12If Thunder Sky not take war path, Oscar Lawrence make new chief, with heart of eagle, not pigeon.
01:19I don't think that's such a smart idea, Great Bear.
01:22Thunder Sky has been a good leader of the Tuscaroras.
01:24White men have no right to talk at council of tribe.
01:27I wasn't talking to the council, Great Bear. I was talking to you.
01:31Thunder Sky, I hope you don't mind our dropping in on you this way.
01:34Hawkeye and his friend Chinook is at Thunder Sky many times. This time should not come.
01:41Bad weather. We hear of many empty bellies here.
01:45That's why we come, to help our Red Brothers.
01:49Red Brothers help selves.
01:51Many food and sediments, plenty powder, rifles. We take Tuscarora live.
01:55Consolus for men, not hapus.
01:58Let's look at it another way.
02:00Sure, you'd get some of us, but for every one of us, our long rifles would kill a dozen of you.
02:05What would be the good of that?
02:07Why, Baba has a plan.
02:09There's plenty of food and supplies at the Winslow Brothers trading post.
02:12He'd be glad to trade with you for furs.
02:14Need furs trade with Winslow.
02:17White man chase away animal. No fur.
02:19I'll talk to Winslow. Arrange credit.
02:22Give you food now to tide you over later. When you do have furs, you can pay him back.
02:26Winslow like all pale face. No trust Indian. No give food.
02:30I'll give him my word.
02:32Hawkeye speak with straight tongue.
02:34Winslow trust.
02:36We wait for three sons.
02:38If Hawkeye not keep word,
02:41ask her or put on war paint.
04:42Don't worry.
04:49Don't worry.
05:12Come on.
05:20I did not kill. I did not kill.
05:24I'd like to believe you're running, dear, for your father's sake.
05:27It is true.
05:28Come in here and find a man dead and you with a sack of stolen rifles.
05:32I didn't steal rifles, yes, but not to kill.
05:35You steal, man catch you.
05:38You kill man with his own gun?
05:40No, it was other man.
05:42What other man?
05:43Man who shoot pistol and run out.
05:45Well, I came in here right after the shot.
05:48I didn't see any other man.
05:50You run into woods before you come.
05:54Did your husband own this pistol, Mrs. Winslow?
05:56No.
05:57I don't know. Perhaps he had it in the stock.
06:00I don't know.
06:01I hate to bother you at a time like this, but would you come back to the settlement with us for the trial?
06:06Trial?
06:09Yes, your trial.
06:11For the murder of Matt Winslow.
06:13No. No, not white man's trial.
06:15They hang Indian.
06:16You guilty?
06:18You hang?
06:20Indian always guilty on white man's court.
06:23You kill me and Tuscarora take war path against white man.
06:27I let you go, the white man will take the war path against the Indians.
06:39Well, I'm sure you'll be all right at the end, Mrs. Winslow.
06:42If there's anything more I can do, you let us know.
06:45I'll be fine. Thank you.
06:48Got a prisoner for you, Fargo.
06:50This is Running Deer, son of Chief Flundersky.
06:53Chief's son?
06:54What are you holding him for?
06:56For trial.
06:57For murder.
06:58What?
06:59For murder.
07:01For murder.
07:03What are you holding him for?
07:05For murder.
07:06For murder.
07:07For murder.
07:08Got a prisoner for you, Fargo.
07:09This is Running Deer, son of Chief Thundersky.
07:12Chief's son, huh?
07:14What are you holding him for?
07:15For trial.
07:16For murder.
07:17Who's?
07:18Matt Winslow.
07:20Don't say.
07:21So Matt's dead.
07:24The way the town hears about it.
07:25That's why I want your guarantee that he'll be safe here.
07:29I promised him a fair trial.
07:31When the folks hear that an Indian kid murdered a white man,
07:34they'll get a rope ready so fast...
07:36No, not Hank, no!
07:38If anything happens to this boy before a trial,
07:40we'll have a full-scale Indian war in our hands.
07:42Why'd you do it?
07:43Why not kill Mr. Winslow?
07:47It's starting already.
07:53Lock him up quick.
07:54In here.
08:00Where are you men going?
08:02We've just been talking to Mrs. Winslow.
08:04We want the Indian kid that shot her husband.
08:06Now, I haven't heard of any trial being held as yet.
08:09And there ain't gonna be.
08:11But we're hanging him right quick.
08:12Yeah.
08:13I'm not so sure you are.
08:15They know Bennett's the name.
08:15The murdered man was my partner.
08:17Now look, Mr. Bennett.
08:18I brought Running Deer in.
08:20I don't know whether he's guilty any more than you do.
08:22But I do know I promised him a fair trial.
08:24What right did you have to promise a no-good redskin a trial of any kind?
08:28Red or white, he is mine.
08:30How would you like it if some Indian tribe made you run the gauntlet?
08:32Not because you were guilty of anything, but just because your skin was white.
08:36And there's another thing that we must think of.
08:38If we don't prove that Chief Thundersky and the Tuscaroras,
08:41that we know how to handle justice properly,
08:43we're going to be up to our necks in the biggest Indian war you ever saw.
08:46Don't want any Indian wars around here, Dana.
08:49How are you going to handle a trial here?
08:51We've got no judge.
08:52We can send him to the Capitol for one.
08:53He can be here in a few days.
08:56All right, boys.
08:58It only means waiting a few days and he'll hang anyway.
09:00If the Indians want a trial that makes them any happier, let them have it.
09:06You're doing the right thing, Mr. Bennett.
09:08I hope so.
09:15Guess maybe Hawkeye was right about the trial, Dana.
09:17There isn't going to be any trial.
09:19What are you talking about?
09:20That redskin killed my partner.
09:22And I'm not taking any chances on a fancy talking judge from the Capitol
09:25setting him free at a trial.
09:27But you just got through telling the boys.
09:29Only because Hawkeye was right and the lynching would start up an Indian war.
09:32But I got another way figured.
09:35By the time that judge gets here for the trial,
09:38that murdering redskin running deer is going to be dead.
09:48How quick can you get to the Capitol?
09:50Two, three suns by horse and canoe.
09:53Four to six days round trip.
09:54I guess it'll have to do.
09:56Chief, Thunder Sky only give us three suns.
09:58You get food for the tribe.
10:00Yeah, I remember.
10:02One sun already gone.
10:04Owner of trading post killed.
10:07Trial not for six suns.
10:09Maybe running deer hang.
10:12Hawkeye, how do you keep tribe from going on warpath?
10:15You make it sound like a real heavy load.
10:18Even strongest men fall on trail when load is too heavy.
10:22You get that judge here as fast as you can.
10:23I'll do the worrying for us at this end.
10:28All right, yeah.
10:46I don't understand why you're so interested in the Indian boy, Mr. Hawkeye.
10:51He did kill my husband, didn't he?
10:53Well, that's something we won't know until after the trial, Mrs. Winslow.
10:57Perhaps you won't.
10:59I know.
11:00He said he heard another man in this room arguing with your husband.
11:04That never argued with anybody.
11:06Well, could there have been another man in the post that night?
11:08They're usually men in here at night.
11:10Traders, townspeople.
11:13How'd he and his partner get along?
11:15Dana, they were like brothers.
11:18Why, those two men were...
11:21Why are you asking me all these questions?
11:24You know the Indian boy is guilty.
11:25What are you prying and spying about?
11:27Just trying to bring out the truth, Mrs. Winslow.
11:32Your husband left a pretty well stocked trading post.
11:34He must have come through the winter real well.
11:37Who's going to run it now?
11:38Why, Mrs. Winslow and me, of course.
11:42I bought some more supplies round back, Laura.
11:44I'll put them in the storeroom as soon as I find out what our friend here is so curious about.
11:48I came to see about a business deal for the post, Mr. Bennett.
11:51What kind of deal?
11:53Well, the Tuscaroras need food and supplies pretty badly.
11:56They'd like to get them here.
11:57Have them come and get them.
11:58That's what we're in business for.
12:00Tell them we only want prime furs, though.
12:02They'll bring them in, if you don't mind waiting a bit.
12:05For what?
12:06Well, you know the kind of winter the Tuscaroras have had.
12:09They wound up without furs or food.
12:11They want food?
12:12Let them pay for it.
12:13Pass your furs on the bar ahead.
12:15But Dana, if the situation's like Mr. Hawkeye says,
12:19if these Indians are actually starving...
12:22Laura, you haven't been listening seriously to all this.
12:25Why can't we wait for a couple of months for pain and Dana?
12:27Have you looked at the books lately?
12:29Matt was a great guy, but a pretty soft businessman.
12:32Haven't 100 pounds to show for the business we've done.
12:34But Dana...
12:35And if that's not enough,
12:37have you forgotten so soon that it was an Indian who killed Matt
12:39and a Tuscarora Indian to boot?
12:41You can tell your red-skinned friends they're not welcome at Winslow's.
13:25No, sir.
13:41I just don't like to see a man hang.
13:44Any man.
13:45Me not hang.
13:47I've only seen one before.
13:49And that was enough.
13:51The way the fella's eyes...
13:54A funny little dance he did.
13:57No, sir.
13:58I do just about anything to keep from seeing another.
14:01Well, you tell me this.
14:04Is this going to happen to you, kid?
14:06Sure as I'm out here and you're in that cell.
14:11You haven't had your dinner?
14:12No hunger.
14:14But I know kill Mr. Winslow.
14:16And Hawkeye gave word trial would be fair.
14:18You lied to your kid.
14:20Hawkeye's straight tongue.
14:21Lie?
14:23What?
14:23To get you in there with no trouble.
14:26To save his own skin.
14:29Meaning we get hanged.
14:30We get fair trial.
14:32Fair trial.
14:34An Indian in a white man's court.
14:37Funny thing.
14:39I sure hate to see a man get such a raw deal.
14:44Yes, sir.
14:46Just can't stand to see a man hang like that.
14:52If I let you go, will you do something for me?
14:56Yes.
14:57Just tap me on the head.
14:59Not too hard.
15:01Just enough to make it look like you're broke out.
15:03We do.
15:11Help!
15:19Help!
15:22Help!
15:48How did Running Deer escape?
15:50I'll give him his food.
15:51All of a sudden, there he was, out.
15:53He nearly killed me, too.
15:54It's all your fault.
15:56If you'd let us hang him, it never happened.
15:58That can't be helped now.
15:59Listen to me.
16:00I'll give 20 pounds of silver to the man who brings him back, dead or alive.
16:06If they shoot him, Chief Thunder Sky will take the warpath.
16:09If he's not brought back and hanged, we'll take it.
16:11We'll wipe out the whole Tuscarora tribe if we have to, to find that Winslow's killer.
16:2210 pounds, we agreed for letting him go, wasn't it?
16:24Right.
16:25It's a good thing I got a hard gun.
16:29One thing I don't get, though.
16:30What's that?
16:31Why a man would let his partner's murderer escape?
16:34You don't have to get it.
16:35I have my reasons.
16:36Only thing wrong, he should have been killed.
16:44I'm sorry, Chief.
16:45I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:46I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:47I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:48I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:49I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:50I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:52I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:54I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:56I didn't mean to hurt you.
16:58I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:00I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:02I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:04I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:06I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:08I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:10I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:12I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:14I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:16I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:18I didn't mean to hurt you.
17:22Hawkeye, like step named, speak with two tongues.
17:25Hawkeye speak with straight tongue.
17:26You say you'll find that I can order and you take Grunningdale back to the settlement to hang him.
17:31I take him back for trial to stop trouble between the Indians and the whites.
17:34What did the man of jail say?
17:36He say Hawkeye lie, bring me to settlement to hang.
17:39I'm afraid it was the jailor who was lying.
17:41How did you get loose anyway?
17:43He let me go.
17:45Why would the jailer do that?
17:46So I'm not hang?
17:47the I think it is another reason some do not like the father you tell me he did not kill
17:52a white man no more talk we go take food guns all right go ahead if you're so bad I'm
17:58putting on a war thing but you're just going to run smack dab into an army of whites
18:01with long rifles just waiting for you and not a war to death it doesn't have to be
18:08very much I have answer to this too. If we can prove that running deer is not
18:13killing Tuscaroras are honorable and peaceful there won't be a war you'll get all the food
18:18and supplies that you need can you move a mountain yes there's only one way take running
18:24deer back to the settlement and turn him over for trial.
18:36Make sure everybody's got enough powder and shot for twenty rounds anybody short of
18:40ammunition haven't got it from me we'll be ready to march inside of an hour we'll show
18:44those Redskins they can't go around killing whites.
18:47If the Tuscaroras won't.
19:03What's the meaning of this the Tuscaroras are bringing running deer back for trial.
19:09There ain't going to be no trial. This Indian wants to stick his neck in a noose we'll oblige
19:13him. Hey Jenkins there's a length of rope back there get it. Hold it up Jenkins. I wouldn't be so
19:18hasty if I were you the whole Tuscarora tribe is surrounding this settlement in war paint.
19:23You don't know what you're doing Hawkeye. The whole town's stirred up. There'll be a full scale
19:26war right here in these streets. If there's a peaceful trial there won't be. Trial? You can't
19:30always bend back one hour let alone days waiting for some judge to get here from the capital.
19:38He said we'd have to wait.
19:42I'm not going to wait.
19:45I'm not going to wait.
19:48I'm not going to wait.
19:50He said we'd have to wait.
20:02This is Judge Holmes from the capital. Shall we get on with the trial?
20:11After hearing my shot Mrs. Winslow what did you do there? I ran into the main room of the post.
20:18That's when I saw him. Go on Mrs. Winslow.
20:26Matt was there on the floor.
20:32And that Indian was standing over us.
20:39Was there anyone else in the room? No.
20:42Were there any weapons in evidence? Yes. There was a pistol on the counter.
20:50Is this the weapon? Yes.
20:55Had you ever seen it before? No.
20:58Is there anyone else you could possibly think of that might have had a reason for taking your husband's life?
21:05No. Nobody. Nobody could have wanted to kill Matt.
21:12Thank you Mrs. Winslow. That's all.
21:17Running dear, you admit that you came to steal rifles?
21:21That Mrs. Winslow found you just as she said? Yes.
21:25But I don't care. I don't care!
21:29That's all.
21:35Then you corroborate everything that the other witnesses have said?
21:40Well I will say it looked that way when I came into the post.
21:44You found Running Dear as described? I did.
21:48And you saw no other men? No.
21:51I see. Thank you. That'll be all.
22:05In view of the evidence given, the statement of the witnesses, and the complete lack of any evidence to the contrary,
22:13the court has no alternative but to find the prisoner, Running Dear, son of Chief Thundersky, guilty of murder as charged.
22:25It is therefore the sentence of this court that...
22:29Hold it a minute, Judge. There are two witnesses that you haven't called yet.
22:32I wasn't aware of that fact.
22:35You might ask the jailer who paid him to let Running Dear escape.
22:40The other witness is that pistol you have on your desk.
22:44What is this pistol to do with a witness?
22:49Someone owns it. And I'd say that the man who owns that pistol is the man who shot Matt Winslow.
22:56Now if you'll notice, there's some very pretty silver filigree work on it.
23:01Every bit as good as this on Mr. Bennett's pistol.
23:07I'd say they were a matched pair.
23:12Why, they're identical matching pistols.
23:16Do you have an explanation for this, Mr. Bennett?
23:19Why should I have to explain? What reason would I have to kill Matt?
23:22I was thinking about that. The trading post has done pretty well this year, but there isn't much silver in the till.
23:27Now if one partner was taking money out, and the other caught him, that'd be reason enough.
23:53I thank White Brother again for my life.
23:55Trust God and all can trust faithfully. We'll remember.
24:01And the White Squad of Indian Tanks will pay many a crime for trust to show us.
24:07It's the least thing I could do, Chief Thunder Sky, after having misjudged your son as I did.
24:12Looks like Mr. Hark, I've taught all of us a lesson in justice and tolerance.
24:16Maybe I'll learn a little something myself.
24:18It's always good to know that men really want justice, whether it's a white man's court or a red man's council.
24:25Join us again at this same time next week for another of James Fenimore Cooper's gripping tales of the early American frontier.
24:41Another exciting adventure of Hawkeye and his blood brother, Chingak's Cook.
24:46Last of the Mohicans.
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