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The Big Trees is a 1952 American Western film starring Kirk Douglas. Directed by Felix E. Feist, the film follows Jim Fallon, a ruthless timber baron who seeks to exploit California’s giant redwood forests for profit. However, his plans are met with resistance from a Quaker colony that views the trees as sacred. As Fallon faces opposition from both the settlers and rival loggers, he undergoes a dramatic transformation, ultimately fighting to protect the very land he once sought to destroy. With tense action, moral dilemmas, and Douglas’s commanding performance, this film remains a compelling entry in classic Western cinema.
Credits:
Director: Felix E. Feist
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan
Screenplay: John Twist, James R. Webb
Cinematography: Bert Glennon
#TheBigTrees1952 #KirkDouglas #ClassicWestern
Credits:
Director: Felix E. Feist
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan
Screenplay: John Twist, James R. Webb
Cinematography: Bert Glennon
#TheBigTrees1952 #KirkDouglas #ClassicWestern
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00:00:00THE END
00:00:30The End
00:01:00Stand out, Frenchy. We're going in. Drag him out.
00:01:23No, you don't. Settle down now. You'll get paid.
00:01:30What's all the money?
00:01:34What else? Money!
00:01:35Nobody likes working for nothing.
00:01:39Come on out here, Fallen.
00:01:49Patience, boys. Be with you in a minute.
00:01:51Alan, I've strung along with you in a lot of wild-eyed schemes of yours.
00:01:58But this time, you've gone too far. You're going to jail.
00:02:01After all, I've done for him.
00:02:03Done for me. Your finaglins cost my syndicate a quarter of a million dollars.
00:02:06Why, Mr. Murdoch?
00:02:07We financed you to mill lumber in Wisconsin.
00:02:09But you stashed it away for a timber steel in California.
00:02:12According to the new landlord, strictly legal.
00:02:15All I know is what you cost us.
00:02:16You're going to land in prison until we get it back.
00:02:19Putting me in prison is a sure way of losing all your money.
00:02:22Now, what's a couple of hundred thousand to a group like yours?
00:02:25Let me take a boatload of my boys out there, and I'll make a fortune for you.
00:02:28Listen to those men.
00:02:30Why, you haven't met a payroll in weeks.
00:02:32You think they'd ever work for you again?
00:02:35They like me.
00:02:37You do too, don't you?
00:02:39What makes you think I'd trust you again?
00:02:41Because your syndicate wants money, and there's plenty to be had in California.
00:02:48Hey, Jim.
00:02:49What is it, Frenchie?
00:02:50The boys are mighty close to getting out of hand.
00:02:53Look, Mr. Murdoch, you better let me get the boys under control
00:02:55before they wreck the mill, and you'll be out another 50,000.
00:02:58Uh, Daisy, honey, take Mr. Murdoch over to the hotel.
00:03:01The best champagne for him and his friends.
00:03:03I just happened to have a couple of bottles in the oven.
00:03:06You come along too, Sheriff.
00:03:07I have a few girlfriends who just love policemen.
00:03:09Don't forget, Fallon.
00:03:13I can put you in jail six months from now, just as well as today.
00:03:39Here's your money, boys.
00:03:43Certified cashier's check.
00:03:45Ah, you gave us that check business before.
00:03:47Yeah, we want to see the cash.
00:03:49Where's the money?
00:03:49Yeah, we want to see the cash.
00:03:51Where's the money?
00:03:52All right, boys.
00:03:54Anything you say goes.
00:03:56Frenchie, take this check to the bank.
00:03:58Have them send over a couple of guards with the cash.
00:04:01Go on.
00:04:02You heard them.
00:04:03They want their money.
00:04:04Get to the bank.
00:04:07You know what this means, fellas?
00:04:10You're breaking up the team.
00:04:12For good.
00:04:14Jim Fallon and his boys.
00:04:17The minute you sign that receipt book, paid in full, that's the end.
00:04:21You leave me busted.
00:04:23You put me out of business.
00:04:24Good thing it is, Fallon.
00:04:26It's about time to.
00:04:28Pay them off once and for all.
00:04:30Let them come back to work for us honest lumbermen.
00:04:32Steady work and regular pay.
00:04:34We've had enough of you, Fallon.
00:04:36You'll leave them town.
00:04:37And right now.
00:04:38Yeah.
00:04:39A couple of measly bobcats turned tigers.
00:04:42We're not joking, Fallon.
00:04:44Get going.
00:04:57I'm moving no place till I'm ready.
00:05:07Get them out of here.
00:05:08That was great, Jim.
00:05:09You all right?
00:05:10You all right?
00:05:11What a waltz!
00:05:12How are you?
00:05:13Good boy.
00:05:14Good boy.
00:05:15Boys, even if I'd been shot, it'd been worth it to know how you feel about me.
00:05:21You're still like me.
00:05:23And now I want to tell you why I hoped you'd stick with me.
00:05:25You know me.
00:05:27Jim Fallon doesn't like the hire he likes to share.
00:05:30And right now I want to share with you the whole north of California.
00:05:34There's giant redwoods out there, men, big around as that office.
00:05:38So tall you can't see the sky.
00:05:40There's so much board footage in just one of those big trees
00:05:43that it makes a month's cutting here look like a pile of toothpicks.
00:05:47Now look.
00:05:48You're the best lumberjacks in the business.
00:05:50That's why you're my team.
00:05:52And that's why I want to take you to California with me.
00:05:55Each man a partner of Jim Fallon.
00:05:57And every man with a share in a hundred million dollars.
00:06:01How do you like that, boys?
00:06:03Do you still want Frenchy to go to the bank?
00:06:05No!
00:06:06Take your chances with me.
00:06:07I will.
00:06:09You might find a couple of cases in the office.
00:06:13Help yourself.
00:06:14Hey, it's all right.
00:06:15It's all right.
00:06:15It's okay.
00:06:16Come on, let's go.
00:06:22You're okay.
00:06:23Hey, stranger.
00:06:28I don't have to tell you how grateful I am, stranger.
00:06:31I'm Yukon Burns.
00:06:32Your name's luck to me.
00:06:34I ought to make a little statue of you
00:06:35and hang it right alongside this horseshoe.
00:06:37You could hang me there.
00:06:39I'll throw them home inside.
00:06:41I'll put some stuffing in you.
00:06:43You stick with me, friend,
00:06:44and you'll always have a full belly.
00:06:45Come on.
00:06:50Alaska Goldrush, huh?
00:06:52Yukon Burns, the billionaire,
00:06:53traveling around in freight cars,
00:06:55trying to get a logging job.
00:06:56You got yourself a better job than that.
00:06:58For life.
00:07:00Kind of like me, don't you?
00:07:02Like the way you square-toted with your men
00:07:04and stood up with them gun-toters.
00:07:07Here.
00:07:08Keep it learning.
00:07:10Honest, huh?
00:07:11Besides being handy with a gun,
00:07:12I can use a friend like you, Lucky.
00:07:21Hey, Jim.
00:07:27I have to teach them hawks
00:07:28to keep their nose out of my business.
00:07:31Here.
00:07:32Wet this.
00:07:40Lem.
00:07:41Lem.
00:07:42Sorry.
00:07:43I didn't count on the shooting either,
00:07:44but everything worked out just fine.
00:07:49Thanks.
00:07:51That'll learn you to keep your big mouth shut.
00:07:54Come on, Yukon.
00:08:06Jim.
00:08:06I'll be right with you, Yukon.
00:08:12Well, your pigeon is thoroughly cooked and basted in white wine.
00:08:15He's all yours.
00:08:15I don't know what I'd do without you.
00:08:17I don't care anymore.
00:08:19I don't care anymore.
00:08:20Just pay.
00:08:21Daisy, honey.
00:08:22Don't you trust me?
00:08:23Oh, don't Daisy, honey.
00:08:24Me.
00:08:25You prefer Dora Fig?
00:08:26You lay off my past or I'll start to spill yours.
00:08:29Forget the past, think of the future.
00:08:30Think of the future.
00:08:31That's nothing.
00:08:32We're going to get very rich in California.
00:08:34We'll leave next month.
00:08:36Not we.
00:08:38Not me.
00:08:39You.
00:08:40Honey, you're part of my luck.
00:08:41Oh, say that, Balani, for when you head into those wired Westerners.
00:08:45You won't be pushing around a bunch of these tame Wisconsin stump
00:08:48junkers.
00:08:49Don't think those Californians are going to sit around in their rocking
00:08:51chairs and watch you grab off their land.
00:08:52I'll handle that problem when I come to it.
00:08:54Without me.
00:08:55You'll be right there looking out for me, same as always.
00:09:00Always is over, Jim.
00:09:02I'm tired of chasing those smoke rings of yours.
00:09:05I'm staying here and I'm looking out for me.
00:09:09You're right, Daisy.
00:09:11You do a lot better without me.
00:09:14You said it.
00:09:15I'm no good for you.
00:09:17You're doing a smart job.
00:09:19You're doing a good job.
00:09:21You're doing a good job.
00:09:22You're doing a good job.
00:09:23You're doing a good job.
00:09:24You're doing a good job.
00:09:25You're doing a good job.
00:09:30I'm just bad for you.
00:09:32Leave me, Daisy.
00:09:34You should have a life of your own.
00:09:37Thanks.
00:09:40Thanks for everything.
00:09:54Yeah, you deserve a lot better man than me, but if you ever want anything, you know where to find me.
00:10:17Don't feel something like that, Lee.
00:10:19He'll be back.
00:10:21Nobody Jim Fallon likes ever leaves him.
00:10:24That goes for you, too.
00:10:27Here's your job.
00:10:30I'm going to dress you up like a billionaire.
00:10:32You're going to Redwood, California ahead of me.
00:10:34Goodwill, Merchant.
00:10:36Pick the biggest treats.
00:10:38Just flash that on his face at the hostel neighborhood.
00:10:40Hostel?
00:10:41Why?
00:10:42Whoopi, you ain't counting on me using this.
00:10:45When a man's my friend, I count on him for anything.
00:10:48You mean you've never even been to California?
00:11:05Only in my dreams.
00:11:06Why did you send that Alaska sour girl out ahead of me?
00:11:12Let's face it, Frenchie.
00:11:14You're a good timber boss.
00:11:16But people say goodbye to you before you can say hello.
00:11:21That you've got.
00:11:22Three weeks in Redwood and he's got them eating out of his hands.
00:11:25Yeah, I've got a feeling he's going to bring me plenty of good luck.
00:11:40You're doing right for locking up, Mr. Keller.
00:11:42I hope so.
00:11:50Look here, Keller.
00:11:51You can't keep refusing to let these men file new timber claims.
00:11:55I'm the government agent here, Mr. Gregg.
00:11:57Not you.
00:11:57On that door, it says office hours, 8 to 6.
00:12:00You're opening up again, right now.
00:12:02I'd stay friendly, neighbor.
00:12:05Oh.
00:12:06Allen's man, Burns.
00:12:09I'm Cleve Gregg.
00:12:10You're just another claim jumper to me, mister.
00:12:12That's because you're new here.
00:12:14I own the Redwood Sawyer Company.
00:12:16And I aim to finance these men file for homesteads.
00:12:19New law wasn't made for timber thieves.
00:12:21What do you mean, please?
00:12:22Every lumberman around here has a copy of that law.
00:12:26All claims filed under the Stone and Timber Act of 1868
00:12:29are hereby rendered null and void.
00:12:32Land agents, that's you, Keller.
00:12:34I hereby authorized and instructed to accept applications
00:12:37on any and all such claims in their districts
00:12:39if you have $125.
00:12:42I know all about that, Mr. Gregg.
00:12:44Just the same, I'm waiting for more instructions
00:12:46from the Department of the Interior.
00:12:48Before I let you steal homesteads,
00:12:50my friends have owned for 50 years.
00:12:53$125 filing fee for each quarter section is stealing.
00:12:58This fellow's been scouting the biggest trees in the county,
00:13:00and he's probably bribed you to wait until Fallon
00:13:03and his men get here to file on choice claims.
00:13:05Jim Fallon's an honest man.
00:13:07He's gonna pay the old settlers for every claim he stakes out.
00:13:10Did you hear that, Jim?
00:13:11Pay him for free land.
00:13:13He's been doing a lot of expensive good-willing around here.
00:13:18He knows what he's doing.
00:13:19Now, get this through your head, Keller.
00:13:21You're opening this office right now,
00:13:23or I'll have you jailed.
00:13:25No, you won't.
00:13:26Pay no attention to him, Mr. Keller.
00:13:28Keep me away from Byron's sister, Alicia.
00:13:32What are they all dressed up for?
00:13:34There's a hallelujah colony around here.
00:13:37Soul savers.
00:13:38Rigid and religious.
00:13:39The dark-haired one can save my soul any time.
00:13:45Open that office, or I'll have my boys break the door down.
00:13:48You do, and you'll walk in on your face.
00:13:50Keller, you're gonna start taking applications right now.
00:13:53Come on, boys.
00:13:58Sister Chadwick, no.
00:14:00Stay with us.
00:14:02Hold your ground, Mr. Keller.
00:14:03Be firm.
00:14:04I'm going to Eureka and tell this to the circuit judge.
00:14:06I'll cut you a cross for 50 cents, ma'am.
00:14:10No, thank you.
00:14:11Well, seeing as how you're bow-legged, two bits.
00:14:14I am not bow-legged.
00:14:15Alicia!
00:14:16No, you're not.
00:14:17Sister Chadwick, my father shall hear of this.
00:14:24There, now, wasn't that worth it?
00:14:27Here's your quarter.
00:14:28Thank you, ma'am.
00:14:29Ah, Sister Chadwick.
00:14:31Where's your Mr. Fallon?
00:14:32I came to thank both of you for protecting our land.
00:14:34That Fallon's a wonderful lad, ma'am.
00:14:37I'm sure he could teach you manners.
00:14:39That's Jim Fallon.
00:14:43Oh.
00:14:45Pleased to meet you, Miss Chadwick.
00:14:47Mrs. Chadwick.
00:14:48Oh.
00:14:49Just like I told you, you don't need to worry about your trees no more.
00:14:53Jim here's going to do the claiming.
00:14:54He's got plenty of money.
00:14:56In fact, he invented the stuff.
00:14:58Why haven't you refiled on your land?
00:14:59Multiply 400 quarter sections by $125, and we'll see how much we'd have to pay.
00:15:05400 quarter sections and broke?
00:15:07You must be pretty poor operators.
00:15:09None of these religious colonists ever bothered to accumulate much cash.
00:15:13There's no need to.
00:15:14See, Jim, these are wonderful folks.
00:15:17They'll give you anything they got.
00:15:19If they haven't got anything to give you, they'll say a prayer for you.
00:15:23Sister Chadwick, you think prayer is going to save those big trees?
00:15:26We were assured we could rely on you for that.
00:15:29We don't want them touched.
00:15:31What's so special about them?
00:15:33Well, after you've been around them a while, he'll understand.
00:15:38Sister Alicia, come thee away from all those men.
00:15:42There's safety in numbers, Sister Blackburn.
00:15:45Say, by the way, whatever happened to your bees and zows?
00:15:47Sister Chadwick has been too long out in the world.
00:15:51I'd like you to meet my father, Mr. Fallon.
00:15:53Won't you have supper with us this evening?
00:15:55I'd like to.
00:15:56I'll meet you at 6 in the Bixby Grove.
00:15:58Mr. Burns knows the way.
00:16:00I'm anxious for you to see our trees.
00:16:10This must be good luck.
00:16:12I've known a lot of gals.
00:16:14It's the first time one of them ever asked me to come up and see your trees.
00:16:17I thought this trip was supposed to be strictly business.
00:16:20There's a lot of ways of doing business.
00:16:22What are all these promises I hear you've been making?
00:16:26Just plain common sense.
00:16:28Yukon, I'd feel a lot better if you'd walk me home.
00:16:31I'm glad to bodyguard you anytime.
00:16:34Hey, Lucky.
00:16:35I want to talk to you.
00:16:37Meet me in the saloon.
00:16:42You better get rid of that daffy sourdough.
00:16:45Or he gets you hooked for money he ain't got.
00:16:46I've never had to ask you your advice.
00:16:50Look.
00:16:53I passed up top jobs towards Vosher timber grab.
00:16:56He promised to make a killing.
00:16:58All I hear now is some idiot promising to pay.
00:17:01Pay for something you can get for nothing.
00:17:03Nobody's going to pay.
00:17:04As soon as that bull brings in our loggers,
00:17:05I'll run them into the land office and file.
00:17:08Nobody's going to pay.
00:17:09I'll run them into the land office.
00:17:39Let me borrow your knife, Lucky.
00:17:44Thanks.
00:17:56Biggest, oldest, living things in the whole world.
00:18:00Make you feel kind of small?
00:18:02Nope.
00:18:03Big.
00:18:04I'm the one that's going to knock them down.
00:18:06The Widow Chadwick and the folks don't want these trees touched at any price.
00:18:12She's a widow, huh?
00:18:13What's the difference?
00:18:15When you grow up, I'll explain it to you.
00:18:19Who was Chadwick?
00:18:21A young seafaring fellow.
00:18:23Here he lost his life at sea a few years ago.
00:18:26I bet there's a hundred houses in one of these.
00:18:33Look, Jim.
00:18:35Yeah?
00:18:36He's calling us to trust in you on account of what I've told him about you.
00:18:40You play square with him and you'll do all right.
00:18:43You'll bet I will.
00:18:4628 and a half feet.
00:18:47This is just a baby.
00:18:50Hello.
00:18:50Right on time.
00:18:56Sister Chadwick,
00:18:57thou hasten been out of my thoughts a minute.
00:18:59I hope you're both hungry.
00:19:01I look forward to thy home cooking.
00:19:03Then it will please thee to know that thou shalt help with the washing of the dishes
00:19:06to make thee feel that our home is fine.
00:19:10It's a lovely walk.
00:19:20Mr. Fallon, this is my father, Elder Bixson.
00:19:37How do you do, sir?
00:19:38Welcome, friend.
00:19:39Brother?
00:19:40Mrs. Blackford, Mrs. Wallace.
00:19:41We met practically Brother Doran.
00:19:43How do you do?
00:19:45On the roof, Brother Williams.
00:19:47And Brother Williams' daughter.
00:19:49It's a magnificent country.
00:19:54It's different from Wisconsin, huh?
00:19:56Yes, it is.
00:19:58I've never been stirred as deeply as by your beautiful trees.
00:20:01Elder's daughter.
00:20:02Then you can understand how we feel about them.
00:20:05Why we hold them in sacred trust.
00:20:07Sacred?
00:20:08Somebody's bound to get them by claiming.
00:20:10Not if we can help it.
00:20:12I'm certain we can place faith in Mr. Fallon and Mr. Burns
00:20:15to help us keep them from destruction.
00:20:17If I felt like you did about trees, I'd soon be out of business.
00:20:21The giant sequoias are more than trees, friend.
00:20:24They are the everlasting living sign of our Creator's work.
00:20:284,000 years old.
00:20:30As old as the book and the face.
00:20:33This was just a little one.
00:20:35Only 900 years old.
00:20:37But it was a living sapling when the Norman conquerors invaded England.
00:20:41It was about this size when Columbus discovered America.
00:20:46About this large, the time of George Washington and our Declaration of Independence.
00:20:51This marks the time of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.
00:20:55It was felled during the time of our present president, Mr. McKinley.
00:21:00God made them to touch the skies.
00:21:02Taller than any spire of any church.
00:21:04They are our church.
00:21:05Our place of worship.
00:21:07Mr. Fallon will build you a dozen churches.
00:21:10Let's be practical.
00:21:12You men cut timber.
00:21:13The small trees are all we cut.
00:21:15The giant redwoods we do not.
00:21:17The government passed a death sentence on every tree in the district.
00:21:20We know you'll help us.
00:21:21I admire your fate.
00:21:25Stop it!
00:21:27Talk!
00:21:41A real home.
00:21:44Where do you sit?
00:21:46We ladies eat later.
00:21:47As it should be.
00:21:49Mr. Fallon, will you sit here?
00:21:52Oh, thank you.
00:21:54What's your name?
00:21:56His name is Tom.
00:21:58Well, no wonder he likes me.
00:22:00While the ladies are setting the meal, we'll read from the scriptures.
00:22:04It is our custom to ask the stranger in our house to do the reading.
00:22:07Oh, uh, naturally, uh, of course.
00:22:10Perhaps Mr. Fallon would rather quote from memory.
00:22:16It's safer if I read.
00:22:17I've been known to get my verses mixed.
00:22:21Um,
00:22:22here, from the Psalms of David.
00:22:27Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
00:22:30The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
00:22:32Amen.
00:22:34Amen.
00:22:34Amen.
00:22:35Amen.
00:22:46Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
00:22:49You big, hardhead.
00:22:50What'd you get me into?
00:22:51You got me into it.
00:22:52You sent me out here.
00:22:54Look here, Jim.
00:22:55Just how much are you going to pay these folks for this land?
00:22:57Lucky, you better start getting yourself some common sense.
00:23:03Do you realize how much it costs to operate a timber outfit?
00:23:06I can't afford to pay for thousands of acres of free land and still run a business.
00:23:10But I gave him the word, didn't you?
00:23:12Once, last, and for all.
00:23:14There's not going to be any payment for any land the government says is free.
00:23:18You sound like a claim jumper to me.
00:23:20If you know what a sourdough thinks of that stripe, you don't want me around.
00:23:24Where are you going?
00:23:24Back to Alaska to get me some fresh air.
00:23:26How lucky.
00:23:27Nobody Jim Fallon likes ever leaves him.
00:23:29I'm kind of superstitious about my luck running out on me.
00:23:32Look, you got the wrong slant.
00:23:35It ain't something you can wear on a watch chain.
00:23:38It ain't even money in your kick.
00:23:40Nine times out of ten, it's the way you live.
00:23:42Look who's talking about living.
00:23:44When I picked you up, you were a job hunting empty-bellied crumb.
00:23:48Look at you now, you're just beginning to live.
00:23:50But it's going to be my way.
00:23:53Why you stinking claim jumper?
00:23:54Oh, now, take it easy.
00:23:56Get out of my way.
00:23:58Now, take it easy.
00:24:00Wait.
00:24:02Take it easy.
00:24:03Come on.
00:24:04All right.
00:24:09Yes.
00:24:17Lucky.
00:24:18I'll pay them a premium for the land.
00:24:29And you won't cut the big trees?
00:24:31Oh.
00:24:32Oh.
00:24:32Oh.
00:24:33Sorry, Jim.
00:24:33I'll get you a doctor.
00:24:36I'll get you a doctor.
00:24:53Oh, now, be reasonable.
00:24:54I'm offering you a royalty of one percent.
00:24:57You throw in all logging equipment.
00:25:02All right.
00:25:03Two percent.
00:25:04And believe me, this is all faith, hope, and charity.
00:25:07I believe you.
00:25:08You're a decent man.
00:25:09I like you for trying to do what you don't have to.
00:25:12Well, that's very nice apple butter.
00:25:14How much did the elder tell you to hold out for?
00:25:17I've told you we're only interested in saving these giant trees.
00:25:21Not your money.
00:25:22Wait a minute.
00:25:23Wait a minute.
00:25:24I didn't say anything about money.
00:25:25Just percentage.
00:25:27Percentage of what you own?
00:25:29Or what someone else owns?
00:25:31Sister Chadwick, my conscience is clean.
00:25:33All right, another half percent.
00:25:37What's your conscience name?
00:25:39Mr. Yukon Burns?
00:25:42This is a very good place to talk about conscience.
00:25:46This is our church.
00:25:47Let's lay off the pious price hiking and admit the trees are trees and money's money.
00:25:51You folks stand to make a million.
00:25:53You're right.
00:25:56Some trees are trees.
00:26:03Come here.
00:26:13You've never seen anything more beautiful.
00:26:16Never.
00:26:18Certainly there's enough timber around here without you destroying these.
00:26:21I live by the bored foot.
00:26:25Doesn't all this beauty mean anything to you?
00:26:29Beauty?
00:26:30Sure.
00:26:30That's what it's all about, sister, since the beginning of the world.
00:26:34That's what makes men fresh the weak, pick the grapes, hire a band.
00:26:39All the sweat of men it's poured on Earth's bin for beauty.
00:26:42The beauty of women.
00:26:46Yeah, that's the buggy whip that drives us, Alicia.
00:26:52You know what I mean?
00:26:54I certainly do.
00:26:56You're wasting all the pretty words.
00:26:58Not words.
00:27:00Time.
00:27:00You're wasting time as well as words.
00:27:12I gotta hand it to you, Widow Chadwick.
00:27:15You sure know how to put a man on ice.
00:27:17Why not?
00:27:19Business should be practical.
00:27:21And cold.
00:27:22So let's be practical.
00:27:24Lumberman, look.
00:27:32How tall?
00:27:40Five feet, five and a half.
00:27:43213 feet.
00:27:45How big around?
00:27:4624 waist.
00:27:4816 feet.
00:27:50Total footage?
00:27:52Wonderful proportion.
00:27:54Roughly, uh, 33,000 square feet.
00:27:57And every inch alive.
00:27:58Fourteen dollars per thousand board foot delivered in San Francisco.
00:28:01You've got soft lips.
00:28:03Now it takes five times as much labor to market one of the big trees as one of the little ones.
00:28:08And there's only three times as much lumber.
00:28:10Therefore, the Giants aren't nearly as profitable.
00:28:12You haven't been kissed nearly enough.
00:28:14I said profitable, Mr. Fallon.
00:28:16You ought to understand that.
00:28:19Uh-huh.
00:28:20You're quite a mathematician to solve this problem.
00:28:23Either you take three percent or I'm taking your land.
00:28:27Like it says in the Bible, the Lord helps him or helps himself.
00:28:30Then you'll need a lot of help.
00:28:32I've got it.
00:28:34A boatload.
00:28:35A boatload.
00:29:06The Fallon's there.
00:29:17They're taking over the land office.
00:29:23Judge Crenshaw.
00:29:26Judge Crenshaw.
00:29:27arrest me, Judge.
00:29:28I'm thankful you're here.
00:29:29I hurried all the way from Eureka.
00:29:31Still swarming with boomers, I see.
00:29:34What does he mean to claim our land?
00:29:35We'll see what can be done.
00:29:39I thought you were going to file in the names of the colonists, Mr. Fallon.
00:29:42That was yesterday. My boys are filing. I want those application blanks.
00:29:46I've got the cash right here to cover all of them.
00:29:49Just a minute, Keller.
00:29:51Judge Crenshaw, must I take these applications?
00:29:54Yes, from anyone mean enough to use this land grabber's law.
00:29:57Can't Mr. Keller wait. Maybe some of us can raise the filing cost.
00:30:01He can't wait.
00:30:02I know, claim law. You've got to have a place in line.
00:30:05Let's have those application blanks.
00:30:09Step up, boys. Fill in those blanks and duplicate them.
00:30:13Fallon, this is subterfuge with intent to defraud.
00:30:15Filing on the dummy signatures.
00:30:17These men aren't dummies. I'm only loaning them the money.
00:30:20Are you willing to go on record that's illegal?
00:30:23No, I'm not. But the court will go thoroughly into the case.
00:30:26It suits me fine. By that time, the logs will be off and the court can have the stunts.
00:30:32Jim, you've got to let them keep the big redwoods.
00:30:35I came here to get the big ones.
00:30:37You'll never get them.
00:30:39We could have cut enough timber to raise our filing fees.
00:30:42But we believed you, Mr. Burns. We trusted you because of him.
00:30:46But that's past, Mr. Fallon. We know you now.
00:30:49And with the help of the Lord, somehow we'll stop you.
00:30:51So far, you've made a liar out of me.
00:30:54Hand back every one of them application blanks.
00:30:56There ain't going to be any filing of any kind here.
00:30:59You win again, Lucky.
00:31:00Caller, go ahead with those applications.
00:31:01I beat you half to death once.
00:31:03Now I'm going to finish the job.
00:31:05Please don't try it, Dukon.
00:31:07Don't do it, Lucky.
00:31:08Keep her out of there.
00:31:09Oh!
00:31:10Oh!
00:31:11Oh!
00:31:12Oh!
00:31:13Oh!
00:31:14Oh!
00:31:15Oh!
00:31:16Oh!
00:31:17Oh!
00:31:18Oh!
00:31:19Oh!
00:31:20Oh!
00:31:21Oh!
00:31:22Oh!
00:31:23Oh!
00:31:24Oh!
00:31:25Oh!
00:31:26Oh!
00:31:27Oh!
00:31:28Oh!
00:31:29Oh!
00:31:30Oh!
00:31:31Oh!
00:31:32Oh!
00:31:33Oh!
00:31:47Here's your boat fare.
00:31:49I hear there's still gold in Alaska.
00:31:53I'm staying here.
00:31:57Then you'll get hurt again.
00:32:03What time you got yourself straight on that sourdough?
00:32:17He's twice the man you'll ever be.
00:32:22Come on, boys.
00:32:23Get out those blanks.
00:32:24I'd never treat a timber boss of mine like that.
00:32:35Let's you and I have a drink sometime.
00:32:42It's a better time than now.
00:32:43Let's do it.
00:32:46And wash us clean of hatreds, our father,
00:32:49that we may call no man our enemy.
00:32:51Make our faith in thee to be without question of thy will,
00:32:56that we may live the words of the scripture.
00:33:00Love the Lord with all thy heart,
00:33:03and with all thy soul,
00:33:05and with all thy might.
00:33:07Amen.
00:33:07Now, it's always welcome amongst us, but...
00:33:12But I can't lick Fallon alone.
00:33:14Now, you've got some mighty hefty boys here,
00:33:16and if you'd use them the way the Lord suggests...
00:33:19That's right, Yukon.
00:33:20Sister?
00:33:21Hush, let him give his testimonial.
00:33:27Well, I've been a wicked man in my time,
00:33:30with a weakness for drink and cards and other trifles,
00:33:34but I've done some reading of the book.
00:33:38And when it says,
00:33:39Love thy neighbor with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
00:33:42that's great.
00:33:44But if it's not enough, it tacks on with all thy might.
00:33:48And that means might.
00:33:50And that there's fighting talk.
00:33:51That's the only kind Jim Fallon will ever understand.
00:33:54Violence is not in our creed.
00:33:56Yeah, I know.
00:33:58And I believe in turning the other cheek.
00:34:00But you've just about to run out of cheeks.
00:34:03It's time you've started growing some religious muscles.
00:34:06Thou dost not understand our covenants.
00:34:08Well, it appears not.
00:34:09But where I come from, the Lord didn't build strong backs.
00:34:12It's to let wickedness seize the earth.
00:34:14Whatever we do, Mr. Burns, we'll be done in conformance with the law.
00:34:18But Mr. Fallon is using the law to take our land.
00:34:21The Lord will not fail us.
00:34:25Well, I see it's no use.
00:34:28Thanks anyhow, Elder, for letting me voice my theology.
00:34:33I see it.
00:34:36Father.
00:34:39The book of Job, 9th chapter, 22nd verse.
00:34:43They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame.
00:34:46I'm Judge Crenshaw.
00:34:48I've been looking for you. I've got something I want to talk to you about.
00:34:51So have I.
00:34:53Well then, hop in, both of you.
00:34:55We'll go over to your place where we can talk in private.
00:34:57Mr. Burns, I heard you were an honest man and good with a gun.
00:35:01I also heard you confess to a weakness for liquor, cards and women.
00:35:05Not women, Your Honor.
00:35:06They ain't for the weak.
00:35:07One of the principal reasons for my coming to Redwood was to appoint a marshal.
00:35:11Marshal?
00:35:13Well...
00:35:14You got one, Judge.
00:35:15Then that's settled.
00:35:16Congratulations, Yukon.
00:35:18I guess this gives him the power to stop Jim Fallon.
00:35:20Well, he won't keep those applications of his from being mailed to Washington.
00:35:23It would take an act of God to stop that.
00:35:24Judge, just how would a legal man define an act of God?
00:35:28Well, I'd say any cataclysm, which was not caused by the human hand.
00:35:33Cataclysm?
00:35:34Has it got anything to do with cats?
00:35:36Nice kitty.
00:35:37I don't know.
00:35:38I don't know.
00:35:39I don't know.
00:35:40I don't know.
00:35:41I don't know.
00:35:42I don't know.
00:35:43I don't know.
00:35:44I don't know.
00:35:45I don't know.
00:35:46Well, Judge, just how would a legal man define an act of God?
00:35:48Well, I'd say any cataclysm, which was not caused by the human hand.
00:35:51Cataclysm?
00:35:52Has it got anything to do with cats?
00:35:54Nice kitty.
00:36:07Hey.
00:36:28Sister Chadwick.
00:36:29Good evening.
00:36:30Taking up with four-footed beasts, eh?
00:36:32Don't blame you what I've seen of the two-legged kind.
00:36:36Don't you think the new marshal was an excellent choice?
00:36:39Mr. Burns is a good man.
00:36:41Transferred Fallon's claim money out of here into the bank.
00:36:44Didn't want it to reflect on me if anything happened.
00:36:47I brought a letter of protest written by Judge Crenshaw,
00:36:50stating his opinion of our rights in this case.
00:36:52He wants a copy forwarded to Washington,
00:36:54along with every one of Jim Fallon's applications.
00:36:57Well, it's getting late and I'm awfully hungry.
00:37:00That's a lot of copying.
00:37:02I'll get started on it.
00:37:03You go home and eat.
00:37:04Thanks.
00:37:05Uh, do you mind if we open a window?
00:37:07It's rather stuffy in here.
00:37:09I'll do it.
00:37:16You gotta lock up after me.
00:37:22See you later, Miss Alicia.
00:37:30Mr. Alicia, I have some grub for your cat.
00:37:43Get away, listen dog food.
00:38:00Mr. Alicia!
00:38:15Cataclysm.
00:38:21Wait a minute.
00:38:24I don't want anybody taking anything out of here.
00:38:30What happened?
00:38:31It was my cat, Mr. Killer.
00:38:32Getting out of the way of two stray dogs.
00:38:33Hmm.
00:38:34Don't blame the cat at all.
00:38:35Kitty kitty.
00:38:36Kitty kitty.
00:38:37Kitty kitty.
00:38:38Kitty kitty.
00:38:39What happened?
00:38:40It was my cat, Mr. Killer.
00:38:41Getting out of the way of two stray dogs.
00:38:43Hmm.
00:38:44Don't blame the cat at all.
00:38:45Kitty kitty.
00:38:46Kitty kitty.
00:39:06You just gonna stand there and watch it burn?
00:39:15Well, it's quite a sight.
00:39:17My applications are in there.
00:39:19Your claim money was transferred to the bank.
00:39:22I'm the only loser.
00:39:23It's burning down my courtroom.
00:39:26I see.
00:39:32I suppose no one thought of calling the fire department.
00:39:36How did it happen?
00:39:37Accident.
00:39:38For a cat.
00:39:42Dear sister, you're not the sweet child I first knew.
00:39:43Me neither, Jim.
00:39:44Let him that stole steal no more.
00:39:45Rather let him labor working with his hands, the thing which is good.
00:39:46Ephesians.
00:39:47First for a line 26.
00:39:48Twenty-eight.
00:39:49Kelly, you'd better wire Washington tonight for a new batch of application blacks.
00:39:50What's your hurry?
00:39:51You can't file again until they send duplicate title records.
00:39:52That takes time to take a look.
00:39:53You're not the sweet child I first knew.
00:39:54Dear sister, you're not the sweet child I first knew.
00:39:55Me neither, Jim.
00:39:56My sister, you're not the sweet child I first knew.
00:39:57Me neither, Jim.
00:39:58My sister, Jim.
00:39:59My sister, you're not the sweet child I first knew.
00:40:00Me neither, Jim.
00:40:01I'm the sweet child I first knew.
00:40:02I'm the sweet child.
00:40:03I'm the sweet child.
00:40:04I'm the sweet child.
00:40:05My sister's the sweet child.
00:40:06I'm the sweet child.
00:40:07Your mother, you've got to work with his hands.
00:40:08The fusion.
00:40:09First, line 26.
00:40:10Twenty-eight.
00:40:11Kelly, you'd better wire Washington tonight for a new batch of application blacks.
00:40:12What's your hurry?
00:40:13You can't file again until they send duplicate title records.
00:40:16That takes time.
00:40:22That is the most satisfying act of God I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing.
00:40:27Judge, I'm going to appoint a marshal to investigate.
00:40:29I've appointed one.
00:40:31Marshal Burns, will you kindly look into this case?
00:40:34Marshal Burns?
00:40:36Yep. There's not much I can do about an act of God.
00:40:40I cite you a precedent, Mr. Fallon.
00:40:42The Chicago case of Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
00:40:45Of course, we're not quite as big as Chicago.
00:40:47We've only got a cap.
00:40:54As you so rightly said,
00:40:56the Lord helps him who helps himself.
00:40:58We'll raise the money for the filing fees
00:41:00by cutting and selling timber.
00:41:02That fire doesn't change a new law.
00:41:04Your flock can't work properly.
00:41:06They don't own.
00:41:07Mr. Fallon's right. That's the law.
00:41:09I'll follow the law under the letter, Jim.
00:41:12That's all I want.
00:41:15Looks like you'll have to train that cat to steal trees.
00:41:18Timber!
00:41:24Timber!
00:41:26Timber!
00:41:28Timber!
00:41:46Timber!
00:41:48Timber!
00:41:52Timber!
00:41:53I'll have you all removed.
00:41:55Fires may come and Rome may burn, but this court's now in session.
00:41:59What does the defendant's charge with, Marshal?
00:42:02Your Honor, James Fallon accuses these men
00:42:04of cutting trees on land they no longer own.
00:42:06That's right.
00:42:07Those clans have been killed.
00:42:08They're killed.
00:42:09They're killed.
00:42:10They're killed.
00:42:11They're killed.
00:42:12They're killed.
00:42:13They're killed.
00:42:14They're killed.
00:42:15They're killed.
00:42:16They're killed.
00:42:17They're killed.
00:42:18They're killed.
00:42:19They're killed.
00:42:20They're killed.
00:42:21They're killed.
00:42:22No longer owned.
00:42:23That's right.
00:42:24Those claims are now the property of the United States government.
00:42:26How do the defendants plead?
00:42:28Guilty.
00:42:2930 days of hard labor.
00:42:32Marshal, I demand the prisoners to your custody
00:42:34and order you to see that the following sentence is carried out.
00:42:37They are to cut timber on government property.
00:42:39The logs are to be transported to Tidewater here at Redwood.
00:42:43Your Honor, what do you intend to do with those logs?
00:42:46Section 7, paragraph 18 of the penal code states,
00:42:50Trinkets or other saleable objects produced by prisoners may be sold.
00:42:55And the money is therefrom given to them at the time of their release
00:42:58as an aid to rehabilitation.
00:43:00Logs 40 feet long are not trinkets.
00:43:03This court is serving the ends of justice, sir,
00:43:06and you are held in contempt.
00:43:08Marshal, collect the gentleman's fine, $100.
00:43:10All right.
00:43:15But for $100, I want to say something.
00:43:18$200.
00:43:20Any further remarks, I'll make it three.
00:43:26Put this in your safe.
00:43:28It will more than cover the fine.
00:43:30Court's adjourned.
00:43:35For the next 30 days, we must do six months' work.
00:43:38Night and day.
00:43:39And even on the Sabbath, we'll be lifting the ox from the ditch.
00:43:41You'll need $50,000 to save our land.
00:43:44Marshal, will you kindly rush the prisoners to the woods?
00:43:48Let's crank the freelancer out.
00:43:49I don't clean up my hands at all.
00:43:50But then the President of the Customers домой gets an adelt.
00:43:51We Will have to do six months' work.
00:43:52Peter Brook from the Davis to the
00:44:14One week more, God willing, we'll have our claim money.
00:44:39My old lady and the kids are having a rough job.
00:44:44Like I told you, you just have to wait for your money.
00:44:47That's no good.
00:44:48The partnership is fine on paper, but I need some cash.
00:44:50That goes for me, too.
00:44:52All the money I've got in the bank, I'm saving for more claim filing.
00:44:55A bunch of the boys are talking about heading back.
00:44:57Nobody wants to stay.
00:44:58That's the truth.
00:45:00Breaking up the team again, huh?
00:45:02Well, this time you can't leave, men.
00:45:04When the new application blanks get here, I'll need every one of you.
00:45:07The boys don't feel good about that either.
00:45:09About what?
00:45:10They don't like the raw deal you're giving these natives.
00:45:12What's the matter with you birds?
00:45:14Getting gooey?
00:45:15We came out here to work, not to steal.
00:45:17This is strictly legal.
00:45:18Yeah?
00:45:19There's a lot of talk that it ain't.
00:45:20Frenchy, take the boys over to the saloon.
00:45:25It won't work, Jim.
00:45:29All right.
00:45:30I'll meet you at the bank.
00:45:32Get out of here.
00:45:33That's all right.
00:45:34Now you're doing it.
00:45:35Let's go.
00:45:39Once you start that, you'll start hitting your head.
00:45:41You'll start hitting me every week or so.
00:45:43It won't take long to whittle down your capital.
00:45:45Thinking again, huh?
00:45:46Yeah.
00:45:47Jim.
00:45:48Remember that sawmill man, Greg?
00:45:51He'd be a pretty soft partner for a smart fellow like you.
00:45:55Stop thinking so hard, Frenchy.
00:45:57You'll have to get yourself a bad headache.
00:46:01Fallon's getting down to a shoestring.
00:46:03He's finally dipped into his claim money.
00:46:06Here's where I steer him to you for financing.
00:46:08You mean I finally get an introduction to the great Jim Fallon?
00:46:11The Fallon company becomes LaCroix and Greg.
00:46:14You call the shots, Frenchy.
00:46:15We're with you.
00:46:25Your soft partner draws a pretty hard contract.
00:46:27He really doesn't need you.
00:46:28It's a good deal, Fallon.
00:46:29Stop bluffing, Greg.
00:46:31Deceased.
00:46:32I get it.
00:46:34If anything happens to me, the Fallon company goes to you two, huh?
00:46:37Sign it, Jim.
00:46:38Greg here will release funds to your account.
00:46:40I just want you to know I can see through that swamp you call a brain.
00:46:45Jim's always suspicious.
00:46:47But you won't shove any knives in my back because you'll never get a stick to Tidewater without me.
00:46:51How do you mean?
00:46:53That little secret is my life insurance.
00:46:56I don't want to impose on you, but do you mind looking after these girls so the rest of their baggage arrives?
00:47:15My, you're strong.
00:47:25I've been sick.
00:47:43All right, men.
00:47:44Have fun.
00:47:45The drinks are on the company.
00:47:49A walking machine.
00:47:51Look, Dad.
00:47:52Are any of these boys married?
00:47:56I could drink your slipper for the white mule.
00:47:58Take Aggie.
00:47:59She's from Texas.
00:48:00Here.
00:48:02Fill it up.
00:48:09Little Dorothy.
00:48:11I've been dreaming of you for days.
00:48:13I used to dance in a beer cake for dimes.
00:48:15Hmm.
00:48:16Remember that big, swell-headed lumberjack who never had the dime?
00:48:19We're doing all right now, honey.
00:48:20Say, how does it feel to be Queen or Redwood City?
00:48:23Fine.
00:48:25If you're the king.
00:48:26The same old Jim.
00:48:27Daisy, honey.
00:48:28We're going to be rich.
00:48:29Very rich.
00:48:30Just sign these, Dorothy.
00:48:31Yep.
00:48:32The same old Jim.
00:48:33What kind of last music this time?
00:48:34Well, those wild westerners you warned me about trying to cut my throat.
00:48:36This is just to give me a little protection.
00:48:37Uh-huh.
00:48:38It's lucky for you I learned to write instead of read.
00:48:39Thanks, doll.
00:48:40Jasper.
00:48:41Jasper.
00:48:42You saw the lady sign these.
00:48:43Notarizing.
00:48:44You saw the lady sign these.
00:48:45Notarizing.
00:48:46Oh, honey.
00:48:47Oh, lookie.
00:48:48It's not.
00:48:49You're looking for the lady.
00:48:50As you get your own, you can't read all the kind of sounds.
00:48:51Well, your wild westerners you warned me about trying to cut my throat.
00:48:53This is just to give me a little protection.
00:48:55Uh-huh.
00:49:01It's lucky for you I learned to write instead of read.
00:49:03Thanks, doll.
00:49:04Jasper.
00:49:05You saw the lady sign these.
00:49:08Notarizing.
00:49:09Well, I'm ready for a nice, warm bath.
00:49:21The tub's down the hall.
00:49:23What?
00:49:24Well, I'll be seeing you, honey.
00:49:26What?
00:49:26Oh, look, I'm going to Sacramento for a couple of days.
00:49:28You make yourself at home.
00:49:30That Frenchie will look after you.
00:49:31Frenchie La Croix?
00:49:33Sure.
00:49:34Be nice to her.
00:49:37Come in.
00:49:39Miss Fisher, may I present Sister Chadwick?
00:49:44Forget your tambourine, honey?
00:49:46I'm sorry, Jim.
00:49:48I didn't mean to intrude.
00:49:50Well, Daisy's an old friend.
00:49:52He means well-seasoned.
00:49:54Oh.
00:49:56I came to tell you, we've cut enough timber.
00:49:59Our logs will soon be at tidewater.
00:50:01Our faith has been realized.
00:50:03We'll be able to keep our lands.
00:50:06But my father and I wanted you to know
00:50:08if you want to stay here and work.
00:50:11We'll help.
00:50:13Goodbye, Miss Fisher.
00:50:15Goodbye, Jim.
00:50:18Jim, huh?
00:50:20Lucky for you, my father never owned a shotgun.
00:50:23What about hers?
00:50:25Believe me, Daisy.
00:50:25I'd rather have my head shot off by a fig
00:50:27than my soul saved by a Bixby.
00:50:30Have fun, girl.
00:50:31I'm the charming soubrette on the police gazette.
00:50:49I can dance with gestures and grace.
00:50:52I've a definite style and a beautiful smile.
00:50:55If I chance, you glance at my face.
00:50:59The barbers, the cops, and first-nighters.
00:51:02They all have pictures of me.
00:51:05I'm sharing my fame with the fighters.
00:51:09John L. and Knockout McKee.
00:51:11I am known as the Toast of the Barbary Coast
00:51:17and the kind you'll never forget.
00:51:20I'm a girl, cute queen, and you'll know what I mean
00:51:24if you read the police gazette.
00:51:26If you're feeling depressed, let me humbly suggest
00:51:48there's a way for you to forget.
00:51:51Simply turn to the page, to the news of the stage,
00:51:57when you read the police gazette.
00:52:00Champagne.
00:52:21Mm-hmm.
00:52:22You'll drink to watch.
00:52:26You've got a lot of things in common.
00:52:28Yeah.
00:52:29Name one.
00:52:32Well, we've, uh,
00:52:33both been Jim Fallon's chumps.
00:52:37I'm through. How about you?
00:52:39What's rattling around in that head of yours?
00:52:41Look, Daisy,
00:52:43Jim's out of town. He's up to something.
00:52:45You're a part of it.
00:52:46What's going on?
00:52:47Why don't you ask Jim when he gets back?
00:52:50I'm paying cash money for information.
00:52:53I have a notion to tell Jim about this.
00:52:56You stionny.
00:52:58I have a flea on the thigh of a nid on the neck of a naff.
00:53:08I've seen things.
00:53:09That dam wasn't there last week.
00:53:11Not like that it wasn't.
00:53:12But the foundation's been there since the old mining days.
00:53:15Fallon, Jim Fallon.
00:53:17Well, he's sure got the colonists blocked.
00:53:19Not just the colonists.
00:53:21Nobody's running any more logs to Tidewater without my say-so.
00:53:24But we're partners.
00:53:26Correct.
00:53:27I've got you right where you thought you had me.
00:53:29You bought that dam with my money.
00:53:31I don't own it.
00:53:32I just got permission to control the river with it.
00:53:35Alan, you've gone too far.
00:53:39No.
00:53:39My good health is very important to you boys.
00:53:42Anything happens to me, the owner of that dam will see that you never get a log to market.
00:53:46Oh, by the way, I brought back another surprise for you from Sacramento.
00:53:50Be in town this afternoon.
00:53:51I have an appointment with Judge Crenshaw.
00:53:53Franchise for the dam is valid.
00:54:01Fire, property, right, established by the miners when this was Gold Rush country.
00:54:04We've got to locate the owner.
00:54:06I'm sure if he knew what it means to you.
00:54:07Well, the owner's a woman, Dora Fig.
00:54:10Dora Fig?
00:54:12Sacramento Post Office Box is the only address.
00:54:16I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do.
00:54:18Absolutely nothing.
00:54:19Thank you, Judge Crenshaw, for making that clear.
00:54:21True hell meat, Jim, I can hardly keep this gun from going off right in your face.
00:54:26Don't blame me.
00:54:26You're the one that led these sheep right into the middle of this wolf fight.
00:54:30Judge Crenshaw, this is for you.
00:54:33From the head of the Department of Interior.
00:54:37It is my considered opinion that the Fallon Company can, without penalty,
00:54:41proceed to take possession of and clear of their land.
00:54:44You mean they can cut down our trees?
00:54:46I'm afraid they can.
00:54:48Franchise, you and Greg set the boys to work right now.
00:54:50Possessing and clearing the land.
00:54:52You see, Sister Chadwick, you and your friends could have made a pile of money.
00:54:56Didn't you ever learn any other word except money?
00:55:01You're getting in a rut, Jim.
00:55:03You better look out.
00:55:04Because when a rut gets deep enough, it becomes a grave.
00:55:07You've got a couple of partners liable to put you in it.
00:55:09But when a rut gets deep enough, it will lead me away.
00:55:24Please do not believable to put you in it.
00:55:27Damn!
00:55:27Dear God, let's read this class.
00:55:28If you've got aside and paid for you.
00:55:32Make these simple aspirations and blessings into the world,
00:55:41that never again comes to the West Coast'sGO and where you will gain the June relief.
00:55:43O Lord, hear our last prayer in this temple.
00:55:55If its destruction be by thy will,
00:55:59then to thy higher judgment we bow.
00:56:03Open the hearts of each of us
00:56:05to speak forgiveness for these men of greed
00:56:09who have not been touched by thy understanding.
00:56:12Amen.
00:56:19Don't take any backtalks. We've got the law with us.
00:56:34Come out of there, you fools!
00:56:35You're in the line of fall!
00:56:38We must leave.
00:56:39It's our home.
00:56:42My place is here.
00:56:45They want to go down with the ship. It's their hard luck.
00:56:47The murder.
00:56:48Fallon's company. He gets life for murder.
00:56:50We get the company.
00:56:55The years that grew into these trees
00:56:57make them long and tedious to soar.
00:56:59It's time to get our friends, Judge Crenshaw and the Marshal.
00:57:07Go on.
00:57:09Hurry!
00:57:29What's the matter with you men?
00:57:31You undercut that tree to hit the cabin.
00:57:32That's right.
00:57:33Stop the sawing!
00:57:36Where's the Bixby's?
00:57:37How should I know?
00:57:38I'm sorry, but you may lose your house.
00:57:51I'm sorry, but you may lose your house.
00:57:53My father's in there.
00:57:55Stay here.
00:58:00My father's in there.
00:58:02Stay here.
00:58:03Let's go.
00:58:33Let's go.
00:59:03Let's go.
00:59:34It's your company, felon.
00:59:36You're the man that'll have to face the indictment for murder.
00:59:39Trying me already, huh?
00:59:40No, you'll get a fair trial, but not from me.
00:59:43I'm prejudiced.
00:59:43I'll have to disqualify myself.
00:59:45But you'll get your justice.
00:59:49Take him to Eureka and hold him without bail.
00:59:51Fallon will hang for this.
01:00:02What?
01:00:03It was premeditated murder.
01:00:07That's not true.
01:00:08He meant my father no harm.
01:00:13Jim Fallon missed his life trying to save him.
01:00:17I saw him.
01:00:19You saw him too.
01:00:21Well, he's still responsible for the actions of the Fallon company.
01:00:24His own woods boss will testify against him.
01:00:26I'll testify for him.
01:00:35Marshal, let Fallon go.
01:00:39I can't hold a man to answer when the chief witnesses for the defense.
01:00:43Release him.
01:00:52Thanks.
01:00:53My people forgive those who trespass against us.
01:00:57My father, most of all.
01:01:23I'll be right back.
01:01:53The French has been making threats against Jim's life.
01:01:55Why should you care?
01:01:56Anybody shoot Jim Fallon and be the most popular fella in town.
01:01:58You're the marshal.
01:01:59Don't let it happen.
01:02:00Why?
01:02:01Just don't let it happen.
01:02:02By golly, I...
01:02:03Say, you're not in love with that no good, are ya?
01:02:08Well, you're not in love with that no good, are ya?
01:02:11Why, you're not in love with that no good.
01:02:14I'm not in love with that no good.
01:02:16You're not in love with that no good.
01:02:19Well, you're not in love with that no good.
01:02:22Well, girl, you're crazy.
01:02:24You see a big Tom Leopard out in the woods and you don't get close.
01:02:27That is, unless you happen to be a lady leopard.
01:02:29He's been gentle enough with me.
01:02:31That's when he does his creepin'.
01:02:33Now, you listen to me, girl.
01:02:35A Marion Parson could straightjack at Jim Fallon
01:02:37and lock him in a box in the bottom of the sea.
01:02:39He'd still slip the gaff and run off with the wedding presents.
01:02:44Men have been known to change.
01:02:46Oh, lady.
01:02:47Even I have been given up by women reformers.
01:02:50The biggest mistake a woman can make is to pick the wrong man
01:02:53and try to make him right.
01:02:54Why don't you just go off somewhere and have a good cry and forget him?
01:02:59I'm reminding you of your duty, Marshal.
01:03:02See that he's protected.
01:03:05Alicia, that's started. What do we do?
01:03:07Are you sure?
01:03:08Yes.
01:03:14It feels like any minute.
01:03:16Take her to the hotel.
01:03:20Room 204.
01:03:22204?
01:03:23That's Jim Fallon's room.
01:03:25Why not?
01:03:26This is all his fault.
01:03:27See those lighted windows upstairs?
01:03:38They're his.
01:03:39You get up in the land office ruins.
01:03:41Maybe you can pot him from there.
01:03:43Charlie, he doesn't know you.
01:03:45You take the saloon.
01:03:48Bullock, I'll stay out here.
01:03:49You get on the hotel porch.
01:03:51He comes through the lobby, signal me.
01:03:53One of us has got to get him.
01:04:23Come on upstairs.
01:04:24Now what have I done?
01:04:25I want to talk to you.
01:04:26Thanks, sir.
01:04:27Hey, stranger.
01:04:28Let me be.
01:04:29Come on upstairs.
01:04:36Now what have I done?
01:04:38I want to talk to you.
01:04:43Thanks, sir.
01:04:50Hey, stranger.
01:04:51What'd that be?
01:04:53Double straight.
01:04:59Your sister will be all right.
01:05:13What's that?
01:05:14Baby.
01:05:16This is one thing you can't pin on me.
01:05:21Looks like you and the stalk arrived at the same time.
01:05:24What?
01:05:24Bill, it's a boy.
01:05:26There was no place for a baby to be born.
01:05:28Who's baby?
01:05:30Where can I find some water?
01:05:32Right down the hall right there.
01:05:35What is this, a hotel or a nursery?
01:05:38A baby was just born here thanks to Jim.
01:05:41Congratulations.
01:05:42What do you mean, thanks to Jim?
01:05:44I'd better get out of here.
01:05:46It might be catching.
01:05:48Now what's this all about?
01:05:50You and your lamb grabbers forced them out of their home.
01:05:52I had nothing to do with it.
01:05:54Too bad his father can't be here.
01:05:56I had nothing to do with that either.
01:05:58So for all I care, you can stay on your pious pedestal.
01:06:07I've never placed myself on any pedestal.
01:06:10I'm too full of bad temper.
01:06:11What a girl.
01:06:19Why, you chigger-bitten Don Juan.
01:06:21You just try pitching hay with her and I'll shoot that lump.
01:06:24You call a head right out from under your head.
01:06:26Forget it.
01:06:26I tried once.
01:06:27Got frostbite in the middle of July.
01:06:30That don't mean she's not stuck on you.
01:06:33You're crazy.
01:06:34Well, maybe so.
01:06:37When you signed that deal with Frenchie, it was heads you die and tails you get killed.
01:06:41Who do you think's got me looking after you?
01:06:43Alicia Chadwick.
01:06:44I don't believe it.
01:06:47Why should you?
01:06:48It wouldn't mean anything to you.
01:06:49You're going to have everything you wanted.
01:06:51You're going to be a millionaire.
01:06:53Sure.
01:06:55Why don't you tell the truth just once?
01:06:57Why don't you come clean and admit that all this wine you're guzzling is as sour as vinegar?
01:07:02Tell me more.
01:07:04You stinking steak jumper.
01:07:05I'm only trying to save your hide.
01:07:08It's not because I want to, but I promised her.
01:07:12You still like me, don't you?
01:07:17Come on, sweetheart.
01:07:19I want you to watch me thank Alicia for sending you back to me.
01:07:24Let's go.
01:07:35Get back, buddy.
01:08:05Let's go.
01:08:35You can't love this girl.
01:08:46He understood.
01:08:48Look where it got him.
01:08:51He lost his life protecting you.
01:08:55He should have looked out for himself.
01:09:02When I was a child, I was taught to believe that there was a...
01:09:04a God-given seed of good at the root of everything alive.
01:09:10But I'm beginning to doubt that now.
01:09:14There isn't the slightest bit of good in you.
01:09:16There is a reason for the complicated team.
01:09:30There is a place to do.
01:09:32Well, I remember one of the successful things in my life.
01:09:36It was a good boy.
01:09:37But it was a good...
01:09:39It was a bad boy.
01:09:39Boy, you fool.
01:09:39I was a bad boy.
01:09:40You just took video.
01:09:41The Boys, you're a bad boy.
01:09:42Everybody had good zat.
01:09:43I faut when you dress.
01:09:44The Boys, you're a bad boy.
01:09:45I got your message.
01:10:10What do you want?
01:10:10Come here.
01:10:15Sit down, Judge.
01:10:19Look, I figured out how you can stop Frenchie and Greg from cutting on that land.
01:10:23I had that figured out long ago.
01:10:25But you'd have to confess to subterfuge and attempt to defraud when you file those claims for homesteads.
01:10:30And that's a felony.
01:10:32Sit down and draw up an affidavit.
01:10:34What?
01:10:35You heard me.
01:10:39The government will hold all your claim money for forfeit.
01:10:42What do you want me to do, burst out in tears?
01:10:44Yeah.
01:10:45I've been trying to make a dent in you ever since I got here.
01:10:48Stop trying or you'll break your axe.
01:10:50Get those colonists to log in so they can file.
01:10:53Will you take care of Dora Fig and the dam that's blocking them?
01:10:57Let's pretend I'm Dora Fig.
01:10:59You thought of everything, didn't you?
01:11:02I admire what you're doing, Fallon.
01:11:04Then keep your mouth shut about it.
01:11:06Around everybody.
01:11:07What do you think Frenchie and Greg are going to do when they find out?
01:11:10Just stand there with their hands folded?
01:11:11Just make out that affidavit, will you?
01:11:15There.
01:11:17I'll give you back your good luck piece.
01:11:19You'll need it with those tree wolves.
01:11:23Thanks, Judge.
01:11:24Oh, uh, I've been eating some eating money too.
01:11:28Want to cover that?
01:11:30It's covered.
01:11:34High man deals.
01:11:38Now, I'll teach you to think of your soul instead of your belly.
01:11:41Check those fruit of San Francisco.
01:11:44Hate to see you leave, honey.
01:11:46Sure gonna miss you.
01:11:47Uh-uh.
01:11:48You'll be beating the drums while she's singing her hymns.
01:11:50Happy trip.
01:11:51Oh, uh, just Dora Fig B's, will you?
01:11:53You'll have to talk to Frenchie about little Dora Fig.
01:11:55Come again?
01:11:56I sell the dam to Frenchie for $25,000.
01:11:59Daisy, honey.
01:12:01That's not funny.
01:12:03What's the matter?
01:12:18Wrong flavor?
01:12:21You're telling the truth.
01:12:24That property was mine.
01:12:26After all, I couldn't live forever on your promises.
01:12:31What promise did I ever break to you?
01:12:35You never broke any.
01:12:37But you never kept any.
01:12:38It took me ten years to get the stars out of my eyes.
01:12:42All the rugs I helped you pull out from under the suckers.
01:12:46I learned.
01:12:47Oh, boy, how I learned.
01:12:50Enough to pull the whole floor right out from under you.
01:12:55Boy.
01:12:57Knock me sky high.
01:12:59You'll land on your feet.
01:13:01You always do.
01:13:03That $25,000 will repay me for all the years I've wasted.
01:13:07Yeah, ma'am.
01:13:08I finally got me a stake.
01:13:14Got yourself educated and well-heeled, huh?
01:13:19Nice work, Daisy.
01:13:20I'm patting myself on the back, too, for being a good teacher.
01:13:25So long, pal.
01:13:26No hard feelings.
01:13:29Thanks, Brother Fallon.
01:13:36Judge Crenshaw told us you let us through the dam.
01:13:38Blessings on me this beautiful day.
01:13:41Frenchy brought the dam out from under me.
01:13:43You're choking the river with logs for nothing.
01:13:45Is this another of thy tricks?
01:13:47The spots of the leopard do not change.
01:13:49Well, it's time to change yours.
01:13:52Why don't you men get some bristles on your back and start the fight?
01:13:54It's your only chance to spring those logs and get back your land.
01:13:58You can't pray that dam out of the way.
01:14:00No, but we can get around it.
01:14:03It's that old mining railroad on our property.
01:14:06It wouldn't take much new track to bypass the dam and haul logs to the river below it.
01:14:09Sister, that'll do it.
01:14:11We'll need some rails and tools.
01:14:13I'll swindle somebody out of them.
01:14:15Swindle?
01:14:16Borrow.
01:14:17Sometimes it's all the same.
01:14:19How many of you men worked on this purge rack last time?
01:14:22Judge Crenshaw donated this.
01:14:25Feed your boys good.
01:14:26They work faster.
01:14:27That was very kind of him.
01:14:29And you two for helping us.
01:14:31Sister Chadwick, just between us leopards.
01:14:34Keep watching my spots.
01:14:49That one's almost to the river with that track.
01:15:00Yeah.
01:15:01If it gets there, we're out of business.
01:15:03Yeah.
01:15:04The way they got in timber.
01:15:07How many trussles are there?
01:15:09Three.
01:15:10Show me the one nearest the river.
01:15:19Come in.
01:15:37My first time in a caboose.
01:15:39Sister Wallace.
01:15:40Sister Blackburn went to town with the baby.
01:15:44How are we doing?
01:15:45Just fine.
01:15:46Five colors have gone already.
01:15:48And this one goes this afternoon.
01:15:51I hate to admit it, but thanks to Brother Fallon.
01:15:54It is good to have him on our side, isn't it?
01:15:57It makes one feel like the strength of Jeroboam was with us.
01:16:00He must mean Jeremiah.
01:16:01Jeroboam was a scamp.
01:16:03I guess I mean both.
01:16:06See thee later.
01:16:07Oh, tell Mr. Fallon.
01:16:09I'll be here until supper time if he needs me.
01:16:11All right.
01:16:18I'll be here until we go.
01:16:31I'll be here until supper time.
01:16:33The next one's your pay.
01:16:56I thought that one would do it.
01:17:01What was that?
01:17:02We'd better find out.
01:17:11He's right in there.
01:17:12I might have a gun.
01:17:14Who is it?
01:17:16Better speak up fast.
01:17:29Call us, huh?
01:17:31We'll never find him in this bush.
01:17:33We'd better get a train over that trestle quick.
01:17:50Release the brake on the caboose.
01:17:52While you're at it, lock the doors.
01:17:53We'll take care of the end cars.
01:17:54Let's go.
01:18:24Let's go.
01:18:54Let's go.
01:18:55Mr. Chadwick figured out we need two more carloads.
01:19:08I think we'll be quicker to get them from below.
01:19:10Let's move.
01:19:11Let's go.
01:19:12Hey, boss!
01:19:13What happened?
01:19:14They said one more train would crash it.
01:19:15Crash what?
01:19:16It's a third threshold near the river.
01:19:20Sounds like a train now.
01:19:21Can't be.
01:19:22The locomotive's not due to one o'clock.
01:19:23Get them to a doctor.
01:19:24Boss, it is a train.
01:19:25Where's Dr. Chadwick?
01:19:26She's in that caboose.
01:19:27Where's Dr. Chadwick?
01:19:28She's in that caboose.
01:19:29She's in that caboose.
01:19:30Where's Dr. Chadwick?
01:19:31She's in that caboose.
01:19:32Where's Dr. Chadwick?
01:19:33Where's Dr. Chadwick?
01:19:34She's in that caboose.
01:19:35There's no way.
01:19:36She's in that caboose.
01:19:37And he's in that caboose.
01:19:38Hi, sir.
01:19:39I can't believe it.
01:19:40You're right.
01:19:41And he's in that caboose.
01:19:42I'm not sure that he's in that caboose.
01:19:43It's the third threshold near the river.
01:19:44It's the third threshold near the river.
01:19:45Sounds like a train now.
01:19:46Can't be.
01:19:47The locomotive's not due to one o'clock.
01:19:48Get them to a doctor.
01:19:49Boss, it is a train.
01:19:50Where's Dr. Chadwick?
01:19:51She's in that caboose.
01:19:52Where's Dr. Chadwick?
01:19:53She's in that caboose.
01:19:54I'm gonna get a car.
01:19:56This is Dr. Chadwick.
01:19:57He's in the caboose.
01:19:58I'm gonna get a car.
01:20:00I'm gonna get a car.
01:20:02Let's go.
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01:24:03Let's go.
01:24:04Let's go.
01:24:05Let's go.
01:24:06Let's go.
01:24:07Let's go.
01:24:08Let's go.
01:24:09Let's go.
01:24:10Let's go.
01:24:11Let's go.
01:24:20Alan's taking over the dam.
01:24:22I think he's gonna dynamite it.
01:24:23Yeah.
01:24:24They're gonna blow it up.
01:24:26All right.
01:24:27What's that?
01:24:28Don't move.
01:24:29A hand of judgment's upon you.
01:24:35You brothers with the rope get busy.
01:24:41Stand aside, sisters, while I use the stone.
01:24:54I don't feel a bit wicked.
01:24:56Bring me another stone.
01:25:11I don't feel a bit wicked.
01:25:41I don't feel a bit wicked.
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