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American Empire is a 1942 Western drama directed by William C. McGann, featuring Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, and Preston Foster. Set after the Civil War, the film follows three ex-Confederate soldiers who head west to build a cattle empire in Texas. But their dreams of prosperity are threatened by greed, betrayal, and violent confrontations.
A gripping tale of ambition and moral conflict, this film captures the spirit of the American frontier.
Genre: Western, Drama
Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster
Director: William C. McGann
Year: 1942
Language: English
Public Domain: β Yes
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#AmericanEmpire #ClassicWestern #PublicDomain #FullMovie #RichardDix #OldWestern #LeoCarrillo #WesternDrama
American Empire is a 1942 Western drama directed by William C. McGann, featuring Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, and Preston Foster. Set after the Civil War, the film follows three ex-Confederate soldiers who head west to build a cattle empire in Texas. But their dreams of prosperity are threatened by greed, betrayal, and violent confrontations.
A gripping tale of ambition and moral conflict, this film captures the spirit of the American frontier.
Genre: Western, Drama
Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster
Director: William C. McGann
Year: 1942
Language: English
Public Domain: β Yes
βΈ»
π Hashtag
#AmericanEmpire #ClassicWestern #PublicDomain #FullMovie #RichardDix #OldWestern #LeoCarrillo #WesternDrama
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00:01:59huh? Is that all for all the work we did? I'm going dafty trying to play up and down
00:02:05this river. Dan, let's sell the Betsy and get into something else. Well, 800 may not
00:02:11be much, but it's safe and sure. Yeah, at least we had some excitement when we owned
00:02:16the old Hattie T. Was it your idea to swap her for this? Yeah, but the whole setup has
00:02:21changed. There was a war on. A man could make some real money. Why don't you remember? Oh,
00:02:24I remember all right. I remember getting a broadside of midships from the Union gunboat,
00:02:28taking splinters out of my, uh, hide for two weeks. You got a hundred dollars for
00:02:34every splinter. That's right, and Confederate money. War's over, Pax. We can't start
00:02:39another one just because you're restless. Me, I like the river. Always so peaceful and quiet.
00:02:58Hey, Austin. Those nice, tender cows. You must feed them tender. Say, lazy one, why those
00:03:06cows is not across the river, huh? Those ranchers, they catch us. They will hang us by the neck
00:03:10until we don't live some more. We got no time to die now, eh?
00:03:14Come. On, Faut. Come. Come. On, Faut. Come.
00:03:20On, Faut. You.
00:03:22The mast there, Reddy.
00:03:37Let it be.
00:03:38Nobody cares what kind it is out here, except maybe the sand, please.
00:03:41Well, I care, because it's regulation.
00:03:43And if you'd ever sailed before the mast, you'd know it.
00:03:46You see going there, I've sailed the baby straight.
00:03:48I've pitched whole whales from Tindora to Madagascar.
00:03:51I'll sail away.
00:03:51I think I'll scuttle you now.
00:03:53Well, don't.
00:03:55The sail away is off its course.
00:04:01Now, you undersized jellyfish, repeat after me.
00:04:05I'll never speak no more foul slander against my friend.
00:04:08He and that runny are up there fighting again.
00:04:11Hey, sail away.
00:04:13Runny.
00:04:13But sail away.
00:04:25We don't have to.
00:04:26Well, no.
00:04:26Why?
00:04:27Come on.
00:04:28Peach.
00:04:29Oh, the port bow.
00:04:33The school of sea cows.
00:04:34Look.
00:04:35You ain't getting out of this.
00:04:37Say it.
00:04:37You see cows.
00:04:39Hey, I'm in the boat.
00:04:40You say it.
00:04:44Hey.
00:04:51You're close to the little river.
00:04:52Don't you know better than to block a channel?
00:04:54Salary, can't you, Mr. Sandberg, even at broad daylight?
00:04:56But it wasn't his fault.
00:04:57A stipper.
00:04:58I've navigated the reefs of Nukaheva and a typhoon.
00:05:00I've sailed the shoals of...
00:05:02Never mind that.
00:05:02Why'd you run the ground?
00:05:03All of them mossy horned sea lions pushed me here.
00:05:06You'll need a better excuse than that if you can't get it off.
00:05:08Full speed astern.
00:05:09Aye, aye, sir.
00:05:10Full speed astern.
00:05:11Full speed astern.
00:05:19Hebla, you up there.
00:05:20I think maybe you thought she are stuck good, huh?
00:05:24That man at the wheel should stay awake when the river she bend.
00:05:27You blubbery knuckle joint.
00:05:35I'm sorry, my friend, but I don't like the haircut with those harpoons.
00:05:39Shut it off, Lenny.
00:05:40Now that you've shown us your fancy shooting,
00:05:43how about getting us off this sandbar?
00:05:45You got us on.
00:05:47Maybe we do business.
00:05:47I come aboard.
00:05:50I got an idea.
00:05:51He's got a funny notion about business.
00:05:57Well, Bremont bought them 30 years of floatin'
00:06:01and wound up high and dry on a Texas sandman.
00:06:03You must have done your floatin' in the bathtub.
00:06:07I'll float you.
00:06:13Dominique Andre et police sentin.
00:06:15Just your service.
00:06:16That's quite a collection of handles.
00:06:18There is a customer in my Louisiana.
00:06:19And yours?
00:06:21I'm Paxton Bryce.
00:06:22It's Dan Taylor, my partner.
00:06:24What's your deal?
00:06:25Well, I am in quick hurry.
00:06:26You carry my cows and I will pull it off your boat.
00:06:30Somebody after you, huh?
00:06:31Looks like they're Russell.
00:06:32Ah, that is old-fashioned.
00:06:34The wars, they're making up cows for us all.
00:06:36What's a war got to do with it?
00:06:37Everything.
00:06:38The owners, they go away to fight.
00:06:39They stay four years.
00:06:41And these cattle travel all over Texas by himself
00:06:43and make plenty of little ones.
00:06:44These are what we call in French,
00:06:47live comme l'air, like English,
00:06:49free like the air.
00:06:50They belong to no one.
00:06:51They got no branches.
00:06:52And finders as keepers, huh?
00:06:54Sort them all.
00:06:55Oh, I have a soft heart.
00:06:57I ask myself, Dominique, these poor cattle,
00:06:59they don't got no home,
00:07:00so I gather them together
00:07:01and I take them to live on my home.
00:07:03That's very kind of you.
00:07:04Why are you in such a hurry?
00:07:06Well, these ranchers,
00:07:07they want to keep all the wild cattle,
00:07:08so they chase me.
00:07:11Upon this sense, I am telling you the truth.
00:07:13Well, it's good enough for me.
00:07:15What do you say, Dan?
00:07:16I guess it's all right.
00:07:18The Betsy Ann gets paid for what she carries.
00:07:20Oh, I am honest man.
00:07:22I wish to go to Mirio Landing on the Louisiana side.
00:07:25How many cows you got?
00:07:26About one thousand.
00:07:27Cost you a dollar a head.
00:07:28Eh, Dan, I will get my men started, huh?
00:07:30Tie her up to the back of the bar.
00:07:31I mean, I'm out.
00:07:32They're in cattle.
00:07:34It's plumb degrading, Ronnie.
00:07:35Could have been goats.
00:07:39Hey, Dominique.
00:07:40I'd like to hear some more
00:07:42about those poor orphan cows.
00:08:01Dan, those cattle are worth a lot of money.
00:08:03All the friends behind the door
00:08:04was pick them up.
00:08:05What's the matter, Jim?
00:08:06The bearing again?
00:08:07No, sir, but I just laid eyes
00:08:08on who we're carrying.
00:08:09That's Dominique Bouchard,
00:08:11the 100-rated park bill.
00:08:12Bouchard?
00:08:12Well, he's the one that's
00:08:13turned the same to Texas
00:08:14into a shooting gallery.
00:08:15Get below, Jim.
00:08:16We may need a full head of steam.
00:08:17We better get our money quick.
00:08:22Well, how about our money?
00:08:24Fair.
00:08:25Oh.
00:08:26Hi, babe.
00:08:30Later, when I get the money for the cows.
00:08:32Hey, now, you don't take them off.
00:08:35Bouchard.
00:08:36Oh, Bouchard.
00:08:37So you know me, huh?
00:08:38That isn't no consequence.
00:08:39Boy, close the cargo board.
00:08:41I say, I'll pay later.
00:08:44Pierre, get those cars off quick.
00:08:47And keep your eyes on Les Americanes.
00:08:50Billy, get the cattle off quick.
00:08:53Both feet ahead.
00:09:02Both feet ahead.
00:09:03Both feet ahead.
00:09:03Hey, you fast-dummox.
00:09:19Hey, you fast-dummox.
00:09:23Why didn't you tell me something I don't know?
00:09:37Bouchard.
00:09:40Your cows just about paid for our trouble.
00:09:42And we never give credit.
00:09:44Eh bien, monsieur.
00:09:45I still owe you something,
00:09:46but I always pay.
00:09:48Heh.
00:09:48Well, looks like we're in the cattle business.
00:10:06Sooner he'd handed us the money, Bill.
00:10:07He handed us an idea that's worth millions.
00:10:09We're way ahead.
00:10:12This whole end of Texas is full of cattle.
00:10:14I don't belong to anybody.
00:10:15That's what increased during the war.
00:10:16We buy the land, all the cattle on it, or ours.
00:10:20Sounds like a great idea.
00:10:21It's too much of a gamble.
00:10:23Gamble?
00:10:23It's always running a blockade,
00:10:24but we made money, didn't we?
00:10:26Can't you see it, Dan?
00:10:27This beats any deal we've ever been in.
00:10:29We can take the money we've got,
00:10:31sell these cattle,
00:10:32and the Betsy Ann.
00:10:34We can buy land by the square mile,
00:10:36round up cattle by the thousands,
00:10:38sell them and buy more land.
00:10:39We'll have a ranch like nobody's ever seen before.
00:10:42It'll be like going in your own country, wouldn't it?
00:10:44It'll be bigger than that.
00:10:45It'll be like a...
00:10:46like an empire.
00:10:48Your own American empire.
00:10:52Well, you're flying high,
00:10:53but I'll flap along with you.
00:10:55We'll get to the river
00:10:55before we'll go have a talk with a land agent.
00:10:58Then I think we ought to drink a couple of toast
00:11:00to a mighty bright future, don't you?
00:11:02I think we ought to drink a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit
00:11:32I'll put the law on you.
00:11:35Where's my customer?
00:11:37My customer!
00:12:00Hello, little fella.
00:12:02What a place to roost.
00:12:06You're the biggest prize I ever got in a grab bag.
00:12:09Is there any more in there like you?
00:12:10Isn't one victim enough?
00:12:12Or do you generally run them down with a dozen?
00:12:14I can go of my half.
00:12:19You ain't hurt, Mama.
00:12:20I'll live.
00:12:22Hey!
00:12:22You must have seen Skipper?
00:12:24Not a one, not a one.
00:12:25Get out of here.
00:12:27This ain't no corral.
00:12:28Hey, you, mister, it will cost you a lot of money for this damage.
00:12:34All right, it'll cost me a lot of money.
00:12:36Here you are.
00:12:37Take that and keep the change.
00:12:38All right, boys.
00:12:39Show's all over.
00:12:40I'll see you down at the music hall.
00:12:41Hey, you've got a wonderful store in here.
00:12:43Go ahead.
00:12:54Care for my luggage, too.
00:12:56I'm sorry, ma'am.
00:12:57Honest, I am.
00:12:58I mean about the whole thing.
00:12:59You ought to be sorry.
00:13:01A grown man playing horseback on a cow.
00:13:04I ought to call the police.
00:13:05You'll have to call awful loud because we're not blessed with him out here.
00:13:09That's too bad.
00:13:10You belong in jail.
00:13:12Missy, you're tacking way off your course because he's the finest little skipper that ever tries a deck.
00:13:17Thank you, Ronnie.
00:13:19My compliments, ma'am.
00:13:21To cool you up.
00:13:22Little lady, my compliments to hold in your temper.
00:13:30And may I compliment all.
00:13:32I've never seen finer specimens of drunken hoodlums.
00:13:36Ooh.
00:13:40She upset or something?
00:13:46Well, I've shivered and froze over half the Arctic Circle,
00:13:50putting these here whale bones so women can hold up their reputations.
00:13:54What thanks do I get?
00:13:55Ha-ha.
00:13:56Reminds me of the Hattie T.
00:13:58Got the lines of a clipper and the disposition of her balky bars.
00:14:02I sure hope we don't sight her again.
00:14:04Ha-ha.
00:14:05Let's go back where we came from.
00:14:10Hey, Dan.
00:14:11Yo, Dan.
00:14:12What the Sam Hill?
00:14:13Where are you?
00:14:14What happened?
00:14:14I thought you were going to meet me after you got tied up.
00:14:16Well, something happened that kept me on board.
00:14:18Oh, did you miss a time?
00:14:20Yeah, sure.
00:14:20I guess you did the honors for both of us, huh?
00:14:22Better sleep at all.
00:14:23Oh, I don't want to go to bed.
00:14:24We're going back to the music hall.
00:14:25Hey, will you see the redhead I got lined up for you?
00:14:27Well, we'll make it some other night.
00:14:28What's the matter with you?
00:14:29Didn't you hear me?
00:14:30I said a redhead.
00:14:31She's even prettier than the one you sent the violence to in Galveston.
00:14:34I didn't have a girl in Galveston.
00:14:35Must have been still the way.
00:14:36The other way my eye was you.
00:14:37She threw the lamp back.
00:14:38This one, she was...
00:14:39What else did the redhead do?
00:14:43What's she doing here?
00:14:45You know we don't allow women on board.
00:14:46She's the woman.
00:14:47This is my kid sister, Abigail.
00:14:49Abby?
00:14:50This is Paxton Bryce.
00:14:52She arrived this afternoon.
00:14:53Had a kind of an accident with a no-account drunk.
00:14:57Well, what's so funny?
00:14:59I was the accident.
00:15:01Well, she said that it was a low-down, no-good rowdy.
00:15:03I should have recognized you, Paxton.
00:15:06Well, I furnished so much amusement.
00:15:13How does she have that cruise in?
00:15:15Did you send for her?
00:15:15Well, not exactly.
00:15:16That is, I might have mentioned in one of my letters that we had a lot of room on board.
00:15:19Oh, yeah, sure, sure, sure.
00:15:20And you also told her we're going to make her stop at the rear of her.
00:15:23Holy smoke, Dan.
00:15:24We haven't got time to be a couple of nursemaids.
00:15:26Now, listen, Pepperpot.
00:15:27I did send for her.
00:15:28We probably heard her feeling.
00:15:29That's too bad, but she can't stay.
00:15:36Poor kid.
00:15:36She's probably crying her eyes out.
00:15:38Fine reception we gave her.
00:15:40This country's no place for her.
00:15:42It's going to have to be.
00:15:42And my aunt, who she's been living with, died.
00:15:46And actually, she knew that her place is with me now.
00:15:48I'm very sorry, but our plans don't include kid sisters.
00:15:52She's going back east.
00:15:53Give her any excuse you like, but you've got to get rid of her.
00:15:56There's nothing doing now.
00:15:57It's up to me to look after, and she stays.
00:16:00Look, Dan, you know how bossy women are.
00:16:03Before you know it, she'll be telling us what to do.
00:16:05She'll have the whole place upside down.
00:16:07Well, if that's all it's worrying you, forget it.
00:16:09You won't even know that she's around, and I promise you.
00:16:11All right, see that I don't.
00:16:13I suppose I'll have to stand for some of these changes around here,
00:16:33but the Hattie T stays right there.
00:16:36Sorry.
00:16:36I was just going to put up something I like better.
00:16:38Maybe your brother doesn't mind if you make a parlor out of this cabin,
00:16:41but I'd appreciate it if you let my things alone.
00:16:43And where are the old curtains?
00:16:44I like them.
00:16:45Those are the old curtains.
00:16:47I just washed them.
00:16:48Would you mind telling me where my pipes are?
00:16:50Here they are.
00:16:51I washed them for you.
00:16:53You what?
00:16:53Don't get so excited.
00:16:55It's only soap and water.
00:16:56Only soap and water?
00:16:57And with my shaving brush.
00:17:11So, I wasn't even going to know she was on board.
00:17:25In the last two weeks, she's overhauled everything with the engine.
00:17:28Oh, simmer down, Pax.
00:17:29Personally, I like the way she's fixing things.
00:17:31And don't forget the good meals she's been cooking.
00:17:33Yeah, all the comforts are home.
00:17:34If I had enough, I'm going to shore and look at that acre.
00:17:36Hey, the man agent said it might make a good start up at the ranch.
00:17:39Well, I'll go with you.
00:17:40I'd better get a couple of cans of beans.
00:17:41Why?
00:17:42Abby's cooked a nice rabbit stew.
00:17:45Hey, Salloway, heave to the tab to the West Bank.
00:17:52Salloway, you and Runny stay behind and give Miss Abby a hand.
00:17:54This tub has turned into a cruddy old henhouse.
00:17:57It drives me for a one-eyed eel.
00:17:58I ain't no cabin boy, Mr. Taylor.
00:18:00Of course you are, Salloway.
00:18:01And all hands will rest if we take a look at Mr. Bryce's property.
00:18:05It isn't every day that you can catch a glimpse of an empire, is it?
00:18:08No, ma'am.
00:18:09Are we ready?
00:18:18There's the boundary marker.
00:18:20And way up in those rolling hills is another marker.
00:18:22And everything in between is a...
00:18:23Is it the Bryce empire?
00:18:27And is that the cattle that go with it?
00:18:29All right, Runny, man your station.
00:18:33We'll put the little critter in dry dock.
00:18:35I'll take the bow.
00:18:36You take the stern.
00:18:46Mr. Bryce!
00:18:47Mr. Bryce!
00:18:47Mr. Bryce!
00:18:47Oh, it doesn't look bad at that.
00:19:02There are a lot of things to consider, Pax.
00:19:04We don't know anything about the cattle business.
00:19:06Well, we can learn, can't we?
00:19:08Look at that.
00:19:09When I see that, there's only one thing I can think of.
00:19:12How much land can I get and how many cows go with it?
00:19:14We're letting your imagination run away with you as usual.
00:19:17If it wasn't for my imagination, we wouldn't have a nickel.
00:19:19Why, we wouldn't have run cotton and we wouldn't have...
00:19:21Well, this time you're wrong.
00:19:22I think, Dad, that...
00:19:23I know you had to come along.
00:19:24Please don't bother thinking.
00:19:26I was just going to agree with you, Mr. Bryce.
00:19:28Oh.
00:19:29Oh.
00:19:30You were?
00:19:31Well, that's a little different.
00:19:33And neither are using any common sense.
00:19:35Who's going to buy beef from us in these parts when they can get it from another?
00:19:38They won't here, but they will up north and back east.
00:19:40But they're paying $10 a head in Abilene.
00:19:42And that fellow Chisholm proved that cattle can make the trip.
00:19:46That's a point.
00:19:48Why throw away money buying land when you can round up all the cattle you want?
00:19:51I won't always be like that.
00:19:52Someday all this land will be privately owned.
00:19:54Of course it will, Dan.
00:19:56The country's growing this way, and before long, there'll be a new way of living.
00:19:59Lawn and order and property rights.
00:20:01There'll be no place for wild cattle hunters.
00:20:03You'll have to have your own range.
00:20:05And a lot of it.
00:20:05Well, Dan, we're, uh, two to one against it.
00:20:13So you two are pulling together for a change.
00:20:17Well, I know when I'm late.
00:20:19We'll sell the Betsy and to that fell on river for you.
00:20:25Well, Javi, I, uh, guess I was a little bit wrong about you.
00:20:28It's, uh, getting to be a pleasure having you around here.
00:20:31It's the first nice thing you said to me.
00:20:34Better be careful.
00:20:34Well, it might get to be a habit.
00:20:35You couldn't be.
00:20:36A habit is, uh, something you're not conscious of.
00:20:39Like that awful frown when you're mad?
00:20:41Well, that's, uh, self-confessed.
00:20:44Begging your pardon, Skipper.
00:20:46What are we gonna do now?
00:20:47We can swap that harpoon for a branding iron.
00:20:49We're going to work.
00:20:51A harpoon on dry land?
00:20:52Why, that's plum loony.
00:20:53I'm gonna get me a buffalo for a pincushion.
00:20:57I'll clean him clean into it a hundred jars.
00:20:59Sail away, you're gonna make a valuable man on a cattle ranch.
00:21:02The way you can throw the bull.
00:21:03I'll keep it.
00:21:08I'll be right.
00:21:10I'mβ
00:22:15All right.
00:22:17There it is.
00:22:18Why don't you let it burn in a while?
00:22:19I don't know.
00:22:20Happy birthday, Sid.
00:22:21Happy birthday, Abby.
00:22:23It's the first anniversary of the Bracetealer.
00:22:25We have to drink to that.
00:22:27Of course.
00:22:29Want to cut the cake right away?
00:22:31Sure, we want to eat it.
00:22:32How about it, boys?
00:22:33Should we wait for the cake or shall we do it now?
00:22:35I do it now.
00:22:36All right, Abby.
00:22:37We're, uh, almighty pleased at the way you stepped by us through a pretty tough year.
00:22:49And since this is your birthday, we, uh, want to give you these.
00:22:53Oh, gee, I don't know how to thank you all.
00:22:55Well, come on.
00:22:56Open them up.
00:22:57Let's see what it is.
00:22:58Can sail away and run it.
00:23:00Oh, look.
00:23:02Is that nice?
00:23:03Oh, it's lovely.
00:23:04Oh, of course you don't have to.
00:23:05Didn't you like it?
00:23:06No.
00:23:07Because you're twice as big, you get kissed like it.
00:23:09Gosh, I wish I was big as an elephant.
00:23:10Well, ain't you?
00:23:11Well, let's hook up the other one.
00:23:12Well, let's hook up the other one.
00:23:32Oh, that's beautiful.
00:23:33Gosh, hair-laced chaps.
00:23:44I didn't buy them.
00:23:49A sales lady must have put them in.
00:23:53I'll put the dress away so it won't get wrinkled.
00:23:59How about a little song, huh, Rudy?
00:24:04Yeah, yeah.
00:24:05Come on, a little song.
00:24:06Come on, a little song.
00:24:07Come on, boy.
00:24:08You better stop that gal and she's got him earmarked.
00:24:11Earmarked?
00:24:12Ha-ha.
00:24:13That lass has got him roped and walked on it.
00:24:15She sure has.
00:24:20Oh, Tex, it's the loveliest present of all.
00:24:23Oh.
00:24:24So is this beginning, Abby?
00:24:28There isn't anything the future won't give you.
00:24:31All I want and need is ride here with me now.
00:24:34Oh, Tex, we'll build something fine again.
00:24:37Something we can be proud of.
00:24:39We can be married before I go to Abilene.
00:24:42Oh, and this will make such a lovely way.
00:24:45Certainly.
00:24:46What do you think I got it for?
00:24:48Pretty sure of me, weren't you?
00:24:50I never heard of such conceit.
00:24:52Well, I...
00:24:53It's just a question of you I could say no.
00:24:55But I don't see how I can resist the track.
00:24:57Give me some time to blow the man down.
00:25:02Oh, it's sailors and tinkers and tailors as men.
00:25:06Hey, hey, blow the man down.
00:25:09All right, but no one would have arrived sooner for our celebration.
00:25:13What do you want?
00:25:14Payment for your cattle?
00:25:15No, monsieur, but you have plenty cattle now, eh?
00:25:17Yes.
00:25:18Plenty.
00:25:19But they're all ours.
00:25:20Oui, oui.
00:25:21Hours, eh?
00:25:22Not yours.
00:25:23Hours.
00:25:24The old score is all settled.
00:25:25Oh, absolutely.
00:25:26Dominic Bouchard always stuck clean with his new partners, eh?
00:25:29Oh, what do you laugh?
00:25:30You use my ideas to go into business?
00:25:31Eh bien.
00:25:32My ideas, your money, eh?
00:25:33We are partners, no?
00:25:34No.
00:25:35You have no claim, not even for a single hoof or horn.
00:25:37Yeah, but I have a different view.
00:25:38Listen, Bouchard.
00:25:39If we catch you or anybody else taking any of our cattle,
00:25:41I'll give you a dose of stomach pills you can't digest.
00:25:43Ha, ha.
00:25:44Ha, ha.
00:25:45Ha, ha.
00:25:46Ha, ha.
00:25:47Ha, ha.
00:25:48Ha, ha.
00:25:49Ha, ha.
00:25:50Ha, ha.
00:25:51Ha, ha.
00:25:52Ha, ha.
00:25:53Ha, ha.
00:25:54Ha, ha, ha.
00:25:55Ha, ha, ha.
00:25:56We understand each other?
00:25:57Ha, ha, ha.
00:25:58I know how you feel, but I, too, have ideas like yours.
00:26:01Like a big ranch in my Louisiana where I can be a big man of much power.
00:26:05That's your affair.
00:26:06But when you're on this side of the river, you keep your eyes peeled for our boundary markers.
00:26:09Oh, I have seen them, but, eh, I don't believe little words on pepper.
00:26:14Ha, ha, ha.
00:26:16Ha, ha.
00:26:17Ha, ha.
00:26:18Ha, ha.
00:26:19Ha, ha.
00:26:20Ha, ha.
00:26:21Ha, ha.
00:26:22Ha, ha.
00:26:23Ha, ha.
00:26:24Ha, ha.
00:26:25Ha, ha.
00:26:26Ha, ha.
00:26:27Ha, ha.
00:26:28He wasn't bluffing.
00:26:29We can take care of him, all right.
00:26:30Think you ought to put off the drive to Abilene?
00:26:31Not by a jug for it.
00:26:32We need all the money those cattle will bring.
00:26:34You'll have enough men to take care of Beauchard.
00:26:36I'd relish doing it for a fact.
00:26:38Come on, Randy.
00:26:39Let's finish the song.
00:26:40Yeah, come on.
00:26:41Oh, sailors as tinkers and sailors as men.
00:26:44Oh, I've fallen that down.
00:26:45Oh.
00:26:46It's all the man down.
00:27:00Well, so long, Tex. Good luck.
00:27:01Thanks, Dan. So long.
00:27:03Pilots, Brian, take care of yourself.
00:27:04Sail away.
00:27:05Yes, sail away.
00:27:06And take his parents to my husband.
00:27:07Mike is not here.
00:27:08Take care of me, ma'am.
00:27:11Well, come on, Ronnie.
00:27:12I promise you, be careful, darling.
00:27:17It's such a dangerous trip, and if anything happened to you, I...
00:27:20Nothing will, not when I have you waiting for me.
00:27:23I'll be back by Thanksgiving.
00:27:27Goodbye, honey.
00:27:28Goodbye.
00:27:42Goodbye, honey.
00:28:12Just a minute now.
00:28:14Just a minute.
00:28:16Come on, honey.
00:28:18Come on, come on, come on.
00:28:20Come back!
00:28:22Kill you! You're running!
00:28:24Come back!
00:28:26Come back!
00:28:32I know we'll have a real Thanksgiving show enough.
00:28:34How about a piece of that good old apple pie?
00:28:36Pie is waiting, but don't you mess up my kitchen,
00:28:38because you know I know you, cowboys.
00:28:42Come back!
00:28:46Tax, I'm so glad you're home.
00:28:48You're better than I am.
00:28:54I got you out of me. I sold the cattle.
00:28:56I went right out and bought you the finest present
00:28:58they had in Abilene.
00:29:02Bring it in, Stella White.
00:29:04Wait a minute.
00:29:12We missed you, Sally White.
00:29:14Nothing like home port, ma'am.
00:29:16Where do you want it?
00:29:18We're right there.
00:29:20Just the only one in the world that had it made special.
00:29:24Well, there she be.
00:29:26About a scratch on her hull.
00:29:28You like it, honey?
00:29:29You like it?
00:29:30Always fit for a king.
00:29:34That's what he'll be someday.
00:29:36Oh, happy he's going to make our future complete.
00:29:38Something to build for.
00:29:40What's the matter?
00:29:42Lately, I haven't been so sure of our future.
00:29:44I've been worried, Pags.
00:29:46Well, you'll get those notions right out of your head.
00:29:48We'll have the best doctor that...
00:29:49No, it isn't that.
00:29:50It's Dan and the ranch.
00:29:51Beauchard been raiding.
00:29:52It's ever since you left.
00:29:53Why didn't you tell me in your letters?
00:29:54I'd have come right back.
00:29:55Dan thought he could catch him,
00:29:57but he's managed to step away every time.
00:30:00I guess I didn't take that hombre seriously enough.
00:30:02Where's Dan now?
00:30:03He's gone to Blue Rock Canyon.
00:30:05He put some cattle there to draw Beauchard.
00:30:07Oh, Pags, I'm afraid.
00:30:08Dan may be walking into a trap himself.
00:30:10Beauchard seems to know if...
00:30:11If you don't stop that fretting,
00:30:12you won't have any appetite for that turkey dinner.
00:30:14I'll go give Dan a hand.
00:30:33Runny, hold it.
00:30:34Where'll I start moving the herd?
00:30:36Oh, Augustine, you were a wise old fox
00:30:38to find too many cows in one place, eh?
00:30:40For that, I am going to promise you
00:30:42one hundred gold pieces, eh?
00:30:44Here, let me take.
00:30:45All right.
00:30:46Here, let's go.
00:30:47Here!
00:30:48Here!
00:30:49Here!
00:30:50Here!
00:30:51Here!
00:30:52Here, let's go!
00:30:53Here!
00:30:54Here!
00:30:55Here!
00:30:56Here!
00:30:57Come on!
00:30:58Here!
00:30:59Here!
00:31:00Here!
00:31:01Here!
00:31:02Here!
00:31:03What's wrong, Dominique?
00:31:04Hey!
00:31:05Hey, now I know why there are so many cows with the grass is so poor.
00:31:09I smell a mice behind the wood piles someplace.
00:31:11This place is no good. Now we must go. Hello. Let's go.
00:31:17All right, fellas.
00:31:35Let's go.
00:32:05The End
00:32:35The End
00:33:05The End
00:33:35The End
00:34:05The End
00:34:07That squeals pretty high, it must be a girl
00:34:09It's gotta be a boy, I made him a harpoon
00:34:11Is she alright, Winnie Mae?
00:34:15Hi, so is your son
00:34:17Give me a hug
00:34:18You all be quiet
00:34:19Come on
00:34:22The cigars are on me
00:34:25Up south, boys
00:34:33How does it feel to be pop
00:34:35I don't know
00:34:36Uncle Dan?
00:34:39That's right
00:34:39Lucky it wasn't a girl, Skipper
00:34:41We'd have had a tough time raising her
00:34:43Oh, what do you know about raising kids?
00:34:45Everything
00:34:45I was the last in a 14-kid family
00:34:48And I never did get enough to eat
00:34:50The good thing you didn't
00:34:51Let me tell you some of the troubles
00:34:55I had when I was a kid
00:34:57And that, my mates
00:34:58Is how come I had the measles 14 times
00:35:01How many times?
00:35:0314
00:35:03Go on in, Pax
00:35:07And meet your new boss
00:35:08I can't tell you how much I love you
00:35:31Beautiful, Pax
00:35:36He has your eyes
00:35:38Musky little shale, isn't he?
00:35:52Yes, sir
00:35:52Half of us
00:35:53Nine pounds
00:35:54Pax, Jr
00:35:57For every one of those pounds
00:36:00I'll get you 10,000 acres
00:36:01And for every year after that
00:36:03I'll double it
00:36:05Huh?
00:36:08Uh-huh
00:36:09Oh-huh
00:36:11I'll do it
00:36:23I'll do it
00:36:23I'll do it
00:36:25I'll do it
00:36:25Two fingers, now keep the elbows stiff, put your weight on your right foot and bend your
00:36:51knee. Archibald! Oh, no, Pax, get some heft into it. Bet you I could rope it. Eh, what kind of sailing talk is that? Oh, gee, sailor, well, I don't want to be a whaler, I'm a cowboy. Listen here, young fellow, whaling's a noble profession, and you're going to be the greatest whaler. Now if I have anything to say. Morning, Pop. I got up next early for a ride, but you're gone, though. I went into town to get something for you. My pony? Where is it? Ronnie's got him. Oh.
00:37:21Sailor, wait. I don't like to be at you all the time, but you've got to stop spouting that kind of talk to Pax. Well, bless my barnacles, Mr. Bryce. I hate to see the lad grow into a landlubber. He's not going to be a footloose windjammer. He's going to grow up to be a solid, dependable man that the whole country can look up to. Aye, aye, sir. And I still say he ain't cut out for no cowpoke.
00:37:40Mom! Mom, look, my very old pony. He's great, isn't he, Mom? Oh, I'm glad you like it. You haven't even noticed the saddle. Oh, it's wonderful. And just my size. Thanks. And the real lariat.
00:37:57Yep, made it special for you. You did? Thanks, Runty. Is it what you ordered, son? Oh, you're the best pop in the world. And you're the best mom.
00:38:05Well, up we go. How the stirs? It's just dry.
00:38:23You'll be out riding me in no time. Patch is awful smart, Pop. The chandle's easier than a sloop in a fair breeze.
00:38:30Wish you wouldn't pay quite as much attention to Sailor Ways' Yarns, huh? Oh, I listen to my life, Jim.
00:38:35Can I go on the next roundup? Oh, that might be a good idea. It's about time you'll learn how a ranch is run.
00:38:42You just keep your eyes open and watch everything I do, because someday you're going to be the boss.
00:38:46Am I? If I watch you, will I be a real cattleman?
00:38:49Thanks. Raising cattle is a mighty big job. It's probably the biggest job in the United States.
00:38:56You know, once Abraham Lincoln said,
00:38:57We must get beef to all the country, both north and south. He was talking to cattlemen like you and me.
00:39:05He left us for that responsibility, so we'll have to live up to it.
00:39:08Golly, if we're going to feed everybody, we'll have to round up a lot of steers.
00:39:12Lucky I got my new lariat. I wrote Kaz and helped ride her.
00:39:17You'll always use a good hand, son. I guess we'd better get home.
00:39:20Want a race?
00:39:21All right. Come on.
00:39:22At the end of the trail, little pal,
00:39:28When the sun disappears in the well,
00:39:34At the end of the trail, little pal,
00:39:40We will have real contentment and rest.
00:39:44If we should be parted by some trick of fate,
00:39:52Wait at the old corral,
00:39:57Why don't you all go to work?
00:39:58You may depend
00:39:59That you'll find me, old friend,
00:40:04At the end of the trail, little pal.
00:40:10These figures are impossible.
00:40:163,000 head less than last year.
00:40:18Every year your tallies have been off more each time.
00:40:20I can vouch for the figures.
00:40:22We combed every inch of the range.
00:40:26I thought at first it was drought,
00:40:28freezing,
00:40:29normal straying,
00:40:30when you consider the size of the herds we're handling.
00:40:333,000 head is too much of a leak.
00:40:35I don't like to look up with myself.
00:40:36Pop, will you fix my lariat?
00:40:38Not now, Pax. I'm busy.
00:40:40There's only one answer, Ford.
00:40:41Other ranchers are driving our cattle to market
00:40:43alongside of their owner,
00:40:45burning out our brands.
00:40:47There's a sure way to stop it.
00:40:49Clothes the range to everybody.
00:40:51That'll cause a peck of trouble, Mr. Bryce.
00:40:54Folks have always driven across each other's land.
00:40:56They're not going across mine anymore.
00:40:58Post no trespassing signs.
00:40:59And patrol the range to make sure everybody understands we mean it.
00:41:02Don't you think we better wait
00:41:03till Mr. Taylor gets back from Galveston?
00:41:04I gave you your orders, Ford.
00:41:09Hopper, Mr. Crowder and his friends stealing our cattle?
00:41:14Somebody is, and we're going to put a stop to it.
00:41:16Ah, Pierre, the journey was good, eh?
00:41:27Oh, good 1,000 times.
00:41:29Such fat cows.
00:41:30I should thank Mr. Bryce and Taylor for raising them for me, eh?
00:41:35Also, the saints,
00:41:36that they don't find out it is you who take them all these years?
00:41:39Yeah, but you forget I am a ghost.
00:41:41Was I not drowned, eh?
00:41:42Something happened while you was away.
00:41:47Oui.
00:41:48Oui.
00:41:48I buy the Lemire plantation, eh?
00:41:51At St. Croc.
00:41:52You buy?
00:41:53Oui, oui.
00:41:54Well, soon you will be the most rich man in Louisiana.
00:41:57Eh, well, the most rich and the most powerful, eh?
00:41:59But tell me, help me if my good partners are so careless with their cows, eh?
00:42:02No, no, no.
00:42:11Howdy, Mr. Taylor.
00:42:12Hi, Mr. Taylor.
00:42:13Glad to see you home again.
00:42:16Why all the artillery?
00:42:18No outside herds allowed on the range.
00:42:20Mr. Bryce has ordered.
00:42:21Some of the outfits are kind of hot,
00:42:23but so far they're just calling names.
00:42:32There you are.
00:42:35Now we'll run free without grabbing.
00:42:37Thanks, Pop.
00:42:38Pax, what are you thinking of?
00:42:40Closing the rest to outside cattle.
00:42:42Well, you know all Texas' open range.
00:42:44Well, it's about time it wasn't.
00:42:46A man can't raise a decent herd
00:42:47with every scrub bull mixing with his stock.
00:42:49Puts out feed.
00:42:50Not a man's cattle eats it.
00:42:52You can't even run steers on your own land.
00:42:53Somebody grabs them.
00:42:54Just the same, you can't go around stepping on folks.
00:42:56Well, let them keep out of my way.
00:42:58Pax, you don't have to push people against the wall.
00:43:00Well, if you make those ranchers drive the long way to market,
00:43:03there won't be any meat left on their cattle to sell.
00:43:05You'll force them out of business.
00:43:07This country was made for men
00:43:09that can stand on their own feet.
00:43:10If you want to survive, you have to fight.
00:43:12You can't be a sentimentalist.
00:43:14And you can't play lord and master.
00:43:17You forget it took the little man
00:43:18as well as the big one
00:43:19to make this country what it is.
00:43:21I can do without you, Lecter.
00:43:23You've gotten so puffed up with your own importance.
00:43:25Dan, please don't quarrel.
00:43:27I won't, honey.
00:43:29Have it your own way.
00:43:30But remember, you can only push them so far.
00:43:36Pax, what's happened to you?
00:43:37You've changed so.
00:43:38You're hard and greedy.
00:43:41Hard and greedy?
00:43:42Because I'm fighting to keep what I have for my family?
00:43:45I'll see them and...
00:43:46Pop!
00:43:47Why is Uncle Dad so mad?
00:43:49Is it because you're turning people off our place?
00:43:51Mm-hmm.
00:43:52We can't let them keep on stealing our cattle
00:43:54when we have none left.
00:43:55So we have to keep them out, don't we?
00:43:56You bet you, Pop.
00:43:57When I grow up, I'll help you fight them.
00:43:59Sure.
00:43:59Hushpacks, you mustn't talk like that.
00:44:01What do you want him to be, a mollycoddle?
00:44:03Ready to fight for what's his?
00:44:05I want him to know there are two ways of putting out a hand.
00:44:08In a shake or a slap.
00:44:10You get back a hand to court him.
00:44:11Howdy.
00:44:25I'd like to see Bryce, a tailor.
00:44:26Pax, it is a mighty good notion getting this breed.
00:44:32Certainly built to pack a lot of beef.
00:44:33Look, Dad.
00:44:34He's got a pillow on her neck.
00:44:36That's a brave of all, Pax.
00:44:38We'll cross him with our longhorns,
00:44:39and that'll give us a higher percentage of beef.
00:44:41Bryce and Taylor are sure getting highfalutin'
00:44:44building a castle like this.
00:44:45I wouldn't mind being in their boots.
00:44:47Well, you could be,
00:44:48if you pushed folks off the land the way they have.
00:44:51You tried to buy me out.
00:44:52But I sent them packing.
00:44:54I told Bryce he wasn't trampling on me.
00:44:58Crowder's got a lot of nerve coming here
00:45:00after running you two-hand.
00:45:01I wonder what he wants.
00:45:02I don't know.
00:45:03Howdy, boys.
00:45:04Hello, Crowder.
00:45:07Hello.
00:45:08We came to, uh...
00:45:11Well, Cabrima.
00:45:14Our Texas longhorns good enough for your outfit?
00:45:17We decided that improving our stock
00:45:19might encourage our neighbors to do likewise.
00:45:21Beating ranchers should set an example,
00:45:24or else how is the cattle industry in Texas gonna grow?
00:45:26It was growing before you were born,
00:45:29and it would be growing after you're gone.
00:45:31I'll shove it along while I'm here.
00:45:34My son will carry on where I leave off.
00:45:36I'm learning now, Mr. Crowder.
00:45:38I'm gonna be Pop's right-hand man.
00:45:40Well, how about getting down to business?
00:45:42This is Mr. McCabe.
00:45:43He represents the Great Southwest Railroad Company.
00:45:45How do you do, sir?
00:45:46Mr. Bryce and Mr. Taylor.
00:45:47Mr. Bryce?
00:45:48How do you do?
00:45:48Mr. McCabe has a deal for you.
00:45:50Well, it concerns every man here.
00:45:52Well, gentlemen, we might as well be comfortable.
00:45:59Sit down, gentlemen.
00:46:04Go ahead, Mr. McCabe.
00:46:07Well, gentlemen,
00:46:08our company proposes to build a line
00:46:10from Abilene to Riverwood,
00:46:12and we're obtaining rights of way.
00:46:14So far, everyone along the route
00:46:17has given us permission,
00:46:18but we must have yours
00:46:19to complete the final link.
00:46:21Sorry, Mr. McCabe,
00:46:22but for my part,
00:46:23no railroad is going through our property.
00:46:26Well, you can't think of yourself
00:46:28all the time, Bryce.
00:46:29This'll benefit the whole community.
00:46:32Make Riverwood a great cattle center.
00:46:34Maybe.
00:46:35And it'll also bring in
00:46:36a tidal wave of settlers.
00:46:38Before you know it,
00:46:38they'll be demanding roads,
00:46:40town sites.
00:46:41They'll cut up the land
00:46:42and the farms.
00:46:43We cattlemen
00:46:44will be crowded out.
00:46:44Hold on, Pax.
00:46:46Maybe we can get on
00:46:47without a railroad.
00:46:49But I claim
00:46:50some of the smaller outfits
00:46:51are entitled
00:46:51to make a decent profit, too.
00:46:53And they can
00:46:53by freighting their cattle to Abilene
00:46:55instead of driving them.
00:46:56You're right.
00:46:56You know the cattle industry
00:46:59needs range.
00:47:00Enormous range.
00:47:01And a railroad will kill it.
00:47:03I say it stays up.
00:47:05You've got your sights
00:47:06level on the wrong target, Pax.
00:47:09I guess there's nothing
00:47:10I can say that'll switch them.
00:47:11Mr. Bryce,
00:47:12don't you realize
00:47:13you're stopping development
00:47:14in this territory?
00:47:16McCabe,
00:47:17it's taken years
00:47:17to put this ranch together.
00:47:19Years of sweat,
00:47:20struggle and fight.
00:47:22I'm not letting
00:47:23your railroad tear it down.
00:47:26I'm sorry
00:47:28we can't get together.
00:47:30So am I.
00:47:31Goodbye.
00:47:32Bye.
00:47:39Mr. Crowder,
00:47:40looks like our deal's off.
00:47:42None of the land's
00:47:43any good to us
00:47:44without theirs.
00:47:45Well, they're riding
00:47:45high now,
00:47:46but they won't ride on
00:47:47forever.
00:47:51I was a-walkin'
00:47:52down Paradise Street.
00:47:55Hey, hey,
00:47:56blow the man down.
00:47:58A pretty young damsel
00:47:59that I chance to meet.
00:48:01Give me some time
00:48:02to blow the man down.
00:48:05Where did you get
00:48:06my pet van?
00:48:07I borrowed it
00:48:07to shoot the fly
00:48:08off the patch.
00:48:09She wrote a tale
00:48:10for that purpose.
00:48:11Not on her front end.
00:48:14You don't mind,
00:48:15do you, Mom?
00:48:15If anything should
00:48:16happen to it,
00:48:16I'll buy you another one.
00:48:18You could never
00:48:18replace it, darling.
00:48:20First present
00:48:21your father ever gave me.
00:48:22Oh, I'll be careful.
00:48:24I'll put it away
00:48:24as soon as we get home.
00:48:26A rabbit!
00:48:27Let's chase it!
00:48:37Bryce can drive
00:48:38off some of the
00:48:39smaller outfits,
00:48:40but he can't
00:48:40stop this drive.
00:48:41Not if we all
00:48:42stick together.
00:48:43Still in all,
00:48:44we'll be a trespassing.
00:48:45Well, how are we
00:48:46going to get
00:48:46a cow to market?
00:48:47Why, it'll take a week
00:48:48to circle their range?
00:48:50If we don't short cut,
00:48:51we have to cross the river
00:48:51and go down
00:48:52through the bayous.
00:48:53We can't drive
00:48:54steers through mud
00:48:55that has no bottom.
00:48:59Isaac Lenton
00:48:59tried to cut
00:49:00across dry creek.
00:49:01Bryce Taylor
00:49:02outfit shot
00:49:0240 of his steers.
00:49:04Creased him
00:49:04in the shoulder.
00:49:05Well, they're
00:49:05clamping down on us,
00:49:06just like they planned
00:49:07all along.
00:49:08They won't be satisfied
00:49:09until they starve
00:49:09every one of us out.
00:49:11No sidewinder's
00:49:11going to keep me
00:49:12from making a living.
00:49:13Me neither.
00:49:13Just let them
00:49:14try to stop us.
00:49:15Sorry, Mr. Crowder,
00:49:27but you can't cut
00:49:28across Bryce Taylor
00:49:28range anymore.
00:49:29Well, we've been
00:49:30doing it right along
00:49:31and we don't aim
00:49:31to change now.
00:49:32Mr. Bryce says
00:49:33different.
00:49:34Ford, you keep
00:49:34out of the way.
00:49:35We're coming through.
00:49:36Crowder, turn those cows.
00:49:37We don't want trouble.
00:49:38Son, you've got it.
00:49:45All right, bring them there.
00:50:10Take it away
00:50:11from the hail bank.
00:50:12Don't stop.
00:50:15You can't come on
00:50:16our place.
00:50:17My pops says no.
00:50:20Hello.
00:50:21Turn.
00:50:22Open the tunnel.
00:50:26The other way back.
00:50:28The other way.
00:50:33Stop.
00:50:35Turn.
00:50:36Stop.
00:50:37Stop.
00:51:07I tried to keep him out, Papa, like you said back on him.
00:51:37Oh, Dad.
00:52:07There's something I want to say, Pax.
00:52:11I've been doing a heap of calculations.
00:52:13Oh, not now, man.
00:52:14I can't think.
00:52:16I've been going crazy.
00:52:19I can't believe he's gone.
00:52:21I had so many plans for him.
00:52:24How's that?
00:52:26He hasn't talked to me in days.
00:52:27He's taken it pretty hard.
00:52:30A little swine.
00:52:32Never wish they had.
00:52:33You're not responsible.
00:52:34You are.
00:52:35You pinned them in a corner.
00:52:36I drove them into going against you.
00:52:38They didn't have to kill my son.
00:52:40I'll keep him on this place.
00:52:41I'll fence the whole ranch.
00:52:43I'll put a bullet in the first one that sets foot on it.
00:52:45And you'll do it alone.
00:52:48When we started this ranch, we wanted to make it something we'd be proud of.
00:52:52But you've turned it into a thing that wreaks some greed and depression.
00:52:57A thing that all decent people hold against.
00:53:00It's already cost the life of an innocent child.
00:53:03What's happened from the beginning?
00:53:04There'll be more killings, more bloodshed, and for what?
00:53:11So you can have a few more miles of range, a few more cows?
00:53:14I can't stomach your notions any longer.
00:53:16You've gone soft.
00:53:17Well, I won't stop until...
00:53:18Pack!
00:53:19You've done enough!
00:53:20Stay out of this, Abby.
00:53:21Now, I've had my craw full.
00:53:22I'm putting an end to this partnership.
00:53:24Good.
00:53:24I'll buy your interest.
00:53:25That suits me.
00:53:27Pack, listen.
00:53:28Hate and revenge will destroy you.
00:53:30It won't bring our son back.
00:53:32What kind of a mother are you?
00:53:34Do you want me to turn my other cheek?
00:53:36Well, I won't.
00:53:37That's not my way.
00:53:39Your way is to rule and trample with people.
00:53:44Grab for yourself at every turn.
00:53:46You taught it to Pack.
00:53:47Your very words, that he just...
00:53:49It's easy enough to blame me.
00:53:50But if I had it all to do over again, I'd still teach him to fight for what's his.
00:53:55You're blind and you'll stay blind.
00:53:58There's no place in your heart for love and understanding.
00:54:01I can't go on like that.
00:54:03That's up to you.
00:54:17I miss your spout, you big walrus.
00:54:19But Miss Abby will need me.
00:54:21Bye.
00:54:28Goodbye, Sally.
00:54:33You've been awfully kind to me.
00:54:35Thanks, ma'am.
00:54:36Things won't seem ship-shape around here without you.
00:54:41Bye.
00:54:47Abby.
00:54:55Still suddenly...
00:54:57I'm sorry, Pax.
00:55:00Terribly sorry.
00:55:01We had something fine and beautiful.
00:55:06It wasn't enough for you.
00:55:08Ready, Abby?
00:55:18I'll have the money for you as soon as possible.
00:55:20Whenever is convenient.
00:55:22We'll be in Riverford.
00:55:24Bye, Abby.
00:55:27Bye.
00:55:27Bye.
00:55:27Bye.
00:55:31Mr. Pricey, Mr. Saylor, we told me to give you this.
00:55:56You run out of me, too.
00:55:58I ain't running out on you, Mr. Pricey.
00:56:05Yes, sir, you betcha.
00:56:06I tore right into them pirates.
00:56:09I cracked them on their skulls so hard I busted all their toes.
00:56:12Bravo, bravo, brother of me.
00:56:15Honour to meet you.
00:56:16Two honours to meet you.
00:56:17Sure.
00:56:17Why don't you stay here, Luciana, and come to work with me at the Rancho Opetila?
00:56:24No.
00:56:24We're going back to the sea.
00:56:26I hate ranchers.
00:56:27They change people.
00:56:29Makes them forget to be human.
00:56:31But my boss is almost human.
00:56:33He pays well.
00:56:34He got so many cows.
00:56:36You can hardly see the grass.
00:56:38We find them in Texas by the quantities.
00:56:41I don't care where you found them.
00:56:44From now on, cows is only stakes to me.
00:56:47All right, have it to work.
00:56:48But honour me by meeting my boss.
00:56:51He like to meet men with cottage like you.
00:56:54All right, we'll buy him a drink.
00:56:56All right, and we'll drink it, and we don't care.
00:56:58Sure.
00:56:58All right.
00:56:58All right, one, four, seven, three, four.
00:57:26Fourteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-four.
00:57:28Check.
00:57:29Mm-hmm.
00:57:31As I can figure, Dan's share comes close to a half million dollars.
00:57:34We raise that much cash, that leaves us with a mighty small herd.
00:57:40Hi, Skipper!
00:57:41What are you doing here?
00:57:42You're supposed to be halfway to the go.
00:57:44I was, but I ain't.
00:57:46I don't want no shore leave when there's some fighting to do.
00:57:49You're drunk.
00:57:51But just the same eyes and ears, eh?
00:57:53I found out where your cow's been going to.
00:57:56Yeah?
00:57:57Where?
00:57:57Mr. Beauchard Shanghai'd him.
00:58:00Beauchard?
00:58:00Now I know you're drunk.
00:58:03Sure.
00:58:04But just the same, I saw him just as plain as haptuous light in a cavern across the river.
00:58:09Where you been all this time?
00:58:12Where you been all this time?
00:58:13Shh, shh.
00:58:41Shh.
00:58:47A neat job of working these brands over.
00:58:51Looks like they're all wearing them.
00:58:53Signed up a couple of them. We'll take them along for evidence.
00:59:00One beller out of you, and I'll tie your tongue to your tail.
00:59:05What an evening we have. Now we can dream of our sweetheart.
00:59:15What an evening we have. Now we can dream of our sweetheart.
00:59:25Well, if it is not my old friend. Why don't you let me know you was coming? I stay home to welcome you.
00:59:31I didn't want to put you to any trouble.
00:59:33Besides, this isn't a social call, Boschard.
00:59:37In the last seven years, you've stolen 10,000 of my cattle.
00:59:39A normal increase would have raised that to about 50,000.
00:59:43That makes you owe me plenty of hard cash.
00:59:45It's what I will take my share of our partnership.
00:59:49And I keep it.
00:59:51I have men both loyal and brave, and they will not let you take my cows from my ranch.
00:59:55There's more than one way of collecting that debt.
00:59:59If you kill me, men will shoot you before you can go in mine.
01:00:01Oh.
01:00:02What you gain, eh?
01:00:04This is right.
01:00:06I hadn't thought about that.
01:00:08I have money.
01:00:09You have money.
01:00:10You got money.
01:00:11I have money.
01:00:12You have money.
01:00:13You have money.
01:00:14What are you doing?
01:00:15You're money.
01:00:16You have money.
01:00:17You have money.
01:00:18I have money.
01:00:20You have money.
01:00:21I have money.
01:00:24I hadn't thought about that.
01:00:26But what can you do about this?
01:00:37Dominic Bouchard, you've been found guilty of the charge of cattle stealing.
01:00:41The sentence of this court is that you be confined for the term of from two to five years.
01:00:45That's just a vacation.
01:00:47Well, if I skipper in this here show, I'd stake him out on a yardage.
01:00:51Shh. Mr. Brice, I understand you have filed suit in the Louisiana courts for the value of your stolen cattle.
01:00:58In view of this verdict, you should get your money quickly.
01:01:04It's bad to lose the money, but it's better to save the neck.
01:01:07You're lucky they only tried you for stealing cattle.
01:01:11You've no cause to grin. Stand up.
01:01:15I'm not through with you yet.
01:01:17There's another matter.
01:01:18Bouchard, you've been a thorn in the side of law and order in Texas for over ten years.
01:01:25But the law always catches up with killers like you.
01:01:28For your raid on Clarksville, where you were responsible for the death of poor persons,
01:01:32and on Melford, which you burned to the ground at the cost of more lives,
01:01:36for your attack on half a dozen ranches,
01:01:38the order of this court is that you be remanded to the custody of the sheriff
01:01:42to stand trial for murder.
01:01:45Court dismissed.
01:01:46Thanks for everything, Bouchard.
01:01:55It is too soon for thanks, monsieur.
01:01:57I promise you.
01:01:57You're very foxy.
01:02:11Foxy, yeah, but look, I am in here.
01:02:15That's a good one.
01:02:16That sure is a good one.
01:02:17What do you want?
01:02:28I have fresh clothes for monsieur Bouchard.
01:02:30All right, come in.
01:02:33Let's have a look at them.
01:02:34Oh, oui.
01:02:35Oh, they are just handkerchiefs, socks, and the robe.
01:02:38Oh, that will keep him warm.
01:02:41Oh, the cord.
01:02:47Oh, well, to tie around the middle to keep out the cold air, huh?
01:02:51All right, let him have it.
01:02:58Yes, sir.
01:02:59Well, you are keeping away so many days.
01:03:13This time I am a fox, eh?
01:03:15Bonsoir, monsieur.
01:03:23Hey, so why you are keeping away so many days?
01:03:25The police come to the ranch. We have to hide in the hills.
01:03:27And they have taken all the gold
01:03:29and put in the bank at the Riviera for it.
01:03:31Oh, that is most convenient.
01:03:33Hey, please.
01:03:36Well, we'll be rolling east in about ten minutes.
01:03:38I suppose we'll ever get used to living there again, after all this.
01:03:41Oh, sure, we will. Then it'll be better.
01:03:47Barb Weyer,
01:03:49and signed to the Bryce Taylor Ranch,
01:03:51confound Pax's hide. He's just begging for trouble.
01:03:53Oh, Dan, he's so wrong.
01:03:55And the terrible part is he believes he's right.
01:03:59Now, will you agree that we've got to clip Bryce's wings?
01:04:02That's the cruelest contraption ever invented.
01:04:05And he's using it to fence his whole range.
01:04:07He started coming in last night, and they've carted most of it away.
01:04:10They called it barbed wire.
01:04:12Look at them barbed wire.
01:04:13It'll tear the cattle to pieces.
01:04:14We've got to drive them out of the country before he puts up a foot of them.
01:04:17Well, he's like jimson weed.
01:04:18He's choking us to death.
01:04:20I'm for making a necktie, soldier.
01:04:21Now you're talking.
01:04:22We'll all meet tonight at Mesquite Flats,
01:04:25past the wood with the rest of the men,
01:04:27and get to every man in River Hood.
01:04:29Let's go.
01:04:30Let's go down here.
01:04:31Let's keep them.
01:04:32We've got to get a hold of them.
01:04:33We've got to get a hold of them.
01:04:34Dan will have to warn him.
01:04:35They'll kill him.
01:04:36I thought I'd stop loving him.
01:04:39But I haven't.
01:04:41When it comes to Pax, changing our minds is a tailor habit.
01:04:44I'll write out.
01:04:45You and Ruddy stay here at the hotel when this thing blows over.
01:04:50And they won't rest until you're swinging from a limb, Pax.
01:04:53Now, come on.
01:04:54Give up the idea of using barbed wire.
01:04:56I run this ranch as I see fit.
01:04:58No mob is going to dictate to me when I'm in the right.
01:05:01You're no more in the right than you were when you accused them of rustling.
01:05:04Now, admit it.
01:05:05I'm pulling your horns.
01:05:07Dan, my son died keeping them off this place.
01:05:10And as long as I live, they're going to stay off.
01:05:12If I have to turn Texas upside down.
01:05:15They'll pull this house apart brick by brick and...
01:05:18What do you care?
01:05:19It's not your property.
01:05:20You got your check.
01:05:21Now, go on before they show up.
01:05:24All right.
01:05:26I'll go.
01:05:28For 15 years I've been sticking my neck out beside yours.
01:05:32Now I'm through.
01:05:40Ruddy, where have you been?
01:05:41Dan hasn't come back yet and I'm worried.
01:05:43I'm going to the ranch.
01:05:44You can bet I'll get you out of here.
01:05:45Riverford ain't going to be healthy.
01:05:47Why, what's happening?
01:05:48Well, nothing yet.
01:05:49I was down by the river and heard two Frenchy boatmen yammering.
01:05:52Beauchard and his pack of scuttlers are coming in from La Cumbria.
01:05:55And they're going to sack the town.
01:05:56There's nobody here to stop them.
01:05:58Proud or any men?
01:05:59I know all about it, Cal.
01:06:00Ruddy and I will try to stop them at the flat.
01:06:02We'll get all the women and children together and put them in the schoolhouse.
01:06:05Well, it looks like every man in town turned out.
01:06:08All right, men.
01:06:09Out the horses.
01:06:10Get your rivals from Mr. Rice on the porch.
01:06:22Your ammunition's there too.
01:06:26You got an extra six-shooter for me?
01:06:38I was hoping you'd come back.
01:06:40The fight wouldn't seem natural without the two of us, did it?
01:06:42Oh, that's the way I figured.
01:06:52They may have left the flats by now.
01:06:53You go on after them and I'll short cut to the ranch and get help.
01:06:55Aye, aye, Skipper.
01:06:56Hey.
01:06:57That's a half cent.
01:06:58Every man in town is gone.
01:06:59Only the old ones stayed there.
01:07:00Well, certainly.
01:07:01Those ranchers, they make Mr. Price pay for his sins.
01:07:02And while they do, Dominique Bouchard will collect.
01:07:04Hello!
01:07:05Malte!
01:07:06Hello!
01:07:07Malte!
01:07:08Rematch!
01:07:09Remember!
01:07:10The ranchers in the valley belong to you.
01:07:11And I give you the town also.
01:07:13But not the bank.
01:07:14They belong to me.
01:07:15Hello!
01:07:16Hello!
01:07:17Malte!
01:07:18Malte!
01:07:19Malte!
01:07:20Malte!
01:07:21Malte!
01:07:22Malte!
01:07:23Malte!
01:07:24Malte!
01:07:25Malte!
01:07:26Malte!
01:07:27Malte!
01:07:28You know, the ranches in the valley belong to you, and I give you the town also, but not the bank, you let belong to me. Hello!
01:07:48Hey Skipper, it's Miss Abbey, all over the gate, cover them up!
01:07:58I thought I told you to stay in town until this thing blows over.
01:08:01Well, she's out like cumbers. He's got hundreds of men. He's gonna attack Riverford.
01:08:04Well, let him attack.
01:08:06But Pax, he'll wipe out the entire valley. Those women and children...
01:08:09Let their men take care of them instead of using their mob rule on me.
01:08:12Well, Ronnie's gone after them, but I'm afraid he won't reach them in time.
01:08:15You can't let those women and children suffer, Pax. Your fight's not with them.
01:08:19She's right, Pax. Why should I worry about their families?
01:08:22They didn't worry about mine. Even so, we'd have to help them.
01:08:25While we ride to the rescue, that pack of wolves tears my ranch apart.
01:08:29Oh, no. Pax Junior paid a big price for this place.
01:08:33I'm not letting it go for a noble gesture.
01:08:37It won't make it easier on you to bring agony on others.
01:08:41In spite of what those men have done.
01:08:43They love their families as much as we love Pax.
01:08:49Would you want them to go through what we have?
01:08:51No. I wouldn't.
01:08:55Give it home to the old ranch house with Willie Mae.
01:09:09You'll be safe for there.
01:09:11Well, Dan.
01:09:17I guess this is the end of our empire.
01:09:20Sure.
01:09:22But I've got a notion you're starting to build something better.
01:09:29Sailorway!
01:09:30Boy!
01:09:31All you men, get your horses!
01:09:33By the way, I'm sure I've got a shot number.
01:09:38But for where he is, we'll have to go through bottleneck fast.
01:09:40We're a lot closer to him that he is.
01:09:42I've got a hunch we can even up the odds.
01:09:43Y'all ready, men?
01:09:44Yes!
01:09:46Come on, keep working.
01:10:12Make those anchor posts good and solid, men.
01:10:14If that firetrap doesn't hold them, this is barricade shut.
01:10:22The horse will brush over here.
01:10:28Hey! Hey!
01:10:31You fellas better pan it back to town, because Bouchard's gonna pounce on it.
01:10:34Well, you hold your shirt, Taylor. He's up in jail in Sabine.
01:10:37Taylor told me so himself.
01:10:39Well, this rabbit is just one of Bryce's men. It's a trick to stall her.
01:10:42It is not a trick. I tell you, Bouchard is head in heaven.
01:10:45You go back and tell your boss we're not giving him time to get set for us.
01:10:51Oh, listen, fellas!
01:10:53Hey, Crowder, wait!
01:10:55Have the men lay low and wait for the signal.
01:10:57All right, Red. Get down!
01:11:06All right, Red. Get down!
01:11:07All right, Red. Get down!
01:11:08All right, Red. Get down!
01:11:09I wanna spoil everything.
01:11:12I don't want to spoil everything, then they start coming back out.
01:11:42Come on, Ford.
01:11:51Start plugging that gap.
01:11:57Light up, Bill.
01:12:08What kind of trick is this?
01:12:19Yeah.
01:12:20It's not good to play with fire.
01:12:21We go back.
01:12:22We take the other way to the barn.
01:12:23Hold up!
01:12:24Hold fast!
01:12:25All right.
01:12:37Let him go.
01:12:38Up to it.
01:12:40Let him go.
01:12:57Captain Frank, keep this gap raising.
01:13:03Let's go, come with me.
01:13:06Come with me.
01:13:08Captain Frank, keep this gap raising.
01:13:12Come with me.
01:13:17Come with me.
01:13:20Come with me.
01:13:22Come with me.
01:13:24Come with me.
01:13:27We got nothing.
01:13:28When we get out, follow me.
01:13:38Get ready, men.
01:13:48I feel they start up the slope.
01:13:54Yes.
01:13:55Get ready.
01:14:08There we go.
01:14:09Come with me.
01:14:10Okay.
01:14:11Now, will you believe me?
01:14:35There ain't dogs barking.
01:14:36Sound bug is coming from the bottleneck.
01:14:38Well, maybe Price sent some of its men to draw us off.
01:14:41That fire is too heavy.
01:14:43Price hasn't got that good enough.
01:14:44I'm taking a look.
01:14:46Hey, we'd better all take a look, huh?
01:14:48Come on.
01:14:49Hey!
01:15:11Hey, tell Ronnie about that one, will you?
01:15:20Make it go for it!
01:15:41Hit!
01:15:42Hit!
01:15:59Put the men down, Packs.
01:16:02There come the rocks!
01:16:03Look at the rocks!
01:16:21You're supposed to know.
01:16:23Tactus fire, huh?
01:16:25Well, huh?
01:16:33Hey, there, check it out.
01:16:41Unh!
01:16:55I can't wait.
01:16:59Why do I go to pelouse is iron?
01:17:01Pull up those ropes!
01:17:06Pull! Pull the ropes!
01:17:08Pull those ropes!
01:17:09Allez! Allez!
01:17:14Get her!
01:17:16Pull! Pull the ropes!
01:17:31Pull!
01:17:53Better play our ace, Pat.
01:17:54Sure, Skipper. Let's give it to him.
01:17:55Go ahead.
01:18:01Let's go.
01:18:02Let's
01:18:31That blast ought to stop them.
01:19:01Hold it, men!
01:19:27Round them up!
01:19:31What does that mean?
01:19:37He ain't sunk, but he sure did you for dry, Doc.
01:19:39Bryce, from now on you can string as much of that barbed wire as you want, and I'm going
01:19:45to help you.
01:19:46You fellas saved our families, and we won't forget it.
01:19:50I guess we've both been wrong, Trotter.
01:19:53I can't stop all their roads any more than you can stop fenced in ranges.
01:19:58They're both here to stay because you both mean progress.
01:20:03Texas isn't.
01:20:05Dan, you better finish.
01:20:08Well, Pax means if we all pull together, we can make this the finest state and union.
01:20:13The cattle center of the country.
01:20:15So we're letting the railroad through.
01:20:18When we put up our fences, we're going to leave.
01:20:20I need to engage for our neighbors.
01:20:22Give me them pills, you big bunch of barnacle.
01:20:32You ain't giving these to the skipper, you little sand crab.
01:20:35Let go or I'll flatten you like a flounder.
01:20:37But the catalog says they're good for man or beast.
01:20:39Yeah, sure.
01:20:40I swallowed one this morning.
01:20:41My teeth still rattling.
01:20:42I don't dare give them to me.
01:20:43No.
01:20:44Give me a pill.
01:20:50Here's the bottle.
01:20:52Eat one pill, it'll make you tie a knot in an octopus.
01:20:55Eat them yourself.
01:20:56Here's all the medicine I'll ever need.
01:20:58Oh my God.
01:20:59Take it.
01:21:04There, him.
01:21:13Get me!
01:21:15Chao.
01:21:17Closetis.
01:21:18Closetis.