Target: The President is a gripping 1954 film noir thriller that unfolds in a quiet American town turned into a battleground. When ruthless assassins plan to kill the President during a scheduled stop, a local family is caught in a tense hostage situation. With time ticking and danger lurking, suspense builds in this powerful tale of courage, fear, and sudden violence.
This public domain classic stars Frank Sinatra in one of his most chilling roles, delivering intense drama and edge-of-your-seat tension.
This public domain classic stars Frank Sinatra in one of his most chilling roles, delivering intense drama and edge-of-your-seat tension.
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00:00:00officer can you tell me the way to three rivers about two miles to the first main intersection
00:00:15then turn left it's about 60 miles thanks what town is this suddenly suddenly what no no that's
00:00:23the name it's a funny name for a town uh-huh hangover from the old days that's the way things
00:00:29used to happen here suddenly i see road agents gamblers gunfighters well i think it things have
00:00:36changed uh-huh things happen so slow now the town council is figuring to change the name to
00:00:41gradually thanks officer pleasure come back
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00:01:48hello there pitch hi todd where's your mother we've been shopping i gotta put this up in the
00:02:12carl wanna come yeah sure
00:02:18todd uh-huh well no i guess not she wouldn't let me who's she mom of course well and you better say
00:02:29mom page it's kind of not polite to say she like that especially about your mother well anyway she
00:02:34wouldn't
00:02:36you know i bet i can guess what's on your mind bet you can well now let's see you want an ice cream
00:02:43soda not a bad idea but that's not it you want to go to the movies no it's a war picture mama
00:02:49let me see war pictures boy oh boy this is tougher than i thought i got it you want that baseball bat
00:02:58no but you're awful warm
00:03:03is that it sure that's it ain't it a beauty but shucks it's no use mom wouldn't let me have it
00:03:11she doesn't like guns i know it's because of my father being killed in the war
00:03:17look pitch if you have the gun what would you do with it stick up a filling station stick up a filling
00:03:22station heck no i'm a sheriff and i catch all those road agents and cattle rustlers just like you
00:03:27but what about mom well i think we can talk her into it what would you want her to be a peace
00:03:33officer and all we got lots of time mom's still in the market getting groceries let's go
00:03:49i'll help i've got it oh thanks todd hello hi can i give you a lift up the house thanks
00:04:03anyway but i have the car with me going to church tomorrow yes i'll pick you up about a quarter to
00:04:08eleven huh you never give up do you ellen i know how you feel believe me i do and i've tried to
00:04:15understand but i haven't asked you to understand that's because i'm in love with you todd you
00:04:23you shouldn't say that to me why not it's true don't todd
00:04:30ellen you can't go on being a widow forever it's been over three years since pete died
00:04:35don't you understand no one can take pete's place i'm not trying to take pete's place i'm
00:04:40trying to make a place of my own you've been wonderful todd and and i'm grateful really i
00:04:45am but i can't help how i feel ellen you've got to stop doing this to yourself because you're doing
00:04:53it to pitch too as well as to me you're digging a big black pit and shoving all of us down into it
00:04:58leave me alone todd please
00:04:59i can't help it todd you know i can't stand seeing him play with a gun but the boys gotta
00:05:20learn sometime the guns aren't necessarily bad depends on who uses them todd carries one doesn't
00:05:25any yes well then just take it off pitch ah gee
00:05:34that's three dollars please
00:05:38thank you
00:05:41ellen
00:05:44i know you don't want the boy to see war pictures but it seems teaching children the art of death and
00:05:48destruction the cruelties the tortures he's got to know that these things exist then he can fight
00:05:53against them when it's his turn you can't wrap the boy in cellophane i can try as long as possible
00:06:00look when a house is on fire everybody has to help put it out because the next time it might be your house
00:06:05church tomorrow ellen no todd i can't go with you well i can't go on asking you and been turned down
00:06:24in the meantime
00:06:35Bebop, going over to Tilly's for a cup of java.
00:06:55You can handle things.
00:06:56It's a quiet day.
00:06:57It's been a quiet day in this bird for the last 50 years.
00:07:04You?
00:07:05Good night, Sheriff.
00:07:16What's the word?
00:07:17Get out of here.
00:07:17Get the sheriff.
00:07:18Tell him to get over here fast.
00:07:19It's an emergency.
00:07:31Hey, take it easy, Pappy.
00:07:3225-mile speed limit.
00:07:33Where's the sheriff?
00:07:34Try the office.
00:07:36Hey, what's the...
00:07:37Where's Todd?
00:07:39Catch your breath.
00:07:40It's an emergency.
00:07:41Ed Hawkins has got to see him right away.
00:07:43What happened?
00:07:43I don't know.
00:07:44Something came over the wire.
00:07:46Ed wouldn't even show me.
00:07:47Yeah, that's funny.
00:07:48Well, there's Todd now.
00:07:49Oh, there you go.
00:08:14Yeah.
00:08:15Hello, Ed.
00:08:35Thanks.
00:08:35Get out of here.
00:08:36Well, wait a second.
00:08:37I want to know what it's about.
00:08:38It's top secret.
00:08:39Get out of here.
00:08:40For Pete's sake, Ed.
00:08:41I run my pants off.
00:08:42Look.
00:08:43Ah, shucks.
00:08:45What the word?
00:08:48Listen to this.
00:08:49I haven't finished typing it yet.
00:08:50Sheriff Todd Shaw, Suddenly California, Confidential Code Hangover.
00:08:56Special train number 1019 carrying the President of the United States will arrive suddenly
00:09:025 p.m. today.
00:09:03President will detrain and drive to White Springs Ranch.
00:09:06We'll require adequate transportation.
00:09:09Appreciate cooperation.
00:09:11Your staff with Secret Service Operatives arriving 1-15, Connie, Acting Chief, U.S. Secret Service.
00:09:18No mistakes, huh?
00:09:20Only in typing.
00:09:225 p.m.
00:09:26Now, can I use your phone?
00:09:27Of self.
00:09:29Give me State Police Headquarters at Weatherby.
00:09:31What's that code word again?
00:09:33Hangover.
00:09:34Hangover.
00:09:34Hangover.
00:09:36Hello.
00:09:37This is Todd Shaw down to Suddenly.
00:09:39I want to speak to Captain Aaron.
00:09:41There's number 20.
00:09:42The 66 crossing.
00:09:44Hello, Captain Aaron.
00:09:45It's Todd Shaw.
00:09:46Say, look.
00:09:47I've got a message here.
00:09:48The code word is Hangover.
00:09:50Now, I'm going to need five of your cars, two men to a car, and one Thompson gun to each car, and you...
00:09:55Oh, you did, huh?
00:09:59Swell.
00:10:00Right.
00:10:00Thanks.
00:10:02They got the same message there and says the show on the road already.
00:10:05Gee, those state cops don't fool around, do they?
00:10:07No, they don't.
00:10:09Say, uh, you didn't spill us, did you?
00:10:11It says confidential.
00:10:14Let's just keep it that way.
00:10:15I'll run over to Kaplan's garage.
00:10:16I'll be back in a minute.
00:10:17Yeah.
00:10:18Hello, Sheriff.
00:10:28I'll be right with you.
00:10:29That's not soon enough, Iz.
00:10:31So?
00:10:32I want the big black Cadillac at 4.30.
00:10:34The limousine?
00:10:34Yeah.
00:10:35Park it at the station.
00:10:36Backed in.
00:10:37Somebody getting married?
00:10:38Like the Sheriff?
00:10:39Don't be funny.
00:10:40This is police business.
00:10:41Don't tell anyone.
00:10:42I don't get it.
00:10:43You're not supposed to.
00:10:444.30, yeah?
00:10:45No slip-ups.
00:10:48No slip-ups.
00:11:11No slip-ups.
00:11:16Mr. Kearney, that's right. My name's Shaw. Get my message? What message? Hangover. May I see your credentials?
00:11:30Mrs. Wilson. Hi. Haggerty. Shultz and Kelly. Glad to make your acquaintance. Yeah, I get your message.
00:11:39You're a careful man, Sheriff. Not always. This seemed like a good time to be, though.
00:11:43We always have to be. May I see your credentials?
00:11:48I, uh... I've got a limousine ordered for 4.30. It'll be parked right here.
00:11:54Good. State police have five cars on the road from Weatherby.
00:11:57Excellent. I guess that's about it. Not quite.
00:12:01You can still be of help to us.
00:12:06We'll have to check all of those stores facing the station.
00:12:09Mr. Kearney, I know every proprietor in this town. You can take my word for...
00:12:12I can't take your word for anything.
00:12:14I'm sure they're okay. Just routine. All right, boys.
00:12:20We'll park a limousine between the tracks when the special arrives.
00:12:24Pretty rough in there.
00:12:25Maybe. Easier to cover.
00:12:28All state police cars and go in there, too.
00:12:30All right.
00:12:30Oh, uh...
00:12:32Who lives up there on the hill?
00:12:35Pop Benson. His grandson and his daughter-in-law.
00:12:38We'll check it.
00:12:39Oh, Mr. Kearney, if there's one place in this town doesn't need checking, it's that one.
00:12:44Pop Benson used to be in the Secret Service himself, for a bad ticket, retired him.
00:12:49Pop Benson?
00:12:50You don't mean Peter Benson.
00:12:51That's right.
00:12:53Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle.
00:12:56What do you mean?
00:12:57Oh, Pete Benson used to be my old boss.
00:13:01No.
00:13:02How do you like that, huh?
00:13:03Therefore, Mr. Shaw, he'll be the last one in the world to object.
00:13:07Pete Benson, for heaven's sake.
00:13:09Probably a rectifier.
00:13:17Probably a tube.
00:13:18Would you please call Judd and have him come up and fix that thing before you wreck it?
00:13:22Wreck it? Wreck it?
00:13:23Look, I'll have you understand.
00:13:25I built a television transmitter in 38 before you even knew what television was.
00:13:29Yes, but did it work?
00:13:30I don't know.
00:13:31I never did get to finish the receiver.
00:13:33Well, this is a receiver, and I do wish you'd call Judd.
00:13:35I don't want to bother Judd. Besides, it's time and a half on Saturday.
00:13:38Well, that'll be cheaper than what it'll cost when you get through diddling with it.
00:13:41Oh, now, Ellen, stop taking it out on me just because you and Todd had a fight.
00:13:47You haven't touched your cake.
00:13:49Don't want it.
00:13:51Pete, darling, I made it especially for you.
00:13:53You made it because you wouldn't let me wear my gun.
00:13:56Drink your milk, darling.
00:13:58Sissy.
00:13:59What?
00:14:00That's what the guys call me.
00:14:02Well, I don't care what they call you.
00:14:04I know I'm your mother, and I think I know what's best for you.
00:14:09Pidge.
00:14:12Pidge, you shouldn't walk out when I'm talking to you.
00:14:15I thought you were finished.
00:14:16Well, the boy's just disappointed, that's all, Ellen.
00:14:19Dad, please stop interfering.
00:14:23First, you cancel him out on the hike with Cub Scouse.
00:14:25And the next thing...
00:14:26Pidge, go to your room.
00:14:28I'll have this old set pregnant in a minute, son.
00:14:30You and me will watch the ball game.
00:14:31Dad, I've had this for the last time.
00:14:36Ellen, you're a grown-up girl.
00:14:37You've got a problem you haven't worked out.
00:14:40That's no reason why Pidge would have your problem.
00:14:43I've only done what I thought was right, Dad.
00:14:46I read about an experiment once.
00:14:49Kept germs away from a kid.
00:14:51Raised him pure and scientifically.
00:14:53First time he got out on the rough, he caught cold and died of pneumonia.
00:14:56What does that have to do with Pidge?
00:14:58The kid hadn't been exposed.
00:14:59He had no immunity.
00:15:01There's cruelty and hatred and tyranny in the world.
00:15:03You can't make believe they aren't there.
00:15:05And Pidge has got to learn what is the law and what isn't the law so he can defend it.
00:15:09Defend it?
00:15:10So he can become a soldier and go out and be murdered like his father was?
00:15:16My son was killed in the performance of his duty, Ellen.
00:15:19Duty?
00:15:19Being blown to bits on some god-forsaken battlefield thousands of miles from where he was born.
00:15:25You call that duty?
00:15:26Yes, Ellen.
00:15:27Well, is that what you'd like for Pidge?
00:15:29Would that make you happy?
00:15:31Pete could hear you now.
00:15:32I think he'd be ashamed of you.
00:15:36How can you say a terrible thing like that?
00:15:40When the old boys wrote those words, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
00:15:44they sounded mighty nice.
00:15:46But they wouldn't have been worth a plug nickel if somebody hadn't made them stick.
00:15:49Grandpa! Grandpa! Grandpa!
00:15:54The window! Look out the window!
00:15:55Golly!
00:15:56What is it?
00:15:57Coming down the mountain from Weatherby.
00:15:59A whole raft of state troopers.
00:16:01See them?
00:16:17She'll cut it fine.
00:16:18You couldn't possibly be surprised with all those sirens blasting.
00:16:22I try to beat them.
00:16:24State troopers.
00:16:25Right on time.
00:16:27Yeah, they're good.
00:16:28The best.
00:16:29All right, Bob.
00:16:29I follow them in.
00:16:30Okay.
00:16:30Well, there are two routes to the White Springs Ranch.
00:16:35You can go over the mountains here, or you can drop down to the main highway, go on into three rivers, and the ranch is about 20 miles farther on.
00:16:42We'll stick to the main highway.
00:16:44Too much chance of an ambush in those mountains.
00:16:47Yes, Agherty?
00:16:47I mean, here's a roof watch in those stores, Chief, beside the street check.
00:16:50Look, Mr. Kearney, every proprietor in this town has been here at least five years. I know them, I know their kids.
00:16:56Oh, it isn't that, Sheriff.
00:16:58It's the stranger that might use one of those stores for cover.
00:17:02I'd like them to lock up at ten minutes to five.
00:17:04Stay locked up until ten minutes after five.
00:17:06Oh, and put a man on the roof, too.
00:17:08All right, Bert, give them the word.
00:17:10No one, including the proprietors.
00:17:13Better remain in those stores in locking time.
00:17:15Anyone seen inside after ten minutes to five might be shot on sight.
00:17:19Like the man says, it's important.
00:17:22Yes, sir.
00:17:23Tell Wilson to keep the station clear.
00:17:25Schultz will take over troopers and block off traffic approaches with 4.30 on.
00:17:29Right.
00:17:29Now, there's another hazard, sir.
00:17:31A house up in the hill.
00:17:33Yeah, I know.
00:17:34I'll check that one myself.
00:17:36Yes, sir.
00:17:39Todd, what the Hades is going on in this berth?
00:17:42Did some galoot make a uranium strike?
00:17:45No, not exactly.
00:17:46Now, look, Slim, you take over here, and I'll catch up with you later.
00:17:50From 4.30 on, I want all pedestrian traffic kept off Main Street between Oak and Alder.
00:17:55The state boys will help you.
00:17:56If anybody in town squawks, why, you smooth things over.
00:17:59They know you, and this is all going to seem a little strange to them.
00:18:02I'm confused myself.
00:18:03Never have seen so many cops.
00:18:05What goes on?
00:18:07Ah, this is Mr. Carney, special agent of the Treasury Department.
00:18:10Secret Service.
00:18:11Carney?
00:18:12Slim Adams, one of my deputies.
00:18:14How do you do?
00:18:15Secret Service?
00:18:17I get it.
00:18:18They're shipping the national debt through here in gold bars.
00:18:20Just don't worry about it.
00:18:23You'll find out later.
00:18:24All right, come on.
00:18:26Let's go and check that car you hired.
00:18:27Dad, I got them.
00:18:29Got them off.
00:18:32Now, hello, Bill.
00:18:33You better put that gun away before your mom sees it.
00:18:35You, Tanya, hide.
00:18:48Dad, I do wish you'd call Judd and let him come up and fix that.
00:18:57Shucks, Ellen.
00:18:58I knew Ohm's law before they even passed it.
00:19:00Well, I don't want Pitch to miss the ball game after missing the movie and everything.
00:19:04All right, boy.
00:19:05Come on, get ready to plug this set in while I hold this screw down.
00:19:08We'll see what happens.
00:19:09Okay.
00:19:11Dad, are you sure you know what you're doing?
00:19:12Ellen, please.
00:19:13I know, but it says on the back of that that there are 5,000 volts, and that's dangerous.
00:19:17Ellen, will you please stop being a woman?
00:19:23Ready, boy?
00:19:23Plug in.
00:19:28Dad, Dad, are you all right?
00:19:30Well, I guess I'm all right.
00:19:32It's because you scared the pants off me, that's all.
00:19:34Golly, look at this.
00:19:35I guess maybe you'd better call Judd, huh?
00:19:37Oh, honestly.
00:19:39That was a close call, boy.
00:19:42How much is 5,000 volts?
00:19:44Enough.
00:19:45To kill you?
00:19:45Well, it'll probably pick you up and toss you across the room.
00:19:49That is, unless you were standing in a puddle of water, and then you'd be grounded.
00:19:52And if you were grounded, it'd kill you a deader in a doornail.
00:19:54Well, it hurt.
00:19:55Like blazers.
00:19:57You stay away from that set now.
00:19:58And stay away from those wall plugs.
00:20:00Don't monkey with electricity unless you know what you're doing.
00:20:03Why did you, Grandpa?
00:20:06You got me there, boy.
00:20:08I'll get it.
00:20:10Judd says he'll be up in a little while.
00:20:12I'm sorry.
00:20:12I'm sorry.
00:20:14Honestly.
00:20:17Yes?
00:20:17Mrs. Benson?
00:20:18That's right.
00:20:19Is your husband at home?
00:20:20My husband?
00:20:22No, I'm a widow.
00:20:23What I should have asked was, are you the owner of this house?
00:20:26No, I'm not.
00:20:27It belongs to my father-in-law.
00:20:28What is it you want?
00:20:29I'm John Barron, special agent.
00:20:31Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:20:33These are my men.
00:20:35Do you suppose I could have a few words with Mr. Benson?
00:20:38Well, just a moment.
00:20:39Won't you come in?
00:20:40Dad?
00:20:43Oh, how are you, gents?
00:20:44John Barron, special agent.
00:20:47For heaven's sake, FBI.
00:20:49May we come in?
00:20:50Why, sure, sure.
00:20:52Come right in.
00:20:53Come right in.
00:20:53Make yourself at home.
00:20:54Thanks.
00:20:55Not at all.
00:20:55I get quite a kick out of this.
00:20:57Used to be with the Treasury Department myself.
00:20:58Really?
00:20:59Back in the old days.
00:21:01Collective internal revenue, eh?
00:21:02Tax collector, not on your life.
00:21:03Secret service.
00:21:05You don't say.
00:21:06Grandpa was President Coolidge's bodyguard.
00:21:08You don't say.
00:21:09Yep.
00:21:10Back in 1928.
00:21:11Youngest retirement in the service.
00:21:13Con of my heart.
00:21:14Not heart.
00:21:14Trouble, you understand.
00:21:15An accident on one of Cal's fishing trips.
00:21:17A hunter.
00:21:19Got the slug right here.
00:21:20Say, that's a nasty one.
00:21:22How come you're still alive?
00:21:24I don't know.
00:21:25Lodged in my heart.
00:21:25I took it out.
00:21:26Had to take it easy, so they retired me.
00:21:28You're lucky.
00:21:29Lucky you're still if it hadn't hit me.
00:21:31I'm going to be in the Secret Service someday.
00:21:33Thought you was going to be a sheriff like Todd.
00:21:35Squirts like you are supposed to grow up and be president.
00:21:38Name is Pidge, Mr. Barron.
00:21:39Glad to meet you, Pidge.
00:21:40I ain't a squirt.
00:21:41Mr. Barron, what did you want to see us about?
00:21:44Is something wrong?
00:21:45Nothing wrong yet, Mrs. Benson, but there might be.
00:21:47We're just checking.
00:21:48On us?
00:21:49On the house.
00:21:50Do you mind if we have a look around?
00:21:52Help yourself, but what I want to know...
00:21:53We're going to have a look around with or without your permission, Mr. Benson.
00:21:56It's an emergency.
00:21:57Check it.
00:21:58There must be something the matter.
00:22:10Anyone else live here besides you three?
00:22:12No.
00:22:14Anyone been by here today?
00:22:16No.
00:22:17Just the usual routine.
00:22:18Willie Harris left the milk.
00:22:19What's this all about, Mr. Barron?
00:22:21Just being careful.
00:22:22I'll explain later.
00:22:25Two bedrooms, one bathroom.
00:22:27All clear.
00:22:28One here.
00:22:29Just like they said.
00:22:34Kitchen, back pantry, back door.
00:22:36Stairs go down and heal the garage under kitchen.
00:22:38Cellar door and halt.
00:22:39Clear.
00:22:40Car in the garage.
00:22:43Look at this for a setup.
00:22:49I'm sorry, folks, but I'm afraid we're going to have to hang around for a while.
00:22:51Why?
00:22:52What's the matter?
00:22:53Don't be alarmed.
00:22:53There's nothing wrong.
00:22:54Well, of course there's something wrong.
00:22:55The FBI doesn't pay us a visit for the heck of it.
00:22:57Well, I won't stay.
00:22:58I'll take pictures of...
00:22:59No, ma'am.
00:23:00Nobody leaves the house until we do.
00:23:02Why not?
00:23:03What's happened?
00:23:04Look, just go about your business like it was any other Saturday afternoon.
00:23:07Read your papers.
00:23:08Look at your TV.
00:23:09Anything you want.
00:23:11But nobody leaves the house.
00:23:12Something fishy about all this.
00:23:17It's official business.
00:23:18What sort of official business?
00:23:20Mr. Benson, as a former agent of the Secret Service, you should understand.
00:23:24Either I'm getting old and stupid or else I'm...
00:23:26At 5 p.m. this afternoon, the President of the United States arrives in town on a special.
00:23:31What?
00:23:32Golly!
00:23:33The President?
00:23:34Well, that's different.
00:23:36You mean to say the President's going to get off the train here?
00:23:39That's right.
00:23:39Golly, Grimes, you've got to go down and see it.
00:23:41We just got to.
00:23:42The President?
00:23:43Why, that's the greatest thing ever happened to this town.
00:23:45We go down and see it, Grimes, can we?
00:23:46Sorry, kid.
00:23:47No.
00:23:50Betty, bring in the gear.
00:23:51Put the car out back.
00:23:53Bart, you see the back door is locked tight.
00:23:55And check the cellar to be sure.
00:23:59I still don't understand.
00:24:00Mr. Benson, it should be obvious to you that if anybody wanted to kill the President,
00:24:04he could do a beautiful job of it.
00:24:06Right from this window of yours.
00:24:08With the love of Mike, that may be true.
00:24:10But you don't think that Ellie and me...
00:24:11Of course not.
00:24:12But we have to remain here to protect you and the President from somebody else who might.
00:24:17Oh.
00:24:17Kearney.
00:24:25Kearney.
00:24:34Yeah?
00:24:36Is this all routine?
00:24:37Seems to me to be kind of overboard.
00:24:39I mean, all this checking and everything, as though you expected this town to...
00:24:41Sheriff, have you noticed any strangers in town during the past week?
00:24:45No.
00:24:46Are you sure?
00:24:47Sure, I'm sure.
00:24:48I know everybody in this berg.
00:24:50The only strangers we get are tourists.
00:24:52You know, we get them all the time.
00:24:54Stopping for gas, if I to eat, that's all.
00:24:56We want to know, from either you or your deputies, the minute any stranger doesn't keep going through.
00:25:00Then, this isn't routine.
00:25:03No, it isn't.
00:25:05Can you tell me?
00:25:06The Los Angeles police picked up a small-time stool pigeon night before last.
00:25:10Shot through the lungs and left for death.
00:25:11Spiley bitters.
00:25:13Before he died, he told them something was up.
00:25:15What do you mean something was up?
00:25:17An assassination attempt.
00:25:19Well, can you believe that?
00:25:21In our business, we can't afford not to.
00:25:23I mean, the tip of a dying stool pigeon.
00:25:26The stoolie seemed very proud of being an American before he kicked off.
00:25:30Meaning, crime is crime, but this is something else again.
00:25:34Right.
00:25:34So, we can't take any chances.
00:25:36Let's go.
00:25:41Can we see the present, Grandpa?
00:25:43Mm-hmm.
00:25:45Can we, Mom?
00:25:46No, Pidge, we have to stay here.
00:25:47You can watch him from here.
00:25:48But I want to get up close.
00:25:50Well, use your telescope, boy.
00:25:51Bring him right up the eye.
00:25:53Ah.
00:25:53Sorry, Pidge.
00:25:55No dice.
00:25:56Back door locked.
00:25:57How about the phone in the kitchen?
00:25:58Want me to yank it?
00:25:58No, we don't change the pattern at all.
00:26:00Give Benny a hand.
00:26:06Mr. Baron, something I don't understand.
00:26:09I was in the service myself, so you told me.
00:26:11And though we made every precautionary check,
00:26:13we never went to extremes like this unless, uh...
00:26:15Unless you were tipped that there was to be an attempted assassination.
00:26:18You don't mean it.
00:26:19I mean it.
00:26:20But you're FBI.
00:26:21Secret Service is responsible for the safety of the president.
00:26:24We're using everybody this trip, Mr. Benson.
00:26:27Have a look down there.
00:26:29State troopers, your local law enforcement agencies, and us.
00:26:34You don't know if old Dan Carney is down there, do you?
00:26:36He and I worked together in the old days.
00:26:38He's chief of the presidential staff now.
00:26:41That's confidential information.
00:26:44This is a terrible thing.
00:26:46That's your worry, Mr. Benson?
00:26:48Of course it's my worry.
00:26:49I'm an American, ain't I?
00:26:49It's everybody's worry.
00:26:52All right.
00:26:52Somebody's driving up to the house.
00:26:54Who is it?
00:26:57It's time.
00:26:59He's the sheriff, Mr. Baron.
00:27:01There's someone with him.
00:27:02Who's with him?
00:27:03Well, I don't know.
00:27:04I've never seen him before.
00:27:05Well, for the love of Mike.
00:27:07What?
00:27:07Well, it isn't old Dan Carney.
00:27:09Gray as an old shirt and red in the face as ever.
00:27:14Hi, Pop.
00:27:15Got an old friend of yours here.
00:27:16Dan, you dirty old Irishman.
00:27:18Dan Carney.
00:27:19Oh, Pop, how are you?
00:27:19It's great to see you.
00:27:20Hey, why aren't you dead?
00:27:21Oh, old buzzers like me live forever.
00:27:23Hey, old Hawkeye, you're getting bald.
00:27:25Well, just what do you expect after 25 years?
00:27:28Come on in.
00:27:29Come on in.
00:27:29Make yourself to home.
00:27:30This is my daughter-in-law.
00:27:31How do you do?
00:27:32This is my grandson, Pidge.
00:27:33How are you, Pidge?
00:27:33Pidge, this is Mr. Carney.
00:27:35Secret service.
00:27:36He guards the president.
00:27:37By Mr. Baron?
00:27:38Who?
00:27:39Baron.
00:27:40Oh, you didn't know.
00:27:41You boys got here ahead of you.
00:27:49Shut up!
00:27:53Oh, my God!
00:28:01One sound from the kid, Pop, and he's dead.
00:28:06The train muffled it.
00:28:30Get rid of him.
00:28:31Get rid of him.
00:28:33Put him in the cellar.
00:28:35You better take the rug with you.
00:28:37It's a giveaway.
00:28:37You got the message, brave boy?
00:28:45All right?
00:28:46Mom!
00:28:46Mom!
00:28:47Mom!
00:28:47Mom!
00:28:48Pidge, now you've got to be still.
00:28:50No noise.
00:28:53You stink!
00:28:53Pidge, shut up!
00:28:55Guts.
00:28:56He's only eight.
00:28:57Lots of guts.
00:28:58Mom!
00:29:03No trouble with you.
00:29:04You're all busted up.
00:29:19All right.
00:29:19Take care of her.
00:29:20You've got it now.
00:29:21Let's be practical.
00:29:23I don't want any more shooting around here.
00:29:24here i want it nice and quiet and cozy i'll get her up and bring her around and explain to her
00:29:30that one phony and she's got a kid with his throat cut doesn't make much noise that way
00:29:38the same goes for you too anybody steps out of line the boy that's simple enough
00:29:47ellen ellen listen to me ellen pay attention now listen to me and don't look like that
00:29:54everybody is all right you've got to get a hold of yourself no matter what happens you've got to hang
00:29:59on if you scream or make one false move you'll murder the boy you understand you'll murder pidge
00:30:10did you hear him lady
00:30:13yes yes good we're on the court all right all right inside we'll get a long time to wait relax
00:30:23move the kitchen table in front of the window
00:30:29all right sit down sit down look at your tv and they're working well work him over then
00:30:34fix them up don't sit there waiting to blow your car keep yourselves occupied i gotta think
00:30:39talk
00:30:50god god are you badly hurt bullet hit the bone broken i guess he's bled a lot we need a doctor look at his
00:30:56face
00:30:56tell her pop you're the doctor ellen we can't have no doctor we can't set a broken arm tough
00:31:07can you me straighten this fracture
00:31:11you couldn't take it
00:31:12you straighten man hold on brave boy
00:31:30tie it up
00:31:30may we take him into the bedroom sure but the boy stays here
00:31:48and leave the door open
00:31:49all right let's go to work
00:32:03all right
00:32:16pop we got to do something yeah i know i know but what what they cut pidge no none of us count
00:32:22not even pitch we haven't got a chance as long as we're alive we got a chance we got to find a flaw
00:32:26on his plan we'll think of something well haven't you got a gun gun
00:32:36yeah right into the door my gun
00:32:45is it loaded no
00:32:48i hid the cartridge in the counterpitch
00:32:51you're a dirty lousy gangster
00:32:53leave him alone benny do you hear what he said yeah i heard what he said he'd be looking at too
00:32:58much television he ain't a bad squirt just tell him to shut up sure sure
00:33:05this thing's metal steel top chrome legs
00:33:10i figured wood no difference use the bracket screw him to the leg and then to the floor that way the
00:33:15table won't dance you're a coward you're a bunch of cowards
00:33:18and you're getting too fresh so button it
00:33:25johnny why all the trouble big deal this is a lot of work do it benny but johnny i don't see
00:33:29why we just do it benny
00:33:33once you get the gun anchored you got a solid base
00:33:35you'll see when we get to it this gun's got a heavy recoil i won't stand still
00:33:40and we got just three seconds to nail the president
00:33:47i don't want the table to shimmy when we get to it
00:33:50oh tommy gun would do just as good tommy gun stinks no accuracy no punch might as well use a revolver
00:33:58this is the gun
00:33:59gun when i was in the army so i wasn't in the army tighter tighter
00:34:07pop you find those cartridges yet not yet this is quite a gun benny quite a gun
00:34:13i did a lot of chopping in the war with a baby like this a lot of chopping
00:34:18you're wrong about me pitch being a coward last war i got a silver star
00:34:30north the casino pocket of resistance i killed 27 men all by myself i won a silver star metal
00:34:39i stole it
00:34:41it's not a silver star
00:34:45they're hurting pitch all right take it easy take it easy
00:34:50take it easy johnny relax for the love of mike what's a silver star i won it
00:35:00okay johnny okay you won it
00:35:11i got him they've been there a long time
00:35:15yeah get him back in here
00:35:20what are you all trying to pull
00:35:24all of you inside
00:35:28come on come on
00:35:35feeling better yeah you're lucky he didn't mean the wing you meant to blow your brains out
00:35:40he's a bad shot yeah but i'm not so maybe you better sit down and stay there
00:35:44and we'll be safer for everybody you've got that duty look in your eye
00:35:49i've seen it up in the line the line you open the line some other time down
00:35:53what you fool his car's out front put it in the garage quick
00:36:07i have to think of everything oh great just great might as well advertise there's a close one
00:36:14hot in here
00:36:32see what time it is
00:36:35all right suppose you tell me what happens in this house on a saturday afternoon between four and five
00:36:39pattern
00:36:42smart guy
00:36:44sure and we don't break that pattern
00:36:47we're here for a reason and if we break it we might blow the deal you know
00:36:50mario slings the paper over the fence around 4 30 or so
00:36:54delivery boy does he come in
00:36:58anyone else so i have went up the mountain hunting jack rabbits
00:37:02he'll be buying his way back will he stop not unless he's got something to brag about
00:37:09anybody else nobody
00:37:12anybody know that you and the other guy were coming up here
00:37:14that's an interesting question what's the interesting answer you guess tell him todd
00:37:23sheriff if you think i have any qualms about killing this kid you couldn't be more wrong
00:37:29the thing about killing him or you or her or him is that i wouldn't be getting paid for it
00:37:36and i don't like giving anything away for free
00:37:38neither do i including information
00:37:44your guts are showing all over the place brave boy
00:37:47no no not me i'm scared you see the way i figure it baron i'm a dead man anyway
00:37:53so is the boy so is ellen so is pop
00:37:55it's just a question an hour later and if it gives the president a bit of an edge why then we get
00:38:00it now they won't hurt us they won't hurt pidge he said so because it's convenient ellen
00:38:05you think these crumbs would kill the president and then take off leaving us behind to identify
00:38:08them you said you wouldn't hurt pidge sure sure and i meant it don't listen to this guy
00:38:14he's just being brave with your kid's life i know guys like that in the army
00:38:19we're just doing a job that's all identifying us is not involved
00:38:24by seven o'clock tonight we'll be out of the country and you'll never see us again
00:38:27tell him todd tell him never mind lady we'll just assume that they knew he was coming up here
00:38:33so that if somebody else comes up to check on him you can tell him the sheriff and his friend
00:38:36were here but they had to go someplace else that's all i have to go to the bathroom
00:38:46go with him bart
00:38:50i don't need any help come on come on
00:38:54okay table screwed down all right get the tripod up there drill a hole in each lake
00:38:58bolt the tripod to the table put it center in front of the window
00:39:03i thought i told you to sit down just stretching my legs you're a very careful man
00:39:10that's right planned on everything huh sheriff the first man they shoot to the moon and a rocket will
00:39:15take pains too because that's never been done before neither is this doesn't i worry you
00:39:21i haven't got time to worry i just make my plans and carry them on that's what john wilkes booth
00:39:26thought too booth i'm no actor busting my leg on a stage so i can yell down with the tyrants
00:39:34if booth wasn't such a ham he might have made it
00:39:36he got pretty far at that though the guy who killed garfield didn't make it either him yeah he
00:39:44didn't plan anything just took a lucky shot strictly left-handed just like mckinley and zangara
00:39:49got the chair for his try at roosevelt he had to try it in a crowd i hate crowds so nobody ever made it
00:39:59up till here i'm just a guy making a living and i think you've stretched long enough as you were
00:40:15but take over benny's work okay benny yeah johnny
00:40:21go downtown see what's going on down there especially the station plan leave the car here
00:40:24why me because wheeler can fly a plane and you can't well with me i'm expendable huh no i just
00:40:31don't want anything to happen to wheeler well why can't i take the car because if they nail you benny
00:40:35we need the car to get to the plane johnny that place is called you're getting paid ain't you
00:40:40yeah you can't say you ain't getting enough
00:40:44i'll be back johnny look nice and steady just like you wanted
00:40:54you're wrong lady
00:41:24take a look
00:41:29come on take a look
00:41:45i can do it and i'm going to do it
00:41:47but you're an american citizen sure and one minute after five i'm going to be a very rich american
00:41:55citizen you'll never get away with it shut up
00:42:01i got a stomach take a pill maybe the old man's right johnny it's a terrible thing a terrible
00:42:06thing turn it off will you just another man a man with the president
00:42:12yeah yeah i've never killed the president before
00:42:20who's that that's judd kelly television set went on the blink ellen sent for him to come and fix it
00:42:25so the boy could watch the ball game why don't you tell me well we simply forgot that's all
00:42:29he's a harmless boy baron don't hurt him okay but if you cross me he won't he won't
00:42:37all right pop you got the ball
00:42:38let him in but watch it
00:42:45well we got to keep this man talking
00:42:47why why because that's his weakness sooner or later he'll drop his guard
00:42:52he'll find a way to get pop's gun hi pop what's new hello judd i think i better get up and fix your
00:42:58rig before you electrocuted yourself come on in todd what happened to you ask him same thing
00:43:06will happen to you unless you do exactly as you're told you're kidding is that real it's real all right
00:43:13what's your name judd kelly what are you doing here i came to fix the television set
00:43:18what's up all right bart case i don't have any dough if that's what you want
00:43:25what is this a sticker yeah that's right it's a sticker you'll never get away with it go over
00:43:31and sit down buster take your luggage with you you too i don't take it did they rob the bank
00:43:43what's the gun for what's going on where's your store main street who runs it
00:43:48just me all alone do you have to point that gun at me alone answer him yeah you locked up when
00:43:55you left nobody knows you were coming here that's right just a service called that gun makes
00:44:01me nervous mister i'm not going to be a hero you can put the gun away sure but i'm telling you
00:44:08buster like the others one pass and the kid gets it that's right he gets it so you see his life depends
00:44:19on you got it yeah wilson carney back yet no he's certainly been gone a long time
00:44:33you're not going to be able to get it that's right now that's what the sheriff would like forget about
00:44:50me i've had it don't con me sheriff the minute this gun was loaded one of you brave boys might decide to
00:44:57go for the ride just to fire it and if you fired it that might alert a few state cops down there and
00:45:01the game would be over wouldn't it you got any food in the house of course i have i'm gonna grab a
00:45:08bite bart watch him bring me a little glass of milk will you johnny my else is murdering me just watch
00:45:13him bart watch him i don't dig it will somebody tell me sit down be quiet
00:45:43don't you have any feelings at all no i haven't lady they were taken out of me by experts
00:45:52feelings a trap show me a guy with feelings and i'll show you a sucker
00:45:58it's a weakness makes you think of something beside yourself
00:46:03if i had any feelings left to me at all it'd be for me just me don't you ever think of your mother
00:46:09your father think of him i used to think of him a great deal
00:46:18my mother wasn't married my old man was a dip cell they left me in a home a home
00:46:25you stink johnny edge come back here
00:46:37the kid hold it pitch pitch get him stick him up or i'll blast you nice going bart it's only a cap
00:46:45pistol i gave it to him myself don't you don't john don't you
00:46:49you're not beat his brains out the little what's so funny you should have seen your face a cap
00:46:58pistol go ahead lab yourself sick that's a pretty good model isn't it they make it real today don't
00:47:03they they are pitch blow his brains out a couple of big bold bad men getting scared to death by a six
00:47:10bit cap pistol i ought to beat that kid i'm not sure that he couldn't take you go put some milk on your
00:47:16also bring me a piece of the cake yeah i need some milk paint's pretty bad where's benny why don't we
00:47:22hear from benny sit if this isn't a stick-up what is it did you come up here to fix the television set
00:47:36junior yeah well then fix the television set todd what's going on they're planning to assassinate
00:47:42the president jud which president the president of the united states he arrives here this afternoon
00:47:48you're kidding no no you're not kidding the president
00:47:57kill the president they can't they couldn't do a thing like that they're stinking traitors they're
00:48:03benedict darnells are you guys crazy you can't do a thing like that sit down reckless don't you realize
00:48:10what that means that's assassination he's your president too make a deal with you boy we kill
00:48:17you instead of the president that's even stephen okay with you thought not anybody else want to take
00:48:24the heat off the president how about you sheriff it's a bad joke baron anybody else want to volunteer
00:48:30they're commies they're enemy agents all right who is behind it baron
00:48:39i haven't the slightest idea what's in it for you you're curious aren't you sheriff while i last
00:48:47i like you sheriff you got guts you must have been a good soldier i got back i won a silver star
00:48:53that's pretty good killed 27 jerry's all by myself you're a born killer that's all yeah some guys
00:49:00liked it i know a couple hard to match up isn't it baron just when you get real good at something
00:49:05you're a murderer yeah over there you can knock over a whole platoon or a guy invents a bomb and kills
00:49:11a hundred thousand people just like that and maybe gets more medals here you put a slug in a double
00:49:16crossing squirt that isn't even worth burying and you have to take the gas
00:49:19so that's why do you hate the president so i got no feeling against the president
00:49:24i'm just earning a living by treason ace those craps don't give me that politics jazz it's not my
00:49:29racket i don't even know who's paying me and i don't want to know what's the difference didn't
00:49:33it occur to you why they want you to do it certainly it did but that makes them suckers not me i'm the
00:49:39guy who's getting it made listen sheriff a man can stand for so much and no more why before the war
00:49:45i drifted and drifted and ran always lost in a great big crowd i hated that crowd i used to dream
00:49:53about the crowd once in a while i used to see all those faces scratching and shoving and biting
00:50:01and then the mist would clear and somehow all those faces would be me all me and all nothing
00:50:08but the war changed everything eh baron i'm no traitor sheriff i won a silver star
00:50:18and learned how to kill yeah maybe i did
00:50:26maybe that changed everything maybe people began to know who i was
00:50:30after the show i hooked up with an outfit for good dough the fingers said where and how much
00:50:38and johnny baron did the job you think anybody else could handle this job you think benny wheeler
00:50:44could do without talking too much johnny there's nobody else can do this job because they got too much
00:50:48feeling and feeling's no good i got nothing against the president sheriff he's just worth a half a
00:50:57million bucks to me tax-free making my own laws about the taxes too pop the guy is goofy shut up judd
00:51:08listen to him buster and don't ever say that again ever
00:51:16you heard him judd
00:51:16uh half a million dollars huh yeah that's a lot of scratch sheriff man could retire on that amount
00:51:29of scratch how do you know it'll ever be paid half of it's been paid and the rest i'll get it
00:51:36i wouldn't be sure it's not just a man it's the president that's what's so funny
00:51:41the laugh is on the guys who are paying the freight all this loot and they don't even know what they're
00:51:47doing a half a million clams for absolutely nothing because tonight at five o'clock i kill the
00:51:54president one second after five there's a new president what changes nothing what are they paying for
00:52:02nothing otherwise i wouldn't have taken a job sure you'd have taken it
00:52:07you think so yeah why all right take it easy come on lady
00:52:24do as you told and everything will be fine answer straight clean and plain answer it
00:52:33hello miss benson let me speak to the chief
00:52:37penny yeah train's on time the car will be waiting in front of the station like you figured facing
00:52:43you fine get back as soon as you can and don't be followed check
00:53:07there's the big boy's car now lovely target hey hold it mister
00:53:21yes officer what is it what's your name fred fred whittaker what are you doing in town
00:53:29just passing through where's your car i don't have one i hitchhiked in from three
00:53:33rivers waiting for the train out figure to take the train out to l.a what train
00:53:38the five o'clock the five o'clock now that's right strange why officer because we don't have any
00:53:45five o'clock train that stops here mister except today and that happens to be a special that you don't
00:53:50know about except that you do
00:53:56must be some mistake you made it oh now look officer i i got identification
00:54:03i can prove who i am i got my driver's license right here
00:54:08i can prove who i am i got my driver's license right here
00:54:13come on
00:54:22gunfire
00:54:32gunfire
00:54:44gunfire
00:54:47gunfire
00:54:56gunfire
00:54:58Hold it! Don't shoot him!
00:55:24I told you not to kill him.
00:55:25Not to kill him? After he...
00:55:26He was our only link.
00:55:27Come on.
00:55:36So long, Benny.
00:55:38You think they got him?
00:55:39I only hope he's dead.
00:55:40Haggerty!
00:55:41Yes, sir?
00:55:42We got him.
00:55:43Dead, unfortunately.
00:55:45Wasn't Kearney's last checkpoint the house on the hill?
00:55:47That's right, but he and the sheriff are going to check the White Springs ranch route, too.
00:55:51We haven't been able to reach them.
00:55:52We'll take two troopers and backtrack him.
00:55:53Start with the house on the hill.
00:55:55We've got to find Kearney.
00:55:56Right.
00:55:57Now, we got trouble.
00:56:02Everybody except Mrs. Benson down the cellar.
00:56:04What are you going to do?
00:56:05Nothing, I hope.
00:56:06Move.
00:56:09Anybody gets brave, kill them all.
00:56:10You can only hang once.
00:56:11Hey, stay up there.
00:56:30Now, look, get a grip on yourself.
00:56:31I want you to look relaxed.
00:56:33If you don't pull this off, everybody is dead.
00:56:35Do you understand?
00:56:36All of us dead.
00:56:37So be yourself.
00:56:38I don't know what you mean.
00:56:39They'll come up here to check whether Kearney and the sheriff were here, and I want you to go out front.
00:56:43I don't want them in the house.
00:56:44I can't.
00:56:44I don't know how.
00:56:45I don't know what to say.
00:56:46Just go out and water the flowers.
00:56:48Do anything you like, but keep busy.
00:56:51Lipstick and rouge, quick.
00:56:53Now, listen to me carefully.
00:56:57They'll come up to check whether Kearney and the sheriff were here.
00:57:00Certainly they were here.
00:57:02They came up to check the house.
00:57:03For the three o'clock, they left here.
00:57:05They went out on the White Springs Ranch Road.
00:57:07They took Pop and the kid with him.
00:57:09And that's the last you saw of them.
00:57:11You got it?
00:57:12You got it?
00:57:13Yes, yes.
00:57:14You look like a ghost.
00:57:17Step on.
00:57:21Pull it off, lady, or everybody is dead.
00:57:23Everybody.
00:57:32He's getting rattled, Pop.
00:57:33How do you mean?
00:57:35He didn't expect Benning to get shot.
00:57:37Got nothing in mind?
00:57:39Maybe.
00:57:40Now, listen.
00:57:40Shut up, you guys.
00:57:44Mrs. Benson?
00:57:47Yes.
00:57:48My name's Haggerty.
00:57:49Then you must be one of Mr. Kearney's men.
00:57:51That's right.
00:57:51Has he been here?
00:57:52I haven't seen him since they left.
00:57:54They came up here about three o'clock to check the house, they said.
00:57:57I don't know why.
00:57:59Who is they?
00:58:00Why, Mr. Kearney and Sheriff Shaw.
00:58:02Then they said they had to check the White Springs Ranch Road.
00:58:04Is your father-in-law, Mr. Benson, here?
00:58:07Well, no.
00:58:09No, he isn't.
00:58:11You see, he used to be Mr. Kearney's chief.
00:58:13Yes, I know.
00:58:15So, Mr. Kearney took him along, my little boy, too.
00:58:18Then you're alone?
00:58:21Yes.
00:58:23And you haven't heard from them since they left?
00:58:25No, no, I haven't.
00:58:27Something's wrong.
00:58:28I know something's wrong.
00:58:30No, no, Mrs. Benson, nothing's wrong.
00:58:31We're, uh, we're just checking, that's all.
00:58:34But if you see or hear from them before I do,
00:58:37please have them check the detail down at the railroad station.
00:58:39It's very important.
00:58:40Thanks.
00:58:40All right, lady.
00:58:47Inside.
00:58:55Come on, come on.
00:58:56Very nice.
00:59:01Very nice job.
00:59:03Congratulations.
00:59:06You don't like me, do you?
00:59:07You're an animal.
00:59:11I don't like you either.
00:59:13Animals kill each other to live.
00:59:15That's what you're doing.
00:59:17How do you like your roast beef?
00:59:19Medium rare or well done?
00:59:20All right, Bart, run them in.
00:59:27It's clear.
00:59:32I wish you were dead.
00:59:35You haven't got the guts.
00:59:39Just give me a chance.
00:59:42There's your chance.
00:59:46Go ahead, take it.
00:59:47But remember the squirt in the cellar.
01:00:02That's right.
01:00:04Think of the president first.
01:00:08Let's not think of ourselves.
01:00:11I didn't give you a whole chance,
01:00:13but you didn't even take a half a chance.
01:00:15Everything okay, Johnny?
01:00:27Sure, everything's fine.
01:00:30She played her part real good.
01:00:32It should be a television.
01:00:34You!
01:00:35Didn't I tell you to fix the television set?
01:00:37You told me to set.
01:00:39Get your stuff and fix it.
01:00:40It'll keep you from getting patriotic.
01:00:41I don't do something.
01:00:42I'll blow my top just sitting here.
01:00:44Fix the set and shut your mouth.
01:00:46I don't like what you say anyway.
01:00:47Now fix it.
01:00:48We still got time.
01:00:55It's all yours.
01:01:03Open it.
01:01:04About 200 yards.
01:01:21Baron, isn't that a German rifle?
01:01:23Yeah.
01:01:24You know it?
01:01:24I know it.
01:01:26Where were you during the war?
01:01:28All the way from the Kasserine Pass.
01:01:31I went to Silver Star.
01:01:32Where were you?
01:01:33Normandy to the L by way of the Bowes.
01:01:35Did you get up into Germany?
01:01:37No.
01:01:38Bet you were one of those big shot guys,
01:01:39huh, with the gold bar on the shoulder.
01:01:41No?
01:01:41No, I was a corporal.
01:01:42How about you?
01:01:44Corporal?
01:01:44I made sergeant.
01:01:46You didn't like officers.
01:01:48Officers.
01:01:49Big shots.
01:01:50Yes, sir.
01:01:50No, sir.
01:01:51Salute, sir.
01:01:52Big shots.
01:01:53You don't like big shots.
01:01:55Not when you're bigger, Sheriff.
01:01:57I killed more juries than any five officers put together.
01:02:01I did some pretty good chopping in the war.
01:02:04Pretty good.
01:02:05Like I said before, you're a born killer, that's all.
01:02:08Yeah.
01:02:08They taught me how, and I liked it.
01:02:11My CO used to stand there and shake like a leaf while I chopped.
01:02:15If more guys like me had to...
01:02:16Tell me one thing, Baron.
01:02:17How come you miss Germany?
01:02:19They sent me home.
01:02:21My tour was finished.
01:02:21Your tour?
01:02:23In the infantry?
01:02:24Are you kidding?
01:02:25Why you finish your tour in the infantry when they plant you in a box?
01:02:28Tour.
01:02:29That was for the Air Corps.
01:02:30Turn it off.
01:02:31Yeah, you probably went over the hill.
01:02:32I said turn it off.
01:02:34You know, Baron, you got the yard look.
01:02:36You look yard bird to me.
01:02:37I'm telling you, Sheriff, turn it off.
01:02:39Big shot with the yard birds, huh?
01:02:41Come on, now, tell me.
01:02:41Where were your court-martialed?
01:02:43What was it for?
01:02:45Rape?
01:02:45No, no, not rain.
01:02:47Kill him, that's what you like.
01:02:48Kill him.
01:02:48Maybe he's shooting down unarmed PWs, huh?
01:02:50Sit down and shut up.
01:02:51Uh-uh, but by golly, you got away with it, so I got it.
01:02:58Section 8.
01:02:59You went out on a Section 8.
01:03:01Section 8.
01:03:02Psycho in charge of killing, huh?
01:03:04You know, I knew guys like you.
01:03:06Killing was sweet.
01:03:07Rather kill a man than love a girl.
01:03:09A real kick.
01:03:10The thrill with the guts.
01:03:11Stop it, Todd, stop it.
01:03:12Or maybe you didn't like your CO.
01:03:14Maybe you shot him in the back.
01:03:15Is that it?
01:03:15Maybe you killed...
01:03:16Ow!
01:03:20Like I said,
01:03:21Shut up!
01:03:30Todd.
01:03:32Todd, darling, it's hopeless.
01:03:34Oh.
01:03:35It's not 5 o'clock yet.
01:03:36You want to keep your chops shut?
01:03:41Yeah.
01:03:42Hurts, huh?
01:03:44It hurts.
01:03:45I like to keep kicking as long as you keep shooting your face off.
01:03:48I know.
01:03:49Pop, you were right.
01:03:51You blew the power tube.
01:03:53I have one here.
01:03:54Now we're perking in a second.
01:03:55You know, I was thinking, Judd.
01:03:58If you were to clamp the main plate lead to a good ground like that table there, we'd get a better picture.
01:04:03A lot of lines in it now.
01:04:06Clamp the main plate lead to the table.
01:04:09Cut the static lines.
01:04:11Expert.
01:04:12First he wrecks the set, and then he tells the kid how to fix it.
01:04:15Main plate lead?
01:04:16That's right, Judd.
01:04:28All it needs is a high potential ground.
01:04:30We're a long way from the broadcasting station.
01:04:32What are you guys yapping about?
01:04:34Technical talk, mister.
01:04:35I'm no radio man.
01:04:36Battleship New York, World War I.
01:04:38Brad beat the German single-handed.
01:04:40Not exactly, son, but I was there as cap of flow when the German fleet surrendered.
01:04:44All right, all right.
01:04:45Stop the bullin'.
01:04:45And fix that set, will ya?
01:04:47Yes, sir.
01:04:49Oh!
01:04:50Dad.
01:04:51Dad, what is it?
01:04:52Paid bat.
01:04:53What hit him?
01:04:53It's his heart.
01:04:54He has a bad heart.
01:04:55Page, my pal's top drawer of the bureau.
01:04:57I'll get him.
01:04:58You stay put.
01:04:59The kid will get him.
01:05:10Pidge, put down that gun and get some water for your grandfather.
01:05:30But, Mom, listen.
01:05:32You heard me, Pidge.
01:05:35Oh, gee.
01:05:40You know what I think, Pop?
01:05:42I got a feeling your heart attack's a phony.
01:05:45Pain's bad.
01:05:46I'm wondering, if you're trying to pull something, you better watch it.
01:05:49Barrett, I've been thinking.
01:05:50You've been thinking you'd like to take a crack at this rifle.
01:05:53Do you think I want to get myself killed?
01:05:54Yes.
01:05:55Frankly, Sheriff, I don't think you'd mind getting yourself killed.
01:05:58Nobody wants to die.
01:06:00Do we have to talk about it?
01:06:01Why don't you shut up?
01:06:02No guts.
01:06:03Nerves.
01:06:04That's all it gets on my nerves.
01:06:05Now, why would I want to get myself killed?
01:06:07Because it's five minutes to five,
01:06:09and a shot might bring those state troopers storming all over the joint
01:06:12before the president arrives.
01:06:14But, Sheriff, I can put you away in two seconds by twisting your arm again.
01:06:18That way is no noise.
01:06:19So don't go winning any post-mortem medals.
01:06:22I wouldn't enjoy winning a post-mortem medal any more than you're going to enjoy
01:06:25that post-mortem money.
01:06:26What'd you say?
01:06:27What'd he say?
01:06:28I said nobody ever made it.
01:06:30And you won't either.
01:06:33You don't think so?
01:06:36So you got a plane.
01:06:37You'll never reach it ahead of the police.
01:06:39And if you do, you'll never make it to the border.
01:06:41You ever hear of the jet fighter?
01:06:43You know how many airstrips there are between here and the border?
01:06:47You know, a fellow could get an education just listening to this guy?
01:06:49But maybe he's right, Johnny.
01:06:51Look, you said half the money had already been paid.
01:06:53A smart guy would hit the road right now.
01:06:55Fly out of here.
01:06:56Skip the president.
01:06:57Spend the money in South America.
01:06:59Alive.
01:06:59He's right, Johnny.
01:07:03Why take the risk?
01:07:04We can lay him now.
01:07:04We can make it.
01:07:05We don't have to fool with this thing.
01:07:07It's too big, Johnny.
01:07:08There's something wrong with it.
01:07:09Chicken.
01:07:10Chicken.
01:07:11All right, so call it chicken.
01:07:12Who wants to be rich and dead?
01:07:14They'll get us.
01:07:14They never missed yet, Johnny.
01:07:16The guy's right.
01:07:17You've got the loot.
01:07:17Let's take off and get out of here for good.
01:07:19Once we're across the border...
01:07:19Taste those traps.
01:07:20So Benny wasn't chicken.
01:07:22They didn't waste any time on him.
01:07:23I tell you, we haven't got a chance.
01:07:25Turn it off, Bart.
01:07:26You're embarrassing me in front of the sheriff.
01:07:32But Johnny, even if we swing it, he's the president.
01:07:34They'll never give up.
01:07:35And you don't figure that the guys that are paying off
01:07:37are just going to let you fly away, do you?
01:07:39They'll be after you just like the Secret Service.
01:07:43I thought of that too, Sheriff.
01:07:45It might be an internationally embarrassing situation
01:07:47if the feds happen to catch up with us first.
01:07:50So, Bart, you just got to realize that everybody's going to be on your tail
01:07:54from five o'clock until the day you die.
01:07:56There's a hole in your argument, Sheriff.
01:07:59What is it?
01:08:00We're already wanted for murder, so you can only take the gas once.
01:08:03They'll get us, Johnny.
01:08:07They won't get us, Bart.
01:08:09Not us.
01:08:10You sure, Johnny?
01:08:13You leave it to me.
01:08:18You're sick, man.
01:08:19You're sick.
01:08:20I don't like that.
01:08:23Don't play God just because you've got a gun.
01:08:26But you see, Sheriff, that's the way it is.
01:08:30When you've got a gun, you are a sort of God.
01:08:33If you had the gun, I'd be the chump and you'd be the God.
01:08:37The gun gives you the power of life and death.
01:08:41It's a funny sort of feeling to have control of life and death.
01:08:44You must have had it during the war.
01:08:47You could miss a man if you had a mind, too.
01:08:49Or you could kill him dead in his tracks.
01:08:52And that made you a kind of God.
01:08:54And I liked it.
01:08:56Without the gun or nothing.
01:08:59And I never had anything before I got one.
01:09:03First time I got one on my hands and killed a man, I got some self-respect.
01:09:06I was somebody.
01:09:10Like this kid over here.
01:09:13If that cap pistol was a real gun and I didn't have a gun, he'd be a kind of a God, too.
01:09:18And if I wanted my life, I'd worship the ground he walks on.
01:09:21And I'd pay him the half a million dollars for my life.
01:09:26Because life is all I have.
01:09:31But the squirt doesn't have the gun.
01:09:32I have.
01:09:33And I can loose the lightning.
01:09:42The score is all tied up.
01:09:43Five and five.
01:09:44No noise.
01:09:45Just pictures.
01:09:45First time this season.
01:09:54Butter fingers.
01:09:55Going like this.
01:09:56They're going to have that pennant two years in a row.
01:09:59Now we pause briefly for our station ident...
01:10:01You're wrong about guarding the gun, Sheriff.
01:10:05Without the gun, you would never have spit at me.
01:10:08You would never have even noticed me.
01:10:10But because of the gun, you'll remember me as long as you live.
01:10:14Where is it now?
01:10:19Blowing for the 66th crossing.
01:10:33Outside town.
01:10:34All right.
01:10:36Nobody moves.
01:10:37This is it.
01:10:37You.
01:10:38Over there.
01:10:39Johnny.
01:10:40Let me see once.
01:10:41We're going to do it, Bart.
01:10:42This is my meat.
01:10:43We're going to do it.
01:10:44Just a seat.
01:10:51Return further!
01:10:52Get out of here!
01:11:22Let's go!
01:11:30Open your fire!
01:11:52It didn't stop.
01:12:22It didn't stop.
01:12:29It didn't stop!
01:12:43No.
01:12:45Don't.
01:12:47No.
01:12:49Please, no.
01:12:51No.
01:12:53No.
01:12:55Are you sure you're going to be all right, Mr. Benson?
01:13:00Oh, don't worry about me, Mr. Wilson. I'll be all right. I don't need the nursemaid.
01:13:04Well, we're certainly grateful to you.
01:13:06How come the train went right through the station?
01:13:08We simply canceled the stopover.
01:13:10We couldn't take a chance on the president's safety once it was proven the assassins were in town.
01:13:14The president went on to Los Angeles.
01:13:16Mr. Fishing, huh?
01:13:17I'm afraid so.
01:13:18Someday those guys are going to stop taking you for amateurs, huh, Mr. Wilson?
01:13:20I hope not.
01:13:21Well, thanks again, Mr. Benson.
01:13:22No, no.
01:13:23You too, young man.
01:13:24Oh, that's all right.
01:13:25Someday I'm going to be a bodyguard just like you.
01:13:27Nonsense, boy.
01:13:28You're going to grow up to be president, and presidents have bodyguards.
01:13:31And grandpops?
01:13:32And grandpops.
01:13:33And grandpops.
01:13:34Especially grandpops.
01:13:35Ellen.
01:13:36How's George?
01:13:37You're going to grow up to be president, and presidents have bodyguards.
01:13:40And grandpops?
01:13:41And grandpops.
01:13:42Especially grandpops.
01:13:58Ellen.
01:13:59How's Judd?
01:14:01He didn't make it.
01:14:02And Slim?
01:14:03Critical, but they think he'll be all right.
01:14:06I guess somebody had to make the mistake.
01:14:08What?
01:14:09Something Dad said this morning.
01:14:10About principles.
01:14:11Get in, Todd.
01:14:12I'll drive you home.
01:14:13Oh, thanks.
01:14:14I've got to go over to the office.
01:14:15Can I pick you up for church tomorrow?
01:14:16Yes.
01:14:17I'll go.
01:14:18I'll drive you home.
01:14:19Well, thanks.
01:14:20I've got to go over to the office.
01:14:22Can I pick you up for church tomorrow?
01:14:23Yes.
01:14:24I'll go.
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01:15:09Oh, I don't know.
01:15:10I don't know about that.
01:15:37I don't know about that.
01:15:40I'll go.