- 5 months ago
Texas drifter Dempsey Rae (Kirk Douglas) enters Wyoming in search of work as a cattle herder. In his company is another drifter, young Jeff Jimson (William Campbell), whom he mentors in the same line of work. The two find employment on a ranch owned by a steely woman from the East, Reed Bowman (Jeanne Crain). When Bowman's increasing, unfenced herds begin crowding out the smaller ranches, violence escalates on the range -- and Dempsey and Jeff must choose which is the lesser of two evils.
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00:00:00Who Knows
00:00:30The whirlwind blows
00:00:31Or where the trail of tomorrow goes
00:00:34For a man without a star
00:00:37There's just no sense to build and fence
00:00:41Not if you like to wander
00:00:43Each hill I see is calling me
00:00:47Go yonder, yonder, yonder
00:00:49Who knows, who knows
00:00:53Was I right, was I wrong
00:00:55The way I chose
00:00:56The night is dark
00:00:58The way is far for a man without a star
00:01:02The night is dark
00:01:10And the way is far for a man without a star
00:01:15For a man without a star
00:01:28And the way is far for a man without a star
00:02:06Come on out of there.
00:02:19Come on, hurry it up.
00:02:24Now hit the road.
00:02:27Road?
00:02:29What road?
00:02:30That's for you to worry about.
00:02:32Well, a man could starve before he ever found a house.
00:02:35Well, that's something else you can worry about.
00:02:38Now come on, move along.
00:02:39Don't do that.
00:02:39Why, you...
00:02:40Pull that on me.
00:02:44Wrong man, kid.
00:02:46Wrong man, kid.
00:02:51Wrong man, kid.
00:02:56Wrong man, kid.
00:03:03Wrong man, kid.
00:03:11Thanks.
00:03:12For what?
00:03:13I was under the wheel.
00:03:14You asked for it.
00:03:15When you throw a punch, don't turn your back.
00:03:18Don't turn your back.
00:03:19Say...
00:03:20That's a good looking star.
00:03:21Don't turn your back.
00:03:22Don't turn your back.
00:03:23Thanks.
00:03:33For what?
00:03:34I was under the wheel.
00:03:35You asked for it.
00:03:37When you throw a punch, don't turn your back.
00:03:46Say, that's a good-looking saddle you got there.
00:03:50Hmm?
00:03:50A single-rig, ain't it?
00:03:55Yep, California style.
00:03:58Me, I ride a Brazos double-rig.
00:04:02Double-rig's better for roping.
00:04:03That's what I do most of roping.
00:04:06That's why I use a Brazos double-rig.
00:04:08This is a Brazos double-rig.
00:04:11Are you saying I'm a liar?
00:04:13You're saying it yet, I ain't.
00:04:18All right, I was talking big.
00:04:20I never did roe.
00:04:22I never got the chance.
00:04:24Always wanted to work cattle.
00:04:26Folks wouldn't let me go west.
00:04:27Went off on your own, huh?
00:04:30You work cattle?
00:04:31Uh-huh.
00:04:33Why aren't you on a horse?
00:04:34You ever try riding from Kansas City to Wyoming?
00:04:42Ah, good old Kansas City.
00:04:45Good food, good liquor, and good-looking women.
00:04:48Ever been to Kansas City?
00:04:50I was born there.
00:04:52With all them good-looking women?
00:04:54Why'd you leave?
00:04:55Why'd you leave?
00:04:57Ran out of money.
00:04:58You still got your saddle.
00:05:02Never sell that, kid.
00:05:05Sitting another man's leather is like wearing another man's boots.
00:05:08Never sell your saddle.
00:05:10That's four.
00:05:11That's four.
00:05:11I'll just go.
00:05:15Why'd you leave me on this.
00:05:17Maybe even more?
00:05:18Come on.
00:05:18Maybe.
00:05:18Maybe.
00:05:19Maybe.
00:05:19Maybe.
00:05:20Maybe.
00:05:21Maybe.
00:05:22Maybe.
00:05:25But now, hey,
00:05:26do you need to try?
00:05:27Come up out of there.
00:05:46Come down there, get me.
00:05:47Well, maybe you think I won't.
00:05:49All right, bud.
00:05:50Just hold your temper.
00:05:57Have you got the makings?
00:06:07Have I got the what?
00:06:09You answer me.
00:06:27What do we do now?
00:06:34Let's get some sleep, kid.
00:06:38Look, don't call me kid.
00:06:39My name's Jeff.
00:06:41All right.
00:06:43Get some sleep, Jeffrey.
00:06:45Real pretty name, Jeffrey.
00:06:47Real pretty.
00:06:57All right.
00:07:27Wake up, kid.
00:07:30Time to go.
00:07:33Thanks for the loan of the coat.
00:07:35What coat?
00:07:36Well, the one you got on.
00:07:37I woke up last night.
00:07:39You sure dream pretty dream.
00:07:43Hit the dirt and light run.
00:07:45Do what?
00:07:47Well, do like I do.
00:07:49Now watch me.
00:07:57Stay right where you are.
00:08:09I didn't do nothing.
00:08:11Anybody say you did?
00:08:15Why don't you lower the hammer?
00:08:17We got no guns.
00:08:20Tom, bring them down here.
00:08:22That all of them?
00:08:36Looks like.
00:08:37All right.
00:08:37Line up here.
00:08:38Line up.
00:08:41All right, boys.
00:08:42Which one of you did it?
00:08:44Did what?
00:08:47How'd you get that?
00:08:49Had a fight.
00:08:50Who with?
00:08:51It's the brakeman.
00:08:52He wanted to put me off back there.
00:08:54And so you killed him.
00:08:55And I collect the reward because I'm the one that turned him up.
00:08:57Now ain't you the lucky one.
00:08:59If I ever hanged a man as young as you, son, I'd hope they'd never have to.
00:09:04Bring him in.
00:09:06Now wait a minute.
00:09:07I didn't do it.
00:09:08Who did?
00:09:14I don't know.
00:09:16I do.
00:09:17They wired ahead about the killing, huh?
00:09:19Yep.
00:09:20They happened to say the brakeman got caught up?
00:09:22Come to think of it, they did.
00:09:24The kid's got no knife.
00:09:25He threw it away.
00:09:26You ought to know better.
00:09:27A knife never does that.
00:09:29Ask him.
00:09:30Why me?
00:09:32On the count of you did the cutting and I saw it.
00:09:35So did he.
00:09:36He's stupid enough to hang for something another man done.
00:09:47You had your gun clear at the leather all the time.
00:09:50Take him to the jailhouse.
00:09:52And notify the railroad we're claiming that $100 reward.
00:09:56Now you boys either get jobs or get out of town.
00:09:58Without my $100?
00:10:01Make it $15, you got a deal.
00:10:03The rest goes to the deputies.
00:10:05Okay.
00:10:06It takes a day or two to collect.
00:10:09I wouldn't wait for that $50.
00:10:11No?
00:10:12Well, I'd ride this out of town if I was you.
00:10:15You ain't me.
00:10:23Well, I guess I got to thank you again.
00:10:26For what?
00:10:27Well, you kept me from getting hung.
00:10:32You can get hung any day you want.
00:10:35As long as you don't stop me from getting my $50.
00:10:38Now, why don't you do like the man said and ride that train out of town?
00:10:57Huh?
00:10:57Sure.
00:11:04Oh, God.
00:11:04Come on, come on, come on!
00:11:34What do you think you're trying to do, breaking up my piano?
00:11:36Well, it's worth $50.
00:11:38It's worth a whole lot more than that.
00:11:40I was talking about the saddle.
00:11:42I don't care what you're talking about.
00:11:44Just haul that saddle out of here.
00:11:47Dancy, right?
00:11:48I don't eat!
00:11:52You're as pretty as an Indian blinder and twice as comfortable.
00:11:56Especially on a cold night.
00:11:58Breaking up my piano.
00:12:00Another stray cat that needs a bowl of milk.
00:12:02Meow.
00:12:03Oh, forget those cats.
00:12:05What are you doing here in Wyoming?
00:12:07Just drifting through.
00:12:08Oh, just drifting.
00:12:09Haven't changed a bit.
00:12:11Hey, strong man.
00:12:12Don't I know you?
00:12:14No, but I know you, Marcus and Mary from Tucumcari.
00:12:18Just a rough exterior with a heart of stone.
00:12:21Find your old man.
00:12:22I was about a loan on the saddle.
00:12:30$25.
00:12:32You sure haven't changed.
00:12:34Here's your end, kid.
00:12:44Be happy.
00:12:46Hey, that's hard-earned money.
00:12:48Simmer down, honey.
00:12:49I got $50 coming real quick.
00:12:50No, $50.
00:12:52You can drink that up in one night.
00:12:54Well, let's do.
00:12:55First things come first.
00:12:57Like what?
00:12:58Like soap and water.
00:13:00Oh.
00:13:01You smell like a goat.
00:13:02That's debatable.
00:13:16Hey, thanks for washing my shirt.
00:13:20How do I look?
00:13:21Oh, honey, you look real pretty.
00:13:25But I can't let you go out of here half-naked.
00:13:27Try this for size.
00:13:41Where'd you get it?
00:13:42Oh, fella left it on account.
00:13:45On account of what?
00:13:46On account of the same reason you left your saddle.
00:13:49He was hungry.
00:13:57Bottle of good and two clean glasses.
00:14:02They gotta be clean.
00:14:04Don't try the impossible, Duckville.
00:14:07Just set out the whiskey.
00:14:08Yes, ma'am.
00:14:09Well, hello, boy.
00:14:10What brings you into town?
00:14:11Just brought in 400 steers for shipment.
00:14:13Finally got them loaded.
00:14:15Here's your whiskey.
00:14:15Where's your money?
00:14:16Put it on my tab.
00:14:17All right.
00:14:18Hey, Dems.
00:14:19Who?
00:14:20I want you to meet Strap Davis,
00:14:21foreman down on the triangle.
00:14:23Big spread.
00:14:24Used to belong to old man Simpson.
00:14:25Not anymore, don't.
00:14:27Can't you keep shut till I get these men introduced?
00:14:32Have a drink, friend.
00:14:34What kind of a spread you got?
00:14:35Oh, right about 10,000 head.
00:14:3810,000 head?
00:14:39I thought I was doing good with 800.
00:14:42You fellas on the triangle ain't leaving much grass for the rest of us.
00:14:45It's open range.
00:14:47Don't blame me.
00:14:48I ain't blaming you, Strap.
00:14:50But I am blaming your new owner.
00:14:52Why don't he come out from the east and look things over before he builds up the herd?
00:14:55From what I hear, he ain't even seen the triangle.
00:14:58He's coming out as soon as we get the ranch house rebuilt.
00:15:01You know what we're putting in?
00:15:02A bathroom.
00:15:03Right in the house.
00:15:04In the house?
00:15:06Inside the house.
00:15:08Well, that ain't decent.
00:15:10Only someone from the east would think of that.
00:15:12It's mighty handy on a rainy night.
00:15:25What is it?
00:15:30Give me a stick and I'll kill it.
00:15:34He's coming at me.
00:15:35Why, it's my old partner, the Roping Kid.
00:15:41Come on in, kid.
00:15:43Why, step up, partner, and meet my friend.
00:15:45You know I, Donnie?
00:15:46Hi.
00:15:46Straff Davis.
00:15:47And this is...
00:15:48Say, we never did get to know one another.
00:15:49I'm Dempsey Ray of the Pecos.
00:15:51Yeah, not worth knowing.
00:15:52This is Bill Casley.
00:15:53He owns a circle C up on Little Road.
00:15:54How about it?
00:15:55I'm Mark Tolliver.
00:15:56Ben Johnson and me, we got small outfits over there, too.
00:15:58Gooder and Jessup.
00:15:59Well, good to know all of you, like I said.
00:16:01This is the Roping Kid.
00:16:04Here, y'all, Roping Kid.
00:16:05Drink it down.
00:16:09Sarsaparilla.
00:16:11Look, I drink whiskey.
00:16:12Not with me, you don't.
00:16:14Well, hallelujah.
00:16:16Here.
00:16:17Drink this.
00:16:18You keep away from whiskey and I'll have no regrets in the morning.
00:16:22Them's words of wisdom.
00:16:24Dempsey.
00:16:25Yeah?
00:16:25Looky, yeah.
00:16:27Well, I'll be...
00:16:28Lord, I told you to get out of town.
00:16:51If I don't...
00:16:52I'll run you out.
00:16:56Why, you...
00:16:57Stuff all over my new outfit.
00:17:01Why, I'll kill you, you dirty...
00:17:07You're mighty anxious with that gun.
00:17:14Now, I'm gonna give you a chance to use it.
00:17:16Go ahead.
00:17:27Make your play.
00:17:33All right, boys, relax.
00:17:35Both of you.
00:17:35You fixin' to kill my deputy?
00:17:43Sheriff, this man of yours is real gun crazy when he faces up to a boy without a gun.
00:17:48But somehow he ain't so anxious when he meets a man who has one.
00:17:51She's telling you the truth.
00:17:52I know.
00:17:53I know.
00:17:53It's a habit of hers.
00:17:55You get on back to the office.
00:17:56I want to have a talk with you.
00:17:57Here's your 50.
00:17:59If you haven't got a job, get out of town.
00:18:01He's got a job.
00:18:03Where?
00:18:03Triangle?
00:18:04Why not?
00:18:05Strap is real partial to Texas, man.
00:18:08I'd rather have him with me than again me.
00:18:09Me too.
00:18:10Come on, Sheriff.
00:18:11Step up and have a drink.
00:18:12How about you, son?
00:18:13Got yourself a job?
00:18:14Have I, mister?
00:18:17I'm from Texas.
00:18:19What part of Texas?
00:18:21Down the Texas River.
00:18:25Real pretty country on the Texas River.
00:18:27I've been there.
00:18:28Now, he's my partner, Strap.
00:18:29I can't work without him.
00:18:32Okay.
00:18:33You're on.
00:18:34$30 a month and found.
00:18:36Let's all have a drink, everybody.
00:18:38Lots of whiskey and sarsaparilla.
00:18:40Rat, I'm a gray wolf, and tonight's my night to howl.
00:18:45Yahoo!
00:18:45Yahoo!
00:18:46You'll never get that saddle out of us.
00:18:52Sarsaparilla!
00:18:54Come on, cut this.
00:19:01Stay away from whiskey.
00:19:02You won't have no regrets in the morning.
00:19:04That's what the man said in them's words of wisdom.
00:19:07Don't give me no trouble, Texas.
00:19:09What's the sarsaparilla that done it?
00:19:20All these cattle belong to a triangle?
00:19:23All these and 8,000 more just like them.
00:19:26Gosh, you're mighty.
00:19:30Let's go, Demps.
00:19:31Put him in there.
00:19:58Last night, a fella told me you stay away from whiskey.
00:20:10You have no regrets in the morning.
00:20:18Them still words of wisdom.
00:20:20Believe me.
00:20:26Let's eat.
00:20:27I'm hungry.
00:20:29So is he, and he comes first.
00:20:33Get over, boy.
00:20:33Come and get it.
00:20:46Drops right away.
00:20:47Say, uh, did Strapp say that, uh, it's in the house?
00:21:03That's what he said.
00:21:04Hey, Strapp, when do I get to see it?
00:21:14After we eat.
00:21:18Inside the house.
00:21:20I wonder what kind of people live back east.
00:21:22Ain't this good enough for you?
00:21:27Ham, I'd like to have that look more Cooney.
00:21:28I think he dropped the shoe.
00:21:29I'll be right now, Al.
00:21:31Yeah, I do want to.
00:21:33Yeah, he was kind of lipping on me.
00:21:35Couple of new hands, man.
00:21:37You'll be sorry.
00:21:43That's dirty.
00:21:43You're trying to, stranger.
00:21:46Where else?
00:21:48Ow!
00:21:48You got no manners I ain't took yet.
00:21:50You could have spoke without hitting.
00:21:55What do you think you'll poke?
00:21:57Stand up.
00:21:58Why, you little...
00:21:59Ah, ah.
00:22:00Do that outside.
00:22:02All right.
00:22:07Oh, no, you don't.
00:22:08Eat it or leave it.
00:22:09Sit down.
00:22:10Two dollars says Latigo comes in first.
00:22:20You gotta bet.
00:22:25Any other big spreads like this around here?
00:22:27No.
00:22:29Cassidy, Tolliver, Johnson, you met them last night.
00:22:31They're on a thousand head or less.
00:22:33They're up north on a little river.
00:22:36Real nice country here.
00:22:37You're gonna see more of it tomorrow.
00:22:40We got a small hut up there.
00:22:41I want you to drift them over toward Blue Lake.
00:22:55That's two bucks you owe me.
00:22:56Love you.
00:23:01Okay.
00:23:04Hang on.
00:23:06Bye.
00:23:10Bye.
00:23:14Bye.
00:23:15Bye.
00:23:19Bye.
00:23:20Bye.
00:23:22Bye.
00:23:23Bye.
00:23:24Bye.
00:23:25Hey, wrong man, Texas.
00:23:43About them cattle.
00:23:45You'll find them scattered all over the low ground.
00:23:47Tomorrow, drift them over toward Blue Lake.
00:23:49It's over this way.
00:23:50We don't want them eaten off of Cassidy's grass.
00:23:52Cassidy's grass?
00:23:53I thought this was open range.
00:23:55It is.
00:23:56But we like to keep it friendly.
00:23:58Oh.
00:23:59Hey, uh...
00:24:01Do we get to see it?
00:24:06Come on.
00:24:09You better stay here.
00:24:23On the paper.
00:24:33Come in.
00:24:42There's another door there that goes to the bedroom.
00:24:46That's right handy.
00:24:47You'll see.
00:24:54Well, now you've seen it.
00:24:55Satisfied?
00:24:56No.
00:24:56I want to see the man that uses it.
00:25:10Hey, Dex, bring that old gal down here.
00:25:12Don't run her, Tex.
00:25:38Took a lot of good grass to make that beef.
00:25:41High, high.
00:25:44Mostly if you let the horse alone, he'll do it right.
00:26:11Make up your rope.
00:26:20Could be you want to use it.
00:26:21When do I get to use it?
00:26:23Huh?
00:26:24When do I get to use it?
00:26:25Soon as we spot a Maverick.
00:26:26A what?
00:26:27Maverick.
00:26:28Calf with no mother.
00:26:29No brand neither.
00:26:30Why not?
00:26:31Well, on account he was missed at roundup time.
00:26:33Outgrew his mother and wandered off.
00:26:36Sort of like you.
00:26:37That's better.
00:26:38Hey there, come on.
00:26:39Hey there, come on.
00:26:52Hey Dems.
00:26:54Cassidy's place, I guess.
00:26:58Said maybe we could stop by and eat.
00:27:01Think they'll feed us?
00:27:02Man, am I hungry.
00:27:03You're the hungriest dinner I know.
00:27:05Never step down till you're asked.
00:27:06Howdy.
00:27:07Drifting a few toward Blue Lake didn't mean to butt in.
00:27:08Glad to have you stopped by.
00:27:09Step down and visit.
00:27:10Hey Tess.
00:27:11That's my kid.
00:27:12Yeah, real pretty.
00:27:13Come here and say hi.
00:27:14Howdy.
00:27:15Howdy.
00:27:16Howdy.
00:27:17Howdy.
00:27:18Howdy.
00:27:19Howdy.
00:27:20Howdy.
00:27:21Howdy.
00:27:22Howdy.
00:27:23Howdy.
00:27:24Howdy.
00:27:25Howdy.
00:27:26Howdy.
00:27:27Howdy.
00:27:28Howdy.
00:27:29Howdy.
00:27:30Howdy.
00:27:31Howdy.
00:27:32Howdy.
00:27:33Howdy.
00:27:35Howdy.
00:27:36Howdy.
00:27:37Howdy.
00:27:39Howdy.
00:27:40Howdy.
00:27:41Which of your husband is 말고.
00:27:42Howdy.
00:27:44Howdy.
00:27:45Howdy.
00:27:46Do this?
00:27:47Never seen anybody handle a two-year-old better?
00:27:49I usually don't work Bronx, but we're a little short-handed.
00:27:50This here's the rope and kid.
00:27:52I'm Jeff Jimson.
00:27:53Howdy.
00:27:54Howdy.
00:27:55Howdy.
00:27:56Howdy.
00:27:57Say, have you.
00:27:59Never seen anyone handle a two-year-old any better.
00:28:00Thanks.
00:28:01Usually I don't work Bronx.
00:28:02But we're short-handed.
00:28:03This here's the rope and kid.
00:28:04I'm Jeff Jimson.
00:28:05Pleased to meet you.
00:28:07Make yourself at home. Brick and me will be back directly.
00:28:14Could be she likes you.
00:28:16Who likes me?
00:28:17Tess.
00:28:18Ah.
00:28:19Yeah, she got real embarrassed when you caught her in her pants.
00:28:23She's just a kid.
00:28:30Strap tells me you're running high as 15% on your winter loss.
00:28:34That's heavy, isn't it?
00:28:35Too heavy.
00:28:36What with overgrazing the range, we've got to cut our losses or go broke.
00:28:40Now, Tolliver thinks he's got a way to do it.
00:28:42How's that?
00:28:43Winter feed.
00:28:44We've got good grass down here in the river bottom that we can cut and stack and feed through the heavy snow.
00:28:49How's trying to get a winter feed 10,000 head?
00:28:51We ain't got 10,000 head.
00:28:53And we can cut enough grass for our few.
00:28:56How are you going to keep the cows off till you get ready to cut?
00:28:59Tolliver's got that figured. In fact, he had the answer with him last night.
00:29:04Ever see any of this?
00:29:05Yes.
00:29:08I've seen it.
00:29:09Looks like it ought to keep the cattle off the grass.
00:29:11Once they're tangled with that stuff, they'll learn better.
00:29:13Yeah, them barbs are sharp.
00:29:15Feel them.
00:29:15I've felt it.
00:29:18What's wrong?
00:29:19I don't like it.
00:29:20And I don't like anyone that uses it.
00:29:22Well, I aim to use it.
00:29:23Does that go for me?
00:29:25It does.
00:29:26I can't knock you down because you're in my house.
00:29:35But I can tell you to leave.
00:29:38Get out.
00:29:38Dems!
00:29:39What did you get upset for?
00:29:55Dems.
00:29:58What'd you get upset for?
00:29:59Leave it alone.
00:29:59Yeah, but those people would...
00:30:00Leave it alone.
00:30:14Jeff.
00:30:17I'm sorry it went so badly.
00:30:19So am I.
00:30:20Why did he act that way about the wire?
00:30:23I don't know.
00:30:24I just don't know.
00:30:27Goodbye.
00:30:29Goodbye.
00:30:39Hey, Dems, which way we head?
00:30:42Straight north.
00:30:44How'd you know?
00:30:46Just pick a star and follow it.
00:30:50Of course, you gotta be sure it's the right one.
00:30:53Oh, I guess I'll never learn to pick the right one.
00:30:56Yes, you will.
00:30:58Everybody's got a star to follow.
00:31:01Which one's yours?
00:31:03Me?
00:31:03Never got around to picking one for myself.
00:31:08I guess I'm sort of like the cattle.
00:31:11Drifting north with the grass.
00:31:13What made you drift north?
00:31:14Isn't there any more grass in Texas?
00:31:16Lots of it, kid.
00:31:17Tall, sweet, and it's real good.
00:31:21Stretching out from the Pecos to the Sabine.
00:31:24Then they brought in the wire.
00:31:26You know, it was all open range as far as you can see.
00:31:31As far as a man could ride a horse or drive cattle, there was nothing to stop you.
00:31:37Nothing to drag you down.
00:31:39That's why you came up here?
00:31:43Yeah.
00:31:45Now the wire's catching up with me again.
00:31:49You know, kid, you and I may just wind up in Canada.
00:31:53Well, I put the herd up on the lake like you said, but have you seen the grass in that section lately?
00:32:12No.
00:32:13It's just about eight off.
00:32:17Anything wrong?
00:32:18Not exactly.
00:32:19Something more we can do?
00:32:21Yeah.
00:32:21Stick around when the rest of the boys come in.
00:32:24You're going to meet the new owner.
00:32:26Oh.
00:32:27He's here, huh?
00:32:28Say, uh, did he use it yet?
00:32:32I wouldn't know.
00:32:38Put him up for me, will you?
00:32:40Sure, Demps.
00:32:41Come on.
00:32:51You're going to a wedding or a funeral?
00:32:56Neither.
00:32:56What are you all prettied up for?
00:32:58Oh, personal reasons.
00:33:00Going to the ranch house.
00:33:01Got it cooked for the boss.
00:33:03Hey, you got that thing I sent for?
00:33:06Huh?
00:33:07Oh, inside, right by the door.
00:33:09Real pretty.
00:33:10Thanks.
00:33:10Thanks.
00:33:10Don't you know a man can get himself killed doing that?
00:33:26I'm telling you, true kid.
00:33:30Better wear this.
00:33:35It's for me?
00:33:36Well, it ain't for me.
00:33:37I got one.
00:33:39Put it on.
00:33:40Oh.
00:33:41No.
00:33:42You're a lefty, ain't you?
00:33:44Oh, thanks.
00:33:46Oh.
00:33:47You shouldn't have done it.
00:33:48Why not?
00:33:49Like I don't, he said.
00:33:51A man can't walk around here naked.
00:33:53I should say, it looks pretty good.
00:33:58Come on.
00:33:59Let's learn to use it.
00:34:05Here.
00:34:06Hold it.
00:34:13All right, kid.
00:34:14Break it up.
00:34:23I meant the bottle.
00:34:26Well, I shot at the bottle.
00:34:30Look, when you were a kid, I mean even younger than you are now,
00:34:33your mother ever tell you it was rude to point?
00:34:36Sure.
00:34:37Well, when you're using a gun, you're downright rude.
00:34:39So point.
00:34:41Point.
00:34:43Point.
00:34:48Get the idea?
00:34:49Hey.
00:34:53You ready?
00:34:54Try it on this.
00:34:56Hey, wait till I get clear.
00:35:02No, no.
00:35:03This time from the draw.
00:35:05I'll call it.
00:35:08Go.
00:35:12Oh, I'm sorry.
00:35:13Don't be.
00:35:14That's a good, fast draw.
00:35:16Let's try it again.
00:35:16And this time, slow down.
00:35:17Now, watch me.
00:35:18Look.
00:35:19As the gun clears the leather, you thumb back the hammer and point.
00:35:22Get it?
00:35:24Uh-huh.
00:35:24Do it.
00:35:25And this time, you're going to hit that can plum center.
00:35:28Ten dollars says he doesn't.
00:35:39Say.
00:35:43I can use that.
00:35:45What did you say?
00:35:47I can use that ten dollars.
00:35:52Start shooting, kid.
00:35:59You just lost ten dollars.
00:36:01From where I sit, it's worth it.
00:36:04Do you shoot as cleverly as you talk?
00:36:07Better.
00:36:08Then why not win back your ten?
00:36:16Whoa!
00:36:17Settle down there, boys.
00:36:18Settle down.
00:36:21Keep away.
00:36:22I can handle you.
00:36:25Whoa, boys.
00:36:26Settle down there.
00:36:27Not bad with horses.
00:36:29I'm not bad with anything.
00:36:33Say, who are you?
00:36:34I'm Reed Bowman, and you're impolite.
00:36:38You're the owner?
00:36:40Now I know why Strapp said he never seen you use it.
00:36:45Use what?
00:36:48Uh.
00:36:49Oh.
00:36:50Uh.
00:36:51If you're looking over the ranch, I'll drive you.
00:36:53I've already looked it over.
00:36:54And what I've seen, I don't like.
00:36:56Including you.
00:36:57That's a lot of woman.
00:37:06Wouldn't you say?
00:37:08I was taught not to say.
00:37:10About women.
00:37:12What's the matter with you?
00:37:14You didn't have to make such a fool out of me in front of her.
00:37:19Nobody can make a fool out of you, kid.
00:37:21You gotta do that to yourself.
00:37:22Why don't you give that gun a chance to cool off?
00:37:26And you do the same, huh?
00:37:32Fancy Joe Toole.
00:37:33How are you, Joe?
00:37:35Little Waco.
00:37:36Pleasure, ma'am.
00:37:37From Waco, huh?
00:37:38Yes, ma'am.
00:37:38Baldy Lewis.
00:37:39Baldy.
00:37:41It's my top hand.
00:37:42Latigo.
00:37:43Pleased to meet you, Latigo.
00:37:44Howdy, ma'am.
00:37:45Dempsey Ray.
00:37:46We know each other.
00:37:47Do we?
00:37:48The Texas Kid.
00:37:49How do you do, Texas?
00:37:51Chuck King.
00:37:52Chuck?
00:37:53Hammer, my blacksmith.
00:37:55Glad to meet you, ma'am.
00:37:56Nice to know you.
00:37:57The rest of the men are out on the range.
00:37:58They're riding the line camp.
00:37:59I figured you wouldn't want to call them in.
00:38:00No, not if they're busy.
00:38:05I have only one thing to say.
00:38:07I bought this ranch to make money.
00:38:10I pay good wages, but I expect good work.
00:38:14Any questions?
00:38:16You gonna be working, boss, or absentee?
00:38:19Say that again?
00:38:20All over Wyoming, Montana, we got absentee owners.
00:38:24Folks want to live in the east, but make their money in the west.
00:38:27I was wondering which one you're gonna be.
00:38:30Well, stop wondering.
00:38:31I'll be here.
00:38:33And there may be times when you'll wish I weren't.
00:38:37Well, I guess that's about all.
00:38:39Strap, you ought to have dinner with me tonight.
00:38:40I have some things to talk over.
00:38:43And you too, Latigo.
00:38:44Thank you, ma'am.
00:38:45Anybody else?
00:38:49No.
00:38:52How does it feel to be put in your place?
00:38:54I wouldn't know.
00:38:55Why don't you try putting me there?
00:38:57Now you're in your place.
00:39:07I'm gonna keep you there.
00:39:13Oh, you're asking for it.
00:39:14Hey, pardon, ma'am.
00:39:23Didn't mean to block you.
00:39:24She would have mean, kid, never turn your back.
00:39:42You're short, one man for dinner.
00:39:54Well, in that case, be my guest.
00:40:05Some wine?
00:40:06Why not?
00:40:07I can't get whiskey.
00:40:10Strap?
00:40:10And thank you, no.
00:40:13To the new boss, the triangle, and the cows.
00:40:16All 10,000 of them.
00:40:1715,000.
00:40:19The count was 10.
00:40:20If you paid for more, you got cheated.
00:40:22I didn't.
00:40:23There's a new herd coming up from Texas.
00:40:24They should be here within a month.
00:40:25That's a lot of beef.
00:40:27How much they charge you for?
00:40:28The price was right.
00:40:29I know cattle.
00:40:30And you know you're bringing in too many.
00:40:31The grass won't hold them.
00:40:33It's enough grass in Wyoming to hold a million head.
00:40:35Perhaps more.
00:40:36True, but it ain't all yours.
00:40:39I'm afraid he's right.
00:40:41I'd be afraid.
00:40:41It's open rain.
00:40:43Yeah, but who's going to tell Cassidy and the other owners?
00:40:45Aren't you?
00:40:46They're friends of mine, ma'am.
00:40:48I got no quarrel with them.
00:40:50Neither have I, as long as they let me alone.
00:40:53Yeah, but you ain't leaving them alone.
00:40:5510,000 head on the range now and five more coming in.
00:40:58It just ain't right.
00:40:59You ain't going to have to wait.
00:41:01Suppose you let me worry about that.
00:41:04Shall we go to the living room?
00:41:09But where are you going to find the men to work these cattle?
00:41:12You going to worry about that too?
00:41:13We'll find the men when we need them.
00:41:14Where?
00:41:15Why not hire the men that bring the cattle up from Texas?
00:41:17That seems like a good idea.
00:41:19Well, that depends on the men.
00:41:20There are two kinds that drive the trail.
00:41:22Them that knows cows and them that knows trouble.
00:41:25He means men that are handy with a gun.
00:41:28I know what he means.
00:41:30It might not be a bad idea to have a few of those around.
00:41:33Not while I'm foreman.
00:41:36We'll see about that later.
00:41:41Thank you, ma'am.
00:41:43Good night.
00:41:48It doesn't look like Strap is going to be quite strong enough for my type of operation.
00:41:52Well, just what is your, uh, type of operation?
00:41:56Before winter, I intend to have 30,000 head on the grass.
00:41:59This is open range, and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts.
00:42:02At that rate, it won't last long, too.
00:42:04Maybe three years, and the grass will be gone.
00:42:07So will I.
00:42:12Well, like you say, it's open range, and I suppose if a man's smart, he gets in,
00:42:17gets what he wants, and gets out in a hurry.
00:42:20Only this time, it happens to be a woman.
00:42:25I know.
00:42:27How much do you want to take over?
00:42:31This foreman?
00:42:32Yes.
00:42:35Not interesting.
00:42:36Why not?
00:42:37Because it means trouble.
00:42:39Trouble?
00:42:39Sure, Cassidy, Tyler, and the others are not going to take this lying down.
00:42:43You keep crowding, and sooner or later, they'll fight.
00:42:45And if they do?
00:42:47Well, he ain't going to fight with me.
00:42:48Why not?
00:42:51Because I'm not interested in fighting.
00:42:55Not at 30 a month.
00:43:07Suppose we make it 50?
00:43:09Uh-uh.
00:43:1160?
00:43:13Nope.
00:43:13I'm going to need you, Dempsey.
00:43:17Are you?
00:43:20What do you want?
00:43:46That, well, it's...
00:43:48It's nothing.
00:43:50I wouldn't say that.
00:43:54To my new foreman.
00:43:56Come on, now, wait a minute.
00:43:58A lot of ways of taking a man's job.
00:44:00This is not one of them.
00:44:02What shall I call you, then?
00:44:05Well, let's say I'm, uh...
00:44:08top hand.
00:44:08What'd you write?
00:44:16A nice figure.
00:44:18Not the one I want.
00:44:22Uh-uh.
00:44:23I don't believe in overpaying the help.
00:44:26I have a lot of trouble with you.
00:44:30You're so right.
00:44:31Let me have that branding iron.
00:44:53Slap it on.
00:44:54Who, me?
00:44:55Sure.
00:44:56It's time you learn how to brand the Mavericks.
00:45:01Say, that's real pretty.
00:45:06About another ten years, you'll be a top hand.
00:45:09Ten years after an expert job like that?
00:45:14Come on, come on.
00:45:20Want to try it once for a dollar?
00:45:22You call it.
00:45:23Okay.
00:45:27Now!
00:45:27You're going to win my whole month's pay.
00:45:34Listen, for what you're learning, you're buying it cheap.
00:45:37This time next month, you'll be having me sell my saddle.
00:45:45Is this what you're trying to do?
00:45:50Yeah!
00:45:51Well, how about this?
00:45:52Holy smoke!
00:46:00Oh, would you rather do this?
00:46:11Oh, dammit!
00:46:12When do I learn that?
00:46:13You don't.
00:46:15That's all a lot of hogwash, kid.
00:46:17Look, know this.
00:46:18Twirling a gun never saved a man's life.
00:46:20There's only one thing you've got to learn.
00:46:25Get it out fast.
00:46:27And then...
00:46:29put it away...
00:46:31slow.
00:46:33Get what I mean, kid?
00:46:35Hey!
00:46:37All right, all right.
00:46:39Let's go to work, children.
00:46:40The herd's in.
00:46:41Good.
00:46:42Where about?
00:46:43Over on the flats.
00:46:44Condemps.
00:46:45All 5,000 of them are strung out from here to Texas.
00:46:49Come on in.
00:46:50There they be.
00:47:03There they be.
00:47:05Who brought them in?
00:47:06Steve Miles from the Sabine.
00:47:08Steve Miles?
00:47:11Yeah, you know him.
00:47:12Yeah, I know him.
00:47:16Who's he got with him?
00:47:18Well, there's Tom Quitman, Concho Perez.
00:47:22He's got Yaqui Neal and Moglin riding point, but I don't know the others.
00:47:27You will.
00:47:28Yeah?
00:47:28Hey, the boss lady gets around.
00:47:39Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:47:44Miss Bowman?
00:47:46This is Steve Miles, trail boss.
00:47:48How do you do?
00:47:49He says he'll need some cash for his men.
00:47:51All right.
00:47:52Strap talked to you about working at the Triangle?
00:47:55Nope.
00:47:57Why not?
00:47:59Well, I just don't think Steve's such a good hand with cattle.
00:48:02Well, he managed to bring these up from Texas, didn't he?
00:48:06Come on into the ranch.
00:48:07We'll talk it over.
00:48:08What about my men?
00:48:10You think they'd mind waiting for you in town?
00:48:12That's it, boys.
00:48:16Head for town.
00:48:19Is there any other orders that shall I put the herd up on Blue Lake?
00:48:22What about a little river?
00:48:24I thought I told you to put some over there.
00:48:36Why, Dempsey Ray.
00:48:39Howdy, Steve.
00:48:40Did Texas get too small for you?
00:48:51Hey, Dempsey.
00:48:52Ride back to the ranch with Miles and me.
00:48:58You and Texas take a few hundred.
00:49:00When you get your tally, drift them north along the little river.
00:49:03Hey, wait a minute.
00:49:04Cassidy's been saving that grass along the river.
00:49:06Figuring on using it this winter.
00:49:07You gonna crowd them?
00:49:08I'm gonna do what I was told.
00:49:10I'd like to have you do the same thing.
00:49:12Let's don't have any trouble.
00:49:14Trouble?
00:49:15I don't want any trouble.
00:49:16Come on, Texas.
00:49:17Let's cut them out.
00:49:25Hey, Tex.
00:49:25There's a loose one.
00:49:26Now, go on that way.
00:49:27Go get them, Waco.
00:49:30Show them who's boss.
00:49:49Texans, come here.
00:49:51Quick, quick.
00:49:53Come on, baby.
00:49:53Come on, baby.
00:49:53Let's go.
00:49:56Texans, come on, baby.
00:49:58Come over here.
00:49:59Take it easy, Waco.
00:50:01My foot.
00:50:02See the stairs.
00:50:03Get me out of here.
00:50:08Back, boy.
00:50:09Back.
00:50:11Back.
00:50:11Back.
00:50:15What happened, Waco?
00:50:16I don't know.
00:50:17I rode into it.
00:50:18I didn't see it.
00:50:19I didn't even know it was there.
00:50:21Well, it won't be there much longer.
00:50:29Come on.
00:50:30Come on.
00:50:30Come on.
00:50:30Leave it alone.
00:50:53Pick off your gun belt.
00:51:00Drop it.
00:51:03Now, step down.
00:51:16That's my wire, son.
00:51:18And I want you to leave it alone.
00:51:20We're saving this grass for our winter feed.
00:51:22We don't want our own cattle on it.
00:51:24And we don't want the triangle cattle on it.
00:51:27Now, is that understood?
00:51:30You heard what the man said.
00:51:32Answer him.
00:51:32Dad, Dad, little Waco's been hurt.
00:51:35Come here.
00:51:36Quick.
00:51:39You could have put that between your eyes, son.
00:51:44Take his gun.
00:51:46See what's wrong.
00:51:52Now, step up, you.
00:52:00Your man got hung up on our wire.
00:52:15His back will need some work.
00:52:16Here, let me have that boy.
00:52:18Step down, son.
00:52:19I got just the thing to fix them cuts.
00:52:22Who are you?
00:52:24I'm Bill Cassidy, ma'am.
00:52:26I want you to know we're sorry about little Waco.
00:52:28And there's something else we want you to know.
00:52:30It might be a good idea to keep your cows away from Little River.
00:52:34Why?
00:52:34Because we're stringing wire from Mint Canyon down across the riverbed.
00:52:38We figure to hold that grass and keep it for winter feed.
00:52:44Do you own that ground?
00:52:46No, but we got there first.
00:52:48Is that the law?
00:52:49We figure it is.
00:52:50In other words, it's your law.
00:52:52We don't aim to be unfriendly, ma'am.
00:52:54But with you bringing in the big herd, we've got to do something about our few.
00:52:59That's why we're fencing that grass.
00:53:01Government grass, huh?
00:53:04Call it that if you want.
00:53:05But we're going to use it.
00:53:08So am I, Mr. Cassidy.
00:53:15We'll see about that, Miss Bowen.
00:53:16Here, you got a wolf cub on your hand.
00:53:21Better teach him some manners.
00:53:26Let me have my gun.
00:53:28Put up your horse.
00:53:29Give me that gun.
00:53:34I said put up your horse.
00:53:42Jeff, what happened to Cassidy's?
00:53:44Tell me.
00:53:46I don't like wire.
00:53:51I don't like anybody that uses it.
00:53:54I've heard that before.
00:53:56Haven't you?
00:53:59You've got some men waiting in town.
00:54:01Take them their money.
00:54:07I usually take my orders from a foreman.
00:54:10You just took one from your foreman.
00:54:11Strap is through as of today.
00:54:13He sent a boy on a man's job.
00:54:16I want to talk to you later.
00:54:25Looks like Dempsey got real soft.
00:54:27You and your men have three days to get drunk and sober up, then report back to the ranch, ready for work.
00:54:34Well, how's the back?
00:54:47Oh, I'm going to be all right, Dempsey.
00:54:49Cookie smeared me with some of that magic grease, and the cuts closed up so fast they almost caught his finger.
00:54:54Hey, Texas, why don't you let Cookie smear you with some of his magic grease?
00:55:12Hey, Texas, why don't you let Cookie smear you with some of his magic grease?
00:55:22Kid, let me have a look at that arm.
00:55:24I thought I was only supposed to drink Sarsaparilla.
00:55:31It's not for drinking, at least not for you.
00:55:35Ow!
00:55:38She thinks I'm a boy.
00:55:40I'll catch up with that guy, and when I do, I'll kill him!
00:55:43Shut up!
00:55:44Well, that's easy for you to say.
00:55:46It's not your arm.
00:55:47You don't know how it feels.
00:55:48I know how it feels, and I'll tell you something else I know.
00:55:56It's about a kid with a gun who was with me the first time I met up with Barguire.
00:56:00He was just about your age when he got himself killed.
00:56:02He looked a lot like you, too.
00:56:21Except when his tooth was broken off right here.
00:56:26I was teaching him to twirl the gun.
00:56:28The bell came around and hit him right across the mouth.
00:56:32I laughed, and he took a punch at me.
00:56:37He could punch good, too.
00:56:42Sit down.
00:56:49He was your brother, huh?
00:56:51Yeah.
00:56:53No, he had a big spread in Texas.
00:56:56It was all open range.
00:56:59Then they brought in a wire.
00:57:00And when the wire comes in, there's fighting and killing.
00:57:06But this time, we're going away.
00:57:11You get the war bags packed, we'll leave my clean shirt out.
00:57:16I'll collect their wages, and we'll have a big night in town and drift north in the morning.
00:57:22Get it, kid?
00:57:22Oh, one thing more.
00:57:27Next time you hit me, use your fist.
00:57:30No man ever slaps me.
00:57:32I have a big night in town.
00:57:51Oh...
00:57:52Are you all right?
00:57:54Anybody home?
00:57:59Who is it?
00:58:00Me, Dempsey.
00:58:02Come in.
00:58:08Where are you?
00:58:09In here.
00:58:18I'll be with you in just a minute.
00:58:20If you're embarrassed, you can wait in the other room.
00:58:29You find that?
00:58:31It's still a good idea.
00:58:33Go on, make yourself comfortable.
00:58:35I won't be long.
00:58:50I won't be long.
00:58:52I'll be long.
00:59:05Have a great day.
01:00:11It's quite a bathtub you got there.
01:00:13You're welcome to use it any time.
01:00:16Well, it better be quick. I'm quitting.
01:00:19Quitting?
01:00:21Yeah.
01:00:23Why? Is it because you're afraid of Cassidy?
01:00:27Yeah, I'm afraid.
01:00:31Of what?
01:00:33Of Cassidy.
01:00:35Come on now. You know that's a lie.
01:00:39But you are afraid of something.
01:00:43Yeah.
01:00:45I'm afraid of you now. Can I have my wages?
01:00:49Well, if that's the way you feel about it.
01:00:51How much do you have coming to you?
01:00:53Well, I should look in the book.
01:00:57I don't have to look in the book.
01:00:59I can still remember what you wrote.
01:01:03Well?
01:01:07So you came here to collect?
01:01:13Yes, how far will you go to keep a foreman?
01:01:29Well, I might even marry him.
01:01:33Oh, and slap the triangle iron on his run.
01:01:35Oh, by the way, when you see Strapp, will you tell him he's no longer foreman?
01:01:59You better do that.
01:02:01Why?
01:02:02Because I won't be seeing him.
01:02:04Well, of course you will.
01:02:05You'll be putting the herd down on Little River, and when you...
01:02:07Uh-uh.
01:02:09I thought we agreed that you...
01:02:11You agreed that I was gonna put your cattle onto Cassidy's grass.
01:02:14All I agreed to do is let you make a fool of yourself.
01:02:19How low can a man get?
01:02:22I wouldn't know about a man.
01:02:24But I've just seen how low a woman will go to get what she wants.
01:02:27And on you it don't look good.
01:02:30And you're leaving?
01:02:31Yeah.
01:02:32I'm taking the kid with me, too.
01:02:33You know, Steve Miles is your kind of man.
01:02:34You pay him the right wages and he'll do your killing.
01:02:37Speaking of wages, you still haven't collected yours.
01:02:44Haven't I?
01:02:46Hmm.
01:02:47Hmm.
01:02:48Hmm.
01:02:49Hmm.
01:02:50Tax!
01:02:51Hey, Tax!
01:02:52Hey, where's Tax's?
01:02:53Well, he's been in and out of here a couple of times.
01:02:57I wonder where he can be.
01:02:58Maybe he got tired of waiting for ya and rode into town.
01:03:00Yeah.
01:03:01Maybe he did.
01:03:02Well, take care of yourself, little Waco.
01:03:03Yeah, same to you Dempz.
01:03:04Keep on going on and going on.
01:03:07That's right.
01:03:08Well, you never heard of this man.
01:03:09It's the matter.
01:03:10Hugh, I don't know?
01:03:14All right, what's this man?
01:03:15No.
01:03:16He's been in and out of here a couple of times.
01:03:18I wonder where he can be?
01:03:19Maybe he got tired of waiting for ya and rode into town.
01:03:22Yeah?
01:03:23Maybe he did.
01:03:24Well, take care of yourself, little Waco.
01:03:25Yeah, same to you Dempz.
01:03:26Keep out of the wire.
01:03:28Good writing.
01:03:38Go on, boss.
01:03:56Let's dance, Dempsey.
01:03:59Let's dance, Dempsey.
01:04:29I'm the happiest man in time.
01:04:45What are you so happy about?
01:04:47On account of I'm leaving tonight.
01:04:49And who's going to pay for the whiskey?
01:04:50Oh, send him up, Duckville.
01:04:52He's leaving without a saddle.
01:04:53Uh-oh, new girl in town.
01:05:01That must be the one.
01:05:02Who?
01:05:03That triangle gal.
01:05:10What would you like to drink?
01:05:11I'll get it for you.
01:05:13Anything you do.
01:05:20Jax, why'd you bring her here?
01:05:22Any reason why I shouldn't?
01:05:24All right, take her a drink and let's get out of here.
01:05:27I waited for you, now you can wait for me.
01:05:29You learn fast, huh?
01:05:31Two whiskeys.
01:05:32You know we don't serve ladies in here.
01:05:34Uh, Duckville, give me that again.
01:05:38You know what I mean.
01:05:40Not them kind of ladies.
01:05:41What kind of ladies?
01:05:42Now, don't you give me no trouble.
01:05:44What was it you wanted?
01:05:45One whiskey and a sarsaparilla.
01:05:47I said two whiskeys.
01:05:49Water on the side.
01:05:50Where am I supposed to get the water?
01:05:52Water.
01:05:53Water.
01:05:55Duckville, you get the water down on Little River.
01:05:57They got plenty.
01:05:59Don't send Dempsey.
01:06:01He's scared of wire.
01:06:02What'd you say, pig face?
01:06:12I said, you're afraid of wire.
01:06:17You're leaving tonight, remember?
01:06:18She's right.
01:06:25I don't want to fight you.
01:06:29I was under a prairie moon
01:06:32Whistling a lonesome tune
01:06:35When my roving eye
01:06:37Came to sight her
01:06:39And my heart
01:06:42And my heart rode lighter
01:06:43And lighter
01:06:44And the moon
01:06:46Grew brighter
01:06:47And brighter
01:06:48When I told her
01:06:50That she was swell
01:06:51She said, you're swell as well
01:06:52I just don't know
01:06:54Who was politer
01:06:55Then my arms
01:06:57Just seemed to invite her
01:06:59And the moon
01:07:01Grew brighter
01:07:01And brighter
01:07:02E-oh-lo-de-oh
01:07:04E-oh-lo-de-oh
01:07:05E-oh-lo-de-oh
01:07:06E-oh
01:07:07So I rounded up
01:07:08Some kisses
01:07:09To delight her
01:07:10And she wrote me
01:07:12Tighter
01:07:13And tighter
01:07:13And the moon
01:07:15Grew brighter
01:07:16And brighter
01:07:17Talked about her eyes
01:07:19Of blue
01:07:20Talked about a preacher
01:07:21Too
01:07:21T'was the preacher
01:07:23Talk that seemed
01:07:23To dynamite me
01:07:25She said she could
01:07:26Tie the knot
01:07:27And tie it tightly
01:07:28And the moon
01:07:30Grew brightly
01:07:31And brightly
01:07:32And brightly
01:07:34And brightly
01:07:36And brightly
01:07:36That enough again,
01:07:42Duckville
01:07:42Rings for everybody
01:07:43Oh, honey
01:07:47Looks like you're
01:07:48Gonna leave town
01:07:48Without your boots, too
01:07:50Come on, pretty girl
01:08:00I'm gonna buy
01:08:01The next dance
01:08:02For you
01:08:02Please
01:08:03Let her alone
01:08:05What did you say, kid?
01:08:08I said
01:08:09Get your dirty hands
01:08:10Off the lady
01:08:11And way past
01:08:16Sonny's bedtime
01:08:17Get your hands
01:08:18Off her
01:08:19He asked for it, Demps
01:08:31And you gave it to him
01:08:34Why, you little killer
01:08:39Why, you
01:08:41Ow!
01:08:44So you learned
01:08:45How to kill
01:08:46And you like it, huh?
01:08:49He had a good teacher
01:08:53We're even
01:08:57You and me
01:08:58But you had to use
01:09:00A kid to square it
01:09:01Come on
01:09:03Over to him
01:09:04Come on
01:09:07Let's go
01:09:09Dance, wait!
01:09:39Whose play was this?
01:09:43Mine.
01:09:46What's your story?
01:09:47Self-defense.
01:09:48I'll go along with that.
01:09:50He's one of my men.
01:09:53All right, but don't leave town till I tell you.
01:09:56If you want him, he'll be out at the ranch.
01:09:58Then I'll go his bail.
01:10:00All right, Miss Bowman.
01:10:01Jeff, take me home.
01:10:04Yeah, trot along with her, kid.
01:10:07I'm not a kid.
01:10:08Oh, that's right, Texas.
01:10:09You've grown real tall.
01:10:11And tonight you killed two men.
01:10:13The first one was on your own.
01:10:15But you needed the help of an alley cat to kill the second.
01:10:33Take him up there and bury him.
01:10:38Who was it this time?
01:10:42Tom McLeod.
01:10:43We found him up on Casper's Ridge.
01:10:46Leave any signs?
01:10:47Paid killers never leave any signs.
01:10:51Well, we're right back where we were last week.
01:10:54Except there's another man dead and they've torn down the rest of our wire.
01:10:57They?
01:10:57Who's they?
01:10:58Steve Miles and his crowd.
01:11:00Well, aren't you going to do anything?
01:11:03Yes, I'm going to ride out and have a talk.
01:11:05Could be some of the decent boys might know something about this.
01:11:08You've still got Little Waco and Fancy Joe and some of the others out there.
01:11:12Not anymore, they ain't.
01:11:13They quit.
01:11:14Well, why not sign them on?
01:11:16Well, they ain't gunfighters, John.
01:11:18They're working, cow hands.
01:11:19Why, there ain't no ten of them could stand up to one of that bunch from Texas.
01:11:23Besides, I wouldn't ask them to.
01:11:25You sign them on and let them start stringing wire.
01:11:28I'll ride out and see they don't get hurt.
01:11:30Oh, John, your wife don't speak to me.
01:11:33Not that I blame her.
01:11:35But I still wouldn't like to see her be a widow woman.
01:11:37Against that Miles bunch, you ain't got a chance.
01:11:40Well, if he can't stop them, who can?
01:11:48You knew the answer to that before you asked me, didn't you, Cassidy?
01:11:53Yeah, maybe I did.
01:11:55All right, golly, I'm going to have a talk with that wife of mine.
01:11:58Seems like she don't know a good woman when she sees one.
01:12:10All right, Johnny?
01:12:39Mm-hmm.
01:12:41Did you get a bottle?
01:12:43Yep, two of them.
01:12:44Wonderful.
01:12:47Give me a little drink.
01:12:49Sure I will, honey.
01:12:56Not so much water in this second one.
01:12:59You call it, I've got it.
01:13:04It's just as bad.
01:13:07Give me the bottle.
01:13:09Anything you say, honey.
01:13:15What'd you do that for?
01:13:17Well, it's time to get up.
01:13:19Oh.
01:13:19Why'd you tell me the train's here?
01:13:36Honey, there've been eight trains in since you decided to leave and you missed all of them.
01:13:40I'm going to make this train.
01:13:41Oh, you ain't making any train.
01:13:44Demps, why don't you admit it?
01:13:46You're stuck on that girl.
01:13:47You're stuck on that girl.
01:13:48That's why you're letting her take that kid and make a killer out of him.
01:13:51Don't blame her for that.
01:13:53Don't blame her for that.
01:13:55No?
01:13:56Well, maybe you're right.
01:13:57But who do I blame for that Miles bunch killing two men and then tearing up all the wire on Little River.
01:14:03What'd you expect them to do?
01:14:05It ain't what I expect them to do that counts.
01:14:07It's what I expect you to do.
01:14:09You know what I want to do?
01:14:10I'm taking the next train out.
01:14:12Oh, you're taking the next train out.
01:14:15That's a story of your life, Demps.
01:14:18Well, I guess there's nothing a man like you can do except keep on running.
01:14:23But no matter where you go, you're going to run into that same fence.
01:14:28And it always has wire on it.
01:14:31You know them killings is going to go on and on until the wires come here to stay.
01:14:37You know it better than anybody in the world.
01:14:40Demps.
01:14:47You forgot something.
01:14:58It ain't rightly mine.
01:15:07I'll be seeing you.
01:15:10Come on, Jacky, bring a bottle with you.
01:15:33Come on.
01:15:34Yeah, Davey can drink that all by himself.
01:15:40Cassidy, I'm moving the triangle cattle in on Little River.
01:15:45If I find any wire out that way, I'm going to make you eat it.
01:15:53What's the matter, Dempsey?
01:15:55You look sick.
01:15:57It's what I'm looking at that makes me sick.
01:16:10Come on, let's see him dance.
01:16:26Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:16:56That's the prettiest wrap package I ever saw.
01:17:15Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:17:18Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:17:30You may be needing that, honey.
01:17:32Pull up, Barney.
01:17:54Get down!
01:18:02Come on, Barney.
01:18:14Ben?
01:18:15Yeah. I've done worse for the Razor.
01:18:18Start down the hill and move carefully.
01:18:21Debs, you mean you're gonna stay here?
01:18:23Go on.
01:18:32Hey, Concho, look!
01:18:47Old man Cassidy.
01:18:53I think we better dump him.
01:18:56I don't.
01:19:02Don't shoot.
01:19:07I didn't intend to.
01:19:10Step down, Concho.
01:19:13I want you all in one piece.
01:19:17Dempsey, you all right?
01:19:20Couldn't be better.
01:19:22Cut off the other end of that wire.
01:19:33What for?
01:19:34I got a package to deliver and I don't want it to fall apart.
01:19:41Looks like it's your play, kid.
01:19:52Go get your boss, lady.
01:19:57Do you hear me?
01:20:17I got a package for you.
01:20:19Oh!
01:20:30And the next time one of your men touches our wire,
01:20:33I'll wrap a strand of it around your pretty neck.
01:20:44Thinking of trying it once for a dollar?
01:20:46If I do.
01:20:47Don't do it, Texas.
01:20:51Afraid I might get hurt?
01:20:54Either way, it breaks.
01:20:56That's real nice of you.
01:20:59And you can tell Steve Miles from now on,
01:21:01I'm wrapping the packages.
01:21:02Take it easy.
01:21:14You better go in the house.
01:21:15I'll take care of them.
01:21:16How'd this happen?
01:21:26Dempsey.
01:21:27He was waiting at the wire.
01:21:29Dempsey brought you in?
01:21:30Yeah.
01:21:33You were here.
01:21:35Yes, I was here.
01:21:36And you didn't go for your gun.
01:21:42Would you have?
01:21:43You have?
01:21:44Yeah.
01:21:52If you were a man, I'd kill you.
01:21:55Strange.
01:21:56I thought you only shot at boys.
01:21:58But Dempsey says to return his call any time you feel like it.
01:22:06That's not a bad idea.
01:22:08Only this time we'll bring a few thousand head of cattle with us.
01:22:11Texas stop.
01:22:12He'll understand that.
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01:22:43Never step down till you're asked.
01:22:59Take it easy, Jeff.
01:23:03Who won the dollar?
01:23:05Steve Miles.
01:23:08He's coming here now.
01:23:09Texas style.
01:23:11Texas style, huh?
01:23:13Oh, I'm going to take it easy.
01:23:14Ooh.
01:23:17Everything's going to be all right, Jeff.
01:23:19Can you handle it?
01:23:21Of course I can.
01:23:30What does he mean?
01:23:32Texas style.
01:23:34Huh, you'll learn.
01:23:35Or you'll be up to your armpits in beef.
01:23:38Come on.
01:23:43They're waiting at the wire.
01:23:56Well, let's don't disappoint her, men.
01:23:58Send them along.
01:23:58Nothing will stop until they reach the river.
01:24:26And now take the wire with them.
01:24:27They're not going to hit the wire.
01:24:29We're going to turn them.
01:24:31You mean you're going to turn a stampede when it's coming right at you?
01:24:34Got any better ideas?
01:24:37No.
01:24:38Come on.
01:24:39It's your grasp.
01:24:40It's your privilege.
01:24:54Let's go.
01:25:24Let's go.
01:25:54Let's go.
01:26:24Let's go.
01:26:54Let's go.
01:27:24As long as you saved our grass, seems like you're entitled to use some of it.
01:27:30Yeah, we've been talking it over, Demps, and we figure on setting you up with a few hundred head.
01:27:34Now, there's a lot of good range beyond Little River.
01:27:36In no time at all, you'd have a big place of your own.
01:27:38Look, thanks, but I just don't like barbed wire.
01:27:45Well, I'll be seeing you.
01:27:46What are you doing?
01:27:55I'm doing what you're doing.
01:27:57Ain't you learn better?
01:28:00Don't do like I do.
01:28:01Do like I say.
01:28:01Better yet, do like she says.
01:28:11I'll be seeing you.
01:28:12Who knows, who knows, who knows, who knows which way the right way goes.
01:28:22The night is dark.
01:28:23The way is far for a man without a star.
01:28:27Who knows, who knows, who knows which way the whirlwind blows or where the trail of tomorrow goes.
01:28:37For a man without a star.
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