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Ridin' Down the Canyon (1942) is a classic musical Western starring Roy Rogers, one of the most beloved singing cowboys of American cinema. Filled with adventure, songs, and the charm of the Old West, the film combines action with musical performances that capture the spirit of the 1940s Western era. This timeless movie not only highlights Rogers’ charismatic screen presence but also showcases the enduring appeal of cowboy stories and frontier life on film.
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01:59White-faced cattle owen
02:03On the mountainside
02:07I hear a coyote whining for its maid
02:13Cactus plants are glooming
02:18There you are, Miss Blake. Just present that when you deliver the horses tomorrow and you'll get your money.
02:23Thank you, Mr. Butler.
02:24Well, thanks to me. That's a fine bunch of horses in there.
02:27You can give Bobby the credit for that. He picked them out and did most of the catching and gentled every one of them. Sometimes I think Bobby and wild horses speak the same language.
02:35Don't you believe it, Butler? They're both remarkable kids. Over at the reservation, we know what it is to get those wild critters out of the hills. Any of them. Let alone taking your pick.
02:43Well, that's all the Blakes have ever known is horses. Now I suppose you'll go out and catch some more. That's right. This represents two years of pretty hard work. But Bobby will tell you we're going to catch every wild horse in the West.
02:54Guess what? Roy Rogers coming out to sing at Larry a lot. Well, hooray for Roy Rogers. But I've got better news than that. Mr. Butler's buying all our horses.
03:03All our horses?
03:04Well, naturally not Trigger Junior, silly.
03:06Well, how did I know? You leave a woman alone in a horse deal for a minute and no telling what she's liable to sell.
03:13How much you get?
03:14$1,200.
03:15Not bad, eh, Bobby?
03:17Well, it's a fair deal. You pay for the feed between now and time for delivery.
03:20Well, now that seems reasonable. Guess we'd better be getting along before this horse trader gets our saddles out from under us.
03:28So long, Alice. Come over to the ranch and see us.
03:30We will, Bert.
03:31He doesn't mean we.
03:33Oh, jealous, eh? You know, Bobby, I have a feeling you're not very fond of me.
03:37It's a good horse you got.
03:40Goodbye, Bert.
03:41Bye.
03:41Bobby, you were rude to Bert.
03:52Well, I don't like him. And horses don't like him neither.
03:55Don't you want me any different than a horse?
03:58Never mind. I don't like him so much.
04:01And right now I'm too happy about this to think of anything else.
04:04Think what it means.
04:05Yeah. At last we got a stake.
04:08We'll fix up the house and the barn for Trigger Junior.
04:10And a radio station for Rory Rogers to come, too.
04:13You said it. I could buy a radio station if I could only catch those rustlers and get that $10,000 government reward.
04:20Oh, you and your rustlers. I know.
04:23Why don't you write them a letter and tell them you need the money and won't they please come over and give themselves up?
04:40They're rustlers.
04:53Come on, Bobby.
04:54Hey, you bring back our horse!
05:18Come on.
05:19All right.
05:19Come on.
05:20Way home.
05:22Good morning.
05:24Come on.
05:25Come on.
05:25Come on.
05:30Come on.
05:31Come on.
05:32Come on.
05:33All right.
05:34Oh, my God.
06:04Oh, my God.
06:34Oh, my God.
06:36Oh, my God.
06:38Oh, my God.
06:40Oh, my God.
06:42Oh, my God.
06:44Oh, my God.
06:46Oh, my God.
06:47Oh, my God.
06:48Oh, my God.
06:49Oh, my God.
06:50Oh, my God.
06:52Oh, my God.
07:00Oh, my God.
07:01Oh, my God.
07:02Oh, my God.
07:04Oh, my God.
07:06Oh, my God.
07:08Oh, my God.
07:10Oh, my God.
07:12Oh, my God.
07:14Oh, my God.
07:16Oh, my God.
07:17Oh, my God.
07:18Oh, my God.
07:19Much right up with a rope around their neck.
07:21Even help me pick out the tree.
07:23It's awful nice of you to often help,
07:25but I still think this is a job for Roy Rogers and the Pioneers.
07:28So your mind's made up, is it?
07:29Yeah.
07:30Well, if they don't catch them rustlers right soon and you want a professional, just let me know.
07:50That's them rustlers.
07:52They're not a sheriff in sight.
07:54But you're a professional rustler, catcher.
07:56I know, but...
08:00We got you. Where are my horses?
08:05What horses?
08:06You know what horses. Here's a man that can handle you fellas.
08:10Who, whiskers?
08:16Nobody picks on my spinach. Throw them up, you rogue ants.
08:27I want my horses back.
08:30Somebody's coming. We better get out of here.
08:35Hey, he may be hurt pretty bad. Your boy?
08:36Pick him up a ways back.
08:37We better get some water.
08:38There's a creek down the road a piece.
08:40There's a creek down the road a piece.
08:41He may be hurt pretty bad.
08:58Your boy?
08:59Pick him up a ways back.
09:01We better get some water.
09:02There's a creek down the road apiece.
09:11You'll hear the sweet melodies in the sigh of the breeze.
09:28And all day long there's a song from the birds in the trees.
09:31When the stars come creeping into the sky, a lonely prairie lobo sings a lullaby.
09:38You'll hear the call of the wild in the twilight be gone.
09:42You'll hear them blend at the end in melodious style.
09:45When the echoes play this week's serenade is the St. Christ's symphony.
09:51Say, that's right smart singing.
10:12Makes me wish I'd cultivated my voice.
10:14Wouldn't sound so hot coming through that filter.
10:18Say, where did you learn to make coffee?
10:19I never did learn.
10:20It's a gift.
10:21My own blend, too.
10:23You ought to call it boots and saddles.
10:24Oh, you needn't blame the coffee.
10:26I'll bet all your vittles turn to vinegar when they see what's going to gargle them.
10:30Ha!
10:31That's a good one.
10:34Feel better now, Bobby?
10:36Yeah, I feel all right now.
10:38I got a horse named Trigger Jr.
10:39You have?
10:41Yeah, I mean, I did have.
10:43Tell our rustlers took him with our other horses.
10:45Yeah, Gabby told me something about that.
10:47He did?
10:48And he must have told you why I came after you.
10:50We better get started before the rustlers get too far away.
10:53Well, not so fast, Bobby.
10:54I'm afraid it isn't quite as easy as you think.
10:57What do you mean?
10:59Those rustlers won't be nothing for you and your boys to handle.
11:02Well, thanks for the compliment, Bobby, but, uh...
11:05But why?
11:06You see, we have radio dates that keep us pretty busy.
11:09But think how you'd feel if somebody stole Trigger.
11:17Well, Bobby, I'd really like to help you.
11:19Maybe we could take you home.
11:21Oh, I can get a home all right.
11:23But I'm not going until I get our horses back.
11:25Well, look, uh...
11:27We have to be getting to Larry at Lodge.
11:28How about you coming along till I kind of think things over?
11:30Gee, that'd be swell.
11:32When Sis says she'll think things over,
11:34she means she's going to change her mind.
11:36Can Gabby go along?
11:38He's a professional rustler catcher.
11:39Sure, Gabby will go too, won't you, Gabby?
11:41Sure.
11:44Trigger!
11:51Come here, boy.
11:52Come on.
11:55How'd you like to ride him, Bobby?
11:56Me?
11:57God!
11:58So, come on.
12:00Well, what are you going to do, walk?
12:02I figured on riding your horse, Pat.
12:04Well, what am I going to take, a street car?
12:06Well, you can ride with Gabby.
12:08In that rolling junk pile,
12:09I'll sing off key for six months.
12:12Oh.
12:17Roy, I feel as sorry for this kid as you do,
12:19but don't you think we're kind of
12:20letting ourselves in for something,
12:22taking him along with us?
12:23Well, I just want to make sure he gets home safe.
12:25Maybe some of the folks at Larry at Lodge
12:26will know his folks.
12:27Get out of my way!
12:28Get out of whose way?
12:29My way!
12:30Oh, what are you talking about,
12:31you old whiskered gold?
12:32Civil war.
12:33We better do something about that.
12:35Whoa, whoa, whoa!
12:36Wait a minute.
12:37One more smart-alecky remark
12:39out of that cowboy comic,
12:41and I'll park his tope with that wrench.
12:43Why?
12:44Wait a minute, Gabby.
12:46You and Pat's got to get along in this outfit.
12:48You've got to make allowance for his affliction.
12:50What affliction?
12:51Well, he's deaf as a post.
12:53Of course, he can read our lips,
12:54but he don't know you well enough.
12:56Oh, poor fella.
12:57Why didn't somebody tell me?
13:00Yeah, the kid told us.
13:01Poor old guy, he can't hear a thing.
13:03He's sensitive about it, too.
13:05Gee, I wish I'd have known.
13:10Oh, get in, Brady.
13:13I say, get in, Brady.
13:15I hope I didn't appear quarrelsome.
13:17Oh, that's all right.
13:18I say, that's all right.
13:20I guess I was trying to be a little too comical myself.
13:23Let's call it quits.
13:24Sure, put her there.
13:25No!
13:27I don't mind you holding my hand,
13:29but doggone you, you don't have to mangle it.
13:32There he goes, starting it again.
13:34Why should I be still and let this thrill pass me, boy?
13:55I must have you, but who am I?
14:01Very pretty, Miss Joyce.
14:06Mr. Fellows, it's nice to see you again.
14:08I was just doing a little rehearsing.
14:10Well, it sounded good.
14:12You know my foreman, Bert Worcester?
14:13Of course.
14:14Glad to see you again, Mr. Worcester.
14:15Hello.
14:16What is this, a holiday on the Fellows' ranch?
14:19No, it's anything but a holiday.
14:21Oh, I thought perhaps you'd come over for dinner
14:23and to see the new show.
14:24Roy Rogers and the Pioneers are broadcasting from here this evening.
14:27Sorry.
14:29But speaking of Roy Rogers, it reminds me,
14:31one of his admirers is wandering around the countryside
14:33and his sister thought he might head this way.
14:35His name is Bobby Blake, a nine-year-old.
14:38And if he turns up,
14:39will you tell him that his sister's at our ranch?
14:41Gladly.
14:42Thanks.
14:43Is Mr. Jordan in?
14:44I think so.
14:45Just a moment, I'll see.
14:52Gus, a couple of gentlemen to see you.
14:54Why, hello, Mr. Fellow.
15:00It's glad to see you.
15:01Thanks.
15:01How are you, Worcester?
15:02You haven't been over here for quite a while.
15:04Been pretty busy.
15:04Good, good.
15:05Sit down, gentlemen.
15:06Make yourselves comfortable, will you?
15:08Smoke?
15:08Have a cigar?
15:09Not for me.
15:10Worcester?
15:12Well, I hope things are going better
15:13with your horses over at the reservation.
15:15No, as a matter of fact, they're getting worse.
15:18Not more rustlers?
15:19Plenty more.
15:20They ran a herd off the far side yesterday
15:22in broad daylight.
15:22Well, no wonder you're upset.
15:25Of course, I don't see how the government
15:27can hold you responsible
15:28inasmuch as they only give you a handful of men
15:30to cover hundreds of square miles.
15:32I'm not worried about the responsibility
15:33or my job.
15:35I'm just afraid that they'll close up the project
15:37when it's too important to be abandoned.
15:40Well, do you think there's something
15:40I could do to help you?
15:42Yes.
15:42What's really beating us
15:43is the way these fellows find the herd
15:45no matter where we move them.
15:47I guess the ways of rustlers
15:48are a little out of my line.
15:49I'm afraid I couldn't help you solve that one.
15:51I don't expect you to.
15:55What I want you to do
15:56is to have your boys keep their eyes open
15:58for any suspicious-looking outfits.
16:00I'm asking all the ranchers
16:01up at this end of the valley
16:02to do the same.
16:03I'll be very glad to do that for you.
16:05Thanks.
16:06I'll be on my way then.
16:07Good. Stop in again.
16:13Well?
16:14Fellows is having us move 50 head
16:15over to the east side
16:16and tell your boys
16:17to cut out the rough stuff.
16:19Now, yesterday, they...
16:19Save your complaints
16:20for some other time.
16:21Coming, Bert?
16:22Coming.
16:24But I've still got a few complaints to me.
16:25I hope your driving's better than your coffee.
16:45You want to drive?
16:46Hey, hey, no, no!
16:52Put it back!
16:53Put it back!
16:54Run this as well that way.
16:56It never pays any attention
16:58to the direction I wanted to go in hell.
17:00I say there ain't nothing to worry about.
17:02Put it back, you lunatic!
17:04Put it back!
17:05Why, you misplaced, son of a half-wheeled hurricane!
17:19You've killed me!
17:20Ah, shucks!
17:22You ain't hurt none!
17:23A little shaking up's good for your liver!
17:28Huh?
17:29What are you gonna do about my car
17:31now that you've wrecked it?
17:33What am I gonna do about it?
17:35I'm gonna sue you for everything you've got!
17:37Well, that's all I got!
17:39Sue me!
17:51Where'd the Gabby get to?
17:53I don't know,
17:54and I don't want any part of him.
17:55What's the trouble now?
17:56Oh, that bragging he is
17:57has got me down.
17:58He'd do everything better than anybody,
18:00from catching rustlers
18:01to riding rodeos.
18:02And now he's giving out,
18:03he's got cups for dancing.
18:05Oh, maybe he has.
18:07Listen, if that four-flesher can dance,
18:08I'll eat my hat.
18:09But eat it!
18:10You wanted to see Gabby.
18:12Come take a look.
18:12Oh!
18:13Oh!
18:13Oh!
18:13Oh!
18:14Oh!
18:14Oh!
18:15Oh!
18:15Oh!
18:16Oh!
18:16Oh!
18:17Oh!
18:17Oh!
18:18Oh!
18:18Oh!
18:19Oh!
18:19Oh!
18:20Oh!
18:20Oh!
18:21Oh!
18:21Oh!
18:22Oh!
18:22Oh!
18:23Oh!
18:23Oh!
18:24Oh!
18:24Oh!
18:25Oh!
18:26Oh!
18:26Oh!
18:27Oh!
18:27Oh!
18:28Oh!
18:28Oh!
18:29Oh!
18:30Oh!
18:30Oh!
18:31Hey, fellas.
18:33I sprang an axle.
18:46Oh!
18:46Oh!
18:47Oh!
18:48Oh!
18:49Oh!
18:49Oh!
18:50Oh!
18:50Oh!
18:53Hey, fellas.
18:54I sprang an axle.
18:56Oh!
18:58Oh!
18:59Oh!
18:59Ah!
19:00Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
19:04We bring you 15 minutes of song and music by remote control from Lariat Lodge.
19:09Our guests this evening are those popular cowboy singers,
19:12Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers,
19:14who will open the program with Blue Prairie.
19:23Blue Prairie
19:26Blue are the skies
19:31Blue are the sights
19:35Of a night wind
19:37Falling
19:40Blue Prairie
19:44Blue are the hills
19:48Blue are the trills
19:52Of a night bird
19:55Falling
19:57Every beating heart beats a rhythm that is blue
20:02And the moon has cast a blue reflection in the dew
20:06So the wind while on its way
20:08Seems to cry and sigh and say
20:10Blue
20:11Blue Prairie
20:18Blue
20:19Blue
20:20Blue
20:21Echols ring
20:21Blue
20:24As I sing
20:26Blue
20:27Blue
20:28Blue
20:29Blue
20:30Blue
20:31As I sing
20:34Blue
20:35As I sing
20:36Blue
20:37Blue
20:38Blue
20:40As you
20:52Blue
20:53Blue
20:55Blue
20:56Blue
20:58Blue
20:59Blue
21:00as I sing of a longing blue as you.
21:17Thank you Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers.
21:20I'm sure you've taken the charm of our Arizona Knights
21:22right into the homes of our listeners out here
21:24and your fans in the East.
21:27He's trod.
21:30You get out the trucks and I'll round up the boys.
21:39I hate to rush off like this.
21:40Seems like bad manners,
21:41but I'll feel much better once I get that youngster home.
21:44I don't know how I'm ever going to talk him out
21:46of insisting that I personally catch his rustlers.
21:48You forget all about that
21:50by the time you get him to the fellow's ranch.
21:52The boys today have such vivid imaginations.
21:54Today it's rustlers, tomorrow it's train run.
21:56If I thought there were any rustlers around here,
21:58I'd bring them in to pep up the floor show.
22:00That's a good idea.
22:01Goodbye Mr. Jordan.
22:02Goodbye Miss Joyce.
22:03Goodbye Rogers.
22:04Goodbye Rogers.
22:09Close your sleepy eyes,
22:11my little buckaroo.
22:15Get them, get them, Roy.
22:16The rustlers.
22:17Take it easy son.
22:18You're having a nightmare.
22:19There's no rustlers around here.
22:20You're dreaming.
22:21So you think he's dreaming, eh?
22:22Listen.
22:23Yeah, listen and look.
22:24Bobby, you better stay here
22:25where we can find you when we come back.
22:26But I want to go.
22:27You too, double freight.
22:28Hey, what are you doing?
22:29I said you stay here.
22:30There's liable to be trouble.
22:31You stay right there, Bobby.
22:32Why, you little ever knobby neat young squirts.
22:43Trouble's my middle name.
22:45Of course there's gonna be shootin',
22:46I don't mind dropping my middle name.
22:47It's liable to be trouble.
22:49You stay right there, Bobby.
22:54Why, you lily libert, nobby, neat young squirts.
22:57Trouble's my middle name.
22:59Of course, there's going to be shooting.
23:01I don't mind dropping my middle name.
23:04Hey, where are you going?
23:06I won't get into any trouble.
23:17Who is that?
23:23Looks like a posse to me.
23:25I'm going to make a run for it.
23:26Try to keep as many as you can.
23:28What do you mean?
23:29We'll keep them all.
23:38You boys go on after the horses.
23:40I'll go after them.
23:47Come on.
24:16You don't want to start throwing lead, Mr. Lester.
24:16start throwing lead, mister, unless you expect some back. You all right, Roy? Yeah, you better
24:21go pull the other boy's back. These fellas know this country, and we don't. Okay. Roy!
24:26Roy, did you catch him? We got one of them. What are you doing here, Mr. Rooster? Well,
24:31hello, Bobby. You mean you're with these fellas? Sure, this is Roy Rogers. He's gonna round
24:35up these rustlers for us. Maybe. Well, it looks as if we're all trying to do the same
24:40thing out here tonight, trying to catch ourselves a rustler. I took you for a rustler, and I
24:44guess you took me for one, too, eh, Rogers? I took you for one, all right. We better go
24:52see if we can round up Gabby, and we'll get that hand taken care of right. Come on, Bobby.
25:00Come on, boys.
25:01Hey! Where the tarnation you fellas been? How'd you get up here? I run! Didn't you see me
25:16when I passed you and that crow bait? All right, Gabby, get aboard, and let's go. Hmm, I see
25:22you catch one of them. No, Gabby. This is Mr. Rooster. He's a foreman of the fellas' ranch.
25:27Roy mistooking for a rustler. Well, that's a natural mistake on a night like this. Now, then,
25:33if you live around here, maybe you can tell me. Is there a reward for catching a rustler? Well,
25:38now, I believe there is. You better wait until we catch him first, then it'll be share and
25:42share alike. Yucks, if I'd know that, I'd have saved my energy. Well, there's your rustler. Divide
25:52him up. Why, the stingy old maverick wanted the reward money all to himself. How'd you catch
26:01him, Gabby? I told you I was a professional rustler catcher, and the way I catched him is
26:07a professional secret. Oh, he's crazy. My horse fell with me and knocked me out. You were
26:13your big mouth. I'm awfully sorry you've been put to so much trouble, Mr. Rogers, but I can't tell
26:26you how much I appreciate your riding hurt on that young brother of mine. Well, it was no trouble at
26:30all, Miss Blake. In the first place, I owe something to my number one fan, and in the second place,
26:35he said he had a sister who's worth riding miles to see. Ain't she as pretty as I said
26:39she was, Roy? Bobby, you promised me you'd go to sleep. Okay. Good night, Roy. Good night,
26:45Bobby, and you're a good judge of horses and beauty. Oh, uh, that sleep advice sounds like
26:50a good idea for you, too. That's right. And, Mr. Rogers, there's lots of room down in the
26:54bunkhouse for you and the boys. We'd be glad to have you stay with us as long as you like.
26:58Well, thanks a lot, Mr. Fellows, but there's the little matter of delivering Gabby's rustler
27:02to the sheriff before we turn in. Oh, about that, Rogers. The boss thinks I ought to ride
27:06into town tonight and have the doctor fix up this hand of mine. I might as well take the
27:09rustler down to jail at the same time. Save you a trip. Gee, Roy, he might get away. Bobby,
27:15go to sleep. Well, I think that's a good idea. The boys will be glad to know they can turn
27:19in. Good. Then I might as well get going. Good night, Alice. Good night. See you in the morning,
27:22boss. Good night. Good night, Miss Blake. Good night. Good night, Mr. Rogers. Good night.
27:28All right, mister, we're going to take a ride into town. You mean you're going to let him
27:31take my rustler in alone? The guy's only got one hand. He'll be all right. We're going
27:36to get some sleep. Good luck, Worcester. Thanks a lot. Come on, mister.
27:42And now, Mr. Rogers, can we get about our business? Pretty soon. Oh, look, Roy, we've
27:46gone 20 miles out of our way. We've put our little hero in the arms of his sister. We've
27:51caught the kid a rustler and the sheriff will make him talk. The sheriff will make him talk
27:55if our friend delivers him. Where are you going? What's the idea, Roy? We're going to take
28:00a little ride alone. All right, get him out. We're going to take a little ride alone.
28:07All right, get him out. Well, of all the silly things I ever saw, this is one. Oh, we knew
28:34it was you all the time. Certainly. Isn't there any place a fellow can go without being
28:39followed? But, Roy, we wasn't going to interfere. We knowed you was following Worcester and that
28:43rustler. I figured it wouldn't do any harm to sort of hang around in case of trouble.
28:47That's right, Roy. If there's anything a crook likes when he's being checked up on,
28:51there's a big audience. They're probably so far ahead now, we'll never catch up with them.
28:54Looks like we've lost them, boys. If they'd been on this trail, we'd have caught them before
29:04this. We can ride on into town and see if Worcester delivered him to the sheriff.
29:08Yeah, I guess so. Oh, gosh, all fish oaks, Roy. I'm sorry if these
29:12fellows upset your plans. I tried my best to talk them out of following you.
29:16Why, you bewhispered old behemoth. You're the one that insisted on tagging along to keep
29:20an eye on your share of the reward. Roy, look up there on the ridge.
29:27That's the two of them, all right. But that ain't the way to town.
29:30You're right. There's nothing in that direction except Larry at Lodge.
29:33Boys, looks like we're going to play a return engagement sooner than we thought.
29:40I don't want trouble any more than you do, especially as we're nearly done with this job.
29:44This is a bad time to lose your head, Worcester. I'm not losing my head,
29:47but when I told you I'd help you with the job, I didn't figure out any rough stuff like
29:51stealing those kids' horses and then this. I've had enough.
29:58Do you think Rogers and fellows believed your story?
30:00Would they let me take Pete into town if they hadn't?
30:08Don't look at me.
30:08The only way I can get those amateur hillbillies to go to bed
30:12is to serve a round of Mickey Finns on the house.
30:14Well, tell the band to stop playing for the night,
30:16and then the guests will have to go to bed.
30:18They'll more likely build a bonfire on the dance floor.
30:21And yodel home on the range.
30:31Good evening, Mr. Rogers.
30:32Hello.
30:33This is rather a surprise, but a pleasant one.
30:35Well, thanks. We didn't get very far. In fact, we're stopping at the fellow's ranch.
30:40We came to see Jordan's.
30:41Oh, well, that's too bad.
30:43He isn't in at the moment.
30:45I'll wait.
30:46Well, that's fine.
30:47You're just in time to sing a good night song for a guest.
30:50Hold it, folks.
30:51See what you can find out.
30:53It's Mr. Rogers. Let's get him to sing a good night lullaby.
30:56Yeah!
31:00What do you suppose he's doing back here?
31:02I don't know, but I know you were crazy to come back here.
31:04In a little Spanish town
31:11T was on a night like this
31:19Stars were peekabooin'
31:22Down T'was on a night like this
31:26I've whispered, be true to me
31:32And she sighs, she sees
31:40Many skies have turned to gray because we're far apart
31:49Many moons have passed away and still she's in my heart
31:55We made a promise and sealed it with a kiss
32:03In a little Spanish town, it was on a night like this
32:09You're in this as deep as we are, Worcester. You're scarcely in a position to quit.
32:13All the same, I'm quitting. This is the last order I'm taking from you, Jordan.
32:19How far do you want me to go with Pete?
32:21You'd better stay with him until you get back on the road to town.
32:25We made a promise and sealed it with a kiss
32:31Well, what do you want?
32:36I was sort of looking for some place to wash my hands.
32:40Kitchen sink don't seem to be in here, does it?
32:43Must have come in the wrong door.
32:45Sorry.
32:46Sorry.
32:50Did he see anything?
32:52I don't know.
32:53They were in there, all right. I saw them sneak out the back door.
32:58Good work. Come on.
33:01They're about a quarter of a mile ahead.
33:03Yeah, you can see them every once in a while.
33:06We better move up a little closer.
33:07I know what I want to know about Worcester.
33:09If we wait, we'll all be able to lose his playmate.
33:10Well, I think we've gone far enough.
33:20You better go back to the shack.
33:22Just a minute, Worcester.
33:23I've got to have a gun.
33:24Yeah.
33:32Yeah, that's right.
33:35Thanks.
33:36Well, I'll be seeing you in a few days.
33:39So long.
33:40So long.
33:40It's Worcester.
34:04Go after that rustler.
34:05Oh, no, don't shoot me again.
34:20It's Rogers.
34:23Oh, Rogers.
34:25I'm glad you're here.
34:27Tell Alice I'm sorry about her horses.
34:30You can tell her yourself when we get you back to the ranch and call a doctor.
34:32No, I'm all through.
34:35I stopped too much lead this time.
34:37What's this all about?
34:38You've got to tell me.
34:40I can't make it.
34:44You get them, Rogers.
34:46Get them.
34:48Blue Prairie.
34:50Radio.
34:53East.
34:55West.
34:55South.
34:58South.
34:59No chance to catch him out here tonight.
35:09He just dropped right out of sight.
35:10How's Worcester?
35:11He's dead.
35:14Shit.
35:26That was Blue Prairie, folks.
35:27Played for the many who've requested it.
35:30And particularly for those lonely cowboys who tonight sit watching the moon in the east
35:34and smoking a last cigarette before turning in.
35:39Is that what you wanted, Roy?
35:40You bet it is, Bobby.
35:42It was a good day for us and a bad day for the rustlers when you rigged up that gadget
35:45and started recording the programs at Lariat Lodge.
35:48But I don't get it.
35:49What's that got to do with catching rustlers?
35:51Everything, I think.
35:52Tell me this.
35:53Did anything happen on the night that you made that record?
35:55Let's see.
35:57Gee, I see what you mean.
35:59The rustlers ran off nearly a hundred head of government horses that night.
36:03And from the east range, too, I'll bet.
36:04Well, I don't know about that.
36:06All right, boys.
36:07We better go take a look.
36:08Oh, no, you don't.
36:09You're staying here with me.
36:15Well, that'll be a red-headed raccoon.
36:18No wonder I couldn't catch him on foot.
36:20Those tracks are the answer to a lot of things, Gabby.
36:22They've been carting him away in trucks.
36:23What are you going to do about it, Roy?
36:35Follow the tracks?
36:36No, I think we'll sit around and listen to the radio a few evenings.
36:39We might find some fresh ones.
36:40Hello, crooner.
36:42Chat fillet in the lark.
36:44You boys better ride on.
36:45I'll see you later.
36:46Well, Mr. Rogers, don't tell me we're playing outdoor engagements now.
37:03No, I'm just out for a little ride.
37:05Then how about taking it in my direction, back to the lodge?
37:08Well, I'd like that, but I promised I'd be at the fellow's ranch for dinner.
37:11Thanks, just the same.
37:12You're not still playing catch the rustlers with that little blank boy.
37:16Well, I've tried to quit the game several times, but the rustlers themselves keep dealing me in.
37:21They leave pretty open trails sometimes.
37:23I don't know anything about rustling or following trails,
37:27but it seems as though singing would be a lot more pleasant occupation and far safer.
37:32Wasn't that dreadful about poor Mr. Wooster?
37:34Yes, it was, but of course he was making a trail, not following one.
37:39Yes.
37:40Yes, I suppose so.
37:43Well, goodbye, Mr. Rogers.
37:44Goodbye.
37:50They were probably just out for a ride.
37:53In my opinion, Rogers doesn't just go out riding.
37:56He was looking for something and probably found it.
37:59All right, suppose the tire tracks did mean something to him.
38:02How could he possibly tie them up with our boys in the radio broadcasts?
38:06Maybe Wooster wasn't as dead when Rogers found him as when you identified him in the coroner's office.
38:11Yeah, that's possible.
38:14You know, if I didn't know you better, Barbara, I'd say you were acting like a woman scorned.
38:21Listen, darling.
38:22I'm acting like a woman who doesn't want any tumbleweed tenor throwing a monkey wrench into our plans.
38:27Then we'd better throw first.
38:31Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
38:33Blue Prairie was a requested number, dedicated especially to the men of the West.
38:41That's it, boys.
38:41Come on.
38:42Oh, gee, Roy, can't I go with you?
38:45But your sister's got your pants, and what good's a cowboy without pants?
38:48That's Pat, over there.
39:08Well, if we didn't miss this time, Pat, you and Bob go around to the other side, and when you get there, whistle.
39:13The rest of you fan out, and we'll all close in together.
39:15Gabby, this ought to be a real night for a professional wrestler catcher.
39:25Well, I don't know.
39:26They might be laying for us tonight.
39:28I feel more like a professional gopher.
39:31Gopher?
39:32Yeah, gopher the sheriff.
39:34Good, huh?
39:35Yeah.
39:45There doesn't seem to be anybody at home.
39:58They couldn't have got away.
39:59Maybe they're hiding in the truck.
40:01I'll have Brady look.
40:02Hey, wait a minute.
40:04All right, come out of there with your hands up.
40:06You make pretty good targets from here.
40:08You boys make pretty good targets yourself.
40:14Drop your guns and put up your hands.
40:16You're all under arrest.
40:18Arrest?
40:18What for?
40:19Why, you...
40:20You don't think we're the wrestlers, do you?
40:22Well, what else could I think?
40:24Those are your trucks, aren't they?
40:25Well, certainly not.
40:26We never saw them before.
40:27Well, you'll have to prove that.
40:29Drop those guns.
40:31Looks like we've corralled and branded ourselves, boys.
40:34Thanks, Mr. Jordan, for your tip.
40:36Glad to be of service.
40:38Rogers, aren't you surprised to see me here?
40:40Not a spacely.
40:50Well, how do you like the picture of our singing friends now?
40:53Framed in the wrought iron bars of our county jail?
40:56They look lovely.
40:58But what does that do to your little project?
41:00It'll simplify it.
41:01With Rogers locked up and Worcester prematurely retired,
41:05who's going to worry about wrestlers
41:06or notice if a few more horses disappear?
41:09Ha-ha.
41:14Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
41:16Lariat Lodge takes pleasure in presenting a program of dance music,
41:20first of which is a request number, Blue Prairie,
41:23dedicated to the men of the West.
41:26That's it.
41:26Where's the sheriff?
41:47The wrestlers are riding tonight.
41:49They are?
41:50Are you the sheriff?
41:51No, I ain't the sheriff.
41:53I don't know where he is.
41:55Except he's out of town.
41:57Are you the rustler?
41:59No.
42:00Well, I didn't reckon you was.
42:01I got the rustlers all tucked away for the night.
42:04Oh, there ain't no more wrestlers than you are.
42:06The real wrestlers are working tonight.
42:08Don't you know where the sheriff is?
42:09Ain't the slightest idea.
42:10Now, you sit down, son, and take it easy.
42:12You can watch me practice my music lesson.
42:15That is, if you want to.
42:17Well, if I can't see the sheriff, can I see Roy and the fellas?
42:20Oh, I guess that's all right.
42:22They don't mind.
42:23Right through that door.
42:25Hey, Ivan.
42:26Got any guns on you?
42:28No.
42:30There's nothing we can do about it, Bobby, until the sheriff gets back.
42:33But then it'll be too late.
42:34Maybe this will be the last chance for me to get Trigger back
42:37and get the reward.
42:39We got to do something now, Roy.
42:41As you can see, we're sort of handicapped here.
42:43But I'll tell you what you do.
42:44You go on home, and I'll tell the sheriff about it when he gets back.
42:46Oh, he won't listen to you.
42:48He thinks you're one of the rustlers.
42:51I've got to do something about this myself.
42:53And fast.
42:54Wait a minute, Bobby.
42:54You can't do that.
42:55You're going to get in trouble, son.
43:11I wish they'd hurry up with those horses.
43:19Yeah, those truckers will be driving all night as it is.
43:22We better go over and get them ready.
43:23Have the boys got plenty of gas?
43:36As far as I know.
43:37Don't you know?
43:38Why don't you ask Jake?
43:39He's handling the trucks.
43:40All right, you better get that truck ready.
44:07All right, you better get that truck ready.
44:37I'm sure worried about that kid, Roy.
45:03No more than I am.
45:05If them rustlers do anything to him, I'll skin them alive and render their heist for rattlesnake oil.
45:11There must be some way we can knock a hole in this one-horse clink.
45:14And there must be some way we can stop that jailer out there from banging away on that woodcarving set.
45:20Hey, you!
45:21How long are you going to keep this racket up?
45:26What's the matter with you fellas?
45:29Don't you like music?
45:30No.
45:31Why, Gabby, I'm ashamed of you.
45:33And after you telling me you conducted the Philharmonic.
45:35Huh?
45:35Well, I think it's fine.
45:37These boys just expect too much.
45:38They're all professional saw players.
45:40Yeah.
45:41You mean that they could do better on it than I was doing?
45:45That's right.
45:46Golly.
45:48If there's anything I love, it's saw music.
45:52Certainly would appreciate hearing a professional play it.
45:55The boys would be glad to.
45:57Nah.
45:58Ain't a real saw.
46:00Wouldn't cut nothing.
46:01I got it from a mail order place that specializes in musical saws.
46:05It's a beauty.
46:06Well, that's fine.
46:07Then nobody will get hurt.
46:09Well.
46:11Here, Pat.
46:12Get him curly jewels.
46:13All right.
46:14Let me tell you a tale of a gambling man, the roughest and toughest of all.
46:32He was old Curly Joe from Idaho.
46:35He was rough and rugged and tall.
46:37He was over six feet and as slim as a rail, and his eyes were as black as the night.
46:41And when he cut loose, that or a caillou would always end up in a fight.
46:47Whoa.
46:47Curly Joe from Idaho, a rambling, gambling rover.
46:52He dealt from the bottom, he dealt from the top, but now his dealin' is over.
46:57One night in a game, he picked up the cards and ripped, they fell in their places.
47:01And then from the middle, the bottom, and top, he dealt off those four fatal aces.
47:07Now he knew at a glance, he was a bet in his pants, so the dough he laid on the line.
47:12He said, if you please, I'll just play these.
47:15I think this hand's mighty fine.
47:17Now they made their bets and they spread their cards upon the table of green.
47:21Then old Curly Joe raked over the dough, four aces were over, four queens.
47:27Then a shot rang out in old Boothill Saloon, four curly fell to the floor.
47:32He whispered inside, somebody has lied.
47:37Four aces don't win anymore.
47:41Curly Joe from Idaho, a rambling, gambling rover.
47:51He dealt from the bottom, he dealt from the top, but now his dealin' is over.
48:11What's he doin' here?
48:19I don't know.
48:20He's just naturally nosy.
48:22We're gonna give him a ride on that.
48:28That'll look like a reasonable accident, I guess.
48:32All right, let's get goin'.
48:33Herd's on the way.
48:41Jumpin' Jigger.
48:47It's the sheriff.
48:57Here they come.
49:01Turn them loose.
49:02Turn them loose.
49:14Come on.
49:19Come on!
49:22Come on!
49:23Come on!
49:25Let's go.
49:55There's your horse wrestler, Sheriff.
50:25Riding down the canyon to watch the sun go down.
50:42A picture that no artist there could paint.
50:50White-faced cattle owen on the mountainside.
50:57I hear a coyote whining for its mate.
51:04Cactus plants are blooming.
51:08Sagebrush everywhere.
51:12Hey, son.
51:14I guess you'd be kind of missing Roy and the boys now that they're pulling out.
51:18Yeah.
51:19Only I'd been missing them more.
51:21Roy hadn't have kind of changed.
51:22Kinda.
51:23Kinda like what?
51:24Well, he's always looking at Alice.
51:26Sort of mushy-like.
51:27And singing that slushy song.
51:29Well, you'll understand that better when you get a little older.
51:33Hey, you ain't changed your mind about keeping me honest foreman, have you?
51:37Course not, Gabby.
51:38No.
51:39Nobody's gonna look up into your face and get any mushy ideas.
51:42That's right.
51:43Huh?
51:44Well, I'm sure glad you're here, Bobby.
51:49I've got to say goodbye, but I'll be back soon.
51:51As soon as there's a moon in June.
51:53I heard you singing to Alice about it.
51:56You didn't either.
51:57Here you are, Brady.
51:59I brought you a going away present.
52:01Oh, that wasn't necessary.
52:03Well, you're a nice sort of a fella.
52:05You know, you and me ought to be friends.
52:07Well, what is it?
52:08I'll show you.
52:14How's it?
52:15Doug!
52:16What are you trying to do?
52:17Make me go damp?
52:18You're the one that needs it.
52:19I need it?
52:20Roy told me you was deep.
52:21And Nolan told me that you were.
52:22Why, you...
52:23Ow!
52:24Of all that doggone, ornery, low-down tricks.
52:26Huh?
52:27You...
52:28What?
52:29You...
52:31No.
52:32Why, you...
52:33Whoa!
52:34Ow!
52:35Out of all that doggone, ornery, low-down trick.
52:38What?
52:39Yeah.
52:40You...
52:41What?
52:46Yeah.
52:48Yes, sir.
52:51You...
52:52Get in there.
52:57THE END
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