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In the rugged frontier, a weary soldier finds himself caught between loyalty and survival when an unexpected ambush turns allies into enemies. As bullets rain and trust fades, he must choose between vengeance and redemption in a land where no one is truly innocent.
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00:00.
00:30Oh, my God.
01:00I don't think we're going to have any trouble scaring them homesteaders out.
01:28All you have to do is to point a gun at them and they'll run like jackrabbits.
01:33You're wasting your time, Dad.
01:36The only way to get rid of them land grabbers is to riddle their hides.
01:41Clay, some of these days that itchy trigger finger of yours is going to get you into a heap of trouble.
01:49I don't want to hear any more of this killer talk.
01:53The men elected me as head of the cattlemen's association because they believed in my advice.
01:59And we're going to handle this thing like real men.
02:05I wonder what that was.
02:35It might be another one of those threats.
02:42Here, now you open the door, Joel.
02:44Well, it reads just the same as the rest of them.
03:02Your last warning.
03:04Get out of Paradise Valley before sundown.
03:12Who is it?
03:13It's Bruce Manning.
03:15I'm glad it's you, Marshal.
03:22We just received another one of those warnings.
03:29Have you been able to find out anything?
03:31You know we're with our rights.
03:34I know you are, Maul.
03:36But tracing a note like this ain't easy.
03:39Any one of the ranches in the whole valley could have written it.
03:43They're all together in this movement to run you homesteaders out.
03:46Well, I reckon if Lem Morgan could be ready to speak, we might find out something.
03:51Now, don't be too hasty, Maul.
03:54While Morgan is dead set against you, he generally deals out in the open.
03:57I don't see why there should be so much trouble.
04:01There's plenty of land here for everybody.
04:03And the few acres we have shouldn't cause any hard feeling.
04:07I should think this could be settled in a friendly way.
04:12I have to pass Morgan's ranch on my way back to town.
04:16I'll drop in and have another talk with him.
04:19Thanks.
04:24Don't worry, Maul.
04:25Everything will be all right.
05:33What does it say, Dad?
05:55Ah, don't mean a thing, son.
06:03What does it say?
06:33What does it say?
07:03Well, there's another homesteader that won't settle in Paradise Valley.
07:15Yeah.
07:16What does it say?
07:21What does it say?
07:26What does it say?
07:35What's wrong?
07:44What happened?
07:45What's wrong?
07:57I don't know.
07:58We ran into a sign down the road to turn back.
08:06When we refused, they opened fire on us from ambush.
08:15They were murderers.
08:16They shut down my boy.
08:24They shut down my boy.
08:25We didn't have a chance.
08:27We didn't have a chance.
08:28We didn't have a chance.
08:34They were murderers.
08:35They were murderers.
08:36They were murderers.
08:37Is he to be friendly with people who deliberately come into this valley and steal my land?
08:43Ain't your land. It belongs to the government.
08:47Mo Potter's right, Mr. Morgan. Paradise Valley ain't free range anymore.
08:52The government's declared it closed range, and anybody with a government lease is free to come in here and settle.
08:59Come on. We're wasting our time here. Let's be going.
09:07I'm warning you that you're making a mistake. You can't bust the government.
09:13And that's what you'll be doing if you raise a hand against these homesteaders.
09:17Looks like me and my future son-in-law are going to tangle.
09:29Mr. Morgan, I have no personal feelings in this matter. I don't make the law. I'll do it.
09:47But if the law fails us, we'll give bullet for bullet before we'll run.
09:52You have my word.
09:59It looks like we're on opposite sides of the fence, Ann.
10:19Bruce, is Dad really in the wrong?
10:21Yes, Ann, he is.
10:23Times are changing, and your father can't realize it.
10:26Meddling with the government is serious business.
10:29If fighting your father means fighting you, I'd rather turn in my store.
10:34Bruce, you mustn't do that.
10:36Well, that would look as if you were...
10:37I know I'd be resigning under fire, running away.
10:40And even if I did hand in my store, it wouldn't do any good.
10:43The government would send in another man.
10:45Let's not give up hope, Bruce.
10:47Hope so.
10:48They're coming out of that...
11:05Let's go.
11:35Take it lively. Come on.
12:05Let me have a few more.
12:12Come on. Hurry up.
12:22Give me the drink.
12:25Shhh.
12:26Hello, Morgan. Have a drink?
12:29You fellas smell something around here?
12:35Yeah.
12:36I thought so.
12:40Listen, Morgan, can't we be friends?
12:42You've got a lot of nerve.
12:45You and your mangy breed.
12:48Come around here stealing our range and everything.
12:51What do you think you're getting away with?
12:53Well, there certainly must be land enough for all of us.
12:58Why, you dirty rain-steven scum?
13:03Put away your gun, Morgan.
13:05I ain't armed.
13:06You must be tight.
13:09Tight, huh?
13:10Me?
13:28I don't know.
13:38Clay.
13:39Better get out of here.
13:40We'll cover you some way.
13:41Yeah.
13:48Give me your gun.
13:49Now, get this, all of you.
13:57It was self-defense.
13:58You came in here looking for trouble, Marshal, and drew first.
14:12It won't do, Blake.
14:14I saw you plant the gun.
14:16Your lying won't help Clay any.
14:18It might even get you into trouble.
14:28What are you going to do now?
14:31I'm going to arrest Clay Morgan for murder, Sam.
14:34Yes, Sam.
14:58Hello.
14:59Hello.
15:00Mr. Morgan?
15:01Yes, this is Morgan.
15:03This is Blake.
15:05Clay just had a run with Joe Potter and plugged him.
15:11The Marshal, Bruce Manning, he's on his way out to the ranch to arrest him now.
15:14Yeah.
15:38But, Dad.
15:39What happened?
15:44They just telephoned me from town.
16:09I only shot in self-defense, Dad.
16:14Dad, that's powerful.
16:16He came in here and asked for it.
16:18He drew first.
16:19He did.
16:20Are you telling me the truth?
16:22What?
16:24It's truth.
16:30He's come for you, Clay.
16:33But if what you've told me is the truth, there's nothing to be afraid of.
16:36You'd better get ready to come with me, Clay.
16:50What for?
16:51Shooting in self-defense is no crime.
16:53I wish that was the truth, Mr. Morgan.
16:54But, unfortunately, it isn't.
16:55It is.
16:56It's true.
16:57I have three witnesses.
16:58Keane and Morgan were there.
16:59I know Blake and the others tried to cover you, Clay.
17:00But whatever they might say can't change what I saw with my own eyes.
17:01I was at the window and I saw you beat it out the door.
17:02And I saw Blake plant the gun in the dead man's hand.
17:04It ain't true.
17:05It ain't true.
17:06It ain't true.
17:07Dad, it ain't true.
17:08Mr. Morgan, Clay shot down an unarmed man.
17:11I don't believe it.
17:12Clay has never lied to me.
17:13And no man could ever make me believe that a son of mine would be guilty of murder.
17:17That's for the law to decide.
17:18Come on, Clay.
17:19Let's get going.
17:20I won't go, I tell you.
17:21I won't go.
17:22You can't take him, Bruce.
17:24Bruce, he's my brother.
17:25I will.
17:26I don't believe it.
17:28Clay has never lied to me,
17:30and no man could ever make me believe
17:32that a son of mine would be guilty of a thing like that.
17:35That's for the law to decide.
17:37Come on, Clay, let's get going.
17:39I won't go, I tell you, I won't go!
17:41You can't take him, Bruce!
17:43Bruce, he's my brother!
17:47But, Ann, I have no choice.
17:50You're not taking him, Marshal.
17:56Interfering with the law is bad business, Mr. Morgan.
18:00Go, Clay.
18:22They're after me!
18:26You better come with me, Clay,
18:28or you'll never stand trial.
18:35You better come with me, Clay,
18:36or you'll never stand trial.
18:56Well, what do you want?
19:10Come for your home.
19:22Search the place.
19:26You ain't in the house, Ma.
19:56I'll find him, Morgan.
20:13And when I do, I'll give bullets or bullet.
20:26You ain't in the house.
20:56You ain't in the house.
21:26Get on your horse.
21:34He's got clay.
21:49You ain't in the house.
21:57You ain't in the house.
22:04You ain't in the house.
22:06You ain't in the house.
22:14You ain't in the house.
22:16You ain't in the house.
22:24You ain't in the house.
22:26You ain't in the house.
22:33You ain't in the house.
22:35You ain't in the house.
22:37You ain't in the house.
22:45You ain't in the house.
23:17I'm sorry I got your cold, Gray.
23:29Sit down.
23:32I knew Dan wouldn't let you hold me here.
23:41You're foolish, Bruce.
23:43You haven't got a chance.
23:45That'll smoke you out.
23:46Even you have to get every ranch in the valley to help.
23:48I mean, you know it.
23:49Why don't you turn me loose?
23:51You can tell them I got away.
23:53I'll get out of the valley and I'll move.
23:55You know what will happen then?
23:57This won't be Paradise Valley anymore.
23:59It'll be Ambush Valley.
24:01All pottering those nesters ain't jackrabbits.
24:03They're not going to crawl into their holes and forget just because you've disappeared.
24:07It will be war.
24:09Range war.
24:10There's a lot of innocence getting in the way of bullets.
24:12You roll.
24:13All right.
24:17I'm standing.
24:18Here we go.
24:19There we go.
24:19We've got the marshal trapped in there with clay.
24:45Marshal, I'm giving you your last chance to release clay before we start smoking you out.
24:54Then I reckon you better begin smoking me out, Mr. Morgan.
25:15Wait!
25:32Don't shoot!
25:33It's clay!
25:37I took care of the marshal!
25:45He's out, he's out cold.
25:47Then we'd better keep him out.
25:54He's the only one who can bear witness against you, Clay.
25:56Now, wait a minute, boys.
25:58I'm not in favor of this.
26:03But, Dad, it's his life of mine.
26:05Now, now look, if we could shut his mouth...
26:08There won't be any witnesses.
26:12His body will be found and that's all.
26:15There he is, down there.
26:36Sit down there!
26:38Do-
26:39Do-
26:41Do-
26:42I'm sorry!
26:43Do-
26:44Do-
26:46Do-
26:47Do-
26:48Do-
26:49Do-
26:52Do-
26:53Do-
26:57Do-
26:59Do-
27:02You gotta wait!
27:32This horse is gone!
27:42Come on, spread out!
27:44He can't be far away!
28:02Okay, let's go!
28:08Okay, let's go!
28:11Okay, let's go!
28:16Okay, let's go!
28:22Take me to him, boy.
28:52I can't understand how he got away.
28:56He was badly hit.
29:07You two fellas ride into town.
29:09Watch his office.
29:10Doc Wilson's place.
29:11He may show up there.
29:22He may show up there.
29:52He may show up there.
30:22It's that Morgan girl.
30:42You think maybe she knows where that brother of hers is hiding?
30:45It's worth finding out.
30:46If you keep quiet, you won't get hurt.
31:13If you're looking for my brother, you're wasting your time.
31:16I came here to find Bruce Manning.
31:18He's been hurt.
31:20Well, he ain't around here.
31:22You better come along with us.
31:42Bring him inside.
31:52I'll attend to him.
31:53What happened to you?
31:58You just had a little accident.
32:13You sure that Morgan Breed had nothing to do with your accident?
32:19I reckon there's no use lying to you, Maul.
32:22I had Clay Morgan, but he got away.
32:25I figured that.
32:26But I'll get Clay yet.
32:41Don't you worry, Maul.
32:43You better lie down and take it easy.
32:45You've lost a lot of blood.
32:46We didn't find the murder and wealth, but we brought along some bait that were able to fetch him out of his hole.
33:10I reckon Morgan might be willing to trade his son for his daughter.
33:26Why, Maul, I know you wouldn't do a thing like that.
33:29And why not?
33:30The coyote message ain't too low to use on the likes of Morgan.
33:35It's what they did to my boy.
33:36I'm holding her as hostage.
33:40And when her son is delivered into my hands the murderer of my boy, he can have her.
33:48Then you intend to take the law into your own hands.
33:51Looks like I'll have to, seeing as how you have too many to handle alone.
33:57Do you realize what that means?
33:59If it means war, we're ready for it.
34:01We've stood enough from them cattlemen.
34:03Morgan will have every cattleman in the valley riding with him.
34:08He'll wipe you out.
34:09I reckon he'll think twice before sacrificing his own daughter.
34:14What do you mean by that?
34:16It means that if Morgan refuses my offer and cries for us,
34:20his daughter's life will pay for the person nester that falls.
34:25Get in the house.
34:26Get in the house.
34:26Get in the house.
34:33I'm going to ride over to the crossroad store and call me.
34:56I'll wipe out every one of you if it takes the last thing I do.
35:15What?
35:16No!
35:18You will!
35:20Hey, Andrews, wait!
35:22Hey, Andrews, Blake, where are you?
35:33What's up, Dad?
35:35Where's Kane and Andrews?
35:37Why, you sent them on in to town to watch the marshal.
35:39You get over to Collins, Blake, and tell him to come pronto and bring some of his boys.
35:42Yeah, but what's up, Dad?
35:44They've got hands.
35:47The squadron?
35:48Yes.
35:48Yes.
35:52We'll wipe out every blasted one of them, Raymond.
36:22Get out of the way, Bruce.
36:42I'll plug both of you before I let you leave this room.
36:46Put down those guns.
36:52And I'm not going to let you send Anne to her death.
37:03They won't dare harm her.
37:05Come on, Clay.
37:06You're going with me.
37:23He's going to let me.
37:26Come on.
37:45Come on.
37:47Come on.
37:47Come on.
37:49Come on.
37:50Stay here and watch him until I come back.
38:07Then we'll settle with him.
38:09It'll be a pleasure.
38:13Mr. Morgan, if you weren't such a stubborn old fool,
38:17you'd realize...
38:18Listen, Clay, if anything happens to your sister,
38:22you'll have something to think about as long as you live.
38:25Don't worry.
38:26My dad won't anything happen to her. You know that.
38:48That looks like the Morgan outfit.
38:51You better let no thought I know.
38:53I just spotted the Morgan outfit.
39:12Sit down.
39:14You stay here with her.
39:15You fellas, get your rifles and be ready.
39:42Bruce, don't turn me over to them.
39:52I won't have a chance.
39:56And I suppose you deserve a chance.
39:59What chance did you give them all Potter's boy?
40:01And then you tried to crawl out of it by lying to your father.
40:06All you think about is your own miserable hide.
40:10What about your father and the other ranchers?
40:13Clay, this is your chance to wipe out some of the rottenness you've done.
40:18I don't want anyone to suffer on my account.
40:34I'm ready to go.
40:36Come on.
40:37Let's get going.
40:38We've got to hurry.
40:39Let's go.
40:39Let's go.
40:48That's where you are, Morgan.
41:16I've got a bullet for the first one that tries to stop me.
41:46Come on.
41:49We're wasting our time.
42:01Come on, boys.
42:02We're smoking out.
42:16We're smoking out.
42:17We're smoking out.
42:18We're smoking out.
42:19We're smoking out.
42:20We're smoking out.
42:21We're smoking out.
42:22We're smoking out.
42:23We're smoking out.
42:24We're smoking out.
42:25We're smoking out.
42:26We're smoking out.
42:27We're smoking out.
42:28We're smoking out.
42:29We're smoking out.
42:30We're smoking out.
42:31We're smoking out.
42:32We're smoking out.
42:33We're smoking out.
42:34We're smoking out.
42:35We're smoking out.
42:36We're smoking out.
42:37We're smoking out.
42:38We're smoking out.
42:39We're smoking out.
42:40We're smoking out.
42:41We're smoking out.
42:42We're smoking out.
42:43Let's go.
43:13Let's go.
43:43Let's go.
44:13Hey, Morgan, they're trying to surround us.
44:31Stop!
44:35Stop!
44:39Stop, Barry!
44:55You've shot Clay!
44:59Stop!
45:01Stop!
45:09Stop!
45:11Stop!
45:13Stop!
45:21Stop!
45:23Stop!
45:25Stop!
45:27Stop!
45:29Day!
45:31Say!
45:33I didn't know it did you!
45:34I didn't know it did you.
45:46I killed you Joe Potter
45:51He didn't he didn't even have a gun I
45:57Was drug bad sleep
46:16You can lay down your guns no way Morgan is dead his father shot him by mistake
46:46More Potter I know now how you felt when
47:06When you lost your boy
47:10There's land enough in the valley for for all of us
47:13Don't you suppose we could be friendly namely
47:43You
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