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When North Fork's lovely schoolteacher attempts to organize a women's suffrage movement, the town's less progressive element decides to run her out of town.
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00:00The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors.
00:30Good morning, Mrs. Adams.
00:52Good morning, Mrs. McCain.
00:54I brought Mark some books.
00:56How is he?
00:57Well, he seems to be better.
00:58Doc says he'll be back in school next week.
01:00Well, we missed him.
01:01I remember when I had the measles.
01:02Took a lot of spoiling to get me well.
01:10Something wrong?
01:12No.
01:15She's awful pretty for tar and feathering, ain't she, Garth?
01:24Are we going to go down and get her?
01:27Not yet.
01:29Not just yet.
01:44It's called Moby Dick.
01:47It's about a giant whale and a sea captain.
01:49The captain spends his life trying to catch that whale because it bit off his leg.
01:54Whole hog?
01:54Mm-hmm.
01:55Mm-hmm.
01:55Whole hog.
01:57Well, the captain's heart is so full of hate and revenge that he...
02:02No?
02:04I don't think I'll tell you how it ends.
02:05You have your father read it to you.
02:07Have you done that, Mr. McCain?
02:08Sure will, Miss Adams.
02:09You're going to get both of us educated.
02:11I think that'd be just fine.
02:12Oh, my goodness.
02:13I'm going to be late to school.
02:14Oh, thank you.
02:23Those are my suffrage pamphlets.
02:25Suffrage?
02:25You mean women voting?
02:27Yes.
02:27I'm starting a class in town tonight for the women on government.
02:31Oh, government, huh?
02:32Why not?
02:33Well, I...
02:34This is a very serious matter, Mr. McCain.
02:36Well, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, Miss Adams, but a woman voting is like race to a cow with a stallion.
02:41And what I mean, Miss Adams, is I personally think that a woman would be happier attending the home.
02:48Maybe you'd like to read one of my pamphlets sometime.
02:51All right.
02:52After you finish Moby Dick.
02:55Sure thing, Miss Adams.
02:58Women are about to emerge, Mr. McCain.
03:00Independent, beautiful, and free.
03:02Asking no quarter from any man.
03:05Sure thing, Miss Adams.
03:08Bye, Mark.
03:09Bye, Miss Adams.
03:12Weren't you a little rough on her?
03:14Oh, now, Mark, she's obviously a nice, honest, intelligent woman and a fine schoolteacher.
03:20What's this business about women voting?
03:22You think she's really serious?
03:24Oh, yeah. Read for yourself.
03:26I'll go get your medicine. Be back in an hour or so.
03:29You stay there, all right?
03:30All right.
03:41You put your mind telling me what's troubling you?
03:47Nothing at all, Mr. McCain.
03:49Goodbye.
03:56Come on.
03:57Come on, guard.
03:58Good morning, Miss Adams.
04:18Good morning.
04:22Hello, Garth.
04:23I had a feeling that was you back there on the road.
04:26Aren't you late for school?
04:27Garth.
04:30I said you were late for school.
04:42Garth, ain't you coming?
04:44What?
04:46Ah, I'll be mad, Garth.
04:50Hey, Garth!
04:52Garth!
04:57What are you doing?
05:20School's been dismissed.
05:21Who are you?
05:24Now, it ain't a question of who.
05:25It's more of a question of why.
05:27And if I was you, I wouldn't ask it.
05:29What are you talking about?
05:31Who are you?
05:31What right have you done?
05:32I'm telling you to stay in that buggy.
05:42Garth, are these your kin?
05:44That's right.
05:44This is my pa.
05:50What did you tell him?
05:51The truth, school mime.
05:53That scare you?
05:56See what I got, Miss Adams?
05:59That is it!
06:02You just follow us, lady.
06:04We've got some business in town.
06:05All right, let's go.
06:06Good morning, Hattie.
06:32Morning, Lucas.
06:33How's Mark?
06:34Well, he seems to be a lot better.
06:35Doc says I can get this tonic refill for him.
06:37All right.
06:38Anything else?
06:39No, no, thanks.
06:40I'll be back for it.
06:42What'd you get in?
06:43Some fancies from Kansas City?
06:46Can you keep a secret?
06:48Well, that depends.
06:50I don't know if I ought to show you these,
06:52but you're one man that I can trust
06:54at least more than the average male.
06:57Nice color.
06:58Uh-huh.
06:59Aren't they cute?
07:00What is it?
07:01It's a bloomer outfit.
07:03A bloomer outfit?
07:04Yes, we're going to wear them
07:06when we march in the street, Lucas.
07:08Look now, Hattie,
07:08don't tell me you women folk
07:10are serious about this.
07:11Marching in the street
07:12and women suffering.
07:13Well, never more serious in our lives.
07:15Mankind is a benevolent tyrant.
07:18Well, he's got to learn.
07:20Women are not cattle.
07:21Not anymore.
07:22Well, that's too bad.
07:24I was thinking of getting me a few head.
07:25Oh, you.
07:27Oh.
07:35Get down from there.
07:50I said get down from there.
07:54Oh, he's only helping out, Marshal,
07:57since there ain't going to be no class tonight.
07:59Since when?
08:00Why, since Miss Adams decided to leave town.
08:03My son just told me school's been closed.
08:05That's right.
08:06Miss Adams is going east.
08:08You just ask her.
08:09She'll tell you.
08:10Until she does,
08:11you tell your boy to get down.
08:14Get down.
08:14There she is.
08:19Look what I found in her room.
08:22Well, now,
08:24we got a free-thinking lady here, folks.
08:27And I always thought
08:28that you suffrage ladies
08:29was opposed to drank.
08:32What's your grudge, mister?
08:34Well, now, Farmer,
08:35since we got mixed company here,
08:37let's just say that Miss Adams
08:39has elected to leave this veil of contentment
08:42and spread her evil somewhere else.
08:44Well, I'd like to hear that from her.
08:51What they said is true.
08:53I am leaving of my own free will.
08:55Ma'am, I think we've got a right
08:56to know the reason.
09:05All right.
09:06I'll tell you the reason.
09:09This is a narrow, vicious town
09:11filled with narrow, vicious people.
09:13You didn't feel that way
09:15this morning, Miss Adams.
09:16You've changed your mind.
09:19Nothing changed it, Mr. McCain.
09:21I just took a good look around me
09:22and I didn't like what I saw.
09:25Mr. Healy has a point.
09:26I am a free-thinking woman.
09:28I'd much rather take a good look at Hades
09:30than slave out my soul
09:32in this perdition of holiness.
09:34Stage is ready to leave, ma'am.
09:47Yeah, I'll take those.
09:48Out of my way, Farmer.
09:49Drop those bags.
09:52Drop them.
09:52You're under threat of any kind, Miss Adams.
10:06Go away, please.
10:08This morning you told me and my son
10:10a story about a man
10:11who was filled with hate.
10:15It was a coincidence.
10:16Nothing more.
10:17Something's not right, Michael.
10:37It's hard to figure.
10:40Cousin, you better send
10:41them women folks home.
10:43We're going to do us
10:43a little celebrating.
10:44Man to man, huh, Garry?
10:46Yeah.
10:54Maybe we're lucky she's gone.
10:57Feeling the way she did.
10:59Hogwash.
11:00I said hogwash.
11:02I'm ashamed of you, both of you.
11:04Miss Adams is a fine lady
11:06and she's a finer school teacher.
11:09Anybody don't see that plain and clear
11:11just don't deserve knowing it.
11:12North Fork is never going to see
11:15another one like her.
11:16And you just let her ride right off.
11:19Shame on you.
11:20Now, Hattie, it's obvious
11:21the lady didn't want to stay.
11:23That's a cow-faced lie
11:24if I ever heard one.
11:25She was protecting somebody.
11:28You're sure of that, aren't you, Hattie?
11:30In here.
11:31In my heart, Lucas.
11:33That's all a woman needs
11:34to sense the truth.
11:35Yes.
11:39Where are you going, Lucas?
11:40He's going after that state
11:42just like I'd do if I was a man.
11:44Which I'm not.
11:46Thank goodness.
11:55Cousin?
11:57Did you see that big farmer leave?
11:59Know where you're going?
12:01After the school, Mom.
12:02Come on.
12:32Oh!
12:43Seems to me we just left you in town, Lucas.
12:45I'd like to talk to Miss Adams, Joey.
12:46Now, Luke, we got a schedule to make.
12:48You know that.
12:49Well, this will just take a minute.
12:50All right.
12:51One minute.
12:56Miss Adams?
12:57Please, Mr. McCain.
12:59I'd like you to hear me out.
13:00I'll speak my piece,
13:01and then you can get back on the stage.
13:03It won't take a while.
13:04There are a lot of people in North Fork
13:18who more than think you're a fine lady
13:20and a finer school teacher.
13:23You know, a school teacher
13:23is a mighty important person to the town.
13:26These same folks say that North Fork
13:27will be mighty lucky
13:28if they ever get another one
13:29like you.
13:32Then I guess they didn't listen
13:33to what Mr. Healy said about me.
13:35They listened, all right.
13:36They just didn't believe.
13:37They didn't believe that bottle of liquor, either.
13:39They just hoped...
13:40It makes no difference.
13:41You heard what I said about them
13:43and their town.
13:45Your minutes up, Lucas.
13:47Miss Adams,
13:48it takes a special kind of person
13:49to get kids interested
13:50in doing their homework.
13:51or to teach a class
13:53to the ladies in town
13:53or to get up early
13:54and take a book
13:55to a boy that's sick.
13:57All right.
13:58We're leaving.
13:59Let's go, Bob.
14:03We just can't believe
14:04that someone who does
14:05all these things
14:06doesn't have a lot of love
14:08in her heart for the people.
14:12Why don't you come back
14:13to the ranch with me?
14:14You can decide later
14:14what you want to do.
14:21$1,000 even up.
14:39Suits me.
14:40$1,000 even up.
14:41Now, that's a bet now.
14:42Yeah, okay, Bert.
14:42All right, ladies.
14:43You get in there and kill them.
14:44Go on, Ted.
14:46Go on, Ted.
14:48Go, pick them, lady, Bert.
14:49Come on, lady.
14:50Get in there.
14:51Go on, drink it, Bert.
14:53You'll make a man
14:54out of here kill you.
14:55Either way,
14:56suits me fine.
14:57Leave me be, Pa.
14:58Just leave me be.
14:59Come on, lady.
15:00Now, is that what you
15:00told little Miss Prim
15:01when she come chasing after you?
15:03Hmm?
15:03Yeah, Pa?
15:05Maybe there's some of it
15:06you ain't telling me, huh?
15:07Come on.
15:08Go, go, go.
15:08I told you everything
15:09that happened, Pa.
15:12Your ma used to lie to me.
15:14I'm pure in her.
15:15Hey, lady, Bert.
15:16Come on.
15:17Lady, Bert.
15:19Hello, Mark.
15:20Hello, Miss Adams.
15:22If you really want
15:23to cook that meal,
15:23Miss Adams,
15:24there's the kitchen.
15:24Good.
15:25How do you feel?
15:26Much better.
15:27Wonderful.
15:29I think you've been
15:30sitting up long enough, son.
15:31Maybe you better
15:31lie down for a while, huh?
15:32All right, Pa.
15:34Pa, I've been reading up
15:36on these pamphlets,
15:37and, well,
15:38wouldn't you have
15:39wanted more to vote?
15:40Well, I don't know, Mark.
15:42Maybe I'd better
15:42read up on it myself.
15:43Come on.
15:45Well?
15:56I think I'll make
15:57an omelette souffle.
16:00Do you have any cheese?
16:01Mm-hmm.
16:04And cream?
16:05Right here.
16:07And eggs?
16:08Fresh this morning.
16:09Good.
16:09And butter.
16:10Butter.
16:14And flour.
16:15And flour.
16:22Now all we're missing
16:23is a pan.
16:29Hattie Denton
16:29thinks you're
16:30protecting somebody.
16:30can I tell you
16:37about it?
16:38If you want to.
16:39A bowl, please.
16:48Garth Healy
16:49thinks he's
16:49in love with me.
16:51He asked me
16:51to marry him.
16:52The boy?
16:53The boy.
16:5519,
16:56and I'm 27.
16:57He's a lonely boy,
16:59Mr. McCain.
16:59Shut off
17:00from all affection
17:00by his father.
17:02Lonely and in
17:03need of understanding.
17:05I used to talk
17:06to him,
17:06hoping I could
17:07be of some help.
17:08I didn't realize
17:09he was misinterpreting
17:10our friendship
17:10until just a few
17:11days ago.
17:12He suddenly
17:13blurted out
17:13that he was
17:14in love with me.
17:16I tried to tell him
17:17he was acting foolish,
17:18but he wouldn't listen.
17:21Then I finally
17:21told him I couldn't
17:22see him again.
17:24Then he left.
17:26But he was
17:27very bitter.
17:28And you figure
17:28he told his pa
17:29a different story.
17:30Just the opposite
17:31of what I've told you.
17:34That's the real reason
17:35Mr. Healy
17:35was driving me
17:36out of town.
17:37Why didn't you
17:38say something?
17:40Because I believe
17:41Mr. Healy
17:42would kill Garth
17:43if he knew he lied.
17:44I couldn't betray him
17:46whatever he said.
17:52Would you beat
17:53these, please?
17:53You killed him!
17:57You killed him!
17:57Get him off me!
17:58He's loco!
17:59Loco!
18:00Nobody killed me!
18:01I'll go!
18:10Leave him be, pa!
18:12Leave him alone!
18:13Since when do you
18:14interfere with justice?
18:15Since when do you
18:16tell your pa
18:16what to do?
18:17Chicken's dead, pa!
18:20Chicken's dead!
18:21Mr. Healy!
18:26What's the trouble
18:27this time?
18:28No trouble at all,
18:29Marshal.
18:29No trouble.
18:31I always take care
18:32of my own,
18:32always have,
18:33and always will.
18:34I think we've had
18:34about enough of you
18:35folks this afternoon,
18:36Mr. Healy.
18:37Now go on home.
18:39All right,
18:40Marshal, sure.
18:40We're just leaving
18:41anyhow.
18:41Now.
18:44Oh, here.
18:45For the drinks.
18:46They're plumb local,
18:50all of them.
18:51I know.
18:54Hey, pa, Healy.
18:57Miss Adams ain't
18:58on that station
18:58or war.
18:59That big farmer
19:00took her off
19:00and they've gone
19:01to his ranch.
19:02Well, now,
19:02ain't that nice?
19:04See, Jed?
19:05Maybe McCain
19:05will give you
19:06one of his chickens.
19:07Yeah, pa?
19:08Mount up, Jed.
19:09Pa.
19:10You mount up, Garth.
19:11Pa, we can't.
19:12You heard me.
19:12Pa, I don't want
19:14another chicken.
19:15Might die, too.
19:17Well, now,
19:17it's a chance
19:18you have to take, Jed,
19:19when you're dealing
19:19with things that are weak.
19:33Ha!
19:33Ha!
19:33Ha!
19:33Ha!
19:46Get buddy, hungry.
19:54Dinner's practically ready.
19:56Sorry, if I pick
19:57some of your marigolds?
19:58Sure.
19:58You've got to get out of here.
20:23They're coming after you.
20:25Pa and the rest of them.
20:26They're right behind me.
20:27Come on, we still have time.
20:29You could come with me.
20:30I'm not leaving, Garth.
20:31You've got to.
20:33You don't know
20:33what he might do to me.
20:34Ha!
20:34Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:35Ha!
20:36Ha!
20:36Ha!
20:37Ha!
20:37Ha!
20:37Ha!
20:38Ha!
20:38Ha!
20:38Ha!
20:39Ha!
20:39Ha!
20:40Ha!
20:40Ha!
20:41Ha!
20:41Ha!
20:42Ha!
20:42Ha!
20:43Ha!
20:43Ha!
20:44Ha!
20:44Ha!
20:45Ha!
20:46Ha!
20:47Ha!
20:48Ha!
20:48Ha!
20:49Adele, listen to me.
20:51I wanted to hurt you.
20:52I'm sorry.
20:53Now, please, you've got to go away with me.
20:58Mr. McCain, make her listen to me.
21:00What is it, boy?
21:02I want her to come away with me before it's too late.
21:04Well, she's done with running.
21:05No one's going to bother her from here on.
21:08Now, you sit down.
21:08I'll give you some coffee.
21:09Mr. McCain.
21:10Sit down.
21:11Garth?
21:12Garth?
21:13Garth?
21:14Garth?
21:15You come out here and bring that guy with you.
21:18You stay away from there, Paul.
21:19I'm warning you.
21:20Garth, you come out here.
21:21I'm going to come in there and drag you out.
21:22Now, do you hear me?
21:23Garth, don't make it any worse.
21:24He's not going to hurt you.
21:25I'm telling you.
21:26I'll kill him first.
21:27Mr. McCain will handle him.
21:28Garth?
21:29Garth?
21:30Garth?
21:31Garth?
21:32Garth?
21:33Garth?
21:34Garth?
21:35Garth?
21:36Garth?
21:37Garth?
21:38Garth?
21:39Garth?
21:40Garth will handle him.
21:41No.
21:42No.
21:43This time I'm going to stand up to him myself.
21:45All right, Garth.
21:46But not with a gun.
21:47If you're going to stand up to him as a man, son, do what she says.
21:52Garth!
21:53he wasn't even man enough to shoot no was you why you listen to me pa you leave miss adams
22:15alone what i told you about her and me was a lie i was ashamed of the truth you lied because you're
22:21weak i got me two fine sons now having a one of my weakling the other one a fool i ain't no fool pa
22:30shut up jed you get that shirt off garth i'm gonna learn you about lying you'll leave him alone
22:36mr healy now you keep out of this mccain this is healy business i'll tend to all the healy business
22:43there is take back what you said pa i ain't no fool get that shirt off pa you gotta take back
22:49what you said you shut up jed take back what you said pa shut up you fool
22:54take back what you said
22:57garth i had to do it garth did not
23:15you all right is he all right i think he'll live can i go get the doctor garth yeah yeah you go on
23:29the healy's busted apart by their own meanness it was bound to happen
23:36and so gentlewomen of the gentler sex we ask you to evaluate the meaning of the word freedom
23:52we ask you to stand together now holding hands against the common tyrant that enslaves us
23:59man
24:02mark do you suppose we could go back to moby dick in a minute bull hello the house must be hattie
24:11hello mark how are you lucas fine too bad you have to miss the parade tonight
24:21hmm too bad well here's the tonic mark i've got the rush thank you hattie you're welcome
24:27get up there
24:35maybe we ought to go back to moby dick pa
24:44me
24:51oh
25:02oh
25:04oh
25:06oh
25:08oh
25:10THE END
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