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Bret Maverick is selected to be a part of the jury of a trial where an innocent boy stands accused of murder; the rest of the jury believes the boy to be guilty, except Bret.
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00:00five pat hands in these 25 cards no no i don't i bet another 500 and build gregg's life that
00:11there is oh wait a second maverick you're a gambler and can risk your cash but you can't
00:16put up a man's life against hold on wait a minute wait this is between maverick and me
00:20he named it what do you mean gregg's life
00:25so
00:32so
00:39Hold it there. Drop that gun.
00:59I ought to kill you right now, holding that gun on us.
01:02Well, I wouldn't have gunned you.
01:03Sure not. Bill, take a look in the house.
01:06How'd you get in here?
01:07Well, I came to Sloan's dead.
01:09Well, yeah, he tried to kill me.
01:11Tie him up real good.
01:12Now, look, you don't got to tie me.
01:14Just take me to the sheriff.
01:15We will, after we tie you up.
01:18One bit.
01:25Looks like your luck's changed, Mr. Bafferty.
01:27Mr. Bafferty.
01:28Yes, Sheriff?
01:29I wonder if you'd mind walking over to the jail with me.
01:32What's the charge?
01:33Murder.
01:35Well, you didn't do it.
01:36Young fellow over there's in trouble.
01:38Seems to think you can help him out of it.
01:41Well, I don't know.
01:42I'm in a bit of trouble here myself.
01:44Yours can keep.
01:45His can.
01:47What's his name?
01:48Bill Gray.
01:50Keep the pot boiling, boys.
01:52I'll be back.
01:52You remember, I was sitting on the porch today when you rode past my place heading toward town.
02:03I waved to you.
02:04Bill's trying to prove somebody else rode out to his place just after you went by.
02:08If so, you'd have passed him on the road.
02:12I don't remember passing anybody.
02:14Well, you've got to remember.
02:16Look, John Sloan came out to my place tonight.
02:18He must have passed you.
02:19But don't tell him what to say or how to say it, Billy.
02:23Well, you remember seeing Sloan?
02:27I didn't see anybody.
02:29I'm sorry.
02:30Bill says Sloan was out there.
02:32Now, maybe he was.
02:34I don't know.
02:34He wasn't.
02:35Look, he invited me out to his place tonight.
02:38He was going to lend me some money.
02:42Now, you remember that, don't you remember?
02:43I asked him for it yesterday at the saloon.
02:45Well, what say, Mr. Maverick?
02:49I remember Sloan said no.
02:51Well, he changed his mind.
02:53He came out to my place today to say so.
02:55Said to drop over about nightfall and he'd give me the cash.
02:58Oh, that don't make sense.
02:59You sure didn't come through the main gate and that's the only entrance to Sloan's place unless you'd jump the wire or cut it.
03:04It was cut.
03:05Sloan cut it himself.
03:08Don't know why he'd do that.
03:10Sloan posted us at the gate to keep people out.
03:12He always have guards?
03:14Always when he had a big piece of cash money around.
03:16Tonight he had it from a cattle sale.
03:18Over $6,000.
03:20You say you heard two shots?
03:22That's right.
03:24Oh, sure.
03:24Sloan shot at me first.
03:26Well, Billy, looks like you're going to have to spend some time here with me.
03:30Have to ask you to empty your pockets now.
03:34He gave me that.
03:44When Billy tried to borrow that money from Sloan, how much did he ask for?
03:58$3,000.
04:01He must have changed his mind plenty.
04:04There's over $6,000 here.
04:05Well, looks like he figured to use a gun to get what he couldn't get by working.
04:17All he'll get is a piece of rope.
04:19Do what?
04:19I'll check to the one-card troll.
04:21Well, I just want to see what's fair, one way or another.
04:23So do we all.
04:25So don't talk no more about it till the jury's picked.
04:27What?
04:28Because some of you might be on it.
04:29I'm here to gather up enough men to pick a panel.
04:32Can't it wait for this, Sheriff?
04:35Well, finish the hand, but make it quick.
04:41I'll bet $200.
04:43Too rich for me.
04:44Beats me.
04:46Here's me.
04:48All right.
04:49We've got to hurry.
04:50You four are just the number we need to choose from.
04:53Oh, but Sheriff, you don't want me.
04:54I've known Greg ever since he was that high.
04:57I've been doing business with him all the time.
04:58We all have.
04:59Me too.
05:00Nearly everybody in town's had business dealings with Billy from one time or another.
05:04Come on.
05:05Let's go.
05:06You too, Mr. Maverick.
05:08Oh, no thanks, Sheriff.
05:09I'm not a resident of this town.
05:10Oh, you've been in town three or four weeks, Mr. Maverick.
05:12I remember when you first came from Tommy.
05:13We know, we know.
05:14You're a resident, all right.
05:16Well, you make a fine juror, Mr. Maverick.
05:18That's what this town needs, fine jurors.
05:19If it wasn't...
05:20But I don't have a permanent home here.
05:22Well, you can stay at my home while you're on the jury, Mr. Maverick.
05:24I've got a spare room, and I...
05:26Charlie.
05:27I have no interests in this town.
05:28No business, no nothing.
05:30What are you doing in town?
05:31Playing cards.
05:33How do you make a living?
05:34Playing cards.
05:36Then you got a business.
05:39Let's go.
05:41I'm Mr. Maverick.
05:44You keep it.
05:45I've been a big help.
05:46Is that the best story you've got to tell?
06:06Yes.
06:07Don't ring true.
06:08If you want to make any changes, if you've got anything to tell me, it's the last chance
06:12to do it.
06:13No.
06:16No, no, there's nothing.
06:17Billy didn't murder John Sloan, Jade.
06:19I believe him.
06:20Shouldn't you believe him, too?
06:22I should.
06:24Yes, I should.
06:25Good morning, Mr. Plain, sir.
06:35Hello, Jade.
06:36Been a long time, hasn't it?
06:38Not near long enough.
06:40Come now.
06:41Just because we're on opposite sides here is no reason we can't be friendly.
06:44I got reason enough without that.
06:47Don't be a fool, Jade.
06:48We've butted heads before, but that's all in the past.
06:51I never saw a bobcat go to eat in grass.
06:54We both had a few years to forget our differences.
06:57We're older now.
06:58The older a rattlesnake gets, the more poison he's got in him.
07:03I'm warning you, Jade.
07:04Don't make this a grudge fight.
07:06Warning me?
07:07Yes.
07:08I asked to be appointed to this case.
07:10It won't do me any harm when I win it, and it won't do my enemies any good.
07:14Well, I asked for this case, too.
07:16Not just because I think so much of Billy Gregg, but because I think so little of you.
07:21Oh, you're a bitter man, Jade.
07:24Bitter because a younger man could shake himself loose in this cow town and make something better for himself.
07:29Yeah, better for himself, but not better for the people.
07:33You don't give two hoots for him.
07:35You never have.
07:37But you could end up being their governor if somebody don't get in your way.
07:41You think you can stop me?
07:42I can stop you from using Billy Gregg as a stepping stone.
07:49Not with the case you've got, Jade.
07:51Maybe not, but you know you've been in a fight.
07:53I figured I'd have no trouble at all staying off the jury.
08:11After all, I was practically a witness.
08:14But I found out that argument applied to almost everybody.
08:19Mr. Caldwell, you're the owner of the Roll Horse Saloon?
08:22Yes, sir. I'm the owner and the day barkeep.
08:25I've been around this town ever since it started, almost.
08:27Well, I can remember when we didn't have more than a half a dozen...
08:29Yes, yes.
08:31Now, you were present when the accused entered your establishment and approached the late John Sloan.
08:37Yes, sir, that's right. It was Saturday afternoon.
08:40And the customers sure had me hopping.
08:42When Billy Gregg walked in, I was the first one to notice him.
08:44Mr. Sloan, can I speak to you for a minute?
08:53Go ahead.
08:55A loan.
08:58I've got time. I'm busy.
09:00We can wait the game for you.
09:02Anything you've got to say, say.
09:05I need a loan.
09:07Well, how much?
09:09$3,000.
09:11That's a lot of money.
09:12Yes.
09:14What does a boy like you want with all that money?
09:16I want to build a new place, get some furniture, other things.
09:21Maybe a couple of heifers to buck on my herd, son.
09:25Why so fancy?
09:27What's the matter with the cabin you got?
09:28Oh, it's all right for me, but...
09:31I'll give you 10% on the money, Mr. Sloan.
09:34That's more than the bank gives.
09:35Don't you want to tell me what you need a new house for?
09:38Well, Lucy Setter and me are planning to be married.
09:42I want better for it than what I got.
09:46Why don't you mortgage your house and your beef?
09:48Deal them, Logan.
09:49I tried the bank and every other place I could think of after that.
09:53So I'm the last chance, huh?
09:55Last one you can turn to?
09:58Yeah, that's right.
10:00Must stick in your craw to have to come to me.
10:03A man don't like to ask money from anyone.
10:05Yeah, least of all me.
10:06If you say so.
10:08Come on, Pike, keep it going.
10:15Mr. Sloan, will you lend it to me?
10:19I don't think so.
10:22No, your pa couldn't do anything with that scrub land,
10:25and I don't think you will either.
10:27A house in the herd's worth all the $3,000.
10:29Nobody else seems to think so.
10:31Neither do I.
10:32I haven't got the cash, anyway.
10:35You got over $6,000 from that cattle sale.
10:38Look, I don't want to lend.
10:40Now stop begging.
10:43I shouldn't have to, Sloan.
10:46When you was getting started, my father lent you $3,000.
10:49You never paid it back.
10:50You owe me $3,000.
10:52And I didn't pay that debt for a good reason.
10:54Besides, it's run over so long a period of time, it's outlawed.
10:59It's uncollectible by law.
11:01That's book law.
11:02There's other law should hold a man.
11:06I paid your pa more than $3,000 to help over the years.
11:10And I got reason to think he took more than that when I wasn't looking.
11:13Get out!
11:16I wouldn't want you killing him.
11:17He's winning a lot of my money.
11:19This is on the house, boys.
11:20On the house.
11:21And the boys calmed down.
11:22The poker game started again.
11:24And I didn't have to buy a new mirror.
11:26You know, the last time...
11:27That's all.
11:29Thank you, Mr. Caldwell.
11:31You're a witness.
11:34Well, I just want to hear that one part over again.
11:39About what Sloan said to Billy just before Billy went for his gun.
11:45Said Billy's pa took him for better than $3,000 while his back was turned.
11:49No.
11:51You mean he just as good as called this boy's father a thief?
11:54He couldn't have said it in no plainer.
11:56I'd like to point out that insults aren't shooting licenses.
12:02Seems you don't need no license to go shooting off your mouth.
12:05So, we tied Greg up and took him to the sheriff.
12:18After that, we went back and rode the fence.
12:21Bob Dwyer had been clipped on one of the back sections.
12:23Well, now, Len, when you stopped Billy Greg, how'd he look?
12:34I mean, did he look wild and mean, or did he look mostly scared?
12:40Object!
12:41Defense is trying to lead the witness.
12:43That ain't the point.
12:44But I wish that someone had set me straight on one thing.
12:48Why would a man who was supposed to have planned a robbery and then killed someone because of it,
12:54take care to come in by the back door when he arrived and then run out the front door when he left?
13:01Desperate, guilty men do things like that.
13:04So do scared, innocent ones.
13:07That's all, then.
13:08When you jailed Bill Greg that night, had he been drinking?
13:12There was liquor on his breath.
13:14You went to Sloan's place and you found him dead.
13:17Did your examination go further than the house?
13:20I went to look over the cut fence.
13:22Lem showed it to me.
13:24That's where I found the clippers that did the job.
13:29Your witness.
13:31There's something the prosecutor said that interested me.
13:38Trying to prove that Billy's got just about every vice that a young fellow could have.
13:43He dragged in that business about liquor on his breath.
13:48Sounds like he's trying to say that Billy was drunk.
13:50Well, he wasn't, Jay.
13:52He wasn't, huh?
13:55Well, I'm sure he couldn't be all the things that Mr. Blaine says he is.
14:00First, he says he's drunk.
14:03Then he says he's sober enough to put a bullet right in the middle of a man's heart.
14:08I don't know, but it looks to me like the prosecutor don't know just what he's trying to prove.
14:14Them's the ones I sold to Billy Greg, all right, about three months back.
14:18Billy's always been kind of short on money, and that pair's got a busted spring, so I sold it to him for half price.
14:22I hate to listen to evidence.
14:26Any questions?
14:27Yes.
14:28Let me see that thing.
14:32Now, Cy, do you mean to tell me that you remember this pair of clippers out of all the clippers you've sold through the years?
14:39That's what I said, Jay.
14:40And I know you mean it, Cy.
14:42You've always had sharp eyes and a good memory.
14:46And you're right as rain, Cy.
14:47Hey, these are Billy's clippers.
14:50He told me so himself.
14:51And don't nobody forget that.
14:54You'll find out why later on.
14:56All right, Cy.
14:57Well, now, Doc, would you say that Billy was the sort to have a mean streak?
15:10Objection, Your Honor.
15:11I've stood by while counsel repeatedly used the name Billy to describe the defendant.
15:17An obvious attempt to make a grown man appear to be a mischievous lad of eight.
15:21Now, I simply must object.
15:23The good doctor isn't qualified to judge mean streaks, although I imagine he's removed many a bullet from men who were shot by models of virtue.
15:36All right, hold it down.
15:39Any other questions, Jay?
15:41No.
15:43You're excused, Doc.
15:45The prosecution rests.
15:46Mr. Blaine seems to think this is all a big joke.
15:57That a boy fighting for his life is a pretty funny animal.
16:03He wants to save time.
16:05Wants to speed up the case.
16:09All right.
16:11He'll speed up the case to send a boy to his death.
16:13Well, I'll speed it up to send Billy Gregg out of this court, a free man.
16:23Call from a first witness, William Gregg.
16:26I wish you.
16:30Yes, sir.
16:43Now, Billy, oh, I'm sorry.
16:49I meant Mr. Gregg.
16:55Now, Mr. Gregg, tell us exactly what happened, in your own words.
16:59Well, what happened that afternoon in the Roanhorse Saloon is pretty much the way it was said.
17:08I was pretty rile, all right.
17:10But going home and thinking of it, I...
17:12I was glad Mr. Maverick spoke up and kept me from drawing my gun.
17:16Well, the next afternoon, I was sitting on the porch trying to think, worry my way out of things.
17:22No need for that, Bill.
17:32I didn't come for trouble.
17:34Don't drop your gun, then.
17:36Come ahead.
17:36I came over to talk to you about the money you asked for.
17:55I asked, you said no.
17:57Well, I thought a lot about it since.
18:00You think about your calling my pa a thief?
18:03That, too.
18:05Maybe that most of all.
18:08Like you said, your pa did give me some help when it first got started.
18:12But you're coming up to me like that in a saloon and bracing me.
18:15Well, it sort of rubs a man the wrong way to have folks think that he needed help.
18:20No shame in needing help.
18:22Everybody does, one time or other.
18:24Yeah, but it's like I said.
18:25I did pay off your pa, little by little, over a period of time.
18:29We never got around to writing any new notes or picking up the old one.
18:33All that was a gradual.
18:34And your pa died and you ended up with the old note.
18:39You could have said that yesterday.
18:41That's just the point.
18:42If I'd have said it then, it would have looked like I was trying to squirm out of something.
18:46Naturally, I said something I didn't mean, something wasn't true.
18:49I know your pa never steal.
18:53You tell that to the men at the saloon.
18:54No, wait a minute, Bill.
18:55I came over here to offer you something worth more than just apologizing.
19:02I want to make up for what I said.
19:05Well, don't you understand?
19:06I want to loan you the money.
19:14And what will you take for it?
19:16No mortgage, no interest, no nothing.
19:18Pay me when you can.
19:20You don't want anything?
19:22Sure I do.
19:22I don't want you telling anybody where you got it.
19:26Folks will get the idea I'm going soft.
19:28It'll be five times as hard to do business.
19:32Fifty times as hard to keep my head up.
19:35You've got a big pride, Sloan.
19:39Well, if I was a kid your age, just starting all over again, maybe I wouldn't need it.
19:44No, it's about all I have.
19:45It seems I never really did know you good, Mr. Sloan.
19:51You and a lot of other people.
19:54Would you mind riding over tonight?
19:56I always post a couple of men at the front gate when I've got a chunk of cash around.
20:00You can go through your north field and through the fence the back way.
20:04I'll clip it on the way home.
20:07Like you say.
20:08You swear you won't tell nobody about this, Billy.
20:19Nobody at all.
20:20Don't worry about it.
20:21So, a couple hours later, I rode over to Sloan's place for the back acres.
20:38The barbed wire was cut, like you said it would be.
20:41And I went on through.
20:43Now, Mr. Craig, you've told this story twice.
20:46You still say the wire was already cut.
20:49Sloan didn't ask you to cut it.
20:50He done it himself when he rode back home.
20:53He took my clippers and left them to be found.
20:55I move that last be stricken from the record.
20:58Strike it out.
21:00Disregard that last remark.
21:02No one saw you on the trip?
21:05No.
21:07There were two cowboys at the gate.
21:09I can make them out a little.
21:11But I tied my horse back to the house and they didn't see me.
21:15Then you took special pains not to be seen.
21:17It seems you were willing to let Sloan's accusation against your father go unanswered, if he lent you the money.
21:22Well, my pa's dead.
21:24A little name calling can't hurt him too much.
21:26But I got my own name to make.
21:30My own life.
21:32And that money could help me do it.
21:34So, a combination of pride, which every man has, and a will to make a name brought you unseen to the back door of John Sloan's ranch after dark.
21:43You're twisting it all out of shape.
21:45He's making it sound like I went out to dry goat Sloan.
21:48Well, I never.
21:50You're saying I didn't care enough about my father's stand-up for his name.
21:53I simply stated the facts in your own words.
21:56Object.
21:57To what, Jabe?
21:58The prosecutor's last remark or to your client's outburst?
22:01To the deliberate baiting of my client.
22:04Attack the evidence, if you will, but don't attack the boy.
22:06Now, you just sit down, Billy.
22:09Take it easy.
22:11Everybody knows how much you loved and respected your pa.
22:15I object, Your Honor, to counsels instructing the witness while under examination.
22:20Sustained.
22:21Jabe, don't do any more of that kind of thing.
22:24Yes, Your Honor.
22:25So, you entered the house.
22:27Then what?
22:29I told you.
22:31Tell the jury again.
22:34I tapped on the door.
22:37Sloan was sitting behind his desk.
22:40Oh, good evening, Billy.
22:42Mr. Sloan?
22:43Come on in.
22:45How are you?
22:47Fine, thank you.
22:48Let's have a drink, huh?
22:49Yeah.
22:50Thanks very much.
22:51Sit down.
22:54A little celebration.
22:58Here you are.
23:00To you and Lucy Setter.
23:02Makes me real glad that I'm able to help you two kids.
23:06Go on.
23:09Drink up.
23:10Pour yourself another one.
23:12All right.
23:23Watch this, Billy.
23:23Here's the new house and the new furniture.
23:28The beginning of a good life for you and Lucy.
23:31Seven, eight, nine.
23:35It must be good to see the sparkle in your eyes.
23:40Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
23:42What are you seeing, Billy?
23:44What you said.
23:46Most of all, Lucy's face.
23:48One, two, three, four.
23:51Twenty-five.
23:52That's all right.
23:53Go right ahead.
23:54Count along.
23:56Twenty, twenty-nine, thirty.
23:58Thirty, huh?
24:03Thirty one hundred dollar bills.
24:04Oh, you're not going to count them again, are you?
24:08For fun?
24:09Or don't you trust me yet?
24:14Thanks, Mr. Sloan.
24:15I'm glad to do it.
24:18Careful on your way out.
24:19Hold it right there, Greg.
24:24Now, don't turn around.
24:28Put your hands on the door frame.
24:32What's this all about?
24:34Surprise?
24:35Not very.
24:38But I don't figure you'll send me down in cold blood.
24:40You'll hang for it.
24:43What, for cunning to hold up, man?
24:46Who's going to believe that I lent you that money
24:48after what I said about your pa?
24:50No.
24:52But a hot-headed youngster,
24:53lifting a few drinks,
24:55deciding to take what I wouldn't give him.
24:57Folks would believe that.
24:58You went to a lot of trouble.
25:00No trouble.
25:01Just cut a few strands of wire
25:02and posted two witnesses out front.
25:05But why?
25:09You really think you're good enough for Lucy Sutter?
25:13You.
25:14A fool kid with nothing but a dirty shack
25:16and a few scrubby acres of land.
25:17Well, you're not good enough!
25:21Lucy's going to marry me.
25:23So that's it?
25:25You think if you kill me,
25:26Lucy will have anything to do with you?
25:28That's why I didn't go after you in the saloon, boy.
25:31You think Lucy will mourn a thief for very long?
25:34And we're going to die a thief.
25:36I headed for the door and out.
25:55Those two fellas came up and took me to town.
25:57Well, that's all.
25:59Those are the facts.
26:01Just like it happened.
26:03I never knew Sloan felt that way about Lucy.
26:06No, I suppose not.
26:08I wonder if Sloan ever knew it.
26:10What do you mean by that?
26:11Oh, we'll get to that later.
26:13Now, tell me this.
26:14The day before you went to Sloan's to get the loan,
26:18you had bad words with him at the Roanhurst Saloon.
26:20Is that correct?
26:23I said it was.
26:24Yet the very next day when Sloan came to you
26:27and offered the money,
26:28you had no suspicions?
26:31At first,
26:32what he said seemed to make sense.
26:34A man noted for hard dealing
26:37who came to you
26:38and practically begged your help
26:39in not revealing a kind heart
26:41and you believed him?
26:43Yes.
26:44Yet you weren't surprised, you say,
26:46when Sloan pulled a gun on you.
26:47No, I always thought he was a snake
26:49and he proved it.
26:50But you say you believed his story.
26:53Well, he oiled me up and got me out there.
26:56Sloan asked you to sneak in
26:57through a place he cut in his own barbed wire
27:00and you didn't suspect a thing.
27:01Just went right ahead,
27:03innocent as a lamb.
27:04Yes.
27:09Your friends and neighbors
27:11seem to find that as unbelievable
27:12as I do, Mr. Gray.
27:14That's enough, Mr. Blaine.
27:15Don't draw the spectators
27:16into your prosecution.
27:18I'm sorry, Your Honor.
27:20Anyway, you believed him.
27:23Yes.
27:24Why?
27:25Because I needed the money
27:26and I guess I was ready
27:28to be convinced of anything to get it.
27:29And if you were ready
27:31to be convinced of anything,
27:32doesn't it follow
27:32that you were ready
27:33to convince yourself
27:34that any means were fair,
27:35that you were justified
27:36in stealing what you believed
27:37to be rightfully yours
27:38because of the outlawed note?
27:39No, I wouldn't have gone outside the law
27:41no matter what I thought.
27:42But you were heard to say
27:43in the saloon
27:43that there were other laws
27:45besides book law
27:46that should govern a man.
27:47I didn't mean it that way.
27:48So you decided
27:49to enforce the law
27:50and took not only
27:51the $3,000 you thought do you
27:52but the rest of the money as well.
27:53I didn't take anything.
27:55But there were over $6,000
27:56on your person
27:56when the sheriff
27:57had you empty your pockets.
27:58That's true, isn't it?
28:00The sheriff said so, yes.
28:01How did it get there?
28:09I don't know.
28:17Now, Miss Sutter,
28:18you're one of the few
28:20schoolteachers
28:21this town has had.
28:23If that weren't interesting enough,
28:24you're a lovely girl.
28:28Isn't it true
28:28that some of our citizens
28:30have satisfied
28:31their curiosity
28:32and interest in you
28:33by stopping by the schoolhouse?
28:37Yes.
28:39And Mr. Sloan
28:41met you in town sometimes
28:43and held you in conversation.
28:46You've had conversation
28:47with many of our male citizens.
28:50Yes.
28:51The judge, for instance?
28:53Jabe over there?
28:54Mr. Hamlin?
28:56Jasper?
28:58Would you say
28:59that all of them
29:00were in love with you?
29:01Even Jasper?
29:05Of course not.
29:07Did John Sloan
29:09ever propose marriage?
29:12No.
29:13Did he ever profess
29:14a love for you?
29:16Well, not in so many ways.
29:17many words.
29:18Then how do you know
29:19he loved you?
29:21A woman can tell
29:22about such things,
29:23Mr. Blaine.
29:24Hmm.
29:28Step down.
29:33Your Honor,
29:35my summation
29:37will be brief.
29:37I won't dwell
29:40on the unshakable facts
29:42that have been offered
29:42in proof of Bill Gregg's guilt.
29:45Those facts
29:45are condemning enough.
29:47But there's something
29:48even more condemning.
29:50The defense.
29:52A fairy tale.
29:54Without basis
29:55in anything
29:56except in the mind
29:57of the defense attorney.
29:59We find ourselves
30:00still without a motive
30:01for the involved
30:02scheme
30:04which the late
30:05John Sloan
30:06is supposed
30:06to have created.
30:08The defense
30:09went to the extent
30:09of placing
30:10the young and beautiful
30:11Lucy Sutter
30:12on the stand
30:12to lie
30:13for the man
30:14she was about to marry.
30:17Now,
30:17I honor her
30:18noble lie.
30:22She loves
30:23Bill Gregg
30:23deeply.
30:25But the love
30:26she says
30:27John Sloan
30:28held for her
30:29is without proof
30:31of any kind.
30:33No one else
30:33in this community
30:34knew of it.
30:35Not the citizens
30:36of this town.
30:38Not Bill Gregg himself.
30:41Not even
30:42Lucy Sutter.
30:44But the motive
30:45for Bill Gregg
30:46is evident.
30:49Clear.
30:51A long-standing hate
30:53for a debt
30:54he thought
30:55had gone unpaid.
30:56a desire
30:57to make
30:59a home
30:59for the
31:00wife-to-be
31:01and
31:03an insult
31:04against his
31:04father's name.
31:08I won't ask
31:09for a verdict
31:10of guilty.
31:12There can be
31:13no other.
31:14No other.
31:24Pass your ballots
31:25down as soon
31:25as you voted.
31:29Guilty.
31:29Guilty.
31:31Guilty.
31:32Guilty.
31:33Guilty.
31:35Guilty.
31:36Guilty.
31:37Guilty.
31:39Guilty.
31:40Guilty.
31:42Not guilty.
31:44What?
31:45That's right.
31:46Not guilty.
31:47Guilty.
31:47Guilty.
31:48One not guilty.
31:51Is somebody
31:51trying to make
31:52a joke out of this?
31:53You sound as if
31:54a man doesn't have
31:55a right to his own vote.
31:56It was you?
31:58That's right.
31:59You got no right
32:00to hold things up.
32:01You don't even
32:01belong in this town.
32:03Look,
32:03we're gonna have
32:04another vote right now
32:05and this time
32:05we do it right.
32:06Now hold on,
32:07Pike.
32:08Let him have his say.
32:09Must have reasons.
32:10A man don't do things
32:11without reasons.
32:12First,
32:13first I'd like to suggest
32:14a little bet
32:14to Mr. Pike.
32:15A bet?
32:16We haven't got time
32:17for that.
32:18Well,
32:18business is where
32:19you find it.
32:20We'll all be old men
32:21before I change my vote
32:22and let Bill Gregg hang.
32:24And we'll all be
32:25long in our graves
32:26before I let a man
32:27guilty of sin
32:28go free.
32:29Which brings us
32:30to that little bet.
32:31I have $500 here
32:33that says we leave
32:34this room
32:34with a verdict
32:35for acquittal.
32:35five.
32:40It's a fool thing
32:41offering a bet
32:42like that.
32:43There's 11 of us here
32:44already said he's guilty.
32:46I played poker
32:47with you,
32:48Mr. Pike.
32:49You like to get your man
32:50out on a limb
32:51if you hold four aces.
32:53Well,
32:53you're holding them.
32:55You've heard the bet.
32:56Am I called?
32:58You can hold the stakes.
33:01Now wait a minute.
33:02Let's name it again.
33:04You say that the verdict
33:06will be unanimous
33:07for innocent
33:08and that includes
33:09my vote.
33:14Done.
33:16You notice how
33:17Mr. Pike
33:17put his finger
33:18right on the point
33:19that made the odds
33:20so bad against me.
33:22Pike himself
33:23must vote for acquittal.
33:24Well,
33:25go ahead,
33:25Maverick.
33:25What about reasons?
33:26Yes,
33:27what do you mean?
33:28That afternoon
33:28in the Roanhorse Saloon,
33:30you remember that
33:30Sloan called Greg's father
33:32a thief?
33:33That's right.
33:35I wonder why
33:36Sloan should practically
33:37force Greg into
33:38drawing a gun on him.
33:40The boy was pushing him.
33:42Hard enough
33:42that a simple no
33:43wouldn't do?
33:45Sloan didn't have
33:46to yell thief.
33:47I think the man's
33:48got a point.
33:49Greg told a story
33:50so unbelievable
33:50that even he
33:51couldn't give a reason
33:52for it.
33:53But that argument
33:53in the saloon
33:54was set up by Sloan.
33:55He asked for it.
33:57That part fits
33:58Greg's story.
34:00Story.
34:01What else could he say?
34:02That's the best
34:03he could do.
34:04And Blaine
34:05tied him up in it.
34:06Why,
34:06he looked guilty
34:07enough for hanging
34:08right then.
34:09Oh,
34:10you can't judge
34:10by a man's looks,
34:11Pike.
34:12When he stumbles
34:13over his own story,
34:14you can.
34:15I doubt that.
34:18Doubt.
34:19That's all I have
34:19to go on
34:20is doubt.
34:21And how many
34:22of you men
34:22would let
34:23Bill Greg hang
34:24if there was
34:24any doubt at all?
34:26Any reasonable doubt?
34:27All right,
34:32boys,
34:32pass it down
34:33as soon as you're
34:33born.
34:37Here we are.
34:40Guilty.
34:42Guilty.
34:44Not guilty.
34:46Mine is still here.
34:48Looks like I'm
34:49not alone anymore.
34:50Guilty.
34:50Guilty.
34:51Guilty.
34:52Not guilty.
34:54Not guilty.
34:55Not guilty.
34:57Guilty.
34:58Guilty.
34:59Guilty and mine.
35:01And mine.
35:02Eight to four.
35:05You let fancy
35:06talk switch you over.
35:08It's none
35:09of your business
35:09how I vote
35:10on a secret ballot.
35:12Call for a pawn
35:13and I'll say
35:13I vote guilty,
35:14same as I wrote.
35:15And I say
35:16it's none
35:16of your business,
35:17Pike.
35:18But I vote
35:19not guilty.
35:20Mr. Maverick
35:21said reasonable doubt.
35:22Well,
35:22I've got one.
35:24Everybody knows
35:25Sloane was a hard man
35:26and not the straight
35:27just when he figured
35:28to lose.
35:29You ought to know
35:30that, Pike.
35:31You and him
35:31had trouble
35:32when he cheated
35:32at cards.
35:34That was between
35:35him and me.
35:36I knew it
35:36and he knew
35:37he couldn't
35:37get away with it.
35:38But a man
35:39who'll cheat once
35:39will cheat twice.
35:41Maybe.
35:41But Sloane
35:42would stick at murder.
35:43I know that
35:44and so does
35:44everybody else.
35:45And from what
35:46I've heard
35:46there's even less
35:48chance that Bill
35:49Gregg would kill.
35:50So it's just
35:50a difference of opinion,
35:51Mr. Pike.
35:52And there's a point
35:53there, Pike.
35:54Get this then.
35:56My opinion
35:57won't change.
35:59Maverick can tell
35:59all the bedtime
36:00stories he wants.
36:01But facts are facts
36:03and as long
36:03as I gotta vote,
36:05Bill Gregg
36:05don't go free.
36:07Do you understand me?
36:08I'll vote
36:09when I see him.
36:10You know something,
36:11Pike?
36:12Here we are
36:13all listening to reason
36:14or trying to
36:15and you're just
36:16digging in your heels
36:17to make a stand
36:18no matter what.
36:18Oh, Maverick
36:27is talking
36:27about reasons.
36:28I'm talking
36:29about facts.
36:30What can he do
36:31with this fact?
36:32Gregg says
36:33Sloane gave him
36:34$3,000.
36:35The sheriff
36:35found over six.
36:37All the cash
36:38that Sloane had.
36:40What does that
36:41look like to you?
36:42I'll admit
36:43that part
36:43bothered me too.
36:44It's pretty strong
36:45for him.
36:45You're doing
36:46a lot of talking
36:47but you got
36:47no answers.
36:49Just as Sloane
36:50had to set the scene
36:51so have I.
36:52How many of you
36:53men would believe
36:54a man wouldn't know
36:55how much money
36:56was handed to him?
36:58You, Mr. Hamlin?
36:59Hamlin always
37:00counts things
37:01three or four times.
37:02Business.
37:03You've got to
37:03watch yourself.
37:04A man wouldn't
37:05be shortchanged.
37:06No sensible man.
37:07Right.
37:08Anyone's careful
37:09about being
37:09shortchanged.
37:11About getting
37:11less than
37:11what he's doing.
37:13But is anyone
37:14too careful
37:14about getting
37:15more?
37:15No.
37:18Are you
37:20trying to tell
37:20me that Bill
37:21Gregg stood
37:22there and didn't
37:23know Sloane
37:23was giving him
37:24more than twice
37:24as much as he
37:25was supposed
37:25to?
37:26You said it
37:27for me.
37:27I don't believe
37:28him.
37:29Oh, it's not
37:29a hard trick
37:30to fool a man
37:30with.
37:31Not if a man's
37:32a fool.
37:33We made a bet.
37:36500 each.
37:37Stakes are being
37:38held in your
37:38pocket.
37:39Take it out
37:39and count it.
37:41Everyone saw
37:42the stakes put up.
37:44Pike himself
37:44watched me count
37:45it out.
37:46Should be
37:46a thousand
37:47dollars there.
37:52It's
37:52fifteen hundred.
37:56If a man's
37:57a fool,
37:58that's what
37:58Pike said.
38:00It ain't the
38:01same thing at
38:01all.
38:02It's exactly
38:03the same
38:03thing and
38:04you know
38:04it.
38:07Any ready?
38:09Not yet.
38:10Better get a
38:11decision or
38:12you'll all be
38:12putting up at
38:13the hotel
38:13tonight.
38:14The sheriff's
38:15right.
38:15Let's take
38:15another vote.
38:16If it'll do
38:17us any good.
38:19First, may I
38:21have my extra
38:21500, guy?
38:27Not guilty,
38:28not guilty.
38:29Eleven to
38:30one.
38:30For acquittal.
38:32And that
38:32means it's
38:33still a
38:33hung jury
38:34because my
38:34vote stays
38:35the same.
38:36Now, what
38:36do you got
38:37to say about
38:37that?
38:38I'm about
38:38talked out.
38:39Oh, you
38:40weaken it,
38:40huh?
38:41No, it
38:41isn't the case
38:42of that.
38:42Oh, do you
38:43realize what
38:44time it is?
38:44We're all
38:45here for it.
38:46Peter, who
38:46want to get
38:47out of here?
38:47Come on,
38:48you're not
38:48going to
38:49get out of
38:49it.
38:50Go ahead,
38:51take another
38:52vote.
38:53I say guilty,
38:54guilty, guilty.
38:57First you say
38:58Maverick's making
38:58a joke and now
38:59you stand fast.
39:00There's a
39:00reasonable doubt
39:01anybody can see
39:02that.
39:03Mr. Pike has
39:04a right to his
39:04own opinion,
39:05like the rest of
39:05us do.
39:07We're dead
39:07locked.
39:08Your opinion's
39:09fixed.
39:10Why do you
39:10still vote for
39:11hanging?
39:12I've said it
39:13all along.
39:14Bill Gregg is
39:15guilty.
39:16That's your
39:16opinion?
39:17Naturally.
39:18You're a poker
39:19player, Mr. Pike,
39:20and you're a pretty
39:21good one, even
39:21though you only
39:22bet on sure
39:22things.
39:23But haven't
39:24there been times
39:25when the sure
39:26thing didn't pay
39:26off?
39:27When your opinion
39:28was wrong?
39:29Isn't there just
39:30the least chance
39:31that Bill Gregg is
39:32innocent?
39:33Not a chance.
39:38Let me ask you
39:39something about
39:39the odds of poker.
39:42What are the
39:43odds against
39:44drawing a pat
39:44hand?
39:45I don't know.
39:46Plenty.
39:47Maybe ten,
39:47twenty to one.
39:48Let's say ten to
39:49one, just for the
39:50sake of argument.
39:51After one pat
39:52hand, what would
39:53the odds be
39:54against drawing
39:55another pat
39:55hand?
39:56Same deal?
39:58A hundred to
39:59one, maybe.
40:00Why?
40:01Ten times as
40:01much?
40:02Yeah.
40:03And a third
40:04pat hand would
40:04be a thousand to
40:05one, and a
40:06fourth of ten
40:07thousand, and a
40:08fifth pat hand
40:09would a hundred
40:10thousand to one
40:10be a fair idea
40:11of the odds?
40:12Well, Pike, a
40:14few thousand, the
40:15odds doesn't
40:15matter.
40:16I just want to
40:16agree on
40:17something.
40:18I can say, then,
40:19that the odds
40:19against five pat
40:20hands, twenty-five
40:21consecutive cards
40:22from a full
40:23regular deck,
40:24shuffled, no
40:25tricks involved,
40:26are, say, a
40:27hundred thousand
40:28to one?
40:30Yeah.
40:31Yeah, I'd agree
40:31to them odds.
40:32Would you say
40:33those odds are
40:33about the ones
40:34against Bill's
40:35story being true?
40:36I'd say that,
40:37too.
40:38Now, what are
40:39you trying to
40:40say?
40:40that your
40:42opinion, your
40:43judgment, can
40:44be wrong, that
40:46you, just like
40:46anybody else, can
40:47make a mistake.
40:48I'm so sure of
40:48it that I'm
40:49willing to stake
40:50Bill Gregg's
40:50life on it.
40:53I'll take the
40:53long end of the
40:54bet.
40:55I ain't quite
40:56sure what you
40:56mean.
40:59Take the deck
40:59out of the pack,
41:00spread it on the
41:00table.
41:01Look them over,
41:02everybody, if you
41:02want to.
41:03I won't touch
41:05them.
41:06Make sure it's a
41:0752-card deck.
41:13It's a straight
41:14deck.
41:15Shuffle them.
41:18Shuffle them
41:18good.
41:18Now, cut them.
41:33Again and again.
41:37Are you satisfied
41:38that they're well
41:39shuffled and cut?
41:40Yeah.
41:42Now, deal off the
41:43first 25 cards,
41:44face down.
41:56Now, stack the
41:5725 and keep your
41:57hand on the pack.
41:59Set the rest of
42:00the deck aside.
42:03Now, let's make
42:04our bet.
42:04I say that in
42:06those 25 cards
42:07that you dealt
42:08from a pack that
42:09you shuffled and
42:10cut, there are
42:12five pat hands.
42:13Not in regular
42:14order, you
42:14understand.
42:15But the five
42:16pat hands are
42:16there.
42:18Do you believe
42:18that?
42:21Five pat hands
42:22in these 25
42:23cards?
42:25No.
42:25No, I don't.
42:27I bet another
42:28500 and Bill
42:29Gregg's life that
42:30there is.
42:31Oh, wait a
42:32second, Maverick.
42:33You're a gambler
42:33and can risk your
42:34cash, but you
42:35can't put up a
42:36man's life against
42:37him.
42:37Hold on, wait
42:38a minute.
42:38Wait, this is
42:38between Maverick
42:39and me.
42:40He named it.
42:40What do you
42:43mean, Gregg's
42:43life?
42:45If I win, you
42:46vote to free him.
42:47And if you
42:48lose?
42:49If I lose, I'll
42:49stop fighting you.
42:50I can't expect
42:51the others to
42:52vote his life
42:52away.
42:53This jury might
42:54still be dead
42:55locked, but the
42:56next one will
42:56hang him sure.
42:58There's a joker
42:58here somewhere.
42:59You're trying to
43:00trick me into
43:00voting your way.
43:02Don't you
43:02trust your opinion?
43:04You're a
43:04professional.
43:06I haven't
43:07handled the deck.
43:08The best
43:08manipulator in the
43:09world can't
43:10control a deck he
43:10hasn't touched.
43:13What's the
43:13matter, Pike?
43:15Odds ain't good
43:16enough.
43:17You can win
43:17another 500.
43:19I'm still
43:19figuring.
43:23You're going
43:23to make five
43:24pat hands out
43:25of these 25
43:26cards.
43:27That's
43:27straights,
43:29flushes,
43:29full houses.
43:31That's right.
43:34Can I
43:35shuffle them
43:35again?
43:35Can I
43:36shuffle them
43:36again?
43:37an honest deck,
43:42Mr. Pike.
43:43You looked at
43:43them before.
43:44them before.
43:49Thank you, Mr. Pike.
43:50Thank you, Mr. Pike.
43:52Now, try to put them
44:01in suits, see how many
44:15flushes we can make.
44:16If we're lucky,
44:18we'll get three.
44:27They seem to be running
44:28pretty good.
44:34Looks like a straight
44:35flush.
44:36Well, Mr. Pike,
44:41we did.
44:42We got
44:43three flushes.
44:48Looks like
44:48four flushes
44:49there, Brett.
44:51You're right,
44:52we have.
44:54One,
44:54two,
44:55three,
44:55and four.
44:57I think
44:58possibly
44:59the king of hearts
45:03and a nine.
45:04We got four flushes
45:05and a straight,
45:05Mr. Pike.
45:06Five-pat hands.
45:08A diamond flush,
45:09spade flush,
45:10club flush,
45:11heart flush,
45:11and a king high straight.
45:13Well,
45:13there it's...
45:14Five-pat hands!
45:17Maverick,
45:17how many times
45:19can five-pat hands
45:20be made out
45:21of any 25 cards?
45:23Practically
45:23every time.
45:25I call it
45:26Maverick Solitaire.
45:28Call it, Sharon.
45:29We got a verdict.
45:33Here comes
45:34the jury, folks.
45:35For a while there,
45:48I thought we never
45:49would reach a verdict.
45:50Well,
45:51hanging the jury
45:52would have been better
45:52than hanging Billy.
45:55Come to think of it,
45:56we never did take
45:56a final poll.
45:59Did Pike
45:59ever say
46:00not guilty?
46:01Well,
46:02not in so many words,
46:04but we made a bargain.
46:06Sure,
46:06but Pike
46:07never really changed
46:08his vote.
46:09Maybe he still
46:10saw it,
46:10but I haven't
46:10made a fool
46:11out of it.
46:12You'd better
46:13ask him now.
46:14gentlemen of the jury,
46:17have you reached
46:17a verdict?
46:24Well,
46:25Mr. Price,
46:26you do have a verdict,
46:28don't you?
46:29Well,
46:30yes,
46:30we do.
46:32I think.
46:33You think?
46:34Well,
46:34do you have a verdict
46:35or don't you?
46:37Yes,
46:37Your Honor,
46:38what do we have?
46:39Well,
46:39what is that verdict?
46:42Well,
46:43we fight
46:43for not guilty.
46:44This is ridiculous.
46:46The jury
46:47obviously
46:47is not in agreement.
46:49I demand
46:49a polling
46:50of the jury.
46:51The jury
46:52will stand
46:52to be polled.
46:58How do you say?
46:59Not guilty.
47:01Not guilty.
47:03Not guilty.
47:05Not guilty.
47:07Not guilty.
47:07Not guilty.
47:08Not guilty.
47:10Not guilty.
47:11Not guilty.
47:13Not guilty.
47:14Not guilty.
47:24Not guilty.
47:26Not guilty.
47:34This case,
47:36dismiss.
47:36Well, you made me look pretty foolish.
47:51I'm sorry, Pike.
47:53I was just betting that you were a pretty good man.
47:56And a fair one.
47:57How about a little poker?
47:59I can get back to business now.
48:06I can get back to business.
48:36I can get back to business.
49:06Well, I can get back to business.
49:14I can get back to business.
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