The Ghost Cavalry (1969) #war#viral #ontop #best #action #thriller #trends #trending #ukviewers #usa viewers #horror
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00:00:00Get your shirt on, Henry!
00:00:06What was that?
00:00:07Picket post!
00:00:09Hey! That ain't bad for a rev!
00:00:13There. You see?
00:00:15Them fellas ain't as bad as they make out.
00:00:19No matter what old Maddox is.
00:00:21You know, if it wasn't for...
00:00:23You miserable!
00:00:28Spawning!
00:00:29Cotton!
00:00:30Picket! A little no account for me!
00:00:32How many times have I told you not to have no truck with them Yankees across that river?
00:00:36Well, they yelled first, and all I did was answer them.
00:00:38It ain't your business to answer them. It's your business to kill them!
00:00:41Well, there weren't no battle going on!
00:00:43No battle my foot!
00:00:45There's been a battle going on with them Yankees ever since Fort Sumter.
00:00:48And don't you two yehoos forget it, either.
00:00:51Now, you listen here to me, Private Willie Prentice.
00:00:54You so much as squeak one word to them Yankees across that river,
00:00:57I'll have you up in front of a summary court-martial so fast
00:01:00your empty little head's gonna spin like a mill, will you?
00:01:02You got that?
00:01:03Yes, sir.
00:01:04Don't serve me. I'm a sergeant.
00:01:05No, sir. Uh, no, sergeant.
00:01:07Just keep in mind, now, this ain't no Sunday sociable at Pry and Pan Church.
00:01:12Where did you say?
00:01:14Pry and Pan Church, sir. Where you come from?
00:01:18Nowden County?
00:01:19Yeah.
00:01:20Yeah.
00:01:21Yeah, what?
00:01:22This is an officer. Yeah, what?
00:01:24Uh, yeah, sir.
00:01:25How long have you lived in Pry and Pan Church, Willie?
00:01:28All my life, sir.
00:01:29You know the country?
00:01:31Yes, sir. I trapped it all.
00:01:33Cleaned from the Blue Ridge to the Potomac.
00:01:36That's my business, trapping.
00:01:38Uh, sir.
00:01:39Well, there sure ain't us soldiering.
00:01:43That best be going, Lieutenant. Where might they?
00:01:48I may see you later, Willie.
00:01:50Yes, sir.
00:01:51Willie?
00:01:52Willie?
00:01:53Willie?
00:01:54We got new rations.
00:01:55Coffee!
00:01:56Coffee!
00:01:57Coffee coming out our ears.
00:01:58How about swapping again?
00:02:00What's he talking about?
00:02:01Hey, God.
00:02:02Coffee!
00:02:03Coffee coming out our ears.
00:02:04How about swapping again?
00:02:06What's he talking about?
00:02:07Hey, God.
00:02:08Coffee!
00:02:09Coffee coming out our ears.
00:02:10How about swapping again?
00:02:11What is he talking about?
00:02:12You got coffee and no tobacco.
00:02:13You got tobacco and no coffee.
00:02:14Hey, Lord.
00:02:15new rations. Coffee. Coffee coming out our ears. How about swapping again? What's he
00:02:24talking about? Hey, you got coffee and no tobacco. You got tobacco and no coffee. Hey,
00:02:35Loma, you have a coffee drinker? Wait now. You heard what old Maddox said? Oh, man, I've
00:02:41cleaned down the headquarters by now. How much tobacco do you got? All right, Henry, bring
00:02:52your coffee over. Lomax, you get one whiff of that coffee. You'll be ready to swap. Come
00:03:09on. Give me a hand, Loma. Give me a hand, Loma. If we get caught, this is none of my
00:03:32to do it. Let's wash off and do like I tell you. Somebody's coming. It's all Maddox. Good
00:03:55Christopher. Henry. Henry's back. Lomax. Sturkey. Sturkey, pull back.
00:04:16Asked him to come on over. He's a Yankee. Give me that gun, Lomax. He's a Yankee. He's
00:04:38my enemy. Give me that gun, Loma.
00:05:08What am I doing, Willie Prentiss? Lieutenant? Lieutenant, sir. I was doing my duty. Lieutenant. I never
00:05:22had my hand on the gun, even. You did it, Willie. You grabbed it out of my hand and that- Shut up, Lomax.
00:05:28They asked me. I'll testify. I said shut up. He's alive. Well, that don't make no difference.
00:05:48You shoot officer, you get hung. Lomax, you say, is peace at the trial. Lieutenant. Please, Lieutenant.
00:05:56Wake up, will you? I didn't mean it, sir. Honest. I'm going, Willie. I'm going to light
00:06:04out. We don't stand a chance, neither of us. Go on. Get!
00:06:26Lieutenant. Lieutenant.
00:06:48Lieutenant.
00:06:51Lieutenant.
00:06:53Willie, what happened?
00:07:23Willie, Lieutenant, don't die on me.
00:07:39Don't make it worse than it is.
00:07:41Willie?
00:07:43What's going on over there?
00:07:45Anybody over there?
00:07:47What happened to Willie Frentiss?
00:07:49He just shot a lieutenant.
00:07:55That's all.
00:08:06Hey, Willie!
00:08:08What's going on over there?
00:08:09What's going on over there?
00:08:23Henry!
00:08:27Henry, put me in court!
00:08:29Are you going to hang me sooner or later, anyhow?
00:08:39Shooting lieutenant and deserting my post?
00:08:43I got no chance in the world.
00:08:48How are they going to know it wasn't a Yankee raid, huh?
00:08:51We could have captured you, shot the lieutenant.
00:08:53How are they going to know we didn't?
00:08:54Come here.
00:09:01Sit down.
00:09:01Sit.
00:09:03Sit down.
00:09:06Now, suppose we help you get started.
00:09:08Head south.
00:09:09You find yourself a brand new Reb army to join up with.
00:09:12As far away from here as you can get.
00:09:15Well, I don't see how...
00:09:15Tell him you got captured.
00:09:17Managed to escape.
00:09:18And you couldn't find your old outfit.
00:09:20We're all going to end up in a guardhouse, all three of us, just side by side.
00:09:30Well, here.
00:09:31You want to shoot him, then?
00:09:34Now, wait a minute.
00:09:37There's no reason getting you two in trouble.
00:09:40Willie, this ain't your war, you.
00:09:42You got lots more growing up to do.
00:09:43There's lots better places to do it.
00:09:45I joined up.
00:09:46Didn't nobody make me do it?
00:09:47You find yourself a tater-peeling job in a nice, peaceful army.
00:09:49So far south, you won't even hear...
00:09:50Shh.
00:09:55It's our relief.
00:09:57Get down there.
00:09:58Keep at us, sir.
00:10:06Bring tidings, gentlemen.
00:10:08I bring news straight from the font of wisdom.
00:10:11Huh?
00:10:13Company's transferred to the middle military division.
00:10:17Fairfax courthouse.
00:10:19General Stoughton.
00:10:21Move out next Monday.
00:10:23Oh.
00:10:31Hey.
00:10:33Hey, what you got?
00:10:34Tobacco?
00:10:40Here.
00:10:41Here.
00:10:41Here.
00:10:41Here.
00:10:56Real tobacco.
00:11:00Jump into house.
00:11:01We're out.
00:11:01Wait.
00:11:02Come on.
00:11:03Come on.
00:11:07Come on.
00:11:08Come on.
00:11:09Come on.
00:11:10Easy, Deb. Easy, boy.
00:11:15Now, you're going to keep quiet.
00:11:19You hear me? He's a tame one.
00:11:22But who tamed him?
00:11:24We did.
00:11:25Willie Prentice, First Virginia.
00:11:28You know, you was talking about Fairfax Courthouse.
00:11:31That's right near where I come from.
00:11:32The house where I was born ain't more than seven miles away.
00:11:35The thing we got to do now
00:11:36is get him through to Bedford Forest
00:11:39so he can start making his way south.
00:11:45Well, how are you going to do that?
00:11:48I've got a plan.
00:11:50It ain't easy.
00:11:52We've got to get him out of here tonight.
00:12:06Klisky, Robbins, stay with the prisoner.
00:12:09Oh, no.
00:12:20Oh, God.
00:12:23Moseby!
00:12:24It's Moseby!
00:12:25Moseby himself!
00:12:26No question about it!
00:12:27Blooming his head,
00:12:28the hospital's neither hand!
00:12:29Decent law-bite man can't go down the road
00:12:32with his wagon without them crazy reps coming.
00:12:34Go get him, boys!
00:12:35Go get him!
00:12:36You're on the side of life!
00:12:41I tell you, boy,
00:12:42did you ever see a war like this in your life?
00:12:43Captain,
00:12:44if you'd have come one minute later,
00:12:46one minute,
00:12:47that'd have dragged my wagon off
00:12:48and got everything I had in here.
00:12:49What'd you know?
00:12:50I know one thing.
00:12:52It's after my liquor.
00:12:53Liquor?
00:12:54Yeah.
00:12:56You wouldn't judge me now, would you?
00:12:58Well...
00:12:59I thought you fellas quit carrying this stuff.
00:13:02Well, Captain,
00:13:03fellas gotta make a living.
00:13:05Now I'll take your guns and horses,
00:13:26own your boots,
00:13:28and naturally the prison.
00:13:29I wish you'd tell me where we're going.
00:13:36Well, you'll find out soon enough.
00:13:39Who?
00:13:41Matter of fact, right now.
00:13:55You two know each other?
00:13:57If I get my way,
00:13:58we're going to grind you up for cat meat.
00:14:00Move!
00:14:03Willie Pernish!
00:14:04Yes, sir!
00:14:05You don't serve a sergeant!
00:14:06Come on!
00:14:28Well, we're going to go see.
00:14:30John Singleton Mosby.
00:14:36Lieutenant Mosby, sir!
00:14:38Yes.
00:14:42Lieutenant!
00:14:44Well,
00:14:59Willie Prentiss.
00:15:03You disarm him, sergeant?
00:15:04I'd like to disheat him, sir.
00:15:06By the time I get through with him,
00:15:08he might just welcome that.
00:15:11About what happened, sir.
00:15:14I'm sorry.
00:15:15You know what I ought to do with you, boy?
00:15:17I ought to send you back to your unit.
00:15:19Let him hang you as a deserter.
00:15:21Yes, sir.
00:15:22You realize that's what you deserve, don't you?
00:15:25Yes, sir.
00:15:26Only it wasn't as bad as it looks.
00:15:29That's not for you to decide.
00:15:32No, sir.
00:15:35Can you think of anyone in the world
00:15:37that's got more problems than you do right now, Prentiss?
00:15:41No, sir.
00:15:42Well, there is.
00:15:44For instance,
00:15:47my job.
00:15:51My job is to make it so hot for the Yankees
00:15:53that they'll put more men to watching me
00:15:55than General Lee has south of the river here.
00:15:59To do that right,
00:16:01I need a guide.
00:16:02A man who knows the country.
00:16:06Sir, can I say something?
00:16:08Most everyone old enough to ride
00:16:09is already off to war.
00:16:11Or too old to do me any good.
00:16:14Sir!
00:16:14And the only young man I can find in a hurry
00:16:16who really knows this country
00:16:17isn't a man at all.
00:16:25He's a deserter.
00:16:26who makes friends with the enemy
00:16:29and did his level best to kill me
00:16:30the first day we ever met.
00:16:34You mean me, sir?
00:16:36Unfortunately, yes.
00:16:38Boy,
00:16:39we need someone who knows this back country,
00:16:42not just the roads and byways.
00:16:44Where do you think I did my trapping?
00:16:45We know where you did your trapping.
00:16:48That's why you're here.
00:16:54Well, Prentice,
00:16:55what's it going to be?
00:16:57You want to be hanged now
00:16:58and get it over with?
00:17:00Or have you got the guts
00:17:00to stick it out and fight with me?
00:17:06If you want me to, sir,
00:17:07I mean, that's...
00:17:07I'm going to tell you something, boy.
00:17:09The first time you let me down,
00:17:11you'll wish you'd have been hanged.
00:17:15Yes.
00:17:17Sir!
00:17:18Sir!
00:17:24You'd better take a message south, sir.
00:17:27The General Fitzley.
00:17:29Tell him I found a man
00:17:31to serve as my guide.
00:17:32And we'll start recruiting
00:17:34Yankee horses immediately.
00:17:37Yes, sir!
00:17:37Thank you, sir.
00:17:38Thank you, sir.
00:18:02Thank you, sir.
00:18:25Oh, my God.
00:18:55It's a matter of emphasis, gentlemen. We don't want to sensationalize, now do we?
00:19:04We don't want to misinform the people about Mosby, throw them into a panic over nothing.
00:19:11Altogether, he took how many horses, Sergeant?
00:19:14Sixteen, sir.
00:19:17You're treating this like the Battle of Antietam.
00:19:20It's happening pretty regular, General.
00:19:22Only because I choose to ignore him, sir.
00:19:27Concentrate on more important matters.
00:19:31If I decide to move against him, I will flatten him just like that.
00:19:38The man's really mad.
00:19:45He says he's going to burn the town.
00:19:47Bluster.
00:19:48How do you know it's bluster?
00:19:49Because he's a windbag, General. He has no intention...
00:19:51Just a minute, Lieutenant.
00:19:52I know Ed Stoughton. I went through the academy with him.
00:19:56Well, that don't necessarily make him a windbag, Fitz.
00:20:00Helps, though.
00:20:02General Stewart, sir.
00:20:03May I suggest that what Stoughton says is true.
00:20:06This is brigadage.
00:20:09General, sir.
00:20:10Lieutenant.
00:20:11You have placed me in a position of endorsing the operation of a band of buccaneers.
00:20:15Your command, sir, bids fair to become a haven for every deserter, plunderer, and skulker in the army of Northern Virginia.
00:20:21The point isn't, Middleburg, or you, or me, or Fitz here.
00:20:25But you have 15 of our best cavalrymen, and we're hurting for them something fierce.
00:20:29General Stewart, those 15 men are tying down 20 times their numbers in Yankees.
00:20:34Yankees that you'd have to fight on the Rappahannock.
00:20:36Permit me to question that, Lieutenant.
00:20:37I want those men back with me, General.
00:20:41I can't operate without them.
00:20:45I know there are two sides to this, Lieutenant Mosby.
00:20:48However, I'm afraid I'm going to have to go along with Fitz here.
00:20:53General Stewart, don't you speak...
00:20:54You'll have those men here by the 10th.
00:20:57And you'll personally report to me for reassignment.
00:21:02That's all, Lieutenant.
00:21:07Yes, sir.
00:21:14I tried my best.
00:21:16I used every argument I could think of, but those are the orders.
00:21:22Look at all the horses we got for Lee's Brigade.
00:21:24What kind of thing...
00:21:2474 in the last three weeks.
00:21:25You don't get medals for stealing horses in this country.
00:21:28No matter whose horses they are.
00:21:32Now, for us to stay alive, we...
00:21:34We've got to pull something that'll stand them on their heads from Washington to Richmond and all the points in between.
00:21:44Stop them.
00:21:45They set such a great store with him around here.
00:21:47So eternally terrified of him?
00:21:50He's got his picket poster close together they could join hands to be around Fairfax.
00:21:54Except for Possum Creek.
00:21:56But if we could just get through...
00:22:00What did you say, Willie?
00:22:00There's a half-mile gap in the picket lines of Possum Creek.
00:22:06Where?
00:22:11Right here.
00:22:13New York Fifth on both sides.
00:22:15There's a gully here so full of wild blackberries, they figure no one try to go through.
00:22:19You think we could get through?
00:22:24Yes, sir.
00:22:26You know, Willie, if you're wrong about this, it won't just be a Yankee sergeant this time.
00:22:32It would be our whole command.
00:22:36Sir, are we going to take on 10,000 federal troops?
00:22:40How's that ache in your bad knees, Sam?
00:22:44What do you mean, sir?
00:22:46Rain.
00:22:47We've got just one chance, but we'd have to have some rain.
00:22:53Two or three hours of rain just before midnight.
00:22:58Sam, get word to the men.
00:23:01We'll meet tonight at 9 o'clock at Rector's Crossroads.
00:23:05If it's clear, we'll...
00:23:07We'll start south to call Penta.
00:23:10But maybe...
00:23:12If it rains...
00:23:14Maybe something else.
00:23:16Yes, sir.
00:23:28All right, men.
00:23:30You all know where we stand.
00:23:33Our orders are to report to Culpeper for reassignment.
00:23:36We're soldiers, all of us, in or out of the army.
00:23:40And as soldiers, we'll obey those orders.
00:23:47I had hoped that we might be given more time to prove ourselves.
00:23:53But I don't think we're going to get that time.
00:23:58You regular men, report to Brigadier General.
00:24:10Gentlemen, we're going to Culpeper.
00:24:13But we're going to be going the long way around.
00:24:18All right, men, let's ride.
00:24:19Come on, Willie.
00:24:26Where are we going?
00:24:27We're going to Fairfax.
00:24:29Fairfax?
00:24:29Fairfax?
00:24:30You mean Yankee headquarters?
00:24:32That's right.
00:24:32Well, they got 10,000 men around that time.
00:24:34What are we going to do in Fairfax?
00:24:35Boys, even if I'd joke you, you wouldn't believe me.
00:24:38Let's go, boys.
00:24:38We're going to Fairfax.
00:24:44Let's go, boys.
00:24:45We're going to Fairfax.
00:24:46There you go.
00:24:46Come on.
00:25:08Trouble with a knight like this.
00:25:16Man can't tell.
00:25:17Rib from the Yankees.
00:25:18Exactly.
00:25:19Exactly.
00:25:38Do you see what I see?
00:25:42It's the kid.
00:25:58It's got to be Mosby himself.
00:26:00The whole shooting match.
00:26:11What do you reckon we ought to do?
00:26:15Follow him.
00:26:16Follow him.
00:26:16Follow him.
00:26:18Follow him.
00:26:20Follow him.
00:26:22Follow him.
00:26:24Follow him.
00:26:26Follow him.
00:26:28Follow him.
00:26:29Follow him.
00:26:30Hold still.
00:26:58We'll back off until they start.
00:27:00Darn you're lost, you.
00:27:04Had a little cinch trouble.
00:27:06Where's that kid taking us?
00:27:08No idea.
00:27:09Me neither.
00:27:10I just soon jump off a cliff is what we're doing.
00:27:12Be quicker.
00:27:13The New York fifth.
00:27:24The New York fifth.
00:27:37Better go through a foot.
00:27:38All right, Dismount.
00:27:41Pass the word back.
00:27:42No talking.
00:27:42Dismount.
00:27:43Not risk.
00:27:44M oppression.
00:27:47Dismount.
00:27:48Pass it back.
00:27:48Dismount.
00:27:51Pass it back.
00:27:51Shhh. Shhh. 21.
00:28:16Twenty-six.
00:28:46Twenty-six.
00:28:56Twenty-six.
00:29:02Twenty-six.
00:29:08Twenty-six.
00:29:14We must be in Possum Creek. That's a New York fifth.
00:29:21All here? Yes, sir. And then some.
00:29:36We got two more than when we started.
00:29:40We should.
00:29:41Thirty-one altogether.
00:29:45All right, ma'am.
00:29:54All here, ma'am.
00:30:03New York fifth. Cavalry patrol.
00:30:09Advances are be recognized.
00:30:10It's Mosby, they're rats.
00:30:12Mosby, they're rats.
00:30:16Mosby, they're rats.
00:30:18Mosby, they're rats.
00:30:20And then you will be like,
00:30:23and the ERF.
00:30:25Now, what are we doing?
00:30:27Come on up.
00:30:28We know you're in there, Yankee.
00:30:33Come on out.
00:30:41We know you're in there, Yankee.
00:30:51All right, no, no, we gotta get fast and get out of here.
00:30:54We just go off and leave him?
00:30:55We can't spend all night looking for him.
00:31:33Hold it right there, Henry.
00:31:38One big mistake in my life was pulling you across that river.
00:31:41Oh, I don't know.
00:31:42I should have left you there to get hung.
00:31:47If I ever left another finger to help a ram...
00:31:49I wouldn't worry about it. You may not live that long.
00:31:53What are you gonna do with me?
00:31:54Only one thing I can do.
00:31:57Take you as a prisoner of war.
00:32:03Ow, Willie!
00:32:14Henry Jenkins, his name is?
00:32:1512th Pennsylvania.
00:32:17Hmm, looks harmless.
00:32:19Main thing is to keep an eye on him till sun up.
00:32:21Then you can turn him loose.
00:32:23All right.
00:32:23I found it.
00:32:27Careful, Mom, it's loaded.
00:32:28Oh.
00:32:30If I can set this thing off.
00:32:32Where is the thingamajig?
00:32:33Oh, you just, uh, point it at his head and pull this.
00:32:36Thanks.
00:32:38Maybe you won't even have to shoot him.
00:32:40It's not a bad sort for a Yankee.
00:32:43Willie Prentiss, when I get out of this, so help me.
00:32:45Makes a lot of noise, but it don't add up to much.
00:32:48Oh.
00:32:49This here is Cousin Orly, Henry.
00:32:51You'd be real nice to hear you here.
00:32:59When you get back to headquarters, you can tell him I left it tied up in the bushes.
00:33:03Took you all night to wiggle free.
00:33:06I'd rather get shot than have General Stoughton hear how you captured me.
00:33:11Maybe you won't have to.
00:33:12Hey.
00:33:15You take good care of me, Isabella.
00:33:16I gotta fix it so old Stoughton won't pick on him in the morning.
00:33:20I wish you luck, Willie.
00:33:21And you take care of yourself, hear me?
00:33:27Good night, Henry.
00:33:29Orly.
00:33:30Good night.
00:33:31Good night.
00:33:46You know, uh, well, he told me about the Yankee soldier that saved his life.
00:33:53I never expected I'd ever meet him.
00:33:56Yeah, lots of things seem to work out the way we didn't expect them to.
00:33:58Good night.
00:33:59Good night.
00:33:59Good night.
00:34:00Good night.
00:36:32No, Stoughton, what do you say? A little hard to relax.
00:36:36Well, I suppose it won't hurt to tell you what William Mosby and the rest are up to.
00:36:47They're fixing to kidnap General Stoughton.
00:36:53And if they pull it off, then you won't have to face them.
00:36:58Oh, now, let's see, where was I?
00:37:04And what are friends but mortal men as we, whom death from us may quickly separate, or else
00:37:11their hearts may quite as strange it be, and all their love be turned it into hate.
00:37:15There's a message from General Stoughton.
00:37:21Mr. Sleet, who are you?
00:37:23A message from General Holler.
00:37:24Let me see your identification.
00:37:25I don't have time for that.
00:37:26I almost killed that horse bringing this here, and I intend to deliver it.
00:37:37Now.
00:37:37It better be urgent.
00:37:40Come on, wake up in there.
00:37:43Now, see here, soldier.
00:37:45Message for the General.
00:37:45I'll handle it.
00:37:46It's personal.
00:37:46I said I'll handle it.
00:37:48All right, Captain, now let's go see the gentleman.
00:38:18Lieutenant, there are limits, too.
00:38:25This is war, Captain.
00:38:26Oh, dear.
00:38:30Please.
00:38:31Please.
00:38:33Sir.
00:38:38No!
00:38:48I'm sorry.
00:38:50Sorry, General.
00:38:50Very, very sorry.
00:38:52I have a message for you, sir.
00:38:55Message, indeed.
00:38:55What is the meaningless you, sir?
00:38:57What do you think?
00:38:58Message?
00:38:59What message?
00:39:00Mosby, sir.
00:39:03You mean you've caught him?
00:39:04Oh, no, sir.
00:39:06He caught you.
00:39:10I don't understand it, sir.
00:39:12We seem to have been taken without a shot being fired.
00:39:14That's preposterous.
00:39:20Yes, sir.
00:39:21That's exactly what I said.
00:39:25You're Mosby?
00:39:27Serving under General Fitzhugh Lee?
00:39:29Yes, sir.
00:39:32Fitz.
00:39:34He was a classmate of mine at the academy.
00:39:40I'd appreciate your taking me to General Fitzhugh Lee at once.
00:39:44That's just what I was going to do, General.
00:39:48That was...
00:39:50...
00:39:51The End
00:40:21I want you to know that just this one night, being with you and your mother, it's the nicest thing ever happened to me.
00:40:29Well, for a Yankee, you're the nicest one I've ever held captive.
00:40:34You think maybe tomorrow, when I get off...
00:40:37Oh, stop here!
00:40:43Sergeant Greg.
00:40:45I figured they got him for sure.
00:40:51Now, now, don't let him scare you.
00:41:00Sergeant!
00:41:02I was afraid they'd done you in.
00:41:04That'll be the day.
00:41:05What happened to you?
00:41:06Me?
00:41:08Well, I tried to make a break for it.
00:41:09About six or eight of them come after me.
00:41:11I fought them off as long as I could, but they finally got me gagged and blindfolded and tied, and...
00:41:15Took me all night to wiggle loose.
00:41:17Then when I started walking in, this young lady come along and get me a ride.
00:41:19You're a cousin of Willie Prentiss, aren't you?
00:41:26Willie Prentiss was one of them that jumped us.
00:41:30And then his cousin shows up driving you in.
00:41:35There's something funny going on around here.
00:41:38Well, then you do the laughing, Yankee.
00:41:40Because I'm not amused.
00:41:42Headquarters is going to want to know anything you saw or heard.
00:41:56Them, uh, Rebs, uh...
00:41:58Do you want anything special after getting in here?
00:42:00Oh, they just kidnapped General Stout.
00:42:02Made a clean getaway, that's all.
00:42:06What are you smiling at?
00:42:07Me, Sergeant?
00:42:10Just happy, happy to find you up and around.
00:42:18One thing I'll say.
00:42:20As long as they're going to make off with somebody.
00:42:22He's had more than ample time to get here.
00:42:33He'll be here.
00:42:34Of whom are you speaking?
00:42:35A Mosby.
00:42:36The partisan?
00:42:37Yes, sir.
00:42:38Saw a subject with your nephew here.
00:42:41Fitzhugh, do you disapprove of Mosby?
00:42:44I most certainly do, sir.
00:42:45I consider some of his activities
00:42:48hardly within the realm of proper military conduct.
00:42:51I didn't see you turn down any of the horses
00:42:53he's been sending this way.
00:42:56Excuse me, sir.
00:42:58There's, uh, an officer outside
00:43:00to see General Fitzhugh Lee.
00:43:02What officer?
00:43:03Uh, uh, General Stoughton, sir,
00:43:06from Fairfax Courthouse.
00:43:08That's what he insists, sir.
00:43:11General who?
00:43:15You gentlemen know each other?
00:43:23My compliments, General Lee.
00:43:28Lieutenant Mosby,
00:43:30maybe you ought to fill us in.
00:43:32Yes, sir.
00:43:33We happen to be going through Fairfax
00:43:35and we stopped to see the general here.
00:43:37He insisted on being taken to General Fitzhugh Lee.
00:43:40You happen to be passing through Fairfax?
00:43:43Yes, sir, on our way back to Culpepper.
00:43:45Uh, for reassignment.
00:43:49From my impression of you at the Academy,
00:43:51I never would have believed
00:43:52you could indulge in such unmilitary shenanigans.
00:43:57I'm sorry, General.
00:43:58I tried to tell him it wasn't your idea,
00:44:00but he wouldn't believe me.
00:44:04Lieutenant, will you tell me
00:44:06how did you get to Fairfax Courthouse
00:44:08in the first place?
00:44:09How did you get past the federal pickets?
00:44:11Well, sir?
00:44:17That's a rather fascinating story, General Lee.
00:44:23I'm surprised at you, Pitts.
00:44:26How far do you reckon them ripples would go?
00:44:47There wasn't no bank to stop them.
00:44:49I never thought of it.
00:44:50Clean to China, most likely.
00:44:51Just get bigger and bigger
00:44:53until they took over the whole world.
00:44:57The preacher told me once that, uh,
00:45:00there's a special meaning
00:45:01to, uh, circles and rings.
00:45:05Did you ever hear that?
00:45:06Hey, what's that?
00:45:08Come on, show me.
00:45:09Well, it's my mother's wedding ring.
00:45:18Do you always carry it with you?
00:45:21Someday I'm gonna meet the right girl,
00:45:22and I just wanna be ready.
00:45:29Uh, Henry, I expect you better
00:45:31climb on your horse and ride back to camp
00:45:33so I can wash my hair.
00:45:35Or I leave.
00:45:35You know what we talked about yesterday.
00:45:37We picked the wrong time, is all.
00:45:39There's a lot of other wrong things.
00:45:41Well, not really,
00:45:42because we didn't pick.
00:45:44Nobody asked us
00:45:44where we want to be born,
00:45:46or did we want to be on different sides?
00:45:51Please, Henry,
00:45:51I think you'd better go.
00:45:52See you tomorrow.
00:46:07No, not tomorrow.
00:46:08Not ever again.
00:46:11Laura Lee.
00:46:12I thought about it for a long time last night,
00:46:14and that's just how it's gotta be.
00:46:16You don't mean that.
00:46:17Yes, I do.
00:46:19Pact is,
00:46:20I'm going away.
00:46:23I'm gonna stay spelled
00:46:24with Aunt Sarah
00:46:25at Frying Pan Church.
00:46:28Just to make sure.
00:46:32You think I couldn't ride that far?
00:46:36Well, it's not a healthy place
00:46:37for a Yankee soldier alone.
00:46:40I've never been one
00:46:40to take a whole platoon along
00:46:41when I go calling.
00:46:42I don't know.
00:46:42I don't know.
00:46:50What about...
00:47:04I swear you're getting big enough to ride with us sure some more sugar why don't you get him out of
00:47:23sight yeah well she wouldn't tell us the thing except she just come to pay oh really really
00:47:45can I fit you something to eat sir no thanks mom I'll go up say a lot of Orly oh now careful what
00:47:49you say to her she starts bawling if you just look at her Orly Orly it's Willie please go away
00:48:11Orly what's wrong just leave me alone will you sure I just wanted to ask you about Henry Jenkins
00:48:21didn't cause you no trouble that night did he why did you ever bring him here what do you mean
00:48:31hey what'd he do well he'd come back to see me a few times at first I just felt sorry for him
00:48:46and then I really I mean you and Henry we didn't mean to I care for him so that I'm sick inside
00:49:06Orly Prentice you mean to tell me you went and fell in love with a Yankee you said he was your friend
00:49:13well I ain't in love with him
00:49:14what'll Ma say in the others they're not gonna find out
00:49:31well this is no time for you to go falling yourself in love with no Yankee
00:49:37no matter whose friend he is this is no time no it's no time that's why I'm here
00:49:42so I wouldn't weaken and let him come back and see me
00:49:47least ways is no Yankee
00:50:10voted for bear
00:50:25Orly Prentice you got no idea what a mess you're in
00:50:29no idea
00:50:30you shouldn't have come
00:50:33stay here I'll get rid of him
00:50:36just pay no attention he comes to see me
00:50:44you think I've brung these things for you
00:50:50come to the barn with me Henry Jenkins we got things to talk over
00:50:52but I'm
00:50:53I
00:50:53Henry Jenkins what do you mean showing up here in them rented store clothes
00:50:59do you know what's good for you
00:51:00I brung these things for Orly I mean to see she gets I gotta ask you straight why you
00:51:08keeping after her this way you the man of the family I sure am you were trying to find out if my
00:51:16intentions are honorable that it so help me Henry I ought to bust you I try to talk to you
00:51:24I know I shouldn't have come
00:51:41I brought these for you
00:51:43you're lovely
00:51:45oh ain't much but that's what they could do in Alexandria
00:51:47thank you Henry
00:51:50just had to see you
00:51:53once more no matter what
00:51:54I don't like to butt in but it's uh
00:51:58getting kinda late
00:52:00I just got scared we were getting in over our heads
00:52:02don't say that
00:52:04and it's a fur piece back to Fairfax
00:52:08don't you ever go away from me again
00:52:10not ever
00:52:12I had to don't you see
00:52:14no I don't see nothing but you
00:52:18if you'll excuse me
00:52:32big battle Yankee
00:52:34if it wasn't for Orly I wouldn't even have told you
00:52:52maybe it don't matter to you
00:52:55you got no family
00:52:57what about all of Orly's kinfolk
00:53:00Ma and Uncle Fern
00:53:01how they gonna feel when she run off and married a Yankee
00:53:05feel any way they like
00:53:07I don't care
00:53:09they had their chance to get married when they wanted to
00:53:12well one thing
00:53:14no cousin of mine's gonna run off
00:53:15start a lot of gossip and eyebrow lifting
00:53:17if you're gonna go through with it
00:53:19you and Orly are gonna have a regular family type wedding
00:53:22ho
00:53:23what you trying to do
00:53:25line me up for a family type hanging
00:53:27we can have a wedding at our place
00:53:29and I'll be best man
00:53:30you come down in your rented store clothes like you are now
00:53:32nobody gotta know you're a Yankee
00:53:33now wait a minute
00:53:34show up barely in time for the wedding
00:53:35you and her ride off soon as it's over
00:53:36you wouldn't have to talk much to anybody
00:53:38Starkey, where's Jenkins?
00:54:07she's packing to leave
00:54:08wait a minute, Starkey
00:54:10here's your change
00:54:18the wedding shirt costs to die more on account of the fancy word
00:54:22I guess it don't amount to too much over the course of a lifetime
00:54:25I don't like to interrupt
00:54:28you know how busy it must be
00:54:30figure to leave about noon tomorrow
00:54:32too bad
00:54:33you ain't going nowhere, Corporal
00:54:36my papers are all made out
00:54:38captain signed them three days ago
00:54:40you better go talk to him
00:54:43hold on, Henry!
00:54:50he can't do it
00:54:51he can do anything he wants
00:54:53Henry!
00:55:05Corporal Henry Jenkins, sir
00:55:07what is it, Corporal?
00:55:08Sergeant Greg just told me about the furloughs
00:55:10yes
00:55:11well I've cancelled all furloughs
00:55:13I understand you went with Sergeant Greg a few times
00:55:16keeping a look out on that house at Frying Pan Church
00:55:18is it supposed to be the home of one of Mosby's men?
00:55:20yes, sir
00:55:21but you haven't been with Sergeant Greg lately?
00:55:23no, sir, I...
00:55:25that's too bad, Corporal
00:55:27because there's been some strange goings on
00:55:29awful lot of people coming and going
00:55:30from what Sergeant Greg can find out
00:55:34there's going to be a wedding there tomorrow afternoon
00:55:37and can you guess who's going to be at that wedding, Corporal?
00:55:42every man, Jack, and Company F is going to be at that wedding, Corporal
00:55:44as uninvited guests
00:55:46it looks like it's going to be a big event from all of us they're going to
00:55:50there's probably going to be every important rebel of Northern Virginia there
00:55:53and they think that they can pull it off right underneath our noses
00:55:58like their horse stealing
00:55:59all right
00:56:01we'll see who has the last laugh this time
00:56:04yes, sir
00:56:05thank you, sir
00:56:06thank you, sir
00:56:13could I have it?
00:56:14get the black saddle ready
00:56:16I don't like this, Corporal
00:56:19next time, you give me some warmth
00:56:21won't be no next time, now hurry
00:56:25going somewhere, will you, Corporal?
00:56:29something I gotta do
00:56:31I just gotta
00:56:37like, uh, getting a message to Mosby
00:56:41tell him what you just learned from the captain
00:56:44what are you talking about?
00:56:46maybe I'm stupider than Mosby
00:56:48but I managed to get things figured out
00:56:49give me enough time
00:56:51like what?
00:56:52like you and Willie Prentice down in the Rappahonic together
00:56:54what do you mean together?
00:56:55I was on one side of the river, he was on the other
00:56:57but he didn't stay on the other side
00:57:00and when you run into him in a stable at Middleburg
00:57:02you come out and tell me he's just a harmless stable boy
00:57:04you don't understand
00:57:07you don't understand
00:57:09no?
00:57:10maybe I'm just picking it, too
00:57:13that how Mosby's been making monkeys out of all of us?
00:57:16you been getting word through to this apprentice kid
00:57:18about every move we're gonna make?
00:57:22you calling me a traitor?
00:57:24you got a better name for it
00:57:54you got a better name for the edge man
00:57:57let's get paper
00:57:58let's just get paper
00:57:59let's get paper
00:58:00The only thing I could find out about this wedding.
00:58:25Willie Prentiss' cousin is going to get married up to some rev hero.
00:58:32That you, Corporal?
00:58:35You that big rev hero?
00:58:37I'm a good soldier, Greg. Just as good as you.
00:58:41I've held to my oath. Ain't nobody ever learned one word from me.
00:58:45I ought to press charges against you.
00:58:48Like you're in the guardhouse.
00:58:51But I'd rather have you with us, one.
00:58:53I'd rather ride down to that wedding tomorrow.
00:58:58I'd rather see for myself just what kind of union soldier.
00:59:03Ride up with a gun in my hand?
00:59:05The day of my wedding?
00:59:07I won't do it.
00:59:10Oh, yes, you will.
00:59:12You will.
00:59:14You and nobody else are going to get the word down there at a time.
00:59:17Scared the bait out of the trap.
00:59:18You suppose Willie Prentiss won't be down there at his cousin's wedding?
00:59:25Some other Mosby men?
00:59:27Maybe even Mosby himself?
00:59:30We ain't never going to get a better chance on this.
00:59:32Truth is, Obadiah, we've never had a Yankee informer in Fairfax.
01:00:01Hmm, Sergeant Shaw seemed to think so.
01:00:04I decided I'd best let you know, just in case.
01:00:09Well, at least we'll know to stay away from that wedding.
01:00:18Willie, this man that your cousin is going to marry,
01:00:23he's a blockade runner from Baltimore, isn't that right?
01:00:25Well, that's kind of a loose way of putting it.
01:00:29You mean what he really is, is a Yankee soldier from Fairfax.
01:00:34You knew that and you never told anybody.
01:00:35You mean to say you were going to let Sam and me walk into something like that?
01:00:38Well, you see, the thing is,
01:00:41my kinfolks wouldn't have stood for it if they'd know the truth.
01:00:46And he ain't a bad sort for a Yankee.
01:00:48He the one you told me pulled you across the river?
01:00:53And he's not the man you did in that night in Fairfax.
01:00:55I thought you told him...
01:00:56It's all my fault, Captain, sir.
01:00:58So let me ride back and tell him all everything.
01:01:00Get the wedding called off.
01:01:02I should never let it get started.
01:01:03Then I'll ride back here.
01:01:08Whatever you want to do with me,
01:01:10that's all right with me.
01:01:12What I decide to do with you, Private Willie Prentiss, I'll do.
01:01:15And I don't much care whether it's all right with you or not.
01:01:17Do you understand that?
01:01:18I don't think we're going to call that wedding off.
01:01:36No, sirree, I don't think we're going to mention one word of it.
01:01:39We just found out.
01:01:42Willie, you, uh, you claim to be a trap.
01:01:44Did you ever stick your foot in your own trap after you had it set?
01:01:46No, sir.
01:01:49Let's hope that by tomorrow night,
01:01:51Captain Blazer won't be able to say the same thing.
01:01:53Sam!
01:01:56Get the word around.
01:01:58I want every man we've got at the fork runners north of the Prentiss's
01:02:00two hours before that wedding.
01:02:01I want him mounted,
01:02:03and I want him ready for the biggest fight we've ever had.
01:02:05Yes, sir.
01:02:16How long to go?
01:02:26Now, Lieutenant,
01:02:28take a detail.
01:02:29Scout ahead.
01:02:30Sergeant.
01:02:36How you doing, Corporal?
01:02:39Never better.
01:02:42Forward!
01:02:42Coming over the notch right now.
01:03:09Be fetching up to the Prentiss's place in a half an hour, maybe less.
01:03:11If we move up there,
01:03:13we can hit him from both sides.
01:03:15Not enough cover.
01:03:16I want him right here.
01:03:18In these woods,
01:03:18they can't tell whether we're 50 or 500.
01:03:21You figure you can draw him up this way?
01:03:25If I can give them an interesting enough target.
01:03:27That boy just ain't the kind to miss his own wedding without a word.
01:03:48Maybe he and Willie got slowed up somewheres together.
01:03:51Oh, they'll be here.
01:03:53Oh, they'll be here.
01:03:53I don't know.
01:04:23There he is!
01:04:53Who is Mrs. Prentiss?
01:05:13I am.
01:05:14Captain Blazer, United States Cavalry.
01:05:18I assume, ma'am, you have some notion of the business we're here for?
01:05:23No, I do not, Captain.
01:05:26I have reason to believe that a number of Mosby's men are assembled here.
01:05:30I suggest, ma'am, that you advise them to come out peacefully.
01:05:34Not a Mosby man anywhere, Captain.
01:05:38See for yourself.
01:05:40We intend to.
01:05:44What about your son, Willie?
01:05:46Now, I'm not going to force you into a lie, Mrs. Prentiss.
01:05:52We know he's one of Mosby's men.
01:05:54Now, we have an open order to burn to the ground the house and the outbuildings of any sudden
01:05:59sympathizers sheltering Mosby or any member of his command.
01:06:05Perhaps you didn't...
01:06:06I heard you, Captain.
01:06:09I would like to interrogate the prospective bridegroom.
01:06:11He's not here.
01:06:12Where is he?
01:06:13I don't know.
01:06:16Very well, ma'am.
01:06:18Sergeant Greg!
01:06:19Yo!
01:06:24Search the house.
01:06:24Search the horse.
01:06:25Yes, sir.
01:06:28All right, Corporal.
01:06:28Let's go.
01:06:34Corporal!
01:06:54Corporal.
01:06:55Captain.
01:07:07Hi.
01:07:09PaΕa'i.
01:07:15Oh.
01:07:18Hey.
01:07:18Oh.
01:07:23sorry miss you gotta go outside there's a war run
01:07:53I'm
01:08:23Somebody inside, sir.
01:08:26Taken off.
01:08:27God and Grant, you.
01:08:28Detail to men to fire the house.
01:08:31Yes, sir.
01:08:32Albert.
01:08:37Jenkins, Starkie.
01:08:46Let's go.
01:08:53There's nothing you can do about it.
01:09:20Just tell yourself it's the war.
01:09:21Say it over and over.
01:09:29Henry.
01:09:32You want me to do it?
01:09:43On a pen, off to the...
01:09:44There they go!
01:09:51You want me to do it?
01:10:13Captain Sam!
01:10:31Fire!
01:10:43Fire!
01:10:52Fire!
01:11:02Fire!
01:11:04Fire!
01:11:09Fire!
01:11:11Ready?
01:11:23Come on!
01:11:28Let's go!
01:11:41Come on!
01:12:11Come on!
01:12:41Come on!
01:12:43Prentice!
01:12:44This side!
01:12:45Come on!
01:12:47Retire!
01:12:48Come on!
01:12:50Come on!
01:12:52Come on!
01:12:54Come on!
01:12:56Come on!
01:12:58Come on!
01:13:00Come on!
01:13:02Come on!
01:13:04Come on!
01:13:06Come on!
01:13:08Come on!
01:13:10Come on!
01:13:12Come on!
01:13:14Come on!
01:13:16Come on!
01:13:18Come on!
01:13:20Come on!
01:13:21Come on!
01:13:24Come on!
01:13:26Come on!
01:13:28Come on!
01:13:29Come on!
01:13:30He's badly hurt, sir!
01:13:32He's badly hurt, sir. I don't think he's ever going to make it to Carl Pepper.
01:13:38All right, we'll have to leave him behind.
01:13:41All right, men, let's move.
01:13:45I could take him in, sir. See that he gets took care of and catch up with you later.
01:13:49Do you mind, Private Prentice, if I give the orders?
01:13:52No, sir. Except he needs help real bad.
01:14:02He showed up when he did.
01:14:04Shut up.
01:14:05We'll get lost in now.
01:14:14Where's the boys coming?
01:14:22Miss Prentice, we have a soldier, needs help.
01:14:32Henry!
01:14:42Pretty bad hurt.
01:14:43Arlie! Come away from there!
01:14:45Come back here, come away from there!
01:14:47We don't want that Yankee husband!
01:14:49Get him out of here!
01:14:51We don't want him here!
01:14:53All right, all of you, quiet down.
01:14:55Right now, it doesn't matter what kind of a uniform he's got on.
01:14:58He's just a young soldier and he needs help.
01:15:00And he's just a young soldier and your husband always will be.
01:15:04He's got no right around here, Arlie, that's all.
01:15:07Get him out of here. Somebody get him out.
01:15:09He caused all this trouble...
01:15:11Hush up!
01:15:12Hush up, I said hush up!
01:15:13Hush up, everybody, last one of you!
01:15:15Now, this boy is bad hurt.
01:15:20Homer, I want you to go find Doc Burnett.
01:15:23Now, I don't care where he is,
01:15:25but I want you to find him and I want you to bring him back here.
01:15:29Now, do you understand that?
01:15:32I'll get him.
01:15:35You're going to be all right, Henry.
01:15:37Everything's going to be all right.
01:15:38It can't be all right, darling.
01:15:40Why don't you leave him out there?
01:15:44It could have been me being brought back instead of him.
01:15:47It could have been me.
01:15:49He pulled back.
01:15:51He didn't want to shoot when he saw it was me.
01:15:54That's when he got it.
01:15:59Except for that.
01:16:13I'm leaving the prisoner in your custody, miss.
01:16:17I understand you have some experience in that sort of thing.
01:16:21I will let him escape for me again, sir.
01:16:24I promise you that.
01:16:29You get yourself well, Henry Jenkins.
01:16:33This war ain't going to last forever.
01:16:36Still going to be best man at your wedding.
01:16:40Willie?
01:16:41Willie?
01:16:49Willie?
01:16:50Willie?
01:16:51Willie?
01:16:52Willie?
01:16:53Willie?
01:16:53Willie?
01:16:54Willie?
01:16:55Willie?
01:16:55Willie?
01:16:56Willie?
01:16:57Willie?
01:16:58Willie?
01:16:58Willie?
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