- 6 weeks ago
At the request of an army officer friend, Hoppy goes to retrieve the officer's deserter son from an outlaw enclave where he learns the son is being forced by the ringleader to take part in scam to take gold in cavalry disguise.
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00:00Here he comes, here he comes, there's the truppets, there's the drums, here he comes.
00:09I belong Cassidy, here he comes.
00:15Oh, nice work Lucky.
00:41I don't think we lost any strays.
00:43If we did, they'll come in, there's nothing to scare them any more.
00:46There isn't even a good sized timber wolf in the Bar 20 range any more.
00:49What's the matter, peace and contentment bothering your old age?
00:52Nothing's happened for weeks, you know I'm a man of action.
00:55That sounds like what you're looking for.
01:07Who shot at you?
01:13Nobody shot at me.
01:15I was after a coyote in the hen house and a trip in my gun window.
01:18Oh, look at those beautiful big new spurs.
01:22Well, they didn't look so big in the mail order catalog.
01:25So that's what you sent two months' wages off for.
01:28California, you've been took.
01:29You better get out of those things before you hang yourself.
01:32I'll break them in slow, huh?
01:33Yeah.
01:34Say, Hoppy, when are we gonna have some real action around here?
01:37I never go looking for trouble.
01:38Peace and quiet's all I want from here on in.
01:40Yeah, and we sure have had some time.
01:42We sure have, but no more.
01:44Say, I'll bet my new mail order boots against that rawhide lariat of yours
01:48that you're up to your neck in somebody's troubles before you're a day older.
01:51It's a bet.
01:57All right, Slicker, that's an old friend of mine from Fort Sumner, Colonel Jed Landy.
02:02And any troubles that old guy has, he settles with the whole regiment.
02:07Well, Jed, you finally found time to pay us a visit.
02:09Come in.
02:10Now let Speed get a room ready for you.
02:12Don't bother, Hoppy.
02:13I can't stay.
02:14Oh, come and sit down.
02:19What's your hurry?
02:20Is something bothering you?
02:21Hoppy, I need your help.
02:23What's the matter?
02:25Have you ever heard of a robber's roost called Twin Buttes?
02:28Oh, yeah, it's up in Guadalupe country.
02:31Great.
02:32I thought the rangers cleaned that out a couple of years ago.
02:34It hasn't stayed clean.
02:36And Hoppy, I believe my son Bruce is up there working with those outlaws.
02:39Your son?
02:40You mean the one with the army, the lieutenant?
02:42He was.
02:43Unfortunately, he got in with a bad lot.
02:46A card game with a civilian gambler ended in a fight.
02:49Ah, that's bad business.
02:50Bruce is hot-tempered.
02:52When he was reprimanded, he struck his commanding officer
02:55and escaped the arresting squad.
02:57Well, Jed, why don't you go in there and bring him back?
02:59I can't go in there.
03:00But you can persuade him to leave.
03:02Bruce should return and face the court-martial before he becomes a hunted criminal.
03:07When does the military court convene?
03:10Two weeks from today.
03:11Are you sure he's a Twin Buttes?
03:13A man answering Bruce's description was seen during a stage holdup near the Buttes.
03:18Any gang of thieves that'll hold up in there certainly won't want a stranger coming to visit.
03:23I know, Hoppy.
03:24But you're the man to handle that.
03:29All right, Jed. I'm your man.
03:31Sounds like the peace and quiet I've been looking for.
03:34This was a job for me to handle alone.
03:37So I left a note for Lucky in California to take care of things at the ranch while I was gone.
03:43This is as far as you go, mister. This is closed property.
03:50Looks like an open trail to me.
03:52I said this is as far as you go.
04:02Seems to me you fellas have posted some signs that this is closed to the public.
04:05There had to be another way in and I'd try to find it.
04:27We meet at Spit Rock. He'll not bother us anymore.
04:35Hmm. A dainty little thing for a gunman to be carrying.
04:50Hello, boys.
05:04Hello, boys.
05:20There's no use registering. We haven't any rooms.
05:41Are you the manager here, miss?
05:43I'm Jessie Dixon. I own this place.
05:45My name is Cassidy. Bill Cassidy. I'm a cattle man.
05:49I said I have no vacancies.
05:52For a while, I...
05:53Even if I had a spare room, I wouldn't want a guest here under an assumed name.
06:01The planted letter I had told Colonel Landy to send me had done its job.
06:05Don't look so surprised, Captain Thompson.
06:08News travels fast up here, especially bad news.
06:11Well, I...
06:13Just what are you doing up here?
06:14What are you doing up here?
06:17I really came to return this.
06:19You dropped it in the rocks a while ago.
06:25And now you can be on your way.
06:27I don't take orders very well, Miss Dixon, even when the young lady's running an outfit from behind the bandana.
06:33Miss Dixon says she can't put you up. Get going.
06:35Put those things away, will you? I'm not looking for trouble.
06:42Now, won't you change your mind?
06:44This place is just what I need for...
06:46Well, a quiet rest.
06:48My rooms are still filled.
06:52Thanks for the hospitality.
07:05Help!
07:29Help!
07:35Help!
08:00Help!
08:01That was a close call, mister.
08:13Yes, I hate to admit it, but I never could handle horses.
08:16Phew, I appreciate this young man, and I thank you.
08:20My name is Dixon, Professor Dixon.
08:23Ah, schoolteacher, huh?
08:25No, I'm an arachnologist.
08:26Ah, collector of spiders.
08:30Is that so?
08:31And after you've got them, what good are they?
08:33My daughter Jessie is right.
08:34I am a gabby old man.
08:36Your daughter, you mean the girl at the inn?
08:38Yes, she runs everything and everybody around it, except me.
08:42Well, how do you manage to get around it?
08:44I have my own little place up there in the crags, my laboratory.
08:47My spiders keep her scared off.
08:50Ah, what I wouldn't give for a little hideout like that.
08:53That is, without the spiders, until things kind of settle down.
08:57Settle down?
08:57Yeah, the inn looked like a nice place for it, but your daughter said she had no room.
09:02She did, eh?
09:03Would you just come right back with me?
09:05She'll find room for you when she hears you saved my life.
09:08Oh, no, thanks, Professor.
09:09I'll just mosey on up the trail and camp out.
09:11No, no, nothing of the sort.
09:12Now, you come with me.
09:13That is, if you'll drive my horses, and on the way down, you can tell me about your troubles.
09:17Maybe I can help you.
09:19Yes, maybe you can.
09:20I'll pick up my other horse.
09:21I'll be right with you.
09:24Now, honey, you know you can find a room for my friend.
09:27Let's not be ungrateful.
09:28Very well.
09:29Fine, dear.
09:30Now, you see?
09:31What did I tell you?
09:32Thanks, Professor.
09:33Duke, show Captain Thompson to room seven.
09:36Huh?
09:37If you don't mind.
09:38Good.
09:39Thanks, Miss Dixon.
09:49What do you mean by turning a stranger loose up here at a time like this?
09:53I thought if I turned him down trail, he'd go away.
09:55He headed straight up toward the crags.
09:57Luckily, I stopped him.
09:58Did you find out anything about him?
09:59Enough to know that he's hiding from some sort of trouble.
10:02If he'd only arrived a few weeks earlier,
10:04I might have used him instead of your weakling, Landy.
10:15Did you see, Tomper?
10:16Hoppy's here.
10:17He sure is.
10:26Hello, fellas.
10:27Come on over the wagon.
10:29Come on over.
10:29Come on, boys, and I'll show you to...
10:35Give me that.
10:36Get your hands off in it.
10:38I'll teach you to come around here, blowin' bugles.
10:41Like...
10:42I think I can keep order around here without your help.
10:55Well, then, why don't you do it?
10:56These peddlers are trying to make an honest living.
11:00Don't worry, ma'am.
11:01I'll get another from the wagon.
11:03If you care to look, miss, we have a lot of other things, too.
11:06We have hairpins, a tuned back of bullets.
11:08Thank you, but I don't think I need anything.
11:12Come on, fellas.
11:14Right over here is the wagon.
11:15I get shirts and collars and ties.
11:18Everything but ladies' kimonos.
11:20Hey.
11:21You ain't Pete Walks.
11:22What you doing with this wagon?
11:24Well, I...
11:25Talk up.
11:26Poor Pete.
11:27It was the mumps.
11:28That ain't fatal.
11:29Oh, but this time it was.
11:31You know, his mumps made him so cranky,
11:33he kicked old Nelly the mule.
11:35But I got to stand clear.
11:37Well, I got some business.
11:38Step right up, jets.
11:40Do your tradin'.
11:41Come on, boys.
11:42As soon as the rush is over,
11:43let me get the first plump of trees beyond the bridge.
11:45Yeah.
11:46Muppet, man.
11:47Bread.
11:48Smooth.
11:49Starb.
11:49Hang on.
11:52Hiya, huffy.
11:54Hi.
11:54Hi.
11:54Hi.
11:56I thought I told you two to stay at the ranch.
11:59Well, uh...
11:59Oh, we know you didn't mean it, huffy.
12:02You didn't, did you?
12:03And how did you get a hold of Pete's wagon?
12:06Oh, that?
12:06I kind of borrowed it.
12:08That is, uh...
12:09Yeah, I can imagine how you borrowed it.
12:13Well, anyhow, so long as you're here, maybe you can help.
12:15How, huffy?
12:16Colonel Landy asked me to come up here and find his son, Bruce, and bring him back.
12:19Yeah, any sign of him?
12:20No, not so far.
12:21But there's something going on around here he might be mixed up in.
12:24Say, I bet that's what they were talking about.
12:26And they cleaned us out of cartridges, too.
12:28Yeah, and some fella said something about Tamara.
12:30That's right.
12:30Tamara, huh?
12:31Well, that means we've got to get him out of here tonight, if he's here.
12:35This looks like a good place to camp out.
12:36What are you doing here?
12:43Come on in, Bruce, quick.
12:45What's the matter?
12:48You shouldn't have come up here.
12:49Bruce, pull yourself together and listen to me.
12:52What is it?
12:53You've got to get out of here right away.
12:54Get to the territory road and head east.
12:57Why, what happened?
12:58Thompson and some of his men are looking for you.
13:00He has a picture of you in uniform.
13:02Here, take this money.
13:03You'll need it.
13:05Well, Jesse, come with me.
13:06I can't leave you here.
13:07I was hoping you'd ask me.
13:09Of course I'll go.
13:11You're keeping the men waiting.
13:15I'm not going.
13:17There's the combination of the vault and the basement of the bank.
13:20I went to some pains to get it.
13:22Father, please.
13:23Don't bring any currency or silver.
13:25Just gold.
13:26Have it here before morning.
13:27I'm not going to go.
13:30We have a revel, Blackie.
13:31Well, have you changed your mind?
13:45I'm going to have to keep out of sight for a while.
13:46You find Lucky and see what he's found out.
13:48Right, Hoppy.
13:49Captain Thompson.
14:00You try to see me alive?
14:02Yes, and I'm glad.
14:03You change your mind a lot, don't you?
14:05Captain Thompson, please take Bruce away right now.
14:07Get him out of here.
14:08Arrest him.
14:09Oh, well, the double-trushing gal.
14:11I can't arrest him.
14:12Whoever you are, he'll be better off with you than he is here.
14:15My father will be up in a few minutes to get him,
14:16and then it'll be too late.
14:19All right.
14:19I'll meet you at the wagon.
14:39Bruce.
14:40Take it easy.
14:41Bruce, what?
14:42Bruce, your father asked me to come up here
14:44and see if I can find you.
14:45He wants you to come back and face your trial.
14:46My father?
14:47Yes.
14:48But you're going to have to get out of here right away
14:49before you get into this thing any deeper.
14:52Please go, Bruce.
14:53Father will be up here to get you any minute.
14:55But even if I wanted to go, how am I going to get away?
14:57If you'll do as I say, I'll do all I can to get you out.
15:00All right.
15:00I'll go with you.
15:02Very interesting.
15:05Get that weakling back to the inn and ready to ride.
15:07And that's for you, Mr. Thompson.
15:11Or is it Cassidy?
15:13You're going to be my guest for a while.
15:15Time up.
15:22Fine thing.
15:23Loafing, huh?
15:25Get out.
15:25Get out.
15:26Don't tell me what you do.
15:28Don't move, Nolte.
15:29Now you stay out of this.
15:30It's...
15:31I got him up.
15:32I got him up.
15:33That's fine.
15:37Thanks.
15:38Well, Mr. Thompson, you're so anxious to see my hideout.
15:41I'm going to take you up there.
15:43And you can have a nice long look.
15:45The road sign is back in place, sir.
15:47Good.
15:47Wait for my signal.
15:48And when you see it, start moving.
15:49And keep your eye on landing.
15:51I couldn't figure out why these renegades have put on cavalry uniforms.
15:56Yeah, they're hot.
15:57Get out of your horses, man.
15:59Hold on.
16:03My, what a view.
16:08Miles and miles of winding road.
16:11Any minute now, there'll be a shipment of gold coming along that road, headed for the Denver
16:17Min.
16:18Two hundred thousand dollars worth.
16:21So that's your plan, to rob a midshipment.
16:24They won't even know they're being robbed.
16:28Here they come.
16:31Right on time.
16:33Excuse me, gentlemen.
16:34I'll be back in a few minutes.
16:36However, you will not be alone.
16:39And black with the spiders killed quickly.
16:43Lucky, get that knife out of my best friend.
16:44There's a splash.
17:02Come on.
17:04Let's get going.
17:05Now I'll be getting down to Pinnacle Rocks.
17:19That's where the army is waiting to take over the convoy.
17:22You won't have much time to get your stolen gold under cover.
17:25Plenty of time.
17:26Plenty.
17:27You see, they'll get their gold right on schedule.
17:30But it'll be our boxes, not theirs.
17:34They won't even suspect it.
17:36Till they break the seals at Denver two weeks from now.
17:40Looks like you're going to figure it.
17:41But how are you going to make the switch?
17:43Amuse yourselves while you can, trying to guess.
17:46You watery old buzzer.
17:54That rope ought to be around your neck.
17:55We'll let the law take care of that.
17:57He'll be tied up tight enough to hold him, but we get back.
17:59You're not coming back.
18:00I've been planning this for years.
18:02There are others in this besides me, you know.
18:05We'll take our chances against yours.
18:06Get those guns.
18:10Come on.
18:11Don't go away.
18:41Don't go away.
18:41The escort conveying the gold was nearing the misleading marker.
18:47There's a sign.
18:47We're only a quarter of a mile from Pinnacle Rocks.
18:49I was over there, so it's about a year ago, Lieutenant.
18:51And I swear that rocks are still two miles ahead.
18:53I'm sure the natives know the roads better than you do, Sergeant.
18:55That's what I say about a rock.
18:56You see one, you see them all.
18:58Me?
18:59Give me the plans.
19:01This hasn't been so bad.
19:02We're still ahead of scheduled half hour.
19:04Take turns.
19:05Forward.
19:05Forward.
19:06Forward.
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19:26Yes, Lieutenant.
19:27My name is Anderson.
19:28Yes, I know.
19:29Will you sign this receipt, please?
19:30I don't mind telling you.
19:31I'm glad to hand this job over to you.
19:32Two hundred thousand dollars in gold is quite a responsibility.
19:33Well, take good care of it for you, Lieutenant.
19:34Change, escort!
19:35I will see you next time.
19:36I have a message.
19:37That's what we're going to do for you, Lieutenant.
19:38I know.
19:39Will you sign this receipt, please?
19:42I don't mind telling you.
19:43I'm glad to hand this job over to you.
19:45Two hundred thousand dollars in gold is quite a responsibility.
19:48Well, take good care of it for you, Lieutenant.
19:51Change, escort!
19:55I swear the pinnacle rock is two miles down the road ahead of us.
19:59No mistake, Sergeant.
20:00All these rocks look alike up here.
20:02That's what the Sergeant said himself a little while ago.
20:04Well, good-bye and good luck, sir.
20:06Thank you, Lieutenant.
20:34Just ahead, the professor's men were transferring the real gold to a buckboard.
20:57Get this little fortune rolling back to the end.
20:59We'll hurry back with the wagon so as not to keep the Army waiting.
21:02Don't forget, Randy. There'll be two guns pointing your way, just in case you get 12 feet.
21:06Don't worry. I'm in this as deep as you are now.
21:09Let's go.
21:20Look at Randy. He's trying to stop him.
21:22Keep me covered. I'm going after that wagon.
21:29Keep me covered. I'm going after that wagon.
21:40Come on! Get him!
21:58He's trying to stop him.
22:00Clean him up.
22:01You didn't ever have a pistol.
22:02You're just right.
22:03I'm going after that wagon's head.
22:04He's trying to keep him up.
22:05Come on!
22:06He's trying to keep him up.
22:07Let's go.
22:08Hey, look.
22:09You're out.
22:10You're done.
22:11You're done.
22:12You're done.
22:13I'm ready.
22:14You're done.
22:15You're done.
22:16You're done.
22:17You're done.
22:18You're done.
22:19Turn around and head back.
22:49California, Landy's with us.
23:04Good boy, Landy!
23:09He might have blown my head.
23:17I'm all through.
23:27Yellow dogs, I wanted to give up.
23:31I was beginning to enjoy it too.
23:45The escort had heard the shooting and had doubled back.
23:55Disarmed them.
23:57You're my prisoners.
23:58You mean you're arresting us for catching them?
24:01What's the meaning of this?
24:02Oh, it's a long story, Lieutenant.
24:04We'd better talk it over on the way down to Pinnacle Rocks with the real gold.
24:07Have you men switched the boxes in these two wagons?
24:09Real gold? Switch boxes?
24:11I demand an explanation, and a good one at once.
24:14If you'll put that gun away and listen to reason, I'll explain.
24:19Well, let's have it.
24:24And when I'd finished my story, the escort commander understood the whole thing.
24:28Thanks for everything, Mr.
24:31The name is Cassidy.
24:32I don't know what to say.
24:33You don't need to say anything.
24:35You go along with the Lieutenant, and I'm sure things won't be half as bad as you imagined.
24:38Your attempt to stop that wagon with the real gold on it will help vindicate you.
24:42Well, goodbye.
24:44Goodbye.
24:45Goodbye, sir.
24:46Goodbye.
24:47Goodbye.
24:48My regards to your father.
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