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In "Sinister Journey," Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his sidekick California Carlson (Andy Clyde) go undercover as railroad workers to investigate a series of mysterious accidents and acts of sabotage in a railroad yard. Suspicion initially falls on the owner's estranged son-in-law, Lee, but Hoppy discovers the real culprits are trying to frame Lee while also exploiting the existing animosity between him and the owner for their own criminal ends.
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00:00Here he comes, here he comes, and we'll drop it, slam the drums, here he comes,
00:10Hartle on Cassidy, here he comes.
00:30Ah, we see a train so solemn, sure looks good, doesn't it?
00:47Yeah, just glides along.
00:49Makes you wish you were sitting in one of them nice cushioned seats, don't it?
00:53I knew California couldn't stand a long trip like this.
00:56What you're talking about, I'm fresh as a daisy, I was just thinking a war out you was looking.
01:01Ah, never mind, we'll be in Wheeler in a few minutes and you can both relax.
01:05Say, Hoppy, this fellow, Tom Smith, that wrote for you to come to Wheeler, did you say he was a railroad man?
01:11He's only the vice president of the line.
01:13Vice president?
01:15Maybe he'll let me run one of them engines, huh?
01:17Maybe.
01:26Well, you better go after him, he's liable to get lost.
01:43I'll ride on in and see Tom, I told him I'd be in today.
01:46I'll ride on in and see Tom, I told him I'd be in today.
02:16You know anything about poison?
02:25Well, a little, it depends on what kind it is.
02:27I don't know what kind, but it seems like it was something in the water.
02:30My wife's pretty sick.
02:32Well, let's see what we can do for her.
02:33Lee, where were you?
02:50I stopped this gentleman on the road and he was nice enough to see if he could help us.
02:54I hope so.
02:56I feel so sick.
02:58I could die.
03:07No, you're not going to die, Mrs.
03:09Darvin.
03:09It's just a case of local weed poisoning.
03:12Local weed?
03:13Then it isn't deadly?
03:15No, but it is meat and stuffing to make you awfully sick.
03:18I think I can give her something to make her feel better, though.
03:20Do you have some hot water without the local weed and some baking soda?
03:23Yeah, right here.
03:26Wait a minute.
03:27Your railroad has a company hospital, doesn't it?
03:30Yes.
03:31You better ride over and see what they suggest in case this doesn't work.
03:34Why, I can't.
03:35My horse is sick.
03:36Well, you can take mine.
03:37But don't ride him too hard.
03:38He's had a big day.
03:39I'll watch it.
03:42I'll rush right back, honey.
03:43You should have seen yourself when I pulled up alongside of you.
03:54Hang it on like this.
03:55It's my fault he don't like trains.
03:58Hey, look.
04:01Toppy.
04:02Where's Hoppy?
04:04Hey, you!
04:08Where's Hoppy?
04:08What are you doing with this horse?
04:09Come on, talk fast, Mr.
04:11What's the matter?
04:14You all right, Hoppy?
04:15What you doing here?
04:17Well, these people are having a little trouble with local weed for, isn't it?
04:19Yeah?
04:20If anybody would have a tough time trying to steal your horse.
04:23Well, you won't need him now anyhow.
04:24Mrs. Garvin's feeling much better.
04:26Fine.
04:27I'm really grateful to you.
04:28I wish you'd stay to supper with us.
04:30No, thanks.
04:31We're supposed to be in town by now.
04:32Hoppy, home cooking.
04:34He didn't invite you.
04:35Yeah, you're all welcome.
04:36Be glad to have you.
04:37All right, we'll stay.
04:41I want another piece to have.
04:44Young man, any time you want to quit railroading, I'll bet Hoppy will give me a job cooking for the bar 20.
04:50I certainly would.
04:52The spot I'm in, I might as well quit and accept the offer.
04:55Please, Lee.
04:56All right, I'm doing great.
04:57Well, you are.
04:59He's the best brakeman on the line.
05:01And someday he'll have a chance to advance.
05:03Oh, why shouldn't he?
05:05I'll tell you why.
05:06Because a big shot called Tom Smith will see to it that I give up.
05:11Well, why should he do that?
05:13For the same reason he had one of his plunkies put local weed in our well.
05:16No, Lee, you're wrong.
05:17No matter how Dad feels about our marriage, he'd never do anything to hurt us.
05:20Dad?
05:21You mean this Tom Smith here, Paula?
05:23Yeah.
05:23The vice president's daughter ran off with a common brakeman.
05:26And what's the matter with that?
05:30Oh, Dad's awfully set and stubborn.
05:32But it just won't do him any good.
05:35Lee's going to stay on the job and show it.
05:37And I'd say with your help, he had a good chance of doing it, too.
05:41Now, come on, boys.
05:42We'd better get into town.
05:43Will you excuse us?
05:45Leave that pie there.
05:47Thank you, Kathy.
05:56I hope this secretary's pretty.
05:58You'll have to find out later.
06:25You're waiting out here.
06:26Don't try to tell me how to treat my old daughter.
06:28Shut up and take a letter.
06:30It's a fine way to talk to a girl.
06:32My dear Jesse, I'm giving you the one last chance to come back to your home.
06:37Hey, Tom.
06:38Tom Smith.
06:39Now, who and what in the...
06:42Oh, it's you, Hoppy.
06:44How are you?
06:45I've been expecting you.
06:46We'll finish that last letter tomorrow.
06:49Type out the reports at Juan number 7.
06:50Right, Chief.
06:51Oh, Hoppy, this is Harmon Roberts, my secretary.
06:53Harmon, this is Hopalong Cassidy, one of my oldest friends.
06:55How are you?
06:56This is Lucky Jenkins.
06:58How do you do?
06:58See you both around later, I hope.
07:00Come on in, Hoppy.
07:01You mean he's the secretary?
07:03That's life on the railroad, Lucky.
07:05And there's been a series of accidents lately.
07:13And it seems they've all been directed at me.
07:15Well, I still don't see what that's got to do with your son-in-law.
07:19I know it's a terrible thing to have to say, Hoppy.
07:21But whenever those accidents happened, he was always somewheres close by.
07:26Hmm.
07:27Well, he didn't seem like that kind of a boy to me.
07:31Besides, why should he want to hurt you?
07:33Because I'm a rich man.
07:35And he knows Jesse will get it all when I die.
07:38Oh, I hope you're wrong.
07:39And how did you get so rich?
07:40I didn't know there was a lot of money in railroading.
07:42Well, there isn't actually, but I bought a piece of land last year.
07:47Land around here?
07:48No, no, no, no.
07:49It's in Oklahoma.
07:51And it turned out to be in the middle of a new oil field.
07:54Oh, I see.
07:55And I suppose you told Jesse all about it.
07:58No, not a word.
07:58I never told anybody.
08:00Well, then I only have one suggestion I can make.
08:03What's that?
08:04You put three new men to work here.
08:06Thanks, Hoppy.
08:07I knew I could depend on you to help me.
08:09Where do you think I'll fit in best?
08:11Now, if you take this job as storekeeper,
08:13you'll be at a spot where you'll come in contact with a lot of Greek-fying gossip.
08:17Hi, Garvin.
08:23I hear you're on on number eight.
08:25Yeah, I finally got a call.
08:26Hello, Lee.
08:27How's Jesse?
08:28Fine.
08:28Now she's over that local Greek poisoning.
08:30Glad she's all right.
08:31I was lucky some cowmen happened along.
08:34There's one of them now, California Carson.
08:40What's he doing in the yards?
08:41He, Cassidan, Jenkins.
08:43They're all working out here now.
08:45Looking for the road?
08:46Those greenhorns?
08:46Why, certainly.
08:47They're friends of Smith's.
08:49That right, Roberts?
08:49I believe so.
08:51That's funny.
08:51All the time they were at my house,
08:53they never even mentioned they knew him.
08:54Maybe they had a reason to keep it quiet.
08:58What do you mean by that?
08:59Who does he think they are?
09:00He's just trying to get you riled up.
09:02Don't pay any attention.
09:03Yeah.
09:04Maybe he knows what he's talking about.
09:06Smith brought them here to check up on me
09:08so he could fire me if I made any slips.
09:10That's it, isn't it?
09:11I don't know, Lee.
09:12The old man hasn't said anything about it to me.
09:14No, he wouldn't, knowing you're a friend of mine.
09:16But he's not putting anything around me
09:18because I won't stand for it.
09:19Wait a minute, Lee.
09:23Hiya, Lee.
09:24I've been wondering when we'd see you.
09:26Oh, you have.
09:26Well, you and your pals can stop one
09:28and because I'm right here
09:29and you can mind your own business.
09:30What are you talking about?
09:31This.
09:31I don't know what this is about,
09:35but that's how you feel about it.
09:44Wait!
09:45Huh?
09:51Look at that.
09:51Wait a minute, dear.
10:06Come up, dear.
10:07Wait up, Lee.
10:07What's this about?
10:10I don't know.
10:11He just whirred it in to me.
10:12I'll tell you, Cassidy.
10:13I don't like being spied on him.
10:14What have you got to be afraid of?
10:15Nothing.
10:16Then you have nothing to worry about, have you?
10:18Did I see this couple going on here?
10:20A couple of boys sky-lacking boss is no trouble.
10:22Just a rough house.
10:23There's been too much lack of discipline
10:24around here lately, Banks.
10:26Send your men back to work.
10:27Right.
10:27Back to work, men.
10:28Come on.
10:28Come on, boy.
10:40Your free ride's over.
10:43Nothing funny about it.
10:48Well,
10:50never ain't my old pal number 3865.
10:56Wherever he's gone,
10:57that hobo's due to walking the rest of the way.
11:01Ben Watts,
11:02when'd you get out?
11:03About a month after you did.
11:05Warden got tired of looking up my face.
11:07How'd you happen on this desert road?
11:09Just plain accident.
11:11Well, good luck.
11:13Never figured I'd run into an old cellmate.
11:16Crawl up there again
11:16as soon as we get moving out.
11:18I'll get your boarded through car out of here.
11:20The main line's a few miles north.
11:21Don't bother me, boy.
11:23You know,
11:24I'm sick of traveling.
11:27I, uh,
11:29think I'll take it easy with you a while.
11:31But you can't.
11:32I'm married,
11:32and nobody around here knows I've done time.
11:34Well, no one should know.
11:36As long as you and I get along.
11:38What do you mean?
11:39Well,
11:41suppose you meet me in town.
11:42We'll talk it over.
11:49I don't want to drink.
11:50Oh, come on.
11:51I said I don't want to drink.
11:53I'm going home.
11:53Oh, just one drink,
11:57and we'll both go home.
11:58To your house.
12:06There's your friend Garvin,
12:07but who's that hobo with him?
12:09Hobo is right.
12:10That's a rough-looking customer.
12:13Look, man,
12:13why don't you act like a human being
12:15and let me alone?
12:16There's a freight out at 10 o'clock.
12:17Just one little drink,
12:19and maybe I'll let you persuade me to go.
12:21We'll see.
12:22Come on.
12:24I think I'll have a talk
12:25with that hobo a little later.
12:27He's sober enough to talk.
12:31Well, Hoppy,
12:33I'm so worried.
12:34Lee didn't come home supper tonight.
12:36Oh, well,
12:36time doesn't mean anything to a railroader.
12:38They just stay until the job is finished.
12:40Yeah.
12:41I suppose I am silly to worry,
12:43but I...
12:43Maybe you're not.
12:45Well, what do you mean?
12:46Jesse, before you and Lee were married,
12:48were you engaged to someone else?
12:50Someone that might be causing trouble?
12:52I know.
12:52I was never engaged to anybody but Lee.
12:54Not to Harmon, Robert?
12:56Oh, certainly not.
12:57Harmon was a good friend of mine.
12:59He likes Lee a lot, too.
13:01I thought I told you
13:02to keep out of my business.
13:04Lee, Hoppy's trying to help.
13:05Yeah?
13:05He brought you here to check on me.
13:06But he didn't.
13:07You're wrong about that, Garvin.
13:08Oh, no, I'm not.
13:09That's what Tom Smith hired you for,
13:11spy work.
13:12Lee, that's not being very fair to Dad.
13:13That's right.
13:14Stand up for your father.
13:15I'm always wrong.
13:16Well, you are this time.
13:17Then why do you bother with me?
13:18Why don't you go back to your father
13:19and everybody will be happy?
13:29He didn't mean that.
13:31And he'll be sorry as soon as he cools off.
13:33I don't think so, Holly.
13:36I am going to Dad.
13:37Jesse,
13:37I think you're making a mistake.
13:40But if that's what you want to do,
13:41do you mind if I go with you?
13:43No.
13:53Where's Garvin?
13:54He's waiting for you.
13:55Come on.
13:55Come on.
13:55Come on.
13:56Wake up.
14:15Here's a little drink for you.
14:20Garvin, where are you?
14:24Yeah, have a little drink.
14:24He'll be right along.
14:26He better be if he knows what's good for him.
14:28There you are.
14:32Where did you know Garvin before?
14:34And he'd go off the train talking to the cops.
14:41Thank God.
14:43We never get anything out of him tonight.
14:45I think he'll be glad to talk all we want him to in the morning.
14:50Misunderstanding.
14:50My mind's made up, Hoppy.
14:52I'm taking the Reese to forget this whole unpleasant episode.
14:55All right, Tom.
15:26Dad.
15:39What happened?
15:40He's been shot.
15:41Just stop me helping.
15:42Don't get excited.
15:43It just raised my scalp, is all.
15:46Who did it, Chief?
15:47Did you see him?
15:48No, I didn't have to see him.
15:49I can guess who it was.
15:50Oh, no, Dad.
15:52Surely you don't mean Lee.
15:54Go get Marshal Riordan.
15:56Get Marshal Riordan.
15:58Yes, sir.
16:06Help, somebody, help!
16:11Help!
16:11What's the matter, Robert?
16:14Somebody took a shot at the Chief through that window.
16:16Did he hurt bad?
16:16Just a scalp wound, luckily.
16:18I'm going after Marshal Riordan.
16:20What's this on the ground?
16:22Looks like whoever took a shot at the boss dropped his scarf.
16:26I've seen that somewhere before tonight.
16:27I recognize those big polka dots.
16:29Why, that's a scarf for someone.
16:30Wait a minute.
16:31Listen.
16:31They come to think of it, I saw that on a hobo's neck tonight.
16:34Hobo, that's it.
16:34I saw him, too, in front of the saloon.
16:36He was talking loud.
16:37A kind of a tough-looking character.
16:39Well, that must be our man.
16:40Let's get after him.
16:41But where?
16:42When you saw him, Robert, who was he talking to?
16:44Well, it was Lee Garvin.
16:46Garvin?
16:47Say, didn't he have a row with Smith today?
16:49I guess he did, but what's that going on?
16:51Look, let's get this over to the Marshal right away, Roberts.
16:53And don't forget to tell him about Garvin talking to this hobo.
16:56Oh, but...
16:56If you don't do it, Roberts, I will.
16:58I ain't shielding any killer.
16:59Come on.
16:59All right, I'll go.
17:03Well, that's a fine piece of teamwork.
17:04Huh?
17:05Let's go talk to Lee and get the straight of this.
17:09I felt sure that the teamwork we had seen meant a frame of.
17:17We went to find Lee and tell him to lay low until I got to the bottom of it.
17:24My next move was to try to find Potts, the hobo.
17:27That's what you saw him.
17:34Watch Torx now.
17:34We're in trouble.
17:44Casity may need help.
17:50Take it easy.
17:51I'm not going to bother you.
17:57Well, I never shot anybody.
18:14That gun wasn't mine.
18:16They're lying.
18:17Who's lying?
18:18Well, them two railroaders are...
18:19They locked me up in a shack.
18:21Who were they?
18:21Well, one of them was...
18:23Try to answer me.
18:27Was one of the Roberts?
18:29Are you all right, Cassidy?
18:32Thanks.
18:32We found the hobo.
18:33Now, I had to tell Lee that he must see Tom Smith and make a clean breast of everything.
18:44And Lee took my advice.
19:04Come in.
19:05Hello, Mr. Smith.
19:14So, you decided to come here after all, eh?
19:17Yes, I...
19:18I want to tell you something about that...
19:20Well, suppose you start by telling me why you sent your old cellmate Watts here last night to shoot me.
19:24But I didn't.
19:25That's a cooked up story.
19:26And so is the one about your jail term, I suppose.
19:29Well, that part of it's true.
19:31But I had...
19:31Save your breath.
19:32Here.
19:35What's that?
19:36The money you came here to hold me up for.
19:37Take it and get out.
19:38And if I ever hear of you coming near my daughter...
19:41Wait a minute.
19:42I don't want your money, and I had nothing to do with the shooting.
19:44I'll take a dying man's word for it.
19:46You mean Ben Watts?
19:47Yes.
19:47He confessed the whole thing before he died.
19:49He told them all about it.
19:50He told who?
19:52Well, he told...
19:59Why did you do that?
20:00He was reaching for a gun, wasn't he?
20:02No, he wasn't.
20:03My mistake, Chief.
20:04Sorry.
20:05Well, I should think so.
20:06I told you I didn't need any help with him.
20:08I had my own gun handy here.
20:11And another thing, Roberts.
20:12The boy was telling me...
20:13All about me.
20:15What are you doing?
20:17Turn that gun away.
20:19Are you insane?
20:20Not at all, Chief.
20:22You see, it all works out nicely.
20:24He threatened you.
20:25You drew this gun.
20:26He grabbed it.
20:27And killed her.
20:28Help!
20:43Help!
20:45What happened?
20:45Garvin shot the Chief.
20:47What is it?
20:49Dead!
20:49Garvin pulled the trigger just as I came in behind him.
20:56I was too late to stop him, but I knocked him out with...
20:58Where's Garvin?
21:00Well, there was nobody here but Tom and Jesse when I came in.
21:03But, look, here's the club I knocked the killer out with.
21:05He must be around somewhere.
21:07Look for him.
21:08But be careful.
21:09He'll shoot on sight.
21:10Right.
21:10You said it was Lee?
21:12It was.
21:13Oh, no.
21:15He must be wrong, Hoppy.
21:16How could I be?
21:18But Lee would never hurt Father, would he?
21:22I'm sure he didn't, Jesse.
21:23But there's no way I can prove it now.
21:33I never believed for a moment that Lee had shot Tom Smith.
21:36So now I had to find Lee again and keep him under my wing until the whole thing was straightened out.
21:41There was no sight of Lee around the place.
21:53What is it?
21:55Roberts and Vanny just had a big row.
21:57Had a big row?
21:58What about?
21:58Something about money in the special train that Roberts ordered for him and Miss Jesse.
22:02Well, that's funny.
22:02She didn't say anything about him going east with her tonight.
22:05Oh, not tonight.
22:05Right now.
22:06As soon as she gets back to town with her clothes and things.
22:08Maybe it's just as well we didn't find Lee.
22:10I'd hate to give him that news.
22:12Well, nevertheless, we're going to find him.
22:14She left a note for Jesse on this card off the car consigned to the Dolomite Mine.
22:18Well, that's my writing.
22:19I nailed it on the car yesterday.
22:21Well, isn't that the one they want to drop to the siding near the old mill?
22:23Yeah.
22:24They're going to bring mules down and pull the stuff up later.
22:26Mine means that Lee's probably hiding out there.
22:29That old train's just about to start.
22:31Maybe if we head off across the desert, we can get to Lee before it's too late.
22:34I got an idea that might work.
22:35I got to tell you.
22:41Yeah?
22:41Robert, she's taking all the marks on the deputy for bodyguards.
22:44Well, never mind that now.
22:45Come on.
22:48We'd found Lee.
22:50And as the train neared the old mill...
22:52California, get down and throw that switch.
22:54But Whitley, you're sure the engineer can't stop outside.
22:56All right, but I don't like it.
22:57That's a holdup.
22:58I don't like it any better than you do, but it's the only chance we've got.
23:00Go on.
23:01He should stop about here.
23:03Come on.
23:33All right, let's go.
24:03I see you caught him for us, Cassidy.
24:17I'm very much obliged.
24:18What a dirty double-crossing deal.
24:21That's enough out of you, Garvin.
24:22Handcuff this killer, Marshal.
24:24Just a minute, Marshal.
24:25Here's the man the handcuffs belong on.
24:27Are you insane?
24:29What's this all about, Cassidy?
24:30I thought Garvin was the man we were after.
24:32I want you to arrest Roberts for forgery and the murder of Tom Smith.
24:36Tom Smith?
24:37Oh, now, wait a minute.
24:39Banks has just turned state's evidence.
24:41Here's his confession.
24:42Lies.
24:43Everybody knows that Garvin shot him.
24:44I don't know.
24:45This sounds pretty convincing.
24:47He said that you killed Tom to get a hold of those oil land deeds.
24:50You forged a bill of sale on the railroad stock and forced him to help you.
24:53Dirty rat.
24:53He can't get clear by putting everything on me.
24:55He got his share, but I can prove it.
24:57Yeah?
24:57You'll get your chance at the trial.
24:59Take him away, son.
25:02I owe you some thanks, Cassidy.
25:05And you, too, Lee.
25:06I guess I've been barking up the wrong tree.
25:07I'm sure sorry.
25:08I can't blame anybody.
25:10Wait a minute, Lee.
25:11Jesse never did believe it.
25:13I'd better take that confession of Banks.
25:15Not that we'll be needing it legally.
25:17Well, I'm glad to hear that.
25:18Take a look at it.
25:19Why, this is only a bill of sale for some bar-20 cattle.
25:27Cassidy, you sure are an A-number-one bluffer.
25:29Put her there.
25:30Well, it worked anyhow.
25:33I suppose you'll be starting back to break it.
25:35I hope I will.
25:36No, indeed.
25:37He's fine.
25:38Well, I guess I had it coming.
25:39He's going to be too busy being vice president of our railroad.
25:42Now that you got it back to ours, in spite of ourselves.
25:45Ah, good luck to both of you.
25:46Thanks.
25:47I wish you'd stay on.
25:48No, we've been away from the ranch too long as it is.
25:51Goodbye.
25:52Goodbye.
25:53Goodbye, fellas.
25:57Solom, hop, hop, hop.
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