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Paladin secures some ill feelings when he hires his gun to an accused murderer, but may have to fight an altogether unexpected foe in order to keep the terms of his contract.
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00:00This gun says there will be no lynching here.
00:19There's earth enough to bury every man who comes to me with a rope.
00:30Let's go.
00:48Here you are, Mr. Paladin, as you design it, in almost solid blacksmiths.
01:07That's very nice.
01:11I know how difficult platinum is to work with.
01:13It requires great heat.
01:14Yes, sir. The combination of rare metal and great skill makes that quite an expensive ornament.
01:21Naturally. Leave your bill at the desk.
01:23At least...
01:27Thank you, Mr. Paladin.
01:29Leave the bill?
01:30At the desk. Good day, sir.
01:44Uh, Mr. Paladin, he's, uh, wealthy.
01:49Tip!
01:51Always I bring Mr. Paladin's newspaper from every place.
01:55Him, Big Tipper.
01:57I'm to leave a bill for Mr. Paladin.
02:00Is that all right?
02:01Quite all right, sir. This is his permanent residence.
02:04His, uh, credit?
02:06You must be new to San Francisco. No one questions Mr. Paladin's credit.
02:11Uh, he's engaged in business here?
02:13He must have investments all over the West. He's always going away on business trips.
02:18Oh.
02:19Bartholomew Holgate, wanted for murder by the town of Bender in Wyoming territory, was captured in the foothills south of Sacramento this morning.
02:29Holgate pleaded with the local authorities against being returned to Bender.
02:32The prisoner stated that he would be turned over to a mob which would lynch him.
02:36Uh, everything taken care of, Mr. Paladin.
02:42It's a pleasure to do business with a gentleman of taste.
02:52Bartholomew Holgate.
02:56Uh, uh.
02:59Care of jail...
03:02Sacramento...
03:05California.
03:07Of California.
03:26Get out of that way.
03:28It seems to have gotten tangled up in an iron clothesline.
03:33Hey, what part I'll blow you half?
03:36I ought to pull that trigger and finish it right here.
03:39Thanks, mister.
03:43Give me them irons.
03:46You can't blame me.
03:47You'll save me back to be laced.
03:49You don't deserve better.
03:51I step out for a minute and Harry here tries to make you more comfortable.
03:54You kick him in the head and take off.
03:59I'll not be making mistakes of kindness again.
04:01You, I take it up, Otholomew Holgate.
04:03You received my card, I received your wire.
04:05You?
04:06I thought you was on my side.
04:08Who are you, mister?
04:10My name is Paladin.
04:18Your name, Sheriff, is...
04:19Swank.
04:20This young fellow whose lab will blow a holding is my deputy, Harry Dean.
04:23What's your business here?
04:25That remains to be settled.
04:26What makes you think you'll be lynched?
04:28The town was named after Max Bender.
04:30Bender's a well-liked.
04:32It was his son that caught my bullets.
04:34I'll tell you what I'll do.
04:40For $200, I'll guarantee to deliver you alive to stand trial.
04:45All right, Paladin.
04:46I'll see you get your money the moment I...
04:49I step in the courtroom.
04:51And what do you think the chances are of my employer here being lynched?
04:56I think he'll try it.
04:57Will you stop him?
05:00Don't ask him.
05:02I didn't hear your answer, Sheriff.
05:05It'll be a cruel, hard decision.
05:07Then we are on the same side.
05:09The whole town on the other side.
05:11I don't think we'll come out on top.
05:14As the poet Browning wrote,
05:15"'Tis not what man does that exalts him,
05:18but what man would do."
05:21And we three would do right.
05:25Maybe that poet don't mind failing,
05:27but me, when I put my hand to a thing,
05:29I like to know it's going to be done.
05:32A man's reach should exceed his grasp,
05:34for what's a heaven for?
05:36That's Browning again.
06:02Max, Amy.
06:03How'd you know we'd come in on this train?
06:05We waited on all the trains.
06:07I wanted to see the man that killed my son.
06:11He's gonna get a trial, Max.
06:12My brother didn't have a trial.
06:14Amy!
06:15He didn't have a gun and didn't have a trial with a smart lawyer
06:18to trick him to freedom or a prison sentence.
06:20The man who killed your brother will have a trial, Miss Bender.
06:23Who are you?
06:24My name is Paladin.
06:26Holgate hired him to see that he ain't lynched.
06:29So, the gunfighters are all for law and order.
06:32If the price is right.
06:34You don't buy law and order, Miss Bender.
06:36You fight for it.
06:37Once you have it, you don't throw it away.
06:39Your father knows how hard law is to come by.
06:42All this talk won't change the writing on my brother's tombstone.
06:45Your neighbors will come for this man, Sheriff.
06:48And you'll do what's right.
06:49He will.
06:52And so will you.
06:59Come here, Ma...
07:00It's all right.
07:01Come out.
07:02Come on.
07:03Look.
07:04Come out, Ma...
07:05You want to come here.
07:06Look.
07:07Come out.
07:08Come out.
07:09Come out.
07:10Come out.
07:13Come out.
07:14Good job.
07:15You're going to take me home, timbre.
07:18Come out.
07:19Come out.
07:20Come out.
07:21Come out!
07:22Come out.
07:23Come out.
07:24Come on.
07:25Come out.
07:26Go tell your mother you're home, Harry.
07:29I'll be back if trouble breaks.
07:31Good work, Swink.
07:56Now you got the honey in the hive, the bees will be swarming around soon enough.
08:00Sheriff, I'll bet down on one of your office carts and pull the trial.
08:03All right, but I'll be using the other one.
08:07Greetings, gentlemen.
08:10You didn't lose any time, did you, Coombs?
08:13My client and I must start preparing our defense.
08:16And mind you, Sheriff, I expect you to deliver us only to the court.
08:20Exactly.
08:23Who's he?
08:24Oh, but say I'm a deputy to assist the sheriff.
08:27He's all right.
08:29I hired his gun.
08:31He'll see to what I get to the courtroom.
08:33And you see that your attorney turns the fee over to the person I choose.
08:37I'll tell him.
08:39Right now, we'd like privacy.
08:41My client and I must discuss the case.
08:49Go ahead.
08:54Wrap on the bars when you're through.
08:56No, sir.
09:06Well, sir, I have been examining our case.
09:08Talking to the witnesses.
09:11Searching for legal precedent.
09:13You can get me off?
09:14No, however, we might make a case
09:18out of the fact that you assume young Bender to be armed.
09:23What does that get me?
09:25Ten to twenty years.
09:27Perhaps life.
09:29That won't hardly do, see?
09:30I see. Now, Bart, we can merely present our defense.
09:33We cannot command a verdict.
09:35Can we buy one?
09:36No, no, not in the present situation.
09:39And I'd better not stay around for the trial.
09:43Well, you're safer in this cell than you would be outside.
09:46If you fell into the hands of those townspeople.
09:55Town can help me out of this mess.
09:58Yeah.
10:00Let them come roaring up to the front of the jail in a mob, yelling for my neck.
10:05They'll do that right enough.
10:07And Swink, that hidden paladin, will be out there trying to hold them off.
10:13There'll be gunplay and noise aplenty.
10:15There'll be that, too.
10:18Let's see.
10:19I still got a couple of friends, William and Keith.
10:23They still around?
10:25Yes.
10:27They signed on at the Circle X Ranch.
10:29Well, uh...
10:31Have them ride into town.
10:33That's Amy Bender's doing.
10:47She'll keep stirring the pot till it boils over.
10:50She was always such a nice, quiet girl.
10:52I never suspected that there was a streak of pure meanness under it all.
10:55Meanness, Mr. Combs?
10:57Hardly.
10:58Amy Bender hates and with good cause.
11:01It's frustrating for a woman to hate like this.
11:03She can't strap on a gun and settle this affair with her own two hands.
11:06Well?
11:20Miss Bender, I wonder if you'd hold some money for me.
11:23You're not to give it to me until Holgate steps into the courtroom.
11:25If he dies before that, return it to Mr. Combs.
11:28I think I'd hold your blood money.
11:31Blood money for keeping a man alive?
11:34I'll hold that money for you.
11:37Thank you, Mr. Bender.
11:38Well, you don't need me anymore.
11:41If you won't help us, at least stay out of it completely.
11:47Who needs weapons?
11:49Let me a shotgun, Amy.
11:53Double blast the belly ought to cut a man in half.
11:55That man wouldn't be any deader than one with a .45 slug between his eyes.
11:59Yeah, you're a big man with a gun, ain't you?
12:01And you're a big man with a crowd.
12:03I don't need no crowd.
12:05I don't need no gun.
12:25Stay away from the jail.
12:30Don't try to stop us, gunfighter.
12:32There's room for another noose out there.
12:34So there is.
12:36And earth enough to bury every man who comes to me with a rope.
12:39Let's do it.
12:44Let's go.
13:14How's it been?
13:29Quiet in here. Anything building up on the street?
13:31Small groups, big talk.
13:32Nothing will happen tonight.
13:34I'll wait till word reaches the ranches and the nesters.
13:36I make it to party or break tomorrow night.
13:38Feels like it.
13:40Get a good night's sleep, boys.
13:41Don't want you dozing tomorrow night.
13:44Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:51Holgate seems to be in a happier frame of mind than that.
13:54He's got no worries.
13:55We're supposed to look after him in jail and Coombs will look after him in court.
13:59Sure.
13:59If I've got an idea, Holgate can look after himself.
14:01Is there any place around here I can lock this up?
14:10I wouldn't want it handled too much.
14:11Well, this has got a key.
14:13You can put it in there.
14:14Yep.
14:19What do you got in that bag, anyhow?
14:21Just some of the tools in my trade.
14:23Some of them.
14:25Uh-oh.
14:26Look at here.
14:27What do we got now?
14:31So?
14:33William McHeath.
14:35His friends.
14:36That's Fred Coombs' place.
14:38Now, what would he be wanting with Holgate's lawyer?
14:40Sheriff, if you want to sit up tonight, pondering the answers to questions, I've got a better
14:45one for you to chew on.
14:47What's that?
14:48Who do they figure to ride that extra horse?
15:10A man came by and said you wanted to see me.
15:13Now that you've had a night to sleep on it, do you still intend to fight for Holgate?
15:18Nothing's come up to change my position, Miss Bender.
15:20Something might.
15:21For instance.
15:23Mr. Paladin, I don't want anyone hurt.
15:27I just want Holgate to pay for my brother's death.
15:30So far, no argument.
15:32I believe Sheriff Swink can be persuaded not to shoot at his friends.
15:35In that case, no harm will come to him.
15:38The same goes for his deputy.
15:39That's a lot of believing, Miss Bender, but go ahead.
15:42That leaves just you.
15:44You're liable to kill somebody and be killed in turn.
15:47It would seem so.
15:49You're doing this for money.
15:51What if I gave you more money to leave town now?
15:55That's a definite offer, I take it.
15:57Cash.
15:58I'll get it for you.
15:59Don't do that.
16:01Switching sides for money, that's most unethical.
16:03I'm afraid not.
16:04But why?
16:06Have you ever seen a lynching, Miss Bender?
16:08No.
16:09I imagine it.
16:10Your imagination would fall far short of the truth.
16:13No matter what Holgate's done, he won't be handed over to feed the animal instincts of a mob.
16:20What's the matter?
16:21Is your conscience acting up?
16:22I don't want anyone hurt, except Holgate.
16:25That's the trouble with the lynching, Miss Bender.
16:27You can't have it ordered up all neat and dainty like a yard of Flemish lace.
16:31It's something that cowards get whiskied up and mumble over, winding up with screams in the gutters of a dark night.
16:37There's nothing you can do to stop it!
16:46It's all set, Amy.
16:48We'll start tonight from here.
16:49What's the matter?
16:54Nothing's the matter.
16:58You'll start from here.
17:00Tonight.
17:01Tonight.
17:02What?
17:02What?
17:02What?
17:04What?
17:04What?
17:04What?
17:05What?
17:05What are you looking at me like that for?
17:35What are you thinking I'm just wondering what you're thinking
17:39Bob's about ready to move paladin coming well sir see you in court
17:47Moving up this way
17:52Looks like everybody's here I'd say we're all set
18:00You wait here Amy we'll bring him to you you can put the rope around his neck
18:05You change your mind Max yes what are you going to do dad I'm going to the jail
18:12And when this mob comes Amy I'm going to use this rifle
18:18Hold on here Max you're a little turnaround agent
18:21You know when I first came here there was nothing that was good
18:25I wanted to start my family out in a place where there were no guns and no vigilante law
18:30Then you people came
18:33The town started to grow
18:36But it was still good
18:38Because right from the very start we had law and we had decency
18:42And now you
18:44You want to wipe all of this out in just one night
18:48We're doing this for your son don't you use my boy as an excuse
18:52Why you
18:53You better stay here and take it easy Max
18:59It's all right
19:01The sheriff will get me another rifle
19:03Dad don't
19:04Come on men
19:12Let's move
19:13Oh Amy
19:15Amy what have you done
19:17I'm sorry
19:18Wait
19:18I'm sorry I didn't know it would be like this
19:21There's another shotgun in the rack
19:25No thanks sheriff
19:26We might as well stand them off from in here
19:28Harry you take it from this window here
19:32Oh listen to him
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20:31Get back! I'm warning you!
20:56Get back! I'm warning you!
21:01Get back!
21:09Go on, he's shooting high!
21:11Let's get in there!
21:16I'm not shooting high next time!
21:18Why break any more doors open when you can dynamite them open?
21:24Here. You want this?
21:26Here! Here!
21:29Venamites!
21:30Get out of there!
21:31Get out of here!
21:33Get out of here!
21:37Ed!
21:40The police are overtaking.
21:42illary 안됐 hire
21:53What happened to the crowd?
22:05Where's the noise?
22:07That crowd won't collect again.
22:09Mob courage is a momentary thing.
22:10Once it's gone, it's gone for good.
22:12If they were as scared as I was, they're still running.
22:15They're near to join them.
22:19Hey, there's the leaders.
22:21If we grab them, we can tie this thing up.
22:23Hey, you, stay right where you are.
22:26Come on, Harriet, get them.
22:33Something's gone wrong.
22:35Keep your gun handy.
22:37Pull these bars out of here.
22:53You're good.
23:00Very good.
23:03That's what you paid me for.
23:05There's no coal you're mixing in this.
23:08Just collect your money and forget about it.
23:09Well, I couldn't do that.
23:11I can't collect until you walk into that courtroom.
23:13You hired me to see to it.
23:15Look, I see you get $1,000.
23:17Just walk away.
23:18Well, that wouldn't be ethical.
23:19I can't take another job until I finish this one.
23:21Don't be a fool.
23:22I won't be.
23:23Let's go around in front and wait for the sheriff.
23:26We mustn't lose heart now.
23:51Our situation, while difficult, is not impossible.
23:54Oh, shut up.
23:57Paladin?
24:02This is yours now.
24:06Let's go.
24:06You know, Mr. Paladin, nearly everyone in this town is grateful to you today.
24:15Though most of them won't admit it.
24:16I'm invening it.
24:18And with such a long face?
24:21I'm so ashamed and confused.
24:24Why did you want me to hold your pay?
24:27Because it's an honest face as well.
24:29But is it never a smiling face?
24:32Oh, Amy can smile up a storm.
24:34That time wasn't she was all smiles and giggles and fouled her all.
24:39Fouled her all, too.
24:41I deserve to be made fun of.
24:43There's the smile.
24:44And that's the prettiest face of all.
24:51Well, I hope this is a just verdict.
24:53It will be.
24:55After the trial, Holgate will climb on a horse.
24:58He'll fall off that horse while riding under a tree.
25:00His feet won't touch the ground, but the fall will break his neck all the same.
25:05The End
25:06The End
25:10THE END
25:40THE END
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