- 5 weeks ago
Summoned to a frontier fort, Paladin learns from a Major Wilson that the nearby Maricopas -- on whose land sits a legendary goldmine -- have recently turned hostile. Paladine agrees to escort the Major to meet Gerada, the Maricopa chief, but Wilson proves to be more interested in stealing gold than resolving differences.
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00:00The Maricopas are probably watching us right now.
00:18I can do this, or I can kill you.
00:22Either one, the Indians will understand.
00:30Oh no, it's just a few people.
00:38The Maricopas of the Tender is got huge in me.
00:44I have to show you the same.
00:49They're not huge in me.
00:50They're the same.
00:51They're the same.
00:55You have a fire patching, sir.
00:57Never saw them riding with a white man before.
01:25You can bring your Indian friends on in, mister.
01:29I'd like to see Major Wilson.
01:31And I want to see them trouble-making yava pies.
01:34Oh?
01:43Get him!
01:44That's an R!
01:47Get a patrol after him! Stay where you are, Sergeant.
01:49Why, you dirty squall...
01:51Put that gun down.
01:52You're telling me to...
01:53I'm telling you to act like a cavalry officer.
01:58You from the Inspector General?
02:00Lieutenant, unless the Army has changed considerably,
02:02War Department Order 7-104 is still on the books.
02:05And I've asked to see your commanding officer.
02:07I usually take care of his business for him, mister.
02:10Well, Lieutenant, you just met the exception.
02:13Good Major Wilson, that card.
02:16Sergeant, where's the stable area?
02:18Right in here, sir.
02:20All of my people have to shoot their way onto this post to see me?
02:33He was riding with a sneaking pair of yava pies.
02:35That's his way.
02:36I understand he can get an escort from any tribe.
02:40Yava pies, Chiricahuas, any of them.
02:42He's even ridden with Cochise himself.
02:43They like him.
02:44All right.
02:45He's a cholla bean eater.
02:46Now, it's just that attitude that's created trouble.
02:49It's no wonder our formations are being attacked.
02:52Maybe you'd like to start taking the patrols out again.
02:55Oh, it's just that attitude that's created trouble.
02:56It's no wonder our formations are being attacked.
02:58Maybe you'd like to start taking the patrols out again.
03:00I've got to do something.
03:01I'm getting complaints from headquarters.
03:02They can't afford another Indian war.
03:03This man's from West Point, too.
03:04By Godfrey, he's not a man.
03:05I've got to do something.
03:06I'm getting complaints from headquarters.
03:07They can't afford another Indian war.
03:08This man's from West Point, too.
03:09By Godfrey, he's not a man.
03:10All right.
03:11All right.
03:12He's a cholla bean eater.
03:13Now, it's just that attitude that's created trouble.
03:14It's no wonder our formations are being attacked.
03:15could you see us again?
03:16Could you think you'd like to be a prisoner of one of the firsts?
03:25I've got to do something.
03:26Getting complaints from headquarters.
03:27They can't afford another Indian war.
03:28This man's from West Point, too.
03:29By Godfrey, he's not going to think I'm one of those officers
03:32who's forgotten what he learned there.
03:34I suppose you want me to talk to them then again.
03:36You'll do more than talk, Harvey.
03:39You'll straighten them out.
03:40And that goes for you, too.
03:43That uniform of yours smells like a horse blanket.
03:45And do it quick!
03:47I don't want this man kept waiting.
04:06Ah, I'm Wilson, class of 54.
04:08Glad you got my letter.
04:10Well, I had to pass this way anyway.
04:11Ah, you're a West Pointer, too.
04:13Good.
04:14We'll get along.
04:19Lieutenant Harvey, my second-in-command.
04:22We've met.
04:24Yes, of course.
04:25I'm sorry about that little mix-up at the gate.
04:29Paladin.
04:31It's funny, I can't seem to place that name.
04:34Major, shall we get down to business?
04:36Yes, that is funny.
04:38I usually remember all the officers from around my time.
04:42I've got to make up a duty, Roster.
04:51What, Major?
04:52What's the problem?
04:53Sit down.
04:55I, um, I heard of you through Scott, the 7th Cavalry.
05:00You, uh, entertained him in San Francisco.
05:02Yeah.
05:03Well, you should have heard him talk about that.
05:06Champagne, good food, beautiful women.
05:09You can imagine what that sounded like to me out here.
05:13You know, Scott says you, uh, sometimes get as much as a thousand dollars a job.
05:18Major, let me set the record straight.
05:20I did not come here for old school gossip, to sing class songs, or to discuss personal affairs, past or present.
05:27If you have a problem, please detail it, and I'll name a price.
05:32You must be joking.
05:34In the letter, I said this concerned innocent lives.
05:37You tell me the details, Major.
05:42I'll decide the rest for myself.
05:46A thousand dollars, huh?
05:51You know what I risk my life for.
05:54Sixty-two dollars a month.
05:57Does that make you better than I am?
05:59Does that make your life worth more?
06:02You know that I've spent seven years in this hole eating dust?
06:06Seven years!
06:07Look here!
06:07This is what seven years represents to me.
06:12A stinking two hundred dollars!
06:14That's not enough for you, is it?
06:16It might be.
06:20There are some things about the Maricopa country that interest me.
06:26You, uh, you know the Maricopa tribe?
06:28No, but I've lived with the Yuma's.
06:30They're related.
06:31Well, this post was set up to keep an eye on you.
06:35Now, I've tried to be friendly.
06:37They just won't have it.
06:38Last month, two of my troopers disappeared while hunting meat.
06:41Since then, my patrols have been hit every time they enter Maricopa country.
06:45That doesn't leave me much choice.
06:47Well, I'll tell you this about it, Major.
06:51If you retaliate, you'll provoke open warfare.
06:53And if I don't, they'll think I'm weak.
06:55Either way, it'll involve innocent settlers, women, and children.
06:59There's a third way.
07:00There's a third way.
07:04You could parley with Jurada, their chief.
07:07Find out what's troubling them.
07:09Yes.
07:11But I can't go in there with troops.
07:13Now, from what I understand, you could take me there.
07:16Just the two of us.
07:18Major, have you ever heard of the Maricopa treasure?
07:20The tribal gold mine?
07:22This country's thick with stories like that.
07:24This is a huge vein of white quartz.
07:26So heavily loaded with free gold, you can dig it out with a knife.
07:30Well, I happen to be interested in other things.
07:32Human lives.
07:35And?
07:38All right.
07:40And my own career.
07:43I'll be honest with you, Paladin.
07:45I'm in trouble.
07:45I've had bad luck on my last assignments.
07:50Now, if I fail on this one,
07:51this is my last chance.
07:58All right, Major.
08:02We'll leave first thing in the morning.
08:07Oh, um,
08:08there's a full-dress retreat this afternoon.
08:12Major, I've had a look at this post.
08:13A half-hour ceremony won't impress me.
08:16I'll see you.
08:37Oh, my.
08:41Oh
09:02Hold it, it's not mistaking that
09:11Oh
09:41Let's go.
10:11I do not have a split tongue, and I talk straight.
10:35I will talk straight.
10:38Our brother suffers from the sun.
10:41He has spoken to us.
10:55I did not have a third hand for a weapon.
10:58You know our ways, but so do many enemies.
11:02It has been given into the hearts of the Yuma's to believe the words of one called Paladin,
11:06and the Pima's, and the Apatis.
11:09The whites do not want your land.
11:39Jurada said he would speak straight.
11:42The chief soldier here has had his men killed.
11:45Before, you led your men here yourself.
11:49There was no trouble then.
11:50But now the little chief leads them here with his eyes looking to other things.
11:56Lieutenant Harvey, Harvey's been taking the burden of patrols off my shoulders, perfectly within regulations.
12:05The soldier you call Harvey saw our gold in the trading store.
12:10It was a mistake for us to bring it there, but it was a mistake for the soldier called Harvey to send two others to trail us to our white blanket.
12:18The white blanket?
12:19The white quartz, the Maricopa treasure.
12:23The two soldiers you say followed your men were hunting meat.
12:27Do meat hunters kill Maricopas?
12:29Do they load gold in leather sacks and marked trails?
12:34Is this the way soldiers hunt meat?
12:36I'm for arresting Lieutenant Harvey and apologizing to Jurada.
12:40I can't go to headquarters with some story about a lost mine.
12:45They won't believe it.
12:46If the chief of the soldiers here sees it, will they believe?
12:52Of course they believe me.
12:54And you will come only to count our fires as in the past?
12:59I am only interested in doing my job.
13:02My friend can tell you that.
13:05Who of my braves will lead you?
13:07You will wear a cloth on your eyes so you cannot return to the spot.
13:12Is this the wisdom of Jurada speaking?
13:14You have said the soldiers to be trusted.
13:18Did you speak straight?
13:24I spoke straight.
13:29Yo, I.J.
13:44I sport you in the sense of dignity.
14:04I'm out of my seat.
14:07I am ok.
14:08Let's go.
14:38Oh!
14:39Oh!
14:40Oh!
14:41Oh!
14:42Oh!
14:43Oh!
14:44Oh!
15:08Oh, oh.
15:38Come on.
15:40Come on.
15:41Come on.
15:42Come on.
15:43Come on.
15:44Come on.
15:45Come on.
15:46Come on.
15:47Come on.
15:48Come on.
15:49Come on.
15:50Come on.
15:51Come on.
15:52Come on.
15:53Come on.
15:54Come on.
15:55Come on.
15:56Come on.
15:57Come on.
15:58Come on.
15:59Come on.
16:00Come on.
16:01Come on.
16:02Come on.
16:03Come on.
16:04Come on.
16:05Come on.
16:06Come on.
16:07Come on.
16:08Easy now, easy, come on, come on, come on, easy, come on, easy, come on, come on.
16:38Back. Back. Back. Back. Back. Back.
16:58Come back.
17:08Whoa now, whoa.
17:12Easy.
17:17Come over here.
17:58Paladin, is that you?
18:19I thought you were an Apache.
18:22Come on out.
18:23It's all right.
18:24This is Major Wilson.
18:26Paladin, it was a mistake.
18:29I put my gun away.
18:31I'd call that a lie.
18:34I'll take the carbine.
18:36Sure.
18:37I certainly don't need it against a friend.
18:40You left me there to die, Wilson.
18:43I didn't want to.
18:45It was a trap.
18:46I was attacked by those two Indians.
18:49I was riding to Gila Bend for help.
18:51You don't think I'd desert you, do you?
18:55You've got a couple of pretty heavy buckskin bags on that horse.
19:00Look, Paladin, we rode for three hours, mostly upgrade.
19:04I could tell they were circling, doubling back on their trail.
19:07All total, we probably didn't go more than five miles.
19:10Then they took the bandages off.
19:12We were in a box canyon, up high, almost to the timberline.
19:15Have you ever seen gold?
19:18Not an ore, but natural, as pure and as yellow as in a coin.
19:23Bits of it, flakes, nuggets, all sizes and shapes.
19:27Those bags were filled by the two troopers just before they were killed.
19:30I got the Maricopas to show me just what happened.
19:32And when they turned their backs, I...
19:34You told me the Maricopas attacked you.
19:36Paladin, can't you understand what I'm saying?
19:38We're rich.
19:39You're my partner.
19:41This isn't West Point, Paladin.
19:44Do you have this in mind from the start?
19:47But what are we arguing about?
19:49There's a fortune in those bags, and I know the way back for more.
19:52Gold, Paladin.
19:53Isn't that word enough for you?
19:55If the Maricopas find us, I hope they'll believe it was your idea to kill those guys.
20:00But the sight of it, just lying there, a year's salary in every handful.
20:05Paladin.
20:08You can't afford to kill me.
20:10I know the location to the treasure.
20:12We're right in the Maricopas' backyard, Wilson.
20:15They're probably watching us right now.
20:19Look, Paladin.
20:20What good is gold to a dead man?
20:22Look, Paladin, will you?
20:24Look, just let me ride out of here.
20:29What are you doing, man?
20:32This is an advance payment to get us out of here.
20:34Wilson, gold is only worth one thing to me, and that's to buy what I need most.
20:37In this case, it's my life.
20:39Paladin, listen.
20:41Wilson, I can kill you, or I can do this.
20:44Either one of the Maricopas will understand.
20:50Look, Paladin.
20:52You don't know this.
20:53I risked my life for that stuff.
20:54You risked my life for it.
20:58No.
20:59That's mine.
21:00Paladin, that's mine.
21:02That's mine.
21:04That's...
21:05Wilson.
21:10It's mine.
21:12Wilson, let the...
21:12It's mine.
21:13Let the gold go, Wilson.
21:14Oh, it's mine.
21:15It's heavy.
21:16I can't hold you.
21:18Let it go.
21:19It's my gold.
21:21No, I won't let it go.
21:23It's my gold.
21:24It's my gold.
21:25I can't hold you, Wilson.
21:28It's my gold.
21:30Let it go.
21:31Let it go.
21:31Let it go.
21:33Let it go.
21:34Let it go.
21:35Let it go.
21:36Let it go.
21:36Let it go.
21:37Let it go.
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21:38Let it go.
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21:48Let it go.
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21:50Let it go.
21:50Let it go.
21:51Let it go.
21:51Let it go.
21:52Let it go.
21:52Let it go.
22:03the one who is called paladin has no use for the yellow metal all white men have great need for
22:28gold gerada but i have returned this to the mountain it was not mine to take
22:32you speak straight when you say this i speak straight the dead soldier he did not tell you
22:38where to find the white blanket of the maricopas he told me it was in a box canyon above the timberline
22:43no more i have no wish to kill a friend of the humas the pimas and the opatas but the brother
22:50of my wife is dead already from one lie
22:53the others with me fear that gold will split even the tongue of the man called paladin
23:03i have spoken true
23:07siritan
23:37Giscano!
24:07I report to the Inspector General will state that Wilson was accidentally killed while negotiating with the Maricopas.
24:19But in my opinion, no action is warranted against this tribe.
24:22Well, that about covers the situation, Colonel.
24:25Lieutenant Harvey has some story about a gold mine being at the bottom of all the trouble around here.
24:30Well, these territories are full of stories about lost gold mines, Colonel. Do you think any of them are true?
24:35It'll be at least 20 years before Harvey has a chance to find out.
24:39We have a dozen complaints against him, including theft of post funds.
24:43Thank heavens Major Wilson was at least honest, if nothing else.
24:48We'll hope to see you in our territory again.
24:50Oh, I may get back here again one day.
24:53If the Indians are ever relocated, I'd like very much to do some hunting in these mountains.
25:05Thanks, Sergeant. Colonel.
25:07Thanks, Sergeant. Colonel.
25:35There.
25:37Here.
25:38Happy señ 나서.
25:42Ooooh.
25:46You're welcome, Jamie.
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