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A right-of-way dispute has turned a small town into a seething battleground for two railroads and Paladin intends to settle it one way or another
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00:00This used to be the prettiest town in Colorado. Now the gunfighters have taken it over and if you can't stop them, turn in the star.
00:30The End
00:57Only very few people today, Mr. Paladin.
01:00Oh, men say train from east that bring other papers may be a big accident.
01:05Well, that's very interesting, hey boy.
01:07Oh, thank you.
01:08You're welcome.
01:25Railroad companies clash.
01:27Big Spur, Colorado.
01:28Bloody violence has flared between the Texas, Colorado and Overland and Continental Divide railroads in a clash over right away.
01:34Gunmen hired by both factions have destroyed property and intimidated town citizens.
01:39The town of Big Spur is an armed camp and Sheriff Dave Quinn admits that he is powerless to prevent the lawlessness.
01:46Sheriff Quinn.
01:48I bought it.
01:49You should see it.
01:50Huh...
01:51Oh...
01:56Ow...
01:57Ow!
01:58Ow.
01:59Ow, ow, ow!
02:01Ow, ow.
02:03Ow.
02:12Ma'am, where is everybody?
02:24Don't answer him, Clara.
02:26Let him find out for himself.
02:35You gunmen can have this town.
02:42I don't know.
02:56Let's go.
02:57Ma'am.
03:07Hey, I like the look of that one.
03:10I'll toss her for her.
03:12I got a better idea.
03:14Just toss her for me.
03:26School's all up, so fast, honey.
03:28Hey, she's mine.
03:30Well, let's toss her.
03:40I'm sorry, miss.
03:42Go away, please.
03:56Go home.
03:58It won't bother you anymore.
04:00He wasn't the one that did it.
04:02He helped me.
04:04All right, Molly. Go on home.
04:12You're welcome.
04:16Well, Dave, your Molly grew up pretty well, didn't she?
04:20It's been a long time since Albuquerque.
04:22Yes, it has.
04:24What are you doing up this way?
04:26I'm looking for a job.
04:36On whose side?
04:38I've been in this town before, Dave.
04:40This used to be a pretty town.
04:42Nicest trees in Colorado.
04:44What are you getting at?
04:46Well, you know what I'm getting at.
04:48Gunfighters have taken over your town.
04:50Your people are leaving here every day.
04:52The ones that stay are being hurt and killed.
04:54Look at your street, Dave.
04:56Town's dying.
04:58Not much I can do.
05:00I'm not as young as I was.
05:02Then turn in the star.
05:04You know me better than that.
05:06With a little bit of help, you could save this town, Dave.
05:08Where would I get this help?
05:10From me.
05:12I owe you a favor.
05:14You got a good memory.
05:16I told you nine years ago in Albuquerque, I wouldn't forget what happened.
05:18Well, that's long past.
05:22Now, you're for hire.
05:24I can't pay a fee.
05:26I said I owe you a favor.
05:28The railroads that have taken over your town can well afford my fee.
05:34I'll let you know what I need.
05:36I'm looking for Charles Foster, General Agent of the TCNO.
05:42I'm Foster.
05:44My name is Paladin from San Francisco.
05:46What can I do for you, Paladin?
05:48I'm looking for a job.
05:50Can you use that gun?
05:52When I have to.
05:54When can you start?
05:55Well, it depends.
05:56Depends on what?
05:57I said that depends, Mr. Foster.
05:59I'm paying 25 a day in found.
06:00That's your top price?
06:01Standard for a good gun.
06:02Not enough, friend?
06:03Good day, Mr. Foster.
06:04Wait a minute.
06:05I'm looking for Charles Foster.
06:06I'm looking for Charles Foster, General Agent of the TCNO.
06:07I'm looking for Charles Foster, General Agent of the TCNO.
06:08I'm Foster.
06:09My name is Paladin from San Francisco.
06:10What can I do for you, Paladin?
06:11I'm looking for a job.
06:12Can you use that gun?
06:13I'm paying 25 a day in found.
06:15That's your top price?
06:16Standard for a good gun.
06:17Not enough, friend?
06:19Good day, Mr. Foster.
06:21Wait a minute.
06:25I asked you a question.
06:27I don't believe we've met.
06:29My name is Coe.
06:31Ralph Coe from Abilene.
06:33Oh, Mr. Coe, I've heard of you.
06:35Where are you going?
06:37Across the street to the Continental Divide Railroad.
06:40You don't care what side you gun for, do you?
06:43I do indeed.
06:44In this case, the side that pays the most.
06:46Does Mr. Coe work for $25 a day?
06:49Coe's in charge of 35 men.
06:52He's a deputy agent.
06:54A deputy agent?
06:55Well, that's an imposing title for a gunfighter.
06:58I'm well qualified for the job.
07:00I'm sure you are.
07:02There is a possibility that we could use another...
07:06I don't think so.
07:08Well, as you say.
07:12In that case, I bid you good day again, gentlemen.
07:17Do I have no clue?
07:19Could I have no clue?
07:21No, Mr. Stucke.
07:22So, let's see.
07:23Let's see.
07:25Let's see.
07:26Go.
07:27Go.
07:28Go.
07:29Go.
07:30Go.
07:31Go.
07:32Go, go, go, go.
07:37What can I do for you?
07:38Mr. Stucke?
07:39That's right.
07:40My name is Paladin.
07:41I'm looking for a job.
07:42The opposition turned you down?
07:44I saw you leaving their offices.
07:46I'm shopping, Mr. Sookie.
07:48What do you have to offer?
07:50The prevailing rate, 20...
07:58$30 a day.
08:00I'm not interested in pin money, Mr. Sookie.
08:02Do you have an opening for a deputy agent?
08:04I might have.
08:06You know what this fight's all about?
08:08I'm not interested in pin money, Mr. Sookie.
08:10You know what this fight's all about?
08:12It's for control of the transcontinental route, isn't it?
08:14Well, more specifically,
08:16for control of a rail right-of-way from this town
08:18across Raymond Gorge.
08:20Which we say the T.C. are no least to us.
08:22And they claim they didn't.
08:24And now it's deadlocked.
08:26We have the gorge, but they have the depot.
08:28And one's no good without the other.
08:30And you need a man capable of unlocking the deadlock.
08:32The depot's heavily guarded.
08:34The man in charge is Ralph Cole.
08:36You know him?
08:38We've met.
08:39Well, he's smart.
08:41Tricky, very fast with a gun.
08:43The man I hire would have to be smarter, trickier, faster.
08:48We want that depot.
08:50It's an old frontier story, isn't it, Mr. Sookie?
08:53You hire the guns to spill the blood,
08:55and you and Mr. Foster pay the bills.
08:57Say, are you here to moralize, or do you want a job?
08:59What kind of a fee would you pay?
09:01Well, you'd have to show me you're worth it, of course.
09:06I, uh, might do a thousand for a good man.
09:10But you're talking more like a preacher than...
09:12Where's the cash box?
09:14Come on.
09:15Come on.
09:20Open it.
09:30Hmm.
09:31Would you pay two thousand?
09:33All right.
09:34You're hired.
09:36I'll let you know how many men I need when I'm seeing the depot.
09:41I'll let you know how many men I need when I'm seeing the depot.
10:10Well, Mr. Cole, that's quite a delegation you've got there.
10:27They're just here to see the fun.
10:30I hear you joined up with Continental Divide.
10:33Don't push.
10:34We'll be fighting soon enough.
10:36Maybe soon enough for you isn't soon enough for me.
10:39Well, it will have to be.
10:41Foster thinks you might be tough.
10:43I want to find out.
10:45Not now.
10:46I don't think you're tough.
10:48I think you're yellow.
10:50Cole, look at it logically.
10:53I kill you, one of your men kills me.
10:56And neither one of us would have a chance to spend our deputy agent's fees, would we?
11:09You're open.
11:10In due time, Mr. Cole.
11:14Paladin!
11:19Paladin!
11:20Paladin!
11:21You're going to shoot me in the back, Mr. Cole?
11:27Paladin!
11:28You're going to shoot me in the back, Mr. Cole?
11:34Paladin!
11:35You're going to shoot me in the back, Mr. Cole!
11:36Oh!
11:37Oh!
11:38Oh!
11:39Oh!
11:40Oh!
11:41Oh!
11:42Oh!
11:43Oh!
11:44Oh!
11:45Oh!
11:46Oh!
11:47Oh!
11:48Oh!
11:49Oh!
11:50No!
11:51Oh, oh!
11:52Oh!
11:53Oh!
11:54Oh!
11:55Oh!
11:56Oh!
11:57Oh!
11:58Oh!
11:59Oh!
12:00Oh!
12:01Cole made quite a fool out of you yesterday.
12:03I don't think so, Mr. Suki.
12:05I signed down to take that depot, and that's what I mean to do.
12:08Well, I'm no longer sure you're the man for the job.
12:10Oh? Why not?
12:12I'm not paying out $2,000 to a man who walks away from guns.
12:15Suki, you hired me, and you're going to pay me,
12:18so you might as well get your money's worth.
12:20But I'll do the job in my own way.
12:22I got 20 men for you. They just got here.
12:25They're in the bar.
12:27How do you figure to do the job?
12:29First, I'll get a legal eviction order.
12:31A legal eviction?
12:32Oh.
12:34You may want it, but you won't get it.
12:36The sheriff in this town won't get involved.
12:38He's staying right on that fence.
12:40I'll get the order.
12:41Yeah.
12:42But even if you do get it,
12:44you try to serve it on coal,
12:46and you'll be carrying your head in your hands.
12:48That's what you're paying me for, Suki.
12:50Let's take a look at those men.
12:59Good morning, Dave.
13:02You find a job yet?
13:04I'm working for Suki.
13:06Too bad.
13:08I guess that puts us on opposite sides of the fence.
13:12No, it doesn't.
13:14Dave, I told you this town could be saved.
13:16Now I need something from you.
13:18What would that be?
13:20An eviction order to get Cohen's men out of that depot.
13:25An eviction order?
13:27Who's gonna serve it?
13:29I am.
13:30I've seen those men of Suki's.
13:32How far do you think you're gonna get with them against that building?
13:35Well, that's my worry.
13:37It's mine, too.
13:38There's been enough killing in this town.
13:40Dave, your main worry isn't forcing the law.
13:42Now, I've offered to help you do that.
13:44Do I get the order?
13:45I don't want to be responsible.
13:47I know you don't.
13:48That's why I've taken the responsibility.
13:55All right.
13:56I'll give you an eviction order.
13:58And you may even serve it on coal.
14:00But you'll never get out of that depot alive.
14:11Here's the eviction notice signed by the sheriff.
14:13Well, so you got Cohen off the fence, huh?
14:16Well, maybe you'll earn your fee after all, Paladin.
14:19Now, who serves the order?
14:22I do.
14:23Well, you may earn your fee, but you won't live to spend it.
14:25That's funny.
14:26It's just what the sheriff was suggesting.
14:27Now, Suki, answer me one question.
14:29How much does this fight cost in Continental Divide?
14:31That's no concern of yours.
14:33In lost passenger and freight revenue, payroll for your gunman,
14:35damaged to rolling stock and equipment, how much a day?
14:37Oh, maybe $7,000, $8,000.
14:38Why?
14:39Along with this eviction order, I want to offer Coe $10,000 to surrender the depot to you.
14:43$10,000?
14:44Less than two days of what you're paying now.
14:46Well, do you think he'd listen?
14:47Well, there's no way of knowing until he's asked.
14:49Yeah.
14:50Yeah.
14:51Well, that's not a bad notion.
14:52Not bad at all.
14:53Now, who'll make him the offer?
14:54I will, under certain conditions.
14:55Yeah.
14:56That I can assure him the deal is for cash, that it's firm, and that there'll be no haggling
14:59about the price afterwards.
15:00Agreed.
15:01All right.
15:02Let's get it done.
15:20All right.
15:21Let's get it done.
15:29What do you want, Paladin?
15:31A word with you. In private.
15:33You don't have very much in the way of brains, do you?
15:35Standing out there in the open.
15:37Will you hear what I have to say?
15:39All right.
15:41Throw your gun down.
15:43Then come on in.
15:45Slow down.
15:47Slow down.
15:49Slow down.
15:51Slow down.
15:53Slow down.
15:55Slow down.
15:57Talk.
15:59Coe, I volunteered to serve you this.
16:05Paladin?
16:07You are mad.
16:09You are mad.
16:11You are mad.
16:13You are mad.
16:15You are mad.
16:17You are mad.
16:19You are mad.
16:21You are mad.
16:23You are mad.
16:25Paladin, you amaze me.
16:27Well, you just take this and you will be a lot more amazed.
16:29Ten thousand dollars more.
16:31Ten thousand dollars.
16:33For what?
16:35Just to honor this eviction notice.
16:37Who pays me?
16:39Silky.
16:41Cash.
16:43My men.
16:45I would have to give them something.
16:47Seven or eight.
16:49Seven or eight.
16:50That's a lot of money.
16:51Seven, eight thousand.
16:52Too fair, son.
16:55All right.
16:56You got yourself a deal.
16:57Where's the money?
16:58You get it when Suki's in the depot.
17:00You know, Paladin.
17:02I think you just brought yourself out of a lot of trouble.
17:11Larry, round up the rest of the men.
17:13Fast.
17:14Come on.
17:27Carl.
17:31What's going on?
17:33I was served this.
17:34Why, it's worthless.
17:35Looks legal to me.
17:36Something stinks here, Cole.
17:37You sold out to Continental Divide.
17:38That's an eviction notice.
17:39And those are the fortunes of war, Mr. Foster.
17:41Khaligan.
17:55Salvan.
17:56I've been looking for you.
17:58Private.
18:00You don't.
18:01You don't have one.
18:03We won't make use for what's going on.
18:05Good morning.
18:06Whatever.
18:07Yeah, what are you talking about?
18:10Where's Suki?
18:11Where you sell them down together.
18:12Why?
18:13I went to his office to collect.
18:15He's gone.
18:16Moved out.
18:17Try the depot?
18:20Wait a minute.
18:21I'll go with you.
18:22He owes me my fee, too.
18:35Paladin and Coe, do you want to talk to Suki?
18:38What do you want?
18:39We want our money, Suki.
18:42What are you trying to pull, Paladin?
18:44I already gave you both yours and Coe's.
18:49You don't believe that, do you?
18:51What is this?
18:52Are you trying to cheat Coe out of his money?
18:54Don't play games with me, Suki.
18:56I want that money.
18:57I'm warning you, Paladin.
18:59Get out of here before I have Clary open fire on you.
19:09I want my money.
19:10The money!
19:11You're not as smart as I thought you were.
19:12You owe me $10,000.
19:15Use your brain.
19:16Would I have been casually walking down that boardwalk waiting for you to find me if I had your $10,000?
19:22Told you to use your brain.
19:24Do you have my money?
19:25Do you have my money?
19:26Do you have my money?
19:27Do you have my money?
19:29If you're lying to me, I'm gonna kill you one more time.
19:30Do you have my money?
19:31If you're lying to me, I'm gonna kill you one more time.
19:33I'd kill you.
19:34I'll kill you one more time.
19:35I'll kill you one more time.
19:36Use your brain.
19:38Use your brain.
19:39Would I have been casually walking down that boardwalk waiting for you to find me if I had your $10,000?
19:43Told you to use your brain!
19:44Do you have my money?
19:57If you're lying to me, I'm gonna kill you one way or the other.
20:00You gonna start that again?
20:10Cole, just how strong is that depot?
20:15And it's strong.
20:16Food and water supply?
20:17Enough for two weeks.
20:19Well, we could wait them out for...
20:23Well, Cole...
20:27We could wait for two weeks.
20:33This is mining country, isn't it?
20:35Yeah, why?
20:38Well, all we need is a little fuse and some blasting powder...
20:41...and enough muscle to move this thing.
20:45You with me?
20:47Every step of the way.
20:50Well, come on.
20:57Enough?
20:58All right, that's enough.
21:00I... I don't know about this.
21:02Well, Cole, we're not the first ones to place great store by our cannons.
21:06Napoleon had great faith in his.
21:07Yeah.
21:08When's the last time he tried to take a depot with one cannon and two men?
21:12I don't know, but if this doesn't work, we're gonna have a chance to ask him personally.
21:15All right.
21:16I got nuts, spikes, old bolts.
21:17This barrel is rusted through.
21:18It'll blow right up in our faces.
21:19Yeah!
21:20Yeah!
21:21Yeah!
21:22Yeah!
21:23Yeah!
21:24Yeah!
21:25Yeah!
21:26Yeah!
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21:44Yeah!
21:45Yeah!
21:46Yeah!
21:47Yeah!
21:48Yeah!
21:49All you men in there, listen.
21:50I got a one-minute fuse on this thing.
21:53I got A one-minute fuse on this thing.
21:54We want Suki, not you!
21:58But if he doesn't in,
21:59we'll working, we'll go away from pieces.
22:04You've got 45 seconds.
22:10We'll blow those walls down and fill that depot with blind scrap metal.
22:25Hurry, hurry, hurry!
22:27Hurry it!
22:28All right, you can have Sookie!
22:30Come on, come on and get him!
22:40Come on, come on!
22:47The key?
22:48Come on!
22:56Malin!
22:57You dirty!
22:59You cheap dirty!
23:07You sold me out!
23:09What will you do about it, Mr. Foster?
23:11Hold this, Cole.
23:12What will you do about it, huh?
23:13Turn righteously indignant and feel justified and bring your men back into this depot?
23:16Take your hands off me!
23:17You want to repeat this cycle again and again and again until this town is only fit for the likes of you?
23:23No, no, gentlemen.
23:25This argument is about a lease.
23:27And a lease is words.
23:29And what words mean can be settled by a court of law.
23:32And that's the way it's gonna be!
23:34I think I owe you one of these, Mr. Paladin.
23:40That's all you do, Mr. Cole.
23:43Your money?
23:45You're a good man.
23:46At least we had the decency to fight among ourselves.
23:49Let's go, Cole.
23:50You're good.
23:51Let's go, Cole.
23:52Let's go.
23:53Let's go.
23:54Let's go, Cole.
23:57Here, Mr. Faraday.
24:00You know I can't figure this thing out.
24:02This is the first time I've ever been on the right side, Doc.
24:05Ended up with $10,000.
24:07See you around.
24:22Mr. Paladin.
24:25Package for you just come.
24:28Okay, boy, that feels like a box of cigars.
24:37Dear Paladin, I hope these cigars don't blow up in your face like some cigars I've seen.
24:45Ten thousand thanks, your friend Ko.
24:49Lots of thanks. Ten thousand, Mr. Paladin?
24:53Each thank is worth one dollar.
24:56Put those in my room, will you?
25:02Each thank?
25:07O'nergen!
25:10We'll do it again.
25:14The
25:21знаем
25:27We're
25:29right.
25:32I'm
25:37You
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