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Paladin again assists his friend Phyllis Thackeray, M.D., when impatience and panic threaten to generate a smallpox epidemic.
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00:00I want to see Phyllis Thackeray and I want to see her now and if she's been
00:19harmed in any way you two men can toss coins to see which one I gunned down
00:23first
00:53I'll give you one thousand dollars now and you promise to accept this job one
00:56thousand later when you complete it I spent two thousand a year on cigars
01:00Mr. Laird three thousand that's the very best I can do you propose to ship half a
01:07million in gold bullion from your bank in Phoenix why don't you get in touch with
01:10an express company four you said yourself it was a simple job and I'll
01:16discuss doing it for ten thousand dollars that's out of the question good
01:20all right Mr. Laird I'll have to consult with my partners I'll stop by to see
01:27you tomorrow that's fine if I'm still in town well you're not negotiating with
01:31other parties are you who knows Mr. Laird I could be by tomorrow
01:50Mr. Laird I know who it is let's get him in the house and send Charlie for that woman
02:15doctor too bad dr. Tain ain't back from Laramie yet near as I can make out he's
02:24had this fever for about a week I guess when he got so sick he couldn't pour the
02:28soup Fred sent him home it was out in the roundup doing the cooking for the
02:31hands a cook he could have infected all your men infected what do you mean this man
02:42has smallpox smallpox get him off the ranch get a buckboard and get him to town oh you
02:49can't take him anywhere else he'll infect others that's no concern of mine get him
02:54off this ranch mr. Barton that man has to stay right here lady don't you give me
02:59orders carry him out he must stay here now look there's a supply of vaccine at
03:05Fort Landis if we send a telegraph right away that vaccine could be here within five
03:09days don't just stand there do as I say there's something the doctor knows more
03:14about we do Tom I said carry him out leave him alone I mean it you're the wrong
03:24sex to be handling a gun you touch him and you'll get smallpox for sure
03:32you won't need that with me I couldn't have pulled the trigger anyway yeah Pa had you sized
03:44up that way look somebody has to send the telegram for the vaccine all right I'll do that well that's
03:51just part of the trouble the roundup's about over the men will be back in a couple of days well
03:56that's good now we can keep them here till the vaccine arrives you don't understand they've been
04:01working six months without a break I want to get to Stockton so bad nothing else gonna hold them
04:05here they got six months pay coming they'll stay when they understand about the smallpox
04:10they'll run like rabbits but they have to stay until they're vaccinated at the point of a gun if
04:16necessary I'm not very good with a gun I know someone who is there's his card
04:27Mr. Paladin Carlton Hotel San Francisco need you urgently Barton Ranch Three Rivers California
04:41Phyllis Thackeray good morning Mr. Paladin hello Mr. Laird well I'm prepared to meet your terms in full
04:48now 10,000 you said I'm sorry I've had a better offer a better offer how much Mr. Laird this offer
04:57has nothing to do with money bye sir
05:11my name is Paladin where's Dr. Thackeray my son told me he sent you a telegram that was a mistake
05:38go back to San Francisco now who are you this is mr. Barton my father he owns this ranch I'm Tom
05:46Barton I'm looking for Dr. Thackeray where is she I want you off my place where talk to me mister I'm
05:52the man around here all right I want to see Dr. Thackeray and I want to see her right now if
05:56there's anything wrong if she's been harmed or impeded in any way you two men can toss coins to see
06:02which one I take apart first now you wait a minute that's just how long I'll wait one minute for you to
06:06show me that girl you walk into my house and threaten me there's no need to make a fuss
06:10Pa he just wants to see the doctor that's your way isn't it Tom back away from anything tougher than a
06:16steak fall down and play dead when the man tells you to that's not true Pa I just don't believe in
06:23fighting when there's no fight called for or any other time this man's trespassing now if you'd like
06:29to do something useful for a change throw him off this ranch that's your minute mister I can't wait
06:35for you to prove things to your father's satisfaction where's the doctor where
06:39oh come in you better bolt the door
06:57he's very sick and it's contagious you all right yes I was vaccinated two years ago back east
07:10what's he got smallpox I know I should have said something in my telegram you afraid I wouldn't
07:19come running would you have I didn't have anything important to do size I've been vaccinated I should
07:26have known just how long have you been here alone since last night my patient has a lot of friends
07:40I've had a hard time keeping him away you do take half a spoon of sugar don't you oh you remember
07:47many things your patient's friends don't know he has smallpox thank you no we've got to keep it a
08:00secret until the vaccine gets here when will that be about three more days they're sending some over
08:05from Fort Landis and that's not why you sent for me no I sent for you because Fred Cooley the range
08:14boss is something of a gunman he'll be back tomorrow with the men they've got to be kept here
08:19they're not going to want to stay and you want me to keep them here you have to say what you put in
08:27this sugar or sleeping powder oh you stay there no I can't he's nearing the crisis you're not going to be
08:35much help to him when the crisis comes if you're asleep on your feet all right I'll lie down for 20
08:42minutes then
08:43give him a water if he asks for it and better wake me if he gets more feverish I'll wake you
08:56by the way hello it's all right I told you I've been vaccinated
09:02have you what been vaccinated
09:10mm-hmm when when were you vaccinated right after the war
09:23oh that's all right then
09:27wait a minute maybe it isn't that was years ago
09:32oh
09:45oh
09:58oh
10:00oh
10:02oh
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10:06oh
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10:25oh
10:27oh
10:29I'll go down to the bunkhouse with the other boys see the get ready you're making so much noise a man can't hear himself talk you better come on the house Fred we've got to have a little talk for you go anywhere I sure thing soon as I get things put right
10:37We've got to have a little talk before you go anywhere.
10:39I sure think, as soon as I get things put right.
10:42Why don't you get our pay ready, meanwhile?
10:57How is he?
10:58He's more fevers.
11:00Yes, I think you're right.
11:02Is this the crisis?
11:03In the next few hours.
11:05Look, you'd better warn the Bartons.
11:07If he dies, there'll be no way of concealing the cause of death.
11:11Everybody on this ranch will stampede in all directions.
11:15Do you think you can stop them?
11:32Nate's at the crisis.
11:33Could go either way.
11:35Cooley and the men are back.
11:36I heard them.
11:37You're not going to be able to handle those men.
11:39I don't want to handle them.
11:41They work for you.
11:42Now, which of you two men is going to give the orders to keep them here?
11:45I didn't ask for this fuss.
11:46They're free to go, as far as I'm concerned.
11:48Tom?
11:49Well, waste of breath talking to Fred Cooley.
11:51He'll do what he wants.
11:53No, he won't.
11:54He'll do what he's made to do.
11:56Well, can't you?
11:58Handle it for you?
11:59Sure, I could.
12:00Be noisy.
12:02Guns are noisy.
12:03Don't you think you might try to talk first?
12:06Fred won't listen to me.
12:07I don't want this crew shot up.
12:09Tom, you brought him in against my orders.
12:11You tried to handle this your way.
12:13All right.
12:14I want to see you finish it.
12:17Someday this will be your son's ranch, one of them.
12:18He ought to be running it now.
12:22Tom, sooner or later, whoever is former of this ranch is going to be taking orders from you.
12:26And nobody's going to stand next to you all your life with a gun to make your orders stick.
12:30Yeah.
12:32I guess you're right.
12:35Tom.
12:38You're going to have to keep these men here without telling them it's because Nate has smallpox.
12:56Tom's been gone long enough.
13:07Could be he swung Fred coolly into line.
13:10And he and Fred are bringing the rest of the men around.
13:13Yeah.
13:14That could be what's taking the time.
13:17If he wasn't such a weakling.
13:19Is he such a weakling?
13:21You've seen him.
13:22He'll take it from anybody.
13:24He's always been that way and always will be.
13:27He gets it from his mother, rest or so.
13:29No, I'd say he gets it from you.
13:31You're a loudmouthed bully.
13:35Yes, you are.
13:37It's all talk.
13:38Vicious, cutting kind of talk that probably held that boy down.
13:42Gave him the idea he never could win, so he never tried.
13:44All I ever tried to do was make a man out of him.
13:47No, you're scared to death he might really become a man.
13:50Then you'd become the little man around here.
13:52That's enough.
13:53I don't have to explain to you how I feel about my son.
13:57Oh, am I mistaken?
13:59Would you really like that boy to kick your teeth in?
14:01I'd crack his skull if he did.
14:05I'd love him if he tried.
14:06Well, for all our sakes, I hope you get your wish.
14:18I don't think we ought to make him apologize.
14:29All right, Steve, I'll talk.
14:31I know what the fellas are after.
14:32I'm going to get it for them, just like I always do.
14:34Wait a minute.
14:36You're going to apologize first.
14:38Now, Steve, you just simmer down.
14:42Uh, Mr. Barton, uh, Steve Pauley here thinks Tom was serious about us not taking the cattle out on the trail of Stockton this morning.
14:50I said old Tom was just funnin' with us.
14:54Now, which one of us is right, Mr. Barton?
14:57Me or Steve?
14:59I'd rather you didn't leave this morning.
15:01Uh, when then?
15:04I'll let you know.
15:06I believe you just got to turn around the other way, Mr. Barton.
15:08We're lettin' you know.
15:10We're movin' out this morning with or without your beef.
15:14That's the way you men want it?
15:15That's right.
15:16That's the way it's gonna be, then.
15:20I don't know what's goin' on around here, but it's somethin' I don't like.
15:24You're breakin' a promise to your men now.
15:26There's a strong box in your study, Mr. Barton.
15:30Just open it up and get our money out.
15:32We're gonna ride it, son-up.
15:33You're talkin' to me now, Fred, not my son.
15:37Well, I know who I'm talkin' to, all right.
15:39Now, I'm tellin' you, I think there's somethin' funny goin' on here.
15:43But, with all respect, Mr. Barton, either you open that safe...
15:47...or we're gonna break it open.
15:50Mm-mm.
15:51No, you don't go in the house.
16:00Oh, you, uh...
16:02Do you work here, Mr...
16:04Paladin.
16:04I'm just helping a friend.
16:07You got a specialty?
16:09I use a little of everything.
16:11But, in the end, it comes down to that.
16:16If there are no alternatives.
16:18All right.
16:21Sun-up's in an hour.
16:23It's gonna take me about an hour to get my gear gathered together...
16:25...and get back here and get my pay.
16:28I'm ridin' out.
16:31Don't try to stop me.
16:33Your choice.
16:35I'd prefer to avoid violence.
16:37You hear that, Fred?
16:38He's a professional gunfighter, from the look of him...
16:40...and he prefers to avoid violence.
16:44Here's a professional gunfighter, from the look of him...
16:46...and he prefers to avoid violence.
16:50Well, I'm not gonna let you.
16:56All right, Steve, cut it out, and I won't cut it out.
16:59You know somethin', Paladin?
17:00I don't figure to wait until sun-up.
17:07Now!
17:18I'll be back.
17:19I'll be back.
17:42Anything else I can do for him?
17:43I'll be back.
17:43Come on.
17:53I'll be back.
17:53I'll be back.
17:55Still too fast.
17:57A little steadier, though.
17:59The fever's no better, though.
18:01What, Quinan?
18:02No, not for a little while.
18:05Is there anything more I can do for you?
18:07Is there anything more I can do for you?
18:09Yes.
18:12Talk to me.
18:13Keep me awake.
18:14Talk to you?
18:15Just like that?
18:17It's not that easy.
18:19Well, you've never had any trouble finding the right words.
18:22It's easy enough to talk.
18:24To find the right words, the common words that men exchange with women.
18:29But you and I have grown too close for that.
18:32That's a frightening thought.
18:33It is, because we're the kind of people we are.
18:39We're neither one of us ready for marriage, are we?
18:43Well, you're certainly keeping me awake.
18:46You have to go on with your work.
18:48It's important to you, and it's important to the people who need you.
18:52And you have to go on with your work, because you're the kind of a man you are.
18:57I did hear a rumor once that people can change.
19:01Do you believe that?
19:03Yes, if they're ready to change.
19:07And we're not ready to change.
19:10I'm confused.
19:12Have you been proposing to me?
19:15No.
19:17No, I've been explaining why I haven't proposed.
19:20Well, that's very flattering.
19:22I'm sure there aren't many women to whom you'd feel it was necessary to explain why you weren't proposing.
19:30This is the first time.
19:36Oh, be quiet, or I'll wring your neck.
19:39And that won't stop the sun from rising.
19:41I'll have an appointment at sunrise.
19:43I'll have an appointment at sunrise.
19:44Doctor.
19:52I think he's better.
19:54I think he's going to live.
19:55Perhaps that's a good homin.
20:00Phyllis.
20:00We understand each other.
20:05We both want it this way.
20:22Do you have any cold water around here?
20:24Room down the hall.
20:25There's the basin.
20:38Maybe Fred won't show up.
20:40You know him better than that.
20:41He's got six months' wages owed him.
20:43He's not going to write off without it.
20:45We're a fine pair.
20:47Letting an outsider do our job.
20:56It's time.
20:58Now, where's your gunman?
20:59He'll be here.
21:04Well, as long as we've got to wait, you might as well open that safe.
21:08We're going to want to pay.
21:10I told you not to talk to me like that, Fred.
21:15All right, come on.
21:15Take your hands off him.
21:22Come on, let's go.
21:26Oh, look here.
21:27You can't come in here.
21:28That door should have been bolted.
21:29You're the one they kept locked up.
21:31I heard there was a woman doctor around here.
21:33Are you the one that started it all?
21:34Will you please get out of here?
21:36Ever since you've come here, nobody leaves the spread.
21:38Now, why?
21:38Because it's necessary.
21:40Some do with Nate, ain't it?
21:42What's the matter with him?
21:43He's been very ill.
21:46How you feeling, Nate?
21:48The boy's out here.
21:51Nate!
21:51Yes, it's smallpox.
21:57Smallpox?
21:57Now, listen, there's some vaccine on the way.
21:59It's a kind of a, well, kind of a medicine.
22:01I'm going to vaccinate all of you.
22:02Well, you're loco.
22:02I'm good enough.
22:03Don't you see?
22:03It's the only way to protect you.
22:05Don't you understand?
22:06Fred!
22:06Oh, now, please, listen to me.
22:07Ow!
22:08Who did this to her?
22:26Who?
22:26Fred didn't know what he was doing.
22:28He was out of his mind with fear.
22:32Paladin!
22:38Don't kill him.
23:03I'm all right.
23:04He didn't hurt me.
23:08Look, I'm going to kill him.
23:09I'm going to kill him.
23:10Oh, come on.
23:11No more, paladin.
23:17Not this way.
23:18Please!
23:20I'll put a bullet in you if I have to.
23:23I won't stand by.
23:24This is my ranch.
23:25I'm responsible for Fred, and for you, and for everyone here.
23:29Can't you hear me?
23:31Paladin, I'm all right.
23:32He didn't hurt me.
23:33Look, I'm perfectly all right.
23:38You'll leave Fred to me now?
23:41Hmm?
23:42I said you won't touch Fred again.
23:45I'll handle him.
23:47Well, that's right.
23:48You run this place, don't you?
23:59Come on, Fred.
24:03I've got the hands lined up outside.
24:20They don't know quite what to expect, but Tom's holding him there.
24:22Good.
24:23Well, you better bring him in one by one.
24:29All right, Tom.
24:30Come on, start a minute.
24:32You first, Fred.
24:34I'll leave it.
24:35Oh, no, you're not.
24:37What are you whelps afraid of?
24:43Would you, uh, step over here, please, Mr. Barton?
24:46What's the matter, Mr. Barton?
24:59A gun will travel reach the cart of a man
25:10A knight without armor in a savage land
25:17His vast gun for hire heats the calling wind
25:23A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin
25:32Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
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