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Empire Under Fire is a powerful action drama set in a time of rising conflict and collapsing authority. As an empire faces rebellion, betrayal, and external threats, its leaders must fight to maintain control while chaos spreads across the land. Every decision carries consequences, and survival depends on strength, loyalty, and strategy.
With intense action, dramatic tension, and classic cinematic storytelling, this film delivers a gripping tale of power, resistance, and the cost of ruling an empire.
With intense action, dramatic tension, and classic cinematic storytelling, this film delivers a gripping tale of power, resistance, and the cost of ruling an empire.
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00:01:35The old engineer loses more steam than he gets in the cylinder.
00:01:51Can't even pack a bearing. I had to do it myself.
00:01:54What are you doing? Still juggling those figures?
00:01:57I'm not juggling. Have a look. We'll make about 800 this time.
00:02:00Is that all for all the work we did?
00:02:02I don't want Daffy to carry a fleet up and down this river.
00:02:07Dan, let's sell the Betsy and get into something else.
00:02:10Well, 800 may not be much, but it's safe and sure.
00:02:13Yeah. At least we had some excitement when we owned the old Hattie T.
00:02:17Was it your idea to swap her for this?
00:02:19Yeah, but the whole setup has changed. There was a war on. A man could make some real money.
00:02:23But don't you remember?
00:02:24Oh, I remember all right. I remember getting a broadside of midships from the Union gunboat.
00:02:28Taking splinters out of my, uh, hide for two weeks.
00:02:33You got a hundred dollars for every splinter.
00:02:35That's right, and Confederate money.
00:02:37War's over, Pax. We can't start another one just because you're restless.
00:02:41Me, I like the river. Always so peaceful and quiet.
00:02:45You got a plumber in the tank. You got a plumber in the tank. You got a plumber in the tank.
00:02:56You got a plumber in the tank. You got a plumber in the tank.
00:02:58Oh, hey.
00:02:59Hey, Austin.
00:03:01Those nice tender cows, you must feed them tender.
00:03:05Say, lazy one, why those cows is not across the river, huh?
00:03:08Those ranchos, they catch us, they will hang us by the neck until they don't live some more.
00:03:12We got no time to die now, eh?
00:03:14Let's go.
00:03:15Let's go.
00:03:16Let's go.
00:03:16Let's go.
00:03:17Let's go.
00:03:18Let's go.
00:03:18Let's go.
00:03:19Let's go.
00:03:21Let's go.
00:03:21Let's go.
00:03:22Let's go.
00:03:36A fast there, runny.
00:03:37Let it be.
00:03:38Nobody cares what kind it is out here except maybe the sand, please.
00:03:41Well, I care because it's regulation.
00:03:43And if you'd ever sailed before the mast, you'd know it.
00:03:46You see going that.
00:03:47I've sailed the baby straight.
00:03:48I've pitched whole whales from Tindora to Madagascar.
00:03:51Now, sail away.
00:03:52I think I'll scuttle you.
00:03:53Now we'll do it.
00:03:55Sail away is off its course.
00:04:01Now, you undersized jellyfish.
00:04:03Repeat that to me.
00:04:04I'll never speak no more foul slander against my friend.
00:04:08He and that runny are up there fighting again.
00:04:11Hey, sail away.
00:04:13Runny.
00:04:13Runny.
00:04:13Come on, but sail away.
00:04:25We don't have to.
00:04:25Well, I don't.
00:04:27Come on.
00:04:28Beat.
00:04:28Woo.
00:04:32Off the port bow.
00:04:33The school of sea cows.
00:04:34Look.
00:04:35You ain't getting out of this.
00:04:37Say it.
00:04:38Sea cows.
00:04:39Hey, I'm going to go.
00:04:40You say it.
00:04:44Hey.
00:04:51You're close to the little river.
00:04:52Don't you know better than to block a channel?
00:04:54Sail away.
00:04:54Can't you, Mr. Sandbar, even at broad daylight?
00:04:56But it wasn't his fault.
00:04:58I've navigated the reefs of Nukaheva and a typhoon.
00:05:00I've sailed the shoals of...
00:05:02Never mind that.
00:05:02Why'd you run aground?
00:05:03All of them mossy horned sea lions pushed me here.
00:05:06You'll need a better excuse than that if you can't get it off.
00:05:08Push me astern.
00:05:09Aye, aye, sir.
00:05:10Full speed astern.
00:05:19Hepler, you up there.
00:05:20I think maybe you thought she had stuck good.
00:05:24That man at the wheel should stay awake when the river she bend.
00:05:27You blubbery knuckle joint.
00:05:35I'm sorry, my friend, but I don't like the haircut with those harpoons.
00:05:38Shut her off, Lenny.
00:05:40Now that you've shown us your fancy shooting, how about getting us off this sandbar?
00:05:45You've got us on.
00:05:46Maybe we do business.
00:05:47Maybe we do business.
00:05:47I come aboard.
00:05:50I've got an idea.
00:05:51He's got a funny notion about business.
00:05:53You're on a way to go.
00:05:54You're on a way to help.
00:05:55You're on a way to help.
00:05:58Well, Vremont bought them 30 years of floatin' and wound up high and dry on a Texas sandbag.
00:06:03You must have done your floatin' in the bathtub.
00:06:06Oh, I'll float you!
00:06:12Dominique André Hippolyte Saint-Ange, at your service.
00:06:16That's quite a collection of handles.
00:06:18There is a custom in my Louisiana. And yours?
00:06:20I'm Paxton Bryce. This is Dan Taylor, my partner.
00:06:23What's your deal?
00:06:25And I am in quick hurry. You carry my cows and I will pull it off your boat.
00:06:29Somebody after you, huh?
00:06:31Looks like they're Russell.
00:06:32Ah, that is old-fashioned. The wars here make enough cows for us all.
00:06:35What's a war got to do with it?
00:06:36Everything. The owners, they go away to fight, they stay four years,
00:06:40and these cattle travel all over Texas by himself and make plenty of little ones.
00:06:44These are what we call in French, libre comme l'air, like English, free like the air.
00:06:49They belong to no one, they got no brand.
00:06:51And finders as keepers, huh?
00:06:54Sortie more. I have a soft heart.
00:06:56I ask myself, Dominique, these poor cattle, they don't got no home,
00:06:59so I gather them together and I take them to live on my home.
00:07:02That's very kind of you. Why are you in such a hurry?
00:07:05Well, these ranchers, they want to keep all the wild cattle, so they chase me.
00:07:08Upon this sense, I am telling you the truth.
00:07:12Well, that's good enough for me. What do you say, Dan?
00:07:15I guess it's all right. The Betsy Ann gets paid for what she carries.
00:07:19Oh, I am honest man. I wish to go to Mirio Landing on the Louisiana side.
00:07:23How many cows you got?
00:07:25About $1,000.
00:07:26$1,000 a head.
00:07:27Eh bien, I will get my men started, eh?
00:07:29Tie a rope to the back of the barn. A bit, a lot.
00:07:31They're in cattle.
00:07:33It's plumb degrading, Ronnie.
00:07:34It could have been goats.
00:07:38Hey, Dominique.
00:07:39Dominique.
00:07:40I'd like to hear some more about those poor orphan cows.
00:08:00Dan, those cattle weren't a lot of money.
00:08:02All the Frenchmen had to do was pick them up.
00:08:04What's the matter, Jim? The bearing again?
00:08:06No, sir, but I just laid eyes on who we're carrying.
00:08:09That's Dominique Machard, the bullet-rated park bill.
00:08:11Machard? Well, he's the one that's turning this into Texas into a shooting gallery.
00:08:14Get below, Jim. We may need a full head of steam.
00:08:16We better get our money quick.
00:08:22Well, how about our money fair?
00:08:25Oh.
00:08:26Hi, babe.
00:08:29Later, when I get the money for the cows.
00:08:32Pay now or you don't take them off, Machard?
00:08:35Oh, Machard, so you know me, huh?
00:08:37That is of no consequence.
00:08:38Boy, where's the cows off, boy?
00:08:40I say, I'll pay later.
00:08:44Pierre, get those cows off quick.
00:08:46And keep your eyes on the American.
00:08:49Billy!
00:08:50Henry!
00:08:51Get the cattle off the boat, quick!
00:09:00Full speed ahead.
00:09:01Full speed ahead.
00:09:02Full speed ahead.
00:09:06Come on.
00:09:08Come on.
00:09:10Get the cattle off the boat!
00:09:12Oh!
00:09:13Come on!
00:09:14Come on!
00:09:15Come on!
00:09:16Come on.
00:09:17Come on.
00:09:21Come on!
00:09:22Come on!
00:09:25Come on!
00:09:26Hey, you brass dummings, why didn't you tell me something I don't know?
00:09:37Richard!
00:09:40Your cows just about pay for our trouble.
00:09:42And we never give credit.
00:09:44Eh bien, monsieur, I still own you something, but I always pay.
00:09:56Well, it looks like we're in the cattle business.
00:10:06Sooner he's handed us the money, though.
00:10:07He handed us an idea that's worth millions.
00:10:09We're way ahead.
00:10:12This whole end of Texas is full of cattle that don't belong to anybody.
00:10:15That's what increased during the war.
00:10:17We buy the land, all the cattle earn at their hours.
00:10:20Sounds like a great idea.
00:10:21It's too much for a gamble.
00:10:22Gamble?
00:10:23It's always running a blockade, but we made money, didn't we?
00:10:26Can't you see it, Dan?
00:10:27This beats any deal we've ever been in.
00:10:29We can take the money we've got, sell these cattle, and the Betsy Ann.
00:10:34We can buy land by the square mile, round up cattle by the thousands, sell them and buy more land.
00:10:39We'll have a ranch like nobody's ever seen before.
00:10:42It'll be like going in your own country, wouldn't it?
00:10:44It'll be bigger than that.
00:10:45It'll be like an empire.
00:10:48An American empire.
00:10:52Well, you're flying high, but I'll flap along with you.
00:10:54We'll get to the river before we'll go have a talk with a land agent.
00:10:58And I think we ought to drink a couple of toast to a mighty bright future, don't you?
00:11:02Worse than an Nantucko sleigh ride.
00:11:31I'll put the law on you.
00:11:34Oh, where's my customer?
00:11:37My customer!
00:11:37Hello, little fella.
00:12:02What a place to roost.
00:12:04You're the biggest prize I ever got in a grab bag.
00:12:09Is there any more in there like you?
00:12:10Isn't one victim enough?
00:12:12Or do you generally run them down with a dozen?
00:12:14Let go of my hat.
00:12:19You ain't hurt, Mama.
00:12:20I'll live.
00:12:22Hey!
00:12:22What's the same, Skimmer?
00:12:24Not on one, not on one.
00:12:25Get out of here.
00:12:27This ain't no corral.
00:12:31And you, mister,
00:12:31it will cost you a lot of money for this damage.
00:12:34All right.
00:12:35It'll cost me a lot of money.
00:12:36Here you are.
00:12:37Take that and keep the change.
00:12:38All right, boys.
00:12:39Show's all over.
00:12:40I'll see you down at the music hall.
00:12:41Hey, you got a wonderful store in here.
00:12:43Go ahead.
00:12:54Time for my luggage, too.
00:12:56I'm sorry, ma'am.
00:12:57Honest, I am.
00:12:58I mean about the whole thing.
00:12:59You ought to be fine.
00:13:01A grown man playing horseback on a cow.
00:13:04I ought to call the police.
00:13:05You'll have to call awful loud
00:13:06because we're not blessed with them out here.
00:13:09That's too bad.
00:13:10You belong in jail.
00:13:11Missy, you're tacking way off your course
00:13:14because he's the finest little skipper
00:13:16that ever tries a deck.
00:13:17Thank you, Ronnie.
00:13:19My compliments, ma'am.
00:13:21To cool you off.
00:13:25Little lady.
00:13:27My compliments.
00:13:29To hold in your temper.
00:13:30And may I compliment all.
00:13:32I've never seen finer specimens
00:13:34of Duncan Poodle.
00:13:36Ooh.
00:13:37Is she upset or something?
00:13:46Well, I've shivered and froze
00:13:48over half the Arctic Circle
00:13:50hunting these here whale bones
00:13:51so women can hold up their reputations.
00:13:54What thanks do I get?
00:13:56Reminds me of the Hattie T.
00:13:58Got the lines of her clipper
00:13:59and the dispensation of her balky bars.
00:14:02I sure hope we don't sight her again.
00:14:05Let's go back where we came from.
00:14:10Hey, Dan.
00:14:11Yo, Dan.
00:14:12What the Sam Hill?
00:14:13Where are you?
00:14:14What happened?
00:14:14I thought you were going to meet me
00:14:16after you got tied up.
00:14:16Well, something happened
00:14:17that kept me on board.
00:14:18Oh, did you miss the time?
00:14:20Yeah, sure.
00:14:20I guess you did the honors
00:14:21for both of us, huh?
00:14:22Better sleep at all.
00:14:23Oh, I don't want to go to bed.
00:14:24We're going back to the music hall.
00:14:25Hey, will you see
00:14:26the redhead I got lined up?
00:14:27Well, we'll make it
00:14:28some other night.
00:14:28What's the matter with you?
00:14:29Didn't you hear me?
00:14:30I said a redhead.
00:14:31She's even prettier
00:14:32than the one you sent
00:14:32the violence to in Galveston.
00:14:34I didn't have a girl in Galveston.
00:14:35It must have been Sailor Way.
00:14:36Sailor Way, my eye.
00:14:37It was you.
00:14:37She threw the lamp back.
00:14:38This one, she was...
00:14:39What else did the redhead do?
00:14:43What's she doing here?
00:14:45You know we don't allow
00:14:46women on board.
00:14:47She's no woman.
00:14:47This is my kid sister, Abigail.
00:14:49Abby?
00:14:50This is Paxton Brice.
00:14:51She arrived this afternoon
00:14:53and had a kind of an accident
00:14:54with a no-account drunk.
00:14:57Well, what's so funny?
00:14:59I was the accident.
00:15:01Well, she said
00:15:01that it was a low-down,
00:15:02no-good rowdy.
00:15:03I should have recognized you, Pex.
00:15:06Well, I furnished
00:15:07so much amusement.
00:15:13How does she have
00:15:14that cruise in?
00:15:15Did you send for her?
00:15:16Oh, not exactly.
00:15:16That is, I might have mentioned
00:15:17in one of my letters
00:15:18we had a lot of room on board.
00:15:19Oh, yeah, sure, sure, sure.
00:15:20And you also told her
00:15:21we're going to make her
00:15:22stop a river of her.
00:15:23Holy smoke, Dan.
00:15:24We haven't got time
00:15:25to be a couple of nursemaids.
00:15:26Now, listen, Pepperpot,
00:15:27I did send for her.
00:15:28We probably heard her feeling.
00:15:29That's too bad,
00:15:30but she can't stay.
00:15:36Poor kid,
00:15:36she's probably crying her eyes out.
00:15:38Fine reception we gave her.
00:15:40This country's no place for her.
00:15:42Well, it have to be.
00:15:43My aunt,
00:15:44who she's been living with,
00:15:45died.
00:15:45Well, naturally,
00:15:46she feels that her place
00:15:47is with me now.
00:15:48I'm very sorry,
00:15:49but our plans
00:15:50don't include kid sisters.
00:15:52She's going back east.
00:15:53Give her any excuse you like,
00:15:54but you've got to get rid of her.
00:15:56There's nothing doing.
00:15:57Now, it's up to me
00:15:57to look after her,
00:15:58and she stays.
00:16:00Look, Dan,
00:16:01you know how bossy women are.
00:16:03Before you know it,
00:16:03she'll be telling us
00:16:04what to do.
00:16:05She'll have the whole place
00:16:06upside down.
00:16:07Well, if that's all
00:16:07it's worrying you,
00:16:08forget it.
00:16:09You won't even know
00:16:09that she's around,
00:16:10and I promise you.
00:16:11All right,
00:16:12see that I don't.
00:16:30I suppose I'll have to stand
00:16:32for some of these changes
00:16:33around here,
00:16:33but the Hattie T
00:16:34stays right there.
00:16:36Sorry,
00:16:36I was just going to put up
00:16:37something I like better.
00:16:38Maybe your brother
00:16:39doesn't mind
00:16:39if you make a parlor
00:16:40out of this cabin,
00:16:41but I'd appreciate it
00:16:41if you let my team
00:16:42things alone.
00:16:43And where are the
00:16:44old curtains?
00:16:44I like them.
00:16:45Those are the old curtains.
00:16:47I just washed them.
00:16:48Would you mind telling me
00:16:49where my pipes are?
00:16:50Here they are.
00:16:51I washed them for you.
00:16:53You what?
00:16:53Don't get so excited.
00:16:55It's only soap and water.
00:16:56Only soap and water?
00:16:56I'm with my shaving brush.
00:16:59So, I wasn't even going to know
00:17:24she was on board.
00:17:25In the last two weeks,
00:17:26she's overhauled everything
00:17:27with the engine.
00:17:28Oh, summer down, Pax.
00:17:29Personally,
00:17:29I like the way
00:17:30she's fixing things.
00:17:31And don't forget
00:17:31the good meals
00:17:32she's been cooking.
00:17:33Yeah, all the comforts
00:17:34are home.
00:17:34If I had enough,
00:17:35I'm going to show
00:17:35and look at that acry.
00:17:36Hey, the man agent
00:17:37said it might make
00:17:38a good start-up
00:17:38for the ranch.
00:17:39Well, I'll go with you.
00:17:40I'd better get a couple
00:17:40of cans of beans.
00:17:41Why?
00:17:42Abby's cooked a nice
00:17:43rabbit stew.
00:17:45Hey, Salloway,
00:17:46heave to a town
00:17:46to the West Bank.
00:17:52Salloway, you and Runny
00:17:53stay behind
00:17:53and give Miss Abby
00:17:54a hand.
00:17:54This tub has turned
00:17:56into a cruddy old hen house.
00:17:57Nice meat for a one-eye deal.
00:17:58I ain't no cabin boy,
00:17:59Mr. Taylor.
00:18:00Of course you are,
00:18:01Salloway.
00:18:01And all hands will rest
00:18:02if we take a look
00:18:03at Mr. Bryce's property.
00:18:05It isn't every day
00:18:06that you can catch a glimpse
00:18:07of an empire, is it?
00:18:08No, ma'am.
00:18:09Are we ready?
00:18:18There's the boundary marker.
00:18:20The way up
00:18:20in those rolling hills
00:18:21is another marker.
00:18:22Everything in between
00:18:23is a...
00:18:23Is it the Bryce empire?
00:18:27And is that the cattle
00:18:28that go with it?
00:18:31All right, Runny,
00:18:32man your station.
00:18:33We'll put the little critter
00:18:34in dry dock.
00:18:35I'll take the bow.
00:18:36You take the stern.
00:18:45Mr. Bryce!
00:18:47Mr. Bryce!
00:18:59Oh, it doesn't look bad
00:19:00at that.
00:19:02There are a lot of things
00:19:03to consider, Pax.
00:19:04We don't know anything
00:19:05about the cattle business.
00:19:06Well, we can learn, can't we?
00:19:08Look at that.
00:19:09When I see that,
00:19:10there's only one thing
00:19:11I can think of.
00:19:12How much land can I get
00:19:13and how many cows go with it?
00:19:15You're letting your imagination
00:19:16run away with you as usual.
00:19:17If it wasn't for my imagination,
00:19:18we wouldn't have a nickel.
00:19:19Why, we wouldn't have run cotton
00:19:20and we wouldn't have...
00:19:21Well, this time you're wrong.
00:19:22I think, Dan, that...
00:19:23I know you had to come along.
00:19:24Please don't bother thinking.
00:19:26I was just going to agree
00:19:27with you, Mr. Bryce.
00:19:28Oh.
00:19:29Oh.
00:19:30You were?
00:19:31Well, that's a little different.
00:19:33Then neither are using
00:19:34any common sense.
00:19:35Who's going to buy beef
00:19:36from us in these parts
00:19:37when they can get it from them?
00:19:38They won't here,
00:19:39but they will up north
00:19:40and back east.
00:19:40But they're paying
00:19:41ten dollars a head
00:19:41in Abilene.
00:19:42And that fellow Chisholm
00:19:43proved that cattle
00:19:44can make the trip.
00:19:44That's a point.
00:19:48So why throw away
00:19:48money buying land
00:19:49when you can round up
00:19:50all the cattle you want?
00:19:51I won't always be like that.
00:19:52Someday all this land
00:19:53will be privately owned.
00:19:54Of course it will, Dan.
00:19:56The country's growing this way
00:19:57and before long
00:19:58there'll be a new way
00:19:58of betting.
00:19:59Law and order
00:20:00and property rights.
00:20:01There'll be no place
00:20:02for wild cattle hunters.
00:20:03You'll have to have
00:20:04your own range.
00:20:05And a lot of it.
00:20:06Well, Dan, we're
00:20:07two to one against it.
00:20:13So you two are pulling
00:20:14together for a change.
00:20:17Well, I know when I'm late
00:20:18we'll sell the Betsy Ann
00:20:20to that fellow in Riverford.
00:20:25Well, Abby, I guess
00:20:27I was a little bit
00:20:27wrong about you.
00:20:28It's getting to be a pleasure
00:20:30having you around here.
00:20:31It's the first nice thing
00:20:32you said to me.
00:20:34You better be careful.
00:20:34It might get to be a habit.
00:20:35You couldn't be.
00:20:36A habit is something
00:20:38you're not conscious of.
00:20:39Like that awful frown
00:20:40when you're mad?
00:20:41Well, that's self-defense.
00:20:43I'm begging you
00:20:45pardon, Skipper.
00:20:46What are we going to do now?
00:20:47You can swap that harpoon
00:20:48for a branding iron.
00:20:49We're going to work.
00:20:51A harpoon on dry land?
00:20:52Why, that's plum loony.
00:20:54I'm going to get me
00:20:55a buffalo for a pen cushion.
00:20:57I'll clean it
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00:20:59Sail away,
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00:21:02The way you can
00:21:03throw the bull.
00:21:03I'll be right back.
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00:24:43Oh, it doesn't make such a lovely way for us.
00:24:46Certainly. What do you think I got it for?
00:24:49Pretty sure of me, weren't you?
00:24:51I never heard of such conceit.
00:24:52Well, I...
00:24:53It's just a question of you. I could say no.
00:24:55But I don't see how I can resist the train.
00:24:59Give me some time to blow the man down.
00:25:03Oh, it's sailors and tinkers and tailors his men.
00:25:07Hey, hey, blow the man down.
00:25:14All right, but knowing I would have arrived sooner for our celebration.
00:25:18What do you want? Payment for your cattle?
00:25:19No, monsieur, but you have plenty of cattle now, eh?
00:25:21Yes, plenty. But they're all ours.
00:25:24Oui, oui, ours.
00:25:26Not yours. Hours.
00:25:28The old score is all settled.
00:25:30Oh, absolutely. Dominique Bouchard always stuck clean with his new partners, eh?
00:25:35Oh, what do you like?
00:25:36You use my ideas to go into business?
00:25:38Eh bien? My ideas? Your money?
00:25:40Eh? We are partners, no?
00:25:42No.
00:25:43You have no claim, not even for a single hoof or horn.
00:25:47Yeah, but I have a different view.
00:25:48Listen, Bouchard, if we catch you or anybody else taking any of our cattle,
00:25:52I'll give you a dose of stomach pills you can't digest.
00:25:56We understand each other?
00:25:57I know how you feel, but I, too, have ideas like yours.
00:26:00I have a big ranch in my Louisiana where I can be a big man of much power.
00:26:05That's your affair.
00:26:06But when you're on this side of the river, you keep your eyes peeled for our boundary markers.
00:26:09Oh, I have seen them, but I don't believe little words on pepper.
00:26:14Good evening, monsieur.
00:26:17Monsieur.
00:26:17Monsieur.
00:26:18Madame.
00:26:19Au revoir.
00:26:20Au revoir.
00:26:21Au revoir.
00:26:23He wasn't bluffing.
00:26:28We can take care of him, all right.
00:26:30Think you ought to put off the drive to Abilene?
00:26:31Not by a jug for it.
00:26:32We need all the money those cattle will bring.
00:26:34You'll have enough men to take care of Bouchard.
00:26:36Bad Relish doing it for a fact.
00:26:38Come on, Rondy, let's finish the song.
00:26:39Yeah, come on.
00:26:40Oh, sailors as tinkers and sailors as men.
00:26:44Oh, hell, it's all in that town.
00:27:00Well, so long, Tex.
00:27:01Good luck.
00:27:01Thanks, Dan.
00:27:02So long.
00:27:03Silence, Brian.
00:27:03Take care of yourself.
00:27:04Sail away.
00:27:05Yes, sail away.
00:27:06And take care of my husband.
00:27:07Mike is not here.
00:27:08Take care of me, ma'am.
00:27:11Well, come on, Rondy.
00:27:15I promise you'll be careful, darling.
00:27:17It's such a dangerous trip, and if anything happened to you, I...
00:27:20Nothing will.
00:27:21Not when I have you waiting for me.
00:27:23I'll be back by Thanksgiving.
00:27:27Goodbye, honey.
00:27:28Goodbye.
00:27:36Good night.
00:27:45Come on, son.
00:27:53Come on.
00:27:55I'll be back.
00:28:03I love you.
00:28:11Come on honey.
00:28:14For this it's a little time.
00:28:17Come on honey.
00:28:18Come on, come on.
00:28:20Come back, youamasu.
00:28:22Kill you, you're running.
00:28:23You got .
00:28:26Come back.
00:28:26AlmostEEVATU.
00:28:27Hello, Willie Gray.
00:28:28Hello, Willie Gray.
00:28:29Hello, Willie Gray.
00:28:30Hello, Willie Gray.
00:28:31Everybody all right?
00:28:32I know we'll have a real Thanksgiving show now.
00:28:35How about a piece of that good old apple pie?
00:28:37Pie's waiting.
00:28:38But don't you mess up my kitchen, because you know I know you, cowboys.
00:28:47Oh, Tex, I'm so glad you're home.
00:28:49Leave the other than I am.
00:28:51Let me get you out of the way I sold the cattle.
00:28:57I went right out and bought you the finest present they had in Abilene.
00:29:02Bring it in, sail away.
00:29:04Wait a minute, sir.
00:29:12We missed you, sail away.
00:29:14Nothing like home port, ma'am.
00:29:15What do you want?
00:29:16Put it right there.
00:29:17It's the only one in the world that had it made special.
00:29:20Well, there she be.
00:29:21Not a scratch on her hoe.
00:29:22You like it, honey?
00:29:23Like it?
00:29:24Oh, it's fit for a king.
00:29:25That's what he'll be someday.
00:29:26Oh, happy.
00:29:27He's going to make our future complete.
00:29:28Something to build for.
00:29:29What's the matter?
00:29:30Lately, I haven't been so sure of our future.
00:29:31I've been worried, Pax.
00:29:32Well, you'll get those notions right out of your head.
00:29:33We'll have the best doctor that...
00:29:34Oh, it isn't bad.
00:29:35It's Dan and the ranch.
00:29:36Oh, sure I've been raiding it ever since you left.
00:29:37Why didn't you tell me in your letters?
00:29:38I'd have come right back.
00:29:39Dan thought he could catch him, but he's managed to slip away every time.
00:29:42I guess I didn't take that hombre seriously enough.
00:29:43Where's Dan now?
00:29:44He's gone to Blue Rock Canyon.
00:29:45He put some cattle there to draw Boshard.
00:29:46Oh, Pax, I'm afraid.
00:29:47Dan may be walking into a trap himself.
00:29:48Boshard's not a trap.
00:29:49I don't know.
00:29:50I don't know.
00:29:51I don't know.
00:29:52I don't know.
00:29:53I don't know.
00:29:54I don't know.
00:29:55I don't know.
00:29:56I don't know.
00:29:57I don't know.
00:29:58But he's managed to slip away every time.
00:30:00I guess I didn't take that hombre seriously enough.
00:30:03Where's Dan now?
00:30:04He's gone to Blue Rock Canyon.
00:30:05He put some cattle there to draw Boshard.
00:30:07Oh, Pax, I'm afraid.
00:30:09Dan may be walking into a trap himself.
00:30:11Boshard seems to know if...
00:30:12If you don't stop that fretting, you won't have any appetite for that turkey dinner.
00:30:15I'll go give Dan a hand.
00:30:28Hey.
00:30:29Ronnie, hold it.
00:30:30Where'll I start moving the herd?
00:30:31You're a wise old folks to find too many cows in one place.
00:30:32For that, I am going to promise you 100 gold pieces.
00:30:33All right.
00:30:34Please.
00:30:35Please.
00:30:36All right.
00:30:37Pull up.
00:30:38All right.
00:30:39All right.
00:30:40Let him go.
00:30:41All right.
00:30:42All right.
00:30:44All right.
00:30:45All right.
00:30:46All right.
00:30:47Come on.
00:30:48All right.
00:30:49All right.
00:30:50All right.
00:30:51All right.
00:30:52All right.
00:30:53All right.
00:30:55All right.
00:30:56All right.
00:30:57All right.
00:30:58Here!
00:30:59Here!
00:31:00Here!
00:31:01Here!
00:31:02You're wrong, Dominique.
00:31:05Hey, now I know why there are so many cows with the grass is so poor.
00:31:09I smell a mice behind the woodpile someplace.
00:31:11This place is no good.
00:31:12Now we must go.
00:31:13Hello!
00:31:14Let's go!
00:31:15Please!
00:31:16Please!
00:31:17All right, Thomas.
00:31:18Hello!
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00:31:56Here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
00:32:26Here, here, here, here, here.
00:32:56Here, here, Here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
00:33:08Here, here, here, here, here, here.
00:33:11Here, here, here, here.
00:33:14Hi, Tex.
00:33:14Hi, Tex.
00:33:15Hi.
00:33:16Hi, Tex.
00:33:17Hi.
00:33:18Hi.
00:33:19jeunes.
00:33:20Well, you missed quite a ruckust.
00:33:21Yeah?
00:33:22I finally got Burchard.
00:33:24He wound up in the river.
00:33:24That's the best day's work you ever did.
00:33:25on account of Abbey.
00:33:26That's right.
00:33:27How things going, Evelyn?
00:33:28Got top prices.
00:33:29Good!
00:33:29Ha!
00:33:48Sucker, bro.
00:33:49You are hurt, huh?
00:33:50My friend, they give me something
00:33:52I will not forget too soon.
00:33:54Oh, oui.
00:33:55Take it easy, Pax.
00:34:03Abbey will be all right.
00:34:07That squeals pretty high.
00:34:08Must be a girl.
00:34:09It's got to be a boy.
00:34:10I made him a harpoon.
00:34:14Is she all right, Willie May?
00:34:15Hi.
00:34:16So is your son.
00:34:17Give me a hug.
00:34:18You all be quiet.
00:34:22Come on.
00:34:24Cigars are on me.
00:34:25Up south, boys.
00:34:33Thanks.
00:34:34How does it feel to be popped?
00:34:36I don't know.
00:34:38Uncle Dan?
00:34:39That's right.
00:34:40Lucky it wasn't a girl, Skipper.
00:34:41We'd have had a tough time raising her.
00:34:43Oh, what do you know about raising kids?
00:34:45Everything.
00:34:46I was the last in a 14-kid family, and I never did get enough to eat.
00:34:50The good thing you didn't.
00:34:54Let me tell you some of the troubles I had when I was a kid.
00:34:57And that, my mates, is how come I had the measles 14 times.
00:35:01How many times?
00:35:02Fourteen.
00:35:06Go on in, Pax.
00:35:08Meet your new boss.
00:35:08I can't tell you how much I love you.
00:35:30Beautiful, Pax.
00:35:37He has your eyes.
00:35:38Nice good old shale, isn't he?
00:35:52Yes, sir.
00:35:53Off of us.
00:35:54Nine pounds.
00:35:56Pax, Jr.
00:35:57For every one of those pounds, I'll get you 10,000 acres.
00:36:02And for every year after that, I'll double it.
00:36:07Oh.
00:36:08Oh.
00:36:08Oh.
00:36:08Oh.
00:36:09Oh.
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00:36:26Oh.
00:36:27Oh.
00:36:27Oh. Oh.
00:36:27Oh.
00:36:47Two fingers.
00:36:47Now keep your elbows stiff.
00:36:49Put your weight on your right foot and bend your knee.
00:36:54Arch your bone.
00:36:55Come on.
00:36:57No, no, Pax, get some heft into it.
00:36:59Bet you I could rope it.
00:37:00Eh, what kind of sailing talk is that?
00:37:02Ah, gee, sailor, why?
00:37:03I don't want to be a whaler.
00:37:04I'm a cowboy.
00:37:05Listen here, young fella.
00:37:07Whaling's a noble profession, and you're going to be the greatest whaler.
00:37:09Not if I have anything to say.
00:37:10Morning, Pop.
00:37:11I got a bet surely for a ride, but you're gone, though.
00:37:14I went into town to get something for you.
00:37:16My pony?
00:37:17Where is it?
00:37:18Ronnie's got him.
00:37:18Oh.
00:37:21Sailor, I don't like to be at you all the time,
00:37:25but you've got to stop spouting that kind of talk to Pax.
00:37:27Well, bless my barnacles, Mr. Bryce.
00:37:29I hate to see the lad grow into a landlubber.
00:37:31He's not going to be a footloose windjammer.
00:37:33He's going to go up to be a solid, dependable man
00:37:35that the whole country can look up to.
00:37:37Aye, aye, sir.
00:37:38And I still say he ain't cut out for no cowpoke.
00:37:45Mom!
00:37:46Mom, look, my very old pony.
00:37:47He's great, isn't he, Mom?
00:37:49Oh, I'm glad you like it.
00:37:50You haven't even noticed the saddle.
00:37:52Oh, it's wonderful.
00:37:53And just my size.
00:37:55Thanks.
00:37:56And a real lariat.
00:37:57Yep, made it special for you.
00:37:59You did?
00:37:59Thanks, Runny.
00:38:00Is it what you ordered, son?
00:38:01Oh, you're the best pop in the world.
00:38:04And you're the best mom.
00:38:06Well, off we go.
00:38:09How the stairs?
00:38:10It's just dry.
00:38:12Yahoo!
00:38:12Yahoo!
00:38:12You'll be out riding me in no time.
00:38:25Patch is awful smart, Pop.
00:38:27Chandler's easier than a sloop in a fair breeze.
00:38:30Wish you wouldn't pay quite as much attention to sail away's yarn, son.
00:38:33Oh, I listen to that I like him.
00:38:35Can I go on the next round up?
00:38:37Oh, that might be a good idea.
00:38:39It's about time you'll learn how a ranch is run.
00:38:42You just keep your eyes open and watch everything I do, because someday you're going to be the boss.
00:38:46Am I?
00:38:46If I watch you, will I be a real cattleman?
00:38:49Max, raising cattle is a mighty big job.
00:38:52It's probably the biggest job in the United States.
00:38:56You know, once Abraham Lincoln said,
00:38:58you must get beef to all the country, both north and south.
00:39:02He was talking to cattlemen like you and me.
00:39:05He left us with that responsibility, so we'll have to live up to it.
00:39:08Golly, if we're going to feed everybody, we'll have to round up a lot of steers.
00:39:12Lucky I got my new lariat.
00:39:13I wrote calves and helped ride herd.
00:39:16You always use a good hand, son.
00:39:19I guess we'd better get home.
00:39:20Want a race?
00:39:21All right, come on.
00:39:23At the end of the trail, little pal,
00:39:28when the sun disappears in the west,
00:39:34at the end of the trail, little pal,
00:39:39we will have real contentment and rest.
00:39:44If we should be parted by some trick of fate,
00:39:52wait at the old corral.
00:39:56Why don't you all go to work?
00:39:58They depend that you'll find me, old friend,
00:40:03at the end of the trail, little pal.
00:40:10These figures are impossible.
00:40:163,000 head less than last year.
00:40:18Every year your tallies have been off more each time.
00:40:20I can vouch for the figures.
00:40:22We combed every inch of the range.
00:40:23I thought at first it was drought, freezing,
00:40:29normal straying, when you consider the size of the herds we're handling.
00:40:333,000 head is too much of a leak.
00:40:35I don't like the look of it myself.
00:40:36Pop, will you fix my lariat?
00:40:38Not now, Pax.
00:40:39I'm busy.
00:40:40There's only one answer for it.
00:40:41Other ranchers are driving our cattle to market alongside of their own
00:40:44and burning out our brands.
00:40:47There's a sure way to stop it.
00:40:49Clones are arranged to everybody.
00:40:50That'll cause a peck of trouble, Mr. Bryce.
00:40:54Folks have always driven across each other's land.
00:40:56They're not going across mine anymore.
00:40:58Post no trespassing signs.
00:40:59I patrol the reins to make sure everybody understands we mean it.
00:41:02Don't you think we'd better wait till Mr. Taylor gets back from Galveston?
00:41:04I gave you your orders, Ford.
00:41:12Pop, are Mr. Crowder and his friends stealing our cattle?
00:41:14Somebody is, and we're going to put a stop to it.
00:41:20Ah, Pierre, the journey was good, eh?
00:41:27Oh, good one thousand times.
00:41:29Such fat cows.
00:41:31I should thank Mr. Bryce and Taylor for raising them for me, eh?
00:41:35Also, the saints, that they don't find out it is you who take them all these years.
00:41:39Yeah, but you forget I am a goat, was I not ground, eh?
00:41:42Something happened while you was away.
00:41:47Oui.
00:41:48Oui.
00:41:48I buy the Lemire plantation, eh?
00:41:51At St. Croix.
00:41:52You buy?
00:41:53Oui, oui.
00:41:54Well, soon you will be the most rich man in Louisiana.
00:41:57Eh, well, the most rich and the most powerful, eh?
00:41:59Well, can I help it if my good partners are so careless with their cows?
00:42:02Hmm?
00:42:02Eh?
00:42:02No, no, no.
00:42:04Howdy, Mr. Taylor.
00:42:12Hi, Mr. Taylor.
00:42:13Good boy.
00:42:14Glad to see you home again.
00:42:16Why all the artillery?
00:42:18No outside herds allowed on the range.
00:42:20Mr. Bryce has ordered.
00:42:21Some of the outfits are kind of hot, but so far they're just calling names.
00:42:34There you are.
00:42:35Now we'll run free without grabbing.
00:42:37Thanks, Pop.
00:42:38Max, what are you thinking of?
00:42:40Closing the ranch to outside cattle.
00:42:42Well, you know all Texas is open range.
00:42:44Well, it's about time it wasn't.
00:42:46A man can't raise a decent herd with every scrub bull mixing with his stock.
00:42:49Puts out feed.
00:42:50Not a man's cattle eats it.
00:42:52You can't even run steers on your own land.
00:42:53Somebody grabs them.
00:42:54Just the same, you can't go around stepping on folks.
00:42:56Well, let them keep out of my way.
00:42:58Max, you don't have to push people against the law.
00:43:00Well, if you make those ranchers drive the long way to market,
00:43:02there won't be any meat left on their cattle to sell.
00:43:05You'll force them out of business.
00:43:07This country was made for men that can stand on their own feet.
00:43:10If you want to survive, you have to fight.
00:43:12You can't be a sentimentalist.
00:43:14And you can't play lord and master.
00:43:17You forget it took the little man as well as the big one
00:43:19to make this country what it is.
00:43:21I can do without you, Lecter.
00:43:23You've gotten so puffed up with your own importance.
00:43:25Dan, please don't quarrel.
00:43:27I won't have it.
00:43:29Have it your own way.
00:43:31But remember, you can only push them so far.
00:43:32Pax, what's happened to you?
00:43:37You've changed so.
00:43:38You're hard and greedy.
00:43:41Hard and greedy?
00:43:42Because I'm fighting to keep what I have for my family?
00:43:45I'll see them and...
00:43:46Pop!
00:43:47Why is Uncle Dad so mad?
00:43:49Is it because you're turning people off our place?
00:43:51Mm-hmm.
00:43:52We can't let them keep on stealing our cattle
00:43:54when we have none left.
00:43:55So we have to keep them out, don't we?
00:43:56You bet you, Pop.
00:43:57And when I grow up, I'll help you fight them.
00:43:59Sure.
00:43:59Hush, Pax, you mustn't talk like that.
00:44:01What do you want him to be, a mollycoddle?
00:44:03Ready to fight for what's his?
00:44:05I want him to know there are two ways of putting out a hand.
00:44:08In a shake or a slap.
00:44:10You get back a hand to court him.
00:44:11Howdy.
00:44:25I'd like to see Bryce, a tailor.
00:44:30Pax, it is a mighty good notion getting this breed.
00:44:32Certainly built to pack a lot of beef.
00:44:33Look, Dad.
00:44:34She's got a pillow on her neck.
00:44:36That's a brave of bull, Pax.
00:44:38We'll cross him with our longhorns,
00:44:39and that'll give us a higher percentage of beef.
00:44:41Bryce and Taylor are sure getting highfalutin
00:44:44building a castle like this.
00:44:45I wouldn't mind being in their boots.
00:44:47Well, you could be,
00:44:48if you pushed folks off the land the way they have.
00:44:51You tried to buy me out.
00:44:52I sent them packing.
00:44:54I told Bryce he wasn't trampling on me.
00:44:58Crowder's got a lot of nerve coming here
00:45:00after running you two-hand.
00:45:01I wonder what he wants.
00:45:02I don't know.
00:45:03Howdy, boys.
00:45:04Hello, Crowder.
00:45:05Hello.
00:45:07Hello.
00:45:08We came to, uh...
00:45:11Well, Cabrima.
00:45:14Aren't Texas longhorns good enough for your outfit?
00:45:17We decided that improving our stock
00:45:19might encourage our neighbors to do likewise.
00:45:21Leading ranchers should set an example,
00:45:24or else how is the cattle industry in Texas going to grow?
00:45:26It was growing before you were born,
00:45:29and it would be growing after you're gone.
00:45:31I'll shove it along while I'm here.
00:45:33Well, my son will carry on where I leave off.
00:45:36I'm learning now, Mr. Crowder.
00:45:38I'm going to be Pop's right-hand man.
00:45:40Well, how about getting down to business?
00:45:42There's Mr. McCabe.
00:45:43He represents the Great Southwest Railroad Company.
00:45:45How do you do, sir?
00:45:46Mr. Bryce and Mr. Taylor.
00:45:47Mr. Bryce?
00:45:48How do you do?
00:45:48Mr. McCabe has a deal for you.
00:45:51Concerns every man here.
00:45:52Well, gentlemen, we might as well be comfortable.
00:45:59Sit down, gentlemen.
00:46:03Go ahead, Mr. McCabe.
00:46:07Well, gentlemen,
00:46:08our company proposes to build a line from Abilene to Riverford,
00:46:12and we're obtaining rights of way.
00:46:14So far, everyone along the route has given us permission,
00:46:18but we must have yours to complete the final link.
00:46:21Sorry, Mr. McCabe,
00:46:22but for my part,
00:46:23no railroad is going through our property.
00:46:25Well, you can't think of yourself all the time, Bryce.
00:46:29This will benefit the whole community.
00:46:31Make Riverford a great cattle center.
00:46:33Maybe.
00:46:34Maybe.
00:46:35And it'll also bring in a tidal wave of settlers.
00:46:38Before you know it,
00:46:38they'll be demanding roads, town sites.
00:46:41They'll cut up the land and the farms.
00:46:43We cattlemen will be crowded out.
00:46:44Hold on, Pax.
00:46:46Maybe we can get on without a railroad.
00:46:48But I claim some of the smaller outfits are entitled to make a decent profit, too.
00:46:53And they can by freighting their cattle to Abilene instead of driving them.
00:46:56You're right.
00:46:57The jailer's right.
00:46:58You know the cattle industry needs range.
00:46:59Enormous range.
00:47:01And a railroad will kill it.
00:47:02I say it stays out.
00:47:05You've got your sights level on the wrong target, Pax.
00:47:09I guess there's nothing I can say that'll switch them.
00:47:11Mr. Bryce,
00:47:12don't you realize you're stopping development in this territory?
00:47:16McCabe,
00:47:17it's taken years to put this ranch together.
00:47:19Years of sweat, struggle and fight.
00:47:22I'm not letting your railroad tear it down.
00:47:27I'm sorry we can't get together.
00:47:30So am I.
00:47:31Goodbye.
00:47:32Bye.
00:47:39Carter?
00:47:40Looks like our deal's off.
00:47:42None of the land's any good to us without theirs.
00:47:45Well, they're riding high now, but they won't ride on forever.
00:47:51I was a-walkin' down Paradise Street.
00:47:55Hey, hey, blow the man down.
00:47:57A pretty young damsel that I chanced to meet.
00:48:01Give me some time to blow the man down.
00:48:05Where did you get my pet bag?
00:48:06I borrowed it to shoot the flies off the patch.
00:48:09She'd wrote a tale for that purpose.
00:48:11Not on her front end.
00:48:14You don't mind, do you, Mom?
00:48:15Well, if anything should happen to it, I'll buy you another one.
00:48:18You could never replace it, darling.
00:48:20It's the first present your father ever gave me.
00:48:22Oh, I'll be careful.
00:48:24I'll put it away as soon as we get home.
00:48:25A rabbit!
00:48:27Let's chase it!
00:48:28Bryce can drive off some of the smaller outfits, but he can't stop this drive.
00:48:42Not if we all stick together.
00:48:43Still in awe, we'll be a trespassing.
00:48:45Well, how are we going to get our cows to market?
00:48:47Why'd it take a week to circle their range?
00:48:50If we don't short cut, we have to cross the river and go down through the bayous.
00:48:53We can't drive steers through mud that has no bottom.
00:48:59Asa Glennon tried to cut across dry quick.
00:49:01Bryce Taylor outpid shot 40 of his steers.
00:49:04Creased him in the shoulder.
00:49:05Well, they're clamping down on us, just like they planned all along.
00:49:08They won't be satisfied until they starve every one of us out.
00:49:11No sidewinder's going to keep me from making a living.
00:49:13Me neither.
00:49:13Just let them try to stop us.
00:49:22Sorry, Mr. Crowder, but you can't cut across Bryce Taylor range anymore.
00:49:29Well, we've been doing it right along, and we don't aim to change now.
00:49:32Mr. Bryce says different.
00:49:34Ford, you keep out of the way.
00:49:35We're coming through.
00:49:36Crowder, turn those cows.
00:49:37We don't want trouble.
00:49:38Son, you've got it.
00:49:45All right, bring them in!
00:49:46All right, bring them away from the airbag!
00:50:14Hey, stop!
00:50:15You can't come on our plane! My pops says no!
00:50:20Hello!
00:50:22Turn the pedal!
00:50:26The other way, Frank! The other way!
00:50:33Stop!
00:50:36Stop!
00:50:41Hey!
00:50:45Stop!
00:51:11I...
00:51:12...tried to...
00:51:16...keep him...
00:51:18...up, Papa...
00:51:20...like you...
00:51:23...sand...
00:51:24...back!
00:51:25Oh, no!
00:51:26Oh, no!
00:51:39Oh, no!
00:51:41Oh, no!
00:51:42Oh, no!
00:51:43Oh, no!
00:51:44Oh, no!
00:51:45Oh, no!
00:51:46Oh, no!
00:51:48Oh!
00:51:49Oh, no!
00:51:51Oh!
00:51:52Oh, no!
00:51:56There's something I want to say, Pax. I've been doing a heap of counseling.
00:52:13Oh, not now, man. I can't think. I've been going crazy.
00:52:19I can't believe he's gone. I had so many plans for him.
00:52:23How's that? He hasn't talked to me many days. He's taken it pretty hard.
00:52:30What a swine. Never wish they had. I'm not responsible. You are.
00:52:35You pinned them in a corner, drove them into going against you.
00:52:38They didn't have to kill my son. I'll keep them on this place. I'll fence the whole ranch.
00:52:43I'll put a bullet in the first one that sets foot on it.
00:52:45Then you'll do it alone.
00:52:48When we started this ranch, we wanted to make it something we'd be proud of.
00:52:51But you've turned it into a thing that wreaks some greed and depression.
00:52:57A thing that all decent people hold against.
00:53:00It's already cost the life of an innocent child.
00:53:03What's happened from the beginning?
00:53:06There'll be more killings, more bloodshed.
00:53:08And for what?
00:53:11So you can have a few more miles of range, a few more cows?
00:53:14I can't stomach your notions any longer.
00:53:16You've gone soft.
00:53:17Well, I won't stop until...
00:53:18Pax, you've done enough.
00:53:20Stay out of this, Abby.
00:53:21Now, I've had my craw full. I'm putting an end to this partnership.
00:53:24Good. I'll buy your interest. That suits me.
00:53:27Pax, listen. Hate and revenge will destroy you.
00:53:31It won't bring our son back.
00:53:32What kind of a mother are you?
00:53:34Do you want me to turn my other cheek?
00:53:36Well, I won't.
00:53:37That's not my way.
00:53:41Your way is to rule and trample with people.
00:53:44Grab for yourself at every turn.
00:53:46You taught it to Pax.
00:53:47Your very words let him just...
00:53:49It's easy enough to blame me.
00:53:51But if I had it all to do over again,
00:53:52I'd still teach him to fight for what's his.
00:53:55You Pax, you're blind and you'll stay blind.
00:53:58There's no place in your heart for love and understanding.
00:54:01I can't go on like...
00:54:03That's up to you.
00:54:17Miss your spout, you big walrus.
00:54:19But Miss Abby will need me.
00:54:21All right.
00:54:28Goodbye, Selway.
00:54:31You've been awfully kind to me.
00:54:35Thanks, ma'am.
00:54:36Things won't seem ship-shape around here without you.
00:54:41Bye.
00:54:47Abby.
00:54:55Still suddenly...
00:54:56I'm sorry, Pax.
00:54:59Terribly sorry.
00:55:02We had something fine and beautiful.
00:55:06It wasn't enough for you.
00:55:08Ready, Abby?
00:55:18I'll have the money for you as soon as possible.
00:55:20Whenever it's convenient.
00:55:22We'll be in Riverford.
00:55:24Bye, Abby.
00:55:25Goodbye.
00:55:27Goodbye.
00:55:47Mr. Pricey, Mr. Saylor, we told me to give you this.
00:55:50So you run out on me, too.
00:55:58I ain't running out on you, Mr. Pricey.
00:56:05Yes, sir, you betcha.
00:56:06I tore right into them pirates.
00:56:08I cracked them on their skulls so hard, I busted all their toes.
00:56:12Bravo, bravo, brother of me.
00:56:15Honour to meet you.
00:56:16Too honours to meet you.
00:56:17Sure.
00:56:18Why don't you stay here, Luciana, and come to work with me at the Rancho Opetila?
00:56:23No, I'm going back to the sea.
00:56:26I hate ranchers.
00:56:27They change people.
00:56:29Makes them forget to be human.
00:56:31But my boss is almost human.
00:56:33He pays well.
00:56:34He got so many cows.
00:56:36You can hardly see the grass.
00:56:39We find them in Texas by the quantities.
00:56:42I don't care where you found them.
00:56:44From now on, cows is only stakes to me.
00:56:47All right, have it to work.
00:56:48But honour me by meeting my boss.
00:56:51He like to meet men with courage like you.
00:56:54All right, we'll buy him a drink.
00:56:56All right, and we'll drink it, and we don't care.
00:56:58Sure.
00:57:05Oh, you are very.
00:57:07Hey, what's the matter?
00:57:08Are you sick?
00:57:09My liver.
00:57:10Is that your boss?
00:57:12Oui, monsieur.
00:57:13Come and meet him, William.
00:57:14I'm a meeting later.
00:57:15Come on, meet him.
00:57:16My liver's turning the tail.
00:57:17Oh, come on.
00:57:18Come on, this is quite a friend.
00:57:20I like it.
00:57:21He's gone.
00:57:23Is that right?
00:57:23One, four, seven, three, four.
00:57:26Fourteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-four.
00:57:28Check.
00:57:29Mm-hmm.
00:57:31As I can figure, Dan's share comes close to a half million dollars.
00:57:34They raise that much cash and leave us with a mighty small herd.
00:57:40Hi, Skipper!
00:57:41What are you doing here?
00:57:42You're supposed to be halfway to the Gulf.
00:57:44I was, but I ain't.
00:57:46I don't want no shore leave when there's some fighting to do.
00:57:49You're drunk.
00:57:51But just the same, my eyes and ears ain't.
00:57:53I found out where your cow's been going to.
00:57:56Yeah, where?
00:57:58Mr. Beauchard Shanghai'd him.
00:58:00Beauchard?
00:58:00Now I know you're drunk.
00:58:03Sure.
00:58:04But just the same, I saw him just as plain as haptious light in a cavern across the river.
00:58:09Where you been all this time?
00:58:12Where you been all this time?
00:58:12Where you been all this time?
00:58:14Shh, shh.
00:58:44It's a neat job of working these brands over.
00:58:49Looks like they're all wearing them.
00:58:52We'll find out a couple of them.
00:58:53We'll take them along for evidence.
00:58:59One fella out of you and I'll tie your tongue to your tail.
00:59:04Ha, ha, ha!
00:59:07Ha, ha, ha!
00:59:10Ha, ha, ha!
00:59:13Ha, ha, ha!
00:59:16Ha, ha, ha!
00:59:19Ha, ha, ha!
00:59:22Hey, what a evening we have, eh?
00:59:25Now we can dream of our sweetheart, eh?
00:59:27Well, if it is not my old friend, why don't you let me know you was coming?
00:59:45I stay home to welcome you.
00:59:46I didn't want to put you to any trouble.
00:59:48Besides, this isn't a social call, Boschard.
00:59:51In the last seven years, you've stolen 10,000 of my cattle.
00:59:55A normal increase would have raised that to about 50,000.
00:59:58That makes you owe me plenty of hard cash.
01:00:00It's what I would take my share of our partnership.
01:00:04And I keep it.
01:00:06I have men both loyal and brave, and they will not let you take my cows from my ranch.
01:00:10There's more than one way of collecting your debt.
01:00:12Ha, ha, ha!
01:00:13If you kill me, my men will shoot you before you can go in mine.
01:00:17Oh!
01:00:18What, you gay in this?
01:00:20Yes, you're right.
01:00:23I hadn't thought about that.
01:00:25But what can you do about this?
01:00:36Dominic Boschard, you've been found guilty of the charge of cattle stealing.
01:00:40The sentence of this court is that you be confined for the term of two to five years.
01:00:45That's just a vacation.
01:00:46Well, if I was skipping this here show, I'd strike him out on a yardage.
01:00:50Shh!
01:00:51Mr. Bryce, I understand you have filed suit in the Louisiana course for the value of your stolen cattle.
01:00:57In view of this verdict, you should get your money quickly.
01:01:04It's bad to lose the money, but it's better to save the neck.
01:01:06You're lucky they only tried you for stealing cattle.
01:01:09You've no cause to grin. Stand up.
01:01:13Not through with you yet.
01:01:16There's another matter.
01:01:18Bouchard, you've been a thorn in the side of law and order in Texas for over ten years.
01:01:23But the law always catches up with killers like you.
01:01:26For your raid on Clarksville, where you were responsible for the death of four persons, and on Melford, which you burned to the ground at the cost of more lives, for your attack on half a dozen ranches, the order of this court is that you be remanded to the custody of the sheriff to stand trial for murder.
01:01:45Court dismissed.
01:01:52Thanks for everything, Bouchard.
01:01:54It is too soon for thanks, monsieur. I promise you.
01:01:57You're very foxy.
01:02:10Foxy, yeah. But look, I am in here.
01:02:12That's a good one. That sure is a good one.
01:02:16What do you want?
01:02:27I have fresh clothes for monsieur Bouchard.
01:02:29All right, come in.
01:02:32Let's have a look at them.
01:02:33Oh, oui.
01:02:34Oh, they are just handkerchiefs and socks and the robe.
01:02:38That will keep him warm.
01:02:40Oh.
01:02:42The cord.
01:02:46Oh, eh.
01:02:47To tie around the middle to keep out the cold air, eh?
01:02:50All right, let him have them.
01:02:57Merci, monsieur.
01:02:58Oh, oh.
01:02:59Eh.
01:03:00Eh.
01:03:13This time I am a fox, eh?
01:03:15Bonsoir, monsieur.
01:03:23But why you are keeping away so many days?
01:03:25The police come to the ranch. We have to hide in the hills.
01:03:27And they have taken all the gold and put in the bank at the Riviera for it.
01:03:30Oh, that is most convenient.
01:03:32Eh, please.
01:03:36Well, we've been rolling east in about ten minutes.
01:03:38I suppose we'll ever get used to living there again, after all, Liz.
01:03:41Oh, sure we will, and it'll be better.
01:03:47Barbed wire, was signed to the Bryce Taylor ranch.
01:03:50Confound Pax's hide. He's just begging for trouble.
01:03:53Oh, Danny's so wrong.
01:03:55And the terrible part is he believes he's right.
01:03:59Now, will you agree that we've got to clip Bryce's wings?
01:04:02That's the cruelest contraption ever invented.
01:04:04And he's using it to fence his whole range.
01:04:06He started coming in last night, and they've carted most of it away.
01:04:09They calls it barbed wire.
01:04:11Look at them barbed wire.
01:04:12He'll tear the cattle to pieces.
01:04:13We've got to drive him out of the country before he puts up a foot up.
01:04:16Well, he's like jimson weed. He's choking us to death.
01:04:19I'm for making a necktie, soldier.
01:04:21Now you're talking.
01:04:22We'll all meet tonight at Mesquite Flats.
01:04:24Pass the word with the rest of the men.
01:04:26And get to every man in River Hood.
01:04:28Let's go. Let's go out of here.
01:04:30We'll have to get a hold of him.
01:04:32Dan will have to warn him. They'll kill him.
01:04:34I thought I'd stop loving him.
01:04:38But I haven't.
01:04:40When it comes to Pax, changing our minds is a tailor habit.
01:04:44I'll write out.
01:04:45You and Ruddy stay here at the hotel while this thing blows over.
01:04:50And they won't rest until you're swinging from a limb, Pax.
01:04:53Now, come on. Give up the idea of using barbed wire.
01:04:56I run this ranch as I see fit.
01:04:58No mob is gonna dictate to me when I'm in the right.
01:05:00You're no more in the right than you were when you accused them of rustling.
01:05:03Now, admit it. I'm pulling your horns.
01:05:06They and my son died keeping them off this place.
01:05:09And as long as I live, they're gonna stay off.
01:05:12If I have to turn Texas upside down.
01:05:14They'll pull this house apart brick by brick and...
01:05:17What do you care? It's not your property. You got your check.
01:05:20Now, go on before they show up.
01:05:23All right. I'll go.
01:05:27For 15 years I've been sticking my neck out beside yours.
01:05:31Now I'm through.
01:05:36Runny, where have you been? Dan hasn't come back yet and I'm worried. I'm going to the ranch.
01:05:43You can bet I'll get you out of here. Riverford ain't gonna be healthy.
01:05:46Why? What's happened?
01:05:47Well, nothing yet. I was down by the river and heard two Frenchy boatmen yammering.
01:05:51Bouchard and his pack of scutlers are coming in from La Cumbria.
01:05:54And they're gonna sack the town.
01:05:56There's nobody here to stop them. Crowder on these men.
01:05:58I know all about it, Cal.
01:06:00Runny and I'll try to stop them at the flat.
01:06:02We'll get all the women and children together and put them in the schoolhouse.
01:06:05Well, it looks like every man in town turned out.
01:06:08All right, men.
01:06:10Watch the horses.
01:06:20Get your rivals from Mr. Rice on the porch.
01:06:25Your ammunition's there, too.
01:06:27You got an extra six-shooter for me?
01:06:38I was hoping he'd come back.
01:06:40The fight wouldn't seem natural without the two of us in it.
01:06:42Well, that's the way I figured.
01:06:52They may have left the flats by now. You go on after them and I'll short cut to the ranch and get help.
01:06:56Oh, my eye, Skipper.
01:07:07Hey!
01:07:08That's a hat sent.
01:07:09Every man in town is gone.
01:07:11Only the old ones stayed there.
01:07:12Well, certainly.
01:07:13Those ranchers, they make Monsieur Price pay for his sins.
01:07:16And while they do, Dominique Bouchard will collect.
01:07:19Hello!
01:07:20Monte!
01:07:21We march!
01:07:22Remember!
01:07:23The ranchers in the valley belong to you!
01:07:24And I give you the town also!
01:07:25But not the bank!
01:07:26They belong to me!
01:07:27Hello!
01:07:28Hello!
01:07:29Hey, Skipper!
01:07:30It's Miss Abby!
01:07:31Over the gate!
01:07:32Over the mountain!
01:07:33Over the mountain!
01:07:34I thought I told you to stay in town until this thing goes over.
01:07:36Well, she's out like a compass.
01:07:37He's got hundreds of men.
01:07:38He's going to attack Riverford.
01:07:39Well, let him attack.
01:07:40But Pax, he'll wipe out the entire valley.
01:07:41I thought I told you to stay in town until this thing goes over.
01:07:43Well, she's out like a compass.
01:07:44He's got hundreds of men.
01:07:45He's going to attack Riverford.
01:07:46Well, let him attack.
01:07:47But Pax will wipe out the entire valley.
01:07:48Those women and children have.
01:07:49Let them take care of them, instead of using their mob rule on me.
01:08:07Well, Rani's gone after them, but I'm afraid he won't reach them in time.
01:08:13But he can't let those women and children suffer but I need to escape.
01:08:16women and children suffer pack your fight's not with them she's right packs why should i worry
01:08:21about their families they didn't worry about mine even so we've got to help while we ride to the
01:08:26rescue that pack of wolves tears my ranch apart oh no tax junior paid a big price for this place
01:08:33i'm not letting it go for a noble gesture it won't make it easier on you to bring agony on others
01:08:40in spite of what those men have done they love their families as much as we love
01:08:46would you want me to go through with me no i wouldn't
01:08:55give your hand to the old ranch house with willie may you'll be safe by then
01:09:10well dan i guess this is the end of our empire
01:09:20sure but i've got a notion you're starting to build something better
01:09:25sail away boy all you men get your horse
01:09:32oh sure it's got us outnumbered but for where he is we'll have to go through bottleneck fast
01:09:40we're a lot closer to it than he is i've got a hunch we can even up the odds all ready men
01:09:45come on keep working
01:09:56make those anchor posts good and solid men if that fire trap doesn't hold them this barricade
01:10:18you're not a trick i tell you bushard is heading to the
01:10:23you hold your shirt tail he's up in jail in sabine taylor told me so himself
01:10:27well this rabbit is just one of brice's men it's a trick to stall it is not a trick i tell you bushard is heading to go back and tell your boss we're not giving him time to get set for us
01:10:34oh
01:10:49oh
01:10:53Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
01:10:56Have the men lay low and wait for the signal.
01:11:07All right, Red, get down.
01:11:23I don't want to spoil everything.
01:11:36They start coming back out.
01:11:49Come on, Ford.
01:11:50Start plugging that gap.
01:11:59Light up, Red.
01:12:17What kind of brick is this?
01:12:19Yes.
01:12:21It's not good to play with fire.
01:12:22We go back.
01:12:23We take another way to farm.
01:12:24Hold up.
01:12:24Hold fast.
01:12:25Run.
01:12:37All right.
01:12:37Let him go.
01:12:38I'll do it.
01:12:39We will do it.
01:12:40Let's go.
01:13:10Get ready, men.
01:13:40Let's turn up the slope.
01:13:50Let's go.
01:14:20Let's go.
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01:15:13Ah!
01:15:14Hey, tell Runny about that one, will ya?
01:15:18Hey, tell Ronnie about that one, will you?
01:15:40Make it go for it!
01:15:48Put the men down, Pax.
01:15:50Look at the rocks!
01:16:00Put the men down, Pax.
01:16:04Look at the rocks!
01:16:18There.
01:16:20What are you supposed to know?
01:16:22Take the fire, huh?
01:16:24Well, let's go.
01:16:26Let's go!
01:16:42Help!
01:16:44Come on, come on, come on!
01:16:50Come on, come on!
01:16:52Come on, come on!
01:16:54Pull it!
01:17:02Pull up those rocks!
01:17:07Pull, pull the rocks!
01:17:08Pull those rocks!
01:17:09Come on, come on, pull those rocks!
01:17:10Come on, come on!
01:17:15Get her!
01:17:17Pull, pull the rocks!
01:17:22Look!
01:17:24Pull, pull!
01:17:26Keep in between the sand!
01:17:27Come on, catch a little cadets.
01:17:29Put the piano of the sea!
01:17:31This is the wire!
01:17:34Cut!
01:17:38Oh no, nothing!
01:17:39Put the ball up.
01:17:41No!
01:17:43Continue the vorne,ただ a little sua Venice.
01:17:46Don't be right!
01:17:47Sit!
01:17:49Help, come on!
01:17:50Here you go!
01:17:51Better play our ace, Pat.
01:17:54Sure, Skipper.
01:17:55Let's give it to him.
01:17:56Go ahead.
01:18:21Let's go.
01:18:51You just want to stop him?
01:19:21Hold it, men!
01:19:28Round him up!
01:19:36What's that, Sam?
01:19:37He ain't sunk, but he sure knew for dry, Doc.
01:19:40Bryce, from now on, you can string as much of that barbed wire as you want, and I'm going to help you.
01:19:46You fellas saved our families, and we won't forget it.
01:19:50I guess we've both been wrong, Trotter.
01:19:54I can't stop all the roads any more than you can stop fencing ranges.
01:19:59They're both here to stay because you both mean progress.
01:20:04Texas isn't.
01:20:06Dan, you better finish.
01:20:08Well, Pax means if we all pull together, we can make this the finest state in the union, the cattle center of the country.
01:20:15So we're letting the railroad through.
01:20:18When we put up our fences, we're going to leave.
01:20:21I need a gauge for our neighbors.
01:20:22Give me them pills, you big bunch of barnacle.
01:20:33You ain't giving these to the skipper, you little sand crab.
01:20:35Let go or I'll flatten you like a flounder.
01:20:37But the catalog says they're good for man or beast.
01:20:40Yeah, sure.
01:20:40I swallowed one this morning.
01:20:42My teeth still rattling.
01:20:42I don't dare give them to me.
01:20:44No!
01:20:44Give me a pill.
01:20:46Here's the bottle.
01:20:52Eat one pill, it'll make you tie a knot in the octopus.
01:20:55Eat them yourself.
01:20:57Here's all the medicine I'll ever need.
01:20:58Oh!
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