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Attempting to perform a good deed, Paladin becomes the patsy in a murder trial situated in a provincial mining camp where local justice is little more than entertainment.
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03:18Oh, does this one always win?
03:25Yeah, it's the first time in three weeks.
03:37Howdy, stranger.
03:40Howdy.
03:42I'm Judge Weston.
03:44Judge?
03:44That horse. I'd like to buy him.
03:49Well, aren't there any horses around here?
03:51Oh, cop over. The Indians steal him as fast as somebody rides him in.
03:55I'd give you a price and a half for him.
03:57Sorry, no thanks.
03:58Is there a Circle J Ranch anywhere around here?
04:01Not that I know of.
04:03Unless, of course, old Circle Jibes wanted to call his claim a ranch.
04:06Just a couple hundred yards square.
04:08Circle Jibes?
04:11I didn't name him.
04:12Well, is he in town?
04:15Yeah.
04:20And can you tell me how far it is to Boraska Bent?
04:24Come over here.
04:25Come over here.
04:26I reckon you're standing right in a geographical dead center of it.
04:46Well, this is quite a city.
04:49No, no, this is only a town.
04:51Nearest city is Juniper, 13 miles north.
04:53Now, there they've got a bank and they've got a store and they've got a bar with a mirror in it.
04:57Now, if you'll just tell me where I can find Circle Jibes.
04:59He's right in the saloon.
05:02The saloon?
05:04Right there.
05:07I want to talk to him.
05:08Well, nothing's to stop you from doing that.
05:10He's dead.
05:27We noticed that.
05:29Is he a friend of yours?
05:32No.
05:32No, he isn't.
05:37Well, he must have had a pretty good claim.
05:39Now, what makes you say that?
05:42Well, he just made an observation.
05:44You didn't know him.
05:44You knew he had a good claim.
05:45How?
05:48It's perfectly simple.
05:49I can explain.
05:50Anybody recognize this?
05:51Mine.
05:54Landed to him last week.
05:56You better get your hands up.
05:57Swede, watch out his saddleback.
06:07Yeah, kid.
06:09Now, wait a minute.
06:09I can explain this.
06:10Do you want to confess?
06:12I've got nothing to confess.
06:13Then why did you bolt?
06:14Yeah.
06:16$4,000 here in dust.
06:18That's a good motive.
06:19Search him.
06:19Let me see that.
06:21There, if that circle's all right.
06:23Search him, Jackson.
06:24Now, wait a minute.
06:25I told you I can explain this.
06:27All in good time.
06:28Well, what are we waiting for?
06:30Let's get on with the trial.
06:31The trial?
06:32There's nothing else on him.
06:34You go ahead with the trial, and I'll get the rope.
06:45Hear ye, hee, the court will now come to order.
06:48Hang him.
06:49I said hear ye.
06:50That means listen.
06:51Now, you be still.
06:53Now, then.
06:56Everybody.
06:57And this side of the line, you be the jury.
07:01You, spectators, you be choir, I'll clear the court.
07:06Now, Patterson, you're the bailiff.
07:08Swear him in.
07:12Justice is fairly summary around here.
07:14Well, it's got to be.
07:15We've got no jail.
07:16I'd like to see your authority for jurisdiction.
07:19Right here.
07:20I've got it, and you ain't.
07:22Now, you know that that jury is prejudiced.
07:29Now, last month when Red Stanley was killed, we didn't think nothing of it.
07:33Well, in the last couple days since you killed Circle Jive, everybody around here has been sleeping with one eye open.
07:37Last month.
07:41Last month, I was in Santa Barbara.
07:43Can you prove it?
07:44If I have some time.
07:45Ten minutes enough?
07:50Certainly not.
07:51Oh, that's too bad.
07:53Swear him in.
07:53Well, anyway, we can get a conviction just trying you for Circle Jive's.
07:56This is a travesty.
07:59Now, we don't have any of those criminals around here.
08:00This is not a walnut bench, and I don't have a big flag behind me.
08:04If you're found guilty, ain't gonna be no fancy gallows.
08:07We'll just string you up from the limb of a tree.
08:09But I'm gonna tell you something.
08:11You'll be just as dead and just as harmless as if you've been tried by the Supreme Court.
08:14Now, swear him in.
08:18Do you swear to tell the truth?
08:21Now, wait a minute.
08:22Where's the Bible?
08:22You can't swear him in without a Bible.
08:26Now, look here.
08:31You gonna tell the truth?
08:33I am.
08:34I think he's lying.
08:40Now, supposing you give us your version of what led up to the murder?
08:45So an Indian ran off, and you didn't chase him, eh?
08:48No, I didn't.
08:49I backtracked him to Circle Jive's place, and then I rode on in here.
08:54I thought Jive's would rather have his gold back than have me chasing somebody off into Indian territory.
09:00You were gonna give it back.
09:02Yeah, I was.
09:03I was!
09:04Well, that's the funny thing, because you didn't mention it before I caught you.
09:07I didn't have a chance.
09:08If I did it, how do you account for the fact that I didn't have any of his other things?
09:15Now you've trapped yourself.
09:16If you didn't do it, how'd you know there was something else missing, eh?
09:19A circle had a diamond ring.
09:21And a gold watch, a derringer, and a rifle, wallet.
09:24None of them found in his camp.
09:26I saw the Indian pick up a lot of things.
09:31Would I keep a 20-cent bandana and throw away a gold watch and a diamond ring?
09:37That's a logical point.
09:39Yeah, we're not interested in logic.
09:41What we want is justice.
09:42Yeah.
09:43Well, you'll come to order.
09:45For I'll declare a mistrial, and there won't be no hanging.
09:48If an Indian killed old Jive's, why didn't he scalp it?
09:52There are no scalping Indians here.
09:55No.
09:56Nor killing tribes, neither.
09:57Only thieves.
10:01I say let's hang him.
10:03And I say you be quiet, or I'll hold you in contempt.
10:05And in my court, that's a hanging offense.
10:11Would I kill a man, rob him,
10:14take a poke with his name on it,
10:17and then ride into this town looking for him?
10:21Well, I'm beginning to think this murderer might be innocent.
10:25Now, you jurors, stop talking.
10:29Now, we're going to hang this man legal,
10:31or we're not going to hang him at all.
10:37Now, it's where the evidence.
10:39Circle Jive's is dead, and you've got his poke.
10:42Any more incriminating evidence?
10:45I told you exactly what happened.
10:48The Indian.
10:49Well, we don't have an Indian, but we do have you.
10:51Oh, it's true, they do steal,
10:53and we do string one up once in a while on a quiet weekend.
10:56Like this one.
10:57Oh, now, don't go getting mad before we convict you.
11:00Look, I'm not saying you can't hang me.
11:03I know you can.
11:05The law is only enough people to enforce it,
11:08but I'll tell you one thing.
11:10Woo!
11:10Hey!
11:11Hey!
11:11Hey!
11:16Yahoo!
11:17Woo!
11:18Yahoo!
11:18Hey, there's a woman up, Juniper.
11:21A real live woman up, Juniper.
11:23Jake's got a woman up, Juniper.
11:24Can she sing?
11:25Sure, can she sing?
11:28Dancing?
11:29She's got long, yellow hair.
11:31One yellow hair?
11:33Let's do it.
11:34Come on.
11:35Hurry up.
11:36Hold it back.
11:37That'll be two pieces for transportation.
11:39Oh, my God.
11:41All right, go ahead, Mark.
11:42Go ahead.
11:43Get on, sir.
11:45Get on, sir.
11:46Juniper.
11:47Woo!
11:49Get on, sir.
11:50Juniper.
11:50Woo!
11:51Woo!
11:51Woo!
11:52Woo!
11:53Boy, what about this hanging?
11:55We're a lot longer on hanging material than we are on women material.
11:59Woo!
12:00Woo!
12:01Woo!
12:01Woo!
12:02Woo!
12:02Woo!
12:03Woo!
12:03Woo!
12:04Woo!
12:04Woo!
12:05Woo!
12:05Woo!
12:06Woo!
12:06Woo!
12:07Let's go, Jugi!
12:08There we go!
12:09Woo!
12:09Woo!
12:10Woo!
12:10Woo!
12:11Woo!
12:11Woo!
12:12Woo!
12:12Woo!
12:13You take care of him, Judge.
12:14You got our proxies.
12:40Now, what happens now?
12:42Case dismissed.
12:51He wasn't shot.
12:52He was hit in the back of the head with a rock.
12:54I knew you were innocent.
12:55How?
12:57Well, in the first place, anybody would be willing to take on our whole camp.
13:00Wouldn't sneak up on a little runt like jibes.
13:02And in the second place?
13:04Well, in the second place, I found this in your saddlebags when they were tying you up.
13:09Santa Barbara papers.
13:10Shows you were telling the truth.
13:11Then why the trial?
13:14Well, you know, the Watson brothers was all through fighting.
13:18Shuggy hadn't gotten back from juniper with the whiskey.
13:21Things were dulling down a little.
13:27Well, you know, we hold a kangaroo court on all strangers.
13:29Just in your case, we happen to have a little evidence.
13:34That's fun and a little, you know?
13:36Well, that fun could have wound up with you dead.
13:40Do you have that all the time?
13:41Just waiting for you to pronounce me guilty.
13:45Now, I'll be on my way.
13:47Should be back in civilization in a week or ten days.
13:49Anybody should wire about jibes.
13:51No, no.
13:51He left nobody.
13:52See, if jibes didn't leave anybody, what's going to happen to the gold?
14:08Goes to the town authorities.
14:09Well, now, there is a murderer loose in your community.
14:21I think jibes would have been interested in seeing him brought to justice.
14:24How interested?
14:25Oh, I'd say half that poke.
14:30Mister, who are you?
14:31All right, we'd better get a fire ready.
14:45This ground's hard digging.
14:47And I tell you, Mr. Old Jibes has got to be put away.
14:49Well, that takes care of Swede.
15:07Now, what about the one who drove the wagon?
15:09Shuggy?
15:10Mm-hmm.
15:11Well, he came over here with a shovel and a couple barrels of whiskey
15:13and set up his claim over there.
15:16He made more money selling whiskey than he did digging for gold,
15:19so I just put a tent over his claim and turned merchant.
15:24There's all the banking for the boys, you know.
15:26Takes the dust into juniper when he goes to get the whiskey.
15:29He's honest.
15:30How about the one who was yelling for a hanging?
15:32Jackson?
15:33Oh, he's a mean drunk.
15:35Pretty mean sober, too.
15:37Well, he's got a fair claim.
15:38Pulls out about $200 a week.
15:40And the others?
15:41Well, Patterson's a fallen ribbon salesman.
15:44Mike's a devout pickpocket.
15:46The Watson brothers, just gunfighting farmers.
15:49And Curly's a triple bigamist.
15:51Best run-of-the-mill types.
15:55And they're all looking to try to get rich?
15:57Well, mostly.
15:58When are they coming back?
15:59Oh, sometime tomorrow.
16:01Have to poke?
16:02You bring them in, half.
16:07That's deep enough.
16:09I'll go get jimes.
16:11Well, Judge, I'll see you in the morning.
16:13Where are you going?
16:14I'll be nearby.
16:15I'm going to bed down.
16:16I want you to stay here by the fire.
16:18Well, I know I didn't kill those men.
16:21But, Judge, I don't know you didn't.
16:32I don't know you're going to be by the way.
16:39I don't know you.
16:40I'm going to be by the fire.
16:41I'm going to be by the fire.
16:42I'll be by the fire.
16:43I'm going to be by the fire.
16:44All right, home is the sailor, home from the seas, everybody off, come on, get off, come on,
17:04find that load, everybody off.
17:06You have this load till noon.
17:08Stranger, you give me a hand and I'll give you some advice.
17:10What?
17:11Help me get these monkeys off this wagon and light out.
17:13They all told corn and new come around here.
17:15Didn't they tell you? I've been initiated.
17:17All the way into Juniper, they couldn't talk about nothing but the woman.
17:20Coming back, they couldn't talk about nothing.
17:22Well, what's your usual procedure?
17:24Well, we just roll them off into the water.
17:26They can't buy whiskey from me if they're asleep.
17:36Like this?
17:37Come on.
17:41Come on.
17:42Come on.
17:43Come on!
17:45Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, come on!
18:15Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
18:25Whoa.
18:26Whoa.
18:27Whoa.
18:28Shuggy, you lose many customers that way.
18:30I've got the only store around here.
18:31They're mad to me.
18:32Until death do you part.
18:34Yeah, that's happened a couple times lately.
18:37Went downstream night before last pick one up, circle jibes.
18:41Yeah, right.
18:43Downstream, sugar, you went downstream to pick jibes up.
18:47Sure, that's where his diggings are.
18:50Well, were.
18:51Well, the camp I rode into was upstream.
18:53Now, I just assumed it was jibes, but it couldn't have been.
18:57You familiar with the claims around here?
18:59Well, I grub-staked the boys.
19:00I couldn't do that without looking at the claims.
19:03No, of course you couldn't.
19:04You want to take a ride with me for an hour or so?
19:07Well, who do you think did it?
19:09I don't know.
19:10I thought it was the Indian.
19:13And then I figured it'd have to be whoever didn't come back from Juniper,
19:15but they all came back.
19:17So now you and I will just have to go and see.
19:21Yeah.
19:39Ain't no way to lock up your valuables around here.
19:42Can't carry them with you.
19:45Boys come in for the weekend.
19:47They usually hide their valuables under the tree trunk or under some rocks or something.
19:54Chuggy!
19:55Come here.
19:58Chuggy, come here.
19:59Look at this.
20:03Yeah.
20:04Yeah, by golly, this is where it was.
20:06You see, the Indians will watch the boys bury their stuff.
20:08And while I eat for them to leave camp, then they'll move in and make off with it.
20:11The stuff they can't use, they throw away real quick.
20:14Huh.
20:15That's Hernando there.
20:17Fred Stanley.
20:18This, uh, Hernando's camp?
20:20Well, no, he, uh, he disappeared about two months ago.
20:23This spread here belonged to a fellow by the name of Jackson.
20:25Jackson?
20:26Yeah.
20:27Yeah, Jackson.
20:28He wouldn't face it a killing or two.
20:31Say, killed, uh, Circle sometime Thursday.
20:34He ain't even watched him bury the loot and made off with it when Jackson went into town
20:39yesterday morning.
20:40Well, no wonder Jackson wanted to see me hung.
20:43He didn't even know he'd been robbed until I showed up in town with Jabes' poke.
20:47He figured hanging me would clear the slate for him.
20:50Why in the world did he come back?
20:52Well, he probably didn't figure it to.
20:54You see, the boys were drinking pretty good.
20:56And come time to leave, I just loaded the ones on that couldn't walk or talk and lit right
21:00out.
21:01Well...
21:31Jackson?
21:41How did you get loose?
21:43You ever seen these before?
21:45No.
21:46They're found up at your place.
21:48That's what he says, is it?
21:50Well, then he must have salted them there.
21:52You've been banking 20 to 30 ounces a month.
21:54Well, I got myself a good claim.
21:56Ah, your equipment ain't been used for much.
21:58Your claim's burned out.
21:59No.
22:00Well, I haven't been washing.
22:01See, I've got myself a dry stake up in the hill above the river.
22:04Where?
22:07Oh, I'm not going to tell you.
22:09I'm not telling nobody.
22:10Oh, I haven't filed claims for title yet.
22:13Dry mine gives you nuggets.
22:14You've been banking dust.
22:18He did it.
22:19That one.
22:20And we've got to wang him.
22:21Eh?
22:22Just like we started to do yesterday.
22:23He's the one that did it him.
22:25He killed Circle, and he killed Stanley,
22:28and he killed old Orlando.
22:30Orlando's dead.
22:39Look out, man.
22:40Look out, let's go.
22:47I hope you haven't got a deep attachment for this horse.
22:50Hold it.
22:52You crazy?
22:53Well, that's a very lethal weapon you've got.
22:55I've seen those things blow up.
22:57That one won't blow up.
22:58Won't even go off.
22:59It's wet.
23:00You had it in your pocket when you went in the river.
23:01Don't you try anything.
23:03They can't hang me any higher if I prove you wrong.
23:06If I prove you wrong.
23:15Ow, my leg.
23:16Well, let's just open him up a little bit.
23:18Oh.
23:19He's all right.
23:20It's only going to hurt a little while.
23:21Trial shouldn't take too long at all.
23:23You know, I'd have bet a thousand dollars that thing wouldn't go off.
23:36You bet more than that.
23:37You bet your life.
23:38Well, they aren't very accurate.
23:40Over ten feet.
23:41That's why I moved out before I called them.
23:46Huh?
23:48Oh, oh.
23:53That's right, isn't it, Judge?
23:54They were even.
24:00Come on, boys.
24:01Get the bench.
24:02Why don't you stay on?
24:03After we hang Jackson, I'll play you a nice game of pinochle.
24:05Well, I'm not quite sure about the rules of the game in this community.
24:08Winning might be a capital offense.
24:10Judge?
24:14All right, come on, boys.
24:15Let's get on with the tribe.
24:16Charlie?
24:17Get the rope.
24:23I've gone, will travel, reach the card of a man.
24:30A knight without armor in a savage land.
24:33His vast gun for hire heats the code.
24:35I've gone, will travel, reach the card of a man.
24:38A knight without armor in a savage land.
24:42A knight without armor in a savage land
24:48His vast gun for hire, he's the calling wind
24:55A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin
25:03Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
25:12Paladin, where do you go?
25:17Paladin, where do you go?
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