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Beaten and robbed of his belongings outside O'Bannion Ranch, Paladin takes a job there. His cultured ways eventually win over haughty, shut-in ranch owner Maggie, but can he save her ranch from the crooked foreman bent on stealing it?
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00:00The
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00:26Oh!
00:54Oh!
00:55All right, take us around the tree.
00:58Here, 100. All the way around.
01:00Quick!
01:14All right, get ready.
01:25Catch his horse.
01:29Right, boss.
01:30I thought folks learned they weren't supposed to cross over in here.
01:34Open range or not, maybe this one will leave the next sign he reads.
01:37Hey, nice trail clothes.
01:40Green, too.
01:42You can have the outfit.
01:44I'll take his gun from my collection.
01:55I'll take it.
02:25I'll take it.
02:45Well, are you hands going to split wood and fetch water or not?
02:49Well, we take orders from Cyrus, Cookie.
02:52I don't remember him mentioning chores when he left this morning.
02:55Good morning.
02:56Well, I declare.
02:58Look what the wind blew in, Pete.
03:02Hey, you better move along, fellas.
03:04Next ranch is 20 miles.
03:06I'd like to see the owner of this place.
03:09You heard what the man just said.
03:12No handouts here at O'Banion's ranch.
03:14I believe I asked to see the owner.
03:16Maybe we ought to let him see the owner, Jake.
03:23If he takes a bath first.
03:26I'll, uh...
03:27The owner's here is kind of persnickety.
03:29Just can't stand dirt.
03:32Now, even she put up a fight when you're going to Dippin's.
03:35Oh, this ain't no fun, Pete.
03:36Grab his feet.
03:37Oh, wait a minute.
03:38My watch.
03:39My watch.
03:40Your watch?
03:42Oh!
03:45Oh!
03:50Oh!
03:53Hey, you can't go in there!
03:55Yeah!
03:55I'd like to see the O'Banion that runs this outfit.
04:02I'm the O'Banion.
04:04I told him not to come in, Miss Margaret.
04:07Is he one of our men, Cookie?
04:08No, ma'am.
04:09Just drifted in.
04:12I see.
04:14Well, if he can chop wood, feed him when he's finished.
04:25That's a very interesting collection.
04:29It happens to be my foreman's hobby.
04:32Any other comments?
04:33Does the rest of the room meet with your approval?
04:35Do you want that hand out or not, Drifter?
04:37I'd like to meet your foreman.
04:40Then you'd better come back in a week.
04:42Cyrus left this morning on a cattle drive.
04:45I could use some kitchen help, Miss Margaret.
04:47With Cyrus going, I can't get any help out of the hand.
04:50We're surrounded by quite enough barbarianism without bringing it in here.
04:53I'm sorry, Miss O'Banion.
04:57I have known better days.
05:00And I guess I just didn't realize I was speaking to a lady.
05:06All right.
05:08Against my better judgment, I'll put you on trial.
05:12You'll find me to be quite fair.
05:14No matter what your past,
05:16I'll only appraise you by what I see from this moment.
05:23You're as generous as you are beautiful.
05:31Cookie, see that he gets a bath.
05:33And put him into some clean clothing.
05:35Ah-ha.
05:51Beef, tenderloin, sautéed, and sherry.
05:53Voila.
05:54Chuck Mulligan into ambrosia.
05:56Cookie, the French have a saying.
05:57Civilization begins with good food.
06:00And good food begins...
06:02with an artful wine sauce.
06:04You taste that, it's good.
06:05You ain't no wandering tramp, mister.
06:13At the last cookie, would you believe it if I told you I was the eldest son of an English nobleman?
06:18I would not.
06:19That I gave up my fortune and my title for the love of the upstairs maid.
06:22And I'm a gypsy fortune teller.
06:26The funny little callus you got on your thumb right there.
06:29Wouldn't be from a gun hammer, would it?
06:31I mean, I figure you're here after something.
06:35Or someone.
06:36Cookie, tell me about Cyrus.
06:39Hmm?
06:39Tell me about the foreman.
06:41Well, he runs the O'Banion Ranch for Miss Margaret he has ever since her folks died.
06:46You know, there's something else that puzzles me.
06:48A spread like this ought to run about, oh, 4,000 heady cattle.
06:52And on my way here, I don't think I saw 20 steers.
06:55Well, maybe you didn't look good.
06:59Cyrus does a good job.
07:00Miss Margaret don't have to lift a finger.
07:02She doesn't have to lift a finger except to sip tea and read sonnets.
07:07Well, her folks wanted her to have advantages.
07:09They made her into a lady.
07:11A perfect lady.
07:12Only child on a 20,000 acre ranch.
07:15Water holes to swim in.
07:17Horses to ride.
07:18Haloffs to play in.
07:19That must have taken some doing.
07:21Would you want your daughter to be mixing with these ranch hands?
07:24The kind that is sitting out there right now waiting to pay you back for that dip in the trough yesterday.
07:30Pounding saddle and raising sweat and blisters.
07:33Something wrong with a little civilization out here?
07:36Saddle blisters and sweat are the civilization out here.
07:39Oh, I don't have any objection to tea and sonnets.
07:42They've led me to some of the most interesting afternoons of my life.
07:45But this is the first time I've seen them used as a substitute for life.
07:54Tea, madam?
08:04Set it on the desk right here, please.
08:06The letter opener, madam.
08:16Shall I pour, madam?
08:17I, uh, probably should tell you that you've done a very good job so far.
08:29Breakfast was served quite expertly.
08:32And Cookie tells me that new table arrangement was your idea.
08:36You show considerable household ability.
08:39Will you please stop staring at me that way?
08:41Ma'am.
08:49I'm merely meant to give you some friendly advice.
08:53You have, unfortunately, a very forceful expression.
08:57Good help should be as inconspicuous as possible at all times.
09:03Those books on the mantel, would you please hand me one of them?
09:11Tennyson or Shelley, ma'am?
09:13It doesn't matter.
09:14Well, then I suggest Shakespeare.
09:17I think he's terribly common.
09:19Well, he deals with common ideas, but in language of most uncommon beauty.
09:25For example, his 18th sonnet.
09:28One of the finest passages in the English language.
09:32Of course, it was meant to be read aloud.
09:33I think he's a good one.
09:34Are you also an elocutionist?
09:38Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
09:42Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
09:45Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all to...
09:50That's quite enough.
09:52Don't you have chores to do?
09:54Wood to be chopped, water to be pumped.
09:56I didn't hire you as a literary companion, Mr. Paladin.
09:59Should I compare thee to a summer's day?
10:24Where is he now?
10:25Oh, Paladin?
10:26Well, he was here just a minute ago.
10:28Oh, Landy must have taken out the wash.
10:31I brought him discharged immediately.
10:41I warned him the hens was laying for him.
10:45We're going to even it up now.
10:47Do you think you can take all of us?
10:55Still smells.
10:58Oh, my God.
10:59Let's go.
11:01I heard Cookie say she needs a little water to pour out.
11:26Now that she is.
11:27I heard Cookie say she needs some water.
11:31I know you'll be glad to get that far.
11:34We need some firewood chopped.
11:35About half poured before sundown.
11:39There's plenty of work for all hands.
11:42If there isn't, you let me know.
11:44And I'll find some poured.
11:48Hold that for me, will you?
11:52With Madam's permission, I've found some odd jobs for the hands.
11:55Hard work improves ranch discipline.
11:57I think you're right, Mr. Palladon.
12:01Feel free to oversee my ranch in the foreman's absence.
12:06Then with your permission, I'll ride out and check the feed and water situation.
12:10I've noticed some things that puzzle me.
12:12Excuse me?
12:17I wish they'd killed him.
12:18I wish they'd kill him.
12:19I wish they'd kill him.
12:20I wish they'd kill him.
12:21I wish they'd kill him.
12:26Has the new man returned yet?
12:28No, ma'am.
12:29Dinner was very good tonight, Cookie.
12:31Is that beef a new recipe?
12:32Well, it's something he showed me, ma'am.
12:33Must you talk about Palladon all evening?
12:34Well, you're the one that's been talking.
12:35He's just hired help.
12:36I won't be upset by him.
12:37I know all about his type.
12:42I know all about his type.
13:13Well, that's more than half a cord.
13:16Well, I...
13:17I couldn't whip you, so I figured I'd take it out in a woodpile.
13:22Oh, I had another reason for sticking around, too.
13:24I was curious to hear what you'd have to say after looking over the range.
13:28Well, it looks to me like there's plenty of grass out there.
13:31Plenty of water.
13:32Plenty of everything except cattle.
13:34Does Miss O'Banion know that there's not even breeding stock left out there?
13:38She knows what Cyrus tells her.
13:39No more.
13:40He makes sure we don't get no visitors around here, snooping around, asking questions.
13:45Does Cyrus keep any records?
13:48I just feed bills.
13:49There's a ledger over there in the barn.
13:51If you're figuring on tangling with Cyrus and his boys,
13:54don't count on much help.
13:58That you, Palladon?
13:59Where you been?
14:00Miss Margaret's been asking about you.
14:03Well, Cookie, you tell our employer that I'm very flattered and very busy.
14:08I'm very busy.
14:09I'm very busy.
14:11Good morning.
14:12Come on.
14:13Come on.
14:14Come on.
14:16I'll get in there.
14:18Come on.
14:38Breakfast, Miss O'Manion.
14:44Good morning, paladin. I'd like to...
14:46I've had an accident! Come and clean it up!
14:50Well, he just stepped outside, Miss Margaret.
14:54I'll get you a fresh tray.
15:02I'll get you a fresh tray.
15:06I'll get you a fresh tray.
15:10I'll get you a fresh tray.
15:16You ready for your lunch, Miss Margaret?
15:18Where is he now?
15:20Who, miss?
15:22You know perfectly well who I mean.
15:24I'm paying him a fair wage. I'm entitled to better service.
15:26But he's been awful busy, ma'am.
15:28He spent the whole morning comparing the feed bills
15:30against the ranch ledger or something.
15:32And he just now said something about riding into town.
15:46I'll get you a little bit more.
15:48I think I'll take some air before lunch, Cookie.
15:52Shall I lay out your riding things?
15:54I think I can find them.
16:00I haven't been riding in a long while.
16:04to be the next day.
16:06One, two, three but it's been very cold.
16:20I've went to the beach almost a little bit,
16:22a little bit.
16:24I'll get you back.
16:26I'll get you back.
16:28Oh, I'm glad you happened along.
16:42My saddle seems to...
16:43I didn't just happen along.
16:44You saw me two miles back.
16:45You circled around and nothing happened to your saddle.
16:49I'll be a good deal more honest than you.
16:52I'm delighted you came out here.
16:54I never saw you looking lovelier.
16:56Even the riding habit's becoming.
16:59A gentleman would...
17:00A gentleman does many things that Mr. Tennyson didn't write about.
17:03And Mr. Shelley didn't even dream of.
17:06You should have read more of the very common Mr. Shakespeare.
17:15Well, you ride expertly.
17:17I'll bet that as a child,
17:19when your parents' backs were turned,
17:21you sneaked out, climbed on a horse, and rode bareback.
17:26How'd you know about that?
17:28I'd also bet that between elocution lessons and embroidery lessons,
17:31you dreamed about running your own ranch some day.
17:34I could have, too.
17:36Kids learn fast.
17:38Why don't you?
17:39Haven't you noticed?
17:41I'm a lady.
17:43Anyway, I wouldn't know how to start now.
17:46I've been living in a make-believe world so long,
17:48I wouldn't know how to be real.
17:51Well, the way to start is by being honest with yourself.
17:56Now, you tell me.
17:58Why did you come out here?
18:00What did you want?
18:01Well, I wanted to rush right up to you and say,
18:06stop calling me ma'am.
18:08I know you're not just hired help.
18:11You gave me goose pimples every time you came into the room.
18:15And I wanted to say,
18:17finish the poem.
18:19I was trembling by the second line.
18:21There were 12 more to go.
18:24That might be dangerous for a lady.
18:26I'm a woman.
18:28Any way I want to be.
18:30Next week, I intend to be a thousand miles away from you.
18:33Say it for me.
18:36Shall I continue?
18:37No, there's something else we should talk about first.
18:39Later.
18:40I've just come from the bank.
18:42You've given your foreman Cyrus permission
18:44to draw loans against this ranch,
18:45and the meantime he's cleaned out your range.
18:47Please.
18:48Have pity.
18:51Please.
18:56Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
19:00Thou art more lovely.
19:02That's enough.
19:18Keep cooking the other hands in the barn.
19:21And have your hide if they get out of here.
19:26Lucky thing we got back early.
19:29Let me have that card you found in his clothes.
19:52Here they come.
19:56Here they come.
19:57Here they come.
20:02Cyrus!
20:05I hear you've been going to a lot of trouble.
20:07Adding up feed bills, checking old stock counts.
20:10Well, it's just a matter of fundamental arithmetic.
20:13I know that you've been obligating this ranch for loans.
20:16That you've been selling off the stock,
20:18pocketing the money in order to buy up the loan paper,
20:21like this one.
20:22And now all you have to do is make demand on Miss O'Banion
20:25for payment, and she has no way to pay you.
20:28Never saw you before in that outfit, Miss O'Banion.
20:32We might be able to just work out some little arrangement.
20:36Speaking of deals, don't you owe me something?
20:39Oh, I just collect guns.
20:41I don't use them.
20:42It's your move.
20:43I don't use them.
20:50Be careful.
20:52Oh, my.
20:55That's just what I had in mind.
20:58And now it isn't murder, is it?
21:00It's just self-defense.
21:01I got him.
21:15It's only a letter opener.
21:31I've had enough.
21:53I'm hanging on to what's mine.
21:55The next shot won't be aimed at the floor.
21:58Gentlemen, I believe Maggie O'Banion means what she says,
22:01unless any of you has any objection.
22:06No?
22:09Well, then you two better get your friend out of here.
22:15I'll leave the trail close on the hitch rack.
22:28I love you.
22:42Take him to the barn.
22:44Jake!
22:47Take him to the barn.
22:50Jake!
22:51Take him to the barn.
22:53Jake!
22:55Looks like you make good breeding stock.
22:59You, Pete.
23:01Take him down and douse him for ticks.
23:03And plaster that spot on his flank.
23:05I ain't playing nursemaid to no dang bull.
23:11Would you rather draw a week's pay?
23:21Oh!
23:27Don't you forget that twelve bucks you owe him, ma'am.
23:29No, I didn't put in a full week.
23:33There are a lot of little odd jobs left around here.
23:37And you're gonna have a lot of applicants from now on.
23:43Goodbye, Maggie.
23:45Goodbye.
23:51It seems this to me.
23:54I am, Mrs.
23:55Fix a beard.
23:59Are you ready to wash your hands open?
24:01Clean?
24:02Cook?
24:07Fight?
24:09Run things?
24:13You never get help like that again.
24:15You're right.
24:16Cookie.
24:17That speak.
24:19Cookie must be good.
24:21I'll never get out like that again.
24:51A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin, Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
25:21I'll never get out of here.
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