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Paladin receives a bank draft for $1000 asking him to come kill a tiger before it kills me. In his host's mind this tiger curse is warranted.
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00:00.
00:30Good morning, Avar.
00:53Look at my right hand very carefully, please.
00:56Caliber of this Derringer is .38.
00:58It's capable of putting a stain on the carpet.
00:59But Hayboy could never remove.
01:03Now, very slowly and very carefully,
01:05take your hand out of that coat.
01:21What do you want?
01:22Some identification on you, sir, if you please.
01:26I do apologize, Mr. Hawkins.
01:28It's a practice reflex.
01:31Let me apologize for the branding.
01:44Hey, Boyk?
01:45Thank you very much, but I never touched the grave if it's all the same to you.
01:48The last address my client had on you was in Calcutta.
01:51It was quite a job tracing you down.
01:54Good day, sir.
01:55Well, just a minute.
01:57Thank you, but I've had quite enough.
01:59Please transmit my regards to our client.
02:02Good day, sir.
02:04Hey, Boyk, what's wrong here?
02:08Look, drink the brandy.
02:10It's all right.
02:11We'll call it medicinal.
02:17That's the boy.
02:19It's a bank draft for $1,000.
02:24Bank of Argus, Texas.
02:28Come kill the tiger before it kills me.
02:32Signed, John Ellsworth, Argus, Texas.
02:34Hey, Boyk, what do you make of that?
02:35Tiger, Mr. Paladin, they are evil things.
02:41Well, I've heard that Texas has everything, but I didn't know it included tigers.
02:47Hey, Boyk, you're going to buy me a railroad ticket.
02:51On your way.
02:53Tiger, not like other animals.
02:55They have evil wisdom.
02:57Inside them is devil.
03:00Good morning, Paladin.
03:05Hey, Boyk, the devil can be found in many shapes.
03:16Round trip to Argus, Texas, and tell the agency to have a good saddle horse waiting for me
03:20as usual.
03:21On your way.
03:22No.
03:35All of you.
03:55Some more.
04:07No way, don't you?
04:14Goodbye, sir.
04:16Will you just take the bags off my saddle, please?
04:19Oh, I am sorry, sir, indeed, most gentilly sorry.
04:22But I must insist that you...
04:24Kalvishnakalam Paladin.
04:27Of course! Paladin!
04:31You will not believe this, but I am from the village of Kulwadi.
04:34Many years ago, you killed a tiger there.
04:36It was I who recommended you to Sai Bellsworth.
04:39Kulwadi. Is Jamnagar still head man there?
04:42He is my father. He has spoken of you many times.
04:46The greatest of tiger hunters.
04:49Indeed, sir, I have sat and heard your name
04:52blessed many times over my bread.
04:55You will not believe this, but I thought you were one of the natives here.
04:58Natives? Oh, yes, a quaint lot.
05:00Very strange, and I'm afraid dangerous.
05:03Only when restless.
05:04You should have been here a fortnight ago.
05:06One of their festivals, a box dance?
05:08Box dance?
05:09For no reason at all, they begin to appear from miles around,
05:12carrying fermented liquors.
05:14I presume you work for John Ellsworth.
05:16Oh, yes, sir. He engaged me in Bombay.
05:19Now, sir, in this dance, they pair off.
05:22Males to one side, females to the other.
05:25I should guess part of their mating custom.
05:27Mr. Ellsworth sent me a note.
05:29He seems to feel he's in some grave danger.
05:31Oh, yes, sir.
05:33Sai Bellsworth is summoning up a tiger.
05:35Now, sir, after they have paired off...
05:37He is summoning up a tiger?
05:39Would the son of Jamnagar lie, sir?
05:42It's like this.
05:43When the tiger appears, you will shoot it before it kills the Saib.
05:47Now, sir, the festival.
05:49Now, after the natives...
05:50The son of Jamnagar would not lie,
05:52neither will he stop talking.
05:54In your father's name, I may have to box your ears.
05:58I will most quietly take you to my master.
06:01And next, my investigators traced you to China, and then to Europe.
06:15Of course, there were other hunters I could have hired,
06:18but the more difficult it was to find you, the more determined I was that you were to be my man.
06:22Tell me, Mr. Paladin, what made you accept?
06:26Was it the mystery, or was it the money?
06:29Tell me about your tiger, Mr. Ellsworth.
06:32Straight to the point.
06:34Just as I imagined.
06:36You know, I'm indebted to my servant for having suggested such a colorful personality.
06:41You were a great friend of Pandu's father, I believe, huh?
06:48In point, you spent considerable time in India.
06:51Arriving there April 4th, 1857.
06:54You know quite a lot about tiger hunting,
06:57according to my investigators,
06:59you made your first kill June the 20th.
07:02A notorious man-eater near the village of Jean-Pourre.
07:06You're next along the east slope of the Sapura Range.
07:11No wonder you were so popular with the natives.
07:14I made some friends.
07:16And some enemies?
07:17At Mysore?
07:18Tell me, Mr. Paladin, was she as beautiful as they say?
07:26I can see by your face that she was a great tragedy.
07:32You could learn from my example.
07:35When I see something I want, I buy it.
07:52Lovely.
07:54And in her own way, Laurie is well educated.
07:56As you know so well, Mr. Paladin, the temple girls are trained in subtle and curious ways,
08:04which bothers Pandu considerably.
08:06As you will know sooner or later, Mr. Paladin, Pandu is very much in love with Laurie.
08:12Pandu, tell us of your great love.
08:15I am your servant. I would never touch her.
08:18We are both honorable people, sir.
08:22A powerful emotion, young love, Mr. Paladin.
08:26Fascinating to watch it grow until it becomes unbearable.
08:32Is it not Pandu?
08:38Kill it! Kill it!
08:42That'll be all.
08:43Leave us.
08:44How dare you give orders to my servants!
08:50Come back here!
08:51Sit down.
08:53Please.
08:59Ellsworth, I don't like you.
09:00I don't like the way you find your pleasures.
09:02I don't like anything about you.
09:05But I am interested.
09:07I have heard of cases like yours.
09:09Just what do you think my case is, Mr. Paladin?
09:12You imagine yourself the victim of an old Bengali legend.
09:19The tiger curse.
09:21What do you know of the Bengali legend?
09:23It's not very complicated.
09:25Man begins to think about tigers.
09:26The harder he tries not to, the more he sees the massive striped head and the green eyes.
09:31Tiger invades his dreams, turns them into nightmares.
09:34Then the man begins to see tigers when he's awake.
09:36The obsession grows stronger and stronger until finally the very power of it summons up the beast,
09:42which of course kills and eats the man.
09:45Do you believe in it?
09:47More important, do you?
09:49I've run halfway around the world trying to get away from it.
09:55I finally settled in this miserable, forsaken place as far away from India as a man can get.
10:02Now, either that curse is a fact or I'm insane.
10:05Suppose you tell me which.
10:06I always found the Bengalis to be a very gentle people.
10:10Why would they put a fatal curse on a man assuming that they could?
10:14I was hunting in Javal.
10:16I stumbled across a spoor.
10:18A big cat.
10:20The biggest prince I'd ever seen.
10:21Well, naturally I had to have the trophy.
10:24So I tracked it.
10:26Finally managed to get in a shot.
10:28I only wounded it.
10:32Well, you know how a tiger can fade away once it gets into the bush.
10:38And it can be very dangerous.
10:42I lost it.
10:44You're a liar.
10:45If I didn't have this gout, I'd...
10:51Yes, I...
10:53I was afraid to follow it.
10:54Well, he had to find some easy way to get his food while his leg was mending.
11:01So he became a man-eater.
11:03He killed a hundred or so natives.
11:07Well, I'm not the first person who turned a tiger into a man-eater!
11:14It's very strange, Mr. Ellsworth.
11:17You seem to attract cats.
11:20Hey.
11:21All right.
11:26The next to final stage of the curse.
11:28Isn't that what the legend says?
11:31The cats grow larger and more vicious until finally the tiger comes.
11:37I need help, Mr. Paladin.
11:40Let's see if this convinces you.
11:44Meow!
11:47Meow!
11:48Meow!
11:49Meow!
11:52Get some brandy.
11:56All right.
11:57Is it my imagination, Mr. Paladin, answer that?
12:00No, I...
12:02Pour it on the wound, wash it out.
12:10All right.
12:12Maybe I am a coward.
12:13I ran away from a tiger.
12:16Perhaps I've done even worse things.
12:18Maybe I am responsible for a few miserable natives dying.
12:22But do you go around judging people?
12:24Are you going to help me or not?
12:26I'm not sure.
12:28I haven't got time to find another man with your experience.
12:30My tiger is on its way.
12:32I can sense it.
12:33Get the Giovanni cards.
12:35We'll find out just how wise Mr. Paladin really is.
12:39Do you recognize those?
12:40Yes, they're used in a game similar to our poker.
12:44There are 41 cards in the deck.
12:46Five bearing pictures of sacred cows, five monkeys, five pigs, five dogs, and so on.
12:51The 41st card is a tiger.
12:53There's one tiger in the deck.
13:02You imply it's only my imagination.
13:04You saw the cards shuffle.
13:06You cut them.
13:07I simply took one off the top.
13:09Now I'd like you to see why you're really here.
13:11Best watchdog in the world.
13:15There's something moving around out there.
13:17That's right.
13:18It's a coyote.
13:19And it's your move.
13:20You disappoint me.
13:21best watchdog in the world something moving around out there
13:33that's right it's a coyote and it's your move
13:38you disappoint me
13:51checkmate
13:53there are of course certain unexplained mysteries certain things in life for which we have no logical explanation
14:06such as the power of a thousand dollars a thousand dollars Mr. Ellsworth would scarcely pay me for the pain of enduring your company I'd have to have at least another thousand to protect you from a tiger paid in advance whether or not I succeed
14:20I can buy and sell people like you Mr. gunman oh
14:27I'll give you one thousand dollars
14:34Allergy, $1,000 even.
14:47There's your second thousand.
14:49Tell me when you draw the card, does the girl Laurie always shuffle them?
14:53You think I haven't considered that? Suppose you shuffle them yourself this time.
14:57They're shuffled.
15:04The elephant.
15:12Wait a minute.
15:14Two of them are stuck together.
15:34That's strange. I never heard of one penetrating this far into a town.
15:42That sounded like a mountain lion.
15:44You've never heard of tigers in Texas either.
15:47But one is coming.
15:50You tell me it is not even the size of a small tiger. Even in animals this is an inferior continent.
16:11What's in there?
16:15Smokehouse.
16:17Smokehouse?
16:19We have always had a smokehouse. We have never until now had tigers.
16:23Mountain lions.
16:26Oh yes, mountain lions and house cats.
16:28There are cats wherever there are men.
16:30Haven't you ever noticed how cats force themselves on people who are afraid of them?
16:34What about the cards?
16:36Perhaps when the tiger comes he will eat us all.
16:39Life is a strange thing.
16:41To be eaten by a tiger in a foreign land.
16:44Of course I already know how this feels.
16:47My heart has grown teeth and eats at my own body.
16:51Pandu, just how much do you dislike Mr. Ellsworth?
16:55How much sir?
16:58A man who takes his pleasures as he does?
17:01To see Larry and me together our souls on fire?
17:04In every manner he encourages us to show our respect for the other.
17:08He delights in building in us love.
17:11Which he makes impossible.
17:14Tell me thai Paladin.
17:16How much could a man hate him?
17:19Perhaps enough to force him into an act of desperation.
17:23You forget I am the son of Janaga?
17:29In your father's name I apologize.
17:32Perhaps you would care to apologize with a pound of tobacco.
17:35My purse is very empty.
17:37Well I never could stand the sight of a man in pain.
17:40There must be a tobacconist in the town.
17:48Well look who's here, Ellsworth's engine.
17:51Some engine.
17:55Come on boy, tell us again that tribe you're from.
18:00Someone mind holding it, Swami?
18:01I would be most happy to assist sir.
18:03Biggest sir he's ever hit this state.
18:05Stay ahead of all.
18:06Fat ladies, freaks, wild animal acts.
18:09Some tiger, huh boy?
18:14Say Paladin.
18:15Have your boy take that to our office in the hotel lobby.
18:19They'll give him a pass for helping me.
18:21Better go get your boy before he gets to the circus or Lavalette came in there.
18:25Oh, Sive.
18:26Tell Ellsworth I want to see him.
18:27Not possible, Sive.
18:28Please.
18:29Paladin.
18:30I have already warned Sive Ellsworth.
18:31He has ridden to the next town to wait.
18:32He instructs you to tell the time.
18:33Bondu.
18:34Bondu.
18:35Now think carefully.
18:36Was the name of the town Sealy?
18:37No.
18:38Concord.
18:39Hempstead?
18:40Was it Humboldt?
18:41Ah, yes.
18:42That is the name.
18:43The town of Humboldt.
18:44The circus is due to lay over in Humboldt.
18:46No.
18:47No.
18:48No.
18:49No.
18:50No.
18:51No.
18:52No.
18:53No.
18:54No.
18:55No.
18:56No.
18:57No.
18:58No.
18:59No.
19:00No.
19:01No.
19:02No.
19:03No.
19:04No.
19:05No.
19:06No.
19:07No.
19:08But I have to do to lay over in Humboldt tonight.
19:19You'd better saddle my horse.
19:30Man.
19:31Um.
19:32Uh-oh.
19:35Better turn back, mister.
19:36There's been an accident up ahead.
19:37What happened?
19:38Circus wagon turned over.
19:39Some wild animals got loose.
19:40Could be dangerous.
19:41And you two stopped everybody who came along this path except a fat man.
19:43How did you know that?
19:44We tried to flag him down, but he wouldn't stop to hear what we had to see.
20:01Oh!
20:23Oh!
20:24Oh!
20:29Let's go.
20:59Come on!
21:29Come on.
21:59Giddy, giddy, giddy.
22:01Come on, baby.
22:03That's it, Johnny.
22:05Come to Papa.
22:07Come on, baby.
22:09Come on.
22:11That's a baby.
22:13Open that door!
22:15Stop it!
22:17Come on.
22:19Come on, baby.
22:21Come on.
22:23That's a baby.
22:25Open that door!
22:27Open that door!
22:29Close it!
22:37Is she all right?
22:39Is she all right?
22:41We saved her life.
22:43You stupid, flea-bitten cat.
22:45You'd starve to death out here.
22:47Joe.
22:53You looking for something?
22:55Watch where you point that thing, Rube.
22:57We got a valuable animal in here.
22:59Well, he's 20 years old.
23:01Exhausted.
23:03Frightened.
23:04Teeth falling out.
23:05Just about as dangerous as somebody's grandfather.
23:07You got no call to down-talk Johnny to his face.
23:11That cat's got feelings, too, Rube.
23:13Of course you're right.
23:15Johnny, I beg your pardon.
23:17I can't talk you to your face.
23:18Tall.
23:19No, sir.
23:20I got...
23:21No.
23:22Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
23:23Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
23:25Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
23:27Hoo-yah!
23:29Ellsworth!
23:32Ellsworth!
23:34Ellsworth, you out there!
23:36Ah!
23:37Ellsworth!
23:38We better see what's up.
23:39A man blinded by fear...
23:52to run straight off a 200-foot drop like that.
23:56I'll have my boys take care of the body.
23:59But he hasn't taken to Argus.
24:02Happens to be right where we're headed.
24:04Yes, I know.
24:05If you don't mind, I'll go on ahead.
24:07I want to buy some boat tickets to India.
24:09India?
24:10That's right.
24:11A couple of friends of mine, they'll be newly married.
24:13And I'd like to wish them bon voyage.
24:16One man dies, another gets married.
24:19A man never knows, does he?
24:22On the contrary.
24:24Sometimes a man knows his next appointment too well.
24:37A gun will travel, read the card of a man.
24:44A knight without armor in a savage land.
24:50His vast gun for hire heats the calling wind.
24:56A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.
25:08Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
25:13He's a world's life, a man!
25:14He's a world's life, a man with love.
25:16The God of finance has been the company.
25:18The world is the man to come to silence in time.
25:20As a woman is the man to come to his head.
25:22The world is the man, the man will be the man to get to his head.
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