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the protagonist Paladin is hired by U.S. military intelligence to capture or kill a deserter, General Nunez. Nunez, whom Paladin previously served with in the Union Army, has gone rogue and is teaching European military tactics to the Apache to incite a war against the U.S. Cavalry near Alamogordo.
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00:00.
00:02.
00:06.
00:16.
00:22.
00:26.
00:28Check.
00:42Your move, sir.
00:45Hmm.
00:47A gentleman wants to see you.
00:50I've heard that one before.
00:53I beg your pardon?
00:54Called away on urgent business.
00:56Just when I have you with your back against the wall.
01:00Madam, I haven't left the table yet.
01:03He say you better come right away.
01:05Well, does he?
01:07You have bet $100 on this game, sir.
01:10And you are not going to leave until it's finished.
01:13Who is this impatient gentleman, Hayboy?
01:16He say major, but not in major uniform.
01:21Mister, I have a witness.
01:23If you try to duck out of this game, I shall call it on that.
01:30If you'll permit me.
01:37Check.
01:40And the queen's sacrifice, naturally.
01:43Checkmate.
01:50Hey, boy.
01:52This major of yours had better be worth at least $100.
01:58Kidding.
02:04Is this the man?
02:05Yes, sir.
02:06Major Leonard Ferber, Army Intelligence.
02:08Can you identify yourself?
02:19If you don't mind, we'll talk up in your room.
02:20To you, Major.
02:22It's the peacetime army here, boy.
02:25Up the stairs and to the right.
02:31Colonel Benjamin Nunez.
02:32I only met him once.
02:34Heard enough about him, of course.
02:35He was almost legendary as an Indian fighter.
02:38Sort of inspired lunatic who loved the army almost as much as he hated everybody in it.
02:46I never could quite picture him as a peacetime officer.
02:51Neither could he.
02:53He was married to an Apache woman, you know.
02:56Now, what did that have to do with him?
02:58Unfortunately, everything.
03:01One day, while he was away at Douglas, a couple of drunken sergeants broke into his house.
03:08His wife was there all alone.
03:10We all dreaded what would happen when he came back.
03:14But he didn't say a word.
03:16He rode straight over to the post hospital.
03:19Got his wife up out of bed.
03:20She was in a bad state, but he would have killed anybody who tried to stop him and rode off with her.
03:27That's the last anybody heard about him.
03:31Until now.
03:37Army fears Apache uprising.
03:41What makes you think he's behind it?
03:43Reports, rumors, warnings about a white war chief who was trying to organize them like a modern army.
03:47Well, how do they fight now, Major?
03:50Like Indians or like the army?
03:52Still like Indians.
03:55We sent a peace party to the white chief.
03:57He was supposed to be training his army just east of a place called Alamogordo in New Mexico.
04:02They find him?
04:03He sent them back wrapped in their own white flags.
04:07Now, we'll have to fight him, all right.
04:09But my superiors felt that one more attempt ought to be made.
04:13By a civilian?
04:15Why?
04:15Because it might prove to be necessary to kill him in cold blood.
04:22I can't ask an American officer to execute a man without a proper trial.
04:26But if you hire a gunman, it's all right.
04:29I can only impress upon you that averting this war by any means would be saving several thousand lives.
04:41Good day, sir.
04:42Good day, sir.
04:42I may no longer be an officer and a gentleman, but I'm not an assassin.
04:50I'm not interested in your methods.
04:51I'm only interested in results.
04:54If you can bring Nunez back to stand trial for high treason and desertion, so much the better.
04:59All right.
05:01You'll leave at once.
05:02Major...
05:03I'll expect a report from you within ten days, if you're still alive.
05:08Major, haven't you forgotten something?
05:10What?
05:12Well, civilians usually get paid for their work.
05:16If and when you return, you will submit a detailed report along with a list of your expenses.
05:21As soon as we get an authorization to reimburse you...
05:23I was beginning to think the army had changed.
05:29Ha ha ha ha ha.
05:59Oh, my God.
06:29Oh, my God.
06:59Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.
07:20One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more.
07:28Death, thou shalt die.
07:30We're going to the white ward, chief.
07:39You understand?
07:40There are some.
07:41Amen.
07:43You're right.
07:44You're right.
07:45You're right.
07:46Here.
07:47You're right.
07:48You're right.
07:49Here.
07:50Come on, Soria.
08:04Come on, Soria.
08:20There we rest here.
08:50Now, son, that's a hundred foot drop over there.
09:20NoƱez!
09:21Colonel NoƱez!
09:22NoƱez!
09:23Colonel NoƱez!
09:24Colonel NoƱez!
09:50Colonel NoƱez!
09:54May I speak to your husband?
09:56Why?
09:57Man's business.
09:59Or has NoƱez grown so old that he's lost his teeth and needs a woman now to chew his words?
10:05Throw your belt up to me.
10:20Who are you?
10:46You are Colonel NoƱez, aren't you?
10:49I am.
10:50My name is Paladin.
10:51We were on a patrol together once.
10:52Mackenzie's expedition against the Comanche.
10:53No longer with the army, are you?
10:56So they've hounded you out, too, have they?
10:59No, I left by choice.
11:00Nonsense!
11:01A man doesn't choose to leave the army any more than he deny his own mother.
11:05You come to join with me, then?
11:09You come to spy on me?
11:22The army sent you, of course.
11:27They wouldn't dare put troops in the field against me.
11:32They want to snare me with haunted words, with treachery.
11:37They sent you, didn't they?
11:39Yes.
11:40The army knows you have a fair grievance.
11:43They also know if you're really interested in justice for your wife or yourself, you'll never get it this way.
11:50Justice?
11:51Do they expect me to beg for it, cap in hand?
11:55I've gone too far for that.
11:58I'll write my own verdict of justice, with their blood.
12:04And the blood of your wife's people?
12:06They're used to bleeding.
12:08My wife says the army sent you to kill me.
12:14The army sent me to try and head off a useless slaughter on both sides.
12:19It will not be useless.
12:21It will give these poor devils a chance to get some of their own back.
12:26Vengeance is mine.
12:28I will repay, saith the Lord.
12:33That's the message you want me to carry back?
12:37I'm sorry, mister.
12:42But you are not going back.
12:55Colonel, I've been sitting here one long day.
12:59You killed the other two peace emissaries the army sent up here.
13:02How long does it take you to make up your mind about them?
13:06I never even saw those two men.
13:13So we were on the Mackenzie expedition, huh?
13:19What's happened to General Fremont?
13:24He's gone into politics.
13:25From what I hear, he's doing pretty well.
13:27Certainly did him no harm to be married to a senator's daughter instead of a squaw.
13:34My brother was right.
13:37You didn't leave your people for my sake, but for the sake of your own pride.
13:42You never loved my people.
13:45You only hated your own.
13:48And now your blood is too thin even for that.
13:51Oh, it was a grand gesture I made, giving up everything for her.
13:57You haven't gone so far that you can't turn back?
14:04Trying to get around me with words now, is that the game?
14:08Because they have no belly for honest combat.
14:12You once had a reputation for never risking a life unnecessarily.
14:16Yes.
14:18And where did it get me?
14:20When the battle was done?
14:22Who got the plums?
14:24The promotions?
14:25The political appointments?
14:27If that's all you were fighting for, the army didn't lose much.
14:30Show me a soldier who never cared for recognition, honor, respect.
14:34And your wife never entered into it.
14:36She was just your excuse for quitting.
14:40It wouldn't be the first time a man like me had to go his own lonely way.
14:51Oh, that I were in the wilderness.
14:53That I might leave my people and go from them.
14:57For they are an assembly of the treasurers.
15:00They bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood.
15:06And they are grown mighty in the land.
15:09But not for truth.
15:15And they proceed from evil to evil.
15:18Jeremiah.
15:20Only 22 chapters later he also said,
15:25And they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
15:29And there is hope for thy future, saith the Lord.
15:33I tell you there was no hope in that cesspool of politics and corruption for a fighting man.
15:43What did they know of loyalty, tradition, respect for rank?
15:46Unlike the Apache.
15:49Colonel, man for man, these Apaches are the finest soldiers in the world.
15:55Did you really believe they'd let you lead them?
15:59Has it occurred to you that they're using you as a traitor to the army to learn army tactics?
16:05They trust me. They believe in me.
16:07Have they ever let you lead them in combat?
16:10The time wasn't right.
16:12You're not their leader, you're their prisoner.
16:14Shut up!
16:15And the army thought of you as a threat.
16:28They tracked you in here three, maybe five ponies.
16:31Are you so nervous about Nunyas?
16:33You have only to do what your wife tells you to do, or let the Apaches do it for you.
16:38Maybe they'll let you live a little longer in the comforts and satisfaction of your old age.
16:43Begin by peeling my forehead down.
16:46I know what they'll do.
16:47Give me my gun, old man. You can't stop them from doing it to me.
16:50And you can't stop them from doing it to you either.
16:52I am their general officer. They are my army.
16:55Give me my gun, old man.
16:56It won't work.
16:57Stand over there next to the ladder and put your arms up.
17:00You want to die right now, move over.
17:02Serafina.
17:03Serafina.
17:20You might have known he was your brother.
17:28You found an Indian boy, you killed some swine.
17:31You killed him, old man.
17:33You killed him.
17:35He'll use that knife on you when the time comes, old man.
17:38Leave him alone.
17:40Oh!
17:41This is a military prisoner.
17:44We'll have military order and discipline here.
17:47We've got to question the prisoner.
17:50You're brave and you win all the little fights, but the Army wins the war because you fight like animals.
17:54This man knows everything we need, where the troops are, what they plan to do.
17:58You'd throw all that away for the pleasure of torturing him to death.
18:02And the army wins the war because they fight like men.
18:07Now get out.
18:11I'll question him in my own way.
18:15You may have him when I'm done.
18:19But not until I'm done. Now get out and let me get on with it.
18:28Come on.
18:35Well, old man, you handled that beautifully.
18:38Now you can save your life by doing to me what they surely will do if you don't.
18:45You will let him live?
18:48Your heart is still with them.
18:50What do you know of a man's heart, you bloody savage?
18:53Make up your mind, General, of the Apache armies.
18:56My army. Mine.
19:03Fremont.
19:05Fremont in politics. Fremont.
19:08Why, the poor fool thought he was a king in St. Louis.
19:13I like a little boy playing it king.
19:16They murdered his army.
19:19The Confederates.
19:21Fremont running for president.
19:23And Nunes is leading a gang of Apache.
19:26Fremont.
19:28Fremont.
19:29Fremont.
19:37Wake up.
19:39What happened?
19:41My wife.
19:44Fremont.
19:46Fremont.
19:48Fremont.
19:50Fremont.
19:51What happened?
19:53My wife.
19:57She went off during the night, back to her people.
20:00Why didn't you kill me?
20:02That would have convinced them they can still trust you.
20:06Maybe I'm tired of living on the edge of a knife.
20:08Maybe I don't want their trust anymore, not that way.
20:14If I'd wanted to skunk my way through life,
20:18I'd have stayed on and turned the other cheek,
20:20and maybe gotten rid of my half-savage squaw,
20:24and smiled my way into the heart of some nice little society
20:29gal, and drank and sported with staff
20:31officers and politicians, and showed them
20:36what a nice, housebroken major general I'd make.
20:43You reckon the army would take me back
20:45after I had my court-martial?
20:50Maybe.
20:56I know they'll ever give me back my command.
20:58I'll do well enough if I don't get the rope.
21:04Cut us off.
21:06Any other way out of here?
21:08I said I wasn't about to run from my own troops.
21:11Those aren't your own troops anymore, Colonel, if they ever were.
21:14My wife's with them.
21:18Go on back to her brother.
21:19Treacherous, ungrateful savage.
21:22After all, I've sacrificed for her.
21:24Maybe she did get tired of hearing about it.
21:26By thunder, this is more than I will tell.
21:28Stay down.
21:29Stay down.
21:29Lie still in ambush for that pack of mutineers.
21:32By heaven, what do you take me for?
21:34Don't be a fool.
21:35You said they wouldn't trust me to lead them?
21:36Colonel, if you go down there, there's nothing on earth
21:39that can stop those people from murdering you.
21:41You go down there, and I won't be able to help you.
21:44Always, when the chips are down, I have to do it myself.
21:52Go back.
21:54Go back to your units until I send for you.
21:58You pack of undisciplined recruits.
22:02Back with you.
22:03Do you hear me?
22:06Mucineers, dishonely savages.
22:11I'll drill some discipline into you
22:13if I have to do it at the point of a bayonet.
22:16Savages, renegades, dismount.
22:24Take cover, men.
22:26Take cover, blast your eyes.
22:30Concentrate to a fire.
22:32Whee-whee-whee-whee-whee.
22:39Whee-whee-whee-whee-Ć.
22:45Mya.
22:46Jezebel, ungrateful savages!
22:51Manyaires.
22:56J'ai!
22:59Let's go.
23:08Dark Google.
23:29This part of my husband, you take back.
23:59There'll be no written report, Major.
24:06Tell him he died in the uniform of an American officer.
24:15What about your wages?
24:19Just ask him to put a headstone over this.
24:29A gun will travel, reach the card of a man.
24:44A knight without armor in a savage land.
24:50His fast gun for hire, heats the calling wind.
24:56A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.
25:05Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
25:13Go, go, go, go, go.
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