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Paladin is hired by a guilt ridden resident, to protect a revengeful man returning to the town that lynched his innocent brother.
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00:00Which one are you, Fraser?
00:07Are you the one that put the rope around Aaron Bell's neck?
00:10Or did you just cheer and yell for the trap to fall?
00:30Oh, hey, boy. I thought you were trying to starve me to death.
00:40The paladin.
00:43I'm like a man.
00:46I'm a man.
00:48I'm a man.
00:50I'm a man.
00:51I'm a man.
00:52I'm a man.
00:53I'm a man.
00:54I'm a man.
00:55I'm a man.
00:56I'm a man.
00:57The paladin.
00:59I'm like a wily panther.
01:01He'll never find me.
01:02Thank you very much, Hayboy.
01:04That'll be all.
01:07Now, Mr. Warren.
01:09I have warned you before.
01:10I have tried to avoid this.
01:12But if you interfere with Hayboy or me again...
01:15Man, I don't want your money!
01:17This time it's not for me, paladin.
01:18I want to hire you to protect Aaron Bell from me.
01:21He's been out of prison one week, and the first thing he did was buy a horse and gun.
01:24Well, that tells the whole story.
01:26He's come back to kill one of us or all of us.
01:28But believe me, if he tries, he's not going to live long enough to do it.
01:32Warren, eight years ago, Yorktown hanged Aaron Bell's brother.
01:35A man guilty of nothing more than fighting for what he believed in.
01:39Now you tell me they're going to murder Aaron?
01:42No, sir.
01:43Kill him in self-defense.
01:44Well, I'm not going to stand still while he tries to kill me.
01:47I know.
01:48Now maybe, maybe Aaron has a point.
01:50Maybe he should kill me.
01:51But if he tries, I'm going to shoot first.
01:55What do you want me to do?
01:57Protect Aaron.
01:59Keep me from killing him.
02:01Keep us all from killing him.
02:03Keep me from killing him.
02:07Oh, my God.
02:37Get back to me.
02:40Put the gun away, Fraser.
02:44I'm sorry. I thought you were there and I...
02:48How did you know my name?
02:51Warren told me about you and your store.
03:04You're Paladin.
03:06The man he hired to kill Aaron.
03:08Honey, pour Mr. Paladin some coffee, huh?
03:13You don't catch me napping, young Aaron, don't.
03:16Sugar's on the table.
03:19You're a Penelope Fraser, huh?
03:24She's shy.
03:26She don't get to see many strangers.
03:31How are you gonna do it?
03:33Well, now, which one are you?
03:36You just said my name.
03:38Now, I...
03:39Yes, I know your name.
03:40But which one are you?
03:42Are you the one that put the rope around his neck?
03:46Or did you cry out for the trap to be sprung?
03:49Huh?
03:51There were a lot of hands on the rope that night.
03:55Where's Warren and the others?
03:57They're coming.
03:59Well, now, you...
04:00You got a funny kind of attitude.
04:02You come in here like...
04:05Like you was working for Aaron.
04:07You hung him, you said.
04:09You put the rope around his neck.
04:11I didn't say that.
04:12I didn't say that.
04:17Stop it, Fraser!
04:20You're gonna get yourself killed acting like that.
04:24Warren.
04:26This fellow come in here like he was accusing me.
04:28Like I did it myself.
04:31Where are the others?
04:32They're coming.
04:34Except Sayer, I couldn't find Sayer.
04:35I've been here all along.
04:46Some gunfighter.
04:51I could have shot him 12 times over and you're with him, Fraser.
04:55How are you gonna help us against Aaron?
04:58He'll slide up just like me and the next thing you know is...
05:01Bang!
05:03You would be Sayer.
05:06That's right.
05:08Warren told you about me, eh?
05:11Did he ever tell you my old man was 85 year old when I was born?
05:17And he died when I was 15 in a gunfight over a woman?
05:22Yes, sir.
05:24You pick on Fraser.
05:27Well, he was back in the shadows hollering fit to kill.
05:31I put the rope on Paul Bell's neck.
05:35The one a man around had stomach for but me.
05:39You must be very proud.
05:42Proud?
05:44He's a traitor, wasn't he?
05:46Out of uniform?
05:48The army have shot him as they caught him.
05:50Or it's you couldn't wait.
05:51War is war.
05:52Your gunfighter's got more milk in his veins, Warren.
06:07Tell you, my old man wouldn't have left him on his brace.
06:11No, sir.
06:29Sheriff and Mrs. Howard Paladin from San Francisco.
06:31I do.
06:33Not sure if that job died like everything else around here.
06:36He ain't no good, Frieda.
06:38I'll probably have to shoot Aaron myself.
06:42That's what you're here for, isn't it?
06:44To kill Aaron?
06:50Nope.
06:51Mr. Paladin.
07:00Why are you here?
07:03To try and keep Aaron Bell from throwing away the rest of his life.
07:10It's like a confession.
07:12Like we admitted we did something wrong.
07:15She's right.
07:16She's the only one who's got enough steel to strike a light.
07:19Mrs. Howard, you and your friends hanged an innocent man.
07:23Burned his farm and caused his brother to spend eight years in a federal prison.
07:29Aaron was a rotten boy.
07:31Spoiled rotten.
07:33He didn't have to spend eight years in jail.
07:35He kept trying to escape.
07:37Wouldn't you if you were in prison for something you didn't do?
07:39Aaron was guilty of treason.
07:41He'd give aid and comfort to the enemy.
07:42The enemy he gave aid and comfort to was his brother.
07:47Well, he was out of uniform.
07:49He was out of uniform?
07:52She didn't mean that.
07:53Speak for yourself.
07:55Warren, you said you were going to get us some protection.
07:57Now what's he going to do?
07:59Better question, Mr. Fraser.
08:01Aaron Bell's been here for a week.
08:03What's he waiting for?
08:05Where's he likely to go?
08:07Likely out at the old Bell farm.
08:09There'd be some wild stuff hanging on the vegetable patch.
08:15Probably sleeping in the storm cellar.
08:18Staring at that burned out ruin.
08:20Just waiting to get mad enough to come for it.
08:27Directly out the east road.
08:29There's an old split elm in the house's back of it.
08:32That's the elm I hung him from.
08:34You tell Aaron, Mr. Paladin.
08:37You tell him we did nothing wrong.
08:39Tell him to go away.
08:41Hmm.
08:42Or we'll kill him.
09:03Well, that's the butler.
09:05tax?
09:07There'll be.
09:09I don't Minds, don't care.
09:10Don't mind.
09:11Bill?
09:13Who would happen?
09:15If somebody would fall off
09:18and 비 promise you to come for fun,
09:20why would we want?
09:22Very well.
09:24Take care.
09:26Could a builder.
09:27Big money.
09:30Why?
09:31It's a gun.
09:37Drop it.
09:41No, Aaron, you want this gun,
09:44take it and keep it clean.
09:47Aaron, what are you planning to do?
09:50Are you going to kill all those people in that town?
09:53Or do you have a particular one in mind?
09:56A special one?
09:58I don't know.
09:59A week ago, he's going to kill them all.
10:02I may still kill them all.
10:17That's my brother.
10:19They didn't even hang him right.
10:21They left him choking and kicking in the air.
10:24And you want Sayre?
10:25Sayre?
10:27Sayre.
10:28That old fool claiming he hung Paul?
10:31Just like him with his stories about his old man and how tough he was.
10:35He's a liar.
10:37Not Sayre.
10:38Why not?
10:39I didn't say he wasn't guilty.
10:41He yelled loud enough.
10:43That mob just started with talk and holler and dare.
10:45And that's a picture of old Sayre, isn't it?
10:48Warren?
10:49What's the matter to you?
10:50Warren?
10:52What's the matter to you?
10:53Jennifer?
10:54Isn't he helping me?
10:55He hired me to protect you.
10:58Protect me?
11:03You're trying to tell me they're Ö sorry?
11:04No, they're not.
11:06Some think they're the right to hang Paul.
11:07He hired me to protect you.
11:12Protect me?
11:14Are you trying to tell me they're sorry?
11:16No, they're not sorry.
11:18Some of them even think they were right to hang Paul.
11:20Right!
11:23When my brother was still swinging on that tree,
11:26the mob quieted down because they got a little sick about what they'd done.
11:30And I heard a man say, God forgive me.
11:33While Paul's body was still swinging in the tree,
11:35and the light was still on his face, he was asking forgiveness.
11:40Well, if that man's allowed to live out his days,
11:42there ain't no God, there ain't nothing.
11:45Now, that's the only way you're going to stop me.
11:48Reach for it.
11:51Your hand, you're living, ain't it? I'll blow it up.
11:53Aaron.
11:56Now, give it to me.
11:58Give it to me!
12:05All right.
12:25Mr. Sayer, I hear you've been doing some bragging.
12:41Smart words, boy.
12:42Aaron.
12:47Aaron, we know how you feel.
12:51Do?
12:51Sheriff, there's our sheriff.
12:59I'm not sure.
13:02You finally know that, do you?
13:04You finally know that!
13:07They burned us out last.
13:09They rode through the hills the whole night burning out rebel farms before they got to us.
13:14Only three miles to town, I kept telling myself.
13:17Three miles!
13:19Sheriff Howard will be here in time.
13:21Sheriff Howard will be here in the woods.
13:24And you.
13:27You were Paul's friend.
13:31He thought you were.
13:40Penny Frazier.
13:41She was in Pigtails, about 10 years old, when I went to prison.
13:48Look at her now.
13:58Why did he bring you here?
14:00Ask her.
14:01Very simple.
14:02He's going to kill one of you.
14:06The problem is to find out which one.
14:11Yes, yes.
14:13And then what?
14:14Then why do you want to kill him?
14:16What will that solve?
14:17Then I decide whether or not to let him.
14:20You people asked me to protect you against Aaron.
14:22The only way I could protect you from having him kill all of you
14:26is to stay with you day and night, year after year.
14:29And even if I were willing to do that, not one of you would want to live that kind of a life,
14:33never knowing when the bullet was coming.
14:36I could kill Aaron right now,
14:38or I could let him satisfy himself on the one of you who really is guilty.
14:43Which one of us?
14:44Miss Howard, I don't think there will be any volunteers.
14:48Aaron, which one?
15:08Your faces look different the night you hung Paul.
15:12I didn't know if you were laughing or crying.
15:16Warren!
15:17Now, wait a minute.
15:18I remember one time you had my pa with me.
15:20Because I forgot to tip my hat and call you sir.
15:23Did he plan the whole thing, Mr. Frazier?
15:28Why, sure.
15:29Now, that's an out and out lie.
15:31It was the same.
15:32You with all your talk about rebel settlers running the town if we didn't drive them off.
15:36Did I tell you to burn them out?
15:38Did I tell you to hang them?
15:39Aaron, as God, is my judge.
15:41I never said that.
15:42You didn't have to tell anybody anything.
15:45You had them all filled up with fear with your threats of pulling out and moving on.
15:49Half the town owing you one way or another.
15:52Well, I was right.
15:53The army ran the Confederate towns after the war just like I said.
15:57We would have been strangled with taxes.
15:59Is that worse than what happened that night?
16:01Well, now, you just wait a minute.
16:03You can't do this to me.
16:05Aaron's got no cause to hurt me and the rest of you.
16:08You're not going to use me to hide behind.
16:11Aaron.
16:17He's had enough punishment just living with himself.
16:20Try another.
16:31He's not a bad candidate.
16:36They'd never miss him.
16:38Oh, Aaron.
16:42Aaron?
16:45You know him?
16:47You've been out to his farm.
16:49Who knew he was there all this time?
16:51I go out there for the wild roses that grow in the old garden.
16:55Aaron, Mr. Bell was there.
16:57I'm back, Mr. Frazier.
17:00No.
17:01Not her, Aaron.
17:02Me.
17:03You leave her alone.
17:05I don't even care about you, Mr. Frazier.
17:10You haven't got the backbone of the courage to keep up a friendship that...
17:14that started to be a trouble to you.
17:16What did Paul have to take a stand for?
17:19Principles are right, but you believe in something...
17:22you don't have to tear the world apart for it.
17:24I was a confederate.
17:29Yes, I was.
17:30I...
17:31I just never told anybody about it.
17:32I minded my own business.
17:37Oh, he had a fight.
17:38Now, why did he...
17:47I'd have done that.
17:49We've taken care of Penny.
17:54It's all right, Mr. Frazier.
17:57When I first saw her, I was on my way to kill you all.
18:00I was gonna stop by the old place and let the hate boil up in me.
18:03But... she sort of changed things.
18:04She came out every afternoon.
18:05She told me what had happened to you all.
18:06Until finally I began to realize there was only one of you...
18:07that acted on his own that night.
18:08That planned the whole thing...
18:09and she told me what had happened to you all.
18:11Until finally I began to realize...
18:13there was only one of you that acted on his own that night.
18:14That planned the whole thing...
18:15and he was on my way to kill you all.
18:16I was on my way to kill you all.
18:17I was gonna stop by the old place...
18:18and let the hate boil up in me.
18:19But... she sort of changed things.
18:20She came out every afternoon.
18:21She told me what had happened to you all.
18:22Until finally I began to realize...
18:24there was only one of you that acted on his own that night.
18:25That planned the whole thing in cold blood.
18:29Hold it on, ma'am.
18:30Hold it right there!
18:31No, don't shoot!
18:32Shoot, you just tried to kill a man!
18:35And...
18:36I told her story...
18:37that was a good one.
18:38That was a good one.
18:39Don't shoot!
18:40Don't shoot!
18:41Don't shoot!
18:42You just tried to kill a man!
18:43Don't shoot!
18:44Don't shoot!
18:45You just tried to kill a man!
18:47Don't shoot!
18:48Don't shoot!
18:49Don't shoot!
18:50Don't shoot!
18:51I told her story all these years!
18:52You know!
18:53I put the rope on, Iron and all!
18:55I can understand how you start thinking I must've planned!
18:59But I didn't!
19:00It was...
19:04It was...
19:05lies!
19:08Who were you lying to?
19:10His old man.
19:12Sayer.
19:14Everybody knows you're still afraid of your Pa...
19:17even though he's been dead 40 years.
19:19It ain't you.
19:31Thank you, powder.
19:49You accuse him?
19:55I didn't speak for himself.
20:00Where was you, Sheriff?
20:05I was in Reading, serving a warrant.
20:11What was the man's name, Sheriff?
20:14All this time...
20:16This is no court. You have no right to plague him.
20:20No, no, Freda. Let him alone.
20:23I've got nothing to hide.
20:24Where did you go?
20:26It was the saloon in Reading, wasn't it?
20:28That's where they said he was.
20:30Wherever it was in that warrant, that's where they said he'd be.
20:33He did have a warrant.
20:34Let him say it!
20:38I didn't find the man, that's right.
20:41And I came back.
20:43You stayed on in the saloon and you got drunk.
20:46And then you came back.
20:48I came back and I saw the fire and...
20:51Paul was dead.
20:53You went to Reading because you knew what was gonna happen.
20:57You poured whiskey into yourself because you knew what you were gonna find when you come back.
21:02And you wanted to be drunk when you saw him.
21:05No, but...
21:06You stood in front of that saloon yelling out a man's name that didn't even exist!
21:11No, that is not true.
21:14Some trail hand signed that warrant. I remember that.
21:18I never saw him because...
21:20Because what, Mr. Howard?
21:21What, Mr. Howard?
21:25Rita?
21:30Where's Howard?
21:31What?
21:41Your brother was killed by a mob.
21:44Would have killed to get to him.
21:48My husband was just the kind of fool who would have tried to stop him.
21:51Aaron, you lost your brother. You know what it's like.
21:56Look at me.
22:10I was like an old woman already eight years ago.
22:13How does a woman like me find another man?
22:19How do you live?
22:23Find some cousin.
22:25Who lets you sleep in the attic and do the scrubbing.
22:29I love this man.
22:33I'd do it again.
22:38I'd do it again.
22:39I'd do it again.
22:55You go ahead, Aaron.
22:57You play God if you want to.
23:00Give me the gun.
23:01No.
23:09I just want to get out of here.
23:19Roses?
23:22I'll take care of them.
23:24They only need a little care.
23:26Yeah.
23:28Well...
23:30Maybe.
23:36Aaron.
23:39If you're not going to be living on the place.
23:41No!
23:50Maybe I'll fix the old place up.
23:53And leave that split elm out front.
23:56When you ride by, you remind yourself of it.
24:01Maybe I'll...
24:03Grow me some wild roses.
24:04Well, you certainly have a peculiar way of doing things.
24:18Yeah.
24:19Here.
24:49A gun will travel, reach the cart of a man, a knight without armor in a savage land.
25:07His fast gun for hire heats the calling wind.
25:12A soldier of fortune is a man called Paladin.
25:20Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
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