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Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
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00:01:18For it was a war of neighbor against neighbor, family against family, brother against brother, and flag against flag.
00:01:48Nor was the slaughter confined to the armies of the North and South alone.
00:01:57There was a war-bred outlaw army of guerrillas masquerading under the flags of both sides, pillaging, burning, and killing for private gain.
00:02:11The most savage and merciless among the lawless tribes whose organized violence terrorized the country
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00:03:07Well, sir, there she is. Lawrence, Kansas. Figure we ought to ride through, or had we better go around?
00:03:13Well, why shouldn't we ride through? Because a town that big is bound to have a sizeable troop of Union soldiers in it.
00:03:19I ain't scared of no Union soldiers. It's them redlegs that worries me. How come a man gets mean enough to want to be a redleg?
00:03:26My pappy says there ain't nobody meaner. He said they're just acting like they're working for the Union army so as they have a chance to kill and rob decent folks.
00:03:33Well, are we gonna sit up here all day and gab, or are we gonna move on?
00:03:37We're riding through.
00:03:49We're riding through. Come on man.
00:03:50Let's go.
00:03:51That's the same ride.
00:03:52Let's go.
00:03:53Go and see.
00:03:54Come on, come on, come on.
00:03:55We'reoon.
00:03:56Let's go.
00:03:57Go and see.
00:03:58Go.
00:04:00Go.
00:04:01Go, go.
00:04:02Go.
00:04:03Go, go.
00:04:04Go!
00:04:05Go, go.
00:04:06Go, go.
00:04:07Go.
00:04:08Go, go.
00:04:09Go, go.
00:04:10Go, go.
00:04:12Go, go.
00:04:14Go, go, go.
00:04:15Go.
00:04:16See how that thing reads, Frank.
00:04:18Scores counted dead in New York draft riots
00:04:28Fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, open to Union forces
00:04:32Quantro guerrillas strike Kansas' border with fire and sword
00:04:36Quantro must be quiet someday
00:04:39Looks like these town folks is kind of jumpy, Jess
00:04:41Do you think we ought to stop here or keep on moving?
00:04:43Don't look like we're going to have much to say about it one way or another
00:04:49Redlegs
00:04:51Which one of you does the talking?
00:05:03What do you want to know?
00:05:08What are you doing in this town?
00:05:09Just passing through
00:05:10Where to?
00:05:11We ain't that sure
00:05:12If you're so set on finding out, you're welcome to tag along
00:05:15If they ain't Quantro's men, I'm a horse thief
00:05:18And you're a horse thief
00:05:20So Quantro sent you in to do a little spying, huh?
00:05:24Quantro never laid eyes on the man
00:05:26That's not what I asked you
00:05:27You got your answer, mister
00:05:28What's your names?
00:05:49You
00:05:50Jesse James
00:05:51Frank James
00:05:52Your brothers?
00:05:53Yep
00:05:54Cole Younger
00:05:55Jim Younger
00:05:56Your brothers too?
00:05:57That's right
00:05:57Kit Dalton
00:05:59What's the matter?
00:06:00Ain't you got no brothers?
00:06:01Well, I got a couple of brothers back home
00:06:02But they were smart enough to stay there
00:06:04How long you fellas been with Quantro?
00:06:09I asked you a question
00:06:10Ain't no sense answering it
00:06:12Done that once already
00:06:13You fellas don't seem to realize that there's a war going on
00:06:18Maybe for you there is
00:06:20Ain't no concern to us
00:06:21That's where you're wrong
00:06:22In the border country
00:06:24You're either a union man or a spy
00:06:26The union men get put in the army
00:06:28The spies get hung
00:06:30Ain't much of a choice, is it?
00:06:32That's the choice you got
00:06:34When it comes to joining an army
00:06:36We'll just make up our own minds
00:06:37All right
00:06:39And we'll see
00:06:40You get a nice legal court marshal
00:06:42Before they're hanging
00:06:43Let's hang him now
00:06:45What's all this talk about lynching someone?
00:06:55We caught these fights snooping around town
00:06:56They're Quantro men
00:06:57Is that true?
00:06:58I've been trying to tell him we ain't
00:06:59But he seems more set on hanging us
00:07:01Than hearing what we got to say
00:07:02Well, what have you got to say?
00:07:03Are you Quantro men or aren't you?
00:07:05No, sir
00:07:05Turn them loose
00:07:07Now, look here
00:07:08Just a minute
00:07:08Till I get orders to the contrary
00:07:11I'm in command of the military here
00:07:12What are you trying to do?
00:07:13Go Quantro one better?
00:07:14Hanging little kids
00:07:15Quantro never done no such thing
00:07:17See what I tell you?
00:07:18That's enough
00:07:18Get on your way, boys
00:07:21Captain, our live chief
00:07:35Was speaking up for us back there
00:07:37Forget it, son
00:07:37I'd like to give you a piece of advice
00:07:40If you are figuring on joining Quantro
00:07:42Don't do it
00:07:42Thanks, but
00:07:44We don't want that kind of advice
00:07:45All right, then take a warning
00:07:46Quantro and what's left of his gorillas
00:07:49Are as good as hung right now
00:07:50If that's what you're looking for
00:07:52Go ahead
00:07:52I wonder if they would have really strung us up back there
00:08:19You reckon so, Jesse?
00:08:22I reckon
00:08:22We'd either be swinging right now
00:08:25Or fighting for the Yankees
00:08:26You know, or fighting for the Yankees
00:08:26You know, that captain didn't come in any too soon
00:08:29I sure thought we was goners
00:08:30When old Jess busted out and stuck up for Quantro that way
00:08:32I don't like to stand by and see nobody black in a man's name
00:08:36Hear you talk, you'd think you and Quantro are old friends
00:08:39He's a real man
00:08:40He's a real man's all I know
00:08:41A real fighting man
00:08:43You know, I'm wondering why that captain let us go
00:08:46He had a mighty good notion where we was going
00:08:49Yeah, he did
00:08:50I'd like to know his name
00:08:53I'd kind of like to remember him
00:08:55To hear the Yankees tell it
00:08:57Quantro's got two horns, two hoofs, and a long tail
00:09:00He sure must be a real man at that
00:09:03Chewing up that Union cavalry faster
00:09:05And the Yankees can send them out here
00:09:07Him and 50 men whipped a whole regiment at Gainesville, I hear
00:09:10Well, I wonder if we're getting near his camp
00:09:12He's sure been a long ride
00:09:14We're getting near, all right
00:09:15Them red legs back in town wouldn't have been so scared
00:09:18You know, riding with a man like Quantro
00:09:22Well, I'll all be famous one of these days
00:09:25That is, if the war lasts long enough
00:09:27Might have our own outfits
00:09:29Company, a whole regiment even
00:09:30I can see me now
00:09:32Riding at the head of a hundred men
00:09:34In a sprinkling gray uniform and black shiny boots
00:09:37Man, there ain't nothing wrong with that
00:09:39Nothing except the pay
00:09:40The regular army ain't no place for an ambitious man
00:09:43I suppose you expect to get rich
00:09:45Uh-huh
00:09:46How are you gonna get rich?
00:09:47Fighting Yankees?
00:09:48Where's your brains, boy?
00:09:50Don't you know them banks in them Yankee towns
00:09:51Are just bulging with money?
00:09:53Yeah, but that'd be stealing
00:09:54With the regulars of wood
00:09:56But not with a gorilla outfit like Quantrill's
00:09:59Well, what do you know?
00:10:01What do you say about that, Jesse?
00:10:04Well, the bank's got plenty of money, hasn't it?
00:10:06No harm taking a little of it, I guess
00:10:08War time, anyway
00:10:09What's that?
00:10:17Looks like our Mr. Quantrill is close by these parts, sure enough
00:10:43They must have been spies
00:10:44Well, they couldn't have known much about their trade
00:10:47Nosing around a southern gorilla outfit
00:10:49Dressed up like red legs
00:10:50If they were spies, they got just what was coming to them
00:10:52Maybe he's the kind of a man that likes a-hanging every so often
00:10:54I'll find you
00:10:55I'll find you
00:11:51Hello, can we have any further help to you?
00:12:07There's that trace pole loose.
00:12:09Would you mind hooking it up for me?
00:12:11Get.
00:12:12Don't believe I've seen you boys around here before, have I?
00:12:14No.
00:12:16Just drifting, huh?
00:12:18Wouldn't be heading for Quantrill's headquarters, would you?
00:12:22Maybe.
00:12:23Anywhere's near?
00:12:25What do you think he's running, a nursery school?
00:12:28I wouldn't know, ma'am.
00:12:30Thanks, anyway.
00:12:33More recruits for the butcher brigade.
00:12:35It's a funny way to talk.
00:12:48Don't you know about women?
00:12:49They can't talk no other way.
00:12:51She could be real pretty if she weren't looking so mad.
00:12:54Well, we'd better get going or the war will be over and we'll be old men before we even see Quantrill.
00:12:59Yeah, come on, Jesse.
00:13:00Let's go.
00:13:00Let's go.
00:13:00Let's go.
00:13:00Let's go.
00:13:02Let's go.
00:13:04Let's go.
00:13:34It's about that time, isn't it?
00:13:43It's long past.
00:13:44He's late today.
00:13:46Looks like a bad day for them Yankees.
00:13:48Every day is a bad day for them Yankees when Quantrill holds court.
00:14:00Court's in session.
00:14:01All right, follow me.
00:14:11Come on.
00:14:12Step out.
00:14:13Come on.
00:14:21All right.
00:14:21Come on.
00:14:22Step out.
00:14:24Come on.
00:14:26Come on.
00:14:27Come on.
00:14:28All right.
00:14:28Right in here.
00:14:29Line up.
00:14:30Come on.
00:14:31Get in there.
00:14:32Come on.
00:14:33Get in there.
00:14:33Come on.
00:14:34Come on.
00:14:34Right over here.
00:14:36Come on.
00:14:36Come on.
00:14:37Come on.
00:14:37You're under military arrest as enemy spies.
00:15:04But it has always been my policy to prevent my enemies to speak in their own defense before
00:15:09pronouncing sentence.
00:15:10We're not enemy spies.
00:15:11We're soldiers, sir, in the uniform of the Northern Army.
00:15:14We were ambushed by your men while on a scouting mission.
00:15:17We demand the customary treatment accorded prisoners of war.
00:15:20You'll get the customary treatment of enemy spies.
00:15:23All right.
00:15:24That's it.
00:15:24That's it, Willis.
00:15:26All right.
00:15:27Move out.
00:15:27Come on.
00:15:28Step out here.
00:15:29Well, fella.
00:15:30What have you got to say?
00:15:45Ain't nothing I could say that'd bring back my wife and children, is there?
00:15:48You fired on my soldiers.
00:15:50Not till after they murdered my family I didn't.
00:15:52of war, mister. Women and babies don't fight
00:15:54nobody. That man led your drunken
00:15:56raiders onto my place and shot them down while he was
00:15:58running for safety. You call them
00:16:00soldiers? They're cowardly
00:16:02thieving killers? Robbing,
00:16:05burning, shooting at anything or anybody without
00:16:06a chance or warning? You call that war?
00:16:09Put that away, Tate.
00:16:22Mr. Anderson? Whom have we here?
00:16:35The prowlers, Colonel. The dangerous kind,
00:16:37Colonel. Probably in the pay of the red legs.
00:16:39I suggest we get rid of them
00:16:40along with the others. They're boys, mere
00:16:42boys. Yeah, plenty young and plenty
00:16:44fresh. They look like good boys to me.
00:16:47What are you doing here?
00:16:48We came to join up.
00:16:50Can you ride? Can you shoot?
00:16:52We do, fair.
00:16:54Can you fight? Do you want to fight?
00:16:56Well, that's what we rode all the way from Missouri
00:16:58for, Mr. Quantrill.
00:17:00Colonel Quantrill. Well, you sort of
00:17:02have to excuse us, Colonel. We
00:17:04had too much experience with uniforms.
00:17:06That's all right.
00:17:08So you want to fight, huh?
00:17:10Well, we'll see.
00:17:13This is my second in command,
00:17:14Mr. Anderson.
00:17:16My third,
00:17:18Rudolph Tate.
00:17:20Five of you, huh?
00:17:22Well, we'll swear them in tonight.
00:17:23In the meantime, they're all yours,
00:17:24Mr. Tate.
00:17:25All mine, sir?
00:17:27Within reason.
00:17:28Yes, sir.
00:17:29Come on.
00:17:35Where you kids come from?
00:17:37I just told you, down Missouri way.
00:17:39I didn't know they let you put on long
00:17:40pants so young down there.
00:17:42What you boys figure on doing in this outfit?
00:17:44Mind the horses while the men do the fighting?
00:17:46We figure on minding our own business
00:17:48if others will do the same.
00:17:49What you mean by that, boy?
00:17:50Look, mister, why don't you go on about your chores
00:17:52and stop making like such a hard case?
00:17:54Maybe you think I ain't a hard case.
00:17:56We don't know.
00:17:58You look hard enough on the outside,
00:18:00but I don't see what you've got on the inside.
00:18:02Well, this is where you get your chance
00:18:03to find out, Sonny.
00:18:04Looks like somebody's gonna have to fight the man.
00:18:09I'll fight it, Jesse.
00:18:10Let me fight it.
00:18:10No.
00:18:11Looks like I'm the one he's taking a hankering for.
00:18:13Just you name it, Sonny.
00:18:15All right.
00:18:16May as well make it for keeps.
00:18:18Looks like that's the only way
00:18:19we're gonna have any peace around here.
00:18:21Frank, find us a couple of knives.
00:18:23He's got a lot of nerve, that kid.
00:18:31I once seen a couple of fellas
00:18:32cut each other to pieces
00:18:33in one of them handkerchief fights.
00:18:37You know the rules.
00:18:38First one that lets go in the handkerchief loses.
00:18:40I know, I know.
00:18:41I just hope you know him
00:18:42because you're gonna need him
00:18:43when I get through with him.
00:18:44Take your time, mister.
00:18:46You ain't likely to have too much of it left.
00:18:47All right, Tate, so much of you.
00:18:58Hey, watch out, Tate.
00:19:02Hey!
00:19:03Hey, that's her.
00:19:04Hey, that's her.
00:19:05Hey, that's her.
00:19:06Hey, that's her.
00:19:07Hey, that's her.
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00:19:29Hey, that's her.
00:19:30Hey, that's her.
00:19:31Get him!
00:19:33Get him!
00:19:35Hey!
00:19:39Oh, he's coming down now!
00:19:41No more!
00:19:43Watch out, man!
00:19:45Hey!
00:19:47Hey!
00:19:49Hey!
00:19:55Hey!
00:19:57Hey!
00:19:59Hey!
00:20:11That youngster meant it when he said he wanted to fight.
00:20:17Yeah.
00:20:29Kill him and bury him.
00:20:31All in a day's work, huh?
00:20:33You've got the wrong idea, ma'am.
00:20:35It was either him or me.
00:20:37Besides, it didn't look like none of his friends was going to bury him.
00:20:39He didn't want to kill you.
00:20:41Quantrill told him to pick a fight with you.
00:20:43To test your mettle.
00:20:45Didn't you know that?
00:20:47He could've stopped it, couldn't he?
00:20:49Why don't you go home?
00:20:51Go home and take your kid friends with you.
00:20:53First off, we don't have no homes left to go back to.
00:20:55The Yanks took care of that.
00:20:57That's why the Colonel's enemies are ours.
00:20:59Do you think Quantrill's fighting a war?
00:21:01Do you think Quantrill's fighting a war?
00:21:03You heard that farmer talk about his murdered family, didn't you?
00:21:05You know about the robbed and burned out homes.
00:21:07Quantrill's responsible for that.
00:21:09For all of it.
00:21:11He ordered it.
00:21:13I don't think the Colonel would do a thing like that.
00:21:15I think he's a fine man.
00:21:17The Colonel's a fine man.
00:21:19And so was Rudolph Tate.
00:21:21The troops are mounted and ready, sir.
00:21:34Very good, Lieutenant.
00:21:35Any word from the reconnaissance patrol?
00:21:37No, sir.
00:21:38The patrol's six hours overdue.
00:21:39I don't like it.
00:21:40Think they might've been trapped in the gorilla ambush, sir?
00:21:42That's what I'm afraid of.
00:21:43We could get there a lot faster, Captain, if we knew where we were going.
00:21:46We should've had that information two hours ago.
00:21:48Information that would lead us straight to Quantrill's headquarters.
00:21:50We'll give him a half hour more.
00:21:53Him?
00:21:54We've got a man in the camp in the pay of the Union Army.
00:21:57You mean, sir, we've got a spy in Quantrill's camp?
00:21:59That's right.
00:22:00He's one of Quantrill's right-hand men, Rudolph Tate.
00:22:09What kind of show you figure this is gonna be, Jess?
00:22:12I don't know, but it looks like we're gonna find out.
00:22:15Maybe the Colonel's fixing to roast a couple of Yankees for his supper.
00:22:19I heard when Quantrill swears anyone in, he likes it kind of fancy-like.
00:22:26All right. On your feet.
00:22:28Where are the candidates?
00:22:29Right over there, sir.
00:22:30You five.
00:22:31Down here.
00:22:32Comrades and fellow soldiers.
00:22:33We are gathered here.
00:22:34You five.
00:22:35Down here.
00:22:37Comrades and fellow soldiers.
00:22:38We are gathered here to take into our midst, if they'd be worthy, five volunteers and
00:22:39the soldiers.
00:22:40We are gathered here to take into our midst.
00:22:41Five volunteers in the service of Quantrill's guerrilla army.
00:22:46Are those five prepared to take the oath?
00:22:47We are.
00:22:48We are.
00:22:49We are.
00:22:50We are.
00:22:51We are.
00:22:52We are.
00:22:53We are.
00:22:54Do you swear never to betray a comrade of this band?
00:22:56Or ever to reveal a single secret of this organization?
00:22:57Or a single word of this, your oath?
00:22:58We swear.
00:22:59We swear never to betray a comrade of this band?
00:23:03Or ever to reveal a single secret of this organization?
00:23:08Or a single word of this, your oath?
00:23:11We swear.
00:23:12We swear.
00:23:13We swear.
00:23:14Do you further swear never to betray a comrade of this band?
00:23:17Or ever to reveal a single secret of this organization?
00:23:22Or a single word of this, your oath?
00:23:24We swear.
00:23:25We swear.
00:23:28Do you further swear never to desert a comrade who is in peril?
00:23:31Or ever, even in the face of certain death, permit him to fall into the hands of our enemies?
00:23:37We swear.
00:23:38We swear.
00:23:39then Frank and Jesse James
00:23:42Cole and Jim Younger
00:23:44Kit Dalton
00:23:45you are henceforth
00:23:48and forevermore sworn comrades
00:23:50and blood brothers
00:23:51of this
00:23:52the company of Quantrill's Gorilla Army
00:23:55congratulations Mr. James
00:24:00you're now one of us
00:24:01thank you sir
00:24:02you're the leader of this group I presume
00:24:05I wouldn't say that sir
00:24:06he wouldn't but the rest of us will
00:24:08come on into headquarters
00:24:10I'd like to talk with you a minute
00:24:11Mr. Anderson
00:24:14you can break out the garage
00:24:15Kate
00:24:23this is Jesse James
00:24:26I want you two to be friends
00:24:30you should have seen the way he handled
00:24:32Rudolph Tate this morning
00:24:33I did
00:24:35oh
00:24:37oh I meant to ask you about that
00:24:38Colonel
00:24:39why did he prod me that way
00:24:40I didn't give him no cause to pick on
00:24:42because he was mean
00:24:43an untruthful man
00:24:44always was that way
00:24:45no good
00:24:45he was good enough for you
00:24:46until today
00:24:47that's because I had to put up with him
00:24:49Kate you know that
00:24:50but I never did trust him
00:24:51good riddance
00:24:52we'll drink to it
00:24:53come here
00:25:05I want to show you something
00:25:06do you know where this war is going to be won
00:25:09here
00:25:11right here in the west
00:25:12you know who's going to win it
00:25:13we are
00:25:14now this my boy
00:25:16is what we call grand strategy
00:25:19now here's the approximate position of the armies right now
00:25:23Lee is retreating from Gettysburg
00:25:25New Orleans
00:25:26and Vicksburg have fallen
00:25:27leaving the entire length of the Mississippi open to the Union forces
00:25:31now
00:25:32what does that mean
00:25:33well
00:25:35the way I see it
00:25:36it means our side ain't doing so good
00:25:38it means that the south is effectively surrounded
00:25:40now that the northern navies control the seas
00:25:43is it that bad
00:25:45no no no
00:25:46you missed the point
00:25:47this is just the first phases
00:25:48the preliminary battles
00:25:50let the north win the battles
00:25:51we'll win the war
00:25:53how are we going to do that
00:25:55if they keep on licking us all the time
00:25:56because we're only giving ground
00:26:00the north is giving men
00:26:01and the manpower of the north
00:26:03is not completely inexhaustible
00:26:05Lee's strategy has been good on the whole
00:26:08quite good
00:26:09although
00:26:11the jetty has not seen far enough ahead
00:26:13but
00:26:14he will
00:26:15we'll see to that
00:26:17come on
00:26:20drink up
00:26:21what's the matter
00:26:25don't you like this stuff
00:26:26it's just
00:26:27just that I ain't so used to it
00:26:29well now here's what I mean
00:26:31when Lee
00:26:33eventually realizes
00:26:35the hopelessness of his present position
00:26:37what's he gonna do
00:26:39where's he gonna go
00:26:40there's only one possibility
00:26:42here
00:26:43the west
00:26:44may take months
00:26:46even years
00:26:48but
00:26:48here he can bide his time
00:26:51gather his strength
00:26:52for that great counterattack
00:26:54that will drive the Union Army into the sea
00:26:56Colonel you're right
00:26:58if he could get his men on this side of the Mississippi
00:27:00the Yanks would never dare cross
00:27:02there you are
00:27:04I knew you had a head for strategy
00:27:06now you know why I said that we will win the war
00:27:09that's our great task
00:27:11our glorious cause
00:27:13our gateway to a mortal fame
00:27:16let's drink to it
00:27:18that Colonel Quantrell
00:27:26sure chatters like a magpie
00:27:28don't he
00:27:28might have near give me an earache
00:27:29my old pappy used to say
00:27:31that if a man talked long enough
00:27:33and loud enough
00:27:34somebody's sure to believe him
00:27:35yeah
00:27:36that's what worries me
00:27:38Jesse hangs up
00:27:39written there every word
00:27:40Quantrell says
00:27:41we'll sweep him into the sea
00:27:45I've got a hundred men now
00:27:48I'll have a hundred thousand
00:27:50more
00:27:51I'll be second in command to Lee himself
00:27:55after all
00:27:57Lee's no longer a young man
00:28:00let's drink to that
00:28:03now
00:28:04with my strategy
00:28:05stop it
00:28:06haven't you given the boy
00:28:07enough strategy for one night
00:28:09I guess you're right
00:28:11my dear
00:28:11the hour is late
00:28:13I was just gonna say
00:28:15I
00:28:15I think I ought to be going
00:28:18good night
00:28:23good night Colonel
00:28:23good night
00:28:24good night
00:28:24good night
00:28:25good night
00:28:29good night
00:28:31Miss Kate
00:28:32you'll have to excuse me
00:28:34I
00:28:35I ain't so used to it
00:28:36what are you trying to do
00:28:52to that boy
00:28:52stuffing his head
00:28:54with all your nonsense
00:28:55nonsense
00:28:56I meant every word of it Kate
00:29:01every word of it
00:29:02can't you realize
00:29:04how useful that boy
00:29:06can be to me
00:29:06you saw his devotion
00:29:08he's a born leader
00:29:11who knows
00:29:12maybe someday
00:29:13he might even
00:29:14share my power
00:29:15what's the matter Kate
00:29:18I'll tell you
00:29:21what's the matter
00:29:21every day you're becoming
00:29:23more and more
00:29:24a bloodthirsty murderer
00:29:25strategy
00:29:33strategy
00:29:36come on Jesse
00:29:39wake up
00:29:39come on Jesse
00:29:40come on
00:29:41Frank
00:29:41the Yanks will never cross
00:29:44Mississippi
00:29:45that's right Jess
00:29:46and neither will you
00:29:47if you don't get some sleep
00:29:48come on
00:29:49I'll tell you Frank
00:29:49well will you look at old Jess
00:30:00Jess boy
00:30:01you and the old man
00:30:02must have really
00:30:02got along first rate
00:30:03well how does it feel
00:30:04to be a member
00:30:05of the grand
00:30:05and glorious
00:30:06secret order
00:30:07the Quantrell clowns
00:30:08here Jesse
00:30:09come on boy
00:30:10I'd have nobody
00:30:11talking about him
00:30:12like that
00:30:12he's a great man
00:30:13Jess my boy
00:30:14you're drunk
00:30:14oh shut up
00:30:15will you kid
00:30:15come on Jess
00:30:17he was only fun
00:30:17with you
00:30:18hey Jesse
00:30:19where do you suppose
00:30:19the colonel
00:30:20got that uniform
00:30:20looked like it
00:30:21come right out
00:30:22of a store window
00:30:23I'd sure like
00:30:24to have me
00:30:24an outfit like that
00:30:25you gotta be a colonel
00:30:26I have one of them
00:30:26and you gotta talk
00:30:27like a colonel too
00:30:28well boy
00:30:29if he can fight
00:30:29like he can talk
00:30:30he sure must be
00:30:31something
00:30:31goodnight Frank
00:30:40Jesse
00:30:41goodnight
00:30:42goodnight
00:30:42goodnight
00:30:43he is a great man
00:30:50ain't he Frank
00:30:52hmm
00:30:52yeah
00:30:55yeah sure he is
00:30:56Jess
00:30:56go on to sleep
00:30:58you understand
00:31:07your order
00:31:08sergeant
00:31:08yes sir
00:31:09good luck
00:31:09and another thing
00:31:11tell the colonel
00:31:12the quicker he sends
00:31:13reinforcements
00:31:14the safer it's going
00:31:15to be for the town
00:31:16of Lawrence
00:31:16very well sir
00:31:17good luck
00:31:18left by twos
00:31:19forward
00:31:20hold
00:31:22hold
00:31:22That's good, huh?
00:31:51Good.
00:31:52Looks like I've been kicked in the head by a Missouri view.
00:31:55Was I?
00:31:56You weren't kicked by one.
00:31:57You were just trying to drink like one.
00:31:59Now, here.
00:32:01Put this on.
00:32:01Straighten yourself up.
00:32:02The old man wants to see you right away.
00:32:04What's this?
00:32:05Well, when you put that on, you are officially a member of the Quantrill Raiders.
00:32:09Oh, good.
00:32:11Say, Frank, I didn't do anything wrong last night, did I?
00:32:13I ain't sure, but by the looks of things, you seem to have done just about right.
00:32:16He wants to see you right away.
00:32:18What's that supposed to mean?
00:32:19We're going on a raid.
00:32:20A raid?
00:32:22You mean us, the whole outfit?
00:32:24Yeah.
00:32:24We're leaving right away.
00:32:25Quantrill's talking to the group leaders right now.
00:32:27So get a move on.
00:32:28I'll saddle up for you.
00:32:29As you all know, our objective is another enemy's strong point, similar to those that we've
00:32:34been attacking with such excellent results these past several months.
00:32:38The very cause of the Confederacy itself may well depend upon our success.
00:32:42I want every man to know that and to act accordingly.
00:32:45Mr. James, you're late.
00:32:48I'm sorry, Colonel.
00:32:49One more thing.
00:32:51Now that Mr. James is here, he will act as group leader of his own recruits, replacing
00:32:56the late Mr. Tate.
00:32:58Any questions?
00:32:59Yes, sir.
00:33:00Mr. Anderson?
00:33:01The men ain't going to like it.
00:33:03Like what?
00:33:03Having this kid put over them.
00:33:05There's plenty of others deserves it more and been here a lot longer.
00:33:07As long as I'm in command here, I'll give the orders and make the appointments.
00:33:10That's all.
00:33:11Mr. James, have you had your breakfast?
00:33:16No, sir.
00:33:17Napoleon made the profound observation that an army travels on its stomach.
00:33:21I suggest you fortify yours if you hope to be of any use to us.
00:33:24I've arranged for your breakfast inside.
00:33:26Thank you, sir.
00:33:33Come in.
00:33:38The colonel said that you...
00:33:39Yes, I know.
00:33:40Sit down.
00:33:40You don't have much time.
00:33:46The colonel made me an officer just now.
00:33:48Oh?
00:33:50He likes ambitious young men.
00:33:52He's decided you've got a head for strategy.
00:33:55I don't know about strategy, but I sure got a head.
00:34:00I sure hope I wasn't too much trouble to you last night.
00:34:03Oh, you weren't any trouble.
00:34:05You were just a little tongue-tied, that was all.
00:34:08Yeah, I guess so.
00:34:09Yes.
00:34:10Every time the liquor was passed, you just couldn't manage to say the word no.
00:34:14Yeah.
00:34:15I guess I did try to learn about this stuff a little too fast.
00:34:19You'll catch on quick enough.
00:34:20You'll catch on to a lot of things.
00:34:22You got a good teacher.
00:34:25Why did you join Cointreau, Jesse?
00:34:32You and Frank?
00:34:37Let's do some killing.
00:34:38What do you mean by that?
00:34:39What do you mean by that?
00:34:43Something that happened back home.
00:34:45Something that...
00:34:47I don't want to ever see happen again.
00:34:51There are some men that...
00:34:53Well, they do things.
00:34:54They got to be killed.
00:34:57Cointreau kills too.
00:35:02Yeah.
00:35:03Yes, he does.
00:35:05But only them what's got it coming to them.
00:35:08You better go.
00:35:22I hope you've got a good, strong stomach.
00:35:24Your stomach all right now?
00:35:31There seems to be an awful lot of talk about my stomach this morning.
00:35:34Well, maybe after last night.
00:35:36Folks just want to be sure you've still got one.
00:35:37Our point of attack is that farmhouse.
00:36:03I have information that there's a troop of Union soldiers quartered there.
00:36:06Mr. Anderson, Mr. James, you know the plan.
00:36:10You'll start the attack on the customary signal from me.
00:36:36Oh!
00:36:37No!
00:36:38Oh!
00:36:39Oh!
00:36:39Oh!
00:36:40Oh!
00:36:41Oh!
00:36:41Oh!
00:36:42Yes!
00:36:42Oh!
00:36:54Oh!
00:36:56Ah!
00:36:56Ah!
00:36:58Oh!
00:37:00Oh!
00:37:01Hey, James!
00:37:28You better get your share of the loot before it's all gone.
00:37:33Willis, where are those Union soldiers who were supposed to fight?
00:37:36Throw up, James.
00:37:37Quantrill always tells us that just before every raid.
00:37:40Makes them feel like a real colonel.
00:37:58I'm going to kill you for that.
00:38:10You're going to do what?
00:38:16Draw your gun.
00:38:26Fortunes of war, Mr. James.
00:38:42Euclid, sound the assembly.
00:38:52I'm going to kill you.
00:39:08I'm going to kill you.
00:39:12I'm going to kill you.
00:39:28Find him yet?
00:39:32Nope.
00:39:34Where do you reckon he's keeping himself?
00:39:36We ain't hardly seen him for the last three days.
00:39:38Man, he sure changed.
00:39:40What's got into him anyway?
00:39:41He ain't a preacher or a preacher, son.
00:39:43He ought to know how things go in an outfit like this.
00:39:46Well, I don't know.
00:39:47He don't always see everything the same as other people.
00:39:49Maybe he'd be better if he did.
00:39:51You don't suppose he just up and rode away without saying nothing, do you?
00:39:54Nope.
00:39:55Jesse wouldn't do that to us.
00:39:57Well, he's hardly said a word to us since we came back from that first raid.
00:40:00He don't have to.
00:40:01We know what he's thinking.
00:40:02Well, I'll tell you what I'm thinking.
00:40:04I'm thinking this may not be the sweetest smelling way to live, but it's downright better than walking behind a plow.
00:40:09Right.
00:40:11Maybe it is and maybe it ain't.
00:40:15Come on, do me in.
00:40:29Haven't seen you around for a few days.
00:40:31I haven't been around.
00:40:35Tell me.
00:40:37How did you enjoy your first taste of Quantrill warfare?
00:40:41Warfare?
00:40:42Well, that's what he calls it.
00:40:44Well, I can't say you didn't try hard enough to warn me.
00:40:48Thanks.
00:40:51Maybe you're not like the others.
00:40:53Maybe I was wrong.
00:40:56Was I?
00:40:58I guess I ain't so different.
00:41:01But you could be, Jesse.
00:41:03You could be.
00:41:07How?
00:41:12Quantrill's going on another raid.
00:41:15He's been looking for you.
00:41:18Well, I ain't riding with him no more.
00:41:21Are you gonna tell him that?
00:41:22Yes, I am.
00:41:23Now's a good time.
00:41:32Mr. James, you're late again. You've kept me waiting.
00:41:33I ain't riding with you, Colonel.
00:41:46Not riding with us.
00:41:47May I ask why?
00:41:48I've been thinking all night.
00:41:49I've been thinking for three days.
00:41:50Thinking about what?
00:41:51What I ought to say.
00:41:52What I ought to say.
00:41:53Now I gotta say it.
00:41:54I came here to fight.
00:41:55Came here straight from my home, what's left of it, three weeks ago.
00:41:58It was the day Frank and me came home and found the house burning.
00:41:59My ma with her arms shot off.
00:42:00My pa hanging in the tree in the front yard.
00:42:01It was red legs.
00:42:02Yankee gorillas.
00:42:03One of them drunk and was still there.
00:42:04I come here because I wanted to kill every man I could ever meet with.
00:42:05I've come here because I wanted to kill every man I could ever meet with.
00:42:06I've come here for three days.
00:42:07Thinking about what?
00:42:08What I ought to say.
00:42:09Now I gotta say it.
00:42:10I came here to fight.
00:42:11Came here straight from my home, what's left of it, three weeks ago.
00:42:14It was the day Frank and me came home and found the house burning.
00:42:18My ma with her arms shot off.
00:42:20My pa hanging in the tree in the front yard.
00:42:23It was red legs.
00:42:25Yankee gorillas.
00:42:26One of them drunk and was still there.
00:42:29I come here because I wanted to kill every man I could ever meet with.
00:42:32That would do a thing like that.
00:42:35Then we went out on that raid the other day.
00:42:38I found we was doing the same thing.
00:42:40We was murdering people that didn't have no chance.
00:42:43People just like my ma and pa.
00:42:46Maybe that's strategy, Colonel.
00:42:48Maybe I don't understand it.
00:42:50But you don't need me for what you're gonna do tonight.
00:42:53Maybe we don't need you for nothing at all.
00:42:56Put that gun away, Mr. Anderson.
00:42:58Are you sure you don't want me to...
00:42:59You heard what I said. Put that gun away.
00:43:01I suggest, Mr. James, that you remain behind on this trip.
00:43:18You sure you know what you're doing, Jess?
00:43:22Yep.
00:43:23I know what I'm doing.
00:43:29Hello, Jesse.
00:43:33I thought I'd find you here.
00:43:38What's the matter?
00:43:39Are you thinking maybe you should have gone on that raid?
00:43:42No.
00:43:43I was just thinking about the Colonel.
00:43:46I ain't never been much of one to judge people for what they have been.
00:43:49Or even what they are.
00:43:52It's the way they feel inside.
00:43:55Sometimes a man or a woman will get into a thing and...
00:43:59Well, they just can't get out of it.
00:44:03But it's not that way with the Colonel.
00:44:08He can get out of it.
00:44:11I don't know, Kate.
00:44:12It comes hard for me to place all the blame on him.
00:44:16After all, there's Anderson and all them others.
00:44:19I'm not asking you to blame him.
00:44:21But, Jesse, listen to me.
00:44:23Bloodshed and murder don't mean anything to Quantrill.
00:44:27It's all part of a dream.
00:44:29A dream of playing war.
00:44:31But the people he kills are real people.
00:44:35He saved my life.
00:44:37Did you know that?
00:44:38Yes, I know.
00:44:40He saved mine once, too.
00:44:42In a way.
00:44:43Don't you?
00:44:44Don't you feel nothing for him no more at all?
00:44:46No.
00:44:47I did once.
00:44:49I believed everything he said.
00:44:52Till I began to see for myself.
00:44:55I'd see them come riding home, night after night.
00:44:59Some of them still had the blood on their hands.
00:45:03Don't you see what they're doing is wrong?
00:45:05Terribly wrong.
00:45:07No matter what you feel about him, he'll die at the end of a rope.
00:45:10And if you follow him, so will you.
00:45:12Jesse, you've got to get out of here.
00:45:15I'll go with you.
00:45:17I'll never get out any other way.
00:45:20If you won't do it for yourself, then do it for me.
00:45:25Well, he couldn't just ride off that.
00:45:26Well, then we'll tell him.
00:45:28Tell him just like you did this morning.
00:45:32Jesse.
00:45:34You're not afraid, are you?
00:45:41Mr. Anderson, see that the boys don't make too much of a night of it tonight.
00:45:54All right, you heard him.
00:45:55Mr. Anderson, see that the boys don't make too much of a night of it tonight.
00:46:08All right, you heard him.
00:46:09Well, my boy, I'm glad to find you here.
00:46:24I thought that after this morning you might be angry at me.
00:46:26I see you're not.
00:46:28That's fine.
00:46:30All right, Kate. Have a nice day.
00:46:32I want to talk to you, Colonel.
00:46:34I want to talk to you too, Jesse.
00:46:36I've been thinking about you all day and what you've said,
00:46:39but first I have something to say to Kate.
00:46:41You'll wait for me outside.
00:46:45That's an order, Jesse.
00:46:50Go ahead, Jesse.
00:46:51Well, where did you get this?
00:47:13He gave it to me.
00:47:15Jesse?
00:47:17Yes.
00:47:19Hmm.
00:47:23I see.
00:47:29Very pretty.
00:47:32My dear Kate,
00:47:34I'm too old a man to have any illusions about the constancy of women
00:47:39or to be seriously disturbed by the lack of it.
00:47:42But when your intrigues start interfering with my plans,
00:47:45that's something else again.
00:47:47Why don't you let him go?
00:47:49Please.
00:47:50He's only a boy.
00:47:52He's man enough for my purposes.
00:47:54If you want to help him,
00:47:56stay away from him.
00:48:10Jesse?
00:48:11You've been thinking some pretty harsh things about me, haven't you?
00:48:16I don't know what to think no more.
00:48:19You've been talking to Kate.
00:48:22Yes, I have.
00:48:24Kate's a woman, Jesse.
00:48:26There are some things that a woman simply cannot comprehend.
00:48:28The leader is a lonely man.
00:48:36There are so few that he can trust.
00:48:41And even they often fail to understand just when he needs their understanding most.
00:48:47Do you think it's by choice that I lead this rabble?
00:48:50Do you think I condone their brutality any more than you do?
00:48:56General Lee needs me.
00:48:58And through me, he needs you.
00:49:01And in the days to come, we're going to need you more.
00:49:04All I want is one word from you, Colonel.
00:49:07There won't be no more what happened on my first raid.
00:49:13My boy, you have it.
00:49:17Then I'm with you.
00:49:19I knew you would be.
00:49:20I knew you would be.
00:49:22Now that we understand each other, I can tell you.
00:49:25Our next engagement will be a major one.
00:49:27Of vital importance to the Confederate cause.
00:49:30We're going to raid the town of Lawrence, Kansas.
00:49:34Lawrence, Kansas.
00:49:37You better get some rest.
00:49:41Jesse.
00:49:43What I said about your being a candidate for the Butcher Brigade still goes.
00:49:48But you were all wrong, Kate.
00:49:49Everything's going to be all right now.
00:49:51Colonel gave me his word.
00:49:53His word.
00:49:54And you believed him.
00:49:56Like I said, Jesse, Kate's a woman.
00:49:58There are certain things that she'll never comprehend.
00:50:02Night, Kate.
00:50:04Night, Colonel.
00:50:05Night, my boy.
00:50:07You have a winning way with children, Colonel.
00:50:10Thank you, Kate.
00:50:19My information is that the town's only defense consists of a few red legs and a handful of Union soldiers.
00:50:34Mr. Anderson, you'll be in charge of any military or civilian opposition.
00:50:35Mr. James, your objective will be the bank.
00:50:36Just make it clear to Mr. James that that bank money ain't his.
00:50:37Do you understand that, Mr. James?
00:50:38I understand that, Anderson.
00:50:39But do you understand that we're fighting soldiers and not shooting unarmed civilians in the back?
00:50:40That's clearly understood.
00:50:41Mr. James, I understand that we're fighting soldiers and not shooting unarmed civilians in the back.
00:50:42My information is that the town's only defense consists of a few red legs and a handful of Union soldiers.
00:50:48Mr. Anderson, you'll be in charge of any military or civilian opposition.
00:50:52Mr. James, your objective will be the bank.
00:50:55Just make it clear to Mr. James that that bank money ain't his.
00:51:00Do you understand that, Mr. James?
00:51:03I understand that, Anderson.
00:51:04But do you understand that we're fighting soldiers and not shooting unarmed civilians in the back?
00:51:09That's clearly understood.
00:51:11Mr. Pell, you'll take charge of posting pickets to guard against any return of the Yankee soldiers.
00:51:16Yes, sir.
00:51:17We will advance on the usual signal from me.
00:51:25No!
00:51:26He won't.
00:51:31You won't.
00:51:36No!
00:51:37No!
00:51:39Yeah!
00:51:41No!
00:51:43No!
00:51:45No!
00:51:48No!
00:51:50No!
00:51:51No!
00:51:53No!
00:51:54Oh, my God!
00:52:24Oh, my God!
00:52:54Oh, my God!
00:53:24You boys are going to regret this day's work.
00:53:31You're going to regret it a lot more if you don't open that safe.
00:53:34Next time, it won't be your hand.
00:53:44Hit.
00:53:45I told you these Yankee banks would just fulge them with money.
00:53:54Fortune's a war, mister.
00:53:55General Lee is going to be much obliged to you.
00:54:02Will!
00:54:12Will!
00:54:16Will!
00:54:19Will!
00:54:21Will!
00:54:21Will!
00:54:22Will!
00:54:23Will!
00:54:24Murderous!
00:54:25Murderous!
00:54:26Murderous!
00:54:27Not you!
00:54:29Not you!
00:54:30Not you!
00:54:31Not you!
00:54:32Not you!
00:54:33Not you!
00:54:34Hey, James!
00:54:38Hey, James!
00:54:39He here!
00:54:40Come here!
00:54:41Come here!
00:54:42Come here!
00:54:43James!
00:54:44See here!
00:54:45Just like the Colonel Orton.
00:54:47We ain't killing no unarmed men and women.
00:54:48This here's a military prisoner.
00:54:49I'll take that prisoner Anderson.
00:54:50Oh, you will, huh?
00:54:54Come here!
00:54:55Come here!
00:54:56See here!
00:54:57Just like the Colonel Orton.
00:54:58We ain't killing no unarmed men and women.
00:55:00This here's a military prisoner.
00:55:02I'll take that prisoner Anderson.
00:55:04Oh, you will, huh?
00:55:06You better get off the street, Captain.
00:55:26I can't see!
00:55:27Frank, take him inside.
00:55:28Wait a minute.
00:55:29I know that voice.
00:55:30Don't I know you?
00:55:31No.
00:55:32No.
00:55:33Come on, Captain. This way.
00:55:39Where's Quantrill?
00:55:40He's over at the hotel.
00:55:53Thank you. Thank you, sir. You're most kind.
00:55:55You have earned the undying gratitude of Quantrill.
00:55:58And mark you, gentlemen, the day will come when the favor of Quantrill will be worth a king's ransom.
00:56:02Far more than these paltry trinkets which you so kindly donate to my cause today.
00:56:07Ah, very fine piece. Family heirloom, no doubt.
00:56:11That's all. Dismissed.
00:56:12And you, sir?
00:56:15Well, what have we here?
00:56:18Some more family heirlooms?
00:56:21Let's see.
00:56:28Mr. Quantrill?
00:56:33Colonel Quantrill, Mr. James.
00:56:34Your men are shooting unarmed civilians.
00:56:37What are you going to do about it?
00:56:39You don't like the way we're fighting the war, Mr. James?
00:56:41Tell Mr. Anderson.
00:56:43Mr. Anderson's dead.
00:56:45I just killed him.
00:56:46The Yankee Cavalry are heading this way.
00:56:55Looks like the whole Union Army.
00:56:57Tell the bugle to sound assembly.
00:56:58Gentlemen, gather up our contributions.
00:57:00We're moving.
00:57:01Ready to ride, men?
00:57:18Yeah!
00:57:18The Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cavalry, the Yankee Cav
00:57:48I don't know where you're aiming to go when you leave us, Jess,
00:57:56or what you plan on doing once you get there,
00:57:58but wherever it is, you ain't gonna be no better off than you are now.
00:58:03Like my old pappy used to say,
00:58:04a hog of straddle a fence ain't likely to wind up no place.
00:58:08Our old pappy was always right, Jess.
00:58:10Staying here is better than plowing from sun up to dark
00:58:12and living on side meat and cornbread
00:58:14and never having a dollar you don't owe somebody.
00:58:16Can't you see, Jesse, this is the life.
00:58:18Plenty money, shooting, gambling, sleeping.
00:58:21Ain't I right, Frank?
00:58:22He knows what he's doing.
00:58:25Are you aiming to ride back to Missouri, Jess?
00:58:30Maybe.
00:58:31Look, Jesse, ain't nothing back there
00:58:32except a blackened chimney where your house once stood
00:58:35and a couple of new graves covering your folks
00:58:37where the Yankees and the Redlegs put them.
00:58:40You can't go back to Missouri, Jess.
00:58:41We're already marked with the Quantrill brand,
00:58:43and if the Yanks don't hang you, the law will.
00:58:45Can't get no revenge rotting in somebody's jail.
00:58:48Or swinging on the end of a rope.
00:58:50My old pappy used to say that...
00:58:52Yeah, I know your old pappy.
00:58:55Some of what you say does make sense.
00:58:58I guess I'll ride with the Colonel of Wild on it.
00:59:00Again and again, they raided, looted, burned, and destroyed,
00:59:08following Quantrill and his ominous black flag
00:59:11into an inferno of violence, brutality,
00:59:15and destruction of life and property.
00:59:18But the Union Army, spurred on by the people's angry voices,
00:59:31slowly cut down the size of the Quantrill band.
00:59:49Day after day, they became fewer and fewer.
00:59:53Well, gentlemen, you know what that signal means.
01:00:11Sure, we know what it means.
01:00:12What are we going to do about it?
01:00:14What are we going to do about it?
01:00:16We're going to make a stand right here
01:00:17and fight until there's not a man of us left.
01:00:19The men ain't in no shape to fight, Colonel,
01:00:21even if they wanted to.
01:00:23There ain't but one thing to do.
01:00:25Split up. Every man for himself.
01:00:27Do you mean to question my authority?
01:00:28You ain't got no authority left, Colonel.
01:00:31We ain't only fighting the Union Army now.
01:00:33The whole state of Kansas is after us.
01:00:35And when General Lee turned against you,
01:00:37we all decided it was time to quit.
01:00:46All right. Get out, all of you.
01:00:48Come on, then.
01:00:51Well, why don't you desert with the rest of them?
01:01:08What are you waiting for?
01:01:10We're sticking with you, sir.
01:01:12Good.
01:01:13It's fine.
01:01:14We'll proceed at once to my Kentucky headquarters.
01:01:16You're forgetting something, Colonel.
01:01:17What's that?
01:01:19Kate.
01:01:20We're not leaving her.
01:01:24Very well, Mr. James.
01:01:47Looks like the Yankees got here first.
01:01:55They may still be here.
01:01:56Kate sees them.
01:01:57There's only one way to find out.
01:01:58Wait here.
01:01:59I hoped you'd come back.
01:02:13You didn't expect us to leave you here, did you?
01:02:15Where are the rest of the men?
01:02:17They deserted.
01:02:19A commander without a norm.
01:02:20The swamp can take cover.
01:02:31You hit, Colonel?
01:03:02Bye, Jesse.
01:03:03Cole, get cake. Let's get out of here.
01:03:14You know, it's a funny thing.
01:03:16Him getting it in the eyes like that.
01:03:19Just the same as that Union captain.
01:03:21Yeah.
01:03:23It's like he says himself, war is war.
01:03:26It's mighty funny all the same.
01:03:29Just like it was some kind of judgment on him or something.
01:03:50Any better now, Colonel?
01:03:52I can't see, Jesse.
01:03:54I can't see.
01:03:58We should have had some hot water.
01:04:01Can't risk a fire, Kate.
01:04:03The whole countryside is swarming with Union soldiers.
01:04:06I must look quite thoroughly disreputable.
01:04:11I'd hate to run into any of my fellow officers in this condition.
01:04:15I don't imagine there'd be any sudden danger of that.
01:04:18You know, I've been thinking,
01:04:22considering circumstances in my present condition,
01:04:26it would be well if you would assume command temporarily.
01:04:33Yes, I think that would be best.
01:04:37All right, Colonel.
01:04:38That's the way you want it.
01:04:40Well,
01:04:41so be it, then.
01:04:43Now that you're the colonel, Jesse,
01:04:53where are you going to get us something to eat?
01:04:55You know what Napoleon said,
01:04:56an army travels on its stomach.
01:04:57Yeah, but Napoleon didn't have my kind of an army.
01:05:00Well,
01:05:00launch this search?
01:05:01Well,
01:05:02you wouldn't have thought.
01:05:02Well,
01:05:03of course,
01:05:04you wouldn't have thought of it.
01:05:06Well,
01:05:07I know,
01:05:09I know,
01:05:09I know.
01:05:14Can't leave them nowhere.
01:05:16Oh,
01:05:18I know.
01:05:18Oh,
01:05:19don't work.
01:05:23Oh,
01:05:26just
01:05:28from the looks of that road jesse there must have been more than a hundred yankee troops
01:05:36passed this way they're too close we've been riding around in circles for days now
01:05:40this rate will never break out what are we gonna do jesse just have to keep riding
01:05:58hold you and get hide the horses
01:06:28seems like we've been here before don't it jesse well not so bad i can't tell get inside
01:06:35where are we kate do you know this place no i don't count must have been a nice place once
01:06:50wonder how it got burned red legs most likely yeah jesse red legs
01:07:09hey jesse
01:07:12jesse
01:07:17look here what we found
01:07:22wanted dead or alive ten thousand dollars reward for the capture or killing
01:07:29any information leading to the capture or killing of the notorious gorilla and destroyer of lawrence
01:07:38kansas william clark quantos and any member of his band who may be with him
01:07:43any member of his band who may be with him that means us don't it jesse
01:07:47that's us
01:07:49that's us
01:07:58that's us
01:08:01that's us
01:08:02Is that better?
01:08:30Yes, thank you, Kate.
01:08:34Kate, we haven't had a talk for a long time, don't you think?
01:08:38You ought to get some sleep.
01:08:41I guess you're right.
01:08:44Good night, Kate.
01:09:00What are you thinking?
01:09:05About this place.
01:09:07Then you have been here before, haven't you, Jesse?
01:09:11My first raid with Quantrill.
01:09:13He ordered it and burned himself.
01:09:16You were right, Kate.
01:09:18You've been right all along when you told me how Quantrill and his kind always wind up.
01:09:23But you're still with him.
01:09:25Yeah, I know.
01:09:28Somehow I couldn't leave him either.
01:09:30But you've got to, Jesse.
01:09:32You know that.
01:09:33You've got to pretty soon.
01:09:34Every day it gets worse, and every day we take more chances.
01:09:37If they catch you with him, you know what'll happen to you.
01:09:40To you and all of us.
01:09:41Our finish will be the same as his.
01:09:43I've just been putting off thinking about it, I guess.
01:09:47You can't put it off any longer, Jesse.
01:09:49It isn't fair to the boys either.
01:09:53I don't know what to do.
01:09:55You're young.
01:09:56You've got your whole life ahead of you.
01:09:58Someday you'll want to settle down with wife and kids.
01:10:01A place of your own.
01:10:04I never want nobody but you, Kate.
01:10:13Hello.
01:10:24Anybody inside?
01:10:29What do you want?
01:10:31We saw smoke coming from your chimney.
01:10:33I just wanted to ask it.
01:10:35Oh, this time I do know you.
01:10:38That won't do you any good.
01:10:40My men have this place surrounded.
01:10:41We've been looking for you and your colonel.
01:10:45How many men do you think you'll have left when you get him?
01:10:48Maybe I do owe you something.
01:10:49I don't know.
01:10:51You don't owe me nothing.
01:10:52I don't want any more killing if I can help it.
01:10:55I'll give you until daylight to surrender the colonel.
01:10:58Then we're coming in after you.
01:11:08Well, we've got until daylight.
01:11:10Listen, Jesse.
01:11:11I ain't going to get hung for what the old colonel's done.
01:11:14I didn't notice you being so fussy about what the old colonel done a while back.
01:11:18Nobody's going to get hung.
01:11:20Jesse.
01:11:27You're all right.
01:11:28You're a fine boy.
01:11:30You're all fine boys.
01:11:32We'll get through, don't you fear.
01:11:36There's still great days ahead for Quantrill and you'll share them.
01:11:40All of you.
01:11:42We know that, Colonel.
01:11:43Thanks.
01:11:45Better try to get some sleep.
01:11:47Yeah.
01:11:49I can sleep now.
01:11:50Jesse.
01:11:51Jesse.
01:12:05We've been doing some thinking on our own.
01:12:08We can make a deal with that Yankee captain.
01:12:11$10,000 is a lot of money.
01:12:13We're going to turn him in.
01:12:15We're going to turn him in and collect reward money.
01:12:17It's him they really want, not us.
01:12:19No.
01:12:19But it's him or us.
01:12:21It's him or us, all right.
01:12:22Not that way.
01:12:24What other way is there?
01:12:25You don't trust them Yankees to make a deal with us, do you?
01:12:28Remember that reward notice read, dead or alive.
01:12:31For any member of his band that might be with him.
01:12:34Have you figured some other way, Jesse?
01:12:37A couple of hours when things settle down out there.
01:12:40We'll make it out the back way.
01:12:42Down to the creek bed and come in behind them to the horses.
01:12:49You heard that, Kate.
01:12:51You're ready to go.
01:12:51What about him?
01:12:54He never got through.
01:13:07You've got just about one hour more.
01:13:12Now, we all know what to do.
01:13:15We'll stand a better chance if we go out one at a time.
01:13:21Kit, good luck.
01:13:30Jim?
01:13:35Cole?
01:13:41Frank, take Kate with you.
01:13:43Jesse!
01:13:43Go along with Frank.
01:13:44Go on.
01:13:49Come on.
01:13:49Come on.
01:13:50Come on.
01:13:53Come on.
01:13:56I'll see you next time.
01:13:57vino there.
01:14:00Why?
01:14:03Come on.
01:14:03Come on.
01:14:05Come on.
01:14:06Come on.
01:14:08Come on.
01:14:09Let's go.
01:14:10Come on.
01:14:11Come on.
01:14:12Come on.
01:14:12Jesse.
01:14:22Well, why don't you go?
01:14:24Go where?
01:14:25With the others.
01:14:27You knew I wouldn't leave.
01:14:32Yeah.
01:14:34And I know why you wouldn't.
01:14:37Jesse, I want to tell you something.
01:14:40I guess from the beginning I've been fooling myself.
01:14:43I know I never fooled you.
01:14:46Maybe I never fooled anybody else.
01:14:49But no more.
01:14:50This is the end for me, and I know it.
01:14:53I'm not going to sit by and see you pay the penalty for something that you had no part in.
01:14:58There are two things we can do, Colonel.
01:15:01Make a fight of it here or try to get out like the others did.
01:15:04Like you said, Jesse, you'd never get through with me, a blind man.
01:15:09I figured you'd want to fight. I was getting things ready.
01:15:13Suppose I told you this is the way I wanted it.
01:15:15Suppose I ordered you to go.
01:15:17Wouldn't do you any good.
01:15:18Why?
01:15:19You said I was given the orders, remember?
01:15:20Mr. James, I'm staying here alone. You're to go. That's an order, Mr. James.
01:15:31Did you hear me?
01:15:37That's no good, Colonel.
01:15:39It's either fight together or break through together.
01:15:41All right. We'll go.
01:15:47Chances ain't too good, you know.
01:15:49Are they any better here?
01:15:51Help me with my coat.
01:15:52I have to hurry, Colonel. It's getting light, huh?
01:16:16I'm ready.
01:16:16Okay.
01:16:16Jesse, if I don't make it...
01:16:27You make it, all right.
01:16:31You see any of them?
01:16:33They're mostly around in front.
01:16:34They're mostly around in front.
01:16:52No one way.
01:16:56ynchronous
01:16:57Come on.
01:17:27Come on.
01:17:57Come on.
01:18:27You said one should go anywhere with her.
01:18:33Were you just saying that, or did you mean it?
01:18:36Maybe then.
01:18:37But what?
01:18:40Look, Jesse.
01:18:41In a few years, the war will be over.
01:18:44And everything will look different to you then.
01:18:46And so would I.
01:18:47Goodbye, Jesse.
01:18:50And so into the pages of crime history rode five young men.
01:19:20Kit Dalton, Cole and Jim Younger, Frank and Jesse James.
01:19:27Five whose warped lives were to be a heritage from their teacher,
01:19:33William Clark Quantrill.
01:19:34It was a
01:19:38great Enterprise.
01:19:40It was beautiful.
01:19:42Someone,
01:19:45I didn't know what to do at the end.
01:19:48He was so happy.
01:19:50It was just to write a statement.
01:19:51In a few years, I awful.
01:19:52I fell into it.
01:19:54I believe it was my heart.
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