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The Big Trees (1952) is a Western drama directed by Felix E. Feist. The story follows ruthless lumber baron Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas), who arrives in Northern California determined to cut down a protected grove of giant redwood trees owned by a peaceful religious colony. Driven by greed, Fallon manipulates locals and uses force to gain control of the land.
However, as he clashes with the colony — especially Alicia Chadwick (Eve Miller) and Brother Bixby (Edgar Buchanan) — Fallon begins to question his ruthless ways. Facing resistance, betrayal, and danger, he must choose between profit and redemption.
The film blends action, romance, and moral conflict, highlighting themes of environmental respect and personal change.
Main Cast:
Kirk Douglas as Jim Fallon
Eve Miller as Alicia Chadwick
Patrice Wymore as Daisy Fisher
Edgar Buchanan as Brother Bixby
Alan Hale Jr. as Yukon Burns
However, as he clashes with the colony — especially Alicia Chadwick (Eve Miller) and Brother Bixby (Edgar Buchanan) — Fallon begins to question his ruthless ways. Facing resistance, betrayal, and danger, he must choose between profit and redemption.
The film blends action, romance, and moral conflict, highlighting themes of environmental respect and personal change.
Main Cast:
Kirk Douglas as Jim Fallon
Eve Miller as Alicia Chadwick
Patrice Wymore as Daisy Fisher
Edgar Buchanan as Brother Bixby
Alan Hale Jr. as Yukon Burns
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00:00:09The End
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00:01:24Stand out, fresh, and we're going in. Drag him out.
00:01:27No, you don't. Settle down, now. You'll get paid.
00:01:37What's all the money?
00:01:38What else? Money!
00:01:39Nobody likes working for nothing.
00:01:43Come on out here, fallen!
00:01:53Patience, boys. Be with you in a minute.
00:01:59Alan, I've strung along with you in a lot of wild-eyed schemes of yours, but this time you've gone
00:02:03too far. You're going to jail.
00:02:04After all, I've done for them.
00:02:06Done for me. Your finaglins cost my syndicate a quarter of a million dollars.
00:02:10More, Mr. Murdoch.
00:02:11We finance you to mill lumber in Wisconsin, but you stashed it away for a timber steal in California.
00:02:16According to the new landlord, strictly legal.
00:02:18All I know is what you cost us. You're going to land in prison until we get it back.
00:02:22Putting me in prison is a sure way of losing all your money.
00:02:26Now, what's a couple of hundred thousand to a group like yours?
00:02:29Let me take a boatload of my boys out there, and I'll make a fortune for you.
00:02:32Listen to those men.
00:02:34Why, you haven't met a payroll in weeks.
00:02:36Do you think they'd ever work for you again?
00:02:38They like me.
00:02:41You do too, don't you?
00:02:42What makes you think I'd trust you again?
00:02:45Because your syndicate wants money, and there's plenty to be had in California.
00:02:51Hey, Jim.
00:02:52What is it, Frenchie?
00:02:54The boys are mighty close to getting out of hand.
00:02:56Look, Mr. Murdoch, you better let me get the boys under control before they wreck the mill, and you'll be
00:03:00out another 50,000.
00:03:02Uh, Daisy, honey, take Mr. Murdoch over to the hotel.
00:03:05The best champagne for him and his friends.
00:03:07I just happen to have a couple of bottles in the oven.
00:03:09You come along too, Sheriff.
00:03:11I have a few girlfriends who just love policemen.
00:03:15Don't forget, Fallon.
00:03:16I can put you in jail six months from now, just as well as today.
00:03:45Here's your money, boys.
00:03:46Certified cashier's check.
00:03:48Ah, you gave us that check business before.
00:03:51Yeah, we want to see the cash.
00:03:52Where's the money?
00:03:53Yeah, we want to see the cash.
00:03:54Where's the money?
00:03:55All right, boys.
00:03:57Anything you say goes.
00:04:00Frenchie, take this check to the bank.
00:04:02Have them send over a couple of guards with the cash.
00:04:05Go on.
00:04:06You heard them.
00:04:07They want their money.
00:04:08Get to the bank.
00:04:11You know what this means, fellas?
00:04:14You're breaking up the team.
00:04:16For good.
00:04:18Jim Fallon and his boys.
00:04:21The minute you sign that receipt book, paid in full, that's the end.
00:04:25You leave me busted.
00:04:26You put me out of business.
00:04:28Good thing it is, Fallon.
00:04:30It's about time to.
00:04:32Pay them off once and for all.
00:04:33Let them come back to work for us honest lumbermen.
00:04:35Steady work and regular pay.
00:04:37We've had enough of you, Fallon.
00:04:39You're leaving town.
00:04:40And right now.
00:04:42A couple of measly bobcats turned tigers.
00:04:46We're not joking, Fallon.
00:04:47Get going.
00:05:01I'm moving no place till I'm ready.
00:05:10Get them out of here.
00:05:12That was great, Jim.
00:05:13You all right?
00:05:14What a walk.
00:05:16You all right?
00:05:16Good boy.
00:05:18Good boy.
00:05:21Boys, even if I've been shot, it's worth it to know how you feel about me.
00:05:25You still like me.
00:05:26And now I want to tell you why I hoped you'd stick with me.
00:05:29You know me.
00:05:31Jim Fallon doesn't like to hire.
00:05:32He likes to share.
00:05:34And right now, I want to share with you the whole north of California.
00:05:38There's giant redwoods out there, men, big around as that office.
00:05:41So tall you can't see the sky.
00:05:44There's so much board footage in just one of those big trees that it makes a month's cutting
00:05:48here look like a pile of toothpicks.
00:05:51Now look.
00:05:52You're the best lumberjacks in the business.
00:05:54That's why you're my team.
00:05:56And that's why I want to take you to California with me.
00:05:58Each man a partner of Jim Fallon.
00:06:00And every man with a share in a hundred million dollars.
00:06:05How do you like that, boys?
00:06:07Do you still want Frenchy to go to the bank?
00:06:09No!
00:06:10Do you take your chances with me?
00:06:11I will.
00:06:12Me too, Jim.
00:06:13Me too.
00:06:14You might find a couple of cases in the office.
00:06:17Help yourself.
00:06:18Hey, it's all right.
00:06:19It's all right.
00:06:19It's okay.
00:06:20Let's go.
00:06:23Thanks, Jim.
00:06:25You're okay.
00:06:26Hey, stranger.
00:06:32I don't have to tell you how grateful I am, stranger.
00:06:35I'm Yukon Burns.
00:06:36Your name's luck to me.
00:06:38I ought to make a little statue, you and hang it right alongside this horse.
00:06:41You could hang me there.
00:06:42I'm hollow inside.
00:06:44I'll put some stuffing in you.
00:06:46You stick with me, friend, and you'll always have a full belly.
00:06:49Come on.
00:06:54Alaska gold rush, huh?
00:06:56Yukon Burns, the billionaire, traveling around in freight cars, trying to get a Logan job.
00:07:00You've got yourself a better job than that.
00:07:02For life.
00:07:04Kind of likely, don't you?
00:07:06Like the way you square-toed it with your men, stood up with them gun-toters.
00:07:10Here.
00:07:11Keep it learning.
00:07:13Honest, huh?
00:07:15Besides being handy with a gun, I can use a friend like you, Lucky.
00:07:24Hey, Jim.
00:07:26Wait a minute.
00:07:30I have to teach them hawks just to keep their nose out of my business.
00:07:34Now, here.
00:07:35Now, wet this.
00:07:44Clem.
00:07:45Clem.
00:07:46Sorry.
00:07:47I didn't count on the shooting either, but everything worked out just fine.
00:07:52Thanks.
00:07:54That'll learn you to keep your big mouth shut.
00:07:58Come on, Yukon.
00:08:10Jim.
00:08:10Be right with you, Yukon.
00:08:15Well, your pigeon is thoroughly cooked and basted in white wine.
00:08:18He's all yours.
00:08:19I don't know what I'd do without you.
00:08:22I don't care anymore.
00:08:24Just pay.
00:08:25Daisy, honey.
00:08:26Don't you trust me?
00:08:27Don't Daisy, honey.
00:08:28Me.
00:08:29You prefer Dora Fig?
00:08:31You lay off my past or I'll start to steal yours.
00:08:33Forget the past.
00:08:34Think of the future.
00:08:35That's nothing.
00:08:37We're going to get very rich in California.
00:08:39We'll leave next month.
00:08:42Not we.
00:08:43Not me.
00:08:44You.
00:08:45Honey, you're part of my luck.
00:08:47Oh, say that, Berlani, for when you head into those wild Westerners.
00:08:51You won't be pushing around a bunch of these tame Wisconsin stump-jumbers.
00:08:54Don't think those Californians are going to sit around in their rocking chairs and watch you grab off their land.
00:08:59I'll handle that problem when I come to it.
00:09:02Without me.
00:09:03You'll be right there looking out for me, same as always.
00:09:09Always is over, Jim.
00:09:11I'm tired of chasing those smoke rings of yours.
00:09:14I'm staying here, and I'm looking out for me.
00:09:18You're right, Daisy.
00:09:20You do a lot better without me.
00:09:23You said it.
00:09:25I'm no good for you.
00:09:27You're doing a smart thing giving me up.
00:09:34I'm just bad for you.
00:09:35Leave me, Daisy.
00:09:37You should have a life of your own.
00:09:41Thanks.
00:09:44Thanks for everything.
00:10:04You deserve a lot better, man, than me, but if you ever want anything, you know where to find me.
00:10:21You're coming.
00:10:22Tough having something like that, Levy.
00:10:23He'll be back.
00:10:25Nobody Jim Fallon likes ever leaves him.
00:10:28That goes for you, too.
00:10:31Here's your job.
00:10:33I'm going to dress you up like a billionaire.
00:10:36You're going to Redwood, California ahead of me.
00:10:38Goodwill merchant.
00:10:39Pick the biggest treats.
00:10:41Just flash that on his face at the hostel neighborhood.
00:10:43Hostel?
00:10:44Why?
00:10:46Hope you ain't counting on me using this.
00:10:49When a man's my friend, I count on him for anything.
00:11:05Do you mean you've never even been to California?
00:11:08Only in my dreams.
00:11:11Why did you send that Alaska sourdough out ahead of me?
00:11:16Let's face it, Frenchy.
00:11:18You're a good timber boss.
00:11:20But people say goodbye to you before you can say hello.
00:11:25That Yukon.
00:11:26Three weeks in Redwood, and he's got him eating out of his hand.
00:11:30Yeah, I got a feeling he's going to bring me plenty of good luck.
00:11:44You're doing right for locking up, Mr. Keller.
00:11:46I hope so.
00:11:54Look here, Keller.
00:11:55You can't keep refusal to let these men file new timber claims.
00:11:59I'm the government agent here, Mr. Gregg, not you.
00:12:01On that door, it says office hours, 8 to 6.
00:12:04You're opening up again, right now.
00:12:06I'd stay friendly, neighbor.
00:12:10Oh, Fallon's man, Burns.
00:12:12I'm Cleve Gregg.
00:12:14You're just another claim jumper to me, mister.
00:12:16That's because you're new here.
00:12:18I own the Redwood Sawmill Company,
00:12:20and I aim to finance these men filed for homesteads.
00:12:23New law wasn't made for timber thieves.
00:12:25What do you mean, thieves?
00:12:26Every lumberman around here has a copy of that law.
00:12:30All claims filed under the Stone and Timber Act of 1868
00:12:33are hereby rendered null and void.
00:12:35Land agents, that's you, Keller.
00:12:37I hereby authorized and instructed to accept applications
00:12:41on any and all such claims in their districts.
00:12:43If you have a hundred and twenty-five dollars.
00:12:46I know all about that, Mr. Gregg.
00:12:48Just the same, I'm waiting for more instructions
00:12:50from the Department of the Interior
00:12:52before I let you steal homesteads my friends have owned for 50 years.
00:12:57One hundred and twenty-five dollars filing fee
00:12:59for each quarter section is stealing.
00:13:01This fellow's been scouting the biggest trees in the county.
00:13:05And he's probably bribed you to wait until Fallon and his men get here
00:13:08to file on choice claims.
00:13:09Jim Fallon's an honest man.
00:13:11He's going to pay the old settlers for every claim he stakes out.
00:13:14Did you hear that, Jim?
00:13:15Pay him for free land.
00:13:17And he's been doing a lot of expensive good-willing around here.
00:13:21He knows what he's doing.
00:13:23Now get this through your head, Keller.
00:13:25You're opening this office right now.
00:13:27Or I'll have you jailed.
00:13:29No, you won't.
00:13:30Pay no attention to him, Mr. Keller.
00:13:32Keep me away from Violin's sister, Alicia.
00:13:36What are they all dressed up for?
00:13:38There's a hallelujah call any around here.
00:13:40Soul savers.
00:13:42Rigid and religious.
00:13:44The dark-haired one can save my soul anytime.
00:13:49Open that office or I'll have my boys break the door down.
00:13:52You do and you'll walk in on your face.
00:13:54Keller, you're going to start taking applications right now.
00:13:57Come on, boys.
00:14:03Sister Chadwick, no!
00:14:04Stay with us.
00:14:05Hold your ground, Mr. Keller.
00:14:07Be firm.
00:14:07I'm going to Eureka and tell this to the socket judge.
00:14:11I'll tote your cross for 50 cents, ma'am.
00:14:14No, thank you.
00:14:15Well, seeing as how you're bow-legged, two bits.
00:14:17I am not bow-legged.
00:14:19Alicia!
00:14:20No, you're not.
00:14:21Sister Chadwick, my father shall hear of this.
00:14:28There, now, isn't that worth it?
00:14:30Here's your quarter.
00:14:32Thank you, ma'am.
00:14:33Ah, Sister Chadwick.
00:14:35Where's your Mr. Fallon?
00:14:36I came to thank both of you for protecting our land.
00:14:39That Fallon's a wonderful lad, ma'am.
00:14:41I'm sure he could teach you manners.
00:14:43That's Jim Fallon.
00:14:47Oh.
00:14:49Pleased to meet you, Miss Chadwick.
00:14:51Mrs. Chadwick.
00:14:52Oh.
00:14:53Just like I told you, you don't need to worry about your trees no more.
00:14:56Jim here is going to do the claiming.
00:14:58He's got plenty of money.
00:15:00In fact, he invented the stuff.
00:15:02Why haven't you refiled on your land?
00:15:04Multiply 400 quarter sections by $125,
00:15:07and you'll see how much we'd have to pay.
00:15:09400 quarter sections and broke?
00:15:11You must be pretty poor operators.
00:15:13None of these religious colonists ever bother to accumulate much cash.
00:15:17There's no need to.
00:15:18See, Jim, these are wonderful folks.
00:15:21They'll give you anything they got.
00:15:22If they haven't got anything to give you, they'll say a prayer for you.
00:15:27Hey, Sister Chadwick, you think prayer is going to save those big trees?
00:15:30We were assured we could rely on you for that.
00:15:33We don't want them touched.
00:15:35What's so special about them?
00:15:37Well, after you've been around them a while, you'll understand.
00:15:42Sister Alicia, come thee away from all those men.
00:15:46There's safety in numbers, Sister Blackburn.
00:15:48Say, by the way, whatever happened to your bees and vows?
00:15:51Sister Chadwick has been too long out in the world.
00:15:55I'd like you to meet my father, Mr. Fallon.
00:15:57Won't you have supper with us this evening?
00:15:59I'd like to.
00:16:00I'll meet you at 6 in the Bixby Grove.
00:16:02Mr. Burns knows the way.
00:16:04I'm anxious for you to see our trees.
00:16:14This must be good luck.
00:16:16I've known a lot of gals.
00:16:18This is the first time one of them ever asked me to come up and see her trees.
00:16:21I thought this trip was supposed to be strictly business.
00:16:24There's a lot of ways of doing business.
00:16:27What are all these promises I hear you've been making?
00:16:30Just plain common sense.
00:16:32Yukon, I'd feel a lot better if you'd walk me home.
00:16:35Oh, I'm glad to bodyguard you anytime.
00:16:38Hey, Lucky.
00:16:39I want to talk to you.
00:16:41Meet me in the saloon.
00:16:46You better get rid of that daffy sourdough.
00:16:49Before he gets you hooked for money ain't got.
00:16:52I ever had to ask you your advice.
00:16:54Look.
00:16:57I passed up top jobs to Woods, boss, your timber grab.
00:17:00He promised we'd make a killing.
00:17:02All I hear now is some idiot promising to pay.
00:17:05Pay for something you can get for nothing.
00:17:06Nobody's gonna pay.
00:17:08As soon as that bull brings in our loggers,
00:17:09I'll run them into the land office and file.
00:17:12Nobody's gonna pay.
00:17:43Let me borrow your knife, Lucky.
00:17:48Thanks.
00:18:00Biggest, oldest, living things in the whole world.
00:18:04Make you feel kind of small?
00:18:06Nope.
00:18:07Big.
00:18:08I'm the one that's gonna knock them down.
00:18:12The widow Chadwickner folks don't want these trees touched at any price.
00:18:16She's a widow, huh?
00:18:17What's the difference?
00:18:19When you grow up, I'll explain it to you.
00:18:23Who was Chadwick?
00:18:24He's a young seafaring feller.
00:18:27He lost his life at sea a few years ago.
00:18:33I bet there's a hundred houses in one of these.
00:18:36Look, Jim.
00:18:39Yeah?
00:18:40He's calling us trusting you on account of what I've told him about you.
00:18:43You play square with them and you'll do all right.
00:18:47You'll bet I will.
00:18:5028 and a half feet.
00:18:51This is just a baby.
00:18:53Hello.
00:18:58Right on time.
00:19:00Sister Chadwick, thou hasten been out of my thoughts a minute.
00:19:03I hope you're both hungry.
00:19:05I look forward to thy home cooking.
00:19:07Then it will please thee to know that thou shall help with the washing of the dishes
00:19:10to make thee feel that our home is thine.
00:19:14It's a lovely walk.
00:19:39Mr. Fallon, this is my father, Elder Bixby.
00:19:41How do you do, sir?
00:19:42Welcome, friend.
00:19:43Brother?
00:19:43Mrs. Blackford, this is Wallach.
00:19:45We met practically.
00:19:47Brother Dorn.
00:19:47How do you do?
00:19:49On the roof, Brother Williams.
00:19:51And Brother Williams' daughter.
00:19:53How do you do?
00:19:57Magnificent country.
00:19:58It's different from Wisconsin, eh?
00:20:00Yes, it is.
00:20:01I've never been stirred as deeply as by your beautiful trees.
00:20:05And these don't, huh?
00:20:06Then you can understand how we feel about them.
00:20:09Why we hold them in sacred trust.
00:20:11Sacred?
00:20:12Somebody's bound to get them by claiming.
00:20:14Not if we can help it.
00:20:16I'm certain we can place faith in Mr. Fallon and Mr. Burns
00:20:19to help us, keep them from destruction.
00:20:22If I felt like you did about trees, I'd soon be out of business.
00:20:25The giant sequoias are more than trees, friend.
00:20:28They are the everlasting, living sign of our Creator's work.
00:20:32Four thousand years old.
00:20:34As old as the book and the faith.
00:20:37This was just a little one.
00:20:39Only nine hundred years old.
00:20:41But it was a living sapling when the Norman conquerors invaded England.
00:20:45It was about this size when Columbus discovered America.
00:20:50About this large, the time of George Washington
00:20:53and our Declaration of Independence.
00:20:55This marks the time of Abraham Lincoln
00:20:57and the Emancipation Proclamation.
00:20:59It was felled during the term of our present president, Mr. McKinley.
00:21:03God made them to touch the skies,
00:21:06taller than any spire of any church.
00:21:08They are our church, our place of worship.
00:21:11Mr. Fallon will build you a dozen churches.
00:21:14Let's be practical.
00:21:16You men cut timber.
00:21:17The small trees are all they cut.
00:21:19The giant redwoods, we do not.
00:21:21The government passed a death sentence on every tree in the district.
00:21:24We know you'll help us.
00:21:26I admire your faith.
00:21:30Sunburn!
00:21:46The real home.
00:21:49Where do you sit?
00:21:51We ladies eat later.
00:21:53As it should be.
00:21:55Mr. Fallon, will you sit here?
00:21:57Oh, thank you.
00:21:59What's your name?
00:22:01His name is Tom.
00:22:03Well, no wonder he likes me.
00:22:05While the ladies are setting the meal,
00:22:07we'll read from the scriptures.
00:22:09It is our custom to ask the stranger
00:22:10in our house to do the reading.
00:22:13Oh, uh, naturally, uh,
00:22:15well, of course.
00:22:18Perhaps Mr. Fallon would rather quote from memory.
00:22:21Safer if I read.
00:22:22I've been known to get my verses mixed.
00:22:28Um...
00:22:28Here, from the Psalms of David.
00:22:32Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
00:22:35The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
00:22:38Amen.
00:22:40Amen.
00:22:51Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
00:22:54You big hard head.
00:22:55What'd you get me into?
00:22:56You got me into it.
00:22:58You sent me out here.
00:22:59Look here, Jim.
00:23:00Just how much are you gonna pay these folks for this land?
00:23:04Lucky, you better start getting yourself some common sense.
00:23:08Do you realize how much it costs to operate a timber outfit?
00:23:11I can't afford to pay for thousands of acres of free land
00:23:14and still run a business.
00:23:15But I gave him a word, and you...
00:23:17Once, last, and for all.
00:23:19There's not gonna be any payment for any land the government says is free.
00:23:23You sound like a claim jumper to me.
00:23:25If you know what a sourdough thinks of that stripe,
00:23:28you don't want me around.
00:23:29Where are you going?
00:23:30Back to Alaska to get me some fresh air.
00:23:32Lucky, nobody Jim Fallon likes ever leaves him.
00:23:35I'm kind of superstitious about my luck running out on me.
00:23:37Look, you got the wrong slant.
00:23:40It ain't something you can wear on a watch chain.
00:23:43It ain't even money in your kick.
00:23:45Nine times out of ten, it's the way you live.
00:23:47Look who's talking about living.
00:23:49When I picked you up, you were a job hunting, empty-bellied crumb.
00:23:53Look at you now, you're just beginning to live.
00:23:55But it's gonna be my way.
00:23:57Why are you stinking claim jumper?
00:24:00Oh, now, take it easy.
00:24:01Get out of my way.
00:24:03Now, take it easy.
00:24:07Take it easy.
00:24:09Take it easy.
00:24:22Lucky.
00:24:28You win, Lucky.
00:24:32I'll pay them a premium for the land.
00:24:34And you won't cut the big trees?
00:24:37Oh.
00:24:39Oh.
00:24:40Sorry, Jim.
00:24:41I'll get you a doctor.
00:24:55Oh, now, be reasonable.
00:25:00I'm offering you a royalty of one percent.
00:25:02You throw in all logging equipment.
00:25:07All right.
00:25:08Two percent.
00:25:09And believe me, this is all faith, hope, and charity.
00:25:12I believe you.
00:25:13You're a decent man.
00:25:15I like you for trying to do what you don't have to.
00:25:17Well, that's very nice apple butter.
00:25:19How much did the elder tell you to hold out for?
00:25:22I've told you we're only interested in saving these giant trees.
00:25:26Not your money.
00:25:27Wait a minute.
00:25:28Wait a minute.
00:25:29I didn't say anything about money.
00:25:30Just percentage.
00:25:32Percentage of what you own?
00:25:34Or what someone else owns?
00:25:36Sister Chadwick, my conscience is clean.
00:25:39All right.
00:25:40Another half percent.
00:25:42What's your conscience name?
00:25:44Mr. Yukon Burns?
00:25:48This is a very good place to talk about conscience.
00:25:51This is our church.
00:25:52Let's lay off the pious price hiking and admit the trees are trees and money's money.
00:25:57You folks stand to make a million.
00:25:58You're right.
00:26:01Some trees are trees.
00:26:11Come here.
00:26:18You've never seen anything more beautiful.
00:26:21Never.
00:26:23Certainly there's enough timber around here without you destroying these.
00:26:26I live by the bored foot.
00:26:30Doesn't all this beauty mean anything to you?
00:26:34Beauty?
00:26:35Sure.
00:26:36That's what it's all about, sister, since the beginning of the world.
00:26:39That's what makes men thresh the wheat, pick the grapes, hire a band.
00:26:44All the sweat of men it's poured on earth has been for beauty.
00:26:48The beauty of women.
00:26:51Yeah, that's the buggy whip that drives us, Alicia.
00:26:57You know what I mean?
00:26:59I certainly do.
00:27:01You're wasting all the pretty words.
00:27:03Not words.
00:27:05Time.
00:27:08Time.
00:27:12You're wasting time as well as words.
00:27:17I gotta hand it to you, widow Chadwick.
00:27:20You sure know how to put a man on ice.
00:27:22Why not?
00:27:24Business should be practical.
00:27:26And cold.
00:27:27So let's be practical.
00:27:35Plumberman, look.
00:27:37How tall?
00:27:45Five feet, five and a half.
00:27:47213 feet.
00:27:50How big around?
00:27:5124 waist.
00:27:5316 feet.
00:27:55Total footage?
00:27:57Wonderfully proportioned.
00:28:0033,000 square feet.
00:28:02Every inch alive.
00:28:03$14 per thousand board foot delivered in San Francisco.
00:28:06You got soft lips.
00:28:08Now it takes five times as much labor to market one of the big trees as one of the little
00:28:12ones.
00:28:13And there's only three times as much lumber.
00:28:15Therefore the giants aren't nearly as profitable.
00:28:18You haven't been kissed nearly enough.
00:28:19I said profitable, Mr. Fallon.
00:28:21You ought to understand that.
00:28:24Uh-huh.
00:28:25You're quite a mathematician to solve this problem.
00:28:28Either you take 3% or I'm taking your land.
00:28:31Like it says in the Bible, the Lord helps him who helps himself.
00:28:35Then you'll need a lot of help.
00:28:37I've got it.
00:28:39A boatload.
00:29:20A boatload.
00:29:21A boatload.
00:29:23The land office.
00:29:28Judge Crenshaw.
00:29:31Judge Crenshaw.
00:29:32Bless thee, Judge.
00:29:33We're thankful you're here.
00:29:35I hurried all the way from Eureka.
00:29:37Still swarming with boomers, I see.
00:29:39They mean to claim our land.
00:29:40Well, we'll see what can be done.
00:29:44I thought you were going to file in the names of the colonists, Mr. Fallon.
00:29:47That was yesterday. My boys are filing. I want those application blanks.
00:29:50I've got the cash right here to cover all of them.
00:29:54Just a minute, Keller.
00:29:56Judge Crenshaw.
00:29:57Must I take these applications?
00:29:59Yes, from anyone mean enough to use this land grabber's law.
00:30:02Can't Mr. Keller wait.
00:30:04Maybe some of us can raise the filing cost.
00:30:06He can't wait.
00:30:07I know claim law. You've got to have a place in line.
00:30:10Let's have those application blanks.
00:30:14Step up, boys. Fill in those blanks and duplicate.
00:30:18Fallon, this is subterfuge with intent to defraud.
00:30:20Filing on the dummy signatures.
00:30:22These men aren't dummies. I'm only loaning them the money.
00:30:25Are you willing to go on record that's illegal?
00:30:28No, I'm not.
00:30:29But the court will go thoroughly into the case.
00:30:32Suits me fine. By that time, the logs will be off and the court can have the stumps.
00:30:38Jim, you've got to let them keep the big redwoods.
00:30:40I came here to get the big ones.
00:30:43You'll never get them.
00:30:44We could have cut enough timber to raise our filing fees.
00:30:47But we believed you, Mr. Burns.
00:30:49We trusted you because of him.
00:30:51But that's past, Mr. Fallon.
00:30:53We know you now.
00:30:54And with the help of the Lord, somehow we'll stop you.
00:31:02So far, you've made a liar out of me.
00:31:04Hand back every one of them application blanks.
00:31:07There isn't going to be any filing of any kind here.
00:31:16You win again, Lucky.
00:31:21Keller, go ahead with those applications.
00:31:23I beat you half to death once.
00:31:25Now I'm going to finish the job.
00:31:28Please don't try it, Dukon.
00:31:34Don't do it, Lucky.
00:31:36Keep her out of there.
00:31:52Here's your boat fare.
00:31:53I hear there's still gold in Alaska.
00:31:58I'm staying here.
00:32:02Then you'll get hurt again.
00:32:15What time you got yourself straight on that sourdough?
00:32:22He's twice the man you'll ever be.
00:32:27Come on, boys.
00:32:28Get out those blanks.
00:32:37I'd never treat a timber boss of mine like that.
00:32:40Let's you and I have a drink sometime.
00:32:46It's a better time than now.
00:32:51And wash us clean of hatreds, our Father,
00:32:54that we may call no man our enemy.
00:32:56Make our faith in thee
00:32:58to be without question of thy will,
00:33:02that we may live the words of the Scripture.
00:33:06Love the Lord with all thy heart,
00:33:08and with all thy soul,
00:33:10and with all thy might.
00:33:12Amen.
00:33:16Now it's always welcome amongst us, but...
00:33:18But I can't lick Fallon alone.
00:33:20Now you've got some mighty hefty boys here,
00:33:23and if you'd use them the way the Lord suggests...
00:33:26That's right, Yukon.
00:33:27Is this?
00:33:28Hush.
00:33:28Let him give his testimonial.
00:33:33Well, I've been a wicked man in my time,
00:33:36with a weakness for drink and cards and other trifles.
00:33:41But I've done some reading of the book.
00:33:44And when it says,
00:33:45Love thy neighbor with all thy heart,
00:33:47and with all thy soul,
00:33:49that's great.
00:33:50But if it's not enough,
00:33:51it tacks on with all thy might.
00:33:54And that means might.
00:33:56And that there's fighting talk.
00:33:57It's the only kind Jim Fallon will ever understand.
00:34:00Violence is not in our creed.
00:34:02Yeah, I know.
00:34:04And I believe in turning the other cheek.
00:34:07But you've just about to run out of cheeks.
00:34:09It's time you started growing some religious muscles.
00:34:11Thou dost not understand our covenants.
00:34:14Well, appears not.
00:34:15But where I come from,
00:34:16the Lord didn't build strong backs
00:34:17to let wickedness seize the earth.
00:34:20Whatever we do, Mr. Burns,
00:34:21will be done in conformance with the law.
00:34:24But Mr. Fallon is using the law
00:34:26to take our land.
00:34:27The Lord will not fail us.
00:34:31Well, I see it's no use.
00:34:34Thanks anyhow, Elder,
00:34:35for letting me voice my theology.
00:34:42Father.
00:34:45Book of Job, 9th chapter, 22nd verse.
00:34:49They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame.
00:34:52I'm Judge Crenshaw.
00:34:54I've been looking for you.
00:34:55I've got something I want to talk to you about.
00:34:57So have I.
00:34:59Well then, hop in, both of you.
00:35:00We'll go over to your place where we can talk in private.
00:35:07Mr. Burns, I heard you were an honest man and good with a gun.
00:35:11But I also heard you confess to a weakness for liquor, cards and women.
00:35:14Not women, Your Honor.
00:35:16They ain't for the weak.
00:35:18One of the principal reasons for my coming to Redwood
00:35:20was to appoint a marshal.
00:35:22Marshal?
00:35:25Well...
00:35:27You got one, Judge.
00:35:29Then that's settled.
00:35:31Congratulations, Yukon.
00:35:32I guess this gives him the power to stop Jim Fallon.
00:35:35Well, they won't keep those applications of his from being mailed to Washington.
00:35:39It would take an act of God to stop that.
00:35:42Judge, just how would a legal man define an act of God?
00:35:46Well, I'd say any cataclysm.
00:35:49Which was not caused by the human hand.
00:35:52Cataclysm?
00:35:54That got anything to do with cats?
00:35:57Nice kitty.
00:36:00You too.
00:36:00I'll run out to a small town.
00:36:01You too, Harry.
00:36:01You too, Harry.
00:36:01Now you're gonna be a rescue.
00:36:01You too, Harry.
00:36:02You too, Harry.
00:36:03You too, Harry.
00:36:04You too, Harry.
00:36:14You too, Harry.
00:36:18You too, Harry.
00:36:22You too, Harry.
00:36:34Sister Chadwick.
00:36:35Good evening.
00:36:36Taking up with four-footed beasts, eh?
00:36:40Don't blame you what I've seen of the two-legged kind.
00:36:43Don't you think the new marshal was an excellent choice?
00:36:45Mr. Burns is a good man.
00:36:48Transferred Fallon's clay money out of here into the bank.
00:36:51Didn't want it to reflect on me if anything happened.
00:36:54I brought a letter of protest written by Judge Crenshaw
00:36:56stating his opinion of our rights in this case.
00:36:59He wants a copy forwarded to Washington
00:37:01along with every one of Jim Fallon's applications.
00:37:04Well, it's getting late and I'm awfully hungry.
00:37:07That's a lot of copying.
00:37:08I'll get started on it. You go home and eat.
00:37:11Thanks.
00:37:12Do you mind if we open a window?
00:37:14It's rather stuffy in here.
00:37:15I'll do it.
00:37:22Better lock up after me.
00:37:28See you later, Miss Alicia.
00:37:47Mr. Alicia, I have some grub for your cat.
00:37:50Get away now.
00:37:50Listen to the dog food.
00:38:06I have some grub for your cat.
00:38:20Cataclysm.
00:38:27Wait a minute.
00:38:30I don't want anybody taking anything out of here.
00:38:39Sister Chadwick, what happened?
00:38:41It was my cat, Mr. Killer.
00:38:42Getting out of the way of two stray dogs.
00:38:45Don't blame the cat at all.
00:38:47Kitty, kitty.
00:38:48Kitty.
00:39:12You just going to stand there and watch it burn?
00:39:16Well, that's quite a sight.
00:39:18My applications are in there.
00:39:20Your claim money was transferred to the bank, fellas.
00:39:23I'm the only loser.
00:39:25It's burning down my courtroom.
00:39:27I see.
00:39:33I suppose no one thought of calling the fire department.
00:39:44How did it happen?
00:39:46Accident.
00:39:47Accident.
00:39:48I prefer cats.
00:39:54Dear sister, you're not the sweet child I first knew.
00:39:58Me neither, Jim.
00:39:59Let him that stole steal no more.
00:40:01Rather, let him labor working with his hands the thing which is good.
00:40:05Ephesians.
00:40:05First floor line, twenty-six.
00:40:07Twenty-eight.
00:40:09Kelly, you better wire Washington tonight for a new batch of application plaques.
00:40:12What's your hurry?
00:40:14You can't file again until they send duplicate title records.
00:40:17That takes time.
00:40:24That is the most satisfying act of God I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing.
00:40:28Judge, I demand you appoint a marshal to investigate.
00:40:30I've appointed one.
00:40:32Marshal Burns, will you kindly look into this case?
00:40:36Marshal Burns?
00:40:38Yep.
00:40:39There's not much I can do about an act of God.
00:40:41I cite you a precedent, Mr. Fallon.
00:40:43The Chicago case of Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
00:40:46Of course, we're not quite as big as Chicago.
00:40:48We've only got a cap.
00:40:51Nice, Jim.
00:40:55As you so rightly said, the Lord helps him who helps himself.
00:40:59We'll raise the money for the filing fees by cutting and selling timber.
00:41:03That fire doesn't change a new law.
00:41:06Your flock can't work property.
00:41:08They don't own.
00:41:08Mr. Fallon's right.
00:41:10That's the law.
00:41:11I'll follow the law to the letter, Jim.
00:41:14That's all I want.
00:41:17Looks like you'll have to train that cat to steal trees.
00:41:27Timber!
00:42:06Quiet.
00:42:08Quiet, everybody.
00:42:09Quiet.
00:42:10I'll have you all removed.
00:42:12Fires may come and roll may burn, but this court's now in session.
00:42:16What are the defendants charged with, Marshal?
00:42:18Your Honor, James Fallon accuses these men of cutting trees on land they no longer own.
00:42:23That's right.
00:42:24Those claims are now the property of the United States government.
00:42:27How do the defendants plead?
00:42:29Guilty.
00:42:31Thirty days at hard labor.
00:42:33Marshal, I remand the prisoners to your custody and order you to see that the following sentence is carried out.
00:42:38They are to cut timber on government property.
00:42:40The logs are to be transported to Tidewater here at Redwood.
00:42:44Your Honor, what do you intend to do with those logs?
00:42:47Well, now, Section 7, Paragraph 18 of the penal code states,
00:42:52Trinkets or other saleable objects produced by prisoners may be sold.
00:42:56And the money is therefrom given to them at the time of their release as an aid to rehabilitation.
00:43:02Logs 40 feet long are not trinkets.
00:43:04This court is serving the ends of justice, sir, and you are held in contempt.
00:43:09Marshal, collect the gentleman's fine.
00:43:10One hundred dollars.
00:43:14All right.
00:43:16But for a hundred dollars, I want to say something.
00:43:20Two hundred dollars.
00:43:22Any further remarks, I'll make it three.
00:43:28Put this in your safe.
00:43:29It will more than cover the fine.
00:43:32Court's adjourned.
00:43:37In the next 30 days, we must do six months' work.
00:43:39Night and day.
00:43:40And even on the Sabbath, we'll be lifting the ox from the ditch.
00:43:43We'll need $50,000 to save our land.
00:43:46Marshal, will you kindly rush the prisoners to the woods?
00:43:52Let's bring it for us.
00:43:54Come on.
00:43:55Bring it in the sea.
00:43:56We shall come rejoicing, bring it in the sea.
00:44:01Bring it in the sea.
00:44:04Bring it in the sea.
00:44:06Bring it in the sea.
00:44:14We shall come rejoicing.
00:44:17Bring it in the sea.
00:44:38One week more, God willing, we'll have our claim money.
00:44:44My old lady and the kids are having a rough at home.
00:44:46Like I told you, you just have to wait for your money.
00:44:49That's no good.
00:44:50The partnership is fine on paper, but I need some cash.
00:44:52That goes for me, too.
00:44:53All the money I've got in the bank, I'm saving for more claim filing.
00:44:57Bunch of the boys are talking about heading back.
00:44:59Nobody wants to stay.
00:45:00That's the truth.
00:45:02Breaking up the team again, huh?
00:45:04Well, this time you can't leave, men.
00:45:06When the new application blanks get here, I'll need every one of you.
00:45:09The boys don't feel good about that, either.
00:45:11About what?
00:45:12They don't like the raw deal you're giving these natives.
00:45:14What's the matter with you birds?
00:45:16Getting gooey?
00:45:17We came out here to work, not to steal.
00:45:19This is strictly legal.
00:45:20Yeah?
00:45:21There's a lot of talk that it ain't.
00:45:23Frenchy, take the boys over to the saloon.
00:45:27It won't work, Jim.
00:45:32All right.
00:45:33I'll meet you at the bank.
00:45:34Get out of here.
00:45:41Once you start that, they'll start hitting you every week or so.
00:45:44It won't take long to whittle down your capital.
00:45:47Thinking again, huh?
00:45:48Yeah, Jim.
00:45:50Remember that sawmill man, Greg?
00:45:53He'd be a pretty soft partner for a smart fellow like you.
00:45:57Stop thinking so hard, Frenchy.
00:45:58You'll have to get yourself a bad headache.
00:46:05Fallon's getting down to a shoestring.
00:46:07He's finally dipped into his claim money.
00:46:10Here's where I steer him to you for financing.
00:46:12You mean I finally get an introduction to the great Jim Fallon?
00:46:15The Fallon company becomes LaCroix and Greg.
00:46:18You call the shots, Frenchy.
00:46:19We're with you.
00:46:28Your soft partner draws a pretty hard contract.
00:46:31He really doesn't need you.
00:46:33It's a good deal, Fallon.
00:46:34Stop bluffing, Greg.
00:46:36Deceased.
00:46:37I get it.
00:46:38If anything happens to me, the Fallon company goes to you two, huh?
00:46:41Sign it, Jim.
00:46:42Greg here will release funds to your account.
00:46:45Just want you to know I can see through that swamp you call a brain.
00:46:49Jim's always suspicious.
00:46:51Well, you won't shove any knives in my back because you'll never get a stick to tidewater without me.
00:46:56How do you mean?
00:46:58That little secret is my life insurance.
00:47:07Timber!
00:47:11Timber!
00:47:12Timber!
00:47:13I'm going to look in here!
00:47:15Fellas, I don't want to impose on you, but do you mind looking after these girls so the rest of
00:47:19their baggage arrives?
00:47:21Oh, you what they call a lumberjack?
00:47:24That's me, baby!
00:47:28My, you're strong!
00:47:32I've been sick.
00:47:46All right, men.
00:47:47Have fun.
00:47:48The drinks are on the company.
00:47:50Hey!
00:47:52Nice talking machine.
00:47:54Let's dance.
00:47:56Are any of these boys married?
00:47:59I could drink your slipper full of white mule.
00:48:02Take Aggie.
00:48:03She's from Texas.
00:48:04Here.
00:48:06Fill it up!
00:48:12Little Dora Fig.
00:48:14Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:48:15I've been dreaming of you for days.
00:48:17I used to dance on a beer cake for dimes.
00:48:19Hmm, remember that big, swell-headed lumberjack who never had the dime?
00:48:23We're doing all right now, honey.
00:48:24Say, how's it feel to be Queen or Redwood City?
00:48:27Fine.
00:48:28If you're the king.
00:48:38The same old gym.
00:48:39Daisy, honey, we're going to be rich.
00:48:41Very rich.
00:48:42Just sign these, Dora Fig.
00:48:45Yep.
00:48:46The same old gym.
00:48:48What kind of lost me is it this time?
00:48:50Well, those wild westerners you warned me about try to cut my throat.
00:48:53This is just to give me a little protection.
00:48:56Mm-hmm.
00:49:04It's lucky for you I learned to write instead of read.
00:49:07Thanks, doll.
00:49:08Jasper!
00:49:10You saw the lady sign these.
00:49:12Notarize it.
00:49:19Well, I'm ready for a nice, warm bath.
00:49:24The tub's down the hall.
00:49:26What?
00:49:27Well, I'll be seeing you, honey.
00:49:29What?
00:49:29Oh, look, I'm going to Sacramento for a couple of days.
00:49:32You make yourself at home.
00:49:33Uh, Frenchie will look after you.
00:49:35Frenchie Lacroix.
00:49:36Sure.
00:49:37Be nice to her.
00:49:40Come in.
00:49:43Oh.
00:49:43Miss Fisher, may I present, uh, Sister Chadwick?
00:49:47Forget your tambourine, honey?
00:49:50I'm sorry, Jim.
00:49:51I didn't mean to intrude.
00:49:52Well, Daisy's an old friend.
00:49:55He means well-seasoned.
00:49:57Oh.
00:49:59I came to tell you we've cut enough timber.
00:50:02Our logs will soon be at tidewater.
00:50:04Our faith has been realized.
00:50:06We'll be able to keep our lands.
00:50:09But my father and I wanted you to know if you want to stay here and work, we'll help.
00:50:16Goodbye, Miss Fisher.
00:50:18Goodbye, Jim.
00:50:22Jim, huh?
00:50:23Lucky for you, my father never owned a shotgun.
00:50:26What about hers?
00:50:28Believe me, Daisy, I'd rather have my head shot off by a fig than my soul saved by a Bixby.
00:50:33Have fun, girl.
00:50:47I'm the charming soubrette on the police gazette.
00:50:52I can dance with gestures and grace.
00:50:54I've a definite style and a beautiful smile if by chance you glance at my face.
00:51:01The barbers, the cops, and first-nighters, they all have pictures of me.
00:51:08I'm sharing my fame with the fighters, John L. and Knockout McKee.
00:51:15I am known as the toast of the Barbary Coast and the kind you'll never forget.
00:51:23I'm a burly cute queen and you'll know what I mean if you read the police gazette.
00:51:46If you're feeling depressed, let me humbly suggest there's a way for you to forget.
00:51:54Simply turn to the page, to the news of the stage, when you read the police gazette.
00:52:23Champagne.
00:52:25We'll drink to watch.
00:52:29We've got a lot of things in common.
00:52:31Yeah.
00:52:33Name one.
00:52:35Well, we've, uh, both been Jim Fallon's chumps.
00:52:40I'm through.
00:52:41How about you?
00:52:42What's rattling around in that head of yours?
00:52:44Look, Daisy, Jim's out of town.
00:52:47He's up to something.
00:52:48You're a part of it.
00:52:49What's going on?
00:52:51Why don't you ask Jim when he gets back?
00:52:53I'm paying cash money for information.
00:52:56I have a notion to tell Jim about this.
00:53:00You stye on the eye of a flea, on the thigh of a nid, on the neck of a naf.
00:53:11I've seen things.
00:53:12That dam wasn't there last week.
00:53:14Not like that it wasn't.
00:53:15But the foundation's been there since the old mining days.
00:53:18Fallon.
00:53:19Jim Fallon.
00:53:20Well, he sure got the colonists blocked.
00:53:22Not just the colonists.
00:53:24Nobody's running any more logs to Tidewater without my say-so.
00:53:27But we're partners.
00:53:29Correct.
00:53:29And I've got you right where you thought you had me.
00:53:32You bought that dam with my money.
00:53:34I don't own it.
00:53:35I just got permission to control the river with it.
00:53:39Fallon, you've gone too far.
00:53:42No.
00:53:42My good health is very important to you boys.
00:53:45Anything happens to me, the owner of that dam will see that you never get a log to market.
00:53:49Oh, by the way, I brought back another surprise for you from Sacramento.
00:53:53Be in town this afternoon.
00:53:55I have an appointment with Judge Crenshaw.
00:54:02Franchise for the dam is valid.
00:54:04Prior property right established by the miners when this was gold rush country.
00:54:07We've got to locate the owner.
00:54:09I'm sure if he knew what it means to-
00:54:10Well, the owner's a woman, Dora Figg.
00:54:13Dora Figg?
00:54:16Sacramento post office box is the only address.
00:54:19I'm sorry.
00:54:20There's nothing I can do.
00:54:21Absolutely nothing.
00:54:22Thank you, Judge Crenshaw, for making that clear.
00:54:25So help me, Jim.
00:54:26I can hardly keep this gun from going off right in your face.
00:54:29Don't blame me.
00:54:30You're the one that led these sheep right into the middle of this wolf fight.
00:54:33Judge Crenshaw, this is for you.
00:54:36From the head of the Department of Interior.
00:54:40It is my considered opinion that the Fallon Company can, without penalty,
00:54:44proceed to take possession of and clear of their land.
00:54:47Do you mean they can cut down our trees?
00:54:49I'm afraid they can.
00:54:51Franchise, you and Greg set the boys to work right now,
00:54:53possessing and clearing the land.
00:54:55You see, Sister Chadwick, you and your friends could have made a pile of money.
00:54:59Didn't you ever learn any other word except money?
00:55:04You're getting in a rut, Jim.
00:55:06You better look out, because when a rut gets deep enough, it becomes a grave.
00:55:10You've got a couple of partners liable to put you in it.
00:55:19The darkness deepens, Lord, with me abides.
00:55:30Hell for the helpless, O abide with me.
00:55:53O Lord, hear our last prayer in this temple.
00:55:57If its destruction be by thy will,
00:56:01then to thy higher judgment we bow.
00:56:06Open the hearts of each of us
00:56:08to speak forgiveness for these men of greed
00:56:11who have not been touched by thy understanding.
00:56:16Amen.
00:56:22Don't take any backtalks.
00:56:23We've got the law with us.
00:56:37Come out of there, you fools!
00:56:39You're in the line of fall!
00:56:41We must leave.
00:56:44It's our home.
00:56:47My place is here.
00:56:49They want to go down with the ship.
00:56:50It's their hard luck.
00:56:51The murder.
00:56:52Fallon's company.
00:56:53He gets life for murder.
00:56:54We get the company.
00:56:59The years that grew into these trees
00:57:00make them long and tedious to saw.
00:57:05There's time to get our friends,
00:57:07Judge Crenshaw and the Marshal.
00:57:10Go on.
00:57:12Hurry!
00:57:33What's the matter with you men?
00:57:34You undercut that tree to hit the cabin.
00:57:36That's right.
00:57:37Stop the sawing!
00:57:38Where's the Bixby's?
00:57:40How should I now?
00:57:54I'm sorry, but you may lose your house.
00:58:03My father's in there!
00:58:05Stay here.
00:58:23All right.
00:58:26Oh!
00:58:27Oh!
00:58:27Oh!
00:58:28Oh!
00:58:29Oh!
00:58:31Oh!
00:58:32Oh, my God.
00:59:02Oh, my God.
00:59:03Oh, my God.
00:59:06Oh, my God.
00:59:07Oh, my God.
00:59:08Oh, my God.
00:59:09Oh, my God.
00:59:12Oh, my God.
00:59:13Oh, my God.
00:59:14Oh, my God.
00:59:40Oh, my God.
00:59:56Oh, my God.
00:59:57Oh, my God.
01:00:01Oh, my God.
01:00:21Oh, my God.
01:00:37Oh, my God.
01:00:41Oh, my God.
01:00:45Oh, my God.
01:01:04Oh, my God.
01:01:04Oh, my God.
01:01:19Oh, my God.
01:01:19Oh, my God.
01:01:34Oh, my God.
01:01:39Oh, my God.
01:01:41Oh, my God.
01:01:49Let's go.
01:02:10Brother Wiggins has told me Frenchie's been making threats against Jim's life.
01:02:14Why, you care?
01:02:15Anybody shoot Jim Fallon, be the most popular fellow in town.
01:02:18You're the marshal. Don't let it happen.
01:02:19Why?
01:02:20Just don't let it happen.
01:02:22Well, by golly, I...
01:02:23Say, you're not in love with that no good, are you?
01:02:28Well, girl, you're crazy.
01:02:30You see a big Tom Leopard out in the woods and you don't get close.
01:02:33That is, unless you happen to be a lady leopard.
01:02:36He's been gentle enough with me.
01:02:38That's what he does. He's creeping.
01:02:40Now, you listen to me, girl.
01:02:41A Marian Parson could straightjack at Jim Fallon
01:02:43and lock him in a box in the bottom of the sea.
01:02:45He'd still slip the gaff and run off with a wedding presents.
01:02:50Men have been known to change.
01:02:52Oh, lady.
01:02:53Even I have been given up by women reformers.
01:02:56The biggest mistake a woman can make
01:02:58is to pick the wrong man and try to make him right.
01:03:00Why don't you just go off somewhere
01:03:02and have a good cry and forget him?
01:03:05I'm reminding you of your duty, marshal.
01:03:08See that he's protected.
01:03:11Now, Lisa, it's started. What do we do?
01:03:13Are you sure?
01:03:14Yes.
01:03:19It feels like any minute.
01:03:25Take it to the hotel. Room 204.
01:03:28204? That's Jim Fallon's room.
01:03:31Why not? This is all his fault.
01:03:42See those lighted windows upstairs? They're his.
01:03:45You get up in the land office ruins.
01:03:47Maybe you can pot him from there.
01:03:50Charlie, he doesn't know you. You take the saloon.
01:03:54Hold, I'll stay out here. You get on the hotel porch.
01:03:58He comes through the lobby. Signal me.
01:04:00One of us has got to get him.
01:04:40Come on upstairs.
01:04:42Now what have I done?
01:04:43I want to talk to you.
01:04:55Hey, stranger.
01:04:57What'll that be?
01:04:58Double straight.
01:05:09Your sister will be all right.
01:05:19What's that?
01:05:20Baby.
01:05:22This is one thing you can't pin on me.
01:05:27Looks like you and the stork arrived at the same time.
01:05:30What?
01:05:30Bill, it's a boy.
01:05:32The street was no place for a baby to be born.
01:05:34Whose baby?
01:05:35Where can I find some water?
01:05:37Right down the hall, right down here.
01:05:41What is this, a hotel or a nursery?
01:05:44A baby was just born here, thanks to Jim.
01:05:47Congratulations.
01:05:47What do you mean, thanks to Jim?
01:05:50I'd better get out of here.
01:05:51It might be catching.
01:05:54Now what's this all about?
01:05:55You and your land grabbers forced them out of their home.
01:05:58I had nothing to do with it.
01:06:00Too bad his father can't be here.
01:06:01I had nothing to do with that either.
01:06:09So for all I care, you can stay on your pious pedestal.
01:06:13I've never placed myself on any pedestal.
01:06:15I'm too full of bad temper.
01:06:23What a girl.
01:06:25Why, you chigger-bitten Don Juan.
01:06:27You just try pitching hay with her and I'll shoot that lump you call a head right out from under
01:06:31your hat.
01:06:31Forget it.
01:06:32I tried once, got frostbite in the middle of July.
01:06:35That don't mean she's not stuck on you.
01:06:38You're crazy.
01:06:41Yeah, maybe so.
01:06:42When you signed that deal with Frenchie, it was heads you die and tails you get killed.
01:06:46Who do you think's got me looking after you?
01:06:48Alicia Chadwick.
01:06:51I don't believe you.
01:06:52Why should you?
01:06:53It wouldn't mean anything to you.
01:06:55You're gonna have everything you wanted.
01:06:57You're gonna be a millionaire.
01:06:59Sure.
01:07:00Why don't you tell the truth just once?
01:07:03Why don't you come clean and admit that all this wine you're guzzling is as sour as vinegar?
01:07:08Tell me more.
01:07:09You stinking steak jumper.
01:07:11I'm only trying to save your hide.
01:07:14It's not because I want to, but I promised her.
01:07:18You still like me, don't you?
01:07:23Come on, sweetheart.
01:07:25I want you to watch me thank Alicia for sending you back to me.
01:07:29Let's go.
01:07:57Get back, Buck.
01:07:58Get back, Buck.
01:08:01Come on.
01:08:45Come on.
01:08:47Yukon loved this girl.
01:08:51He understood.
01:08:54Look where it got him.
01:08:57He lost his life protecting you.
01:09:00He should have looked out for himself.
01:09:07When I was a child, I was taught to believe that there was a...
01:09:11a God-given seed of good at the root of everything alive.
01:09:16But I'm beginning to doubt that now.
01:09:20There isn't the slightest bit of good in you.
01:09:54I'm not sure he's gonna find you.
01:09:55I'll bring something so I see.
01:10:14I got your message.
01:10:15What do you want?
01:10:16Come here.
01:10:21Sit down, Judge.
01:10:25Look, I figured out how you can stop Frenchy and Greg from cutting on that land.
01:10:29I had that figured out long ago.
01:10:31But you'd have to confess to subterfuge and attempt to defraud when you file those claims for homesteads.
01:10:36And that's a felony.
01:10:38Sit down and draw up an affidavit.
01:10:40What?
01:10:41You heard me.
01:10:45The government will hold all your claim money for forfeit.
01:10:47What do you want me to do, burst out in tears?
01:10:50Yeah.
01:10:51I've been trying to make a dent in you ever since I got here.
01:10:54Stop trying or you'll break your axe.
01:10:56Get those colonists to logging so they can file.
01:11:00Will you take care of Dora Fig and the dam that's blocking them?
01:11:03Let's pretend I'm Dora Fig.
01:11:06Well, you thought of everything, didn't you?
01:11:08I admire what you're doing, Fallon.
01:11:10Then keep your mouth shut about it, around everybody.
01:11:13What do you think Frenchy and Greg are gonna do when they find out?
01:11:16Just stand there with their hands folded?
01:11:17Just make out that affidavit, will you?
01:11:21There.
01:11:23I'll give you back your good luck piece.
01:11:25You'll need it for those tree wolves.
01:11:29Thanks, Judge.
01:11:31Oh, uh, I've been eating some eating money too.
01:11:35Want to cover that?
01:11:37It's covered.
01:11:39High man deals.
01:11:44Come on, I'll teach you to think of your soul instead of your belly.
01:11:48Check those through to San Francisco.
01:11:53Hate to see you leave, honey.
01:11:55Sure gonna miss you.
01:11:56Uh-uh.
01:11:57You'll be beating the drums while she's singing her hymns.
01:12:00Happy trip.
01:12:01Oh, uh, just Dora Fig these, will you?
01:12:04You'll have to talk to Frenchy about little Dora Fig.
01:12:07Come again?
01:12:08I sold the damn to Frenchy for $25,000.
01:12:12Oh, Daisy, honey.
01:12:15That's not funny.
01:12:22What's the matter?
01:12:24Wrong flavor?
01:12:29You're telling the truth.
01:12:31That property was mine.
01:12:33After all, I couldn't live forever on your promises.
01:12:37What promise did I ever break to you?
01:12:40You never broke any.
01:12:42But you never kept any.
01:12:44It took me 10 years to get the stars out of my eyes.
01:12:47All the rugs I helped you pull out from under the suckers.
01:12:51I learned.
01:12:53Oh, boy, how I learned.
01:12:55Enough to pull the whole floor right off from under you.
01:13:01Boy.
01:13:03Knocked me sky high.
01:13:05You'll land on your feet.
01:13:07You always do.
01:13:09That $25,000 will repay me for all the years I've wasted.
01:13:12Yeah, ma'am.
01:13:14I finally got me a stake.
01:13:19Got yourself educated and well-heeled, huh?
01:13:24Nice work, Daisy.
01:13:26I'm patting myself on the back, too, for being a good teacher.
01:13:31So long, pal.
01:13:32No hard feelings.
01:13:40Thanks, Brother Fallon.
01:13:42Judge Crenshaw told us you let us through the dam.
01:13:44Blessings on me this beautiful day.
01:13:46Frenchy bought the dam out from under me.
01:13:49You're choking the river with logs for nothing.
01:13:51Is this another of thy tricks?
01:13:53The spots of the leopard do not change.
01:13:55Well, it's time to change yours.
01:13:57Why don't you men get some bristles on your back and start the fight?
01:14:00It's your only chance to spring those logs and get back your land.
01:14:03You can't pray that dam out of the way.
01:14:07No, but we can get around it.
01:14:09That old mining railroad on our property.
01:14:11It wouldn't take much new track to bypass the dam and haul the logs to the river below it.
01:14:15Sister, that'll do it.
01:14:17We'll need some rails and tools.
01:14:18I'll swindle somebody out of them.
01:14:21Swindle?
01:14:22Borrow.
01:14:23Sometimes it's all the same.
01:14:24How many of you men worked on that spur track last time?
01:14:27Uh, Judge Crenshaw donated this.
01:14:30Feed your boys good.
01:14:32They work faster.
01:14:33That was very kind of him.
01:14:34And you, too, for helping us.
01:14:37Yeah.
01:14:37Sister Chadwick, just between us leopards.
01:14:40Keep watching my spots.
01:15:04It's almost to the river with that track.
01:15:06Yeah.
01:15:07If it gets there, we're out of business.
01:15:09Yeah.
01:15:10The way they cut timber.
01:15:12How many trestles are there?
01:15:14Three.
01:15:16Show me the one nearest the river.
01:15:41Come in.
01:15:42My first time in a caboose.
01:15:44Sister Wallace.
01:15:46Sister Blackburn went to town with the baby.
01:15:50How are we doing?
01:15:51Just fine.
01:15:52Five carloads have gone already.
01:15:54And this one goes this afternoon.
01:15:57I hate to admit it, but thanks to Brother Fallon.
01:16:00It is good to have him on our side, isn't it?
01:16:02It makes one feel like the strength of Jeroboam was with us.
01:16:06He must mean Jeremiah. Jeroboam was a scamp.
01:16:09I guess I mean both.
01:16:11See thee later.
01:16:13Oh, tell Mr. Fallon I'll be here until supper time if he needs me.
01:16:17All right.
01:16:42Let's go.
01:16:45Go ahead.
01:16:49Go ahead.
01:16:50Go ahead.
01:16:51Go ahead.
01:16:54Go ahead.
01:16:55Go ahead.
01:16:59What are you talking about?
01:17:00That one should do it.
01:17:06What was that?
01:17:08We'd better find out.
01:17:16He's right in there.
01:17:17Quiet. Might have a gun.
01:17:19Who is it?
01:17:22Better speak up fast.
01:17:35Call on us, huh?
01:17:37We'll never find him in this brush.
01:17:39We'd better get a train over that trestle quick.
01:17:56Release the brake on the caboose.
01:17:57While you're at it, lock the doors.
01:17:58We'll take care of the end cars.
01:18:20As if we'll take care of the casa,
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01:18:36having a mínima
01:18:38Let's go.
01:19:12Sister Chadwick figured out we need two more carloads.
01:19:14I think we'll be quicker to get them from below.
01:19:16Let's move.
01:19:19Hey, boss!
01:19:30What happened?
01:19:33They said one more train would crash it.
01:19:38Crash what?
01:19:41It's the third trestle near the river.
01:19:44Sounds like a train now.
01:19:46Can't believe it.
01:19:47The locomotive's not due to one o'clock.
01:19:50Get them to a doctor.
01:19:53Boss, it is a train.
01:19:56Where's Sister Chadwick?
01:19:57She's in that caboose.
01:19:58Let's go.
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01:24:35Your judgment's upon you.
01:24:41You brothers with the rope, get busy.
01:24:51Stand thee aside, sisters, while I use the stone.
01:25:00I don't feel a bit wicked. Bring me another stone.
01:25:08Let's go.
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01:27:00Let's go.
01:27:10The End
01:27:52Take cover!
01:28:02Take cover!
01:28:35They look different to you, now.
01:28:39Mrs. Fallon, please, couldn't I?
01:28:42Just one little one, huh?
01:29:13The End
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