American Empire (1942) is an American Western drama directed by William C. McGann, starring Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, and Preston Foster. The story follows three Civil War veterans who head to Texas to build a vast cattle empire. As their fortunes rise, internal tensions grow — especially as Paxton Bryce’s ambition begins to fracture friendships, threaten alliances, and ignite conflict across the frontier. The film blends classic Western themes of loyalty, land, and survival, set against the harsh realities of post‑war expansion.
Film Details
Year: 1942
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: William C. McGann
Writers: J. Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater, Ben Grauman Kohn
Produced by: Harry Sherman, Dick Dickson
Starring: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford, Robert Barrat, Jack La Rue
Cinematography: Russell Harlan
Edited by: Carroll Lewis
Music: Gerard Carbonara
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: 11 December 1942
Runtime: 82 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
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Film Details
Year: 1942
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: William C. McGann
Writers: J. Robert Bren, Gladys Atwater, Ben Grauman Kohn
Produced by: Harry Sherman, Dick Dickson
Starring: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford, Robert Barrat, Jack La Rue
Cinematography: Russell Harlan
Edited by: Carroll Lewis
Music: Gerard Carbonara
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: 11 December 1942
Runtime: 82 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
#AmericanEmpire1942 #WesternFilm #RichardDix #LeoCarrillo #PrestonFoster #ClassicWestern #ParamountPictures #1940sCinema #FrontierDrama #VintageMovies
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00:00:00The End
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00:01:38Old engineer
00:01:39Loses more steam
00:01:40When he gets in a cylinder
00:01:42Can't even pack a bearing
00:01:43I had to do it myself
00:01:45What are you doing?
00:01:46Still juggling those figures?
00:01:48I'm not juggling
00:01:48Have a look
00:01:49We'll make about 800 this time
00:01:51Is that all for all the work we did?
00:01:54I'm going dafty
00:01:55Carrying free up and down this river
00:01:58Dan
00:01:58Let's sell a Betsy and get into something else
00:02:01Well 800 may not be much
00:02:02But it's safe and sure
00:02:04Yeah
00:02:05At least we had some excitement
00:02:06When we owned the old Hattie T
00:02:08Was it your idea to swap her for this?
00:02:10Yeah but the whole setup has changed
00:02:12It was a war on
00:02:12A man could make some real money
00:02:14But don't you remember?
00:02:15Oh I remember all right
00:02:16I remember getting a broadside of midships
00:02:18From the Union gunboat
00:02:19Taking splinters out of my
00:02:21Hide for two weeks
00:02:23You got a hundred dollars for every splinter
00:02:26That's right
00:02:26And confederate money
00:02:28War's over Pax
00:02:29We can't start another one
00:02:30Just because you're restless
00:02:32Me
00:02:33I like the river
00:02:34Always so peaceful and quiet
00:02:49Oh hey
00:02:50Hey
00:02:51Austin
00:02:52Those are nice tender cows
00:02:54You must treat them tender
00:02:55Say lazy one
00:02:56Why those cows is not across the river huh?
00:02:59Those ranchos
00:02:59They catch us
00:03:00They will hang us by the neck
00:03:01Until they don't leave some more
00:03:03We got no time to die now
00:03:05Hey
00:03:05Allez
00:03:06Allez
00:03:06Allez
00:03:07Allez
00:03:08Allez
00:03:08Allez
00:03:08Allez
00:03:09Allez
00:03:10Allez
00:03:10Allez
00:03:10Allez
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00:03:10Allez
00:03:11Allez
00:03:11Allez
00:03:26Allez
00:03:27Allez
00:03:28Allez
00:03:28Let it be. Nobody cares what time it is out here, except maybe the sand, please.
00:03:32Well, I care, because it's regulation.
00:03:34And if you'd ever sail before the mast, you'd know it.
00:03:37You see going there. I've sailed the baby straight.
00:03:39I've picked whole whales from Mindora to Madagascar.
00:03:42Now, sail away.
00:03:42I think I'll scuttle you.
00:03:44Now, don't.
00:03:46Sail away is off its course.
00:03:52Now, you undersized jellyfish, repeat after me.
00:03:55I'll never speak no more foul slander against my friend.
00:03:59He and that Ronnie are up there fighting again.
00:04:02Hey, sail away.
00:04:04Ronnie.
00:04:14But sail away, we don't have to...
00:04:17Come on.
00:04:19Speak.
00:04:23Oh, the port bow.
00:04:24School of sea cows. Look.
00:04:26You ain't getting out of this.
00:04:28Say it.
00:04:28Sea cows.
00:04:30Hey, I'll be my boat.
00:04:31You say it.
00:04:35Hey.
00:04:42You floatin' little living, don't you know better than to block a channel?
00:04:45Sail away, can't you, Mr. Sandbar, even in broad daylight?
00:04:47But it wasn't his fault.
00:04:49I've navigated the reefs of Nukaheva in a typhoon.
00:04:51I've sailed the shoals of...
00:04:53Never mind that.
00:04:53Why'd you run the ground?
00:04:54Oh, them mossy horned sea lions push me here.
00:04:57You'll need a better excuse than that if you can't get it off.
00:04:59Full speed astern.
00:05:00Aye, aye, sir.
00:05:01Full speed astern.
00:05:02Full speed astern.
00:05:10Pebler, you up there.
00:05:11I think maybe you thought she had stuck good.
00:05:15That man at the wheel should stay awake when the river ship ends.
00:05:18You blubbery knuckle joint.
00:05:26I'm sorry, my friend, but I don't like the haircut with those harpoons.
00:05:30Shut her off, Runny.
00:05:31Now that you've shown us your fancy shooting, how about getting us off this sandbar?
00:05:36You got us on.
00:05:37Maybe we do business, I come aboard.
00:05:41I got an idea.
00:05:43He's got a funny notion about business.
00:05:49Now, bring my bottom.
00:05:51Thirty years of floating, I'm wearing up high and dry on a Texas sandbar.
00:05:54You must have done your floating in the bathtub.
00:05:57Ha!
00:05:58I'll float you.
00:06:04Ha!
00:06:04Dominique André Hippolyte Saint-Ange at your service.
00:06:07Ha!
00:06:08That's quite a collection of handles.
00:06:09Ha!
00:06:09There is a costume in my Louisiana.
00:06:11And yours?
00:06:12I'm Paxton Bryce.
00:06:13This is Dan Taylor, my partner.
00:06:15What's your deal?
00:06:16Well, I am in quick hauling.
00:06:17You carry my cows and, uh, I will pull it off your boat.
00:06:20Ha!
00:06:21Ha!
00:06:21Somebody after you, huh?
00:06:22Looks like they're rustling.
00:06:23Ah, that is old fashioned.
00:06:25The wars here make enough cows for us all.
00:06:27What's the war got to do with it?
00:06:28Everything.
00:06:29The owners, they go away to fight.
00:06:30They stay four years.
00:06:32And these cattle travel all over Texas by himself
00:06:34and make plenty of little ones.
00:06:36Ha!
00:06:36These are what we call in French, uh,
00:06:38like English, free like the air.
00:06:41Ha!
00:06:41They belong to no one.
00:06:42They got no brand.
00:06:43And, uh, finders is keepers, huh?
00:06:46Sortie more.
00:06:46Oh, I have a soft heart.
00:06:48I ask myself, uh, Dominique, these poor cattle,
00:06:50they don't got no home,
00:06:51so I gather them together and I take them to live on my home.
00:06:54That's very kind of you.
00:06:55Why are you in such a hurry?
00:06:57Well, these ranchers, they want to keep all the wild cattle,
00:06:59so they chase me.
00:07:00Hmm.
00:07:02Uh, upon this sense, I am telling you the truth.
00:07:05Ah, that's good enough for me.
00:07:06What do you say, Dan?
00:07:07I guess it's all right.
00:07:09The Betsy Ann gets paid for what she carries.
00:07:11Oh, I am honest man.
00:07:13I wish to go to Mirio Landing on the Louisiana side.
00:07:16How many cows you got?
00:07:17About 1,000.
00:07:18Cost you a dollar a head.
00:07:19Eh bien, I will get my men started, huh?
00:07:21Tie her up to the back of the bar.
00:07:22A bit.
00:07:22Hello.
00:07:23They're in cattle.
00:07:25It's plum degrading, Ronnie.
00:07:27It could have been goats.
00:07:30Hey, Dominique.
00:07:32I'd like to hear some more about those poor orphan cows.
00:07:52Ed, those cattle are worth a lot of money.
00:07:54All the fishermen had to do was pick them up.
00:07:56What's the matter, Jim?
00:07:57The bearing again?
00:07:58No, sir, but I just laid eyes on who we're carrying.
00:08:00That's Dominique Machard, the fellow at Hartville.
00:08:03Machard?
00:08:03Well, he's the one that's turned the send of Texas into a shooting gallery.
00:08:06Get below, Jim.
00:08:07We may need a full head of steam.
00:08:08We better get our money quick.
00:08:13Well, how about our money?
00:08:15There.
00:08:16Oh.
00:08:17Hi, babe.
00:08:21Later, when I get the money for the cows.
00:08:24Pay an hour, you don't take them off, Machard.
00:08:26Oh, Bouchard, so you know me, eh? That is of no consequence.
00:08:30Boy, where are the cars off, boy?
00:08:32I say, I'll pay later.
00:08:35Pierre, get those cars off quick.
00:08:38And keep your eyes on the American.
00:08:41Billy, Henry, get the cattle off the boat, quick!
00:08:52Full speed ahead, full speed ahead.
00:08:57The
00:09:22Hey, you brass dimmocks, why didn't you tell me something I don't know?
00:09:30Bouchard, your cow's just about paid for our trouble.
00:09:33And we never give credit.
00:09:35Eh bien, monsieur.
00:09:36I still owe you something, but I always pay.
00:09:53Well, looks like we're in the cattle business.
00:09:55Sooner he'd handed us the money, though.
00:09:57He handed us an idea that's worth millions.
00:09:59We're way ahead.
00:10:01This whole end of Texas is full of cattle that don't belong to anybody.
00:10:05That's what increased during the war.
00:10:07We buy the land, all the cattle earn it, or ours.
00:10:10Sounds like a great idea.
00:10:11It's too much for gambling.
00:10:12Gamble?
00:10:13So it was running a blockade, but we made money, didn't we?
00:10:16Can't you see it, Dan?
00:10:17This beats any deal we've ever been in.
00:10:19We can take the money we've got, sell these cattle, and if that's the end.
00:10:24We can buy land for the square mile.
00:10:26Round up cattle by the thousands.
00:10:28Sell them and buy more land.
00:10:29We'll have a ranch like nobody's ever seen before.
00:10:32It'll be like going in your own country, wouldn't it?
00:10:34It'll be bigger than that.
00:10:35It'll be like an empire.
00:10:37Yeah, our own American empire.
00:10:42When you're flying high, I'll clap along with you.
00:10:45We'll get the river from where we'll go have a talk with the land agent.
00:10:48Then I think we ought to drink a couple of toast to a mighty bright future, don't you?
00:10:54Try it, don't you?
00:10:58Ah!
00:11:19Worse than a Nantucko sleigh ride.
00:11:22I'll put the law on you.
00:11:24Oh, where's my customer?
00:11:26My customer!
00:11:50Hello, little fella.
00:11:52What a place to roost.
00:11:56This is the biggest prize I ever got in a grab bag.
00:11:59Is there any more in there like you?
00:12:00Isn't one victim enough?
00:12:02Or do you gently run them down with a dozen?
00:12:04Let go of my hat.
00:12:09You ain't hurt, Mom.
00:12:10I'll live.
00:12:12Hey!
00:12:12Did you bust a stadium, Skipper?
00:12:14Not a one.
00:12:15Not a one.
00:12:15Get out.
00:12:16Get out of here.
00:12:17This ain't no corral.
00:12:21And you, mister.
00:12:22It will cost you a month of money for this damage.
00:12:25All right.
00:12:25It'll cost me a lot of money.
00:12:26There you are.
00:12:27Take that and keep the change.
00:12:28All right, boys.
00:12:29Show's all over.
00:12:30I'll see you down at the music hall.
00:12:31Hey, you've got a wonderful store in here.
00:12:43Go ahead.
00:12:44Time for my luggage, too.
00:12:46I'm sorry, ma'am.
00:12:47Honest, I am.
00:12:48I mean about the whole thing.
00:12:50You ought to be sorry.
00:12:51A grown ma'am playing horseback on a cow.
00:12:54I ought to call the police.
00:12:55You'll have to call awful loud because we're not blessed with them out here.
00:12:59That's too bad.
00:13:00You belong in jail.
00:13:02Missy, you're tacking way off your course because he's the finest little skipper that ever tried the deck.
00:13:08That's my compliments, ma'am.
00:13:10To cool you off.
00:13:14Little lady.
00:13:16My compliments.
00:13:17To hold in your temper.
00:13:19And may I compliment all.
00:13:21I've never seen finer specimens of Duncan Hoadlands.
00:13:26Ooh.
00:13:29Is she upset or something?
00:13:35Well, I've shivered and froze over half the Arctic Circle hunting these here whale bones so women can hold up
00:13:42their reputations.
00:13:43What thanks do I get?
00:13:45She reminds me of the Hattie T.
00:13:47Got the lines of a clipper and the disposition of a balky barge.
00:13:51I sure hope we don't sight her again.
00:13:54Let's go back where we came from.
00:13:59Hey, Dan.
00:14:00Go, Dan.
00:14:01What the Sam Hill?
00:14:02Where are you?
00:14:02What happened?
00:14:03I thought you were going to meet me after you got tied up.
00:14:05Well, something happened that kept me on board.
00:14:07Oh, did you miss the time?
00:14:08Yeah, sure.
00:14:09I guess you did the honors for both of us, huh?
00:14:11Better sleep at all.
00:14:11Oh, I don't want to go to bed.
00:14:13We're going back to the music hall.
00:14:14Hey, will you see the redhead I got lined up?
00:14:16Well, we'll make it some other night.
00:14:17What's the matter with you?
00:14:18Didn't you hear me?
00:14:19I said a redhead.
00:14:20She's even prettier than the one you sent the violence to in Galveston.
00:14:22I didn't have a girl in Galveston.
00:14:24Must have been stale away.
00:14:25Stale away my eye.
00:14:26It was you she threw the lamp at.
00:14:27This one she was...
00:14:28What else did the redhead do?
00:14:32What's she doing here?
00:14:33You know we don't allow women on board.
00:14:35She's no woman.
00:14:36This is my kid sister, Abigail.
00:14:38Abby?
00:14:39This is Paxton Bryce.
00:14:40She arrived this afternoon and had a kind of an accident with a no-account drunk.
00:14:46Well, what's so funny?
00:14:48I was the accident.
00:14:49Well, she said that it was a low-down, no-good rowdy.
00:14:52I should have recognized you, Paxton.
00:14:55Well, I furnished so much amusement.
00:15:02How does she have the cruise in?
00:15:03Did you send for her?
00:15:04Well, not exactly.
00:15:05That is, I might have mentioned in one of my letters that we had a lot of room on board.
00:15:08Oh, yeah, sure, sure, sure.
00:15:09And you also told her we're going to make her stab a rear of her.
00:15:12Holy smoke, Dan.
00:15:13We haven't got time to be a couple of nursemaids.
00:15:15Now, listen, Pepperpot.
00:15:16I did send for her.
00:15:17We probably hurt her feelings.
00:15:18That's too bad, but she can't stay.
00:15:25Poor kid.
00:15:25She's probably crying her eyes out.
00:15:27The fine reception we gave her.
00:15:28This country's no place for her.
00:15:30It's going to happen to be.
00:15:32And my aunt, whom she's been living with, died.
00:15:35Well, naturally, she feels that her place is with me now.
00:15:37I'm very sorry, but our plans don't include kid sisters.
00:15:41She's going back east.
00:15:42Give her any excuse you like, but you've got to get rid of her.
00:15:45Nothing doing.
00:15:45Now, it's up to me to look after, and she stays.
00:15:48Look, Dan, you know how bossy women are.
00:15:52Before you know it, she'll be telling us what to do,
00:15:53she has the whole place upside down.
00:15:55Well, if that's...
00:15:56You won't even know that she's around, and I promise you...
00:15:59All right.
00:16:00See that I don't.
00:16:17I suppose I'll have to stand for some of these changes around, but the Hattie T stays right there.
00:16:23Sorry.
00:16:23I'm just going to put up something I like better.
00:16:25Maybe your brother doesn't mind if you make a parlor out of this cabin,
00:16:28but I'd appreciate it if you let my things alone.
00:16:30And where are the old curtains?
00:16:31I like them.
00:16:32Those are the old curtains.
00:16:34I just washed them.
00:16:35Would you mind telling me where my pipes are?
00:16:37Here they are.
00:16:38I washed them for you.
00:16:40You what?
00:16:40Don't get so excited.
00:16:42It's only soap and water.
00:16:43Only soap and water.
00:16:45And with my shaving brush.
00:17:10So, I wasn't even going to know she was on board.
00:17:12In the last two weeks, she's overhauled everything with the engine.
00:17:14Oh, summer down, Pax.
00:17:16Personally, I like the way she's fixing things.
00:17:18And don't forget the good meals she's been cooking.
00:17:19Yeah, all the comforts are home.
00:17:21If I had enough, I'm going to shore and look at that acreage.
00:17:23Hey, the land agent said it might make a good start up for the ranch.
00:17:26Well, I'll go with you.
00:17:27I'd better get a couple of cans of beans.
00:17:28Why?
00:17:29Abby's cooked a nice rabbit stew and...
00:17:32Hey, Sally!
00:17:32Heave to the tab to the West Bank!
00:17:39Tailorway, you and Runny stay behind.
00:17:40Give Miss Abby a hand.
00:17:41That tub has turned into a cruddy old hen house.
00:17:44Price me for a one-eyed eel.
00:17:45I ain't no cabin boy, Mr. Taylor.
00:17:47Of course you are, Sally.
00:17:48And all hands will rest if we take a look at Mr. Bryce's property.
00:17:52It isn't every day that you can catch a glimpse of an empire, is it?
00:17:55No, ma'am.
00:17:56Are we ready?
00:18:05There's the boundary marker.
00:18:06Now, way up in those rolling hills is another marker.
00:18:09And everything in between is a...
00:18:10Is the Bryce empire?
00:18:14And is that the cattle that come with us?
00:18:18All right, Runny.
00:18:19Man your station.
00:18:20We'll put the little critter in dry dock.
00:18:22I'll take the bow.
00:18:23You take the stern.
00:18:32Mr. Bryce!
00:18:33Mr. Bryce!
00:18:42Oh, it doesn't look bad at that.
00:18:49There are a lot of things to consider, Pax.
00:18:51We don't know anything about the cattle business.
00:18:53Well, we can learn, can't we?
00:18:55Look at that.
00:18:56If I see that, there's only one thing I can think of.
00:18:58How many cows go with it?
00:19:01You're letting your imagination run away with you as usual.
00:19:03If it wasn't for my imagination, we wouldn't have a nickel.
00:19:05Why, we wouldn't have run cotton and we wouldn't have...
00:19:07Well, this time you're wrong.
00:19:08I think, Dan, that...
00:19:09I know you had to come along.
00:19:11Please don't bother thinking.
00:19:12I was just going to agree with you, Mr. Bryce.
00:19:15Oh.
00:19:15Oh.
00:19:16You were?
00:19:18Well, that's a little different.
00:19:20Then neither are using any common sense.
00:19:21Who's gonna buy beef from us in these parts
00:19:23when they can get it for another?
00:19:24They won't here, but they will up north and back east,
00:19:27where they're paying $10 a head in Abilene.
00:19:28And that fellow Chisholm proved that cattle can make the trip.
00:19:32That's a point.
00:19:34So why throw away money buying land
00:19:36when you can round up all the cattle you want?
00:19:37It won't always be like that.
00:19:39Someday, all this land will be privately owned.
00:19:41Of course it will, Dan.
00:19:42The country's growing this way, and before long,
00:19:44there'll be a new way of living.
00:19:45Law and order and property rights.
00:19:48There'll be no place for wild cattle hunters.
00:19:49You'll have to have your own range, and a lot of it.
00:19:53Well, Dan, we're two to one against it.
00:20:00So you two are pulling together for a change.
00:20:03Well, I know when I'm late,
00:20:05we'll sell the Betsy Ann to that fellow in Riverford.
00:20:12Well, Javi, I guess I was a little bit wrong about you.
00:20:15It's getting to be a pleasure having you around here.
00:20:18It's the first nice thing you've said to me.
00:20:20Better be careful.
00:20:21It might get to be a habit.
00:20:22You couldn't be.
00:20:22A habit is something you're not conscious of.
00:20:26Like that awful frown when you're mad?
00:20:27Well, that's self-defense.
00:20:30Begging your pardon, Skipper.
00:20:32What are we going to do now?
00:20:33You can swap that harpoon thing on.
00:20:35We're going to work.
00:20:37A harpoon on dry land?
00:20:39Why, that's plum loony.
00:20:40I'm going to get me a buffalo for a pen cushion.
00:20:42I'll clean into it a hundred jars.
00:20:45Sail away.
00:20:45You're going to make a valuable man on a cattle ranch.
00:20:48The way you can throw the bull.
00:21:07I'm going to break this в барах.
00:21:10I'm going to break this in the bay.
00:21:10I'm going to break this out soon.
00:21:10I'm going to break this in the water.
00:21:10I swear to god on you, Giरji,
00:21:13don't worry to god on you.
00:21:14You'll be using your�diepie as I say.
00:21:15You can't even do now.
00:21:15I swear to god on you.
00:21:30THE END
00:21:53As good as it looks, Abby
00:21:54Better be, I put eight eggs in it
00:21:56Eight eggs and one cake?
00:21:57Boy, some Taylor Rance must be doing all right
00:22:00Boy, that's pretty
00:22:01There it is
00:22:02Why don't you let it burn a little while?
00:22:04Oh, no
00:22:04Happy birthday, sis
00:22:06Happy birthday, Abby
00:22:07Happy birthday, Abby
00:22:08Happy birthday, Abby
00:22:09To the first anniversary of the Bryce Taylor Rance
00:22:11We have to drink for that
00:22:12Yeah, of course
00:22:14You want to cut the cake right away?
00:22:16Sure, we want to eat it
00:22:17How about it, boys?
00:22:18Should we wait for the cake or should we do it now?
00:22:20Do it right now
00:22:22All right, Abby
00:22:29We're, uh, almighty pleased
00:22:32At the way you stuck by us
00:22:33Through a pretty tough year
00:22:34And since this is your birthday
00:22:37We, uh, want to give you these
00:22:39Gee, I don't know how to thank you all
00:22:41Come on, open them up
00:22:41Let's see what it is
00:22:42Sail away and run it
00:22:47Oh, look
00:22:50Oh, it's lovely
00:22:53Oh, of course you don't have to
00:22:56Don't you like it?
00:22:57No
00:22:58Because you're twice as big
00:23:00You get kissed twice
00:23:03Gosh, I wish I was big as an elephant
00:23:06Well, ain't you?
00:23:09Well, let's hook up the other one
00:23:21Oh, packed, it's beautiful
00:23:26Gosh, hair-laced chaps
00:23:33I didn't buy them
00:23:34The sales lady must have put them in
00:23:42I'll put the dress away
00:23:43So it won't get wrinkled
00:23:50How about a little song, huh, Runty?
00:23:52Yeah, yeah
00:23:52Come on, a little song
00:23:53Come on, a little song
00:23:54Come on, boys
00:23:54You better stop that gal
00:23:56And she's got him earmarked
00:23:57Earmarked?
00:23:58That lass has got him roped and off-tied
00:24:00She sure has
00:24:05Oh, Pax, it's the loveliest present of all
00:24:13It's all just beginning, Abby
00:24:15There isn't anything the future won't give you
00:24:17All I want and need is right here with me now
00:24:20Oh, Pax, we'll build something fine together
00:24:24Something we can be proud of
00:24:26We can be married before I go to Abilene
00:24:29Oh, and this makes such a lovely way
00:24:32Certainly, what do you think I got it for?
00:24:35Pretty sure of me, weren't you?
00:24:36I never heard of such conceit
00:24:38Well, I...
00:24:39It's just a question of you, I could say no
00:24:40But I don't see how I can resist the dress
00:24:45Give me some time to blow the man down
00:24:48Oh, it's sailors and tinkers and tailors as men
00:24:52Hey, hey, blow the man down
00:24:55All right, but knowing I would have arrived sooner for our celebration
00:25:03What do you want?
00:25:04Payment for your cattle?
00:25:05Oh, no, monsieur, but you have plenty of cattle now, eh?
00:25:07Yes, plenty, but they're all ours
00:25:10Oui, oui, ours, eh?
00:25:12Not yours, ours
00:25:14The old score is all settled
00:25:15Oh, absolutely
00:25:16Don Nick Bouchard always start clean with his new partners, eh?
00:25:20Oh, what do you like?
00:25:22You use my ideas to go into business
00:25:23Eh bien
00:25:25My ideas, your money
00:25:27We are partners, no?
00:25:28No
00:25:28You have no claim, not even for a single hoof or horn
00:25:32Yeah, but I have a different view
00:25:33Listen, Bouchard
00:25:34If we catch you or anybody else taking any of our cattle
00:25:38Give you a dose of stomach pills you can't digest
00:25:41We understand each other?
00:25:43I know how you feel, but I, too, have ideas like yours
00:25:46I like a big ranch in my Louisiana
00:25:48Where I can be a big man of much power
00:25:50That's your affair
00:25:51But when you're on this side of the river
00:25:53You keep your eyes peeled for our boundary markers
00:25:55Oh, I have seen them
00:25:56But, eh, I don't believe little words on pepper
00:26:02Bonsoir, monsieur
00:26:02Monsieur
00:26:04Madame
00:26:05Au revoir
00:26:06Au revoir
00:26:13He wasn't bluffing
00:26:13We can take care of him, all right
00:26:15Think you ought to put off the drive to Abilene?
00:26:17Not by a jug for
00:26:18We need all the money those cattle will bring
00:26:20You'll have enough men to take care of Bouchard
00:26:22I'd relish doing it for a fact
00:26:23Come on, Ronnie, let's finish the song
00:26:25Yeah, come on
00:26:26Oh, sailors as takers and sailors as men
00:26:30Oh, help blow the man down
00:26:45Well, come on, Max, good luck
00:26:46Thanks, Dan, so long
00:26:48Silence, Brian
00:26:49Take care of yourself, sail away
00:26:50Yes, sail away
00:26:51And take as care of my husband
00:26:52Mike is not here
00:26:53Take care of me, ma'am
00:26:56Well, come on, Ronnie
00:27:00I promise you'll be careful, darling
00:27:02It's such a dangerous trip
00:27:04And if anything happened to you
00:27:06Nothing will
00:27:06Not when I have you waiting for me
00:27:08I'll be back by Thanksgiving
00:27:12Goodbye, honey
00:27:13Goodbye
00:27:13Goodbye
00:27:13Goodbye
00:27:14Goodbye
00:27:16Goodbye
00:27:24Goodbye
00:27:29Goodbye
00:27:31Goodbye
00:27:33Goodbye
00:27:33Goodbye
00:27:33Goodbye
00:27:34Goodbye
00:27:35Goodbye
00:27:36Goodbye
00:27:37Goodbye
00:27:38Goodbye
00:27:40Goodbye
00:27:41Goodbye
00:27:43Goodbye
00:27:43Goodbye
00:27:43Goodbye
00:27:43Goodbye
00:28:00Come on, come on.
00:28:03Come on, come on.
00:28:04Come back, you hoover.
00:28:07Absolutely not.
00:28:07Come back here.
00:28:08You'relawless to sorry your hoover.
00:28:11Come back here.
00:28:12Come back here, you hoover.
00:28:12Come back.
00:28:13I'm afraid he's coming.
00:28:13All right, Mr. White.
00:28:15Everything all right?
00:28:17I know we'll have a real Thanksgiving show.
00:28:20How about a piece of that good old apple pie?
00:28:22Pie's waiting.
00:28:23But don't you mess up my kitchen,
00:28:24because you know I know you, cowboys.
00:28:32Oh, Tax, I'm so glad you're home.
00:28:34You need better than I am.
00:28:40I'll get you another day I sold the cattle.
00:28:42I went right out and bought you the finest present
00:28:44they had in Abilene.
00:28:48Bring it in, Sailor White.
00:28:49Wait till you see it.
00:28:57We missed you, Sailor White.
00:28:59Nothing like home port, ma'am.
00:29:00Where do you want it?
00:29:01We're right there.
00:29:03Just the only one in the world that had it made special.
00:29:08Well, there she be.
00:29:09And not a scratch on her hoe.
00:29:13You like it, honey?
00:29:15Like it?
00:29:16Oh, it's fit for a king.
00:29:19That's what he'll be someday.
00:29:21Oh, Happy, he's going to make our future complete.
00:29:24Something to build for.
00:29:26What's the matter?
00:29:27Lately, I haven't been so sure of our future.
00:29:30I've been worried, Pax.
00:29:31Well, you get those notions right out of your head.
00:29:33We'll have the best doctor that...
00:29:34Oh, it isn't that.
00:29:35It's Dan and the ranch.
00:29:37Beauchard's been raiding us ever since you left.
00:29:39Why didn't you tell me your lenders?
00:29:40I'd have come right back.
00:29:41Dan thought he could catch him,
00:29:43but he's managed to slip away every time.
00:29:45Guess I didn't take that hombre seriously enough.
00:29:48Where's Dan now?
00:29:49He's gone to Blue Rock Canyon.
00:29:50He put some cattle there to draw Beauchard.
00:29:53Oh, Pax, I'm afraid.
00:29:54Dan may be walking into a trap himself.
00:29:57Beauchard seems to know if...
00:30:18Ronny, hold it.
00:30:20Where do I start moving the herd?
00:30:22Oh, Augustine, you were a wise old fox
00:30:24to find so many cows in one place, eh?
00:30:26For that, I am going to promise you 100 gold peas, eh?
00:30:30Let me see, let me see, hello.
00:30:32Please, please.
00:30:32Hey, please.
00:30:34All right.
00:30:35All right.
00:30:37All right.
00:30:38All right, let me go.
00:30:44All right, go.
00:30:45Yeah.
00:30:48Yeah, yeah.
00:30:49What's wrong, Dominique?
00:30:51Hey, now I know why there are so many cows
00:30:53with the grass is so poor.
00:30:54I smell a mice behind the woodpile someplace.
00:30:57This place is so good.
00:30:58Now we must go.
00:30:58Hello.
00:30:59It's all.
00:30:59It's all.
00:31:00Please, please.
00:31:00Please, please, please, please.
00:31:02Come in there.
00:31:03All right, fellas.
00:31:03Sit up.
00:31:06Sit up.
00:31:10Let's go.
00:31:37Let's go.
00:32:07Let's go.
00:33:03Let's go.
00:33:11Let's go.
00:33:14Let's go.
00:33:15Let's go.
00:33:36Let's go.
00:34:06Let's go.
00:34:37Let's go.
00:34:48Let's go.
00:34:49Come on in, Pax, and meet your new boss.
00:34:51Let's go.
00:35:10Let's go.
00:35:12Let's go.
00:35:32Let's go.
00:35:34Let's go.
00:35:38Let's go.
00:35:41Let's go.
00:35:45Let's go.
00:36:00Let's go.
00:36:22Let's go.
00:36:29Let's go.
00:37:00Let's go.
00:37:01Let's go.
00:37:01Let's go.
00:37:28Let's go.
00:37:46Let's go.
00:37:51Let's go.
00:38:05Let's go.
00:38:07Let's go.
00:38:07Let's go.
00:38:08Let's go.
00:38:14Let's go.
00:38:19Let's go.
00:38:36Let's go.
00:38:46Let's go.
00:38:59Let's go.
00:39:02Let's go.
00:39:03Let's go.
00:39:33Let's go.
00:39:33Let's go.
00:39:36Why don't y'all go to work?
00:39:40That you'll find me, old friend
00:39:44These figures are impossible.
00:39:463,000 head less than last year.
00:39:49Every year your tallies have been off more each time.
00:39:51I can vouch for the figures.
00:39:52We combed every inch of the range.
00:39:56I thought at first it was drought, freezing,
00:39:59normal straying when you consider the size of the herds we're handling.
00:40:033,000 head is too much of a leak.
00:40:05I don't like to look up at myself.
00:40:07Pop, will you fix my lariat?
00:40:09Not now, Pax, I'm busy.
00:40:10There's only one answer, Ford.
00:40:12Other ranchers are driving our cattle to market alongside of their own
00:40:15and burning out our brands.
00:40:17There's a sure way to stop it.
00:40:19Close the range to everybody.
00:40:22That'll cause a peck of trouble, Mr. Bryce.
00:40:24Folks have always driven across each other's land.
00:40:27They're not going across mine anymore.
00:40:28Post no trespassing signs.
00:40:30And patrol the range to make sure everybody understands we mean it.
00:40:33Don't you think we'd better wait till Mr. Taylor gets back from Galveston?
00:40:35I gave you your orders, Ford.
00:40:42Pop, are Mr. Crowder and his friends stealing our cattle?
00:40:45Somebody is, and we're going to put a stop to it.
00:40:54Ah, Pierre, the journey was good, eh?
00:40:58Oh, good 1,000 times.
00:41:00Such fat cows.
00:41:02I should thank Mr. Bryce and Taylor for raising them for me, eh?
00:41:05Also, the saints, that they don't find out it is you who take them all these years?
00:41:09Yeah, but you forget I am a ghost.
00:41:11Was I not drowned, eh?
00:41:15Something happened while you was away.
00:41:18Oui?
00:41:19Oui.
00:41:19I buy the Lemire plantation, eh?
00:41:22Saint Croc.
00:41:23You buy?
00:41:24Oui, me, eh?
00:41:25Well, soon you will be the most rich man in Louisiana.
00:41:28Eh, well, the most rich and the most powerful, eh?
00:41:30Well, can I help it if my good partners are so careless with their cows, eh?
00:41:33No, no, no.
00:41:42Howdy, Mr. Taylor.
00:41:43Hi, Mr. Taylor.
00:41:44Hi, boys.
00:41:44Glad to see you home again.
00:41:47Why all the artillery?
00:41:48No outside herds allowed on the range.
00:41:51Mr. Bryce has ordered.
00:41:52Some of the outfits are kind of hot, but so far they're just calling names.
00:42:05There you are.
00:42:06Now we'll run free without grabbing.
00:42:07Thanks, Pop.
00:42:09Max, what are you thinking of?
00:42:11Closing the ranks to outside cattle.
00:42:13Well, you know all Texas' open range.
00:42:15Well, it's about time it wasn't.
00:42:16A man can't raise a decent herd with every scrub bull mixing with his stock.
00:42:20Puts out feet.
00:42:21You can't even run steers on your own land.
00:42:23Somebody grabs them.
00:42:24Just the same, you can't go around stepping on folks.
00:42:26Well, let them keep out of my way.
00:42:28Max, you don't have to push people against the wall.
00:42:30Well, if you make those ranchers drive the long way to market, there won't be any meat left on their
00:42:33cattle to sell.
00:42:35You'll force them out of business.
00:42:37This country was made for men that can stand on their own feet.
00:42:39If you want to survive, you have to fight.
00:42:41You can't be a sentimentalist.
00:42:43And you can't play lord and master.
00:42:46You forget it took the little man as well as the big one to make this country what it is.
00:42:51I can do without your lecture.
00:42:52You've gotten so puffed up with your own importance.
00:42:54Dan, please don't quarrel.
00:42:57I won't, I mean.
00:42:58Have it your own way.
00:43:00But remember, you can only push them so far.
00:43:05Pax, what's happened to you?
00:43:06You've changed so.
00:43:08You're hard and greedy.
00:43:10Hard and greedy?
00:43:12Because I'm fighting to keep what I have for my family?
00:43:14I'll see them and...
00:43:15Pop!
00:43:16Why is Uncle Dad so mad?
00:43:18Is it because you're turning people off our place?
00:43:20Mm-hmm.
00:43:21We can't let them keep on stealing our cattle, though we have none left.
00:43:24So we have to keep them out, don't we?
00:43:26You betcha, Pop.
00:43:27And when I grow up, I'll help you fight it.
00:43:28Sure.
00:43:29Hush, Pax, you mustn't talk like that.
00:43:31What do you want him to be, a mollycoddle?
00:43:33Ready to fight for what's his?
00:43:34I want him to know there are two ways of putting out a hand.
00:43:37In a shake or a slap.
00:43:39You get back a hand to court him.
00:43:54Howdy, I'd like to see Bryce, a tailor.
00:43:59Pax, it is a mighty good notion getting this breed.
00:44:01Certainly built to pack a lot of beef.
00:44:03Look, Dad, she's got a pillow on her neck.
00:44:06That's a braver bull, Pax.
00:44:07We'll cross in with our longhorns and that'll give us a higher percentage of beef.
00:44:11Bryce and Taylor are sure getting highfalutin' building a castle like this.
00:44:14I wouldn't mind being in their boots.
00:44:16Well, you could be if you pushed folks off the land the way they have.
00:44:20You tried to buy me out.
00:44:22I sent them packing.
00:44:24I told Bryce he wasn't trampling on me.
00:44:27Crowder's got a lot of nerve coming here after running you two-hand.
00:44:30I wonder what he wants.
00:44:31I don't know.
00:44:32Howdy, boys.
00:44:34Hello, Crowder.
00:44:36Hello.
00:44:38We came to, uh...
00:44:40Well, a bramer.
00:44:43Aren't Texas longhorns good enough for your outfit?
00:44:46We decided that improving our stock might encourage our neighbors to do likewise.
00:44:51Leading ranchers should set an example,
00:44:53or else how is the cattle industry in Texas going to grow?
00:44:56It was growing before you were born,
00:44:58and it'll be growing after you're gone.
00:45:00Well, I'll shove it along while I'm here.
00:45:03My son will carry on where I leave off.
00:45:05I'm learning now, Mr. Crowder.
00:45:07I'm going to be Pop's right-hand man.
00:45:09Well, how about getting down to business?
00:45:11This is Mr. McCabe.
00:45:12He represents the Great Southwest Railroad Company.
00:45:14How do you do, sir?
00:45:15Mr. Bryce and Mr. Taylor.
00:45:17Mr. Bryce?
00:45:17How do you do?
00:45:18Mr. McCabe has a deal for you.
00:45:20It concerns every man here.
00:45:21Well, gentlemen, we might as well be comfortable.
00:45:29Sit down, gentlemen.
00:45:34Go ahead, Mr. McCabe.
00:45:37Well, gentlemen, our company proposes to build a line from Abilene to Riverford,
00:45:41and we're obtaining rights of way.
00:45:44So far, everyone along the route has given us permission,
00:45:47but we must have yours to complete the final link.
00:45:50Sorry, Mr. McCabe, but for my part, no railroad is going through our property.
00:45:55Well, you can't think of yourself all the time, Bryce.
00:45:59This will benefit the whole community.
00:46:01Make Riverford a great cattle center.
00:46:03Maybe.
00:46:04And it'll also bring in a tidal wave of settlers.
00:46:07Before you know it, they'll be demanding roads, town sites.
00:46:10They'll cut up the land and the farms.
00:46:12We cattlemen will be crowded out.
00:46:14Hold on, Pax.
00:46:16Maybe we can get on without a railroad.
00:46:18But I claim some of the smaller outfits are entitled to make a decent profit, too.
00:46:22And they can by freighting their cattle to Abilene instead of driving them.
00:46:26You're right.
00:46:26The tailor's right.
00:46:27You know the cattle industry needs range.
00:46:29Enormous range.
00:46:30And a railroad will kill it.
00:46:33I say it stays out.
00:46:34You got your sights leveled on the wrong target, Pax.
00:46:38I guess there's nothing I can say that'll switch them.
00:46:41Mr. Bryce, don't you realize you're stopping development in this territory?
00:46:45McCabe, it's taken years to put this ranch together.
00:46:48Years of sweat, struggle, and fight.
00:46:52I'm not letting your railroad tear it down.
00:46:57I'm sorry we can't get together.
00:46:59So am I.
00:47:00Goodbye.
00:47:01All right.
00:47:09Mr. Crowder, looks like our deal's off.
00:47:12None of the land's any good to us without theirs.
00:47:14Well, they're riding high now, but they won't ride on forever.
00:47:20They're walking down Paradise Street.
00:47:23Hey, hey, blow the man down.
00:47:26A pretty young damsel that I chance to meet.
00:47:29Forgive me some time to blow the man down.
00:47:33Where did you get my pet van?
00:47:35I borrowed it to chew the flies off the patch.
00:47:38She growed a tail for that purpose.
00:47:40Not on her front end.
00:47:42You don't mind, do you, Mom?
00:47:44If anything should happen to it, I'll buy you another one.
00:47:46You could never replace it, darling.
00:47:49First present your father ever gave me.
00:47:51Oh, I'll be careful.
00:47:52I'll put it away as soon as we get home.
00:47:55A rabbit, let's chase it!
00:48:06Bryce can drive off some of the smaller outfits, but he can't stop this drive.
00:48:10Not if we all stick together.
00:48:12Still and all, we'll be a trespassing.
00:48:14Well, how are we going to get our cows to market?
00:48:16Why, it'll take a week to circle their range.
00:48:18If we don't shortcut, we have to cross the river and go down through the bayous.
00:48:21We can't drive stairs through mud that has no bottom.
00:48:28Asa Gleddon tried to cut across Dry Creek.
00:48:30Bryce Taylor, our pit shot 40 of his steers.
00:48:32Creased him in the shoulder.
00:48:33Well, they're clamping down on us, just like they planned all along.
00:48:36They won't be satisfied until they starve every one of us out.
00:48:39No sidewinder's going to keep me from making a living.
00:48:42Me neither.
00:48:42Just let them try to stop us.
00:48:55Sorry, Mr. Crowder, but you can't cut across Bryce Taylor range anymore.
00:48:58Well, we've been doing it right along, and we don't aim to change now.
00:49:01Mr. Bryce says different.
00:49:02Ford, you keep out of the way. We're coming through.
00:49:05Crowder, turn those cows. We don't want trouble.
00:49:07Son, you've got it.
00:49:13All right, bring them in!
00:49:43Stop! You can't come on our plane! My pops says no!
00:49:49Hello!
00:49:50Turn the cattle!
00:49:55The other way, Bryce! The other way!
00:50:01Stop!
00:50:03You can't come on our plane!
00:50:06Hey!
00:50:09Hey!
00:50:12Hey!
00:50:15Hey!
00:50:21Oh!
00:50:26Hey!
00:50:40I tried to keep him out, Papa, like you said.
00:50:52Oh, no.
00:51:07Oh, dear.
00:51:38There's something I want to say, Pax. I've been doing a heap of calculations.
00:51:42Oh, not now, Dan. I can't think. I've been going crazy.
00:51:48I can't believe he's gone. I had so many plans for him.
00:51:53How's that been? He hasn't talked to me for days.
00:51:56He's taken it pretty hard.
00:51:59That's a swine. I never wish they had...
00:52:01You're not responsible. You are. You pinned them in a corner.
00:52:05You drove them into going against you.
00:52:06They didn't have to kill my son. I'll keep them on this place.
00:52:10I'll fence the whole ranch. I'll put a bullet in the first one that sets foot on it.
00:52:14And you'll do it alone.
00:52:17When we started this ranch, we wanted to make it something we'd be proud of.
00:52:21But you've turned it into a thing that reeks of greed and depression.
00:52:25A thing that all decent people hold against.
00:52:28It's already cost the life of an innocent child.
00:52:32What's happened, you know, in the beginning?
00:52:34There'll be more killings, more bloodshed.
00:52:37And for what?
00:52:39So you can have a few more miles of range, a few more cows?
00:52:42I can't stomach your notions any longer.
00:52:44You've gone soft. Well, I won't stop until...
00:52:47Pax! You've done enough!
00:52:49Stay out of this, Abby.
00:52:50No, I've had my craw full. I'm putting an end to this partnership.
00:52:52Good. I'll buy your interest.
00:52:53That suits me.
00:52:56Pax, listen. Hate and revenge will destroy you.
00:52:59It won't bring my son back.
00:53:01What kind of a mother are you?
00:53:02You want me to turn my other cheek?
00:53:05Well, I won't. That's not my way.
00:53:10Your way is to rule and trample those people.
00:53:12Grab for yourself at every turn.
00:53:15You taught it to Pax. Your very words sent him to...
00:53:17It's easy enough to blame me.
00:53:19But if I had it all to do over again, I'd still teach him to fight for what's his.
00:53:24Pax, you're blind and you'll stay blind.
00:53:27There's no place in your heart for love and understanding.
00:53:30I can't go on like that.
00:53:31That's up to you.
00:53:46I miss your spout, you big walrus.
00:53:48But Miss Abby will need me.
00:53:49And I...
00:53:57Goodbye, Sam.
00:54:01You've been awfully kind to me.
00:54:03Thanks, ma'am.
00:54:05Things won't seem shipshape around here without you.
00:54:10Bye.
00:54:15Abby.
00:54:24You still set on leave?
00:54:27I'm sorry, Pax.
00:54:29Terribly sorry.
00:54:31We had something fine and beautiful.
00:54:34It wasn't enough for us.
00:54:37Ready, Abby?
00:54:47I'll have the money for you as soon as possible.
00:54:49Whenever it's convenient.
00:54:51We'll be in Riverford.
00:54:53Bye, Abby.
00:54:55Goodbye.
00:55:16Mr. Bricey.
00:55:17Mr. Sailor, he told me to give you this.
00:55:25He ran out of me too.
00:55:27I ain't running out on you, Mr. Bricey.
00:55:33Sir, you betcha.
00:55:34I tore right into them tires.
00:55:36I cracked them on their skulls so hard I busted all their toes.
00:55:39Bravo!
00:55:42Honored to meet you.
00:55:43Two honors to meet you.
00:55:45Sure.
00:55:45Why don't you stay here, Luciana, and come to work with me at the Rancho Opitilape?
00:55:51No.
00:55:52I'm going back to the sea.
00:55:53I hate ranchers.
00:55:55They change people.
00:55:56Makes them forget to be human.
00:55:58But my boss is almost human.
00:56:00He pays well.
00:56:02He got so many cows.
00:56:03You can hardly see the grass.
00:56:06We find them in Texas by the quantities.
00:56:09I don't care where you found them.
00:56:11From now on, cows is only stakes to me.
00:56:15All right.
00:56:15Have it to work.
00:56:16But honor me by meeting my boss.
00:56:18He like to meet men with cottage like you.
00:56:21All right.
00:56:22We'll buy him a drink, huh?
00:56:23All right.
00:56:24And we'll drink it and we don't care.
00:56:26Sure.
00:56:32Oh, you are very funny.
00:56:34Hey, what's the matter?
00:56:35Are you sick?
00:56:36My liver.
00:56:38Is that your boss?
00:56:39Oui, monsieur.
00:56:40Come and meet him.
00:56:41Will you?
00:56:42I'll meet him later.
00:56:43Come on, meet him.
00:56:43My liver's turning the pedal.
00:56:45Oh, come on.
00:56:46Don't disappoint a friend.
00:56:48I like it.
00:56:49He's gone.
00:56:50Is that right?
00:56:51One, four, seven, three, four.
00:56:53Fourteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-four.
00:56:55Check.
00:56:56Mm-hmm.
00:56:58As soon as I can figure, Dan's share comes close to a half million dollars.
00:57:01If we raise that much cash, that'll leave us with a mighty small herd.
00:57:07Hi, Skipper!
00:57:08What are you doing here?
00:57:09You're supposed to be halfway to the Gulf.
00:57:11I was, but I ain't.
00:57:13I don't want no shore leave when there's some fighting to do.
00:57:16You're drunk.
00:57:18But just the same my eyes and ears ain't.
00:57:21I found out where your cow's been going to.
00:57:23Yeah? Where?
00:57:25Mr. Beauchard Shanghai'd him.
00:57:27Beauchard?
00:57:27Now I know you're drunk.
00:57:30Sure.
00:57:31But just the same, I saw him just as plain as Hacker's light in a tavern across the river.
00:57:37Where you been all this time?
00:58:06Shh!
00:58:07Shh!
00:58:13It's a neat job of working these brands over.
00:58:18Looks like they're all wearing them.
00:58:19We've lined up a couple of them.
00:58:20We'll take them along for evidence.
00:58:27One beller out of you and I'll tie your tongue to your tail.
00:58:50What an evening we have! Now we can dream of our sweetheart!
00:59:08Well, if it is not my old friend, why don't you let me know you was coming? I'll stay home
00:59:13to welcome you.
00:59:14I didn't want to put you to any trouble. Besides, this isn't a social call, Beauchard.
00:59:19In the last seven years, you've stolen 10,000 of my cattle. A normal increase would have raised that to
00:59:24about 50,000.
00:59:25That makes you owe me plenty of hard cash.
00:59:27It's what I will take my share of our partnership.
00:59:31I keep it.
00:59:33I have men both loyal and brave, and they will not let you take my cows from my ranch.
00:59:37There's more than one way of collecting a debt.
00:59:41If you kill me, my men will shoot you before you can go in mine.
00:59:44Oh.
00:59:45What you gain?
00:59:48I guess you're right.
00:59:50I hadn't thought about that.
00:59:52What can you do about this?
01:00:03Dominic Beauchard, you have been found guilty of the charge of cattle stealing.
01:00:07The sentence of this court is that you be confined for the term of two to five years.
01:00:11That's just a vacation.
01:00:13Well, if I skipper in this here show, I'd stake him out on your door.
01:00:18Mr. Brice, I understand you have filed suit in the Louisiana courts for the value of your stolen cattle.
01:00:24In view of this verdict, you should get your money quick.
01:00:29It's bad to lose the money, but it's bad...
01:00:31Stand up.
01:00:33Not through with you yet.
01:00:35There's another matter.
01:00:38You've been a thorn in the side of law and order in Texas for over ten years.
01:00:43But the law always catches up with killers like you.
01:00:46For your raid on Clarksville, where you were responsible for the death of poor persons,
01:00:50and on Melford, which you burned to the ground at the cost of more lives,
01:00:54for your attack on half a dozen ranches,
01:00:57the order of this court is that you be remanded to the custody of the sheriff
01:01:00to stand trial for murder.
01:01:03Court dismissed.
01:01:11You and the
01:01:11Thanks for everything, Beauchard.
01:01:13It is too soon for thanks, monsieur, I promise you.
01:01:26You look very foggy.
01:01:29Foxy, yes, but look I'm in here.
01:01:33That's a good one.
01:01:34That sure is a good one.
01:01:45What do you want?
01:01:46I have fresh clothes for Monsieur Bouchard.
01:01:48All right, come in.
01:01:51Let's have a look at them.
01:01:52Oh, oui.
01:01:53Oh, they are just handkerchiefs, socks, and the robe.
01:01:57That will keep him warm.
01:02:00Oh.
01:02:01The cord.
01:02:05Oh, uh, to tie around the middle to keep out the cold air, huh?
01:02:10All right, let him have them.
01:02:17Merci, Monsieur.
01:02:17Oh?
01:02:32This time I am a fox, eh?
01:02:34Bonsoir, Monsieur.
01:02:43We have to hide in the hills, and they have taken all the gold and put it in the bank
01:02:48at the Riviera Port.
01:02:50Oh, that is most convenient.
01:02:55Well, we'll be rolling east in about 10 minutes.
01:02:57I suppose we'll ever get used to living there again, after all this.
01:03:00Oh, sure we will, and it'll be better.
01:03:06Barbed wire? Consigned to the Bryce Taylor ranch. Confound Pax's hide. He's just begging for trouble.
01:03:12Oh, Danny's so wrong. And the terrible part is he believes he's right.
01:03:18Now, will you agree that we've got to clip Bryce's wings? That's the cruelest contraption ever invented.
01:03:23And he's using it to fence his whole range.
01:03:26It started coming in last night, and they've carted most of it away. They call it barbed wire.
01:03:30Look at them barbed wire. It'll tear the cattle to pieces.
01:03:32We've got to drive him out of the country before he puts up a foot of him.
01:03:35Well, he's like Jimson Weed. He's choking us to death.
01:03:38Time for making a necktie, Sochi.
01:03:40Now you're talking.
01:03:41We'll all meet tonight at Mesquite Flats, pass the word to the rest of the men, and get to every
01:03:46man in Riverford.
01:03:47Let's go. Let's put it out of here.
01:03:50We'll have to get a hold of them.
01:03:52Dan, we'll have to warn him. They'll kill him.
01:03:56I thought I'd stop loving him, but I haven't.
01:03:59When it comes to Pax, changing our minds is a tailor habit.
01:04:04I'll write out. You and Ruddy stay here at the hotel. This thing blows over.
01:04:09And they won't rest until you're swinging from a limb, Pax.
01:04:12Now, come on. Give up the idea of using barbed wire.
01:04:15I run this ranch as I see fit.
01:04:17No mob is going to dictate to me when I'm in the right.
01:04:19You're no more in the right than you were when you accused them of rustling.
01:04:23I'll admit it. I'm pulling your horns.
01:04:26Dan, my son died keeping them off this place.
01:04:28And as long as I live, they're going to stay off.
01:04:31If I have to turn Texas upside down.
01:04:33They'll pull this house apart brick by brick and...
01:04:36What do you care? It's not your property. You got your check.
01:04:39Now, go on before they show up.
01:04:42All right. I'll go.
01:04:45For 15 years, I've been sticking my neck out beside yours.
01:04:50Now I'm through.
01:04:58Ruddy, where have you been? Dan hasn't come back yet, and I'm worried.
01:05:01I'm going to the ranch.
01:05:02As you can bet, I'll get you out of here.
01:05:04Riverford ain't going to be healthy.
01:05:05Oh, nothing yet. I was down by the river and heard two Frenchy boatmen yammering.
01:05:09Bouchard and his pack of scuttlers are coming in from La Cumbria,
01:05:12and they're going to sack the town.
01:05:13There's nobody here to stop them. Crowder and his men.
01:05:16I know all about it, Cal.
01:05:18Ruddy and I will try to stop them at the flat.
01:05:19We'll get all the women and children together and put them in the schoolhouse.
01:05:23Well, it looks like every man in town turned out.
01:05:26All right, men.
01:05:27Out the horses.
01:05:38Get your rivals from Mr. Rice on the porch.
01:05:53You got an extra six-shooter for me?
01:05:56I was hoping you'd come back.
01:05:57The fight wouldn't seem natural without the two of us, did it?
01:06:00Well, that's the way I figured.
01:06:09They may have left the flats by now. You go on after them and I'll short cut to the ranch
01:06:12and get help.
01:06:13Aye, aye, Skipper.
01:06:24That's a half cent. Every man in town is gone. Only the old ones stayed there.
01:06:29Oh, certainly. Those ranchers, they make Monsieur Price pay for his sins.
01:06:32And while they do, Dominique Bouchard will collect.
01:06:40Hello, Montaigne. We march.
01:06:44Remember, the ranchers in the valley belong to you.
01:06:48And I give you the town also.
01:06:50But not the bank. That belong to me.
01:06:55Hello.
01:07:03Hold it.
01:07:04Hey, Skipper.
01:07:05It's Miss Abby.
01:07:06Well, open the gate.
01:07:07Open the mountain.
01:07:15I thought I told you to stay in town until this thing blows over.
01:07:18Well, should that love comfort us.
01:07:19He's got hundreds of men.
01:07:20He's gonna attack Riverford.
01:07:21Well, let him attack.
01:07:23But Pax, he'll wipe out the entire valley.
01:07:25Those women and children have...
01:07:26Let the men take care of them instead of using their mob rule on me.
01:07:29Well, Ronnie's gone after them, but I'm afraid he won't reach them in time.
01:07:32We can't let those women and children suffer, Pax.
01:07:34Your fight's not with them.
01:07:36She's right, Pax.
01:07:37Why should I worry about their families?
01:07:39They didn't worry about mine.
01:07:40Even so, we've got to help them.
01:07:42And while we ride to the rescue, that pack of wolves tears my ranch apart.
01:07:46Oh, no.
01:07:47Pax Jr. paid a big price for this place.
01:07:50I'm not letting him go for a noble gesture.
01:07:54It won't make it easier on you to bring agony on others.
01:07:57In spite of what those men have done.
01:07:59They love their families as much as we love Pax.
01:08:06Would you want them to go through what we did?
01:08:10No.
01:08:11I wouldn't.
01:08:23I'd like to go to the old ranch house with Willie Mae.
01:08:26You'll be safe for there.
01:08:32Well, Dan.
01:08:34I guess this is the end of our empire.
01:08:37Sure.
01:08:39But I've got a notion you're starting to build something better.
01:08:45Sail away!
01:08:46Hoy!
01:08:47Hoy you men!
01:08:48Get your horses!
01:08:54Boshart's got us outnumbered.
01:08:55But from where he is, we'll have to go through bottleneck fast.
01:08:57We're a lot closer to it than he is.
01:08:59I've got a hunch we could even up the odds.
01:09:01You all ready, men?
01:09:01Yeah!
01:09:11Come on, keep working!
01:09:29Make those anchor posts good and solid, men.
01:09:31If that firetrap doesn't hold them in this barricade, shut them!
01:09:39The force will brush over you.
01:09:45Cowder!
01:09:45Hey!
01:09:46Hey!
01:09:48You fellas better pan it back to town,
01:09:49because Boshart's gonna pounce on it.
01:09:51Well, you hold your shirt, Taylor.
01:09:52He's up in jail in Sabine.
01:09:54Taylor told me so himself.
01:09:56Well, this rabbit is just one of Bryce's men.
01:09:58It's a trick to stall us.
01:09:59It is not a trick.
01:10:00I tell you, Boshart is heading for the...
01:10:02You go back and tell your boss we're not giving him time to get set for us.
01:10:05What?
01:10:08Oh, listen, fellas!
01:10:10Hey, Crowder!
01:10:12Hey!
01:10:12Come in, lay low and wait for the signal!
01:10:23All right, Ben!
01:10:24Get down!
01:10:25All right, Ben!
01:10:40All right, Ben!
01:10:50I'm sorry!
01:10:51I don't want to spoil everything.
01:10:52When they start coming back out.
01:11:04Come on, Ford.
01:11:06Start plugging that gap.
01:11:14Light up, men.
01:11:33What kind of trick is this?
01:11:35Yes. It is not good to play with fire.
01:11:37We go back. We take another way to talk.
01:11:39Hold up! Hold fast!
01:11:52All right, let him go. Up to it!
01:12:04Let's go!
01:12:19Let's go!
01:12:31Let's go!
01:12:34Let's go!
01:12:42Let's go!
01:12:43We are done!
01:12:44But we get out!
01:12:45Follow me!
01:12:54Get ready, men.
01:13:04Wait until they start up the slope.
01:13:34Let's go!
01:13:48Now would you believe it?
01:13:50That ain't dogs barking.
01:13:51Sounds like it's coming from the bottleneck.
01:13:53Well, maybe Bryce sent some of his men to draw us off.
01:13:57That firing's too heavy.
01:13:58Bryce hasn't got that good of them.
01:14:00I'm taking a look.
01:14:01Hey, we better all take a look, huh?
01:14:03Come on!
01:14:04Hey!
01:14:48Take a look!
01:14:48Make a goal for it!
01:14:49Wait!
01:14:49Wait!
01:14:49See you next time.
01:15:06Come on, gentlemen.
01:15:08I've got a good night, Tex!
01:15:10I got a good night, Tex!
01:15:11Look at the rocks!
01:15:11Look at the rocks!
01:15:15Come on!
01:15:16Come on!
01:15:19They're all on the rocks!
01:15:28What do you suppose to know?
01:15:30Cactus wire, huh?
01:15:31Well, uh, salt.
01:15:35Help!
01:15:35Help!
01:15:35Help!
01:15:38Help!
01:15:38Help!
01:15:39Help!
01:15:40Help!
01:15:42Help!
01:15:48Let's go.
01:16:14Pull, pull the ropes, pull those ropes.
01:16:16Allez, allez, pull.
01:16:22Let's go.
01:16:24Pull, pull the ropes.
01:17:00We better play our race, Pax.
01:17:02Sure, Skipper.
01:17:02Let's give it to him.
01:17:03Go ahead.
01:17:03Let's go.
01:17:10Let's go.
01:17:15Let's go.
01:17:25Let's go.
01:17:28Let's go.
01:17:41Let's go.
01:17:57Well, that blast ought to stop them.
01:18:34Hold it, men!
01:18:36Round them up!
01:18:44They ain't sunk, but he sure do for dry dock.
01:18:47Rice, from now on, you can string as much of that about wire as you want, and I'm going
01:18:53to help you.
01:18:54You fellas saved our families, and we won't forget it.
01:18:58I guess we've both been wrong, Trotter.
01:19:01I can't stop the railroads.
01:19:03You can stop fencing ranges.
01:19:05They're both here to stay because you both mean progress.
01:19:10Texas is dead.
01:19:13You better finish.
01:19:15Well, Pax means if we all pull together, we can make this the finest state in the union,
01:19:20the cattle center of the country.
01:19:21So we're letting the railroad through.
01:19:24When we put up our fences, we're going to leave.
01:19:27Plenty of gates for our neighbors.
01:19:36Give me them pills, you big bunch of barnacle.
01:19:39You ain't giving these to the skipper, you little sand crab.
01:19:41Let go or I'll flatten you like a flounder.
01:19:43But the catalog says they're good for man or beast.
01:19:45Yeah, sure.
01:19:46I swallowed one this morning, and my teeth still rattling.
01:19:48I don't dare give them to me.
01:19:50No!
01:19:50Give me a pill!
01:19:57Here's the bottle.
01:19:58Eat one pill, it'll make you tie a knot in an octopus.
01:20:01Eat them yourself.
01:20:03Here's all the medicine I'll ever need.
01:20:33Let's get some months away from camp.
01:20:33Get a plate all together!
01:20:33Let's get some Muse.
01:20:34With the comfort of everyone else,
01:20:35The End
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