The Painted Hills (1951) is an American Western drama starring Pal (credited as Lassie) and directed by Harold F. Kress. The film adapts Shep of the Painted Hills (1930) by Alexander Hull, telling the story of Shep, a loyal collie who seeks justice after her prospector master is murdered for gold.
Set in the rugged California mountains, the film follows Shep as she protects young Tommy Blake and ultimately confronts the killer in a dramatic climax. It is the seventh and final Lassie film produced by MGM, marking the end of the studio’s original Lassie cycle.
Film Details
Year: 1951
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: Harold F. Kress
Screenplay: True Boardman; based on Shep of the Painted Hills by Alexander Hull
Produced by: Kenneth Bennett, Chester M. Franklin
Starring: Pal (as Lassie), Paul Kelly, Bruce Cowling, Gary Gray
Cinematography: Alfred Gilks, Harold Lipstein
Edited by: Newell P. Kimlin
Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof
Studio: Metro‑Goldwyn‑Mayer
Distributed by: MGM
Release Date: April 20, 1951
Runtime: 68 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $667,000
Box Office: $1,085,000
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Set in the rugged California mountains, the film follows Shep as she protects young Tommy Blake and ultimately confronts the killer in a dramatic climax. It is the seventh and final Lassie film produced by MGM, marking the end of the studio’s original Lassie cycle.
Film Details
Year: 1951
Genre: Western / Drama
Director: Harold F. Kress
Screenplay: True Boardman; based on Shep of the Painted Hills by Alexander Hull
Produced by: Kenneth Bennett, Chester M. Franklin
Starring: Pal (as Lassie), Paul Kelly, Bruce Cowling, Gary Gray
Cinematography: Alfred Gilks, Harold Lipstein
Edited by: Newell P. Kimlin
Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof
Studio: Metro‑Goldwyn‑Mayer
Distributed by: MGM
Release Date: April 20, 1951
Runtime: 68 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $667,000
Box Office: $1,085,000
#ThePaintedHills1951 #Lassie #WesternDrama #HaroldFKress #MGM #1950sCinema #FamilyFilm #ShepOfThePaintedHills #ClassicWestern
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00:00:03THE END
00:00:36THE END
00:01:06Who of us will ever know what is in the heart of a dog?
00:01:12This is the story of a great love.
00:01:15The love of a dog for one man.
00:01:19A love that was to prove even stronger than life itself.
00:01:32The love of a dog for one man.
00:02:06Where are you, Dad?
00:02:10Hurry up!
00:02:12Get me out of there, Jess.
00:02:16Hey, hey, never mind eating me.
00:02:18Just get me out of here.
00:02:19Start digging.
00:02:21Go on.
00:02:23That's it.
00:02:24Start digging.
00:02:25Atta, girl.
00:02:27Keep up flying.
00:02:28Hey!
00:02:29Hey!
00:02:30The other way!
00:02:31The other way!
00:02:32The other way, Jess.
00:02:34No.
00:02:35No.
00:02:36No dig.
00:02:37Dig.
00:02:38Dig.
00:02:39Keep digging.
00:02:40That's million-dollar dirt.
00:02:42We've hit it this time, Shep.
00:02:43We've hit it sure.
00:02:45No.
00:02:46Keep going.
00:02:47I forgot to tear the shaft up.
00:02:49Come down near being the richest corpse in the territory.
00:02:54Come on, girl.
00:02:56We're heading for town.
00:02:58Just wait till you see Frank Blake's eyes
00:03:00when we tell him he's a millionaire.
00:03:22Merry Christmas!
00:03:27Oh, Steve.
00:03:30Well, Jonathan, how are you?
00:03:32Merry Christmas.
00:03:34How about it on the house?
00:03:35No.
00:03:36How about you, pup?
00:03:38Pup!
00:03:41Can't call you a pup anymore, can that fella?
00:03:43Can't call her a fella, neither.
00:03:45Say, that's right. Excuse me, beautiful.
00:03:48Well, how's it going, Jonathan?
00:03:50Shippin' me ain't complainin'.
00:03:52Uh, Steve, has Frank been around tonight?
00:03:55Frank? Frank Blake?
00:03:59Be right back.
00:04:02Thanks, Steve.
00:04:04Hear me out.
00:04:09Jonathan Harvey?
00:04:12That's right.
00:04:13I'm Lynn Taylor.
00:04:15Sorry we couldn't let you know, Jonathan.
00:04:17Martha wanted to, but there was no way of finding you in time.
00:04:21Time for what?
00:04:22Frank's dead, Jonathan. Over a month ago, pneumonia.
00:04:32Tommy worries me, Jonathan.
00:04:34Do you know that he's never once cried?
00:04:38If he could just let it out.
00:04:40We'll work it out, Martha.
00:04:42We'll find a way.
00:04:44But right now, what about this fella, Taylor?
00:04:48Lynn's a fine man. He's been wonderful.
00:04:50Why did Frank take him in as a partner?
00:04:52He had to.
00:04:54Lynn's buying in when he did kept us from losing everything.
00:04:58I see.
00:05:00Does that make him a partner of grebstake rights?
00:05:03Yes. Why?
00:05:05Jonathan, you've made a strike.
00:05:08I got something to show you.
00:05:17Lynn.
00:05:18Hello, Martha.
00:05:19Come in. Jonathan's inside.
00:05:22I'm so glad you're here. Jonathan has something to show us.
00:05:27Here.
00:05:29Look at this.
00:05:31I found a vein of that.
00:05:33If it's deep enough, it could be the biggest strike this territory has ever seen.
00:05:36That's why we've got to file a claim and quick.
00:05:39File? Before it's proved?
00:05:41If you file now and word gets out that you struck oar like this,
00:05:44every claim jumper in the territory will be in those hills in a week
00:05:46before you're sure yourself that you've hit the main vein.
00:05:50By gad, you're right.
00:05:53Thirty years of mudscrabbling, and when I do find the glory dust, I go off half-cocked.
00:05:59Mr. Taylor, Martha's right about you.
00:06:03And right now you can start working at being a partner by lining me up some supplies.
00:06:07Of course, Jonathan. Anything you need.
00:06:09Meet you in the store in a half-hour.
00:06:11All right. Good night, Martha.
00:06:13Good night, Lynn.
00:06:15If it's all right with you, Martha, I'd like to talk a mite with Tommy.
00:06:20All right, Jonathan. If there's anything you can do.
00:06:39Tommy?
00:06:46Tommy?
00:06:48Hey, Jonathan.
00:06:51Jonathan.
00:06:54Oh, Jonathan.
00:06:56Why'd he have to die?
00:06:58Easy, boy.
00:07:00I want my father, Jonathan.
00:07:02I want Pa.
00:07:03Sure you do.
00:07:05But there's some things we can't answer, Tommy.
00:07:09The Lord's got His way of doing things we just can't answer.
00:07:19I didn't want to cry.
00:07:21You go ahead and cry.
00:07:23I used to do it myself sometimes.
00:07:26Before my tears all dried up on me.
00:07:29Now, how about Shep here?
00:07:31Those hills up there.
00:07:33That's no place for a dog.
00:07:35At least why it's not Shep.
00:07:37It isn't.
00:07:38No, not too lonesome.
00:07:41She likes folks around.
00:07:43The fact is, she just plain ain't happy up there.
00:07:49And as for me, I'm better off alone.
00:07:54Lots of times, the dog is nothing but a darn bother to me.
00:07:58A bother to you?
00:08:01Shep?
00:08:02Now, what the hell, Jew, Shep?
00:08:03Now, go on.
00:08:04Go on.
00:08:05Now, you get away.
00:08:07Now, go on.
00:08:08Get away.
00:08:10Now, what I'm sandwashing up to with all this is, how about taking her off my hands?
00:08:17Will you do it, Tom?
00:08:18Will you?
00:08:19You're no liar, Jonathan.
00:08:21I can't take Shep from you.
00:08:24She's your dog.
00:08:25Nobody else's till she dies.
00:08:28Thanks anyway.
00:08:29And look, don't tell anybody I bawled.
00:08:32Will you please?
00:08:35Honest to Christmas.
00:08:41We didn't do so good.
00:08:45All right, it's Christmas.
00:08:47And giving is part of Christmas.
00:08:51Anyway, you are a bother to me.
00:08:55I'll be quiet.
00:08:57And don't look at me that way.
00:09:20Hey, Ma, wake up.
00:09:22It's Christmas.
00:09:31Oh, gee, that Jonathan.
00:09:34Merry Christmas, Tommy.
00:09:36Merry Christmas, Ma.
00:09:37Look.
00:09:38Yes, dear, I know.
00:09:42Dear Tommy, I put it up to Shep.
00:09:45She agreed with me.
00:09:46She's yours.
00:09:48Merry Christmas from Jonathan.
00:09:50Where is Jonathan?
00:09:53He's gone, son.
00:09:54Gone?
00:09:57Is it all right, Ma?
00:09:58Can I really keep her?
00:10:00That's what he wanted, Tommy.
00:10:02I'm sure it's all right.
00:10:23I'm sure it's all right.
00:10:26She's gone.
00:10:39Shaft?
00:10:40Oh, Shaft?
00:10:47Sheep.
00:10:50What's the matter with you, Sheep?
00:10:53Ma! Ma, something's wrong with Sheep.
00:10:58What's wrong with her, Mr. Bald Eagle? What's wrong?
00:11:07He said dog, Sheep, not eat because she's not eating.
00:11:11Why would you want to go home?
00:11:13To Jonathan?
00:11:23He say dogs starve till die, if not go Jonathan.
00:11:28Thanks, Mr. Bald Eagle.
00:11:31Thanks.
00:11:32Ma si.
00:11:33Goodbye, Red Wayne.
00:11:36Ma, we've got to get her to Jonathan.
00:11:39Please, Sam, take her. Please, Ma.
00:11:41Well, I don't know, dear.
00:11:45How could you ever find him?
00:11:46Sheep could. She knows where the claim is.
00:11:50But you still couldn't go alone.
00:11:52I'll take you, Martha. Be glad to.
00:11:55Gee, thanks, Mr. Taylor.
00:11:59You hear that, Sheep?
00:12:00We're gonna take you back to Jonathan.
00:12:02Now you've got to eat and get strong for the trip.
00:12:06Here, take some.
00:12:09Here, take some.
00:12:09You've got to.
00:12:17Thanks, lad.
00:12:21Ma, look. She's eating. She's gonna be all right.
00:12:39Sheep, what is it? Jonathan?
00:12:43Jonathan?
00:12:45Jonathan?
00:12:45Here, Tommy.
00:12:47Jonathan, what's wrong?
00:12:49Taylor.
00:12:51Hit me a week ago.
00:12:52Oh, the worst has passed.
00:12:57So weak, I couldn't get food any longer.
00:13:00That's what was wrong with Shep.
00:13:02She knew.
00:13:04She wouldn't eat.
00:13:05She made us bring her here.
00:13:07Ma's right, Jonathan.
00:13:09Shep's your dog, and nobody else's.
00:13:12So I'm giving her back to you, right now.
00:13:15Never mind the dog, Tommy.
00:13:17Tommy, you rustle up some wood.
00:13:18I'll see about the food.
00:13:26I'm all right, girl.
00:13:28And thanks.
00:13:31Taylor, guess you'll wonder how our partnership's been going.
00:13:35You were right.
00:13:37I'd have been a fool to file that claim.
00:13:39Vane peed it out in a week.
00:13:43So I just kept working upstream.
00:13:45Surfaced up.
00:13:47Hardly worth a man's time.
00:13:49I'll show you.
00:13:51Tommy?
00:13:52Go on over there by the shell.
00:13:55Now slide that chest out.
00:13:58The board underneath will lift up.
00:14:04Take them out.
00:14:15Look inside, Tommy.
00:14:22How much is here, Jonathan?
00:14:24Oh, not much.
00:14:26Only around about $6,000.
00:14:28$6,000?
00:14:30And plenty more to come.
00:14:32$6,000.
00:14:34You say that's just from gravel?
00:14:36You still haven't found the main vein?
00:14:37No, but it's up there.
00:14:39I aim to just work upstream until I find it.
00:14:42And I will.
00:14:44As sure as your name's Lynn Taylor.
00:14:47Jonathan, do you realize what this means?
00:14:49It means we're rich.
00:14:50All of us.
00:14:51Sure we are, but that's not what I'm talking about.
00:14:53You need help.
00:14:54Now look, I'm starting back to town tomorrow.
00:14:57I'll take this gold and deposit it in all our names.
00:14:59It'll be safe there.
00:15:00And I'll be back.
00:15:02Why, with proper equipment,
00:15:03we can take that gold out 10 times as fast.
00:15:09All my life, I've waited for something like this.
00:15:12And I'm not taking any chance on losing it now.
00:15:29We'll run the inlet channel across there
00:15:32and build the sluice box below the rapid.
00:15:40Let her go, Tommy.
00:15:48When you see one day's take from this baby, Taylor,
00:15:52just wait.
00:16:30What do you see?
00:16:56How can you lie there?
00:16:58I tell you, I tell you, I heard somebody.
00:16:59Somebody's out there.
00:17:00Sure, the same fellas you've been here in for three days.
00:17:04You said to yourself there are other prospectors over in Oak Valley.
00:17:07What if they've got word somehow that we've hit it?
00:17:08Sure.
00:17:10A little bird flew down and told them.
00:17:12So they came running right back here so they could dig up all our pretty gold.
00:17:16Right in the driving rain.
00:17:18You may think it's funny, but I don't.
00:17:20And from now on, we're keeping a guard here at the cabin while we're up at the mine.
00:17:24We've got to.
00:17:26All right, Taylor.
00:17:27Then you stand guard.
00:17:29Tommy and me will work the mine.
00:17:32Well, maybe that would worry you, too.
00:17:34You'd be wondering if we were losing some of it before we got here.
00:17:40Now, ease up, dearly.
00:17:42Stop worrying.
00:17:43The richest dust in creation is no blame good if you kill yourself getting it.
00:17:48Now, go on.
00:17:49Get some sleep.
00:17:52I'm going to.
00:18:20I'm going to get you.
00:18:22Go get what you put in that saddlebag.
00:18:25The days you've been watching us.
00:18:27But you didn't fool me.
00:18:29I knew you were out there.
00:18:31You hurt what I said. Move!
00:18:35Go on. Go get what you put in there.
00:18:38Taylor, what's going on here?
00:18:40You keep out of this, Jonathan. I know what I'm doing.
00:18:43Whether you get it or don't you.
00:18:46You crazy fool. I ought to lay you low.
00:18:48Make him sure you ain't put in that saddlebag.
00:18:50I took something from there, for this house.
00:18:52He's lying. Look for yourself.
00:18:55No, Taylor. You look.
00:19:13But he was inside, searching around, snooping.
00:19:15For food.
00:19:18I would have prepared a table in the presence of my friends.
00:19:25This is Pilot Pete, Taylor.
00:19:27If you'd been longer in these hills, you'd never have made that mistake.
00:19:31Don't make it again.
00:19:34Come on, Pete. Let's see about that something.
00:19:39You a regular person, Mr. Pete?
00:19:41Regular? No, son. Reckon I'm as irregular as it come.
00:19:45Gotta have roots to be a regular person.
00:19:48Me, I ain't got the roots of a tumbleweed.
00:19:52Two things I love above all else.
00:19:55The Lord's mountains and the Lord's centers.
00:19:58So, I spend my time in one, looking for the other.
00:20:02And I sure find him.
00:20:08Here, lady.
00:20:10You better leave Shep alone. She never makes up to strangers.
00:20:14She don't?
00:20:16Here. Here, lady. Here, lady.
00:20:20Well, you got her wrong, brother Taylor.
00:20:23Thou sawest the beast that was and is not.
00:20:26Revelation 17, 8.
00:20:28Well, there's plenty of love in this dog for them that loves her.
00:20:31Ain't the Shep?
00:20:33Well, maybe she just likes my stool.
00:20:38There's plenty of love.
00:20:40This is from all of us.
00:20:43Well, in his name, I thank you.
00:20:45Jonathan. Tommy.
00:20:48Mr. Taylor.
00:20:50And you too, lady bear.
00:20:53The Lord be with you in all your labors.
00:20:57Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth,
00:21:00but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.
00:21:05Matthew 6, 19.
00:21:12Get up, Gabriel.
00:21:14Goodbye, Mr. Pete.
00:21:16Goodbye, Pete.
00:21:17Goodbye.
00:21:18Work for the night is coming.
00:21:23Work through the morning hours.
00:21:27Work while the dew is far clean.
00:21:32Tommy, you go down to work.
00:21:33I'll be alone.
00:21:40Well, you gave him dust.
00:21:43That's a dead giveaway we struck pay dirt.
00:21:45The old fool talks.
00:21:46He won't.
00:21:47Pete knows the law of these hills, Taylor.
00:21:49And he lives by it.
00:21:51You could try doing the same.
00:21:54And until you do, I'm taking that gun.
00:21:57I keep my own gun.
00:21:59You're edgy, Taylor.
00:22:00Getting worse every time more gold goes under that floor.
00:22:04And ain't just being scared someone will steal it, neither.
00:22:07It's having to split it with Martha and me.
00:22:09You're crazy.
00:22:10Only a quarter you keep thinking to yourself.
00:22:13I only get a quarter of it.
00:22:15And Jonathan gets half.
00:22:18That keeps eating at you, Taylor.
00:22:20I've been watching you and I know.
00:22:23That's why I'm taking that gun.
00:22:27No, you won't do that.
00:22:29There's two reasons why you won't shoot me, Taylor.
00:22:32The first, you won't find that pain without me.
00:22:35And the other, the other is just a hunch that you haven't got the guts.
00:22:41You won't do it.
00:22:50Then, what do you do?
00:22:50On your face.
00:22:55You won't do what you need.
00:22:55Let's your face.
00:22:55Don't.
00:22:58You won't.
00:23:02We'll see you.
00:23:02Don't do what you want.
00:23:10Do you want to take me.
00:23:11You're going to take your face to step to step in.
00:23:15Amen.
00:23:51Amen.
00:24:14Good girl.
00:24:57Good girl.
00:25:16Good girl.
00:26:04Good girl.
00:26:06All our names, hers, Taylor's, and mine.
00:26:08Is there anything wrong, Jonathan?
00:26:10Oh, this is just in case someone gets the bright idea of filing only in their own name.
00:26:15Oh, Mr. Taylor.
00:26:17Well, remember, whatever happens, not a word to anyone about my daughter.
00:26:21Even your ma.
00:26:22Promise?
00:26:24Now, come on.
00:26:25Bye, Taylor.
00:26:26Hurry up.
00:26:32Tell your ma not to worry.
00:26:33I will.
00:26:34Bye, Jonathan.
00:26:39Come on.
00:26:40Shep, where are you?
00:26:43Shep, what is this?
00:26:45What ails you?
00:26:47You know, between us, we got to take care of that boy.
00:26:49He don't know these trails like we do.
00:26:51Oh, it ain't for good this time.
00:26:54You're coming back.
00:26:55Now, go on.
00:26:56Get.
00:27:06Jonathan.
00:27:09Jonathan.
00:27:11Where are they going?
00:27:12I sent Tommy home.
00:27:14The kid's getting lonesome for his mom.
00:27:16What's all the excitement?
00:27:18Jonathan, that thing we've been looking for.
00:27:19If it was up there, what would it look like?
00:27:21Well, uh...
00:27:22No, I'll tell you.
00:27:23The sheer face of the cliff.
00:27:25White quartz.
00:27:25The whitest you ever saw.
00:27:27And in it, jagged like lightning.
00:27:28A vein of pure gold.
00:27:30Gold, Jonathan.
00:27:31That white.
00:27:32It's up there.
00:27:32So help me.
00:27:33I found it.
00:27:33It's up there waiting for us.
00:27:34Where?
00:27:35At the head of the canyon.
00:27:36Way up.
00:27:36Well, let's go.
00:28:03All right, chef.
00:28:04Go on back.
00:28:05Hold her.
00:28:14You're sure right about the mountain goats.
00:28:17Yeah.
00:28:29Go ahead.
00:28:38Go ahead.
00:29:23It's Aless, just beyond her.
00:29:31Let's go.
00:29:53Well, where is it?
00:29:56It's down over the ledge.
00:30:04Tell her!
00:30:07Tell her! Help me!
00:30:10Tell her, for God's sake, you can't help me!
00:30:13I haven't the guts. Remember, Jennifer?
00:30:17Jeff!
00:30:19Jeff!
00:30:21Jeff!
00:30:45Hello, Shep.
00:30:54Here, Shep! Come here!
00:31:01What's the matter with you?
00:31:27Stop it.
00:31:35Let his God find you.
00:31:36No...
00:31:39Thinking.
00:31:42Yeah!
00:31:52No!
00:31:53Stop it!
00:32:00Oh, my God.
00:32:38Hello, Shep.
00:32:45Where have you been all day?
00:32:47Looking for Jonathan?
00:32:51I'm afraid he won't be back, Shep.
00:32:53That doesn't mean you and I can't be friends.
00:32:56How about it?
00:33:01Better be my way, Shep.
00:33:02I'd rather not have anything happen to you.
00:33:05Might make things harder for me to explain.
00:33:33I don't know.
00:33:33I don't know.
00:33:34I don't know.
00:33:39I don't know.
00:33:41Let's go.
00:34:28Let's go.
00:34:47Get away from there!
00:34:48Get away, I tell you!
00:34:53I said get away from there.
00:34:58Get away till you get what he got.
00:35:12Get away from there!
00:35:14Get away from there!
00:35:22Get away from there!
00:36:12Hungry huh? I figured they'll bring you around and I got something all ready for you
00:36:52Not hungry enough yet, huh you will be
00:37:21It's what you want
00:37:28So that's the way it is, huh
00:37:31Here
00:37:42Or
00:37:53I'll get out of here get out remember you ask for it
00:38:12Oh
00:38:15Oh
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00:43:16Please, Mr. Bald Eagle, isn't there anything else you can do?
00:43:36Shep. Shep, girl. Gee, Mr. Bald Eagle, you're wonderful. Thanks, Marcy.
00:43:44Mama can't walk over my house with Lily like us.
00:43:48We take her to your house. Be soon well.
00:43:59Don't you worry, Shep. I'm gonna find out about that, boys.
00:44:04Nothing's gonna stop me till I do.
00:44:18These hills ain't bad, Mother Weatherholt.
00:44:22But always remember, one good storm could start a slide that would cover the gold forever.
00:44:33Let's go.
00:44:34Let's go.
00:44:38Let's go.
00:44:57Let's go.
00:44:59Let's go.
00:44:59Let's go.
00:45:09Let's go.
00:45:19Let's go.
00:45:26Let's go.
00:45:44Let's go.
00:45:46Chef! Come here! Where are you going?
00:46:11Come on.
00:46:34Sheriff!
00:47:02Sheriff!
00:47:26What are you doing here?
00:47:30Where's Jonathan?
00:47:32He's gone. He's been gone for three days.
00:47:35Where?
00:47:36I don't know. Over towards Blue Mountain somewhere.
00:47:39Thought he might pick us up a deer for meat through the winter.
00:47:42I heard his whistle.
00:47:44You couldn't have.
00:47:45Shep must have too. She was barking.
00:47:47When did you see Shep?
00:47:49Indian kids found her.
00:47:50She was almost dead.
00:47:53And poisoned.
00:47:54But she's all right now?
00:47:55Yeah, but I knew Jonathan would want to know,
00:47:58so I brought her back.
00:48:00Mr. Taylor, are you sure he's not here?
00:48:02I know I heard.
00:48:03I told you, Tommy, he's not here.
00:48:08Shep!
00:48:10Shep!
00:48:13Shep! Here's Shep!
00:48:17Why don't she come in?
00:48:19I know she's out there.
00:48:22Don't worry about her, Tommy.
00:48:23They're tired and upset.
00:48:25Good night's sleep and you start home in the morning.
00:48:28Sit down now and rest.
00:48:36I'll fit you some supper.
00:48:55I...
00:48:56I'd better unsaddle my horse, Mr. Taylor.
00:48:58I'll be right back.
00:49:00All right.
00:49:09Shep, what is it?
00:49:12What is a Shep?
00:49:19Jonathan!
00:49:20I'll be right back.
00:49:42Shep! Be quiet!
00:49:46Shhh!
00:49:56It is.
00:49:58It's Jonathan.
00:50:02Tommy?
00:50:05Tommy!
00:50:13Tommy!
00:50:15Tommy!
00:50:15Tommy!
00:50:15Tommy, you out here?
00:50:16Tommy!
00:50:18Tommy, you out here?
00:50:26Tommy!
00:50:26Tommy!
00:50:27Tommy!
00:50:27Tommy!
00:50:27Is that you?
00:50:43No!
00:50:44No!
00:50:44Let me go!
00:50:45Let me go!
00:50:46Where'd you get it?
00:50:47Shep!
00:50:48It's Jonathan!
00:50:49You lied!
00:50:50He isn't always dead!
00:50:51You killed him!
00:50:52He's buried over there and you killed him!
00:50:54Shut up!
00:50:54You hear me?
00:50:55Shut up!
00:50:55No, I won't!
00:50:56You killed him and I'll tell, I'll tell everybody!
00:51:00You're wrong, Tommy.
00:51:02You're not gonna tell anybody that.
00:51:06Shep!
00:51:06Help!
00:51:07Help him!
00:51:08I said shut up!
00:51:13Come in!
00:51:35Where's the pasty?
00:51:35Come on, Apache.
00:51:36Stop it!
00:51:38Where's Apache?
00:51:40You got it, Joe.
00:51:41You got it, boy.
00:51:44Tommy, come back here! Come back!
00:51:57You little fool out of...
00:52:13Oh!
00:52:18Oh!
00:52:20Mm-hm!
00:52:55Tommy, come on now. Drink it. You're all right now. Here. Drink, Tommy. Drink it. That's right. That's fine, boy.
00:53:17Get away from me. Leave me alone.
00:53:19Listen, son. You've got to listen to me. There's nothing to be afraid of. You're here. Perfectly safe. And I
00:53:26brought you here.
00:53:28Now listen. You've been scared, Tommy. I know that. And it's my fault.
00:53:35But that's because I was scared, too. So scared that I almost lost my head. A man can be scared,
00:53:43too, Tommy. Even if a kid like you. Especially if that kid gets the wrong idea in his head. And
00:53:50you've got the wrong idea, son.
00:53:52You lied. You said he was hunting.
00:53:58Yes. Yes, I lied. You know why? Because I knew you loved Jonathan, Tommy. Almost as much as your own
00:54:06father.
00:54:07So I... Well, I didn't know how to tell you just like that. Jonathan, his dad's son. He was working
00:54:17up in the canyon and he fell. It was an accident.
00:54:21Two days ago, I found his body and... Well, I... I buried it where you saw. I was coming in
00:54:28tomorrow to tell you, ma'am.
00:54:36Shep. Where's Shep?
00:54:38Why, Shep's all right. I saw her outside a while ago. Shep was like you, son.
00:54:44She got the wrong idea, too. So let's... Let's both of us forget about what happened tonight. Shall we?
00:54:54I... I guess so.
00:54:56Sure we will. Now you get some sleep and you'll be fine in the morning.
00:55:09Just sleep, son. And forget the whole thing.
00:55:19Oh, Jonathan!
00:55:23Hello!
00:55:28Hello!
00:55:35Tommy, wake up. We've got company, son.
00:55:38And don't forget what we talked about last night.
00:55:40About the accidents of Jonathan. Better let me do all of the explaining. All right?
00:55:44Hey, Jonathan!
00:55:49Hi, Mr. Taylor.
00:55:51Uh, Mel Steiner and Carl Crane.
00:55:54This runaway come into their camp over in Oak Flats last night.
00:55:58And I thought I remembered he was yours.
00:56:00They was breakin' camp in the middle of the night.
00:56:01Well, they had a camp for winter anyway. So on the way into town, figured we'd cut across the ridge
00:56:05and fetch him back.
00:56:07Why, hello there, Tommy boy!
00:56:09Hi, Mr. Pete.
00:56:10Gee, I'm sure glad to see you.
00:56:12We both are, Pete. Mighty glad. And thanks for bringin' the horse back.
00:56:15Sure! Where's Jonathan?
00:56:18It's a good thing you men came along. Come inside. I'm afraid I got some bad news for you.
00:56:25And in thy heavenly kingdom, Lord, let him find peace, that peace which passeth understanding.
00:56:35Let the gold he sought on earth be his in heaven, the pure and shining gold of thy holy grace.
00:56:45We ask it, Lord, in his name. Amen.
00:57:04Come along, Tommy.
00:57:13Come on, Sheriff.
00:57:15Thanks, Pete. Then I'll count on you to explain everything in town.
00:57:19That I will.
00:57:20As long as you can take Tommy and the dog back for me,
00:57:23I'll probably stay on up here till spring.
00:57:26For everyone's sake, I'd like to prove Jonathan was right.
00:57:28You see, he was sure there was real pay dirt here.
00:57:31So far, we've never found it.
00:57:33And Pete, do all you can to help Tommy, will you?
00:57:36You know, kids sometimes imagine all sorts of things,
00:57:39and Jonathan's accident hit the boy pretty hard.
00:57:41I'm sure you understand.
00:57:43I do indeed, Mr. Taylor.
00:57:45Pete, he's lying. Don't believe him. Please don't believe him.
00:57:48It wasn't an accident. Jonathan didn't fall. He killed him. I know he did.
00:57:52Pete, he's lying. He's lying about everything.
00:57:54Tommy.
00:57:55Boy, the boy's hysterical.
00:57:57He hated Jonathan and he killed him.
00:57:59And last night when I found out, he tried to kill me too.
00:58:01He's lying, Pete.
00:58:02Tommy, listen to me.
00:58:03You say I wanted to kill you?
00:58:05Where did you sleep last night?
00:58:07Who picked you up when you horse threw you and carried you to the cabin?
00:58:10Boy, Tommy, you slept six feet from me the whole night through, safe and well.
00:58:15Does that sound like I wanted to hurt you?
00:58:16Answer me.
00:58:17Pete, don't believe him. He did do it.
00:58:20Shep knows too. That's why I tried to poison her.
00:58:25You don't believe me.
00:58:28He said the claim didn't pay out, but it did.
00:58:32There's bags full of gold in the cabin. A dozen of them.
00:58:35If that's true, I guess you can show us, son.
00:58:38I will. Come on.
00:58:54There was more. A lot more.
00:58:58He's done something with the rest.
00:59:03You better take these back to Martha.
00:59:06I was holding this hoping that I'd have a bigger haul by spring.
00:59:10There is more now. A lot more.
00:59:13Mr. Crane, can't you see he's lying?
00:59:15Mr. Steiner, don't believe him.
00:59:18Please don't believe him.
00:59:19I guess we'd better be going.
00:59:22Please, Mr. Pete.
00:59:25Come along, son.
00:59:37Come on, Shep.
00:59:44Lady, come on. Come on.
01:00:09Shep! Come back! Shep!
01:00:21Lady, come on.
01:01:03Lady, come on.
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