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Annie asks Adam to help her open a restaurant in her father's honour, but they face stiff competition from an old friend staking a claim to her deeds.
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00:00There's a fine man, that Swede.
00:03Just him you ought to be marrying.
00:08Quit nipping on that jog you have hid in the mattress.
00:13There's a point where to be talking to your poor old father.
00:15We were speaking to the Swede.
00:17Like as not he's starving to death out there in the wilds of Nevada.
00:21Bolanza! Glory be to the Swede!
00:24But the son of the heathen land has touched him.
00:26He's speaking in tongues.
00:28Annie, I struck it rich out there in Nevada.
00:33Annie, I'm a rich man.
00:34Yeah, yeah.
00:38Ah, there was good stew.
00:40Oh, miserable stew-eating Swede, you.
00:42If only I didn't love you so.
00:47And I staked out two claims.
00:49Not one, but two.
00:53Oh, Swede, you, me and himself
00:56in the land of Nevada,
00:58breathe in the fine air.
01:00Ah, now, it is the air of San Francisco
01:02I'm used to breathe in these many years.
01:05It's cold.
01:10Ah.
01:17I, I'll tell you what we'll do.
01:20Well, you two go on and get the silver and gold
01:22and bring it back here to me.
01:24And have you drink it up faster than we can to get from the ground.
01:27We all go.
01:29Well, I tell you both.
01:31None of us got to go.
01:32I'm going to sell the claims right here in San Francisco.
01:35Sell them?
01:36Whatever for?
01:37Well, I tell you the truth, Annie.
01:38After six months of eating that dry, miserable grub,
01:41I'm sick and tired of Nevada.
01:43Well, I ain't.
01:45And one of these claims is mine, Swede Lundberg,
01:47for I grub-staked you.
01:49And don't you forget it.
01:50You go ahead.
01:51Trade yours for a bottle of whiskey
01:52as you'll like us not do.
01:54But himself and me is heading for Nevada.
01:57Oh, no, me darling.
01:59Tis here I belong with a good salt air in me lungs.
02:02And the whiskey in your insides.
02:04The both of yous.
02:05We go to Nevada.
02:08Oh, you mark me.
02:09Mark me well, Annie O'Toole.
02:11One whiff of that heathen air and I'll die.
02:14We are not letting this get away from us.
02:51The Bones
02:52The Bones
02:52The Bones
02:53The Bones
03:19All right, now listen to me, all of you.
03:21There's no dispute that can't be settled by Myner's Law.
03:45Back to the final rounds of power, this isn't any of our affair.
03:48Oh, son, we can't ignore the rest of the world.
03:50We're the only stabilizing influence of the country.
03:54Yeah, well, you sure stabilized that one, Paul.
03:56Here we go.
04:19Are you, uh, all right, miss?
04:29Hey, Pa.
04:32What is it?
04:34A dead man.
04:39Who is it, miss?
04:41It's himself.
04:42Himself?
04:43Me sainted father, Kevin O'Toole.
04:47Are you, uh, were you able to tell us about it?
04:53Cookin' breakfast I was this morning on the mother's stove.
04:57Himself was a great one for hotcakes.
05:01He strangled and died.
05:03From the hotcakes, ma'am?
05:06Do you question my cookin'?
05:08The hotcakes, he says.
05:10T'was the air that choked him, just as he said it would.
05:14Annie, he says to me,
05:15one whiff of that heathen air and I'll die.
05:20He said it and he did it.
05:27Thank you, I'm all right.
05:29He wouldn't want me grieving.
05:31As a matter of fact, I'm proud of him.
05:33Proud of him?
05:34Why not?
05:35It's the first time in his life
05:37himself ever did exactly what he said he'd do.
05:41Well, we're all dreadfully sorry, miss.
05:45If we could offer you the hospitality of our ranch
05:47until you return home.
05:48Why, don't you talk grand, though.
05:50Oh, thank you.
05:51I'll be staying here.
05:53Here in Washoe Diggins?
05:54Half a minute.
05:57Here we are.
06:05You know a man named Sweet Lundberg?
06:07Know him?
06:09Many's the time I've knocked the corners
06:10from his head with a skillet.
06:11I know him.
06:15Now, will someone guide me?
06:18All right.
06:18Maybe you better go with the horse.
06:20This is my brother, Miss O'Toole.
06:22He'll see that no harm comes to you.
06:26My, ain't you the big one, though.
06:51God, there'll be no more to that.
06:53Oh, won't there.
06:53That woodpecker of a Simpson jumped my claim.
06:56Now, stop it now.
06:58Now, in the absence of formal law,
07:00you still have your minor's law.
07:01But who's to enforce it or decide on it?
07:04Appoint yourselves a referee.
07:06Or if you have a serious dispute,
07:08hold a minor's court.
07:10I'll hold with that.
07:11But there ain't anybody around here I can trust.
07:13Except Ben Cartwright himself.
07:15Thank you, fellas.
07:18Thank you, Clayton.
07:19But I'm afraid my time is fully occupied.
07:20Well, we'll vote on it.
07:21All those in favor of Ben Cartwright
07:23acting as a dispute referee, speak up.
07:30Well, if you feel that I can help settle
07:33your current disputes,
07:34but remember,
07:35it's only a temporary arrangement
07:37until you find somebody permanent.
07:38All right.
07:38Looks like you got yourself a job, Pa.
07:43So have you, younger brother.
07:44You get yourself back to the ranch
07:45and see all the boys are doing
07:46with the cattle brand.
07:47And just what'll you be doing?
07:49Well, I'm going to get that girl out of town
07:51before we get into a dispute
07:52that even Pa can't settle.
08:14It's the best I can do, ma'am.
08:18Oh, it's a fine view.
08:20Himself will like it once he gets used to it.
08:23Yes, sir.
08:24Oh, all this hard work
08:26in the heat of the day.
08:27You poor man, you must be starved.
08:29Well, I can always eat men.
08:31If it ain't no bother.
08:32Oh, on that stove a bother?
08:34Why, it's like a friend to me.
08:35It's one thing I understand completely.
08:38Mr. Haas, looks like you took care of things.
08:42I had to put him someplace, Adam.
08:44Well, I guess it really doesn't matter.
08:46Well, now, Mr. High and Mighty,
08:48it matters a lot to me.
08:50I really meant no disrespect, miss.
08:52It's just that, well,
08:53we hadn't fully checked your claim.
08:54You see, Sweet Lundberg had two claims.
08:56And this is one of them.
08:57And it's here I am and here I stay.
09:00Miss O'Toole, I assure you,
09:02my only concern is for your welfare.
09:05Chew that one again.
09:08What?
09:09Speak plain, to the point.
09:12Then I'll do exactly that.
09:14You're the only woman in this camp.
09:17These are rough men.
09:19Oh, and it's milksops I'm used to
09:21on the Barbary Coast, is it?
09:23All I'm saying is it's no place
09:24for a nice, charming lady.
09:25Well, now, thank you very much
09:26for the compliment,
09:27but don't you worry about me.
09:29I can cut the whiskers from a cat
09:31with a skillet
09:32without even disturbing its slumber.
09:34Now, you were saying...
09:35I was saying that I want you
09:37to get out of here
09:38and go back to San Francisco.
09:40And leave himself alone
09:41in a heathen place?
09:43Why, there hasn't been
09:44a day of my life
09:44I haven't taken care of him.
09:48It's here I stay.
09:51Ma'am, my brother Adam
09:53always knows what's best.
09:56Oh, I suppose I have no choice.
09:58There's bare enough food
09:59in the wagon to last the day.
10:01And there you stand,
10:03you poor man,
10:04starving in your tracks
10:04while I babble on.
10:05Here we go now.
10:07Thank you very much.
10:08And Miss O'Toole,
10:09if it's money you need...
10:10And who don't?
10:12Well, I'd be glad
10:13to give you enough money
10:14to get you back
10:14to San Francisco.
10:17Mr. Adam,
10:18I'll have you know,
10:19I don't take money
10:20from no strangers.
10:23There's shame of you
10:24talking like that
10:25in front of himself.
10:26I only meant...
10:27I've got an idea
10:28what you meant,
10:29and you'd best be learning
10:30some manners
10:30from your big brother here.
10:31Now you take yourself
10:32out the way you came in.
10:33I promised your brother
10:35Mulligan,
10:36and Mulligan he shall have.
10:37Oh, himself loved me Mulligan
10:40almost as well
10:40as he loved his bottle.
10:55Woman cooking,
10:56that's what it is.
10:57What?
10:57Woman cooking.
10:59Come on.
11:21Oh, you poor starving deers.
11:24Listen,
11:25if you'll all pitch in together
11:26and get me a big pot
11:28and some spuds and onions...
11:30Onions?
11:31Miss,
11:31if there was an onion
11:32in this camp,
11:33it could be traded
11:33for the richest claim
11:34on the Washoe.
11:36It's all pork or soy
11:36you'll find around here.
11:49Miss O'Toole,
11:50if you won't accept money
11:51from me...
11:51You trying something
11:52with this lady?
11:53But he ain't getting
11:54no place with it.
11:55I'm only trying to help her.
11:56I told you,
11:57I don't take money
11:58from no strangers.
11:59Who's offering you money?
12:02Now, I was watching
12:03these men
12:04and their interest
12:05in your culinary arts.
12:08Watch your tongue.
12:10Would you feed them
12:11for, say,
12:12a dollar a meal?
12:13At a dollar and a half,
12:14I would.
12:16Ah,
12:16where am I going
12:17to get enough food
12:18for all these hungry mouths?
12:20Well, now,
12:20that's what I'm telling you.
12:21Now, I have plenty
12:22of supplies
12:23on the Ponderosa.
12:24Now, I could give you
12:25enough to cook
12:26one big meal
12:27for the whole camp
12:28and on the proceeds,
12:29you could return
12:29to San Francisco.
12:31What sort of supplies?
12:33Oh, ham,
12:34fresh eggs,
12:35beef.
12:40Oh, how can I
12:41turn them down,
12:42the poor starving dears?
12:43Then it's a deal.
12:44On one condition.
12:46What?
12:46That you come in
12:47as my partner.
12:48Oh, now,
12:48that won't be necessary.
12:49Then the deal's off.
12:53Oh, all right.
12:59Oh, a lovely thing it is.
13:07Adam, you're a darling man.
13:09And to think I took you
13:10for a sniver blot.
13:11A what?
13:12A sniver blot.
13:13It was a saying himself
13:14had for the nabobs
13:15that lived on the hill
13:16and looked down their noses
13:17at us on the Barbary coast.
13:18I mean no offense.
13:20It's just your grand manner.
13:21But, Adam,
13:22you have a heart
13:23and I could kiss you for it.
13:25We'll need a name
13:26for the place,
13:26a menu with prices.
13:44First you want me
13:45to round up the cows.
13:46Then I get word
13:47you want me to empty
13:47the storehouse
13:48and bring everything here.
13:49Will you make up your mind?
13:51Well, you just get on
13:51back to the cows.
13:52This is all you'll be hauling.
14:07Just what's this all about?
14:10Miss Annie said
14:11if two wagon loads
14:12would be better than one.
14:14I know I told you
14:14to take orders from Annie.
14:16Ain't she your partner?
14:17For this one load,
14:18for one batch of meals
14:19and then back she goes
14:20to San Francisco.
14:21Now, Adam,
14:22the men are pretty excited
14:23about the eating place
14:24they got here
14:25and they ain't gonna like it much
14:26if you close it up
14:27before it even gets open.
14:28Well, I don't care
14:29whether they like it or not.
14:31One easy way to solve all this
14:33is let older brother
14:34do all the cooking himself.
14:39There's one thing
14:40I want straight around here.
14:41We're gonna raise enough money
14:42to get you back
14:43to San Francisco
14:44and that's it.
14:45No more.
14:46Is that clear?
14:46Yes, Adam.
14:47Then where in thunderation
14:48do you get off
14:49in Tellenhorst
14:49to bring a second load of goods?
14:51And where do you get off
14:52telling me how much supplies
14:53it takes to feed a hundred men?
14:55A hundred men?
14:57They're coming down
14:58from the hills
14:58a dozen at a time.
15:01Well, this is all.
15:02Understand?
15:03Absolutely all.
15:06Well, where's the bill of fare?
15:11Adam, I can't write.
15:14There you are.
15:16A snipper blot
15:17and I knew it.
15:18It ain't like
15:18I didn't want to have learning.
15:20So don't stand there
15:21and look down your nose at me.
15:22Annie,
15:23I wasn't criticizing you.
15:25You was too.
15:27You with your fine words
15:28and your grand airs.
15:30Oh, really?
15:31What difference does it make?
15:32Now, just by luck
15:33I happen to know how to write.
15:35We're partners, aren't we?
15:36Mm-hmm.
15:37All right.
15:38Now, what's the name
15:39of our grand establishment?
15:41The Square Meal.
15:43That's what they all say.
15:47You know,
15:47I could have learned to write
15:49if I'd had a chance.
15:51Of course you could.
15:53There we are.
15:53How do you like that?
15:55My, ain't it grand and scrawly.
15:58Adam,
15:58could you learn me
15:59to write it out like that?
16:01Sure, I could.
16:03Now for the bill of fare.
16:05Let's see.
16:07Ham and eggs and potatoes,
16:08a dollar.
16:10A dollar and a half.
16:12I ought to learn numbers first.
16:14Adam,
16:14could you learn me numbers?
16:15Sure, I could.
16:17A dollar and a half?
16:18Make it two dollars.
16:20A dollar and a half
16:21for Mulligan by the plate.
16:22Being in business,
16:23it's good for me
16:24to know numbers.
16:25Adam,
16:26could you really learn me
16:27to write numbers?
16:28Could I teach you?
16:29I don't know.
16:30Could you?
16:31Oh,
16:31two dollars for the stew.
16:34The supplies are all unloaded,
16:36Mr. Delmonico.
16:37Oh,
16:37himself will be so proud of me,
16:39being in business
16:39with such fine gentlemen.
16:42Adam,
16:43we are running out of wood.
16:44Will you cut some?
16:45Oh,
16:46I guess Andy doesn't know
16:46how scarce wood is around here.
16:48I brought some from the Ponderosa
16:49right here in the wagon.
16:53Start cutting it.
16:55Adam!
17:04Yeah?
17:06Look,
17:06in spite of me ways,
17:08there's a heart in me.
17:10I mean himself.
17:12But you see,
17:13he wouldn't want me grieving.
17:15Oh,
17:15Adam,
17:15you're a good,
17:16kind man.
17:18I'm doing no more
17:19than anyone else would do,
17:20Annie.
17:20But you are.
17:21Offering to learn me figures
17:22and how to write
17:23and all that
17:24and to speak
17:25like a real lady.
17:27You and me
17:28is going to make
17:29a million dollars.
17:31You and I.
17:33That's right,
17:34darling.
17:34The both of us.
17:40The Square Meal restaurant
17:42was a howling success.
17:44And by the end
17:45of the first week,
17:46Annie O'Toole
17:47had enough money
17:48to take her back
17:49to San Francisco
17:50in style.
18:00But Annie showed
18:00no inclination
18:01to leave.
18:03And I discovered
18:04that although she couldn't
18:05right-righten,
18:06as she put it,
18:08she did have
18:09quite an eye
18:09for business.
18:22There we are now.
18:23No, no, no, no, no, no,
18:24Annie.
18:25I don't want any of the money
18:25because if you keep the money,
18:26I've got to get you back
18:27to San Francisco.
18:27Now listen to me, Adam.
18:29You're going to...
18:31I tried my best
18:33to get out of that
18:33partnership with Annie,
18:35but Annie
18:36wouldn't hear of it.
18:39Pa, too,
18:40had gotten in
18:40a lot deeper
18:41than he had planned.
18:43I decided
18:44it was time
18:45for all of us
18:45to get out of here
18:46and get back
18:47to Ponderosa
18:47where we belong.
18:52Well, Shimela,
18:53you no like
18:53a half-sing cooking?
18:54You like a
18:55Missy Annie O'Toole.
18:56All right,
18:57I quit.
18:58I'll simmer down
18:59a half-sing,
19:00will you?
19:01I've got enough
19:01trouble with that
19:02woman as it is.
19:03Why don't you marry her,
19:04Adam?
19:04Save us all this trouble.
19:07You know,
19:08if she doesn't
19:08stop grubstaking
19:09every miner
19:09that comes along,
19:10she'll wind up
19:11owning half
19:11the Comstock.
19:12Hey, you know,
19:13you're making
19:13more money by accident
19:14than most men
19:14make on purpose.
19:15I tell you,
19:16I'm not her partner.
19:17No, don't tell me.
19:18Tell her.
19:20Of course,
19:20she can show a cook.
19:21You go to her house
19:22and eat.
19:23You don't like
19:23a half-sing cooking.
19:24No, wait a minute,
19:25half-sing.
19:25I didn't want a mint.
19:26That ain't what a mint.
19:35Mr. Cartwright,
19:36I can talk to you.
19:38Sweet.
19:38When do you get back?
19:39Come on in.
19:40Well,
19:41I've been back
19:41a couple of days.
19:42Sit down.
19:43Oh, thank you.
19:44Oh, am I glad to see you.
19:46We have a mutual friend
19:47in town,
19:48Annie O'Toole.
19:49This here is what
19:50I come to talk about.
19:52They tell me you
19:52settled all the complaints,
19:53Mr. Cartwright.
19:55Oh, I just tried to
19:56establish some degree
19:57of order.
19:58Well, what's wrong, sweet?
19:59Well, you see,
20:01when I left here,
20:01I staked out two claims.
20:03The one I give to Annie
20:04and the other I sell
20:05in San Francisco.
20:07What's the difficulty?
20:08Well, I don't know
20:09which one I give to Annie
20:10or which one I sell.
20:12Well, that should be
20:12simple enough.
20:13Annie has her claim
20:14and I assume
20:16the man you sold to
20:16has his.
20:18Adam,
20:19have you ever tried
20:20to reason with Annie O'Toole?
20:23Well, I guess
20:23we ought to look into it, Pa.
20:27All right.
20:28All right.
20:31Well, Miss Cartwright,
20:33it seems clear enough,
20:34doesn't it?
20:35I'm obviously
20:36the legal owner
20:37of the sweet lumber
20:38claim number two.
20:40Yes, it would seem so,
20:42Mr. Spain.
20:44And by simple process
20:45of elimination,
20:47Annie O'Toole
20:48must own
20:49sweet lumber
20:49claim number one.
20:50Yes.
20:52Then I insist
20:53you throw her
20:54off my property.
20:57Mr. Spain,
20:58we're not here
20:58to throw people out.
21:00We're here
21:01to settle disputes.
21:03Maybe we'll be
21:04talking to Annie
21:05about this.
21:18Oh, so it's you
21:20again, is it?
21:21Now, Annie,
21:22we just want to get
21:23this thing straightened out.
21:24Mr. Spain here is...
21:25Oh, Mr. Spain,
21:27is it?
21:27Ain't we grand
21:28since we moved
21:29to Knob Hill?
21:30Mr. Gregory Spain.
21:33Trapdog Gregory
21:34he was when I knew him.
21:35Let's stick to the facts.
21:37The facts.
21:38The facts you'll have.
21:40The biggest thug
21:41and Shanghai artist
21:42on the Barbary Coast
21:43he was.
21:44Mr. Trapdog Gregory.
21:46Must I listen
21:47to this witch?
21:48You be careful
21:49what you call her.
21:51And ain't you
21:52the fine one
21:53trading your claim
21:54to this scum here
21:55for a bottle of whiskey?
21:56And it wasn't a bottle,
21:58it was a keg.
21:59And, well,
22:00it was for himself.
22:02Sort of a wig,
22:03it was.
22:04Oh, a wig, was it?
22:06Why, you didn't even know
22:08himself had passed
22:09to his reward.
22:12All very interesting.
22:14Get them out of here.
22:16Now get a crew in here,
22:17tear down this restaurant.
22:18The grave has to be moved,
22:20of course.
22:20You sniverblot!
22:22You miserable
22:22little sniverblot!
22:23Put you on airs with me!
22:25I knew you
22:26when you was
22:27picking pockets
22:27of drunks
22:28and the gutters I did.
22:29and didn't himself
22:30go to work for you
22:31when you first got
22:32into the Shanghai business.
22:33Springing the trapdoors,
22:35he did.
22:35Under the bar stools,
22:37the best trapdoor
22:38springer you ever had.
22:39You said so yourself.
22:40Yeah, he was all right.
22:41And did he ever
22:42come home with a dollar
22:43in his jeans?
22:43No, he didn't.
22:44You paid him
22:45his wages
22:46and whiskey, you dare!
22:47No, no, no!
22:48Keep him away from me.
22:50Ha!
22:52He ain't even worth
22:54dentin' me pan on.
22:56Sweet,
22:56is this claim
22:57number two?
22:59Or ain't it?
23:01Well, I think so.
23:03I just don't remember.
23:04You don't remember?
23:06Well, I...
23:07I was sort of excited.
23:09You was drunk.
23:10That's what you was.
23:11Annie,
23:12get your claim notice.
23:13Now, this is claim
23:14number two
23:15and your notice
23:15says claim number one.
23:16Then I'm afraid
23:17you're on the wrong property.
23:19Oh, Adam,
23:20don't let him move
23:21himself from his
23:22resident place.
23:23Annie,
23:24we may have to.
23:25I won't do it!
23:27Please.
23:28Annie,
23:29get your claim notice.
23:45Claim number two,
23:46you say?
23:47You read it, Adam.
23:48You know how poor
23:49I am at reading.
23:56Spain,
23:57let me see
23:57your claim,
23:58please.
24:06They're both
24:06for claim number two.
24:08What?
24:14You altered yours.
24:15It's a forgery.
24:17I'll throw you
24:18out of here
24:19and himself
24:19along with you.
24:20No, no, no, no, no.
24:22Now, this can all
24:22be settled,
24:23but not in this manner.
24:25Move along,
24:26Mr. Spain.
24:28Oh, I...
24:28Oh, Annie,
24:30this will get you
24:30no place.
24:31Gregory Spain,
24:33snipper blot,
24:34thief,
24:34crook,
24:35that's what he is,
24:36accusing me.
24:38Annie,
24:38one of these
24:39claim numbers
24:39has been altered.
24:41Oh, Adam,
24:42I just don't
24:42understand business.
24:44Annie,
24:45did you change
24:47your claim number?
24:48No, how could
24:49I do it?
24:55Now, the claims
24:56are done
24:57with Roman numerals.
25:00I don't know
25:01nothing about it.
25:02I never met
25:02a Roman in me life.
25:07Annie,
25:08is that
25:08what you did?
25:10Adam,
25:11you know
25:11I can't write.
25:15Oh, all right,
25:15forget it.
25:17Pa and I
25:17will straighten it out.
25:19Yeah.
25:39Don't you worry
25:40about it,
25:41darling.
25:42For ten years,
25:43I've been waiting
25:44to get trapdog
25:45Gregory in me
25:45clutches.
25:46The way he'd
25:47done you
25:47out of your wages.
25:48And you,
25:50the best
25:50trapdoor
25:50springer
25:51he ever had.
25:52Don't you
25:53worry about it.
25:54They won't
25:54be disturbing
25:55your rest.
25:56Not unless
25:57that trapdoor
25:58Gregory pays
25:58for it,
25:59they won't.
26:05I demand
26:05my rights.
26:06All right.
26:08Now,
26:08Swede,
26:08surely there must
26:09be some way
26:10you can remember.
26:11Which stake
26:12did you claim
26:12out first?
26:13That would be
26:13claim number one,
26:14wouldn't it?
26:15I just
26:16don't remember.
26:21No,
26:21there wasn't
26:22it.
26:24I think
26:25I got it.
26:25I think
26:26I know.
26:27I left
26:28my tools
26:28on claim
26:29number two.
26:30I picked
26:31my shovel
26:32and then
26:33I got excited.
26:34You got
26:34drunk.
26:36Then wherever
26:36we find the tools,
26:38that's claim
26:38number two.
26:39And that's
26:39my claim.
26:41Can you
26:42identify the tools?
26:43Well,
26:44yeah,
26:44sure.
26:44I got
26:46the first
26:47letters of my
26:47name burned
26:48in the handles.
26:50Will that
26:51satisfy you,
26:51Annie?
26:52Oh,
26:52sure,
26:53sure,
26:53Adam.
26:54I only
26:55want to do
26:55what's fair.
26:56Well,
26:56I'd best be
26:57getting back
26:58to the restaurant.
27:00All right,
27:01all right,
27:01all right.
27:02Now,
27:02quiet for a minute.
27:04Here's what we'll do.
27:05You'll go down
27:05to the claim
27:06and take a look.
27:07And if the tools
27:08are there,
27:08that'll be
27:09claim number two.
27:10Agreed?
27:11All right.
27:18I sure hope
27:19those tools
27:20aren't on
27:20Annie's claim.
27:22Spain's a crook
27:23if I ever saw one.
27:24There's some tools
27:25over there,
27:25all right.
27:27I used to pick
27:27a shovel
27:28when I dug
27:28that grave.
27:30I was afraid
27:31of that.
27:33All right,
27:34let's get at it.
27:38No,
27:38no,
27:39no,
27:39listen,
27:39darlings,
27:39listen.
27:40You can't go
27:41looking for tools
27:41on empty stomachs.
27:43Give me one minute
27:43and I'll get
27:44the mulligan pot going.
27:47No,
27:47we didn't come here
27:48to eat.
27:49We came here
27:49to see justice.
27:50Sit down.
27:51You'll get
27:52what's coming to you.
27:53I wish you would.
27:56All right,
27:56Annie,
27:57bring on the food.
27:58We're all for you.
27:59I ain't hungry.
28:00I ain't hungry.
28:20Anna,
28:21you promise you
28:22will abide
28:22by our decision.
28:23Oh,
28:24yes,
28:24I will,
28:24Adam.
28:25But that trapdoor
28:26makes me mad,
28:27strutting around
28:28like a peacock.
28:29Just because
28:29he's moved
28:30onto Knob Hill,
28:31he thinks he's
28:32a big typhoon.
28:34Tycoon.
28:35A typhoon
28:35is a big win.
28:37That's him.
28:45Just don't understand it.
28:46I know there was
28:47a pick and shovel
28:47back there.
28:48She stole them,
28:49I tell you.
28:49That's what she did.
28:50She's trying to do me
28:51out of what's mine.
28:52Oh,
28:52quit whining,
28:53will you?
28:53Here we look,
28:54didn't we?
28:54What's the matter,
28:55Mr. Spain?
28:55You got that other claim.
28:56Why don't you go
28:57on over there
28:57and take it?
28:58I ain't through
28:59with you yet,
29:00Annie O'Toole.
29:01I'll have what's mine.
29:02Why don't you go
29:03spring a trapdoor?
29:05Come on,
29:06little Joe.
29:07Goodbye, ma'am.
29:10Annie,
29:11I don't know
29:12what your game is.
29:13There you go
29:14suspecting me.
29:15And me figuring
29:16the only man
29:17I could count on
29:18were you.
29:19Was you?
29:20Well,
29:20you wasn't.
29:29Oh, Adam,
29:31I've known
29:32trapped
29:33almost all me life.
29:34A cutthroat,
29:36thief,
29:37that's what he is.
29:38Oh,
29:38I can believe that.
29:40And that's why
29:40I hate to see
29:41you antagonize him.
29:43Now, look,
29:43Swedes are the claim
29:44as near here.
29:45Why don't we get
29:46the men
29:47and just move
29:48the restaurant?
29:49But what about
29:50himself?
29:52There'd be no need
29:53to disturb the grave.
29:54And have him know
29:56that trapdoor
29:57was tramping
29:57all over him?
29:59Oh,
30:00himself would be
30:01turning end for end
30:02he'd be that upset.
30:05Oh,
30:06not Adam.
30:08Why do you doubt me?
30:10You've seen me claim
30:11notice today,
30:12didn't you?
30:13Didn't it have
30:13the right number?
30:15And did they find
30:16the Swedes pick
30:17and axe
30:17and shove?
30:18No,
30:19I ask you,
30:20did they?
30:36There's such a shortage
30:38of wood
30:38around here.
30:42Sure there is.
31:02looks like Spain's
31:03getting himself a crew.
31:05He's been at it
31:06for the last hour.
31:07Must have talked
31:07to 10 or 12 men.
31:08Yeah,
31:09he sure knows
31:09how to pick
31:09the tough ones,
31:10too.
31:11Maybe they've decided
31:12to work claim
31:13number one.
31:14I doubt it.
31:17Why do they just
31:18trade claims?
31:19After all,
31:20one's just about
31:20like another.
31:21Besides,
31:22Annie has a father
31:23buried over there.
31:24Isn't anything
31:25sacred around here?
31:27Not where silver
31:28is concerned.
31:32It would seem
31:32that Mr. Kevin
31:33himself,
31:34too,
31:34is buried
31:35atop the richest
31:36strike ever made
31:36in the washroom.
31:37No!
31:37No!
31:38No!
31:39No!
31:41Keeping the news
31:42of the big strike
31:42quiet is about
31:43as easy as hiding
31:44an elephant
31:44under a walnut shell.
31:46Everyone wanted
31:47in on it.
31:49From the looks
31:50of it,
31:50Annie was getting
31:51her share
31:52of the bonanza,
31:52too.
32:04Go ahead
32:04with your eating,
32:05gentlemen.
32:06You won't
32:07disturb us
32:07one bit.
32:09Now, look,
32:10Spain,
32:10if you think
32:11you can run
32:11Annie off
32:12her claim...
32:12Her claim,
32:13Mr. Cartwright.
32:17Sweet.
32:21Will you show
32:22me just where
32:22you dug your
32:23shaft when you
32:24made your
32:24required improvements?
32:28Improvements?
32:31Improvements?
32:32I guess I didn't
32:34make none.
32:35I just knocked
32:36a hunk of
32:36assay rock
32:36off the ledge.
32:38That's right,
32:39Sweet.
32:39You didn't
32:40make any
32:41improvements.
32:43And according
32:44to Miner's Law
32:45on which you
32:45Cartwrights
32:46put such
32:46great stock,
32:48if the
32:49improvements
32:49are not made
32:50within ten days,
32:51the claim
32:51is considered
32:52abandoned.
32:54And also,
32:56according to
32:57that same
32:57Miner's Law,
32:59it would be
33:00perfectly legal
33:01for me to shoot
33:01any man
33:02who tried
33:02to jump
33:03my claim.
33:08Get to work,
33:09gentlemen.
33:15Adam,
33:15can't you
33:16stop them?
33:16They're
33:17busting up the place.
33:29an experimental
33:30hold,
33:31gentlemen.
33:32There's only a
33:32very small charge
33:33of powder,
33:34but perhaps
33:35you should
33:35stand back.
33:51give them
33:52the heave-ho!
33:54Give him
33:54the heave-ho!
33:57Give him
33:57the heave-ho!
34:13THE END
34:35It's only fool's luck that someone wasn't killed
34:38And unless this thing is settled, someone will be
34:41It's already settled
34:42That's my claim and she's on it and I mean to throw her off
34:45Quiet, quiet all of you, all of you
34:51Now we had some semblance of law and order started here
34:55Let's don't lose it
34:56Now, the way I see it
34:58The only way to settle this
35:01Is to hold a minor's court
35:04Hear all the evidence
35:07Everyone in camp acts as jury
35:11I'll give you his evidence
35:13Trapdog Gregory is a pickpocket
35:15What made good and that's all he is
35:17So, Tool...
35:18I wouldn't take his word for the time of day
35:20Annie, will you please be quiet
35:23Now, Pa, I think the minor's court's the right thing to do
35:26You have no right to think
35:30But, Ma, it's me, Adam
35:34As far as I'm concerned, young man
35:36You are the partner of the dependent
35:39And if you say one more word to me before the trial
35:42I'll fine you for trying to influence the referee
35:53Adam, we have enough money
35:55Let's buy us another judge
35:57Annie
35:57I was only trying to help
35:59Will you stop trying to help before you land the both of us in jail?
36:02Mr. Spain, how about you?
36:03Do you agree to the minor's court?
36:08Plaintiff agrees
36:10Miss O'Toole?
36:11I think you're a snivel
36:15Miss O'Toole agrees
36:17All right
36:19Now you have a half hour to prepare your cases
36:25Annie, I may as well tell you right out
36:28I don't think you have any legal right to this claim
36:31Well, Adam
36:32I wasn't thinking of legal rights
36:34I was just trying to think about human rights
36:38You know, I'm human, same as anybody else
36:40Of course you are, Annie
36:41Oh, I don't mean to complain, Adam
36:43But all these years I've worked hard
36:46Dreaming of one thing
36:48That someday I'd get to live like a lady
36:50Annie
36:51Why didn't you get married?
36:53Oh, I wanted to
36:54But nobody ever asked me
36:58Adam
37:00You won't walk out on me now, will you?
37:02Don't you worry
37:03I'm not going to walk out on you
37:06Because I wouldn't know what to say at the trial
37:08Your pa, as good a man as he is
37:11Terrifies me with his ways
37:13I'll speak for you
37:14You will
37:15You, darling, you
37:19Well, I got word you wanted to see me
37:22Is there any charge for this here show?
37:24Well, sweet, I just wanted to talk to you
37:26Yeah, sure
37:27As soon as you get through lollygagging and kissing around, yeah?
37:29Now, sweet, listen
37:30Just a minute, sweet Lundberg
37:32Don't you get snibberblot with me
37:34Me snibberblot?
37:36Well, how about you?
37:37You and your talk about marriage all the time
37:39In the fine house
37:40And you're going to make a fine gentleman out of me
37:42Sweet, listen
37:42And a sorry task it would be
37:44Well, don't you bother
37:45You found a fine gentleman
37:46A real fine one
37:48Indeed, I did find a fine one
37:50Well, then why don't you marry him?
37:52That's what you wanted
37:53Go ahead, see if I care
37:54Sweet, listen
37:57Sweet
38:00Now, sweet, listen
38:03I ought to punch you right in the nose
38:12Things look bad for Annie, Adam
38:14We've been keeping an eye on Spain
38:16He's been buying liquor
38:17And bribing every drunk in town
38:19There's more of those
38:20Than there are of the others
38:21Looks like you got yourself
38:22A paid-off jury, older brother
38:27Court will come to order
38:29Take off your hats
38:37Mr. Gregory Spain
38:46Your hat
38:56My case is simple
38:57And I throw myself entirely
38:59On the mercy of these honest men
39:03And the Honorable Judge
39:08I make no claims
39:09I ask only that the law of abandonment
39:13Be upheld
39:13The assessment work
39:15Ain't been done
39:16On the claim in question
39:17That's right
39:18That's all I can say
39:25Your hat
39:38Miss Annie O'Toole
39:54Miss O'Toole
39:56Adam
39:58I need you
39:59Miss O'Toole
40:02Please
40:08As one of the partners
40:09Of Cartwright and O'Toole
40:11I'll present our case
40:31Now the whole point here seems to be
40:33That no assessment work was done
40:36Well, I submit it was
40:39May I call a witness
40:40Your Honor
40:44Thank you
40:46Horse Cartwright
41:11Now Horse
41:12Did you
41:13Or did you not
41:14Dig an exploration shaft
41:17On the disputed claim
41:18The very first day
41:20Miss O'Toole came to Virginia City
41:26Yeah
41:28Yeah, I dug a hole
41:29It's a
41:29Just answer the question
41:31Yes, sir
41:33I dug a hole
41:34Six foot deep
41:35Six feet long
41:36And three foot wide
41:38Gentlemen
41:40That satisfies the requirements
41:43And there's not a thing
41:44In Miner's Law
41:45That says you can't bury a body
41:47In an exploration shaft
41:48And then fill it back up again
41:50Gentlemen, I ask that you rule
41:51In favor of Miss Annie O'Toole
41:53The assessment work was done
41:55Yeah
41:55Well, that's a court
41:59Oh, it's adjourned
42:05You're a thief and a crook
42:06It takes one to recognize one
42:09I can't fight the whole camp
42:10I know I'm buying my own claim
42:12But I'll give you $5,000 in cash
42:14Trap door
42:15You think I'd disturb himself
42:17From his resting place for money
42:18I wouldn't dream of it
42:20At least not for that amount
42:22You will excuse us
42:24Think of him sleeping there
42:42Right on top of a million dollars
42:44And not making a move
42:45To do anything about it
42:46And him who never before
42:48Had a dime in his jeans
42:50Annie
42:50If you'll only sell it to me
42:52I'll not disturb himself
42:55$7,500
42:57$10,000 in cash
42:59Trap door
43:00You should never have done himself
43:02Out of his rightful wages
43:03I have a hunch
43:04He'll never listen to you
43:06Until the price is twice the amount
43:08Why don't you go out
43:10And get a gun
43:10And rob stagecoaches
43:11I seem to be doing all right
43:13Without it
43:16That's why I said to this fellow
43:17You're gonna die
43:24Hey, Hop Singh
43:25Is this what you do
43:27In your day off?
43:28Missy Annie
43:29Teach Hop Singh
43:29Make a very fine
43:31Tiny dish
43:32Hong Kong
43:32Mulligan
43:34By and by
43:35You know
43:35I've become a wrestler
43:36No more
43:40Oh, you're doing fine
43:42Annie
43:45$25,000
43:47I'll speak to himself
43:49About it
43:54I finally convinced her
43:56I no longer wanted
43:57To be a partner
43:57In the restaurant
43:59But I kept getting indications
44:00That I was still involved
44:04Hey
44:05Hey
44:06Why didn't you tell us, Adam?
44:08You and Annie
44:08Ain't it wonderful?
44:09What are you talking about?
44:10Hey, can you imagine, Paul?
44:11Adam and Annie getting married
44:12Adam and Annie?
44:13Yeah
44:14Where's that Swede?
44:15Oh, he went prospecting
44:16Prospecting where?
44:17I don't know
44:18I think he said African
44:19Africa?
44:20How far has this thing gone?
44:21It hasn't gone anywhere
44:23But it's about to
44:25Adam
44:26Don't you hurt Annie's feelings?
44:28It wasn't her feelings
44:29I was thinking about hurting
44:33Annie, what's this about a wedding?
44:41How can there be a wedding
44:43When I don't even know
44:44Where the Swede went?
44:46Oh, the Swede
44:47Adam
44:48He's still mad at me
44:50For what I've done
44:50Said he never wanted
44:52To see me again
44:52And me loving him
44:54All these years
44:55Selling his claim for him
44:56And getting all this money
44:58For him too
44:59Just you wait and see
45:03There
45:05Honey, where did you get all this?
45:07Trapped door Gregory
45:07I sold out to him
45:09For this
45:10And the best funeral
45:11For himself
45:11That money can buy
45:13There must be
45:15Twenty thousand dollars here
45:17Twenty-five
45:18This is the first down payment
45:19You see
45:20I get five percent
45:22Of the gross take
45:22Of the mine
45:23For the rest of me
45:24Natural life
45:26I tried hard to learn
45:27Business from you, Adam
45:28I hope I done good
45:31Five percent of the gross
45:32Annie, you've done real good
45:35I done it for Swede
45:36You did it
45:37That I did
45:39But it's no more than fair
45:40It's what he should have had
45:41In the first place
45:43Oh, Adam
45:45I was going to move himself
45:47Onto the other claim
45:48The Swede in me
45:49Was going to get married
45:51I was going to build
45:52A fine mansion
45:53And live like a real lady
45:55And now the Swede
45:56Has gone off
45:57And left me
45:59Oh, don't you worry, Annie
46:02I'll take care of everything
46:03For old time's sake
46:05Do you really think you could?
46:07Mm-hmm
46:08Oh, you're a darling man
46:19It took a bit of doing
46:20But we did it
46:21And it was quite a day
46:24Kevin himself, O'Toole
46:26Had a funeral
46:27The Comstock would remember
46:28For a long time to come
46:45And to make it stick
46:47In everyone's mind
46:48It was the day
46:49Virginia City
46:49Got its first fire engine
46:52But what really made it
46:54Such a grand day
46:55Was the fact that
46:56Trapdoor Gregory Spain
46:58Paid for every bit of it
47:06Would you turn him around
47:07So he can see the new saloons
47:10Then he'll know
47:11He's not in a heathen land
47:43Balenci!
47:46No, not again
47:48Gregory Spain's Lundberg No. 1
47:50Became a famous mine
47:52But it wasn't one-tenth as rich
47:54As the one on the Swede's other claim
47:55Which turned into one of the most
47:57Fabulous strikes
47:58Of the whole Comstock load
48:01The Swede?
48:03No, he hadn't gone to Africa at all
48:05It meant roisting every saloon
48:07On the Barbary coast
48:08But we finally found him
48:10And even dried him out
48:15And after paying their respects
48:17To himself
48:17And his ever-loving monument
48:20The Lucky Stiff Mine
48:22Mr. and Mrs. Lundberg
48:24Embarked on a trip to Europe
48:26To soak up culture
48:27And achieve Annie's dream
48:29Of really becoming a lady
48:32And when they came back
48:34Annie and the Swede
48:35Built themselves a great mansion
48:37On the road between
48:39Virginia City
48:40And Reno
48:42And I wouldn't be surprised
48:43If that mansion
48:44Would still be there
48:45A hundred years from today
48:49I optimized things as
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