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Famous 19th-century actress Adah Isaacs Menken (played by Ruth Roman) arrives in Virginia City. Ben Cartwright considers marrying her, but his sons (Adam, Hoss, and Joe) are skeptical of her intentions and interfere, leading to conflict within the family.
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00:25God, don't shoot!
00:27I'm not on!
00:29I'm not on!
00:36Don't shoot, I'm not on!
00:38Don't shoot a defenseless man!
00:40Fix him a rope, boss.
00:42Right.
00:43What?
00:44What are you...
00:45Oh, you're not going to hang me.
00:48Just a little bit, man.
00:50Why?
00:51What have I done?
00:52Well, you completely ignored a no trespassing sign, mister.
00:55This is the Ponderosa.
00:56You think he was spotting cattle for rustlers at him?
00:59No.
00:59No, that's not true.
01:01My name is Derwood Watkins.
01:03I am the agent for Miss Ada Isaacs Menken's Company of Players.
01:06We open tonight in Virginia City.
01:09Tickets.
01:10Look, look.
01:12Here.
01:12Tickets.
01:13The best in the house.
01:15Please be my guest.
01:18Ain't it funny how a man will lie right up till the time you stretch his neck?
01:23No, no, no.
01:25I don't know, Hoss.
01:26You think that limb's strong enough to hold him?
01:29Yeah, I think so.
01:30He looks to me like he's most now old blubber, ain't he?
01:32Yeah, I think he'll do all right.
01:33As long as you don't flop around too much.
01:34This is barbaric.
01:36I demand a trial.
02:01Well, I bet he remembers the next time he sees a no trespass sign.
02:03Hey, look at this.
02:07Hey.
02:08Now, Hoss, you get rid of that thing before Pa sees it.
02:12Ain't that something?
02:15Now, you heard what I said, Hoss.
02:18What are you doing?
02:19Oh, well, nothing.
02:20I, uh, I'm just getting this rope, Adam.
02:22It's an awful good rope.
02:30All right, boys, let's go.
02:31We got work waiting.
02:43We got work waiting.
03:48What took you so long?
03:50Adam's door was open.
03:51Yeah, you didn't have to take half the night.
03:52Come on.
03:53You're lucky.
03:53You live all the way down to the other end of the house.
03:55Sometimes Adam can be worse than Paul.
03:57Hey, Paul didn't see you, did he?
03:58No, he didn't even hold me.
03:59Here, help me into this ding blaster thing.
04:01All right.
04:04Now come, you ain't got no button on this shirt.
04:06No, I just ain't got one, that's all.
04:10Little Joe, if Paul catches us at a show like this, he'll skin us alive.
04:15You don't ring anybody who recognizes us, do you?
04:17Well, I got your brand new suit on, don't you?
04:20Yeah.
04:21Hey, you got your hair slicked down real nice.
04:24Yeah.
04:25Got your boots polished?
04:26Yep.
04:26Who's going to recognize you?
04:28Yeah.
04:29Hey.
04:45Anybody else here want to bet my friend can't bend his horseshoe?
04:47Let me try.
04:47You try, buddy, go on.
04:50Who else wants to drive?
04:52Go ahead, friend.
04:56Hey, how about a little wager, huh?
04:57I've got it.
04:58All right, you try, buddy.
04:59Want to try it?
05:00Go ahead.
05:04How about you, friend?
05:06Want to give it a try?
05:08Okay.
05:08Come on, Slade.
05:10Here, show them how it's done.
05:12Come on.
05:13You just stay right there, honey.
05:17I told you he could do it.
05:20Come on, Slade.
05:23How about that, friend, huh?
05:25Do you know who I am?
05:26No, sir.
05:27Don't think that I do.
05:28I'm John C. Regan.
05:31That's right.
05:32Former heavyweight champion of the world.
05:34Have a drink on the house and be on your way, Regan.
05:39I tell you what, I'll lick the best man in the house for all the liquor I can drink.
05:48Well?
05:49Outside, Regan.
05:53You wouldn't shoot an an-armed man.
05:55John C. Regan, is it?
05:58Former champion.
06:01Well, you never was champion, Regan.
06:04Your manager had to stop the fight to keep you from getting killed.
06:08What are you talking about?
06:10Nobody ever stopped one of my fights.
06:11Well, you've been flattened by every tramp pug in the business.
06:15Well, I'd lick you myself if I was still in one piece.
06:20You do your fight with your mouths, mister.
06:23You got a friend that can do it with his fists?
06:25I'm buying, Mr. Regan, all he can drink.
06:29Just as soon as my partner here gets finished with him.
06:35Sledge, this fellow says you're a dumb mud walloper.
06:38You ain't got no more sense than a suck-egg mule.
06:40Now, is that right?
06:42Honey, he says you're too stupid to even know how to fight.
06:45Now, is that right?
06:48Honey, I'll be right back.
06:51Get back, girl.
06:53Why don't you sit down, Sledge?
06:54Leave him alone.
06:55Why don't you take a little water?
06:59Sledge, don't know no rules, Regan.
07:04Get him, Sledge.
07:23Give it to him.
07:39Hey, it's like a good ruckus in here.
07:41Hey, listen, you want to go to the show or do you want to fight?
07:45Well, I hate to miss a good fight, but I hate to miss that show, too.
07:48Well, then, come on.
07:55Stop it.
07:56Stop it, Regan.
07:58Sledge.
07:59Sledge, are you all right?
08:03You didn't have to go that far, Regan.
08:08Sledge.
08:10Sledge, are you all right?
08:12Somebody get a doctor.
08:13Quick.
08:24I'll bet this is going to be good.
08:28You sure you got them tickets?
08:29Sure, I got them right here, don't worry.
08:35Adam.
08:36What are you doing here, Adam?
08:38I'm waiting for you two.
08:40Adam.
08:41Adam, we can explain everything.
08:43Yeah, well, you're going to have a lot of explaining to do if the best seats are gone.
08:46Come on, let's go inside.
08:49Yeah, well, let's go.
08:50Let's go.
08:54Let's go.
09:09Let's go.
09:11Dear Olinska.
09:13Ha!
09:15Who goes there?
09:23All is silent.
09:27All is silent!
09:31You don't see her.
09:42Olinska, dear Olinska.
09:44Ere yet the envious daylight robs my soul of this sweet privilege of drinking from thine
09:50eyes, deep drops of the bright liquid fire, which, as from the twin stars of love, stream
09:56through my enraptured heart.
09:58Appear, dear life!
10:08Appear, dear life!
10:10Appear!
10:16Casimir, thou here!
10:18Oh, hence, hence, wert thou discovered.
10:21Think for how fearfully my father's wrath would fall on the clandestine suitor to his child.
10:26What can Casimir dread, ennobled and emboldened by thy love?
10:34A thousand tyrant fathers I would brave, from all their wrath, my love at Olinska, save
10:40or earn an early but an honoured grave.
10:44You tell him, Casimir.
10:45Bring on her old man.
10:47I'll show you.
10:52But see, the dawn advances.
10:55The moon has sunk beyond the hoary hill.
10:58The glimmering lights are one by one extinguished.
11:01And the hum of fizzy menial speaks approaching day.
11:05Away, my love, away!
11:12She don't look nothing like this girl here on the poster.
11:15Yeah, well, let's see.
11:16This is kind of mixed up, see.
11:17The girl that's on this poster's playing a man in the show.
11:21How come she wants to do that?
11:22Well, I don't know.
11:23It's just the way they do it.
11:30It is my will obeyed, and the wild horse secured.
11:35All is as my lord commanded.
11:37Good.
11:38Bring forth the miscreant.
11:47I knew it.
11:49I knew he was going to catch up with him.
11:51Well, her.
11:52Oh, shut up.
11:54Oh, my father, pardon for him.
11:57You unworthy girl.
11:59All of the powers of this earth were ineffectual to assuage my vengeance.
12:07Bring forth the untamed steed.
12:12What?
12:13Hey, what are they going to do to her, little Joe?
12:15What are they going to do?
12:16I don't know.
12:17Now bind the traitor to him, and that scorching sun, wintry blast, devouring hunger, and parching thirst,
12:27rend the traitor.
12:32Dear his father, my mercy, save him.
12:35Plead not for me, dear Olenska.
12:37Perish as I might.
12:38It is sufficient glory that I die for thee.
12:49Now bind the traitor to him.
12:52Hey.
12:53He sure was a girl, wasn't he?
12:55He sure was.
13:01Hey, move!
13:04No, no, no, no!
13:07No!
13:07Blunt for the greater force!
13:09Enough destroy your state!
13:11Strike terror through our colon!
13:14No!
13:17No!
13:18No!
13:19No!
13:20No!
13:20No!
13:20No!
13:22No!
13:22No!
13:26Use a little bear, Charlie.
13:27Coming right at me.
13:28Boy, I sure thought she was a corner when they put her on that horse.
13:31Well, I could have told you not to worry.
13:32They never kill off the hero.
13:33Well, I'll tell you this.
13:34It'd be a big mistake to kill off anything like that, I guess.
13:37Yeah, I'm with you, Olsen.
13:40Hey, little Joe.
13:41Hmm?
13:44Listen.
13:46Was she or wasn't she?
13:48Was she or wasn't she what?
13:49You know.
13:50No, I don't know.
13:51Ask Adam.
13:53Adam, was she or wasn't she?
13:56Was she or wasn't she what?
13:59Naked.
14:02Well, now, you, uh, you've got eyes.
14:04You saw her.
14:07Yeah, but exactly what did we see, really?
14:12She was wearing tights.
14:13Besides, what difference does it make?
14:15What difference does it make?
14:19Ladies and gentlemen, the highlight of the evening.
14:23One of you lucky gentlemen will take home the garter worn by Miss Ada Isaacs-Mankin.
14:42It's Paul.
14:45Here you are, boys.
14:48And may the best man win.
15:12What's the matter, ain't it?
15:14Nothing, Ben.
15:15Just get me out of here.
15:20Well, I'm sorry, boys.
15:22I'll be other times.
15:23How about a beer, please?
15:24Coming right up.
15:24I hope the next time you...
15:53Right away.
16:06What happened down there, Raida?
16:08Nothing, Ben.
16:12Ben, don't look so severe.
16:14Suddenly I felt...
16:15I'm tired, that's all.
16:17You're sure?
16:18Positive.
16:19You don't mind if an old friend...
16:21worries about you, then...
16:23Please don't ever stop.
16:45Ben, pheasant, lobster...
16:50My favorite champagne.
16:52You remember it?
16:54I had it shipped in from a Boston importer...
16:56when I heard you were coming.
16:58It isn't often that I have a chance...
17:00to entertain such a beautiful lady.
17:07You're lonely, Ben.
17:09Oh, I have the Ponderosa.
17:12And my boys.
17:14They keep me pretty well occupied.
17:17And every once in a while...
17:19a dear friend passes through.
17:25To...
17:26The incomparable Ada Menken.
17:29The incomparable Ada Menken.
17:29More beautiful than I ever remembered.
17:33Happiness.
17:42All right.
17:43Out with it.
17:44What's wrong?
17:48It has something to do with Regan, doesn't it?
17:52I'm a good listener, Ada.
17:56Ben, you know most of the story.
17:59Well, when Regan returned from England...
18:00he was broke and finished as a fighter.
18:03Even his manager deserted him.
18:06Somehow he found me in St. Louis.
18:07I gave him money.
18:10All I had and what I could borrow.
18:13He promised he'd never bother me again.
18:16You saw him...
18:17tonight in the saloon, didn't you?
18:20Yes.
18:22He's worthless, Ada.
18:25He's never drawn a sober breath.
18:27Please, Ben.
18:28I'm sorry, Ada, but...
18:30when I think of the way...
18:31the man has treated you...
18:32the way he's beaten you...
18:33I don't want to talk about it.
18:39What are you going to do?
18:42See Mr. Regan out of town...
18:44make sure he never bothers you again.
18:45No, Ben.
18:46Don't interfere.
18:47I can handle him.
18:50Can you?
18:51Please, keep out of this, Ben.
18:54I won't make any promises, Ada.
18:58I'm sorry.
18:59We'll celebrate our reunion some other time.
19:02Good night.
19:03Ben.
19:05I'm sorry.
19:06I know how you must have looked forward to this evening.
19:10Forgive me.
19:11There's nothing to forgive.
19:18Good night.
19:20Good night, Ben.
19:30How did you get in here?
19:33Good night.
19:49That Rube that just left,
19:50could he make you feel like that?
19:52Get out of here before I call the manager.
19:57Now, that'd only lead to trouble.
19:59You don't want any more trouble, do you, Ada?
20:04Who is he?
20:05Ben Cartwright, an old friend.
20:12It won't work again, John.
20:14Ben's an old friend, nothing more.
20:17Well, seeing you two at the door, I got a different impression.
20:20If you have any idea of blackmailing Ben or getting any more money out of me, forget it.
20:25Ben would kill you first.
20:27And I'm broke, John.
20:29That's why I revived the Mazeppa.
20:31Well, I understand you're on top, Ada.
20:33Oh, you should never have retired from the stage and denied your public.
20:38Oh, I saw the way those miners were looking at you tonight.
20:41You filth.
20:45Now, you look here, Ada.
20:47I won't be bought off this time.
20:50You're never going to get rid of me again.
20:52Get out of here.
20:55Well, when you change your mind, I won't be far away.
21:18Brought your horse over from the livery stable, just like you asked, Mr. Cartwright.
21:22Oh, thank you, Billy.
21:24Well, take him back to the stable, let him down for the night.
21:27I've decided to stay on him, Virginia City.
21:39Watch it, Ada.
21:47Adam, I've been thinking about Paul and that woman.
21:49Well, what about Paul and that woman?
21:52I don't like it none.
21:54Paul ain't got no experience with them actresses.
21:56At least, why is none he ever talked about?
21:59Well, I guess he can handle it.
22:03I thought I told you to bring Paul along.
22:05Paul didn't come home last night.
22:07Just now, Hop Singh sent his clothes into town.
22:09What for?
22:10He's moved into the International House.
22:12What, that woman's stand?
22:13Yeah, and that ain't all.
22:14Last night they had champagne in her rooms.
22:16And tonight, Hop Singh says Pa's having her over to the house for supper.
22:20What did I tell you, Adam?
22:22What do you make of it, Adam?
22:25Well, she sure works fast.
22:28Guess we'd better have a little talk with our Pa.
22:37Oh, it's a man's size spread, the Ponderosa.
22:40Over a thousand square miles of the finest timber and grazing land west of Salt Lake.
22:44At last count, we had more than 10,000 head of cattle grazing in the lowlands.
22:49It's an empire, Ben.
22:50And do you think it all belongs to you?
22:53Well, and the boys.
22:57They're very fine boys.
22:59You should be very proud.
23:01Oh, they'll do.
23:04I envy you card rides.
23:07It must be wonderful living so close to the land.
23:09Well, we have our problems.
23:12Protecting what's ours from outsiders.
23:16You do that very well, I imagine.
23:18Yes, ma'am.
23:27It's a delicious supper, Hop Singh.
23:29Really superb.
23:30Oh, you lady got sense.
23:32Hop Singh or time break back cook fancy grub nobody appreciate.
23:37You come supper all the time.
23:39Well, that makes it official, Ada.
23:41You're part of the family now.
23:43Oh, I'd better get you to the theater.
23:45Hop Singh, bring the carriage around to the front, please.
23:47No, eat dessert.
23:48Hop Singh, fix special.
23:49Well, Miss Minkin has a performance to give tonight.
23:51Now, come on, get the carriage around.
23:52Rush, rush.
23:53Oh, time rush around.
23:54Lickety spit.
23:56He's delightful.
23:57He needs a woman's discipline.
23:59We all do, eh, boys?
24:04Good night, Adam.
24:06Little Joe, horse.
24:09We'll be seeing each other again soon, I hope.
24:11Goodbye, Miss Minkin.
24:17Hey, Paul.
24:19Yes?
24:23Oh, Paul, we...
24:26We want to talk to you, Paul.
24:28Private-like.
24:30Got to keep a no-pop.
24:33I'll wait for you in the carriage bin.
24:46Well, what is it?
24:53Out with it.
24:55Paul, promise you ain't gonna get mad now.
24:59Well, what's on your mind?
25:01Speak up.
25:02Well, it's, uh...
25:05Well, it's about what's been happening to you, Paul.
25:07Yeah, Paul, we know you're still a young man, and...
25:09Well, you must get lonely sometimes, and...
25:11Well, I know you're sick and tired of having us around, but...
25:15Well, we...
25:16You know what your brothers are trying to say, Oz?
25:19Now, Paul, you promise not to get mad.
25:23I speak out plain.
25:30Well, Paul...
25:32She's an actress.
25:37I see.
25:38So that's what's been troubling you three all evening.
25:41You don't think Miss Minkin is good enough for your father?
25:47Well, let me tell you something.
25:49Ada Minkin is all the woman that a man could want.
25:52And I'm very proud to be seen in her company.
25:55Yeah, but, Pa, she's...
25:56I'm very proud to say it, Adam.
25:59Now, don't you boys think that I'm...
26:01Old enough to take care of myself?
26:05Paul, we...
26:06We's just doing it for your own good.
26:08Well, thank you.
26:10Thank you very much.
26:11And now, with your permission...
26:13I'll accompany Miss Minkin back to town.
26:53Miss Minkin back to town.
26:55Not to go in, but he went right in anyway.
26:57Find Ben Codright.
26:58Tell him not to wait.
26:59But you'll escort me back to the hotel.
27:01But, Miss Ada, I...
27:01Never mind.
27:02Just find him and tell him.
27:03Yes, ma'am.
27:04Adam, I didn't know you were coming to tonight's performance.
27:08I didn't come to see the performance.
27:11I think you know why I'm here.
27:13Yes, I think I do.
27:16Don't you think your father is a wise enough man to take care of himself?
27:21Look, Ada, you have your way of life.
27:23We have ours.
27:24Do you also speak for your brothers?
27:26In this case, yes.
27:30Tell me, Adam.
27:32When did you first decide I was a bad woman?
27:34When you saw me with your father, or...
27:37Or when you saw me on the stage?
27:39What are you afraid of, Adam?
27:41What makes you think I'm afraid?
27:45You came here to say something to me.
27:47Why don't you say it?
27:50I don't think words are necessary.
27:54You know what I mean.
28:05Well, now at least we understand each other.
28:14Adam, what happened?
28:15What'd you say?
28:17None of your business.
28:19Hey, what's eating him?
28:21Well, I guess older brother didn't make out so well.
28:25What are we gonna do, little Joe?
28:26We gotta help Paul.
28:29Yeah, well, you know, it takes a red-blooded man to persuade a woman.
28:32Yeah, but where are we gonna get one?
28:36Hey, where are you going?
28:38To get a shave and some clean clothes.
28:40This is no way to meet a lady.
28:42See you, host.
28:51Who is it?
28:53Room service.
28:54Well, you must be mistaken.
28:55I didn't order anything.
28:57Compliments of Mr. Cartwright.
29:00How sweet of Mr. Cartwright.
29:06To a lovely lady clothed in the light of her own beauty.
29:10Joe Cartwright.
29:12Joe Cartwright?
29:14That's your service, Miss Menken.
29:16Little Joe.
29:17Just Joe, ma'am.
29:20You Cartwrights have a flair for the unexpected.
29:23I think when you get to know this Cartwright a little bit better, ma'am, you won't be surprised at
29:26anything.
29:28Oh.
29:29Yeah, now, you take, uh, you take my brother, Adam.
29:33Now, he's a dependable one.
29:34He's a warrior.
29:36And then there's horse.
29:37My horse is just plain horse.
29:41And what about your father?
29:42A pa?
29:43A pa never changes.
29:45He's, he's the same year in and year out.
29:49You've got everyone pretty much figured out, haven't you?
29:57I guess pa's had his day, but, of course, that was when he was much younger.
30:03And now you think he should be retired into the background.
30:07Is that it?
30:09We don't have to talk about him, do we?
30:12No, we don't.
30:14Why don't you pour the champagne?
30:18Why don't you pour the champagne?
30:21Yes, ma'am.
30:59You're a very handsome man, Joe.
31:02Oh, I don't know.
31:04Do you have many girls?
31:06Yeah, quite a few.
31:10Are they wild about you?
31:13Yeah, some of them are.
31:15They're fools.
31:17Letting you out of their sight.
31:19Here, let me fill you a glass.
31:22Well, there's plenty of time.
31:24We've got the whole evening ahead of us.
31:27Hey, how would you like me to get you something to eat?
31:29At a time like this.
31:32You're wonderful, Joe.
31:35You make a woman feel at ease.
31:38Yet wanted.
31:41I'm glad you came.
31:44Hey, boy, you know, it's really...
31:46It's getting hot in here now.
31:47It's perfect.
31:48Miss, Miss, Miss Megan.
31:49Ada.
31:50Ada.
31:51Ada, look, I don't want you to get the wrong idea about why I came here.
31:54Oh, I haven't got the wrong idea.
31:57I know exactly why you're here.
32:01And I won't disappoint you.
32:03You get everything you deserve.
32:08Hey, what was that for?
32:09Teach you a lesson you obviously needed.
32:11And if it's making, I can explain.
32:13I ought to have you horsewhip coming in here with the ideas you had.
32:17Listen, I only did it for Paul to show him what kind of...
32:20What kind of a woman I am?
32:21Yes, ma'am.
32:22I mean, no, ma'am.
32:24Let me tell you, little Joe.
32:26Your father moved into this hotel to protect me from someone out of my past.
32:30And for no other reason.
32:35I'm sorry, ma'am.
32:36I didn't know that.
32:38This is something between my pa and you.
32:40And I'm sorry I made a fool out of myself.
32:47Your cot rights are quite a family.
32:51Is that pa?
32:52He usually checks to see if I'm all right.
32:53You better go.
32:55Through here.
32:58What about the champagne, the flowers?
33:00Don't worry.
33:01I won't tell him you were here.
33:02No, I wasn't thinking about myself.
33:04You're sweet.
33:07Hurry.
33:08Come on, babe.
33:12Just a minute, Ben.
33:20All right, where is he?
33:25Well, where'd the Cartwright kid go?
33:26I know he's here.
33:27You're drunk.
33:31Well, you always did know, didn't you, Ada?
33:34Look at yourself.
33:35Brawling in saloons in the back alleys.
33:37All right, don't change the subject.
33:39Where did the kid go?
33:40He isn't here.
33:41Why do you do it, John?
33:42And why do you act this way?
33:44You could still be champion of the world if you wanted to be.
33:48That's all in the past, so forget it.
33:50I can't forget it.
33:52I remember what you were like,
33:54how things used to be between us.
33:57Now I have to listen to them say you're all washed up.
34:00I can still handle myself.
34:03Now, you ought to see the respect in their faces when I finish beating up one of these rubes.
34:09You're still the big man, aren't you?
34:13Well, I'm all the man you'll ever have.
34:15Now, where did the kid go?
34:17John, I don't have much left.
34:18A few jewels.
34:19I'll give them to you if you promise you'll leave town without causing any trouble.
34:34Take them.
34:36Take them.
34:57Must make you feel like a queen, Ada.
35:00Has Ben Cartwright proposed to you yet?
35:02He hasn't any intentions of marrying me.
35:04That's not quite true, Ada.
35:14Make a move, Regan.
35:17So I can kill you.
35:18Well, I'm not armed, Cartwright.
35:20Don't interfere, Ben.
35:21I'm asking you to be my wife, Ada.
35:23That gives me every right to interfere.
35:26Now, Regan, you be on that morning stage to Salt Lake.
35:30Or get yourself a gun.
35:32Now, get out.
35:33I will settle this, Cartwright.
35:35My way.
35:38Well, you won't shoot an armed man.
35:40I'll give you the same chance you gave that minor.
35:44If it was a fair fight, ask his partner.
35:46Ask anybody in the bar.
35:47Get out.
35:50Move.
35:53I hope you know what you're doing, Cartwright.
36:04Little Joe, how'd you make it?
36:06Now, don't say anything else about Ada Mankin.
36:08But, Joe, I ain't even open my mouth.
36:11Yeah, well, just don't.
36:13Go on, finish your beer.
36:14I'll see you outside.
36:36Cartwright?
36:38Yeah, that's right.
36:40My name is Regan.
36:41John C. Regan.
36:43Remember that when your pa asks.
36:46Sure.
37:15Howdy.
37:18Now, you're one of those Cartwrights, aren't you?
37:20Yes, sir.
37:21Most people just call me horse.
37:22I don't think I've had the pleasure.
37:26I drink for the house on John C. Regan.
37:28Yes, sir.
37:31Come on.
37:32Over here.
37:34Cerveza.
37:46Well, I've known you a long time, Ada.
37:49You know, I've...
37:50I've thought of you often.
37:53Read about you.
37:54Wondered what had happened to you.
37:57And seeing you here...
37:59Ben, you're a lonely man.
38:01Maybe you're mistaking loneliness for love.
38:05What about you?
38:06Now, how long will you be content to go on running away from yourself, from Regan?
38:12What do you think your sons would say if you married the notorious Ada Menken?
38:15My sons?
38:17What do my sons have to do with it?
38:19You're a very close family, Ben.
38:21I wouldn't want to change that.
38:24Well, my boys need a woman around the house as much as I do.
38:27Boys?
38:28They're not boys, Ben.
38:30They're grown men.
38:31Maybe little Joe or Haas would accept me, but...
38:34But Adam...
38:35Well, Adam is hard-headed, but he's my son.
38:40Yes, I know.
38:42What do you mean?
38:43He came to visit me backstage.
38:47He's very much your son.
38:50Adam.
38:51Adam.
38:59You're a very desirable woman, Ada.
39:01Thank you, Ben.
39:03You're a wonderful man.
39:05But I'd rather settle for half a life than come between you and your sons.
39:11Half a life.
39:13That's all you've ever had.
39:14Maybe that's all I understand.
39:18Maybe it's best I'm leaving tonight for San Francisco.
39:22I wish I'd been able to ask you, Ben.
39:25Before those little boys became men.
39:27Here we go.
39:32Let's go.
39:42Let's go.
40:03Yes, sir, Mr. Cartwright.
40:04Paul!
40:05Paul!
40:06Somebody might near beat little Joe to death.
40:08I ain't down at the settee.
40:21How is he?
40:25How is he?
40:36Paul couldn't see.
40:39He's coming, too.
40:43Easy, son.
40:44Now, don't try to move.
40:46Can you see me?
40:49Pa?
40:50Don't try to talk.
40:52Everything's going to be all right.
40:54If you can see me, blink your eyes.
40:58Pa?
40:59Easy, son.
41:01If you can see me, blink your eyes two times.
41:30It's good, son.
41:32It's good.
41:35Everything's going to be all right.
41:36Your pa's right here.
41:40Pa?
41:41You just rest easy.
41:44Pa, ask him who did it.
41:49I don't know who did it.
41:58The greatest heavyweight that ever towed the mark.
42:01That's my friend, John C. Riggin.
42:06Fought all comers, and he licked them all.
42:09Never knocked out in 37 fights.
42:11He still would be champion if he hadn't been robbed.
42:14A little dirty, thieving, crooked referee.
42:28Give me a gun, Adam.
42:33Do as I say.
42:49Reach for it, Regan.
42:54Reach for it.
42:58With this busted up hand, I couldn't find a trick or cut, right?
43:03Now, if you want to settle for what I did to your boy,
43:07you're going to have to shoot me.
43:11Or do it with your fists.
43:20Paul, let me do it.
43:22Keep out of this horse.
43:28Paul, you've got to let me do it.
43:38Little Joe and me, Paul, is...
43:40You've just got to let me do it.
43:41You just stand aside, horse.
43:44They're coming!
43:44I know gouging or fighting, man,
43:46and no kicking at a fellow when he's down.
44:02I don't like it.
44:03Come on!
44:06I don't like it.
44:07Just sit down.
44:09Let me do it.
44:16Get up!
44:22I don't know.
45:11Don't try to fight him, wrestle him!
45:20Don't try to fight him!
45:45Don't try to fight him!
46:06Don't try to fight him!
46:08Don't try to fight him again!
46:11I'm sorry, Ada.
46:13Help me, Ada.
46:14Help me.
46:16It's all right, John.
46:18It's all right, John.
46:39I just don't understand.
47:11How can she?
47:13Well...
47:16Let's go see little Joe.
47:20I don't know.
47:21I don't know.
47:33I don't know.
47:39I don't know.
47:40I don't know.
47:42I don't know.
47:44I don't know.
47:45I don't know.
47:47I don't know.
47:52I don't know.
48:05I don't know.
48:07I don't know.
48:19I don't know.
48:20I don't know.
48:20I don't know.
48:20I don't know.
48:21I don't know.
48:21If I'm not nervous...
48:22I don't know.
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