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A gripping western adventure driven by greed, ambition, and betrayal. Lust for Gold (1949) follows a dangerous search for hidden fortune where the desire for gold leads to deception, conflict, and deadly consequences.
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00:01:16You're looking at Superstition Mountain, a barbaric pile of rock 40 miles long by 20 wide.
00:01:22The man is Floyd Buckley. He's going into this 800 square miles of sudden and violent death because he thinks
00:01:30it's just another mountain and because he's greedy for its treasure.
00:01:34Yeah, I said treasure. Gold. 20 million dollars worth of precious yellow metal waiting to be found in America's most
00:01:43elusive mine, appropriately named the Lost Dutchman.
00:01:47It's simple to get to. The mountain, I mean. Just drive 36 miles due east from Phoenix, Arizona, and there
00:01:54she is. She looks easy from the outside. Inside, it's like Satan's private art gallery. Sculptured pagan granites unmellowed by
00:02:02time. Hidden and terrifying canyons and gorges.
00:02:06But if you'd like to pick up 20 million bucks and figure like Buckley there that a mountain's just a
00:02:11mountain, I'll show you where to look.
00:02:12But before you leave for Arizona, you ought to know that 21 men have been murdered grabbing for that dough.
00:02:19And hundreds more have died in other ways.
00:02:22You see, this is the true story of Superstition Mountain, the biography of a death trap.
00:02:32My name's Barry Storm. I was hurled into this story when I heard that shot.
00:02:37Up till then, I was just an ordinary guy with a reasonable curiosity about the Lost Dutchman mine.
00:02:42A curiosity I wish I'd never been born with.
00:02:45I hurried toward the sound of the report and hoped I'd find a hunter who'd maybe bagged a deer.
00:02:52I found Floyd Buckley, sprawled and dead.
00:02:56His blood, life, and dreams spilling out on the unfriendly ground.
00:03:02When you find a dead man, you're supposed to call the police.
00:03:05I'm a good citizen. I set out to do what you're supposed to do.
00:03:08Fear and panic gave me a boost up over that ledge, and I began to run, not walk, to the
00:03:12nearest exit.
00:03:13Speed no longer meant anything to Buckley, but it did to me.
00:03:16I didn't want to be framed in the crosshairs of a telescopic sight on a high-powered rifle.
00:03:21I'd just gone in to look for gold.
00:03:23I didn't want to find lead from the business end of a killer's gun.
00:03:26It took me three days and 36 miles of tough hiking to put the sheriff from Florence, Arizona, into action.
00:03:42Identification bracelet.
00:03:49Wallet.
00:03:51Telegram.
00:03:54Lecturing in Los Angeles, September 30th.
00:03:58They're going to have to get a new speaker.
00:04:01That's all the personal effects.
00:04:04Let's go.
00:04:19Sit down, son.
00:04:25You say your name's Barry Storm.
00:04:28You're from Colorado, and you've been here only 10 days.
00:04:31You're no prospector.
00:04:33But you were up there when Buckley got shot.
00:04:36What were you doing in the mountain?
00:04:38Well, I know it sounds kind of bad, but I was following Buckley.
00:04:41You were what?
00:04:42Now, wait a minute.
00:04:43I didn't shoot him.
00:04:44I had a good reason to be up there.
00:04:46My grandfather was Jacob Waltz.
00:04:47Who?
00:04:48Jacob Waltz.
00:04:49The man who owned the lost Dutchman gold mine.
00:04:52The Dutchman, huh?
00:04:54That goes back to about 1880.
00:04:57He's supposed to have killed quite a few men in his time.
00:05:02That doesn't have anything to do with me.
00:05:04All I know is, when I was a kid, my mom heard about this mine her father was supposed to
00:05:08have found.
00:05:09I always figured someday I'd come down here.
00:05:12So you came down here.
00:05:13Go on.
00:05:14Well, I thought there might still be a buck laying around that had my name on it.
00:05:17First place I went to was a claims office in Phoenix.
00:05:20How do you spell that again?
00:05:21No, Waltz.
00:05:22W-A-L-Z.
00:05:23Jacob Waltz.
00:05:26Well, nobody but that name ever registered a claim here.
00:05:29This record goes clear back to 1870.
00:05:31But there must have been.
00:05:33Well, the lost Dutchman was supposed to be worth a fortune.
00:05:35He wouldn't just leave that money laying around.
00:05:37Maybe he never found a mine.
00:05:39Some people don't believe there ever was a lost Dutchman.
00:05:41Well, then again, some do.
00:05:43News had a story on it just this morning.
00:05:45Good morning.
00:05:50There.
00:05:52This newspaper item was my first lead.
00:05:55I wanted to meet this guy who said he was going to find my grandfather's mine.
00:06:00Mr. Buckley, if you've got a minute, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions about this newspaper story.
00:06:04Certainly.
00:06:04I'm always glad to see the press.
00:06:05Well, I'm not a reporter.
00:06:07I'm just interested in you being so sure about locating that lost Dutchman.
00:06:10If you've read my books, you'd know I'm hardly the type to go out on the wild goose chase.
00:06:14You've got a map.
00:06:15Naturally, I have a map.
00:06:16One of the original Peraltas, in fact.
00:06:19Peralta?
00:06:19Yes, you see, the Peralta mine I'm seeking in the lost Dutchman happen to be one and the same.
00:06:24Then it looks like you and I have got something in common.
00:06:26Yes.
00:06:27I happen to be Jacob Walter's grandson.
00:06:29Really?
00:06:30You mean the man who allegedly owned it?
00:06:33That's very interesting, I'm sure.
00:06:35I never knew he left a family.
00:06:36I can prove it if I have to.
00:06:38That's why it might be good business to let me come along with you.
00:06:41Now, if you know how to use this man...
00:06:43I not only know how to use it, but I know where the marker is.
00:06:45And I know how to use that, too.
00:06:48But for your information, young man, I never go partners.
00:06:51Excuse me.
00:06:53He really brushed me off.
00:06:54I decided right then to follow him.
00:06:56When his car dropped him off at Apache Junction, I was waiting.
00:06:59I started tailing him then.
00:07:00But Buckley was too sharp.
00:07:02He lost me on the third day.
00:07:04I never caught up with him again.
00:07:05Not until after I heard the shot.
00:07:0630-30.
00:07:07Enter downward from behind.
00:07:09Hey.
00:07:11This must be the map he was talking about.
00:07:13It was in his wallet.
00:07:16Hey, something's been torn off the top of me.
00:07:17Maybe that's the way he got it.
00:07:19Maybe it had directions on it and he tore it off himself.
00:07:21Some fellows memorize directions so that nobody else can use their maps.
00:07:26Well, half the state has got indigestion from eating old maps.
00:07:32You've been staying in Phoenix, huh?
00:07:34Your things there?
00:07:35Well, it's some of them.
00:07:36Most everything I own is right on me.
00:07:38I put my bag in the bus depot after I checked out of the hotel.
00:07:41You haven't got a job.
00:07:44You say you're the Dutchman's grandson.
00:07:46You tail a guy you thought was holding out on you.
00:07:48He gets knocked off.
00:07:50Ray, you'd better take him out to the mountain tomorrow.
00:07:52Let him show you just how he spent those three days.
00:07:54Walter, you'd better go along with him.
00:08:04How long after the shot before you found him?
00:08:0710 to 15 minutes.
00:08:08Maybe longer.
00:08:09He was still warm.
00:08:11You didn't see anybody else?
00:08:13No.
00:08:14What were you planned as if Buckley had found the mine?
00:08:18Well, I don't know exactly, but I wouldn't have shot him.
00:08:24Well, I guess I didn't have any plans.
00:08:28That is, beyond hoping there might be a mine,
00:08:30I might have some legal rights to.
00:08:32Come on, Walter.
00:08:33Let's have a look at the other side of the canyon.
00:08:40What are you looking for now?
00:08:43Buckley was hit from behind.
00:08:45The killer was somewheres up there with that cliff.
00:08:48You were up over there.
00:08:50That take me off the hook?
00:08:52Maybe.
00:08:53Unless Buckley spun around before he fell.
00:08:56You see, three other guys have been knocked off
00:08:58in this same area ahead of Buckley
00:09:01before you even got here.
00:09:04That's a break in your favor.
00:09:07Buckley was the fourth?
00:09:08The fourth in the last two years.
00:09:11All right around here.
00:09:13And all by a 30-30.
00:09:16And if you look in the record book,
00:09:17you'll find out 20 men have died in this mountain since 1880.
00:09:23Well, I'm through.
00:09:25Let's get back to Patchy Junction and some cold beer.
00:09:28I was just thinking, this all adds up to something.
00:09:31Like what?
00:09:32Four guys murdered, all in the same area,
00:09:34all by a 30-30, all in the shadow of Weaver's Needle.
00:09:37So?
00:09:38The killer thinks he knows where the gold is.
00:09:41When it looked like the others might find it before he did,
00:09:43when they got too close, he knocked them off.
00:09:46So the jackpot must be somewheres close, near that peak.
00:09:51Buckley, I bet he found it.
00:09:52Found what?
00:09:53The mine?
00:09:54No, the marker.
00:09:55He said he knew where the marker was and how to use it.
00:09:59Come on, I'll show you something.
00:10:07There's your marker.
00:10:09This is what Buckley meant?
00:10:10It's the only marker in this mountain.
00:10:13The rocks hammered in that old soiree cactus indicate three directions.
00:10:17But only the one pointing north leads anywhere, though,
00:10:20to some signs carving those rocks up there.
00:10:23It's quite a climb.
00:10:25Come on.
00:10:33There they are.
00:10:37What do they mean?
00:10:39Oro is a word for gold.
00:10:41The sunburst means the mine is near.
00:10:44This means 50 yards away in the direction the snake is pointing.
00:10:50The only trouble is nobody has ever been able to find anything
00:10:52but follow on those signs.
00:10:54Aren't they the real thing?
00:10:55Who knows?
00:10:56Who put them there?
00:10:57You suppose my grandfather?
00:10:58Ah, they're Spanish signs.
00:11:00Supposed to have been cut by the Peraltas.
00:11:02Peraltas?
00:11:03Buckley had a Peralta map.
00:11:04Had the name Manuel on it.
00:11:06There were three of them.
00:11:07Brothers.
00:11:08Manuel, Pedro, and Raymond.
00:11:10They were the first to find gold in here a hundred years ago.
00:11:13There's an old Indian legend about them in this mountain, eh, Walter?
00:11:16They opened up several of the mines and then left.
00:11:19And then Pedro, the oldest brother, came back with a big expedition.
00:11:23Walter here, who's an Apache himself,
00:11:25has heard from his own people the story of what happened.
00:11:28After many nuisance raids by the Indians,
00:11:31Pedro Peralta decided to hide his gold.
00:11:34He selected the richest and most inaccessible mine of all
00:11:37as his storage placed.
00:11:39It was reached to a narrow, twisted, and almost hidden canyon
00:11:42that finally opened on to a tortuous runway.
00:11:45This runway was the only entrance to and the only exit from the fabulous mine
00:11:51located on the thin, precipitous ledge below.
00:11:55While armed men stood guard,
00:11:57Pedro's miners led their animals to the dangerous ledge
00:12:00where the rough ore was separated from that which had been crushed,
00:12:03and the pure gold nuggets were hurriedly poured into sacks
00:12:07for storage in the hidden mine.
00:12:10Pedro sat just inside his mine and noted
00:12:12that he possessed some $20 million worth of gold.
00:12:15But fate had decreed a different kind of fortune for him.
00:12:19Fate and the Apache.
00:12:26Fate and the Apache.
00:13:03Cochise, the greatest of all Apache chiefs,
00:13:06watched the lightning-like attack.
00:13:10And when every Spaniard was finally killed,
00:13:12he ordered his warriors to close the mine.
00:13:16You see, the Spaniards had defiled a holy place
00:13:20when they came into superstition
00:13:21because to the Apaches,
00:13:23it was a sacred home of their thunder gods.
00:13:26It wasn't enough to just kill Pedro and his men.
00:13:29All traces of them and their work had to be erased.
00:13:32So the mine was completely closed and hidden.
00:13:36With that accomplished,
00:13:37Cochise and the Apaches felt their thunder gods
00:13:40were avenged and appeased.
00:13:43Every mine was closed so efficiently
00:13:46that they disappeared from view
00:13:47as though they'd never existed.
00:13:49And Pedro's $20 million worth of gold
00:13:52was buried inside the sacred mountain
00:13:54from which it had been taken.
00:13:56That's the legend,
00:13:57as the Apaches have told it for over a hundred years.
00:14:00The Apaches buried all that gold?
00:14:02Just like in Fort Knox.
00:14:05Well, didn't the other brothers,
00:14:06Ramo or Manuel, ever come back?
00:14:08Well, they say Ramo came back,
00:14:10but who knows?
00:14:11You know, I generally charge tourists
00:14:13ten bucks for telling that yard.
00:14:16And that mine where the gold is buried,
00:14:18that's the one my grandfather rediscovered.
00:14:20So they say.
00:14:21Well, let's push it along.
00:14:23Hey, Ray, wait a minute.
00:14:23Yep?
00:14:24Do I have to go out with you?
00:14:26I'd sort of like to stay in here a while longer.
00:14:29Oh, getting you too, huh?
00:14:31Gold happy.
00:14:32You know, every tourist I tell that yarn to
00:14:35has to stay in a little while longer,
00:14:37all trying to figure out them signs.
00:14:39Yeah, I'm something more than the tourist.
00:14:40I've got a family interest in that mine.
00:14:43Well, it's all right to me.
00:14:44I'll leave you some grub.
00:14:46But remember, there's a killer loose in here.
00:14:49I'd hate to see you end up like Buckley.
00:14:53Coven's reminder about Buckley
00:14:55took some of the excitement out of me,
00:14:56but only for a minute.
00:14:57The deputy could think I was a fool if he wanted to,
00:15:00but I was determined to try my luck
00:15:02at putting the golden jigsaw together.
00:15:07For the next five days, I beat my brains out
00:15:10trying to make the Spanish treasure signs pay off.
00:15:1350 yards, they said.
00:15:15I went 50 yards in every direction, but straight up.
00:15:19If I'd had wings, I'd have tried that.
00:15:21I began to realize that this was no ordinary puzzle.
00:15:26I finally thought that maybe if I went over every foot
00:15:28of the area where the four men had been murdered,
00:15:31I might find something.
00:15:32How close I came, I didn't learn till a lot later.
00:15:35I didn't know I was being stalked,
00:15:37that for a moment I was a bullseye,
00:15:38a sitting duck, number five on the list.
00:15:41I just kept going,
00:15:43dreaming about being a millionaire.
00:15:45The only thing I learned was that the guy
00:15:48who'd murdered Buckley
00:15:49wasn't the only killer loose in superstition.
00:16:18You don't relax.
00:16:21right away, you sort of coast to a stop
00:16:23after a shock like that.
00:16:25I was almost afraid to look at my leg.
00:16:27I was sure he'd gotten me.
00:16:30He hadn't, but he came awful close.
00:16:34I finally started to breathe again
00:16:36and shook off the shroud of fear
00:16:38the rattler had thrown over me.
00:16:40I picked up my pack and started to get up.
00:16:42That's when I found it, buried in the ground.
00:16:46When I pulled rocks loose to throw at the snake,
00:16:48I'd uncovered a part of a rifle,
00:16:51excitedly I dug the rest of it out of the gravel.
00:16:53I didn't have any idea of what kind it was,
00:16:55but as I held it in my hands,
00:16:57I wanted to believe it had been my grandfather's,
00:17:00because if it was,
00:17:01it could mean I was close to the lost mine,
00:17:04to the gold.
00:17:05Call it fate, luck, it doesn't matter,
00:17:07but a rattlesnake that had tried to kill me
00:17:09had led me to this old weapon.
00:17:11At that moment,
00:17:12it seemed I could actually feel the presence
00:17:14of Jacob Waltz in the unfriendly canyon.
00:17:17Suddenly, it was more important
00:17:18to find out about this gun
00:17:19than it was to keep on searching for the mine.
00:17:21So I decided to leave the mountain
00:17:22and bring the gun to you.
00:17:24Would you know what kind it is?
00:17:26Looks like a Sharps,
00:17:27but we're interested in a .30-30.
00:17:29Yeah.
00:17:30Yeah, but if it is old enough,
00:17:31it could have been my grandfather's, couldn't it?
00:17:33I told you he had the bug.
00:17:35Let me see it.
00:17:36I think I got a Sharps here.
00:17:41A Sharps.
00:17:43Breach loader.
00:17:44.45-90 caliber.
00:17:46Lots of them around here in the 70s and 80s.
00:17:48That one killed a sheriff in 1875.
00:17:50You know, finding this where I did,
00:17:52I sort of thought I might be near his mine.
00:17:54Well, that is, if it was his gun.
00:17:56I never heard anybody say
00:17:57what kind of a weapon Waltz used.
00:17:59If it's so important for you to find out,
00:18:01you might try the Pioneer's home.
00:18:02Pioneer's home?
00:18:03Yeah, it's in Phoenix.
00:18:04Old folks' place.
00:18:06One of those old-timers
00:18:07might be able to tell you about this.
00:18:08And your grandfather, too.
00:18:10Yeah, they got nothing else to do up there
00:18:11but talk.
00:18:12Well, thanks.
00:18:13I think I'll pay him a visit.
00:18:25Mrs. Bannister might be able to help you.
00:18:27She spent her childhood in Florence Junction.
00:18:30She isn't easy to talk to.
00:18:32You promise not to upset her.
00:18:33Oh, I won't.
00:18:38Martha, this is Mr. Storm.
00:18:40He wants to ask you a few questions.
00:18:43You know, I don't like being bothered.
00:18:47You've got no right to bring people pestering me.
00:18:51It's about my grandfather.
00:18:52He lived here around 1886.
00:18:54I knew a lot of people who lived here.
00:18:56What was his name?
00:18:57Waltz.
00:18:58Jacob Waltz.
00:19:00I won't talk about him.
00:19:03Jacob Waltz was a mean, wicked man.
00:19:07And if you're his grandson, you're probably just like him.
00:19:11Did I hear you mention Jake Waltz?
00:19:13He was a real sidewinder, that man.
00:19:16What do you want to know about him?
00:19:17I'll be glad to tell you.
00:19:19You're always poking your nose in where you ain't wanted, Bill Bates.
00:19:23He didn't ask you.
00:19:24My name's Barry Storm.
00:19:26You see, Waltz was my...
00:19:27Checking up on old Jake, eh?
00:19:28Well, you've come to the right place, young fella.
00:19:31Now, if you want my opinion, I'm...
00:19:33You don't want anything from you.
00:19:36I'm the one who knows all about Jacob Waltz.
00:19:39See, I found this gun.
00:19:41You like guns, don't you?
00:19:44You probably go around scaring people with them, just like he did to me.
00:19:49When I was a girl in Florence Junction, he frightened me.
00:19:56What you doing, mister?
00:19:58Huh?
00:19:58What you doing?
00:19:59Why are you playing with that?
00:20:02Is that gun yours?
00:20:03It's brand new, ain't it?
00:20:05Ain't it, mister?
00:20:07Come here.
00:20:10You want to have some fun, huh?
00:20:14Put your finger in there.
00:20:17Pull.
00:20:20Pull harder.
00:20:29I got buyers for two of our burros.
00:20:32Mexican fella and his partner.
00:20:41Well, here's your burros.
00:20:43You got them at a good price, too.
00:20:49You're going to have a look for that lost Spanish gold?
00:20:52Yeah, I guessed right, didn't I?
00:20:54Everybody looks for it, but nobody ever finds it.
00:20:57I figure them engines hit it.
00:20:59Too good to hit it.
00:21:02What do you mean, the engines hit it?
00:21:04That gold is hit forever.
00:21:07Want to sell back them burros?
00:21:08They'll give you half what you paid for them.
00:21:11Well, maybe they ain't hit it good enough.
00:21:13Eh, Peralta?
00:21:15Silencio.
00:21:17Keep your mouth shut.
00:21:35Peralta, mean anything to you, Dutchie?
00:21:37Be a dirty shame if they was to stumble onto something when we wasn't there to see what it was.
00:22:06They're making camp for the night.
00:22:10Yeah, it's about time.
00:22:11The fellas must be part mountain goat
00:22:13the way they've been hightailing.
00:22:15Go start a fire down in the gully there.
00:22:18Don't make any smoke.
00:22:21I'll go unload the burrow.
00:22:25Yeah, as soon as I play myself a game.
00:22:53Hey.
00:22:54You know, I think you're right about them.
00:22:56They haven't even stopped to pan one of the streams.
00:23:01They know where they're going all right.
00:23:03Sure they know where they're going.
00:23:05You oughta seen a way that Mexican jumped down the other fella's throat
00:23:08when he started to talk.
00:23:10You're dang right they know where they're going.
00:23:15Say, you're lucky I let you in on this.
00:23:20Yeah.
00:23:21You go down and build a fire.
00:23:23Don't make any smoke.
00:23:29Yeah.
00:23:38If I just turn up the ace of spades, I can win this game.
00:23:45Well, they could be the ace of spades.
00:23:52Yeah.
00:23:54I won that game.
00:24:06Come And throw it out to me.
00:24:12The ace of ma as spades has never showed up when I need it most.
00:24:15It eats me every dang game.
00:24:18Come on.
00:24:20Come on.
00:24:29They tricked us.
00:24:30Them shat-bellied hornswugglers made us think you were sitting here.
00:24:35They won't get away.
00:24:37We can pick up a trail.
00:24:38I figured they went this way.
00:24:40What do you think?
00:24:41Well, sure, sure, Dutchie.
00:24:42Sure.
00:24:43All right, go get the burro.
00:24:44Go on.
00:24:53Go on.
00:24:56The two who were following us.
00:24:58I wonder if they follow our trail.
00:25:00Nah, we'd have seen them two days before if they had.
00:25:04Are you sure you know what you're doing?
00:25:07I found the marker and the signs.
00:25:10We won't have long to wait for the next sign now.
00:25:13See?
00:25:14The moon is just rising.
00:25:16I've never heard of finding a mine by the light of the moon.
00:25:20It is 38 years to the day that my brothers and I were here.
00:25:26You won't forget our agreement.
00:25:29Huh?
00:25:30I am a Mexican.
00:25:31I cannot file a claim for this mine.
00:25:34I won't forget.
00:25:35I file a claim as an American citizen and go 50-50.
00:25:39We must get to the ledge below.
00:25:59There's nothing here.
00:26:00It's been many years, but I'm sure this is the place.
00:26:03Maybe the old burro seller is right.
00:26:05Maybe the engines did cover it up.
00:26:13You might go lucky to run after all.
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00:26:23look atοΏ½inea, you're
00:26:34alive. You don't
00:26:34have to die. You're alive.
00:26:37Of course, we'll protect
00:26:39My old legs are killing me.
00:26:42I'm getting too old to be traipsing around these mountains.
00:26:46When we go back, let's go to Phoenix instead of away at Florence Junction.
00:26:50What do you say, Dutchie?
00:26:51You've never been to Phoenix, have you?
00:26:53A real live town.
00:26:56I remember once I...
00:27:36You've never been to Phoenix.
00:28:06You've never been to Phoenix.
00:28:10Look at this gold sacks of it already mined.
00:28:14We've got a storehouse.
00:29:01I tell you, it's the richest gold all you've ever seen.
00:29:04Come on!
00:29:20Joe!
00:29:21What is it?
00:29:22The fellow found gold in superstition, Mrs. Thomas.
00:29:24You must wrung back nugget as big as your fist.
00:29:28Go!
00:29:35It's a load!
00:29:52What's happening?
00:29:55Paxton's is weighing it now.
00:30:06Stranger, you've hit it rich.
00:30:08How much?
00:30:09That ore ought to say close to 40,000 a ton.
00:30:1240,000 a ton? That's bringing the California strike.
00:30:15How much?
00:30:1640,000 a ton!
00:30:18Bonanza!
00:30:1940! Can you imagine?
00:30:20A lot to buy up every borough in town, then hurry!
00:30:22How much?
00:30:2440,000.
00:30:2540,000.
00:30:26It's over 40,000.
00:30:27It's way over 40,000.
00:30:29Nearly 50,000.
00:30:31How much for what I brought in?
00:30:33Might less than 300 pounds.
00:30:36I'll give you 5,000 for it.
00:30:38It's worth six.
00:30:39Refined, maybe. As it is, no.
00:30:41Let's see.
00:30:42You stop crowding me, will you?
00:30:45All right.
00:30:47All right, fine.
00:30:49What's your name?
00:30:55I have to have your name in this receipt.
00:30:59Walsh, Jacob Walsh.
00:31:00What's his name?
00:31:01He said his name was Jacob Walsh!
00:31:03Who is he?
00:31:04Jacob Walsh.
00:31:06Must be a Dutchman.
00:31:07Or a German.
00:31:08Yeah, that's what I said, a Dutchman.
00:31:11Jacob Walsh.
00:31:15Sign it.
00:31:18It's a receipt, State, and I paid you $5,000 for 297 and a half pounds of gold ore.
00:31:25You ain't paid me yet.
00:31:26I will.
00:31:28You've got to sign it.
00:31:30It's the law.
00:31:45Is he signing his name?
00:31:46Is he signing his name?
00:31:47I don't know.
00:31:48He isn't even signing his name.
00:31:50He can't even write his own name.
00:31:51He can't read nor write.
00:31:54How do you like that, Julia?
00:31:55A stupid foreigner that can't even read or write finds a million-dollar gold mine.
00:32:00And you get $11 a week clerking in a hardware store.
00:32:04You and your high school diploma.
00:32:11And 10.50s makes $5,000.
00:32:14You're sure gonna fall a claim, ain't you?
00:32:15I'd like to talk to you about a deal you might find interesting.
00:32:22I'll bet that ore's worth more than parson's shed.
00:32:26That ore's got some trouble.
00:32:28He got $5,000 just like a shed.
00:32:31I got a gun for five years and I can't have a saddle.
00:32:34It's like that.
00:32:35I'll go.
00:32:35I'll go.
00:32:36Come on.
00:32:36Come on.
00:32:37Come on.
00:32:39Come on.
00:32:40Come on.
00:32:41Come on.
00:32:42Come on.
00:32:42Come on!
00:32:43Come on.
00:32:43Come on.
00:32:45Let's go.
00:32:51Pete.
00:32:58Pete, where are you?
00:33:12Get off my bed.
00:33:14How many times must I tell you to stay out of my room unless you're invited?
00:33:17I've got a right to lie in your bed. I'm your husband.
00:33:21Come into the other room. I want to talk to you.
00:33:24Talk to me in here.
00:33:31Julia!
00:33:33That's right, Pete. Come in.
00:33:38All right. What do you want?
00:33:41Sit down.
00:33:54What do you want?
00:33:58What do you want?
00:34:00What do you want?
00:34:00I've got a right to know.
00:34:02Really?
00:34:03Well, I have a right to some things, too.
00:34:05Like being sick and tired of running a bakery.
00:34:07Now, wait a minute, Julia.
00:34:08You've had four years to do something about getting me out of here, Pete.
00:34:10I've had bad luck. I'm doing the best I can.
00:34:12Yes, you've done very well.
00:34:14Have you been able to keep a job?
00:34:16Have you replaced our savings?
00:34:18You so cleverly invested in grazing land no animal could live on.
00:34:22Have you, Pete?
00:34:22That wasn't my fault. I got swindled.
00:34:24No. I got swindled.
00:34:27So now you're going to bring that man here.
00:34:30Oh, no, I won't, Julia.
00:34:32Yes, you will.
00:34:34Still that unsolved murder in Milwaukee.
00:34:40All right.
00:34:41Good.
00:34:44Of course, he's not to know that I'm married to you.
00:34:50But you are married to me.
00:34:51Yes, but he's not to know.
00:34:54You understand, Pete.
00:34:56What do you want of him?
00:34:57I'm not sure yet.
00:34:59But I am sure I'm not going to stay here and dry up
00:35:02like the other women in this filthy town.
00:35:05Look, I'll get a job driving the stage to Tucson
00:35:07or maybe mining up in Goldfield.
00:35:08Yes, yes.
00:35:09He's at Luke's Saloon now.
00:35:10Buy him drinks.
00:35:13Or whatever he wants.
00:35:15Just see that I made him Pete.
00:35:22Pete?
00:35:30There's some money on the floor.
00:35:42Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:50Hey.
00:35:53He's been here close to eight hours.
00:35:55How long can he go on?
00:35:58I love you.
00:36:10Very good, very good. How about buying you a drink, mister?
00:36:13I buy my own drinks. I could buy the whole place if I wanted to.
00:36:17Where'd you strike it rich, Nutsi? Come on, tell us.
00:36:19You want to hear about the mine, huh?
00:36:20Is there much of this high-grade ore, Walsh?
00:36:23That? That's nothing.
00:36:25Why, that's just some of the loose stuff I picked up on the outside.
00:36:30Hey, Walsh, you mean on the outside?
00:36:32Yeah. On the inside of the mine, there's a vein of gold as thick as...
00:36:40as thick as her waist.
00:36:41Where is it? Come on, tell us.
00:36:44All right, I'll tell you.
00:36:49From the mine, you can see the old military trail.
00:36:52Yeah, then it is in superstition.
00:36:53Yeah, but from the trail, you can't see the mine.
00:36:56You've been teasing and hoarsing us around all night, Walsh.
00:37:00Now you tell us where you struck it rich or shut up.
00:37:03That's right. Put up or shut up.
00:37:04That's telling you.
00:37:05Yeah, it's about time somebody told him off.
00:37:07Blow hard.
00:37:10Maybe I'll file a claim.
00:37:11What?
00:37:13Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
00:37:15Yeah, you'd know right where to look.
00:37:16That'd make it easy for you.
00:37:18Well, come on up and try to find it.
00:37:21I'll be waiting for you.
00:37:22I'll give you a real welcome.
00:37:24Hey, hey!
00:37:28That's telling them, Walsh.
00:37:30How about buying you a drink?
00:37:31He told you before he can buy his own drinks.
00:37:33Come on, honey.
00:37:39Are you really a Dutchman, honey?
00:37:40I bet Elsie was a German.
00:37:42Was I right?
00:37:45In Sie Deutsch?
00:37:47What, honey?
00:37:50Bring me a drink.
00:37:56Had enough of that Dutchman tonight.
00:38:10I bet you get awful lonesome up in the mountains all alone.
00:38:15It ain't natural for a man to be by himself all the time, honey.
00:38:22You go back to your mind, maybe you ought to take a little company.
00:38:25Maybe like taking Lucille with you.
00:38:31You're just like all the rest.
00:38:32All you want is my gold.
00:38:33That's all any of you want.
00:38:34I don't want none of your gold, mister.
00:38:36Not tonight.
00:38:37Now, get out of my place.
00:38:38You dirty!
00:38:39Stop it, Lucille.
00:38:40You heard me.
00:38:41Get out.
00:38:49All right.
00:38:50If you won't let me stay in, then I won't let you come out.
00:38:56He's bluffing.
00:39:00Relax, boss.
00:39:01Another half minute, he'll fall on his face.
00:39:03No.
00:39:24You are going...
00:39:30I'm out.
00:39:37Get out of here, you drunken...
00:40:12Come on, Jim, let's get it.
00:40:17Where'd he go?
00:40:18Well, there's a shirt man here.
00:40:38He disappeared, Julia.
00:40:40Shh, not so loud, Pete.
00:40:41I tried to bring him home.
00:40:41He's inside now, unconscious, passed out here on the street.
00:40:45Now, please don't come back until I send for you.
00:40:47Julia.
00:40:47Please.
00:40:49Good night, Pete.
00:41:17Well, at last.
00:41:19Good morning.
00:41:20How do you feel now?
00:41:25Here's some coffee, a fresh roll.
00:41:29Uh, you may wash up in there.
00:42:23How'd I get here?
00:42:24Oh, you were lying in the doorway of my shop.
00:42:28You were quite sick.
00:42:29I was drunk last night.
00:42:31Either way, I still couldn't leave you there.
00:42:33Why?
00:42:34Why?
00:42:35Because I felt sorry for you.
00:42:37What other reasons are there?
00:42:39How much do I owe you?
00:42:41Oh, me?
00:42:42Yeah, yeah.
00:42:43Why, nothing.
00:42:44Very glad you're feeling better now.
00:42:48My name is Jacob Walsh.
00:42:50I'm glad to know you, Mr. Walsh.
00:42:52I'm Julia Thomas.
00:42:55You do not know who I am.
00:42:58No, should I?
00:43:00Everybody in town's talking about me.
00:43:02Oh, why?
00:43:03I found a bonanza.
00:43:05What?
00:43:06Gold.
00:43:07I found the richest gold mine in the world.
00:43:09Oh.
00:43:10Well, that's nice.
00:43:12Would you like some more coffee?
00:43:14You have no interest.
00:43:15Should I have?
00:43:16Well, Mr. Walsh, I don't know anything about gold mines.
00:43:19I just know about baking and trying to run my little shop.
00:43:23Oh, if you'll excuse me, I do have to get the baking done.
00:43:29You don't even want to know where my mine is.
00:43:31I wouldn't know a gold mine if I fell into one.
00:43:37I'm very much obliged to you.
00:43:38You're welcome.
00:43:40Please.
00:43:49Do you speak German?
00:43:51Yes.
00:43:53My mother was German.
00:43:54Yes?
00:43:55Yes.
00:43:57May I call upon you sometime?
00:44:00Well, I...
00:44:01This evening.
00:44:02All right, if you wish.
00:44:07Excuse me.
00:44:08Here.
00:44:11Good morning, Mrs. Butler.
00:44:13How much are them?
00:44:15Twenty cents a dozen.
00:44:16That's outrageous.
00:44:17And them?
00:44:19The same.
00:44:20You ought to be ashamed charging such prices.
00:44:22But, Mrs. Butler, they're the lowest in town I...
00:44:24Ever since that gold strike, everybody's charging four times what things it's worth,
00:44:28and you ain't no different.
00:44:29Criminals, all of you.
00:44:32Give me half a dozen of them.
00:44:34Very well.
00:44:36The freshest ones, mind you.
00:44:37All this stuff's been sold.
00:44:39What?
00:44:39It belongs to me.
00:44:40Well, you can't do it.
00:44:41And you get out.
00:44:41You can't talk to me.
00:44:42You get out!
00:44:43You get out!
00:44:44And you stay out!
00:44:45Well!
00:44:48Herr Valls.
00:44:51You shouldn't have done that.
00:44:53She was one of my best customers.
00:44:55You let people talk to you that way.
00:44:58Well, when a woman has to support herself, it's necessary to endure many unpleasant things.
00:45:02I buy everything.
00:45:03Oh, really? There's no...
00:45:05It's for sale.
00:45:06Yes.
00:45:06All right, I buy everything.
00:45:07You wrap it up.
00:45:08I take it with me.
00:45:09Everything?
00:45:10Here.
00:45:10Yeah.
00:45:24Hey.
00:45:25You like cookies?
00:45:27Yes, sir.
00:45:27Here.
00:45:28Huh.
00:45:29Here.
00:45:30All of them?
00:45:31Here.
00:46:03Here.
00:46:21Good evening.
00:46:23Good evening.
00:46:28Gumdrops.
00:46:30Thank you, hon.
00:46:32Won't you come in?
00:46:46Oh, please.
00:46:48Won't you sit down?
00:47:05I...
00:47:07I'm much obliged to you for taking me in last night.
00:47:10I...
00:47:10Oh, it was nothing at all.
00:47:11I'm much obliged to you.
00:47:12Why?
00:47:13For the biggest day's business I've had since I came to Phoenix.
00:47:16I've sold out.
00:47:22Would you like to see the album?
00:47:24Yes, I...
00:47:25I mean, I would.
00:47:37I...
00:47:37I...
00:47:38I...
00:47:38This is my mother.
00:47:39My father.
00:47:40He died when I was seven.
00:47:42Ah.
00:47:42That was after they came from Germany.
00:47:44Oh.
00:47:46Oh, dear.
00:47:46Not that one.
00:47:47Where, where, where?
00:47:48Oh, no.
00:47:49I...
00:47:49I keep meaning to take it out of there.
00:47:51It's so embarrassing.
00:47:54Ah.
00:47:55You grew up fine.
00:47:58Oh, well, let me see.
00:48:02I was, uh, born and raised in Milwaukee.
00:48:04This is the house we lived in.
00:48:06And, uh, this is my mother's uncle.
00:48:10He's in Dresden now.
00:48:12Ah.
00:48:13And this is, uh...
00:48:14When did you come here?
00:48:15Oh, about four years ago.
00:48:17Ah.
00:48:18Why?
00:48:19Why did you come here?
00:48:20Well, after my mother passed away, I...
00:48:22I just didn't want to stay there anymore.
00:48:24I thought this was as good a place as any for a...
00:48:27woman to make her own way.
00:48:30Well.
00:48:31Now, this is...
00:48:37Herr Walsh.
00:48:39Do you like music?
00:48:41Who doesn't like music?
00:48:42Ha, ha.
00:48:54Mm.
00:48:55No.
00:49:16Peer Walsh.
00:49:23i'm sorry good night please please i i i didn't want to make you angry it was just that you
00:49:30are
00:49:30so very very beautiful good night herr voss don't assume you can take liberties simply
00:49:39because i'm a businesswoman living alone may i call upon you again good night
00:49:46let me use this door please may it call upon you again
00:49:53tomorrow all right good night good night good night
00:50:25that's her husband sitting over there you'd think that dutchman had found out about him by this time
00:50:29walsh doesn't even know she's married folks are scared to tell him well walsh would shoot your head
00:50:35off if you said anything how many trips has walsh made to that mine since he met her
00:50:39five maybe six next how long will it be oh
00:50:48well uh let me see i've got this gentleman here and uh one two
00:50:55you have my place
00:51:01what's so funny
00:51:06huh
00:51:08give me a shave
00:51:09yes i just got back into town eh
00:51:13only been gone five days
00:51:16who's that phone hmm who is that fellow oh uh oh him
00:51:21yeah
00:51:23why uh let me see he's the fellow that uh that uh gave his place
00:51:55Pete, what are you doing here?
00:51:59I told you not to come back unless I send for you.
00:52:02Everybody in town knows what's going on with him.
00:52:05And they're laughing at me.
00:52:06Stop acting like a child.
00:52:07Why did I do it? Why?
00:52:09Do what?
00:52:10Get up and run out of that barbershop like a scared rabbit, that's what.
00:52:13And all the time I wanted to...
00:52:15What are you so dressed up for?
00:52:17He said he'd be back today.
00:52:18And I don't want him to find you here, Pete.
00:52:20You've seen him nine or ten times. How much longer is this going to go on?
00:52:23What difference does it make?
00:52:24Julia, don't see him anymore.
00:52:26You're a fool.
00:52:27Yeah, you're the smart one.
00:52:30Only not as smart as you thought you were.
00:52:32Not smart enough to get any of his money.
00:52:34Not smart enough to find out where his mind is.
00:52:36Pete, I know what I'm doing.
00:52:37He'll be here any minute.
00:52:40You told him yet?
00:52:43Have you told him...
00:52:45You're married?
00:52:47Is she somebody else's wife?
00:52:49Pete, I want you to leave.
00:52:51Somebody I'll tell him.
00:52:54Maybe somebody in the barbershop already told him.
00:52:57We'll find out.
00:52:59We'll find out you're after the same thing everybody else is after.
00:53:02Get out.
00:53:03Julia, I won't stand for you fooling around with that Dutchman.
00:53:06Let go of me.
00:53:07You're muscling my dress.
00:53:08Let loose of me.
00:53:10I'll send for you when I want you, Pete.
00:53:12When I want you.
00:53:15That's him.
00:53:17Go out the back door.
00:53:18Go on.
00:53:23This is it.
00:53:24He pays off tonight or it's till last night.
00:53:26When I come back, they'll be through the front door, Julia.
00:53:51Oh, Jacob.
00:53:56Every time I see you, you are more beautiful.
00:54:00All the way to and from the mine, I keep...
00:54:03I keep practicing pretty speeches to say to you.
00:54:07And when I see you, I forget them.
00:54:11I forget them.
00:54:19Jacob.
00:54:23People talk to you about me.
00:54:26About us.
00:54:28No one would dare.
00:54:29Why?
00:54:30There's something I must tell you.
00:54:32What is it?
00:54:34I should have told you a long time ago, but I...
00:54:37I suppose I'd never thought it'd be necessary.
00:54:44Jacob.
00:54:45I'm married.
00:54:47I have been for five years.
00:54:49I...
00:54:50I couldn't lie to you.
00:54:51Not now.
00:54:56I don't love my husband.
00:54:58Now I know I never have.
00:54:59All I want is to be free of him.
00:55:02You don't care for him?
00:55:03No.
00:55:04I love you, Jacob.
00:55:06What's his name?
00:55:08Pete.
00:55:09Pete Thomas.
00:55:12Will he give you a divorce?
00:55:15Divorce?
00:55:16For money, will he give you a divorce?
00:55:19Well, I...
00:55:20I don't know.
00:55:23Here.
00:55:24Here is $2,000.
00:55:25We'll set the limits, say $5,000.
00:55:27Will that be enough for him?
00:55:29Perhaps.
00:55:30But he must sign a paper giving you a divorce.
00:55:34You see, I...
00:55:35I know about these things.
00:55:38I was married once myself.
00:55:40My wife divorced me.
00:55:42He took my daughter away from me.
00:55:43All because my wife didn't sign a paper.
00:55:46So he must sign that paper before he gets a penny of money.
00:55:49Now you understand that?
00:55:50Yes.
00:55:51Now will you make the arrangements?
00:55:52No, no, I'll do it myself.
00:55:54No.
00:55:54No, Jacob, I know I can.
00:55:56Good.
00:55:56When did he get back?
00:55:59Tonight?
00:56:01Tonight.
00:56:03What is it, Jacob?
00:56:05I'm going back to the mine tonight to get more money for us.
00:56:09Oh, I love you.
00:56:11I love you, Julie.
00:56:14And I want to marry you.
00:56:24Soon it will be just you and I.
00:56:26Yes, Jacob.
00:56:29Just you and I.
00:56:34Hey, everybody!
00:56:36I just saw the Dutchman.
00:56:38He woke up old man Parsons.
00:56:40Made him open up his store so he could get his grub.
00:56:42Then I saw him head for the corral.
00:56:43He's on his way back to the mine.
00:56:48I don't know.
00:56:49Yeah, go after him.
00:56:51Ha, ha.
00:56:53Give me a drink.
00:56:53One for the road.
00:56:54You and your big mouth.
00:56:56You wreck our business.
00:56:57Well, we've got to find that mine.
00:56:59Ha, ha, ha.
00:57:00Hey.
00:57:02Hey.
00:57:04Hey, come on, wake up.
00:57:06Come on, wake up.
00:57:08Wake up.
00:57:09I want you to get my burrows ready.
00:57:11Oh, it's you.
00:57:13What for?
00:57:14You just got back.
00:57:17It ain't decent waking a man in the middle of the night.
00:57:20Not for burrows.
00:57:22Hey, do you know a Pete Thomas?
00:57:28I ain't no gossip.
00:57:29I mind my own business.
00:57:31I didn't ask you for any gossip.
00:57:32I asked you if you knew him.
00:57:36Well, we say howdy when we meet.
00:57:39Ain't seen him much lately.
00:57:41He ain't used no animals for a spell.
00:57:44How long has he been here?
00:57:46Shucks, I don't know.
00:57:47Three, four years, I guess.
00:57:50Ever since him and his wife came here from Milwaukee.
00:57:53I'll start rounding up them dang burrows for you now.
00:57:56I don't see why you can't wait till morning, though.
00:58:00Hey, there.
00:58:02Hey, there, fella.
00:58:03Huh.
00:58:04Where'd he go?
00:58:06I wish he had an old.
00:58:07Can't you remember him going?
00:58:08Corral, I guess.
00:58:10Hey, fella.
00:58:15Hey, Pete.
00:58:17It's safe to go home now.
00:58:19The Dutchman's gone.
00:58:41Well, Julia, did you have a nice evening?
00:58:44Did he pay off?
00:58:45Or do you have to see him just once more?
00:58:48Pete, I'm glad you're back.
00:58:50He gave me this.
00:58:52Two thousand dollars.
00:58:53And there'll be more.
00:58:55This is for you, Pete.
00:58:56And the rest that's coming.
00:58:58More than that, if you want it.
00:59:00I don't want his money.
00:59:01Do you understand?
00:59:02Let go of me, Pete, and listen.
00:59:03No, you listen to me for a change.
00:59:05You're through with him.
00:59:06And this time I'll make sure of it.
00:59:07Absolutely sure of it.
00:59:09What do you mean?
00:59:10When he comes back from the mine, he'll find me here.
00:59:12Where I belong.
00:59:13I'll tell him how you played him for a sucker.
00:59:15That you like all the rest, only worse.
00:59:17You pretend to be decent.
00:59:19I'll tell him the whole rotten story.
00:59:21From beginning to end.
00:59:22The whole story, Pete?
00:59:24Yes, including the murder.
00:59:26It won't matter if you turn me in.
00:59:29It won't matter at all.
00:59:31Because when I'm through with him, I'll have a second one to my credit.
00:59:34Jacob Walsh.
00:59:36Pete.
00:59:37Pete, you've got to listen to me.
00:59:39Try to buy me off, would he?
00:59:40Molly can't do it.
00:59:43Wait a minute.
00:59:44Whose idea was this?
00:59:45Did he think it up all by himself?
00:59:48No, he didn't.
00:59:50It was my idea.
00:59:52All mine.
00:59:53I don't like those kind of ideas.
00:59:56I'll kill him before he gets out of town.
00:59:57Pete.
00:59:59Don't be silly.
01:00:01The only way I could get the money was to tell him you could be bought off.
01:00:04You're still my wife.
01:00:06Oh, Pete.
01:00:07Pete, I'm not lying to you.
01:00:11He thinks you'll give me a divorce for money.
01:00:14There was no other way of getting it.
01:00:19Don't you understand?
01:00:27Julia, could it be that it isn't just his gold you're interested in?
01:00:31That you've been lying to me.
01:00:33Could that be?
01:00:34Don't be a fool.
01:00:35Answer me.
01:00:36Are you in love with him?
01:00:37Oh.
01:00:38Answer me.
01:00:39I've told you over and over again.
01:00:41All I want is his gold.
01:00:42For us.
01:00:43I don't want anything from him.
01:00:46Not even his mind?
01:00:49Once I find out where it is, he'll be no problem to us.
01:00:52Julia, you aren't lying to me.
01:00:54No.
01:01:18You're really leaving tonight?
01:01:19Yeah.
01:01:19The guy said you're on the way back to the mine, Dutchie.
01:01:21Yeah.
01:01:21When are you leaving?
01:01:22Oh, what's the matter, Dutchie?
01:01:28Come on, Waltz.
01:01:29We're friends.
01:01:38You had enough now to kill a horse.
01:01:40Why don't you take your business somewhere else?
01:01:43Ain't they buying gold in Tucson or other places?
01:01:48Every time you leave Phoenix, you take half the town with you.
01:01:51Everybody trying to follow you and find out where that mine is.
01:01:54I'll bet there's a hundred of our customers waiting to follow you into that mountain right now.
01:01:59Take your gold and go to some other town.
01:02:01You'll ruin our business coming here.
01:02:06Get me a pencil and a piece of paper.
01:02:10Get me a pencil and a piece of paper.
01:02:39There's Weaver's Needle. There's the runway.
01:02:42That's the ledge about 200 yards from the cactus marker.
01:02:45Mine's just below that.
01:02:46I see.
01:02:47I'm not coming back to Phoenix.
01:02:49What?
01:02:50Too many people following me out of town.
01:02:52Crowds getting bigger all the time, getting harder to lose on the trail.
01:02:55So we'll meet somewhere else. Doesn't make any difference where.
01:02:57But, Jacob, I thought...
01:02:59You can get a divorce anywhere.
01:03:00You can leave your husband the same way my wife left me.
01:03:04Is there anything wrong with that?
01:03:06No, only I...
01:03:07Of course, if you didn't mean what you said about us.
01:03:10If you lied.
01:03:12Oh, no.
01:03:14I did mean it, Jacob, I did.
01:03:16There's no sense giving him any money. I thought it over.
01:03:19Please, can't I go with you now?
01:03:21I'd never be able to lose those people on the trail if you were along with me.
01:03:23Jacob, you're so strange.
01:03:25Will you meet me at the minor, won't you?
01:03:27Yes, of course I'll meet you.
01:03:28It may take me two or three extra days because of the crowd that'll be following.
01:03:31You'll be there ahead of me.
01:03:32Yes, I'll be waiting at the minor for you.
01:03:43What did you want?
01:03:44What did he come back for?
01:03:45Oh, nothing.
01:03:45Just to see me again.
01:03:52I'm...
01:03:53Finding on running out of me, Julia?
01:03:55Oh, no, Pete.
01:03:57You know I wouldn't go without you.
01:03:59I do now.
01:04:00And I know something else.
01:04:01You're in love with him.
01:04:02You've been lying to me about that, too.
01:04:05But we're going to the mine together.
01:04:07They're going to be there when I kill him.
01:04:10You understand?
01:04:37Let me see that map again.
01:04:48There's Weaver's Needle.
01:04:49We're almost there.
01:04:51And I can hardly wait.
01:05:09looking in the earth as he falls.
01:05:10You unknown hold.
01:05:22There we go.
01:05:26And we're looking for a offering.
01:05:41This is it. This is the runway he told you about.
01:05:43Yes.
01:05:44What if he's here?
01:05:46He said it to take him two or three extra days.
01:05:48Anyway, he expects me.
01:05:49If he is here, you get him out where I can see him.
01:06:08Jacob!
01:06:10Jacob!
01:06:20Pete!
01:06:22Pete, come on down.
01:06:23It's all right. He's not here.
01:06:30Look at it, Junior.
01:06:32Just look at it.
01:06:34Oh, I see why he always got back to town so soon.
01:06:37All he had to do was pick it up.
01:06:42Pete.
01:06:43It's worth millions.
01:06:45Bring the burrows down here.
01:06:47The runway we came down is the only way on or off this ledge.
01:06:53Well, go on. He was so anxious to be ready for him.
01:06:57Yeah.
01:06:59You're right.
01:07:16You're right.
01:07:18Julia!
01:07:20They're gone! Everything's gone!
01:07:22What?
01:07:23Our supplies!
01:07:25The food, the water!
01:07:26Everything!
01:07:27It's gone!
01:07:29Maybe the burrows just wandered away.
01:07:31No, they were tired of it.
01:07:32He's already here.
01:07:34He knows.
01:07:36Call to him.
01:07:37Get him out in the open.
01:07:38Go on.
01:07:44Jacob!
01:07:46Where are you?
01:07:48Jacob!
01:08:05Jacob!
01:08:11Jacob!
01:08:13Jacob, I didn't want to bring him.
01:08:14Jacob!
01:08:24Jacob!
01:08:27Jacob!
01:08:27Jacob!
01:08:35Jacob!
01:08:37Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
01:09:35ΒΆΒΆ
01:09:37Jacob.
01:09:40Jacob, listen to me.
01:09:42I didn't want to bring him. He made me do it.
01:09:45Please, darling, help me.
01:09:47Quick before he finds out I'm gone.
01:09:50Oh, please, Jacob.
01:09:58You fool!
01:10:18Get away from me!
01:10:36Oh, my God.
01:11:22All right, what are you waiting for?
01:11:24Get it over with.
01:11:52Pete.
01:11:55Pete, ask him for water.
01:11:57Go on.
01:11:59Pete.
01:11:59Pete.
01:12:02Pete.
01:12:02Pete.
01:12:03Pete.
01:12:05Pete.
01:12:06Pete.
01:12:09Pete.
01:12:19Pete.
01:12:20Pete.
01:12:20Pete.
01:12:20Pete.
01:12:22Pete.
01:12:28Pete.
01:12:29Pete.
01:12:29Pete.
01:12:29Pete.
01:12:36Pete.
01:12:37Pete.
01:12:37Pete.
01:12:37Pete.
01:12:37Pete.
01:12:39Pete.
01:12:41Pete.
01:12:42Pete.
01:12:43Pete.
01:12:49Pete.
01:13:00Pete.
01:13:01Pete.
01:13:02Pete.
01:13:03Pete.
01:13:05Pete.
01:13:18Pete.
01:13:22Come on.
01:13:50You want her?
01:13:54Take her!
01:13:55You can have her!
01:14:01Nobody wants you.
01:14:03From the beginning, it was her idea.
01:14:08I don't want your gold.
01:14:09I never did.
01:14:10You want her?
01:14:11Take her!
01:14:12You can have her!
01:14:12Take her!
01:14:26You see, Jacob, I've gotten rid of him.
01:14:29I killed him for you.
01:14:31How do you know I wasn't lying to you?
01:14:38It's all over.
01:14:40It's just you and me now, Jacob.
01:14:42Remember?
01:14:43Just like you wanted it.
01:14:51Jacob, you loved me.
01:14:54You said you did.
01:14:56We can be married now, just like you said.
01:15:02I wasn't lying to you, Jacob.
01:15:05He forced me to bring him with me.
01:15:08I didn't want to.
01:15:09I didn't want to.
01:15:11Jacob, you've got to believe me.
01:15:14You've got to.
01:15:15I proved I loved you when I killed him.
01:15:21Please.
01:15:23Please help me.
01:15:25Jacob, I want you.
01:15:27I want you.
01:15:39All you want to do is my gold.
01:15:41Well, now you got it.
01:15:44You got it!
01:15:45I want you.
01:16:00You got it.
01:16:14Come on.
01:16:54Come on.
01:17:03This record only goes back to 1912.
01:17:05Well, Arizona didn't become a state till then.
01:17:07But you got the right dope from those old newspapers.
01:17:10I remember for a fact it was in 1910,
01:17:12two years before we had a coroner's office.
01:17:15What are you two talking about?
01:17:16I'm checking up on a female skeleton found a superstition.
01:17:19Well, if Bill Bates was right, that skeleton was Julia Thomas's,
01:17:22the woman my grandfather was in love with.
01:17:24Oh, say, if you don't stop harping about this Waltz business,
01:17:27somebody's going to swear out a lunacy complaint.
01:17:29But, Ray, I've got a lot to go on now.
01:17:32First I found that rifle.
01:17:33Then I checked on the stories of the old folks up at the Pioneer's home.
01:17:36I even learned that an earthquake did hit superstition.
01:17:38It was on May 3rd, 1887.
01:17:40Who cares?
01:17:40Well, he does.
01:17:41I'm going back to that canyon where I find that rifle.
01:17:43Go on, fellas.
01:17:48Might as well clear off one of my tables.
01:17:50Be just my luck they bring him in on Sunday.
01:17:54Hiya.
01:17:55Did you find your mine yet?
01:17:56Nope.
01:17:57Well, I'm on my way back to superstition right now.
01:17:59You better be careful.
01:18:00There's still a killer up there.
01:18:01I got nothing to lose except my life.
01:18:09The sky clouded up, and the wind tried to blow a scare into me
01:18:13as I made my way back to the treasure signs.
01:18:17Three days later, the clouds got out of the sky and into my brain.
01:18:22I got lost.
01:18:23I couldn't even find the canyon where I'd uncovered the old gun.
01:18:27Like an idiot, I fumbled in and out of one gorge after another,
01:18:31pushing along with no more sense or reason than if I'd been on a treadmill.
01:18:35I knew I had to locate the rock called Weaver's Needle
01:18:38before I could even start looking for the lost mine.
01:18:41Then, with sheer blind luck, I walked right into it.
01:18:45Here was a spot I'd found the gun, killed the rattlesnake,
01:18:48and I had my starting point.
01:18:51A short distance away, I found a cliff
01:18:53from which I could see the old military trail.
01:18:56Jacob Waltz had said that from his mind he could see the trail,
01:18:58but from the trail nobody could see the mine.
01:19:01I set out to prove he'd told the truth.
01:19:04Now, I'm a guy who gets dizzy just standing on a high curb.
01:19:08But even when the ground dropped out from under me like a deceitful friend,
01:19:12I kept scrambling along the cliffside, keeping the trail in sight.
01:19:16When you're sick with gold fever, you have no patience with caution.
01:19:19All you think about is getting your hooks into that glittering pot of gold
01:19:23at the end of the rainbow.
01:19:24I followed the edge of that cliff,
01:19:26staying within view of the trail for the next three days.
01:19:30My fever began to go down as discouragement set in,
01:19:33and I was about ready to give up and go home
01:19:35when suddenly I came on a wide ledge.
01:19:38Gradually, it dawned on me that here the trail was in sight,
01:19:41but that a mine couldn't be seen from below.
01:19:43Then I found the map, the strange map carved in a stone.
01:19:47This was something I hadn't expected.
01:19:49I got as excited as a poker player filling an inside straight flush.
01:19:53They look like old Spanish markings,
01:19:56a sort of master map of the region.
01:19:58But the doodles didn't make any sense to me
01:20:00because I didn't know how to read them.
01:20:01Then I found that hole
01:20:03and realized it had been drilled into the rock for some reason.
01:20:06I didn't have any idea what the reason could be,
01:20:08but I picked up a stick and began probing to try and find out.
01:20:13I peered along the stick,
01:20:14but its direction pointed out nothing I hadn't seen before.
01:20:18Then I discovered,
01:20:19though it looked like just a single hole on the outside,
01:20:22there were actually several on the inside.
01:20:24My second look didn't lead anyplace either,
01:20:27but the third started bells ringing in my head.
01:20:30It pointed my eyes at a strange kind of peak,
01:20:32a startling rock formation with a window in its top.
01:20:35I felt as if Santa Claus had just climbed down my chimney.
01:20:39I began making tracks for that peak.
01:20:43As I clawed and climbed my way toward the window above,
01:20:46one thought kept repeating itself.
01:20:48Nobody, not Ray Coven, the sheriff, Bill Bates,
01:20:52nobody had ever mentioned the weird map cut in the rocks.
01:20:56Or this peak that had been pointed out by the stick in the hole.
01:20:59I'd discovered these things all by myself.
01:21:01What I knew was top secret, private knowledge for Barry Storm.
01:21:06I felt sure that at last, finally,
01:21:09I was on the express road to the Lost Dutchman,
01:21:12to my grandfather's fabulous mine,
01:21:14where I'd find lumps of gold piled up like rubble.
01:21:17I was so dreamy,
01:21:19I figured all I had to do was crawl through that window,
01:21:21and the mine was on the other side.
01:21:24But there wasn't any mine.
01:21:25There was nothing.
01:21:26I figured I'd crawl behind another eight ball.
01:21:29Then I realized this arch was man-made.
01:21:32It did add up to something.
01:21:33And when I saw my shadow on the valley floor,
01:21:35I knew this window was the key to the goal.
01:21:38My whole future was in that square of light below.
01:21:41I raced back to the wall map to fix its location in my mind,
01:21:44then get started on that last lap to fame and fortune.
01:21:48But something had changed.
01:21:51It wasn't like I'd left it.
01:21:53Looking for this?
01:21:57Ray, what are you doing here?
01:21:59Looking for you.
01:22:00What for? Ray, I got it.
01:22:02I found a window cut in the rock.
01:22:03It's a sort of a light sign.
01:22:05It casts a shadow that points to a spot
01:22:07where the gold may be buried.
01:22:09And the spot is...
01:22:11Go on.
01:22:15Of course, it may not mean anything at all.
01:22:19What'd you come back for?
01:22:22Another murder.
01:22:38You're right about that light sign.
01:22:39And some night it's going to show me where the gold is.
01:22:42You're right about that light sign.
01:22:43I've been looking for that gold for 20 years, Storm.
01:22:46If anybody's going to get it, it's going to be me.
01:22:49You're right about that light sign.
01:22:50And some night it's going to show me where the gold is.
01:22:54Turn around.
01:23:00Start walking.
01:23:06We'll send a posse in after you in a couple of weeks.
01:23:08No murder here.
01:23:10Your bones will show you just died of a bad fall.
01:23:14Keep walking.
01:23:15Right to the end.
01:23:17ben...
01:23:23Makeover.
01:23:27Ow!
01:23:38Ow!
01:23:40Ow!
01:23:42Ow!
01:23:43Ow!
01:23:43Ow!
01:23:45Ow!
01:23:59Let's go.
01:24:15Let's go.
01:24:46Let's go.
01:25:21Let's go.
01:26:05Let's go.
01:26:08Ray had a funny habit of being out of the office whenever these murders happened.
01:26:13And he was always so fast locating the bodies.
01:26:16I stayed behind the first time after Colvin told me to go back.
01:26:19When I saw him raise his gun about to shoot you, I knew he was the killer.
01:26:23Then you've been using me for a clay pigeon.
01:26:25Kind of.
01:26:27I couldn't arrest my own deputy just on no one.
01:26:30I had to prove Colvin was the murderer.
01:26:32That's why I was waiting for you to go in again.
01:26:35I knew if you got too close he'd have to make a pass at you.
01:26:39Well, let's get going.
01:26:41I want to be out of here before dark.
01:26:42I'm not going with you.
01:26:45I got a date up there tonight.
01:26:51Mine little company?
01:27:02I want to be kind of interesting watching a man just dig up $20 million.
01:27:07All I'm waiting for is that full moon.
01:27:11When it comes through that window, it'll light up the patch of ground where I'm to dig.
01:27:16That's all I'll need.
01:27:29Look at it.
01:27:32I'm standing right in the center of it.
01:27:35Right here.
01:27:36This is where I dig.
01:27:44My grandfather's gold.
01:27:4620 million bucks worth.
01:27:57It's moved.
01:27:59It was here, that square light.
01:28:01Now it's there.
01:28:07You hadn't figured on that, huh, Storm?
01:28:10You forgot the moon and earth keep moving.
01:28:13At this rate, you're going to have to dig up the whole mountain, meet a bulldozer.
01:28:18That earthquake changed things, too.
01:28:21That's why Ray Coven never found the mine.
01:28:23That's why you'll never find it.
01:28:25That's right.
01:28:27If it is the moon that'll point out that gold, it'll only do it once a year.
01:28:31On the anniversary of the night the Peraldas made that sign.
01:28:35That's a catch.
01:28:36When was that sign made?
01:28:38What night?
01:28:39What hour?
01:28:40What moment?
01:28:42If I could figure that out, I'd hit the jackpot.
01:28:44And if you did, this county'd need a new sheriff, because I'd be right there digging with you.
01:28:50Come on, let's go.
01:28:51Well, that's the story, as far as I'm concerned.
01:28:55The whole biography of Superstition Mountain won't be finished till somebody takes that gold away from her.
01:29:00The treasure signs, the marker, the light sign, they're all genuine.
01:29:06Maybe you can figure out that strange map carved in the stone.
01:29:10I've got a hunch it holds the key to the fortune.
01:29:14Anyway, everything's all there in the mountain.
01:29:17And if you're interested, you might like to know that any citizen of the United States has the legal right
01:29:22to search for gold.
01:29:23And you don't have to pay anybody for the privilege.
01:29:25If you should find Superstition's treasure, the state of Arizona and the government of the United States will recognize your
01:29:31claim to it.
01:29:32Like I said at the beginning, if you'd like to pick up $20 million, I'll show you where to look.
01:29:39Well, I've shown you.
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