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[DOG BARKING]

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[DOOR SHUTS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Why don't we get on with it?

The light's still on in the marshal's office.

Didn't I tell you that he was no problem?

Fine, he's no problem as long as he's in there

and not walking around town.

And at the time I figured there might be some connection.

If I had known how to get in touch with you, I would have.

Was it somebody you arrested?

Oh, no, no, it was, uh...

Uh, some kind of a land transfer.

No... it might have been an auction.

Now, you just give me a minute.

Take your time, marshal.

I'll appreciate anything you can tell me.

Uh-huh.

That's the man.

Yeah, I do believe...

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]

You, stay right where you are.

[GUNSHOT]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[GUNSHOT]

[DOG BARKS]

His name was...

? Oh Shenandoah ?

? You're doomed to wander ?

? On beyond this land ?

? So lonely ?

? Oh Shenandoah ?

? You're doomed to wander ?

? So roam ?

? In search of home ?

? Across this land ?

? So lonely ??

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

One more inch to the right,

and you would've saved us a lot of trouble.

Still, I guess that's pretty good shooting

under the circumstances.

The marshal was obviously a friend.

He was everybody's friend.

Especially mine.

If he had been in bed asleep like he usually is

at 9 o'clock this probably would've happened.

He was trying to help me with some information I needed.

If it'll make you feel better, doctor, you can blame me.

I don't think it would.

Thanks for the offer.

I'm Dr. Stanton.

I'm called Shenandoah.

[CROWD CHATTER]

Now, what do you want?

- As if I didn't know. - Him.

Will you get on out of here now, and sober up, all of you, go on.

We're not drunk, doc, just determined, that's all.

You got the keys, mister?

- I'll take 'em. Shut up, doc. - Mack, don't be a fool.

We appreciate what you done. We just wanna finish the job.

[MAN] Hey... will you look at him?

Now, who'd think a nice fella like that

would turn out to be no good?

I'll take the keys, mister.

I don't think your marshal would want you to do this.

Not for him.

We ain't doing it for him,

we're doing it for ourselves.

You've been enough of a hero, don't stretch it.

That's far enough.

I don't know this fella, I don't know any of you men.

But I do know you can't hang him without a trial.

You can get a pretty good hole in you at this range.

And I can't guarantee to patch it up.

[MAN] Bring him out! We ain't got all night!

- What are they stalling for? - You hear that?

Think you can stop all of them.

I don't know. I can try.

After you, gentlemen.

[CROWD CHATTER]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Now, listen to me, listen!

Quiet, listen to me! Listen!

Ballantine is alive.

But he can stand trial just fine

as soon as we get a judge out here,

so go on home now, all of you.

And stop this foolishness.

[CROWD JEERS]

Now, wait a minute, you men, wait a minute.

The man inside is guilty of murder and we all know it.

And he'll die for it.

But not at your hands, I can't let you do that.

Come on, boys.

[GUNSHOT]

There's more than enough of you here to break down the door

to this jail, but I'm telling you, don't try it.

If you do, they'll be a lot of you dead before morning.

Go on inside, doc.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[SHENANDOAH] Get down, doc.

[GLASS SHATTERS]

[SIGHS]

These people nearly always listened to me.

When I talk to them individually,

but I never was any good in front of a crowd.

Wonder why that is.

I guess it helps to have a gun in your hand, doc.

- Maybe. - Watch yourself, keep low.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

They're arguing now, that's good.

Looks like your bluff worked.

Except it wasn't a bluff, you meant it.

And they knew that, too. Why did you do it?

Why did you risk your life

for a lot of people you never saw before?

I don't know.

Seemed like the right thing to do, I guess.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

[SIGHS]

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

You got my thanks, mister.

For last night.

I mean that.

I think I'd a hated myself a good long time

if you hadn't of stopped us.

[MAN] Me too.

I, uh, I had a pretty big mouth last night.

I'm sorry.

Wait. We'd like you to put this on.

No, I'm not qualified to be a law man.

No, I disagree, you're the only one

that could've done what you did last night.

The only one in this town, anyway.

We're only asking you to take the job temporarily.

Until we can get a permanent marshal.

How long do you think that would be, doctor?

Two or three days.

They'll send a judge and a prosecutor

down from the capital.

Look, Shenandoah...

this is no noisy cow town.

It's farmers, mostly.

Growers, people like that. Good people.

Despite what happened here last night.

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

- Good morning. - Sam.

What are you trying to do with that, Charlie?

Get this man to put it on.

You the one who broke up the enthusiasm last night?

- That's right. - My name's Sam Chance.

I'm a lawyer.

Good choice, Charlie.

Now, if nobody objects, I wanna talk to Ballantine.

Sam, you're not thinking about defending him, are you?

Certainly I am if he's innocent, that's what lawyers are for.

Innocent? With my own two eyes I saw him gun down the marshal.

Now, just hold on there.

You save the evidence for the trial.

I'll make up my own mind about Bob

after I've talked to him, all right.

He's known the boy for a long time.

He's a good lawyer.

And he's an honest one.

Put that on, Shenandoah.

You'd be doing us all a big favor.

Which we don't have any right to ask.

Hmm.

All right, doctor, I'll wear it until the trial.

I heard the shots and I ran out, along with everybody else.

The shots from the Express Office.

Correct. Then these two outlaws

came tearing right by me shooting,

and then young Ballantine showed up trying to follow his friends.

Just a minute, how do you know they were his friends?

Well, he was with them.

But you just said he was trying to follow them.

Well, he was.

You mean in your opinion he was following them.

Yes, and my opinion is as good as anybody else's.

Certainly it is. Now, go ahead.

I would, if you'd quit interrupting me.

Well, the marshal came busting out of his office with him.

The new marshal there.

And he yelled at Ballantine to stop.

Ballantine just swung right around and plugged him.

- Just like that. - Hmm. I see.

Now, where were you when you heard the very first shots?

Oh, it was in the saloon.

Which is how far from the marshal's office?

[SCOFFS] Sam, you know as well as I do how far it is.

I didn't until I measured it. How far do you think it is?

50, 60 feet about.

It's exactly 120 feet.

And you're asking us to believe you came out of the saloon,

where I know you weren't drinking water,

saw two men riding fast and knew instantly

they were outlaws.

Not only that, you didn't even flinch.

You stayed right there and saw the defendant

fire the shot that killed the marshal.

All this at a distance of 120 feet at night!

That is what happened!

I didn't ask you what happened, I asked what you saw!

With your own eyes. I ask you again.

Did you see that man fire at the marshal?

Answer please!

Well, I, I saw him fire and I saw the marshal fall.

Now, think, and think carefully.

A man might go the gallows

unjustly, unless you're absolutely certain.

Did you see, at a distance of 120 feet,

exactly where the defendant's gun pointed?

- Answer please! - Sam, I know he did it.

- Your Honor? - Answer the question.

Yes or no, Mr. Williams.

I'm not sure.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

I ask you the same question then.

Are you absolutely certain

the defendant killed the marshal?

- No. - Very well.

You were trying to control your horse,

which was understandable skiddish

during all the shooting.

Why did you have your gun out?

Well, because I saw these two men riding away

from the freight office and I figured they was outlaws.

And I saw somebody shooting at them.

- So I shot, too. - Mm, I see. And then?

Well, and then I took out after them.

- Trying to catch them? - Yes, sir.

I was trying to catch them and all of the sudden

I felt something hit my head right here.

And then the next thing I knew, I woke up in the jail cell.

Thank you.

Your witness, Mr. Parks.

And you just happened to visit Garden Grove

after a two year absence three nights ago?

Yes, sir.

On the very night that

the first and only robbery

in the history of this town was committed.

Yes, sir.

Look, I know that you don't believe me,

but I did not kill that marshal.

Now, he was always very good to me

and he was always my friend.

As a matter of fact, I used to have a lot of friends

in this town, until I come back to this town,

and now all of the sudden y'all trying to lynch me

for something I coulda never possibly done.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

Are you finished with the witness, Mr. Parks?

Yes, Your Honor.

And you could possibly be sending

an innocent man to the gallows.

If you are mistaken.

Mr. Parks, I'm not mistaken.

Thank you.

Your witness, Mr. Chance.

[CLEARS THROAT]

I understand you've only lived in Garden Grove

a few days, is that correct?

- That's correct. - Where's your home?

Well, I've traveled around a great deal since the war.

- Various places. - I see.

Are you a law man by profession?

No.

You handle a gun well.

Exactly what is your profession?

Oh, I've been a wrangler, a ranch hand,

a drover. Various things.

Hmm. Perhaps you'd call yourself something of a drifter.

That's a very good description.

Shenandoah, is that your full name?

That's the only one I've got.

- Your first or last name? - Both.

Given to you by your parents.

- No. - By whom then?

- By a doctor. - I see.

Your parents are dead then.

Perhaps so, I really don't know.

Where were you born?

I can't tell you that either.

You can't tell me that?

Uh, this doctor who named you,

did he do so shortly after you were born

or in your early childhood?

- Neither one. - When and where?

About four months ago in a town called Lucifer Springs.

I'm not quite sure I understand.

I gather you acquired the name

Shenandoah rather recently, is that true?

- That's correct. - What was it before then?

- I don't know. - You don't know?

I have amnesia. I can't remember.

You don't remember.

Gentlemen of the jury, this man is sick.

He doesn't know who he is, where he came from,

nothing about himself.

I feel sorry for him.

I'm sure you feel sorry, too.

Fine. Be sorry for him.

But you cannot possibly believe him.

How can you?

How can you send a man to hang on testimony

from someone who doesn't even remember his own name!

How trustworthy is a memory like that?

How can he recall exactly the events

that took place on that street two nights ago,

when five other witnesses who remember their names

very well, can't be sure.

There is an alternative.

Not one I like to consider.

But I'm quite honestly trying to save the life

of a man I know and believe in.

If this man isn't sick... he's a liar.

He may be concealing his identity

to hide some enormous evil in his past.

He may be a wanted man, an outlaw!

Objection!

This is character assassination.

This man is not on trial.

Sustained.

You know better, Mr. Chance.

I beg the courts pardon.

[JUDGE] Proceed.

No more questions.

The witness is excused.

- Have you reached a verdict? - We have, Your Honor.

- How say you? - Not guilty.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Evening. I was wrong.

My apologies and congratulations to you, young man.

- Thank you. - To you too, Sam.

Hey, thanks and thank you for the bottle, too.

- I understand you paid for it. - It's my pleasure.

Means a lot to me to see justice done.

He's kind of a nice, old stuffed shirt, ain't he?

He means it, Bob. Justice does mean a lot to him and to me.

I owe you a lot, Mr. Chance, and I intend to pay you for it.

- Now, how about, uh... - Ah, ah, ah.

I didn't defend you for money, Bob.

I did it because you're innocent,

because I knew your father and I liked him.

I know you haven't any money, so don't worry about it.

Well, now wait a minute.

I was about to say to you, "How about $3000?"

Three thousand.

[LAUGHS] Does that sound fair to you?

- Huh? - What?

Three thousand dollars, that's a lot of money.

I owe you probably more than that, you saved my life.

Now, I don't have than money with me now,

but you go with me tomorrow morning,

and I'll have that money there in your little hand by noon.

I don't know what to say.

[BOB CHUCKLES] Ain't nothin' to say.

My friends and I believe in paying our debts.

Now, if you hadn't a got me off, they'd have had

to come in here and break me out of jail.

That's always a risky business.

Now, you're probably worth more than $3000 to me.

- So I'm gonna see if I can get... - The money...

It's from the Express Company

you and your friends robbed that night?

The night you killed the marshal.

Yeah, that's right.

But you knew that all the time, Mr. Chance. Huh?

[LAUGHS] You a smart man.

Now, come on, let's drink up.

This here's a celebration.

One more for justice.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

And you really believed he was innocent?

[INHALES AND EXHALES HEAVILY]

I'm not going to apologize

for what I did to you on the stand.

I'd do it again to save an innocent man's life.

I took the case for nothing.

I knew the boy had no money.

[SCOFFS] Well, it seems I was wrong about that too.

He's rich.

He's gonna pay me $3,000 for getting him off.

If you don't mind taking stolen money, huh?

Nice, isn't it?

I'm riding with him to meet his outlaw friends tomorrow.

He can't be tried for murder again.

But he can be for robbery.

And so can his friends.

And the money can be recovered.

You know why I'm saying all this to you, don't you?

You're asking an awful lot of me.

I am.

And I have no right to.

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

[HORSES GALLOPING]

It's Bob all right.

Got that lawyer friend with him.

All right, Clem, how you doing?

This here is my attorney, Mr. Sam Chance.

Sam, this here is Art and Clem.

Last names don't matter.

What'd you bring him here for?

I brought him here to pay him for my defense.

I bet you'd like a cup of coffee first though, wouldn't you?

Yes.

I'd enjoy it.

[SIGHS]

You shoulda seen him, Clem.

Not only this man get me off,

but he got that whole town of people

thinking that I was a big hero.

Must've been quite a trick.

Don't anybody move.

Chance... get their guns.

[GUNSHOTS]

[GROANS]

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNFIRE]

[INTENSE MUSIC]

[GUNFIRE]

[GUNSHOT]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[GUNSHOTS]

[GUNSHOTS]

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]

You can stay on as marshal for as long as you'd like.

Now, that's very nice of you, Sam, but no thanks.

Thanks for coming out yesterday.

I knew you would.

- You did, huh? - I did.

A man who believes in justice as I do,

can almost always recognize the same belief in others.

Like you, Shenandoah.

Whoever you are, you're decent man.

Thanks, Sam.

We all benefited from your visit except you.

I'm sorry you couldn't find any of the answers

you came looking for.

Well, I'm gonna keep on trying.

And if I ever need an honest lawyer, I'll ask for you.

- You better. - I will.

? This lonely man ?

? Must keep on riding ?

? Through the barren land so lonely ?

? Oh Shenandoah ?

? You're doomed to wander ?

? So roam ?

? In search of home ?

? Across this land ?

? So lonely ??

[THEME MUSIC]

[ROARS]

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