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Huh.
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That'’s the biggest nugget
we dug out yet.
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I'’ll bet ya
it weighs five ounces.
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Where'’d it go?Under my bunk.
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Behind the trunk.
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Hey! Oh, ya clumsy--
Look out!
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I'’m sorry, Prim.
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It'’s all right.
I'’ll do it.
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Prim!
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You'’re a lawyer--
a full-fledged lawyer
from Nashville, Tennessee.
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How come you never told me--Because my business
is my business.
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You keep your big mouth
shut about it.
You understand?
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I'’m sorry, Prim.
I'’ll help ya.
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♪♪ [ trumpet ]
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Howdy, Folks.
I'’m the Old Ranger.
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This is a story of a man
with a buried past.
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Not unusual during
the Gold Rush,
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when plenty of men came west
to start new lives.
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But this man,
Paine Prim by name,
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is hiding the fact,
of all things,
that he'’s a lawyer.
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A full-fledged
practicing attorney
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with a degree from
the University of Tennessee.
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Why? What'’s behind
that secret
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and his refusal
to aid the cause of...
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[ hoofbeats approaching ]
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Hi, Sim. What did you try to do,
buy up the whole town
of Portland?
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Enough to carry Sprenger and me
through the winter.
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Haven'’t you heard yet
about Sprenger?
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What about him?
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Oh, he met with
a bad accident.
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Yeah, just soon
after you left.
Got caught in that rockslide.
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What in blaze
was he doing here?
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He came over
to help us one day.
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We thought we was
running into something.
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You mean he ain'’t worked
our claim since?
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Well, how could he?
He'’s all crippled up.
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Nearly lost his life.Yeah, trying to save ours.
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All those weeks
taking out nothing?
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Hyah!
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Why, that ornery,
old buzzard.
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A fine partner
you turned out to be.
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Accidents happen, Sim.
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Always a meddling fool.
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You realize what this layoff'’s
cost me in time and money?
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Both of us.Not anymore.
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Our partnership'’s dissolved.
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Dissolved?
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As of right now.
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You-- You asking
to buy me out, Sim?
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I'’m putting you out.
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Now take your jacketand git!
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Well, Sim, you--
you can'’t do that.
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This cabin'’s as much mine
as it is yours.
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You forfeited your half.Why? How?
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Same reason you forfeited
your half of the claim.
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Well...
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For the work you didn'’t do.[ grunts ]
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For the money you owe!
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But when a man is sick
and crippled...
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Then he'’s no further use
as a partner.
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Is that clear?
Now take your crutches
and git!
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You can'’t get away with this,
Maury Sim.
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I'’m gonna get me a lawyer.
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I'’ll take my case
right to the alcalde.
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I ain'’t through yet.
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Fifty feet
along the creek bed.
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Well, given the verdict,
that'’s only fair.
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Mm. In your favor,
of course?
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Like I say,
it'’s only fair.
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Like you say.
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Eh, it won'’t be easy.
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Not if Sprenger
gets himself a smart lawyer.
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There'’s no such animal
in these parts.
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Only manwho'’s even read any law
is young Kinney.
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He'’s green as grass.
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We'’re taking out
as much as $50 a day
from those diggings.
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Well, as you say,
it'’s only fair.
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[ laughs ]
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Thanks... partner.
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[ chattering ]
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Back where I come from,
they would'’ve hanged
Mr. Sim for what he done,
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'’cause Mr. Sim
is plainly no gentleman.
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[ chattering continues ]
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Prim?Hmm?
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I been looking
all over for you.
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You know what that
polecat Sim has done?
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Thrown Sprenger out
and jumped their claim.
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That'’s right. That's right.
That'’s what I heard.
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Yeah, but you can help him.
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Well, he'’s welcome
to share our cabin.
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But Cy Johnson
already done took him in.
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You know what he'’s gonna do?
He'’s taking his case
to the alcalde.
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He needs a lawyer.
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Well, he oughta get
young George Kinney.
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George Kinney?
He ain'’t never tried
a case in his life.
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Well, he'’s the only lawyer
in camp.
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I don'’t know
what in the world
you'’re trying to hide, Prim.
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Maybe your name
ain'’t even Prim.
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Well, now,
if I was inventing a name,
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I could certainly do
a lot better than that.
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Well, whatever your reason is,
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a man who befriended us
is in trouble--
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bad trouble--
and everything he has
is at stake,
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and I ain'’t sitting down here
just taking it easy until
I see that he gets justice.
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There is no such thing
as justice, Jake.
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Other words,
you won'’t help him.
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I can'’t help him.
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Hey. Hey, barkeep?
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Another bottle
for our friend, Prim.
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Prim?
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Why, I ain'’t heared that name
since I was in Tennessee.
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Ah, no,
this couldn'’t be him.
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'’Cause Mr. Prim
in Nashville was--
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was--
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Aw, who cares?
That'’s all water
over the dam anyhow.
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In the case
of Sim vs. Sprenger,
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this court
has weighed the evidence
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and arrived at a verdict.
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The court upholds the action
of the defendant,
Mr. Maury Sim--
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[ chattering ]
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...and rules that Mr. Sim
is entitled to all property
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formerly held jointly
with his then-partner,
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the plaintiff,
Mr. Cark Sprenger.
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Thank you, Alcalde.But, Your Honor--
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This court is adjourned.Uh, Your Honor--
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Your Honor,
on behalf of my client,
I'’d like to ask for a rehearing.
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Request denied.
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The case of Sim vs. Sprenger
is closed.
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Prim is right.
There is no justice.
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Mr. Prim--
a fine authority!
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Mr. Prim is a lawyer.
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Probably a better one
than all the rest of you
put together.
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Mr. Prim? A lawyer?
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Come on, Sprenger.
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Thank you, gentlemen.
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Go and buy yourselves
a couple of drinks.
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[ coins clinking ]
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Well, Sim, uh, you, uh--
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You think he was
telling the truth
about Prim being a lawyer?
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Always figured he wasn'’t
just a dirt-grubber,
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the way he talked
and things.
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Yeah, he'’s a smart one,
that Prim.
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I wouldn'’t want him
poking into this matter.
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He sure never showed
he wanted to do any lawyerin'’.
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But why?
What'’s his reason?
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If we find that out,
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maybe we won'’t have to worry
about his getting nosy.
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Yeah, just the same, I'’d--
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I'’d feel better if he--
he was out of Jackson Creek.
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That'’s what I mean,
Your Honor.
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I could'’ve bitten my tongue out
the minute I said it.
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Did you see their faces?
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Well, they wasn'’t any more
surprised than I was.
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Prim, a lawyer?
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Hey, uh,what do you think it is
that he'’s hiding anyway?
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I-- I don'’t know.
I can'’t figure it out.
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Maybe murder?
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Well, I thought about it,
but I don'’t think so.
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Something else
is eatin'’ him.
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Well, do you think maybe
now that the word is out, he--
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he might change his mind
about helping me?
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You heard what the alcalde said.
The case is closed.
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Well, there must be
some way to appeal it.
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[ sighs ]
Well, you could go to Prim
and ask him.
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Yeah. Maybe I
better do that,
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before someone else
starts working on him.
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Huh?
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Well, if I know Maury Sim,
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he ain'’t gonna take no chances
on someone wise to the law
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getting the aclalde'’s
verdict reversed.
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Not good, old Maury Sim.
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So you had to go shoot off
your big mouth, huh?
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Yeah, Prim.
I'’m sorry.
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But they made me
so blame mad.
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Now we'’ll have every two-bit
miner in the district
running here with his troubles.
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Well, it'’ll do 'em no good.
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Prim, Sprenger here
might be a two-bit miner,
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but he'’s my friend,
and he'’s lost everything
he owns.
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I just can'’t help but believe
there were some kind
of shenanigans.
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That alcalde'’s as crooked
as a dog'’s hind leg.
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He was elected by the people.
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Do you mean, uh,
there'’s absolutely
nothing I can do?
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Well, you-- As a lawyer,
you could--
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For the last time,
will you two get it
through your thick skulls?
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I'’m not a lawyer,
I'’m a miner!
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Aw, I should never have toted
that fool stuff with me.
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Remind me to burn it
in the morning.
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I may not be here
in the morning.
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Come on, Sprenger.
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[ door closes ]
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I-I can'’t figure it out.
Now it'’s known
that he'’s a lawyer,
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what has he got to lose
by taking the case?
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Could be he'’s got something
to gain by not taking it.
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[ hoofbeats approaching ]
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I told you Maury Sim
wouldn'’t let the grass
grow under his feet.
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That dirty sharper.
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[ knocking on door ]
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What is it you want?
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Ain'’t I invited in?
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You can state
your business here.
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That where
the, uh, body'’s hid?
In that trunk?
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[ chuckles ]
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Just joking.
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A smart lawyer like you
wouldn'’t leave skeletons
laying around.
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Get on with it, Sim.
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I came here to make you
a proposition.
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My services are not available,
if that'’s what you're after.
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I'’m not looking
for a lawyer.
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I get along fine without '’em.
I'’m looking for a partner.
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Partner?
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To take the place
of Sprenger.
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You be interested
in buying in?
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Me? You'’re asking me?
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Yeah, but it'’s diggings.
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One hundred feet
along the creek bed.
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You'’ve got plenty
of gall, Sim.
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Sim and Prim,
two of a kind.
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Get moving.
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Move!
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Yeah.
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No need to be
so high and mighty.
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I came here with an offer.
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A pretty fancy offer.
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00:13:02,869 --> 00:13:06,437
Now, that wouldn'’t be an offer
to keep me out of
the Sprenger case, would it?
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In exchange for you
keeping quiet about your past.
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I got nothing to hide
in my past.
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No? Well, you will,
brother, by the time
I get through with ya!
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[ fabric rustling ]
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[ grunts ]
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Moving out?
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Yep.
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Why?
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Because I don'’t believe
in living with a man
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who sells his friends
down the river.
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Oh, I don'’t know
what you'’re talking about.
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Well, then,
you'’re the only man
in camp who don'’t.
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If I choose not to practice law,
that'’s my business.
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Sure. Sure,
that'’s your business.
239
00:14:21,295 --> 00:14:24,298
Especially when someone
pays you not to.
240
00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:27,867
Who told you that?
241
00:14:27,910 --> 00:14:29,520
Huh?
242
00:14:29,564 --> 00:14:31,566
Well, whoever it was,
he was lying.
243
00:14:31,609 --> 00:14:33,916
This mine or yours?
244
00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:35,918
Just '’cause a man's
offered a bribe
doesn'’t mean he's taking it.
245
00:14:35,962 --> 00:14:39,356
Who does it belong to?Who cares!
246
00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,925
You don'’t think I made a deal
with Sim, do you?
247
00:14:42,969 --> 00:14:46,233
I threw him out,
if you want to know,
right on his ear!
248
00:14:46,276 --> 00:14:49,453
And told him you were gonna
take Sprenger'’s defense?
249
00:14:51,586 --> 00:14:54,371
I didn'’t think so.
250
00:14:54,415 --> 00:14:56,939
You got no right to condemn me
without knowing the truth.
251
00:14:56,983 --> 00:14:59,202
You nor anyone else.
252
00:14:59,246 --> 00:15:02,727
I'’d say it's pretty clear
where you stand in the matter.
253
00:15:02,771 --> 00:15:05,643
Aw, you'’re just like
all the rest.
254
00:15:05,687 --> 00:15:09,169
You'’re doing to me just what
they did to Burse Benton
back in Tennessee--
255
00:15:09,212 --> 00:15:12,476
convicting an innocent man
on circumstantial evidence.
256
00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,002
A crime he never committed.
But they hung him, all right.
257
00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:19,701
The story'’s
right in that trunk.
258
00:15:19,744 --> 00:15:22,530
The whole sickening travesty,
259
00:15:22,573 --> 00:15:24,706
with me in the star role,
260
00:15:24,749 --> 00:15:27,622
lawyer for the defense.
261
00:15:27,665 --> 00:15:31,234
I swore I'’d never
try another case.
262
00:15:31,278 --> 00:15:33,106
I was through with the law.
263
00:15:33,149 --> 00:15:35,543
And I still am.
264
00:15:35,586 --> 00:15:37,719
Well, that'’s the whole story.
265
00:15:37,762 --> 00:15:40,461
The truth, whether you wanna
believe it or not.
266
00:15:40,504 --> 00:15:42,637
I believe ya.
267
00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:44,508
But I'’m still moving out.
268
00:15:48,425 --> 00:15:51,602
[ door opens, closes ]
269
00:16:02,178 --> 00:16:03,701
Howdy.
270
00:16:32,252 --> 00:16:34,036
[ mutters ]
271
00:16:40,390 --> 00:16:43,306
[ slurred ]
All this talk about
the wild-and-woolly West.
272
00:16:43,350 --> 00:16:46,179
You know something?
Ever since I been
in Jackson Creek,
273
00:16:46,222 --> 00:16:48,007
I haven'’t seen one killing.
274
00:16:48,050 --> 00:16:50,096
Not one.
Why, we ain'’t even got
275
00:16:50,139 --> 00:16:52,707
a Boot Hill,
nor a hangin'’ tree.
276
00:16:52,750 --> 00:16:54,709
[ laughs, stammers ]
277
00:16:54,752 --> 00:16:57,016
What kind of a camp
is that, huh?
278
00:16:57,059 --> 00:17:00,671
No. A good hanging
is what this town needs.
279
00:17:00,715 --> 00:17:03,065
Give it
a little excitement.
280
00:17:03,109 --> 00:17:05,850
We'’d be glad
to oblige you, Matchby.
281
00:17:05,894 --> 00:17:08,592
Hang you up any day you say.[ chuckling ]Yeah.
282
00:17:08,636 --> 00:17:11,073
Just to stop you from talking.Yeah.
283
00:17:11,117 --> 00:17:13,771
Uh, the first hangin'’
I ever seen,
284
00:17:13,815 --> 00:17:16,426
I was five years old.
285
00:17:16,470 --> 00:17:20,430
My pappy took me.
We brang along a picnic lunch.
286
00:17:20,474 --> 00:17:22,432
Yeah. It was
a double hangin'’.
287
00:17:22,476 --> 00:17:26,828
And the last one was...
Burse Benton,
288
00:17:26,871 --> 00:17:29,439
the worst skunk
that ever drew breath.
289
00:17:29,483 --> 00:17:32,094
What do you know about it?
290
00:17:32,138 --> 00:17:35,097
Well, I know all about it,
because I had the misfortune
291
00:17:35,141 --> 00:17:38,013
to fall into
his filthy clutches.
292
00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:41,582
And because of Burse Benton,
you'’ll find me as I am today--
293
00:17:41,625 --> 00:17:44,237
a drunken, no-good bum.
294
00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,849
And sometimes,
I think it'’d be better if--
295
00:17:47,892 --> 00:17:50,025
if he'’d finished me off
like the last fella
296
00:17:50,069 --> 00:17:53,115
that tried to look
with a gun.
297
00:17:53,159 --> 00:17:54,856
Burse Benton was railroaded.
298
00:17:54,899 --> 00:17:57,250
Railroaded?
[ chuckles ]
299
00:17:57,293 --> 00:17:59,382
Why, the hanging he got
was too good for him.
300
00:17:59,426 --> 00:18:02,255
Aw, you'’re drunk.That'’s true.
That'’s very true.
301
00:18:02,298 --> 00:18:06,607
But what do you know
about Burse Benton, hmm?
302
00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,177
I happened to be his lawyer.
303
00:18:11,220 --> 00:18:14,136
Well, he-- His lawyer
couldn'’t see the truth
304
00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:16,225
if it was to jump up
and bite him.
305
00:18:16,269 --> 00:18:21,665
Why, Burse must'’ve had him
so bamboozled that he...
306
00:18:23,276 --> 00:18:25,234
You?
307
00:18:25,278 --> 00:18:27,106
[ chuckling ]
308
00:18:27,149 --> 00:18:29,586
Well, I'’ll be darned.
309
00:18:29,630 --> 00:18:33,460
Two victims of
the late Burse Benton, hmm?
310
00:18:33,503 --> 00:18:35,897
Well, here'’s to Burse.
311
00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:37,681
May he rot.
312
00:19:43,791 --> 00:19:47,708
A man can stand being
a social outcast just so long.
313
00:19:47,751 --> 00:19:50,798
I give Prim no more
than another few days
before he clears out.
314
00:19:50,841 --> 00:19:52,974
Well, it can'’t happen
too soon to suit me.
315
00:19:53,017 --> 00:19:54,976
Makes me uncomfortable
having him around.
316
00:19:55,019 --> 00:19:57,239
And I don'’t like
being uncomfortable.
317
00:19:57,283 --> 00:19:59,676
He can'’t do a thing to you.
You'’re the people's choice.
318
00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,897
Elected alcalde
by popular vote.
319
00:20:02,940 --> 00:20:04,594
Where'’s Cy Johnson's cabin?
320
00:20:06,335 --> 00:20:08,511
Third one up the gulch.
321
00:20:08,555 --> 00:20:12,123
Won'’t find him there.
He'’s at his diggings.
322
00:20:12,167 --> 00:20:15,170
Not looking for him.
Looking for Sprenger.
323
00:20:17,607 --> 00:20:19,827
Sprenger?
324
00:20:19,870 --> 00:20:22,003
Now, what do you suppose...
325
00:20:24,005 --> 00:20:25,920
[ knocking on door ]
326
00:20:25,963 --> 00:20:27,269
Who is it?
327
00:20:27,313 --> 00:20:28,923
Prim.
328
00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:31,534
Come in.
329
00:20:38,759 --> 00:20:41,675
What do you want, Prim?
330
00:20:41,718 --> 00:20:44,504
Well, I came
to offer my services
331
00:20:44,547 --> 00:20:45,896
in the case
of Sprenger vs. Sim.
332
00:20:47,855 --> 00:20:49,944
I thought you said
there was no justice.
333
00:20:49,987 --> 00:20:52,990
Took a drunken bum
to open my eyes.
334
00:20:54,383 --> 00:20:56,124
Are you sure
you ain'’t drunk?
335
00:20:56,167 --> 00:20:58,344
[ scoffs ]
336
00:20:58,387 --> 00:21:00,998
What we gotta have
is a retrial.
337
00:21:01,042 --> 00:21:03,827
How?
The alcalde'’s refused.
338
00:21:03,871 --> 00:21:05,699
And there ain'’t
no higher court.
339
00:21:05,742 --> 00:21:09,093
Tell me, who elected
that crook in the first place?
340
00:21:09,137 --> 00:21:10,486
Hmm?
341
00:21:10,530 --> 00:21:13,097
We.The people.
342
00:21:13,141 --> 00:21:16,797
Yeah.And what the people did,
the people can undo.
343
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:18,494
Vote him out of office,
344
00:21:18,538 --> 00:21:20,540
and organize
their own court of appeals,
345
00:21:20,583 --> 00:21:22,585
elect a judge, a sheriff,
a panel, a jury,
346
00:21:22,629 --> 00:21:24,631
and then try the case.
347
00:21:24,674 --> 00:21:26,110
People have got
that power?
348
00:21:26,154 --> 00:21:28,199
Yes, thank God,
in this country they do.
349
00:21:28,243 --> 00:21:29,636
Well, how do we
go about it?
350
00:21:29,679 --> 00:21:31,986
Well, round up every man
in the district.
351
00:21:32,029 --> 00:21:35,598
Comb the hillsides,
the creek beds, the gulches.
352
00:21:35,642 --> 00:21:39,994
Just say that
those of us in camp that feel
that a wrong has been done
353
00:21:40,037 --> 00:21:42,953
would like to have
the evidence examined.
354
00:21:42,997 --> 00:21:45,304
Would cost '’em a lot of money
to leave their diggings.
355
00:21:45,347 --> 00:21:47,567
Oh, they'’ll come.
They'’ve suffered--
356
00:21:47,610 --> 00:21:50,787
plenty of them--
at the hands
of the crooked alcalde.
357
00:21:50,831 --> 00:21:53,616
Been gypped of their rights
while he'’s got rich.
358
00:21:53,660 --> 00:21:55,662
They won'’t have to
be asked twice.
359
00:21:55,705 --> 00:21:57,577
I'’m going out
and saddle up right now.
360
00:22:03,670 --> 00:22:06,150
[ men chattering ]
361
00:22:06,194 --> 00:22:08,762
Must bethe whole camp out there
attending the trial.
362
00:22:08,805 --> 00:22:10,154
How much longer
are they gonna take?
363
00:22:10,198 --> 00:22:11,721
They'’ve been out there
nearly all day.
364
00:22:11,765 --> 00:22:14,594
Well, Prim'’s making sure
everything'’s done legal.
365
00:22:14,637 --> 00:22:17,814
Well, that'’s the trouble
with a democracy.
366
00:22:17,858 --> 00:22:21,165
You'’d have been smart to resign
when that committee
come and asked you.
367
00:22:21,209 --> 00:22:23,342
Guilty of rascality,
368
00:22:23,385 --> 00:22:26,345
bribery,
malfeasance of office.
369
00:22:26,388 --> 00:22:28,564
I'’ll never resign.
370
00:22:28,608 --> 00:22:31,262
I may abdicate, but... [ chattering intensifies ]
371
00:22:31,306 --> 00:22:33,961
That'’s it. Jury's
brought in a verdict.
372
00:22:36,398 --> 00:22:38,792
[ chattering stops ]
373
00:22:38,835 --> 00:22:40,794
MAN: The jury has rendered
a unanimous verdict
374
00:22:40,837 --> 00:22:42,709
in favor of the plaintiff,
Carl Sprenger.
375
00:22:42,752 --> 00:22:46,190
[ men cheering, whistling ]
376
00:22:46,234 --> 00:22:48,584
The court orders that
the plaintiff be reinstated
377
00:22:48,628 --> 00:22:51,413
as half owner of all properties
he formally possessed.
378
00:22:51,457 --> 00:22:53,241
MAN #2:
Hang the alcalde!
379
00:22:53,284 --> 00:22:56,853
MAN #3:
Hang him! [ men shouting in agreement ]
380
00:22:56,897 --> 00:23:00,596
They'’re heading this way.
They'’re all coming over here.
381
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,772
Sic transit gloria.
382
00:23:02,816 --> 00:23:05,035
[ men shouting ]
383
00:23:06,472 --> 00:23:08,909
There'’ll be no hangings!
384
00:23:08,952 --> 00:23:11,738
A wrong has been done.
It'’s been righted.
385
00:23:11,781 --> 00:23:14,262
The order of the court
will be carried out.
386
00:23:14,305 --> 00:23:16,395
Mr. Sim!Yes, yes.
387
00:23:16,438 --> 00:23:18,745
Anything you say. MAN:
Hang the alcalde!
388
00:23:18,788 --> 00:23:21,443
MEN: Yeah!
389
00:23:21,487 --> 00:23:24,228
There is no alcalde.
He resigned.
390
00:23:24,272 --> 00:23:26,492
[ men cheering ]
391
00:23:28,494 --> 00:23:32,976
Well, since we'’ve learned
that the office of alcalde
is now vacant,
392
00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:36,023
I propose it be
abolished altogether,
393
00:23:36,066 --> 00:23:40,419
and that from now on,
we settle all our disputes
here in Jackson Creek camp
394
00:23:40,462 --> 00:23:42,159
in the same manner
in which we did today--
395
00:23:42,203 --> 00:23:45,467
in trial by jury,
396
00:23:45,511 --> 00:23:47,730
the greatest system yet devised
397
00:23:47,774 --> 00:23:49,384
to give man justice.
398
00:23:51,255 --> 00:23:53,127
If you wonder
what happened after that,
399
00:23:53,170 --> 00:23:54,781
I can tell you.
400
00:23:54,824 --> 00:23:58,175
Paine Prim--
oh, that was his real name,
all right--
401
00:23:58,219 --> 00:24:00,221
soon laid down
his pick and shovel
402
00:24:00,264 --> 00:24:02,658
and took up the practice
of law again,
403
00:24:02,702 --> 00:24:05,879
and wound up by being
chief justice of Oregon.
404
00:24:05,922 --> 00:24:09,230
His opinions are published
in this volume
405
00:24:09,273 --> 00:24:11,232
of Oregon Reports,
406
00:24:11,275 --> 00:24:13,843
just as well
as many other volumes.
407
00:24:13,887 --> 00:24:16,193
Now, here'’s a picture of him--
408
00:24:16,237 --> 00:24:19,066
the only one known
to be in existence--
409
00:24:19,109 --> 00:24:23,244
loaned us
by the Supreme Court of Oregon.
410
00:24:23,287 --> 00:24:25,376
Justice Prim.
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