All language subtitles for High Wide And Handsome 1937

Until she started to take Indian wizard
oil.

Show them a hitch to Cali.

Sort of bold, don't you think?

What do you think I was?

I said she's sort of bold.

Oh, mercy.

Hey, Scuttle, where do you think you're
going?

Can't I see the show, too?

Or does the Cortland family own the
whole square?

Never mind about the Cortland family.
You just keep your horse's head off my

lap.

Mr. and Angel, I see you in a long time.

And one up here, young woman, along the
tree.

Thank you.

And now, Chief Yellow Cloud will pass
among you and collect a small sum of 25

cents. Not for the oil, mind you.

Merely to cover the cost of the bottle.

Eat good.

Big Chief says so.

Eat good.

Hey, just a moment, sir.

This compound of yours is nothing but
plain, ordinary rock oil.

Why, this stuff comes from here, seeps
right through our ground.

Young man, you don't know what you're
talking about. I know rock oil when I

smell it. You wouldn't know the sight of
a bar unless it hit you. Who told you

you were smarter than the Indians?

It's got nothing to do with the Indians.
It's got nothing to do with the

Indians? Did you ever see a white man
turn a flip -flop at the age of 84?

You just saw Chief Yellow Cloud do it,
didn't you, Smart Alec? And now I'm

to ask Chief Yellow Cloud to give me
another exhibition of his strength. I'm

going to ask him to take you by the nap
of the neck and throw you...

He said it was good for anything.

You got someplace to put your horse?

We ain't even got someplace to put
ourselves.

The girl could sleep on the sofa in the
parlor, and the two men could lie up in

the stable.

Well, well, this is a great kindness,
madame. But you'll have to leave right

after breakfast. I ain't running a
hotel.

We ain't asking for charity, Pop. Hold
on. Jump in.

We'll take the girl in front.

With pleasure, with pleasure. Pop,
I'm... Oh, I could get in by myself if I

wanted to.

You mean to say you're going to accept
favors from a man who said your medicine

was rock oil? Shut up. It is rock oil.

You're up. Good morning.

Who's this?

That's my mother.

Peter's great -grandmother.

I was married in that dress, too.

I wish I had my mother's wedding dress.

My, you've got so many pretty things.

I guess a house is a good thing to have,
isn't it? Don't you think it's time you

was getting dressed?

Is this late?

It's going on seven o 'clock.

Morning's half over.

It's just like a picture book out there.

Cows and sheep and pretty white doves. A
farm's hard work from sunup to dark.

What's that thing?

Looks like a window without sails.

Ain't nothing that sensible.

It's something they call a derrick.

And my grandson's out there fooling with
it, and he ought to be clearing the

North Meadow. He's digging way down in
the ground for rock oil.

I thought he was a farmer.

He is, but he's got this crazy notion
about oil now. Says he's going to keep

poor man warm and light up every little
shack in the country.

Oh, darling.

The most beautiful woman in the world
just kissed me.

He's been in and out of this hayloft all
night.

There's your things.

Oh, I ain't gonna look at you.

Thank you, Mrs. Cortland.

You better hurry up and get dressed now.
I'm gonna give you and your father and

that other fellow your breakfast, and
then I'll have done my Christian duty.

From then on, you must ship for
yourselves.

Yes, ma 'am.

What do you want me to do with this old
back -breaking foot drill, Mr. Cortland?

Roll it down the hill. Double in the
creek. Burn it.

Maybe you better wait till you find out
if this fancy new engine works.

It'll work all right as soon as we get
it together.

Hey, Cortland.

Cut your pipes here.

What do I do with them?

Unload them.

Babe, if I can see why you need all that
pipe casing.

Better go far down.

How far are you now?

About 30 feet.

And you can skim all the rock oil you
need right off the top of the creek.

Not all I want.

I ain't trying to get all this for
myself.

Who are you trying to get it for, Peter?

Maybe for people in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia?

Yeah, and Boston, and Baltimore, and
Pekin, and Constantinople.

Awful lot of people in them places.

Suppose you'll have to be getting more
help pretty soon, I reckon.

That's what I figure.

Stop it up, Davey!

Get on that bull wheel, Lamb, and lower
away.

All right.

Give me a hand.

Guide that drill.

I bet they hit China before they hit
oil.

Watch that drill hole, Shorty.

There's likely to be a bunch of little
Chinese gals pop out of there any

You put the other clamp here.

All right, now go ahead.

Go ahead.

That's it.

What's the matter?

That's it. Come on.

Come on.

Steady.

Steady.

Steady, love.

Hitch on your toes.

We're all set, Peter.

Hey, Gabby, get on that control.

It'll take some time to make anything
out of that old wagon, won't it?

A couple of weeks, Pa, I think.

I can help your grandma in the kitchen.
She says it's all right with her if we

stay, so long as it's all right with
you.

Yeah, it's all right with me.

Enjoyed your dancing last night, Miss
Thompson.

Wasn't surprised to hear the wagon catch
fire.

Almost busting the flames myself.

See, you're kind of smart, ain't you?

I ain't as smart as Cortland there.

You know what he's doing?

He's digging up enough oil for all the
people in the world.

Well, maybe that's a pretty...

the people in the world that's got
rheumatism or jaundice.

Whatever your pop said rock oil was good
for, some of us don't need it.

Blockheads don't know what it's good
for, maybe.

Blockheads ain't figured out that maybe
you can light lamps and make stoves go

with rock oil.

That's good.

Lighten all the lamps in Philadelphia
and peak in China with rock oil from

Cortland's farm.

Get out of here, Red. Yeah, I guess
maybe I better before I start getting

IDs myself.

See you later, Miss Watterson. On the
other side of the fence.

Who told you?

Tell me what?

About this, what I'm aiming at.

Oh, I just kind of figured it out for
myself.

You've been talking to Grandma.

Maybe. Come to think about it, she did
say something about you having a daffy

notion in your head.

You think it's daffy?

Yes, I think it's daffy. Pretty daffy.

Get back to work instead of wasting a
lot of time over a lot of silly

And if you're going to earn your keep by
helping Grandma, why don't you go and

start in? You can't talk bossy to me
like that, Mr. Golan. I ain't used to

And I ain't used to being told I'm
daffy. You ain't. Well, it's about time

somebody told you.

Right snippy little piece, ain't she?

She's kind of snippy.

Peter hasn't fed the stock yet.

I'll feed him.

You think you can?

Of course I can.

All right.

Now that's for the chickens and that's
for the...

I'll bet Sally will be glad to get away
from here.

Do you think so, Mac? Sure.

She's always fighting with that Cortland
fella. She hates the sight of him.

You know human nature, don't you, Mac?

From A to Z.

You must have skipped W.

Women come under W.

Why'd you come up this side today?

I went by the barn to see how Papa was
getting along.

You're late this morning.

Well, Peter, I'm a half hour earlier
than usual.

Oh, seem like you're awful late.

Here's your vinegar sling. Thanks.

Ah.

Mmm.

Good.

You're going Friday?

Yes.

Pop says the wagon will be ready by
then.

Oh, I love it up here on this hill.

Just the same. I bet you Hank is going
to get back on the road.

Oh, I don't know.

It's been kind of fun living in a house
and cooking in a real kitchen.

I surely will miss your grandma.

Oh, I've got to get back, too. She'll be
mad and all get out. Oh, don't go yet.

I want to ask you something.

It's late at night. They're having a
kind of jamboree over at Doc

and... Oh, yes, your grandma told me.

I was thinking, I don't know, it might
not be very exciting for you, but I was

wondering whether... You want me to go
to the dance with you?

Yeah, that's what I'd like.

Well, I'd love to go, Peter.

Would you?

Of course I will.

Well, I've got to get back to work now.

Now, listen to those birds sing.

They don't usually sing this time of
day.

Don't they?

No.

Goodbye.

First couple out to the right and swing.

I like your dress.

Grandma made most of it.

I don't see how you did all that work in
one day.

Oh, just four days.

But I didn't ask you to yesterday.

I'm sorry to see that the tone of this
here gathering ain't as high as we like

to keep it in our sociables around here.

Oh, you mean Red Scanlon, well, as long
as he behaves himself. No, I'm referring

to that medicine show gal your grandson
brought here, Mrs. Cortland.

By the way, Mr. Stark, what do you hear
from that brother of yours at the

penitentiary? His term for horse
stealing's about up by now, ain't it?

and love that royal race he sprung he
wore a star upon his breast to

show that he was royal best he wore a
star upon his breast to show that he was

best

Tell me again, Peter.

Flarello, what's the fuss about? She's
been kissed before, ain't she? Wasn't

with the medicine show?

Looks like we're going to have some fun.

That's what I want to do.

Take him to the house and hold him there
till Peter goes.

You ought to send the girl away, too.

Easy, rag.

We ain't toward this yet, Cortland.
Remember that.

I don't leave no fights unfinished.

All right, come on.

We have to ask you to leave, Peter.

Let him go, boys.

Come over and apologize to Mrs.
Lippincott tomorrow, Peter.

That was a good one you're giving.

This is a shortcut home.

Oh, it's beautiful here.

Yep. Apple.

I got kind of scared when you were
fighting.

I thought he was hurting you.

Thanks for getting scared.

Oh, I love it here.

Can we sit here and talk a while?

Uh -huh.

You smell so sweet.

I... I think you're sweet.

It's gone.

We'll get to the sea, maybe.

Are you going tomorrow for sure?

Uh -huh.

It's been nice having you here.

Your pa always cracking jokes and you
singing songs and everything.

Oh, we like being here.

Oh, I guess you'll be glad to get back
on the road.

First thing you know, you'll forget all
about us.

Maybe.

Think you'll forget about us?

Maybe.

In a couple of years.

Shut your eyes.

And feel the moonlight.

Like you were drowning in silver

heavy you you know what we said about
forgetting in a couple of years

well i don't think i'll ever forget you

Here comes Sally now.

Oh, here she is. It's been a mighty
pleasant little visit, Mrs. Cortland. A

mighty pleasant little visit. We did the
best we could to make you comfortable.

Goodbye, Grandma Cortland. Goodbye,
Charles.

Thanks for the dresses and for
everything. Goodbye,

Mrs. Cortland. I hope to repay you
handsomely for all you've done. Never

about paying me. You just look after
your daughter. Bye, Mrs.

Cortland. Bye.

And there was something I wanted to tell
her.

Then why didn't you?

Why don't you?

Go away!

Get up!

We'll have to let the waist out a mite.

She ain't as delicate as I was.

Yes, yes, yes, that's pretty good.

Now, would you please look over at me?

Yes, I like that much better. Now, will
I take the groom's arm?

Oh, lovely.

Now, don't be nervous, children. Take it
easy. Just a moment. It won't take

long. Let me see. Over here.

Yes, yes.

That's pretty good. Now, let me see from
here.

No, I don't like that.

Oh, there it is. I like that much
better. Yes, that's the one. Now, smile

though you were happy.

Lovely. Now, don't move.

Steady.

One, two, three.

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,

13, 14, 15, 16, and 1, and 2, and 3, and
4, and

5, and 6, and 7, and 8, and 9, and 10,
and 11, and 12, and 13, and

14, and 15!

That's it!

Will you marry me tomorrow, Mariah?

Will you marry me tomorrow, Mariah?

Your ma thinks I'm unsightly. Your pa
insults me nightly. But tell them both

politely to jump in the lake. I'll have
no dilly -dallyin', Mariah.

I'll have no shilly -shallyin'.

Church in the village.

It's going to be right here.

What's going to be right here?

The house I'm building for you.

Peter! It can be painted white.

If you like white houses, I hope you do.

Oh, I love white houses.

And I love you for wanting to build it
for me up here on our hill.

But, darling, you've got a house.

Oh, Grandma'll stay in that one.

She says a young couple ought to be
along.

Come on, sit down. I'll tell you about
it.

I was up here this morning staking the
whole thing out. Where's the front porch

going to be? Oh, it's going to be a
beauty.

Runs across here, 30 feet, and faces
south.

Oh. I hate it.

There'll be a fine scramble for land
options now, Mrs. Gordon. What? We're

trying to get ready quick.

from what we figured. Peter, look what
you've done.

Oh, never mind that.

You can have anything you want now.

But I... I got everything I wanted.

Gentlemen, this oil business very
definitely concerns us. It concerns us

It concerns our Wall Street friends in
New York, our other associates in

Cleveland and St. Louis.

In fact, clear out to San Francisco.

They all agree this may be one of the
big industries of the future.

So, I think it's high time we went to
western Pennsylvania and took control of

it. Getting control of an industry, Mr.
Brennan, takes time and a lot of money.

It certainly does, yes.

That is, unless someone thinks of a
shortcut.

Meaning? Well, these oil fields are
owned by a group of hard -headed

They won't sell out.

But their oil's no good unless it's
refined.

They can't get it to the refineries
unless they use our railroads.

So, if we keep raising the freight
rates, we lower their profits to a

point.

Well, you gentlemen have certainly heard
of a little game called freeze out?

Oh.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Same thing every day.

Paying a lot of men to come up here and
do nothing.

We can't start building your house less
than we know front from back.

We just got started working with Mr.
Cortland and then he had to go.

Said it was something awful important.

My husband's a very busy man these days.

I guess you better tell your men to go
on home.

Guess that's all we can do, Miss
Cortland.

I'm sorry.

Come on, boys.

Hey, ma 'am. Ma 'am!

Have you sorted all that correspondence
on the railroad rates?

Yes, you did.

And I want everything else from the
Brennan offices in Philadelphia.

Oh, you ain't human, Peter. Look at that
clock. The roosters will be crowing

soon. Never mind. I'll get me what I'm
asking for. Then you can go home.

I gotta have my facts dead straight
before I tackle Mr. Walt Brennan and

company.

And that's the worst of the evils these
strangers have brought with them. The

shanty boat.

It's time the God -fearing people of
this county took action.

These gamblers and women and whiskey
sellers are going to be driven off the

creek. Get out.

So this is the sporting life in
Titusville.

lady finishes her song.

The things I get are what I never seem
to want.

The things I want are what I never seem
to get.

I'm just a discontented dreamer with a
discontented heart.

can never win a bet the kind of man I
seem to find

is one with one upon his mind and not
much time to spend

and then I find another kind who wants
to put me

on a pedestal because I'm

I get are what I never seem to want.

The things I want are what I never hoped
to see.

And so it isn't any wonder

talking for a group of men who ship 4
,000 barrels of oil a day on one of your

railroads. 4 ,000 barrels, huh?

My, my, my.

Think of that. How this business is
growing.

Growing fast enough to be interested in
big business, men.

Yes, Mr. Cortland.

Well, I think it's time men with some
important capital came in and organized

it. What about the men who started it?
Put their savings in it, put their

in it, and built it up to what it is. I
admire them.

What courage.

What adventure.

Have another drink, gentlemen? Thank
you. Yes, sir, Mr. Cortland. You can

feel proud of yourselves.

Why, do you know that you're giving your
country a new industry?

You like it, do you?

You like it so well, you want to add it
to your collection.

You've got things a little mixed up.

I'm only interested in railroads.

Yeah, I had your way.

You're the one who's raising freight
rates so high we'll have to shut down

wells. Why not raise the price of oil?

Because our life and the life of our
industry depends on putting out refined

cheap, so as the poor man can buy it.
The poor man?

Oh, I see.

Well, Cortland, what's your solution to
it all?

Lower your rates.

Let me fill your glass.

Never mind that. You listen to me,
Brennan.

Your rates have got to be lowered.

Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Cortland, but you
must permit me to run my own business.

That's final, is it?

I'm to go back and tell them you refuse
to change the rates. No, no. Don't tell

them that.

I'm going to change them.

I'm going to raise them again tomorrow.

Looks the bad for a first cake, does it?
Why, no.

You think he'll like my dress, Grandma?

Well, it's ruffled, ain't it? All you
have to do to catch a man's eye is tack

a ruffle somewhere.

Now, when he comes in, I'll be singing
and playing, and you have the candles

lit.

You think he'll like the cake?

Why, of course he will.

He can't do that. Does Mr.

Brennan own the world?

He thinks he does, him and all his
friends in Philadelphia.

They think the United States of America
is just a big pie for them to cut up and

pass around among themselves.

Any time somebody stopped them, any time
somebody stood up to them, we've got to

stop them.

I'm glad to hear you feel that way.

I know for myself I expect to be
fighting Brennan and people like him to

end. And I'm glad I don't have to fight
him alone.

I'm awfully sorry, honey.

Something extra special came up tonight,
and I couldn't get away. Oh, wait and

wait, and I must have dropped off to
sleep.

Peter Deeger.

Seems there's always something extra
special lately.

I know, honey. I feel terrible about it,
being away so much, and especially

tonight, you baking that nice cake and
everything.

It don't look so good as it did.

I bet it tastes good.

Can we have some now?

Of course you can.

I'll light the candles all over again
and we'll open the presents and have a

real party.

Oh, you poor thing.

Bet you're so tired you can hardly see.

We should give those railroad men a good
licking and send them about their

business.

Then maybe we could settle down to
living.

Maybe we could get started on the house.

I was up on the hill today.

My, it was beautiful.

I don't suppose there's a spot in the
whole world where I'd rather build a

house.

Can we start it soon, Peter?

and evildoers. Get off this rotten raft
and take your women with you.

Get ashore!

Petroleum City, over the line. Peter,
come on, take her inside.

You can't take her into your house. A
wench off a shanty boot.

Who's telling us who we can take into
our house? The girl's hurt. She's nearly

dead. She's going to be taken in here
and nursed until she's well again.

If it ain't too late.

She's got to go across the county line
tonight.

You ain't the law.

Nobody made you judge her right and
wrong. Nobody but yourself.

Bring her in, Peter.

I reckon you don't know what you're
doing, Peter Cortland.

Get your men off of my property stock.

And get them off quick.

You're taking this on yourself.

Remember that.

I'm holding you responsible to every
church -born citizen of the county.

Put her on the sofa, honey.

And run upstairs and get those two heavy
green blankets in the hall closet.

Mercy!

Who is she? Where'd she come from?

She's off a shanty boat.

A shanty boat woman?

In my part?

She's hurt and she's soaked through to
the skin.

Guess I'd better heat some water.

High, wide and handsome, a yellow moon
above.

Why am I riding hard?

Because I'm riding to my love.

This is the hat that went with it, see?

Oh, it's awful pretty.

Do you ever miss all that excitement?

Ain't you ever a little homesick?

Oh, I got a home.

I got a husband to think about.

But all you can do is think about him.
You don't see him very much.

The whole two weeks I've been here, he's
been out every day from morning till

night.

He's having business troubles. He's
fighting the railroad.

That Mr. Stark. He's been bothering him
too, ain't he? What do you know about

him? Oh, I heard all the fuss yesterday.
The door was open.

The elders of the church and all coming
up and telling you to throw me out.

Well, don't you worry. You ain't leaving
this house till I say you're strong

enough to go.

That won't be long.

Oh, Sally, you've been so wonderful to
me. I'll never forget everything. Stop

talking rubbish. Here, open your mouth.

I've been thinking about getting a job
for you.

There's a carnival show coming along
this route pretty soon. I know the man

runs it, Pop Barge. He's a friend of
Pa's.

But I'd be no good with a carnival show.

All I can do is sing sad songs and make
people cry after they've had a few

drinks. But you could learn something
lovely. I could teach it to you. That's

line.

No, Allegheny Owl.

Who's that rascal there?

Who's that steamboat dandy?

Allegheny Owl.

Allegheny Owl.

Fair grease on his hair.

Makes him shine like candy.

Is that her?

Is that the woman off the shanty boat?

No, it sounds like Sally's voice.

You mean that's your daughter -in -law
up there singing and dancing to that

woman?

Well... Mercy, I'm late.

I promised Miss Henderson I'd drop in on
her this morning.

Bye, Wilhelmina.

Bye, Miss Ramage. Bye. Penelope, be sure
and tell Mrs.

Henderson and all the rest of the
gossips about the terrible scandal.

Tell them the Courtlands are practically
running a shanty boat on land.

Wilhelmina.

And the next time I see any of them,
I'll tell them about something I know

happened on a certain hayride.

That time we all went up to Hyde Town.

Just before you met your husband, you
was carrying on with Alf Cotton.

The photographer?

Well, that was more than 30 years ago.

It'd still make a spicy story.

We seem to be hurting ourselves more
than we're hurting the railroads. We

You think so?

You go take a look at the empty cars off
on the railroad side and then figure

out what the other side's losing.

Beamer here says they've got so much
money they can hold out from now to

doomsday. That's right. Now, look here,
man. Just to cause a couple of... Mr.

Cortland, a port of this couple of
American house says Mr. Brennan wants to

you right away.

You hear that?

Maybe Brennan's a little tired of
fighting, too.

Maybe he don't like his cars being empty
anymore than we like our pumps being

out. Go over and see him now, Peter.
We'll wait for you here. All right, you

wait here. I got an idea. I'll bring
back some good news.

Now, just between you and me, why don't
you give your business to the central

refineries in Pittsburgh?

Your railroad owns that, don't it?

Exactly. You deal with our refinery, and
there'll be certain favors that you'll

get to make up for their high freight
rates. Oh.

And the rates wouldn't be hurting me.
They'd just be freezing out the rest of

the fellas.

Say, you catch on quick. You've got a
good head for business.

Well, it ain't hard to figure out.

All it amounts to is plain everyday
stealing.

A few men stealing what belongs to a lot
of men. That happens to be a pretty

good definition of business.

We can't change it, so why try?

Sooner or later, oil's got to be
controlled by a small group of strong

Well, might as well be us.

Who do you think this oil belongs to by
rights?

Ones who grab it first.

It belongs to the world. It's for
everybody to benefit by. You can't tie

and make it any price you like.

But I can, and I will.

Not while I've got any breath left in my
body to fight you.

Fight me.

Don't be a fool.

What could you do without the railroads?

How would you get your oil to the
refineries? Carry it in your hat or roll

there?

I don't know who you think you're
bluffing, but I do know you can't live

the railroads.

Fight me, huh?

Well, go ahead and fight.

I will.

John!

John! What's the matter? Something
wonderful.

Did Brennan give in? Come here.

What do you see?

Bad weather. No. That pipe.

See that rain pipe?

Yes. See the water flowing through that
pipe?

Yes. Well, it isn't water.

It's oil.

It's oil flowing through a pipe.

Peter, have you been drinking? Here, sit
down.

You think I'm out of my head, John?

Well, I am. I am from pain excitement.

I got pipes on the brain.

Iron pipes.

Miles and miles of them.

Carrying our oil.

Clear across the state right smack into
the refineries. You mean... I mean we'll

tell the railroads to go to blazes. And
give Brennan a great big laugh right in

his face.

Gee, hoss of that, Peter. You have
thought of something.

Now, Mr. Engineer, come on, get busy.
Get busy.

Wait a minute.

What's the matter?

What about the cost?

Have you thought of that?

Not to mention the price of the pipe
itself.

Iron isn't butter, you know. I know
that, John.

You begin to draw this pipe on paper,
I'll do the rest, Peter.

You realize that this thing is going to
take every penny you farmers have got.

Maybe more.

Can you afford to take that gamble?

John, we can't afford not to.

Get busy, man. Get busy. Oh, wait a
minute. I have to have my map. Map?

Well, I thought the house was coming
down the way you slammed that front

What is that you're bringing up here?

Stars.

What's the matter with you, Peter?

Oh, I'm myself tonight, Grandma. I'm
King Solomon, wisest of men. I'm

the Great.

Peter! Shh!

Peter,

stop it.

Look at you, you're soaked.

Where have you been?

Away from you.

But I'm back.

See? Back where I want to be all my
days.

Here's the brightest light I ever saw.

Here's the sweetest thing in the world.

Honey, you've had good news.

Things are going your way.

Something's happened. Something
wonderful.

Something wonderful happened the day you
was born.

Oh, where'd you get the apple blossom?

Oh, they just bushed it out on me.

I was a hurrying home to you, and I just
busted into bloom. Tell me, what has

happened?

Don't bother me. Just be quiet.

Just stay like this for a month of
Sundays till Judgment Day.

Like this with me.

Close, honey.

Close.

When you can laugh and be gay,
everything's right for me.

Everything's all right again.

Everything's going to be right from now
on.

That's easy.

You just look at me the way you're
doing.

Mr. Cortland!

Mr. Cortland!

Who's that?

I'm from Mr. Thompson's office. He's got
to see you.

Tell Johnny not to wait on him off.

He says he'll lose the whole day unless
you come to see him tonight.

He's got things to ask you. Says it's
important.

Oh.

All right.

Why does John Thompson have to ask you
questions at this hour?

It's about what's happened.

We thought of a way to beat Brennan.
John and me figured out something.

A way to carry the... I can't help it,
honey. I gotta go.

There's other men in this thing, and
every day we save means something.

Goodbye, honey.

You get some sleep.

It seems like throwing good money after
bad, Mr. Cortland, but I wish you luck.

Thank you.

That closes out your account, Mr.
Stackpole. Yes, I know.

They said they were going to lay pipe
all the way to their refineries, and I'm

down if they haven't started it. That's
not funny. Nothing to laugh at, Mr.

Brennan. Suppose they finish it. Oh,
they won't, Mr. Marble.

I'll show you something.

This line is the pipe.

Mm -hmm.

Well, why is it broken here?

Well, that, gentlemen, is where Mr.
Cortland and his farmer friends might

into difficulty.

Funny if someone bought that entire
strip, wouldn't it?

You mean to say Brennan's bought every
section in that 20 -mile strip?

All except this one piece, 18.

Who owns that?

Joe Veras.

The Greek over at Petroleum City?

The fellow who runs the hunky -dory.

He wouldn't sell to Brennan. Says he
won't sell to anybody.

He's as smart as they make him. I wonder
what he's after.

Let's go over and find out.

We gotta have that.

Jim Lamb, come along with me.

Well, what do you want for your land?

It's like this.

Mr. Brennan say whatever you offer, he
pay more.

Put you in a nice position, don't it,
Joe?

Yeah.

Elegant.

You both got to have it so somebody's
got to give Joe anything he ask.

Well? Well...

You're a gambler, willing to give up
cash from Brennan if you give a good

gambling chance.

You've got a fine oil land, Mr.

Cotland. You want my oil wells?

You've got a fine land where you never
put the wells.

He means your hill.

Yeah.

I hear that's a fine property for
prospecting. So I take that in trade for

land.

You think Joe's smart?

You can't have that hill.

Too bad. Too bad for Pipeline.

Too bad for you farmers lose all you
got.

Look, Joe, that hill means something
special to me. I promised my wife we'd

build our home there.

Oh, you got a wife.

Well, I know how you feel.

I had a wife once.

She was a wonderful woman.

You better ask for something else, Joe.

Don't bother Joe no more.

Don't like the bargains.

Just make it a yes or no.

Nothing in between.

He's got us, Peter.

Oh, he can't do that to me. It's crazy.

Well, he's got the only thing that can
save us. We don't get his land. We have

no pipeline.

That's right, Peter.

Well, I'll get off him a couple of
wells.

He won't take that.

No, he's too smart for that.

You see, he's an old friend of mine.
It's very important I find him. Well, it

won't do you no good to see Mr. Bowers
now.

We'll be all moved and packing in ten
minutes. But where is he?

Well, he's over having a drink in that
honky -dory place.

Right over there. Oh, thank you. Come
on. Come on, Patricia.

This is an awful place for you to come.
Don't you worry about me.

I'm going to get you the best job.

There's Papa.

Molly! I'm so glad to see you.

I see your father a few days ago.

He's going to join my show in a couple
of weeks, you know. Yes, I know.

He tells me you're married and happy.

Say, what are you doing in a place like
this? I'm looking for you. I was over at

your pitch and they told me I'd find you
here.

Well, it's lucky you found me. We were
just getting ready to leave town.

Pop, this is Molly Fuller.

How do you do?

How do you do? I'm awful anxious to get
a job for Molly.

We haven't got what you call an opening
with a show.

Oh, well, she'd take anything.

She sings awful pretty.

Let's hear you.

You mean here?

Sure. Nothing like singing in front of
an audience.

Hey, George.

Play something for this lady.

even decided that we were going to...
Ah, John, you, Mr. Cortland, must say

No other way.

Who's singing out there?

Just some girl.

We... Come inside.

A wife?

Yeah.

Is that her husband?

Yes, and it's all my fault, too.

Mr. Bowers, you gonna give me that job?

No.

Oh, I know I'm in the wrong, honey. I
got kind of carried away trying to egg

Molly on. Carried away?

Is that what you're like, being stared
at by a lot of gamblers and drunks?

Well, I want to see Molly get a decent
job. Molly? What do I care about her?

Who's Molly? You are my wife.

Well, I didn't... Standing on a table
dancing in a cheap bar room. You can't

things like that. You ain't on a
medicine show anymore.

Maybe you'd like to be back doing that.
Running wild over the country with

everybody gawking at you.

Maybe you like that better than being a
married woman.

Maybe I do.

Come to think about it, I was enjoying
myself.

It's the best fun I've had in a long
time.

Fun? More fun than sitting home doing
nothing.

I'm not good at that.

I want to be useful to somebody, even if
it's only to a lot of strangers,

singing them a song, telling them a
joke, cheering people up a little.

some excitement in that anyway.

If that life's so exciting, why did you
marry me?

Because I thought you were the most
exciting thing in the world.

I thought we'd have the most exciting
life of any two people.

Excuse me, Mr. Cotland.

Mr. Cotland, if you sign up the contract
right now, we can get transfer of deed

before everything close up.

Put an ink over here, please.

Just a short letter.

Just say you give Joe the hill and he
give you the land.

What hill is he talking about?

It isn't anything about our hill, is it?

I got to let it go, Sally. Let it go?

Our hill?

Oh, no, Peter, no, you can't do that.
There ain't no other way. I already gave

my word.

But our house, Peter.

It's already started.

There are other people to think of,
honey.

We've got to have that pipeline.

Pipeline. Oil wells.

You've thrown away everything for them.

All right.

If it don't mean anything to you, it
don't mean anything to me then.

Nothing does.

Nothing matters.

Nothing in the whole world.

Come across the street, attend the
transfer.

She'll feel much better when we come
back.

You understand women.

I figured them out, but you still like
that.

Who goes there?

Hold on, who's that?

Is it you, Peter?

What are you doing with that gun?

Well, Joe Williams was on guard, and he
got took with the chill, so I'm taking

his place.

Grandma, next time ask who goes there. I
did.

Yes, but you shot first and then asked.

It should be the other way around, Mrs.
Cortland.

Oh, all right.

All right.

Grandma, I'll have somebody come and
take your place.

Good week's work, Scanlon.

Thanks, General.

Tonight I want to hit them where it
counts.

Do you know the junction where all the
pipes go into one big one?

Down by the bridge.

Yeah, well, if that were busted, it
wouldn't be so easy to put together,

it? Ain't gonna be so easy to bust.

That's a heavy pipe.

I think maybe I can help you with this
one.

How?

Get those fellas over on the brush and
tie them up. Get that hook around their

elbow.

Come on, put some beef into it.

Come on, it's all right.

Get away from it. Get away.

Hurry up. Get on it.

All right, Jim.

back to work.

Who's that?

It's only me, Peter.

Why don't you go to bed?

I don't sleep so well when I do go to
bed.

I could think it was your grandpa
sitting there. The two stubbornest men I

knew.

You just won't do the thing you're dying
to do.

Nothing could persuade you to go and get
that girl back.

Mrs. Dr.

Lippincott come back from Harrisburg
today and she had news of Sally.

Well? Seems there's a show in Harrisburg
called Bower's Carnival and Sally's

singing in it.

Well?

Well, the whole town's talking about
her.

Say she's getting to be the most popular
singer east and west of the

Alleghenies. Why, a man told Mrs.
Lippincott... All right, Grandma, I'm

bed now.

Going to bed.

You'd better go and get her before she
finds out she can get along without you.

Good night, Grandma.

Good night.

Suppose we drink to our new agreement,
and may we all prosper.

Why don't you drink your champagne, Mr.
Lippincott?

I don't feel altogether right. We
promised Peter to see the governor

I wouldn't worry about Peter Cortland.
You've stuck with him long enough. And

what have we got? Nothing.

What side do you want to play, on the
smart side or the dumb side?

Well, I know what you mean.

And I've got my family to think of. Oh,
now, Mr. Lippincott, you're talking

sense. Molly, tell Mr. Lippincott's
class.

But, Mr.

Brennan, what's going to happen to the
others?

The ones who don't come over to your
Pittsburgh refinery?

They'll be out.

Out in the cold.

What about Peter Cortland?

Peter Cortland's got to be smashed.

As a matter of fact, he's going to be
smashed.

Perhaps you ought to explain that to the
gentleman, Mr. Brennan.

Well, he's got to get his pipe to the
refinery within a time limit. That's the

contract, isn't it? But the refinery's
granted him an extension.

Ah. But suppose their bank doesn't
consent to that extension.

Suppose, for instance, that I'd bought
that bank. Exactly.

Well, that would leave him two days to
complete three miles of pipe.

That would be quite a trick to do,
wouldn't it? It certainly would.

Quite a trick to do.

That's him, all right.

real talent. Thank you, Mr. Barnum. And
once I've made up my mind, it doesn't

take me long to act on it. You're coming
with me tonight.

Tonight? Sure, sure. Where? Over to the
big show, New York.

But I'm with this show.

We're going to Petroleum City tonight.

That will all be arranged.

I wouldn't stand in your way, Sally.
I'll pay him well for your contract.

Now, you've got five minutes to get
dressed and start for the train. Go

I'll have a hack at the entrance.

Go get your clothes on.

Scoot.

Good to see you. Sally, I've got some
news for you. What news, Molly? Your

husband, he's in trouble.

Peter? In trouble?

Your daughter isn't much of a quick
change artist, is she? Well, I'll see

keeping her.

Well. You Mr. Bonham? Of course I am. I
got a message for you. She ain't coming.

Who ain't coming?

Sally, Miss Watterson. She had to go
somewhere else. What are you talking

young woman? She's driving to
Titusville.

By herself?

Why, that takes all night.

Titusville? Why in blazes is she going
to Titusville?

Is the girl crazy, throwing away a
future like I just offered her? Can

give her a future in Titusville? Maybe
somebody can.

Maybe somebody.

All right, boulder up. All right.

Peter, Colonel Blake from the
Independent refined this.

Wonder what he wants.

Afternoon, Colonel.

How are you, Peter?

What do you think of the time we're
making? I tell you, in one week we'll

have... Peter, bad news.

You haven't got a week. You've only got
until tomorrow.

But, Colonel, you know it ain't humanly
possible to finish by tomorrow. Why,

it's three miles around this cliff.

And besides, you promised me the
extension.

I know.

It's the bank.

They threatened to call in my mortgage
if I gave you the extension.

But, Colonel, that was... You see, the
bank has a new owner.

Brennan? Yes.

I'm sorry it ended like this, boys.

I wanted to see you win.

But I guess it just isn't in the cards.

Sorry, boys.

That means I call the men off, don't it?

No. Put them back to work. Make them
work like devils. Even devils couldn't

that pipe to the refinery in less than a
week. You do as I tell you. That's what

you're being paid for.

The trouble is we ain't being paid,
Peter.

These men have been paid nothing for the
past two weeks.

They've been working because they've
been promised pay when the pipe started

earn money.

It ain't going to earn money now.

I guess we all know that.

It's no use, Peter.

There's nothing more we can do.

Boys, I'm going back to work.

Who's with me?

crawl home like a pack of liquor dogs.

There ain't going to be any pipeline.

Just a lot of iron rusting and rotting
in the earth.

It's too bad we don't lie down ourselves
and rot. We ain't men, we ain't

nothing.

What was I trying to do anyway?

Who did I think I was? Who cares?

Peter! Peter!

Sally, how did you get here? I came down
for Mary. I came to warn you. They're

going to hold you to your time limit.
Yes, I know.

Look.

Your men quitting?

Yes, we're all quitting.

Not you, Peter. You don't know what it
is to quit. I'm beginning to learn.

But the pipeline.

You've given up everything for it.
That's why I made a fool of myself.

You knew I was a fool, too.

Oh, no, Peter. You showed me what you
thought of me and my notions, didn't

And you were right, too. No, Peter, I
was wrong.

Anybody's wrong runs away from things. I
can't bear to think of you running

away. I'd expect you to fight until you
dropped, until you didn't have enough

strength in your body to move, not to
turn tail and run home. Look, that ain't

like you, Peter.

Well, what do you want me to do? What
have you got to do?

There's three miles around that cliff to
the refinery.

It'd be a miracle to lay that much pipe
in less than a week. They tell me I

gotta do it in a day.

I can't do it, you understand? Nobody
can do it.

I can't make the pipes flower that cliff
or climb over. I can't.

I... Climb over.

If the rock would hold, we could pump it
up.

You thought of something?

Can't talk to you now, Sally.

Hey, Phil!

Phil! Get out of Spike and Hammer. We
are hanging the pipe to the left. Hang

straight over the hill. It's worth the
try, boys.

Come on!

Peter,

I'm going with you.

No, no, Sally, you stay here. I can't
take you.

Come on, guys!

Come on!

They could rig up a block and tackle and
pull the men up so they can drive in

these spikes and run the pipes clamped
to the top. That's a pretty high cliff

climb. I know that, but we can make it.

Only... Only we need more men. We do
that.

And where are we going to get them?

How many more men do you need, Peter?

At least as many more as we have now.

I know.

I know where I could get them.

Well, where, Sally? Never mind. You put
your men to work. I'll get you some

help.

All right, boys, let's get started.

All right, come on, boys.

This one's up to something we ain't
counted on. I thought we'd counted on

everything. Not this. No, just by Adam's
bluff.

You know down there by the pass? Yes.
They're pushing the pipe right up over

Over the top? Yeah.

Red, we've got to stop that. You'd
better get your men together. All right.

You'd better come too, Mr. Brennan. All
right.

Hey, Jack, Jerry, get in here.

Where are you going, Red?

Adam's bluff.

Portland again.

fight, but we still got work to do. We
gotta finish that pipeline.

Come on!

Well, the time's nearly up. Well, it
isn't 12 o 'clock yet.

You've only got two minutes.

Start your pumps.

You see?

Your pipe doesn't help you.