Original subtitles

"The Rifleman,"

starring Chuck Connors.

All right, let's rest a minute.

Ain't never been to North Fork before.

Sure hope we can have us some fun.

You don't object to having a little fun, do ya, mister?

Why don't you just shut up?

Stop it.

What?

You need a little of this too?

Back on your horses.

You be, hear?

Let's not borrow any trouble from strangers.

I'll handle this.

Yes, friend?

Having trouble?

I don't see that's any of your business one little bit.

You could be right.

On the other hand, these youngsters

might think different.

If it makes you feel any better,

we're taking them two into North Fork to get married up.

Take a look, mister, take a real good luck.

It's a gal.

She ain't filled out in the proper places yet,

but it's a gal.

That's enough.

Let's get going.

You know, usually people have a right

to decide for themselves when and where to get married.

I'm deciding for those two.

Kin of yours?

No.

I'd understand if they were.

You're getting to be more than a little curious, Mr.--

McCain.

But I've got no reason to keep it from you.

Well, I'm listening.

My wagon train back there, run across them

just outside of Joulesburg.

The young fools were trying to make it

across Arizona on a buckboard and it broke down.

When you're young, anything's possible.

Claimed to be brothers.

We let them join up, fed them.

Patched their wore outs.

Ask nothing of them except that they do their share.

And all the time, they're making the fool out of me.

Then Ma Wilson found out about the girl.

And now you're playing the Almighty.

You can leave the Almighty out of it.

It's me, Aaron Pelser, whose will is being done.

I got good reasons.

Private reasons.

This is no put in of yours, Mr. McCain.

You can stay out of it, I advise you.

By the authority vested in me, you, Derek Hanaway,

and you, Lisabeth Bishop, are now hitched up good and proper.

Yessiree.

You got a ring, son?

Here, take this cigar band and put it on her finger.

That does it.

Refreshments over here.

Ain't nobody gonna kiss the bride?

Hey, get in there.

Oh, what to say we give these two

a shivaree tonight Texas style?

Come on.

Shivaree.

Come on, you.

What's a shivaree, Pa?

I'll explain later, son.

I only done what had to be done.

You can both ride with Ma Wilson the rest of the trip.

We're not going on with the train.

You got enough money to carry on?

I'd rather eat dirt than take anything from you.

Mr. Pelser.

You got them married.

Why'd you do it?

You wouldn't understand.

Try me.

I had a daughter about her age.

The only flesh of my flesh.

She ran off to Houston with a man to get married.

Said she was sick of living on land

that wouldn't give up enough to eat or to live decent.

They never reached Houston.

They never did get married.

I think I can understand, Mr. Pelser.

That doesn't make it right.

They said they were going to Yuma to get married.

I couldn't take their word for it.

I could never have lived with myself

if I didn't do what I'd done.

Pa, those two newlyweds, what's the matter with them?

They're just standing there like they haven't got a place to go.

Well, son.

I wouldn't mind bunking up with ya, Pa.

I won't even mind if you snore.

I'm Lucas McCain.

We met on the road to town?

Look, my son and I've got a little spread.

We can use an extra hand.

You're welcome to stay until you're ready to move on.

Thank you, sir, we'd be mighty obliged.

You're very kind.

Go get your horses, we'll be right with ya.

There's talk of a shivaree, Lucas.

I'm going to try to break it up.

I've seen a few in my time.

Most of them are innocent enough, but I don't know.

By the time they load up in that bar--

I know, Micah.

This one does seem different.

That's why I'm taking them out to my place tonight.

It is elegant.

And you're a very elegant cook, Mark.

Well, when there's only a couple of bachelors,

knowing how to cook is a matter of self-preservation.

We sort of take turns.

I guess knowing that it'll be your turn

to cook next, you don't do much faulting with what's served up.

It teaches you to be a diplomat even

when you've got a belly ache.

It'll grow out in time, Liza.

It was my idea for her to dress up like a boy, Mr. McCain.

It was a long trip.

Well, men don't get to see many real pretty girls out here.

I didn't want to invite trouble.

That makes sense.

Or it could make it seem like I

was yellow though, couldn't it?

No such thing.

He's always fretting about that, because he was raised to be

peaceable and hate violence.

I think that's what made me love him right off, Mr. McCain.

You're a lucky man, Derek.

Girl just like Lisabeth wore that dress when she married me.

Mark, aren't you kind of falling down on the job, boy?

Why don't you go out and get some firewood?

It gets dark early.

Yeah, it sure does.

Look, what I'm trying to say is I

know you kids want to be alone.

Your room is all fixed up.

Mark will bunk in here with me.

You're very kind, Mr. McCain.

Goodnight.

Goodnight.

Have a goodnight.

Mr. McCain, if you didn't hire me on,

I don't know how we'd get a stake

to get us to Yuma and my folks.

You won't be sorry.

I'll work my fool head off for you.

I told you we had some fences to fix.

We'll get along fine.

I'm awful disappointed in you, Pa.

Huh?

Well, if you wanted to get rid of me,

you could have thought of something better than firewood.

I just filled that box this afternoon.

Oh.

Of course, you can't say I don't aim to please.

No, they can't, son.

Oh, shucks, everybody knows a shivaree's all in the spirit

of good clean fun.

Ain't that right, Ma?

They sure do help you remember your wedding night.

Hush up.

Hush up, all of ya.

I'm telling you, Chet, let be.

What had to be done is done.

It's all finished now, so you forget all about her.

You got no say.

You got no call to keep us from having a little excitement.

I've been watching you look at that girl

ever since you found out she was a girl.

You leave her be.

You making that a order?

You hear me?

Leave her be.

I forgot to tell ya I'm leaving your wagon train,

so you ain't got no call to order

me around anymore, old man.

Old man is what you are.

You're a weak old man.

There, why don't you go on and drink

yourself under the table there?

Now, are we going to have our rightful fun after this wedding

or ain't we?

I understand them newlyweds are out at Lucas McCain's.

Now, we'll just go on out to that Lucas McCain's place.

And we're gonna get have us one more drink, and I'm gonna buy.

What's wrong, Pa?

Oh, nothing, son.

What's a shivaree?

Well, that's a practical joke on folks who just got married.

Joke?

It's not a very good one, I'm afraid.

See, folks come and they do all they can

to harass the bride and groom.

They-- they keep them up.

You think they'll be coming here?

I hope not.

Shivaree tonight, boys.

Shivaree!

Break it up, boys.

Why don't you get in the spirit, Marshal?

It's all in good clean fun.

You can't throw people in jail for just

wanting to have a good time.

You don't have to explain the law to me.

Just make sure it stays fun and nothing more.

It's your move, Pa.

You're not letting me win, are ya, Pa?

No, I'm not, son.

I guess I'm just thinking about the moves I

might have coming up later on.

Mr. McCain, there's something I got to talk to about.

I guess it's time for me to get some more firewood.

What is it, Derek?

Well, you might as well know that I'm

going to be sleeping in the barn as long as we're here.

That's kind of unusual for honeymoon, isn't it?

What happened today don't count.

See, we don't feel like we're married.

Oh?

Not until we get married again in Yuma.

What's so important about Yuma?

Well, I guess what we're doing seems a little unusual to you,

Mr. McCain, but you see, my father is a minister in Yuma,

and Liza and I just don't want anybody else to marry us.

Well, that's understandable

Our whole clan is planning to gather for the occasion.

See, Liza doesn't have any folks,

and a family wedding means a good deal to her.

If it weren't for that, we could just as

well got married in Joulesburg.

Well, if you both feel so strong about it,

it's got to be right.

They're coming for the shivaree.

They say it's all in fun, but I don't know.

Well, it might be just fun for most of those folks,

but I don't think it's that way with Chet Packard.

I think you better go in with Lisa.

Mark, you go with him.

Here they come.

Look, look, you folks may mean well,

but these are only a couple of frightened kids.

And what you've got in mind could easily hurt them.

Aw, come on, fetch them out here.

Nobody's gonna hurt them none.

All we want them to do is jubilate with us.

Look, I'm asking you to please leave them alone.

I don't think you understand. mister.

We rode all the way out here for the lawful fun of a shivaree,

and we mean to have it.

Jerry will keep them busy while we go around the back.

Look, I'm not usually one who's opposed to a shivaree,

but this occasion's different.

What makes it different, mister?

My telling you.

That ain't no fair reason.

Now, we ain't aiming for violence,

and you feel the same way, well, just give us a fair reason.

Now, look, you folks know the couple is just youngsters.

so if you folks have any feeling at all about young people,

why don't you forget about the shivaree?

You sound mighty convincing, mister.

But now, you tell us, why are you sticking your neck out

for a boy and girl you never laid eyes on before yesterday?

Well, maybe it's because of the way I am.

Pa!

I've been talking up to here, now I'm telling ya, all of ya,

get off my property.

Hey, Jerry, get in line.

We got them.

Pa!

Help, Pa!

Micah, you go ahead.

I'll be right with ya.

Liza.

Let go of her!

Liza!

Go on, drink a little of that stuff, honey.

That won't hurt you none.

That stuff will make a real woman out of ya.

Come on, drink it down slow.

Enjoy yourself, honey.

Put her down.

All right, I'll put her down.

Now, let her go.

I told you before I ain't in your wagon train

no more, grandpa.

I know you didn't mean that, so I won't have to pay you back.

Instead, we're going down here and I'll

pour you a little drink.

Stand here, swallow it down, and mind your own affairs,

that's right, ain't it, Aaron?

Go on, drink it.

Mind your own affairs.

As you will, grandpa.

I'll take the bunch down the street.

You take the saloon.

Sure he will.

No.

It's all right, Liza.

Liza!

Soak him good.

A man owes it to his woman to be nice and clean.

All right. Let him go.

Let the boy go.

Now, you've gone too far.

Now, let him go and break it up.

Come on, all of you.

Come on, son.

Come on, boy.

There you are.

You're all right.

Give me that gun.

My legs.

Somebody help me!

Somebody help me!

My legs.

I'll shoot anybody that comes near that door.

It's Derek.

He's in there.

Boy, listen to me.

This is the Marshal talking.

Sorry, Marshal, but that goes for you too.

Son, I'm going to give you three seconds to come out.

Then I'm coming in after you.

Micah.

If you go in there, you'll make that boy a real criminal.

The whole town is losing respect for the law.

I'm not talking about the town.

I'm talking about the boy.

He didn't ask for any of this.

But it happened.

Now, he's a part of it.

And the girl?

Micah, let me give it a try.

He just might trust me.

All right.

Go ahead.

Derek it's Lucas McCain.

I want you to put down that shotgun.

No.

I'm going to make him crawl for the rest of his life,

just like he made me crawl.

I'm going to do the same thing to that evil old man

over there.

If you shoot, boy, you're going to shoot me.

Don't make me do it, Mr. McCain.

Derek, this man needs a doctor bad.

Nobody's gonna help him.

Nobody.

You don't have to crawl anymore, son.

Unless you pull that trigger.

I mean it, Mr. McCain.

Derek, you still have a chance to walk out of there

with your head held high.

Now, which is it going to be, son?

Get that man to a doctor.

It's all right, son.

Maybe the Lord will forgive me.

I know you never will.

I locked Liza in the Marshal's office.

She's waiting for ya.