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MISSISSIPPI RHYTHM (1949)

♫ I'm gonna lay down my burden down by the riverside.

♫ To study war no more.

♫ Ain't gonna study war no more.

♫ Ain't gonna study war no more, ain't gonna study

♫ War no more, ain't gonna study war no more.

You got a bad lay out there, Judge.

You're almost stinking, my friend.

It lacks only the aces.

Yeah, but where's the other one?

Take your card.

I don't see how you're getting a kick out of this game.

You never miss.

Just keeping in practice.

This happens to be the only game on board.

Don't give up, Judge.

I think I spotted a live one.

Not in that bunch of yokels out there.

No, no.

A new passenger came on at Port River Landing.

Wait till you see him.

Nothing but class.

Well, this sounds promising, Judge.

Maybe we ought to make his acquaintance.

Don't rush the man.

Let him at least have time to get settled in his cabin.

Jack of Hots.

Ain't gonna study war no more.

Ain't gonna study war no more.

What's the trouble, son?

I'm supposed to share this stateroom, but there's a woman in there.

There is?

She's not, but all her things are.

Well, let's take a look.

Maybe she got the wrong cabin.

Hey, I guess you're right.

Just like a woman scattered her thingam of things all over creation.

Bet she's a pretty gal, too.

See, I wouldn't touch anything.

I'll see the clerk and get another cabin.

Uh-oh.

Sorry, Dixie.

I didn't know you were busy.

It's all right, Charlie.

Come on in.

Get your bag down.

Make yourself comfortable.

What if she comes back?

Oh, there ain't no she.

That's my trunk, and I'm a traveling salesman.

Selling ladies' dress goods and wearing apparel.

Just thought I'd air my samples out a little, that's all.

Well, why didn't you say so?

Oh, I'd hate to let you know what ugly roommates you was getting.

My name is Dixie Dalrymple.

I'm Jimmy Davis.

Proud to know you, Jimmy.

That's Charlie Mitchell.

Hello, Charlie.

Say, Dixie, I attend the rehearsal, and I think we're gonna run a little short.

Yeah?

Well, maybe Jimmy will help us out.

Help do what?

We're putting on a show tonight for the passengers.

Is there anything you can do like recitate or play the accordine?

Well, I used to do a little singing down home.

That's fine.

Well, if you need me for rehearsal, let me know.

Oh, you won't need no rehearsing with the Sunshine Band.

They can pick up and follow anybody.

Figure him in, Charlie.

This is just the kind of act we've been looking for.

Here's

the harmonica solo played by Maren Welton.

Come in, Maren.

What are you gonna play for the folks?

Mozart, Sonata and C.

Let him have it, boys.

Thank you, folks.

Thank you.

That was Maren Welton.

He's going up into Montana on a one-way ticket.

He can always swim back, cause it's downhill all the way.

Next on our program comes a young man who could go a

long ways in show business if he stuck to it as a career.

This young man has one of the nicest singing voices you'd likely ever heard.

So when you start rocking this here boat with your applause, I am gonna be ready.

Here comes this sensational young fella, the star of our show.

The one and only Dixie Dalrymple.

Well, that's me!

I once knew a gambler down in Birmingham Folks used to call him one-eyed Sam He was

a dice shooter, boy that couldn't lose He would yell, my baby needs a new pass shoot

And throw a seven and eleven And he always let his money ride Another seven,

another eleven He had a roll like an ocean tide He'd fall right down on his knees And

beg them snake eyes to stay away please And throw a seven and eleven And he raked

the money to his side One night when Sam and Maida doesn't lick some more One of

the heavy losers got mad and sore He said, I

know who's cheating, but his name won't shout.

But if he don't stop, he'll shoot his good eye out.

There came a seven and eleven.

And Sammy let his money ride.

Another seven, another eleven.

He had a roll like an ocean tide.

Sam said to the squawker, if you can't lose right,

why don't you stay at home and lock yourself in tight.

And throw the seven and eleven.

And he raked the money to his side.

Now Sam kept a shootin' like he heard he might.

There came a live report of a pistol shot.

I looked at Sam in time to see his eye go out.

As he fell to the floor, I heard his last breath shout another seven, another eleven.

And just left the money ride.

Another seven, another eleven.

He had a roll like an ocean tide.

And then he looked up at us and said with a grin,

there's a game up yonder that I'm gonna get in.

And throw the seven and eleven.

And he raked the money to...

Thank you again, folks.

Next comes a surprise attraction you already know about.

You're gonna hear a real singer sing now.

Come up here, Jimmy Davis.

All yours, Jimmy.

Thank you, Dixie.

Boys, will you play put on an old pair of shoes?

Bad-looking prospect.

Not bad at all.

A pair of shoes.

And we'll go walkin' down the alley.

Maybe we'll run in to Sally.

And all the gang we used to know put on an old pair of shoes.

And even though our clothes are baggy, maybe we'll run in to Maggie.

And Joe.

Through all kinds of weather.

As we make the rounds together.

The old gang don't care whether we're broke or we're in the dough.

We'll find our dreams left behind.

In all the old familiar places.

As we mend the broken laces.

Of an old pair of shoes.

We'll always find fair weather.

Hey, hey, hey.

In rain or in the snow.

We don't care whether we're broke or we're in the dough.

You know, I went back to the old hometown just a few days ago.

I didn't see Sally and I couldn't find Joe.

I stood on the corner and I watched the strangers go by.

Then I saw some I'd known and I brushed a tear from my eye.

Back to the old homestead.

The two-room shack and my mother.

Gee, but I was glad to meet her.

A little bit older but a whole lot sweeter.

A few more wrinkles and her eyes were blinking.

And I said, Mom, what are you thinking?

Said, I was thinking of you, Jim.

And all the girls and boys.

Said, you know, son, the children of the alley were your mother's toys.

And you two, my friends, should go back before it's too late.

And take one more swing on the old garden gate.

You'll forget your worries.

And you'll lose the blues if you're lonely.

Put on an old paroch.

Thank you, fellas.

There's nothing more I can say, folks.

I told you we was gonna get a surprise.

And we got one.

If I was you, I wouldn't speak to me either.

Hello, Dixie.

Jimmy, I'm downright shamed of myself.

I guess you know why we put you on.

They were all ready to laugh and jeer at you.

But you stopped them cold.

Well, they had me scared for a minute.

That was a cheap trick, and I'm sorry.

I don't blame you for not coming back in.

Oh, that wasn't it.

I just had a lot of things to think about.

What's the trouble, Jimmy?

No trouble except trying to decide if I'm right.

I had an uncle up in Montana.

He died and left everything to me.

Don't sound to me like that's anything to worry about.

It wasn't easy to decide.

I was working in a law office just beginning to get started.

And now I'm wondering if I wouldn't have been better off if I'd stayed where I was.

Don't you have any family or nothing?

I haven't got around to that yet.

Well, Jimmy, a fella can't stop and worry the rest

of his life away every time he comes to a crossroad.

Like I see it, he either has it or he don't.

He can make things work out no matter which road he takes.

Well, that's one way to look at it.

Them fellas are gonna be up half the night, but not me.

I'm gonna turn in.

I think that's a good idea.

Mr. Davis, would you go in and finish this hand, please?

We're playing poker in there, but I just couldn't stand it anymore.

The movement of the boat makes me sick.

Well, I'm afraid I'm not much of a card player.

Well, don't worry about that.

Just call any one of their bets.

It's only a pair of tents, but they're bluffing.

Gentlemen.

It's all right if Mr. Davis plays out my hand?

Of course.

Won't you sit down?

I'll be all right as soon as I get a little air.

Thank you.

I guess Sam isn't much of a sailor.

I guess not.

It's your bet, Augie.

Yeah, two dollars.

Sam's in.

I'm out.

Well, let's see now.

Yes, I think I'll raise.

Make that five dollars.

Oh, I'm out.

It's up to you, Mr. Davis.

Sam calls.

Looks like you've got me.

Just a pair of deuces.

Sam has two tins.

Oh, it's all yours.

You'd better keep this bar, if you'd excuse me.

Well, it's a shame to break up so early.

Why not sit in until our friend Sam gets back?

Oh, well, I don't know.

Oh, just a few hands.

Well, if he won't be going very long.

Oh, just try to keep Sam out of a poker game.

I'll bet he isn't going ten minutes.

Oh, wait a moment.

Care to join us?

We can play five, you know.

Sure, thanks.

I'll just stand and look all the way.

Well, I believe it's your deal, Mr. Davis.

Hey, Jimmy, that jack muck's a little worn out.

What about trying a new one?

You'll mind?

No.

No, uh, we'd be delighted.

Three jacks.

Full house.

You certainly are holding the cards.

I've never seen such stupendous luck.

I wish Sam would come back.

Maybe you'd better go see what happened to him.

Yeah, I'll get him for you.

I'll open for five.

I'm in.

Same here.

And I'm out.

Cards, one.

Give me three.

Two.

I'll bet five more.

I'll stay.

I'll call it and raise you five.

Give me one of those cigars.

Well, that's a pretty fair-sized pot.

Let's see now.

You took two cards, didn't you, Jimmy?

That's right.

I don't know whether to call you or just raise.

Oh, thank you, Duke.

Care for a cigar, Jimmy?

No, thanks.

Well, let's make this interesting.

Shall we say another 50?

Oh, that's too steep for me.

I guess I'll just call, Judge.

Full house.

How unfortunate.

Four beautiful ladies.

Well, that's quite a hand.

Please.

I think I had to drag you.

I don't feel like playing anymore.

Why don't you just go and play the way you are?

It's all right with you, Jimmy.

Yeah, deal me in.

I'll raise you 20.

I'm out.

What happened to those cigars?

I'll get them.

Let's make this a real pot.

I'll call that 20 and raise you 50.

I'll call that and raise you 50.

Let's wait a lap for this hand.

Hey, what's the idea?

I'm a little superstitious.

I'll, uh, call that bet.

Too bad.

Beats me.

Dixie, these are very expensive cigars.

Try one.

Don't mind if I do, Jimmy.

Thanks.

Well, what do you know?

Four kings.

Yeah.

How did you know?

I told you I was superstitious.

You mean you're supernatural.

Any complaints?

There'll be no complaints from anybody.

Put that gun away.

You don't have to.

I'm leaving.

Sorry to break up your game.

I thought you were warned about gambling on this boat.

Us, Warren?

Why, he took us for 220 dollars.

Where did you ever learn to scrap like that?

That's the way we spend Saturday nights down in the cotton field.

Jimmy, I reckon Montana's gonna be lucky for you.

Think so?

I understand you've already turned down a job singing with the band.

Yeah, and I hated to refuse.

Hey, look.

So this is Creek City.

Quite a place, Jimmy.

Yes, sir.

Some town.

Well, come on, Jimmy.

Wait a minute.

Well, look who's here.

Hello there, Judge.

Girls, I want you to meet some friends of mine.

Judge Kenworthy, late of the circuit court.

A pleasure, ladies.

Sam Beale.

He was with the United States Marshal's Office.

Hello, Sam.

I brought a couple of my boys along.

Duke McCall and Augie Gannett.

Glad to see you, boys.

I want you to meet Jeanette.

She runs the Roundup Saloon.

Why don't you bring them around tonight, Mr. Caldwell?

I'm putting on a new show.

Thank you.

Caldwell.

Say, that is the name of my uncle's partner.

Yeah?

Sure looks pretty thick with those gamblers.

Birds of a feather, I reckon.

Vultures, maybe.

Could be.

Say, Charlie, is that job still open?

Sure, it's yours if you want it.

Well, it's a deal.

Put me on.

That's fine.

Come on over.

The new boss is waiting.

I thought you said you was claiming that estate.

Well, I want to have a chance to look over the town...

before Caldwell knows I'm here.

Not a bad idea.

He's gonna be your partner now, ain't he?

That's right.

Here they are, girl.

Say, they don't look bad from here.

Hi, fellas.

Gee, I'm gonna like this town.

You'd better like it.

I'm the gal who hired you.

Well, you're Jeanette.

Now I know we're in the right town.

Come on, you boys are gonna ride in style.

But wait, there's one more.

Don't be bashful, son.

You're in show business now.

Jeanette, this is our new singer, Jimmy Davis.

Well, Jimmy, how do you like the wild of Wooly West?

Well, it's a little bit wilder than I thought.

You'll get used to it.

Come on, everybody.

I'll get a rig for the baggage and meet you at the hotel.

All right.

Hope you don't mind playing your own welcome music.

Nothing like letting them know we're in town.

Let me help you.

Hey, take it easy.

You'll scare the horses getting polite around here.

I understand you left New Orleans one jump ahead of a tower and feather party.

Close call.

I'm getting a little old to be running for boats.

Well, your worries are over, Judge.

I own half this town, just about everything else around here.

Came up here two years ago, just before the land boom started.

You must have things pretty much your own way.

And I'm gonna keep them that way.

That's why I sent for you boys.

I want my own men in office.

It makes a lot less trouble that way.

I see what you mean.

You tell me today that you're going Far away just to make you a name You tell me

that you're discontented And that you are searching for fame Somehow I can't realize

we're parting I have grown used to having you near The strings in my heart,

dear, are breaking I just can't say goodbye to you, dear

The finest land in all Montana, the land you all want.

Step right inside there and the jail will take care of you.

Get your money down now before the next band gets the land you want.

Here you are, mister.

Did you find out yet what happened to you, uncle?

Yep, he was shot and killed when somebody tried to hold him up to you.

But a lot of people think it was planned that way.

Well, if you gave me three guesses about

whodunit, I'd place all three votes on Calwell.

Hold it, fellas!

Save your money!

Anybody who buys land around here will be cheated just like I was.

Cut out that crazy dog, Pop.

Crazy, is it?

And anybody who buys land is crazy.

Why, that's good land.

I tested the soil myself.

Sure, it's good soil.

The best you're gonna find.

But you need water to work your land.

And you gotta buy that water from Calwell.

And when you can't pay what he wants, he takes your land and sells it over again.

You wanna go broke like I did?

Come on, buy their land.

For all of you.

What are you waiting for?

You're out of your head, Pop.

Marshal, put that man under arrest.

Come along, Pop.

What charges you're holding, Maughan, Marshal?

Well, I... The charge is slander.

Willful and malicious slander.

Calculator to interfere with honest trade.

In that case, the law says you'll have to release him on bail.

He seemed to know quite a bit about the law.

I'm afraid he's right, Mr. Calwell.

How much will it be, Judge?

Since you're paying it, that'll be exactly $220.

Judge, I'm not raising.

I'll just call.

No more sales today, boys.

Can't tell you how obliged I am, and I won't forget it.

Well, I guess I'm the one that's obliged to you, Pop.

Showing me how Calwell operates.

But I'm afraid you've let yourself in for a lot of trouble.

Trouble?

Nothing new about that, the way they've been trying to run me off my land.

I'd like to hear about that.

In that case, we'd better mosey over to the roundup.

A little bit too unconfidential around here.

We got trouble with that Davis on the way up here.

Thanks.

Well, he won't get away with it in this town.

Don't underestimate him.

A man can be dangerous when he knows a little about law.

For a singer, he knows too much about the law.

Too much for his own good.

The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping...

I dreamed I held you in my arms...

But when I... A little stand table up front.

Well, we can talk.

This is business.

So I hung my head and cried... You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

You make me happy when skies are gray.

You'll never know, dear, how much I love you.

Please don't take my sunshine away.

You two boys aren't thinking of taking my singer away...

Because he goes around bailing people out of trouble.

You heard about that?

People who lean on bars hear a lot of things.

Oh, you can get plenty of other singers.

Not like Jimmy.

The way you say that, you ought to pay to get in.

Don't let that fool you.

I'm a businesswoman.

A gal can't get romantic on tired feet.

You told me that two or three times.

No one will ever know.

My heart is breaking.

Although a million teardrops start to flow.

I'll cry myself to sleep.

And wake up smiling.

I'll miss you, but no one will ever know.

I'll tell them we grew tired of each other.

And realize our love could never be.

You, I'll even make believe.

I never loved you.

And no one will ever know the truth but me.

They like him.

Maybe they'd all come down tonight to see him all.

He's leaving on the six o'clock boat.

You'd better tell him.

He hasn't heard about it yet.

Uh, isn't the landlord going to buy the tenant a drink?

Sure.

Anytime after six o'clock.

You want to see me?

Sit down, Jimmy.

You don't look like the belligerent type.

I'm not, ordinarily.

Well, if you must go around picking fights, why do

you have to pick on the guy that owns half this town?

Because I'm not too fond of the way he runs it.

Oh, you're not.

Hey, Pop.

Hmm?

Jimmy said he didn't want you to leave town for a while.

And if I don't go, then I ain't coming and be grabbing my property.

I ain't paid the water and I ain't going to.

Come on.

Come on.

Looks like Pop's starting home.

Yeah.

I think we'll take a little ride out that way.

Look, nobody does what they want in this happy little community.

They do what Caldwell wants.

For instance, you're leaving tonight on the six o'clock boat.

Yeah?

I don't think so.

No?

Well, maybe you'd rather stick around and be shipped out of a pine board box.

What's the matter, Dixie?

Pop just pulled out of town and two deputies took out after him.

Excuse me, Jeanette.

Don't be a fool, Jimmy.

Do you want Caldwell's gunmen after you?

Don't worry.

I'll be back in time for the next show.

Your next show will be a farewell solo.

We'd better hurry, Dixie.

Livers labor down the street.

Hey, wait a minute, Jimmy.

Them horses, ain't they?

They certainly look like horses.

Yeah.

Where's he going now?

Off sticking his chin out again.

You sure gotta hand it to that guy.

Get off my land.

We're deputy marshals, Pop.

We just thought we'd drop around and ask you about that water bill.

I ain't getting no water since Caldwell's shed off the creek.

Rainwater's all I got unless he's charging for that, too.

You want my advice, Pop.

You better start packing.

You know, things might happen to make it uncomfortable around here.

After that, they might get a little bit worse.

Here.

Here.

What are you doing there?

He's been saving that water.

I guess he kind of likes the taste of it.

Augie, look.

Pesky backbiting sidewander.

We'd better get you to a doctor, Pop.

I'll be all right.

Take more than a little bashing around to scare me off my land.

Just get me in the house.

I seem like you spend most of your time doing me favors.

I don't know whether I want to live in a country like this or not.

Well, we'll do what we can to make it better.

You bet.

Get down over those horses.

You know, Davis, you saved me a lot of time.

I was about to send out a posse to bring you in.

I'm afraid that would have been too much riding for you deputies.

Meaning what?

They must have ridden in pretty fast after we caught them giving old Pop that beating.

Yeah.

He must have seen somebody else.

These men didn't leave town.

But you did.

On stolen horses.

Too bad you didn't know.

The penalty for horse thieves is hanging.

Well, whose horses are, then?

Who's pressing the charges?

I am.

I said you knew too much about the law for your own good.

Those horses belong to my land company.

In that case, it makes me the half-owner.

Yeah.

Now you're gonna have to tell us which end we stole.

What do you think you're talking about?

I guess I'd better introduce you, fellas.

This is Jimmy Davis.

Your partner in the Creek City Land Company.

That's hard to believe.

You'll get used to it.

I'm taking my uncle's place.

He left his half-interest to me.

Why didn't you say something about this before?

Well, I want to look around the town and see what I owned around here.

Anything to what he says, Caldwell?

Well, it's easy enough to prove one way or the other.

He's got us again, Marshal.

Your tissue makes veritas.

You can't hold him till you find out.

You know, I've been waiting for Tom Galloway's

nephew to show up so I could buy him out.

There's only one trouble with that, partner.

I'm not selling.

You're making a mistake by not accepting my offer.

We'd just be getting in each other's way.

Well, I don't mind that as long as I know the landowners are getting a square deal.

Think it over.

If you change your mind, drop in at the office.

I'll be dropping in anyway.

Wait till I tell those banjo-busters who they've been playing for.

All right.

Well, it looks like some of the laughs on me, doesn't it?

Here I congratulate myself all over the place because I find a singer.

And I wind up with another landlord.

And you know I was beginning to like that job, too.

Mm-hmm.

And I had a big surprise for you.

I was going to give you a $10 raise.

Well, maybe I'd better take $10 off the rent.

Jimmy, it must have sounded awfully funny, me warning you about Caldwell.

But it still goes.

I know.

He can make a lot of trouble around here.

And he will.

He knows he can get away with murder in this town, and he probably has already.

Well, thanks for the advice.

And for the $10 raise.

Welcome to the crewed city, James.

Here you are, the brightest middle city in the United States.

I think you're going to like our town.

I'll do you.

Say, Dixie.

What happened to tell me you checked out at the hotel?

Yeah.

I'm taking the boat back home.

You didn't say anything to me about it.

I know, Jimmy.

The sales are scarce, and women are scarcer.

Just look like I picked out the wrong section of the country for ladies' dress goods.

Well, I guess it has been kind of slow around here.

Yeah, it sure has.

Say, what about that order Jeanette gave you for the roundup?

Well, she never said nothing to me about it.

Said she couldn't spend the money.

Well, I just got through talking to her, and she's looking for you.

She wants to get new outfits for all the girls.

Now you're talking my kind of talk.

I'll go right down and see her.

Take any one of these.

Thanks, Jimmy.

I beg your pardon.

Could you tell me where I can find Judge Kenworthy?

He's around town here, I guess.

I'm his daughter Dorothy.

I was supposed to meet him in New Orleans, but he had to leave suddenly.

That happens to the judge all the time.

Come on, we'll find it for you.

Thank you.

I think I'll play a little poker.

Oh, no, you won't.

Why not?

Nobody's getting hurt, and I want to keep it that way.

Hello, Father.

Dorothy!

Well, what on earth are you doing here?

I thought you'd be surprised.

Well, that's putting it mildly.

You sent your last letter from New Orleans, but I

had the hardest time trying to find where you'd gone.

I finally had to go to the police.

Yes, they'd usually know.

You don't seem the least bit glad to see me.

Well, this is hardly the right kind of country for a young girl.

Young girl?

Why, I'm 18.

We'd better hold our family reunion a little more privately.

What did she mean when she said she didn't want you playing poker?

Well, you... Well, you see, Jeanette didn't mean that the way it sounded.

We have a lot of arguments here about town politics.

And a judge is very decided in his opinion.

Why, yes.

I didn't want to have any fights or arguments starting.

It isn't as serious as that.

We'd better talk about getting you on the next boat for back home.

I wouldn't think of leaving.

You wouldn't like it here, miss.

I will, too.

I think it's perfectly wonderful.

Come on.

You'd have made a fine lawyer.

Now then, Miss Jeanette, how about the order for them new costumes?

What costumes?

Oh, yes.

You know the order you told me you were going to give Dixie.

Oh, oh, yes.

The new costumes.

Let me see.

How many was I going to order?

Two for each girl.

No, I think I'll make that four for each girl.

Four?

Uh-huh.

Four for each?

Uh-huh.

This is wonderful.

I've got to take the measurements.

I'll get their sizes for you.

Won't be no trouble.

You just leave those girls alone.

All right.

But it's a mighty poor sailman.

Don't make sure he's got his measurements correct.

See, I want to pay for those costumes.

Oh, no, you don't.

You can see the way the mauds have eaten up the ones they have on.

Yeah, practically nothing left.

This is one gal who pays her own bills.

If I want to do any gold digging, I'll get a shovel that'll go out in the hills.

Where's Caldwell?

He's inside.

What can I do for you?

I'm a partner in this business case.

You've forgotten it.

The landowners keep reminding me.

I understand you've been around talking to them.

They asked me to do something about the money

they've been paying for their water supply.

The usual complaint, they want something for nothing.

I told them I'd help them as soon as I could look over our books.

You'd have to get a court order for that.

And I guess you'll see that I don't get one.

Listen, Davis.

I made you a good offer for your uncle sharing this business.

You might as well take it, because there's nothing else you can do about it.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

They have laws, even way up here.

The only law in this town is the marshal and the judge.

And I put them both in office.

So forget about the law.

Start figuring what you're gonna get out of this.

The way you've got it figured, I'd get the same thing my uncle got.

What?

Hi, Jimmy.

Hi.

Did you get that worried look all by yourself, or did you have help?

Caldwell helped a little.

Well, hop in.

The ride will do you good.

Maybe it will.

Where are you going?

We just heard Jeanette's costumes come in there, down at the land.

Dixie borrowed the wagon, but the problem is getting that horse back in one piece.

Well, if that's any problem, we'll just throw the horse

in the wagon and bring him back with the costumes.

I don't know which one I'm gonna like the best.

The yellow one or them fancy ones with the creepity shine.

Crepe to sheen.

Yeah.

Reckon I could sell more of that stuff, I'd learn the name of them colors.

This is sort of like a grab bag, ain't it?

Uh-huh.

What's that thing?

Well, it looks like a menstrual show costume.

I'm beginning to think they made a mistake in the order.

I'd say that was pretty good thinking.

Just a legal problem, that's all.

It is?

You mean I ought to sue the company for sending the wrong order?

No, no, I'm thinking about a way to get around that Caldwell.

Who's talking about Caldwell?

I am.

He runs everything the way he wants it.

He wants his own judge and his own marshal.

But he couldn't get away with it if we incorporate the town.

Yeah, incorporate.

I should have thought about that, Mathel.

What does it mean?

It means we'll have some real law around here.

The people will have something to say.

The land owners, they'll have the right to vote for their own officials.

Do you think we could put it over?

Sure, we can put it over.

And when it's Creek City Incorporated, what's that Caldwell squirm?

He's kinda touchy.

He may have some vague idea about trying to stop us.

Well, we'll keep it under cover a while till we get the land owners together.

That sounds easy, but I don't know.

This might do it.

Huh?

Yeah!

Wonderful idea.

We better go.

Judge, what's the idea of your daughter helping Dixie?

Why, Dorothy's rehearsing with the show.

Just a small singing part.

It was her own idea.

I told you, didn't I?

Jimmy Davis is putting on that show.

Well, we better not wait to find out why.

♫ Howdy, folks.

♫ We are glad to see you.

♫ Howdy, folks.

♫ We are going to please you.

♫ We'll make you laugh.

♫ We'll make you smile.

♫ We're going to please you, folks.

♫ We'll make you laugh.

♫ It's all the while, so howdy, folks.

♫ And when our show is over, we will send you all to feel it grand.

♫ You are bound to go, I see them, that's for sure.

♫ Can you hear a menstrual band?

♫ When do you hear a man fall back?

When a man gets drunk, he's been drinking.

When a ship goes down, it's a-sinking.

When a working man gets warmed up in the summertime, he ain't no Magnolia.

Dixie, I'm ashamed of you interrupting your show like this.

Well, I accept your apology.

You think you're smart, don't you?

Here's one that'll get you, Dixie.

Lead your ways, boy.

Lead your ways.

All right, listen closely now.

What's the difference between Uncle Sam, a rooster, and an old maid?

What's the difference between Uncle Sam, a rooster, and an old maid?

That's right.

Well, Uncle Sam says Yankee-doodle-doo.

Yes.

A rooster says Cock-a-doodle-doo.

Uh-huh.

And an old maid says any old doodle-doo.

And now we're going to have a very beautiful ballad, One Has My Name,

The Other Has My Heart, sung by a favorite here at the round-up, Jimmy Davis.

One has my name, the other has my heart.

With one I'll remain.

That's how my heartaches start.

One has brown eyes, the other's eyes are blue.

To one I am tied, to the other I am true.

One has my love, the other only me.

But what good is love, to a heart that can't be free?

So I'll go on living, my life just the same.

While one has my heart, the other has my name.

One has my love, the other only me.

But what good is love, to a heart that can't be free?

If I could live over my life, I would change.

The one who has my heart would also have my name.

Last September, how well do I remember, I

was walking down the street with manly pride.

My heart went all aflutter, then I fell into the

gutter, and a pig come up and lay down by my side.

As I lay there in the gutter, with my heart still

all aflutter, a lady by chance was heard to say.

You can tell a man that boozes, but a company that it chooses.

And the pig got up and slowly walked away.

How many of you folks out there would like to see some really good dancers?

Ladies and gentlemen, Dixon?

Yes, Dixie?

Speaking about one thing and talking about another, is you good on gaffing riddles?

Dixie, when you're talking about riddles, you're talking about my pet hobby.

I bet I got a riddle you can't unriddle.

All right, try me.

Oh, don't get caught, now, don't get caught.

No, I won't.

If it takes 187 yards of green calico to make an elephant a wrestling jacket,

how long will it take a bow-legged fly with a

corked leg to crawl through a barrel of molasses?

I don't know, Dixie, I'm stuck.

So was the fly.

You're now going to hear, Why Don't Someone Marry Mary Ann?

By everybody's favorite, that very lovely Miss Jeanette.

♪ In the hills of Tennessee lives a family named McGee.

♪ They've really got a problem on their mind.

♪ For their daughter, Mary Ann, just can't find herself a man.

♪ She ain't even been nobody's valentine.

♪ All her sisters, so they said, had no trouble getting where.

♪ Everyone is settled down and doing grand.

♪ It's a shame and a disgrace that they're all compelled

♪ to face the fact that no one's asked for Mary Ann.

♪ Oh, why don't someone marry Mary Ann?

♪ No gal can shoot a rifle like she can.

♪ And what fills her with dismay?

♪ She'll be 12 next round of day.

♪ Oh, the future don't look bright for Mary Ann.

♪ She's got a true soul.

♪ Oh, why don't someone marry Mary Ann?

Do you know anything about the man that I gotta see when I go see the man that I

gotta see at the government about a simple syrup examination?

You no doubt mean a civil service examination, Peenie.

Yeah, that's it.

Well, I got to get these papers filled out or else fix them up so nobody else can.

Well, I'll be glad to help you.

I'll ask you the questions here and you answer them.

Fine.

Here comes the first question.

All right.

Now tell me.

Yes, but?

How far is it from the earth to the moon?

Yeah, wait a minute.

What's the matter?

Oh, if that's the mail rat they gonna give me, I don't want the job.

And now, folks, I have a surprise for you.

We're gonna hear tell all about the Levy Shuffle sung by Dixie Dalrumple.

Now, folks, I'm gonna tell you about a new dance craze down in Dixie land.

Talk about steppin', they go wild.

Dance to a Dixie band.

You will see it most everywhere.

If you look around down there.

It's called the old Levy Shuffle.

You can tell them.

If you ever see it, you can't forget them.

Old head flowed, old and neat.

Spreaded on the floor and grabbed herself a cheek.

He's got a rollin' motion, like the way of the ocean.

Oh, boy, you feel grand.

One old man, past 83.

Yelled some pretty lady, come and dance with me.

When you saw the Levy Shuffle, your Levy Shuffle, down in Dixie land.

Thank you, folks.

Thank you.

I want to first let you know that the show's not half over.

Well, we're just getting unlimbered, folks.

But I know a lot of you good people out there want to

know why we're putting on this little show tonight.

Got you here together.

Well, folks, we have a mighty good reason for it.

And my friend and your friend is gonna tell you all about it.

Come up here, Jimmy.

Thank you, Dixie.

I see a lot of friends here, men I've talked to.

The landowners.

The real owners of Creek City.

And some of you men have asked me to help you.

And that's what I'm trying to do.

You don't have any problems that can't be solved if

you stick with me in trying to incorporate this town.

That means you will have the privilege of voting

for and electing your own public officials.

It means you will keep your God-given rights.

And I'm speaking of the water you will need to cultivate your land.

Free cheers, forgive me!

It can't be done with cheers.

It has to be done with votes.

And we'll have a special election and see if the people

of this community want this to be an incorporated town.

Now, you people have a lot of friends.

And it's up to you to go out among them and spread the news.

You know, there's only one group of people that can do anything about this.

And I'm speaking to that group now.

Stay here till it's over.

Off your hip.

Oh, I know that.

You're just a sample of the law here getting around here.

You don't see the marshal going after them gunmen, do you?

Well, I was just about to organize a posse.

What good would it do if you brought them in and the judge would turn them loose?

What do you mean by that?

I mean it's your father's taking orders from Caldwell just like the marshal is.

There's only one remedy to that is to get your votes out.

Everybody go to the polls.

Pop, we better get you fixed up.

Oh, I'm all right.

They ain't good enough shots to hurt nobody.

Vote and boost right on the inside, folks.

Come on in, gents, and cast your votes.

Exercise your right and protect your property.

Don't be as scared to vote, gents.

It's a secret ballot and nobody will know how you're voting.

Come on in and cast your votes, Jack.

Right on the inside.

Boost right on the inside.

Right there, sir.

Better get your votes in, boys.

How about you, mister?

Ain't you gonna cast the vote?

Boost right on the inside.

How about you, sir?

And you?

You've all got the same rights.

What's your name?

Duke McCall.

A secret ballot and nobody will know how you're voting.

Come on in and cast your votes, Jack.

Right on the inside.

This is right over there.

Right on the inside.

Right there.

How about you, sir ?

Secret ballot. Nobody will know how your vote..

I'm gonna cast the vote for Caldwell.

Now, don't worry.

Those ranchers will be here just as soon as they get the chores done.

I hope so, but they're all kind of timid about voting.

Gee, I wish Jimmy was here.

He'll be here as soon as he makes sure those landowners are coming to town.

♫ Go and leave me if you wish to Never let me cross your mind in your heart You love

♫ another Leave me, little darling, I don't mind Leave me, darling, I don't mind

How about you out there, mister?

Ain't you gonna vote and protect your rights?

You want law and order, don't you?

Well, here's your chance.

Oh, come on.

You're not hog-tied, are you?

That's the spirit, boys.

Let's see how the vote is going.

Caldwell thinks you ought to vote the other way.

Wait till my father hears about this.

The judge doesn't have anything to say about it.

You better stop that guy, Dixie.

He just started out the back door.

Let him go.

The landowners aren't gonna vote anyway.

I'm gonna barricade the town.

Let him go.

Let him go.

We've already read about the outcome.

So get into town now.

The polls close at 6.

Come on, boys.

Let's go.

Tell your father not to worry.

There won't be any more voting today.

If that's the way he has to hold office, I'm sure he doesn't want it.

Caldwell is a man who's used to getting his own way.

And you did everything he told you.

After all, I didn't have much choice.

So now you're gonna run away.

If you want to know the truth, I'm afraid of Caldwell.

Go on, run away.

You wouldn't know how to be decent or honest even if you tried.

All you men out there, listen.

I have a few words to say.

It's been a long time, but I used to have a pretty fair reputation as a judge.

People looked up to me and respected my opinion.

And I'm going to give you my honest opinion now.

Caldwell controls this town because you let him get away with it.

This is your chance to do something for Creek City.

To vote to incorporate.

Caldwell is afraid of your vote.

He's afraid of an honest court of law that will

open his books for investigation of his operations.

That isn't all I can tell you, or all I'm going to tell you.

You have a right to know how and why he got rid of... Oh, you killed him!

Down by the riverside...

Down by the riverside... Down by the riverside... Gonna lay down my burden...

Down by the riverside...

I'd like to say this to all those who are qualified to vote.

Any man who fails to exercise his privilege to vote...

does not have the right to criticize the government... under which he lives.

Now, I've done all I can do.

This is in your hands.

Hey, Jimmy!

Jimmy!

Jimmy, Carmel's got his leg.

His gunman have took over the polls...

and they've thrown out all the votes he don't want.

You heard that, folks.

This is your fight.

So if you want to keep your land, follow us.

Give me a gun, partner.

We tried it both, Jimmy, but the town's barricaded off.

I'll go with Dixie around the other side.

If you hear a shootin', come runnin'.

Let's go, Dixie.

The polls are about ready to close, Reeves.

Let's take a look at that barricade.

Jimmy, where in tarnation did you learn to shoot like that?

Pickin' off crows in my dad's cornfield.

Oh, heck.

All right, you two.

Inside.

Creek City, Incorporated.

Hurry up, Dixie.

Let's see those new costumes.

As temporary presiding judge of the Incorporated Township of Creek City,

I hereby turn these prisoners over to this U.S.

Marshal for trial in federal court.

What?

That's a smart company.

They must've knewed somethin'.

Well, that calls for a celebration.

How about the landlord puttin' on a party?

Not a chance.

I'm the one who's celebrating.

The party's on me.

Everything's on the house.

Come on, everybody.

The End.