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Hello!

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ Did Johnny Yuma, the Rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

Hello?

Anybody home?

Hold it, mister.

Now real slow, pull your gun up outta your holster,

toss it on the bed.

With your left hand.

You come back here looking for more?

I never been here before in my life.

You haven't, huh?

What's your name?

Where are you from?

Yuma, Johnny Yuma.

Just riding.

Well, you did pretty good for somebody

who was just riding.

Why didn't you answer when I called?

I figured you wanted to make sure you were safe.

Safe from what?

Who are you?

How do I know that star means anything?

My name's Cannon.

Now, suppose you tell me what happened

to Miss McIllney?

What did you do to her and that Mexican boy

that was helping her out here?

Nothing!

I found that jewelry and picture in that saddlebag

12 miles south on a horse somebody had shot.

Who?

I don't know!

I was returning the goods to where they belong.

Name's on the frame right there, The Hermitage.

You got a good nose for directions.

First I followed the tracks of the horse that was shot,

afterwards I got my bearings from a rancher.

You're sure quick with the answers.

Well, you're even quicker with the questions!

Besides, I'm not lying.

And until I find out what happened to.

Miss McIllney and that Mexican boy, I'm holding you.

I got my deputies out searching the territory.

Him throwing a shoe shouldn't worry

someone like you, Mr. Cannon.

I wouldn't guess you'd much care.

I treat a horse the way I treat a man.

He gets what he deserves.

You know something,

you're talking like someone who's got some feelings.

But you're acting as stubborn as a jackass.

Now, how long do think you're gonna hold me?

And what if your deputies don't find anyone?

We'll face that when we come to it.

Look, I haven't done anything

and I was never in that house before

and I can prove it to you.

I keep a journal.

I write down each day where I've been and what I've seen.

Look at the last page.

Springton Livery Stable, eleventh of August.

Today's August thirteenth.

Now, how could I be in this part of the country

two days ago?

I don't know yet.

"Mr. Eldritch talked about baling hay.

His voice was soft, so delicate for a big man

that it was startling.

He made me think of another soft spoken man,

"a man who was killed because he spoke the truth."

Is this your writing, boy?

"I looked at Mr. Eldritch again

and saw that gentleness of age is sometimes born

in the violence of youth.

"Violence that has burned itself up."

How does a boy like you come to write like this?

Ho, Sheriff!

Well, we got what we were looking for, Cannon.

We'll loosen that tongue of yours.

Now, you tell him what you did to that woman.

I did nothing.

- Hear me now you... - Vollmer!

Take it easy.

You're getting soft in your old age, ain't you?

Ain't he, boys?

Don't press your luck.

You're still only a deputy.

Kiley, wipe that grin off your face.

You and Phillips go on back to town.

We don't need you here anymore.

Get going!

What's he doing here?

He's just leaving.

Get your guns and ride out and don't come back.

We got the party we need.

What makes you so sure?

You thought I was your man

when you found me with the jewelry.

What jewelry?

Oh, he found Solado's horse out in the hills.

It was carrying a saddlebag

filled with Miss McIllney's things.

Oh.

So that's why you were afoot, huh, boy?

You lost your horse.

We found him running away.

Caught him near Apache Wells, four miles from the border.

I was not running away.

My horse fell and broke its leg.

I shot it.

Then he came along and I hid.

Why?

I did not know who you were.

And I did not want anyone from the town to know

she had given me her things.

You mean you stole 'em.

No!

I found him wearing this around his neck.

You lyin' thief!

What'd you do to her?

Where is she?

This how you always question a man, Mr. Cannon?

I told you to go.

Well, I'm not going.

Maybe you're looking for trouble.

Let him be.

Let's go back to town.

I don't know why they don't go back to their own people.

It isn't far.

Only 10 miles across the border.

Vollmer!

Come outta there!

Come on!

You do that again and I'll pull that star off of you.

You sure talk mighty big on the eve

of an election, Sheriff, yes siree.

You gonna do something about it?

Some of the people in this town

don't exactly like it, the way Joe Gonzalez

was given a jail term last month instead of a hangin'.

That's why I sent him out of town

to be tried somewhere else.

Enough of us still think you made a mistake.

And it ain't gonna happen again.

Thought I told you I didn't want you around here.

I'm not breaking any law.

Then why don't you leave?

Maybe I just like your town.

I think you're losing your grip, Cannon.

You can't even put a kid out of town.

Like he said, he isn't breaking any law.

Well, then let's do something about one who has.

How much proof do you need?

You got the crucifix he stole.

How many times we seen Miss McIllney wear that, huh?

Who else has got it around Mexican hat?

Miss McIllney gave it to me!

She mighta given you a lot of things, boy,

but she didn't give you this.

She wouldn't have given this for food if she was starving

and you know it.

Nobody knows anything yet.

I don't know which one of you two is worse.

Maybe you.

Long as he don't wanna leave town,

maybe I oughta fix him good.

You try.

You sure talk a good fight, don't ya, Clyde?

Tell him where the woman is, Solado,

and we'll get out of here.

She has gone away.

Far away.

No one can harm her again.

She didn't go anywhere.

Not after staying inside that house for almost 20 years.

You killed her.

And we're gonna hang you, boy.

Today.

Is that the law in these parts, Mr. Cannon?

I know he's guilty, but he'll get a trial.

Another trial like you gave Gonzalez?

Right.

Why?

So nobody'll be safe around here?

Because I said so.

You gonna try a dirty thief like him?

I said he'll get a trial.

You think treating him with kid gloves

is gonna get the rest of them to vote for you?

That how you think you're gonna get reelected, Cannon?

You stink, don't you, mister?

And you stay around this town another hour

and you're gonna have trouble.

Yes siree, a whole pack of trouble.

And you're gonna be out of a job soon.

Old man.

Get out.

Get outta here!

That ain't gonna work either.

I've been a deputy long enough

and I'm gonna get your job by making sure he gets hung.

I did not kill her.

I swear by all that's holy.

I would not kill her.

Looks like you and me are in for some trouble, Sheriff.

What do you mean, Cannon won't do nothing?

You say the boy killed Miss McIllney.

How do you know?

How much you need to know?

He stole all her valuables.

She disappeared and he run off.

And he won't tell where she is because he killed her.

How can you be sure?

Of anything?

I caught him, I oughta know...

This isn't your problem.

This might not be my problem, but you're gonna need help

and I don't see anybody around.

Besides, I don't like lynchings.

We'd better stop 'em out there before this thing gets worse.

You asked about the law around here.

We got a law that says that I can't stop

a man from speaking his mind.

Well, you can if he's yelling fire and there isn't one.

What this town needs is some law with teeth in it.

Not a tired old sheriff who's been running things his way

for the past 20 years.

Now, Cannon don't like it

'cause I said Solado killed that woman.

Not just any woman, Clyde, Miss McIllney.

Our Miss McIllney, whose daddy made this town

and I say she was murdered!

And if Cannon thinks he's gonna get reelected

by playing up to them that don't even belong here,

he don't know this town.

He's right, boys!

And I say he don't have proof

of Solado killing anybody.

But how far's he gonna get with Vollmer

rousing 'em up like he's doing?

He might even get elected.

You might even get shot.

You're gonna side with me on this,

we're gonna be two awful lonely people.

I've been lonely the better part of my life.

Those words you wrote in the journal

about the violence of youth?

I been through it.

That's why I can't let Vollmer be the judge and jury now.

I still say he didn't do it,

even if he was wearing that crucifix.

I've seen killers.

Johnny, she never woulda given him this.

I know that.

There might have been a reason.

Who was she?

The Major's daughter.

He was the wealthiest landowner in the territory.

Gave me this job.

I was real proud that day.

Miss Sofina even pinned this badge on my vest.

She said, "Never take it off."

Wear it like I wear this.

"Never take it off."

I got 'em hooked, boys.

But you ain't got all the town on your side yet.

You don't even know the boy done it.

So we say he done it.

The three of us can swing enough of them

to get the boy hanged.

What they're looking for out there

is someone to tell them what to do.

I win this election, the town's gonna be wide open.

We'll all make out.

Come on.

My mind's made up.

It's time we set an example around here.

But Clyde, there is a chance he might not have done it.

What proof have you got that he didn't?

He shoulda stayed across that border.

Why do you think he come up here?

She let him stay at her place.

He talked her into it.

And you know how he done it, boys?

'Cause she liked Solado's kind.

Didn't her own daddy shoot one on that street

not 20 years ago 'cause she fell in love with him?

You remember Estaban?

Well, the Major took care of him

and I say we're taking care of this one.

What do you want us to do, Clyde?

We'll hang him, make sure he gets what he deserves.

Now, hold on, men!

Let's get him outta that jail.

How would you like that kid touching your woman?

What about Cannon?

He can't stop us.

I'm stopping you right now.

Vollmer, why don't you go some place and cool off?

The rest of you go on home, let the law handle this.

Is that what you're doing, Sheriff?

Protecting a thief and a killer?

Long as I'm wearing the star I'm running this town.

I've given you law and order for 20 years.

No man sets foot inside that jail without my permission.

And who's backing you up, Sheriff?

This punk?

Don't goad him, Clyde.

He might bite ya.

Uh-huh.

Will you bite me, sonny?

You tell me you want me to bite you again.

We ain't through yet.

First things first.

We find the body, we got our proof.

Where we looking?

Out at The Hermitage.

Get some shovels.

I'm gonna give that boy one more chance to talk

and real quick.

Solado, I'm your friend.

I wanna believe you.

If you didn't harm that woman, tell us where she is.

She is dead, senor.

She died quietly, with great dignity

and a broken heart.

Where'd you bury her?

We gotta find that grave and we don't have much time.

Vollmer.

Vollmer.

20 years ago, the Major gave 'em their victim.

You mean Estaban?

Yes.

The Major might just as well have killed Miss Sofina.

After Estaban died, she dried up like a shriveled cactus.

Living out there at The Hermitage

with her old servant, Maria.

And the Major?

He musta realized she really loved Estaban.

The night of the shooting he killed himself.

Few months later even the old servant woman left.

Was never heard of again.

The only other one she ever let live out there was

that boy back there.

He came here about a year ago.

Solado wouldn't have buried her outside a cemetery,

not with his religious background.

Did she ever tell anybody where she wanted to be buried?

Only that she didn't want to lie next to her father.

That's why Solado isn't talking.

He buried her where she asked him.

Beside Estaban!

The Mexican graveyard.

Come on, we gotta get going before they get back.

Come on!

There it is.

Perez Estaban.

In loving memory.

This boy committed no crime.

Sofina McIllney lies buried right where she belongs.

He placed her there, but he didn't kill her.

Take a look at that graveyard marker.

All of you take a look at it.

My mother.

Let her rest in peace now.

Why didn't you tell us?

He was willing to die to hide

the shame of his mother from the world.

That's where she'll stay.

I'll see to that.

The crime was that it was all done out of man's hate.

Maybe they learned a lesson.

Yeah, maybe we all did.

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ Did Johnny Yuma, the Rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ He got fightin' mad, this rebel lad ♪

♪ He packed no star as he wandered far ♪

♪ Where the only law was a hook and a draw ♪

♪ The Rebel ♪ ♪ Away ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪ ♪ Away rode the Rebel ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ Did Johnny Yuma, the Rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ He searched the land, this restless lad ♪

♪ He was panther quick and leather tough ♪

♪ 'Cause he figured that he had been pushed enough ♪

♪ The Rebel ♪ ♪ Away ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪ ♪ Away rode the Rebel ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

♪ John Yuma ♪