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Sheriff, Sheriff!

Sheriff, I gotta see you!

Can't it wait?

Around here, come on!

What you done, bust out with the heat?

I was down at the station, three men came along.

One came in and got me to send this wire.

Well, you've sent wires before.

Not like this one, Sheriff.

Plump little partridge ripe for plucking.

Await your arrival Saturday train.

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ Did Johnny Yuma, the Rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

I thought you said this place was bustling.

Maybe a funeral or something.

Well, thanks for the lift.

No sweat.

I never seen the town this way!

Ha!

Say, mister, I wonder if you could tell...

Be a help to you, friend?

I'm looking for Ike Howard.

Howard?

The Sheriff.

Oh yeah, fine fellow.

Fourth building down across the street.

Much obliged.

Ike?

Ike?

Ike!

Hey, Ike!

Who's out there?

Johnny?

Johnny, well!

Hey, Ike, how are you?

Of all the people I never expected!

Why, it must be years!

Well, before the war.

Well, let me look at you!

I always meant to look you up, I promised Pa I would.

I heard you were here.

Yes, three years!

But I'd have bet a fantail roan I'd never find you flat.

Lumbago, give it a couple of days.

I'll whip your hide, I've done it before.

You sure did.

I miss him, Johnny.

I know that, Ike.

Well, he was something, your pa.

Finest I ever knew.

When I heard he was shot I...

It's quite a town, Ike.

What Pa would have given to work one like it.

You should have seen, it sprung up like a weed.

Bustin' all over with buildin' and riches.

Regular stop on the railroad, ain't it?

Full of frightened people.

58 years!

30 of 'em a law man.

Wet nose in towns as poor as my pay

and the first time that one of 'em turns

into something worth protecting, what good am I?

Well, what's happened here, Ike?

Three trash tramps!

I don't know, I've never seen 'em before.

Rode into town a couple of days ago,

casual as you please, hungering for what

they see like a pack of starving jackals.

You don't panic a town with that.

What's that?

They sent it from the station right after they got here.

Read it.

Jones and Company, Santa Fe station, New Mexico.

Plump little partridge ripe for plucking.

Await your arrival Saturday train.

Today at four, less than two hours.

Well, I looked up all the old posters

till two in the morning.

Figured I might find a picture or something.

Nothing.

And all they do is sit it out waiting.

When they ain't out taking inventory

or liquoring it up in the saloon.

I meant the town.

Oh, they're shook, Johnny, right through to the gristle.

Well, a deputy, you must have that, a town this size.

Well, I was gonna get me one.

I never had time!

I blame myself, Johnny, it's my fault.

How about me?

You can't.

Well, the three that are here,

why don't you lock them up?

Don't you understand it, boy, what I'm trying to say?

The town, it's up to here with fright

over what's coming in on that train.

They know what's happened before, other places.

Last month, Iron Wells.

A mob came in and chewed up the whole town!

Well, that's my point.

If we can move to stop them before they can get started.

You walk out there try and make a choose of it,

a rank outsider the town don't even know!

Alright, Ike.

Now, you stay clear of it, Johnny, I'm telling you that!

I know frightened people and what they'll do!

It was only a notion.

Oh, this back of mine.

Oh, I didn't mean to blow, kid.

Your pa knew what it was with me.

I miss a meal I'm fit for a cage.

You've been sweating this out on an empty stomach?

Since yesterday.

Well, I'll go get you something.

Oh, no!

There must be some place in town to buy food.

Well, Mullins across from Eberhart's.

Lamb shanks and swamp seeds?

Oh, makes the best.

Just so I know what I'm dodging,

who's the big cheese with this outfit?

Stay clear of him, Johnny.

Just wanna know what to duck.

Well, middle-sized fella, your build.

Has a leather rig around his neck

and wears his gun up high on the shoulder holster.

Coffee black?

Oh, and his voice.

There's something wrong with his voice.

Like, uh, it's all he can do to talk in a whisper.

I'll see you in a few minutes.

Yuma.

What was I saying?

Oh, yeah, about the new fellas coming to town.

Like your bunch up there on that train.

But what I mean to say is there's always my place.

Free drinks, you follow?

They're always very pleased to welcome new fellows in town.

A schooner of beer, please.

Hmm?

Oh, yeah.

Nice place you have here.

There's something about a new town, you ever notice?

Pine's still wet on the boardwalks,

windows sparkle and shone in the sun.

How much?

Huh?

Oh yeah, I forgot no, uh, no charge for new fellas.

Ever hear of a place called Mason City?

Not quite the size of a minute, a little backside in Texas.

Then one day they came.

Two at first, then four, then six.

In from the plain like weevils.

You ever see weevils, what they'll do?

They'll hit a field, cloud of gray,

strip it to bare in a day if you don't

fight 'em off when they first come in.

But nobody fought these weevils.

Only one, the Sheriff.

Middle-aged man not long on thinking, but a man.

He fought 'em alone with nobody to stand with him.

The six, they killed him and the town.

You tell a good story, Reb.

There's more.

The Sheriff's son.

But Vogan, you remember.

It's your story.

That's right, it is.

The Sheriff's son back from the war

threw a bomb in the saloon where the weevils were at.

Cleaned them out.

Only one made it off.

With a load of scattershot in his neck.

About that thought of yours, parson.

Free drink and all?

Not that I'd push a man into giving away profits.

Still, it's a real charitable notion.

Sure.

Those fellows, after a day on the train,

those boys, they'll need some, some food.

Sure, and a couple of bucks for to celebrate.

I'm not giving away profits, here.

Besides, it would be good for business,

their being here and drawing a large crowd.

I, uh, I could hardly...

No, no, please.

Please, take it.

Look, mister, I don't want to make any games here.

Just leave me alone.

Hey Garth, give him a mark

so the boys'll know this is a friendly place

and there won't be no trouble here either.

No, no, no, I don't want it!

Fourth building down across the street.

Your hounds with you.

Better wipe that mark off, Garth.

No, please!

Please!

It'll take a lot more than liquor

to turn the boys' thirst.

Johnny?

Johnny!

In the name of heaven, what you done?

Ike, hey, Ike!

You in there?

Ike, Ike!

We want to talk to you!

Ike!

Ike!

Give me them keys.

Ike.

Give me 'em.

You know what's in there.

I ain't gonna ask you again.

One of them in there killed my father.

My father, Ike, your friend.

Ike, you better darn make a sign at the window.

Ike!

Young fella in there.

What it was, you see, he took you for vagrants!

Mistake.

Good to see you up and about again, parson.

Well, I got things to do if you'd go.

Please go.

Went to sleep again.

Santa Fe train always run on time?

What?

The four o'clock train?

An hour.

Less.

Ike.

False arrest for nothing wrong.

You know what I can get for that?

They done nothing wrong, Johnny.

Nothing wrong?

The money, they've been fleecing the town.

They didn't take nothing!

Where?

They was given!

Ike.

Don't say that.

Not like that, Johnny.

What do I say, Ike?

Tell me.

You got to understand what it is, Johnny.

We're a new town.

The people here, they ain't learned

the responsibility of owning new things.

It come too fast to 'em.

Well, it's your responsibility, your job.

I ain't gonna see 'em butchered!

30 years a law man?

I've got a responsibility there, too!

Wet nose in towns as poor as your pay.

Isn't that what you said, Ike?

Why, why Ike, bad luck?

- Will you listen? - Or choice, choice, Ike?

Keeping it simple, staying with 'em,

never trying for something better

for the fear of what it would take?

I ain't gonna hear no more, not another word!

Ike!

There's a corral out back.

Two horses, a roan and a bay.

Let it happen, Ike.

Let the weevils in once, just once

and you'll never see the end of 'em!

You take the roan.

What time is it?

Ten minutes before.

You bust it up?

It was either that or your head.

They must have wondered about that.

You comin' out.

Questions?

You don't toss off lumbago in half a day.

I guess they figured that much for themselves.

Quite a collection.

You should have seen, 6,000 bucks; Pack, Mullins, Eberhart.

They couldn't shove the money at 'em fast enough.

They'll learn to do it faster.

Maybe what they got's enough.

Maybe when that train comes in they'll get

on it and that'll be the last of 'em.

Go down there, Ike.

Go down to that lousy station and stop 'em.

Well, I can't, the people, you saw!

The people go where you go.

But there's the three of them

and a dozen more on that train!

Even your pa wouldn't have...

Pa was one.

There are two of us.

Johnny.

Ike, where you going?

Ike, it's near four!

Stay clear of it, Ike!

Ike, don't go, stay clear of it!

Please Ike, Ike, don't go!

Hey, where you goin'?

Ike, they'll ruin the town!

You know what will happen if you go there.

Let them go!

Hold it, Vogan.

No call for panic, parson.

You've been a good town.

We'll put in a word.

We'd like to hear you do that, Vogan.

In here.

Parson, maybe the Reb don't get it.

I ain't on that train it stops.

Ike!

What's going on, Ike?

Less than a minute, parson.

If, uh, maybe if you was to give up the money?

You standing against the town, Ike?

You've got no right!

I hear you!

Well?

Half the money, maybe?

Ike!

I don't want for no trouble.

There'd be none.

I'd vouch for that.

Peace to you, parson.

Let 'em go, Johnny.

Ike, I only got one shot left.

12 men!

12 men!

That's what's out there, parson.

Never a cougar, a Cree,

who's left from facing just one?

Let him go.

Get him on that train.

It's our money and we say give it to him.

Let him go, Ike!

I can hold 'em, parson.

Me, I can do it.

There's nobody else.

Only me.

It's me or your town.

Get him out!

He ain't gonna go.

It will be on your head!

He ain't!

There's no one!

Not one!

There ain't a soul!

Get the rope!

It goes around the first man that touches him!

If he's got one coming, he'll get it.

Get out of here.

Nothing, a train full of nothing.

Nothing but fear.

Fear.

♪ 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 ♪

♪ He searched the land, this restless lad ♪

♪ He was panther quick and leather tough ♪

♪ And he figured that he had been pushed enough ♪

♪ The Rebel ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

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