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Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Bring us another bottle, bartender.

It's past closing, Woodley.

I didn't ask you what time it was.

Bring us another bottle.

There was a 20.

What are you talking about?

You give yourself a 20 and me a 5.

No, I didn't.

There's a 20.

You let go of that wrist.

Any shearing that's done, we do it together.

To the card playing sheep, not to each other.

You dirty old sidewash.

200 for them buff hides.

More than 75 for shearing the sheep. Now, that ain't bad.

200?

There was more hides there than that.

There's more like 300.

It was 200, I tell you.

Look, you lying old squaw, you.

You should call me an old squaw.

Now, you listen to me.

I want my share of that money, or I'm going to cut you from God together.

You so much as flick that knife, I'm going to lop your head off and feed it

to the hogs.

Listen to me, squaw.

I want that money.

I want that money. I done my share of sweat for them hives. You got your

share. Well, I want my share of the money.

Hold it.

Put up the knives.

He's cheating me, Marshal. That ain't true, Marshal.

I said put up the knives.

to tell you something.

Next time I see you two anywhere near each other, you're going to jail and I'm

going to throw away the key. Have you got that?

Can I pick it up? Pick your money up.

I'm going to get that money.

I'm going to get it one way or another.

This old man don't even know whose friends really are.

Accusing me of cheating him.

Yeah, I shouldn't have had you come, Marshal.

Well, the town had been a sight better off a couple more minutes than they

might have done each other in.

Yeah.

What do you think?

Well, uh... Well?

Well, that's one of a kind, all right.

Come all the way from St. Louis.

Didn't want to believe that, all right.

You, uh... You reckon she'll like it?

I'm done with Adam. You've been married to her for 35 years. You're gonna have

to be the judge of that.

Matt, you and I have been friends for a long time. Now, just go on and say

anything you want to about it, and there'll be no hurt feelings.

Well, Adam, I know it's your anniversary and all. I'd like to help you, but I'm

no judge of these kind of things.

Well, just be honest with me.

I wouldn't show this to another living soul except you. You know that.

Well, I'll tell you what I think.

Now, usually, if a man is speechless over something like this, it means a

woman's gonna like it.

Well, if that's true, I think she's going to be wild about that.

That's all I wanted to hear.

You go pour me a cup of that bad coffee you make.

Oh, I tell you, Matt, you don't know what a responsibility it's been buying

this thing.

Oh, yes, I do. I can see that.

You be at the house at 7.30. We'll have an ounce or two of that scamper juice

for supper.

Sounds good, Adam. I sure appreciate the invitation.

Claire just wanted the family and you.

Can't for the life of me figure out why she takes shine to somebody like you.

No figuring women, that's all.

How long do you reckon that jury's going to be out?

I didn't figure it would be out this long.

Kind of a sad thing.

A man dies and the only reaction from people is a feeling of relief.

He didn't have many friends, that's for sure.

Yeah, the one friend he did have is the one who did him in.

Looks that way.

Well, neither one of them is much of a loss.

Good morning, Mr. Benteen.

Festus. Matthew, the judge wanted me to fetch you. The jury's fixing to come in.

Tell them I'll be right over with the prisoner.

You get to go to trial, did you, Mr. Benteen?

No, Festus, I missed the whole thing.

Didn't amount to the wrong thing. It was over before it started.

I didn't do it. I didn't do it.

The jury has found you guilty.

But I tell you, I didn't do it.

I never killed anybody.

I didn't kill him.

Twelve men tried and true say different.

And I say you hang.

But you're liars. You're a bunch of liars. You're lying. You're lying.

Judge, this is all wrong.

That's your opinion.

And quite understandable.

Nonetheless, you hang over at Hayes City one month from today.

Courts adjourned.

No, wait a minute.

There's something wrong.

No, no, wait a minute.

Now, wait a minute. Somebody here, somebody, somebody here is going to

believe me.

Somebody, somebody knows I'm telling the truth.

Hey, somebody's going to believe me.

Festus, Festus, you know I've done a lot of things in my life, but I couldn't do

a thing like this. Come on, Woodley. Hope, Hope, tell him it wasn't me.

Tell him it wasn't me, Hope.

You always said you had no reason to come home.

Here's one time you wish you had.

You're all against me.

Every one of you guys is against me. Every one of you. I didn't kill him. I

didn't kill anybody.

You bunch of jackals. You bunch of jackals. That's what you are.

Well, you all take a good look at me.

Take a good look.

You're going to find out you hanged a menacing man.

You bunch of liars.

Liars. You're all a bunch of thieves and liars and jackals.

You're all...

Boys, I'll tell you, I've seen a few men hang, and that's the first one I don't

feel the least bit sorry for.

What's the matter with you?

I'm shaking inside like a bird dog come to point. Hell, ease up. It's all over.

Well, maybe that's why.

Is there another reason?

Look, I knew we shouldn't have started this. I knew it. Now you shut that up.

We didn't mean to kill him. You know that. Just to give him a little of his

own medicine.

What we meant to do don't matter. We killed him just the same.

Well, all right. But if there's ever a man deserved to die, it was him.

I guess it's just the idea.

Woodley waiting around to hang for something we did.

He ain't hanging for this.

Hanging for what we and then half the town took off of him in his diamond

-backed partner.

You know it.

Well, it's still gonna take some getting used to.

Well, you work on it.

Well, Claude, there's all kinds of ways of dying, but stretching a rope... Hey,

shut that up.

Ah, that's a big day.

But in a horse-liniment box, Adam. You should have seen him, Claire. He was

smuggling it down the street like he just robbed the bank.

Oh, stop joshing me now, Matt.

remember the time when your father would have carried a thing like this right

down the center of Front Street just hoping somebody'd say something.

Yeah, well, we got a kind of a sticky marshal now that frowns on street

brawling. Well, it's a good thing, Dad. You're getting a low for that, aren't

you? Yeah, well, I can still handle you three out of four falls, young fellow.

See that, Matt? The gray hair doesn't make any difference or anything.

Hey, you gray-haired folk, tell us, if you had to do it all over, what would

you do different?

Well...

I guess maybe we'd had you boys a little earlier so we could have enjoyed you

longer. And spoiled you more. Now, wait a minute. I defy any man to say I spoil

my sons. They've done their share of hell raising.

We had a good teacher for that, Dad.

Should have seen him a few years back.

Folks, I hate to say this, but I've got to be going. Oh, come on. It's early,

man. We're just starting. I've got a long ride in the morning. I'm going up

to Hayes City. I've got to take Mel Woodley up.

Mel Woodley.

Yeah, he's a killer, Ma. He's gonna hang over in Hay City.

Yeah, I think you'll probably appeal, but... I'll appeal.

To a life sentence.

Well, here, let's don't finish this evening up on such a sober note. I want

to teach those youngsters there some of the delights of a rare old bottle of

brandy.

This brandy's older than either one of you boys are.

You don't suppose that I'm gonna waste it on them, do you, Matt?

Oh, I don't know. I don't think it makes... much difference to you as far

as these boys are concerned nothing to stop him well to clara

thank you here's to both of you

Oh, Doc.

Oh, it's you.

What's the matter with you? The heat got you?

What do you mean, the heat?

You sound like you're about ready to tear somebody's head off.

No, it's not the heat. You must know it's this banged outfit in Kansas City

that calls themselves a pharmaceutical supply house.

What'd they do?

It was what they didn't do. I overpaid them last month, and they were supposed

to refund me, and it's not here. They were so anxious to get that circular out

to me.

Well, now, if you're short of money, maybe I can loan you a few dollars.

The only thing I'm short of is patience.

Well, there must be other houses. Why don't you try one?

Well, certainly not.

That's the only firm that gives me credit. Don't dun me every time my bill

be met.

Miss Woodley?

Dr. Adams?

Marshal? How, Miss Woodley?

How are things?

Same as always.

Only waiting's draining me dry.

Waiting?

On my husband's appeal.

Miss Woodley, your husband's sentence is due to be carried out day after

tomorrow.

I hope the Lord forgives me.

It's a terrible thing to pray that a person hanged.

I prayed Mel and Hank.

I prayed every day since I knew of his appeal.

Terrible thing coming to that.

An awful thing.

Hey, what's the matter with you, Ab?

You hate that horse so much, why don't you give him to me before you run him to

death?

What?

I come all the way over here from Fire City just to tell you.

Tell me what?

Mel Woodley's appeal's been denied.

Who told you that?

A couple of boys from Circle B. Word come in this morning.

What are you all flustered up about? Nothing's changed, is it?

Well, I kind of hope that they might.

Yeah, that they might change it to a life sentence?

I hope they would. I prayed they would.

You know, you're the only living man who did.

Clyde, I'm coming to part.

You come back up here and listen to me.

I know what you're gonna say. Oh, you do, huh?

Remember Will Bates? Sure.

You remember what he looked like after Woodley and Catwell got through stomping

on him? Look, they paid for that. Oh, they did, huh? Well, what about

Woodley's own wife? You think he ever paid for what he done to her?

You think he ever paid for what he did to every man in Dodge City who was

little or weaker than he was? Claude, let's not go over all this again.

Well, nobody could prove it, but everybody knew how he died.

I still wish we hadn't got mixed up in it. Well, I'm sorry we killed him, too,

but he's dead now, and I don't feel the least bit sorry for him.

I don't believe that.

Listen, you believe what you want to.

Let me tell you something.

You just think about what it'd do to the folks if you told them what really

happened.

Another thing you might keep in mind is that we both hang.

Don't you worry.

I'm not going to tell.

That's better.

Not on account of you and not on account of the folks.

Not on account of I'm scared to the core of the thought of that rope around my

neck. Now, whatever reason, just keep your mouth shut.

Hey, you got nothing to do, why don't you fix that plow in the shed?

Because I got something to do. I'm going back to town.

What, again?

Again.

What for?

I'm gonna get drunk again.

Just as drunk as I can get.

Howdy, son.

Hello. Get her fixed?

Yeah, I think so.

Might have to tie her down a little bit if the wind comes up. Yeah, looks like

this could be a battle, all right.

Hey, get the gate for me, will you? Yes.

Hey, where's Ab?

Oh, he went back only to town.

What, again?

Yeah. What's he up to, anyway?

Oh, I don't know.

Always covering for him, aren't you?

It's all right. I was young once myself.

Tell me something, is she pretty?

I don't know. He didn't say.

Well, he always was one to keep his own counsel.

Tell you, I never have any idea what's going on in that boy's mind.

There we go.

You I can read like a book.

Yeah, I guess I'll be losing you boys in one of these days. Run off, get married.

Maybe get me a few grandchildren to lighten my old age, huh?

Yeah, so you can be what you look like, huh?

Oh, what's that?

Oh. White-haired old grandpappy. Come on in the house. See what Ma has got for

dinner. Yeah, I'll take your saddle and be right in.

You figuring to drown in that, Sonny?

It ain't none of my business, boy, but there's times when a man can get drunk

no matter how hard he tries.

Well, it's true.

If a man's carrying too big a load or if he's got too many things on his mind,

well, whiskey won't do no good.

I've seen it happen time and time again.

Oh, no offense, Sonny. I was just trying to be sociable.

A boy your age don't figure to be putting it on unless he's got something.

Something eating at him.

You, uh... You have a blow-up with your girl, maybe?

Maybe. It figures a woman will do it to you every time.

You take Mel Woodley's wife. I hear tell she's glad he's gonna hang.

You heard her say that?

Well, that's the talk.

Mind you, now, I didn't hold none with Woodley. He's about the most miserable

human being you're ever likely to come across.

And I know personal that he killed his partner.

But that still ain't no reason for his wife to talk that way. What makes you so

sure Woodley done that killing? What?

I said, what makes you so sure Woodley done that killing?

What makes me so sure?

Weren't you at the trial?

No, I wasn't. I couldn't make it.

Oh, well, they had me on the witness stand for more than 20 minutes.

I told them the night of the killing that Kentwell and Woodley were right

here in this saloon until just before the murder.

And they were at each other's throats, too.

You see that there chair right behind you there?

Right there.

That's where Kentwell was sitting just ten minutes before Woodley put a knife

in him.

You know, I told the jury if I hadn't run for the marshal, why, the killing

would have took place right here in this saloon.

Well, they was in a knife fight by the time I got back from the...

You can marshal.

many a year has came and went since the mud creek incident hog

hagging draw the might too late and so we'd shot him twice but before my

grandpa died he fetched me down to his side and he imparted a heap of good

advice

He said, Festus, don't never let a man draw first.

He'll shoot your head all full of holes and stuff.

He said, Swaller, good whiskey when you've got a thirst.

And bullies is pikers if you call their bluff.

whiskey sure thing you're getting to be one of our regular customers that ain't

the compliment you think it is

You're filling your britches pretty fast, aren't you, Ab? Let me just pour

the drink, Sam.

He said, Festus, don't take no pretty woman's word.

Don't let her make no silly fool of you. He said, squeeze them and

tease them and build yourself a herd.

Then you can call one out if you want to.

Sure as the Lord made little green apples, we're fixing to have ourselves a

twisty. A what?

Twisty. You can tell the way the heats are building up and the way the winds

are whistling around out yonder.

Did you ever see the wind blow a rooster in a jug?

Huh?

Well, I did.

See you later, Marshal. Wait just a minute, Rudy. Sit down. I got something

to tell you.

Ain't nothing that'll make your innards more squeamy than a first-class pure

oldie twisty wheel.

First-class what?

Evening, Miss Kitty.

Kitty. How are you, Matt?

Well, fine. He's a little bit out of hand tonight. See what you can do with

him. I'll see you later.

Wait a minute, Matthew. I got to... What's a twisty?

Well, it's a big old stout wind, something like a cyclone.

That's all.

I recollect one hit the hill country here a few years back.

Picked up an old dry well, hole, shaft, and everything.

It did?

Well, I hope to jump in your vest pocket it did. I'll tell you what else it done.

It took that old dry well, hole, shaft, and all up for near three miles.

And when she turned her loose and she come a-whistling down, she hit the

ground with such a force that she drove that shaft 183 feet deeper than it

was to start with.

It did?

Hit the gusher, made the sweet water lake three mile across.

Well, I heard that when it hit the Badlands, it raised such dust.

There were gophers 40 feet up in the air just digging like crazy trying to get

their way back down to the ground.

Yes, sir, that was a real twisty.

How about a beer?

Make it a whiskey and I'll stay.

Rudy, bring him a drink. I'll have a beer.

Sam!

Sam!

What are you serving me, tea?

Not just a minute, Ab. Don't just a minute me.

Pour.

Pour whiskey.

Watch your step.

Ab, give me a bar, Tom.

Maybe I know this stuff.

You know something, Miss Kitty?

There's as sudden a change as I've ever saw in a body, I believe.

He's spent more money in here in the last three or four weeks than he has in

the last six months.

I'll just bet he has. Every time I turn around, I see him in here.

This will settle some of your twisty dust.

Smart, Eddie.

Now, that's the third time you've bothered me.

Oh, well.

You know, if I was you, I'd just stay out of the way.

Sonny boy, if you can't hold your liquor, you better stay out of saloons.

Why don't you go to Blazer's?

Marshall and Doc.

Oh, here he is. Hug it, Doc.

What's happened?

He started to draw on me. I shot him.

Marshall, the man's right.

Ab was looking for trouble before he took his first drink. I saw it all.

It's a God's truth. The man gave me no choice.

He's never been in a gunfight before.

Don't try to move that. Just take it easy.

I didn't take that with me.

I'm gonna get a wire off the haystack and right away stop that hanging.

What are you gonna tell Adam and Claire?

Bring her out to the office with you, Festus.

marshal i've seen bernie danches tonight like always after he closes the

telegraph office notice how the storm's driving the flies inside how long ago

huh i said how long ago was he here oh about an hour or so

you still have the room in mass molly's as far as i know he won't be there

though why not well him and hank cooters were starting to put one on i took a

bottle with him over to hanks Thanks.

People. Yeah, people.

They're the ruination of the whole world.

And don't you forget it.

Not one worth a good shoe in the back of.

That's what you mean, Barney. I don't boil a drink to that.

Can't you hear anybody knocking?

We hear it, but we ain't listening.

Barney, I need you to send a telegram. Send it in the morning. Well, I have to

send it tonight.

Oh, this is closed.

Sorry. Yeah, well, we're going to open it. Come on, Barney. Hold on there.

There's nobody worth going out on a night like this.

Be back later.

And you just proved it, Marshal.

Not worth a plug of good chewing the back here except Barney and me.

Would you mind telling me what's all fired on the tank? All right. Good

morning.

Now, sit down there.

I want you to get Hayes City on the wire. Hurry up.

Hayes City.

I'll send a telegram to the sheriff.

Tell him to stop Mel Woodley's hanging.

Tell him I got one of Cantwell's killers and I'll have the other soon. Now, go

on. What are you talking about?

Everybody knows Woodley killed him.

Bernie, would you quit talking and get sending?

answer. Well, keep trying.

I can't understand it, Marshal.

They got a night man, I know.

He's probably sleeping.

Still no answer.

Do you suppose a storm could have knocked out the lines?

Yeah, it could have.

Marty?

I want you to keep sending. I don't care if it takes you all night. All night?

Keep sending.

All night for a man like Woodford.

I say let him hang.

Somebody at the door.

What time is it?

What difference does that make? Go see who it is.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, Matt.

Come on, get out of the way.

Evening, Matt.

Sit down.

I'm afraid I got some bad news.

Bad news?

Tab.

He's been shot.

He's dead.

He's dead.

He's dead.

Who's dead?

He's dead. He's dead. Oh, no, no, no.

Sit down. He's dead. Come on. He's dead. No, no, no, no, no.

Who did it, Matt?

Who did it?

Some cowboy in the Long Branch.

Why?

Well, there was a fight.

Ab was drunk.

Ab?

Drunk?

I'll tell you why he was drunk, Adam.

Because it wasn't Mel Woodley that killed Cantwell.

It was your boys.

Why sons?

Kill Cadwell?

Ab confessed it to me just before he died.

Now, Adam, I'm going to have to take Claude with me right now.

You're not going to take Claude anyplace, Matt.

Adam, there's a bad storm out. The telegraph wires are down.

I've got to get Claude to Hayes City right now before they hang Mel Woodley.

I said it wasn't Mal Woodley that killed Cantwell.

It was your sons.

Claude.

Matt tells me that you boys killed Cantwell.

Yeah, it's true, Paul, but now look, we... Get your coat.

Get my coat, Paul. Get your coat.

I'm gonna... I'm gonna let you take him out of here, because right now, if Clara

found out about this, it would kill her.

But Hayes City is a long way, Matt.

And you'll never get him there.

All right, I'm not doing anything foolish.

I love you.

not much to you for me to hang for, would it?

Let's go.

We ain't gonna get to Hay City if the rain don't let up.

Not that I mind.

We'll get there in time to stop the hanging, all right?

Yeah, I guess you win, Marshal.

Claude, nobody wins in a thing like this.

Woodley, maybe.

At least he ain't gonna hang for something he didn't do.

Well,

I just didn't lose him yet. I don't pay a word.

Let the boy go.

You'll have to kill me again, madam.

I don't think you're going to do that.

I want to put the rifle down.

Let the boy go.

You know I can't do that, Adam.

Listen, nobody would ever know. You could say he got away in a storm.

Matt, I'm begging you. Please.

Adam, it's all over.

Now go back home.

At least he ain't dead.

What are you doing?

Robbing a son?

You're free.

What about him?

I'll take care of him after you're gone. Now get going.

Well, I lost you. Have you lifted?

I can manage this. Go on. Do what your pa tells you.

You're worth a dozen Woodleys and a dozen Cantwells. Now get out of here.

No, we better do that again, Sheriff.

Better try it a few more times, just for luck.

That's working pretty good.

Sure.

Sheriff, it's not time yet.

You're going to be the one who pulls the trap?

You...

You're

not.

Did you come all this way just to watch me hang?

Yeah, all the way, Woodley.

Well, listen, you go back to Dodge, and you tell the people you did see me hang.

You saw a man die, screaming and yelling. He didn't do nothing. He never

killed nobody.

They still wouldn't believe you.

But there's one that would.

Yeah, there's one that would.

And I hope he burns in damnation.

Well, I guess...

Seeing you don't make it any easier.

What do you mean?

Wait a minute. What do you mean? Get away from that cell.

What the devil are you doing here, boy?

I asked you a question.

It's getting pretty numb.

Well, you passed out again.

Matt, I just can't move this log.

You're gonna have to go for help.

I can't leave you here.

You got to.

Listen.

Claude!

Get it off you in a little while, Marshal.

Let's go.

Sorry, Paul. I couldn't let him hang.

You all right, man?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm feeling some better.

All right, let's see if we can lift it up off him now.

What's going on?

There she come.