Original subtitles

Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

the town you was counting on having such a good time in tonight?

Huh?

Oh, a good sneeze would blow this place right off the map.

Who says it's on the map?

Where does a man buy a drink in this graveyard?

Thanks.

Sheriff's office.

Well, you can go.

Buy your liquor and get arrested in the same place. Very convenient.

Mark down these dresses much more. Might as well give them away.

Howdy. Howdy.

We were told you could get a drink here.

Well, I hope you were told no hard stuff, though.

Hate to disappoint you. What does no hard stuff mean?

Soda pops, all we carry.

fun in this, mister?

Folks hereabouts do most of their hard drinking at home.

Lemon goes down easier than root beer.

I'll bet you'll get a lot of laughs with that one.

You got two choices here, boys. You can have your soda pop with a laugh or

without a laugh. Well, if I don't get to wash down this dust, I'll be fit only

for choking.

Give me a lemon.

Two, three, root beer.

Hey, plow boy.

You look mighty interested in that book there. Has it got maybe some pictures?

No, it's just a little brain twister I'm struggling with.

Well, man.

Maybe we can give you a hand with it.

No, it's just a mess of figures.

It's kind of complicated even to say.

That means mind your own business.

No, I didn't mean it that way.

Yeah. Hey, that sign out front, you're the badge toad here, huh?

Oh, well, it's kind of an honorary thing, folks.

Well, they vote me a little pay if I'm taken away from the store.

Saturday night, you must have your hands full.

Well, the crickets do get a little noisy at times, but we tend to overlook that.

Well, now, there's our second laugh.

We got four bottles of pop, we got two laughs to go, right?

How much do the folks vote you a month to count the crickets?

Three dollars, maybe five sometimes.

Now you tell us that you're the deputy and we've had our fourth laugh.

That's my son Clayton. As a matter of fact, he is my deputy when I need one.

We got a sheriff and his deputy handing us our soda pop.

Tell me, plowboy, how much you get paid for your deputy?

A dollar a month.

We've been wasting our time bringing up hers. The real money's right here.

Handing out soda pop in the law.

You boys want to take your bottles and finish them riding, you're welcome.

Somebody's asking us to get, Sam.

Uh, you got real quick enforcement here in case we should decide to settle down?

Looks like you get no answer, Sam.

Yeah.

Hold it, mister.

You owe $5 for that broken glass in there.

Figured out a way to collect it.

Clayton!

Clayton, now, leave it, Pa.

He ain't worth the trouble. Now, come now.

You better listen to your Pa, sonny.

Wait a minute, Plowboy.

Gotta go along with your Pa there.

$5 don't seem worth... Just having a fuss over.

Brother Frank?

Not

enough

for your fuss.

Come on, son.

Come on.

Before you take him away, Pop, I got a piece of advice for him.

When you're gonna open your mouth, boy, first thing you do is make a count of

the other man's muscle and you count your own.

Now, if you see he's bigger, you just smile.

You don't say a word, you just smile.

Start smiling, boy.

That's right.

You're going to eat the biggest dish of crow in Oklahoma, and you've got three

seconds to do it.

You don't learn very quick, do you, kid?

Wait a minute.

He ain't asking too much, son.

After all, a smile's pretty cheap.

He's just a boy. He don't mean nothing.

I reckon a man has to age a little to see the ways of the world.

I got these gray hairs proving it pays to smile every now and again to get

along, son.

I want to apologize again, mister, for not having nothing in my place to stake

a true thirst.

You come back this

way, mister, and I...

I just might have something on hand I'd be proud to offer and... Sheriff?

You must have been a real terror in your time.

Yeah, he's kind of warming up.

I can stand a little soda pop myself.

How could you do it, Pa?

Better than you laying dead out there in the dust.

Never before in my whole life have I seen you do something like that.

Can you tell me a better way to have handled him?

Well, I'd have died before I grinned at him.

Mighty near did.

Well, where are you going?

I'm going after him.

You're crazy.

I'm set on having those men before a judge, Paul.

Why, there's four of them. You ain't but a boy.

Well, I grow it up quite a bit in the last few minutes. And if you'll be

making out a legal warrant, I'll be serving it on them.

I won't do anything of the kind.

Well, then I'll go after them without a warrant. All

right.

I'll make out a warrant.

I'll saddle up.

Four toes.

Disorderly conduct.

Signed, John Greenwood.

Sheriff, Sheriff Greenwood.

Flat.

Looks like another kill over there. Sure does.

Howdy. Morning.

Guessing I'm on the line for Dodge City?

Well, that's about right. Four miles due east.

You're Marshal Dillon at Dodge.

That's right.

Heard a lot about you.

My name's Clayton.

Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood.

I do. This is Festus Hagen here.

Howdy. Nice to know you.

You haven't come across four drovers riding Mexican saddles, have you?

I tell you, you're liable to find a lot of men out here in this country these

days that fit that description.

Son, there's trail camps strung out up and down here for 40 or 50 miles waiting

for them eastern cattle buyers to come in. You've tucked yourself on quite a

chore trying to cull out four drovers.

Guessing I'll be doubling these saddle sores.

If you really want to find them, I tell you, why don't you let them come to you?

I reckon I don't follow that, Marshal.

Well, most of the drovers in this part of the country head into Dodge on

Saturday nights. You'll probably find the men you're looking for at the long

bridge. Sure say that. Sounds like common sense.

I'll follow your advice, Marshal.

Nice to meet you, Bill.

Right nice-looking boy,

ain't he?

Reminds me of myself when I was younger.

Mm-hmm.

Well, looks like we're up against a real bad pack of wolves that killed this one

just for the pleasure of it.

They sure couldn't have been hungry after gorging themselves on that other

one back yonder. Nah.

I'll do the talking.

Howdy.

Howdy.

We're trying to get a line on these wolves that have been causing all the

trouble around here.

You didn't by any chance see them bring down that steer, did you?

No, they're too smart for that, Marshal.

They've sure been doing a lot of trouble.

You suppose they could be coming in from the West Hills?

Well, fair guess they are.

We're trying to get brands on our calves as quick as possible before we lose any

more in the canyons.

Well out of the outfits been losing steers Dodgers offering $25 apiece for

all the wolf skins you bring in I Think we'll be kept busy enough keeping an eye

on our own stock Right

over

let Sam know we had a busy

Yeah, I'd take to run out anybody, all right.

They're getting around offering bounties now.

How many we bring in?

About 20 so far.

Why don't you teach them dogs to stay off the rest of us?

Shut up.

You don't train a killer dog by making him friendly.

Have a drink, cowboy.

How much is a beer?

Nickel. But this drink's on the house.

I'll draw you a beer if you'd rather have it. For free?

Absolutely.

Sure would be kind of you.

How much are they?

Well, they're free if you buy a drink.

In that case, I reckon I'll pay for the beer.

How much is that?

Sure am beholden to you.

Do you mind if I sit down?

Any place at all.

Send over a couple of cups of coffee, Sam.

Yes, ma'am.

I was going to have some coffee, but you took my favorite table.

I never intended to, ma'am.

I'm awful sorry.

How tall are you?

Too tall for comfort.

Still growing, huh?

Yes, ma'am.

Well, you won't be if you keep eating pretzels and beer for breakfast.

Okay.

I've ordered some coffee, if you care to join me.

Oh, no, I couldn't, really.

I'm Kitty Russell. I own this place.

I reckon I'm more of a country boy than I thought.

My name's Clayton Thaddeus Greenwood. Happy to meet you.

They call my brother Clayton Lowell Greenwood, so I always have to give my

full handle so that people won't get confused.

Thanks, Sam.

Wait a minute.

How about some eggs to go with this coffee?

No, that'd be too much, really.

Now, wait a minute. I know two things.

One, you're short on change, and two, that you'll pay me back.

So why don't you show me some country boy common sense, huh?

I might just learn to live at this table the way things are going.

It's a worry to you, Matthew. I'll be glad to do all I can.

Well, it's a worry because these ranchers are going to be in real trouble

this winter with all this wolves around.

I'll get my traps together and start setting them first thing in the morning.

I'll see you later.

I said you'll be finishing the story over in jail.

Saying you're under arrest.

Hey, it's the plow boy.

I got a warrant right here.

I didn't get your names at the store, so my pa just wrote in John Doe's.

The damages cost $40 to repair.

The warrant is for the damages and disorderly conduct.

Disorderly conduct?

Hey, everybody, stop it. Hey, get out of here.

Hey, lookie here. Lookie, he got a big treating store for you.

This here's a plow boy, and he's only one of the kind.

Plow boy, tell these nice... people, how much you earn with that badge of yours?

Old dollar a month this boy gets.

He's a lawman. You didn't tell me that.

Well, I didn't know it myself.

Sam, I think you better go get mad.

You know, Clowboy, you ought to keep that old badge of yours rubbed right...

Ow!

I was hoping there wouldn't be any trouble.

I'm real sorry, ma'am.

Oh, you people can all see that there's a gun over there pointed at us.

Now, I want witnesses to remember that we didn't start no trouble.

Well, you got a witness that he's a lawman and he's trying to take you to

jail peaceably.

You keep out of this. He hasn't got the right to arrest anybody.

Well, Sonny, which one of us you gonna shoot, huh?

May I have your mind?

All right, hold it here.

I think you can put that away now.

I was just putting these men under arrest, Marshal.

Well, since when do you pay attention to an Oklahoma badge?

Oklahoma?

I got a proper warrant, Marshal.

Tell him what it's for, plowboy.

Disorderly conduct.

I'll tell you this, young fella, but this isn't any good here in Kansas.

Look, why don't you come along with me to the office?

We can talk this over.

What about them?

They're not going anywhere.

The last thing my pa did was make out that warrant. And I just couldn't go

home with them fellas tilling the loose.

Well, son, I can sure understand how you feel.

Your father dying like that and all.

But I'm afraid there's not much you can do to those men while they're here in

Kansas.

You couldn't arrest them for me?

Not on an Oklahoma warrant.

I was counting on having them fellas before a judge.

Well, see, the most any judge would do would be maybe to fine them for the

damages.

Give them a day or two in jail, but that's about it. They can't be held

responsible for your father's death.

Even that might have happened anyway.

But it wouldn't have happened, Mark. Well, I know it wouldn't have happened.

That's one of the things you have to learn about the law.

Justice is sometimes pretty hard to come by.

Yes, sir.

Your father was John Greenwood, wasn't he?

How'd you know that?

Oh, I ran into him a time or two when he was sheriff down in Tulsa.

He got shot up pretty bad.

I heard about that.

Your father was quite a man.

Yes, sir, he was.

It's taken me quite a while to puzzle that out, though.

What'll you do now? Go back home? home?

No, sir.

I'm going to stay on the trail of those fellows, even if I have to wait till I

get back to Oklahoma.

You know, if you do that, you might be getting a little more than you bargained

for.

If you take my advice, son, you'll forget about it.

Go back home.

Maybe so, Marshal.

But I've made up my mind that I'm going to get them, and I am.

So I want to thank you both for your advice.

Well, good luck.

Thank you.

Look who's here.

Hey, Plowboy.

Sonny.

How's those smileys doing down your way, Plowboy?

Real friendly fella here, boy. You should take after him more.

Yeah, them store-bought teeth is. They sure are smiling, fella.

Tell you one thing about your old man. He sure knows a gunfighter when he's

singing one.

Hey, I'll give you a word you got out, brother.

Howdy again, son.

Howdy.

If I was you, I wouldn't pay no mind to them fellas at all.

I reckon I better get used to it.

I may be here for some time.

You ain't fixing to leave?

Not for a while.

Guess maybe I ought to put my horse up someplace?

Old Moss ain't here, but there's plenty of room in yonder. Bring him on in. Come

on.

Now, when they start moving, cut 30 or so head up in the canyon.

Watch yourselves. There's too many drovers around to get careless.

a look at his right front foot.

See what

I told you?

Every time we turn around, there he is.

Yeah, looks like we better have a little talk.

Hello, claw boy.

The boys tell me you've been making quite a nuisance of yourself for the

last few days.

I'm just kind of keeping an eye on you fellas.

Well, look, we might not have had time to mention it back in Oklahoma, but we

don't like people keeping an eye on us.

We don't like it at all.

If a fella's got nothing to hide, he's got no cause to worry about somebody

watching him.

I got a piece of advice for you, kid.

You stay off our heels or you're gonna get yourself hurt.

That's right.

We don't like you or no one else following us around.

Any time you fellas try to use force to stop me, I'd be against the law,

wouldn't I?

I could have you jailed for assault.

I know.

Any time you fellas looking for trouble,

I'll be around.

I don't know what you're looking around for.

Be crazy, him out there watching at night.

Don't make much sense, him watching when we're at the barber shop.

drinking at the Oasis, but there he is.

We gotta do something about him, Sam.

He keeps popping up like this. We're gonna find him on our tail some night

when we're running the dogs.

We'll water and feed the dogs, but they stay where they are till the plow boy

gets tired of watching us. But we're losing money every day that passes, Sam,

and it's already been a week. He's right, Sam.

We rounded up all the calves that we could. Now, if we don't start working

the dogs pretty soon, we ain't gonna make no money at all.

Just let us put a bullet in that kid. I told you before we can't afford to kill

him. We do that, we'll have the marshal on our neck, and then we'll be in real

trouble. We gotta do something. We can't just let that kid spoil everything.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was...

You're

right. We gotta do something.

Well, looky here, Matthew. Them coyote tracks.

Them ain't wolf tracks.

I'll tell you, I haven't saw a blessed sign of a wolf in four or five days.

There's no vultures either.

Now, you know, Matthew, it ain't like a pack of wolves that just run off like

that. And there ain't been enough hunting to scare them off.

Yeah, that's for sure.

According to the number of kills we had out here last week, it must have been a

large wolf pack, too.

And yet nobody's brought in a single skin. Now, doesn't that strike you kind

of funny?

Sure does.

Something else, too, that bothers me. The deer are running free out here on

the prairie, not even trying to stay next to the timber.

Now, that's not natural when there's a wolf pack around.

You mean you think it's not a wolf pack? Could be something else doing it?

That's exactly what I'm beginning to think, Festus.

Come on.

You just never learn, Sam.

You know, it sure is a shame.

You know, I think he'd pick up something from his old man.

You know, I seen some people crawl in my time, but I ain't never seen nobody

crawl the way he did.

Ain't that right, Sam?

Mm-hmm.

Real bootlicker with a star.

Remember how it was, plowboy?

Remember how your pa come belly up first time he seen a gun?

What'd you say to him after we left?

Did you thank him for saving your skin?

I don't think so, Sam.

I think the old man just gave him some smiling lessons.

What's the matter with that?

Hold it up.

Trying to get out of there.

Who started this?

He did.

Is that right, Wally?

Well, they come to his table, Marshal, but the boy threw the first punch.

We come over to his table.

He's been dogging our trail night and day, Marshal.

Where we come from, you call a man that counts if he's following you around.

We got a right to protect ourselves, even if it's a badge doing the meddling.

Yeah, well, I told you this once before, but I guess I'll have to tell you again.

You got no right to bother these men as long as they're in Kansas.

Well, they come to my table first.

That doesn't make any difference. Now, if you got a personal dispute with him,

you better take off that badge before you settle it. The two of them don't go

together. Yeah, that's telling him, Marshal.

Shut up.

While you total up the damages, they'll pay for their end and he'll pay for his.

I ain't got any money, Marshal.

In that case, I think maybe I'll just throw you in jail for a couple of days.

In jail?

That's right. Maybe a couple of days in jail will teach you a little respect for

the rights of others.

Now, let's go.

What do you think of that?

I think the cattle business is going to pick up tonight.

Dad, come on out.

You're letting me go?

I'm afraid I played a little trick on you. I didn't really mean to lock you up

in the first place.

I just wanted those drovers to think you were locked up.

What for?

Well, you see, we got to thinking about these wolf packs and so forth, and we

figured maybe it wasn't really wolves after all.

But whatever it was, it was just made to look like wolves, and that could only be

dogs.

Now, if they was wild dogs chasing them cattle, why, they wouldn't have gave up

like they done here about a week ago, about the time you started trailing them

drovers.

I still don't understand.

Why, no, we didn't either at first, but we got it figured out now.

Them fellas have been rustling calves by sicking dogs on them herds, and they's

doing just fine till you come along, started to bothering them, and they're

sticking on their trail, see?

What's that got to do with putting me in jail?

Only Bill, Matthew, he's thicker than I thought he was.

Thad, don't you understand? As long as they figure you're in jail and not out

of bothering and prodding around someplace on their trail, well, they're

going to start to sicken their dogs on the herbs again.

We'll get right out there and cabbage on to them red-handed. Understand?

I reckon I got a lot to learn about being a lawman.

You're just liable to pick up a point or two if you just keep an eagle eye on me

tonight. All right, let's go.

This

and

them dogs are mean.

They know what's coming.

The sound of things, so do they.

All right.

Good luck.

There they are.

Who's that?

I don't know. I ain't waiting to find out.

Don't shoot me Marshall.

All right, drop that gun easy.

Let's get out of here.

He

dead?

Yeah. That leaves the one you called Sam. Where is he?

Back in a draw with them dogs.

Keep an eye on him, Festus.

Someone's coming, is that it?

All right, let's give them a little surprise.

Oh, God.

. . .

Yes, sir.

Sure glad to see you.

I'll see if I can find you a horse. We'll get you back to town and have Doc

take a look at you.

I'll tell you something else. The first big mistake you made was having an old

hill boy like me around.

The very reason Matthew hired me is because I know more about four-legged

critters than anybody you've ever saw.

And that goes special for wolves.

Oh, why don't you stop bragging, Festus? You didn't find any wolves.

Probably a pretty good sign, too, because if you had it, you'd have been

chasing them all over western Kansas.

And those fellas would have made off with every calf in the country.

You're talking of unkindness, sir.

I'll leave it to Matthew right here. We know more about them yahoos than you've

ever heard of before we left town. Right, Matthew?

Oh, absolutely.

Well, Thad, you're looking something better.

Well, that old doc there having a real touch.

Yeah, you see?

See how the out-of-town folks appreciate me more than the locals do?

I'll tell you why that is.

Because they ain't had as many sorry dealings with you as we have.

You know, I don't know whether you've got anything else to do, but if you

have, I wish you'd go do it someplace else.

Hold on.

See what I mean, Thad?

Right there's the honoreest old scudder I've ever saw.

I'm sorry I caused you all so much trouble.

You got nothing to apologize for, Thad. You know, if it hadn't been for you dog

-nosed fellas, we might not have caught up with him until it was too late.

Well, that was just blind luck, Marshal.

I'd have been cooked real bad if it hadn't been for you and Mr. Hagen.

I'll tell you something. I think your pa would have been real proud of you.

Thank you kindly for saying so.

Festus tells me you're thinking of staying in Dodge.

Yes, sir.

I left my brother down at the store and... He's got a wife and a couple of

young'uns, and the store might be bringing in just enough to keep him

going.

Well, I'll tell you, I could use some help around here as long as these

drovers are in town.

All I can pay is $8 a month, but maybe that's enough to keep you in Grubstake

anyway. Well, that's eight times more than I was making back home.

Good. Let's talk about it on the way down to the office. I'd feel very

honored.

Oh, Docs, do you mind if I owe you for all the doctrine?

Now that you're a lawman, you don't have to pay me anything. Matt never does.

Thank you.

I guess I kind of owe you too, Mr. Higgins, for all your kindness and

everything. Oh, Phil, it's easy to be kind to a father like you, fat.

Don't let him soft-soap you, son. You'll be lost before you start.

Why do you always have to go blabbing your mouth?

Now, you know as well as I do that none of us higgins ain't your...

What's that? If you're gonna be around Dad's real hard, I guess you'll have to

get used to that.

You ever listen to a mockingbird, Mr. Dillon?

A mockingbird?

Even when he's scolding you, he's got a little chuckle in him.

I see what you mean.