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Who's got the stuff that made the Wild West wild? Who pleases every woman, man,

and child?

Who does his best to give the customers a thrill?

Colonel Buffalo Bill!

Who's got the show that gets the most applause?

500 Indians and 50 squaws! 10 featured acts and there's a special feature

still! Colonel Buffalo Bill!

Introducing the world's greatest sharpshooter, Mr. Frank Butler.

And all is still.

We see the stagecoach climbing up a hill.

Going along the mountain trail, carrying passengers and mail. Never suspecting

danger as they roll along.

The watchful driver is in his seat.

His trusty rifle lying at his feet.

Some of the passengers inside seem to be going.

There's a shout.

What is it all about?

What is it all about? You ask. It's Indians.

Indians. Indians.

Indians. Indians.

Indians. Indians. Indians.

Indians.

Oh, Jesus.

Are you suggesting we keep the people of this town in ignorance about the

grandest show on earth? I'm suggesting that you clear out of here. This is my

hotel. I won't have any science. Why, you must be, uh, uh, uh, don't tell me,

uh, Mr.

Wilson. Well, how do you do, sir? This is a great pleasure.

Allow me to introduce myself.

I'm Charles Davenport, personal manager for Buffalo Bill Toad. Well, I'm glad to

know you, but you can't be... And when we hold our shooting match this

afternoon, everybody in town will be here watching like the greatest

advertising in the world. Hey, what shooting match?

Frank Butler against your local shot. We do it in every town.

Mr. Wilson, we're taking 10 of your room.

For a lot of cowboys and Indians?

For the headliners. The Indians can sleep in the lobby. Indians! Oh, boys!

I don't want any actors. I just had Pawnee Bill and his Far East show here.

And some of them chased my guests up and down stairs on horseback. Now take your

stuff and get.

Hey, nice lawn you got here. I'll rent it from you. $25 for the afternoon.

No. $50.

No. How about $50 in cash and two squads? No, no.

How about 50 squads and $2 in cash? No!

That's good, because you haven't got it. Who says so? He does.

Get that horse out of here. He seems to think it's his hotel.

Don't you mention my name? He stood up under it.

Well, girls, here's some passes for the show.

Thanks, Frank.

Thank you.

Don't miss my entrance, huh?

All right, Frank.

Don't forget dinner now. I'll be there.

Get the local champion up and I'll give you a side bet of $100 against 10 rooms

for our actors.

No, sir.

I'll clear all this stuff off the porch before I call the marshal. You sure

charmed him.

Ah, we don't need him.

Tell the boys to start packing up. Hold the match back at the fairground. Yes,

your majesty. See you later.

Yes, your majesty.

not an eating bird, it's a wearing bird.

Oh!

Well, all right, ma'am, but around these parts you're going to have to keep a

-sewing it on, because folks are going to keep a-shooting it on. Oh, you've

ruined it.

Yeah, it sure looks beat, ma'am.

Here, have one of mine. Get that filthy thing away from me.

She ain't filthy.

She looks better than you do, and she's got a bullet in her hay.

I heard shooting. This creature tried to murder me.

Is that gun loaded?

Sure.

That's mighty civilized of you.

See, a fella down the road a piece tells me this here's a boarding hotel.

Yeah, well, what if it is? Well, maybe you and me can do some trading. What

have you got to trade?

Well, I got quails, wild ducks, and I got grouses. No, I can get all the game

I want.

Yeah, but when folks eat the kind of game you get, they keep spitting out

buckshot. Cheese sometimes, too.

They ain't used to people yet. They never been out of Dark County afore.

Come on, shake your tails! The man's a-waitin' on ya!

Hurry up!

He can't wait all day.

They, uh, look a little dusty, don't they?

We're in business together.

She plucks them, she picks them, and she pulls them. Well, who's he?

Little Jake? Oh, he's my bird dog.

Jake, stop your sniffing. What you got of sleeve fur?

Here you are, mister.

Look it over.

Lift up its wings.

No buckshot in that bird. Just one little tiny hole in its head.

Mighty pretty shooting.

Mighty pretty eating, too.

And for every one you take, you gotta give me two nickels and a dime.

All right, I'll take two dozen.

How many's that?

24.

Who do we know can count up to 24?

I can count up to 20. Are you sure?

Uh-huh.

I can only give you 20.

All right, leave the bill with me.

What's a bill?

Well, a bill's a voucher. Don't you keep books? Don't any of you read or write?

We don't read as good as everybody.

Folks are dumb where I come from.

bustle to a stubborn mule you don't have to come from a great big town not to

clean out a stable in an evening

I can shoot the fuzz off a peach.

See that rooster up there?

Yeah.

Now you don't. Jumpin' je hosafat.

How would you like to make five dollars?

Doin' what?

There's a swollen-headed stiff here from the Wild West show.

Oh, I don't shoot people. No, no, he challenges anybody in the county to a

shooting match.

You wait here. What's your name? Annie Oakley. Annie Oakley.

Come on, Grandma.

I gotta get you shined up.

How'd you get your nose so dirty?

What's that you got there?

What's it look like?

Beats me.

It's not a rival, is it? Ain't you got a...

You got eyes.

Honey, you shouldn't be fooling around with an old piece of junk like this. You

could get hurt.

Well, this thing's liable to explode and blow your ears off.

You give this back to your pappy and get yourself a couple of knitting needles.

Hey, hey, mister.

Do you reckon I could keep it till this afternoon?

Well, it makes no difference to me.

I just don't want you to hurt yourself, that's all.

I just want to keep it long enough to win a shooting contest... ...offing a

big swollen-headed stiff out of the Wild West show.

You mean Frank Butler?

They didn't say his name.

Just that he was a swollen-headed stiff, huh?

Yeah. Well, he's champion.

What's that?

He's the best.

He was?

You're kind of sad on yourself, aren't you?

About that I am, but... ...as soon as I try to shine up to folks, I'm cocky as a

scrub oak.

I don't know.

I've seen worse than you.

Honest? Sure.

Well, good luck in the shoot, Matcha. I'll see you there.

Hey, hey, mister.

Don't you like girls?

Well, sure.

I'm a girl.

That's fine.

Is there any special kind of girl that you like?

Yeah.

I like the kind that you see in picture magazines.

Sort of dainty and dimple and rosy. The girl that I marry

will have to be as soft as pink.

was frightened by a shotgun they say that's why i'm

such a wonderful shot i'd be out in the

cactus and i'd practice all day but now tell me

what have i got i'm quick on the trigger

with targets not much bigger than

I'm number one.

But my score with a feller is lower than a seller.

Oh, you can't get a man with a gun.

When I'm with a pistol, I sparkle like a crystal. Yes, I shine like the

moon.

What's his name?

What's his name? Annie?

Annie!

What's so funny?

Are you trying to make a fool of us or something?

Frank Butler can't shoot against a girl. You shot anyone, didn't you?

Well, yes, I know I did. What's the matter?

No, it isn't that, but it just... What do we do, B.B.? Why, nothing.

The little lady accepted the challenge. She is entitled to her chance.

big swirling

The contest will continue until the first mess.

When you are ready, my dear, just say pull.

What are you sorry about?

You're just good, that's all.

You ain't mad at me, are you?

Why, of course not.

Anybody can miss a shot.

I can't.

Oh, Frank.

Excuse me.

Here's your $5, Annie. I'm proud of you.

Thanks, Mr. Wilson. Where are you going now, Annie?

Well, I don't know. Back to Darrow County, I guess.

He sure is purty.

Well, goodbye, Annie.

Goodbye, Mr. Wilson. Good luck. Goodbye, kids.

Boy, she'd be a sensation.

They've never seen a girl that could shoot like that. What makes you think

she's so great? Just because she got one up on me? Well, she couldn't do it again

in a million years. We haven't got a million years.

If business keeps up like this, we're going to have to fold up.

Pawny Bill is beating us to every town. Yeah, she'd be a novelty.

I don't want any partners.

Well, we'd make her your assistant.

Maybe once in a while you'd let her take a pot shot. Now, look here, you could

break her in. And, you know, she's quite a pretty girl.

She's all right.

Of course, she looks terrible now, but...

We could dress her up. Go ahead.

She couldn't look worse than Dolly. She wouldn't be willing to join us just to

hand me things.

Oh, yes, I would, Mr. Butler.

Well, looky here.

I'd be willing to hand you anything, just so as I could be near you.

You ever been away from home before?

Who do I got to leave home? Oh, I think you'd find that quite fascinating, my

dear. We travel all... over the country. Why, certainly.

Have you ever been on a railroad train?

Uh-uh. You know anything about show business?

Show business?

What's that?

What's show business?

The cowboys, the wrestlers, the tumblers, the clowns, the roustabouts

that move the show at dawn.

The music, the spotlights, the people, the towns, your baggage with the labels

pasted on.

The sawdust and the horses and the smell.

taken from the last hotel.

There's no business like show business, like no business I know.

Everything about it is appealing, everything the traffic will allow.

Nowhere could you have that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra

bow.

There's no people like show people, they smile.

The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props, the audience that lifts you

when you're down.

The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops. The sheriff who

escorts you out of town The opening when your heart beats like a drum

The closing when the customers won't come

There's no business like show business If you tell me it's

so Traveling through the country is so thrilling Standing out in front on

opening night Smiling as you watch the benches filling and see your billing

up there in lights there's no people like show people they smile

when they are low even with the turkey that you know will fall you may

be stranded out in the cold still you wouldn't change it for a second

Oh, I cut this out of the paper. It's about you.

Are you sure that's a word?

That seems an awful lot for just Joe.

Well, reading's kind of funny sometimes.

Come on.

The dog was...

...scratch.

Bless you. You're not catching cold, are you? No, I'm just trying to learn little

Jake here his reading lesson.

Would you like to read it? No, you read it to me.

You read it. I want to hear how it sounds when you speak it.

Mr. Butler's assistant, whose name is not on the program, performed only one

trick, but she promises to become a fine marksman.

That's pretty nice of that paper man.

People are beginning to notice you, Ann.

I told Charlie to put your name on the billboard.

You did?

Yep. I got a real fancy trick I've been practicing up to surprise you with.

What is it?

Oh, I can't tell you.

It's a surprise.

That's fine.

I like you to be ambitious. I want you to improve.

But it'll take some time.

All I want to be is a pink and white lady, like the kind you said you liked.

You're getting pinker and whiter every day.

That ain't pig wash, is it?

What'd you say if someday I might even be willing to make him a partner?

Oh, Frank!

Butler...

I thought I'd ask a girl to be my partner.

Oakley and Butler.

Butler and Oak.

Well, what's the difference?

Well, you got to do it in alphabetical order.

Oh.

You know, there's going to be a wishing moon out tonight.

Back home, I used to wish for a lot of things, but lately there's sure been a

kitchen up to me.

Annie, you ever love anybody?

You mean somebody who loved me back? Yeah.

Then I ain't.

But I hear tell about it.

They say that falling in love is

wonderful.

It's wonderful.

It's wonderful.

So they tell.

That's no.

It's getting on to bedtime.

Well,

I better mosey on back to the car.

Do you mind if I walk you home?

You better go on to bed.

Good night.

Good night.

Charlie, Charlie, my boy, something is wrong.

Here we've been parading around all morning and... How do you do, my dear?

And still the customers don't come.

Maybe you need some new attractions.

No, no, no. What we need is just one good attraction. Something that'll make

them sit up and... Take notice.

Ponyville! The two-timing, double-crossing... That's where all your

business is. Opening in St.

Paul's like opening next door.

Who's going to stop him? I am. Got an idea.

Come on, let's see Annie.

Annie! Annie, you remember that stunt you've been practicing?

Uh-huh. Well, now, Charlie and I thought that this afternoon you might... Well,

that's a very good stunt.

What he means is he wants you to do it in the show this afternoon.

Oh, I couldn't do that.

Frank might not like it. Oh, of course he would. It'll surprise him.

You like him, don't you? Oh, I like... I like him a heap.

Has he asked you to marry him? Not yet.

He ain't broke out in a cold sweat enough for that.

Well, that's why we're doing this for you. This is your big chance. You'll

dazzle him. Why, when you walk out there in front of that audience this afternoon

in that beautiful new costume with the music under you, and you try that new

trick that you've been saving for him... He'll be so proud of me, he'll bust out

in that cold sweat.

That's right.

Charlie Buffalo, wait till I tell him. Hold on, wait now, Annie. Look, we want

to surprise him. You see?

He's going to expect you to do that old trick where you shoot the egg off the

poodle's head.

Instead, instead, you come on.

You do the new trick, you save the show, and you marry Frank.

Just like in a fairy tale.

Oh, are you sure he'll like it?

Yes, I think he will. I think he will.

Mr. Frank Butler is in for a real surprise.

Look at that business.

This will fix that Pawnee Bill. When word gets around about Ernie, he won't

have enough customers to get up a two-handed poker game.

You're right, B.B.

The dirty, two-timing, double-crossing, treacherous, steeping, stealing... Well,

Buffalo Bill! Well, Pawnee Bill, my old pal!

You are a sight for sore eyes. Well, we were just talking about your work with

Charlie.

We were just saying we don't see enough of you. Well, I get a little bit lonely

too, B.B. Any time during the past six months you wanted to see us, all you had

to do was turn around and spit.

Same old Charlie, hasn't changed a bit.

Oh, you haven't met Big Chief Sitting Bull, have you?

No, I haven't.

Why,

sure, everybody knows Big Chief Sitting Bull, who defeated General...

Estevana in St. Paul of none other than Pawnee Bill.

All right, folks, now don't lose your place in line.

The great Annie Oakley is on the inside. Oh, Annie Oakley. Say, I'm anxious to

see her.

I'll get some tickets. Oh, hold on here. I wouldn't have it. Here, here. A couple

of passes to my own private box. Well, well.

Punched right through the center.

Annie Oakley shot them out. Annie Oakley. Well, we've got Annie Oakley.

And I'll see you inside. There you are, Chief. Come along.

How's business, Chief? Going back in the war pants soon?

No, on way home from Washington.

Go see Great White Father about Indian territory.

Say, they gave you bad shuffle on that land. Well, maybe you can farm it.

Nothing will grow.

Too much oil.

50,000 barrel a day.

How do we ever get the country away from them?

Hi, Charlie.

Do you think this looks... Well, who put that up there? Yeah, it looks great,

don't it?

I told you to put her name up someplace, not to make a star out of her.

That's ridiculous.

She's only doing a couple of little tricks, isn't she?

Well, yeah, Frank.

Isn't she?

Well, sure.

I don't understand you. You like her, don't you? Sure, I like her. And I want

to keep liking her.

Where's Buffalo Bill?

Jump. Buffalo.

It's me.

Have I been up there all the time?

You like it?

Like it.

Oh, Charlie, I can't believe this.

Wait till Frank sees it.

Yeah. Will you go get him, Charlie, please?

There's no business like show

business like no

business like no

Oh, later and soon you'll be appearing

Every bit of nervousness is gone

Then the sound that's music to your hearing, to hear them cheering when you

come on.

You be sure and watch me this afternoon. Now, don't be nervous.

I seen you do that poodle trick a dozen times. Oh, I know, but today I'm not

gonna... I mean, I'm gonna... Well, when you see me out there with the

music and everything, well, you'll... you'll... What'll I do?

Well, you'll start to bust out in a cold sweat, and then just like in a fairy

tale, you're gonna be so proud of me that you're gonna ask me to do something

and be somebody, and I'm gonna do it.

Be it.

Honey, I could ask you that right now.

You sure look elegant.

Not now, Frank.

That ain't the way I planned it.

Besides, you can't kneel down here.

Well, I'll come back to your dressing tent after I come off.

Yeah, and then you can take your time and ask me real slow like.

Now, I'd better get.

Would you like to touch me for that?

There ain't nothing like that in Dare County.

to the fight like a lion but I came out like a lamb

my defenses are down she's got me where she wants me and I can't escape

no how I could speak to my heart when it weakened

but my heart won't listen now like a toothless

flawless tiger like an old

Like a knight without his armor.

Like Samson without his spear.

My defenses are down.

I might as well surrender for the...

Sold.

X-Men ship!

Thank you.

Look here, Frank, I don't want you to blame Annie. She wouldn't... She was

only trying to surprise you. She wouldn't cross anybody. Yeah, that's

what I thought.

I thought she was such a sweet, simple little girl.

Simple? Why, in two weeks, I'd wind up being her assistant. Look who's talking.

I've watched you push her around for months now, handing you your guns,

grateful for any crumb the great Frank Butler would deign to drop.

Why, you're so conceited, if you fell in love with anybody else, it'd be a

triangle.

Oh, now.

Maybe you'd like to hit me, too.

Charlie here is talking for both of us.

Frank, I've been a-looking all over for you. Did you see me? Were you surprised?

It was a surprise of my life. I knew you'd like it.

Now, if you two will get, we want to be alone.

Oh, Tanya, Cecilia!

In the Sioux language, what Tanya Cecilia means, little sure shot.

Well, of course, he wants to meet you.

Miss Annie Oakley, may I present Chief Sitting Bull.

I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Bull.

Honda.

Thank you kindly.

I want you to meet my best friend, Mr. Frank Butler.

You in show, too?

In a show?

Oh, he's a star.

No. You best.

Good girl.

Oh, that's all right, honey. He wants you to be his friend. Not friend.

I make her my daughter.

What? Oh, that's a great honor. He wants to adopt you. I have called Sioux Tribe

together. We have big ceremony.

When, Chief?

Now. Oh, not now. I have to contact the newspapers, send some wires. That'll

take a little time. Now.

That's what I said. Now.

To be near, daughter.

Sitting bull break rule.

Put money in show business.

You hear that?

Now we can go to New York, Madison Square Garden. We'll tour Europe. We'll

play before the world. Everything's happening so fast.

First they get me a new poppin'. Now if you two will get, I could get me a

husband. Couldn't I, Frank?

Frank? Frank?

Where'd he go? He probably went out to change.

Hey, now, wait a minute.

Not rocky.

No, she didn't. Please.

Like the Seminole Navajo Kickapoo

Like those Indians I'm an Indian too

The end too.

Papa Bull writing book.

Well, can you make this out?

Dear Annie, I'm leave... What's the matter?

I'm leaving tonight to join Pony Bill's show.

I'm going to do my old act with...

who put over greatest trick I ever saw.

You a smart girl, Annie.

Too smart for me.

Good luck to you and goodbye.

Frank.

What does he mean, too smart for... It must be some sort of joke.

It was gonna... It was gonna be Butler and Oakley. It was gonna... Are you sure

you can read?

You want him killed?

Papa Bull, we is going to be married tonight, me and Frank.

I was going to be a lady for him and everything.

I was trying so hard.

You great lady, Annie.

You best shot in the whole world.

And you kids be good and do everything that Miss Willoughby tells you to do.

Where's little Jake?

Jake!

Jake!

Jake!

Jake!

Jake.

Oh, I wish you could, little Jake. But you gotta take Jesse and Minnie and

Nellie back to Ohio.

But who's gonna teach you to read?

I guess I'll have to learn myself.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Miss Oakley, you're a very remarkable young lady.

Nina. Nina, what should they want to pick?

My daughter Annie. Many fine medals.

Come on, Charlie. Great success, wasn't it? Oh, great. Another success like that

and we'll go broke.

What are you talking about? These command performances are costing us our

shirts. They command, we perform, no one pays.

Yeah, well, now, look here. We got enough money to meet our payroll this

week? Meet it?

We're not close enough to even wave at it. Oh, no.

Maybe we'll break even in Sweden. They only have one king, and he's on a

vacation. Now, look here, Charlie. What would you think about pulling up stakes

here and heading home?

Heading home?

We got a whole tour ahead of us. Now's our chance to make a little money. This

has all just been a buildup. Yeah, well, I wasn't thinking about the money.

I didn't hear you.

Have you, uh...

You been watching Annie lately?

I watch her every show.

She's a great little sharpshooter. Yes, well, I don't think that's enough for

Annie. Well, we'll build up her act a little. Oh, now, Charlie, talk sense.

What do you expect me to say? That she'd be happier back with the great Frank

Butler?

I'd rather see her elope with Sitting Bull.

At least she'd always be sure of having a tent over her head. Now, you listen to

me. Frank is all right. Well, the only important thing is Annie is in love with

him. Well, now, that's where you're wrong.

Annie is as happy as a little lark. Here comes your happy little lark.

Annie.

Annie.

The show went swell, didn't it? Oh, you were superb, my dear.

You knocked them out of their seats, honey.

Do you think I thanked the queen enough? You certainly did.

Why, you gave a great show.

It's fun traveling around Europe like this, isn't it?

Isn't it?

Oh, sure.

You get to travel all around, meet a lot of interesting people. I love it.

Well, old Pat, where are we heading now? North?

South? We haven't decided.

We were talking about Sweden.

That's nice.

And then, of course, we could go back to America.

Do you really mean it? Would you like that, honey? Oh, I love Europe, but I've

been dying to go home.

That's what we figured.

I'll get to see the kids again.

Oh, yes. Now, wouldn't that be nice?

Well, of course, I can't wait till a certain Mr.

Somebody sees this.

Aren't they cute?

Yeah, but if we're so rich, what are we doing on a cattle boat? Well, now... We

thought it'd be nice to keep the animals company.

Annie, our European tour was an artistic success.

He means we're broke.

Oh, you don't mean to tell me the king of Italy and the Kaiser couldn't dig up

a buck and a half. My dear child, kings don't handle money.

I'll give it to you briefly. We had our choice of traveling on this boat or

getting our feet very wet. Shut up!

It costs a lot of money to travel a big troop up and down Europe. Why, sure. You

remember what happened in Paris when the Indians discovered French pastry.

62,000 chocolate eclairs.

62,500.

Now, you see, that cost a heap of money.

But Papa Bull, what happened to your heap?

Government put Papa Bull on small allowance, $32.50 a week.

But why?

Because in the eight months that he's been with us, he's drawn $300,000.

and he hasn't got anything to show for it except an opera hat and a shoebox

full of our IOUs. That's show business.

I'll give it to you straight, Annie.

I don't think we can keep the show open. It costs too much money. But you can't

break up the show.

I go back to reservation.

Reservation, very quiet after show business.

What's going to happen to you, Buffalo Bill? Oh, me? Oh, I'll be all right.

Dine in museums, side shows, everything is going to be all right.

Honey, only just now we gotta raise a little bit of cash.

Hey, let's turn this into a pirate ship.

See them water hungry?

Yes, Buffalo Bill hungry, too. I'd settle right now, but... I'd settle

right... Annie, you think you could shoot one of those?

Which one do you want and why do you want them? Well, get the one with the

meat on them.

What for?

A seagull sandwich.

Well, I guess I'll mosey on back to my stall.

Time to milk my roommate.

Annie, Annie, come here to me. I want you to meet a friend of mine.

That's it.

It looks like Frank Butler.

Well, so it does.

Well, come on, Annie, take a look.

I don't want to look. And if he's coming on this boat, I'm leaving.

No, no, no, Annie.

Maybe I will.

Sure, I'll talk to him.

I'll say, what are you doing here, you big, swollen-headed stiff?

Get!

Then he'll say...

I'll just come down to meet you, honey.

Then I'll say, I don't want to get met by you. Get away from me. Take your

hands off of me. I hate you.

Then he'll say,

no, honey. Then I'll say,

don't honey me. You thought I double-crossed you. You thought I tried

to show you up.

When you did find out, only done the trick just so you'd love me.

Because I was ashamed.

Besides, not writing don't mean somebody don't love somebody.

And I'll say, well, anyways, you could have ripped.

And then he'll say, Annie, I've been eating my heart out for you. I can't

work. I can't sleep.

And then, of course, if any...

Says that, I guess I'll just have to say... I ain't slept much,

too.

Then, by rights, he ought to say... Annie, we both just gotta

get some sleep!

I loves you so!

Then I don't know how's I'll stop myself from saying...

I love you too.

Frank!

Frank!

You ain't Frank!

Well, nobody said I was.

Then why'd you come out here pretending to get me to kiss you and all?

He didn't do anything, baby. Oh, yes, he did. He gave me an appetite I didn't

want to get. Oh, no, Annie.

Who are you, son?

I'm working over at Madison Square Garden. I'm in the Ponyville show.

Ponyville. How?

How? No, no. How's business?

Oh, we're packing them in. They're mostly society ladies. Society ladies?

Sure, that Frank Butler. He's catting it for those debutantes.

Debutantes? What's that?

Ladies with long white gloves.

Them long white gloves you're talking about.

Is there any special pair he likes?

We can't keep track of him. Colonel, sir, I have a letter here from Pawnee

Bill. Thank you, sir. We were expecting you in on the Great Eastern.

Well, of course, I don't like to be separated from my cattle.

Sorry, show the gentleman below. Could I interest you in a tub of nice fresh

milk? Let me read it. Certainly.

What are you talking about?

Buffalo Bill, poor, but good.

Honey Bill, bad, but rich.

Put together, make good and rich.

You know, he may have something there. We could merge, you know. We've got the

prestige and he's got the money. We could combine our shows.

Annie, how would you like that? Oh, Buffalo Bill.

If the two shows could merge, me and Frank would just have to work together

every day and then...

Me could do some merging.

Yes, well, I'd better go find that messenger.

Now you'll be with your friend Frank.

Oh, Papa Bull, he'll make you a wonderful son-in-law.

Maybe, maybe he's gone and fallen in love with one of those pink and white

ladies he's always a-talking about.

When'd you fall in love with Frank?

First time I seen him.

He took to me right away.

He sung me a love song.

He just spit his heart right out at me.

She'll hurt like a kitten.

A doll, he can carry a

girl.

I'm giving a weekend party at my estate. Oh, that's fine. I'll be expecting you.

Well, I'm sorry, ma'am, but I don't think I could leave my horses.

Horses? Uh, excuse me.

Frank, don't forget our dance. Oh, I won't.

Oh, isn't this our dance?

I'm sorry, but I promised this one to Pawnee Bill. Excuse me.

Oh,

Frank, isn't it a lovely party?

Yeah.

It is a nice party. If you like witches.

What's the idea of sending that fated Gibson girl to fetch me? And you pick

the night when I'm half out of my mind worrying if Annie will even talk to me.

Well, I'll have to tell you.

We're at the end of our line. We owe everybody.

I don't understand it. We're pulling in a fortune down at the garden. Yeah, with

the sheriff at the door of the box office pulling it out again. Well, if

we're so broke, what are you giving this big party for Buffalo Bill for? It's an

investment. I'm trying to promote a partnership.

You mean put the two shores together? Yes.

Hey, that's wonderful.

But she'd have to talk to me. I knew I could count on you.

Colonel William F. Cody.

Where are you going? I got a surprise for her. I'll be right back.

Charles Davenport and their company.

I'm anxious to see her, and let's have a drink.

Well, Bill, here's to you. No, no, no. Here's to you.

Oh, no. Here's to you. No, no, I insist. Here's to you. Let's drink to me.

No, wait a minute.

I read about your European tour.

Are you sure they were seen over there? Oh, we got by.

Let's have another drink. The real stuff was in there.

Yeah.

Very nice of you to give us this fine party. Oh, nothing at all.

We're buddies, are we?

As a matter of fact, we cut off our European tour so Annie could be with

Frank. Is that so?

Well, I wonder how we could manage that. You know I've been wondering the same

thing. Let me propose a toast to the two greatest showmen in America.

Sir, this calls for a real celebration.

Let me fill them up again, boys. Here you go.

Darling. Beat it.

What?

There we are.

Here's to the new Buffalo Bill, Pawnee Bill Wild West show. Hold on there. No,

sir. Here's to the new Pawnee Bill, Buffalo Bill Wild West show. No, no. You

come first. You come first. I bet they're going to serve Dove for dinner.

Oh, this is a night I will always remember.

Me too, B.B.

Now, if we...

I was going to say, if we had $100,000, we could pay off our debts.

What were you going to say? The same thing.

Why, you dirty crook!

What do you mean?

Miss Annie Oakley, chief sitting bull.

Sir, yes?

He be here.

Miss Oakley, enchanted.

You're a friend of Frank Butler's, ain't you? How'd you know? White gloves.

Charmed. Chanted.

Enchanted.

Charmed.

Enchanted.

Delighted. Oh, no, you either gotta be charmed or chanted.

May I get you some chicken salad?

You sure can.

What is that big one for? For shooting the apple off of the crown prince's

head. And this little one?

For shooting the worm out of the apple.

Isn't she heaven?

Miss Oakley, won't you shoot something for us? Oh, yes, please do.

It's no money for merger.

No merger, nobody merge. But we gotta merge.

There's too many white gloves around here.

I'll tell you what I'll do. If an eye can keep them till Frank sees them, you

can have them.

You're my old partner.

Oh, it'll be great to be working together again, Bill.

Waiter, campaign for all the guests of honor. Come on, come on, everybody.

Annie, you realize you just gave up your whole bankroll.

Hagenstock!

It got spilled on you.

Oh, the cologne water?

It's powerful, ain't it?

Oh, Frank, look.

Look.

Polish. Oh, you look wonderful. Oh, do I?

Do I... Do I dazzle you? Yeah, I couldn't have stood it much longer.

Am I... Am I driving you crazy?

Go on.

Why didn't you write to me? I figured you'd be all tied up with them European

counts and dukes.

I've been hearing about your collection of white gloves.

I miss you every minute.

Keep talking.

It's like living without you. Keep talking.

You're everybody in the world, Anna. Keep talking.

I don't want to talk.

I just want to hold you like this.

Oh, Frank.

I can't take them. Honest, I can't. Oh, go on, honey. A little jewelry will look

good with that ring.

Go on.

Pin them on.

Where?

Well, I got a little piece of space left between France and Switzerland.

How come you got that vacant lot there?

Oh, I didn't wear them all.

Ah, you know what, these.

I haven't got any stones in them. Oh, look at all the stones around.

Go ahead, Frank. Now, these are too plain for you.

They just got writing on the back.

To Frank Butler, the champion sharpshooter of the world.

Of what world? The old world or the new world? The whole world.

I got all these that say you ain't big. They don't prove anything. I ain't been

big yet. If you're referring to that time back in Cincinnati, that was just

beginner's luck.

wife she'd make.

Instead of tending a house, she'd be tending her gun. Instead of staying home

sewn, she'd be out hitting targets. Yeah, and you'd be out missing them.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. That's not the right spirit to start working

together. We're not working together. Not now or ever.

I'm not. Stop murder.

I just did.

And get us a range.

That dress sure had me fooled. For a minute, I thought you was getting to be

a lady.

It's going to be a pleasure to give you a lesson in marksmanship.

You couldn't give me a lesson in long-distance spitting.

Anything you can do, I can do better.

I can get a sparrow with a bow and arrow. I

can live on bread and cheese.

you can reach i can go higher i can sing anything higher than you no you can't

yes i can no you can't yes i can no you can't

say softer. I can say anything softer than you. No, you can't. Yes, I can.

Yes, I can. Yes, I can.

I can drink my liquor faster than a flicker. I can drink it quicker and get

even sicker. I can open any safe without getting caught. Sure. That's what I

thought you crook. Any note you can hold, I can hold longer. I can hold any

note longer than you. No, you can't. Yes, I can. No, you can't. Yes, I can.

No, you can't. Yes, I can.

faster. I can say anything faster than you. I can

jump a hurdle. I

can wear a girdle. I can knit a sweater.

I can fill it better.

I can do most anything.

Can you make a pie?

No. Neither can I.

Any note you can sing, I can sing sweeter. I can sing anything sweeter

than you. No.

Gentlemen, you are about to witness a contest of marksmanship for the

championship of the world.

Between Miss Annie Oakley... ...and Mr. Frank

Butler.

Great shooting using clay targets. The best out of 100 shots, five shots

at a time.

Oh, I hope you know what you're doing. And he's not gonna like losing this

match. He like.

And they win match, lose Frank.

And they lose match, win Frank.

We make peace medicine.

Well,

is that satisfactory?

Unless he'd like a handicap.

Let's get started.

That's our whole bankroll. You don't think I'm going to lose, do you? Sure.

I mean, no. Here they are.

Oh, here. Let me hold the stakes, huh?

You and your peace medicine.

You have heard the rules of the contest.

Are you ready? Ready.

Just give me a hand.

Have better luck with this one.

Papa Bull, I don't know what's the matter with me.

You do fine. Keep missing, you win. Be second best, Annie.

Huh? You tell me can't get man with gun.

Remember? Yeah.

You get man with this gun.

Now, why didn't I think of that?

Give me that gun, Papa Bull!

Business like show business like no business I know.

Everything about it is appealing.

Everything the traffic will allow.

Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra mile.

There's no people like show.

Thank you.