All language subtitles for The_Hanging_Tree_(1959)_BluRay_720p

Every new mining camp's
got to have its hanging tree.

Makes folks
feel respectable.

Everything for sale?

I wouldn't sell, except
I need me a grubstake.

How about that cabin
over there?

That belongs to the fellow
down the hill,

runs the general store,
but he ain't selling yet.

How much?

How much would you say?

If you left it up to
me, I'd say 5 cents.

How about 1,000
in dust or nuggets?

500.

She's worth more than that,

lock, stock, and barrel.

Give you 500
in gold coin.

Come on, let's go.

Hey, I'll throw her in
for another $5.00 gold piece.

No, thanks.

Hey, sluice robber!

Hey, I think I got him!

Sluice robber!

- Sluice robber!
- sluice robber!

Who was it, frenchy?

Never got a good look.

Keep your eyes open
for blood signs.

Sluice robber!

Hey, sluice robber!

Sluice robber!

Sluice robber!

Sluice robber!

Sluice robber!

I...

I don't suppose
you would help me.

Sluice robber,
why should I?

I'm... bad hurt.

Where's my shirt?

I burned it.

What for? that's
the only shirt I got.

If you wore it out of
here, they'd hang you.

How does it feel?

Like the devil.

It ought to,

after what I dug
out of you.

It leave a big hole?

Yep, but it'll heal.

What's your name?

What's yours?

Dr. Joe frail.

My name's rune.

Rune what?

That's all.
just rune.

Where you from?

Where are you from?

Will you stop answering my
questions with another question?

Well, stop asking me
questions then.

How do you expect to pay me
for my professional services?

I can't pay you nothing.

If I had money, would I be
dumb enough to Rob a sluice box

and get myself hung?

You think I'm going to doctor
and feed you for nothing?

Of course, you could
earn your keep.

I could use
a manservant.

All gentlemen
should have one

to black his boots
and swab out the cabin.

You can cook, I hope.

No, and I ain't no servant.

Well, all forms of life
can be taught,

even fleas.

Yes, you will be
my bond servant

and do as I tell you.

You can go to hell.

Do you know
what this is?

It's the bullet
I dug out of you.

Unusual caliber.

Even if they didn't
see your face,

this would be your Mark
for the hanging tree.

How long would I have
to work as your servant

before we'd be even?

For as long as I say.

Maybe forever.

If I had let you
bleed to death,

you'd be dead forever.

You can start by cleaning
this cabin from top to bottom.

Then you go down
and pass the word

that Dr. Frail
is open for business.

Doctor in town.
up on the hill.

There's a doctor
up there.

What would we want
with a doctor?

That's funny.

You're cute, honey.
you are.

How old is he?

New doctor in town.

Doctor in town.

Folks, got a doctor
in town.

Up on the hill.
open all hours.

Hey, boy.

Boy, what's
that doctor's name?

Frail.

Joe frail?

Yeah.

You tell him
you saw Tom flaunce.

All right. fine.

Doctor in town.

New doctor in town.

Doctor in town
up on the hill.

Doctor up there.

Where is he?

Dr. Frail,
up on the hill.

Let me see your teeth.

Oh, my.

Nothing the matter here
except malnutrition.

What's that, doc?

Not the right kind of
food and not enough of it.

I ain't had luck
at the diggings yet, doc.

We eat the best we can.

There's a cow out back.

Take it with you and
fatten this child on milk.

I can't pay for no cow.

I'll loan it to you.

Well...

thanks, doc.

How much do we
owe you, doctor?

Give me a kiss.

I'm paid.

You're paid.

Who's next?

Now hear me, brethren.

If you bring your sick
to the butcher-doctor,

they will die.

His instruments
are foul with sin.

If you are sick,
come unto me,

and I will lay my hands
on you...

and my hands
will make you well.

Don't enter that den.

Don't succumb to the black
magic of this devil's spawn.

Hello, grubb.

Don't turn your evil
eyes on me, Joseph frail.

Brethren, beware!

The Bible says...

here's his Bible.

- Ha ha.
- heh heh heh.

Beware of Joseph frail.

He who diggeth the pit

shall fall into it.

Well... who's next?

Me, doc.

Me, remember me?

I was over at alder gulch last year.

Frenchy, are you ailing
or looking for a stake?

Got a carbuncle. figure
you'd Lance it for me.

It'll cost you 1 ounce
of dust or $20 hard money.

Can you pay this time?

Well, I got
a little bitty poke.

Come on in.

Got yourself
a helper, doc?

That's right.

Drop your pants
and bend over the table.

Rune, this is
frenchy plante.

Don't ever believe
a word he says

and don't let him get
behind you in the dark.

Doc is sure
a caution, kid.

And a fine doc.

You know what I wish?

Wish I could sling a gun
like doc here.

Hold it over
the burner.

Ever see him
sling a gun, kid?

Hey, doc. I came for
a cure, not a killing.

Eee! ooh...

yes, sir, if I could
sling a gun like doc,

I'd be the biggest man
in Montana territory.

Uhh! doc...

they'd sure back off the
street when I come to town.

Kid, it's not ol' frenchy.

It's the doc
you got to watch... aaggh!

Oohh!

Whoaah!

Nnhh... to die, doc!

Let's quit.

Nobody's listening.

300.

Society red
bets 300.

It's too deep
for me.

I can't pay it.

I tap that 300.

Player raises 300.

I call and raise
with this gold claim.

Where is it located?

Around the bend.

I'd allow 2,000.

How much of it?

All of it.

Take your time, doc.

Like the man says,

"when the wind
blows too hard,

tree's got to bend."

now, wait a minute.

The tree
hasn't blown down yet.

Call.

Ace high.

Pair of deuces.

What are you going to
do with all that, doc?

Go back to illinois and
burn down another house?

I ain't going to slap no
leather with you, doc frail.

Bring the money, rune.

What's that about him
burning a house down?

You picked that fellow.

He didn't do nothing,
and you would've killed him.

Unsaddle my horse
and stake him out.

All he said was
a house burned down.

Are you going to kill
a man for that?

Huh?

Rune.

We're starting
a new regime.

We rise at 4:30,

work the claim until 8:30...

and then come back here
and take care of patients.

Any questions?

Any questions about my life
or my way of life?

No.

Good.

Go unsaddle the horse.

That faith healer
wasn't far wrong.

If you ain't the devil,

he's sure sitting
on your shoulder.

Aah!

Aah!

15,000.
take it or leave it.

Take it.

Hey, doc.

Hey, doc.

There's a fella in town.

He needs you bad.

Stagecoach driver.

He staggered in
half dead.

Took three days
to get here.

What happened
to the passengers?

Coach got held up.
all the passengers killed.

All except a lady.

She got lost.

Driver says
she was a real looker.

Flaunce, you know
these canyons.

Will you lead a posse
to find that lady?

Yeah, all right.

You take a posse and
track down that road agent.

Hey, coming, doc?

I better stay.

There's the stage driver,
and I have patients waiting.

Want to ride
with us, kid?

Huh?

I got no horse.

Take mine.

What if I just
kept on going?

No matter where you went,

that bullet hole
would tell its story.

Which posse
you riding with?

I'm going to look
for that lost lady.

That figures.

Watch yourself.

I don't want
my bond servant crippled.

Don't worry.
I'll take good care

of your property
and your horse, too.

There it is!

She ain't in here.

Here's something.

Yeah, this is to her.

Name's Elizabeth mahler,
from Switzerland.

This is to her father.

Well, he sure can't
read it in his grave.

Lord only knows which way
she headed from here.

Look, men,
we best all fan out

and meet at dusk
at stump Meadow.

Now, she's exposed to the sun
and these cold nights.

Well, if you find her dead,
fire two shots.

If alive, three.

Any luck?

No. how many
are still out?

Oh, about a dozen.

All right. we better
bed down for the night.

In the stinking country,

you get fried days
and froze nights.

At least we got...

blankets and a fire.

And she...

we may find her dead.

You know
you're bleeding, son?

Sure. a thornbush
done it.

You been
with doc frail long?

Not too long.

Have some jerky.

Thanks.

I've, uh, known doc
about five years,

ever since
the bannock strike.

We do a little business
together off and on.

Doc could've had it rich
and easy half a dozen times,

but he can't seem to get away
from that black bag of his.

Maybe he carries
his soul in it.

Yeah, that's good.

What soul he's got.

Once I asked doc
about that name of his,

frail.

All he said was...

it suited a man
with frail hope.

You knew that wasn't
his real name, didn't you?

No, I didn't.

Yeah, he's
a peculiar man, doc.

Yeah. he's trying
to get himself killed.

He slammed a fellow

just because he asked him
about a house burning down.

A wonder
doc didn't shoot him.

Why should
he have shot him?

There's a story
about the doc...

or anyway about a man named
temple who was a doctor.

Lived in a town where the
Ohio runs into the Mississippi.

Seems this doctor lived
in a fine, grand house

on the point that overlooked
the joining of the waters.

And something happened
to the house one night.

They say a man and a woman
were killed...

and the doctor
put the torch to the house

and burned it to the ground.

You can still see
the burned chimneys

sticking up above the willows
where the rivers meet.

See anything?

Rattlesnake.

I don't know.
something.

Hey, you like
to kill snakes?

I do.

lady.

lady.

Hey, l-lady.

lady, I... i got water.
I got water, lady.

Here.

Water, lady.

Water.

No, no.

No, no.

No, no. not so fast,
lost lady.

lady.

See, I... I'm going
to shoot off a gun, ma'am.

Ma'am.

lady.

lady,
don't be scared.

I'm going
to shoot off a gun,

and it's... it's a signal to
call the other searchers here.

Don't worry. you're going
to be all right, ma'am.

That's
frenchy's promise.

Come here.

Is she alive?

Yeah,
but she sure is cooked.

She's cooked good.

Look.
come here. look.

Look how she's hanging on
to my canteen.

She won't let go.
see?

Why, the poor thing
ought to be dead.

Yeah.

Ain't much left
from the neck up...

but she sure is all woman
from there down, eh?

I was only trying
to pay her a compliment.

Well,
nothing wrong in that.

We better make
a litter,

take her to the cabin in stump Meadow.

I'll ride in
after doc frail

and pass the word
old frenchy found her.

Look, look, look.

And they said
she was pretty.

Hey!

Hey!
the lost lady's found!

Me!
I found her!

Me, me!
I found her!

At the canyon!

Me!
she's alive!

Found the lady,
doc!

Come right away.
pdq.

I have a patient here.

What's the redhead doing
in your place?

Dying.

She didn't want to do it
down there where she works.

They're taking the lost
lady to stump Meadow.

I'll be over
as quick as I can.

You ain't doing the
redhead any good, are you?

I guess
nobody ever has,

but I'm not
leaving her now.

How long
will you be?

A couple of hours
maybe.

Do you want me to strangle
her to hurry it along?

I don't want nothing
from you, doc.

Nothing.
no, nothing at all.

I done my duty
finding her.

You do yours when
you feel like it.

Glad you're here,
doc.

Let us know how
she is, will you?

Well, we took turns
watching her.

She didn't move once
all night.

Remarkable.

The redhead kick off?

Sure glad
you got here, doc.

Do you own
this place?

Who put
the axle grease on her?

I did.

Good.
you did right.

Well, bring the lantern
over, rune.

Did it ever occur to you
to clean this place up?

I'll need clean water.

Collect it from
the men's canteens.

So don't worry...

papa.

So don't worry...

she keeps talking
to her father.

They killed him
in the holdup.

What's her name?

Elizabeth mahler.

Doc, that's my canteen
she keeps hanging onto.

She's suffering from
second-degree burns,

exposure,
possible concussion,

and she's been blinded.

Won't she
ever see again?

It's hard to tell
how deep the burn is.

We'll have to get her out
of this filth.

This is not exactly
what I'd call a hospital.

Maybe we can borrow
this man's wagon.

Doc, uh,

Mrs. Flaunce and I
live behind the store now.

We could put her in my
place across from yours.

Fine.

O. k. I'll get
the wagon.

The men said they'd give
all the water they got.

Put it by the stove.
we'll have to boil it.

All right.
get out of here.

Doc...

I know you're going to be
too busy to take care of her,

but I was thinking

that when I'm done
with my chores

and she needs somebody
to get her dinner,

well,
maybe I could get it.

Fine, rune. fine.

Hey.

What's he want with
all of that water?

He got to wash her,
don't he?

All over?

Aw, it's different
with doctors.

They're bringing in
the lost lady!

- They're bringing her in!
- come on!

I hear tell
she's a foreigner.

Is she loose-virtued?

What's that mean?

She's foreign,
and she's blind,

and she's burnt bad.

Dr. Frail,

I think my husband acted
hastily in offering our cabin.

What if she dies
in there?

Hush, Mrs. Flaunce.
she's not going to die.

You're going
to be all right, miss.

You're all right now.

We're home now.

I don't like this
one bit.

Let's get back
down to the store.

Close the shutters.

This room
must be kept dark.

Elizabeth...

Elizabeth,

can you understand me?

Your stage was held up. the
horses ran away with you.

But you're safe now.

I must go back.

They have hurt my father.

I...

they are killing him!

You must be quiet.

Aah! aah!

Aah! aah!

Daddy! they are...

I found some more tea.

Add some to the pot.

Sure never heard
of putting tea on anybody.

Fool book. it says that
"stupor or semiconsciousness

may be induced by
a sharp blow on the head."

I learned that the first
time I ever fell off a horse.

Why don't
they try to learn

what happens inside?

That's where
the damage is done.

Bring the lamp.

She's looking
kind of human.

You'd think
after three days

she'd let go
of that canteen.

If you'd gone through
what she has,

you wouldn't
let go of it either.

She's awake.

Only half awake.

The other half is
still somewhere else.

By golly, doc.

I think you can
take the canteen now.

But she's got hold
of you now, doc.

That's all right.

I'll sit here
till she lets go.

Go to bed.

Who are you?

I'm a doctor.

Why are my eyes
covered?

You've been badly burned
by the sun.

By the sun?

May I see you?

Not yet.

You're temporarily...

remember...

I said you are
temporarily blind.

My father...

he's dead,
isn't he?

Yes.

He was killed
in the holdup.

And it was me
he was afraid for.

It's all right.

Where is he buried?

By the road
where it happened.

Now I'm going to get you
something to eat.

Don't be frightened
of being alone.

My cabin is only
a few paces away.

Doctor...

doctor, is there a nurse
for me, a... a woman?

No.

What am I wearing,
doctor?

They sent your trunk
with your carpetbag.

I took a nightgown
from the trunk.

Thank you.

Don't be disturbed about
anything. I'll take care of you.

Morning, rune.

I was just going
to call you to breakfast.

Got enough for three?

Sure.

For her? Is she going to be o. k.?

She'll need quiet and
protection from strangers.

See if you can rig that up on
the porch so she can call us.

Is that all to it,
Mr. Flaunce?

That's all we got
to ship this time.

Skull creek
petering out so soon?

Never has been
a big strike.

Nobody's ever hit any glory holes here.

Well, good luck.

Hup!

Ho!

Well, good morning,
rune.

Where did you
get the horse?

Doc took it in
on a fee.

Doc sent me in to see
if you got them eggs.

Yeah, I got a dozen, and
I saved three for you.

How's the lost lady?

She's sitting up
for the first time,

but she's still
plenty weak.

And still blind?

The doc said she'll be
that way for some time.

These are mighty precious
this far out.

You tell the lost lady we're
all pulling for her, will you?

All right.

That'll be $3.00.
you pay the missis.

Isn't $3.00 mighty high
for eggs?

That's $1.00 apiece.

Those eggs come all
the way from sour creek.

I suppose
the doctor's busy

with his various practices up there.

Yes'm. thank you.

Well,
looks like church.

A few of us women have
decided to see about that girl.

If the doc wanted help,
he'd ask for it.

She may be the one
who needs help.

She's hardly in the hands
of a Saint.

Don't stick your nose in
where it's not wanted.

If she's decent,
she doesn't belong up there,

and if she isn't,
we'll soon know.

It was a bad winter.

My mother died that year,

so my father said,
"let's go somewhere else...

a place that is new and
bright and not ever hungry."

so we came to America.

Oh, this was wonderful.

The steam train
to St. Louis,

then the steamboat
up the Missouri river,

and then the stagecoaches
over mountains

and... through
great wide lands.

This was really America.

This was why we had
come so far.

"And now,"
my father said,

"now," he said,

"we must try and
find the right place."

did you think that this
would be the right place?

When I see again,
I'll know.

What you'll see is just a
raw, wild little gold camp,

a crawling anthill
that can blow away

with the first wind
from the next strike,

and you'll see some of
the scum of the world.

It's not a place
you'd want to live.

Why are you here then,

and... and rune?

Maybe we belong here.

I got no place else
to be.

Tell me what rune is like,

and you, Dr. Frail,

what are you like?

Well, rune's
kind of cross-eyed,

and he's got two thumbs
on each hand.

Doc's got a long gray
beard and no teeth.

We're a poorly pair.

I know that's not true.

Rune is very handsome,
I know.

I have no picture
of Dr. Frail at all.

I only know his hands.

They are brown from
the sun and... gentle,

and his legs
must be very long,

because... he crosses
the room in three steps.

Doc, you got customers or fancy
visitors, I don't know which,

and one of them's
the landlady.

Well,
what have we here?

Four ladies
in trouble?

We've come
to see miss mahler.

Miss mahler isn't
receiving visitors.

Isn't that
for her to say?

No. miss mahler's
in my care.

Until she's well,
she'll remain in my care.

The decent element
of this town...

what are you doing,
doctor?

I'm aiding
your departure.

Unless you're all pregnant
and need my services,

I suggest you mind
your own business.

Am I a prisoner,
rune?

Doc tells everybody
what to do.

Joe, fill them up
over here, will you?

Don't seem I get
no credit from nobody.

You're not getting any credit
from me, that's for sure.

I know
where I can get it.

Rune?

Is someone there?

Just frenchy plante
come to pay his respects,

and, uh...

I'm the one that found you out
in the wilderness, remember?

I... i was just wondering
if you could, uh,

spare my canteen.

I'm sorry. I'm not dressed for callers.

Would you turn away
while...

oh, sure, ma'am.
sure.

I'm turned.

Hey!

Oh!

You almost fell,
lost lady.

Well, I saved you
a second time, huh?

If it weren't me
that found you,

someone else
might have.

Then again, it might have been too late.

I wish there was some way
I could thank you.

As a matter of fact,
there is.

I was going to ask if
you could help me out.

What can I do?

Here. be seated.

That's it.

Now...

it's like this.

I've got this spot
all picked out

that looks like it might
produce some real color,

if I could
just sluice it.

Color?

You're
talking about gold?

I'm talking about gold that nobody
ever dreamed of in skull creek.

How'd you like
to be rich?

I'd love it.

Whoever grubstakes
ol' frenchy

is going to be
mighty lucky.

Grubstake?

It means you need money, doesn't it?

That's right,
lost lady.

I'm afraid
I haven't any.

My father
was carrying our money.

I would have been happy
to lend you some, really.

No. that don't matter.

I just come here
on a social call anyway.

But maybe just
a little favor, huh?

Like what?

Mr. Plante came for
his canteen, doctor.

Yeah.

Here it is.

He has it.

I better be going,
ma'am.

Good night,
Mr. Plante.

Are you all right,
Elizabeth?

Yes.

If you don't
need anything,

I have some business
to attend to.

Rune!

Rune!

Fix the warning bell.
It's been cut.

From now on, you'll
sleep under her stairs.

Joe.

Yeah.

Stow this
behind the bar.

I ain't afraid
of you, doc,

but I ain't
packing a gun.

I want you all
to witness

I ain't packing
a gun.

I just paid a visit to the lost
lady, and doc's taken offense.

Unslip that razor
from off your neck,

and I'll get rid
of this gun.

Doc, do you mean
you'd, uh...

stoop to dirty your hands
on common folk like me?

Yes.

If I ever find you
on that hill again,

it makes no difference if
you're wearing a gun or not.

I'll kill you.

Now, you listen.

I warn you again.

That butcher-doctor
is the devil,

and you must
cast him out!

Looks like the doc's going
to keep the little lady

all to himself.

He can't go
kicking people around

and not get kicked back.

One of these days.

Did you kill him?

No.

She said he didn't
do nothing to her, doc.

I don't care. I don't
want any of them near her.

You don't own her!

Is that how it was
before,

you tried to own somebody
until they hated you?

Go ahead, hit me!

You own me, doc.

Close the shutters.

To avoid shock
to your eyes,

we're darkening the room.

Now, sit up
and face me.

Light the lamp.

I've removed
the outer bandage.

Turn the lamp down
a little.

Now I am removing
the inner bandage.

Remember, you can't expect
immediate vision.

Now there are just the
pads over your eyes.

I'm going to soften them
with cool water.

Turn the lamp
very low, rune.

Now bring it over
to my right.

You ready, Elizabeth?

Yes.

Pray for me, doctor.

Hold the lamp
higher, rune.

Open your eyes.

Do you see anything?

No.

Move the lamp
from right to left.

Nothing.

Not quite nothing,
Elizabeth.

Your eyes are following
the lamp now.

Tell me
what you see.

Please, lady, try.

I see a little light
moving, like in a fog.

A little light?

That's a lot.

That's more than
most of us see.

And tomorrow
you'll see much more.

I... i cannot
see you yet, but...

I love you for everything.

Aah!

Huh? what's wrong?

My eyes... they hurt!

She says
her eyes hurt, doc.

It's terrible.
they're burning.

When did this begin?

I went outside,
and it got dark again,

and I'm blind again.

I know I'm blind again!

Go to the cabin.

I'm...

blind again.

Let me see your eyes.

No!

Let me
see your eyes.

No! no, please.

Suppose we go outside
and try again.

Why not?

There was a stagecoach.

I was running away.
a man was shooting.

I... I'm blind again!
I...

I think your eyes
are all right.

Please don't make me.

Please don't make me.

Take your hands down.

No.

Now, listen to me.

If you keep
your eyes closed,

you'll think from the sounds you hear,

the world
is falling on you.

But if you open
your eyes and look,

you'll see things
for what they are.

Now, I'm going
to leave you here.

You're standing on
the edge of a cliff.

I don't advise you to go through
life with your eyes closed.

She's all right.

She's free now.

I thought I told you
to go up on the hill.

I told you, I'm not going until you go.

Well, it's going
to be quite a wait.

Listen, doc.

She spent all afternoon
fixing that supper for us.

You know that.

Give her my apologies

and tell her
I'm busy here.

You just can't treat her
that way.

It's getting so you're
minding my business too much.

Aren't you a little
confused about who owns who?

Cards, doc?

Do you
want cards?

Yes. cards.

We waited for you.

I'm sorry.
I couldn't come.

Are you afraid of me
because I'm well now?

No. I-I'm glad
you're well.

Now, if you'll excuse me,
I'll say good night.

You shouldn't
have come in here.

I know.

Go back to
your own cabin.

You're leaving here tomorrow
on the eastbound stage.

Stage?
where am I going?

New York.
back to Switzerland.

Wherever people go when
they've come the wrong way.

What would I
do there?

You have relatives. there's
no one here to look after you.

There's no place for you here, no work.

Why do you do this?

Because you have to go

and because
I intend to stay.

Why do you do this?

Don't send me away.

You be packed
in the morning,

and I'll take you
to the stage.

No, you won't.

And you will
not again

tell me what to do
and not to do.

I will not take your
coach in the morning.

I came to make this
my home...

and I will do it.

In six weeks, this could be a ghost town

with no one left
in it.

I'll be here.

I'll plant ghosts to eat
and raise ghost cattle.

And right here I'll
build my ghost house.

With ghost money?

I will get
some money.

Somehow I will,

even if it's only
to pay you

for your services,
doctor.

I'll trouble you
for that bullet

you've been holding
on me.

Oh, I threw that away
a long time ago.

You threw it away?

You mean I've been working
for you all this time

and didn't have to?

Looks that way.

I'm free, too?

You're the damnedest contrariest
human being I have ever seen.

Rune.

You better keep
the old gray, too,

so you and the lady
won't be afoot.

Good morning.

How do you do? my name
is Elizabeth mahler.

Thank you very much.

Hey, rune. Is that the lost lady?

How do you do?
I'm Elizabeth mahler.

Pleased to know you,
ma'am.

Thank you very much.

Welcome to
skull creek, ma'am.

Thank you very much.

It ain't ladylike
to talk to strangers.

They're kind.

They speak to me,
and I speak back.

Allow me,
lost lady.

We don't need
no help.

Thank you very much.
I'm glad to meet you.

Come in before
you start a riot.

It's a great pleasure,
madam.

Good morning.

Are you Mrs. Flaunce?

Yes, I am.

Please, I'd like
to talk to your husband.

I'm here, miss mahler.

Thank you.
excuse me.

How do you do?

Rune says you were very
kind to me when I was found.

Nice to see you
up and around.

Thank you.

I would like to... I
would like a grubstake.

What's that?

Rune and I are going
to dig for gold, and...

I see. um...

isn't it unusual for a lady
to go out in the diggings?

I'll be with her.

I'm not afraid
of hard work.

Would you lend me a grubstake on this?

It is worth much money.
It is a family heirloom.

And, uh, the stones
are very unusual.

Yes.

Yes, that's
a very interesting piece.

I have a jeweler's glass
in the back room.

Mind if I look at it
through that?

No, of course not.

Doc, they want
a grubstake.

That's what I thought.

Wants to borrow money
on this.

She says
it's an heirloom.

Looks to me like
it's not worth $20.

Well, tell her it's
worth whatever they want.

All right, doc, since
you're paying for it.

Huh?

Old frenchy
wasn't lying, huh?

Now, if you'll give me
the money,

I'll start
the development work.

We must discuss
the agreement.

Uh, well, it's, uh,

kind of embarrassing
talking business with a lady,

especially such
a pretty lady.

Mr. Plante, you are
beating about the tree.

The bush.

All right.

How about 20% of everything we wash out?

I can't be any more
generous than that.

I can get a grubstake
anytime for, oh, 5, 10%.

Why didn't you?

I don't think
20% will do.

We need...
we want 50%.

Now, take it
or go with it.

Or leave it.

Yes. or leave it.

50%?

50%.

Just for you, ma'am...

I go with it.

You want to shake
on it?

No. we first
go to Mr. Flaunce

and write
our agreement.

Then we will shake
hands. all right?

"It is agreed that
should any co-locator

withdraw from sharing in
the working of said claim..."

whoa there.

Figured I'd start the sluice
up there at the waterfall,

aim her down past the
tree and into the creek.

I'll start
cutting brush.

Well, lucky lady,

if you'll just
set in the shade,

old frenchy
will unload the wagon.

I'll do my share
of the work,

and you will
treat me as a man.

Ahh...

well, that ain't
going to be easy.

It will if you find something
to do with your hands

beside putting them
on me.

Now, you're something,
you know that?

That's a fact.
you're really something.

Go up and start
cutting sluice lumber.

Rune!

Rune, get up there
with the water.

Now we're ready
to start washing dirt.

Let her come!

Whoo-hoo!

Ahh...

now we can start
digging for it.

Now we can tear out
the gold

that's been hiding in them hills
for a million jillion years!

Yaah!

10 yards of toweling.

Who's having the baby?

Wonder Russell's wife.

Oh.

Well, if I know her,
she'll cause trouble.

You better take 12.

Hey, listen. uh...

have you heard anything
from up the river?

You aren't getting lonesome,
are you, doc?

I just want to know
how things are going.

They got the sluice in.

Getting anything out?

Kind of a letdown.

Only, uh, 5 ounces
in 3 weeks.

Kind of slim return
on your money, isn't it?

Well, it takes time.

They're into your account
for over 1,000.

You want me to go on giving
her whatever she wants?

Even if it's a bust?

Even if
it's a total bust.

Well, doc,

I don't pry
into folks' affairs,

but as a businessman,

I don't understand what
you're trying to prove.

Well, since I'm not
a businessman, Tom,

I don't have to justify
my reasons, do I?

Thanks for... thanks for
keeping it confidential.

I haven't even
told my wife.

I promised wonder
I'd sit up with him.

You know, he's more
scared than his wife.

It's funny
about a man.

It's funny... he lets a
woman get such a hold on him.

Shortest way back, doc,

is over the Ridge
and down along the creek.

All right.

Near a solid month,

and not one full poke
to show for it.

I never had any luck.

Always been sitting
on the outside looking in.

We have to be patient.

Well, Patience is something
I'm fresh out of.

Hello, doctor.

I wondered when you'd come to see us.

I had to make a call
up the canyon.

Would you like
some coffee?

Yes, please.

Thank you.

Doesn't a doctor always
say, "how are you feeling"

and "stick out
your tongue"?

I can see
how you are.

Am I well?

Let me see
your hands.

Oh... they're dirty.

Perhaps I should ask
how are you?

Are you well?

The next time
you're in town,

I'll give you something
for your hands.

Thank you, doctor.

"The lucky lady."

is it lucky?

Not yet, but it
doesn't hurt to hope.

I suppose
rune is fine.

We both miss you,
doctor.

What are you doing,

spying on us?

What is there
he shouldn't see?

Rune.

Rune, get back to work!

I only own 50% of this hold,

and I sure ain't digging any
more than 50% of this dirt.

Why don't we quit?

You can,
but if you do,

the claim belongs
to rune and me.

That's
our agreement.

You want my share,
I'll sell cheap.

Why would Mr. Flaunce
let me have so much money

if it wasn't
a wonderful claim?

Must you always look
at a woman like that?

Don't a partner
have some rights, huh?

Don't he even get
a free look?

I suppose a doctor
gets that.

I suppose
if you was a doctor,

then you could get
an eyeful.

I like that real well.

Wait.

That's better than nothing.

Rune!

Rune, I'm going
into town for supplies.

Come with me.

You don't
have to go.

There's no panic.

I'll see you tomorrow,
frenchy.

After this,

I intend to spend
my nights in town

and work
the days only.

I'm poison, huh?

Poison, huh?

Just a minute, and I'll
get you your change.

Good evening,
Mrs. Flaunce.

We are just about out of everything.

I'm sorry to ask you for another advance

on my pin, but...

your pin?
your priceless pin?

That pin wasn't worth
a sack of potatoes.

I'm sorry. I don't
understand what you mean.

I came across your private
account this afternoon,

and that pin ain't down
for 2 cents.

What do you mean?

Oh, stop
the innocent-lady act.

In plain tongue,

doc frail's been paying
your way from the start.

Ain't none of us has to ask
how you been paying him back.

It's all down
in black and white.

$1,119 worth
of your being kept...

like any harlot.

Liar.

Stupid female snake.

Why, you ain't even
fit to crawl.

Somehow, someway,

I'll pay every cent
of it back.

Pay what back?

Mrs. Flaunce said
you were keeping me.

She even called me
a harlot.

I didn't want
that to happen.

I'm sorry.

I could still arrange for you to leave.

You have
arranged enough!

What makes you think you
can play with people's lives?

It is very cruel the
way you draw them to you,

then turn them away
if they get too close.

Do you love to torture?

No, I don't.

You do it to rune,
you do it to me!

Someday life
will do it to you.

How do you know
it hasn't?

Then it's true... the story
they tell about you

and the woman
who killed herself.

Yes, it's true.

The woman was my wife,

and the man was my brother.

And I have no right
to forget.

You want to tell me why?

This is tincture
of benzoin ointment.

I made it up
for your hands.

It'll heal them
and toughen them, too.

I'm done.

I'm through.

I can't take this
no more.

That nugget you found had
to come from someplace.

Yeah. it was probably left
here by that flood in the Bible.

What's that?

Listen!

Did you feel
the ground move?

Run! the tree!

rune!

Here I am.

Rune!

It's gold.

What is it?

Gold!
thousands of them.

The roots of this tree's been
hanging onto them forever.

Where are ya?

Sluice box busted
clean in two.

Where are ya?

What are you doing
in that hole?

Huh?

Look.

It's a glory hole?

Look.

Look.

It's a glory hole.

Look, look.

It's a glory hole.

glory hole!

Glory hole!

Glory hole!

The lucky lady and me,

we've got it
to throw away.

We've got the deepest, biggest
glory hole in the territory!

Want to see samples?

- Yeah!
- yeah!

Look!

Huh?

Tomorrow...

tomorrow I'll take you
there in person.

Tomorrow I'll take you
there in person,

but tonight...

tonight frenchy's
throwing the biggest party

in the history
of the territory!

Oh, we got it!

We got tons of it!

It's coming out
of our ears

and out of our socks!

lady luck, rub some
of it off on me.

Oh, no. no, rune.

Not these.

I want them to take home
with me.

That's all right, partner.

I'm high-grading a couple
of big sacks for myself.

You do
what you want.

Now, all those in favor of
busting this place wide-open,

follow frenchy!

Free drinks for the whole
of Montana all night!

Hey, don't give them
glasses!

Give them bottles!

Bottles!

Remember last
Saturday night, huh?

Remember?

No pay, no play,
huh?

What a difference a
little gold makes, huh?

Woof!

I still think you should
bank it at flaunce's.

I have my reasons.
I want it here.

This could be
quite a night.

How beautiful.

Now you know why men
hunt for it, kill for it.

Yes, I think I do.

You'll never be
poor again.

No. never.

I wish doc was here.

Go and get dressed
and cleaned up

so we can celebrate.

Burn them stinkin' clothes,
huh?

Burn 'em! burn 'em!

Build a bonfire!
celebrate!

Frenchy, you ought
to see this fire.

Ha ha ha.

Is doc frail around?

Mine caved in
up at dry canyon.

Left yesterday.

Caved in, huh?

What we'll do is...

just a kind of
a joke, see?

Up at rune's...

wait for us,
frenchy!

bucket brigade!

Bucket brigade!

bucket brigade!

Bucket brigade!

Hey, doc,
is that you?

Did you hear
the big news?

What do you want?

Doc's not back yet.

Just dropped in
to wet your tonsils, son.

Thanks, but
I'm not drinking.

I'm going to a party.

What's going on?

Party's already
started, son.

Brought you flowers.

Heh heh heh.

They're very nice.

I guess you wouldn't want to wear
them, not with the roots, huh?

No.

Would you please
go outside, frenchy?

Why?

I'll be ready
in just a few moments.

Then we'll get rune
and go celebrate.

Why go?

You and me
are partners.

We can have our
party right here.

Right here, huh?

Let's drink first,
huh?

Ha ha.

Come to frenchy.

Or do you want frenchy
to come to you, huh?

Either way,
frenchy is willing.

The butcher's house!

Put a torch to
the butcher-doctor's house!

Where's Elizabeth
and rune?

They're
up on the hill.

That crazy grubb's been screaming
to set fire to your place.

No!

Frenchy's waited
long enough.

No!

No.

Rune!

Rune!

Aah!

No!

Murderer!

Butcher!

Lynch him!

Nail him to the tree!

Lynch him!

Rune!

They say this is a real
human way to kill you, frail.

The wagon just pulls
out from under you...

Simple as that.

Say the word, grubb.

Blood would have blood,

and whosoever
sheddeth man's blood

by man
shall blood be shed.

Genesis...

9th chapter...

6th verse.

Go back!

You can have our gold.

You can have
everything we have.

Rune is my partner.

He agrees.

Please take it.

You have seen it
at flaunce's store.

It's so much.

Please take it.

You...

please take it.

You even...
you even can have our claim.

Here it is.

You know what this means.

Please take it.

Please take it.

Rune.

You know what?

She's trying
to buy her man.

If she wants him
that bad,

let her have him.

Frenchy said
it's worth a million.

Elizabeth!