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so

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looks like this is the end of the trail

for us honey if we could only make it to

the next settlement

not much chance of that

our horses are played out and the water

is gone

we've got to get help

we can't there ain't a human being

within miles of us

is

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what's the idea i'm trying to shoot a

picture and where's subdividing this

land into oil leases well for crying out

loud but look i just got to finish the

sequence well go ahead and finish it

you're not bothering us

thanks

what are we going to do sam oh what can

we do how can i shoot a covered wagon

picture with a lot of real estate

salesmen all over the film why not put a

few feathers in their hair and use them

for indians

oh baby now

what are we gonna do now well we could

shoot the love scene mr gilroy all right

where

say that old deserted cabin over there

ought to be a good location

that looks all right to me let's go on

over okay

i just told you guys let's set up over

the cabin come on shake the lid get that

cable slim and load it on the dolly here

well this begins to look something like

it oh this is swell hey love

come here

get your camera set up right here sorry

can't shoot on this side the light's bad

oh all right let's go around in front

then

all right listen last come here and set

up right

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here baby

sam

isn't there any place we can go to get

away from civilization sure but who

wants to go there

oh buddy

i'm sorry chief

but listen i found a new location where

we can shoot the gold panning sequence

where over in a wash but of course chief

you're going to have to be careful about

the telephone poles and not to show the

gas tank on the other side all right we

might as well get one get out there get

the company all together say are we

making a picture or is this supposed to

be a hiking trip nick set up over there

at the river bottom come on come on

okay now remember babe when tom called

you you run in see the gold and make a

big fuss over it will you will i who

wouldn't okay you ready tom okay let's

go

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all right

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funny

look

tom gold it means we're rich why it

means that in this spot where no other

human being is set foot hey yo get out

of there

god get out of there

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my my i thought feeling the games were

over

it's a hollywood cross-country marathon

52 is kind of cute

just up on top of the hell there's a

hundred more of them coming on

your heart

well sam

where are these wide open spaces come on

boys wrap them up

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hello tom hello joel finish your picture

no i haven't even found a location say i

know where there's a swell location yeah

where in jamaica

jamaica

wait this is a western indian yeah

that's just it jamaica's in the west

indies

well now wait a minute wait a minute

tommy

hello

hello miss lloyd how are you i'm well

thank you

you know

how do you do

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hello there

hello julie hello tom hello rachel hello

howdy stranger hello bruce

say i thought you'd be eating out of

mama's chicken shack ah not a chance say

i'm in training in training yet we've

heard that you were entered in the

marathon race yeah and they're

subdividing our desert locations nope

not a chance we can't make western

pictures till we find some real wide

open spaces what's the matter with the

wide open spaces tom oh there just

aren't any hello ted you think not eh

have a look at that what's this

that's a place called scarlet river

ranch

fella sent it to me with a scenario he'd

written i thought maybe he'd like to

have a look at it before i mailed it

back to him say

i don't know anything about his scenario

but this looks like a real location

look at that

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well where's the fire ulysses ain't no

fire just come to get the mail well

here's a postal card and a letter from

miss julie nothing for me yeah

here's another one of your return

manuscripts from the tom max emotion

picture company

ah they don't appreciate my writing

talent that's just the trouble talent

talent nothing

if you pay more attention to your work

and quick fool around writing them

scenarios this ranch would amount to

something the cattle could be sold get a

good fair price for it

mcpherson could get his interest on his

notes the bank would not foreclose the

mortgage and miss judy wouldn't have to

come back into town monday to arrange

for a renewal

does it say all that on one postcard

hey buck come here

hey buck you ain't really two in the

back are you

you're sure don't you jeff

say you're all right you know what

i'm gonna let you do what i'm gonna let

you ride my horse over to the stable

unsettle him and water it

geez yeah that'll be swell

okay turning round

did you get the mail

that's an idris note for miss judy give

it here

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what's the package winning of the west

in five reels

the what

it just got back from the town backstage

motion pickup

picture company say those guys don't

know a good story when they read it

no i guess not

you see uh this plot is entirely

different from anything else i wrote

it's about a foreman who's robbing the

girl that he's working for

oh

a crooked foreman eh

yeah you see uh uh the first reel uh

he's scheming to steal the girl's ranch

by making her believe that he's her

friend

go on

and when everything is lost well she has

to marry him

is that a crack scenario jeff

just where did you get the idea for this

story ulysses

oh i just funk it up like that you know

i think it's a gift

the trouble with you is that you're

wasting your time writing these full

moving pictures instead of attending to

your work now maybe if you'd been out on

the range where you belong those

two-year-olds wouldn't have gotten

caught in that wire last week but and

that haystack wouldn't have burned and

the wrestlers wouldn't be getting away

with so much cattle hello miss judy

oh hello judy i didn't hear you come in

if this keeps on i won't have much ranch

left will i jeff oh it's not as bad as

that judy we've had a little bad luck

but it can't keep on

after we're married any mail this

morning jeff

judy you need someone to help you

you have helped me jeff and i appreciate

it but as your husband judy i would have

the right to protect as well as help you

hey

and they sent me a letter too whoo the

tom baxter motion picture company they

didn't like my story but they liked the

picture of the ranch i sent them the

picture of the ranch yes i sent it to

them to explain my story now they want

to come up here and make movies

ridiculous

just another one of your movie pipe

dreams forget it oh it ain't no pipe

dream miss judy listen to this we would

like to shoot our next picture there and

we'll pay you for the privilege oh your

lessons that's wonderful enoch maybe i

can sell tom bikes to one of my stories

we'll pay that interest yet i'm going to

write them before they change their mind

give me the letter

all right clank

all right thanks jeff she can't last

much longer she only has 500 head of

cattle left and not enough money to feed

them good

if that interest money isn't paid next

week i'll foreclose and get the ranch

then you and i will settle things

according to our agreement

that's just what i wanted to talk to you

about flink

you know i think you want to increase

that settlement why because i found out

exactly why you're so anxious to get

possession of that ranch

yeah

scarlet river has its headwaters over

there and if you get control of the

river you'll make a fortune next year

when they open that valley you're

getting smart ain't you jet

and what if miss judy should happen to

pay that interest you just said you

didn't have any money i know but uh

since i found out about scarlet river i

might be interested in loaning of the

money and the sheriff might be

interested in knowing who's been burning

the hay and poisoning the water holes

and doing this rustling

you've been pretty careful to see that

no one could prove anything against you

haven't you clank that's why i'm given

orders and you're taking them

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good morning

oh you're lysis i'm so sorry i think the

ladder slipped you think it did i know

doing wallet did

it was probably my fault did you wish to

see me mr mcpherson

well yes ms judy i did

as you know there's an interest payment

do me next week yes i know and i'll have

the money for you

you mean you expect to make the payment

i certainly do i've had a piece of good

luck the don baxter motion picture

company wants to come up here and use my

ranch for a location

well what's that got to do with the

payment why they're going to pay me for

letting them work here

oh

i wouldn't bank on those moving picture

actors miss judy

you mean you don't think they'll come

why tom baxter wouldn't go five miles

away from hollywood to make any picture

they're coming

they're coming the tom box emotion

picture troop i just seen him down the

road

come on miss judy you too click we got

to form a welcoming committee

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looks like a circus parade doing it

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welcome mr master

welcome to scarlet river red

how do you do mr baxter i'm judy blake

i'm delighted to meet you miss blake so

uh you're the young lady who owns

scarlet river ranch

now it's up to you to get this outfit

away from here

you leave that to me

and in the 29th sequence i show a girl

doing a ride for life after the sheriff

that's fine well benny uh my briefcase

okay you know i'm surprised to see such

a young girl running a big branch alone

oh i'm not alone i have a man who helps

me

oh bach

this is my brother buck this is mr

baxter howdy buck hi

and after the girl reaches the sheriff's

office the hero gets lost in a sandstorm

very original very original and deep

yeah miss blake may i present our

leading lady babe jewel hello how do you

do and our director mr gilroy how do you

do how do you do it's a nice place you

have here yeah and nice people

won't you all clip of the house i'm sure

dinner's almost ready

come on eddie you better get miss jules

trunk out of there say

who's in charge of this outfit oh yeah

well i'm jeff todd forming of this ranch

put your man in the bunk house but don't

go messing up anything around this ranch

without my permission

okay

there's always gonna be one of those

mugs on every location

and after the sandstorm the indians went

on a warpath see and he has a daughter

and i don't call her poker hunter

we're already chief let's go

first time

hey tom tom baxter oh tom hey tom baxter

oh tom i'm back next

he rode away early this morning ulysses

was going to show him around the ranch

well that's great

here we are all ready to shoot his stunt

and tom isn't here

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look at that all them calves are no

mothers where are their mothers dead

they drank poison water and jeff had to

shoot them

how did that hay come to burn ulcers

well tom's a funny thing it caught fire

in the middle of the night jeff said it

was infernal combustication

yeah

and jeff was with that bunch of cattle

that broke through a fence and got lost

in the riverbed last week wasn't he yep

we were short of hands and he was riding

that bunch alone jeff works off the hard

tone you can see that yeah he sure does

maybe he expects his double the door if

it's dangerous

say

i'll do that for you

ah tom baxter never uses a double there

ain't nothing that a real cowhan can't

do

better than a powder puff actor

so you think that you can do anything

that tom baxter can hey

sure

all right we'll give you a try

oh benny yeah

help mr todd on his horse he's gonna do

that stunt for tom

come on sit down and watch this

how boy this uh scene is supposed to be

a runaway now you jump from your horse

to the back of the wheel horse and you

stop him

good luck cowboy you'll need it

keep your eye on this one

all right let's go

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go stop that winger before it's busted

up

come on boy step on it

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you supposed to hurt

no such luck

what are you trying to do sam kill that

man

well jeff seemed to think that a stunt

should be done by a real cowboy yeah

well you shouldn't let him try it

does he always take those chances

himself sure he does tom wouldn't let

anybody else do a stun he wouldn't do

himself he's not just a movie actor he's

a real guy

you're all set tom yep all right adam

get ready

stature action all right camera get

going

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you'd have done it all right for foot

hand slip wouldn't you jeff

sure

tom baxter probably couldn't do it

either say

there's a lot of things i can do that

tom baxter couldn't do

maybe i wouldn't want to do a lot of

things that you do jeff ever think of

that

meet me up at the ranch house buck

i came over to see if you were hurt

yeah

but now that i'm here there's some

questions i'd like to ask

about cows that drink from poison water

holes and have to be shot

well

what about it

that's one of the things i wanted to

find out from you

do you know what happens to people that

don't mind their own business

suppose you tell me

now

i'll show you

jail are you in there

oh i didn't know you were here i came

over see if jeff was hurt oh not badly

in fact he's doing fine well that's good

wait a minute

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he's asleep right now

i'll just go inside and throw something

over

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kiss wait a minute i got a better idea

why don't you have tom to sit down on

the steps and tell her a story about his

mother back home yeah a bedtime story

you see his mother wants to see her

grandma and the big wolf said what long

years you've got

say now do you mind if i direct this

scene seeing that i'm getting paid for

it

ah now

whoa whoa wait where worried tom the uh

kiss oh yeah all right go ahead try it

okay

all right we'll shoot it

i don't like it

no what's the matter with it ain't no

passion in it now you see if i had a

wrote that their love scene i'd have

made them start something like this

kind of work up to it uh maybe you think

you could do that scene better than tom

i ain't no actor i'm a writer

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oh well if you insist i'll write that

scene over

i might come to hollywood to write for

you if you could make it worth my while

oh benny

yo

the job stick the what the job stick oh

yeah

hey huh

what's that thing

that's a job stick

now if you can take it off of here

without breaking the string or tearing

the cloth

you get a job

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all right now maybe we can shoot this

scene

uh motors

okay

all right camera

come on cut

well

what do you think

it seems sort of strange to me making

love in front of so many people i

couldn't do it

oh i guess you kind of get used to it

after a while

say we're gonna have to get somebody

else to do that bit spider kelly never

showed up

wait a minute i couldn't you had it that

time

would you like to do a little acting for

me ulysses

what kind of acting well i want a man to

run up to that door and tell babe that

the cattle rustlers are driving off for

cattle

paint good enough part

but listen it's an opportunity for you

to get some valuable experience to help

you in your writing

i hadn't thought of that

yep i guess you're right

i'll wait for you had a boy come on

hello

this ought to be good uh now unless you

understand what you've got to do oh sure

okay

all right places

all right eliza start your action

see what do you think it'll be a riot if

we can get it timed right

you lizzy i didn't know you had so much

acting ability that was splendid i want

you to do it again just the same way

uh you you mean uh you want me to fall

that way again

just the same only uh

harder you know sort of sort of go up in

the air before coming down hello atta

boy

place it

all right camera

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much better that time ulysses now let's

see if you can't throw yourself high in

the air before you fall

yeah

oh i wouldn't worry too much about buck

after all he's only a boy i realize he

needs discipline though only he seems

like such a little fella to me

the school you asked me about would give

him ideals something every small boy

needs it's nice of you to show so much

interest mr baxter

tom

tom

only i don't know if i could afford it

the head of the school is a friend of

mine i'll use my influence oh thank you

he's never been away from home before

what if he should get home sick oh no he

won't

wow bring him home to see at least once

every month myself

oh i'm sorry i kissed you

i'm sorry i slapped you

oh that was marvelous i tell you to be a

wow now we'll shoot it

ain't it

to hook it yet oh no no we were just

rehearsing oh

oh benny

foreign

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so

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drop that gun

what's the idea of shooting those stairs

oh they've been drinking poisoned water

no use letting them suffer

personally i think you're a liar listen

baxter they ain't your stairs they

belong to judy blake so what business is

it of yours anyhow maybe it's none of my

business

but i'm going to see her interests are

protected oh is that so

how

i've been making investigations and

tomorrow i'm sending for a veterinary

yeah and if there's no poison in them

there'll be a warrant out for your

arrest

now get going

i'll be with you in a minute sam we'll

make a snappy tom

hello

hi

i saw you riding along the ridge with

jeff early this morning

yeah we was looking for strays

you do much smoking when you're with

jeff

sure

want one no i never use them

in my business i have to keep in

training

oh

baloney you know buck i was thinking if

judy knew you were smoking it might make

her feel very badly

well

spoken it does she ain't got sense

enough to know any better anyhow you

ought to be ashamed of yourself to talk

about your sister like that i'll talk

any way i want to and ain't gonna change

either oh yes you are

and the sooner you do the better it'll

be for you that's what you think and i

think a good whaling would help you to

change too oh yeah who's gonna give it

to me i am

is this what you meant by discipline why

are you whipping buck

i'd rather let him explain that what was

the book oh well

he made a crack about how good a actor

he was and

i said he wasn't

then he hit me

well he doesn't really mean i'd rather

not discuss it mr baxter there's no

reason why buck should lie to me

oh i'm sorry i

i guess we all make mistakes perhaps i

made a mistake last night when i placed

so much confidence in your judgement but

judy we're waiting for you tom

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you did tell me the truth didn't you of

course i did

tom you know this scene it's the

loveseat all right all right let's shoot

it huh

i guess you and i ought to stick

together after all i've been wanting to

hear you say that um

oh you sure put some feeling in that one

boy i'll save it i'll be feeling it for

weeks

ah something must have happened

how many head is jeff turn over to us

today as many as he can get away with

here comes the dummy

did you see jeff

it's about time

hi jeff

well where's the cattle i couldn't get

him that guy baxter is watching every

move i make what's the idea he's

suspicious and he sent for a veterinary

examine some cattle i shot last night oh

he has eh yeah and if he finds that they

weren't poisoned there'll be a warrant

for me tonight well we've got to get

this guy baxter off the range and since

you can't do it i'll do it myself how do

you figure on doing it you've been

telling me that he's sweet on judy right

yeah good i'll use her to get rid of him

how i'll get the girl up to the shack on

eagle ridge and then i'll say listen i

won't stand for any rough stuff duh

nobody's gonna hurt her come on we got

to get moving

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so

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all right get your cameras down boy

not much of a pickup tom pickup never

mind getting personal sam

all right come on get these cameras down

and get around here

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uh what did you think of that pickup

ulysses

i didn't see it i'm busy

saying that's a pretty good stunt tom

yeah then i can do it when i grow up not

a chance take some madness in training

to do that sort of stunt i started

trying this morning you did

yeah

i ain't smoking anymore

oh say that's fine

still couldn't do that stunt with me kid

why not you think i'd work with anybody

i couldn't trust when tom baxter says

he's gonna rescue me i know he means it

because he never lies

you see bucket means a lot to have

people depend on you

yeah

i'm sorry now i didn't tell my sister

the truth yesterday

ah that's all right come on let's forget

about it huh

hey there

miss judy's been kidnapped which way did

she go up the hill

but didn't you recognize any of them no

sir i didn't they had their

handkerchiefs over their faces they just

grabbed miss judy and jeff put them on

their horses and headed for the

mountains

they'll probably hold her for ransom

but why did they take jeff that's easy

they figured we'd pay a ransom to get

rid of him

but couldn't you pick up their trail i

did pick it up but i lost

hey

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come on now where's the girl

you better talk and talk fast no use tom

he can't talk he's a dummy

no

a deaf mute huh no he ain't deaf he just

can't talk

let me see that note again

i don't get this at all

well i do

i found out how jeff and his partner a

fellow by the name of think mcpherson

have been robbing this ranch blind i

threatened them with a rest and this is

their answer

in other words we get out and leave him

alone or

a girl won't come back alive

if i could only make this man tell us

where they're holding her

say a profession got a shack up on eagle

ridge i saw him there once

what are we gonna do

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well there's nothing we can do but go

back to hollywood where we belong

tom

any sign of the dummy not back yet boss

let me know as soon as he comes right

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i suppose i ought to apologize for our

accommodations here but you see we don't

have many visitors it's about time you

explain why you're keeping us prisoners

like this

steady judy there's no use making up for

us

that's pretty good advice young lady

after all you haven't been hurt hey

clint

gummy's coming up the trail

you better come along with me

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did you deliver the note

and what'd they do

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oh they pulled out eh

good

there you are now there's your movie

heroes for you at the first sign of

trouble they head back for hollywood

looks like we don't have to worry about

that warrant after all no all you got to

do now is to talk this girl out of

making any trouble oh i can do that she

doesn't even dream that you and i are

working together good

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well how'd you make out

all right

jody

the dummy is a prisoner down at the

ranch we've got to get out of here

before clint discovers us we can't go

leave jeff oh jeff is in on this with

clank they're holding you prisoner

because i threatened to send them to

jail for robbing you a ranch now take it

easy

and you thought these movie actors could

fight

hey click look

what's the dummy trying to do

go get that girl

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ah

they've got him we've got to get help

you go for the moving picture company

i'm heading for the sheriff all right

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so you decided not to go back to town

huh

instead you decided to play a new kind

of party

well baxter i guess you know what to

expect die you wouldn't dare to kill me

mcpherson why my men wouldn't leave

until they found me

and then you and jeff would face a

murder charge not if they found your

body at the foot of a cliff where you

would fall accidentally

bring them on back to camp right

bring her along

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fine

now if a man fell off of here and didn't

kill himself it'd be a great start

wouldn't it

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you know what it is sure all right show

us away all right boys get out of here

let's get going

wait

we got one chance

i'll draw their fire and you run for the

trail the boys are on their way it's our

only hope

and when i make a break don't you stop

running

[Applause]

well movie actor do you think you can

play that little scene

all right baxter head for that cliff and

don't stop walking

game boy

don't you

get on your horses and bring him back

[Applause]

come on

johnny give me a pound now quick

let her go

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where's judah tree took on that shack

good work tom you're not hurt are you no

no i'm all right

you're a man's inside sheriff

what are you doing here guys sis i had

to come why sure buck and i are going to

be partners from now on aren't we but

i'll say

you did a mighty good job here mr gilroy

ah thanks sheriff but we pretty ran out

of blanks blanks yeah

look i did it i get the job

oh benny

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you