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(upbeat music)

(solemn music)

- There.

(bright music)

(muffled speaking)

- Hey, I'm gonna say it again.

- You say it again Marty we're gonna throw you out again.

- Sam Keep is our only hope now.

- This time lock the door.

- I'll just stand outside and shout it through the window.

If that don't convince you I'll climb up in the church tower

and keep on shouting till one of you finally

sees the light.

Sure it's a crazy idea.

And I know as well as the next man that Sam Keep's

shifty and untrustworthy.

But if anybody can save Broken Knee now, it's Sam Keep.

- Alright, out.

- Listen to me.

Tora.

Tora honey.

Now you go on home honey.

- Ma said, you used to be the banker here Mr. Oliver.

- Well just the pay master at the mine Laura,

just a pay master.

- She said, you know how to keep track of what we saved.

She said, bad as we need it,

Broken Knee needs it worse.

And she says, somebody's gotta start doing something.

(glass shatters)

- And the little child shall lead them.

- Marty, this is an absurd idea,

that can't possibly succeed.

(muffled speaking)

it's insanity.

- Look, Reeno's only 90 miles from here.

And they got money in Reeno.

Enough money to save a dozen Broken Knees.

I say we go get it and I say Sam Keep's the only man

to get it for us.

(muffled speaking)

When a man's got trouble Mr. Oliver, desperate trouble,

he better take desperate action.

(bright music)

- Does Mrs. Oliver know you're here?

- Oh, I would rather see pury rats on Main Street

than go through with this.

- Now just hold on Mr. Oliver.

Sam, how do you feel about Broken Knee?

You got any loyalty?

- You tell me Marty, how long have I been here?

- Going on five years.

- How many houses have I been invited into in five years?

- Well uh, nobody ever asked you to leave Sam.

- That's right Marty, nobody ever asked me to stay either.

- Well Mr. Oliver, tell him.

- It's your idea.

And I want to go on the record that even if the council

went with you, I voted against it.

- We raised ourselves $2715 Sam.

Piggy banks, mattresses, cookie jars,

from under floorboards.

Every man, woman and child in this town chipped in.

We want you to take it.

We want you to take it and go into Reeno and gamble.

Run it up for us Sam, all the way up to 35 thousand dollars.

- You need a drink Marty.

There's a bottle in the back room, it's on the house.

- When they closed the mine Sam, they closed Broken Knee.

Only some of us was born here,

and our folks before us.

Ever since it was gold being dug out of the hills.

All gone now Sam.

And the sand will blow in and bury Broken Knee,

unless we make something out of it.

- Why don't you go up to Carson City and get one of them

state loans?

There's lots of welfare money up in Carson City.

- Nobody's gonna give a dying town a loan.

- Well you got a better idea.

- Yeah, we're gonna make Broken Knee into a tourist town.

Let me ask you Sam,

what do you think would happen to the ol' hall

if we was to put in a decent paved road,

with a cloral leaf approach

and a big sign down on the highway.

Luring all that traffic up here for a looksy

at the most genuine mining town left in all the West.

Why this place used to be a famous saloon.

Right over there, my daddy saw Two Gun Harkley

and a marshall shoot each other down.

And how about that New York Multi-millionaire

left his wife and kids to come up here

with that Latin gal of his.

And she ran off with the laundry man.

You know what he did Sam,

right over here, in this corner, he shot himself.

Why, we got more legends and stories of hard cases

than they got anywhere.

Now, a road like I say,

a road that will draw them tourists up here Sam.

That will cost us around 35 thousand dollars.

And we only got ourselves 27 hundred.

But you can do it Sam.

You can go into Reeno and you can do it.

Why, I seen you shoot crap Sam.

You got the magic touch.

You're a gambling man.

- Now you take a point like six,

pretty easy point to make right,

can make it with a five and one,

make it with a four and two, and a couple of threes.

When you make it like that is what is known as the hard way.

You can make a hard eight with a couple of fours,

a hard 10 with a couple of fives, understand.

Now all this money you're talking about,

that you're gonna dig out of the mattresses

and the cookie jars, this is what is known as scared money.

Stuff you can't afford to loose.

Now there's an old saying,

trying to make a killing with scared money

is like making an 11 the hard way,

which off course, there is no such animal.

- That's calling it Sam.

You can do that in Reeno too.

- Sheer luck.

- But you're the lucky boy Sam, it shows all over ya.

- Yeah, yeah, don't it.

- How about it?

- No dice.

- And you thought he could help us.

- Just a minute Mr. Oliver.

You like to make a little side bet.

There's not many things I believe in,

but 27 hundred dollars is one of them,

even if it is scared money.

Man can go a long ways in that kind of loot.

- If you go Mr. Keep, I go too.

Just to make sure you don't go any further than Reeno.

I'm not a gambling man, but I'm gonna take your side bet

because I think that you're gonna loose every penny

that this town raised.

- What odds you laying?

- Odds?

- Yeah, odds, odds.

You give me 27 hundred dollars,

you want me to run up to 35 thousand.

That's worth about 13 on one right there.

Besides I got a bad reputation, that's worth a little more.

You go get your state money and bring it here.

I'm gonna bet you a hundred dollars even money Mr. Oliver,

even money, I don't want your odds.

- That's bad luck betting against his winning.

- We are up to our ears in bad luck right now Marty

and in my opinion, now that Mr. Keep is in with us,

we just sank clear under.

(trumpet music)

- Hey, hear that.

- Yep.

- Alright what is it?

- It's the clash of silver dollars in Reeno.

- You know Reeno's still 30 miles away.

- Yeah but on a clear day you can hear the card dealer

shuffling their cards all over the California state live.

- You know I got a notion.

Just for kicks, why don't we stand

on the sidelines for a change?

No jobs, and no involvements.

- In Reeno?

- Let's just take a 48 hour firlo

from other people's troubles.

Give my bruises a chance to heal.

- Look old buddy, you're right.

I feel a crying woman under my feet

and you know with women,

you know you're left standing in space.

- Wanna get mine too Oliver I'm a little short.

- I put all the change I had into the fund.

I don't have nothing.

- Better take it out of this.

Yeah, give me a change of that will you.

It's better okay.

Come on will you Max, snap it up.

Thanks, it's a pleasure doing business with you.

- Hey hey hey, did you see that?

- See what?

- Didn't you ever see a man carry a purse before?

- Yeah.

- What will it be?

- A buttermilk.

- Coffee.

- Hey you.

- Hey.

(upbeat music)

- How about that, right out in the open,

in broad daylight.

- You alright.

- Yeah sure sure.

- You alright.

- Oh, thanks a lot.

You know I had a guy in my outfit, my own marine outfit,

like you, we used to call him no look Charley.

He could hit a guy without looking first,

he had an instinct for it.

- That's a cookie way to carry money around isn't it?

- Yeah, but we're gonna try our luck in Reeno.

At this rate this character's gonna blow the bundle

before we even get there.

- You don't look like a gambler.

- What are gamblers supposed to look like?

- Me.

- It don't show on you.

What's your specialty, the pay squads or the cubes?

- Well where I live we used to sell craps for comic books,

when I was a kid.

I mean by the time I was 12 I had the largest collection

of Batman and Robins and say nothing to Rin Tin Tin.

I mean I was a logic.

- You see I told you we should have converted

all that loosed cash into traveller's checks.

- Come on let's finish our call.

- Go on.

- Thanks a lot guys.

- Hey, wait a minute.

I didn't get a chance to thank you fellas.

- That's alright.

We always like a little scuffle before lunch,

good for the appetite.

- My name is Oliver. - Frendek.

- Francis Oliver.

- Todd styles.

- How do you do?

That fella over there is Sam Keep.

Matter of fact he's a pretty slippery character.

I wouldn't trust him even if I was watching him.

- You mean, you think he set the whole thing up.

- Oh no, I don't think so.

I mean nobody would take lumps like that,

no matter how much money you got in that case.

- You don't know Sam Keep.

He'd do anything for a fast dollar.

I've seen him stand in the tavern,

right by the juke box,

willing to give odds on the next record that came up.

He's a gambler, you know.

This might sound kind of funny.

But I want you fellas to follow us both into Reeno.

Keep an eye on him for me.

It's worth $50 to each one of you.

That's all I can afford.

- Well it's not the money Mr eh--

- Come on Oliver let's go where you at, come on.

- Yeah.

(upbeat music)

- Hi will you put the sleeping bags in the trunk

and bring the suitcases inside.

- Hey

- Satchel, don't you ever learn.

- You better handcuff that thing to yourself.

Well this looks like a pretty good place

to get out of the trenches.

- Well, you get out of the trenches,

I'm gonna start a second front.

- Todd, take this.

- For what?

- I insist that you take it.

I don't know whether Sam Keep

had anything to do with this monkey business or not,

but I do know this,

the money in this bag does not belong to me.

It belongs to a lot of nice people in a little town

called Broken Knee, and if they loose it,

well it's gonna be on your conscience now too.

- What do you say?

- Okay.

- Okay.

- Yeah, you wanna heal your bruises

and like the man says,

what's worse than a bruised conscience right?

- Right, fine fellas, thank you.

I'll talk to ya later.

- Wonder how long it's gonna take me to loose this.

- Hehehehe.

(upbeat music)

- Man live you can just smell that money,

you can smell it.

You know I almost had my head out for a loob job.

Spending five years in Broken Knee,

talk about Alkatraz, nothing.

The most action you can drum up in Broken Knee

is maybe a $10 limit game.

That's if you can find any sports with enough guts

to tell their wives they're gonna sit in with Sam Keep.

I got a lousy rep.

- No.

- You know I keep seeing Jersey in you,

and hearing it too.

- Yeah, I'm from Hackensack New Jersey.

Oh but I move around a lot.

Piarea, Frisco, San Louie, Chicago, wherever the action is,

I follow the action.

- What went wrong?

How'd you end up in Broken Knee?

- Who says I'm ended?

Hey how much is he paying you?

I saw him giving you money,

how much is he paying you to take care of me?

- What makes you think we'd take a job like that?

- Don't give me that, everybody's got his price.

- Well I don't imagine you intend to dress or cleanup.

- What's the matter with you Oliver?

You remind me of one of them Japanese generals.

Gets himself all perfumed up

with the ceremonial robes before he tsk.

I'm a high roller.

I gotta be loose, don't you understand, no neck tie, casual.

I gotta let the skin breathe, the juices flow.

- They tell me that athletes or actors

are always very nervous

before they go into an event or out on the stage.

But I guess that doesn't apply to gamblers does it?

- Me nervous.

You're talking of a guy that won

$60,000 in a crap game once, $60,000.

- Just like I told you, scared money never wins, never.

- Mr. Oliver.

- Hmm.

- What you gonna do if he looses?

- You know you could have talked all day,

and never said that.

- [Man] 17 black.

- [Woman] I had it, I had it.

- So have I, I guess I'll try your slot machines.

- Sam.

Some pay off uhn.

- 35 to one.

- 35 to one.

That's for suckers.

There's 38 numbers on this wheel including the zero

and the double zero and they give you 35 to one, big deal.

Let's go to the crap table.

- Well the sixth time around,

six (mumbles) coming, five giving you six.

- Yeah man.

- Five don't feel the number five,

you want number six for the money make it the hard way.

Point you the number six.

Roll a six, win.

- Not it, got the blue die.

- I'm about to roll now, bring them in.

- So you got.

- Roll the dice, roll the dice.

- He's coming up now, some money to pay boys.

- How much do you want to start with Sam?

- Give me $200.

- [Man] Two, three and four, he's coming up.

- 200 on a pass

- [Man] 200 goes.

- Wait a minute, just a minute

- [Man] Hands are high now.

- Alright just put it up here.

- 200.

- Give me chips for that.

- Passed an 11, two, three and 12 is coming up,

don't forget 11, I got nobody on 11 here.

- Here we go.

- Baby!

- [Man] Yeah, 11 the winner.

- What does that mean?

- That's an 11, I win the money.

We roll it all, there's 400 on the table.

- How many times?

- We roll it up.

- [Man] He's coming up (mumbles).

- Seven baby.

- [Man] We have another winner (mumbles).

- Is that good?

- Yeah that good, that wins, that wins,

that doubles our money.

Get $800.

- Coming up now, same good shooter.

- Seven baby, 43.

- Four, easy and now (mumbles).

- That's a four, give me $800.

- How much does it cost?

- Give me $800, I gotta put that back in the line.

- Alright (mumbles).

- That's a total one shot, I put that back in the line,

I hit the 4, I get 16 to eight hundred.

24 hundred dollars.

Come on we need to get cold.

800 back in the line yeah.

- 800 goes.

- Are you gambling that Sam when you put it back there?

- Don't worry about it.

Go baby, go.

10 it's right on the other side, you see

the 10 is on top and it's always on the bottom.

- How much are you trying to win now Sam?

- I win $2400 in the back, I win $1600 in the front.

Two baby.

(muffled speaking)

Give me the signs, give me the signs.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah, give me a drink, wait a minute.

Is that scotch?

- All those four guys on number three,

they got a suitcase and it's loaded with money.

- Impress the table, keep em happy,

win or loose it's good publicity.

- Wait a minute did you put the money in the satchel?

- Yes.

- Alright give me the dice.

- Coming up.

Here we go, somebody pay, somebody get it.

- I got 16 hundred on the front line.

Seven baby.

- [Man] That's two, ace is two,

one bet that will lead us (mumbles).

- Give me some money.

- Are you gonna play it all now?

- Come on, will you give me some money

I need money to play with.

Give me the satchel.

A thousand dollars on the front line.

- I might roll somewhere to win it.

- 11.

- 11 here.

- Come on

- I don't think that that's.

- It's a thousand dollars, don't worry about it.

They know what they're doing.

- [Man] Coming up.

- Seven baby come on.

- Why don't we leave the crap table.

- Give me money.

- Now roll the eleven this time sugar,

roll the eleven now.

- Give me the money will ya.

- Alright, alright, alright.

Should have held some of that money back

when you had a chance, you were way ahead there for a while.

- Look, you want to finance, I'll stick to the gambling

will you.

This is 1500.

- Coming up.

- Are you gonna play all of it?

- Will you relax.

Will you go get a drink some place, where's the girl

with the drinks, give this guy a drink.

- Listen Sam, take it easy,

don't drink anymore right now.

- Seven baby.

- Seven (mumbles).

- What did we win now?

- 23 more bastards, 23 more.

- [Man] Three and 12, it's coming up,

some way to win enough.

- Baby, 10, come on baby.

- Come on easy, four, hard ways on.

- You got anymore money?

Let me see the satchel.

Open the satchel

Wait a minute I want to put something back in the line.

- There's none left Sam, there's nothing there.

- Alright, alright, we got it in the frontline.

What's the point, little Joe baby.

Little Joe from Kokamo.

- [Man] How many of those?

(sad music)

- Okay, what do we do?

Sam, what do we do?

Sam, why?

Why?

Sam, why did you put it all down there Sam?

Why?

- Shut up.

- We should have driven him out of town years ago,

and now he's ruined us.

He has completely and absolutely ruined us.

What do I say to the people in Broken Knee?

For that matter, what do I say to the hotel clerk,

I can't even pay for this room.

Well it was a good town, and now it's finished.

The desert will come in and eat it up

and we'll all go our own ways.

I guess, the thing that hurts so much

is seeing a whole community break up,

right before your face.

And not being able to do anything to hold them together.

- Look Mr. Oliver, we have some money.

Enough for you to pay your hotel bill

and have a couple of drinks and a good dinner.

I know it's no cure all but it's better

than sitting around up here.

- Hey wait a minute, there's that $100 that he gave us.

- Yeah that's right, there it is,

comeback money, I can feel it.

- Oh no no no, I can't take that, that's yours.

- Why not, we really didn't earn it anyway.

- Oh yes you did, you watched Sam Keep for me.

Just being here kept him from running off with the money.

- Mr. Oliver don't you think you're being just a little

hard on him.

I was watching him downstairs when he was shooting.

He was really trying.

- Trying, he was trying to loose it.

You see the way he kept doubling up on his bets,

not keeping anything back, nothing in reserve.

- You gotta play it the way you feel it Mr. Oliver.

I mean I heard Sam whisper a couple of times,

come on baby, get in there for ol' Broken Knee.

- Come on baby, for ol' Broken Knee.

- Well anyway it's worth a try.

Look here's a 100.

Buzz and I have got maybe another 100 between us

and I think I know a place

where I could raise 300 quick like.

- What?

- Didn't you ever get a hunch?

Look I've got a hunch right down to my big toe,

it keeps saying to me, get Sam Keep back down on the tables,

take him to 500 and watch him break the bank.

Now look, you see if you can find him.

He doesn't have money for a bus fair,

he doesn't have a car.

He's gotta be here in town some place.

Meantime I'll go out and see if I can round up

the rest of the money.

Now we'll meet back here about nine o' clock

and take it from there okay.

- Yeah sure, okay.

- A remarkable young man.

- Yeah, isn't he.

(slow music)

- Hey honey, you gon' have to talk a little louder,

I can't hear a word you say, or else

you'll have to just come a little closer.

- I said, do you have any money?

- Uh, do I have any money?

I don't got any money, I got a pension.

- I got a pencil, I got a single shed,

a (mumble) with credit anywhere in the world.

I can't even stand with the both of yous.

I'm killing that girl

Hey sweety, hey hey,

give us another round of drinks here,

make em doubles this time.

Singles are going too slow.

- Well em, the doubles are okay for the girls.

But just cancel the big man's order.

You've had enough for tonight,

you know it's gonna be a long time till morning.

You better bring him some coffee, his own individual pot.

- How are you pal, join me.

Girls I want you to meet the king of the comic books.

This kid used to shoot craps for Rin Tin Tin.

So that makes us got something in common right pal.

What are you drinking?

- Look Sam, we're trying to get another stake together.

- Oh, oh, another stake.

- Well we feel that maybe your luck

will change the second time around.

You're the man for the job.

- What's keeping the waitress with the drinks?

Where's the drinks?

- Look, Sam whether you like it or not,

there are a lot of people in Broken Knee.

You know they think you can pull the chestnuts

out of the fire.

Come on Sam, up and out.

- Look sonny, you're getting under my skin you understand.

Let's just pretend that you carry that little hood five

because you lost your head alright.

- Sam, you're a slob.

You're a disreputable lazy slob.

You got a face like wet cement

and a brain like Swiss cheese.

- You just keep saying it for the drinks girls.

Sam Keep is the name, until I get back.

- They'll have riders cramp before that.

- Every time you add a little more fuel to the fire sonny,

that makes it that much more easy for my conscience.

- Well if your right is as soft as your conscience,

I won't even work up a sweat.

Look are you gonna follow me out

or go the other way when I turn my back?

- Come on outside, come on outside.

Thinking you can talk to me like that.

(bright music)

- Now look Sam.

I don't wanna fight you, I just said those things because,

well, you understand don't ya.

- Look mac, you insulted me in there,

whatever your looks, come on.

(bright music)

Uh, uh, uh, uh.

- You alright?

- It's a terrific right you got there kid.

I'm alright.

You don't got nothing against me do ya?

- Why should I?

- Well like you said, I'm a shifty slob

with a face like wet cement and a brain like Swiss cheese.

- I just said that to make you mad Sam.

Do you understand?

- Swiss cheese, you see right through.

You see through me uhn, and it's okay.

- Sam, all I want you to do is go back in there

and give that crap table another try, that's all.

- Wouldn't do any good kid, I mean what could I do

that I didn't already try?

You like throwing money away in a river.

I'm no gambler.

I'm nobody, I'm a no good slob

from a back country scrub town called Broken Knee.

Goes with broken dreams.

60 grand.

Like everything else about me, it's all front.

I never lost or won no 60 grand.

It was six grand.

- That's nothing to run down.

- I couldn't live on a six grand reputation,

I had to make it bigger, 60 grand.

Kid, I couldn't win a Bingo game in a church social,

if I was the only player and they called numbers

all month long.

- Well somebody must have thought you could have.

I mean they sent you here to Reeno with their last dollar.

I mean look, you said you lived

in Broken Knee for five years.

Well if it was so bad why didn't you leave?

- Maybe that's why I didn't leave.

Because it was so bad.

I figured I had the punishment coming.

You know like penance, like doing time,

like running out of places to go.

So I had my own private little gutter.

I guess it's better than being a bum on a bowry.

- Look Sam, why don't you go in there and win?

Come on.

I mean you can go home a conquering hero,

they may even make you mayor.

- Look kid, if I could do something for those people

of Broken Knee, I would do it.

I would give 10 years of my life to do it,

but I can't and I'm finally admitting that I can't.

And it's because those people mean a lot to me

that I'm not gonna go in there and fail em again.

- Try a different game, Blackjack.

- We don't need a different game,

we need a different shooter.

A two year old kid could do better than me, a beginner.

- A beginner.

There's only my buddy Todd and Oliver.

Say, what about Oliver.

- Oliver shoot craps, that's pretty funny.

He wouldn't be caught dead with craps in his hands.

Besides he doesn't know a natural from a donut.

- But that's the point, that's exactly what we need.

I mean anybody can add two and two between the two of us.

We can teach him what he has to know about the game

and quick too.

Why not?

- It's a crazy idea kid.

Let's go talk to him.

- Yeah.

- Preposterous.

No.

Preposterous, I don't even know the game.

- I can teach you fast Mr. Oliver

and with that brain of yours.

- Out of the question, I wouldn't know what to do first.

- There are six sides to every dice.

They are numbered from one through six.

- [Todd's Friend] Two dice, that's twelve sides dig.

- You can roll a seven with a six and a one,

a one and a six, a five and two.

- Two and a five, a three and a four, a four and a three.

The problem, now in one roll of the dice,

what are the odds of turning up a seven?

- Five to one.

- Mr. Oliver, your education has already started.

- Fellas, wait a minute fellas, fellas.

- Alright now look, the first roll of the dice, seven or 11,

you win, craps will loose.

Craps is two, three and 12.

Any other point is your number.

If you throw a seven before you make your point again,

then you loose.

- Sometimes seven wins, sometimes it looses,

I don't understand.

- Two, three, four, nine, 10, 11 and 12,

that's the field.

Five, six, seven and eight have been left out.

Well that's because they're the easiest numbers to make.

I mean that's where the tourists put their money,

it's a sucker bet.

You follow.

And then we go over here.

- That's it, roll it out, that's it, shake it go.

There you go baby.

Twelve.

Go ahead, your number is nine.

If you ever make a 12 on the first roll then you loose,

remember that's crap.

Go ahead.

Say five, your number is nine, shoot again.

Until you make the number.

- Come on tell me where'd you get the 300 bucks.

- Can't tell you, bad luck.

- Well I know you didn't get it in the account at Dember.

Bank's closed at night.

Beats me.

- Just keep hoping he wins that's all.

- [Sam] Alright, be there.

Seven, that's it, that's it, now you're hitting it, come on.

Seven.

- [Oliver] Do I have a right to say be there?

- [Sam] Be there, say anything seven again, go ahead.

(muffled speaking)

- [Man] We got stigma come in, aid it.

708, last call.

Alright that's gonna come down.

- Next here, next's gonna.

There we go sir, $30.

- Would you change that $5 please?

- Yes sir.

- Thank you.

- There you go sir.

- Thank you.

- [Man] And it's come on, coming up.

Aii, hit it good there.

- Woops, sorry, excuse me.

- Aii, hit a gunner, coming up, go early, hear that.

10 hard, 10, hinge your lantern on it,

aii hit a gunner, how much on the hard tab, 55.

- No forget the hard tabs, put a dollar back on the line.

- Right.

- So you get two to one with a 10.

- [Man] (mumbles) Can you get it?

- I don't think I will this time.

- An easy, easy 10.

- Well but I won.

- Yeah you won a dollar.

You only one three dollars that time,

a dollar on the front areas and 10 dollars in the back.

(muffled speaking)

Alright, let him do it his way, let him do it his way.

- Alright, alright, here we go.

Win dice.

- Seven (mumbles).

- Seven (mumbles).

They did.

- You just keep throwing sevens and 11s,

first roll.

- Alright I want to change them, change the profit on me,

that's, we're making money.

Win dice.

- [Man] We have another winner.

Aii, here you go.

- Okay.

I'm gonna let those hunt it all rye,

let everything go.

- [Man] You're gonna.

- Shoot it all.

- [Man] Hit it.

Yard.

- A 20 now just keep that up, keep that up.

- Let it all go.

- [Man] Eleven here, eleven.

- [Man] Ain't got it coming up

all 10 in, coming up.

- I still play.

I just started to play this game.

- [Man] Seven, win at seven.

- Dice win.

Supposed to add up, give me lock, give me lock,

give me lock, give me lock.

- You know you get another, wait come on.

- [Man] Eleven (mumbles).

Alright we got that coming up.

- Here we go.

Ri ding ding ding ding ding, be good to me, be good to me,

go for me, here we go (laughs).

Go get me water let me cool off, let me cool off.

Put some of that back, let's just save that,

we'll save that Sam boy.

One more time, one more time, breathe in it.

Wait a minute, you didn't read that right.

That wasn't a two.

- Men it was a two man.

- How can I do that?

Alright, it's best don't hold me up, I'm hot, I'm hot.

I'm really gonna do it this time, dang be there!

- [Man] Five go five (man)

- Five, five, five, that's a good point,

that's a good point, what it means,

makes five soon we're gonna make it.

Come on five, little five, little fever in the South,

come here five.

- [Man] Seven, wait seven.

- Okay.

- Wait a minute, what are you doing?

What are you doing Sam?

- How much did you loose on that last roll?

- What?

What do you mean.

Well I don't know how much I lost.

- You don't know.

We're cashing in.

- Well wait a minute Sam, Sam I'm hot,

I tell you, I'm lucky, I can feel it, I can feel it.

- Don't you think I told myself that a thousand times.

You think I just stood here and shoveled out the money

and felt nothing?

- Sam wait a minute, I'm having a lucky streak you,

of all people you ought to understand that,

you're a gambler.

- Gambler.

The only real gamblers are those people in Broken Knee.

Put their money out of mattresses and cookie jars

and risked their future on us.

Just watch it for a minute.

You still not convinced uhn?

- I tell you what we can do Sam,

we can take some of our money see,

just take some of our money and put a limit on ourselves,

hold some down.

- That's not our money Oliver.

That money belongs to the people of Broken Knee.

It belongs to these fellas over here that staked us,

it's not yours, it's not mine.

- Yeah yeah yeah.

- Okay, okay, here.

Here's a silver dollar.

That's all the money there is in the world,

go ahead and bet it.

- I don't understand.

- You got the gambling fever.

Now make believe that this dollar is a million dollars.

You see what I mean.

Go ahead, just for fun, see how you make out.

- Alright, okay.

- [Sam] Is it his dice, okay, go ahead.

- [Man] Nice mister?

- [Sam] Yeah he's shooting the dollar.

- [Man] You hear that?

- You think I'm crazy uhn.

You think I'm crazy, alright this once.

- [Man] You'll sticking on that roll, get of it now,

get on it.

Hear that, 12, past 12.

Now give away.

- That's the dice, see what I mean.

- Yeah.

- Alright now you think about it,

think about it real good.

And if you still want to risk all that money there

go ahead, I'm not gonna stop you, go ahead.

- Sam.

Sir, I want to cash everything in.

Everything in.

(solemn music)

Sam.

- Hi Mr. Oliver.

- What do I say to you Sam?

- Did you blow the money?

- No.

- Good play Mr. Oliver.

You don't have to say nothing.

Give the boys their money and,

take the rest back to Broken Knee.

Rent some heavy machinery.

I guess the rest is all sweat and muscle.

- If you hadn't stopped me,

I would have gambled the whole thing

right down the drain.

- I didn't stop you Mr. Oliver,

you stopped yourself.

- We still got a road to build.

It's gonna take a lot of work

and it's gonna take a lot of sticking together Sam.

- Thanks Mr. Oliver.

- Well how are you boys on picking shovel eh?

- Picking shovel.

Well I don't know.

Are you still on vacation?

- Well could we ever forgive ourselves

if we didn't help link Broken Knee to the outer world?

- Why not?

I mean I don't know where it is on the map so uh,

we'll have to follow you alright.

- Yeah but not tonight.

- Why not?

- I sold our wired wheels.

- Sold em.

- The man gave me $300 and a set of plain disc wheels.

But the new wheels won't be ready until tomorrow.

- Plain disc wheels.

- Hmm hm, you know, I think I like em better.

And now gentlemen,

if you think Broken Knee can afford it,

why don't we take a $20 chip out of the satchel

and treat ourselves to dinner.

- You're on.

(triumphant music)

(bright music)