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Wives!

Bible says a man should leave his father's house

and to cleave one to his wife.

High time you boys got to work on it.

Grandkids!

I want to see grandkids swarming this place!

We come West to make the Hockett mark,

and I don't wanna be laid to rest

wondering who's gonna carry on after.

Alright, Pa, alright.

And just where are we supposed to find these wives!

We don't know nobody in these hills.

No one of us except you has ever been out of this valley

since we got here.

He's right, Pa.

Where we supposed to find 'em?

Go down to a town, boy.

Get some town women!

Pa, once we get there,

how are we supposed to go about it?

I can lead you to the well, Luke.

But, you're supposed to have the common sense

to stick your face in the water and drink.

I can't do everything for you.

What's your complaint, boy?

Well, to tell you the truth, pa,

I just ain't never given much thought to takin' me a wife.

Shows you how lucky you are.

I've done all the thinking for ya.

Now, you boys get the wagon hitched and get moving.

Get moving!

Shep.

Luke.

Hey, Pa!

What if these town women won't have us, huh?

You're Hocketts!

Any woman that would turn down

a honorable proposal of marriage from a Hockett

don't deserve to take the name.

You remember that!

Well, if all that drinking and gambling wasn't enough,

I found out he was running around on the sly

with Jennie Lane, and I thought she was my best friend.

Well, naturally, there was nothing left for me to do

but pack up my bags and take off.

And, that's not what I wanted to do, mind you.

As I could see it, I didn't have any other choice.

I mean, after all, a girl's got her pride.

And, anyway, if I was just gonna let him stop all over me,

I mean, I couldn't see what kind of marriage

we were gonna have at all.

Well, she carries on, don't she?

Well, everybody can't be as refined and quiet as I am.

Oh, well of course not.

Certainly not.

Gold-plated fact.

You know the last fella that propositioned me,

I was almost a fallen woman before I could say no.

- Well, I'll declare, you don't say so. - I do.

Being around Festus,

I've had to learn to talk out of self-defense.

Well I'm glad somebody knows him as well as I do.

I should have known, though.

I mean even on our wedding night, he was so drunk

he passed out.

Can you believe a man did that to a girl

on her wedding night?

Yup.

That's it. C'mon, man.

I'm buying.

Doc, excuse me.

Sure, I'm going to bed.

- Night. - Goodnight.

Emily, honey.

Now, I don't wanna hurt your feelings,

but when a cowboy offers to buy you a drink,

I want you to try real hard,

think of something else to talk about.

These boys have been out on the trail for three months now,

and they just aren't all that interested

in the problems of you and your ex-husband.

That's strange.

I think it's fascinating.

You'll wish you didn't!

All right!

Let her go!

Get off her!

Did you hear what I just said.

Just get in here.

Now what was it this time?

Who started it?

She took a five dollar tip off that poker game that belonged to me.

Liar!

The cowboy I was sitting with won the pot.

She's lying.

I was sitting with him.

She scooted in when she saw he was winning.

- I did not! - All right, stop! Stop!

Right now, stop.

Enough!

Now, you're behaving like two school girls.

And, if you don't stop it, I am going to send you upstairs.

You hear me?

Whoa.

Pull that horse in Shep or tie him up.

He's just like the rest of us.

You never been to town before, have you boy?

A little skittish, bout like you two.

And, you ain't, is that it?

Reckon not.

Any woman takes a look at you boys can see

where you ain't dumb, you're ugly.

Figure I'll have all the pickin'.

I think it's about time for me to whoop him again, Ike.

Wait 'til we get him home.

Pull up over there.

- Evening, boys. - Evening, ma'am.

Howdy ma'am.

There you are. There's something for you three to do.

See if you can't make those boys happy,

and you two keep your claws in.

Floyd, bring a bottle.

Howdy, cowboy You boys feel like a drink?

Well, I'll be, Ike.

I guess this here job's 'bout as easy as Pa said it'd be.

What's he talkin' about?

Well, uh...

We came into town to get us some wives, that's what.

Just thought you'd ride in outta the hills

and fetch yourselves some wives, is that it?

I don't believe it.

Now... I've been married once already.

I wasn't exactly wild about the idea first off myself,

but you're about to change my mind.

That'll be two dollars, please.

Well, just don't stand there. Give him that two dollars.

Me?

- You did the inviting, didn't ya? - This ain't no social club.

You drink, you pay.

I'll be hanged first!

You better think again!

Now, listen, lady.

Is this clod buster bothering you, Miss Franny?

Now, you back off, mister.

Now you move out of the way, I think Ike's gonna start moving folks around,

when he moves 'em, it's something to see.

A man can't come and have a simple drink.

Hold it there, farmer.

What in the Sam Hill?

Here, here, here, here.

That's enough.

Now hold on, let him go.

Now why don't you just sit down over there

before you get hurt.

It sure is fun coming to town.

How'd this get started?

- All well I tell ya... - Well, Marshal...

All right quiet, quiet all of ya.

All right, look.

I said quiet all of ya, quiet.

All right Fran, how did this start?

That one right there, he wouldn't pay for his whisky

after he ordered it.

You ordered it.

If it wasn't for you coming over to our table and sitting down,

none of this would have started in the first place.

All right, who hit who first?

That one over there.

He hit that cowboy first.

That the way it happened?

Yeah, she went and made me so mad.

Hannah, how much you figure the damage is?

Twenty-five dollars.

All right, I'll tell you what I'll do with you boys.

You come up with $25 and give it to Hannah here,

I won't throw you in jail.

Twenty-five? We ain’t got more than that between us.

Well, all right.

All right, Marshal, all right.

Boys, get it up.

Alright, come on.

That's good, that's good.

Ma'am.

Ever since I took over this place

it's been nothing but trouble.

Why don't you boys go home and think about what I told ya.

Next time you come to Dodge you keep out of trouble.

That suits us just fine, Marshal.

If I never see this town again it'll be too soon.

Well, that's up to you.

What you waiting for, Luke?

Pa said for us to get some wives, Ike.

We ain’t got none, and he ain’t gonna like it.

We ain’t gonna get any sitting in jail.

And that's where that marshal's gonna put us if we don't get out of his town.

But, Pa said...

What he said was, find some town women.

He didn't say how.

Shh.

Shh.

I don't know what you're making such a fuss about.

It ain’t like I was interrupting anything.

She bit me, Shep.

What did you expect her to do, kiss ya?

What's going on around here, what is this?

And what are we gonna do with this one?

Well...

I know.

We'll take her home for Pa.

Shh.

How many do you think we need?

Thatuns for Pa.

We didn't have no choice, Ike.

She caught us.

Her!

Why'd you have to go and grab her?

We just sort of had to take pot luck.

I mean, besides, maybe she'll grow on ya.

Ma'am, didn't mean to bother you at all.

- See, Pa told us to come in... - What's your name?

Luke, ma'am.

Well Luke, you say one more word to me

and I'm gonna knock you off of this wagon

and tramp on you, you understand that now?

Yes, ma'am.

I remember one day in the bar...

Emily, suppose we hear about it some other time.

Oh well, if that's the way you feel Fran.

Leave Emily alone will you?

This is all your fault, the way you played...

My fault!

The oldest brother, that's right.

Cut it out, now.

All I need now is for you two to start up.

You all comfy now?

Well, you...

I can't wait to see where you boys live.

Ride 'em, Shep!

Ride 'em, cowboy.

Come on Rock, stay out of the tread, whoa boy.

My momma always told me to keep a safety pin close by.

You never know when one'll come in handy.

Whoa boy, whoa.

Marshall.

Miss Hannah's missing.

- Three of the girls are, too. - What?

Somebody broke open the back door of the Long Branch.

Looks like a wagon and two riders.

That tell ya something, Marshal?

Yeah, it tells me I should have locked up those three boys last night

instead of letting them go.

Now what I'm asking you worthless fool critters to do,

I'm asking ya to pull,

earn your feed for a change.

Now, everybody together.

One, two,

Hey.

Oh, my Lord.

Are you just gonna lay there,

or should we fill in the hole?

That mouth of yours is gonna bring you

to grief one of these days boy.

Yeah.

Ah.

Middling, I'd have to say middling.

You ladies step down.

You better do it.

Crazy as he is,

we don't wanna make him mad too.

You're mindful of my second wife ma'am.

She had a good breach too.

Luke!

Ah.

Now what do you suppose he meant by that?

Couldn't say.

Look, I'm not a horse on auction.

A filly, that's what you are, just a filly.

I guess it's youngest and youngest.

Shep!

Coming, Pa.

Stop that grinning.

- Yes, sir. - What are you grinning at?

Ah.

Ain't no use trying to argue with him,

he just ain’t a reasonable man.

You'll get used to it, though.

You keep your hands off me old man.

Got a nasty mouth.

Sounds like you and Ike was made for each other.

Ike!

Pa, I ain’t getting hitched up with her,

and that's all there is to it.

Boy, I said get over here,

it's gonna be you and me head on.

We got one left over.

Brought her for you, Pa.

She say she wanted to come?

Well Pa, you couldn't rightly say any of 'em wanted to come.

Your boys kidnapped us mister, is what happened.

And in case you don't realize it,

kidnapping's against the law.

You mean you stole 'em?

You mean you stole 'em?

Stole 'em?

Well, you said for us to get wives.

Pa, we sort of run out of time to work on it.

It seemed like the best way.

Worked didn't it?

I gotta think on that.

You boys take 'em up to the house and get 'em started cleaning.

You stay here.

If you think I'm gonna clean and scrub for you and your pack of idiots

- you've got another thing coming. - Quiet!

Shut up!

On a Hockett farm, them's don't work don't eat.

You think about supper, little girl.

Be easier.

Smart Alec farm boy.

I just don't understand that old man, I swear.

Can't say as I do, either.

I thought he'd be tickled.

Uh, maybe you don't realize what kind of trouble

your boys are in, mister.

Now, the Marshall at Dodge won't be long coming after us,

you'd be a lot better off taking us back.

Any trouble they's in, they's in because

they tried to what their daddy told 'em to do.

If the law comes, we'll abide by what is says.

But the fats in the fire now.

Figure we might as well give 'em what time there is

and see if they take.

Why you crazy old coot.

You don't expect women that were dragged out of their bed

in the middle of the night

and hauled up to some God forsaken mountain

to start loving up the men what done it!

Spirit, I like that.

You remind me of my first wife.

She could spit fire and spin honey.

I just may come a-courting after all.

Heavens, these curtains.

And look at these dishes.

Clear enough, a woman hasn't set foot in this place

since it was built.

All right, Fran, you get started on those dishes.

Sarah you grab the broom and take it to the rest of the house.

Emily, go out and get that big brother,

tell him to bring a bucket of water in here,

and wash these windows, so we can at least see out.

What?

Oh no, Miss Hannah.

You want us to do what that old man said?

What I want is to get back to Dodge as quick as possible.

Now, I don't expect the Marshall until sometime tomorrow.

Meantime, we're not gonna catch typhoid in this place.

Now come on, up, at 'em.

Up, come on.

This has got to be the filthiest place

on the face of the Earth.

Kinda homey, I thought.

You thought.

Well, what makes you think I wanna throw my life away

raising babies in these hills?

- Me. - You?

Pardon me, but you don't look like no king of France, sitting there.

I never said I was,

but I have got me a piece of a good farm.

And the fastest pony who ever came out of the Smokey Mountains.

Oh grand, a farm and a fast horse.

Well, I'm going to San Francisco.

Won't be long before I can buy a whole string of horses,

twice as fast as that bay.

I'm going to be an actress.

Yeah, I heard some stories about them stage ladies.

That's right.

They go around with rich gentlemen in carriages.

They don't get kidnapped out of saloons

and hauled across the country in freight wagons

by a smart Alec farm boy.

I didn't think you liked that saloon much.

So, there was Sam Sanger,

and I thought he was the most inconsiderate man I ever met,

'til you and those brothers of your come along.

Well anyway, the night of our wedding,

I waited in our room 'til 2:00 a.m. for him to come up, 2 a.m.

Look at that clump of green scum,

throw it out, get another.

Go on, throw it out.

And when Sam Sanger did finally come in,

he was so drunk he passed out right across the middle of the bed,

I couldn't move him an inch.

I didn't get a wink of sleep all night.

Can you imagine that?

Ma'am, a man who'd hurt the feelings of a pretty little thing like you

ought to be horse whipped.

Well, Luke...

I must say you're a very sensitive person.

Pa... Pa she don't like me.

Now, I swear, if she liked me I would marry her in a minute

just so you'd stop hounding me on it.

Right, that's a woman in there.

They don't know what they like, 'til some man tells 'em.

They like flowers.

Now, you get in there and show her.

But Pa...

I swear I don't know why that boy's

making it so hard on hisself.

Ma'am.

Us Hocketts got two full sections of ground here.

My parts a full third...

'til Pa goes, of course.

Well, I er... got a hill picked out

where I'm gonna build my house.

I figured I got good prospects,

and I thought it'd be a good idea if...

we got ourselves married.

Miss er...

Miss er...

I don't believe it.

You stand there like a wax dummy, proposing away,

and you don't even know my name.

But I...

And that after you hauled me out of bed

in the middle of the night,

and throwed me around like a sack of feed.

Don't you allow anything for a woman's dignity?

Now, now the reason I don't know your name

is 'cause you ain’t told me.

Now, you ain’t said a civil word to me since the moment we met,

now it wasn't my idea to bring you here in the first place,

been nothing but trouble as far as I can see.

It's gonna be more trouble when that marshal shows.

Now, I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for Pa.

And I could stand anything else about you,

I couldn't stand the way

you let that old fool push you around.

Wait a minute.

I don't care what you say about me,

'cause I guess you got cause.

But nobody talks down Pa, nobody.

Except maybe us boys.

I know he's hard to live with,

but he raised us up almost mostly by hisself

and he did it right.

And what he's trying to do now ain’t for him,

it's for us.

And er...

and I'm sorry I hit ya.

I ain’t never hit a woman before.

Well, I guess you ain’t the first to hit me.

Just get out of here, all right?

Nice night for a walk.

I guess you saw us.

You don't wanna go back, do you Emily?

He wants me to stay.

I never wanted a life in the saloons, Miss Hannah.

It, it just sort of happened,

after me and Sam Sanger split up.

Maybe that's why I was always talking about him,

because I hated playing up to the cowboys so much.

Oh Luke may not look like much to you,

but he wants good things for me, and...

that makes him look awful good to me.

Honey, you don't have to give me reasons.

Girl I will dance at your wedding.

Females, females.

On top of everything else, that woman got my bed

and I'm sleeping in the barn.

Well, you're just gonna have to quit fighting with her, brother.

That's all there is to it,

or else you're likely to spend an awful lot of time out in the cold.

Well, we might all spend a long time in jail...

when the Marshall shows.

And it's pretty cold behind bars, too.

Anyway, I don't see you cosying up to that little one, brother.

Yeah, well, sir, I'm working on it.

I sure do like her, Pa.

I think I done her, Pa.

I think she's sweet on me.

Oh, you've done good work, boy.

Can't figure out them brothers of yours, though.

What about that one we brought back for you, Pa?

Oh, I just ain't put my hand to it yet.

Time'll come.

You boys didn't give us much chance to pack a suitcase,

and the girls are still in the same night clothes.

I don't suppose you thought to buy new night gowns

when you set this thing up.

Night gowns? Why, woman, it's late spring,

you don't need nothing to sleep in.

Of course if it's just keeping warm you're after...

- Hockett! - All right, all right...

Luke, go and fetch some of them extra long johns.

Pass 'em around.

Long johns?

Say, why don't you sit yourself down here,

warm your toes by the fire.

Have a drop of something sweet.

Now, you listen you old skunk,

I am tired, I've had a long day,

and I'm fed up with you, your boys, and this mountain.

So, you get those ideas out of your head.

Teasing.

Make a little cat and mouse out of it, eh?

Well, I got a few of them kind of games left in me, I guess.

Old man, you are asking for trouble.

Trouble!

You just dish it out little girl,

and old Jed Hockett'll lick it up.

Oh, well Jed, I suppose I'll just have to give in.

There's just some men that women just can't stand up to.

Experience. I knowed you was a woman

who'd appreciate experience the minute I laid eyes on ya.

Well, experience never...

Jed, oh Jed, Jed...

Why don't you put that lamp out?

I didn't take you for shy,

but light or dark, it's all one to me.

What's the matter with Pa?

Too much drink, I guess. Just like that.

That's curious.

He was always knowed for holding his liquor.

I'll just cart him off to bed.

- Evening, ma'am. - Oh, Luke!

Congratulations.

Yeah, nothing like a little experience.

How'd you sleep out there in the barn?

Well, how'd you sleep in my extra underwear?

You look like you treat that horse

better then you would a wife.

Oh well now, a wife's supposed to be able to

fix herself up. Ain't she?

Oh, I would be willing to give you a bath

every now and then.

You would like to have that chance, wouldn't you?

Whoa.

He ain't so bad.

A little done in, though.

Is that so?

I know about horses.

Whoa.

Come off the farm that was just about the echo of this place.

- Yeah. - Uh-huh.

Learned to ride early.

Better then my brothers, in fact.

I'll show you, let me ride him.

Oh, no.

And why not?

Well, Comet'd have you right down on your pretty little... ear.

No horse you can ride is gonna throw me.

You're pretty sure about that, ain’t ya?

Mm-hm.

Tell you what... I bet you a kiss.

All right.

A kiss if he throws me,

and if he don't, you take me back to town this morning.

Now is that a bet?

Seems fair enough to me.

All right, bring him out there.

Well, got the miseries this morning?

You sure do know how to put out a man’s fires, ma'am.

What?

What are you up too, boy?

Oh, well Pa, the girl bet she could ride old Comet,

I figured I'd give her a try.

- Oh. - What?

Shep baby broke that animal himself,

don't tolerate nobody else.

I wouldn't get on that critters back for store bought whiskey.

See.

Ah well, old Comet will let anybody sit,

the deal was to ride.

All right, farm boy, stand back.

I'm gonna see how he runs.

Whoa, whoa, boy...

Whoa boy, whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

- Ow! - Hold on, I got her.

Looks like you lost.

All right, you can kiss me there.

No, no, no, the bet was you were supposed to do the kissing.

- Right. - Wait!

The bet was you do the kissing,

but it didn't say nothing about who was to get the kiss.

I figure old Comet being the one who done the throwing...

What's the matter, Sarah?

The horse?

That's all right.

I've seen her kiss uglier men.

Mercy, how unladylike.

I've never seen nothing like it.

Hey now, hey brother, now let her be.

I said let her be.

Hey, Ike!

This here ain't what I had in mind at all.

He pretty much whipped you, you know.

Yeah well, you don't ever wanna try to talk old Ike out of nothing.

Wanna hit him with something solid like a 2x4 first,

then do your talking.

I ought to know that by now.

Well, I thought you were gonna win for a minute.

- Yeah? - Mm-hm.

Must have seen something I didn't.

Well, I guess you came out best, if there is a best.

Yeah.

You know, I had a lot of men fight over me,

but I can't recall ever having one fight for me...

'til today.

It was seeing you on the ground, I...

I couldn't stand seeing you there.

Well...

I want you to stay up here with me.

I can't, I wouldn't know how to.

Yeah, you don't want too, that's all.

Yeah, there just ain’t enough gambling and liquor,

and music and men up here for you.

You was born in the city

and that's where you can stay for all I care.

Still want me to kiss the horse?

Well, to tell you the truth,

I think I need it more.

Comet wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.

Now, I thought if we were to build

on that little hill just up the creek from your Pa's place.

Oh, I thought...

Oh no, no, that'd be too close to the creek.

You can't be that close to the water

when the babies come along.

That doesn't hurt too much, does it?

No, no, not that much.

All right, Hockett, stand up.

You all right, Emily?

All right? Well, well I guess I am.

Now, you put that thing down.

You go and blow a hole in my fiancé,

and you'll have to answer to me.

Shep?

Well, he's quite a boy.

And I do believe you two would be very good for each other.

- Thank you. - Mm hm.

Funny thing is they're all good boys.

Fine, decent, hard-working, honest...

I hate to say it, but that crazy old man

can be real proud of himself.

Shep asked me to marry him.

Well?

I said yes.

But...

But what?

Well, the first thing I thought was...

how good it would be if you and Ike...

Fran, I've said so many cruel things to you.

I, I guess it was 'cause I was so scared all the time.

Oh, Sarah.

I'm so happy for you.

What about Ike?

No.

I'm sorry, Fran.

Miss Hannah.

Been expecting you, Marshal.

Well, it looks like you've got everything under control here, at least.

I have never seen so much romancin' going on

in so short a time in my whole life.

Afternoon Marshall, Jed Hockett's the name,

these are my boys...

but I'm the one you want

if you're of a mind to take somebody back.

I told 'em to do it.

Well, Mr. Hockett I'm afraid it isn't that simple,

you see, what these boys did, that's a serious thing.

Well, I don't know anything about a serious crime,

I just come up here for a little fresh mountain air.

Of course, Fran may feel differently.

Just a little vacation, as far as I'm concerned.

Well, I guess if nobody's mad enough to press charges,

well, not much I can do.

Well, two out of three ain't bad.

You better make that two out of four, old man,

or you'll have another lump on your head.

Yes ma'am, I reckon I understand.

I thought you would.

Saw Ike looking at you as we left, Fran.

You know, a woman could wait a lifetime

for a man to want her like that.

I just don't know how to talk to him.

Some men you don't talk to,

you just love 'em and keep a big skillet handy.

Don't you understand?

I'm not good enough for him.

He's as much as said so.

Oh, don't you ever say that again as long as you live.

Anyone as temperamental and inconsiderate and ornery as he is,

is lucky you looked at him in the first place.

Anyway, if you want him, don't make much difference anyhow.

Do you?

Well then you just get right back there and you tell him.

Go on.

That's it.

Fran's decided to go back Marshall.

Good luck, Fran.

Thank you, Marshal.

And don't forget the skillet.

What skillet?

I'll tell you all about it sometime.

I was coming for ya.