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Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Hyah!

I should've knowed better than to join a posse,

especially one led by a blacksmith.

If I squeezed you hard enough, sonny, your eyes would pop out.

Aw, now, wait a minute.

Ain't no need for everybody to start fighting.

We had a long, hard ride, we're tired.

Besides, we ain't no closer to those two men

than when they rode out of town.

So you're all willing to let 'em get by with it, huh?

Ride right into town, hold up the bank?

They didn't kill nobody, Mac.

Only because nobody had guts enough to try to stop 'em.

But we chased 'em, didn't we?

Wasn't even our money anyway.

Well, I got a store to tend.

I can't go chasing all over the country after outlaws.

They're halfway to Mexico by now anyway.

I need a drink.

Hyah!

Dirty bunch of cowards.

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Yeah, he's gone lame.

You get up by them trees and watch the road.

I'll take care of the horse.

What's the matter, is somebody coming?

I didn't see nobody.

Then what are you doing here?

Well, it's hot up there, Rack.

I figured I'd come down, get me a cool drink of water.

Don't kick me now, don't kick me.

Now, you get back up there and watch that road

like I told you, you hear?

Well, I've been watching it.

Get up.

Listen, Augie, we got to get to Texas with that bank money.

- Now, don't we? - Well, sure.

We can't do it with that lame horse of yours, can we?

No.

No, we got to sit right here

until somebody comes along riding single.

- Now, don't we? - Yeah.

Just so we can take his horse.

So you just get back to your watching,

and as soon as you see somebody coming along that road,

you yell.

Do you hear?

Oh, okay, Rack.

Rack, Rack, come here.

There's somebody coming way out there.

Yeah, he's alone.

He's coming from the other way.

What?

Indian Wells is that way.

He can't know nothing about the bank robbery,

so he won't be expecting no trouble.

Oh.

You keep him covered from here

and I'll slip down there close by the road.

And don't you do no shooting unless I tell you, you hear?

I won't, Rack.

All right, keep down now.

♪♪

Hands in the air, mister.

I got him.

I thought I told you not to do no shooting.

I had to, Rack.

I'll finish him off, huh?

I got to have that badge.

- What are you talking about? - It's a U.S. Marshals badge.

I seen it right off.

Hey, look at that.

- Yeah, I'll finish him off, huh? - No.

But he's mine, Rack, I got a right.

You got nothing I don't tell you.

- Now, you listen to me. - He's mine.

All right, you can have him.

Oh, I don't mean him, I mean that badge.

Now, I got to have it, I earned it.

Will you listen to me?

We got a far piece to go with that bank money, haven't we?

Clear to Texas.

But if we have a U.S. Marshal with us,

nobody is going to make no trouble, are they?

They ain't?

No, not if we have a gun in his back.

People don't like the idea

of being responsible for a marshal getting killed.

I hadn't thought of that.

What about the horse?

This way we still need another horse.

We can always find another horse,

but we ain't likely to get a chance at another marshal.

Well, can I wear the badge?

Augie, we get to Texas,

you can finish him off, you can wear a badge,

- you... - You promise?

I promise.

All right, now take him over there by the horses.

Well, where are you going?

Well, I'm tired of waiting here.

I'm gonna take his mount and go horse hunting.

If you don't mind, Marshal.

Don't you kill him unless you have to, Augie.

I'll try to find a horse somewhere.

He ain't getting no stronger.

Well, the sooner he dies, the sooner I get to wear his badge.

Augie, I told you once, we need him alive.

A dead marshal ain't no use to us at all.

I'll live a lot longer if I get this bullet out of my back.

By golly, you're right.

I wasn't thinking.

What are you talking about?

Well, Augie, you can't leave a bullet in a man.

You got to cut it out.

That grove of trees over there... We'll make camp

and fix the marshal up so's that he can ride better.

Come on.

All right, bring him over here, Augie.

I don't know if he can walk.

Well, never mind, we'll do it there.

What are you gonna do now?

I'm gonna operate.

Give me your knife.

Sure.

You're not going to cut on me with that, are you?

Well, you want the bullet out, don't you?

If you're going to use that filthy blade,

you might as well leave the bullet in.

Oh, well, now, Marshal, I sure do beg your pardon.

I wouldn't want to dirty you up none.

Uh, tear off a piece of your shirt, Augie,

just tear off a little piece there.

That's it.

That's fine.

Oh, that's no good.

You got to heat some water.

You got to boil the knife in the water.

You shut up.

We ain't got the time.

I've always wanted to work on the likes of you.

Y-You want me to hold him?

Oh, no, no, the marshal's a brave man.

Ain't you, Marshal?

Get at it.

Yeah, so that's how you do it.

Too rough, Marshal?

I'm mighty sorry.

Hey, you're pretty good at that, Rack.

Getting mighty pale, though.

We could lose him yet.

Will y-you get out of here? You're bothering me.

Now, just go on over there to the fire and sit down, will you?

Oh.

You heard me.

Okay.

Just...

Augie, you want this bullet or not?

I don't want no bullet.

I gave you half my shirt, didn't I?

Could I just please...?

Now, listen, don't you go hollering for that badge now.

Pick up your knife.

We'll give him a day to mend.

He's no use to us less'n he can ride.

Rack... jus-just while he's laying there,

couldn't I wear the badge?

Now, I shot him, didn't I?

I earned it.

I told you to shut up about that.

Don't hit me now.

Don't hit me.

Don't hit me no more.

I hit you from here on out,

you don't stop talking about that badge.

Here, now, don't you try nothing.

I need a drink of water.

Rack ain't here.

He's out hunting for fresh meat.

Do you need his permission to throw me the water bottle there?

Well, all right.

You going to mend?

Well, I'd have mended a lot faster

if he'd taken it easier with that knife.

Yeah, Rack likes to cut.

Yeah.

We get to Texas, Rack's gonna let me shoot you.

Then I can wear that badge.

What are you so anxious to wear a badge for?

To feel like somebody.

Folks think you're important when you wear a badge.

How come you're not wearing it now?

Well, Rack won't let me.

Yeah, he, he decides things around here.

Yeah, he sure beats you up a lot, doesn't he?

Well, I wanted the badge,

but he says I ain't smart enough to wear it...

Before we get to Texas anyway.

You were smart enough to shoot me, weren't you?

Yeah.

Smart enough to take me prisoner?

Yeah, I was, wasn't I?

You sure were.

You know...

You know, I got an idea that you're probably a whole smarter

than Rack's given you credit for.

You do?

You bet I do.

I'll show you how you can prove it, too.

You will?

Sure.

Now, now, listen.

If you just...

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

I leave you to guard a man,

I don't expect you to get friendly with him.

Well, I-I wasn't doing nothing.

We're just, we're just talking.

Just seems like I got to beat on you to learn you anything.

- Don't it? - No, no.

You feel up to riding yet?

We're riding out of here at sunup.

You'd better feel like it then,

or we'll put another bullet in you

and leave you here.

And you're gonna sleep tied hand and foot, Marshal.

You hear?

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You gonna make it or not, Marshal?

I'm gonna make it.

Ain't we never going to eat?

My belly feels like it's full of teeth.

Quit your crying.

Marshal ain't crying, now, are you, Marshal?

You see that, Augie?

Ain't had a thing to eat since two days now.

Can't nobody keep his strength up that way.

I'll knock both your eyes into one socket,

you don't shut up, Augie.

I didn't mean nothing.

I know where we can get something to eat.

Well, come on, Marshal, tell us.

Shut up, Augie.

Go ahead.

It's right down the road here about a mile.

There's a dirt farm... They ought to have something.

I suppose you want to ride up there and fetch it for us, huh?

I could do that, yeah.

Sure, you could, and they'd be glad to help you out...

Food... a gun, anything you need.

No, they don't know me.

They're new around here.

I just rode by the other day.

But you just figured they'd be glad to help out a U.S. Marshal.

They might.

Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.

I'm gonna save you the trouble.

I'm gonna find out for you what them folks think of the law.

What do you mean, Rack, what are you gonna do?

I'm going down there myself, wearing this, of course.

Now, Rack, that ain't fair.

I get to wear that badge.

You shut up.

They see this badge, they'll give me anything I want.

That so, Marshal?

Probably.

Sure.

Let me wear it, huh?

Now, I'll ride up there and make 'em give me some grub.

Let me wear it, huh, Rack?

Augie, I'm getting mighty sick

of your mewling about that badge, you hear?

Leave the boy alone.

He ain't got sense enough to be let alone.

I got sense.

You shut up and listen.

Take the marshal over there off the road and keep hid.

You do it right

or I'll knock your head into a peak when I get back.

You hear?

Yeah.

Then do it.

Go on, Marshal.

All right, hold it right there, Marshal.

Now, you get down and get on over there by that tree.

All right, sit down.

Getting mighty weak, ain't you, Marshal?

You know, Augie, doesn't seem to me like you're doing

a very good job of convincing him.

What?

Rack, about your being able to think for yourself.

There ain't a reason in the world

I couldn't have rode to that farm.

That's right.

I could have wore that badge just as good as him.

You sure could.

It would have looked good on you, too.

Them people'd have really thought I was somebody.

Augie, let me ask you something.

What?

What do you think about the way

that Rack is always beating on you?

Well, I don't like it.

He shouldn't do that all the time.

How long has he been doing it?

Ever since we met up, about two years ago.

Two years, huh?

You gonna, gonna let him go on doing it for another two years?

Marshal, sometimes I think I can't stand it no more.

Well, you don't have to, Augie.

Them's horses coming.

Yeah.

It ain't Rack; he rode off the other way.

Well, now, now, look, Augie, don't, don't worry about it.

You can handle it all right.

- Well, sure I can. - Okay,

I tell you what you do now, Augie.

You just stay low there and, uh,

I'll edge up and see if I can get a look at 'em.

- See? - Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Hey, wait a minute, hold on now.

I'll shoot.

Get down, they might see you.

Get down.

Yeah.

Yeah, I's smart that time, wasn't I, Marshal?

Yeah.

I guess Rack couldn't have done no better than that, could he?

No.

No, you did just fine, Augie, just fine.

We'll camp here.

Augie... take the horses over to the creek there and water them.

Oh, Rack, I don't want to go...

- What's that? - Nothing, nothing...

You get stubborn with me, you know what'll happen.

I'm doing it, ain't I?

Yeah.

Come on.

Seems like you was mighty glad to get off that horse, Marshal.

I'll make it all right.

You ain't getting too tired, are you?

I sure hate to see a strong man like you puny up,

especially the way I've been doctoring you.

Don't worry about me, Rack.

I'm gonna be around to see the light go out in your eyes.

You know something, Marshal?

I sometimes get the feeling you don't believe what I say.

About shooting me?

Mm-hmm.

No, I believe that all right.

You're the kind of man who would shoot

a wounded, unarmed man in the back.

Oh, you're smart, eh?

Well, let me tell you something.

See, this badge did just fine back there

with them dirt farmers, just fine.

They gave me everything I wanted.

Never questioned I wasn't a real lawman.

So?

So I don't need you no more.

I can be the lawman that gets us back to Texas.

What do you think of that?

What are you waiting for?

Morning.

You'll feel better in the morning.

You won't feel like dying when you see a new day coming.

Rack, Rack,

Rack!

- Now, what's wrong, Augie? - Rack.

Them horses, Rack, I was watering 'em like you said,

and that pinto kind of got away from me.

What?

Well, the other two is tied up down there,

but the pinto... he, he wandered off and I couldn't catch him.

Now, I figured I'd better come tell you, Rack.

Not enough sense to water the horses, huh?

Now, I'll go after him, Rack.

You couldn't find him if he was standing on your foot.

All right, that's enough, Rack.

You just sit down, Marshal.

You want me to put a couple of bullets in your knees?

Now, sit down.

All right, now, you get up here and I'll go after the horse.

You keep your eye on that marshal, you hear me?

Go and put your gun on him.

He's got no call to beat on me all the time.

He sure doesn't, Augie.

You know something, Augie?

If I'd have had that gun there,

I wouldn't have let him beat you.

Why don't you give it to me right now, huh?

You're a prisoner, now, don't you forget.

Augie, listen to me.

You know, you could get away from him, leave him.

Oh, Rack would never let me do that.

He said so.

Oh, don't mind what he says.

You can think for yourself, Augie,

you've already proved that.

Yeah, that's right.

Y-You said I was smart yourself.

Well, you are.

Now, look, yep,

I could help you get away from him if you'd let me.

Help me?

Sure.

If you'd give me that gun, I'd help you get away from him.

Well, I-I don't know, Marshal.

Just think about it...

No more beatings, never again.

Well, if I did... could I wear the badge?

Well, sure.

Now, that's a promise, Marshal.

You bet it is, it's a promise.

Well, I...

I don't know.

But I'll think about it.

He's asleep.

All right, get me untied, will you?

Remember the badge, now, Marshal, you promised.

That's right.

What's going on?

I cut him loose.

I mean, I was going to cut him loose.

- You sneaky little... - He was going to help me get away.

I am going to beat you half to death.

- No, Rack, no. -You hear me? - Augie, throw me the gun.

You shot him.

He's dead.

Well, we'll bury him in the morning.

Remember the badge, now, Marshal, you promised.

Can I put it on?

Yeah, you can put it on.

Augie, you can wear it all the way back to Dodge.