Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

♪♪

Well, you've tore it.

Yeah, yeah, becau-because of you,

because you's, uh, standing there,

looking over my shoulder, breathing down my neck.

I could feel you, that's what happened.

No, no, Chester, what happened was,

you just missed the ball and you tore it.

Yeah, b-because of you, b-because of you.

Well, good heaven, you're gonna break the cue now.

Well, I can't play no more nohow.

Cost me a whole week's pay now... At least that.

Well, it don't have to.

Yeah, why?

I didn't see Dan Binny in there anyplace.

You, you've still got time to get out of town.

Oh, yeah, that's what you'd do.

You'd run, wouldn't you?

Well, I-I got just a little bit more honor than that.

Well, by golly, I admire you for it, too.

That's even better than being a good billiard player.

Well, who says that I ain't a good billiard player?

Well, I don't know, I didn't.

Oh, no, no, you didn't, you didn't, you didn't say...

Look at that.

Well, it's just Lee Sharkey and his wife.

You know, I just never could understand her.

She hates her husband, that's all there is to it.

Well, heavens, I don't have no love for Lee Sharkey myself,

but I don't go around with a big, long face

like it's the end of the world.

Yeah, well, you just ain't married to him, that's it.

No, Doc, I know that, I ain't married to him.

You know, well, I guess I'd better get

down to the post office.

I'll see you later.

Yeah... oh, well, uh,

did you want me to say something to Dan Binny for you?

♪♪

Did we get everything?

Well, it'd bust your jaw to say something, wouldn't it?

What do you want me to say?

Nothing, nothing, nothing!

I'm gonna go and get a drink.

You just set there, hear?

Sure do thank you for the loan of the money, Mr. Dillon.

Of course, it was Doc that ought to be a-paying for it.

All he did was watch, the way I heard it.

Well, that's all he needed to do.

Oh, there... Dan Binny's in there.

Well, why don't you go on in and I'll wait for you out here?

Well, I'll be doggoned.

Well, that's Nina Sharkey, isn't it?

- Yeah. - Well, I wonder what she's doing in town

- this time of night. - Well, that's just what

I was trying to figure out, Mr. Dillon.

You know that her and Lee was loading that wagon to take off

this afternoon when me and Doc was here.

- They were? - Yeah.

Well, they live five miles out of town.

It isn't likely they'd come back in.

Tha-That wagon was right there in that very same spot.

Why don't you go in and pay Dan?

I'll go over and have a word with Nina.

All right.

Good evening, Mrs. Sharkey.

Hello, Marshal.

Well, you waiting for Lee?

Yes.

Well, uh, does he know you're out here?

Yes, he knows I'm here.

Well, how long has he kept you waiting?

Oh, a while.

I see.

Has he been drinking again?

Where is he, over at the Long Branch?

He'll only make trouble, Marshal.

Here, have another.

No, I got to go, Lee.

- Oh. - Got a long ride ahead of me.

Ain't you leaving?

No... I ain't in no hurry.

I'll see you around.

Sure, sure.

Sharkey.

Well, howdy, Marshal.

How about a drink?

What's the matter with you, anyway?

Are you so drunk, you don't know that your wife's sitting

out there in a wagon seat, waiting for you?

I ain't drunk, Marshal, and I don't know

as I like anybody telling me how to handle my wife.

Well, I'm telling you.

Now get out there.

Well, I was fixing to leave anyway.

Well, it takes all kinds, doesn't it, Marshal?

Yeah, I guess it does, Sam,

only sometimes we could do without 'em.

Did you send the marshal to get me?

No, I didn't.

Don't you lie to me.

I'll teach you to fetch the law on me.

Why don't you mind your own business, too?

Hold on there!

Well, you... neither one of you got any right to interfere.

Marshal, she ain't getting no more

than what she rightly deserves.

Mrs. Sharkey, Chester will take you over to the Dodge House.

You can get a room there for the night.

I got a room for you at the jail.

I ain't going to no jail.

You're going.

Now, you can walk or you can be dragged.

Make up your mind.

I'm sorry about this, Mrs. Sharkey.

I'll turn him loose first thing in the morning.

Now, ma'am, let me, let me give you a hand.

Thank you.

Oh, good morning, Kitty.

Well, morning.

Mind if we join you?

Not a bit.

Morning, Miss Kitty.

Good morning, Chester.

Say, you're, uh, looking mighty pretty this morning.

He hasn't taken to drinking before breakfast, has he?

No, no, I-I kind of think he's right, myself.

I suspect the both of you.

Hello, Joe.

I guess I'll have a steak and a couple eggs and a pot of coffee.

Uh... - Is that it? - Yeah.

Uh, you can bring me a-a bowl of oatmeal, a stack of flapjacks,

and a piece of ham about like that.

While you're at it, you might as well

just throw on a couple eggs.

And coffee.

Glass of milk.

I think you'll be all right if you have an early dinner.

Yeah, well, I aim to.

You know, I go too long, I get dizzy spells,

you know.

Yeah, I know.

Hey, tha-that reminds me,

I ain't fed Lee Sharkey yet this morning.

Lee Sharkey... You got him in jail?

Yeah, he was drunk last night and treating Nina rough,

so we locked him up.

That poor girl.

I don't think she's smiled once since she's been married.

Well, why don't you go over and see her? She's in town here.

Where is she?

The Dodge House.

Oh.

I'll go.

It'll, uh, cheer me up

just to miss the breakfasts that you two are going to eat.

Well, tell Nina we'll turn Lee loose

in about an hour or so, Kitty.

All right, see you later.

Well, Nina, I was just coming to see you.

Hello, Kitty.

Matt told me you were here,

and I wanted to come over and talk to you.

All right.

Um, let's sit over there, huh?

Well... how are you?

Oh, about the same.

Matt told me that he, uh, had to lock Lee up

for treating you rough.

Yes.

He doesn't do that very often, does he?

No.

Nina, what's happened to you since you married Lee?

Why don't you get it off your chest?

Kitty...

I've, I've never said this to anyone...

but Lee hates me.

He's hated me ever since we got married.

But why?

He married me for money.

Money?

My father's money.

He thought my father'd support us in style,

but he's never given us a dollar.

Oh, and Lee holds that against you.

Is that right?

Hmm.

Kitty... how would you feel

if your husband told you that he'd only married you for money?

I'm sure sorry.

It shames a woman, Kitty.

It shames a woman so she...

hardly even cares about going on living.

Well, I wish there were something I could do to help.

It's been good to talk to you.

You know, we, uh, we ought to try

to see each other more often.

Well, it-it's been months and months.

I haven't felt like seeing anybody in a long time.

When you do, will you send word to me?

I will.

Oh, uh... Matt's going to be letting Lee out directly.

Oh, well, I'll just go over to the jail and wait for him.

Thanks, Kitty.

Good luck, honey.

Whoa.

That's all there is, isn't it?

That's it.

Oh, wait a minute.

Here's a can of coal oil.

Come get it.

Here.

Wait a minute.

You know, that was the first night of my life

I ever spent in jail.

Wasn't my fault, Lee.

It was you set the law down on me, wasn't it?

I never did beat you, Nina.

Maybe I ought to take up the habit.

You start that, and I'll kill you.

Oh, now, lookee here.

She's showing sign of life.

You've done evil enough to me already, Lee Sharkey.

I won't stand for anything worse.

Is that so?

Well, we'll just see about that, yeah.

I'll get supper going.

Not for me.

Soon as I put this team up,

I'm gonna get a saddle horse and head on back to town.

I might see you around midnight.

Get up there! Head up there! Hyah!

Bottle and two glasses, please.

My name's Lee Sharkey.

Jim Garza.

You're new here, ain't you?

Oh, I-I been here about a week.

Uh-huh. You looking for a job?

Oh, I...

I don't never look for jobs, but sometimes they find me.

Oh, okay. Okay.

Here you are.

Well...

Here's how.

Garza... how'd you like to make yourself

$200 in the next two weeks?

$200?

Do I get hung at the end?

No, of course not.

Well, I might be interested.

Uh-huh.

Look here. Let's go back to the table

where it's a little more private.

You're real neighborly with your liquor, aren't you?

All you want.

Ah.

You married, Garza?

No.

Well, I am married.

And sometimes it don't work out the way you thought it would.

Well, I heard tell.

You take me, for instance.

My wife's pa is rich,

and he ain't done one thing for us.

- Not one thing. - Is that so?

Oh, he's a straight-laced old man.

Worries a lot about morals and such.

Don't want nothing to hurt the family name.

You know the kind?

Now, I'm going to Wichita for two weeks,

and I want you, Garza,

to take over the place while I'm gone.

Then when I get back,

I'll accuse you of being with my wife,

and you'll admit it.

Then I'll take her to her pa,

and tell him that I'll shame her through the whole country

unless he comes up with that money.

You got it all figured out, ain't you?

Yes, I have.

Well, it ain't as if it weren't money

we got coming to us anyway.

Well?

Oh, I don't know. I don't like it too much.

But I guess if I don't have to do nothing, just say I did.

That's it. That's all there is to it.

I'll make it $250.

All right, it's a deal.

- Ah. - But in advance.

Half of it in advance.

All of it.

Well, how do I know I can trust you?

Well, like I said, I don't like it too much anyway.

All right, all right.

I'll pay you in the morning.

You ride out at 8:00. Ain't but five miles.

Out where?

I'll tell you that

after we finish this here bottle.

I'm, uh...

I'm riding into Dodge again this morning.

This time I'm liable to be gone about two weeks.

I'm catching the stage to Wichita.

Hoping maybe I can pick me up a loan

in that part of the country.

'Cause if I don't get my hands of some money pretty quick...

we gonna have to sell this place, Nina.

And I don't know no place around here

where I can get it.

You?

I've taken on a hand to look after the stock

and do the chores.

That ought to be him coming now.

Morning.

Say, you're right on time.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, got a little money for me?

Yeah, I got it.

Right here.

You don't mind if I count it, do you?

No. Go ahead.

Nina?

Oh, Nina, come on out here!

This here is Jim Garza.

He'll be looking after the place while I'm gone.

How you do, ma'am?

You'll be, uh, sleeping down

at the tack house in the barn, Garza.

Nina'll show you where everything is.

Well, look here, I better get on my way to Wichita.

Uh, good-bye.

Uh, you look after things while I'm gone, yeah?

You won't have no trouble, Garza. So long.

So long.

Good luck, hear?

Yeah.

Well...

put your horse up, and then, I'll-I'll feed you.

Thank you.

Well, now.

Lookee here, what have you got?

Oh, this is for supper.

You mean, after that big dinner you fed me this noon?

Not that I'm complaining, now, mind you.

Well, it won't be ready for a couple of hours yet.

Oh. Well, I noticed you was out of stove wood up there,

so I just split you up some.

Oh, but... But what?

Well, I-I generally take care of the wood.

Oh, is that so?

Well, let me tell you...

You ain't gonna do it while I'm around.

Um, it'll be a couple hours

still before we eat.

Then that'll just give me time to work up a good appetite.

Oh.

Ma'am, you-you really are a good cook, you know?

Thank you.

You tell me something.

What?

How long has it been

since anybody told you you were a good cook?

I-I don't know what you mean.

Then how long's it been

since anybody, uh, cut your stove wood up for you?

You know, ma'am, uh... I'm just thinking.

You, uh... you kind of got the bad end of the deal here.

My husband says different.

He says it was him that got the bad end of the deal.

Is that right?

I'm sorry. I, um...

I shouldn't be talking like this.

I-I don't talk like this much, either.

Oh, coffee's getting cold.

You got an awful lot of trouble, ma'am,

and I'm not helping you none.

That... that's for sure.

You're the first person in a long time

to make me feel like a human being again.

Do-do you want some more coffee?

No. No, thank you.

I, uh... I better turn in.

Got to get up early morning and ride fence.

Uh, unless there's something you want me to do around here.

No, no, you-you go ahead.

Good night.

Good night, Jim.

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Come in.

Ma'am?

I'll be out in a minute.

I'm, I'm sorry I wasn't here when you got back from Dodge.

Oh, that's all right.

I was mending fence up north.

Ma'am, I've got something to tell you.

I'll be right there.

I'm gonna quit.

I said I'm quitting, ma'am.

Evening, Jim.

Well, I'll be doggoned.

Um, I'm afraid I didn't have time to fix supper.

It'll have to be something cold.

I ain't hungry.

Oh, nonsense. Come on.

Wait, wait, wait.

Well, you're, uh...

you're about the prettiest thing I've ever seen.

Oh, please... Well, I mean it, ma'am.

Oh, don't be, don't be afraid.

Didn't you hear me

when I said I was quitting?

Is that what you really said?

Yeah.

Oh...

When are you leaving?

Ma'am... would you, um,

come here and sit down, please?

I wanna tell you that I, uh,

I think I've fell in love with you.

It happened awful fast, I know, but I couldn't help that.

And it's got nothing to do with the way you fixed up

tonight, believe me. I've given it a lot of thought.

But you're leaving.

Yeah.

I've got to.

No.

No, you can't. Not now.

I won't let you.

Oh, listen to me, ma'am.

- You got to listen to me. - I don't care.

It doesn't matter Jim. Nothing matters.

Yes, it does! I've got something to show ya.

Look.

You see that?

That's $250.

And I'm gonna tell you where I got it.

Your husband Lee gave it to me.

That's right.

But he's gonna get a big surprise.

Because I'm gonna put it right here.

And it might give you some pleasure

to tell him that it's here.

What's it for?

For him to catch me with you.

Or at least for me to say he did.

Then a little blackmail trip to your pa.

And you agreed?

I didn't know you then.

That's a lot of money,

but I'm not proud of it

and I wasn't when I took it.

And now you're just... leaving?

I was going to.

Nina...

All right, then.

I'm gonna stay.

And when he comes home, we'll tell him.

And then we'll leave together, all right?

Oh, Jim.

Goodnight, Nina.

Whoa. Ho.

Lee!

Lee.

Well, glory be.

I've got the buggy over there.

Well, what's come over you?

Well, you're even acting different.

We better get started.

Well, wait a minute.

What are you doing here?

How'd you know I was on that stage?

Woman's intuition.

I'll wait for you at the buggy.

Well, here. I got to get my horse.

Never mind about your horse. I've got him tied on behind.

Make yourself right at home, don't you?

Hello, Sharky.

Have a drink.

No thanks.

You know, um, your job ain't over, Garza,

till her old man comes through.

Well, I've got something to tell you, Sharky.

Well, let it wait.

What I want to know is...

what's come over her?

She never used to be like that.

Well, maybe I could tell ya...

Well, there's something else I don't understand either.

How come she knew I was on that stage?

I don't go for this woman's intuition stuff.

Well, I got a friend who works in Wichita

at the stage office,

and I had him telegraph me

on the day when you bought your tickets.

What are you saying?

We thought it'd be best that way, Sharky.

Then you couldn't say that you rode out here

and surprised us at nothing wrong.

We?

Now what's come over you? What's this all about?

Here you go, Sharky. Here's your money.

All of it.

Well, what's this for?

I don't want it.

Well, you're, you're quitting?

What are you quitting for, Garza?

'Cause I'm calling the deal off, Sharky.

The whole rotten, stinking deal.

Nina!

Get in here.

Now...

what's been going on between you two?

There ain't nothing been going on, Sharky.

She's gonna leave you and

we're gonna get married.

That's right, Lee.

I love him.

Love? What do you know about love?

I didn't know anything until I met Jim.

All he's after's your pa's money.

Like you?

Never mind about me.

Now we ain't asking a dime from her pa.

We're going out to Colorado and we're gonna start fresh.

You liar.

Forget it, Jim.

You know why I hired him?

You know what kind of a man he is, huh?

He told me why you hired him.

He told me everything.

So you, you snuck in behind my back, huh?

I ought to kill you.

You can try, Sharky.

No, it ain't worth the trouble.

But don't you think you're getting away with it.

I'm riding on in to Dodge.

I don't know when I'll be back.

This job... it pays $500.

My name is Blucher.

Harry Blucher.

His name... is Jim Garza.

From Colorado?

By golly, he did say something about Colorado

only this afternoon.

I've seen him around Pueblo.

I'd recognize him.

I'll give you $200 right now,

and the rest when the job's done.

Half and half.

Oh, all right.

I got it right here.

Here you go.

Where is he?

He's at my ranch, about five miles out of town.

But, uh, it wouldn't do to kill him out there.

My wife would get suspicious.

He must come into town sometime.

Yeah, uh, I'll think of a way of getting him here tomorrow.

All right.

I'll be leaving town fast when it's done.

I'll be riding by your place.

You just follow the river upstream about a mile.

There's a road there leads right north,

right by my place.

Have the money ready.

All right.

See you tomorrow, Blucher.

Oh, here.

You have the whiskey.

Kind of a little bonus.

Well... night, Blucher.

Oh, Marshal, I was just on my way home.

- Hello, Kitty. - Can I have a beer, Sam?

- Hello, Matt. - Sit.

That Lee Sharky's in town

kind of late tonight, isn't he?

It's his first night home, too, isn't it?

He never was the greatest husband.

That's true.

Came in here and bought a bottle, and...

had a drink with that man over there.

But I don't think he knew him.

By golly, I ain't never seen him before himself.

Do you know him, Matt?

No, I don't think I do.

Sure looks like a hard case though, doesn't he?

Mm-hmm.

Well, I got to make the rest of our rounds, Kitty.

I'll see you later.

Well, good morning.

Good morning, Marshal.

Aren't you that fella who works out at the Sharky plant?

Yeah, Jim Garza's my name.

What are you doing?

There ain't enough supplies for the winter out there?

Just enough to get us to Colorado.

Colorado?

Yeah, me and Nina.

What?

Didn't you know?

Nina and me are gonna get married out there

just as soon as she gets a divorce from Lee.

Well, what does Lee think about all that?

Well, he went along with it.

In fact, I'm gonna buy his wagon off of him for the trip.

You mean to tell me that Lee doesn't mind

if you take his wife and go off to Colorado?

Well naturally, he was a little sore at first,

but he got used to the idea.

I don't know how much you know about Lee Sharky,

but I'll tell you something maybe you didn't know.

He was over in the Long Branch last night

having a drink with a man.

That man looked to me like a professional gunman.

Sharky was?

That's right.

You still so sure?

Why, uh,

I don't think Sharky would do anything like that, do you?

Maybe he would and maybe he wouldn't.

There's one way you can be safe, though.

What's that?

Take off that gun belt you're wearing.

Now wait a minute, Marshal, I...

He's not likely to shoot an unarmed man.

That's not the way of a gunman.

Well, I ain't afraid of him.

Well, that's not the point.

If you're wearing a gun,

he'll some find a way to trick you into drawing first

so he can claim self-defense.

He's a professional, Garza.

Well, I guess you're right, Marshal.

I don't like it too much, but...

maybe you are right.

I think you're doing the smart thing.

Now why don't you get back out there to the ranch.

I'm gonna look this fella up and have a little talk with him.

Mr. Dillon.

- I seen that Blucher fella. - Where was he?

Well, he's over at the Dodge House.

He was just tying up his horse.

Thanks, Chester.

Blucher?

Marshal.

Where're you from?

Colorado, Pueblo.

Mm-hmm.

Well listen, if I were you, I'd be back there in a week.

What are you saying?

I'm saying if you get on that horse and ride,

you'll be there in time for church next Sunday.

I don't go to church, Marshal.

Yeah, I'll bet you don't.

I'm gonna tell you something, Blucher.

I know why you're here, and I know who you're after.

I took Jim Garza's gun from him.

He's unarmed.

You won't be able to claim self-defense.

I never heard of Jim Garza.

Get on that horse and get riding.

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♪♪

Hello, Garza.

Harry Blucher.

We sat in a few card games over Pueblo way.

Oh, so, uh... you're the man.

I'm the man.

I didn't believe the marshal

when he said you'd give up your gun.

Well, I did.

I never thought you were that much of a coward.

I'm not gonna fight you, Blucher.

I heard a lot of things about you, Garza,

but never that you were yeller.

Why don't you leave me alone and go back to Colorado?

Fella's got to earn his money.

It's fight now or sometime later.

If you got the sand for it.

Don't think I'm afraid of you.

I got no reason to think otherwise.

I could always get myself another gun.

You could but that would take a man.

You just found yourself a man, Blucher. Say it out.

About an hour.

At the river bridge at the edge of town.

All right.

Mr. Dillon... - Jim Garza is dead. - What?

Yeah, that-that Blucher feller, uh, shot him

down by the river bridge.

Jim told us hisself just before he died.

All right.

Chester, look out after the office while I'm gone, will you?

Did you find him?

I found him.

The money, Sharky.

But how do I know he's dead?

Did you expect me to bring his body out here

so you could see it?

Now, hurry up. I got to get out of here.

It seems to me I'm taking your word for an awful lot.

Sharky, you pay me and pay me fast.

Another killing today ain't gonna make

one bit of difference to me.

Sure.

Sure, sure, I'll-I'll just get it.

Nina, come on back in the house!

I heard that last part.

He paid you to kill somebody, didn't he?

Now, never you mind about that, ma'am.

Who was it?

I want to know who it was.

Tell me!

What difference does it make?

It was Jim Garza.

I had to hear it.

But it wasn't you that killed him.

It was my husband.

Sharky, what's taking you so long in there?

It's all there.

I'd like to be sure.

I wouldn't want to have to trust a man like you.

You got a nerve saying that.

Like your wife says, wasn't me killed him...

It was you.

Hold it right there, Blucher.

What are you doing out here, Marshal?

Get your gun belt off, easy.

I guess they didn't tell you Jim Garza drew first.

I said drop your gun belt.

I've never been taken, Marshal.

I've never been taken.

Oh, you got him!

That's good!

He sure had it comin' to him, Marshal.

Did he?

Well, he killed Jim Garza,

and then to cover up for it... here...

He made me pay him for it.

He robbed me of that money, Marshal.

I'll turn it over to the courts.

The court?

Yeah, they'll use it as evidence at your trial.

Wh... What are you talkin' about?

I didn't hire him!

I ain't guilty of nothin'!

We'll let the judge decide that.

Soon as we get him buried, we're going into town.

Now, get yourself a shovel.

All right. All right, you can lock me up,

but it ain't gonna do you no good.

You're just gonna have to turn me loose again.

Ain't nobody do nothin' to me!

Nina!

Think I'd better take this, Nina.

Oh, hello, Marshal.

Please forgive me if I don't get up.

Don't think me inhospitable, I'm just...

a little tired.

There's some coffee on the stove.

Please, help yourself.

Nina...

I'm gonna have to ask you to come into town with me.

Oh, Marshal, I couldn't do that.

Well... I'm afraid you'll have to.

Oh, you're very kind, Marshal, but...

I have an awful lot of packing to do before Jim gets back,

and I want to have it all done before he gets here.

Jim?

Jim Garza.

Hadn't you heard?

We're going to Colorado and be married.