Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

♪♪

Whoa, boy.

Let's take a look, Clara.

It's probably the last time we'll see the place.

Five years we worked that ranch, Jessie.

I hope we're doing the right thing.

Why, sure we are. Now, you stop your frettin'.

I just hope you'll be happy in Dodge.

'Course I will.

Life will be easier for both of us.

Besides, that little old ranch

paid for the feed and grain store, didn't it?

Come on, boy.

Clara! Are you hurt?

Oh, oh... Oh, I... guess I'm all right.

- Help me up. - No, no, you stay here.

I want to be sure you're not hurt.

Doggone old Red run off right over the hill. He's gone.

And we're still some 15 miles from Dodge.

Over to Jed Stokes... his place is... just over there a bit.

Couldn't be more than two or three miles.

Well... I'll try and make it.

Are you sure?

Take it easy, now, take it easy.

Doggone my time! I should've sent you to town

in the wagon yesterday with the stuff.

Oh, don't be blamin' yourself, dear.

Clara.

Look.

This fellow'll help us.

Hello there. I'm Jessie Ott.

This is my wife, Clara.

- She's hurt. - How far to Dodge?

Some 15 miles.

I've got to get my wife in there before the storm breaks.

Uh, mister, I was just wondering if that horse of yours

would maybe pull a buggy.

This ain't no buggy horse!

No. Well, uh, say, a friend of mine, Jed Stokes,

lives just over there a bit.

Wouldn't be more than two or three miles.

If you was to ride by and tell him,

he would come and get us.

I'm headed for Dodge.

That's out of my way.

Mister, there's something you don't understand.

When the wagon broke down, it threw my wife out.

I... I don't know how bad she's hurt.

She don't look hurt to me.

Mister, my wife is with child.

Well, that's no concern of mine.

You mean you're gonna... leave us here?

Ain't a man in the world would ride off now.

I'm headed for Dodge, and that's where I'm going!

No, Jess! Jess, don't!

Let him go! Let him go!

She's smart.

We better try to get over to the Stokes' place.

- How do you feel about it? - I'll try.

You think you'll be all right now?

Take it easy.

Easy, now.

Come on.

Let's go.

Oh, Jess, I can't go any farther.

Not too long now.

I'm gonna carry you.

Don't you worry. We'll be all right.

We'll be all right.

♪♪

I'm a terrible burden.

Oh, you're not at all.

Now, I'm gonna fix something for your face.

It'll help you breathe easier.

Put it over your nose.

That's right.

Come on, we're gonna make it.

All right, here we go.

Hedda?

Hedda, where's Jessie?

He and my man went to fetch Doc Adams.

How long have they been gone?

About four hours.

They left just as soon as the storm let up a bit.

Out there in this weather, while I'm lying here sleeping.

Best thing in the world for you.

You're awfully good to take us in.

Nonsense.

Now I'm gonna fetch some tea for you.

I'll be right back.

Thank you.

Doc, I'm glad you're here.

- Hedda. - Jed's putting the horses up.

You must be plumb wore out, Jessie.

How's Clara?

Well, she slept for a few hours, but she's awake now.

You go on in there and see her, Jessie.

And then you better get yourself some rest.

Well, I'd like to help you, Doc.

No, Hedda will be all the help I need.

- You go ahead. - Sure.

I'll have some coffee for you in a minute, Doc.

Oh, that's fine. Thanks.

Well, she's gonna be all right.

That's good, Doc.

That's good.

Jessie, uh... I lost the baby.

Her getting throwed out of the wagon,

that's what done it, isn't it?

Well, sure didn't help any.

And the storm...

being carried all that distance.

That man passing us up on the trail...

Things'd be different

if he hadn't done that, wouldn't they?

Now, Jessie, I... I think I know how you feel,

but going after him is not gonna help anybody.

He's gonna be punished, Doc.

He'll be punished.

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Hello, Clara.

Hello, Marshal.

- Uh... where's Jessie? - He's out back.

Don't tell me you're gonna turn farmer.

Well, if I had any sense, I probably would.

No, I just came by to see how you're doing.

Well, I just figured we're out of the red

for the first time since we opened.

Well, that's real good for six weeks.

Mm-hmm. Not much ahead, but it's a start.

Well, hello there, Marshal.

Well, hello, Jessie.

Excuse me a minute.

Hi, Pete.

Something I can do for you?

Jessie, I...

I don't hardly know what to say.

Well, is something the matter?

I ain't making it, Jessie.

I... I just ain't making it.

And I can't pay you for all that feed I bought a month ago.

I don't know what to do.

I... promised I'd pay you.

Well, now, Pete, that can wait.

That feed seen my horse and cows through

the last of the cold weather.

I'm mighty grateful to you for that.

You ought to be raising your own feed.

You ought to be planting right now.

Sure.

I got lots of seed.

Sacks right there with it.

Now you just pick out what you want,

we'll weigh it up and put it on your bill.

No, I-I couldn't do that.

Ah, you do like I tell you.

I'm bigger than you are.

Now you get to work.

I gonna say hello to the marshal.

Well, we're back in the red again.

Eh, he needs it worse than we do, Clara.

I know. I'm glad you did it.

How are you, Marshal?

Fine, Jessie.

Excuse me.

I'll see if I can help Pete.

Something I can do for you?

Yeah, Jessie, I, uh...

I did want to talk to you.

What about?

About Dean Beard.

I don't know him.

Well, he's the, he's the man

that left you and Clara out there on the prairie.

Oh.

Him.

I never mentioned it before

because I thought he'd left Dodge for good.

But he hasn't?

Turns out he's heading back this way.

I just found out.

Now, Jessie...

you and Clara got an awful fine life here.

You're doing real well.

I'd hate to see you do anything to ruin that.

Like what, Marshal?

Well, Doc told me what you said up there.

How you made some pretty serious threats.

Oh, no.

No, Marshal,

I told Doc that this Dean Beard would be punished.

Not by me.

I meant by God.

Well, I hope you remember that.

- Sam, bring Chester a beer. - Yes, ma'am.

Oh, no, no, I didn't, I didn't want no beer.

What's the matter with you? You sick?

No.

I'm just, uh, broke.

Oh!

First of the month, huh?

Well, I spent all of this month's pay

last month already.

Oh. Well, I'll tell you what.

You can have this one on the house.

But from there on in,

you've gotta start spending next month's pay.

I don't think I'll ever catch up, not in a million years.

I sure do thank you, though.

You're sure welcome.

- Whiskey. - Beard...

Beard!

What do you want, Hager?

I want my land back.

What are you talking about?

I worked eight years for that land.

Eight hard, miserable years.

I didn't force you to sell it.

All them papers you showed me...

They was lies, all lies.

You cheated me half what my land's worth.

You're nothing... but a thief.

You're drunk.

Why don't you go find some pig sty and sleep it off?

I'm gonna kill you.

I'm gonna kill you now.

I seen the whole thing, Mr. Dillon.

Hager here drawed first.

He said that that fella cheated him out of his money.

The man was drunk, and he was lying.

Take care of him, will you, Chester?

Yes, sir.

I want to see you outside.

So Jed Hager called you out for cheating him, huh?

He was drunk, Marshal, and he was lying.

You've been out of Dodge for quite a while.

Where you been?

Been riding around the country looking for some land to buy.

You don't look like a rancher to me.

I made my money in San Francisco, Marshal,

but I'm investing it here.

Let me tell you something.

If you're gonna live around this town,

you better start changing your ways.

Hager drew on me, Marshal.

I'm not just talking about Hager.

Couple of months ago,

a friend of mine, Jessie Ott, and his wife

asked you for some help out there on the prairie

with a broken wagon.

You didn't give him any help.

So?

His wife lost her baby because of that.

Look, Marshal, is there a law says

I got to help every poor fool I find in trouble?

Jessie Ott's a good man. You stay away from him.

If anybody ever had reason to kill you, he does.

Oh, I thought you was supposed to be against killing?

That's why I'm warning you.

Keep away from him.

Howdy, Jack.

Give me a beer.

Sure was a nice funeral

they gave Jed, wasn't it, this morning?

What do you think is nice about funerals, Chester?

Well, I didn't mean the funeral itself was nice.

I meant that it was kind of nice

the way the people felt so kindly towards him.

Why'd a fellow like Jed have to draw

on a killer like that with a...?

Why'd he have to draw his gun on him?

Well, I think you'd have drawn yourself

if he'd have cheated you out of your land

the way he cheated Jed.

Ain't you gonna take your coat off?

I don't need my coat off to beat you.

Well, that didn't leave me too much, did you?

I didn't intend to.

No.

You know, Jed was having a tough enough time out there,

he was, on that piece of land anyway.

Well, I can name 30 or 40 people around here

that are having a tough time, Chester.

Take that widow... What's her name?

That Jenkins woman with all those kids,

eight or nine of 'em.

And what about that little Pete Rankin out there?

Well, Pete's gonna make out all right.

If he'd just hang on.

Well, which way is...?

Oh, dog gone! I made both of 'em.

I knew you'd do that. I knew you'd do that.

Pop that up there where it belongs.

'Course I will admit that it ain't too easy

to hang on when you're half starving to death

the way he is.

Which one you shooting?

15 in the side pocket. Can't you tell?

Oh, yeah.

Hello.

Hello.

Uh, my name's Beard. Dean Beard.

Uh, you're, uh... you're Pete Rankin, ain't you?

How'd you know?

Well, uh, I heard about you in town.

What'd you hear?

Well, I got something to tell you, Rankin.

Something to show you.

Can we go inside?

Well... sure, I guess so.

Well, sit down, Rankin.

Take a look at this.

Look at it, read it.

Well?

I can't read this.

I never seed words like that before,

except United States government and stuff like that.

Well, I have.

I make it my business to understand government papers.

Why are you showing this to me?

You're, uh... you're mentioned in there, Rankin.

Me?

Oh, not by name, but your land is described there.

Here, let me show you.

Now, let's see.

You've got, uh, how many acres is it?

500.

Oh, yes, of course. 500.

Now let's see here.

Why, here it is.

Now, there is the legal description of your 500 acres.

It is?

Yes, Rankin, I'm afraid it is.

You're in trouble, Rankin.

What for? I ain't done nothing.

No, 'course you ain't.

But the United States Government's gonna reclaim

a big area of land around here...

and yours is included.

Reclaim it? What for?

Well, they don't say.

They just say it's gonna be reclaimed.

They can't do that.

This here's my land.

Oh, they're gonna pay you something for it.

Now let's see here, uh...

"rated at one-third original value said land

as quoted in Article V, Section Ill, Sub-paragraph E..."

Never mind all that. What's it mean?

Well, your land's worth about $1.25 an acre.

They're gonna pay you one third.

That'll come to about... $175.

A hundred seventy-five dollars!

For my land?

That's right, Rankin.

But... but it's worth over $500!

That ain't fair!

That ain't gonna stop them.

And you know it.

I got a gun.

I'll shoot them, they come around here.

You're gonna take on the United States Calvary?

Don't be a fool, Rankin.

You're licked, and you know it.

What's a man like you gonna do

against the United States Government?

It ain't fair.

It just ain't fair...

Rankin, instead of $175,

I'll give you $250.

$250?

What for? You said yourself it was...

You can't fight the Government, but I can.

I've got the money.

And it'll cost money...

I gotta hire lawyers, go to Washington, everything.

For this little old piece of land?

Not hardly.

I aim to buy up the whole area.

Otherwise, it ain't worth it.

Now, how about it?

You want the $250, or don't you?

I've got it right here... in cash.

Well, I...

don't reckon I got much choice.

Pete, how could you do it?

Why'd you listen to him?

Well, he-he had all them

government papers and everything.

Papers you couldn't even read!

I'll bet he could read the bill of sale.

Oh, sure.

He made that out real simple.

Sure he did.

Pete, why don't you go and see Marshal Dillon?

I'm sure he'll help you somehow.

Nothing he can do.

That bill of sale is plumb legal.

Well, let the Marshal decide that.

You go ask him.

Look, you've been mighty good to me.

Both of you.

That's why I came by to pay you what I owe you.

But I'm finished out here.

I'm leaving.

I'm tired of fighting the land.

I'm tired of everything.

I got my stuff all packed and... I'm leaving.

We're sorry to see you go.

A man makes up his mind, I gotta respect it.

Good luck to you, Pete.

Thank you, Jessie.

- Good-bye. - Good-bye, ma'am.

Beard.

What do you want?

I'll tell you what I want.

I want you to stop mistreating folks around here.

I want you to stop cheating them.

What?

It's a bad thing you done to Pete Rankin.

You broke his spirit. He's quit.

I made him an offer and he took it.

And anyway, what business is it of yours?

And Hager...

the man you killed here the other night...

you cheated him, too.

Look, mister...

I don't take that kind of talk.

Now you get yourself a gun or keep your mouth shut.

Get me a gun?

No.

The Lord'll punish you... Sooner or later.

All I want from you now is that you leave here,

and you don't come back.

You?

You're telling me to leave?

Yeah.

I'm telling you.

And if I see you here tomorrow,

I'm gonna spread the word about Pete Rankin.

Everybody in this country'll know

exactly what you are.

I'll kill you, you start talking about me.

You get out of Dodge, Beard.

Don't you come back.

Barkeep, get me a drink.

Oh, what am I doing?

I forgot to lock the storeroom door.

You stay here, I'll be right back.

Leave it open.

What are you doing here, Beard?

Waiting for you.

I figured you'd remember to lock the door.

You get out of here right now.

Don't worry.

I'm going.

That's why I want the door left open.

Clara, you say that

Jessie had a talk with Beard this afternoon?

Yes, he told him to get out of Dodge,

or he'd tell everybody how he cheated Pete Rankin.

Oh, I-I just know it was Dean Beard.

Chester, why don't you take her on home?

Yes, sir.

Come on, ma'am.

Clara...

I promise you, if it was Dean Beard did this,

we'll get him.

Set 'em up again, barkeep.

Nothing's too good for my friends.

And it pays to be a friend of Dean Beard's.

You'll see.

I'm gonna own this town before long.

Oh, Marshal Dillon.

Uh, have a drink, Marshal.

How long you been in here?

A little while. Why?

Where were you earlier?

I was walking around in the street.

Have a drink, Marshal.

Always glad to buy the law a drink.

Anytime.

All right.

Here's to Jessie Ott.

He was a good man.

What do you mean, he was a good man?

He was a good man till he was murdered tonight.

What?

Where?

I thought maybe you could tell me.

Look, Marshal, are you accusing me

of killing that yellow-bellied...

Beard, you're rotten.

You're rotten clean through.

If I had my way, I'd take you outside

and I'd beat you half to death.

Now you're going to jail.

Murder's a serious charge, Marshal.

I can't condemn a man on hearsay evidence.

The evidence I've given you isn't exactly hearsay, Judge.

Well, there've been no witnesses to the murder.

The accused wasn't even seen

entering or leaving the storeroom.

Well, he wasn't seen anywhere else, either.

Not till shortly after the murder.

He said he was walking in the street.

You haven't proved he was lying, Marshal.

Judge, Jessie Ott didn't have

an enemy in this country that I know of.

He had nothing but friends.

Now, this man here was the only one

that had any reason to go after him.

And his reason was a criminal one.

He's taking the word of his wife, Judge.

Like I said before, she'd say anything.

When I want to listen to you, I'll say so.

Now you sit down and shut up.

Go ahead, Marshal.

Well, that's all I've got to say, Judge.

You've heard from Doc Adams here,

and Mrs. Ott... who didn't even want to show up today.

That's all there is.

Quiet in here.

Now, since Dean Beard chose to be tried by me

rather than by a jury,

it's been my duty to try him.

Now, you all know that I'm not one to shirk my duty,

but that doesn't make it any easier.

Especially in this case.

Jessie Ott's been quoted as saying here

that God will punish Dean Beard.

Well... God's going to have to.

I can't sentence a man to hang

on circumstantial evidence.

The law requires a witness.

Case dismissed.

Fellas, the drinks are on me.

Belly up to the bar.

Come on, Clara, I'll take you home.

What's the matter?

Dean Beard's buying!

You never turned down a drink before.

What's the matter with you?

I'll tell you what's the matter, Beard.

Everybody in this town knows what kind of a man you are.

You'd better watch yourself real close,

or you're gonna wind up in an alley some night,

shot full of holes.

You take my advice, and you get out of this town.

I ain't leaving here, Marshal.

I got all my money tied up here.

You stay around Dodge,

you're gonna get what's coming to you, mister.

One way or another.

I just don't understand that judge at all,

saying that he wasn't guilty.

I mean, there wasn't anybody in that courtroom, now,

that didn't think he is guilty.

That judge is the only one.

I've never seen people that were so...

that felt so strong about anybody before in my life

as they do about that Dean Beard.

And you're right about that.

I was over in Jonas's a while ago, and...

he was waiting on two fellas...

strangers, I never saw 'em before...

But this fella walked in,

those two fellas turned right on their heels and walked out.

Ignored him completely.

Well, I'll tell you something.

The worst thing that could happen to Dean Beard

wouldn't be bad enough.

I agree with that.

You know, either this food in here's getting better,

or I'm just hungrier than usual.

Well, if you're unusually hungry, that's because

you put so much in your stomach you got it stretched

and you can't satisfy it anymore.

What do you mean, stretch it?

Well, you're... eating too much.

You're getting fat.

I've been meaning to talk to you about it.

- He's getting fat. - Fat?

You are.

What's the matter with you, Doc?

Can't you stand to see anybody that's in good health?

Does it bother you?

Do you kind of get the shakes

if you see somebody that's healthy?

Well, just because you're fat

doesn't mean you're healthy, you know.

That's a... that's a fallacy.

That's a what?

A fallacy.

That's a fallacy?

But you... you didn't...

Well?

Dried apple pie and a cup of coffee.

Fool, you silly fool.

Howdy, fellas.

Jack, bet you don't make it.

What's the matter with you men?

You got something to say, say it.

Y'all gone dumb?

Look at me. Look at me!

Come on, boy, come on...

Why don't you sit down?

How's everything going, Kitty?

Mm, fair to middling.

How about a drink?

No, I don't think so. Not right now.

How's everything going with you?

Fairly. Hup, no, no, no.

Barkeep, give me a drink...

give me a bottle and a glass.

Barkeep, drinks for the house.

Go on, I'm buying.

Come on! I'm buying!

Step up, everybody.

I'm buying!

Well, can't you hear me? I said I'm buying!

Step up, what's the matter with you?

What are you standing there for?!

Get busy and pour them drinks!

I'll smash your head in!

A couple of you men take him on out of here, will you?

All right, don't say hello, but you're gonna listen.

Oh, you're gonna listen, all right.

Take a look at them.

Those are deeds, legal deeds, signed, sealed and recorded.

The land represented by those deeds

is worth at least $5,000, maybe six!

I'm leaving town, I'm getting out of here,

and I'll let you have that land, all of it, for $4,000.

Wait a minute now; wait a minute.

If you give me cash right now, I'll let you have it for $3,000.

What kind of a banker are you?

You want to go broke?

Well, I hope you do!

Look, make it $2,000, and we'll forget about it?

But don't you see? You can use this land.

A man can't ever have too much land!

And all I'm asking is a thousand dollars.

A thousand dollars for land worth five, six times that much!

All you have to do is look at these deeds!

You can see for yourself!

It'll just cost you a thousand dollars, and you can afford it!

You'll make a fortune on it!

A-a thousand dollars... that's all.

A thousand dollars for land worth five, 6,000.

800 then?

Seven-fifty.

Listen, everybody... I'm leaving town.

I'm gonna get out, but I got to have a stake.

All this land I got here, you can have it for $500.

500, that's all.

You can all, all buy it together!

You can own it together!

You've fixed it so nobody will buy my land.

Nobody.

Well, a curse on you.

A curse on your town!

You can all rot!

Moss... here are the deeds.

Give me a hundred dollars for 'em.

Well, give me whatever you want!

Keep 'em! Choke on 'em!

Hah! Hah!

Hah!

By golly, it looks like

he finally took your advice, Mr. Dillon.

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Busted my leg!

I can't, I can't lay here.

Here, boy. Here, boy.

Here, boy. Come here!

You rotten crow bait!

That horse is saddled, Harry!

We better take a look.

What's the matter?!

What's the matter with you?!

I need help!

I didn't even recognize him at first.

No, me either.

He's went and busted his leg.

He's got himself in a real fix now, hasn't he?

Yeah.

What are we gonna do, Harry?

Nothing.

You just can't leave a man laying out here like this.

He left Jessie Ott and his wife, didn't he?

Yeah, I know, but...

He murdered Jessie, didn't he?

Yeah.

He same as murdered Jed Hager.

He ruined Pete Rankin.

Now why can't we leave him?

He may be mad, and a murderer and all that, but we ain't.

We be leaving that man, we'll be killing him!

You'd kill a mad dog, wouldn't you?

It's not the same thing.

Harry, we can't let Dean Beard drag us down to his kind!

Come on, we got to put a splint on that leg!

Get him on his horse and head him towards Dodge.

Dodge... it's that way, ain't it?

No, it couldn't be!

Well, you could've said good-bye!

Just one word!

Just one word!

Rotten scum!

Lying to me about the way to Dodge!

Well, you ain't gonna fool Dean Beard!

I ain't gonna follow your directions!

This ain't the way to Dodge!

It ain't it!

I'd have been there by now!