Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

♪♪

- Well, good morning, Miss Kitty. - Morning, Chester.

Well, say, you got all dressed up for the occasion.

- Uh-huh. - Pretty.

- Thank you. Morning, Matt. - Kitty.

Well, it looks like I got here just in time.

Yeah, looks like it.

- You all set to go? - Yeah, just about here.

How long do you figure it's gonna take you

- to get to Cousin Thurlow's? - Oh, I'd say maybe, uh...

three or four days, if I don't have any... trouble.

- Here, here. - Oh. Thanks a lot, Doc.

Well, that's... just about it, I guess.

- Here you are, Chester. - Oh, oh, thanks a lot...

there, Mr. Dillon.

Big help.

Well, I guess... oh, doggone.

Excuse me a minute.

Was just about to forget the most important thing here.

Well, for heaven's sakes,

you're not gonna try to put that on there,

with everything else you got, are you?

Well, yeah. You can't hardly go fishing

without a fishing pole, Doc, and that's just about all

me and Cousin Thurlow's gonna be doing, is fishing.

Chester, if you was a fisherman, you'd know you could

cut yourself a pole when you get there.

Well, I know I could cut myself a pole, Doc,

I know that, it's just...

Well, I guess maybe...

Mr. Dillon, I think maybe I might get it broke

if I tried to put it on there.

Would you like to use it while I'm gone?

I mean, you're perfectly welcome to it.

All right, fine, Chester. Thank you.

Uh... Miss Kitty.

Well, you just have a wonderful time, Chester.

Well, thank you.

Take care of yourself, Chester,

and we'll see you in a couple of weeks.

Well... good.

It was awful nice of you

to come by and say good-bye to me.

Well, I just wanted to make sure you were leaving.

Yeah, well, I... I'll miss you, too.

Excuse me.

Well, I... Golly, I'm not...

not too good at, uh...

fare-thee-wells, but...

well, I'll be seeing you.

Bye, Chester.

♪♪

Have a good time, Chester!

- Take care of things, Obie. - Okay.

Well, I don't know about you two,

but I'm sure looking forward to a couple of weeks

of peace and quiet and orderly living.

Well, I am.

♪♪

Will this, uh, Thor beef be all right?

- That's fine. - Oh.

Now, will there be anything else?

Guess I'd better have a twist of tobacco, too.

I sure don't understand how you do this.

- Do what, ma'am? - Well, chew this tobacco.

I can't even stand the smell, let alone the taste.

I was you, I wouldn't take up chewing, then.

Oh. Don't you worry, I won't.

You don't... you don't swallow that,

- do you? - Not unless you want to choke.

You just work it.

Let is set, and move it, and spit.

- That's all there is to it. - Sort of sorry I asked.

What'd you ask, Callie?

Nothing, Pa, just nothing.

You make my daughter laugh like that at nothing, mister?

I was telling her about spitting.

You got your needs?

That's about the size of it.

How much is that, Callie?

87 cents.

I'm sorry, ma'am.

No, you didn't do nothin'.

I was waiting on him, Pa, that's all.

Laughing. Eyeing him.

I ain't blind, Callie.

You see a lot more than there is.

I didn't say nothin', and I didn't do nothin' wrong.

If I have to watch you with every man that comes in here,

I'll see that you don't see any.

- And if I don't see a man... - Now, you mind your tongue.

You mind your ways, too.

Eh, come along, you.

He run away again, Simeon?

Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Third time now.

He and I, we got a little game we play.

He steals off, and I go get him.

He ain't never gonna win;

- he's too dumb to know it. - Well, I reckon he gives you

more trouble than the rest of the Kiowas put together.

Not Kiowa!

Oh, you see, that's-that's his excuse there, Adam.

He ain't a Kiowa, he's Cheyenne.

A Injun's a Injun, ain't he?

Oh, that's where I and you are wrong, Adam,

according to the savage here.

He don't like prairie, and he don't like the Kiowas.

Me Cheyenne!

Well, you ain't never gonna make it home,

so you might just as well stop trying.

Well, that's an awful thing to say.

Callie!

Well, why can't he be with his own people?

Well, because he was put on my agency, Miss Callie.

We got, uh... other Cheyenne, a handful.

They don't much like it, but, uh,

this 'n here, he's the wildest of the lot. Heh.

Mm. Well, sometimes wanting to be free makes you wild.

Callie.

Don't pay her no mind.

Well, heh, I ain't worried none.

He ain't gonna walk to the high plains.

And no one's gonna give him a horse to ride there, either.

And will you make sure your boy delivers

these supplies out to the agency 'fore sundown?

Sure thing. I'll send Frank out.

Right.

Uh...

Come along, savage.

Callie, you got no shame in you at all!

I don't want to hear another sound out of you today.

Not a sound!

And when I get you home, you're gonna get a good talking to!

And what's more, you're not to go back to the store, Callie.

You're to stay right here at home.

Well, all the time, Pa?

You do what's right in the home, it'll fill your days.

Oh, Pa, the only chance I ever get

to meet anyone is at the store; no one ever comes here.

Well, I'm here part-time.

Me and Pa come home every evening.

A body gets lonely, Pa, not seeing anyone, not talking.

Well, there ain't no living to it.

I don't know where you get your traits.

You come from a decent, God-fearing New England family,

and yet you run after the first thing that comes along in pants.

Why, your ma would never have done that.

My ma got married.

I'm already four years older

than Ma was when you married her.

I'll bring a man for you to marry when the time comes.

I'll see that he's right, and I'll say so.

Pa, I haven't done a single thing.

I ain't done no sins; I've been civil to folks, is all.

Talkin' up for an Injun?

That's mighty civil, Callie, mighty civil.

That'll be enough, Frank.

She must've give him ideas, Pa.

He broke loose of Simeon on the way back to the agency.

He's gone again?

He give Simeon an awful whup on the head.

He come to, that Injun was nowheres about.

You're to stay home till I tell you different.

And that's apt to be quite some time.

Get some water, Frank.

Oh, can't I wait, Pa?

Sure don't mind settin' here a while yet.

Oh, I reckon this is most my job now anyways.

You settin' down hard on Callie, Pa?

Hard as I know; long as need be.

You... you shouldn't be here.

They'll kill you.

Help.

You... me... friends.

My Pa, my brother inside.

Not safe here. You go.

Go.

You... home.

Me... home.

Help.

- Help. - No. Not tonight.

Tomorrow, when they have gone,

I will help you.

Help?

Help?

Help.

T-Tomorrow.

Tomorrow with the sun,

with the sun, I will help you.

When they have gone.

You-you stay.

You stay here behind the shed.

Callie!

Don't take all night to draw that water!

I'm coming, Pa!

♪ Run, rabbit, run, you better get away ♪

♪ Oh, the rabbit run and the rabbit flew ♪

♪ And the rabbit tore his tail in two ♪

♪ Run, rabbit, run, the dogs will get you ♪

♪ Run, rabbit, run, you better... ♪

Whoa!

By golly, ain't that just about the purtiest sight

a man could want?

Well, we're on our way now, old partner.

♪ Run, rabbit, run, the dogs'll get you ♪

♪ Run, rabbit, run, you better get away ♪

♪ Oh, the rabbit run and the rabbit flew ♪

♪ And the rabbit tore his tail in two ♪

♪ Run, rabbit, run, the dogs will get you ♪

♪ Run, rabbit, run, you better get away ♪

You mind your chores.

We'll be back before nightfall.

♪♪

Meat, food.

Bullets.

Water... Water, rifle.

Blanket.

Are you there?

Hello, it's me.

Are you there?

It's all right, they've gone.

They've gone.

Hello, hello?

It's all right.

W... hello.

It's all right, they've gone.

Where are you?

Where are you?

Howdy, ma'am.

Whew! Kind of good to get down off that saddle for a while.

I was wondering maybe if you'd oblige me

by letting me water my horse and buying

- some grain off of you. - No.

Well, I won't hold you up long.

I just, uh... I'll pay for the grain.

- I... - Well, I'm busy right now.

Now, you just ride along; I can't take the time.

Well, I didn't mean to take up much of your time. I...

Sorry that I bothered you.

Is that an Indian?

No!

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Oh, look what you've done!

You know him?

I don't know who you think you are

riding in here like this, taking over.

He trusted me, and now look at him!

Well, I-I'm sorry, but he was an Indian,

you know, stealing a horse. I...

If Pa and Frank heard that shot,

oh, they'll be riding back here; like as not they'll kill him!

Well, why would your pa want to kill him

if he's a friend of yours? I don't understand.

Well, you understand this.

You take him away from here, and you tend to him.

Well, I certainly will not.

I mean, I'll do what I can for him here, but...

You shot him!

Well, I-I know that, but like I told you,

I thought he was trying to steal your horse.

There ain't no time for what you thought!

Oh, listen, I promised him help.

I was the only one he could turn to.

Now, you did this; you help him now.

Well... golly, I was... I was planning

on being to Cousin Thurlow's by morning.

Listen, I care about him, do you understand that?

I care very much, and you shot him.

Now, you help him now!

Yeah. Well...

Well, all right.

It's all right.

♪♪

That shoulder of yours is a fright.

I'm just as sorry as I can be about it.

You understand me at all?

Yeah, well, I was afraid of that.

We're in kind of a fix,

'cause I can't understand you, neither.

What I need here is Mr. Dillon to talk to you

and Doc to take the bullet out.

I'm kind of obliged to tell you

even if you can't understand me

that I only took a bullet out of two men before,

and one of them died.

But I got an obligation, and I aim to meet it.

Now, now... I'm a friend.

I'm a friend. A friend.

Now, I'm gonna have to get that bullet out of you,

so you just better make up your mind to it.

Callie... we got a horse gone

and you never heard nothin', you never saw nothin'?

Pa, I told you I could have been in the potato cellar,

or gathering wood or most anyplace.

And, uh, that dark patch on the ground in yonder,

you don't know nothin' about that, neither, huh?

No, sir, I don't.

Callie... that Injun is loose again, sure enough.

Now, it's an odd thing that our horse is gone

at just that same time.

That's blood!

Is he hurt?

Well, it ain't his blood; he's fit enough.

But it seems whoever rode him out of here

might be hurt.

♪♪

By golly...

you wouldn't think you was such a mean thing

just to look at you like that.

I'd rather pull my own teeth.

No wonder Doc's so doggone cantankerous all the time,

having to take bullets out of people like he does.

Well...

Doggone.

No, no, wait, wait, no.

Now, friend, friend.

Chester. I'm a friend.

Now, just, here.

Here. See?

See that? It's a bullet.

I took it out. I got it out.

See? Here.

You keep that. That-that's yours.

You remember me by that.

Now, just...

just enough now to take the parch off your tongue.

Oh... by golly, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I can't talk to you.

Even if you do get out of this alive,

you ain't got no horse out here...

I'll give you something to eat... Maybe that'll help you.

This here is some stew meat.

Figure maybe that I could have the meat

and you could drink the juice.

Well, I don't know what you're talking about,

but you could be right.

Here.

Now, just take a little bit of this.

It'll help keep your strength up.

Well, if you're asking me what it is, I said it's stew juice.

Now, go on, drink it.

Well, just try a little bit of it.

It'll keep your strength up. It's good.

For Heaven's sakes.

Well, if you don't like it,

well, that's just the best that I can do for you.

Tell you something, you better be feeling better

in the morning.

Sure hopes you are, 'cause when daylight gets here,

I'm gonna be riding out of here.

Well, you could be right about that meat.

I need something.

By golly, I'm glad you got here.

- Yes. How is he? - Well, he's still alive.

Oh.

I, uh, I got the bullet out of him,

and done whatever I could for him.

Yeah, he's very fevered.

Yeah.

Well, uh...

Well, now that... now that you're here,

I... I think I'll just be moving on.

- Oh, no, you can't go yet. - Why not?

Because I need you to stay here. He needs you to stay.

- Please don't go. - Well, I really don't have too much time.

Thank you. Thank you.

May I have some coffee?

Yeah. Yeah.

I guess I haven't said... I'm Callie Dill.

Oh. My name's Chester Goode.

How do you do?

Well, Miss Callie, what would your menfolks do

if they found you out here?

Well, I don't know what they'd do to me,

but they... they'd kill him.

I couldn't bear that.

Here you are.

Thank you.

Well, I'll tell you,

I think I am gonna have to be moving on here

pretty quick, though I sort of spoiled my plans for me.

Didn't you spoil his?

Chester, we can't let him die now, either of us.

Well...

Morning, Kitty.

Well, you're early this morning.

What do you mean, early?

Well, you're earlier than you were yesterday,

which was earlier than the day before.

Oh. Well, just thought we might have

a little breakfast together.

Well, we might, except I'm already spoken for.

- Oh, you are, huh? - Mm-hmm.

Well, morning.

Good morning, Doc.

- Kitty. - Hello, Doc.

How are you? See you're all ready.

Just about. I'll just get my hat on.

Well, I suppose you're gonna horn in, huh?

Thought I might if the lady doesn't mind.

Well, we'll settle that right now. Kitty?

- Yeah? - If you'd rather have breakfast

with just me alone, now, don't hesitate to tell him so.

I'm not the least bit flattered, you know.

You're not? Well, for heaven's sakes,

two men fighting over you? You ought to be.

She's pretty particular, Doc.

All this newfound popularity of mine for breakfast...

is all on account of Chester being out of town.

Well, now, that's just about the silliest thing I ever heard.

Well, I'd say so. You're prettier than Chester is.

Well, thank you.

I may eat two breakfasts this morning.

Morning, Marshal, Miss Kitty, Doc.

- Good morning, Obie. - When will he be back?

- Who? - Chester.

- Oh, a couple of weeks. - Bet you miss him, huh?

Sure do.

Don't seem right with Chester gone, does it?

- What'd you say? - I said don't seem right

- with Chester gone, does it? - Well, what'd she say?

She said it doesn't seem right with Chester gone.

Well, it seems just... It seems just fine to me!

- Good morning, folks. - Morning. -Morning.

- How about right over here? - Fine.

You want the same old seven and six?

- How about you, Kitty? - Oh, sure, that's fine.

All right, me, too, I guess.

Okay. Doc, how about you?

No, no, no, hold on here, now.

I'm gonna have me a big old channel catfish

and, uh, and some biscuits, preserves and...

some fried potatoes and coffee.

And, uh... just might finish off a little brandy.

He ain't fevered, is he?

Well, you'd better ask him... He's the doctor.

Well, now, you heard what order; just-just bring it in here.

Well, Doc...

you know that the last time we pulled a channel catfish

out of the big river was months ago.

You ought to remember that good...

The last person to catch a channel cat was Chester.

Well, why don't everybody shut up about Chester?

- Bring him the same thing we're having. - All right.

You didn't have to bark at him.

Well, he barked at me.

No, he didn't.

And even if he had, I wouldn't blame him.

You've been grumpy with everybody

the last couple of days.

Yeah, he sure has, hasn't he?

I think I know why.

He misses Chester.

We all do.

You know, you're right, Kitty.

When Chester's around, he does his barking at him,

and he's a little more pleasant to us.

Well, anyway, I'd sure trade places with Chester right now.

- You know what he's doing? - What?

He's setting under a great big beautiful shade tree

by a cool stream,

having a great big old channel catfish for breakfast.

Kind of meat you eat it, it gets bigger.

The gravy'll bend your fork.

You... help?

Yes.

He talk American?

Just a few words.

He never said any of 'em to me before.

Well, he might not consider you a friend.

You know, there are just a few things

I don't understand here.

I guess some main things I don't understand myself.

What in the world am I doing here?

I'm supposed to be to Cousin Thurlow's by this time.

He lives yonder on the Ninnescah.

You know, I guess it...

well, we've been planning this trip, I'd say,

for almost a year now.

How we was to...

how I was to get the time off,

and we was just gonna spend the time

just, uh, fishing and... setting around,

just doing whatever we felt like.

Mostly just jawing, I guess.

Shh.

Shh?

Listen.

It's my pa!

Oh, he mustn't find me here. He mustn't find him.

Well, I got the horses down by the stream.

He won't see them. But as far as finding him...

He'll kill him!

- Oh, Chester, help me. - Well...

golly, maybe if we got him behind the bushes,

you could stay hid back there.

- Come on, let's hurry. - Yes.

This way. This way.

Hurry.

- All right. - All right.

Keep him here and keep quiet.

- Hurry. - I'll try and get rid of your pa.

Morning, mister.

Oh, why, morning.

I seen your fire.

Oh, yeah, I guess you could see that quite a ways.

You seen a girl, mister?

A girl?

Yeah, my daughter stole away this morning.

Looking for her.

Well, I don't really... No, no, I, uh...

It's been awful lonely out here.

Ain't seen a soul.

You all alone, are you, mister?

Yeah, yeah, I'm just passing through, you might say.

I'm on my way to the Ninnescah.

How long you been camped here, mister?

Uh, yes... since yesterday.

I got here yesterday.

How about an Injun?

An Indian?

Yep. Seen one?

Well, heavens no.

If I'd seen an Indian, I don't think I'd be here.

Much obliged, mister.

Yeah, you're welcome.

Well, he's gone.

I know. I was watching.

Well, I tell you, that can be nerve-racking.

We'll, you did just fine, Chester.

Well, do you think that's gonna do us any good

if we all get ourselves killed?

I'm getting a little bit on edge.

Chester, his wound has to be cleaned,

and his fever must be broken.

That moving him like that certainly didn't help any.

You're gonna have to go to a settlement, Chester.

Now, just a minute.

I'm known there, Chester; I can't go.

Now, listen, we need some niter and some chloroform

and some powder for his wound,

some more of these cloths and a tonic, I guess.

Well now, listen, Callie, I would sure...

Chester, Chester, I care, I care very much.

I know that. I know that you care.

I can see that, but it's just that I...

I just...

I just wish I'd come another way.

Can I help you, mister?

Oh, yeah, I wanted to get a few things.

Well, we got a few things.

Well, I wanted some niter

and some chloroform and some powder.

Gun powder?

No, it's the, uh, you know,

the healing kind of powder.

Niter, chloroform, and healing powder.

- Yeah. - I'll fix you right up.

Uh, you might give me, uh... Well.

Hello there.

Hi.

- Frank? - Yeah, Pa?

You seen Callie?

Not since breakfast.

I've been hunting her all over and can't find her.

I'm looking for that powder we keep.

Can't seem to put my fingers on it.

What kind of powder is that?

It's for healing, drying up wounds, healing.

It's, uh, right over here, Frank.

You got a wound needs healing, mister?

No, no, nothing like that.

Know somebody who has?

No, no, I was, uh, I was just getting this stuff

to take up to my cousin Turlow's.

Remember, I told you today

that I was going up to the Ninnescah?

I mind you told me.

- Yeah. - What else now?

Uh, that's-that's just about it I think.

We stock all kinds of goods for long trips, mister.

Yeah, I see that you do that.

Ninnescah's, uh, quite a ways from here.

Yeah, well, that's the reason why I better get started.

Going the wrong way, mister.

Ninnescah is that way.

Oh, by golly, you're right.

You go that other way,

take you right back to where I come on you this morning.

Uh..

A body can sure get turned around easy out here.

Where's Miss Callie?

Callie?

Callie?

Callie, where are you?

I got your stuff.

Callie?

Where is she?

Look, what have you done with her?

I know she wouldn't have left you here alone.

Now, what have you done with her?

Now listen, you can talk words better than that.

I know that they wouldn't have come here after her

'cause they'd have killed you. No, what have you done with her?

Huh?

Well, this is from Callie.

"Dear Chester,

"Few drops of niter in water every hour

"should help his temperature.

Clean the wound with..."

"Soon as he's better,

"there's a shack on east about two miles.

"I'll come if I can.

Callie."

I just don't know if I've got the strength

for any more of this.

♪♪

Well, I got your stuff here.

Uh, nitre.

Nitre, nitre.

And the chloroform.

Chloroform.

And the healing powders. See?

For you shoulder.

Now you seen me do it, you see?

Now you can do it yourself, after I'm gone, all right?

And, uh, oh... got a little jerky for you.

Eh? Meat.

Meat. Meat.

Meat, yeah. That's right.

Now everything's all set. I'll, I'll see ya.

Koda.

Koda? Huh?

- Koda. - Koda?

Friend.

Friend? Koda? Koda.

Friend.

Friend. Yeah.

Well, I'll be doggone.

Maybe, we just kinda got off on the wrong foot

a little bit there.

Oh, here.

Some water.

You see, now, after I've gone, why, there's a stream

that's just out yonder.

Stream, uh, water.

Many... water.

Water.

Many.

- Many. - Many, many...

- Water, water, yeah. - Water.

Many...

Well... by golly.

Good luck to you.

Miss Callie.

By golly, I thought you'd never get here.

How is he?

Well, he seems to be doing much better.

Oh, you are better. Much better.

I'm so glad.

What, uh, what you got in the basket?

- I brought him some food. - Oh.

There's some in there for you, too, Chester.

Oh, well, no, no, I... I was figuring on riding out,

now that he's feeling better and you're here and all.

I-I wasn't, uh...

Golly, that, that, kind of smells good.

There's some plates inside.

Well, uh, maybe I will just have a little bite

before I go, you know?

My belly's kindly chafing up against my backbone.

Oh, Chester, isn't it wonderful?

Oh, yeah, it sure smells good.

No, I mean, he's gonna be all right, isn't he?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Oh, I wish I could make him understand how I feel.

I think you're making a pretty good stab at it.

Koda...

Oh, I'd love to know what that means.

That "Koda" means "friend," I think.

You know, if that'd help you out any.

Oh, I wonder if we'll ever get to understand each other.

Really understand.

I think, I think maybe you just feel sorry for him, don't you?

I mean, seeing as how I shot him and all.

No, no, I thought that yesterday when I come looking for him...

that all I wanted was just to make sure, satisfy myself

that he was gonna be alive and be free.

And then I found him, and it just grew and grew.

And now I know.

I know I want him, Chester.

I want to stay with him.

Here, let me give you a hand.

Callie, of course, this ain't none of my business,

but your menfolks...

Oh, listen, by the way, thanks a whole lot for sending me

to your daddy's store yesterday.

Now, listen, Chester, I couldn't help that.

That was the only place I knew where I could get

this stuff we needed for him.

Well, I'll tell you one thing, me and your daddy

and that brother of yours... I guess it was your brother...

We just about had at it, I can tell you that.

Yeah, they did talk about you last night at supper.

Oh, that's nice. Real nice.

- Listen, Callie... - Just sleep now. He'll sleep.

- But... - Let's go outside and let him sleep.

Oh, I feel so much better. I'm so relieved.

Yeah, yeah, he's doing a lot better.

He should be moving on before, before long.

You're kind of sweet on him, ain't you, Miss Callie?

It's a lot bigger than that, Chester.

Well, you want to be with him always and go his way and...?

I want it all, Chester.

Well, you-you don't know him, though.

I mean, there's really no way that you can know him.

Just how I feel.

Well, you can't hardly talk to him good.

I don't know how you can know how he feels.

No, but like you say, he makes a good stab at trying.

Well, I sure don't mean to hurt you none,

but it just seems to me like...

I'll bet you never hurt anybody in your life, Chester.

Well, no, that's not true. I have.

But the point is it seems to me like that...

Well, it just doesn't seem like any kind of life for you,

a white girl and an Indian.

I mean, you're used to a lot of things...

I'm used to nothing, Chester.

I've never had a chance to know a man.

But you will.

No, I won't. Not if my pa has his way.

He won't, he won't let me see one, meet one or anything.

Oh, Chester, he touched my hand and he touched my cheek.

When I look into his eyes...

we don't need words, Chester.

Wait, Callie.

Now just a minute.

No, please, don't go! Please?

Yes... go.

Then take me with you.

No can.

Please take me with you?

You stay.

No, please, I want to go with you.

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Sorry, Chester.

Sorry?

Yes. I should have believed you.

Oh, well, Callie, I really don't think it would have worked.

No, I, I guess he was the only one that knew that.

Well, could I see you home, maybe?

No, I think that I'll stay on here a spell

before I start back.

A little thinking out I want to do.

What about you?

Well, there's a stage road not too far off.

I'll, I'll be all right.

Well, sorry about your horse.

You can use mine.

Oh, no, no, no, that's all right.

I'll be all right. I...

Well, you just be sure and-and take care of yourself.

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