Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

♪♪

Ah, good morning, Miss Kitty.

Good morning, Sam.

Oh, Kitty. Just a minute, I want...

Kitty?

♪ Oh, the red that's running, red that's... ♪

Oh, Miss Kitty.

Morning, Miss Kitty.

Your horse is saddled like you wanted him.

If you wait just a minute, I'll get him for you.

Pesky wagon tongues.

I'd just as soon work on my own tongue as one of these.

Why, Miss Kitty...

I'd've helped you.

Where you ridin' to, anyway?

Straight up!

♪♪

Well, I see the troops are assembled.

Kitty, well, you're all right after all.

After all what?

Well, I don't know. Doc here said that...

Well, I told him that you passed me on the street this morning

just like I wasn't there at all.

- Then Chester, when I saw him... - Yeah.

You almost stepped on me there, you remember?

And heavens, that-that wasn't like you at all.

We thought maybe something was wrong.

And just when everything was so right.

Well, Kitty, let's, uh...

let's grab some breakfast.

I've had my breakfast.

Haven't I, Sam?

Well, you had an eye-opener, sure enough.

Every woman ought to have

her eyes wide open once in a while.

You just troop along without me.

I'm through being one of the boys.

Kitty?

What is it?

You give it a little quiet thought,

and it might come to you.

Everything was all right last night.

Was it?

Chester, let's...

let's go have some breakfast.

Why?

Because I'm hungry.

You want to talk about it?

No.

Now, Kitty, if it's about that, uh, Ford County Sociable,

I'm sorry about that, I just can't help it.

I gotta go to Topeka.

So you told me.

Well, you ought to be able to understand that.

Good old understanding Kitty.

You know, if you and I are going to have a fight,

seems to me we can find something better to fight about

than a sociable.

How would you know?

As far as I know, you've never been to one.

Now, Kitty, if you're that set on going to the dance,

Doc and Chester'll take you, you know that.

Doc and Chester.

I don't think you've got a grain of sense.

They'll be glad to take me,

but maybe I won't be glad to go.

Matt, don't you understand?

I don't want to go with Doc and Chester.

I want to go with you.

Now, Kitty, I wanted to go with you.

I was looking forward to this dance

until this thing about Topeka came up.

Something always comes up.

Oh, it's not as bad as all that.

You don't think so?

You take a look at this.

I had that made especially for the sociable.

And there's more.

This is the trip to Wichita that we didn't take.

And Lillie's wedding that you couldn't go to.

And Bessie Larcher's chivari.

Last year's Ford County Sociable.

Now, they may look like dresses to you,

but they're not.

They're disappointments.

I've got a whole closetful of rejections.

Now, Kitty, you listen to me.

There's nothing in the world I'd rather do

than take you to that dance.

There's nothing in the world I'd like better

than to always be able to do the things we plan.

But, Kitty, I got a job and I gotta do it.

I wish I could change, but I can't.

I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is.

I'll see you when I get back from Topeka.

Don't count on it.

Well, I sure don't mind telling you

that I'm awful disappointed in Miss Kitty.

Well, she's just not herself right now.

Well, who is she, then?

She's a mighty upset woman, that's what she is.

I don't blame her, but...

You got a big problem.

Well, I don't see that it's no problem at all.

Heavens, Doc and me'll see her to the sociable.

It's not the sociable that's bothering her, Chester.

'Course it isn't.

Well, maybe you're right.

I've knowed dozens of times, Mr. Dillon,

when you've had to break off plans with Miss Kitty,

that's true.

But I-I sure never seen her take on this way afore.

It's just no good for a woman

to demand more of a man than he can give her.

It's got to build up in her, that's all.

Well...

I hate to disappoint her, but...

you know, this job of mine isn't the kind of thing

you can just set aside whenever you want to, you know.

No.

Well... Kitty understands that.

She's been able to shrug it off.

Every time up until now.

But you see...

a thing like this just grows all out of proportion.

Now, Kitty's a level-headed woman.

You know that.

The point is, she's a woman.

I hate to leave town with her feeling this way,

but I just don't know what else to do.

Well, Mr. Dillon, you just don't need to worry about it.

Doc and me'll take care of her.

I mean, I-I don't feel so bad about her

that-that I'm not willing to turn the other cheek.

- Morning, Slim. - Morning, Marshal.

Say, if he's planning on going, he's gotta have a ticket.

No, he'll be staying here.

You ain't seen Miss Kitty this morning, have you, Slim?

No, I haven't, Chester.

Not a sign of her.

Well, I doubt that she's planning to show up, Chester.

Well, she's probably so ashamed of herself,

the way she acted yesterday, she just don't want to face us.

We're ready to go, Marshal.

All right.

Marshal, have a nice trip.

Thank you, Slim.

Well, take care of things here, Chester.

Don't worry about a thing, Mr. Dillon.

Everything's gonna be all right.

Hyah!

I want you to look after things for a while, Sam.

You leaving town, Miss Kitty?

I'm going out to Annie and Bent Dillards' for a few days.

Well, a change of scene helps sometimes.

This one better.

If anybody wants to buy a saloon,

tell them to wait until I come back.

Oh, uh, Miss Kitty?

Uh, did you forget to come by

and say a farewell to Mr. Dillon this mornin'?

I'm in a hurry, Chester.

Well, me and Doc'll see that you

get to the sociable.

I don't expect to be back for the sociable.

Where you goin'?

I told you, I'm in a hurry.

♪♪

What happened to you anyway?

My head.

Did you get shot?

I fell in the stream.

I hit my head on a rock.

I thought I was gonna drown.

You mean you-you crawled up here?

No.

I walked, but I...

I got so dizzy, I guess I fell here.

Did you break anything?

Just my head.

You think you can lift me up?

Oh, I... I'll try,

but I'm not so sure you ought to.

If I can just find my horse,

I think I can sit it.

Oh, no.

- Take it ea... - No, wait.

Just-just a minute now.

You know, I...

I think I better go for some help.

No, no.

Don't you leave me now.

I'm gonna make it this time.

All right, just easy.

Easy, easy.

Just take a step or two when-when you're able.

I'm not gonna forget you.

Well, we'll worry about that later.

You want to try your legs?

I just...

I just kind of float in... and out again.

I really am going for some help.

I can't manage you alone.

My friends aren't far.

Oh, I'll be right here.

♪♪

♪♪

I got our room readied, Bent.

This is awful good of you, Annie.

Hush.

He wakes up for a while

and then he just passes out again.

Well, it comes from that head of his.

Sure got himself an awful wallop.

I'd say he did. I better clean him up a little bit.

He's gonna know some pain with that.

I better go back and get Doc.

Oh, Kitty, I'd do it for you,

but Annie and me, we planned to leave by midday.

Bent's mother's poorly.

We wrote we'd be there by evening.

Oh, Bent, I'm sorry,

coming here, bringing trouble.

Oh, that's not your fault.

Now, Kitty, you know you're welcome here any time.

Look, I'll go back to Dodge and get Doc

and get back out here just as fast as I can.

- We'll look after him. - All right.

Kitty didn't say his name, did she?

Why, no, she didn't.

You know this fella at all, Kitty?

All I know is he's hurt.

Wouldn't have come asking a favor of you if he wasn't.

Good heavens, I set bones for drunken trail hands

and cut bullets out of killers.

Certainly don't mind doing a favor for a friend.

Well, would you mind hurrying up?

I just hate leaving you here like this.

Never you mind about me.

Doc will have him fixed up and on his way in no time.

Well, I sure feel better now Doc's here with you.

I hope your mother's feeling better, Bent.

You mind yourself now, Kitty.

Well, Kitty, he's got a concussion.

It's not too serious.

He'll just have to be quiet for a day or two.

Well, I'll-I'll see that he is.

Now, I left some powders in there.

That'll take care of his headaches.

Now, you know,

I'd sure like to stay here with you, Kitty,

but by thunder, the whole Curtin family

is down with the diphtheria.

Whole family, and I've just got to spend

at least a day and a night with them.

You got a long way to go then.

Yeah, and I just don't like the idea

of leaving you here alone with him.

I might not be very good with some men, Doc,

but I ought to be able to handle a sick one.

Well, now just don't be so all-fired ready

to misunderstand me.

That man's a stranger to you.

You don't know a thing about him.

We'll be here a day or so.

I can learn something about him.

You better go on and take care of the Curtins.

Thank you for your help.

There may be worse things than a stubborn woman.

Like a nosy doctor?

Get up.

Well, hello.

The doc's right.

You don't know anything about me.

Well, I know one thing; your hearing's pretty good.

How do you feel?

Like I won't mind staying in bed for a day or two.

He called you Kitty?

Mm-hmm, Kitty Russell.

My name's Ad Bellem, Kitty,

and I'm mighty grateful to you.

You just do what Doc says.

You stand up to a man real well.

If I have to.

Lady saves my life,

I'm not gonna worry her.

I sure don't want another head wallop.

Doc says if you, um,

if you rest, the dizziness will go away.

Well, I wouldn't have planned it this way.

I meet a pretty woman,

and all I'm supposed to do is lie quiet-like.

Well, my plans aren't working out very well

these days either.

Right away, we got something in common.

You better get some sleep.

♪♪

♪♪

Hey.

That water can't be that good.

Mm.

You know, I was just thinking.

I sell an awful lot of whiskey,

but well water's about the best drink there is.

Mountain spring water's got to be.

But you got to climb so high.

Oh, you hear the wind up in the high pines,

whistling along there.

Smell all that evergreen,

the cool fresh air.

Makes you glad you got a nose.

You're a poet.

No, I'm just a man with a sore head.

I don't know whether it's too good for you to be out here.

Oh, the room was closing in.

I-I'll be all right for a while,

if you don't mind the company.

No, it'll be fine.

That was a... It was a good meal.

You're a pretty good cook, Kitty.

I'm a very good cook.

Well, you can't go on just one meal.

You partial to the prairie, Kitty?

Oh, I'm partial to the long twilights

and the way the evenings come on.

How about the mornings?

I try to sleep through them.

Mornings are my time.

Beginnings,

starting-off times.

Like you close the door on yesterday.

You start off on something fresh.

If I had my way,

I'd see a sunset a different place every day.

You like to be on the move, Ad?

I got to be on the move.

Soon as my head sits square on my neck again,

I'm gonna go chase me a new sunset.

What do you do?

I just told you.

I mean, what do you do for a living?

I live.

I think you really are a poet.

Do you live, Kitty?

Sometimes I call it that.

I run the Long Branch in Dodge.

And what's the Long Branch?

A saloon.

The evenings don't come on so quiet there,

and sunset's the time

when we try to boot out all the day drunks

to make room for the night drunks.

If that's the way you feel about it,

why do you do it?

I guess that's what I'm out here to ask myself.

Well, it seems to me like you and the Long Branch

have been together too long.

That's crossed my mind.

You married, Kitty?

No.

Belong to somebody?

No.

Now, when a woman answers that quick,

it means she's either very sure

or she's not sure at all.

I never met a man yet

that didn't know all there was about women.

Talking big, that's part of being a man, Kitty.

Can I help you?

No, no, I'm all right.

I think I'll, uh, maybe I'll leave the long twilight to you.

I don't make it out though.

A pretty woman, easy for a man to talk to, be with,

she's not married.

She knows that better than you do.

Night, Kitty.

Good night, Ad.

♪♪

Kitty?

What is it, Ad?

I just wanted to say good night.

Can I do something for you?

You could turn off that big moon.

I wouldn't think of it.

Like I said, you stand up to a man real well.

Good night, Ad.

Good night.

Well, looks like business was good.

Can't complain, Miss Kitty.

It seems like everyone's been practicing drinking.

Getting ready for the sociable, I think.

Anybody practice hard enough to want to buy the place?

No, but everyone sure noticed you weren't around.

- Hello, Sam. - Chester.

Miss Kitty.

Chester.

I, uh, heard that you was back.

I guess you heard right.

- Sam? - Yes, ma'am?

Did this whiskey come in, or is this just our order for it?

It got here yesterday.

Oh, good.

Kinda busy, huh?

A little.

Well, I just come by to, to remind you

that the sociable is tonight

and that Doc and me would sure admire taking you.

I don't think I'll feel like going.

Oh. Well, I thought maybe you'd changed your mind,

you know, after being out of town so long, and...

But then I guess a body either wants to go

or they don't want to go.

You ran off.

Well, you were asleep when I left,

and I just didn't want to wake you.

How do you feel?

I'm bound to be better now.

Good. Ad, this is Chester Goode.

Chester, this is Ad Bellum.

- Chester, how are ya? - How do you do?

I couldn't help notice all the big plans.

It's like the whole town's going to a party.

The whole county.

Well, if, uh, if you aren't spoken for,

I'd like to take you to that dance.

Well, I-I, uh, uh...

I guess maybe I'd better be going.

I got some things that I gotta be doing for Mr. Dillon.

Bye, Chester.

Who's Mr. Dillon?

He's the marshal here.

He's out of town.

You haven't answered me yet about the dance.

Well, to tell you the truth,

I hadn't really planned on going.

But I don't mind changing that.

Well, I've never seen a Dodge City sunset before,

but I think I'm gonna like it.

You gotta do something for me, though.

What's that?

You gotta go over to the Dodge House

and get yourself a room and rest until evening.

Now, I never was much of a one for taking motherly advice.

I don't know the first thing about being a mother.

♪♪

Didn't you come here to have a good time?

Why don't you cheer up?

You're sitting there acting like a wallflower.

Well, it's just awful to have to sit here and watch 'em.

What are you watching them for then?

Well... watching them mostly out of loyalty to Mr. Dillon.

Oh, pshaw.

Oh, don't "Oh, pshaw" me.

I just never seen Miss Kitty having such a good time before.

Well, what in thunder is wrong with Kitty having a good time?

Oh, you care, too. You can't fool me none.

You're just putting on a face.

Oh... Chester, for heaven's sake,

don't you want to dance or something?

Well, that'd look kind of silly.

- What? - Well, you and me dancing together.

You know, I think maybe I'm a little drunk, Kitty.

Well, I think maybe you ought to be.

The reason I know, I feel like dancing,

and I never feel like dancing.

Oh, what's the matter, Ad?

Oh, I think my head's already dancing.

Well, here, you better sit on back down.

Where is your head now?

I think it'll be back in a minute.

You all right, young fellow?

You just show up everywhere, don't you?

Oh, Doc, his head will be back. He said so.

When it gets back it better have some sense in it.

You better take it easy...

- Go away! - Ad, I mean it.

- Lay off the whiskey. - Kitty, make him go!

Oh, he's a friend of mine.

He's a friend of a friend of mine, I think.

- Hiya, Kitty! - Hi, Ranch!

Come on, Kitty, you need a dancing partner.

- Ranch. - Hi, Doc.

Now you just...

You...!

Don't come grabbing at her.

Oh, Ad!

It's just a little dance.

It's only in fun, mister.

Why, everyone's having a good time.

Well, I'm not.

Oh, Ad, he didn't mean anything.

He did to me!

Kitty, can we get some air?

Oh, sure.

I'm all right, Doc.

You sure, Ranch?

Yeah, I'd see to that big devil.

Any man that hits that hard

has got to have something wrong with him.

You just better go on over and be quiet now.

- Sit down there. - It's all I can do.

Doc, you think he's just drunk or what?

I don't know.

Well, he sure acted like he owned Miss Kitty,

- I'll tell you that. - He sure did.

All right, you folks, now go on. Let's have a good time, dance.

Start the music!

♪♪

I'm sorry, Kitty.

I'm sorry, too.

It was fun till then.

I don't know why I hit him.

I saw him whirling you away from me,

and my head just went on fire.

I think you better take your head back to the hotel

and give it a good cooling off.

Who is he, Kitty?

He's nobody to me.

He's just a rancher with a wife and four kids,

and he gets to celebrate one night a year.

And this was the night.

The minute I hit him, I knew it was wrong.

We'll just forget it.

Will we?

Good night, Kitty.

Good night, Ad.

Well, thanks. I think I will.

Well, what are you sitting here chuckling about?

Now, look, Doc, if you're gonna be funny,

well, I'd just soon you...

Oh, I'm funny all right.

- I'm so comical today - went someplace else.

That I've had to treat people for split sides all over Dodge.

I figured if I sat here long enough,

you'd come along and say something just about like that.

Well, why didn't you sit inside then?

'Cause it's more like keeping company with a tomb

is why.

Have you heard anything from Matt?

He's gonna be back tomorrow.

Well, you're treating it like it was bad news.

Well, what am I gonna do, Doc?

Well, why don't you just go meet the stage

kind of friendly-like?

No, now you know what I mean.

I mean, am I gonna tell him about Miss Kitty

and this Ad Bedlem, and how he...

- Bellem. - Bellem, and how he hit this feller

at the sociable and like he-he...

he's acting like that Miss Kitty's just his,

lock, stock and barrel, and straining things,

and end up being unfriendly, or not?

Or not?

Not what?

Or not tell him.

Well, I don't think I'd go through all of that again.

Not even out of loyalty?

Loyalty's got nothing to do with it.

Well, what has then?

Your health.

You go through a long spiel like that again,

your lungs will collapse.

♪♪

Chester?

Oh, Miss Kitty.

Come on over here.

There's room with us.

Uh, well, I...

Don't want to be no bother.

Don't be silly.

Sit down.

Ad hasn't had much of a chance to meet new friends.

Uh, well, no,

I guess he ain't.

You want to eat by yourself, Chester, we'll understand.

Well, I guess maybe you ought to have asked permission,

Miss Kitty.

Ad didn't mean that the way it sounded.

Well, like you say, he's your friend.

Now you're getting the idea, Chester.

You did that deliberately.

I wanted to have supper with you.

Well, I think you'd better have it alone.

Women don't turn heel and walk out on me.

This one just did.

Now just wait, Kitty.

Just don't do anything

but stand there quiet-like for a minute.

I want to go, Ad.

Now, Kitty, maybe I'm not myself.

My head, hurting it that way,

maybe it makes me act all wrong.

Maybe you ought to go rest someplace

until you can act right.

Well, forgive me

and be patient with me.

Well, say it's all right, Kitty.

I can't.

It isn't.

Here's your bag, Marshal.

Thank you.

Mr. Dillon.

- Hello, Chester. - Well, welcome back, Mr. Dillon.

By golly, you don't look none the worse for wear,

just as good as when you left.

How's, uh, how's everything?

How's the stage ride?

Well, a little like riding a sick cow.

Good morning to you, Chester.

Morning. Mr. Dillon, this here's Ad Bellem.

How do?

Dillon, huh?

You're the marshal.

Yeah, and we've kind of got a lot to talk about,

so if you want to go ahead,

well, we'd sure understand the whole thing.

That's the way, Chester.

Now, what was that all about?

Oh, don't pay him no mind, Mr. Dillon.

I can't make up my mind

whether she's serious about him or not nohow.

- Who? - Miss Kitty.

You know, what with them being together

all the time that he was recovering

from his hurt head,

and then him following her into town,

and all the trouble that went on afterwards.

Well, I just don't think I'll bother you with it.

Well, just wait a minute.

Maybe you better bother me with it.

Well, Mr. Dillon, I kindly hoped

that you'd see it like that.

Well, you see, after you left,

uh, Miss Kitty went out to see...

So I think all I need is just another sunset.

You never did show me one, you know?

I guess I haven't.

So long about afternoon,

we'll take a ride out on the prairie,

find the right spot, and watch the sunset.

Ad, I've got to work some time.

Then we'll stay through the long twilight

that you like so much,

then in the evening...

You're not listening to me.

Well, I thought you were listening to me.

I can't go with you late this afternoon.

Why?

I told you.

I've got to work.

I want you to be with me, Kitty.

I'd like to, but I can't.

Don't tell me you can't again.

- Just do it. - Ad!

Don't start pulling away from me.

What are you trying to do?

I'm trying to make you understand.

You found me,

you nursed me well, you smiled and were easy,

you-you teased me with your eyes and your kisses.

Now, don't shake your head at me.

What gets into women anyway?

Ad, will you please calm down?

Oh, no, no, no.

You bring this all out in me,

then you think you can just shut it off?

Well, it don't work that way.

No, if women would only stay with me for a while,

- just to see how nice I can be, - Come on.

- but they... -Come on.

Ad!

Ad!

Stop it!

Don't you try to get away from me, Kitty.

Or I'll kill you.

I'll come back for you later.

Sam.

Oh, Sam.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Oh.

Hello, Kitty.

Sam, what's the matter?

Sam, why don't you go get cleaned up in the backroom, huh?

I didn't know you were back.

Well, sure, I got back this morning.

What going on around here, Kitty? What's wrong?

Did you tell him yet, Kitty?

Ad, you better get ahold of yourself.

No, I think the marshal's got a right to know.

Kitty belongs to me now, and I'm ready to go.

She hasn't told me that yet.

Then tell him, Kitty. Tell him.

It's something he's just gonna have to face.

I took his girl.

Bellem, maybe you and I better sit down and have a little talk.

Come on, let's go.

Let go of me.

I'm gonna kill you both.

♪♪

I'm sorry, Kitty.

Ad was...

two men.

He-he could be so kind

and gentle.

And he could make a woman

feel like such a woman.

You just saw the other one.

I'll take care of things here, Kitty,

and then I'll be back later.

Maybe we can have supper tonight or something.

Matt?

I...

Matt, I...

I know, Kitty.

I'll see you later.

I'm sure glad he's back.

He's an awful good man to have around, Miss Kitty.

He's the best.

♪♪