Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Hey, cowboy.

Is this the best saloon in town?

Mister, just how long's it been since you had a drink?

Oh...

three months.

Well, then, I'd say just about any place that sold whiskey

ought to be the best.

You're right, boy.

You're right.

Yes, sir?

Whiskey, bartender. A whole bottle of it.

There you are.

And there you are.

Doggone it, Miss Tillie,

you're just about the finest woman I ever did meet.

Hmm.

That's very flattering, but you hardly know me.

Oh, I know enough about you, all right.

As a matter of fact, there's some things about you

that remind me of my mother.

Well, Ash Farior, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Why's that?

Mentioning your mother in a place like this.

Oh, gosh, it's good enough for you, ain't it?

Emmett Hall doesn't think so.

Who's he?

The man I'm going to marry.

I'm the man you're going to marry.

Him?

You're gonna marry a man like him?

Well, what's the matter with me?

Well, doggone it, mister, you just ain't no kind

of man at all for a fine woman like Tillie here.

Now, you just keep out of this,

or you're gonna get your nose broke.

Uh, gentlemen, if you'll excuse me.

No, no, where you going?

Wait a minute.

You mean this ain't that Emmett Hall fella?

Never saw him before in my life.

Why, you got a fine, uncivilized nerve

come busting in here like this.

For a little, runty fella,

you sure got an awful big mouth.

And with men like you,

I usually start by cutting them right off at the knees.

Ooh.

Now, if there's gonna be a lot of blood,

maybe it's better that we just shed it outside, hmm?

I'll be right back, honey.

No, he ain't, honey.

Come on.

So it's gonna be with knives, huh?

All right, if that's the way you want it.

Are you trying to say I'm scared to fight you without a knife?

Well, you're such a little bitty fella.

Well, doggone.

I'm sure gonna enjoy this.

Well, maybe so, mister.

But you're sure gonna have to work some for your pleasure.

Whoa, I don't mind.

Ow!

Why, you...

All right.

All right, break it up!

Come on, break it up!

That's enough, both of you.

Come on, on your feet.

Are you stopping the fight, Marshal?

I'm stopping it.

It's all right with me,

so long as he knows I ain't licked.

And I ain't licked, either.

Well, I'd call it a draw.

Now, suppose you two just shake hands on it.

My name is Ben Galt.

Ash Farior.

You're a game little fella,

Ash Farior.

I've whipped lots more bigger men than you.

You're a hard one, all right.

All right, the fight's over, boys.

Break it up.

- Oh. - Thank you, boy.

No, this...

I'd be proud to buy you a drink.

Doggone it, it's my pleasure.

Let's find a water trough first and get washed off a bit.

I always said that you...

you got to fight a man

before you get to know him real good, you know...

That's the truth, Ben.

That's the truth.

That's the only time that you really...

Good whiskey and good company.

A man can't hardly ask for anything

better than that, now, can he?

You're a fine fella, Ash.

I am right pleased that I run into you.

Why, thank you.

By the way, what business are you in?

The fur business.

I'm a trapper.

Oh, well, now.

I'm in the hide business myself, you might say.

I hunt buffalo.

Ah, now that must be awful hard work.

Oh, no, no harder than trapping.

I suppose not.

But I'm real weary of it.

It's a sorry way to make a living.

Why don't you quit?

Why don't you?

I keep telling myself the same thing:

I'm gonna do it one of these days.

Whoa, look at you, you're a pretty one.

Well, it sure looks like

they're good friends right now, don't it?

Never could figure men out.

I, uh, think I'll have a word with them.

Emmett, please don't.

There might be trouble.

Not unless they start something.

Hello.

I understand you men had a row about my girl.

Your girl?

My name's Emmett Hall.

Doggone it, he's the one she's gonna marry.

Yep, that's right.

Everybody around here knows about it.

She's a right pretty girl, Emmett.

You done yourself proud, boy.

Come on, sit down, have a drink.

Uh, no, thanks. Tillie's waiting.

Then we understand each other, gentlemen?

Sure.

Emmett, we're nothing but a couple of raunchy prairie rats

ain't seen civilization for quite a spell.

No, we don't mean no harm.

Well, excuse me for bothering you.

Sure.

He's a real nice fella, now, ain't he?

Yeah, yeah. And he's mighty lucky, too.

You know, I wouldn't mind if I found myself

a good-looking woman like he's got.

I just got to settle down, that's all there is to it.

Maybe go into some kind of business.

I been thinking about settling down.

I been trapping for 25 years now.

I figure I had enough.

You got any money?

A little.

I got me an idea, Ash.

Maybe...

open a freight office...

and you put in with me.

Maybe we can get it going.

Well, doggone it,

that sure could bear some thinking, now, can't it?

50-50 partners, Ash.

Boy, what do you say?

It sure would beat trapping.

And who knows,

I might even get paid come Saturday night.

Here's to it, partner.

Oh...

♪♪

Well, hello, Ash, Ben.

- Marshal. - Howdy, Marshal.

You two look like you're hard at it.

Yeah.

We're even thinking of hiring on new help, Marshal.

Now, there's a good idea.

Keep you two out of trouble.

Doggone it, Marshal, at the end of the day,

we're too tuckered out to go looking for any trouble.

You know, if that's the case,

I wish there were more men around this town

in the freight business.

Well, I'm glad they ain't.

See you later.

So long, Marshal.

There.

Okay, Bill, you can get started now.

Go ahead.

Mr. Galt?

Hey.

Hawkins, how are you?

Mr. Galt.

Now, Hawkins, ain't nobody called me "mister"

my whole life.

Ben will do fine.

Now, you sit down there.

So, what's on your mind?

Ben, I, uh...

You need some fertilizer hauled, is that it?

Oh, I need it, all right. I need it bad.

All right, how about day after tomorrow?

- No. - Well, when?

Ben, I come into town today

hoping I could pay you for that last load you hauled.

I drove my last two heifers in.

But the price of beef went down, and I couldn't buy more

than to get a little food for my family, and...

and pay for the fertilizer.

That's all right, Hawkins.

No, it ain't.

Well, you need the fertilizer out there, don't you?

Especially now you ain't got no stock left.

But I got no money to pay you.

Well, you just opened an account here.

Pay when you can.

I...

Oh, you're a good man, Ben.

You just go on home now,

and I'll see you day after tomorrow.

Thank you.

I, uh... sort of took that on myself, Ash.

Hope you don't mind.

Doggone it, Ben, I'd have done the same thing myself.

You know what?

What?

I'm feeling the need for a little beer coming on.

What say we step into a saloon tonight?

That's the most sensible thing you've said all day.

Give me a bottle of whiskey and a glass, barkeep.

Who's that?

I don't know.

Sometimes I think I ought to turn this place

into a private club and allow

only the decent people to be members.

That's a good idea, Kitty.

Why don't you do that?

I'm going to the day I decide to starve to death.

Good evening, Miss Kitty, Marshal.

Tillie.

Well, there's at least one person going straight.

Is Emmett Hall really gonna marry her?

He sure is... He's building her a house.

They're gonna wait till it's finished.

Well, I got to get to work, Kitty.

- I'll see you later. - All right.

Evening, honey.

Sorry. I'm waiting for someone.

Well, I've been waiting for you, too.

What are you drinking?

I'm not drinking.

Oh, come on, have a little drink.

Make things, uh, easier.

Look, uh, why don't you come back tomorrow?

I don't put nothing off till tomorrow, honey.

Especially a pretty woman.

Now, I got a bottle down the bar. Come on.

I said no.

Well, I said yes.

Now, come on.

You don't stop it, I'm gonna start hollering.

Let me go.

Let me go. Let me go.

Let me go. Just let me go!

You get out of here, mister.

What are you men mixing in this for?

I said get out.

While you can still walk, that is.

Well, you talk mighty big

when your partner's around, don't you?

Oh, Ben, would you mind

stepping back two paces, please?

Why, sure, sure.

Very nice.

Oh, evening, Miss Kitty.

Well, I'm mighty glad you two were here.

Oh, we kind of figured we owed it to Miss Tillie here.

And I want to thank you. I want to thank you both.

You want we should put him outside, Miss Kitty?

I think that's a real good idea.

Howdy, Ash.

Well, what in the world you men up to now?

Well, he was kind of in the way, Emmett.

You couldn't get to the bar less'n you step over him.

Oh.

Hey, Bill.

Howdy there, Ben!

You back already?

Yeah.

Not such a bad trip.

And just missed all that rain, too.

Yeah. By the great horn spoon, look at the size of that load.

Yeah, it's the biggest yet.

They want us to keep it here in the office for the week,

and they'll pick it up.

- We got a job to do, haven't we? - Where's Ash?

Oh, he's working on the books inside.

You can leave him be; we can handle this ourselves.

Oh, sure.

Well, let's get to work.

Ben!

Ash! Ash! Come out here!

What's up, Bill?

Doggone it. Doggone it.

You run and get the doc, quick.

Ben.

Ben, doggone it, Ben.

Marshal. He's hurt bad.

Real bad, Marshal.

That's what I heard.

There was nothing I could do. Nothing at all.

Doggone him, why couldn't he have been more careful?

How is he, Doc?

Well, that's a bad head wound.

I sure want to get him up to the office soon as I can.

He ain't gonna die, is he, Doc?

Well, Ash, I sure hope not. Matt...

will you get some help and rig up a stretcher

and get him up there? I-I'm going on up.

All right, I'll see what I can do.

Couple of you men give me a hand here.

♪ Walkin' down the road with a pack on my back ♪

♪ A pack on my back, pack on my back ♪

♪ Walkin' down the road with a pack on my back ♪

♪ Gettin' along to Californ-i-a ♪

♪ Along... ♪

- Oh, Mr. Dillon. - Chester.

- Well, what have you got there? - Oh, mail.

Well, heavens, I would've gone down there

to the post office for you.

- I was just redding up the place here. - It's all right.

- I was down there anyway. - Yeah.

Doesn't seem to be much here for me, does there?

- Well, you better look a little closer. - Why?

There isn't any.

Oh.

Oh, Matt.

Can you come up to the office with me?

Uh, Ben's conscious now.

- Well, that's fine. - Well, I...

I don't know whether it is or not.

Why not?

Well, he just... Well, why don't you

just come on up there with me and then you can see.

Chester, uh, would you go down to the freight office

and ask Ash to come up to my office?

- I want to see him. - Yeah, sure.

- What happened, Doc? - Well, didn't Chester tell you?

- Yes, but... - Well, come on. Let's go upstairs.

Ben.

Ben. Oh, I'm sure glad to see you're all right.

Beat it.

Ben, it's me, Ash, your partner.

Don't you know me, Ben?

Don't he know me, Doc?

He knows you.

Ben, I'm sure glad to see you're all right.

Is that so?

Guess your head's probably still bothering you some, huh?

You ever have a barrel fall on your head, Marshal?

No.

Well, then let me tell you, it bothers some.

Oh, now, Ben, that ain't no way to talk.

The marshal was only taking an interest.

I thought I told you to beat it.

See you later, Ben.

What's the matter with him, Doc?

What's wrong?

Well, Ash, sometimes a blow on the head

will change a man completely.

Just completely.

You mean to tell me he's gonna be like this all the time?

I don't know; nobody does.

May be this way for a long time, maybe not.

Doggone, ain't there nothing you can do?

Well, we can be kind of patient with him.

When will he be able to get back to work?

Well, I want to keep him like this for...

well, at least... at least a couple of days.

Sure. Well, you let me know when I can see him, huh, Doc?

I'll do that.

- See you later, Doc. - Matt.

- Heads up there, Chester. - Oh, golly.

Hi there, Ash. I almost run you down.

Hey, now, you better watch out where you're going

or we're gonna lose you down a well one of these days.

Well, I don't think that that there's gonna happen.

By the time you find out, it'll be too late, wouldn't it?

Yeah, I reckon it might.

- What you got in the bag? - Oh, coffee.

Ben likes fresh coffee.

He's coming home today.

Oh, is that right?

Well, I'm sure glad to hear about that.

So am I.

Well, I got to hurry along, Chester.

- So long. - I'll see you, Ash.

Well, welcome home, Ben.

How you feeling?

I was just sort of fixing things up around here.

H-How you feeling?

I feel fine.

Uh, now, why don't you just sit down somewhere,

and I'll get you a nice cup of coffee?

It's fresh-ground coffee.

Just the way you like it.

This place sure is a mess.

I'm sure sorry, Ben.

I tried to red up things around here, but...

well, now that you're here, things will be different.

Doggone, I sure have missed you.

Bunch of junk.

The whole place is a bunch of junk.

Well...

I suppose most any freight office looks like this.

Uh, you... you been away for a while.

You just forgot what they looked like.

Ain't that coffee ready yet?

Uh, sure. Should be ready right now.

Here you are, Ben.

You know, I was thinking.

Why don't you take it easy for a while and relax?

I can go on doing the work around here.

No one has to take care of me. I'll get along.

I meant just for a little while, until you were feeling better.

Don't treat me like I was sick.

I'm well.

I'm gonna do my own work.

I just don't want nobody feeling sorry for me.

Sure.

You just do what you feel like doing, Ben.

♪♪

Ben.

Ben!

What do you want?

I-I got to talk to you.

Make it short. I'm busy.

It's about the money I owe you.

I can't pay it yet.

What'd you come in for, then?

I thought I ought to tell you.

It's the money I'm interested in, not talk.

When can you pay?

Honest, Ben, I'll pay you just as soon

as I get any money at all.

You rotten nesters, you're all alike.

You expect everybody else

to make up for your lazy, good-for-nothing ways.

Well, let me tell you something, Hawkins.

You ain't getting by with it this time.

Now, hold on there, Ben.

I heard you promise yourself he could pay when he can.

You're getting soft, Ash.

It ain't up to us to support

every no-good bum that comes along.

Hawkins ain't a bum.

He'll pay us when he can.

Don't you pay any mind to him, Hawkins.

I know you're good for it.

Thanks. Thanks, Ash.

I-I'll do the best I can.

Now, don't you get yourself all riled up.

I'm having a drink.

Wait till tonight, and I'll go with you.

Whiskey here.

You better go get Matt, Sam.

- Evening, Tillie. - Evening, Ben.

Beat it.

Now, look here!

I said beat it.

Do you want your face punched in?

Ben, what's the matter with you?

You're going to be with me and nobody else.

Now, mister, you just get walking.

- Here, let me alone! - Just...

Stop that, Ben!

What's got into you?

Now we can have a nice little drink in peace.

I'm not going to drink with you.

Tillie, I've had a yen for you.

You be my girl, now, Tillie, you be my girl.

Ben, no!

No!

No!

Let go of her, Ben!

Doggone it, leave her be!

- Kitty... - Hey, you come back here, you!

Get out of my way, Kitty.

You're gonna have to walk right over me.

Then, by golly, I'll do it.

You do, and I'll claw your eyes out.

Hold it!

What's going on here?

He got rough with Tillie.

And he knocked Ash out when Ash tried to stop him.

All right, Ben, let's go.

Go? Where?

I'm gonna take you over and lock you up for the night.

Now, come on, let's go.

Take it easy.

You got him?

You all right?

Ash, how are you?

Good morning, Doc.

- Marshal. - Hello, Ash.

I suppose you came for Ben, huh?

Yeah.

Think you can keep him out of trouble?

I'll sure try, Marshal.

I can keep him busy down at the shop.

Well... I hope so, Ash.

He'll be your responsibility.

How is he, Doc?

Well, Ash, I just don't know.

Sometimes I think he's improving, and then...

well, he just doesn't.

Doggone it, he was the best friend

a fella could have in the whole world.

He's gonna get better, Doc, I know it.

Well, I hope so.

He's got to get better.

I can't stand it this way.

Ash, I'm gonna tell you something.

Don't want you to get your hopes too high on that.

I've seen things like this before, and...

Ben may never be any better.

I suppose I kind of figured that.

But I ain't gonna desert him.

Well, I know that.

What are you doing here?

I've come to take you home, Ben.

I need you at the shop.

You had no call to lock me up, Marshal.

Now, Ben, you know, if Emmett Hall had walked

in there last night and found you roughing up Tillie,

he might have just killed you.

I can whip Emmett Hall any time.

Ben, there's one thing you got to understand:

You keep on like this, you're gonna get in trouble.

Ben.

Why don't you just go on with Ash, like he says,

and then come by the office tonight?

I want to see you.

Thanks, Doc, Marshal.

What's the matter, Ben?

Ain't you feeling good?

No, you go on in. I'll be back in a while.

Uh... where you going, Ben?

Are you my keeper or something?

Oh, doggone it, Ben, there's a lot of work piled up in there.

All right, if you'd been working on that

instead of running after me, you might have had it done.

You start drinking again,

you're gonna get yourself in a heap of trouble.

You gonna quit bothering me?

Now, wait, Ben!

And... don't you go following me.

I'm warning you.

♪♪

Coming.

What are you doing here?

The barkeep told me you lived here,

- so I just walked in... - Oh, no, get out! Get out!

How dare you. Get out of here.

Listen to me, Tillie.

Listen to me good.

Emmett's going to kill you when I tell him.

Never mind about Emmett.

I'm making you an honest proposition, Tillie.

Well, I don't want to hear it.

I'm going to marry you.

What are you talking about?

I got the buggy outside.

I figure that's the easiest way for women to travel.

Oh, no...

And I figure that we'll just drive to Pueblo.

It'll take a few days, but we'll make it fine,

and we'll get married there.

No, Ben.

Now, the first thing I ever told you

was that I was going to marry Emmett Hall.

And I am going to marry him.

And soon.

No, you're going to marry me.

No, Ben, no.

I'm going to marry Emmett.

I don't know how to make it any clearer.

What's the matter with me?

I'm a better man than he is any day.

Ah, you women don't know nothing.

I'll show you.

Take your dirty hands off me.

Who do you think you are?

You're coming with me.

I'd rather die first.

Why, you're nothing but a dirty buffalo hunter.

I smelled you the first day you came into town.

Now, don't you talk like that.

Oh, you make me laugh.

You could never be a better man than Emmett.

What's the matter with you? Don't say that.

Don't you ever touch me.

♪♪

Well, so you finally got back.

What are you doing with the rifle, Ben?

It's my rifle, ain't it?

Sure.

Where you going with it?

What's it to you?

I ain't going to let you out of here with that rifle, Ben.

Well, now, I don't know how you could stop me.

Will you quit fretting?

I ain't going nowhere.

All right, then what are you doing with it?

Will you shut up!

Go back to work.

Give me the rifle, Ben.

The only part of this rifle you're going to get's

- a bullet. - Ben!

Now, quit bothering me.

I'll be back directly.

Don't you go messing.

I'm warning you.

♪♪

Hello, Ben.

Hello, Marshal.

How you feeling?

Fine.

Ben, I came to talk to you.

Something on your mind, Marshal?

Yeah. That rifle.

What about it?

You know, it's still against the law to kill a man, Ben.

I ain't shot one yet.

It's a hanging offense.

What I do...

or what I don't do is none of your business, Marshal.

Yet it might get to be my business in a big hurry.

Then why don't you wait till then?

All right, but I'm gonna warn you about one thing:

Emmett Hall's pretty handy with a gun.

Oh...

Some people around here got pretty good imaginations.

Why don't you just leave me be.

I got work to do.

So long, Ash.

Evening, Ash.

Oh, evening, Miss Tillie.

I'd like to talk to you for a minute.

Why, sure. Would you like a drink?

No. No, thank you.

It's about Ben.

Oh, you worried about him, too?

There's talk that he's after Emmett.

Oh, now, now, hold on, Miss Tillie.

He ain't said a word about it to me or anybody else.

Course, uh... it could be true, all right.

He's got to be stopped.

Oh, the marshal tried talking to him,

but he just wouldn't listen.

There ain't much he can do right now.

It's just not fair.

Emmett didn't do a thing.

Well, Ben ain't done nothing wrong yet,

except be a little ornery.

Oh, I know it's a terrible thing he's thinking of doing,

but the doc says it's like a sickness.

He could be all right any time now.

Anything happened to Emmett, I just don't know what I'd do.

He's the only decent man who's ever loved me, see.

Just doesn't happen very often to a girl like me.

If I lost him, Ash,

my life wouldn't be worth living.

Don't talk like that, Miss Tillie.

It's true.

If Ben has to shoot somebody, why doesn't he shoot me?

Now, why would you say a terrible thing like that?

'Cause it's my fault.

Ben came to my room.

It's because of me he's gunning for Emmett.

Oh, Ash, please tell him that.

Tell him to come and shoot me.

He did that?

Doggone it.

Doggone it anyway.

Now, don't you worry, Miss Tillie.

I won't let him do any more harm.

I'm gonna put a stop to it right now.

How?

If you tell Emmett, it'll only make it worse.

♪♪

Ben?

I been looking all over for you.

Don't come any closer, now.

I ain't gonna let you do it, Ben.

You gonna try to stop me?

Emmett Hall ain't done nothing to you.

I ain't gonna let you kill an innocent man.

I told you, Ash, you stay out of this, now.

Now, get out of my way, Ash.

The marshal was right.

No matter what, Tillie ain't gonna go with you.

Ain't gonna go with you!

Can't you understand that, Ben?

Ash...

you start minding your own business,

or else I ain't going to be your partner at all.

Go on home!

Now, I told you, Ash.

Get out of my way.

No.

I'm coming on, Ash.

Don't you try to stop me.

I've got to stop you, Ben.

Ben?

Ben, I didn't want to do it.

I'm... I'm terrible sorry, Ben.

Ben?

All right, some of you men get him up to Doc's.

Now tell me about it?

I shot him.

That's all you can tell me?

It's all that's important. I shot him.

I'm going to have to lock you up.

I know.

Let's go.

How is he, Doc?

Well, he's alive.

He was out gunning for Emmett Hall,

or at least that's what Ash thought.

What Ash thought?

Well, Ben never did say for sure.

Well, I guess Ash is in for it pretty good, then,

if Ben dies, huh?

Is he gonna die?

I don't know what's keeping him alive.

Mr. Dillon,

Doc says for you to bring Ash up to his office.

Said for you to hurry, that it's important.

All right.

I'll get him. You stay here and keep an eye on things.

Come on, Ash.

What's going on? What happened, Marshal?

I don't know, but Doc wants to see us

up in his office right away.

How is he, Doc?

He wanted to see you, Ash... Both of you.

Ben? Ben?

Ash.

Marshal.

Ben.

I'm terrible sorry, Ben.

I'll tell you, Ash...

what you done took real guts.

It's all clear to me now.

You kept me from doing a terrible thing.

And I'd just like to say...

Ash, I...

I'm beholden to you.

No, Ben. No.

There's something else I got to say.

Marshal...

that shooting last night...

That was self-defense.

Self-defense?

That's what it was.

Ash shot me in self-defense.

Why...

I must have fired at him

three, four times

before he finally took a shot at me.

You telling me the truth, Ben?

Well, now, huh...

things have come to a pretty pass...

when the law won't take the word of a dying man.

Ash. Ash.

Yeah, Ben.

We're still partners...

ain't we?

Ain't we?

S-Sure we are, Ben.

We're still partners.

♪♪

I suppose you know...

he didn't tell the whole truth, Marshal.

As far as the law is concerned, he did.

It was self-defense, Ash.

Yeah.

I'd like to leave if I could.

It's all right.

♪♪

You're a game little fella, Ash Farior.

I always did say,

you got to fight a man to get to know him good.

I'd be proud to buy you a drink, Ash.

You're a fine fella, Ash.

I'm pleased to run into you.

"Farior & Galt Freight."

Yeah, that sign looks real good up there, don't it, Ash?

Ash?

We're still partners...

ain't we?