Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

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She's lying.

It weren't me.

She's lying, I tell you!

It weren't me who done it!

She's lying, I tell you!

No!

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Whoa, boy.

Whoa...

Where'd you come from, old son?

Broke away, huh?

You trying it on your own, too?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello!

Like there's somebody who'd hear.

Hello!

Speak up, or this here son's all mine.

Oh, by golly, Kitty, I'll tell you something.

That's a beautiful sight.

Why don't you drink it, then?

Well, I been thinking about it for the last two hours,

and I thought I'd just kind of enjoy it here for a minute.

If you'd have been out in that sun

like I have...

Where you been?

Well, I had to go to the Miller place.

Little boy got his hand caught in a trap.

Oh... Is he all right?

Yep.

He's all right, and he learned something, too.

He's not gonna fiddle around with his father's traps any...

Doc! Margie's time's come.

Hurry.

Oh, for heaven's sakes, Codge...

Oh, come on, Doc, she needs you!

Now, Codge, hold it just a...

Are you sure this time? Are you positive?

Oh, yes, sir, Doc.

She-she's regular timing.

Codge, if you drag me all the way out

to your place again in this hot sun for a false alarm...

Oh, no, sir, Doc.

Not this time.

She's due, and no mistake about it.

Come on.

All right.

Oh, come on, Doc, hurry!

Whoa.

Whoa, there.

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Hey, look out!

Howdy.

Howdy yourself.

Sure is unseasonable hot.

Yeah, that it is.

You like him?

He's a fine horse.

He's mine.

He is?

Always wanted to own me an Appaloosa.

Ain't too many a man'd ever see like this one.

That's a fact.

No saddle and all,

that mean you're a mind to make a sale?

Not likely.

Give you $40.

$40?

I figure that's top money.

No, I'm afraid not.

I'll hang on to him.

You change your mind, the offer stands.

I'm glad you talked me into coming along.

Well, it's good for a man to get away once in a while.

I wish we could've stayed longer.

You're the one that couldn't spare

a couple of days, huh?

That's before you showed me that fishing hole.

Oh, it'll still be there. Come on.

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All right...

Santee.

Doesn't look like they took anything but his horse.

That's not what they came for, Matt.

How do you know?

I know.

They put these arrows in him after he was dead.

When the Sioux do that to an enemy,

they really hate him.

They haven't caused any trouble around here for months, Quint.

This fella caused his own trouble.

It's a bad way to die.

A man commits a crime, he's got to pay for it.

They let this fella think about whatever he did.

Well, let's get him buried.

Hey, Quint, you know, uh...

probably just as well not to mention anything

about what we saw out there.

If you say so, Matt.

Well, people might get worried.

Might start an Indian scare or something.

No reason to get scared.

What we saw out there wasn't the beginning of anything.

It was the end of it.

Well, let's just leave it that way, huh?

Sure.

Thanks for letting me come along.

Sure. I'll see you later.

All right.

Hi, Doc.

Sam. How are you?

Ab.

Hello, Doc.

By golly, it's hot.

Sit down, Doc.

Doc.

How are you?

How's Margaret Collyer?

She's just fine.

Well, is it a boy or a girl?

How in thunder would I know?

It's another false alarm.

But Codge was so sure.

Oh, don't mention Codge's name to me.

Too bad you couldn't have gone fishing with us, Doc.

It was real cool out there.

You went fishing?

Yeah.

Well, why is it you always go fishing

when I'm at my busiest?

Well, I don't plan it that way, you know.

Well, it certainly seems like you do.

Every time, I...

By golly, I guess it does, at that, doesn't it?

You've missed out on the past, uh...

two, three times, now, haven't you?

Four times.

- Four times? - Yeah.

Ah, and they were sure biting good out there today, too.

Well, I don't think you show

very much consideration for your friends.

Oh, I don't know about that.

Quint seemed to enjoy himself.

Oh, you...

took Quint, huh?

Well, yeah.

I had to take somebody along.

You're never around.

Doesn't anybody in this town do any work except me?

Going fishing all the time.

- Howdy. - Howdy.

You want something?

Well, I was kind of hungry.

I was looking for something to eat.

Well, this here is a saloon, boy.

Yes, sir.

Maybe a... a beer?

A beer would do fine, thank you.

All right.

You're the boy with the Appaloosa.

Hello.

How was your first day in town?

I bet I covered every foot from...

How'd you know it was my first day?

Just a guess.

Well, it was a good one.

My name is Jeb Willis.

Ab Singleton.

Ab, if you're alone, I'd admire to have you sit with me.

Well, thank you, Jeb. I'd admire it, too.

Who's that with Ab?

I don't know. Never saw him before.

He sure is wide-eyed, isn't he?

Looks like a farm boy.

Should have stayed on the farm.

Well, if you two will excuse me,

I'm gonna go upstairs and change and freshen up.

- Sure, Kitty. - See you later.

Right.

I just kept after Pa till he got tired of saying no,

and then I struck out for here.

In mighty fine style from the looks of that horse.

Oh, Pa didn't give him to me. I found him.

You found him?

Out on the prairie.

Standing there just as proud as feathers

in the middle of nowhere.

I hollered, but there wasn't a soul to say no,

so I rode him away.

Jeb, the first thing you do

when you find a horse is look for the owner.

Caught afoot's a bad thing.

A cowboy could die from it.

It didn't have no saddle or nothing.

I figured he most likely wandered off

from some Indian herd.

You sure you ain't telling me some cooked up...?

It ain't much, but you're welcome to it.

Oh, no, sir. Thank you. That's your supper.

- I don't want to take... - Oh, no, go on.

You bought a beer. It goes with it.

That sure was neighborly.

Yeah, Sam can be that way.

Lord, I am as truly grateful as I am powerful hungry. Amen.

Pa wouldn't like it so quick,

but my insides wouldn't wait for a long one.

What was that you was saying?

Oh, nothing.

I ain't ate all day except for this afternoon.

That bread roll.

The Appaloose got half of that.

You go ahead and eat, then.

Sure beats all how a person like me

can get so almighty hungry.

Pa don't hold with much 'cepting what's in the Bible.

He was right sore against my leaving.

Well, if he taught you good when you were a boy,

he got no worry now.

Oh, he's got no worry, no cause to.

But, Pa, he's... you know, he's never been

more than a hundred miles from the farm in all his life.

He ain't? Not even during the war?

He don't hold with killing.

Not that he's afeared;

it's just that he don't believe in taking a life

when the Lord give it.

Nothing wrong with believing that.

Course not. I agree with it,

but I believe there's more to living

than just milking cows and feeding chickens.

That ain't the worst life.

No, but it's a mighty small world when that's all you know.

I figure the world is as big as a man is inside himself.

I sure am glad I met you.

Thanks, Jeb.

Glad to have met you, too.

I ain't never had nobody I could talk to before.

There's Pa, but there never was much time for talking, it seems.

It can be that way with pa's.

Think you'll ever go back?

Oh, sure.

I just had to see what's happening someplace else.

When I've seen enough, I'll head on home.

With a prize horse, too.

I got him stabled down at that Grimmick stable.

Looks like it'll cost more than I can spend.

You can always get a job.

I suppose, working on some farm or other.

My offer to buy him still stands.

It'd sure be nice to take him home, show him to my pa.

It would that.

Ooh.

Sorry.

- You done that a'purpose. - No, sir, I didn't.

- You all right? - You mouthing off to me, boy?

Now, he said he was sorry, Andy.

Well, sorry ain't enough.

An apology is all you're going to get from him.

This ain't none of your affair, Ab.

It come to that if you bully him.

Please, Ab. It was my doing.

I am sorry, mister.

Boy, you need some learning in manners

from your elders, don't you? Come here!

You ease off!

Good night, Andy.

He would have tore my head off.

Well, Andy gets a little mean when he drinks.

I sure am obliged.

Where you staying?

I figured to ask the stableman could I sleep with my horse.

You can bunk in with me if you like.

Oh, I don't want to put you out none.

Oh, you won't put me out.

Then I'd be grateful. I would for sure.

All right.

I'm sorry for the ruckus, Miss Kitty.

That's all right, Ab.

- Good night to you. - Night.

Come on.

No, sir, you hold on.

I'm paying for this here breakfast.

Oh, don't be silly, Jeb.

Won't be no other way.

Lets me say thanks to you for putting me up last night.

Well, your money ain't gonna last long

you start spending like that.

Could be I'll have plenty

if you still want to buy that Appaloosie.

I thought you were gonna keep him.

I figured on it last night, Ab.

That there's really more horse

than a person like me should own.

I'd like you to have him if you still want him.

I'll buy him, gladly.

Good, only $40 is too much, way I come on him and all.

Now, I made the offer, and it stands.

I figured $30 would be more than right.

I said $40.

That's what you said.

- It's settled, then. - Good.

You want to, we can go down

to the livery stable and pick him up now.

If I want to? Let's go.

Hello, Doc.

You're up awful early this morning, aren't you?

What do you mean, up early?

I've been up half the night with Margaret Collyer.

Oh. What was it this time?

Well, she had a boy finally.

That makes about nine, doesn't it?

Ten.

Six boys and four girls.

She ought to be getting the hang of it by now.

You'd think so.

- Morning, Marshal, Doc. - Ab.

This here is Jeb Willis. Just into town.

This is Marshall Dillon, Dr. Adams.

- Marshal. - Jeb.

Dr. Adams, mighty proud to know a man like you, sir.

That so? Thank you.

Yes, sir, just like my pa says:

Doctors and preachers... Special people.

Hmm. Hear that?

Well, how do you like Dodge?

Oh, I ain't never seen nothing like it, Marshal.

It sure is sizable.

Plan to stay here long?

Long as my money holds out.

Speaking of which, me and Ab's got something to take care of.

If you'd excuse us.

- Sure. - Sure.

- Nice meeting you both. - See you later, Marshal.

Seems like a nice young fella.

Yeah. And he ought to be staying on the farm.

- Hmm? - Just repeating what you said last night.

Want to get some breakfast?

Yeah, that's what I was gonna do.

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- Hi, Marshal. - Sam.

Hi, Kitty, Ab.

- Hello, Matt. - Hi, Marshal.

Well, uh, Ab and I

have just been talking here about young Jeb.

You know, the two of them are getting to be real good friends.

Yeah, he made quite an impression on Doc this morning.

He's kind of hard not to like.

Yeah, he's green as a gourd, though, isn't he?

Maybe so, Marshal, but I think that's why people take to him.

That why you took him under your wing?

Somebody had to take care of him.

I best be going, Miss Kitty.

- Bye. - See you later, Marshal.

So long.

- Hey, Sam, give me a beer, will you? - Yes.

I thought you were gonna get a haircut today.

Well, I did. What do you mean?

Looks the same as it did yesterday.

Well, you know Teeters.

He does more talking than he does cutting.

Well, if I were you,

I'd go get another haircut or get my money back.

Hey.

Chambers, mon ami.

Hey, you.

Hey, one minute, huh?

You want something?

Where you think you go with that horse?

Well, who the devil are you?

I ask you question.

I don't like the way you asked the question.

Ah, no matter what you like.

This is my partner Chambers' horse.

You come down from...

You horse thief.

I catch you!

You've got your lines fouled, mister.

You steal that horse from my friend!

You call this man a horse thief, you'd better know!

I call you thief like you are!

Horse thief!

This man's no horse thief.

He was riding my partner's horse.

And my partner would rather sell his two arms

than sell that horse. Horse thief!

Some of you men get him to Doc's right away, will you?

All right, you, you're going to jail.

Let's go.

Ab!

Ab?

Keep away, boy.

He's my friend. What happened?

Fella just stabbed him.

What are you talking about?

They was fighting over that Appaloosa.

- What?! - Yeah, a man called him a horse thief.

Stabbed him.

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Ab?

Ab?

Please don't die.

I'm awful sorry.

It's my fault.

It's all my doing.

You didn't steal that horse.

No, Ab.

I didn't. I swear I didn't.

Good.

Dr. Adams?

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Look, Marshal.

I am a stranger in this town, huh?

I was to meet my partner here.

And I saw a man riding away with his horse.

So I stop him.

Now, what else should I have done, huh?

Did you think to ask him where he got the horse?

I think nothing.

Except he tried to run away.

When I stop him, he wants to fight.

He pulls a knife.

Well, I fight back.

Was that wrong, hmm?

It so happens I know this boy and he wouldn't steal a horse.

Hmm, but I do not know him.

I'll find where he got it.

And while you do, I have to stay locked up here?

For, uh, stopping what I believe was a horse thief?

For defending myself.

Marshal Dillon?

I just saw Ab.

He's dead.

It's my doing he's dead.

He bought that there Appaloosa from me.

Then you stole it from Chambers.

No, sir, I didn't steal it from nobody.

I found it out on the prairie.

That is a lie.

He was just standing there grazing.

He didn't have no saddle or nothing.

Just a hackamore.

I rode him to town.

Ab offered to buy him.

I sold it to him this morning.

That is not true.

You stole it from Chambers while he was asleep.

Or out of his camp.

It's like I said.

Where was this?

Ten, 15 miles east.

Wait a minute... what did this Chambers look like?

Was he a big man with a scar?

Yes.

You have seen him?

Yeah, I've seen him.

We found him hanging upside down in a tree

with three arrows in his back.

Well, then believe this, Marshal.

Chambers was caught afoot

because his horse could outrun the best the Indians have.

Hey.

If the horse had been there, the Indians,

they would have taken it, no?

I suppose so.

Hmm, but they did not, huh?

Why?

Because he had stolen it,

and left Chambers afoot to die.

Now, what more reason do you need to hang him?

Let's go, Jeb.

You let that fella Chouteau go, huh?

Well, I had to.

The way it worked out, it was self-defense.

Well, you think the kid stole the horse?

I don't know.

Well, the Indians could've spooked him.

Made him run off.

They could have.

You're not sure?

Quint, I want you to do something for me.

What's that?

Bring this boy Jeb over here with you

where you can keep an eye on him.

The mood this fella Chouteau is in,

it's either that or lock the boy up for his own good.

Matt, I got things to do.

I don't want any kid hanging around here.

Well, there's nobody else I can ask, Quint.

If there's trouble, I want somebody that can handle it.

All right.

I'll put him to work.

- Thanks. - Where you going?

Well, I'm going out to look around, see what I can find.

You're going after those Santees.

Matt, that wasn't any young buck's doing.

That was Santee revenge.

They're not gonna take too kindly

to anybody coming around poking, asking questions.

Boy's over at Doc's office.

I'll be back as soon as I can.

All right.

Well, how do you like smithing, Jeb?

Takes doing, especially in all this heat.

Well, it'll help you work up an appetite.

I ain't too hungry.

Well, you get cleaned up, you'll change your mind.

Yes, sir.

Jeb.

The marshal's gonna work things out.

I know he is.

Not what I done to Ab, he ain't.

Nothing gonna work that out.

Whiskey.

Matt should've kept him locked up.

Well, he doesn't got any grounds for that.

Have you seen Jeb?

Yeah, I stopped by Quint's.

How's he taking it?

Taking it pretty hard.

He just couldn't have stolen that horse.

That's right... I don't think so.

When Jeb knew Ab was dying, he told him then

that he didn't steal the horse, and...

that's enough for me right there.

That ought to end it.

Well, yes, except that Matt's got

to prove it one way or another.

Hey, you.

Keep your hands off him.

You leave a man stranded on the prairie?

There is nothing worse one can do.

Nobody proved he did that.

I have... for myself.

Well, you're not the law.

Maybe not, but I know what to do

to one who has done such a thing.

Well, you're gonna have to get past me first.

Mister, the man you killed was my friend.

I wouldn't sell him no stolen horse.

And the man those Indians killed... he was my friend,

but they would not have been able to do it...

I didn't steal his horse!

Come on, Jeb.

Quint?

Why don't you come on over here and sit down?

Kitty. Doc.

Hello. How are you?

Jeb.

Dr. Adams.

Don't pay any attention to him, Jeb.

I reckon he has sorrow, too, with all his hate for me.

Well, anyhow, don't let him frighten you.

Miss Kitty, I'm sick with fear,

just like I'm sick with what I done to Ab.

Look, I thought we came in here for a glass of beer.

My stomach couldn't hold nothing.

Took him over to Delmonico's, Doc,

and he wouldn't have any supper.

Well, for heaven's sake, Jeb, you-you can't go without food.

I'll have Sam fix you something.

I appreciate you, I surely do,

being so friendly and all.

Well, Jeb, you're...

a friendly sort of a fella yourself.

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I speak some.

Waosh-ta.

Don't pay any attention to him, Jeb.

He's more talk than anything else.

Why won't he believe me?

Well, he's probably like a lot of people.

Just sees things the way he wants to,

and not the way they really are.

Inside, I feel like I'm standing

as lonesome as the only person in the world.

You're not standing alone, Jeb.

We're standing along right with you.

I know, and I'm grateful.

But the feeling's there just the same.

Mr. Quint... the worst trouble I ever had before was

my pa getting mad at me 'cause I was slow with the chores.

Things are gonna work out, Jeb.

Now, get on that handle and start turning.

So, Chief, as you can see, the boy's life depends

on what I find out here.

Is that your only reason for coming here?

It is.

Mmm.

Come. We go.

Ask him what you will.

Do you know anything about a white man

that was killed a few days ago?

Yes.

Was there a horse in his camp,

a large one, spotted?

You think more of the horse than the man?

Right now I do.

You knew him?

No.

He committed a crime.

Was the horse in camp when you were there?

It was.

It was frightened away.

We were not there to steal.

Thank you.

You go now?

Yes.

Would you like to know the man's crime?

What was it?

In that tepee...

a woman lies dying by her own will.

The man I killed found her alone.

She is my squaw.

I'm sorry.

Both our laws have been satisfied.

But I have not been!

If I killed him a thousand times...

I still would not be.

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Whew!

Just don't seem like this heat will ever let up, Miss Kitty.

Sure makes you forget winter awful fast.

I'm sure glad I'm not out there in it.

Well, from the looks of this place,

neither is anybody else.

You can't blame 'em.

You might know he'd be out.

Beer.

Hmm.

The sight of me bothers you, huh?

As a matter of fact, it does.

Because I feel as I do

for the one who caused my friend's death?

Because you're hounding that boy.

Boy, man...

My friend is still dead.

He told you, he didn't steal that horse.

You believe him?

Yes.

Well, I do not.

Why don't you let the law decide this?

The law in this town

seems very little concerned for strangers.

That just isn't true.

It so happens that just a few days ago

Jeb was a stranger.

Yes.

But he's a boy...

young...

so you believe him.

I believe him.

Mmm. Tell me, mademoiselle,

if this boy, uh...

if he were big and ugly like I am,

would you still believe him?

You see...

because of what I believe he did...

to me, he is big and ugly.

And he will pay.

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Jeb.

Give me a hand, will you?

Mr. Quint.

Put these tools away.

What do you want?

I have no quarrel with you.

I've come for him.

If he's guilty, that's up to the law.

There are no ifs.

And your law has been too slow.

Well, you're gonna have to wait on it anyway, mister.

I do not think so, Monsieur Blacksmith.

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Hey, you.

Come out.

Come on, you heard me... Come out!

Mister, please, you got to believe me.

Why?

'Cause what I told you was true.

Now, please listen.

Huh! Story about finding the horse?

It's true, all of it.

I found him on the prairie, and I rode him to town,

and I... I sold him to Ab.

Now, please listen.

Matt!

What happened to you, Quint?

I'm all right. That fella Chouteau

came looking for the kid; I tried to stop him.

- Where are they now? - Well, the kid ran out,

and Chouteau went after him.

Mister, please!

Don't come no closer.

I got me a gun!

Don't make me kill you!

You all right?

I killed him.

Well, it was either him or you.

On account of me, two are dead.

All I wanted to do was see something besides the farm,

and two are dead on account of it.

It's all right, boy.

Pa will never hold with what I done.

We'll talk about it later.

Let's get you out of here right now.

Why don't you go have Doc look at him?

I didn't mean for nothing like this to happen.

Just took a horse nobody wanted,

and the whole world come apart right in my hands.

Somehow it just don't seem to figure.

Pa will never hold with what I done.

I didn't mean for nothing like this to happen.

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