Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

♪♪

Rainey?

Oh, Rainey?

Somebody ought to fix the wheel.

Been a week or more.

Leave me alone!

You ought to fix the wheel, boy.

Can't you shut up?

Seen your pa?

No! Now, get away.

Can't just lay here the rest of our lives.

I ain't gonna do nothin'.

Get away and let me sleep.

Somebody better come help us.

♪♪

Oh, hello, boys.

Look! He's a giant!

You fellas belong around here, do you?

♪♪

He's after us, Ma! He's a giant!

- Yeah! - That's right, Ma, he's a giant!

Now, simmer, simmer.

He run us here, Ma!

What'd he want with you?

I don't know, but he's a giant!

Here he comes, Ma!

- How do you do, ma'am? - Howdy.

Are these all your boys?

Yes, sir, they's all mine.

Quite a family you got here.

Ain't he a giant, Ma?

He's big enough, sure...

but he won't bother you.

You run along now and play, all of you. Go on.

Run along.

Well, looks like you got some trouble here, ma'am.

- It's broke. - You all alone?

I can't call when I been alone.

Well, I mean, uh, menfolks.

Well, there's Rainey.

Rainey?

- He's my grown boy. - What, is he sick?

Says he can't fix the wheel.

And the mister...

I don't know where he's gone.

I see.

You mean that boy's just sleeping there?

Rainey sleeps right along.

Can't you fix it?

Well, I'll sure need some help if I do.

He's a bear, wakin' up.

Hey, you, get up.

Did you hear me? I said wake up. Get up from there.

What's the idea, you big galoot?

We're gonna fix this wagon, you and I.

Well, you, maybe.

All right, get up onto your feet.

You don't just ride up and take over Rainey Carp!

I ain't trash!

Don't go to spoil things, Rainey.

Lend a hand once.

I seen them big badges pinned on geeks before.

Don't make him no better.

He's doing a kindness, boy.

All right, now, get up... We're gonna fix that wagon.

Let's see, now, the first thing we're gonna need

is something to put under that axle.

Guess that box'll do.

All right, bring the box over here, boy.

I said bring the box over.

Put it right there.

All right, put the wheel on there.

Go on.

♪♪

You got any tools?

- What kind? - A wrench.

Maybe in the wagon.

Well, get it for me, will you?

Wondered where you was, mister.

Off to myself.

And gone most of the day.

I hear a lot more bellyaching, I'll go for good.

I figure that to be mean work.

Yeah, that's right, it is.

Name is Duggan Carp, stranger.

Some kind of law! Just rode up here and took over.

Well, things get the best of you,

you take the help that comes, boy.

Either one of you men could've done this job by yourselves

if you'd have been a mind to.

No. The boy ain't strong.

I never was.

We been settin' here more than a week.

Nary a soul turned a hand to help us.

We was all born under black skies.

Ain't a Carp livin' had a penny's worth of luck.

Ma...

after all this work, we'll be needing a meal soon.

You stay and have a bite with us?

No, thanks. I'll be riding on.

Be mighty proud if you'd stay and eat with us.

You can wash up over there.

All right, ma'am. Thank you.

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Hello.

Oh, hello.

I'm Allie.

Oh. I'm Matt Dillon, Allie.

This your family?

Yeah.

Where you come from?

Well, I come from Dodge City.

No one never stops with us.

Well, I was just riding by,

and I saw that you needed some help, so I stopped.

That was right nice of you.

Allie?

Your ma is getting ready to fix a meal.

Go help her.

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How come you live in Dodge City?

Well, I work there. I'm a U.S. Marshal.

Do you like it?

Sometimes.

I never knew menfolk to work much.

When you been plagued all your life,

even breathing's work.

Well, ma'am, I'm gonna have to be moving along now.

Thanks for the dinner.

Done the best I could.

Here, I'll take that.

Thank you.

Marshal, you a married man?

Nope, afraid not.

That's too bad.

Man ought to have a wife.

Now, you take Allie, she's a nice girl.

What are you getting at?

Time she had a husband.

You look like a good man with a fine job.

Now, to me, she's just another mouth to scratch food for.

Carp, did you ever think of getting a job,

doing a little work for a change?

Your whole family might be better off.

Did you ever think of that?

Was you gonna give her to him for nothing, Pa?

No.

Was you gonna trade her for that horse?

No.

I was hoping to get more.

Marshal?

Oh, I wish you wouldn't go.

Well, I really got to be heading back to Dodge.

Oh, I liked you right off.

You smile so nice and you speak so kind.

It was a pleasure meeting you, too, Allie.

So long.

What are you doing that for, Mel?

'Cause I feel like it.

Yeah, I guess everybody knows that now.

Well, I hate Matt Dillon's guts!

I believe you do, at that.

And I hate jails.

And I ain't forgetting the man who put us into the first one.

I don't know that it matters to you none,

but Matthew ain't in there.

I sure would hate to see you run shy of bullets.

Well, now, where is he?

Took a man to a hanging.

Took a man to a hanging.

Now, you've gotta love a man like that.

Come on, let's go get a drink; I'm dry.

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Festus?

Oh, Matthew.

It's a mighty quiet town you got here.

Well, looks like I missed something.

Better than that, something missed you.

You'd been setting here a couple hours ago,

you'd have been a head shorter and dead by now.

Who did this?

Wasn't nobody I know.

But he knowed you, and he don't like you none, neither.

Doesn't narrow the field down very much.

They was a couple of 'em that done it,

but only one of 'em done the shooting.

Then they went down to the Long Branch afterwards.

Hey, how was the hanging?

Oh-ho-ho, it was fine.

Real nice hanging.

Then I met a real nice family out on the prairie

on the way back from Hays.

Now I'm really looking forward

to meeting the two that did this.

Oh, they're real quality folk, Matthew.

Yes. Yes, I can imagine.

- Hi, Marshal. - Sam.

Kitty, looks like you had a revival meeting here last night.

Yeah, a lot of soul-saving went on.

We could've sure used you, Marshal.

Well, anybody get hurt?

Mel Billings was shooting from his hip and his mouth.

It was noisy, that's all.

Oh, it was Mel Billings, eh?

Yeah. He said he was sorry he missed you.

Was his brother Loren with him?

Yeah, but he never does anything,

except to grab Mel's arm at the right time.

That's why we've got bullets in both the ceiling and the floor.

Mel Billings, eh?

Wish I'd have been here.

I understand he shot up your place first.

Yeah, pretty good.

I wish you'd been here, too.

Ah, so do I.

Well, I guess I can't be everywhere.

Taking a man to Hays City to hang,

and here letting some drunk take potshots at me at the same time.

It's like that this morning, huh?

Yeah, I guess so.

Tell me something.

Have you had breakfast,

or did you get your fill of raw meat

before you came over here?

Kitty, I went to bed mean last night, and I woke up meaner.

I don't know if breakfast would do it any good.

I'm willing to risk it.

Come on.

All right.

Kitty, excuse me a minute.

Mel, I understand you were looking for me.

Last night I was.

This morning, my head hurts.

Well, maybe I can fix it so you're not feeling so...

You, uh, charge nowadays for laying a man out cold, do you?

This is for breaking up the Long Branch last night.

You want to fight about it?

Oh, it takes an awful lot to offend me, Marshal.

It's not I'm so easygoing.

It's more I'm a coward.

Yeah, well, you get him out of Dodge and out of my sight.

Why don't I do that?

And see that you keep him out.

Uh, yeah, I think maybe we'll both arrange

to stay out of your town, Marshal.

Kitty, there you are.

Thank you.

I'll buy you breakfast.

All right, it's a deal.

We got any more whiskey?

Might be another bottle.

Well, get it.

You don't never get tired of telling me, do you?

Everybody tells you, and you do.

Marshal Dillon didn't run me out of his town.

Could've rolled you out.

You get the whiskey?

I'd have stood my ground with him.

You was laying on it

with a mighty slack jaw.

I had me a belly full of Marshal Dillon

for a awful long time now.

Yeah. Five miles out of town, you get real brave about it.

You know, Mel, sometimes I think you're part coward, too.

Oh, you got that all cornered, Loren.

You was born cringing.

I know I'm sick of trouble.

That's all I remember all my life.

You and... trouble.

Well, leastwise, I do some.

I make trouble.

Yeah.

For old men and small men and women,

you make some trouble, providing they ain't armed.

You know...

every now and then, I think about killing you.

You know that?

I'm awful sick of this kind of living.

I couldn't care much.

But I'd... just have to find me somebody like you

to fetch and do for me.

Oh... Uh, I don't know if I'm lost or not.

Oh... You ain't lost.

Oh. Well, then, uh,

that is the way to Dodge City?

You all alone?

Yeah. I've come a long way.

Been running some of the time.

Well, don't you run no more.

Mel!

Well, the little lady ought to rest a spell.

She's just plumb wore out.

No, I just want to know how much more I got to go.

About five miles, ma'am, right down thataway.

- Thank you. - Listen...

there ain't nothing in Dodge City.

Well, I know someone there, and I'm gonna go to him.

- Well... - That kind of hurts, mister!

Who are you going to in Dodge?

Well, the marshal.

You ain't.

Well, if you would let go of me, I would.

Do you hear that?

She's going to the marshal there.

Well, let her!

I figure the marshal owes me something.

Couldn't you make him let go of me?

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Something bothering you, ma'am?

You sure look like you need help.

No, I'm fine.

You got someplace to go?

Oh, of course.

All right, ma'am.

Oh... Marshal.

What's happened to you?

Oh, I... I was following you into town

and there were these two men, and...

one of them had... Oh... It was terrible.

All right, now, just take it easy.

We'll get you up to Doc's right away.

You're not going to leave me?

No, of course not. Come on.

Well, I gave her a sedative.

She can go to sleep a little while, now.

Oh. She gonna be all right?

Oh, yeah. She's gonna be all right.

She's young and healthy.

But I'll tell you something...

she had a rough time.

Yeah, I figured that, Doc.

You know her at all?

No, just met her. I met her and her folks out on the prairie

on the way back from Hays City.

Well, you sure must have made an impression on her.

She thinks you're just wonderful.

Did she give you any idea who might have done this, Doc?

No, like I said... all she wants to talk about is you.

Well, long as she's asleep,

I guess I'll head back to the office.

If there's anything you need, let me know.

All right.

Marshal.

Looks to me like whatever you gave her doesn't work too well.

That little dickens ought to be asleep.

Well, long as she's awake, maybe I'll talk to her now.

I think she'll like that fine. Come on.

Allie.

You said you wouldn't leave me.

Doc says you're supposed to be sleeping.

Oh, I'm sure I'm supposed to, but I can't.

I'd much rather look at you.

Well, you get some sleep

and everything'll look better to you in the morning.

Oh, I came all this way to find you.

I've no mind to sleep now.

You shouldn't have come to Dodge, Allie.

I'm not sorry.

I just look, and there you are.

And that's better than I ever had things.

Did you tell your folks you were leaving?

No, I just left.

They were fixing to move on and I knew I didn't want to go.

I see.

Oh... I'm getting kind of floaty.

Well, you just rest and get some sleep

and things'll be all right.

You'll be here tomorrow?

Yeah. In the meantime, Doc'll take good care of you.

Allie...

do you have any idea who these men were?

No.

One of them said he knew you.

He did?

He said he was paying back a debt he owed you.

Mel Billings.

You don't know that.

I got a pretty good idea.

Now, I want to be sure, this time,

that that powder works for you.

Sleep's the best friend you got, young lady.

Is he put out with me?

Matt? Course not.

I never knew anyone to smile

and talk nice like he does.

Yeah, he's pretty fine, ain't he?

You just forget about everything and get some sleep.

Quint?

Hey, Quint.

Yeah, hold on a minute.

Matt?

I'm sorry, I hate to wake you up so early,

but I got to have my horse.

Well, your horse, he ain't done yet.

He ain't shod yet.

Isn't done? I brought him in yesterday.

I know that. I gotta make new shoes.

I'll have him ready for you about noon.

Quint, I can't wait till noon.

Well, that's the best I can do.

All right, well, forget the new shoes.

Just trim his feet and reset the old ones, will you?

- All right. - What time can I have him?

Well, half hour. Is that all right?

All right, good.

Would you bring him by the office when he's done?

Sure. You've got kind of a burr

under your blanket this morning, don't you?

Yeah, I guess I have.

- Sorry, Quint. - Where you off to?

I'm gonna skin a couple of polecats.

Well!

You're powerful early up, Matthew.

Morning, Festus.

Seems like you're up pretty early.

Oh, fiddle, I ain't even been to bed.

Well, you couldn't have gotten in too much trouble,

or I'd have heard about it.

Oh, it's just it took a heap of time, is all.

First, there was all that whiskey to be drunk

and then, uh, I got to jawin' with Rosie over at the Lady Gay.

That poor little old thing's had a hard life, Matthew.

Yeah.

Then this feller come in with a couple of walnut shells,

and you'd ought to have saw him.

Why, he could waltz them things around somethin' fierce.

Bet you lost all your money, didn't you?

Oh, you know him.

I don't know him, but I know the shell game.

You can't beat it.

Well, you're a few hours late with the news.

Seems like I'm a few hours late

with everything today.

Where you headin' for?

I'm going out to find the Billings brothers.

Well, golly Bill, you just got done running them out of town.

Now you're fixing to bring 'em back in?

Yeah.

Well, that don't make no sense, Matthew.

You tell me something that does make sense around here,

I'll throw in with you.

You... You want me to go with you?

No.

Marshal!

Uh...

You aren't going off without me, are you, Marshal?

Well, you're... you're looking some better this morning.

How do you feel?

Oh, I'm okay.

I come just to be with you.

Oh, um... well, fine, uh...

Doc, could I speak to you for just a minute?

Do you, uh... you think she's fit to travel?

Travel? Travel where?

Well, I was just heading out to pick up the Billings brothers,

and I'm gonna need her to identify 'em anyway,

so I can bring her along, then drop her off

at her folks' afterwards. Think she can make it?

Yeah, she can make it, all right,

but she's not gonna like it, I'll tell you that.

I wouldn't be in your shoes for anything in the world.

I don't know what else to do.

Allie... now, we'll go down and get you a horse,

and you and I will take a little ride.

Oh.

Gonna be gone for quite a spell, Matthew?

Festus...

when you see me, you'll know I'm back.

Bye.

What in tarnation's ailing him, Doc?

Well, he's just madder than a hornet.

I know that.

I don't know why, do you?

Yes.

Grumpy old scudder.

Can't be I got up wrong; I never went to bed.

This is the place.

We don't got to stay here, do we?

Well, I just want to look around for a minute.

Mind they don't come out at you.

Well, they're not waiting around for us.

Place don't look too bad, now you're here.

They were drunk, huh?

The one was.

But the other one, called Loren, wasn't.

He kept saying how he was sick of everything.

Seemed like he wasn't the only one.

I don't see how you managed to get away from them at all.

It was Loren.

All of a sudden, there he was,

and he hit the other one on the head with a bottle,

and I just run the best I could.

I thought the heart'd bust clean out of me, but I kept running.

Please, let's go.

Now, Allie, you did just fine.

And it's all over now.

Why don't you try and forget about it?

Why do men keep saying that?

Doc... now you.

Well, I... guess we just don't know what else to say.

Oh... He was the best of the two.

Won't do him much good now.

At least he won't have any more trouble.

Oh, please, we can go now, huh?

I want to find Mel.

I don't!

I never want to see him again!

I do.

Just one more time.

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Do you think he's in there?

We'll find out.

Stay here.

Wake up.

Get up off of there.

You... run me out of your town.

You gonna run me out of the world, too?

That's a good idea.

Get going.

Well, now... you ain't after me on account of her...?

This the man, Allie?

I told you I never wanted to see him again.

If it wasn't me, it'd have been somebody.

She was all alone on the trail.

I didn't take after her.

She just come walking, brazen, into our camp.

All right, now get up from there, you're going to jail.

Oh, I ain't going to no jail on account of her, Marshal.

You killed your brother, didn't you?

Ah, Loren was sick of living,

and I was sick of him living.

Get up!

Allie, I... I'm sorry about all this.

Are you all right?

Yeah.

It's all over now.

♪♪

Mmm, thanks.

Mm-hmm.

Do I do the coffee good?

Oh, fine.

Weren't much of a supper

but once we get to where the food's better,

I kind of cook good.

Tastes mighty good to me.

Oh.

Shh.

Isn't it quiet, though?

Like the world's way off and doesn't even need us.

And we don't need it.

Well, uh...

Allie, you know, it's getting pretty late.

Why don't you stretch out back there and try to get some sleep?

Oh, I haven't got a particle of sleep in me, I'm sure.

Well, I'm plenty tired, I know that.

Oh... Oh, w-well, you go to sleep

and I'll just watch over you. I wouldn't mind that.

Well, Allie, we're liable to have a long ride tomorrow.

Don't matter to me.

As long as I can be with you.

Allie, I'm gonna take you back to your folks tomorrow.

I don't see why.

They're off and gone.

Yeah, and we're gonna find 'em.

You mean you don't want me with you?

Allie, you can't be with me...

That's what I want you to understand.

You belong with your family.

But they don't want me.

I don't want them.

You-you-you did like the coffee and... the food...

You talk nice and you smile.

I don't understand.

I just can't have anybody with me.

But I think I could please you.

When I run to you, I run to you forever.

So you see? I have care.

You even fought that-that man for me.

You must feel something.

Allie...

when a man... takes a woman to be with him forever,

it's because they love each other,

because, uh, life wouldn't be any good for 'em

if they were apart.

Yes.

Yes, I feel that.

Oh.

You mean you don't feel that for me?

No, Allie, I don't.

Look...

someday a... a young man will come along

and he'll be nice to you and...

he'll smile and... No... Never will.

Allie, you got a lot of years ahead of you.

- Bang! - Bang!

- Bang! - Bang! -Bang!

♪♪

Someone's a-comin', mister.

♪♪

Well, you didn't get very far.

No rush.

Nowheres to hurry to.

Why'd you bring her back?

This is where she belongs.

Pa, he don't want me.

I want him, but he's got his ways and he don't want me.

Ain't no better here than it was, Allie.

Nothin' we can do... Just bad luck.

Never knew nothin' but bad luck.

No need you comin' back here, girl.

Allie's had a bad time since she left here, Carp.

Things ain't easy here.

Can't you ever forget about whining and complaining

for a minute and try to help somebody else?

She run off,

you brung her back... That's all I know.

I'll tell you something,

Allie happens to be a fine, decent girl.

I don't know how she got that way around you, but she did.

You thought all that, you could've kept her.

She's your job.

I don't need no more jobs.

You look at 'em... Little or big, I got 'em.

And they all got to eat and all got to have rags to cover 'em.

He brought that horse back, Pa.

He's got everything good.

Is he gonna marry Allie or not?

He don't want her.

I'm sick of things going his way,

him having and me not, him working me.

I say things are gonna go my way for a while.

All right, boy, you put that gun on,

let's see you do something with it.

Pa?

All right. Up, you.

What kind of people are you, anyway?

You couldn't be born this way, you must work at it.

You lie around, you whimper and you whine all the time,

never do a day's work.

Nobody hands you this kind of luck, you know.

You make it.

You love it. You wallow in it.

Mrs. Carp, you were born something else,

you were something else before you married him.

You must've been.

That's why I brought Allie back to you.

Allie's a good girl.

She needs you.

And you need her and those five little boys

need the both of you.

Now, why don't you two learn to work together a little better,

help each other.

You might find it'd make life a little more pleasant for you.

Come on, let's get the horses ready.

You think all that you said?

I think it all.

About me being... fine?

I meant every word I said, Allie.

Makes me feel better, you meaning it.

Makes me prideful.

Well, you just be sure you remember it now.

Might be some man, somewhere,

who will keep me right along, instead of just for a bit.

You'll find him someday, Allie.

When you do, he'll be a mighty lucky man.

Bye.

Bye, Allie.

Allie?

Ever tell you about my pa?

Not that I recollect.

Talked soft, Pa did.

His voice, kinda gentle.

And then, this one brother,

why, he smiled right often.

I mind that.

You never told me.

They was nice.

I kinda forgot all these years.

But they was nice.

He was... nice.

Seemed like he was.

What I want to say is, Allie,

they's three men, right there, I know of

was nice.

Can't be they's the only ones ever made.

Why, Ma... you're 'most smilin'!

I 'most feel a smile, gal.

Maybe you and me...

maybe we could start with each other,

finding pleasing things to say and...

smiling.

Might make the days go easier, Ma.

♪♪