Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

You better bring in some more kegs.

Marshal.

Excuse me, Marshal.

- Matthew. - How are you?

You got here right in the nick of time, Matthew.

I got my new card trick all figured out.

Go on, just snake one out of there, any one at all.

Don't make no difference.

Might as well. He won't leave you alone.

Matthew.

Well, no! Golly Bill!

You got to look at it first.

Well, I did. It's the ace of spades.

Oh, fiddle.

How do you expect me to do my card trick

when you tell me beforehand what the card is?

Have a drink here, Matt.

There's an awful lot of strangers in town.

Did you notice that?

Sure is. I was gonna ask you about it, too.

Well, it just like a bunch of cow punchers to me.

Now, where'd they come from? There's no herds in.

Do that again.

- All right. - Hey, hey... hey, uh, what?

Hey... uh... hey, what? Hey, hey.

Hey! Hey, I was...

Hey, what... are you doing?

- Get up in there. - I...

Come on.

Gonna go over there, and then I comes back...

Buck, how many times have I...?

And I go over there, and I...

All right, take him home, Matilda.

Ah, wouldn't be Saturday night

unless Buck Spencer got a little drunk.

Something wrong?

Oh, I don't know, Kitty.

If it is, it's nothing I can put my finger on.

I'll see you later.

You're up kind of late.

Doc.

Is there any coffee left?

Yeah. Help yourself.

Yeah, I was just on my way home.

By golly, I'm tired.

You looking for anything special?

Well, I thought I saw a couple of familiar faces

over at the Long Branch tonight.

Yeah.

Well, you find anything?

No, not yet.

Somebody told me you sent Buck Spencer home a while ago.

Well, I did, yeah.

He's back.

Ah.

Buck, what are you doing back here?

I didn't have no choice. I couldn't get home.

Couldn't get home? What are you talking about?

Just what I said, Marshal... I couldn't get home.

Why not?

Y-You know that cut-out by Devil's Draw?

- Yeah? - Well, there's been a landslide.

A landslide?!

Yeah, it's blocking the whole road.

Ain't no way to get a wagon around it.

Ain't no way at all.

Marshal, you just got to let me sleep in the jail tonight.

I can't do that, Buck.

I'm liable to need these cells.

Doc, uh...?

What?

Well, uh, couldn't you...?

Oh, no. No, you see...

this a situation that comes under the jurisdiction

of the office of the United States Marshal.

Thanks for the coffee.

Buck, get a good night's sleep.

You, too.

Thanks.

All right, come on, Buck.

Evening, Marshal.

Barney.

I won't send an answer, Barney; it's just a routine advisement.

I wasn't waiting for an answer, Marshal.

Just wanted to tell you that the telegraph wire's out.

When did that happen?

Ten, 15 minutes.

Just after that wire come in.

Yeah, probably some buffalo

scratching his back on a pole and pushing it over.

Barney, I want you to do something for me.

Go up the Long Branch and find Festus.

Tell him to get down here as soon as he can.

You bet.

Don't touch those guns, Marshal.

If you do, I'm gonna have to open up the other world for you.

Uh-huh.

That's more sensible.

Now, ain't anybody going anywhere tonight.

Your fair city's got some visitors,

and we don't want to be disturbed.

Now, sir,

if you'd just take your thumb and your forefinger

and gently reach down, grab your gun out easy,

we can all relax.

All right, move. We ain't got all day.

Come on, now, let's move it.

Let's move it here.

Well, what's going on up there?

I said, move.

Search me, but you better let me go up first.

All right, move along.

Keep it moving.

What do we got here?

Where did you come from?

Just never mind that.

Who's been a-shootin' that gun?

I'll ask the questions.

Boys, lighten his load.

Wait just a dang minute here.

You just shut up, or I'll blow that ugly face

out from under those whiskers.

Get your hands off of him!

Gun on the table.

Well, well, well.

Look what I found.

What is this, a holdup?

Don't you fret none about it, honey.

Nobody's gonna lose anything they can't replace.

'Less somebody gets hisself killed by acting stupid.

Somebody like you, ugly.

On the table.

Oh, no.

I ain't a-fixin' to get myself shot up

to protect my three dollars.

I'd say you fellers bit yourselves off

a good, big wad.

Fact is, I'd say you're liable to choke on it.

Well, we'll just wait and see, all right?

Outside.

Boys, clean out the cellar.

Wait a minute!

You best commence to be a might more friendly.

We're gonna be lots better friends

afore this night is over.

Come on.

- I swear. - What's going on here?

What's going on?

What's going on here?

Keep your hands off me!

Who do you think you are?

Hurry those folks along now.

Frank, I want you to tell Boland

to take all them weapons over to the Long Branch.

Mason Gore, huh?

You heard of me?

Well, then, I guess you know why we're here.

That man the ones that cut the wires!

You're going against the government, you know,

cutting them wires like that.

I'll try to keep that in mind.

First thing I want you all to understand,

there's nobody here in any danger.

They'll be no violence of any kind

if you all do exactly what you're told.

We're here for just one reason... money.

All you merchants are obliged

to open up your doors and keep 'em open.

All private citizens will gather together all your valuables

and put 'em in a parcel on your front stoop.

That's anything of value.

Silver, money, jewelry, wedding rings.

My boys'll be by to pick 'em up.

If they think the parcel's a little too small,

they might be tempted to come in and take a look at your house.

I don't think you'd like that. Any questions?

How long you gonna be here?

Till dawn tomorrow.

Until then, nobody leaves this town.

Anyone who comes in stays.

Any other questions?

All right, you can all go home.

Try to remember what I said now.

Well, wait a minute.

Where are y'all going?!

Are you gonna let 'em push you around like a bunch of sheep?

Wait!

Hey, mister, you better be quiet.

Don't tell me what to do, you cheap saddle tramp, you.

Out of my way!

Now there's a lesson.

I don't have time for foolishness.

If there are any more heroes, let 'em step out now.

Hey, Marshal, we got a job for you, too.

We're gonna let you keep your badge and your authority.

All you got to do in return is to see

that this new government isn't disturbed.

And that's us until tomorrow morning.

You're not gonna get away with it, Gore.

Lot of people still left in their homes.

They're onto you by now. They know what you're up to.

They'll be waiting for you.

Well, I'll send two or three of my fellows with you

to insure their peaceful surrender.

They're men with families. They'll fight you.

Exactly.

Families and friends.

You know, it seems to me that if any trouble were to start here,

your people'd get the worst of it.

I sure would hate

to see this place turn into another Indian Falls.

Indian Falls?

I heard about that.

Just over a year ago, somebody took over a town

and killed six or seven men.

A dozen.

Just some poor fools who placed more value

on their gold than they did on their lives.

It's up to you, Marshal,

to see that Dodge doesn't have any fools like that.

Or like this.

$809 paper from the general store.

$64 from some old liar down at the stable.

I think he's got more hid somewhere.

Don't tell me about it, boy. Show it to me.

What have you got here, Simpson?

From the assay office. Gold and silver.

- Uh-huh. What's the weight? - Uh... I don't know.

Well, take it back, separate it and weigh it.

Sir, uh, uh, I've been on duty an hour.

Uh, when do we get our turn in here?

There's enough liquor for everybody.

You'll be relieved at 1:00.

You know the rules, Simpson.

Very pretty... and all of it real.

Take 'em and get out of here.

Seems a shame to take all this away

from a girl as pretty as you.

I can see how you're suffering.

What I mean is...

apart from the money involved,

there's got to be a lot of memories, no?

What do you want, my life story?

Stories don't interest me.

I could tell Mace that...

there was nothing up here.

All I need is a little persuasion.

Well...

Miss Kitty!

I like you, Barens, but I'd kill you.

I didn't do nothing.

Exactly.

You're supposed to be out there doing your work.

I haven't got time for fellas that don't do their work.

Go back and do your work.

Don't come any closer!

I got a shotgun here, both barrels loaded.

Now hold it, Mr. Johnson!

It's me, Matt Dillon!

What's going on, Marshal?

Sounds like a big ruckus all over town.

I want you to put your gun down, and come out here.

Who's them fellas in back of you there?

We got trouble, Mr. Johnson.

The Mason Gore Gang has taken over Dodge.

They got us surrounded and cut off.

Get 'em off my property, Marshal.

Nobody's taking what I worked all my life to save.

Wait a minute.

Use your head, Mr. Johnson.

He's got close to 100 men with him.

You put up a fight, you'll get yourself killed.

I'll kill the first man tries to come in.

All right, maybe you will; maybe you'll kill a couple of 'em.

But you got a wife and children in there.

Now, what's gonna happen to them when we turn this town

into a battlefield?

I don't know, Marshal.

I do, Mr. Johnson.

All right.

Well, you don't look any the worse for wear.

Am I supposed to be grateful for that?

You could be.

I mean, I've known some women who were.

You expect everybody you bankrupt to be grateful

just because you left 'em alive?

Oh, now, I left you more than that.

That is, unless you like to wrestle with people like Barens.

Let's not play games.

You don't care what happens to me.

You're just upset because your boy

wasn't attending to his business.

Hey, you're a smart woman, woman.

Smart, pretty, tough.

That's a good combination.

Save the charm.

I never did have a taste for killers.

You know, you said before

that I didn't care what happened to you.

Well, you're right; I don't.

So don't press your luck.

That marshal fella over there,

he kind of keeps a good eye on you.

1:00 and all's well.

You must've been doing a good job with your neighbors.

I haven't heard a shot yet.

I promised 'em nobody'd get hurt.

Well, now, if you excuse me, I have a schedule to meet.

All right, it's 1:00.

Time to change the guard.

Anybody gets too drunk, they forfeit their share,

same as always.

Marshal, Marshal, you better come quick.

There's trouble at the stable.

Keep him spinning around up there!

Break it up here! Hey! Break it up.

What's going on here?

Oh, we're just having a little fun, Barens.

The old man's upset about his horses.

Mason's upset, real upset with all of you.

You know we got to get our work done by dawn.

Now, all of you, down to the Long Branch... fast!

Hey! Come back here and cut me down.

You can't leave me strung up this way.

Want to bet?

Marshal, get me down out of here.

Untie the rope.

All right now, just take it easy, Hank.

We'll get you down.

Okay.

What happened, Hank?

Well, they come in here and run off all the horses,

including yours.

And when I tried to stop 'em,

they come at me with their rifle butts.

Ah.

I think they busted one of my ribs.

Pete, go get Doc, will you?

Oh, I can walk.

No, I guess I can't.

All right, you just rest easy now there, Hank.

Hank, you're a tough man.

Well, I'm too old to worry about what these fellas can do to me.

But it's a lick tougher for you.

Only a few hours left, Hank.

Yeah, but a lot can happen in a few hours.

Especially if they take a notion to shoot up this place.

They're not gonna do that.

Not if I can help it.

Well, if they do, you keep out of it.

You know, it wouldn't do this town no good

for you to get yourself killed.

Not just yet, honey.

No!

Run, Dora!

Get out of the way!

- Get out of the way. - Mace said no shooting, Deeks.

He said 'less'n there was trouble.

This is trouble.

Get out of the way. I'm gonna kill him.

Use your head. Mace will kill us.

Marshal, I'm gonna fix you once and for all.

Get out of the way!

Get!

You fellas know better than to play with the law.

Haven't you got some business to do, Marshal?

Is this the way you clean up your end of the town, Deeks?

Well, we was doing all right until he butted in.

He's a liar! They was after the Frasier girl.

Seems to me I've told you before, Deeks,

if you can't stick to the plan, you better clear out.

If he gets to Fort Dodge, we're done for!

Well, then we better make sure he doesn't get there, hadn't we?

♪♪

Doc, you got to do something.

Nothing I can do.

Doc, he ain't...

Well, what do you know.

He's caused all the trouble he's gonna cause.

All right, everybody off the street.

Just go back to your homes and behave yourselves.

Won't be any more trouble.

We'll be gone sunup.

Things ain't gonna be like they was around here, mister.

For you neither,

after what you did.

I can promise you that.

♪♪

Come on, Kitty.

Come on, now, I want you to drink this'n up.

I'll come back later with something

make you sleep a little bit.

Come on.

So that's how it was, huh?

Her and the marshal.

She ain't gonna have no trouble finding a better man.

I already volunteered.

Someday, somewhere...

the string's gonna run out for you and your...

Oh, how I want to be there.

Nobody sent for you, ugly.

You better get on back down there.

You got your gun.

Go on, shoot me down like you done Matthew.

If you're a mind to.

You just better make sure

that first shot kills me, though.

I'm gonna get 'em, Miss Kitty.

I'm gonna get every last one of 'em,

if it takes me plumb till doomsday.

Oh, I don't mean I'm fixin' to start now.

Ain't no chance for that.

But I'm gonna track 'em down.

I'm gonna get me Matthew's badge

and I'll run 'em down

if it takes as long as I live.

We're gonna leave you alone now for a while, Kitty.

And, uh...

I'll be back later.

That's pitiful.

That's all we could find.

That banker wasn't much help.

Why don't you go back and talk to him.

He might think it over twice

without the chief protector walking the street.

They all seem pretty quiet since it happened.

Ain't nobody said a word.

Makes your back itch, that's for sure.

Just standing, looking.

Uh-huh. Well, let 'em look.

He was a big man around here.

They don't know what to make out of him being gone.

So walk easy, do your job.

We'll be out of here before they know it.

Hey, Doctor.

You got any influence over these people,

you better tell 'em to stay in line.

If Dillon had, you'd have a marshal in your town now.

All we want is the money and we're gone.

Looks like you're getting it, all right.

Now, if it's all right with you,

I'll just go on about my business.

Come on, Festus.

Everybody's gonna stay in line, mister.

Why don't you just get your money and get on out of town.

But remember this...

Dodge has still got a marshal.

- One of these days... - Hey...

you're not trying to tell me you're the new lawman,

are you, friend?

I reckon I just might be.

You better grow another two and a half feet

on them legs of yours if you figure to fill his boots.

Come... come here.

Just forget it.

- The last thing I ever do... - That's what it'll be,

the last thing you ever do. Now come on.

Miss Kitty, we hadn't ought to be leaving her by herself, Doc,

at a time like this. I'm going back over...

No... no, now, there's nothing you can do for Kitty,

and I want her to get some rest.

Just to be around.

Matthew would want me to.

The way that Barens looks at her.

Now, she can handle Barens just fine.

And besides, there's something else

Matt would like to have you do.

What?

I'm trying to show you.

Vane...

They been here?

No, not yet.

They will be.

What are you doing, Doc?

You mean he ain't dead?

Anybody else sure would've been.

Out yonder, you just left him layin' there on the street.

Well, what do you think would've happened if they'd have known

he was still alive?

Well, I listened.

I couldn't hear no heart beatin' or nothing.

I can hardly feel a pulse myself.

He's taken three or four slugs.

This one, here.

What about his head?

That's just a crease.

My gosh, this is bad.

It's simple, now, if I...

if I can get that out of there without

doing him any more damage,

he's got a chance.

Well, I'll tell Miss Kitty.

You're gonna do nothing of the kind.

Why not, Doc?

Well, it'd be just plain cruel

to tell her that he's alive when...

When I don't know.

Don't you think you can pull him through, Doc?

Well, we're sure gonna try, but we can't do it here.

Got to get him out someplace where...

where he's safe.

Where they won't come busting in, now.

Well, I know just the place.

And they ain't likely to look there no more tonight, neither.

Where is it?

The cellar of the Long Branch.

We can stay in the dark, all the way.

You crazy? The Long Branch is their headquarters.

I know that, Doc, but they been through that cellar twice.

They done took all the whiskey and they ain't nothin' else

down there that'd interest 'em.

Besides, we can get in to it from the alley.

By golly, Festus, you may be right.

Right under their noses.

Might be the last place they'd look.

Let's move it, men!

All right, move.

I reckon we're as safe as we can be and still be in Dodge.

Sure hope so.

Well, I'm gonna need some water.

Quite a bit of it.

Don't let anybody see you.

- I'll get her, Doc. - All right.

- Here you are. - Thanks. Now, Vane...

You better just go on back over at your place,

and I want you to nail up a coffin like it's...

- Well, you know, make it look good. - Yeah.

And then, uh, one for Buck Spencer, in case they come

pokin' around and just keep your mouth shut.

Okay, Doc.

That's it.

That's it, right there.

Now, hold that lamp still... Hold it.

Hold him.

Be still, Matthew.

Don't let him move.

But he's...

Oh...

I gotta get 'em...

I gotta get Gore.

Just be easy, Matthew, we'll get him.

Doc? Doc, look at...

Stay in the buggy, Matthew.

You stay in the buggy.

Right here... easy, now.

There.

Hmm.

Wished I coulda brang some hot soup,

but I wouldn't knowed how to tote her, nohow.

Think you got enough. We're not gonna be here

for a whole week, you know.

Once't I started grabbing, why, I just cabbaged on

to everything that wasn't nailed down.

Hey, look... looky here, what I found.

Well, where in thunder did you find that thing?

Us Haggens can find things

where they ain't to be found.

That thing work?

You lay back down there and quit jabbering.

It works good, Matthew, but, uh...

it's just got three bullets. It's all I...

Will you give me that thing?

Now you've done all the shootin' you're gonna do for a while.

Done a fine piece of surgery here and I don't propose

to have you mess it up by thrashing around.

How's it coming, Doc?

Well, he's doing just fine for a man

that's been hit four times, and he might just make it,

if he'll pay some attention to me.

Now, Doc, listen to me... We've got to get Gore.

Yeah, you tried that.

We need men and guns.

Well, you know they've got every gun in Dodge,

except this thing.

Well, I know where we can get men and guns, both.

Plenty of 'em.

Where at, Matthew?

7:00 train in the morning.

- Golly Bill, that's right. - What?

Well, it's loaded with troops headed for Fort Dodge.

140 men or more.

Well, all right.

They're coming in on the 7:00 train.

They're leaving by dawn.

By the time the train comes in,

they'll be scattered all over the countryside, you know that.

Not unless we make it worth their while to stay.

Is that everything from the south end, Clark?

That's it. Picked clean.

Sure they ain't holding out?

My boys went through hard.

I'd say we got the most of it.

All right, load it up.

Take some of your men over and help Suggs

finish out the west side.

Don't you think you've had enough?

We got to leave here in two hours.

Be ready to move fast.

Ain't never been left behind yet, have I?

Always a first time.

Sam...

gimme a bottle of whiskey.

Take over here, will you?

Well, now... if it isn't the self-appointed marshal.

I thought you were supposed to be out helping my boys

keep this town respectable.

Kept your boys...

I wouldn't lift a finger to...

And if you don't like it, you can...

You know what you could do.

I just didn't think you'd disappear like that

and let all your good citizens fend for themselves.

Where you been?

Where'd you get all that good whiskey?

This is my last time

before I'm fixin' to take on my due.

When that train pulls in,

I'm a be the marshal.

My first job.

That's a good time to start wearing your badge...

After we're gone.

You're smarter than you look.

You got to be smart to guard the gold.

Uh-huh.

And I'm gonna guard the gold

like nobody never guarded...

I'll guard...

I'll be...

my first job.

You know, I'm sure you do a fine job.

I'm sure you'll make a fine marshal.

From then on, I'm... be the marshal.

Don't you forget that.

It ain't my fault 'cause you men come...

Oh, of course not. You couldn't have been expected

to do anything about that.

Gold on that train, huh?

That must be a pretty big shipment.

Take a man like you to handle a job like that.

You don't...

There's a whole carload.

Every speck of it

gonna get to Wichita.

You can count on that.

I want to protect the train.

I'm a marshal.

Matthew, he swallowed the whole thing

just like a big ol' mud cat.

Good.

Course, I needed a few drinks anyhow,

things being what they are.

You must have done fine; you smell like it.

Move back a little, will you?

Doc...

don't you think you better get on outside before they miss you?

Been thinking the same thing, Matt.

Besides...

I want to...

I want to go get Kitty and take her over to Ma Smalley's.

How is she, Doc?

She's just fine.

And I'm not gonna leave her for a minute.

Now you get... get rest, like I told you,

and quick as they clear out... Back for you.

Good.

Matthew, ol' Mace wants me to go with him

and the boys when the train comes in.

I heared him telling 'em about it.

How they fixin' to climb on and the whole thing.

Now, Festus, you better get ready to clear out,

as soon as they find out what we've done to 'em.

You just don't you fret none, I will.

Oh, uh, Festus...

where's that pistol?

It's right here. Why?

I just want it handy,

case they find me down here.

Oh, Festus...

good luck.

If this here works, they ain't gonna be no luck to it.

It's just gonna be pure oldie stubbornness.

All right, boys, you all know what to do...

now do it.

Mace, the train!

We're all ready for the train.

Who told you to leave your post?

But there ain't any gold on that train, it's full of troopers.

What?!

I seen 'em... Must be a full company!

They even got horses!

Why, that dirty...

Let's ride! Let's get out of here!

- We don't stand a chance! - Hey! We don't stand a chance!

Wait, if you scatter now, they'll get you one at a time!

- Stop! I'm saying to you, stop! - We ain't fightin' no train.

You led us into a trap.

That half-wit lied to me.

I didn't think he had a brain in his head.

We could have had the truth if you let us be.

That Miss Kitty... She knowed about it.

I think it's time we had us a new leader.

♪♪

Mace...

Did he get you again?

No, no, Festus, I'm just a little weak, I guess.

Well, no wonder. Here, let me help you sit down.

Take it easy.

Gingerly...

Matt...

Oh, Matt, you're here.

It's all right. Gonna be all right, Kitty.

I...

I thought...

Wh-Why?

Why'd you... why'd you let me think he was dead?

You see, he had to, Miss Kitty.

Don't you see? If he... if he hadn't have,

they'd have finished Matthew off, for sure.

Festus, why don't you go out and see that everybody

gets their stuff back.

You bet, Matthew.

All right, everybody!

You can come out now! It's all over!

Matthew said to pick out your belongs, come on!

Well, is he really gonna be all right?

Well, he said so and, uh, I think he will be.

That is, of course, if he gets an awful lot of attention

for the next couple or three weeks.

Well, I'll just see what I can do about that.