Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

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Who is that feller, Doc?

Jim Forbes.

Somebody special, is he?

You might say that.

He cleaned out half this town about three years ago.

Robber?

Swindler.

Where's he been at?

In jail.

- Pa! - Boy...

Boy!

Ooh, you growed.

Hey, Forbes.

What do you want here?

Come to see my boy.

You ready to pay up what you owe?

Not quite yet.

Well, you better see your boy someplace else.

You ain't welcome here.

Didn't you hear me?

I heard.

No gun, huh?

No, I... I got out of the habit.

Pa! Get up!

He ain't gonna get up, sonny.

He's gonna stay right in the dirt where he belongs.

- Boy! No! - You stay out of this, boy.

- Let me go! - Let him go.

We ain't gonna hurt him; our fight's with you.

Get your hands off of me!

All right, what's going on here?

- What's this all about? - We got a visitor, Marshal.

Went away a thief, looks like he came back a yellow belly.

- You shut up! - Boy, now, cut that out!

Matt.

Hello, Jim.

Whoa.

I kept it up well as I could.

Looks fine.

Well...

course, things don't look like they did before...

well, before Ma died.

Curtains and things.

Your ma and her curtains.

House is yours, boy.

I put it in your name before I went away.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, it... it's our house.

It doesn't matter whose name it's in.

Thank you, son.

Three years is a long time.

Sure makes a difference.

Pa...

what are you gonna do about Clint Fisher?

Do about him?

Well... I figure you had to stand and take it

back there in town.

You couldn't fight 'em all.

No, couldn't.

And you didn't have your gun.

No, I...

It's over here, cleaned and oiled.

No.

Pa, you can't fight 'em with your fists.

No, boy.

Don't you understand?

They hate you.

The whole town hates you.

You got to wear a gun.

No.

Are you afraid?

Afraid of Jase Holt and Clint Fisher, the town...?

Maybe I am.

What did they do to you in that place?!

Gave me some time to think.

Maybe it did me some good.

I come back here to prove something.

I don't figure I can prove it by shooting people.

Now, does that... does that help you?

- Jim. - Matt.

What's the matter with him?

Oh, he's just...

trying to decide whether his old man is a coward or not.

Jim, tell me something.

What brings you back to Dodge?

I'm gonna prove to the people in this town

that there's gold in that mine.

Well, Jim, you don't even own the mine.

I own it.

Taxes wasn't paid while I was in jail.

Went back to the state.

Paid the taxes last week and filed a new claim.

Here are the names of everybody in this town that I owe.

You think I'm back here for another swindle, don't you?

I didn't say that, Jim.

The evidence was pretty strong against you.

Besides, that's gonna take a lot of work and a lot of money.

I got a sister in Wichita; I'm gonna use her money.

I just hope it holds out till I can prove I'm right.

Well, you know, as long as you got that money,

there are some people in town are gonna figure

you owe it to them right now.

Well, they're gonna have to wait.

Well, Jim, I wanted you to know

I didn't come here just as a lawman,

I came here as a friend, too.

Your wife's buried up there on the hill.

She was a fine woman.

Brian's turned out to be a good boy.

He's been a great help down at the freight office.

If there's anything I can ever do for you,

just let me know.

Thank you, Matt.

I... I-I found the prettiest rock I could.

I...

I even...

It's real nice, boy.

Real nice.

Pa...

I'm sorry I lost my temper that way.

Ma wouldn't have liked it at all.

No, I...

I reckon she wouldn't.

Reckon we better get that wagon unloaded.

Oh, I'll-I'll get it.

Well, now, it looks like some people

just don't get the message.

Maybe we should send him an engraved invite.

Oh, no, no, no, you don't invite people out, you kick 'em out.

- Morning. I'm Jim Forbes. I... - I know.

I've heard about you.

What do you want?

Here's a list.

You got nearly $200 worth of stuff here.

Yes, that's right.

You got cash?

Yes, I've got cash.

You'll get it on delivery at the mine.

No.

You'll pay cash before delivery, right here.

I've got the money in the bank! You can ask him!

I want the cash now.

And you'll get the cash.

Hey!

Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa. Whoa.

What's happened here?

Something... or somebody... Spooked my horse.

Now, I don't suppose any of you boys saw that happen, did you?

It's like he said, Marshal, something spooked the horse.

Course, maybe the horse just got tired

of the company it was keeping.

Being a proud, noble animal that it is,

it just probably had too much, that's all.

Fisher, one of these days,

you're gonna push your luck a little too far.

Now, break it up and move out of here, all of you.

Get moving.

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Hello, boy.

Any luck?

Luck!

What sort of a fool thing is that?

- Fool thing? - I had these all sorted out.

I'll tell you what kind of fool thing that is.

That man at the assayer's office...

I took those in there and he just laughed at me.

He wouldn't even look at 'em.

Well, that's no reason

to act like a powder keg with a short fuse.

It isn't?

Every time I go into that place, I get told about you.

Used to be that nobody around here would talk about it.

Now they all look at me like I was dirt, like I was you.

I-I didn't mean it like it sounded.

What happened to your head?

Oh, well...

the Benner twins.

They use to be my friends, but...

I'm sorry, boy.

Don't call me boy.

No, you're right... Brian.

Reckon you've been a man now for some time.

Pa?

Yeah?

Did you salt the mine?

Ma never talked about it.

Well...

I tried not to think about it.

Now all the time, I...

I get told.

Brian, it takes money to dig a mine.

People say that faith moves mountains.

Well, it doesn't.

It takes money and machinery.

Did you salt it?

I ran out of money before I ran out of faith.

That's not what I asked... Did you salt the mine?

Yes, I salted the mine.

You want to judge me, too? All right.

You go ahead.

I needed time and money to prove my faith out.

I got some first rate ore, put it in with the regular stuff

and I borrowed money on it.

It was easy.

You were 13 years old.

You know, you were lucky those days

to have potatoes to eat three times a day.

I came in this house one night and I found your mother

boiling the bark from a tree to make soup.

And right then and there I went out and traded in that equipment

for the ore and salted the mine.

I went to jail for it.

I paid for it.

Your ma paid for it.

And now, dear God, you're paying for it, too.

But I hope you know...

that you don't have to stay with this.

You know...

this is pretty good coffee.

Never did learn how to make it like you do.

I think I better stay around here and learn.

- Hey, Purvis. - Morning, Clint, Jase.

We hear you sold Jim Forbes another load of supplies.

Yes, I did.

Did you get your money?

I wouldn't sell Forbes anything

without cash on top of the counter.

You need something?

Yeah, a box of shotgun shells.

How much?

Four bits.

Tell you something else...

He bought a bunch of tools.

Gave Carter $372 for them.

Cash.

Where's he getting the money?

It's real.

I almost broke a tooth biting into some of it.

You know, I think maybe we ought to ask around a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, ask around.

It's a good idea.

We'll see you.

372 dollars.

And he sent to Wichita for a hand winch and cable.

And he paid old man Tremble in cold, hard cash

that he got from this bank right here.

Well, uh, just what is it

you gentlemen are trying to say?

Well, if he's got money in the bank here, then the folks

that lost money on the mine got it coming to 'em.

Oh.

Well, what's more, some of us figure

that he's back here to start dealing

from the same dirty deck again.

Oh.

Well, if you've got his money here in the bank,

then you ought to be able to do something about it.

Well, let me tell you something about

the banking laws of this state.

Now, somebody puts money in this bank, they draw it out.

Somebody wants to borrow money from this bank,

they pay it back, or I foreclose.

Now if you gentlemen have any further business...

You don't?

Well, if you'll excuse me, I'm a very busy man.

Just like he done before. Just like he done before.

Before he was passing out ore, now he's passing out money

and pretty soon everybody begins to trust him.

I bet you anything you want

he's sitting up there on that hill right now,

pretending to be mining.

No, go ahead... go ahead.

You sure can drive steel.

Oh, it's all in the wrists, boy, and the shoulders.

You build up your shoulders,

you'll beat your old man all hollow.

Here, let me have some of that.

Pedro, you got the charges?

Si, señor.

Let me see 'em.

Well!

That's all right.

Gracias, señor.

Pedro was, uh,

best powder monkey in Chihuahua.

Well, I hope you'll be with us for a long time.

- Ah, yes... - Go set 'em.

Oh, Pedro... Ravelly shale in there.

Now, you shake that too much,

the whole wall's gonna come down.

Oh, si. Boom.

- Si, boom. - Boom.

He sure works fast.

Yeah. Well, we got him cheap enough

for keep and a share in the mine.

Can't get a miner much cheaper than that.

Unless maybe he's born into the Forbes family.

Come on.

- Hey, let me do that a while. - Huh?

Go.

Ah! Come on.

On the button. Come on.

That's a boy.

Kitty. Festus.

- Matt. - Matthew.

You remember that piece of rock I picked up

by the Forbes's wagon the other day?

Yeah, what about it?

Amethystine quartz.

Is that good?

Well, it's what they call a indicator.

How do you know?

Well, I've did some mining.

Us Haggenses did a lot of things.

My uncle... Hard Rock Hogan Haggen...

Learnt me everything I know up in Virginia City.

Hard Rock Hogan Haggen?

Hogan Haggen?

Festus, who thinks up the names in your family?

If I'm lying, I'm dying, Miss Kitty.

Fact is, Uncle Hogan Haggen

was the onliest man that ever beat John Henry

a-swingin' a jackhammer.

And that's wrote up in the records.

Festus, I hate to disappoint you...

but there never was a real John Henry.

He was just a man that someone made up for a song.

Well...

John Henry might not have been real,

but Uncle Hogan Haggen was real

and so is this here.

You really think that mine's any good?

What about you, Matt?

Who knows, Kitty.

Well, I ought to be able to get at least one opinion

between the two of you.

Well, everybody in town's got an opinion, but that doesn't

necessarily have anything to do with the facts.

I'll tell you something, though...

A lot of people have been looking at this, uh...

Amethystine quartz.

Yeah, well, uh...

and there's been a lot of talk.

Yeah, I bet there's been some talk.

You know, people who lose money

have a longer memory than anybody.

Miss Kitty, now that there's

the ring-tailed truth, if I've ever heared it.

Well, I'll tell you something...

For Jim and Brian's sake,

I wish it wasn't true.

Now, I think...

the law won't do nothin'.

The marshal won't do nothin'.

The bank won't do nothin'.

And there he is, up there,

workin' his mine, spendin' our money.

The money he should be using to pay us back.

- That's right. - That's right, absolutely.

Well, why won't the bank do anything?

You can't take a...

another man's money out of the bank.

They can't just give you the money.

He put the money in the bank.

He's the only one that could get it out.

And he deposited it so we...

There ain't nothing we can do about it.

Yeah, deposited it.

The banker told us that, uh, "Our hands are tied.

We can't touch it."

Well, we figured that some of us who got taken

should go up there and put it to him straight.

I mean, either you put up, or you get out.

I give him $179.

And my wife, she socked me in the choppers

with a piece of stove wood for taking the savings

out of the cookie jar.

- -Did you hear that? - Wait a minute.

Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute, listen.

What I want to know is:

is the money up there with him,

or is it down here in the bank?

What do you think we've been talking about?

He's got the money in the bank.

Well, now, I... I'm not gonna rob no bank.

- All right... - Who said anything about robbing a bank?

- What's the matter... - Shh, shh! -Shut up.

Now, will you listen to me for a minute.

Now, we all know that Forbes

raised money all over this town in that mine three years ago.

Now here he is, back again

with the same "get poor quick" scheme.

We all know he's a flimflammer.

Now, he owes you money and he owes me money

and I aim to get my money back.

Now, there ain't no better time to do it than right now.

Well, let's go.

- You said it, Clint. - Yup.

Watch where you're going, you knucklehead.

Matthew...

I want to tell you something.

This here town is like a boiling teakettle

with the spout stopped up.

What does that mean?

Well, it means the lid's a-fixin' to blow off.

You mean Holt and Fisher?

Yeah!

They just a-worryin' and a-proddin' all the time.

Yeah, so, I suppose now you come over here

to worry and prod me about it, huh?

Well, now that you bring it up,

where else do you think I'd go to prod anybody?

Well, Festus, that's fine, except for one thing.

What's that?

Holt and Fisher haven't broken any laws yet.

Not one.

Yeah, go... go...

Hey, Pedro, what's for chow?

Oh, yesterday, tortillas and beans... eh.

Today...

Beans and tortillas.

Oh.

There ought to be a market someplace for blisters.

Are they high-grade or low-grade blisters?

I guess mine are low-grade.

You know, I get to hurting so much,

I just want to sit down and quit.

For a while, that is.

You get up and dump, and then we'll quit.

Pa, you know, for a grownup, you get some right smart ideas?

That feels better than new spring rain.

Señor, run!

Get down!

- What do you want? - We've been talking.

I ain't interested. Now, get off my claim!

Now, wait, wait, wait, wait just a minute.

You owe us, all of us.

Now, we just kind of think it's right and proper

that you sign over the money you got in the bank

to pay us back again.

Now, we can do it easy-like or hard-like.

All you got to do is sign this,

and we make tracks right off your claim.

I got a list of the people I owe money to.

When this mine makes it, they get their money.

You don't expect us to believe that?

I don't care what you believe. Get off my claim!

Well, boys, I guess he favors the hard way.

- You heard him! Get off! - Run! Run!

Ed, put a gun on them.

You know, unlike some folks I know, I try to play it fair.

Now, I'll give you another chance to sign this.

Clint, I told you.

Swindlers only take your money, they don't give it.

We got to reason with him.

All right, I tried talking.

Now we'll play it your way.

Bring him over here.

All right, go ahead.

Well, what's the matter?

Well, this ain't exactly my cup of tea.

The man owes you close to $200.

The least you can do is take it out of his hide.

Well, that may be so,

but I ain't gonna to do any more whipping.

I got a better idea.

One that will give that no-good skunk something to think about.

Bring him over here.

Give him a drink of water... A long one!

Now are you ready to sign?

No!

Pa, sign it!

Drop the gun, señor.

Okay, get him out of there!

Now!

All right, now, get out of here!

All of you!

Señores, you better go,

or I cut his throat.

I am very good, señores.

He won't even feel it.

Well...

go on!

Well, do as he says!

Move out!

I-I came here to get my money back,

not to get my head cut off.

Come on, let's go.

Let him go.

These rats...

scum, skunks!

What in the tarna...? Who done this?

Oh, it's Fisher and Holt.

Must have went down the back trail.

I didn't meet up with 'em.

They tried to get pa

to sign over the money we got in the bank.

I didn't sign.

We got to get you two into Doc right now.

Pedro, hitch up the team for me, will you?

- Si, Señor. - Take it easy, Jim. Come on.

They give you a workin' over, didn't they?

Well, you can't blame me for asking, Doc.

Well, no.

One of my girls says

that she's got double lobular pneumonia...

I thought it might be catching.

Well, I tell you, it sounds more to me

like it's double lobular laziness.

And I think, uh,

there's nothing I can do about that.

Well, I guess I'll have to make a house call.

Well, now, watch it, though.

Just don't go to treating gunshot wounds,

or anything like that.

I'll see you, Kitty.

- Kitty? Doc? - Yes!

I got the Forbeses here.

- They're hurt bad. - What happened here? -Oh?

- He's bleeding bad. Look at his back here. - Brian?

- I can make it. - Brian, what happened?

Well, he really got us, Miss Kitty.

Help him up here, Festus.

Here, Jim, get up there.

They just whipped the whey out of him with a whip.

Festus, get me that, uh...

that tallest bottle there off a...

Oh, what did they do to you, boy?

Oh, they just twisted my arm a little.

Oh, let's have it... a little...

Aah!

It's up here, in my shoulder.

Oh, it is, huh?

Well, you just...

just leave it like that till I finish with your pa.

Yes, sir.

This here the one, Doc?

Yeah, that's it. Thanks, Festus.

Now, Jim, this is sure not going to feel very good.

I'm sorry.

Well, Festus, what happened?

The way I gather, Jase Holt and Clint Fisher

and a bunch of them fellers went up yonder

and tried to make Jim sign a paper.

That's right, ma'am.

Make him sign a paper?

Yes, ma'am; to get the mine money we got in the bank.

Like I was a-tellin' you,

you could throw them fellers in jail for trespassing,

or beating up on you, and you wouldn't do it.

Well, somebody ought to do something about this,

I'll tell you that.

I sure agree with that.

Festus, come on. Let's go get Matt.

- Yes. - To a place.

No! No! PI... Please.

Look, I appreciate it.

I know you mean well.

I know you want to help, but I don't need no help...

The marshal's, nor nobody's.

Well, why not, Jim?

I... I just... I just don't.

Now, please.

Please!

Well, it's your skin.

What little there is of it left.

Hey, Sam!

This is a dead soldier.

Bring over a live one.

- Hey! - Hey! Whoa!

No! No.

Here you are.

Go get her, Ed!

Go get her!

Oh! Oh! There they are.

Down! Put me down!

Put me down...

Put me down!

No!

Put me down!

No! No, no, no!

No!

Did you see that?

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up!

What happens if he goes to the marshal?

Who?

Forbes.

Well, if he wants to go to the marshal and talk,

I say he's welcome.

Who's gonna believe a liar and a swindler,

even if he has got a sore back?

Besides, then he'll have to tell everybody

what he's doing back in a spent-out mine.

Yeah, yeah, but it's the same as the last time.

What we need is good, solid, in-the-hand proof.

Well, don't you worry about it, 'cause I got a couple of ideas.

Yeah, you got ideas, huh?

I think you've had enough good ideas

to last until the Long Branch starts growing some leaves.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means I saw the Forbeses

when they were brought into Doc's office.

Are they giving you trouble, Miss Kitty?

Not as much as they gave Jim and Brian Forbes.

If you don't have any shame in you,

then you certainly ought to.

What happened, Miss Kitty?

Festus hauled the Forbeses into Doc's office,

and Jim's back looks like a bloody washboard.

And young Brian almost had his arm twisted right off.

Well, he was up there, wasn't he?

Working at the mine with his pa, learning all the tricks.

Who says that we know anything about it?

Jim Forbes.

You must sure be worked up

to believe the world's biggest liar.

- Well, I believe her. - So do I.

You're not alone, Louie!

We wouldn't listen to a bunch of drunks like you.

You think Jim Forbes wouldn't dream up a story

like that so's we'd feel sorry for him?

You don't think he'd beat up on his own kid to do that?

Now wait a minute. Now wait a minute!

That man took my last cent three years ago.

We were saving up to go to "Californie."

He's got a forked tongue if I ever heard one.

And that's the truth, Kitty.

Are you calling Miss Kitty a liar?

Oh, I ain't calling anybody a liar.

I'm sorry, Miss Kitty.

We didn't mean to crowd you. It's just that...

All right, all right.

I brought this on myself.

I don't usually start things that I can't stop.

And I'm going to stop this.

Now, why doesn't everybody just step right up to the bar

and have a drink on me?

Wait a minute!

Except any of you that think

that Brian ought to suffer for the sins of his father.

Now anybody who thinks that,

you can just start walking.

Oh, come on, let's get out of here.

We can get a drink someplace else.

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I still don't like this, Clint.

One way in means only one way out.

Oh, stop spooking, will you?

It was right about here that he...

brought the judge to show him during the trial.

They sure pushed it in further since they come back.

Yeah. Lot of blasting.

Well, that sure is the same stuff that's...

coming off the tunnel wall, all right.

Hey. Hey, lookie here.

- Lookie here. - What?

What? Just like before.

- Now, just like before. - What's like before?

Quartz. This is quartz,

the stuff that he salted the mine with.

It's the same thing that he brought into Dodge

in those sacks.

Why, that double-dealing, card-stacking, no-good polecat.

He's trying it all over again.

Just the way we...

What's that?

Somebody's coming in.

Put out the light.

Who's in here?!

What are you doing here?

Well, I-I, uh, w-we...

How is he?

I don't know; maybe I hit him harder than I thought I did.

Is he dead?

Come on, let's get out of here.

Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute.

What do you think?

Why not?

It'll all be an accident, huh?

Yeah, well, like the banker says,

if you don't get paid, you foreclose.

Come on.

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Pa? Pa!

Are-are you all right?

- Ay, yi-yi... - Yeah, I'm...

- That was too close for comfort. - I'm all right.

The mine's gone.

The years...

the work.

Pedro...

you saddle my horse.

But Señor, you c...

Saddle my horse!

Oh, you kept it loaded, too.

Yeah, but-but why?

I didn't set that charge.

Holt and Fisher did.

What are you doing?

You're not going down there all alone; I'm going with you.

No, you're not. You're staying here.

I'm the one who did the crawling.

There ain't gonna be no more crawling.

Brian...

you know, you ma could have married Hank Shodahl.

He's a farmer.

Instead, she picked me.

A mole, gopher,

looking for rainbows... underground.

Well, the only gold I ever found aside from your ma was...

you.

Get 'em, Pa! Get even!

And come back.

Just can't figure that old scudder Doc out.

Why not?

All I said to him

was that maybe Jim had ought to give up the mine.

And I said, "So far, he could've found that much gold

"in a bowl of soup down at Delmonico's,

"instead of being out there a-sweatin'

and a-breakin' his back like that."

What did Doc say?

He said something

I ain't been able to figure out yet.

What's that?

"Little people has got little faith."

Whatever that means.

Kitty, I don't...

Fisher and Holt, where are they?

Well, they were here but they left.

Said they was going down to the harness shop.

He's wearing a gun, Festus.

You better go get Matt.

I'm gone.

Fisher!

If he got blew to pieces,

somebody sure put him back together again fast.

And gave him a gun, too.

I'll take you one at a time or both together.

Don't make no difference.

I'll take him.

Now fill your hand, Forbes; I'll take you.

Hold it.

What's going on here, Jim?

I'm gonna kill 'em, Matt.

I've taken all I can take... They blowed up my mine.

He's a liar.

We went up there, but it was to check up on him.

Yeah, we saw where he salted the mine.

He-he was gonna swindle the whole town all over again.

Well, now if he blowed that up,

he did it to cover the evidence.

Yeah, he's mad because we scalped him

before he scalped us.

Send him back to jail, Marshal!

A rattlesnake don't change his rattle.

Oh, he's a robber and a thief, Matt, and you know it.

What about my money?

He's a no-good twistin' rock rat.

We're gonna run him right out of town.

Dodge would be a better place with the likes of him gone!

Yeah, he's got a lot of money.

Why doesn't he pay it all? He's got it in the bank.

That's right. That's right.

You see, Marshal, it ain't just Holt and me... it's everybody.

Pa!

Pa, wait! Look!

It's a strike, señor!

Look at this one.

Where?

The whole mountain.

Pedro found it... The blast opened it up.

It's a strike! Oro supremo.

Pedro, let me see that.

Lookie here, Matthew.

A sack of that would buy Dodge City.

It's gold.

It's gold.

Look.

Smell it.

That's gold.

Now you'll all get your money back.

Only I think I owe you two a little something extra...

for being my powder monkeys.

- I got it, I got it. - Now, wait a minute, that's mine.

- It was closer to me. - No, I set off the charge.

I got it...

Jim...

mighty happy for you.

Thank you, Matt.

Boy, let's get that ore down to the assay office.

I don't think he's gonna laugh at you today.

Festus, you know, you keep looking at that any harder,

it's gonna break in two.

All right, Matthew, just keep on a-hoorahin' me,

but even Hard Rock Hogan Haggen never seen anything like this.

Well, I'll tell you, as long as you feel that way,

maybe we ought to go over and you can, uh,

buy me a beer in honor of his memory.

Well, I reckon I could do that, but...

'member I told you Uncle Hogan Haggen learnt me everything

I know about mining?

Mm-hmm.

'Cause he learnt me something else, too.

What's that?

How to talk a lady saloon keeper out of a couple of cold beers.

Want to give it a whirl?

Let's go.