Approved | 30min | Adventure, Western | TV Series (1957)
Hawkeye and Chingachcook match their wits against two thieves who have phony identities
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: Robert B. Bailey, Hugh King
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., James Barron
Hawkeye and Chingachcook match their wits against two thieves who have phony identities
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: Robert B. Bailey, Hugh King
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., James Barron
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00:00The immortal pen of James F. Cooper brings you thrilling tales of excitement, blazing
00:14action on the early American frontier, stirring adventures filled with the daring and courage
00:21of Hawkeye, first of the Long Rifles, and his blood brother, Chinguchkuk, last of the
00:30Mohicans.
00:31Hold it.
00:32Now ease off your packs or I'll blast you both with my long rifle.
00:51Second, we ought to lift their scalps as well as their furs, Mohican.
00:56Not want Seneca's scalps, my white brother.
00:58Turn around.
01:00I said turn around.
01:02Now get, and don't even look back, or the last thing in the world you'll hear is the
01:11bark of the long rifle.
01:25May feel like evil spirit running gauntlet.
01:44If those settlers' eyes were powder and ball, we'd be plumbed full of holes by now.
02:00What's going on around here, Mr. Travis?
02:20You and the other settlers around here act like we got the plague.
02:23It'd be better than having a price on your heads.
02:28The only price we're interested in is getting top shilling for our furs.
02:31I'm not buying any stolen goods.
02:33Well, that's a new one.
02:36Usually the way you hear how much we want for you, you start hollering thief.
02:40Maybe we better go see Hollister over at Chenango.
02:42The only place you're going is to jail.
02:46First time I hear it, it's against law to sell furs.
02:48Tis, when you've been stealing them from the Senecas.
02:52No one's ever accused us of stealing anything before, Mr. Travis.
02:55The first time I heard it, I just didn't believe it.
02:58Why did you do it, Hawkeye?
02:59Didn't you know you and Chingach Coo could be recognized, even with masks on?
03:03What Senecas say we steal furs?
03:05Tell me! I make him speak with straight tongue!
03:07You're fortunate you fell into my hands and not the Senecas.
03:10They'd have put you to the stake.
03:11All right, come on, hand over your weapons.
03:13I've turned you over to the sheriff.
03:18Yeah, I guess you've got us dead to rights, Mr. Travis.
03:20We might as well own up and make a clean breast of it.
03:23Save you settlers the trouble of a trial.
03:26You want to confess first, or shall I?
03:28Maybe best we talk together.
03:31Well, that might be a little confusing.
03:33What do you think, Mr. Travis?
03:34Well, what I've heard so far is enough for me.
03:37If you've anything more to say, jail is the place where you'll be saying it.
03:40Yeah, I calculate you're right.
03:42You better give me your gun, Chingach Coo.
03:51Let's go!
03:54Hawkeye! Furs!
03:55Come on!
04:09We leave furs. Run!
04:11Now all settlers are sure we steal from Senecas.
04:14Yeah, they'd be just as happy if we did.
04:16I'm sure they'd be.
04:17I'm sure they'd be.
04:18I'm sure they'd be.
04:19I'm sure they'd be.
04:20I'm sure they'd be.
04:21I'm sure they'd be.
04:22They'd be just as sure if we let Travis lock us behind bars.
04:26That'd kind of hamper us from finding out how come everyone's so certain we've turned highwaymen.
04:30But there are many braves big like me.
04:33Wear mask, change feathers, look like Mohican.
04:37You're reading my mind, Chingach Coo.
04:39Wouldn't take much of a change of buckskins for somebody to look like me either.
04:43But why Senecas tell such big lie?
04:46That's a good question.
04:48I got a feeling that Chief Wandara might have the answer.
04:51Only trouble is whether he'll tell us before or after he ties us to a stake.
04:55Well, let's head that way and see what we can find out.
05:02Many moons trapped fur.
05:09Stark, they here. Anoki Sea.
05:12You Senecas always have envisions.
05:15What is it this time, the evil spirit of the mountains?
05:18No spirits. Hawkeye, Chingach Coo.
05:21They come to trading post.
05:23They must have been surprised at the kind of welcome they got.
05:26Who got the reward for them?
05:27No reward. They get away.
05:30Maybe it's better that way.
05:33If they was putting a lock up, you and me would have to shut up shop
05:36until we could figure out who else we could dress up like.
05:39Hawkeye, Chingach Coo, they plenty trouble.
05:43They swift like fox, smart like cougar.
05:46They follow track even Seneca no find.
05:48Look, Anoki, when a man finds out the law is after him, he hightails it fast and far.
05:53They must be out of that territory by now.
05:56Anoki follow. They take trail to our village.
06:02Either they're plain crazy,
06:05or else they're mighty sure that Chief Wandara will believe whatever they tell him.
06:17No birds.
06:19Only wind singing trees.
06:21That sounds like a dirge.
06:23We better keep our eyes peeled.
06:29Nervous trigger finger. You're escaping my way.
06:47All right, let's get before you're chattering teeth.
06:50Tell them where we're hiding.
06:56Let's circle around and come at them from the side.
07:17Now it appears like our birds have flown.
07:20Seneca, Marcus and Trax.
07:22Yeah, two braves.
07:24One brave. Other Trax, toes point out.
07:28Yeah, you're right, Chingach Coo, most white men walk with their toes out.
07:32You know, this could be the pair that's given us our new reputation.
07:35Trax go this way.
07:46Chief, you can shoot me with my own rifle if I'm not speaking with a straight tongue.
07:51Chingach Coo and me never robbed any of your braves.
07:54The heart of Wandara knows that Hawkeye never speaks with tongue of serpent.
07:59Hawkeye is friend.
08:01Friendship covers our chief's eyes with clouds of darkness.
08:09The snake crawls into our teepees, yet our chief does not step on it.
08:13White men seek these two for stealing, yet Wandara greets them like brothers.
08:18There's a snake crawling around in these teepees, all right.
08:21A bushwhacking snake whose trail led me and Chingach Coo right to this village.
08:25Best way for a guilty man to cover himself is to plant a false trail.
08:30Those who were robbed don't know the guilty men when they see them.
08:34Anoki.
08:43This the white man of Mohican that took your foes?
08:50Don't be afraid.
08:52They're not wearing masks now, and they're not holding their rifles on you either.
08:58That should satisfy even you, Wandara.
09:01Just a minute.
09:06What makes you so sure?
09:09Change his buckskins, put a mask on him?
09:13Are you sure you could tell the difference?
09:17Put on mask, change feathers.
09:20Seneca brave look like Mohican.
09:22These evil ones will throw dust in your eyes.
09:24They're guilty and they know it.
09:26For many moons, Hawkeye and Chingach Coo have been friends of Seneca's.
09:35The heart of Wandara tells him they do not steal from friends.
09:39Maybe the heart of Wandara grows soft and speaks with false tongue.
09:43Do not speak so to Chief of Seneca.
09:45I mean no disrespect to your father, but I got as much right to my say as you have, Negus.
09:49My father may have been white, but my mother came from this village, the daughter of an honored war chief.
09:55Then honor her blood. Respect your chief.
09:57I honor the Seneca blood in me by demanding that Hawkeye and Chingach Coo be punished.
10:04And my respect for your wisdom will grow when I see it done.
10:08No listen to tongue which drip bitter poison.
10:11Before Stark come to village, Hawkeye friend of Seneca.
10:15When Negus papoose, Hawkeye there.
10:18When Negus make first bow, Hawkeye bring arrow.
10:21Many time Hawkeye help Seneca people when trouble.
10:24Now he's helping himself to your furs.
10:27You speak more, maybe cut throat.
10:29Not mine, theirs.
10:30A brave of less than half my years is closing your ears against my judgment.
10:35Chief, your two friends here must have known when they came that you and your son would protect them even though they're guilty.
10:41Show your wisdom. Turn them over to white man's law.
10:45My father, word of Hawkeye always straight like arrow.
10:49He say he no steal, Negus believe.
10:54How say you, Hawkeye?
10:56If we were guilty, chief, we'd be touched worse than a couple of loons that come parading into this village.
11:01Hawkeye and me come with clean hands to make council, find out who say we steal furs.
11:07More than a dozen of our braves described you.
11:09And all of them know what a Mohican looks like even if he is masked.
11:13A chameleon not only hides his head, but he changes colors all over.
11:17Old friend, Hall Chingagecook and me want as an opportunity of getting at the truth.
11:22And proving that your heart's not being false to you about us.
11:25Wandara, if you don't turn these men over to the sheriff, you might find yourself in trouble with the white man's law.
11:31Wandara is chief here. Wandara want justice, not vengeance.
11:37If in ten sons you do not have proof, Wandara's heart turns from you.
11:56With new snow, tracks of fur robbers harder to follow than Sparrow.
12:02Maybe we are in wrong place.
12:05This looks like the place where they robbed the Senecas.
12:09With their tracks covered, they're going to be mighty tough to run down.
12:13We're going to have to get out of here.
12:15We're going to have to get out of here.
12:17We're going to have to get out of here.
12:19We're going to have to get out of here.
12:21We're going to have to get out of here.
12:23It's going to be mighty tough to run down.
12:25The forest is many miles wide. It takes many sons to hunt down all trails.
12:29You're right, Chingagcook.
12:32Unless the hunted can be scared into being the hunters.
12:44No. Anoki not do.
12:48We can't afford to leave those two running loose in the woods, not even for ten days.
12:54All I want you to do is take Negus on a pleasant little hunting trip.
12:58Leave the rest of the details to me.
13:01Anoki grow up with Negus. We become warrior together.
13:04That more important to you than your share of these?
13:10Maybe, maybe Negus not want go hunting.
13:13If you know what's good for you, you'll make sure he does.
13:18Wandara never believe Hawkeye Chingagcook do this evil thing.
13:22You believe anything I tell him when he's chanting a dirge at the funeral of his only son.
13:48Wandara!
13:55Oh, hear me, mighty Manitou.
13:58I, Wandara, chief of all the Senecas, do bid farewell to Negus, my only son.
14:07Take him by the hand, oh Manitou, and guide his spirit to the happy hunting ground.
14:12And so that his spirit may rest in peace, help Wandara find his murderer and judge him with wisdom.
14:26Manitou's heeded your prayer, chief.
14:28Our braves have captured two murdering dogs to lay at Negus' feet.
14:33Stark, if you're accusing us of killing Negus, you'd better be ready to back up your lion with your life.
14:38Big talk from a couple of killers who got debt to rights.
14:41Wandara, I don't know what Stark's told you, but whatever it is, it's his word against mine.
14:46Not only my word.
14:48He was a mite careless on the holdup trail this time, overlooking an eyewitness.
14:54Right, Enoki?
14:56Best witness to murder is one who pulls trigger himself.
15:00No, no, me not shoot.
15:02Hawkeye and Chingagcook, they shoot.
15:04Stark's lion and you're backing him up.
15:07Negus, Enoki, go out hunt beaver.
15:09Enoki, cross to other side of lake.
15:11Here shot, look.
15:12Negus dead.
15:13Who are you?
15:14Stop.
15:19Blood brother in Mohican, speak with straight tongue.
15:22Don't listen to him, Wandara.
15:24He's only trying to save himself and Hawkeye.
15:27Your son is lying up there with a rifle ball in his back because you listened to these two before.
15:33I just as soon put a shot in my blood brother Chingagcook as I would Negus.
15:36Pretty words, but they ain't gonna save your neck.
15:39Or that murder in Mohicans.
15:42He's mine, Chingagcook.
15:44You're just about my size, Stark.
15:47You're always blowing a fair big horn about what a great shot you are.
15:51Chief, put us together under the eyes of Manitou and find out who bushwhacked your son.
15:56So be it.
15:58No food, no drink for three sons.
16:02And this knife shall burn a curse in the face of he who fails the trial of Manitou.
16:22How you feel, my brother?
16:24Fine.
16:32Mohicans stand like dog by grave of master.
16:35Anokhi laugh.
16:37Sound like yap of yellow curd dog with tail between legs.
16:41Mohicans see who yellow dog when test of Manitou begin.
16:45Anokhi is like vulture.
16:48Should have been here an hour ago. What kept you?
16:50Not easy bring food, drink. Must wait till all rest in tipi.
16:59What's that?
17:00Anokhi.
17:01Anokhi.
17:02Anokhi.
17:03Anokhi.
17:04Anokhi.
17:05Anokhi.
17:06Anokhi.
17:07Anokhi.
17:08Anokhi.
17:09Anokhi.
17:10Anokhi.
17:11Anokhi.
17:12Anokhi.
17:13Anokhi.
17:14Anokhi.
17:15Anokhi.
17:17Mohican not smart like Anokhi.
17:19Just stand outside other tipi like dog.
17:22Do nothing while Hawkeye grow weak.
17:32That woodsman is gonna be mighty surprised when he sees how strong Manitou's kept me.
17:47One week later.
18:04Oh, mighty Manitou, great spirit.
18:08Here one Darragh, chief of all the Seneca.
18:11Oh, mighty Manitou.
18:13Stretch forth your hand and
18:16and give your strength to the one that is true.
18:24He who falls and first touches fire
18:27fails the first test.
18:30It'll take more than Manitou to keep your britches
18:32from scorching, woodsman.
18:35♪♪
18:45Begin the trial of Manitou with the voice of the drum.
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19:36Hawkeye has fallen and touched fire.
19:39He fails the first test.
19:43It is the will of Manitou.
19:44I'd have had him burning if this hadn't broke.
19:48Anyway, it ought to prove who's the liar.
19:50Only one test has been taken.
19:53The trial of Manitou calls for three.
19:55He who loses two loses all.
19:59♪♪
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20:30♪♪
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21:04Stark's been getting food and water.
21:07How do you know, my brother?
21:08Well, look at me, Jansky.
21:09My mouth is cracked.
21:11There isn't enough moisture in me to raise a bead of sweat.
21:16He's sweating, and he's strong as an ox.
21:19It's not fair.
21:20Me tell Chief Wandara.
21:22No.
21:23Take more than a little sweat in a man's brow
21:25to convince Wandara.
21:26We'd have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt
21:28that he's been watered and fed.
21:33Only one who could help Stark is Enoki.
21:36Maybe me loosen tongue before last trial.
21:40I hope so.
21:41The way I'm feeling, I'll have trouble seeing
21:43the sights of my rifle, let alone the target.
21:46One more test will bring swift justice
21:49to the killer of Nagus.
21:52♪♪♪
22:07Yellow dog, tell who killed Nagus.
22:11Maybe you live.
22:12Maybe you live.
22:14♪♪♪
22:27♪♪♪
22:37♪♪♪
22:41Stark is not such good shot as my brother Hawkeye.
22:46You talk or die.
22:51Shoot!
22:52No, not shoot.
22:53Step on time.
22:57Me not shoot.
22:58He shoot.
22:59Stark.
23:00He shoot Nagus.
23:01He take first.
23:02Shut your mouth, you clever squire.
23:04Clever squire.
23:05Whoop!
23:06♪♪♪
23:33Nick, fall front to DP of distress.
23:50Now, if you don't mind, I think I'll stick my head
23:53in a bucket of water.
23:55And I fix you plenty of venison.
23:57Yeah.
23:59Hawkeye, my heart turned against you.
24:03But Manitou teach me that Hawkeye always
24:05speaks straight like arrow.
24:07My brother Hawkeye always speaks straight like arrow.
24:11Mohican, take Hawkeye my friend.
24:14Friend of my son Nagus.
24:16Friend of all the Seneca's to my teepee.
24:26Join us again at this same time next week
24:28for another of James Fenimore Cooper's
24:30gripping tales of the early American frontier.
24:33Another exciting adventure of Hawkeye
24:36and his blood brother Chinguchkook.
24:38Last of the Mohicans.
24:41♪♪♪
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