26min | Adventure, Family, Western | TV Episode
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon escort Peter Swayze, a member of the Hudson Bay Company's Board of Directors, back to the fort. While he is eventually meant to replace the current factor of the company, Swayze is ignorant and childish. During a trade with the Ojibwe tribe, the factor negotiates a leadership dispute between Chief Orobayish and his son Quayquay.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Writers: Andy Lewis, Victor Arthur
Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Robert Goodier
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon escort Peter Swayze, a member of the Hudson Bay Company's Board of Directors, back to the fort. While he is eventually meant to replace the current factor of the company, Swayze is ignorant and childish. During a trade with the Ojibwe tribe, the factor negotiates a leadership dispute between Chief Orobayish and his son Quayquay.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Writers: Andy Lewis, Victor Arthur
Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Robert Goodier
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00:00Hudson's Bay, the saga of the great Hudson's Bay Fur Company and of the brave men who traveled
00:19the untracked wilderness from Labrador to California, from Minnesota to Alaska, starring
00:28Barry Nelson as Jonathan Benner, Hudson's Bay man.
00:44With George Tobias as Pierre Falcone.
01:06Acting on orders from the Hudson's Bay Company, Pierre Falcone and I started toward our destination.
01:54He was nephew of my lord, the Earl of Sedgway, of our board of directors in London.
01:59They decided to send him here for experience.
02:02They decided to put him in charge of Wolf House and they sent me to look after him.
02:16Wolf House, Mr. Swayze.
02:18It's easy, you know.
02:22It looks a dreary sort of place.
02:24Well, it's a small post, but it does a good trade.
02:28It's not an easy post.
02:29There's been trouble here recently.
02:31The Indians...
02:32What do you do for amusement?
02:33Amusement?
02:34Swat mosquitoes, eh?
03:00She goes with the post, the mosquitoes will have to wait.
03:02Well, that's Sally Hay, the factory's daughter.
03:09Yeah!
03:10Hello!
03:11Did you come to marry me?
03:16This is Sally Hay, Mr. Peter Swayze.
03:19Miss Hay!
03:21I'm touching it!
03:27Well, it's an ugly little place enough.
03:38Dad, you stuck here long?
03:41I built the post, sir.
03:44Really?
03:45I came to this country when I was 16.
03:47I worked as an apprentice clerk and assistant trader.
03:50And then, sir, I was judged fit enough to have a post of my own.
03:54Quite.
03:5517 years ago, I was the first white man in all these parts.
03:58Takes me a few weeks to catch on to things, eh?
04:01Maybe even longer.
04:03Know anything about medicine, Mr. Swayze?
04:06Of course.
04:08I've been taking medicine at one time or another all my life.
04:12When you take over from me as factor, the Indians will be expecting you to give it.
04:16Here's a whole country full of suffering.
04:18Plague and pox and dysentery and gangrene from gunshot wounds
04:22and small enough comfort in those few bottles.
04:25Well, that's ridiculous.
04:27A chap like me being a doctor?
04:30Sinner? Camper? Lovenin?
04:36Plague?
04:38Well, you don't have medicine for plague.
04:40Oh, no. That calls for a bit of magic.
04:44Tell him about it, John.
04:46Well, a few summers back, there was an outbreak of plague,
04:49and it, well, it killed some of the Indians,
04:51but a lot more just scared themselves into dying.
04:54So I got this idea of working magic, and I went to them,
04:57and I told them I'd captured the plague spirit and put it in that bottle.
05:03Surely they didn't believe you.
05:05They stopped dying.
05:07Well, there's a tribe of Indians coming in soon.
05:10Rock River Ojibwes. Old Orobeish's bunch.
05:14Have you told them about the problem there, John?
05:16Well, I, um...
05:21Oh, I've made a room ready for you, Mr. Spray, if you care to see it.
05:27I'd be delighted.
05:29Here, take my bag up. There's a good fellow.
05:31I'll go.
05:33The bag.
05:34Up the room.
05:38I carry his pack.
05:40He's one time.
05:44Is that the best man the company could send?
05:46Best man the company wanted to send.
05:50I can't even make it around.
05:52I don't have any transport.
05:54Well, now, these supplies aren't going to last through the weather.
05:58We'll have to have something.
06:00As soon as this thing moves.
06:19Shhh.
06:49One thing I say about him.
07:12He don't learn much about fur trading.
07:14And Indians, he don't care about them.
07:17And he don't have much respect.
07:19He make me carry his pack.
07:22But by golly, he daren't invest again Walt's best of any one month of reportage.
07:28Be more funny yet if he don't make bad trouble.
07:31Well, we better get some sleep.
07:33The Indians are going to be here to trade first thing in the morning.
07:48Hup.
07:50Hup.
08:17Hup.
08:35Morning, Mr. Swayce.
08:38Indians attacking, Banner?
08:39In a way.
08:40They've come to trade.
08:42Revelation noisy about it?
08:43No.
08:44Gooky up a little early.
08:46Mr. Swayce, come down and take a look and you'll know how it's done.
08:49A beastly boar having to get up in the middle of the night and haggle with a lot of savages.
08:55Swayce.
08:57Why don't you tell me about it?
09:00Tell you about what?
09:01What?
09:02What's in your mind?
09:04Nothing.
09:06Absolutely nothing.
09:09In fact, a great pooh bar my uncle seriously doubts that I have a mind.
09:13Sounds to me like you're doing your best trying to prove he's right.
09:17Well, it's your business.
09:19Anyway, watch yourself during the trading, will you?
09:22The Indians are pretty touchy.
10:14Seems like a great fuss to make over a tribe of Indians.
10:18Well, they're trapped for a whole winter.
10:20Traveled for a month to get here.
10:22They lost a few canoes on the way and maybe a few men.
10:25They like ceremony.
10:27Maybe they've earned it.
10:29You told me bring furs.
10:30I say I have.
10:32I've traveled by little here.
10:34Water very high.
10:36I've met stone Indians with Tumac.
10:40He say he will fight green knives, but I think not.
10:46Who's the old fellow?
10:48Orabeche.
10:49Chief.
10:51He's a shifty-eyed old beggar, isn't he?
10:53That's politeness.
10:54He only looks straight at a man if you want to insult him.
10:59Who's the young savage over there by himself?
11:02It's Kwe Kwe.
11:04Son of Orabeche.
11:06He say there is cholera at Two Crows.
11:09I have passed lodges of birch Indians.
11:14They have starved this winter.
11:16Some eat each other.
11:18Others go away.
11:20I met wolf that hides.
11:22How long has he gone like this?
11:25If you're bored, take a look at Kwe Kwe.
11:30It's probably him.
11:32He's jealous of his father.
11:34He says the old man is too old to be chief.
11:39He wants his job.
11:41Does that mean trouble?
11:44Could be.
11:45You told us to come here.
11:47Now be generous, I say.
11:49Trade us good tobacco.
11:51Black, wet, and twisted hard.
11:54Give us good measure of powder, ground fine.
11:57Keep thumb out of cup.
12:00Give us rifles small in the hand, I say.
12:03With locks that do not freeze.
12:05Give us shot that carries straight.
12:08Be generous, I say.
12:10Orabeche knows I'm the best of the factors.
12:12And generous to a fault.
12:14I will make him very rich for his furs.
12:17And myself, miserably poor.
12:19And to prove it.
12:25And because he is such a good friend,
12:28I give him this.
12:33Now a great blow to that.
12:49Looks a bit silly, doesn't he?
12:51And where is the son of this great chief,
12:54the mighty Kwe Kwe?
13:04He wants the talking hat, too.
13:07What do you do about that?
13:09Watch this, watch.
13:11Kwe Kwe would like to wear this hat?
13:15Very well.
13:17I will ask the hat.
13:24Ick, Ick, Ock.
13:27Illy, Ip, Ip.
13:29Illy, Ip, Ip.
13:31Ick, Ick, Ock.
13:51The hat says it is to be worn by a chief only.
13:56It says, if Kwai Kwai is a good and brave man,
14:00and gives honor to his father,
14:02someday he may wear just such a hat as this, but not now.
14:11Who is the man with white face of goat?
14:15I need you.
14:16Stay.
14:17My friend, I'm a weary man,
14:19and soon to be sent to my home across the sea.
14:23This is Peter Swayze, the new Hudson's Bay factor.
14:26And I've given him all my powers.
14:29Then he can give me hat.
14:34Strong young man has power.
14:37Old man, none.
14:39Because Kwai Kwai is son of Orobeish.
14:43I give him this.
14:56I will kill you Englishmen.
14:58No.
15:00No.
15:02Let me.
15:05Let me.
15:06No.
15:08No.
15:09Let me.
15:10Let me.
15:10No.
15:11Let me.
15:13Let me.
15:18Let me.
15:24I will do it, George.
15:26It's a good thing my head is so hard.
15:41Kwe Kwe took Swayze.
15:43No.
15:44He will kill him for sure.
15:46Maybe he's dead already.
15:47Nah.
15:48Kwe Kwe wants revenge.
15:49A quick death won't satisfy him.
15:51He'll torture him slow.
15:53But not in the sunrise.
15:54Come on.
15:55Come on.
15:56Let's go.
15:59Pa.
16:00Pa, they've taken Mr. Swayze.
16:02They'll kill him.
16:25They're out there by that second line of trees.
16:38They know we haven't enough men to rush them, so they'll stay close enough for us to hear
16:41Swayze scream.
16:42He could fool you.
16:43He might not scream.
16:44Oh, he'll scream right enough.
16:45And there's only one way to stop him.
16:53Kill him.
16:54Banner, if you could just circle around.
16:56Father.
16:57It's the only kind way, girl.
16:59It'll save his suffering.
17:00Can't you offer them something?
17:01Won't they bargain for him?
17:02Well, you could at least try.
17:08We are trying, girl.
17:09Mr. Hart.
17:10Go to report.
17:11There's some activity.
17:12They're sending a messenger.
17:34Englishman.
17:35Let me loose, Coy Cray.
17:36Where are you?
17:37What's the matter with you, Coy Cray?
18:01You old man.
18:26I can't hear you.
18:27Come into the fort.
18:28Coy Cray is chief.
18:35Coy Cray said he will kill Englishman, because he laughed at us.
18:42Then he will come and burn this place and you inside.
18:47But if you give him 20 blankets and 25 rifles, maybe he will not burn this place.
18:5325 rifles, maybe he will not burn this place.
19:00Tell Kwe Kwe the English fool is of no use to us,
19:04but that if he lets him loose,
19:05perhaps I'll give him some presents,
19:07some blankets and rifles and the talking hat.
19:11Perhaps even more.
19:14Tell Kwe Kwe to come and speak with me.
19:17He will speak to you after we kill Englishman.
19:24Let's go.
19:45Englishman, you laughed.
19:47You won't understand this, but I wasn't laughing at you.
19:54Brave man, you know, cry like squaw, but laugh again.
20:01No.
20:05Ah!
20:08Oh.
20:15Where did the house go?
20:18If you get up behind that brush,
20:19you'll be close enough for a clean shot.
20:21And make it count.
20:25Brother, you wouldn't kill him.
20:28There's nothing else to do.
20:28They'll kill him anyway, only slower.
20:30Can't you think of something else?
20:34There isn't anything else now.
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21:57You have come to be killed.
21:59Good.
22:00I bring you a gift in exchange for this man.
22:04I will not take gift for that man.
22:06I bring you a great gift.
22:08The warrior lies down before it.
22:11It fills his lodge with howling.
22:15It is trick.
22:16Watch him.
22:17Remember, five summers ago,
22:18the plague walked among you,
22:20snatching up one brave out of three,
22:22until I made a magic medicine
22:24and grabbed the plague and put it in a bottle.
22:29His trick is not a bottle.
22:30Ah, but it is.
22:35Where is Orobeish, the honest chief?
22:38Orobeish will tell you that this is the bottle
22:41I put the plague in.
22:42See, see the label here.
22:44It says so.
22:48This same bottle.
22:49I have seen it.
22:51Yes.
22:53And now, I'll let the Englishman loose,
22:57or Banner will scatter the plague among you.
22:59Quickly, turn Englishman loose.
23:14You'll have to make it on your own, Swayze.
23:17I have to keep up a front.
23:19Oh, where do I got?
23:20Oh, all right!
23:29Where is he?
23:30Saturday.
23:33He smiles in the morning.
23:35And then he goes to bed.
23:37I should go to bed.
23:39Well, thanks for the help.
23:40And bye bye.
23:43Where are you taking me?
23:45I'm going to be in the lodge.
23:47I'm going to get my ticket.
24:18I deliberately blotted my copy book, so you'd give me bad marks.
24:25Pete, I had to make sure I was bad enough so you'd have me sent back to England.
24:30You must do always what your uncle say.
24:34It's considered advisable in our family to try and please him.
24:38Well if you still want those bad marks...
24:41No, thanks.
24:45I must apologize to all of you.
24:48You pay yourself for putting you into all this trouble.
24:52No, I'm going back to face the old ogre myself.
24:55Have it out with him.
24:57Well, I really can't blame you if you don't want to stay.
25:00Oh, it's not that.
25:02I rather expected something of this sort.
25:06You see, I have my own idea of a good life.
25:09In England?
25:10I have always been rather keen on the classics.
25:13I'd like to have a good teaching at Oxford.
25:16Well, just to make sure...
25:17I think I'll turn in those bad marks anyway.
25:21Thanks, old man.
25:22Very thoughtful of you.
25:28Well...
25:30Bye.
25:36You see...
25:42You have forgot something.
25:46My peck.
26:16My peck.
26:46My peck.