Synopsis: Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Director: William C. McGann
Top cast: John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Helen Parrish, Patsy Kelly, Edgar Kennedy, Dick Purcell
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Director: William C. McGann
Top cast: John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Helen Parrish, Patsy Kelly, Edgar Kennedy, Dick Purcell
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00:00:00♪♪
00:00:12♪ There's gold in the valley, there's gold in the hill, there's gold in the river, and gold in the mill.
00:00:19So empty your caverns and empty your mills, to hold all the gold in the hills.
00:00:25I've traveled through dust, through the rain and the snow, but this is as far as I go.
00:00:31I've digged in the valley, I've digged in the hill, I've planted a river to pay my bills.
00:00:38I've built me a cavern, I've emptied my mill, to hold all the gold in the hills.
00:00:44♪♪♪
00:00:50I've built me a cavern, I've emptied my mill, to hold all the gold in the hills.
00:00:59♪♪♪
00:01:25Excuse me.
00:01:29Pardon me.
00:01:34And this is what this soldier said to the lady.
00:01:44I beg your pardon, Miss. I think you dropped this.
00:01:47Well, thanks, Misty.
00:01:51Where do you hail from, stranger?
00:01:53Boston.
00:01:54That in some foreign country?
00:01:55I'm beginning to think so.
00:01:57I want a glass of milk.
00:02:03Plain. No rum. And no commas.
00:02:14I like milk.
00:02:15He bent that dollar just like it was butter.
00:02:17Oh, it'd be a ring-tailed baboon.
00:02:19Why, they feed the cows up in that there Boston.
00:02:21Pig iron?
00:02:23Scrap.
00:02:26Everybody duck! Cash McKeever is on a tab!
00:02:32He's got the toothache again!
00:02:45Whiskey! Whiskey, you cross-eyed bar-swab!
00:02:48Whiskey for this blazing tooth of mine!
00:02:51Don't gulp it. Just roll it around in your mouth.
00:02:54Why, you interfering flower-mouth!
00:03:00Got him, boys!
00:03:02Now, listen here, McKeever.
00:03:03This is the last time you break the peace.
00:03:05Comanche Bill's got a busted jaw.
00:03:06And you broke up the Red Statue.
00:03:07Please, please, the wreck!
00:03:09Well, you know I'm not responsible when this tooth of mine is aching.
00:03:12Go ahead and hang me if you want to.
00:03:14Leastwise, I won't have no more pain.
00:03:16Who said anything about hanging?
00:03:18I'm going to pull that darn tooth of yours.
00:03:30I don't see the point of no joke.
00:03:32Well, I guess there isn't any.
00:03:34But I can fix that tooth for you if you let me have a look at it.
00:03:36Oh, a dentist, huh?
00:03:38No! I'm no dentist!
00:03:41I'm a druggist.
00:03:42And if you'll just let me put a little painkiller on it, I can...
00:03:45Painkiller?
00:03:46Yes.
00:03:47Well, why don't you quit sashaying around and fix me up?
00:03:49Well, sit down.
00:03:59Open up.
00:04:01I said open up.
00:04:03What was that?
00:04:04Well, it was partly me and partly the Sacramento Boat Whistle.
00:04:07Well, then come on, man, because I've got to catch that boat.
00:04:10Oh, I can't. I'm afraid.
00:04:11Even looking at it might hurt.
00:04:13Well, I'll have to give you something.
00:04:16Something that'll really settle your nerves.
00:04:19Now, just take a whiff of this and think of something pleasant.
00:04:23You mean like bees are singing and birds are buzzing?
00:04:27That's right.
00:04:28Oh, I hear cowbells.
00:04:46Yeah, that'll fix him up.
00:04:49He'll sleep for a while.
00:04:53Did he say sleep for a while?
00:04:55Sounded something similar.
00:05:05We'd better make a run for it, youngster.
00:05:07Nope, we got time. The Marianne always whistles her head off.
00:05:10Get folks out of the slums.
00:05:13Make way, folks. Make way.
00:05:15Thank you. Thank you.
00:05:16Make way for Miss Lacey Miller, the sweetest singer in Sacramento.
00:05:21Make way.
00:05:24People are staring, Helga, because they've never seen a bathtub before.
00:05:27Silly. Ain't worth a look, ain't they?
00:05:29Don't be so common.
00:05:31Make way, folks. Thank you.
00:05:33Make way.
00:05:37All they need is a brass band.
00:05:40Take it easy with that tub, boys. It's real porcelain.
00:05:42My, oh, my. Ain't the lady going to look pretty sitting in that?
00:05:46Any more remarks?
00:05:47You dang fool, that's Rick Dawson.
00:05:49Get out of here.
00:05:50Come on and bring the tub through, boys.
00:05:52Come on.
00:05:53See you all the way across.
00:05:54Bye.
00:05:55Don't drop it in that mud.
00:05:58Lacey, you can't sit foot in that.
00:06:00Oh, I should say not with my new slippers.
00:06:03Wait till I tear up a sidewalk.
00:06:06He knows I hate waiting.
00:06:08Take this on board, youngster.
00:06:10All ladies hate waiting.
00:06:12So they shouldn't be made to wait.
00:06:15Put me down.
00:06:16Nonsense.
00:06:17It's ankle deep.
00:06:18Look, I'm Lacey Miller.
00:06:19Nobody ever dared pick me up like this before.
00:06:21I'm happy to know you.
00:06:23My name's Craig.
00:06:24Tom Craig, lately a buster.
00:06:26Well, the sooner you get back there, the safer, stranger.
00:06:28I don't know.
00:06:30I'm beginning to like the weather.
00:06:39I don't teach you to lay hands on the lady I aim to marry.
00:06:42Oh.
00:06:43Well, in that case, I offer my sincerest apologies.
00:06:46Apologies for walloping you?
00:06:48No, for treating your bride-to-be like a package.
00:06:52What kind of lingo is this?
00:06:54Oh, he's from Boston.
00:06:56Which means I'm ignorant of the customs here.
00:06:58Back in Boston, I had to go through the customs.
00:07:00Now I have to go through the customs.
00:07:02I don't care.
00:07:03I don't care.
00:07:04I don't care.
00:07:05I don't care.
00:07:06I'm ignorant of the customs here.
00:07:07Back in Boston, it's considered good manners to carry a lady across a muddy street.
00:07:12And you had to tear up a sidewalk.
00:07:14Well, this ain't Boston.
00:07:15Don't let that worry you.
00:07:17Where is my hat?
00:07:18Here you are, mister.
00:07:19Here you are, sonny.
00:07:21Here, wait a minute.
00:07:22I'll bend it for luck.
00:07:24Hey, look at what he's doing.
00:07:26Now that's downright pretty.
00:07:28Well, if that don't beat all...
00:07:31I'll take you to your cabin, Lacey.
00:07:33Thank you, sir, for your elegant assistance.
00:07:36The pleasure was all mine.
00:07:38Oh, cut the palaver.
00:07:41Stand by your bow line.
00:07:43Raise up your gangplank.
00:07:44Here, Bill.
00:07:45Raise up your spear.
00:07:49Where are your stumps, you lazy swamps?
00:07:58Well, here I am.
00:08:00You sure are.
00:08:01How's your tooth?
00:08:02Oh, whatever you did to my tooth stopped it aching.
00:08:05Now, look, whatever I can do for you in return, I'll do.
00:08:08Wherever you go in this whole world, I'm going with you.
00:08:11Well, that's fine.
00:08:12Sounds like a nice, quiet life.
00:08:13Oh, but you don't understand.
00:08:15You see, while I haven't got a toothache, I'm as gentle as a mooing dove.
00:08:19And when I got one, I'm a raging, ferocious, long-haired sea lion.
00:08:23A-roaring for my prey.
00:08:25A-roaring?
00:08:26A-roaring!
00:08:27Well, in that case, I'll keep my painkiller handy at all times.
00:08:32Where do we sleep?
00:08:35Come on.
00:08:46I wish Britt was more polite.
00:08:48Like they are in Boston?
00:08:50His voice is so loud, and when he talks, he sounds like a cowherd.
00:08:53Oh, Boston?
00:08:54No, Britt.
00:08:55And I never saw him bend a silver dollar like that, either.
00:08:58I wouldn't think too much about that stranger, Lacey.
00:09:01Britt might not like it.
00:09:02And if Britt don't like a thing, life gets kind of untidy.
00:09:06What is it I won't like, huh?
00:09:07It's manners to knock on a lady's door. Really, it is, Britt.
00:09:11I was asking a question.
00:09:12Oh, yes, sir. Lacey was pondering about the house that you're building,
00:09:15and I said you mightn't like red carpets.
00:09:17Yeah, and I said that you'd give me anything I wanted.
00:09:19Of course I would.
00:09:21Gold carpets, if you wanted them.
00:09:23What do you say we don't wait for the house to be finished, huh?
00:09:25Let's get married right away.
00:09:26No, Britt. You promised to wait until the house was finished
00:09:29and everything the way I wanted before we tied the knot.
00:09:32I got you the bathtub, didn't I?
00:09:34Ah, that's nothing.
00:09:36I want cut glass, chandeliers, and gold doorknobs.
00:09:40Hey, Britt.
00:09:41Oh.
00:09:43I just heard Colin's on board.
00:09:45Colin.
00:09:47Here's where he gets you the gold carpets.
00:09:52Oh, it's a good thing I have quick wits, I'll say.
00:09:55Don't worry about Britt. I can twist him right around my little finger.
00:09:59Uh-huh, but someday he might bite the hand that twists him.
00:10:06Come here.
00:10:08You two wait out here.
00:10:14Hello, Colin.
00:10:15I told you, Dawson, I don't want nothing to do with you.
00:10:18You're a mighty hard man to do business with.
00:10:20Up in Sacramento, you keep so many men armed, there's no privacy.
00:10:23And you light out for Frisco without leaving a word.
00:10:26We got no business to talk about, and that's final.
00:10:29Here's $10,000.
00:10:31And here's a receipt for a half interest in your ranch.
00:10:35I'm buying in, like I said.
00:10:37That wouldn't pay for one quarter of the stock, and you know it.
00:10:40I'm warning you.
00:10:41You ain't holding me up like you did Hernandez and Markson and Treadwell.
00:10:45I'm waiting for you to sign that receipt.
00:10:46Get out of my cabin.
00:10:53What was the shot?
00:10:54Britt's a little busy in there.
00:10:55Oh, Britt.
00:10:56Someone hurt?
00:11:00Hey, wait a minute, Boston.
00:11:01I wouldn't go in there next one to be knocked down again but Britt Dawson.
00:11:04Really?
00:11:07Where do you think you're going?
00:11:08Could I be of any assistance?
00:11:09Why?
00:11:10Well, I heard the shot, and...
00:11:12Oh, you were sore bones?
00:11:13No, I'm a pharmacist.
00:11:15Druggist to you.
00:11:17Oh, a pill peddler.
00:11:18That's rich. Come on in. Have yourself a good time.
00:11:23Sit down.
00:11:27How did this happen?
00:11:29Clumsy galoot grabbed his gun up with a barrel, struck it against something, and it went off in his hand.
00:11:34That's how it happened, eh, Colin?
00:11:36Yeah.
00:11:38A fellow as careless as that oughtn't to own a gun.
00:11:41So be more careful in the future, friend.
00:11:47He's a very bad doc.
00:11:49It's only a flesh wound.
00:11:51Now tell me.
00:11:53How did it really happen?
00:11:55You hurt Dawson.
00:11:56Yeah, but somehow I don't quite believe him.
00:11:59You better.
00:12:01And not only that.
00:12:03We're going to have lace curtains on every single window.
00:12:05And red carpets on every floor.
00:12:07And two bathrooms.
00:12:09Including the one with a tub in it.
00:12:10Eh, Lacey?
00:12:13Why, Britt, you don't have to tell folks about our plumbing.
00:12:16They'll have Boston thinking we got no class in Sacramento.
00:12:19Oh, it'll be more dressy when he's joined us.
00:12:21That is, if you aim to stay.
00:12:23Oh, I aim to.
00:12:24I'm going to open a drugstore.
00:12:26Now, that's just what we need up there
00:12:28to make us a mountain out of there, folks.
00:12:30Well, they'll need it all right
00:12:31if you continue to be so quick on the draw.
00:12:33Now, how do you mean that?
00:12:35I don't see how even a clumsy galoot
00:12:37could shoot himself in his own right hand.
00:12:42Is that a polite way of calling me a liar?
00:12:44Now, Britt, he didn't call you anything.
00:12:46Don't you mix in this, Lacey.
00:12:47I asked you a question.
00:12:49Well, let's say that your version of how it happened
00:12:51shows a great deal of imagination.
00:12:52A fancy way of saying you don't believe me, huh?
00:12:54Frankly, it is.
00:12:58Now, Britt.
00:13:07You can't do this to my friend.
00:13:09Oh, no?
00:13:10No, you can't.
00:13:12Wait a minute, Boston, I'm coming with you.
00:13:19Make your choice.
00:13:21Anyone can have a bath or a drink on me.
00:13:23Here's my notion.
00:13:25We don't want that pill peddler in Sacramento.
00:13:27And if he turns up, anyone who calls himself my friend
00:13:29will run him out of town.
00:13:31Come, Lacey.
00:13:33Come on, folks, let's sweat our windpipes.
00:13:45Well, where do we go from here, pal?
00:13:48Sacramento.
00:13:50Sacramento?
00:14:02Well, what about it?
00:14:03No good, Jakes, he won't rent it.
00:14:05Well, let's sashay along to a friendlier town.
00:14:07Come on.
00:14:08I'm gonna rent a shop in Sacramento
00:14:10if I have to pay somebody into being my landlord.
00:14:13Hey, there's the fellow Dawson knocked overboard
00:14:15off to Marianne.
00:14:17Yeah?
00:14:18He dried out kind of nice, didn't he?
00:14:20Yeah.
00:14:27Good morning.
00:14:29Morning, stranger.
00:14:31Who owns the place next door?
00:14:33Well, if you come right down to it, me.
00:14:35I want to rent it.
00:14:37Open a chemist's shop.
00:14:39Certainly it won't interfere with a trade like yours.
00:14:42Your name wouldn't be Craig, would it?
00:14:45Yes.
00:14:47Why?
00:14:48Nothing.
00:14:49Good day.
00:14:50And shut the door behind you.
00:14:52What's the matter with this town?
00:14:54Why won't anybody rent me a shop?
00:14:56Word's going around.
00:14:57You won't find nobody in town
00:14:58that'll have any truck with you.
00:14:59So good day.
00:15:00Well, why not?
00:15:02I long of Dawson.
00:15:04Britt Dawson.
00:15:06What is he, king around here?
00:15:07Just about.
00:15:09Now get along quick before somebody sees you.
00:15:11All right, Drambot, keep your beard on.
00:15:13Get along.
00:15:15Another scared rabbit.
00:15:17Well, there's just one more place.
00:15:19Over by the saloon.
00:15:27This store hunting is sure dry work.
00:15:30And me feet are just a killing me.
00:15:32All right, go rest them at the bar.
00:15:40Hey, give me a beer.
00:15:41Make it long and make it wet.
00:15:45Hey, that's Lacey Miller over there, isn't it?
00:15:47What's she doing here?
00:15:48She works here, mister.
00:15:49This is Dawson's place.
00:15:53You're going to take a short journey over water,
00:15:54but you just did that from Frisco.
00:15:56That's not news.
00:15:57Well, it's in your fortune.
00:15:59Here you are next to the king of spades,
00:16:00but that's Britt, of course.
00:16:01Won't you tell me something different?
00:16:03All right, all right, here.
00:16:05Shovel them over and cut again.
00:16:07And keep your mind on your wish.
00:16:10And keep my mind off it.
00:16:12And keep my mind off it.
00:16:17One luck of any.
00:16:19The last empty shack in town belongs to Mr. Dawson's girl.
00:16:24And the saloon belongs to Dawson, too.
00:16:26I think that would be an unhealthy joint.
00:16:32No, no, not that.
00:16:34Oh, give me a whiskey.
00:16:36Make it double.
00:16:38Never mind.
00:16:41Uh-uh, there's a new man coming into your life.
00:16:43What's he look like?
00:16:44Trouble.
00:16:45How do you do, Miss Miller?
00:16:47I've never seen anything happen so fast.
00:16:49Well, if it ain't Mr. Boston.
00:16:51Surprised?
00:16:52No, I heard you were in town.
00:16:54Have you rented your store yet?
00:16:56Kind of fancy the one next door.
00:16:58Know who it belongs to?
00:17:00And you still got the nerve to ask me to rent it to you?
00:17:02Does it take nerve?
00:17:04Does it take nerve?
00:17:05Go away, Helga.
00:17:07Oh, I understand.
00:17:08You'd be the last person in the world
00:17:09to want to do anything against Mr. Dawson's wishes.
00:17:11Oh, no.
00:17:13I ain't afraid of him.
00:17:15I don't have to be afraid.
00:17:17You see, I do as I like around here, Boston.
00:17:19Would you like me for a tenant?
00:17:21Lacey, I...
00:17:23Helga, I know what I'm doing.
00:17:25Say, what would you sell there?
00:17:27Everything in the way of medicines.
00:17:29With no doctor here, it's a real necessity.
00:17:31Ought to be a gold mine.
00:17:33Say, you could charge a dollar a pill.
00:17:35Well, that's not exactly the idea.
00:17:37I'd charge a fair price and expect a fair profit.
00:17:39Oh.
00:17:40Does that spoil the plan?
00:17:42I'd give you half the profits for rent.
00:17:45Half?
00:17:46Mm-hmm.
00:17:47Oh.
00:17:48Say, that'd make us partners, wouldn't it?
00:17:50Yes.
00:17:51Partners?
00:17:53She'll be sole owner ten minutes after Britt finds out about it.
00:17:57Scared, Boston?
00:17:59I'll take a chance.
00:18:01Is it a deal?
00:18:04Sealed.
00:18:06Thanks, partner.
00:18:07Partner?
00:18:10Come on, kegs.
00:18:12We're in business.
00:18:13Oh.
00:18:24Now get out and stay out!
00:18:26We sure made it hot.
00:18:30Let's roll into the palace for a drink.
00:18:32What's going on next door?
00:18:34It's a real sign, kegs.
00:18:36You can see it a mile off.
00:18:38Hey, you!
00:18:40Hey, I wish you wouldn't holler when I'm hammering!
00:18:50A fine thing shooting at a man with nails in his mouth.
00:18:54Let's put him up.
00:18:55You get through with your little joke, you might let us in on it.
00:18:57My name's Joe Dawson.
00:18:59My brother say you could have this store.
00:19:00I didn't consult him about it.
00:19:02Nobody store keeps in this town without Britt Dawson's say so.
00:19:05Except me.
00:19:06Gonna look real nice, isn't it?
00:19:08You think so?
00:19:09Yank that sign down, chick.
00:19:10I wouldn't do that.
00:19:12Maybe you get the idea by decorating it with lead.
00:19:15That's the way we do it.
00:19:20I'll take care of it.
00:19:22I'll take care of it.
00:19:24Go play Indian someplace else.
00:19:26Say, what's going on around here?
00:19:28Oh.
00:19:30Little brother Dawson wants to wreck the shop.
00:19:32Little brother Dawson had better watch out for himself.
00:19:34I'm partners in this shop.
00:19:36You're partners?
00:19:37Yeah, so you better run along and mind your own business.
00:19:39Does Britt know about this?
00:19:41Why don't you ask him?
00:19:43I will.
00:19:47Well, what do you think?
00:19:48Oh, yeah.
00:19:49It's wonderful.
00:19:50Is this the way it's supposed to look?
00:19:51Oh, the stock isn't here yet,
00:19:53but wait till I get that front window fixed
00:19:54with the colored bottles and stuff.
00:19:55Oh, yeah.
00:19:56It'll be very pretty.
00:19:57Let's celebrate at the palace with a drink.
00:19:59Just the thing to wash down those nails I swallowed.
00:20:01A keg of beer, a keg of nails.
00:20:03It's all the same to him.
00:20:04I gotta get some work out of him.
00:20:06We'll celebrate later.
00:20:08Let's fix the sign.
00:20:22Let's go.
00:20:36Let's sing a song about a man that everyone should know
00:20:40A funny face, old-timer, known as Californian Joe
00:20:44He owns a lazy swayback mule that travels mighty slow
00:20:48The mule's a little faster than old Californian Joe
00:20:52Oh, slow, Californian Joe
00:20:56Known from the Pacific to the Texas Alamo
00:21:04There was a man beneath his hat that some folks might call hair
00:21:08He wore his beard down to his knees, but old Joe didn't care
00:21:12He went and bought a curry comb to brush his hair one day
00:21:15And when he lifted up his hat, two pigeons flew away
00:21:19Oh, slow, Californian Joe
00:21:23Known from the Pacific to the Texas Alamo
00:21:30He used to wander all around as quiet as a mouse
00:21:34But Joe was sure to be there when the drinks were on the house
00:21:38Oh, slow, Californian Joe
00:21:42Known from the Pacific to the Texas Alamo
00:21:46Oh, slow, Californian Joe
00:21:50Known from the Pacific to the Texas Alamo
00:22:06Darling, that fella aiming to read in here?
00:22:09There's no telling. He sure is a queer fish
00:22:16Who is he, anyway?
00:22:18Craig's Pharmacy, the new druggist
00:22:20Druggist? Remind me to ask him to let my aromatisse
00:22:30No monkeying with that hand
00:22:33Oh, say, Mr. Britt
00:22:36Would you buy me a little snort?
00:22:39Get out of my way, Whitey, you drunken buzzard
00:22:46Say, Britt, there he is
00:22:48Yeah, there's Craig. But have you seen the sign on his store?
00:22:50Yes, and I want to know how he and it got there after my orders
00:22:53Ask Lacey
00:22:54Lacey?
00:22:55Yep, she told me personally
00:22:56Their partner's in the store
00:22:57You know better than to lie to me, Joe
00:22:59Cut my throat if it ain't the truth, Britt
00:23:01Just dance with me
00:23:08I don't understand
00:23:09You need a mite more paint
00:23:11He started to clap, and then when I finished my song, he started to read again, just like he wasn't interested
00:23:16You'd better hurry and change
00:23:17Oh, Britt! When did you blow in?
00:23:20Get out of here, Helga
00:23:21Since when do you start giving orders around me, Britt?
00:23:23Since now. Get, Helga
00:23:25I ain't contradicting no one
00:23:27What makes you so good-tempered today?
00:23:29What is this I hear about you being partners in a drug store?
00:23:31Oh, that
00:23:32Well, are you or aren't you?
00:23:34You don't have to shout. Of course I am
00:23:37Why shouldn't I go in business if I feel like it?
00:23:40Business?
00:23:42Now, Britt, you don't have to be like that
00:23:45I had the shack standing there doing nothing, and I had a chance to make a little money out of it
00:23:50I wish I could believe this was on the level
00:23:53Maybe you will when I tell you that I get half the profits
00:23:57Huh?
00:23:58And being no drug store in town, there'll be plenty
00:24:01And you know that we can charge him a dollar a pill?
00:24:04Then you're not just doing this for his benefit
00:24:09Britt, since when did I do anything for anybody's benefit but my own?
00:24:15That's right, lady. For a minute I was forgetting
00:24:19Look, Britt, I've got to change for the next song. You'd better run along
00:24:22All right. But remember, if I catch Boston so much as giving you the eye, I'll put a slug in him
00:24:29More beer?
00:24:30No, thanks
00:24:35Good evening, Boston
00:24:37Oh, hello. How are you?
00:24:40You don't act like you recollect I had you thrown overboard
00:24:43Yes, I remember all right. How have you been since?
00:24:47How have I been?
00:24:48Yes. You know, you oughtn't to give way to those outbursts of temper
00:24:53Yes. You know, you oughtn't to give way to those outbursts of temper
00:24:57It's bad for you. Accelerates the pulse, overworks the heart, gives you indigestion
00:25:07You mean to say you're not sore at what happened?
00:25:09Why should I be? You didn't really interfere with my plans
00:25:14I'm in Sacramento and opening my drug store
00:25:19There you are
00:25:20Oh, Mr. Craig, could you recommend some rubbing oil for Tonkin's shoulder?
00:25:24I think so. Put a teaspoonful of this in a pint of boiling water and just apply it
00:25:31Don't rub it in or you'll take the skin off
00:25:33Sometimes I've wanted to do just that
00:25:35Not with anything from my shop, please
00:25:37Tonics may be tonics, but I can't get Archie to take this
00:25:40So I'll take my money back if you please
00:25:42Well, what's the matter with it, Archie?
00:25:43Don't like it
00:25:44That's too bad. I was raised on that fine old remedy
00:25:48It's a great muscle builder, too
00:25:51Gee, look at it
00:25:52Well, for lamb's sake
00:25:53We'll take it back, Ma
00:25:54Get me one, Ma. Get two
00:25:56Two?
00:25:57Yeah, I got a date to fight Archie
00:26:05What are you doing out here that's so useful?
00:26:07Just admiring your washing
00:26:10You get shirts so nice and clean
00:26:12I don't know how I ever got along without you
00:26:14That's the last cleaning and washing I'm doing for you
00:26:16How's that?
00:26:17Well, a single girl can't do for a fellow regular without people talking
00:26:20And I got my good name to consider
00:26:22People talking? Saying what?
00:26:23Oh, nothing
00:26:24Just asking if you and I are aiming to get hitched
00:26:28Well, you better get out of here quick and permanent
00:26:30Oh, I say, thanks
00:26:31Well, I think I'll get in the laundry first
00:26:34What are you doing with my gun?
00:26:35Oh, I used to be a mighty pretty shot
00:26:37Excuse me
00:26:47Thank you
00:26:49Any questions?
00:26:51Helga, be mine
00:26:53Why?
00:26:54Kegsie, this is such a surprise
00:27:00Now that you've seen the whole town, Ellen
00:27:02Yes, what do you think of our Sacramento?
00:27:04Haven't seen a man I'd sit at the same dinner table with
00:27:06Oh, naturally. The settlers are rather crude, but the...
00:27:08Good heavens, who's that?
00:27:13Oh, she's just the singer from the dance hall
00:27:15She looks like she just escaped from a bird cage
00:27:18And over there is the new drug store
00:27:21And is that by any chance the new druggist?
00:27:24I'm sure I hope you'll make a success of it, Mr. Craig
00:27:27Well, thank you, Mrs.
00:27:32Coggins is the name
00:27:33Coggins? That's a downright shame
00:27:36Settle a pretty girl with a name like that
00:27:38Somebody ought to change it for her
00:27:40Coggins is my name, young man
00:27:42Yeah
00:27:43Huh?
00:27:44Oh, sorry
00:27:49Is this the new drug store everybody in town's talking about?
00:27:52Hey, look out there!
00:27:55Look out!
00:27:57What are you trying to do, run me down?
00:28:03Think she owns the street?
00:28:05Oh, quiet, you're scaring the horse
00:28:07I feel faint
00:28:09Ellen, Ellen! She's fainted
00:28:15Ellen!
00:28:18Ellen handles horses like a man, she's never afraid
00:28:21Yes, it's very odd
00:28:23What can we do?
00:28:25Go in the back room and get some water
00:28:27Hold her
00:28:39I'm all right, it must have been a touch of the sun
00:28:42If there's not enough sun out, it's a warmer rattlesnake
00:28:50And that's how I bid goodbye to San Francisco
00:28:52Oh, so you didn't like my hometown
00:28:54Well, I didn't see the best part of it until you came to Sacramento
00:28:59Ooh, fried chicken
00:29:00Men always like fried chicken, don't they?
00:29:02It's all I need to make life perfect and complete
00:29:05That is practically all
00:29:09It certainly is a beautiful view, isn't it?
00:29:11It certainly is
00:29:13Hey, Boston
00:29:15You're wanted at the store
00:29:16The man's here from San Francisco with the medical supplies
00:29:18Why does Tom have to go?
00:29:20He won't leave them unless he checks the list
00:29:22I would pick my one day off
00:29:24It's a good thing you didn't bring anything hot, it might get cold
00:29:41Oh, will I find I'm worthy of the heavens to ascend
00:29:48Where congregations may break up and sermons have no end
00:29:57Jerusalem, my happy home, nay, let me die in your arms
00:30:06Jerusalem, my happy home, nay, never here to be
00:30:14When shall my labors have an end?
00:30:18When I my joy shall see
00:30:29Oh, Senor Hernandez, go get me a glass of punch, por favor, eh?
00:30:32Me too, Jose
00:30:36Rosita, I'm sure he'll propose to her tonight
00:30:38Oh, but Ellen won't accept, she doesn't love him
00:30:42Now what are you two saying about me?
00:30:44Oh, we were just talking about you and Mr. Craig
00:30:47Has he proposed yet?
00:30:48No, but he will before the evening's over
00:30:51He's very much in love with you, Ellen
00:30:53He will be terribly sad when you say no
00:30:55Who's saying no?
00:30:57But you don't love him
00:30:59Well, what if I don't?
00:31:00You girls are so old-fashioned
00:31:02He's good-looking and a gentleman
00:31:05With my father's backing, I can make him a big man in San Francisco
00:31:08Is the young lady present who promised me this dance?
00:31:11Oh, why, I'd forgotten all about you
00:31:15Fine
00:31:24Ellen
00:31:26I, uh, this is the first time, uh
00:31:30Are you in the mood for a very important question?
00:31:33I guess I'm in the mood
00:31:34Well, then I'm gonna ask you right here and now
00:31:38Tom, will you please go in the house and get my fan?
00:31:41Before I ask you the question?
00:31:43Yes, please, it's on the big chest in the hall
00:31:45Oh, all right
00:31:53Oh, hello
00:31:54Well, what is it this time?
00:31:56I'm looking for Tom Craig
00:31:57With some other trumped-up call to the drugstore?
00:32:00You don't fool me one bit
00:32:02Funny, I see through you too
00:32:04Throwing yourself at his head, trailing him like a bloodhound
00:32:07Now even trying to poke your nose in here
00:32:10Haven't you any pride?
00:32:12No, but at least I never pulled a fake feint on him either
00:32:16Why, you cheap-painted hussy
00:32:20Well, thank goodness that I'm not lady enough to hit anybody
00:32:27Here's your fan, Ellen
00:32:28Oh, hello, Lacey
00:32:30Who wants to see me now?
00:32:31Old man Higgins is very sick
00:32:33His little boy's down at the drugstore and won't leave until you get there
00:32:36Well, I guess I'd better go then
00:32:38Well, of course you must go, Tom
00:32:41Poor man, I hope it isn't serious
00:32:43Well, don't forget
00:32:45I'll be down at the dock tomorrow to see you off and ask that question
00:32:48Goodbye till then
00:32:50Good night, Miss Miller
00:32:52Good night
00:32:54She has a remarkably sweet disposition
00:32:57Yes, I've never met anything quite like it
00:33:02Lacey, wait a minute, Ellen
00:33:05I told you about Higgins and that's all I came for
00:33:13Here you are, Sonny
00:33:15The directions are on the label
00:33:17If he doesn't feel better in the morning, let me know
00:33:19Oh, Boston! Boston! Boston! Boston!
00:33:22Hey, what's wrong now, Cage?
00:33:24It's the Dawsons. They're on a land-grabbing tear
00:33:26And the Petersons' house is burning
00:33:28And the Liberts would drive out
00:33:30And it was only with what they stood up in
00:33:33Doesn't anybody fight back around here?
00:33:35Well, what's one man against that whole gang?
00:33:37Well, can't we get them all together?
00:33:39Hey, you better shake a leg, kid
00:33:40The last thing, they were on their way to your house
00:33:42But my pa's not able to lift a hand
00:33:44Oh, don't worry, Sonny. We'll get you some help
00:33:46Let's round up some of the neighbors and give the Dawsons a reception
00:33:49Come on, Cages
00:33:50Are you with us?
00:33:51You're darn tooting, I'm with you
00:33:59Hey!
00:34:11Tompkins! Tompkins!
00:34:13Yeah, yeah, yeah
00:34:14Oh, what in tarnation?
00:34:15The Dawsons are riding
00:34:16We're rounding up some of the neighbors
00:34:17And gonna try to stop them at the Higgins' place
00:34:19Will you come along?
00:34:20As soon as I get my pants on
00:34:21Good
00:34:22Hey, Bates!
00:34:23Who's there?
00:34:24Colin!
00:34:26What's the matter, Colin?
00:34:27Ride over to the Higgins'
00:34:28We're getting up a hot reception for the Dawsons
00:34:30Well, it's about time
00:34:31I'll be right along
00:34:33Shake a leg and don't lose any time doing it
00:34:36I'll be there
00:34:40Meet you at the Higgins' place
00:34:41Right
00:34:56You'd better hide the horses around back of the house
00:35:04Hello, Archie
00:35:05Hello, Mr. Bates
00:35:06Hello, Mrs. Higgins
00:35:07Well, how are you, boy?
00:35:08Not so good
00:35:09Hmm?
00:35:10Sure glad you got here
00:35:11You can help us get pouring to the wagon, Mr. Bates
00:35:13He had not to leave the house
00:35:14Let's take him up in the loft
00:35:16You mean up the ladder?
00:35:17Sure, take the young'uns and go on up ahead
00:35:19Right step smart, George
00:35:20We'll get him up
00:35:21Come on, mister, give me a hand
00:35:22There he is
00:35:29Fine time for me to be laid up
00:35:31Well, that's all right
00:35:32Come on, Archie
00:35:41Hey, they're here
00:35:42I can hear them
00:35:43We're entirely since Craig and the rest of them
00:35:46We're no match for the whole gang
00:35:52Higgins!
00:35:53What are we going to do?
00:35:54We stole them somewhere, eh?
00:36:03Get in there
00:36:04You're going to have a baby
00:36:06You crazy
00:36:07Come on, get out
00:36:09I'll have it
00:36:11And I ain't even married
00:36:15Higgins!
00:36:23What are you doing here?
00:36:24I might ask you the same question
00:36:26I'm looking for Higgins
00:36:27He ain't here
00:36:28Where'd he go this time of night?
00:36:29I...
00:36:30Look who just rode up
00:36:31Packing a gun, too
00:36:32Isn't that the custom in this part of the country?
00:36:35Quite a gathering here tonight, eh?
00:36:37I heard that Mr. Higgins was ill
00:36:39Not Mr.
00:36:40The missus
00:36:41Missus?
00:36:42Yes, the mister went up the river ways to...
00:36:44To get a doctor
00:36:47Don't get too close, Brett
00:36:49Might be catching
00:36:50Oh, don't be afraid of catching bad, Dawson
00:36:52She's having a baby
00:36:54Lie still, Miss Higgins
00:36:56I'll heat some rocks to put at your feet
00:36:59She been suffering much?
00:37:00Not yet
00:37:02But you can never tell about a woman like Mrs. Higgins
00:37:05She'd die before she'd even let out a whimper
00:37:07Yes, yes
00:37:09How insignificant is man when confronted with the divine mystery of birth
00:37:14And the courage of a woman like that
00:37:17I don't suppose that means anything to you
00:37:19Nobody can say Brett Dawson don't respect motherhood
00:37:23Don't worry, ma'am
00:37:24We'll wait for your old man outside
00:37:32I'll show you how I respect that mother
00:37:36How are you fast-talking son of a...
00:37:39We're in trouble
00:37:40There's a crowd coming over the hill
00:37:41Come on, Brett, we're in trouble
00:37:43Hey, we're outnumbered
00:37:44I said get out of here
00:38:13No!
00:38:26Tell them again how you stalled them, Jigs
00:38:28Well, Bates told Dawson I was gonna have a baby
00:38:32Hello, Mama
00:38:35I bet Brett and Joe are biling mad by now
00:38:38Biling at Craig anyhow
00:38:40He gets all the credit for them being three-four
00:38:43It's about time they got a dose of their own medicine
00:38:45Sure, the prescription's simple
00:38:46You take a bunch of angry men defending their homes
00:38:49Mix well and serve hot to the Dawsons
00:38:52Folks, let's drink to the cure of the Dawson disease
00:38:55And let's always make it Craig's prescription
00:39:01Something's wrong, honey
00:39:02Brett and Joe are stalking behind the drugstore
00:39:04And they ain't looking for pills
00:39:05Look, I'll run over
00:39:07You keep Boston here
00:39:08Even if you gotta hog time
00:39:15They're still inside, whooping it up
00:39:16He's gotta come out sometime
00:39:35Hello, Lacey
00:39:36Taking the air kind of late, ain't you?
00:39:38Who are you and Joe waiting for?
00:39:40Me and Joe?
00:39:41Taking the air ourselves
00:39:43With your gun drawn so you don't feel chilly, huh?
00:39:46We're waiting for your friend Craig
00:39:48He interfered with the little business we had up to the Higgins place
00:39:50But tonight his interfering days are over
00:39:52Why, he was there because the old man was sick, it was his duty
00:39:54It's no go, Lacey
00:39:55He was there and he made fools out of us
00:39:57So you better mooch out of the way of any shooting
00:39:59All right, Brett
00:40:00But I may as well warn you
00:40:02If you harm him in any way, you're out of my life for good
00:40:05Seems to me you're mighty upset about your business partner
00:40:08She's stuck on him, that's why
00:40:10You keep out of this
00:40:12Well, Lacey
00:40:13Why, sure I'm upset
00:40:14I kind of feel responsible for him
00:40:16If I hadn't wanted to make money out of the drug store, he wouldn't be here
00:40:19And if you lay a hand on him, we're through
00:40:24All right, Lacey
00:40:25You win
00:40:27You know I wouldn't do anything to lose you
00:40:29Sweet singing coyotes
00:40:32Why, Brett
00:40:34You're a real gentleman
00:40:36That being the case, allow me the honor to escort you back to the Mirror Palace
00:40:40Stylish, like they do in Boston
00:40:49Good night, ma'am
00:40:51Sweet dreams
00:40:52How's that for manners?
00:40:53Fine, Brett
00:40:54Thanks
00:41:02What's your hurry?
00:41:04Never thought you'd be hand-picked into being a softy
00:41:07Can't you see she's lying, trying to save Craig's hide?
00:41:09Of course she's lying
00:41:10She means that, about not marrying me if anything happens to him
00:41:13So this has got to be done some way she doesn't know I had a hand in it
00:41:16Let me do it, Brett
00:41:17In fact, it'd be a pleasure
00:41:18No, she'd lay to me just the same
00:41:20She's got to be a smart one
00:41:22Like the time we got the Johnsons for stealing their own cattle
00:41:26You're a smart one
00:41:27Like the time we got the Johnsons for stealing their own cattle
00:41:31Say, there's a tonic that he's been pouring down everybody
00:41:35Sure
00:41:36That whole shebang that gave us the shooting party tonight, take it
00:41:39That's right
00:41:40You wait here
00:41:53I got a notion to take a swig of this, I'm so weak-like
00:41:56You're strong enough for me, kegsy-wegsy, plenty strong
00:42:03When I get a toothache, I'm too strong for any sheriff's posse, too
00:42:08Which reminds me, Helga, I ain't fit to marry no woman
00:42:13No matter how good a shot she is
00:42:16If you have a reason, it better be good
00:42:20Well, it's a long of this tooth
00:42:23When I get a toothache, I'm a raging bull
00:42:27I shoot up joints, I throw bartenders out of windows
00:42:30I slap widows, I kick babies
00:42:33I'm a terror
00:42:34I'll bet
00:42:36I'm liable to throw you off a roof, I'm liable to cut your head off with an axe
00:42:43You see, I just can't let you marry me, Helga
00:42:48Oh, you can't
00:42:50Well, it's on account of my tooth
00:42:53You're too fine a woman for such a fate
00:42:56Just the mention of it starts it aching, the light
00:43:00Well, if that's the case, you better go in the back room and have a little nap
00:43:03And I'll finish everything out here
00:43:05Oh, that's fine of you to take it that away
00:43:07Oh, think nothing of it
00:43:21Ellen!
00:43:23Oh, I'm sorry
00:43:25Wait a minute
00:43:29Don't go on board
00:43:31Hello, everybody. Have an apple?
00:43:35If you'll excuse me, I'd like to speak to Ellen
00:43:37Senor, it is not proper without a chaperone
00:43:40Well, then we'll make it a family session
00:43:43By now, Ellen, you know that I love you
00:43:45And I want to marry you
00:43:46But Tom...
00:43:47Now, don't say this is so sudden
00:43:49You've seen this coming on for a long time
00:43:51It is correct only to make the proposal to the parent
00:43:54When she produces a parent, I'll gladly propose to him
00:43:57But right now, what do you say about it?
00:44:00I'll ask father as soon as I get to San Francisco
00:44:02While we're waiting for his consent, why don't you say yes anyway?
00:44:06Yes, anyway
00:44:09Senor, this is highly irregular
00:44:11All aboard for San Francisco!
00:44:14Ellen, hurry, you're going to miss your boat
00:44:16Estos americanos
00:44:19Estos americanos
00:44:50Pretty, isn't it?
00:44:52Oh, hello
00:44:54I saw you from the road
00:44:56Well, that's fine
00:44:59What are you doing?
00:45:00Oh, thinking
00:45:01What about?
00:45:02A man in Boston
00:45:04Oh
00:45:05He was my roommate in school
00:45:07Oh, I see
00:45:08He's a good man
00:45:09He's a good man
00:45:10He's a good man
00:45:11He's a good man
00:45:12He's a good man
00:45:13He's a good man
00:45:14He's a good man
00:45:15He's a good man
00:45:16He's a good man
00:45:17He's a good man
00:45:18He was my roommate in school
00:45:19Skinny little galoot, always talking about fate
00:45:22You know, the thing that makes you suddenly decide
00:45:25Not to take a certain train, but to take another one
00:45:28The one you missed is wrecked
00:45:30Or, maybe the one you took is wrecked
00:45:32And you'd have been safe on the other one
00:45:36Scary, isn't it, when you get to thinking about it?
00:45:38Yeah
00:45:39Particularly, when you think of how
00:45:40Little things can change your whole life
00:45:43I know what you mean
00:45:44You go along following a sort of, um, um
00:45:46How to
00:45:47Yes. Then suddenly something happens that doesn't seem to amount to anything at all at the time.
00:45:52No. But when you look back, you can trace it and say the change began right then.
00:45:57That's it. Boston, are you trying to make up your mind about something?
00:46:03Oh, no. I'm just thanking my lucky stars I did what I did six months ago.
00:46:08See, the day before I left Boston, a man offered to set me up in business, on a big scale.
00:46:14Common sense told me I should take it.
00:46:17But something else told me to go on to California like I'd planned.
00:46:21I didn't even take a day to think it over.
00:46:23I just left and traveled 3,000 miles and arrived just in time to catch a boat you were on.
00:46:30If I'd have started the day sooner or a day later, I might have missed you and the girl I'm going to marry.
00:46:39And the strangest part of it is that I didn't settle in San Francisco where she lives,
00:46:45but I picked Sacramento where she came on a visit.
00:46:49That's one for Charlie's books.
00:46:54Who's Charlie?
00:46:55The man in Boston.
00:46:58So it was serious with you and her.
00:47:01Plenty serious.
00:47:04Good luck, Boston.
00:47:16What do you want, Whitey?
00:47:18I want a drink.
00:47:19We don't sell liquor here. Roll into the Mirror Palace.
00:47:22Well, they just rolled me out of there. There's no more credit.
00:47:25Hey, what's in them bottles? Ain't that liquor?
00:47:28That's tonic waiting to be delivered to respectable folk.
00:47:31Now get yourself out of here. Go on.
00:47:36My dear.
00:48:01Oh, my tooth!
00:48:04Such a dirty trick, creeping over the innocent man in his sleep.
00:48:07March. Mustn't keep the preacher waiting.
00:48:09Preacher?
00:48:10Mm-hmm.
00:48:11Well, he won't be in now.
00:48:12Come back here!
00:48:13Yes, dear.
00:48:14The preacher is in and your tooth is out.
00:48:17And I'll be in a minute.
00:48:18You'll be in a minute.
00:48:19Oh, my tooth.
00:48:20Oh, my tooth.
00:48:21Oh, my tooth.
00:48:22Oh, my tooth.
00:48:23Oh, my tooth.
00:48:24Oh, my tooth.
00:48:25Oh, my tooth.
00:48:26Oh, my tooth.
00:48:27Oh, my tooth.
00:48:28Oh, my tooth.
00:48:29Oh, my tooth.
00:48:30The preacher is in and your tooth is out.
00:48:31So pick up those feet or my handbag might go off.
00:48:34Yes, I will.
00:48:35That's better.
00:48:36Yes, I will.
00:48:37Okay.
00:48:55Well, here's to you, Andrew.
00:49:06Want to stop in at the store?
00:49:08No, thanks.
00:49:09You can send me down to the palace.
00:49:12Tom, look.
00:49:13What's happening?
00:49:14What's the crowd for?
00:49:17Here he comes now!
00:49:18There he is!
00:49:23What's wrong here?
00:49:24Flemming!
00:49:25You got a mind of explaining to do to what's great?
00:49:27What kind of explaining is he going to do?
00:49:28Tell him what?
00:49:29He's laying dead in his store.
00:49:30He's bought McCraig's Mixture by him.
00:49:31Empty.
00:49:32That's right.
00:49:33Don't be too long explaining.
00:49:43What's going on here?
00:49:44What's the matter?
00:49:45Whitey's been murdered.
00:49:46Murdered?
00:49:47Poisoned.
00:49:48Poisoned?
00:49:49He's dead.
00:49:50Let's find out.
00:49:51He's dead, all right.
00:49:52By what means, Brookist?
00:49:58Poisoned.
00:50:00Must have been enough laudanum in that bottle to kill a mule.
00:50:03How'd it get there, Craig?
00:50:04I don't know.
00:50:05Let me through.
00:50:06Let me pass.
00:50:07Oh, quit shoving.
00:50:08This is a free show for all of us, Miss Lacey.
00:50:18Well, Craig?
00:50:19They've all been tampered with, every last one of them.
00:50:21Can you explain how it could have happened?
00:50:23Well, someone must have poured laudanum in this big bottle
00:50:25that I mix a prescription in.
00:50:26You keep laudanum in this shop?
00:50:27Of course.
00:50:28This is a drug store.
00:50:29Just a minute, folks.
00:50:30Mr. Craig has been a friend to everyone.
00:50:32Mind your own business, Eli.
00:50:37Wait, wait.
00:50:38Proceed, mates.
00:50:40You use it to mix medicine for folks?
00:50:42Yes, but only a few drops at a time.
00:50:44And then your hand slipped this time, drugist.
00:50:47Folks, I don't say this man done it intentional,
00:50:49but he made a mistake that could have killed half of this town.
00:50:53What's happened, friends?
00:50:54Look at that crowd.
00:50:55Sizable and sore.
00:51:00What's going on, neighbor?
00:51:01They're trying the druggist for pipes and whiting.
00:51:04Come on, Fred, let's get inside.
00:51:05No, better not mix in.
00:51:06It might have been my kid.
00:51:08Sounds like they'll be bringing him out in a minute.
00:51:18Get a rope, somebody.
00:51:19Get that buggy down by the big tree.
00:51:21You're not going to use my rig, Freddy Lynching.
00:51:23All right, use him, snook boy.
00:51:49Tom!
00:51:51Tom!
00:51:52Put him up there.
00:51:53Put him up on the line.
00:51:55There she is, fighting like a wildcat to save that pill pillar.
00:51:57No fighting won't save him now.
00:52:07Put him up there.
00:52:09Gold!
00:52:10Gold!
00:52:11Gold!
00:52:12Gold!
00:52:13Gold!
00:52:14Where'd you find it?
00:52:15Let me see it.
00:52:16Let me see it.
00:52:17Let me see it.
00:52:19Gold! Gold! Look at him!
00:52:21They're picking it up in chunks.
00:52:23Where did they find it?
00:52:24Well, what are you waiting for?
00:52:25Huh? Why, I'm your friend.
00:52:27So you're going to stand around here and watch me hang when you could be out grabbing yourself a rich claim.
00:52:31Hang on.
00:52:32Forget friendship, man.
00:52:34That fella's talking about gold.
00:52:36Gold that you can buy anything in the world with.
00:52:38Can't see.
00:52:39Gold!
00:52:40Gold lying around on the ground waiting for you to pick it up.
00:52:43Now go on, get out of here before everybody in California eats you to it.
00:52:46Gold! Gold! Everybody, gold!
00:52:48Look, I'm going to be the first one to stake it.
00:52:50I'm going to stake a claim right away, folks.
00:52:52Got the lead. Come on, let's go.
00:52:54Let's get gold.
00:52:55Gold, come on.
00:53:01That fella has the devil's own luck.
00:53:03Yeah, sure.
00:53:04But what are we hanging around here for?
00:53:05Let's get in on that gold grab.
00:53:07Come out of it. First he'll keep.
00:53:09You're right.
00:53:10I can come back and get him.
00:53:11With a gold mine for Lacey to dry her eyes on, she won't feel so bad.
00:53:15Let's go.
00:53:26Boy, that's as near to a funeral as I ever want to get.
00:53:28If you hadn't pulled my tooth, I could have gotten mad enough to handle that whole crowd.
00:53:32What are you doing?
00:53:33Oh, well, we're married.
00:53:34Yeah, we are.
00:53:38Ain't he wonderful?
00:53:40That's my man.
00:53:44THE END
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00:54:50Well, what luck did you have with the bighorn that calls himself our new town marshal?
00:54:54He refused to open the case.
00:54:56So that's what he calls bringing in law and order, huh?
00:54:59Did you come right out and accuse Dawson?
00:55:02Certainly.
00:55:03But all bighorn, I'd say, ain't interested in your personal feuds.
00:55:09Well, I guess that closes up our business permanent, huh?
00:55:13Now, Brit isn't coming back and hollering to this whole town that Craig's innocent.
00:55:17No, but he's coming back, all right.
00:55:19Because I'm still walking around.
00:55:22But as far as this store goes, we might as well admit it.
00:55:25We're whipped.
00:55:28Right closed on the window.
00:55:31Cologne soap?
00:55:32We might as well finish in style.
00:55:40Lem, you and Pike take the bags of dust over to the palace safe.
00:55:42Chick and I are gonna pay a call on the pill peddler.
00:55:44Too bad Joey ain't here to see the fun.
00:55:46He's having his fun seeing that folks don't cut in on our claim.
00:55:55Closed, huh?
00:55:56Had to skip town. Ain't that a pity?
00:55:58Too bad you can't say goodbye personal.
00:56:00Let's make the closing official.
00:56:13It's our friend, Dawson.
00:56:21Hello, Lacey.
00:56:22Brit.
00:56:23Must come up British, but you're prettier than ever.
00:56:25Glad to see me, huh?
00:56:27Sure, but you don't have to squeeze the life out of me.
00:56:31And you'll be a sight gladder when you've seen what I brought you.
00:56:34Jumpin' coyotes, where did you get such large nuggets?
00:56:37From a claim up at Bogus Thunder.
00:56:39Come on, Red. Drinks on the house.
00:56:40Yes, sir.
00:56:41For everybody.
00:56:43You and me too, honey.
00:56:44To celebrate the pill peddler's departure.
00:56:47Oh, I think you're a bit previous, Brit.
00:56:50Well, well, Craig.
00:56:53I figured you were halfway to Boston, but now with your tail between your legs.
00:56:57You figured a lot of things wrong, Dawson.
00:57:10Stop it! Stop it, someone!
00:57:40Stop it!
00:58:10Stop it!
00:58:37Are you ready to talk, Dawson?
00:58:40Now you're gonna tell these people who doctored the medicine that killed poor old Whitey.
00:58:43What's going on here? Break it up, that's the idea.
00:58:45Break it up. Get him off of there.
00:58:46Don't pay any attention to him, Marshal. He's crazy.
00:58:48I bet he and his men committed murder.
00:58:50I'm not concerned with any arguments that happened before I took over the law here.
00:58:53I rule this fight broke up permanent, and I'll slam both of you in the calabouse if you don't keep away from each other.
00:58:58Not till I make him talk.
00:58:59Grab him, get him. Grab him.
00:59:02For assault, battery, ignoring, and disregarding the law,
00:59:06and pushing a United States Marshal around,
00:59:0860 days. Now march.
00:59:16What did you have to call the Marshal for?
00:59:19Tom had Britt ready to sing his song.
00:59:21Yeah.
00:59:22Come on, Red, set up those drinks I was ordering before this little squaw blew up.
00:59:26Step up, folks, and wet your windpipes.
00:59:32What's the matter, Lacey? Ain't you thirsty?
00:59:38You want to tell me a joke?
00:59:56What's the idea of throwing this back at me?
00:59:58I don't want it or anything else from you from now on.
01:00:00Why? Because I had a fight with your pill peddler?
01:00:02Oh, no. Something a little more important than that.
01:00:09Where do you think you're going?
01:00:11Anywhere from here. I'm not particular.
01:00:14Look, Lacey, I got to know the reason for this.
01:00:16The reason is the way Whitey died.
01:00:19He died because your high snootin' friend from Boston doesn't know his business.
01:00:22No. But up to now, I must admit, you had me fooled.
01:00:26I might have known that you were behind this lynching.
01:00:29You were the only person in town who had anything against him.
01:00:33Did he teach you to say this?
01:00:34No. He didn't say a word. He's much too decent.
01:00:37So let go of my arm. I want to finish packing.
01:00:41Listen here, Lacey. I don't admit monkeying with anything.
01:00:44What I can't get is why you're taking on like this.
01:00:46Fun narration. I've killed men before.
01:00:48Yeah. But shooting out in the open has something square and fair about it.
01:00:52Killing with poison is sneaky and lowdown.
01:00:56Look here, Lacey. What's come over you?
01:00:58I tell you, I had nothing to do with it.
01:01:00Oh, let's forget it and start all over again.
01:01:03You struck it awful rich.
01:01:04I can even give you those gold doorknobs you were talking about.
01:01:07Let me go, Britt. If you kept me here till doomsday, it wouldn't make any difference.
01:01:11Go to your quack pill peddler. He can have you and welcome.
01:01:34Hey, this scheme of going up to the camps is all wrong and I won't have no part of it.
01:01:37Rest your tonsils. Wear a gold and you're coming. Take this.
01:01:40Hey, why don't you use some tact?
01:01:42Let her go in there and say goodbye to him alone.
01:01:44What?
01:01:46Oh, maybe you're right.
01:01:47But it ain't going to do any good as far as she's concerned.
01:01:50He's always acted more like a hitching post than a two-legged man.
01:01:53Oh, shut up.
01:01:54Hello there, Boston.
01:01:55Why, Lacey, don't you look grand.
01:01:57Oh, it's just a little traveling outfit that Helga and I ran up.
01:02:00You going someplace?
01:02:01Sure, to the gold mines with the rest of the world.
01:02:03Thought I'd just come in and say goodbye.
01:02:05Don't tell me you're going to take gold.
01:02:07Sure I am. The easy way.
01:02:09Out of miners' pockets.
01:02:11Figured they needed entertainment right now.
01:02:13Can't sit in the back of an empty car.
01:02:15Can't sit in the back of an empty car.
01:02:17Can't sit in the back of an empty car.
01:02:19Can't sit in the back of an empty car.
01:02:21Can't sit in the back of an empty car.
01:02:23Can't sit in the back of an empty drugstore for the rest of my life.
01:02:27I'm sorry our partnership was such a failure, Lacey.
01:02:31Oh, that.
01:02:33I don't regret any of it.
01:02:36That a letter from San Francisco?
01:02:38Oh, yes. I'll be leaving soon, too.
01:02:41Ellen's coming up and we're going back together.
01:02:46Oh.
01:02:49Good luck, Boston.
01:02:50You too, Lacey.
01:02:53And if you ever get to San Francisco...
01:02:54Oh, yes. Drop in and have dinner with you and the wife.
01:02:57No thanks. I'm just hoping that I never see you again.
01:03:01Why?
01:03:03Don't you know?
01:03:24Making me shove off and leaving Boston with no one to look after him.
01:03:28Oh, he'll do fine once he's hitched to Miss Snippetypuss up the Frisco.
01:03:32Listen, you two. I don't want to hear any more talk about him.
01:03:35I want to forget that I ever set eyes on him.
01:03:37Don't ever hear his name mentioned again.
01:03:39Come on, Boston!
01:03:41Shut up!
01:03:42Quiet!
01:03:54Hey, partner!
01:03:55What do you want here, lady?
01:03:56How big a camp is this?
01:03:58Well, it's 30 shacks or so. The folks started a-sickin'.
01:04:01You all look puny as if you could do with a good meal and some sleep.
01:04:05There, get up!
01:04:06They need entertainment like a dead horse needs fly.
01:04:11What's the name of this camp?
01:04:13Brandy Gulch.
01:04:14Say, did you pass the doctor on the trail up?
01:04:16A short, stouty fellow with gray hair?
01:04:19No. Is anybody sick?
01:04:20Anybody sick?
01:04:22Half the camp's down with a fever.
01:04:49Hello there!
01:04:52Are you from Sacramento?
01:04:54Yeah.
01:04:55Well, I'm Dr. Claggett.
01:04:56Did you bring those medical supplies?
01:04:58What supplies?
01:04:59What supplies?
01:05:00Howlin' coyotes. Don't they know we've got an epidemic on our hands?
01:05:04Epidemic?
01:05:05Yes. Typhoid fever.
01:05:08And we got no drugs to treat it.
01:05:10We got no food or comforts.
01:05:13And in every camp for miles around, men are dying like flies.
01:05:17Doctor, you gotta save Carson.
01:05:19You can't leave him like this.
01:05:21Burning and raving with fever. You gotta do something.
01:05:23Mrs. Carson, what can I do? I'm helpless.
01:05:26What?
01:05:27Doc, isn't there something we can do to help?
01:05:32What do you think you could do here, Lacey Miller?
01:05:34We got enough trouble without women of your kind.
01:05:39Look, Miss Carson.
01:05:41Don't take on like that. Maybe Helga and I could help.
01:05:44Sure we'll help.
01:05:45So, will you show us where we could shake down, please?
01:05:48All right. I'll take it real kind of you, Lacey.
01:05:51Thanks, Miss Carson.
01:05:56I don't suppose there's any of those fellows down in Sacramento that give a hang about these poor devils dying up here.
01:06:01I know someone. Tom Craig, a druggist.
01:06:04Kegs, get a fast horse and white light blazers and bring him back here.
01:06:07Why don't I get a horse?
01:06:08Well, use my horse. He's a wizard.
01:06:13Come on. Come on.
01:06:15Tell him we need enough for an army.
01:06:19Hurry up, Tom.
01:06:21If I'd known all this was going on, I certainly wouldn't have come to make the trip back with you.
01:06:25You wouldn't want me to show my appreciation by leaving my stock and trade behind, would you?
01:06:30Oh, Boston.
01:06:32Oh, Boston. Oh, I'm so glad I caught you.
01:06:34They sent me.
01:06:35Carell, all the medicine you've got. Everything you've got. Hurry up.
01:06:38What on earth are you talking about?
01:06:39Oh, him. They want him up at the camps.
01:06:41There's fever. Nothing to fight it with.
01:06:43Nothing to fight it with?
01:06:44No, there's only one doc and he's working like mad.
01:06:46Well, that's terrible. Are there many cases?
01:06:48Well, all the camps have got him.
01:06:49It's so bad at Bear Claw that Lacey and Helga pitched in as nurses.
01:06:54Oh, that woman.
01:06:55Oh, come on, Ellen. I don't think Lacey started an epidemic just to see me.
01:07:00She did send you, didn't she?
01:07:02Well, I suppose you could say she had a hand in it.
01:07:05Well, it looks like I'll have to go.
01:07:07Why? Why should you risk your life for a lot of riffraff?
01:07:11Well, they're people. They need help.
01:07:14Oh, you and your high ideals. Where did they ever get you?
01:07:18Why, they're the very same people that turned against you.
01:07:21They even tried to hang you.
01:07:22Oh, well, that doesn't interest...
01:07:23Well, if it doesn't, it should.
01:07:25Well, let's just forget the whole idea, Boston.
01:07:28Don't go, Case.
01:07:30Ellen, I...
01:07:31I'm going back to San Francisco. Are you coming with me?
01:07:35I'm going to the gold camps first.
01:07:37Then don't bother to come after me.
01:07:39If and when you come back.
01:07:45I saw the same look in a rattlesnake's eye once
01:07:48when I accidentally stomped on it.
01:07:52Let's see how we're fixed for medicine.
01:07:54What you got here is only a drop in the bucket.
01:07:56The doc said he wants enough for an army.
01:07:58Well, then we'll get enough. And an army to take it.
01:08:02Thanks for your cooperation, Marshal.
01:08:04Oh, it's easy enough to get the medicine for an epidemic,
01:08:06but I don't see how you're going to get the people to walk right into the thick of it.
01:08:09Well, you have the supplies ready. I'll round up the people.
01:08:11They wouldn't even stop to listen to Gabriel's horn.
01:08:13Let alone you.
01:08:14They'll have to.
01:08:15Sometime.
01:08:31Here, Kegs. Eat that up.
01:08:33Here, Kegs. Eat that up.
01:09:00Hold it, everybody!
01:09:02Quiet down. Let's don't get in a panic.
01:09:05I got a message for you.
01:09:07I don't know whether to appeal to your good sense or your courage,
01:09:11because I don't know how much of either you have.
01:09:14What's that? What's he getting at?
01:09:16I do know you're facing something that's going to call for both good sense and courage.
01:09:23You think you're running away from the fever.
01:09:25Well, you aren't.
01:09:26Some of you already have it, and you're carrying it to others,
01:09:28the same as it was carried to you.
01:09:30Now, ain't that too bad.
01:09:32What's he trying to say? We ought to stay here and die like flies?
01:09:36No.
01:09:37Word just came through from San Francisco that they're sending us all the medical help we'll need.
01:09:42They're also sending enough supplies and medicines for the gold camps.
01:09:46And it's up to us to get them there.
01:09:48It's going to take every wagon, horse and able-bodied man we have to get them through.
01:09:52Are you out of your head? Think we're crazy?
01:09:54You asking us to go into that death trap?
01:09:57I'm not asking you anything.
01:09:59I'm just telling you how things stand, and it's up to you.
01:10:03You can stampede out of here like a lot of cattle and spread this fever into every town in California if you want to.
01:10:09Or you can stay here and get help if you're sick, and give help if you're not.
01:10:14It's in your hands, so make up your minds.
01:10:22Pioneers!
01:10:30I've got two wagons I'll donate. Somebody can drive the other one.
01:10:33Charlie, I'll drive the other one.
01:10:37Reckon I'll go with him. I ain't got no women folks to worry about.
01:10:40Me neither.
01:10:41I ain't seen a man yet can stand and tell me I'm afraid and prove it.
01:10:44Me neither.
01:10:45I reckon I'll go along. Come on.
01:10:52Dang, if I don't think I'm going with him.
01:10:54That spellbinding morse head of his.
01:10:56I'm glad you didn't.
01:10:57When did you get me, did you?
01:10:58We're going to need Craig around for a while.
01:11:00What for?
01:11:01Get the wagon train. Start it for the camp.
01:11:03Since when did you mind people dying?
01:11:05Use your head. Those folks up in the camps are rolling in gold.
01:11:09And if we corner all the medicine, we can swap it for every nugget they've dug in the last six months.
01:11:13How do you figure to grab the wagons?
01:11:15They have to go through Digger Pass, don't they?
01:11:17Well, we'll be there waiting for them.
01:11:19You know, Brett, I've got a hander to you.
01:11:21Thanks.
01:11:22But remember, I claim the pleasure of picking off Craig personal.
01:11:25Let's get going and round up the rest of the gang.
01:11:52Digger Pass is a half a day's ride.
01:11:54Good. We ought to be bear claw by nightfall.
01:11:57Live it up, boys. We're on the last lap.
01:12:03Come on, boys. Once we're through the pass, the going's easy.
01:12:09Them wagons are sure taking a long time.
01:12:11Clem, any sign of those wagons yet?
01:12:14No, not a sign of nothing except Pike.
01:12:22Well, Pike, my boy, how are things up at Bear Claw?
01:12:25Are the folks up there ready to swap all their dust for a little medicine?
01:12:28It's awful bad, Brett. Fever's got most everybody down.
01:12:31Lacy's up there.
01:12:33Lacy?
01:12:34Yeah. She and Helga got their hands full taking care of sick folks.
01:12:39Lacy's up at Bear Claw.
01:12:41What of it?
01:12:42She might get the fever. Maybe she's got it already. I've got to get to her.
01:12:45We've got a date with the wagon train.
01:12:46I've got to get Lacy out of there.
01:12:47We get the wagons first.
01:12:48You can take care of the wagons.
01:12:49Listen, Brett, I ain't taking those wagons alone while you go chasing around after Lacy.
01:12:52Have you forgotten she threw you over for the first soft-talking dude that came along?
01:12:56Why don't you get smart? She never had any use for you anyway.
01:13:00Now maybe you'll stop your yapping.
01:13:02I'm going to get Lacy and you're going to take care of those wagons.
01:13:13The wagons are coming!
01:13:15From now on, I'm giving the orders around here.
01:13:17When this job is finished, every man gets his equal share of the dust.
01:13:20Any arguments?
01:13:22Well then, get on your horses and follow me.
01:13:47We haven't got a chance here. Make a run for it.
01:14:13Let's go, men!
01:14:43Let's go!
01:15:13These teams can't keep up this pace. Pull over into that draw.
01:15:43Let's go!
01:16:13Higher there, Craig! I want those wagons!
01:16:25Come and get them!
01:16:26It sounds like the Dawson's.
01:16:29It is the Dawson's.
01:16:43Got him.
01:16:57You have enough yet, Craig?
01:17:01Our only chance is to get them out of those rocks.
01:17:03Yes, if you want any drivers left.
01:17:05Well, I guess I better go up there and have a chat with them.
01:17:09Why, they'll fill you full of lead.
01:17:10Hold your fire, Dawson!
01:17:13Why, Dawson, you're crazy!
01:17:14Let go of me.
01:17:21That morsehead, what a target for a bullseye.
01:17:23Hold it. We need him to order the train to surrender.
01:17:26I'm coming up to talk to you.
01:17:28Chuck your gun away and come on up, Craig!
01:17:38Keep him covered.
01:17:44You walked right into it, eh, Craig?
01:17:49I have a proposition to make you.
01:17:51We make the proposition.
01:17:52You order that wagon train to surrender or we shut your mouth up and you're permanent.
01:17:55And you've got five minutes to make up your mind.
01:17:57I can't understand you fellas at all.
01:18:00Most of you need what's in that wagon train as much as the people in the gold camps.
01:18:04Sure we do. It's a swap for all the gold they got.
01:18:06Oh, so that's your plan.
01:18:08Well, from the looks of you, most of you won't get that far.
01:18:11Funny you giving me five minutes.
01:18:13What kind of talk is this?
01:18:14I know the signs of the fever, Dawson.
01:18:16Look at that man's handshake.
01:18:18Look at his eyes.
01:18:20You fellas have been drinking that river water at the claim, haven't you?
01:18:24Well, that's where the fever comes from.
01:18:26And out of all the people in the camps, what makes you think you'd escape it?
01:18:29And it isn't exactly a pleasant way to die.
01:18:32Burning with fever.
01:18:34All twisted and twisted.
01:18:36Burning with fever.
01:18:37All twisted up in agony and fighting for breath.
01:18:41And frankly, I don't like the look of any of you.
01:18:44Especially you, Dawson.
01:18:46So now if you're smart, you'll call this gunfight off.
01:18:49And let me try and save you with the stuff in the wagon train.
01:18:52If it's not too late.
01:18:54We'll get all the medicine we want.
01:18:55Rush the wagon, boys!
01:19:00Now talk yourself out of this, will you?
01:19:07Joe had it coming for him.
01:19:09Get the wagons to Bearclaw.
01:19:36Up there at the red door!
01:19:44You go on up to Gospel Creek!
01:20:07Up the river to Red Dog!
01:20:10Crank on up the river!
01:20:17Crank, am I glad to see you.
01:20:19Besides drugs, did you bring food, blankets?
01:20:21We brought everything.
01:20:22Unload the wagons, men!
01:20:24First two wagons go on to Shinbone Creek!
01:20:27Doctor's a badly wounded man in this first wagon.
01:20:29Will you take a look at him?
01:20:30Sure.
01:20:31Tom!
01:20:34Tom!
01:20:36Thank heaven you're here.
01:20:38Why, Lacey.
01:20:40You look so different.
01:20:43Yes, these are my working clothes from now on.
01:20:46I hope sending for you didn't get you into any trouble.
01:20:49On the contrary.
01:20:51It got me out of it.
01:20:55Oh, uh...
01:20:56Lacey, Britt Dawson was badly wounded.
01:20:59Britt?
01:21:00He wants to see you.
01:21:03Oh, no.
01:21:05It's no good, Doc.
01:21:07I got it bad.
01:21:09And final.
01:21:11There's Lacey.
01:21:16What a deal.
01:21:18I could have had you for a nurse.
01:21:21Hold your hand.
01:21:25Now I haven't got the strength.
01:21:27Nobody go.
01:21:29Nobody go.
01:21:32I got something to say.
01:21:35Before witnesses.
01:21:39The medicine that killed Whitey.
01:21:44Eye doctors.
01:21:49Boston is no way to blame.
01:21:53Thanks, Britt.
01:22:00A house.
01:22:03With a gold doorknob.
01:22:07If you want them.
01:22:29There's gold in the valley.
01:22:31There's gold in the hill.
01:22:33There's gold in the river.
01:22:34And gold in the mill.
01:22:36So empty your cabins.
01:22:38And empty your mill.
01:22:39To hold all the gold in the hill.
01:22:42What's this?
01:22:45That's my wife taking down the washing.
01:22:52Come in, dear.
01:23:00I'm not going to do that washing all over again.
01:23:03McKeever, pick him up.
01:23:06To laundry.
01:23:08So empty your cabins.
01:23:10And empty your mill.
01:23:12To hold all the gold in the hill.
01:23:15I've traveled through south through the rain and the snow.
01:23:18But this is as far as I go.
01:23:21So empty your cabins.
01:23:23And empty your mill.
01:23:25To hold all the gold in the hill.
01:23:55The End