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?? (indistinct chatter) >> mr. parker, i-- >> not now, , rry, i'm busy. >> it's important. i've got to talk to you. >> see me later. >> hi, sheriff. >> hello. >> do you mind if i talk to my client a minute? >> oh, not at all. give me your gun, mr. parker. >> all right. >> let me know when you're ready to leave.

>> there's $75,000 waiting to be cut up among us. there'll be no split if i go to trial. >> i think we ought to break you out of here. divide the money and leave the country. >> oh, no... then i'd be wanted the rest of my life. >> come on, sheriff, we're ready. >> i've got a better idea. >> what is it? >> when the cisco kid comes to town to identify me, get him. >> i can't do that, right here, under the sheriff's nose. >> it's either that or-- have to end your talk now. i gotta leave the office.. >> very well. what does my lawyer think of my new plan of attack? >> i'll do as you say. >> now you're being smart. not much use in my having a lawyer, is there, sheriff? not when i have to tell him how to proro my innocence. >> parker said the tall, thin

i'll flip you to see if i get him. >> flip it. heads. >> you'll take pancho and like it, joe. >> suits me, lou. that liar knows what he's talking about. i got the best of the deal. >> how's that? >> pancho's fatter. better target. i can't miss. ?? >> come on, pancho. >> they've stopped. let's get closer. >> what's wrong, pancho? why are you riding so slow? >> oh, cisco, my saddle is no good. i better fix him. >> pancho, you are up to a trick. >> cisco, how you can look on top of my face and say such things to me? >> pancho,o,ou are deliberately delaying my trip to doralo. >> hey, cisco, why we are always in such a hurry? >> for the 300th time, i tell you: the sheriff sent for me to

now, i saw him very plainly, and i can identify him. >> uh, cisco, take advice from a big fool like me and don't stick your nose in other people's business. someday, you're gonna walk right into the ambushers. >> just as i thought. there's nothing wrong with your cinch-- tighten it. hurry. look out! (gunshots) ?? (gunshots) you wait here, pancho.

(gunshots) (gunshots) ?? >> pancho, get your horse! ?? they got away clear. you and your tricks to save my life. pancho...

i'm going to break his old neck sometime! >> (laughing) ?? >> well? >> didn't work out as we expected. >> but you stopped them, didn't you? >> yeah, but they got away. >> you bungling idiots! >> we did the best we could-- >> shut up! save your explanation for tracy. >> did the boys get cisco? >> i'm sorry, tracy-- they tried, but he got away. >> you dimwit. >> mr. parker, i got-- >> i told you, i'm busy, terry. >> it's about tom tracy. >> what about tom? >> what's it worth to you and tom for him to get out of jail? >> what are you driving at? >> is it worth $5,000 for him to walk out scot-free? >> you must have something quite

>> i have. is it worth $5,000? >> step into my office. ?? >> how does it feel to be a free man? >> fine... there never was any doubt about my innocence, was there? >> uh, no, of course not. >> you know, you're not such a bad lawyer after all, thinking up this one. the sheriff wasn't as happy abt this as we are, the old fool. sheriff, i was just telling my no hard feelings-- i guess you had to do your duty. >> that's right. >> well, you ought to be happy about it. this trial is gonna be an easy one for you with terry ryan's signed confession. he's your man, all right. >> is he? >> you'd sound rather silly going into court and asking that question. >> yeah, reckon i would. >> well, thanks again for your kind treatment. >> well, you'll know where i'll be if you want me for anything. come on, t tcy. >> you bet i'll know where to find you, both of you.

how can you tell such a lie? >> please, pat, go away and leave me alone. i know what i'm doing. >> but i don't understand. you've confessed to committing a murder. they might hang you! >> i'll take my chances. >> you'll find your horse at the stable. >> thanks, see me at the shack. >> yes-- uh, wait a minute. listen... >> stop your worrying, parker. you make me gloomy. i should be rejoicing of my good luck. >> i didn't like the way that sheriff talked. mamae our plan won't work. >> why not? you sent the $1,000 to the specialist terry told you about, didn't you? >> yes, , herwise, he wouldn't have signed the confession. >> then it'll work. it better. remember, it was your idea. meet me at the shack.

flat feet on the ground? (both laughing) hey, pancho... that is the man i came here to identify. the one the sheriff picked up on suspicion. >> did he break t from the jail? >> we'll find out. you're the man that shot the banker. >> what are you talking about? the sheriff has the guilty man locked in jail. >> then, if you're not guilty, you'll have no objections in going withthe to the sheriff. mister. ?? >> just a minute, cisco. >> hello, sheriff. >> i'm afraid i brought you here on a wild goose chase. >> go on, sheriff, tell this loco stranger he's asking for trouble, stopping this way. >> go ahead, tracy. >> you mean you really turned this outlaw loose? >> i had to let him m . come on over to my office, and

she says she's going to marry the prisoner, no matter what happens. the cisco kid and pancho. >> how do you do? >> so you're the one who's to identify the killer. >> that's right, miss. >> well, there's terry ryan. does he look like the killer? well, mr. cisco kid? >> no, it was a man, not this boy. >> you see, what did i t tl you? now you turn him loose. >> i'm sorry, i can't turn him loose, pat. >> you mean you'd rather keep an innocent man in jail? >> according to law, i've got to hold him. he signed a confession. >> terry, you are making a verer >> why don't you mind your own business? >> ah, but it is my business. i know you didn't shoot the banker. >> i said i did. >> terry, why did you tell this lie abououyourself? >> go away and leave me alone. >> he's a very strange hombre, this fellow, you know?w? most men like to save their neck, but this one-- >> pancho, be quiet. >> i think why all the time, "be quiet, don't talk, shut up, don't talk"-- why, wh-- >> pancho, you want me to tell you? >> well, after giving it a second think... no.

don't worry, miss, we'll find out what this is all about. >> i'll be at my p pce, taking care of his mother, if you want me. good-bye, terry. >> good-bye, pat. ?? ?? >> someone's coming. >> oh, it's only parker. >> well, gentlemen. >> howdy, counselor, what brings you out here? now, don'tnswer that. you come about your fee. >> you're a very thoughtful client. well, when do we split the kitty? >> after i've taken care of

>> what do you mean? >> and i'm not sending the rest of that $5,000 to the doctor. and i'm not breaking the kid out of jail. >> but that's what i promised him, i thought-- >> oh, stop it! asasong as that kid's alive, i stand a chance of being hung. he might turn yellow and blab. once he's dead, that confessioio he signed stands, right? >> well, what are you gonna do? >> i'm gonna stay here and hole up for a while, till it's all over. >> till what's all over? >> the hanging of terry ryan. >> but... that might take weeks. >> not my way. hello. lou, you and joe go on to town. stir thing sup. you know, like a good, old-fashioned lynching bee. and remember, that banker was liked by everyone. >> i gotcha, tom. >> you know, maybe i should have been a lawyer. go ahead, have some coffee. don't let a little thing like this upset you.

friend to most of you. something's gotta be done about his cold-blooded killing. (crowd muttering) by the time the circuit judge arrives, he might escape. why, he might drum up some legal trick to get out of this! that's the way it happened, men, and something should be done about it! >> what's going on out here? >> trouble. >> let's get him out of jail and get it over with! (all chattering)

(all chattering angrily) >> you might wanna open up, sheriff! >> sheriff, they ain't gonna take him-- we're gonna take him with us. pancho, get our horses. get one for terry, also. well, hurry! >> you're going with cisco. i'll keep him busy a few minutes. hike it up out there! (crowd chattering) >> we want your prisoner!

>> stop the shootin', man! >> keep out of this, sheriff! we aim to get terry ryan! >> give me that gun! >> get the horses, men. >> never mind him, terry broke jail with the help of the cisco kid. better ride with us! >> right! >> come on!

>> (whistles) >> what happened? >> no time to explain now. you better ride on back home. >> i'm going wherever terry goes! >> how's mom?

(gunshots continue) >> this may be your last chance to tell the truth, terry. >> i don't know what you'r talking about. (bullet ricochets) (gunshots continue) >> the money you got for your mother's operation. you got it from tracy, didn't you? >> think it over, terry.

in trouble, it'll kill her. >> they'll get me out of it, they promised me-- >es, a promise. it was his lawyer, eh? well, see how he's doing it! >> yeah, i see it. i certainly wasn't fooled, but i needed the cash for mom's operation. >> well, now that we know the truth, we'll win this fight,t, won't we, cisco? >> hyah! (gunshots) (gunshots continue) >'m glad you're here, sheriff! >> that's an ornery bunch to hold out against. >> tracy paid him to sign that confession, shshiff.

maybe they'll stop firing. >> they wouldn't let you finish one sentence. (click) (click) (gunshots continue) (click) >> huh. maybe they gotnough. hey, you men! you been sold the wrong bill of goods! terry ain't the guilty man! now, cut out this foolishness, or you'll all find yourself dead or in jail!

>> i think we have everything under control, sheriff. i'll see you later. ??

>> hold it, parker! you're going to town with me. >> now, wait a minute, cisis, i-- >> hello, cisco. move over there.

>> i was gonna take you with me, parker, but i couldn't find room for your thihis in my bag. ?? >> uhh! uhh! >> unh! >> uhh! uhh! oof! uhh! >> on your feet, mr. tracy. now, i'll identify you for two

everything's under control, pancho and i will be on our way. >> you know, cisco, i'm very happy about this town.n. >> pancho, i'm very happy you're happy at last. >> yeah, my heart is filled with happinesesbecause all those guilty men are in the calabasas. and the senorita gonna marry terry, and they willllive happily ever afterward. >> pancho, you surprise me. i didn't know you had any romance left in your soul. >> ah, i don't got no romances. only, if she marry him, that will be one less senorita to fall in love with you. (laughter) >> gooe, >> good-bye, cisco. >> adio good-bye, sheriff. oh, sheriff, one thing more: tell those banditos to keep in touch with you, huh? >> tell the banditos, uh-- (laughing) hey, you hear that, tracy? he said tell you banditos to keep in touch with me! (laughing) ?? >> hey, pancho, your s sdle cinch is loose. >> you can't fool pancho with his own tricks. >> it's not t trick. be careful.

fool. >> (laughing) >> good-bye, amigos! >> see you soon! (laughing)

?? cotti. he's alone. i got him! mr.gilmans coming i got mr.gilman. ?? you tell him everything cotti? i have thirty miles to tell him. hey you in there! now we got the law in this town! too scared alread oh you yellow bellies bringing the law in here ain't gonna help ya. y ain't ya? (laughing)

hey law man! you tell em. they keep me in this jail much longer they ain't gonna have a town! (laughing) go on tell em, they ain't gonna have a town! ?? trackdown

s the town of talpa had been in fear. they had stood, just a small handful of citizens guarding the jail since early morning two had escaped. one had beeng agent. now that man was to be triri and hanged. a man no one knew and yet, they were afraid. you were the nearest place we could send for help gilman. we heard you took on a share wih porter. i'm just holding down the law on special assignment in porter. now this town needs authority. cotti told you what happened.

i mean any reprise before that man in there gets hanged. tell him the truth! we're scared mr.gilman that's why we called on ya. alright take it easy i've got a circuit judge coming up in the morning. you can see we haven't hadad sheriff in over a year. yeah why not? we can't afford it. the sup cleaned out the last one, that halley c cet affair. old chet farrow. you don't remember me but i remember you. ell me you're one of the men who held up the butterfield stage depot. the agent shot you before he died. that what they say? mm. we gotta witness. saw it all happen. oh you have? cotti told you didn't he? didn't he tell you we got a witness? yeah he told me. what's your name? .

four out of town. just ask for mavis. everything's gonna be alright men. stop putting on murdock. look gilman you're still only one man. besides how do we know the prisoner did it? he was the only one in the street wasn't he? i don't care i don't want his men coming back. his kind never come back they haven't got the guts. i got a wife and kid in this town. we all got families peterson. he killed tragger didn't he? well i'm surprised you held d to him this long. look mr.gilman maybe i better tell you something. we put that man in jail this morning cuz we wanna see justice done. let me tell him. now look gilman, if you think we're scared for ourselves you're wrong. we're scared for that witness. now let's say that man in there hangs. what's to keep one of his friends from coming back and killing her for talking? or if he don't hang, they might just come back and kill her for being willing to. you got some imagination. you're just believing what he wants you to believe now aren't ya?

stop worrying everybody. mr. gilman's here to protect us either way that's what we called him for. say maybe i could be your deputy. yeah sure you be my deputy. well, don't i get a starar or something? there's one inside somewhere. ?? uh i'm loooong for mavis. thank you. ?? (knocking)

the trial tomorrow. they tell me that you saw what happened this morning. you're wasting your time mister i changed my mind. i'm getting out. you're the only witness we've got we can't hang him without ya. look i know who that man is up at that jail. what's his name? oh i don't know his name! i mean i know what he is. braggigi around that saloon last night about what a big man he was with his friends. he runs a real bunch mister. i'm not gonna sit up there as witness against a man who's got friends. i wanna live mister! he's got you fooled like he's got everybody else fooled. he doesn't have any friends. well why pick on me? maybe, maybe he's the wrong man. maybe he was just an innocent bystander that agent shot when- by mistake. i'm not gonna do it!

and afterwards? what about afterwards? what about when you leave town? who's gonna protect me then? that c cmmy bunch in town? (snickers) well there's no way out of town now mavis. the stage doesn't leave till tomorrow night, you can take it then. the trial will be over in the morning. i promise you you'll be protected! i don't want your protection and i don't need no o age. getting out of town the same way i came in, on my own two feet. i'll give you somebody. you want a witness? there was a kid. what kid? well i didn't know i didn't get a good look at him. he was blonde. saw him running up an alley after the shooting.

rider just rode in mr.gilman he's in the bar now. alright i'll see him. if it's one of his men? alright you better get some sleep. oh we lostst the witness. woman skipped town. no. do you have any blonde children around here? i mean i don't know whether she's lying or not but uh she said she saw a rom the killing this morning. well forget it.

what'ya say? are you uh staying long? no i'm not staying long. well we like to know who comes into town we don't see many strangers. you're just traveling, huh? you might say that. your horse doesn't look much traveled. but he's got a wilding w look at a fella i' that's right. ve got over at the jail. haven't got much choice have i? well. oh now.

histling) head out. (whistling) (whistling) head out. (whistling) kinda nervous ain't ya? you don't know how or when i'm gonna get outta here and you don't know who's gonna help me. well he's not one of them. how sure are you? there isn't anybody coming back after you. wait and see.

they tell me we lost the witness. if we don't have the woman we can't hold him after tomorrow. this way we're just riling him mr.gilman. well suppose i find somebody else. maybe e should just let him go. maybe he'll just ride outta town. well i asked you a question now. he'd killed whoever you found you knowowhat. one of his men would. maybe that stranger just rode into town as one of them. if there's a shootin, one of us might get in the way. i'll tell you what you just get out of here. mr.gilman! mr.gilman! what's the matter son? what's the matter boy? where's mr.gilman? in the jail.

hello son. you don't remember me do ya? well uh. i neveveforgot you. coming to talpa a year ago. cleaning up everything lickety split. i'm johnny doan. well where are you from john? we got a ranch six miles out. my ma's been holding me there eve. when i told her i saw the killing. she was scared for me she said. but i ran away when she told me you were in town. what's going on? what's the boy doing here? can i mr.gilman? i wanna do it! how much did you see john? well, there was a woman watching it. you'd be my only witness, she's run away. i ran away too but i'm not scared anymore.

you sure? yes sir. you swear to it? yes sir. and i saw him fall from his horse as mr.tragger shot back. you gonna take the word of a kid? well that's all i got left to hang you with mister. (laughs) you ain't hung me yet. hey you! you have any objections if i leave town? don't come back. what would i wanna come back here for? i told you there wasn't anybody comin back for you. but you still ain't sure are you ranger?

now it was a man and a boy who stood alone against a town that was afraid of reprisals. congealed in fear that they're own lives were at stake. if a crime was to be reckoned with and a man to be hanged hoby's job now was to prprect johnny doan. johnny! johnny! johnny! you come here i've been looking all over for you! you had me worried half to death. i know what you're here for. you can't let him do this mr.gilman. but he wants to use me ma, he wants to! you hush up johnny. i'm not having him stand as witness to that man in jail. well there's nobody else mam. i don't like the idea myself but uh i haven't got any choice. then let him go!

and who's to watch him from those men who want revenge for what you're gonna let him do? not afraid and if you wanna stand and get killed alright but don't use this boy. i'm not afraid either. johnny i wanna talk to mr.gilman. you take the horse over and give her some water honey. dodohat she tells you son. yes. please. you can't use him mr.gilman. alright now you tell me why mam. i'm not gonna let anythingng.

well i, i guess there's not. you see i saw the killing too. i was here i was getting groceries with the boy. yeah he told that but he didn't tell me that you saw what happened. well i didn't but i came out right after the shootin. i saw johnny runnin down the street and then i, i saw that man lyin there. that's why i kept ththboy in the house all day. i couldn't let him come back and stand as witness because, because i know the man who killed mr. tragger. the man you wanna hang is john quince. he's johnny's father mr.gilman. i ran away years ago when johnny was a baby. i couldndn stand being married to a killer and a thief. i changed our name. johnny thinks his father's dead.

don't use him mr.gilman. (whistling) what's the matter? we don't want no trouble gilman we chahaed our minds. we decided we're gonna let him go. we're nonoeven sure he did it. any way we don't want that boy hurt. you listen to him law man, he's right! you got no witness you got no trial.

no. why? whyhyren't you gonna let me talk? you're going home with your maa you mean you're doing what they're asking you to do? you're lettin that man in jail get away? i said i'd help ya. go on home. you let my mom scare ya didi't ya! you let them scare you! you're afraid! johnny. let me go. let me go! please. johnny. you're afriad his friends will come back and kill you. that's what you're afriad of.

is it gonna be alright? you'll fret a while but you go on home i'll get him back to you safe. we made our decision gilman now you let him out of jail. we're not taking the boy's order or anybody's anymore. we don't want him in town any longer. you better let me out of here! wherever you are they'll hang you u mewhere else. you'll hit a town someday that will have a belly for justice. stop r ring him gilman the boy's gone. you got no witness now. let him go! you tell him mister. he's right law man, you tell him!

where'd they put my gun? your horse is over at the stable. ch better. maybe someday i can do the same for yoyo tell me uh are you going out to meet your friends now? (laughter) no. that boy oughta be around though. (laughter)

we don't want him here another minuteteyou hear me mister? don't wowoy. he's not gonna be here very much longer. (laughter) quince. how'd you know my name? i don't need a witness against you now. this poster says two thousand dollars reward money for you. you're under arrest. (gunshots)

no other way to get quince. the whole thing came full circle. in the end it wasn't the boy who gave his father away, it was the man himself. he drew against hoby when all he had to do was walk out of townn come up here son. i'll take you home.

that's a fair question but i'm not gonna answer it. sometimes you just gotta accept a grown up's decision without ququtions. that's the way it is, you know? but you weren't afraid of him were you? (chuckles)

i sure thank you for coming down ms. hanford. now, if you'll tell the sheriff about offering me a job in jefferson city and who i am? i did talk to mrmrbodie about ramrodding for us. but i never saw this man before in jefferson city or anywhere else. and mr. bodie is lying dead at the undertaker's. i just came from there. thank you. that's all we wanted to know. what's this all about? you, your brothers, i know you're lying but i dodot know why. you're calling this lady a liar? hold it, you. thank you, mr. rankin. i'm most grateful.