you looking for somebody? se?or randall? yeah. i am rafael guerra. yeah? well, you're liable to get yourself shot my apologies, se?or. i am a simple schoolteacher, and i am not familiar with the wayayof american etiquette. ( sets rifle down ) yeah. it, uh.... it will not happen again. it's just that, uh, i would be kinda scared somebody sneak up behind me, blow my head off, you know. that is why i have asked you to come to this village... to help me protect what is mine. ( paper ruststs ) 500 pesos, my friend.

it is the time for the siesta. that is why i have asked you to come here to meet me at this time. i'm listening. pleaseome with me. my home e a short distance outside the village. ( gunshots )

josh: say, you got a fair or something goin' on here? the expected birth of my first child. well, congratulations. you know, you oughta be out celebrating. - no. - well, why not?

does la curandera mean anything to you? hmm? does la curandera mean anything to you? nope. she's the healing woman, whose only talent is recognizing and exploiting ignorance. well, what's she got to do with your baby? uh, she can cast a spell over it and over my wife. say, tell me something. you, uh, you believe in that? ( scoffs ) of course not. you see, in every village in mexico, there is a curandera. and in every village, the people have always listened to the curandera, believe in the magic, obey the prescriptio. t got to do with you? don't you understand? if i defy her, she must meet this challenge. and if i defy her spell...

, ignorant people will-- well, who knows what they will do? mm-hmm. now do you understand? and, uh, you don't want her in your house. right? 500 pesos to keep her out. say, you know that's a... awful lot of money for a schoolteacher to be handing out. the curandera is also a lot. okay. where do i start? - ( clatters ) - here. ( clatter and crashing continue ) esperanza! teacher guerra, i must hurry. her time grows near. then you must get back in the house, esperanza. not without la curandera.

you will stay with my wife now. but the curandnda? she will stay out. but--but she's waiting to be summoned. get in the house, esperanza. curandera is la curandera. and my wife is my wife. let me go, please. let me go! esperanza! i must go back to my wife. you will stay here? yes, sir. no one. you are sent from heaven, se?or. well, a lot of people figure i m mht come from the other direction. se?or?

she's frightened. i cannotell her esperanza refuses to stay. well, uh, if i had to, where woululi be able to find this, uh... - esperanza. - yeah. the village, the square. okay, well, i-- the father of my wife, don emilio flores. i warned you not to interfere in the birth of my grandson. i am ashamed, rafael guerra, to have a son-in-law who prefers a desk to a horse, a book to a roundup. very well. but my grandson will ride with me. and if it is a girl, don emilio will refuse to accept her. it will be a boy. la curandera to ensure it. oh, uh... heh, friend of the family. i know who you are, se?or randall.

now, remove yourself, teacher. i want to talk to la curandera. she is not in my house. then i will wait for her. i tell you this with respect, don emilio. this is my house, and la curandera will not enter. nor will you. josh: don't do tt. don't do that, mister. i rn you, yankee. you may not see another sunrise. mamae. you, uh, you got a gun? - no. - what? no, i have never possessed a gun. shotgun, squirrel gun, anything? nothing. yeah.

well, uh, you evev fired a gun? sometimes, when i was very young. yeah, well, chances are aiming it will be enough, but if you got to fire it, uh, fire low. no sense in tearin' a man all up for nothin'. there she is. ( chamber clicks open ) loaded, four shots. you just pull back the hammer and you keep firing. understand what i mean? - thank you. - yeah. and by the way, don't drop any dirt in it, huh? ho, whoa. excuse me. i'm looking for r woman, esperanza.

hey, sonny, you speak english? se?o?o i speak english. good, good. i'm looking for a woman named esperanza. whiskey. yeah. who? esperanza. that's the woman's name. adi?s, se?or. oh ho, wait. i said, adi?s, se?or.

( kicking at doooo) looking for something, se?or? yeah. looking for a woman named esperanza. she is busy. don't think so. my country is like yoururountry, se?or. you do not call a man a liar. well, , less he is. so? i am a liar. s true: you are leaving. compadres! tomaso, se?or. and pablo. remove your sombreros! t? tambien, b bto! you must remember: se?or randall is a guest in our country and must be treated with full courtesy...

the next time you plan to visit our country. we will arrange a fiesta.

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homage, curandera. homage and gratitude. la curandera lives to serve. she has only the privilege of giving to those who need, when they need. this... this disturbance, has it dislodged your work, your decision? you will have a grandson, don emilio. i have willed it. i have knelt in the cave of wisdom. i have stirred the ashes. i have read there the message sent to me by my mother and my mother's mother unto eternity! you...

lead me to your daughter, don emilio. ( villagers murmuring ) draw your gun, don emilio, and la curandera dies. yes. i'd die... but she dies first.

you'll regret this, raf-- ( villagers murmuring ) here you go. for a fella don't know anything about guns, you're doing pretty well. you go on, take care of your wife. i'll take over here. howd rraaaaahh! aa-aaah! a curse... has descended upon me! aah! mother, i am your servant. curse them, my mother! command me! mother, command me! curandera...

i listen. spare my grandson, please. yes. curandera: i obey. i obey, mother. deeper than deep, blacker than black. infamy... strikes this house tonigh trespasses... man, woman, child or beast...

she needs esperanza now. yeah. hold tight for a second. ( wife cries out ) - it is time. - yeah. here i go. ( villagers gasp )

don't do it. there's a lot of people here. i can't take the chance of a shootout. somebody's liable to get hit, and it ain't gonna be me. just take your pistols outut very carefully and drop 'em on the ground. now. thank you, sir. the woman ininhere gonna have a baby, lady. without you, she might die. josh: t's go. remember! the yankee is cursed! not i. not i, curandera. i am not with the yankee.

no, esperanza! no! the curse, esperanza! ( evevyone gasps ) all right, she walked over the line. nobody's dead. i want you all to go home. go home. now. i mean y y, too, sir.

ay?dame, rafael. ( rattling ) ( gourd rattles again ) ( baby squalls ) ( clatter ) rafael!

( chuckles ) ( clears throat ) ( laughs ) he has my eyes. hold your tongue, yankee.. you're talking about my granddaughter. yes, sir. how's my daughter? my wife is well. i meant no offense. nor did i. this is my house, don emilio, and whoever enters is my guest, invited by me. i deserve this. no, i am not punishing you. i only ask for the courtesy that you demand in your house. and you have earned it, rafael. well, would you honor my house?

( laughs quietly ) a child needs a grandfather. thank you, my son. all this money can never really begin to repay-- i... i will pay the yankee. that is, with your permission, of course. yeah, the old man's gotta have some... fun. very well, then. say, uh...

girls. yeah, girls. well, uh, take it easy, slim.

come on. come on. i'm sorry. uh, i'm george goode. you're late. i said tuesday. i'm sorry. see, i've been waiting ever since morning.

ek. how old is she? 30, 35? no, no, no. that's my wife helen. i don't mean her. i mean her. hmm? i mean baa-baa. randall, you've got to find her for me. - baa-baa? - yeah. oh. ( gunshots )

look, it's worth $500, and believe me, i can afford it. yeah. you're a bounty hunter, aren't you?? yeah, most of the time. it seems that way. now, look, i wish you a lot of luck. i hope you find him. her. her. look, i'll pay you in advance. baa-baa. that's perfect, except that when you call her, you've got to be a little bit more gentle. she's very sensitive. ( whistles ) randall, you'll never know what my life has been like since baa-baa left. my wife won't talk to me. she won't even look at me. if i'd known what was gonna happen, i--

so i took her up on a high ridge and left her. i must have been out of my mind. ( door opens ) not a word now. george? yes, dear? she's been this way ever since, dressed in black. how are you, dear? empty. now, look, darling, i've got some good news. you found baa-baa. no, not quite. but you have wordd she's been seen? not quite that, either. why are you torturing me? oh, i'm not, really. you are. you hated my precious darling from the beginning. you're glad she's gone. i know it. look at t u, wallowing in vengeance. i want my baa-baa. ( crying )

what did i do? you wanted her gone. but, helen-- don't try to deny it. i heard you with my own ears. "get that critter out of my parlor." your very own words. ( sobs ) now, l lk, darling, i really do have some good news for you. this is mr. josh randall, and he's gonna help us find baa-baa. mr. randall is a famous hunter, and i've hired him to just forget everything else and concentrate on baa-baa. she's so helpless, and she needs me. you won't mistake her. she's soft and white and furrrrand... dear. here she is. oh, my poor lost baby.y. honey, don't you think you ought to give the picture to mr. randall so he could recogngne baa-baa? listen, ma'am, an awful lot of sheep out here in this part of the country. it'll be awful hard-- there's half the bounty money inindvance. you talk about my little girl as though she were a criminal.

the way you say things always frighten her. i love her, mr. randall. is that wrong? no, ma'am, it's just that there's an awful-- there's something else that might help you. she has a little gold bell around her neck. sent all the way to san francisco for it. and please be very gentle with her. i already told mr. randall that, honey. then why don't you practice what you preach? now, honey, don't worry. mr. randall's going to find baa-baa. bless you. and there's nothing of mine that you can't have, randall, now or ever, and you have my word on that. and i know that you're not the kind of man that would run away with my money. excuse me. before you settled down here, what kind of work did you do? - i was a salesman. - george. sorry, dear. you're gonna love this one.

wool. ( mooing ) josh: howdy. i'm, uh, looking for a little sheep. i don't like that kind of joke, mister. no joke.

no, no, no, no. i'm just looking for one little sheep. this is cattle grazing land here, mister. the sooner you sheep people understand it, the better off you're gonna be. now, you get off of it, and you stay off. and tell that to the rest of your sheep people, too. yes, sir. yes, sir. whoa. ( sheep baaing ) ( harmonica playing ) ( clicks tongue ) ( playing "red river valley" ) howdy. i'm looking for a little sheep.

right here. you got any more here beside these? oh, you got four more. no, 400. oh. well... ( singing in spanish ) ( overlapping conversations ) ( talk and music stop ) baa-baa!

shot of skylark, please. how's business, josh? oh, haven't you heard? randall's been expanding his operations. how's that? oh, he'll go out after anything. isn't afraid of man or beast, randall isn't. is that true? he's too bashful. all brave men are bashful. yeah, i suppose so. i guess that's what's got me worried. got you worried? range. alking a dangerous critter like baa-baa. you take my advice. you shoot to kill. should i tell him? he's a friend, isn't he? right. say, i heard about a job for you, josh. you know molly harkness, runs the ladies' store? she lost her cat. name's meow-meow. ( all laugh ) meow-meow. meow...

hello, slim. buy you a beer? i'm particular about who i drink with. uh-oh. - se?or josh. - hmm? i would like to speak to you. then go ahead. but... oh. no, no, no, no. i'll come back later. don't go away. coco to think of it, you do look familiar. in what way,y,mm? you look like josh randall all right. i need this right now like i got need a hole in the head, you know that? you look like him, yet you're not him from all i hear. joshshs a man, not a nurse to a sheep. you know, you and i used to be on the same side, remember? we used to be. you sure you want me to buy you that beer now?

- who i drink with. josh, you had me scared for a minute. yeah. how's that? chasing that sheep. you've got to quit it. made a deal. can't get out ofoft. well, if i were you, i'd break it. can't. money isn't everything. now, you listeteto me. you quit me bothering me about this sheep business. this is my problem, not yours. you hear me? here's to you, slim. amigo, i have thought it over. now is the time to speak. this is what i wish to speak to you u out. that's baa-baa's bell, isn't it? i think so. excuse me, slim. i want to talk to you. where is she? oh, i do not know. where'd you get this? - i find it, amigo. - where? in the place that is called tyler's spring, in the road at porterstown. - do you know the place? - yeah. yeah.

she was very thirsty, so i stopped for her to drink water. yeah. yeah. go on. it was in the spring where carmelita was drinking. why didn't you tell me that before? amigo, you was talking to theheeautiful se?orita. here. you buy some strings for your guitar, huh? s?, se?or. hey, listen, slim, i... yeah. yeah. baa-baa. ? mr. randall, mr. randall ? ? he's looking for a shee? ? by the name of baa-baa-baa-baa ? ? and he'e'looking for that sheep ? ? he been looking by the river ? ? he been looking by the dell ?

you know why, amigo? ? because i gave him the bell ? ? mr. randall, mr. randall ? ? he's been looking for a sheep ? ? by the name of baa-baa-baa-baa ? ? and i hope he will find her now ? baaaaaa-baa! adios, amigo. ( applause ) what if you had a medical emergency away from home? my chest hurts. i can't breathe.e. what you need is mobile help. america's premier mobile medical alert system. most systems only work at home. but with mobile help, you get help outside the home, with coverage nationwide on one of the largest cellular networks, at the press of a button.

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now, wait a minute. i ain't looking for no trouble. just looking for a little sheep, remember? i remember what i told you, and all them other sheep people, too. you come in here on this land after we fought for it, yeah, and died for it. our blood's here, not the sheep men. i told you this was cattle-grazing country, didn't i? wasting time. shut up. i want your advice, i'll ask for it. now, this is our land, mister, and there ain't no sheep man ever gonna take it away from us. smart, aren't you? not too. are you a-runnin' this? i didn't say that. then don't say anything. now, you just tell us that you bought the land or you home-staked it or whatever other reason you sheep people wanna give us. look, i ain' no sheep man. i'm just looking for one little sheep. get the rope. oh, now hold on a minute. it ain't even my sheep. you knew what you were doing. no, i didn't. all-- you wanna die, mister? uh-uh.

listen, i'm telling you-- what are you doing? i'm measuring. now,w,isten, mister, you got this all wrong. oh, yeah. yeah, my name is randall. i'm in the bounty business. the little sheep committed a crime, huh? now, lookie here. they hired me to do a job. it was a pet sheep. it run away. i'm bringing it back. oh, sure. and you picked this land to find it on, huh? the man speak his piece? he done spoke his piece. you'll die much quicker that way, mister. i'm only trying to get some proof. oh, yeah. get it. moose. he ain't even got a gun. - that's right. - get it. ( jingles ) well, here's her bell.

you expect me to believe that somebody gave this little gold doodad to a sheep? well, it's the truth, so help me. at's the name of this sheep? baa-baa. "to my...darling, from...mommy." a baby's necklace. hang him. oh, no. you had your say. no use. stop wiggling. what do you mean, stopiggling? you're getting ready to hang me, mister. i'm gonna hit you. picture of the sheep. why, it's baa-baa. baa-baa. ( laughs ) it's baa-baa. hey, what'd you do that for? for laughing. you tell me to hang somebody, that's all right.

moose. moose. moose. moose. whoa. i'm glad you're still here. nna take a look at that flock. i got a little-- never mind. i wanna take a look at your flock. where are they? oh, come on. why don't you tata to me this time, huh? like i told you, mister, 400. i know how many you got, but where are they?

now, is that for true? mister, you call me a liar and i'm gonna pull you right off that horse. ( jingling ) ( whistles )

come on, little girl. come on, little girl. come on, little girl. speak up. last time around. what areou doing? looking for a sheep. it's a pet. why don't you come on over here? where? just over here where you can sit down out of the sun. it seems like i alwawa scare 'em. come on, little girl. come on. scare the sheep? yeah. come on. we don't wanna scare the sheep, do we? no. come on. now, come on, mister. come on, little girl. come on. ( baa ) there's baa-baa. baa-baa? what do you think you're gonna with her? i'm gonnnntake her home. oh, she belongs in there. she belongs at home. she belongs at home.

baa-baa. ( baa...baa ) here, here. use this rope. it's on the house.e. thank you. nothing's too good for baa-baa.

okay, now just hold on one second. if she wants to rest here for a-- hello. anybody home? hello. oh! welcome, rdall. welcome. yes, sir. well, here she is. randall, it's a plplsure to see you. i'll never be able to thank you enough, mr. randall. yes, ma'am. go ahead, helen. tell him. well, i've grown up now, mr. randall. i know now that my husbandomes first. yeah, well, that's just fine. now here's your little friend. now, about the rest of that bounty money, randall. believe you me, it's my pleasure. yeah, well, i'm much obliged. now here's your little friend. she's a lovely little sheep, mr. randall, but she's not going to come between my husband and me again. we give baa-baa to you, mr. randall. ( baa baa ) no, ma'am. it's a bonus to remember us by.

( baa ) ? mr. randall, mr. randall ? ? he's been looking for a sheep ? ? by the name of baa-baa-baa-baa ? ? and i hope he will find her now ? ( baa! )

?? ??

- boy! where may i find mr. paladin? - mr. paladin is very elusive creature. - i will search his room once more. - mr. paladin enjoy himself last evening? - very much. thank you, hey b b. of course, i suppose it would have been prudent of me to inquire whether or not theresa had gotten herself married in the two weeks since last i saw her. - there must be a chinese proverb for a new husband. - i'm sure there is. now, hey boy, i have a number of choiceses i can let that young man shoot me.

or i could take his gun away from him. that would humiliate him further and only postpone the inevitable. no, no. i need an honorable, legitimate excuse for leaving town for a few days. "paladin, my father and brother are trying to kill me. can you help me? signed, tully coombs." (sighing) thank you, hey boy. d to the livery stable? i'll leave from there. and tell theresa i expect her to have this entire matter straightened out when i returnrn - i go now? - you go now.

- good afternoon. - howdy. - how far out of town is the coombs' place? - it ain't. - it ain't what? - out of town. - well, let me put it this way. that brick place. - i thought that was the courthouse. - mister, there ain't no courthouse. - can you tell me if there's a hotel in this town, a place i can get a bite to eat? - right over there. - thank you for your kindness. - old avery know you're looking for him? - no. why? - wouldn't blow my nose around here without i cleared it with old avery.

come on, give it up. come on, boy. well, avery coombs. - i don't believe you'll have the pleasure, mr. paladin. you're paladin, ain't you? - mr. coombs, letters are usually considered confidential. - a man can get killed playing in my backyard, mr. paladin.

of san francisco, save yourself some unpleasantness. - thank you. now, mr. coombs, my advice to you is to tell this gentleman outside the window to take that gun off me. and save yourself an extreme unpleasantness. - he won't shoot 'less i tell him to. - all right. - a stranger? avery coombs, the living legend? as much to northern cattlemen as whaley and middleton and king were to southern herders? no, mr. coombs, i'll trust you not to have me shot in the back. - did that legend tell you i've had men shot in the back? - yes, but for better cause than this, i hope. - (laughing)

we been after tully for two days now. we come close twice. oh, we did come close, but he's a coombs all right. - how'd this whole thing start? - well, don't make a very proud story, especially when it's your own son. - but you will explain it. go back where you belong. - maybe. - tully's been looking to get married for a year now. he's been after me to give him 160 acres for a toe-hold. - 160 acres. that's not much of a toe-hold, is it? - no, it ain't. well, anyway, i said he could have it.

- you say tully would have to take it away from jayce. you mean, they'd fight for it? - they both got equal rights to it. - well, that's still a pretty poor way to settle an inheritance. one of them could get killed. - that would leave the best man still alive. - i see. and tully wouldn't fight jayce? - no, sir, he would not fight. (gunshot) is that him, jayce? - yeah! (gunshot) - ah!

- you're jayce, hmm? well, jayce, the shots from this carbine warned your brother off.

that shoulder wound, how'd he get it? - tully. - gunfight? - bushwhacked two days ago, saturday night. - oh? how? - pa was sitting here and tully came home from the dance. he shot him through that open window over there. - this room well lighted? or a carbine? - handgun. now you hear me. i don't know why my pa's letting you hang around here, but you stick your nose in any deeper, and i'll knock it off for you. - i'd have got him if that horse hadn't fell out from under me. you throw a lot of lead for not hitting anything.

well, you've managed to open that shoulder up again. get some whiskey, please. - paladin, you said i was a legend. tell him what i done to be that. - please sit down and i'll tell him. are you gonna get some whiskey? ened up the high country, proved that men and cattle could live through the snow and come out with a profit, and your father and reid fell out. your father killed reid, and now, if you're gonna make a point, make it. - boy, brother or no brother, when a man threatens what's yours, you either gotta kill him or convert him.

avery, i do not understand you at all. 160 acres. - what do you mean? - your sons are not pushing this fight, you are. - so? - well, why can't your sons share their birthright? especially since one of them is asking so little? - tully wants me to give him 160 acres of what i built. what if i give it to him? what if he has two kids and they want some? what does that leave of what i built? where does that leave me? - a lesser man in my eyes, for one thing. you're a man who's trying to achieve immortality on a piece of land. - i'll leave a son, paladin.

ded? these are your two sons, not wild animals. - you ever heard of a man named darwin? - charles darwin? - he wrote "the origin of the species." i ain't much educated, but i've got that book. i read it the way some men read the bible. - and it confirms everything you already believe? - right. tell him, jayce. - don't tell me life ain't a jungle. i've lived it. - well, then tully bushwhacking you was only playing the game. his mistake was shooting you in the shoulder instead of the head. or are you sure it was tully that shot you? you're a big man, coombs, in a well-lighted room, short range. - who else could it have been?

i think i'd like to hear tully's side of this. - jayce, we'll settle with him when and if we have to. - paladin! you think you'll find him out there? - i'll find him. ant you to tell him to run or i'll have to kill him. - you'll have to kill him? - yeah. - jayce, i'm only guessing, but i guess that you framed tully for that bushwhacking. - that's crazy. what for? - so he'd be forced to run so you wouldn't be forced to kill him. he didn't run far enough, did he? - you tell him to clear out, or i'll kill him.

- would this be tully coombs? - are you paladin? how'd you find me? to cover your trail very well. you don't seem very pleased to see me. - you been to the house? - and i saw your father. - yeah, well, how do i know you're not on his payroll now? - you don't. innkeeper, hot coffee, hot biscuits, and a steak, rare.

thank you. very good. you have no idea who shot your father? - no. i just started to unsaddle my horse and i heard the shot and came running towards the house. d got my range. there's no talking to pa when he's shooting at you. - so, you turned and lit out. - yes, and i stayed lit out ever since. - you came back last night? - to meet you. - what about you and jayce before this? - oh, jayce always did bully me some,

- your mother passed away? - when i was 4. - well, you must take after her side. - well, that's what jayce says, but i don't remember her much. - tully, the least painful solution to your problems would be to run. clear out and never come back. - paladin, this is my home, and i love that land just as much as pa does, - well, then you'll have to fight jayce. - no. - too late for anything else. - no, i won't kill him. not for the whole c-double-o. - tully, i believe that or i wouldn't suggest the fight. - but if jayce says he's gonna kill me,

killed before either. - (laughing) well, i'm gonna try very hard to see that neither of you spoils that record. (door closes) - jayce, where's your father? - we've been looking for tully. we split up. i just got back. he must be on his way in now. - tully's here.

no, tully's here to fight you.

- no guns, jayce. - you know i don't need a gun.

(gun belt drops) - all right, avery! come on over here and take a look. this what you've been waiting for?

this the end of it, avery? or is that warped philosophy of yours gonna demand another scene?

- and i picked you to fill my shoes? - i'll kill him! - jayce! you don't have to kill him! now look at him. there's nothing left there but a reputation, a legend. - but the land of his is still his! - no! it's ours. didn't we? didn't we? - all right. i had the land a good long time and i made my mark on it.

- (coughing) ?? - ? "have gun will travel" ?

? in a savage land ? ? his fast gun for hire ? ? heeds the calling wind ? ? a soldier of fortune ? ? is the man called paladin ? ? paladin, paladin ? ? where do you roam? ?

?? (gun xxxxing) no matter how noble your cause, gavin, i can't let you condemn a boy to death. so we'll wait until one of us makes a false move. (gun unxxxxing) ??

- excuse me. - mr. paladin. i'm sorry, mr. paladin. i wouldn't if it wasn't urgent. i'm from the state department, and it's top secret. you ever hear of an irishman called gavin o'shea? - dublin underground? brave man, silver tongue? money for the fenian brotherhood. we want you to find him. unofficially, mr. paladin, he has to be told certain facts. the irish situation is a political hot potato. and this being an election year, we can't afford to mess in and lose votes. but these boys have to be stopped. - from what? - invading canada.

- this way, please. - it cannot be tonight. - vouloir, c'est pouvoir. - you can believe there's a will, and i already know the way. (kisses) to the top of the mountain, and i looked down into the valley, and it was green, and i thought of home. but it was as though that god had reached out and used his green thumb and blessed this valley. and i knew it was from here that we would mount our attack. for it is the right of the irish people to decide the irish destiny it is for us to be sovereign and indefeasible.

and to enable us to strike a blow for freedom. for when foreign peoples and governments will rob us of our heritage and our noble tradition, then will we fight for the right of men to be free. and, from you, from you, the descendents of ireland's children, we ask not your lives. we ask only that you supply us with money to enable us to strike a blow for the right of men to be free. and every dollar that you raise will be an irish life that may be saved. (blowing) now, may the blessings of the sweet spirit guide you. hooray for ireland! yay!

are you willing to go through with it? - i'd die for him, michael. there ain't nothing i wouldn't do. - come on. come on. (coins rattling) (man) - aye, god bless you, thank you. thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you. aye, i appreciate you. god bless you, sir. thank you. thank you. thank you very kindly. bless you. thank you. aye, i appreciate you. god bless you, sir. - we'll raise the money. - thank you. thank you. thank you very kindly. god bless ireland. - (man 2) 'tis a pleasure. - aye, lad? - we heard you speak over in copper city. - oh, yeah. - my brother danny and me... we want to join up with you. my name's mahoney. - oh, it's a fine irish name. - michael mahoney. - how are you, michael? but i'm only asking for guns and ammunition. you're offering me your young life.

said. we can help. i know we can. wait. will you wait? just stay here for a little while, that's all i'm asking you. come on danny. - they say, "the spell of the tongue is the most dangerous spell of all." and yours is a silver one, gavin o'shea. - well, it's not the words that contain the beauty. it's the cause that they describe. you're well-spoken yourself, sir.

- and it's your cause i want to talk to you about. in the name of it, you're sending youngsters like that off to their death. - well, whether i am or not, you're lucky 'cause it's not your affair so it won't be on your conscience. - i'm not as lucky as you think. it is my affair. - ah. then you'd be one of those undercover chaps. - can we talk? ge the course of history. - "anything but history, for history must be false." - you'll get nowhere quoting an englishman to me. - that was a tactical error. i shan't repeat it. - well, come along, then. i'll listen to your dark secrets and dire predictions.

(guns thudding) - now, the united states government expects you to launch your attack through the new york section of the st. lawrence river sometime in june. - oh, do they now? - mm. - (kisses) bless you. - oh, bless you, ma'am. - but judging by your present position, i'd be much more inclined to expect you

he quarrel? - because you consider that a direct blow to british power. you expect help from the united states and from canada, and, o'shea, it won't happen that way. (soft slap) - will you be telling me what the united states government has done to stop us so far? - nothing. - and why not? is it because the english helped out the confederacy, and the boys in washington aren't too soon to forget? - that's a fair assumption. - uh-huh. between the political parties for the irish vote? - i'm well aware. - mm-hmm. and that on your shores, we have assembled 18,000 comrades-in-arms of the fenian brotherhood, most of them veterans of the recent war against the southern states? - i know. - then how can you be doubting that the irish flag will be waving over canada? and until such time as the british despots give back ireland to the irish, then only will we return canada

- aye. it's the devil's own bargain we're making. - well, it won't work that way, o'shea. you wax as eloquent as you like, but it will not work that way. - we cannot be stopped. - they've already stopped you. look here. they've confiscated all the arms you had in depots here along the st. lawrence. they've arrested your leaders, and they're guarding the st. lawrence right now. your battle is going to have to be won in your own country, an officer in the irish army, it's for me to say where we will fight, and it's for the good lord to say where we'll win. - well, you can't fight at all without guns. - i'd rather die fighting them with my own bare hands than go on living and not fight them at all. - and the boys and men under your command? they're going to die because of your fanaticism? - oh, it's "your fanaticism" that you call it, that my own mother and father were flung into a cart full of corpses and then conveyed to the great ditch in a church yard when the famine raged throughout the land?

for speaking out against the enemies of the people? - i am not talking against your cause. i am talking against the ideas of boys and men dying in a battle that couldn't possibly be won! - if it is for dying that i can give courage to the living, then... (horse approaching) - i'm ready, sir. - o'shea, send him back to his mother. he has no cause... only... hero worship. - there's a line shack about two miles danny will meet us there. oh, please, mr. o'shea. i have volunteers waiting to hear you speak. and they have money... all the money you need. only you have to get out of here. - before i come, michael, i want you to know that we've got one chance in a million of winning. - that doesn't matter now. we have to get going. - and you'll probably lose your young life in the bargain. - please, mr. o'shea, let's go.

god save ireland. (gunfire) - oh, boy. - don't make me do it. i got to stop him. stay back! - hey, whoa. that's just a boy. - him and his brother robbed the bank, mister.

- what'll they do to me? - depends on whether or not you got the money. well, then the chances are you will hang. hurry it up, will you? i gotta lock him up so i can go after the other one. - sheriff, i've got to stop this bleeding. lock him up? - my deputies are busy. look, that's good enough, ain't it? i don't catch the one with the money, he ain't gonna live anyhow. - oh, whatever happened to justice in this town, sheriff? - don't you say anything about justice to me, mister. this is the third holdup this year. the town is ugly, i'm telling you true. even good folk get mean when their life savings have been took. i'll be lucky if they don't string me up.

if you do, you better tell me. - i'll get your money, sheriff, and i'll go alone. - not if it means you're going to hurt mr. o'shea or michael. i'd rather die first. - you may get that chance.

(wood rattling)

(banging on door) danny? is that you, danny? - it's paladin. i'm alone. (door squeaking) to danny? - what do you think happened to him when you left him in there alone? - i didn't leave him. he knew where we were headed. i told him we'd wait for him. what happened? mister, is he dead? - he's all right if they get their money back,

- i'm sorry, sir. - can you be forgetting that the money would buy guns and ammunition to save the lives of irishmen? - well, that's why danny and me did it. we tried. we wanted it to work. - it did work, michael. - i don't understand you, sir. i mean, with them having danny and all, why... very man, there comes a supreme moment when his soul stands stripped naked, and with a single gesture, he is revealed to himself. now do you understand me, michael? - the spanish call it "the moment of truth." - and this is my moment, paladin. it is the moment i must decide if the life of a beautiful,

- o'shea, it's not your decision to make. - in my darkest hour, you brought this bag to me filled with money that would save the lives and give freedom to thousands. - oh, soon as i get danny out, we'll ride to niagara and meet you. we'll fight alongside you, sir. we'll die for you glad. - no. you wanted to be joining a cause, michael, without even knowing what the cause was about.

(soft slapping) goodbye, lad. (horse galloping off) - he's a saint. - oh? - you know, he gave me a bad turn there for a minute. i thought he wasn't gonna part with the money. did you ever have one of them there "moments of truth"? - look in the bags.

(bird chirping) - what are you going to do? - just stay back in there. - i'd sooner come along. i can handle myself. - aw. - oh, look, if he's trapped, he'll give up. he ain't crazy. he ain't out to hurt anybody.

tal extreme to another. now stay there! (door opening, closing) all right, o'shea, that's far enough. now, there's no reason for bloodshed between the two us. you give us the money that will stop the hanging of danny mahoney, and you can go your own way. - sorry i am for the boy, paladin. but one boy's life is not to be bargained for many lives. matter of free will. that's not the case with danny. - it's a war that we're in, paladin. and i'm not responsible of the innocents standing in the way of our victory. - it's an unfair war that's being waged in a land with which you have no quarrel. how many innocent canadians are going to be killed defending their own homes? - well, then, let them not resist us. let them instead see the justice of our cause, and we'll light the way for them to free their own children from the domination of the british.

xtinguished, it's to me own that i owe my loyalty. too long has my country waited. - i used the word "fanatic" before, and i'll use it again, o'shea. you've lost reality. you can't win. canada will fight, and the united states will intercede, and that's reality! - my reality is the irish free state, and there is no other. ll not let you condemn a boy to death. - why can't he listen? why can't he do what's right? why does he have to kill my brother? - because he's come to that point in a man's life where the world is no longer his to do with as he pleases. i suppose it comes to all men sooner or later, michael. he just wants to see his dreams realized

oh, i ain't gonna shoot you. i just want to... (gun belt thudding) i just want to get danny off, and i want you to go on and do what you have to do. we believed in you, mr. o'shea... ma and danny and me. there's ballads on you. my pa used to know 'em in the old country, and he used to sing them to us when we were just little kids. give me the money, mr. o'shea. anymore than i want danny to die. - (growling) all right! all right, paladin. drop your arms, or this boy's death will be on your conscience as well as it is mine. the word "fanatic" came from your lips, and there was no denial from mine. all right, and i will take both the horses. and you'll have to take me word of honor that as soon as i get to my destination,

your gun, please, mr. paladin. (sighing) (gun thuds ground) (gunfire) ?ire go br?ch. - what did he say? - he said, "ireland forever." - ? have gun, will travel ? ? reads the card of a man ?

? his fast gun for hire ? ? heeds the calling wind ? ? a soldier of fortune ? ? is the man called ? ? paladin ? ? paladin, paladin ? ? where do you roam? ?

>> there is no need to whisper. >> there too busy counting their pennies. >> my back is breaking. >> not yet, my friend.

>> no. >> you're joking. >> is that a joke? >> gone. >> all right. -- >> go on. >> all right.

down here for 10 hours a day. >> yes. >> will you talk to john cannon for us? all we want is a letter to the miners. it's a small thing to ask. >> i know. what makes you think the >> a thorn in their sides. john cannon is a man of substance. it is worth a try. men are on their bellies like

listen to the kind heart that beats in your breast. >> we should go. ?

? >> get them. >> a little more come on. >> let her down.

>> yeah? >> i have a favor to ask. >> a little later. help me get it on. >> just a small favor. you've heard about my old friend at mine. he would like if you would send a letter to the mine. >> a letter? he won't be at a loss for words. >> the owners ignore . >> i'm not going to tell them how to run their mind. my advice to you as you stay away from sean and those strikers. >> they will not put food into the mouths of the miners's

>> blue, black like a ravens wing. >> john, that is beautiful. >> it's from a poem. >> you're making fun of me, no? yes? >> that they doesn't on that you don't know exactly what you mean. you are up to something. come on. out with it. >> i think it is best if i am direct. >> yes, it helps. there is no question of that. >> john, i want you to help those miners. i told them i would not take sides in a strike.

all you have to do is send a letter. they will believe you. he puts me up to nothing. i see those people in church. they are good men with families. i see the shacks in which they live. >> what were you doing in the shacks? >> i took them some food. you are food. >> i will take them whole wagon loads of food. >> you will? >> yes, i will. >> and you will send the letter? >> yes. maybe i will be sending that letter. mclaren is the cause of all this. he is a hothead stubborn fool.

>> just what you are gng. they are all backing you. >> 10 of them went to the mine this morning. greg is bringing strikebreakers every day. not a hard thing to ask. especially when the young ones's bellies are ainst rthei ckbones. take it. may you be in have been 10 minutes before the devil knows you're dead. >> let's see a smile. >> we will share the cost.

>> all right. i'm giving three men harry chance to come back to work. -- thr mene a chance to me back to man? a chance to go back down the vely mine. what a noble man he is. you are a black heart, greg. sending men into a mudhole you

they will not shovel the tunnels prerly. because their money has found a way to her pockets. >> i asked you many question. -- i asked you men a question. >> i hate to work as much as anybody. but my wife needs not be a widow. >> back is my way. >> you, i don't want back. none of you are the rest of your irish schmucker. >> i won't stand for that sort of talk.

[gunshot] >> all right, who started it? that breakage, you can pay for. the rest, no s headaches over this strike. what happened? >> he jumped me. mclaren's gang jumped in. >> was me that struck the first blow. >> i will take the credit for handling greg. >> we will pay for. >> i would just arrest them. >> these two are the

>> it would be a terrible injustice. >> i've got no fight. >> that's too bad. it will one day be my pleasure to try you. you say the word, sean. you walk out of here a free man. >> it's kind of you to be so friendly. as much as anyone's. i put my faith in her justice. you've had your say. you've had your day, greg. my do this. sean maclaren is a better man than you are and i will prove it. you mind that. >> let's go. >> is it you or me who needs a crutch?

amigo! >> i'm not a brilliant man. but i am smart enough to know that you and these minute yours cannot beat an idea with clubs. comprende? quiet! you speak only to answer questions. so far, you have made -- the mine owners are on trial. i ain't through. you are not employed, are you? >> you know we struck the mine. >> you will address the court as

out of work makes you a vagrant. >> i'm a free man looking to better the lives of the mineworkers, including myself. you are against freedom of speech or assembly? >> freedom of assembly? of course i'm for it. >> i'm glad to hear that. u when john adams gave up his law practice to help frame the declaration of independence, was he a vagrant? no one with such a grand mind -- i would say you wouldn't. >> i have a list of complaints as long as my arm against you. >> to use against me? surely would n put

why wasn't greg arrested? y must there believe boys with the clubs beat heads in? >> did you hit greg first? >> i did. >> 30 days in the chain gang. both of you. filthy we are not on trial here today. the irish have been sentenced. >> if you have something to say, say to the court. >> the court is a bloody mockery. i watched my father die in

happen here! >> i can make it 60 days for contempt, mclar. >> contempt, is it? i would not say your honor to a livery man with a law book. i will not respect any law handed down by the likes of you. i will not starve because of greg and his mine owners. >> of greg's nose. get out of here before i do tech on another 30 days for contempt. >> no chains can hold me. tear off my legs and wrap them around your throat. >> 30 days more. contempt of court. >> that sums up my feeling for this court, exactly. contempt! >> come !

mr. cannon, i have a mayor you might want to buy. -- a mareou might want to buy. i could not let him spout off all day. i must uphold the dignity of the law. >> there are many words i can think of. dignity is not one of them. >> recollect them

>> good morning. >> i will see you in tucson, mr.

strike. >> you don't have any stock in this mine, the you? >> no, i don't. i do have a share in the community. tell me something. is there any truth in this complaint? >> >> what have you in this business, cannon? 15 years i put in. >> you can treat them like men. the irish have smiles on their faces and dynamite in their hands. they make trouble. if i had my say, i would send each of them backward they came from. >> it would be cheaper to just shoot them. >> i don't want any trouble from you, cannon.

down to hating a growth men makes his own trouble, greg. >> i don't think we have any more to talk about. >> one more thing. the address of the mine owners. i'm sending them a letter. thank you. >> now, get out! >> teach you better manners. >> how big do i look now, mr. cannon? >> not so big, greg.

>> hey! what's in here? >> i told you. >> you went and forgot again. remember what i told you about saying "sir?" it's just a matter of trying. get back over there and wrap your meat hooks around that hammer.

>> let go of him and get back on that hill and work. get on up there and work. >> se?or, por i have lost my way. >> throat is that way around that turn. >> muchas gracias. my burro gets nervous. >> how much for three?

thank you. my people have a saying. enjoy the day. who knows what the night will bring? vamanos! >> mclaren, if you don't sleep too good, let me know. i've got a special room waiting

>> that man -- this special room he is talking about was mine for two days and nights. it's a box. you can't stand up and you can't sit down. >> made the darkness clean his whole. soul. don't let him get you down. >> it's not me am thinking of. my family. >> don't fret. our friends will look after them. like their very own. >> i determined that light out.

here. that's another of my rules. no talking once that light is out. right, mclaren? >> right, sir. >> you are getting on, mclaren. you remembered. he might be easy. if we do not get out of the

-- he will die. sooner or later, they will kill him. >> what say you? if they drink that wine, they will not be able to heat the sits of their parents. sleeping powder, was it? >> enough to put them off for a

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>> [whispering] mclaren -- >> hold it!

who to the shackles off you? you're going to talk, boy. you will talk all night after spending a little time in that box. now, move. >> you ain't never going to lock me up again. >> what are you waiting for? >> forget him. >> get in there, boy.

>> vamanos. >> you go on. i have my own ways to go. >> buena suerte. >> you know the way? >> good. >> good, is it? >> that trial was a mockery of the law. >> i know.

this as i think he is coming he is in real trouble. >> every time there is trouble, he has to be there. >> that's where the cows went. take that side. i'll take this. >> hola! >> would you look there?

>> where are they? >> they? who? >> the other cows. >> i ate them. >> you get a big appetite. >> one little cow more or less, it does not matter. >> i'm not talking about cows. i'm talking about mclaren. there is a posse after him first. >> i do not know where they are. maybe there in mexico. >> in mexico? i don't know how deep you are in this. but that mclaren is in a love trouble. when they catch him, it's going to make the prison. you take an older man's advice. you stay away from him. >> mr. cannon, i already have a

has been giving me free advice since i was this high and i do not need another one. the real problem is, do i take that little cow? >> you can take yourself a fatter one. that's all. >> you are muy sympatico. >> vaya con dios. >> what are you grinning at?

>> john? i was thinking, patience is not a bad thing. it does mine owners -- -- it does mine owners -- yes if those mine owners --

follow. >> only when i want to be, john. have you met? >> yes. i did not come here to fight, mclaren. >> i did. you've got a great house. perhaps a grander contempt for the likes of me. >> i sent the letter to the mine owners. i signed it. i applied by that decision. will you? , i know you have an honest heart. but we bow to no man, no. the owners and greg will come to our terms. >> weight. you could win this my way. we could lose. >> what do you care about the

to ride my back. >> all right. you stubborn irish mule. pull the crown of thorns to over your four head and bleed and bleed some more. you are not helping your self or any man dragged here. >> we will get our greg. >> greg? is that what you start after. in peace after greg? and the men they sent after him and the man after that? all of you want and deserve these demands. why don't you get them legal? so they will stick. >> we will do it our way, mr. cannon.

>> if you have a mine twill, you can go back to what you left behind. -- if you have a mine you can go back to what you left behind. >> my kids don't eat. i have to go back to work, sean. >> bacdown the mine. if you are not with us, you are

fighting. i will not be part of this darling kind of thing -- crawling kind of thing. >> weren't you crawling when i founyou? like a babe, you were. >> i don't deserve that. not from you, i don't. 'm done with this, sean. >> fish gone bad. clear out. good riddance. what about you? >> i'm with you, sean. >> and you?

your children won't be safe in their bed. not from their kind. this is your call. his kind will burn until they own you. find him. find mclaren and hang him! ifou don't, those irish scum

tell us why the irish, greg. go on, you hypocritical liar. >> put some meat on those miners's kids. >> i feel like santa claus. going? >> he won't listen to you. he will listen to me. >> what have they done to?

in. the time has come. this is our first daylight raid. sunday, there will be no minors about. there will be cards. i will not hold it against you if you don't come along. -- there will be no about. there will be guards.

>> sean! >> what are you g

>> he will not come. nor will any of the others. if you have a prayer, use it. >> he wasn't fit to live. >> sean. you don't even give him a chance. to fight a man is one thing. but not like that. >> did he give patty a chance? for any of the rest of us? this is ody no blocnic, man. this is a war between the likes

i will blow hell -- >> have suddenly decided. >> give me that dynamite! i will blow the mine! >> are you daft? only the building should fire. >> sean! it's no use.

>> he's got dynamite in the mine. the are tunnels beneath their feet. the whole bloody hell. he followed them down in the mine. god help them all. >> all right, then.

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?.. toby, please hurry. they'll be coming any minute. i gotta have my cough medicine. ( coughs ) well, you didn't have to try and drink it all at once. toby, get in. please. hawk: so long, boys. thank you, midge. very nice. ( muttering ) toby, shhh! well, charlie, looks like we'll get back in camp just about in time to get started again. poor toby. it's a good thing you've got me to take care of you.