Arizona Bushwhackers (1968) - full transcript

[Explosion]

A little known chapter in
the history of the old west

Began during the raging
days of the civil war.

While soldiers
of the north and south

Clashed on the battlefield,

Military prisons on both sides

Were woefully overcrowded.

Men often died by the score,

And those that did not
generally existed

In squalor, stink,
and eroding monotony.

When informed
of these conditions,



President Abraham Lincoln
granted confederate prisoners

The opportunity to enlist
in the union army.

They were not asked to fight
their brothers in the south,

Instead were ordered to help
settle and patrol the west.

Fighting indians, repairing roads,
telegraph wires,

And in some cases,

To bring order to a lawless town.

One such rebel to accept
these terms was Lee Travis,

Before the war

A Mississippi riverboat
gambler and gunfighter.

In 1862, he had worn
confederate gray.

Two years later
he was captured,

And now, in 1865,

Taking advantage of
president lincoln's offer,



He wore the blue
yankee uniform

And was embarked
on a long journey

To the untamed frontier town
of colton, arizona...

a town that for days
did not know

Lee Travis was on his way.

Didn't know.

Didn't care.

Then the word at last
reached mayor joe smith.

More trouble from you,
Mr. Mayor?

Sheriff, this is
the last trouble

You'll ever get from me.

Oh, bellyaching
to the governor again.

And he bellyached to
the federal government.

Here. Read this letter.

"Appointment confirmed."
What appointment?

Read it.

"Lee travis,
U.S. Army special corps."

You know what
the special corps is?

It's a special corps
of yellow-Bellied rebs

Who turned traitor and
signed up with the yankees.

You didn't read
the rest of it.

I don't read garbage.

He's taking over your job.

Nobody's taking over my job.

Tell that to Lee Travis
when he gets here.

This town won't stand
still for any ex-Reb,

Especially one with the
nerve to wear a badge.

I intend to order
our citizens

To accept any sheriff that the
government sees fit to send.

The people of colton
are sick of your orders.

Like it or not,

We're going
to have law in colton.

We'll vote on who
they want for sheriff,

Me or a yellow-Bellied reb.

We will not vote on it.

Either you hand in
your badge peaceably,

Or I make charges
against you.

What charges, Mr. Mayor?

I let the saloon
run all night?

I'm in favor of gamblers
and dance hall girls?

No.
Charges of graft.

You don't know
what you're talking about.

You've been taking
bribes from tom rile.

I suppose you claim
you got proof.

Witnesses, sheriff.

Enough witnesses to send
you away for a long time,

That is, if you
make an issue of it.

Colton's my town.
It always has been.

It was your town.

[Commotion]

This is your town, you said?

That happens
to be your deputy.

Shelby can take care
of himself.

Then why don't you
show him any respect?

I never asked for a deputy.

If I had, it wouldn't
have been him.

Leave Mr. Shelby alone!

Leave him alone!

Is he one of those witnesses
you were talking about?

No. Shelby's probably
the only man in town

That doesn't know
you've been taking bribes.

If he was a witness
against me,

I'd knock his block off.

I bet you could.

I bet you could lick any
one-Armed man in town.

What's this all about?

It's nothing, sir,
just a little--

The boys are just being
a little playful.

They get playful because
you keep telling the boys

You don't need a deputy.

Well, I don't need a deputy.

I never did.

Thank you, Mr. Grover.

The mayor here put
shelby on the payroll

Because, uh, well, what can
you do with a cripple

Back from the war?

Mr. Rile, he lost
the use of that arm

Fighting for scum like you.

I don't need anybody
to fight for me.

And I don't need charity,

So I'm turning in this badge.

If you do, there'll be
no law here at all,

Except a former reb.

What's that about a reb?

We're getting a new sheriff.

A man fresh from an army
prison camp is coming.

A reb?

You being a former yankee,

I thought it might
be of some interest.

It is.

We don't want any
rebs in this town.

I hate to agree with
Mr. Rile, but he's right.

Her brother lost his life
fighting the rebs.

[Mayor] Well, there's nothing
any one of you can do.

What's going to happen
to sheriff grover here?

He's quitting.

Why?
He's a good sheriff.

I can't understand it.

He still looks up to you.

This reb
that's coming,

His name is Lee Travis.

[Mayor] He'll be here
in a couple of days.

I suggest we give Mr. Travis
a nice warm welcome.

From what I hear of him,

I suggest you
and your hooligans

Clear out of town before
he drives you out.

Don't let it upset you.

You know, I just
don't understand it,

Bringing a reb here.

I know how you feel.

Come on. I'll walk you
to your shop.

The usual.

Lee travis. Mm-Hmm.
I know about him.

That mayor don't scare me.

He thinks I won't take
care of a turncoat reb,

He's mistaken.

You can try
taking care of him.

What, the mayor?

Lee travis.

I told you
I heard of him.

Oh, that's right. You're
from the south like him.

Been a while ago.

How'd you hear of him?

Is he famous down there?

You might say that.

Famous for what?

Riverboat gambler,
gunfighter...

yeah? You ever meet him?

Wish I had.

Once, in new orleans,
he walked right past me.

As close as that.

He gets that close to me,
he'll be a dead man.

Talk was, he was real
fancy with that gun.

Is that right?

Grover, you ain't
giving up that badge.

If I don't, there'll be
a lot of trouble.

Suppose I have the boys take
care of travis on the way in.

It isn't that easy.

I'll make it that easy.

Word would get out
how it happened.

They'd figure I planned
it to save my job.

Why don't you have
your renegade apache friends

Arrange a quiet little
one-Man massacre of Lee Travis?

Then there won't be suspicions
our sheriff's behind it.

Do you know some
renegade apaches?

Always opening
your big mouth, ain't you?

Anyway, this is
no job for them.

I didn't know you had any
dealings with indians.

You still don't know.

That's what I pay you for--
Not to know anything.

What is it, tom?

You selling the apaches
whiskey or guns?

Better put
that blindfold back on.

No wonder you got so many
gunslingers working for you.

You look healthier with that usual
dumb look on your face.

I can only go so far
with that look.

Then something gets
stuck in my craw,

And I can't get it out.

Yeah? What,
your conscience?

Go ahead, say it.

I ain't had
a good laugh all day.

I can't go along with letting
you murder lee travis.

Listen to me, old man.

I aim to have you
keep that badge,

So you'll go along
with anything I say,

And if you don't, I'll--

You'll kill me, too?

Here.

Go ahead.

Ah, I ought to--

What stopped you,

The fact he's already dead?

And I'd swear
what he died from

Was something that
got stuck in his craw.

Something funny
going on here.

What do you mean?

Sheriff grover,
he's a landmark in this town,

A permanent fixture.

They can't just
throw him out.

I can't help but think that
mayor smith is behind this.

Next year there'll be
an election,

And sheriff grover
is a very popular man.

There was talk of
running him for mayor,

And Smith's bouncing him out
before that can happen.

It certainly doesn't seem fair.

It isn't fair.

I'm going to talk
to sheriff grover.

I'm going to ask him to stay
on here, no matter what.

From now on, looks like you're the
law around here for a while.

Mr. Grover, I could never
fill your boots.

Besides, you know all
this is just political.

Political or not, there's the badge
right there on the desk,

Along with the graft money
that goes with the job.

Graft money?

Maybe a better way to
describe it is blood money.

I had no idea.

You're wearing a bigger
blindfold than I did.

So that's why you never
wanted a deputy around.

Tom Rile-- The biggest man
in town and the dirtiest.

He said I had
to leave that badge on.

I could never handle
this job without you,

As deputy
or anything else.

Then quit.
I just did.

Mr. Grover...

hadn't you better
take some of this?

What for?

A man can't live without money.

I'll tell you something, son.

When it's that kind of money,

A man can't live with it.

What about this reb
that's taking over as sheriff?

Rile's having some of his men

Bushwhack him on the way in.

Don't worry about it.
He'll never get here.

It's a pity.

He might've been
just what this town needs.

Not a rebel.

I don't want to see another
one as long as I live.

If rile's men
don't get that reb,

Maybe I'll kill him myself.

[Door opens]

He's gone.

Gone for good.

I saw him go.

I heard what you said
about the new sheriff.

You intend to let rile's men kill
him before he gets here,

And if they don't, you will?

All right, you heard,
and I meant it.

Why shouldn't I kill him?

Because then this town
would really belong to rile.

Better him
than a filthy rebel.

But you forget, Lee Travis
changed sides.

Then he's worse than a traitor.

Well, look at it this way...

he's not in the war anymore.

He's a human being like you.

He's trying to pick up the pieces
and live the best he can.

Love thy enemy, huh?

Well, not me, Jill.

Do you realize that you're
the only lawman left here?

Now that Mr. Grover's gone,
I guess you're right.

It's your sworn duty
to uphold the law.

That means nothing?

Of course it means something.

Then it's your duty
to warn Lee Travis

That he's riding into a trap.

No. To me, he's still the enemy.

You're not in the war
anymore either.

There is no enemy.

You had a brother.

He was killed
by the confederates.

That doesn't blind me to what's
right and what's wrong

The way it does you.

Maybe that's what
Mr. Grover found out

And was trying to tell me.

There is a right
and a wrong.

Then you will warn him?

Jill, I don't know.
I've got to...

I've got
to think about it.

I saw him up ahead,
and he's coming this way.

You sure it's Lee Travis?

He's wearing
a yankee uniform.

I don't see
no sign of him now.

That's because he's riding
between those rocks.

It's mighty obliging
of that turncoat reb

To come riding straight to us.

Any chance he spotted you?

He wouldn't pay any attention

To an innocent cowpoke.

You talk like he has
a suspicious mind.

I've got a suspicious mind.

Let's go get him.

No. You two wait on
both sides of the trail.

We'll bushwhack him proper.

I'll nice-Talk him
and lead him to you.

You have it all
figured out real nice.

Yeah. Now get going.

[Horse whinnies]

Rein in that horse, mister.

Now, unholster your gun
real slow.

Drop it to the ground.

Mister, your voice
sure ain't familiar.

I'm Ike Clanton
from over in Colton,

And I ain't out here
looking for trouble.

I said drop the gun.

What's this all about?

I'm just here
to meet our new sheriff.

Get off your horse.

You ain't him?

Lee Travis.

Well, curly said you would...

we expected to see you
in uniform.

I know.

Wish I could figure you out.

Don't bother.
I figured you out.

I was just riding along
looking for you.

The way I hear it,

You're going to be
our new sheriff.

You heard right.

The reason I'm here is,

I appointed myself a welcoming
committee of one to greet you.

Have a cigar.

Tie up your animal.

You've got some kind
of a mistaken idea about me.

Well, let's put it this way.

Either I made a mistake,

Or you made a mistake.

Now put on that uniform.

You're going to be
a soldier boy.

Oh, no, I ain't!

Put it on!

You couldn't give me
some reason?

I don't want
to be bushwhacked.

Who would do
a thing like that?

I don't understand
where you got such an idea.

Through a pair of binoculars.

You figure there's
going to be an ambush,

And you're going
to make me ride into it.

If there isn't any,
you got nothing to worry about.

Suppose there is?

Then they'll see
that uniform

And start blasting away
before they know it's you.

You don't give a man
much of a chance.

No. Neither do they.

But they'll kill me!

Yeah. You instead of me.

Now, mister, I ain't
going to put on that uniform.

I can kill you now,

Or you can put on that uniform
and take your chances.

You can have your gun.

If they start shooting,
you can shoot back.

Shoot at my own men?
What kind of choice is that?

Only choice you got,

Because I'll have you
covered all the way.

Now, get over there!

They'll be coming
up through here.

You get over there.

[Horses whinny]

Here they come.

Keep going.

Ike's right behind him.

He'll get Travis from the back.

We'll get him from the front.

All right.
Let him have it.

It's me, Ike Clanton!
Don't shoot!

Curly, it's me, Ike Clanton!

Nice to meet up with a lawman.

Who are you, mister?

The name's Lee Travis.

I might've guessed.

Who are they?

Didn't mention their names.

Ike Clanton.

Friends of yours?

Friends of mr. Rile's.

Uniform belongs to me.

I asked him to put it on.

Rile sent him and two others
to bushwhack you.

I came to warn you.

You're a little late.

Maybe I was hoping I'd be late.

That's real friendly.

Name is shelby, Mr. Travis,
and I'm not friendly with rebs.

Fact is,
I hate their guts.

You must be
the deputy of colton.

The town that doesn't want

An ex-Confederate soldier
for its sheriff.

Look like everybody's
going to be real friendly.

I bet you don't last the week.

Never bet a professional
gambler, Mr. Shelby.

Here. Here are your prisoners.

Two cards.

I call.

Take care of that for me?

Deal me out.

What happened?

Tricked us.

Where's Ike Clanton, Ed Jones?

Dead.

Dead?

Shelby.

Who's that
under the blankets?

Mr. Rile, you might be
more interested

In knowing
who he is.

He's Lee Travis,
our new sheriff.

Mr. Rile...

I met your
welcoming committee.

Oh?

I'm happy shelby
was able to meet you.

If he didn't
tell you, I will--

We don't want you here.

That's what they said.

They?

What, a couple of dead men?

One of them's Ike Clanton.

Bury your dead, Mr. Rile.

Welcome or not, I'm here.

I welcome you, Travis.

I'm Joe Smith,
mayor of Colton.

Sure you want to shake
hands with an ex-Reb?

Ha. It is rather unusual

to have a former
confederate as a sheriff,

But most of our
able-Bodied men

Are off at the war.

These are trying times.

Tell your citizens they're going
to have to try a little harder.

Travis!

This time i'm going to
try a little harder.

No, curly.
Not here.

When I'm paid, I deliver.

That's enough.

I'm not paying attention
to you, Mr. Rile.

This is for Ike.

Give him an even chance.

What difference
does it make to you?

My chance was to draw
against my own friend,

My own friend
that I killed.

Told you he was fancy
with that gun.

You hire a killer,
You're just as guilty.

- He didn't kill you.
- He tried.

I tried to stop him.
You heard.

I heard you sent him out
to ambush me.

I say that's a lie.

His word against yours.

And he's dead.

But you're not, Mr. Rile.

And you'll be seeing me.

You're going to be
seeing a lot of me.

There are three coffins
being delivered to the doc's.

Here's the bill.

Give that to Tom Rile.

He'd throw it
right in my face.

You're wearing
Mr. Grover's badge.

You give it to him.

Found this laying here.

Blood money.

Graft. Grover said it
goes with the job.

Sounds interesting.

Good-Sized pot.

You figure
on keeping it?

Depends on what
I have to do for it.

Let Rile run his saloon
how he wants to--

Wide-Open gambling,

Dance hall women,

Men shooting up the place,

Citizens
being molested.

That's all you have
to do to earn it.

Over 3,000.

Grover must have been
collecting quite a while.

Must be more
where it came from.

At least you don't
even pretend to be honest.

I don't pretend to be anything.

If Rile's place
were closed up,

This might be a quiet,
peaceful, normal town.

I'll tell him
you said that.

Tell mr. Rile
I'd like to see him.

He isn't here.

Never is until the action starts--
At night.

Well, hello, Roy.

Never thought
I'd see you in here.

Buy you a drink?

Thanks.
I don't drink.

I came to have a look

At this man they call
lee travis.

You're looking.

Since I'm going to
be killing rebs,

Thought I might look
at one up close.

Sounds like you're
enlisting in the army.

Hasn't gone before
because his pa died.

His mother needed help
with the ranch.

When I heard you were in town,
I signed up pronto.

Wish you luck.

Don't need no luck
from your kind, Reb.

Your friends in the
south need the luck.

Bye, Miss Molly.

Goodbye, Roy.

Nice kid.

This bill needs paying.

Pay it, Jim.

Mr. Rile gives you
a lot of authority.

I know where
the body's buried.

That's for three of them.

Take it out of petty cash.

Some people I know
would call that important cash.

Not in here.

If you don't believe me,

Try our dice tables.

Got a feeling you'd like that.

I like excitement.

I happen to know
you used to be a gambler,

A very exciting gambler.

You happen to know a lot.

I've been around.

They give you a name
where you came from?

That "from" is new orleans.

Interesting.

So's the way your
eyes just lit up.

They always do when
the band plays dixie.

But you're a yankee now.

Old habits die hard.

That name they gave me--

I changed it to Molly.

It was probably moella.

Right the first time.

Good old magnolias-In-Bloom
name of moella.

That ought to make
you feel at home

Here in hostile country.

Most gambling places...

entice their customers
with free drinks.

Bring a bottle
to the table, Jim.

It's been a long time

Since anybody
did that for me.

Sounds like you're homesick.

Not really.

I don't blame you
for changing sides.

South can't win the war.
They haven't got a chance.

I don't agree.

You must think
it's hopeless,

Or you wouldn't be
a yankee these days.

I'm told a gambler

Likes to be on the
winning side of anything.

I know you from somewhere.

You saw me perhaps
because I saw you once,

But we never met.

It was aboard the
Mississippi riverboat mohican

On the night run to Memphis.

Never been to memphis...

or even on a riverboat.

Seems a shame.

Who was this woman you met
on the night run to memphis?

Looked like you.

To a band
playing dixie.

No...

let's say, to a man
you think is a traitor.

I never ask what a man is.

Moella,

You just became
more enticing than this drink.

Well, I hope so.

I'm going to check
in at the hotel,

Take a long, hard look

At this town I'm sheriff of.

If you're leaving so soon,

I wasn't very enticing after all.

Moella, I came to see Rile.

He'll be back tonight.

So will I.

I'll be waiting.

Moella.

I seem to be having
a little trouble.

That's hard to believe.

Uh, my name is Jill Wyler.

The lady that asked that hooligan
to give me a fair chance?

Yes.

Do you mind coming
into the store, please?

I think I met you
once before...

aboard the Mississippi
riverboat mohican.

On the night run to Memphis?

Yes.

Whew. I almost made a mistake.

That saloon woman--
Molly--

I thought she was my contact.

Well, she's not.

We can't talk here.

Expecting somebody?

Just customers.

Close the store.

At midday for
no apparent reason?

You're right.
Somebody would notice.

They might wonder.

We do have to talk.

I realize that,
but I just don't know where.

Here.

Go to my hotel room.
Use the side stairs.

I'll meet you there.

Your hotel room?

Nobody would see us there.

I suppose not.

You're as nervous
as a cat on a dark night.

Well, I--

I guess I'm an amateur

At this business of war games

And intrigue, Mr. Travis.

Here comes a customer.

You better go out
the back way.

Out this door.

If I'd run into anyone,

I was going to say
i was delivering a hat.

Probably isn't my size.

Small town like this,

A girl has to be careful
of her reputation.

You're still nervous.

You were a prisoner
of the union army?

Over a year.

Then the confederacy suggested
I volunteer as a yankee

So I'd be of use again.

You managed to get
transferred here?

Espionage network we have high up
in yankee circles managed it.

Well, you know what
the assignment is.

I was supposed to be contacted
by a beautiful woman,

And she'd tell me.

Well, it's a large cache

Of arms and ammunition.

That much I know.

The south stored it
here secretly

At the start of the war.

They expected to overrun
this territory,

But they didn't.

Secretly-- So these people
didn't know about it.

More important,
the north didn't know.

Obviously, or they'd
have taken it.

Our armies in the south
now need it badly.

Figures.

The south's running
out of everything--

Guns, ammunition...

even spies.

Why else would they
recruit an amateur?

Or riverboat gamblers?

Did they tell you
where the guns are?

The paper describing
the location was lost.

Weeks after I got here,

I got a letter telling
where they should be.

Should be?

Didn't you check to make
sure they're still there?

Haven't you done anything?

They're hidden under the floor

Of an abandoned
warehouse south of town.

I didn't want to risk

Someone seeing me
rip up the place.

All right.

Calm down.

Anyway, if the guns
are salvageable,

We notify a small
group of our soldiers.

They're waiting
50 miles from here.

You're to lead them when
they ride in with the wagons,

And you're to take the
weapons at gunpoint.

Does that sound like
I've been doing my job?

You have quite a temper.

Well, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to.

I just--

I know.

Still nervous.

I'll have to know when you
intend to go to the warehouse

So I can signal the soldiers.

Meet me tonight at my office.

I'll know my plans by then.

You forgot your hatbox.

It's empty.
You keep it.

A man's got to watch
his reputation.

Suppose somebody found

A woman's hatbox in my room.

I didn't know
you were acquainted

With anyone in the hotel.

I went to deliver a bonnet
to Mrs. Simpson.

Mr. And mrs. Simpson left town
this afternoon on the stage.

That's what I found out.

If you'd used
the front entrance,

The hotel clerk could
have told you that.

Dan, you've been
very nice to me

Since I came to Colton,

But every time I turn around,
there you are.

You mean like now.

That gives you no right
to pry into my affairs.

Travis is going to
look pretty funny

With ribbons on his hat.

I'm not surprised
you paid him a visit.

When he rode into town,

You couldn't take
your eyes off him.

And the way you worried

When you thought
curly might kill him.

Did you know him
somewhere before?

I never saw him
before in my life.

So you had to go see him
just to get acquainted.

All right, I did go see him--

To ask him to leave town.

I said he'd only be trouble

In a place he wasn't wanted.

You had to go to his
hotel room for that?

He was a perfect gentleman.

Perfect
southern gentleman.

I don't have to explain
anything to you.

No...

not even why you came
sneaking down the back stairs.

I didn't want to be seen
coming out of the hotel.

What's the real
reason you went to see him?

I told you.

I wonder.

You go ahead and
wonder all you want.

I'm sorry.
Maybe you're right.

Maybe it isn't any
of my business.

It's just that I
care for you a lot.

Maybe...

maybe I care too much.

[Door closes]

[Piano plays]

I see you took the ribbons off.

All Jill Wyler's hats
have ribbons on them.

I wouldn't know.

Maybe you didn't
like the style

Of the one she
brought to the hotel.

Something else I don't like--

A nosy deputy.

I'm not being nosy.

I'm just concerned about the
morals of our new sheriff.

Only thing you're
concerned about is Jill Wyler.

[Hoofbeats, hollering,
and gunshots]

Same thing every night--

Deserters and draft dodgers.

Lot of action
for a place this small.

It's the only gambling
within 100 miles.

They come from all over.

Drovers, cowhands...

along with all the riffraff
and scum of creation.

You're waiting for me to say
it's my job to stop it.

It is...

If you're keeping the money
Mr. Grover left.

I don't suppose you'll do
any more than he did.

Maybe you'd better
go over to the saloon,

Keep an eye
on things.

I was figuring on staying here,
letting you do your job.

I'll be along later.

Sure, sheriff.

Anything you say.

Been expecting you.

I had to wait
till you were alone.

Your friend shelby
worries about you.

I've been waiting
to tell you--

He knows I went to see you.

So he mentioned.

But he doesn't
know why.

I hope you're right.

If he guesses the real reason--

No, no. He thinks that I was...

immediately attracted to you.

Love at first sight.

That's the way
his mind works.

Let it work that way.

What do you mean?

Gives us an excuse
to be seen together.

You can visit me
anytime, anywhere.

What'll the good people
of colton think of me?

Better if they think that
than the truth.

I suppose you're right.

If they find out
you're a spy,

We'll both
go to prison...

if we live long
enough to get there.

Then we're to pretend
we're... close friends.

Lovers, Miss Wyler.

It might even help
if, uh, we're seen

Being somewhat
more than friendly.

I-- I don't think
that's necessary.

I do.

I think I'm being watched.

Why?

A rebel in town, bound to make
some people edgy.

Rile, maybe.

My guess is he's not
sure of anything,

Just wants somebody
keeping tabs

To see what I'm up to.

If I'm being watched,

That means
we're being watched.

Let's, uh,
make it interesting.

There's no point.

The shades are drawn.

We'll make
a silhouette.

We'll also make
a lot of gossip.

Mr. Travis--

After you've
kissed a man,

You're entitled to call
him by his first name.

You're very lighthearted.

You can close your
eyes to the fact

That we're losing the war?

You just closed yours.

Since you are probably
being followed,

I suggest you stay away
from the warehouse for a while.

If someone's suspicious,

You wouldn't want to
lead them to the cache.

If somebody's watching,
I'll shake him,

Then I'll slip
over to the warehouse.

All right.

I'll meet you there
before daylight.

If the guns are there,

I'll send word
to the soldiers.

The quicker, the better.

Wait a minute.

Won't do any harm
if I walk you home.

In fact, now it wouldn't
look right if I didn't.

I'm sure
dan will see us.

Dan shelby, your deputy.

You're supposed
to be his girl?

I'm nobody's girl.

To all intent and purpose,
you are now.

My girl.

Dan's sympathetic.

I told him I had a brother
who was killed in the war.

Did you?

No.

I was told to say that.

Excuse me.

Hold it.

Here's something else
to tell mr. Rile you saw.

Uhh!

What are we doing here?

I live upstairs.

I'll see you early in the
morning at the warehouse?

Yes.

Well, then...

I guess for the moment there's
nothing else to discuss.

We...could discuss you,
miss Wyler.

Miss Wyler?

After you kiss a woman,
you're entitled--

Jill.

Lee.

There.
End of formalities.

I'm curious to know
how you got yourself

Into this situation--
Working for the confederacy.

Well, I was born in the north

But raised in South Carolina.

Loyalties
to the south, hmm?

When they told me
I was needed,I accepted.

Sounded exciting?

It is exciting.

Mmm.

But dangerous.

Yes, and I'm looking
at the danger.

Someone's looking at us, too.

There's more danger in
this town than you think.

You and me and a handful
of rebs taking those guns--

We should do it
under cover of darkness.

After dark, this
town is wide-Open,

Crawling
with people.

And a lot of them
gunslingers.

Gunslingers who
just won't watch.

Sight of a gray uniform
would trigger them good.

There's nothing
you can do about it.

The confederacy
probably couldn't spare

More than a handful
of soldiers.

Those men are here,

And they will be here
every single night.

If the saloon, the gambling,
and the women are gone,

They wouldn't have
reason to come.

We'd have a nice,
quiet town to operate in.

But the saloon is here.

I may have
a way to close it.

It'll take more
than a gun and a badge.

That's not what
I had in mind.

This money originally
belonged to tom rile.

I'll give him a
chance to get it back.

Oh, lee...

be careful.

At least until we can get
those guns delivered.

For a crazy
moment there,

I thought it was me you
were worried about.

For a few crazy
moments, I was.

[Gunshots]

[Yelling]

You're a real southern fancy dandy
with the ladies, aren't you?

Go over to the office
and hold it down.

Sure, I'll do your job.

Go on inside
and enjoy yourself.

You said
you hated my guts.

I didn't know it was
going to show this much.

If I can get
anything on you...

you're the one who's had
this saddle tramp follow me?

Every move you make.

I thought it was rile
hired him.

Someday you'll
make a mistake.

You'll say something
or do something--

My mistake was
keeping you on as deputy.

You don't need
anybody following me.

You can do it yourself.

Tell him
he can go home.

Maybe the trouble
with you is,

You're still
fighting the war.

No, maybe that's
what you're doing.

Yeah,
maybe that's it.

Go on home.

From here on in, he's mine.

Been waiting for you.

Well, I was hoping Mr. Rile
was waiting for me, too.

I have been waiting
for you, sheriff.

You said I wasn't
wanted as sheriff here.

Well, I don't always
get everything I want.

I do. I want you to get
out of this town.

That's pretty hard talk
for a turncoat reb.

Came to do
a little gambling.

That talk's
more like it.

What's the house limit?

There's no house limit.

If the customer has the money,
we'll cover his bet.

A loser can keep doubling
till he's wiped out?

A big gambler like you

Ain't worried about the
go-Brokes in any town, is he?

Sheriff grover left this
behind at the office.

I was told it once
belonged to you.

That ain't my money.

Good thing
you said that,

Because I'd have to
arrest you for bribery.

I was told it goes
with the badge here.

It does.

Since you're sheriff now,
it's yours.

She could be right.

Well,

Easy come, easy go.

The table doesn't seem to
be busy for the moment.

May I roll?

Yes, sir, your dice.
Coming up.

The whole thing.

That's a lot of money
to bet on one roll.

You can stand it,
I can.

I can stand it.

Coming out.

Seven!
The winner.

The whole thing rides.
Double or nothing.

I'm not covering
that bet.

A big man like you

Is going to be
a cheap tinhorn?

I don't have that
much money here tonight.

I say you do.

Go to the office safe
and get it.

And while you're there,

I want to see
the legal document

That proves you
own this saloon.

I own it, all right.

Bring the deed.

You're pressing.

Maybe I feel lucky.

Winner take all?

Bother you?

Not my money.

You got your stake free,
but he can be hurt.

You heard what he said--

A gambler like me doesn't
worry about go-Brokes.

Same shooter
coming out again.

Four! The point is four.

Four, sheriff.

It's the hardest
number there is.

Six!

The point to make is four.

Nine!

The point to
make is four.

Four!

Four the point,
four the winner.

Deed for the place?

You just lost your
insurance policies.

Deed for the place.

Take your money
and get out.

I'm clean.

I'm shooting
for the saloon.

I'm not betting
the saloon.

Yes, you are.

The saloon against
all that money.

You're the big gambler
around these parts,

Man who says
sky's the limit.

You can't afford to lose a
reputation like that.

No, no bet.

I might shoot snake eyes.

You'd be the big winner.

You're the big winner tonight.
Don't push it.

I am pushing it.

And you're going to
stand still for it.

A lot of people
have been wiped out

Because of your
no-House-Limit rule.

You try to
change it now,

You may not walk
out of here alive.

Now, like the lady says,

Winner take all.

11!

Front-Line winner.

Here...

boss,

Souvenirs
of the house.

High roller, high stakes,
as the saying goes.

You have until
tomorrow noon

To close this place up
and get out.

[Knock on door]

[Knock knock
knock knock]

I realize it's late.

Must be important.

A woman's life is important
only to herself.

How she looks,
that's important.

What she's
going to do next,

That's very important.

Now that rile's
moving out, hmm?

Stagecoach fare to somewhere
could be important...

if what she has to tell
is worth the price.

Rile's closing
the saloon up tight.

He's got
no other choice.

Leaving me high,
dry, and stranded.

That's no way
to treat a lady

Who knows where
the bodies are buried.

Those are my sentiments
exactly,

And that's why I'm here.

He always said
I had a big mouth.

Now I'll prove it.

A woman scorned.

Let's just say,
a little something

I want to leave him
to remember me by.

All right,

Where's
the bodies buried?

Not bodies--Guns
stored in a warehouse.

Boxes of them.

How'd he come by them?

Bought an old warehouse
and found them.

Must belong to somebody.

He don't know or care
who they belong to.

He's been siphoning
them off for months

And selling them
to renegade indians.

I thought the sheriff
here ought to know that.

He's loading up a wagon
of them right now

And intends to come back
for the rest tomorrow.

Moella, you just got yourself
a stagecoach ticket.

Glad there's something
you're interested in.

All right, that's good.
Let's go.

Get on.

[Horse neighs]

Let's go.

Hyah!

Hyah!

Pull up!
We can't outrun him.

Whoa!

I got him.

Hyah!

Giddyup!

Hyah!

Hyah!

Better late than never.

What happened to you?

I've been shot.

Who was it?

Never mind.

The bullet's
still in there.

I know. I saw enough
rifles in that warehouse

To make it worthwhile.

Can you get that message
off to the soldiers?

After I take you
to the doctor.

I guess shelby
stopped following me.

I talked to him
last night.

He likes you too much to be
suspicious of you, too.

You didn't help
his suspicions any.

It was cruel of you

To take the badge
from a one-Armed man.

You said you
were nobody's girl.

I wasn't,
and I'm not.

I'm all right.

Get that message off.

How'd you get in here?

I broke in.

This time you've
gone too far, Dan.

No, it's the other
way around.

You've gone too far.

What are you
talking about?

I saw you walking travis
into the doctor's office.

What of it?

Looked like he'd been shot,
and you brought him.

Yes, I did. I found
him down the street.

The street you just happened
to be riding on this early?

I don't know
who shot him or why.

Well, I think you do.

And these letters
I found in your room--

You have no right
to go through my things.

I went to
the livery stable.

They said Travis
left during the night.

When I saw your horse
and buggy was gone,

I decided
to look around.

Those letters--

They're from
South Carolina.

You had them hidden.

I tore your room apart because
I knew I'd find something.

I knew it wasn't
just valentine's day

With you and him.

Give me those letters!

Travis told me I was
still fighting the war.

I figured he was
talking about himself,

And you were part of it.

Tell me what happened
to get him shot.

I want to know
what you two were up to.

I have nothing more
to say to you.

Well, I'm going
to have a lot to say.

You won't tell me,

Maybe one of
these letters has.

It mentions an old abandoned
warehouse at dos cabezos.

So I'm going out there and
have a look around myself.

Look at you.

I shouldn't have told you
about the warehouse.

Good thing you did.

You could
have been killed.

Came close at that.

It would have
been my fault.

Well,
you got any faults,

I can't see them.

I--I suppose you

Came here to inspect the
premises of your new saloon.

What I'd like to inspect
is a plate of food, hmm?

Breakfast
coming right up.

Thank you, moella.

Anytime.

Anything anytime.

Have you seen
sheriff Travis?

No, ma'am,
I haven't.

Your baggage checks
are all in order.

Sorry you're
not coming with us.

Would you put these
on top of the stage?

I'm leaving with
only two passengers.

I'll put them inside.
There's plenty of room.

They'll ride
a lot better.

No. I want them
on top with you.

If I'd hit a bump,

These hatboxes will fly
off like a flock of birds.

Tie them down like
the other cargo on top.

Well, O.K.,
We'll put them on top.

Wait a minute.

Those boxes up there

Would be like flying
a flag, wouldn't it?

I tried to tell her
I'd put them inside.

Well, they're
not going anywhere.

Ma'am.

You're trying
to signal someone

To come after that shipment
of guns in the warehouse.

Those guns are marked
"army of the confederacy."

Go on, deny that you
and travis are spying.

Hyah!

Hyah!

Shelby, perhaps you'd like to explain
what's been happening here.

Ask her.

Or Lee Travis is in
the doctor's office.

Maybe
he can explain.

No, he's not.
He's in the saloon.

I saw him go in.

Mayor, with
your permission,

I'd like to
put this back on.

I didn't know
you'd taken it off.

I didn't.

Well, there he is--

The confederate spy.

And Jill Wyler, she's--

She's working with him.

Is that true?

He found out.
He stopped the signal.

Yeah,

It's true.

Sure had me fooled.

I welcomed you
to colton.

You're the only
one that did.

I trusted you,
accepted you.

You tried to bring
the war to a town

Where you swore to
uphold law and order.

Rebel law and order.

Here, cover me.

You relieved me
of my badge.

By authority
of mayor smith,

I'm wearing it again.

Now I'm the law here.

Arrest him.

Just a minute, mayor.

I have a score to
settle with him first,

A personal score.

He's wounded.

One arm in a sling--

Kind of evens things
up, doesn't it?

If you say so.

I say so.

Shelby!

He's still
fighting the war.

I'd like to do some more
fighting of that war

Right here and now.

I don't want
to fight you.

Why?

Because I learned to fight with
one arm and you haven't?

If you're going to fight,
do it in the street.

He knows I own
this saloon now.

He'd enjoy
busting it up.

You're what I'm going
to enjoy busting up.

Aah!

Lee, stop this!

Stop it!

[Gunshot]

I've seen all I want
to see of this.

Please, let me
finish this.

You'll finish
each other.

You said you wanted
to arrest him.

Go ahead.

There's sheriff Grover.

Ex-Sheriff Grover.

I never expected
to see you back here.

I come to tell you
the war's over.

Lee surrendered
to grant.

I don't believe that.

Pony soldiers are riding the news
to towns without telegraphs.

We won.

That must make you
very happy.

Before anybody
starts celebrating,

I think you
ought to know

There's going to be
a war right here

In colton... today.

What are you
talking about?

Mr. Mayor,
all of you,

I owe this town
an apology.

When i took
tom rile's money,

I didn't know
it was a cover-Up

To running guns
to indians.

He's been doing that
for a long time.

On my way back
last night,

I saw rile
in a wagon.

Loaded with guns?

I followed him.

He unloaded those guns to a
band of renegade indians.

He's coming back
for the rest.

He knows he has to
get them out fast.

[Mayor]
we'll fight him.

We'll have
our hands full.

He's bring those
savages with him.

They figure
to sack the town.

You said we'll
have our hands full?

Least I can do to make it
up to this community

Is to stay and be
of what use I can.

I'd like to make
the same offer.

Better take them
up on it.

Those gunslingers and deserters
that hang out at the saloon

Are long gone
in the daytime.

I do take you up
on it.

We don't need him to protect
this town from anything.

Oh, please.
The war is over.

You heard what
the lady said.

The war is over.

Whether you
like it or not,

That goes for the town
of Colton, Arizona.

You ask me, they'll head
straight for the warehouse.

Not a chance. They know
they got to take us first,

Because of Lee Travis.

Watch out
for tricks.

I don't look for
any tricks, Mr. Travis.

They'll come a-Chargin'
right down that street,

Figuring to
wipe us out to a man.

Rile knows
we're short-Handed.

I still say they're at
the warehouse right now.

Aah!

[Whooping]

Hyah!

Aah!

[Speaking
native language]

Rile, up here!

The man you put
the blindfold on.

I want you to look at
me while I'll kill you.

Wear that badge
in good health, yankee.

Well, thanks. I'm going
to try real hard, reb.

Take care of that little girl
from South Carolina, too.

I'm going to try real hard
about that, too,

If she'll ever forgive me
for reading her mail.

Moella, you always
did want your own saloon.

Here's the deed.

Lots of things
I've always wanted.

A saloon is
just one of them.

[Mayor]
sorry you won't stay.

Oh, those mississippi riverboats
will be running again soon.

And you're
a born gambler.

Always has been,
always will be.

I might get
a hot lick some night,

Win one of those big
paddle-Wheelers of my own.

Call it the mohican.

Put it on the night run
to memphis.

Everybody
hopes for something.

Nobody lives without hope.

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