Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962): Season 2, Episode 1 - Belle Star - full transcript
Jim Hardie is at a train depot when a stage coach arrives. He helps a lovely woman out of the coach along with her luggage. She says she is a widow going to visit a sick relative. When the train arrives , several men ride up to rob the Wells Fargo box on it. As Jim starts to pull his pistol, the woman pulls a gun on him. She is part of the gang which steals the Wells Fargo lock box and then a member, Blue Duck, asks each person on the gangway including Jim for their money. After the gang leaves Jim learns that the woman was Belle Starr and where she lives in Indian Territory from the train agent. Jim decides to use a race horse to draw her out as she loves race horses. She falls for it but Jim soon finds himself a foot.
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Heeyah! Heeyah!
[ music playing ]
NARRATOR: Tales of Wells Fargo.
[ train chugging ]
JIM: A Wells Fargo man
covers a lot of territory
in the course of a year,
and he meet
some strange people.
Me, I see them all,
good people and bad.
Mostly the bad ones.
My name is Jim Hardie,
special agent for Wells Fargo.
My job has got a lot
of routine work to it
but some of it you wouldn't
exactly call routine--
chasing down
stagecoach bandits,
train robbers--
some pretty unsavory
people as a rule.
One of the bandits
I ran into, though,
was anything but unpleasant.
Can I help you, ma'am?
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Heeyah.
Oh, I'm afraid I'm not
used to traveling.
My grandmother
in Saint Louis is ill
and Mama thought I should
pay her a visit
just in case.
Your Mama's right, ma'am--
Miss.
Oh, Missus.
Mrs. Reed,
I'm a widow.
Oh, I'm sorry.
My name is Hardie,
James Hardie.
That's all right,
it happened some time ago.
Let me get you
some magazines
or some fruit.
Well, no, thank you,
I'm quite all right.
[ train whistle blows ]
[ bell dinging ]
[ gunshots ]
I wouldn't, Mr. Hardie.
I'll be doggone!
You're one of 'em.
I'm afraid so.
I'm just a poor
widow woman
and I've got
a living to make.
Don't nobody move.
This is a hold-up.
[ banging on door ]
Okay. Let's have it.
Get on down over there
with the others.
I'm sorry, mister.
Now, Mr. Blue Duck
is gonna come among you
and take up
a collection.
Please give freely
and generously.
And don't anybody
hold out.
All right.
Thank you.
Very nice.
Thank you.
Shell out, mister.
I'm traveling light.
Dig again.
That's better.
Thank you.
Thank you,
one and all.
Now, don't nobody
try anything.
All right,
Mr. Blue Duck.
Heeyah!Heeyah! Giddy-up! Heeyah!
[ gunshots ]
[ indistinct chatter ]
Is that her stuff?
Yeah.
Well, we ought
to save that
for the U.S. Marshal.
Marshal?
Well, this is
Indian territory.
I don't think
you ought to do that.
I work for Wells Fargo
and I'm looking
for some clue
to her identity.
Identity? Ha!
How many women
outlaws is there?
It was Belle Starr.
Maybe.
Bon-Ton Shop,
Fort Smith, Arkansas.
That's Belle Starr,
all right.
She lives
near Fort Smith.
How do you know?
Well, everybody knows
where Belle Starr lives.
Sam Starr,
her used-to-be husband,
has a farm
near Briartown.
Cherokee land.
Is she living
there now?
More or less.
The trouble
ain't finding out
where Belle Starr lives,
it's taking her
after you find her.
The Starrs is
a big crowd
and they look after
their own people,
even if Belle is only
related by marriage.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
[ music playing ]
JIM: Belle Starr's boys had
taken a Wells Fargo shipment
in the train hold-up,
and that was reason enough
for me to go after her.
I did some checking up
on Belle Starr,
and the one thing
that everybody mentioned
was her love for horses.
She like 'em fast--
the faster the better.
The price of a good horse
never bothered her.
When she found one she liked,
she stole it.
Good looking hunk of horse.
JIM: Yep.
Are you from
around here?
No.
Look like it can
run a little.
Yep.
In fact, you might say
he's never been outrun.
This is horse
country, mister.
We got two or three
horses around here
that can run.
I expect.
But I ain't looking
for trouble.
Trouble?
Yeah, you're making
horse talk.
First thing you know
you're gonna wanna match a race,
all your
friends are gonna bet
the money on it
and I'm gonna win.
Then there's gonna
be trouble.
You talk big
with your mouth.
Well, like I say,
old Lightning there
ain't never been outrun.
He's run against some
of the best, too.
We got a horse around here
that can beat anything
in four states
and two territories,
and we got money
to back that up.
I can see
you're asking for it.
Stick around,
I'll be right back.
[ music playing ]
Here's the Jasper
with the racehorse.
This is a pleasure
I hadn't counted on, ma'am.
Nor I.
I've seen you somewhere.
You didn't waste much time
in getting here.
The train.
He was at the station.
That's right.
And you owe me $82 in cash
and a $20 pistol.
Well, you may get some
of the pistol back.
The bullets.
He's a railroad
detective, Belle.
Sure, I am.
I knew that train
was gonna be held up,
that's why I had everybody
there to stop you.
All right,
so you're not a detective.
Then what are you doing here?
I could lie about it, ma'am,
and say it's because of you.
The truth is
I'm just riding through
hoping to pick up
a little money as I go.
How?
Well, my business
is racing horses.
I tried to tell
your friend there
I had an unbeatable horse,
but he wouldn't listen.
Said he seems to think
there's a couple around
that could outrun me.
And as you know,
that's what makes horse racing.
Belle's riding a horse
that can beat anything around.
No.
No, not that little feller.
Couldn't even
warm old Lightning up.
Are you sure of that?
Well, he hasn't
got the legs,
hasn't got the chest
or the muscle in the legs.
I rather doubt
that he could outrun
a good long-legged burro.
Put your money where
your mouth is, mister.
Yeah, put up
or shut up.
No, wouldn't it be fair.
I could take my pack horse
and outrun
that little feller.
You're going just a little
bit too far, mister.
Put your gun away, Blue Duck.
Now, you said
your pack horse
could beat my horse.
Put up your money
and get ready.
How much?
Every dollar you've got--
and your horse,
both of them.
And you'll cover it?
Of course.
[ music playing ]
Now, those rocks
down there
will be the starting line
and, uh,
and the first tree
down there
will be the finish.
All right.
I got $400 here
and a bill of sale
for my two horses.
We don't usually bother
with such things
around here.
Yeah. So I've heard.
Nevertheless,
if I win
I'd like to get a bill
of sale.
I might have to go back through
some country
where they got a sheriff
or a marshal.
And you may
be walking.
All right, Blue Duck,
get down to the finish line.
Whoa, whoa,
just a minute.
Not Blue Duck.
I trust you, ma'am,
but he's working
for you.
How about you going
down to the finish line?
Hurry up.
Now, would you--
would you trust us
to start the race?
I've got
no alternative.
All right,
Jimjala.
All of you folks
come on down
to the finish line
with me.
BOY: Who you gonna bet on?
[ indistinct chatter ]
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
Let 'er go.
[ gunshot ]Heeyah!
BELLE: Heeyah! Heeyah!
[ cheering ]
[ excited chatter ]
[ chatter continues ]
JIM: A good race.
He ran me off the road.
Around here we don't stand
for womenfolk losing.
Well, you're a poor loser,
I'll say that.
Well, you won because you ran me
off the road.
I won on a foul.
Now don't you dare.
Well, Miss Starr,
I can't rightly, uh...
Speak up. The folks
can't hear you.
Who won?
Well, I-I guess
you did.
You're an honest man,
Mr. Haskell.
You call 'em
as you see 'em.
I've seen thieves
in my day
but you beat anything
I've ever seen.
You wanna
back that up?
No. No, I know
when I'm whipped.
Next time that'll teach you
to ride a fair race.
Fair? Well...
Uh, don't say it.
Climb down
from that horse.
You lost him.
You go back
and tell your folks
how we treat
slickers down here.
Do you approve of this?
You better start walking
while you got
a chance to walk.
Everybody back to town,
Ms. Belle
is setting them up.
Sarsaparilla or...
or whatever you want.
[ all laugh ]
I could kill you for that.
Maybe you would at that,
if you had a gun.
I wonder what's
keeping her.
That horse of hers
was acting up.
But no, she insisted
she could handle him.
Maybe we better
go back and help her.
You stay here
with the other horse.
[ music playing ]
Now, Miss Belle, there's
two ways of doing things,
an easy way
and a hard way.
We've got a ride to take,
and how we take it
will be up to you.
Well, I'm taking
neither way
because I'm not
going with you.
Yes, you are.
[ music playing ]
[ music playing ]
I'll untie
your hands.
[exclaims ]
[ music playing ]
Thanks for nothing.
[ music playing ]
Thanks again--
for nothing.
You never
give up, do you?
I fell in.
Yeah, I'll bet you did.
How much--
how much more of this
do I have to put up with?
I don't know. How far
is it to Fort Smith?
Forth Smith?
That's where
we're going.
So you're a detective
after all.
Wells Fargo.
Well, you're
never gonna get me
to Fort Smith.
You wanna
bet on it?
Oh, I forgot,
you're a poor loser.
We can camp here
for tonight.
[ music playing ]
Still a little damp,
but I believe
it's gonna be all right.
You don't look much
like Belle Starr
the Bandit Queen
right now.
Bandit Queen my eye.
That's what they called
you in all the stories
I ever read
about you.
Yeah, I read some
of that trash.
Makes me out a real
female Jesse James.
I was at the
station, remember?
That was the first train
job I ever pulled.
Needed the money.
Well, a lot of people
need money.
They don't go around
holding up a train to get it.
How would you ever know
about such things?
When I was 12,
the Yankee soldiers came in
and burned our house
right down to the ground
when we lived in Missouri.
We lived in a hole
in the ground
on raw corn
and whatever kind of roots
and herbs we could find.
Don't talk to me
about good and bad,
I've had bad with the good
and I've had good with the bad.
I've been on my own
since I was 15.
I was married to Sam Starr
before I was 16.
He was a no-account
horse thief
but when he died
he left me his farm
and probably the only
real bunch of friends
I ever had in my life.
Members of Cherokee
Indian tribe.
A lot of good
Cherokees, all right.
Of course, they got
their bad ones,
but there's a lot of bad
white folks too.
Well, I guess we'll
be riding soon.
Hmm?
Well, not before morning.
Well, the sooner we get back,
the sooner I'll hang.
Hang?
Well, now don't tell me
you don't know
who the judge is in Fort Smith.
I've never been there.
All I know is they've got
a United States Marshal there.
Well, they got
a judge there too.
His name is Judge Isaac Parker.
The Hangin' Judge?
You've heard of him.
Who hasn't?
He's hung 80-some-odd men
since he opened up his court.
But no women.
I think he'd like
to hang a woman
just to break the monotony.
Holding up a train's
not a hanging offense.
There was no one killed,
no one even got hurt.
Two years ago
he hung a man
just for stealing a horse.
[ chuckles ]
Now, you just imagine
what he'd do
if he got hold
of Belle Starr.
What's your name?
Like I told you
at the station,
it's Hardie.
Jim Hardie.
That's a nice name.
Hardie.
Jim Hardie.
You're not gonna let him
hang me, are you?
No.
You never give up,
do you?
[ laughing ]
They're coming.
Clear, Eddie.
Well, what happened
to you, Mr. Hardie?
I guess I underestimated
you, ma'am.
Well, that happens
all the time.
He bother you,
Belle?
Did you bother me
when we camped
together last night?
Possum got your tongue,
Mr. Hardie?
You're calling
the tune now.
You were gonna take me
to Judge Parker's court
even after I told you
he was called
the Hangin' Judge.
It's my job.
Job?
Seems our horseracing
friend here
is a detective after all.
Wells Fargo.
We ain't never robbed
Wells Fargo.
Oh, yes, we have.
Seems they run the railroad
express cars.
Well, that settles it.
He gets what we give
any other detective.
Now, wait a minute.
So far we haven't had
to kill anybody.
Think that would make
any difference
to Ike Parker?
Why, he's hung men
for murder
and he's hung 'em
for stealing two dollars.
That's right, Belle,
he's gonna take you
to Judge Parker's court.
Now, I've gone a long
ways with you fellas,
but murder, I can't
stand it, I mean...
Now, wait
a minute, Belle,
you ain't talking
for yourself alone.
Me and the boys
was with you
on that train job.
This monkey
can identify us.
Judge Parker gets us
in that court,
we hang for sure.
He may let off
a woman, but not us.
We got no choice, Belle.
It's him or us.
That's the size
of it Belle, that's it.
So?
You can go or you can
stay and watch.
Now wait a minute.
Nobody's asking you.
Jim.
[ gunshots ]
Tie him up.
And her too.
But you can't!
I just saved your life!
I've got to.
What kind of a man
are you anyway?
One minute
I save your life
and the next minute
you take me
in to be hanged.
Oh, I hate you.
I'm sorry, ma'am.
This is one of those times
when I hate this job.
[ music playing ]
JIM: Belle was wrong
about Judge Isaac Parker.
He was easy on her.
She returned the money
taken in the train hold-up
and I've put in a special
plea for her.
Told how she'd saved my life.
Judge Parker
gave her 18 months
in Detroit Federal
Penitentiary.
The best thing
that ever happened to her.
Gave her time to think.
And when she got out
she went straight.
The most beautiful prisoner
I ever had.
[ music playing ]
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Heeyah! Heeyah!
[ music playing ]
NARRATOR: Tales of Wells Fargo.
[ train chugging ]
JIM: A Wells Fargo man
covers a lot of territory
in the course of a year,
and he meet
some strange people.
Me, I see them all,
good people and bad.
Mostly the bad ones.
My name is Jim Hardie,
special agent for Wells Fargo.
My job has got a lot
of routine work to it
but some of it you wouldn't
exactly call routine--
chasing down
stagecoach bandits,
train robbers--
some pretty unsavory
people as a rule.
One of the bandits
I ran into, though,
was anything but unpleasant.
Can I help you, ma'am?
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Heeyah.
Oh, I'm afraid I'm not
used to traveling.
My grandmother
in Saint Louis is ill
and Mama thought I should
pay her a visit
just in case.
Your Mama's right, ma'am--
Miss.
Oh, Missus.
Mrs. Reed,
I'm a widow.
Oh, I'm sorry.
My name is Hardie,
James Hardie.
That's all right,
it happened some time ago.
Let me get you
some magazines
or some fruit.
Well, no, thank you,
I'm quite all right.
[ train whistle blows ]
[ bell dinging ]
[ gunshots ]
I wouldn't, Mr. Hardie.
I'll be doggone!
You're one of 'em.
I'm afraid so.
I'm just a poor
widow woman
and I've got
a living to make.
Don't nobody move.
This is a hold-up.
[ banging on door ]
Okay. Let's have it.
Get on down over there
with the others.
I'm sorry, mister.
Now, Mr. Blue Duck
is gonna come among you
and take up
a collection.
Please give freely
and generously.
And don't anybody
hold out.
All right.
Thank you.
Very nice.
Thank you.
Shell out, mister.
I'm traveling light.
Dig again.
That's better.
Thank you.
Thank you,
one and all.
Now, don't nobody
try anything.
All right,
Mr. Blue Duck.
Heeyah!Heeyah! Giddy-up! Heeyah!
[ gunshots ]
[ indistinct chatter ]
Is that her stuff?
Yeah.
Well, we ought
to save that
for the U.S. Marshal.
Marshal?
Well, this is
Indian territory.
I don't think
you ought to do that.
I work for Wells Fargo
and I'm looking
for some clue
to her identity.
Identity? Ha!
How many women
outlaws is there?
It was Belle Starr.
Maybe.
Bon-Ton Shop,
Fort Smith, Arkansas.
That's Belle Starr,
all right.
She lives
near Fort Smith.
How do you know?
Well, everybody knows
where Belle Starr lives.
Sam Starr,
her used-to-be husband,
has a farm
near Briartown.
Cherokee land.
Is she living
there now?
More or less.
The trouble
ain't finding out
where Belle Starr lives,
it's taking her
after you find her.
The Starrs is
a big crowd
and they look after
their own people,
even if Belle is only
related by marriage.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
[ music playing ]
JIM: Belle Starr's boys had
taken a Wells Fargo shipment
in the train hold-up,
and that was reason enough
for me to go after her.
I did some checking up
on Belle Starr,
and the one thing
that everybody mentioned
was her love for horses.
She like 'em fast--
the faster the better.
The price of a good horse
never bothered her.
When she found one she liked,
she stole it.
Good looking hunk of horse.
JIM: Yep.
Are you from
around here?
No.
Look like it can
run a little.
Yep.
In fact, you might say
he's never been outrun.
This is horse
country, mister.
We got two or three
horses around here
that can run.
I expect.
But I ain't looking
for trouble.
Trouble?
Yeah, you're making
horse talk.
First thing you know
you're gonna wanna match a race,
all your
friends are gonna bet
the money on it
and I'm gonna win.
Then there's gonna
be trouble.
You talk big
with your mouth.
Well, like I say,
old Lightning there
ain't never been outrun.
He's run against some
of the best, too.
We got a horse around here
that can beat anything
in four states
and two territories,
and we got money
to back that up.
I can see
you're asking for it.
Stick around,
I'll be right back.
[ music playing ]
Here's the Jasper
with the racehorse.
This is a pleasure
I hadn't counted on, ma'am.
Nor I.
I've seen you somewhere.
You didn't waste much time
in getting here.
The train.
He was at the station.
That's right.
And you owe me $82 in cash
and a $20 pistol.
Well, you may get some
of the pistol back.
The bullets.
He's a railroad
detective, Belle.
Sure, I am.
I knew that train
was gonna be held up,
that's why I had everybody
there to stop you.
All right,
so you're not a detective.
Then what are you doing here?
I could lie about it, ma'am,
and say it's because of you.
The truth is
I'm just riding through
hoping to pick up
a little money as I go.
How?
Well, my business
is racing horses.
I tried to tell
your friend there
I had an unbeatable horse,
but he wouldn't listen.
Said he seems to think
there's a couple around
that could outrun me.
And as you know,
that's what makes horse racing.
Belle's riding a horse
that can beat anything around.
No.
No, not that little feller.
Couldn't even
warm old Lightning up.
Are you sure of that?
Well, he hasn't
got the legs,
hasn't got the chest
or the muscle in the legs.
I rather doubt
that he could outrun
a good long-legged burro.
Put your money where
your mouth is, mister.
Yeah, put up
or shut up.
No, wouldn't it be fair.
I could take my pack horse
and outrun
that little feller.
You're going just a little
bit too far, mister.
Put your gun away, Blue Duck.
Now, you said
your pack horse
could beat my horse.
Put up your money
and get ready.
How much?
Every dollar you've got--
and your horse,
both of them.
And you'll cover it?
Of course.
[ music playing ]
Now, those rocks
down there
will be the starting line
and, uh,
and the first tree
down there
will be the finish.
All right.
I got $400 here
and a bill of sale
for my two horses.
We don't usually bother
with such things
around here.
Yeah. So I've heard.
Nevertheless,
if I win
I'd like to get a bill
of sale.
I might have to go back through
some country
where they got a sheriff
or a marshal.
And you may
be walking.
All right, Blue Duck,
get down to the finish line.
Whoa, whoa,
just a minute.
Not Blue Duck.
I trust you, ma'am,
but he's working
for you.
How about you going
down to the finish line?
Hurry up.
Now, would you--
would you trust us
to start the race?
I've got
no alternative.
All right,
Jimjala.
All of you folks
come on down
to the finish line
with me.
BOY: Who you gonna bet on?
[ indistinct chatter ]
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
Let 'er go.
[ gunshot ]Heeyah!
BELLE: Heeyah! Heeyah!
[ cheering ]
[ excited chatter ]
[ chatter continues ]
JIM: A good race.
He ran me off the road.
Around here we don't stand
for womenfolk losing.
Well, you're a poor loser,
I'll say that.
Well, you won because you ran me
off the road.
I won on a foul.
Now don't you dare.
Well, Miss Starr,
I can't rightly, uh...
Speak up. The folks
can't hear you.
Who won?
Well, I-I guess
you did.
You're an honest man,
Mr. Haskell.
You call 'em
as you see 'em.
I've seen thieves
in my day
but you beat anything
I've ever seen.
You wanna
back that up?
No. No, I know
when I'm whipped.
Next time that'll teach you
to ride a fair race.
Fair? Well...
Uh, don't say it.
Climb down
from that horse.
You lost him.
You go back
and tell your folks
how we treat
slickers down here.
Do you approve of this?
You better start walking
while you got
a chance to walk.
Everybody back to town,
Ms. Belle
is setting them up.
Sarsaparilla or...
or whatever you want.
[ all laugh ]
I could kill you for that.
Maybe you would at that,
if you had a gun.
I wonder what's
keeping her.
That horse of hers
was acting up.
But no, she insisted
she could handle him.
Maybe we better
go back and help her.
You stay here
with the other horse.
[ music playing ]
Now, Miss Belle, there's
two ways of doing things,
an easy way
and a hard way.
We've got a ride to take,
and how we take it
will be up to you.
Well, I'm taking
neither way
because I'm not
going with you.
Yes, you are.
[ music playing ]
[ music playing ]
I'll untie
your hands.
[exclaims ]
[ music playing ]
Thanks for nothing.
[ music playing ]
Thanks again--
for nothing.
You never
give up, do you?
I fell in.
Yeah, I'll bet you did.
How much--
how much more of this
do I have to put up with?
I don't know. How far
is it to Fort Smith?
Forth Smith?
That's where
we're going.
So you're a detective
after all.
Wells Fargo.
Well, you're
never gonna get me
to Fort Smith.
You wanna
bet on it?
Oh, I forgot,
you're a poor loser.
We can camp here
for tonight.
[ music playing ]
Still a little damp,
but I believe
it's gonna be all right.
You don't look much
like Belle Starr
the Bandit Queen
right now.
Bandit Queen my eye.
That's what they called
you in all the stories
I ever read
about you.
Yeah, I read some
of that trash.
Makes me out a real
female Jesse James.
I was at the
station, remember?
That was the first train
job I ever pulled.
Needed the money.
Well, a lot of people
need money.
They don't go around
holding up a train to get it.
How would you ever know
about such things?
When I was 12,
the Yankee soldiers came in
and burned our house
right down to the ground
when we lived in Missouri.
We lived in a hole
in the ground
on raw corn
and whatever kind of roots
and herbs we could find.
Don't talk to me
about good and bad,
I've had bad with the good
and I've had good with the bad.
I've been on my own
since I was 15.
I was married to Sam Starr
before I was 16.
He was a no-account
horse thief
but when he died
he left me his farm
and probably the only
real bunch of friends
I ever had in my life.
Members of Cherokee
Indian tribe.
A lot of good
Cherokees, all right.
Of course, they got
their bad ones,
but there's a lot of bad
white folks too.
Well, I guess we'll
be riding soon.
Hmm?
Well, not before morning.
Well, the sooner we get back,
the sooner I'll hang.
Hang?
Well, now don't tell me
you don't know
who the judge is in Fort Smith.
I've never been there.
All I know is they've got
a United States Marshal there.
Well, they got
a judge there too.
His name is Judge Isaac Parker.
The Hangin' Judge?
You've heard of him.
Who hasn't?
He's hung 80-some-odd men
since he opened up his court.
But no women.
I think he'd like
to hang a woman
just to break the monotony.
Holding up a train's
not a hanging offense.
There was no one killed,
no one even got hurt.
Two years ago
he hung a man
just for stealing a horse.
[ chuckles ]
Now, you just imagine
what he'd do
if he got hold
of Belle Starr.
What's your name?
Like I told you
at the station,
it's Hardie.
Jim Hardie.
That's a nice name.
Hardie.
Jim Hardie.
You're not gonna let him
hang me, are you?
No.
You never give up,
do you?
[ laughing ]
They're coming.
Clear, Eddie.
Well, what happened
to you, Mr. Hardie?
I guess I underestimated
you, ma'am.
Well, that happens
all the time.
He bother you,
Belle?
Did you bother me
when we camped
together last night?
Possum got your tongue,
Mr. Hardie?
You're calling
the tune now.
You were gonna take me
to Judge Parker's court
even after I told you
he was called
the Hangin' Judge.
It's my job.
Job?
Seems our horseracing
friend here
is a detective after all.
Wells Fargo.
We ain't never robbed
Wells Fargo.
Oh, yes, we have.
Seems they run the railroad
express cars.
Well, that settles it.
He gets what we give
any other detective.
Now, wait a minute.
So far we haven't had
to kill anybody.
Think that would make
any difference
to Ike Parker?
Why, he's hung men
for murder
and he's hung 'em
for stealing two dollars.
That's right, Belle,
he's gonna take you
to Judge Parker's court.
Now, I've gone a long
ways with you fellas,
but murder, I can't
stand it, I mean...
Now, wait
a minute, Belle,
you ain't talking
for yourself alone.
Me and the boys
was with you
on that train job.
This monkey
can identify us.
Judge Parker gets us
in that court,
we hang for sure.
He may let off
a woman, but not us.
We got no choice, Belle.
It's him or us.
That's the size
of it Belle, that's it.
So?
You can go or you can
stay and watch.
Now wait a minute.
Nobody's asking you.
Jim.
[ gunshots ]
Tie him up.
And her too.
But you can't!
I just saved your life!
I've got to.
What kind of a man
are you anyway?
One minute
I save your life
and the next minute
you take me
in to be hanged.
Oh, I hate you.
I'm sorry, ma'am.
This is one of those times
when I hate this job.
[ music playing ]
JIM: Belle was wrong
about Judge Isaac Parker.
He was easy on her.
She returned the money
taken in the train hold-up
and I've put in a special
plea for her.
Told how she'd saved my life.
Judge Parker
gave her 18 months
in Detroit Federal
Penitentiary.
The best thing
that ever happened to her.
Gave her time to think.
And when she got out
she went straight.
The most beautiful prisoner
I ever had.
[ music playing ]