Blood on the Arrow (1964) - full transcript
In 1871 Arizona, after Geronimo's escape to Mexico and Apache return to the reservation, a tribe of Coyotero Apaches are defying orders to lay down their arms. They attack army patrols and settlements. Captured outlaw Wade Cooper is transported by an army patrol to the nearest fort when they are attacked by Apaches. All are killed, except Wade who is wounded. Making his way to a creek he's saved by Nancy Mailer who washed in the waters. She takes him to the nearby trading post which is run by her family. Clint Mailer is her husband and Tim is her son. The husband has a secret gold mine nearby and has extracted 20,000 dollars in gold nuggets already. The family hides Wade but an army patrol, en route towards the troublesome Apache, tells the Mailers to leave the unsafe area immediately. While they all pack to leave, Apaches attack the trading post and take all rifles they can find. When they want to kill the whites, Clint Mailer promises them many more rifles in exchange for their safety. The Apaches agree but they take the young Tim as hostage. The Apaches promise to return Tim in exchange for the promised rifles in ten days. After their departure, Wade Cooper offers to help the Mailers retrieve their son by stealing army rifles for the Apaches. In return, he wants the gold nuggets Clint has been stashing inside a wagon and under the floorboards inside the trading post. The Mailers reluctantly agree but Wade first needs to contact some of his old buddies to help him steal the army rifles. Wade's buddies eventually arrive at the trading post but the ensuing events prove that no one can be trusted.
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- [Narrator] In 1871, the
Gila Bend Mountains of Arizona
became the last stronghold of
the Apache Coyotero Indians.
Led by their chief, Kai-La,
they broke out of their
reservation where they had been
confined after Geronimo's
escape to Mexico.
Despite the presence of
the United States Army
at Fort Welter, they staged
savage hit and run raids.
Their arrows and tomahawks
left a trail of death
across the entire territory.
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[light music]
- Lieutenant, I don't know much
about the jails in Arizona.
They got big locks on 'em there?
- Yeah, big enough if you're
thinking about breaking out.
- Oh, just thinking
about tomorrow.
A man's always gotta think
about tomorrow.
[horses trotting]
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- Group to the right!
[Coyotero hollering]
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[Coyotero hollering]
This is where we'll take cover.
[Coyotero hollering]
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[suspenseful music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[horses neighing]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
- About these handcuffs,
you're gonna need
every gun you can get.
- I can't trust your gun,
Cooper, get behind those rocks.
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[gunshot banging]
- If you don't shoot
straighter than that,
I'm never gonna see a jail.
- I'm not taking those
handcuffs off.
[gunshot banging]
Do the best you can.
[Coyotero hollering]
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[gunshot banging]
[man groaning]
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[gunshots banging]
[Coyotero hollering]
[man screaming]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshot banging]
[man groaning]
[gunshots banging]
- Get down, you idiot.
[gunshot banging]
Let him be.
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[Coyotero cheering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero cheering]
- You have done well.
There will be six more
guns for our braves.
[Coyotero hollering]
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[somber music]
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[suspenseful music]
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[branch crunching]
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[body thudding]
[light music]
[water splashing]
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- Oh.
[Wade coughing]
The arrow.
- Coyotero.
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[light music]
- You'll have to ride.
[Nancy groaning]
Try to get up.
Please try.
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[shovel clanking]
- All right, drag it out, Tim.
- [Tim] Sure, Pa.
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[water trickling]
- What are you waiting for?
- It's awful hot.
- Ah, a little sweat
never hurt anybody.
- Yes, sir.
- Come on.
- [Nancy] Clint.
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- Are you crazy bringing
somebody here?
- He's hurt.
- It's Cooper, Wade Cooper.
I've seen posters on
him is Bisbee.
- Well, I didn't know, Clint.
I found him at the stream.
He said it was the Coyoteros.
- Coyoteros?
Where did it happen, Cooper?
I've gotta know!
- In heaven's name, Clint,
get the arrow out of him.
- If the Coyotero is loose,
I'm not hanging around up here.
Come on, get him over
to the wagon.
[Wade groaning]
- Gee, Wade Cooper, and he
ain't even wearing a gun.
- There's one in his belt, son.
- Well, you took your
time telling us about it.
- [Nancy] He could have used it
before if he wanted to, on me.
Of course, that
wouldn't occur to you.
- You were in the stream,
you said.
Why should he wanna shoot
a naked woman?
- Did you have to say
that in front of Timmy?
- Maybe I'm not afraid
to tell him the truth.
Come on, let's get outta here.
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[wagon creaking]
[horses trotting]
[light music]
- Pa, is he gonna be all right?
- Better than he should be.
- Pa, what if the rest
of his gang's around?
[light music]
- That's enough, we
don't owe him anything.
Cooper, I wanna know something.
Where did you catch that arrow?
- Over near the Hassayampa.
- Clint, if they're that close.
[horses trotting]
Oh, Timmy, get down.
[horses trotting]
- Just a minute.
[dramatic music]
That's a patrol.
You won't need that gun.
Put it down.
[intense dramatic music]
Those blue bellies don't
know I'm in here.
You'll keep it that way.
- Company, hold.
[light dramatic music]
You folks don't have
too much time.
We're warning
everybody in this area
to clear out and get to
Fort Welterman.
- What is it, the Coyoteros?
- How did you know
about the Indians?
- A settler just road through.
He said he heard about it.
- The Coyoteros broke
out of the reservation.
Now, they're holed up in
those mountains.
And until
reinforcements get here,
we don't have enough men
to go in there after them.
We've seen what they
can do to anybody
they get their hands on.
Now, take my advice.
Go to the Fort.
Forward ho!
[horses trotting]
- 10 years I grew up and
starve on that filthy mountain.
Just when I hit it rich,
I have to leave.
- Your life is more
important now.
- That mountain is 10
years of my life.
Well, they'll need
food and water.
- Pa, Pa, come quick!
- Let him be.
Get some things together.
- Well, we can't just
leave him here like this.
- I got $20,000 in gold
on that wagon.
Wade Cooper is not going
to ride with us.
- Timmy, hurry, go to the corral
and get your father's horse.
- Yes'm.
- Some day Timmy will
understand what a conscious is.
I'd like for him to
think you had one.
- Don't be a fool, Nan.
He's a killer.
You heard him threaten us.
- [Nancy] You have no
right to judge him.
You have no right to
judge anybody.
- You didn't feel that way
about me before we were married.
- You wanted me, Clint.
- You were a woman then.
I'm leaving him.
When we get to the fort,
I'm going to tell the
army he's here.
- You're either more afraid
of a gun than your husband
or you think faster.
You convinced that Captain
that it was a settler
that told you about
the Coyoteros.
- Your gun is very
important to you, isn't it?
- It's settled a few
differences.
- It wasn't loaded.
I emptied it more
than an hour ago.
- Does your husband know that?
- [Nancy] No.
- Why didn't you turn me in?
- What would I be trying to
prove, I'm better than you are?
When you go wrong, you're the
one who has to live with it.
That can be hell enough.
[door thudding]
- Would you get ready?
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
- No, don't!
[intense dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
- Get the guns.
[light dramatic music]
Kill them.
- Wait!
Wait!
You want guns, we have
only a few here.
- Stop.
Let him speak.
- I can get you many guns.
Enough for every brave
in your tribe.
- Why would a white man
help the Coyotero?
- I'm willing to trade our
lives for guns.
- He is trying to trick us.
Kill him, Kai-La.
- You haven't a chance fighting
the white soldiers without guns.
Why the army'll hunt you
down on the mountains
and destroy all the Coyoteros.
Your tribe will be wiped out.
- The white soldiers
will never find
the Coyotero in the mountains.
- When 10 suns have
come into the sky,
you will have the guns.
- Can we believe the white man?
He lies to save his life.
- Take him.
If he lies, the boy will die.
- No!
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No, no!
- There's no need to
take the boy.
- You have 10 days.
[Coyotero hollering]
[horses trotting]
- Nan.
[Nancy crying]
- Oh, they'll kill him.
- I couldn't know
they'd grab the boy.
- Oh, Clint, what are
we gonna do?
You can't get those
guns, you know you can't.
- I had to say something.
They'da killed us.
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[Nancy crying]
Cooper, don't get any big ideas.
Keep your hand off of those.
- Really hit it big.
Should be a regular glory hole.
How much gold you expect's
in all those bags?
- Clint!
Is that all the two of
you can think about now?
What are you gonna do about Tim?
- What's it worth to you, Mrs.
Mailer,
if I get you those guns?
- Oh, anything.
Oh, anything at all.
You know that.
- It's your turn, Mr. Mailer.
- 10,000 in gold when delivered.
- And now I'll tell you
how I see it.
I figure I owe you something,
ma'am.
So, the guns aren't
gonna cost you anything.
But your husband, I don't
owe him a thing.
So, it's gonna cost him
$20,000 in gold.
- 20,000?
- Oh, give it to him.
I would have expected Wade
Cooper to drive a harder
bargain.
- You'd better talk.
That Chief gave you 10
days to get the guns.
How long will it take
you to get to Nogales?
- I wasn't figuring on
traveling anywhere.
- What is it you want?
- What men I have left are
all in Nogales.
Now, I know where the guns are,
but I can't get 'em by myself.
- Now, look, Cooper.
If you're expecting
that 20,000--
- Oh, please, Clint.
You know we can't travel.
Getting to Nogales and back
will take four or five days.
He'll go, Mr. Cooper.
- All right.
I'll give you a note to
a man named Jud Willis.
That'll be all you need.
- You realize I'll be leaving
him alone with all that gold?
- You'll also be leaving
me here with your wife.
That'd bother some men more.
- I'll expect her to
remember she is my wife.
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- Clint.
He was right.
Leaving me alone with
a man like Wade Cooper
would bother some men more.
- That mine's gonna make you
the wife of a rich husband.
Cooper isn't worth
losing that to you.
- Clint, why do you always
stop me from loving you?
I can't go on just
being grateful.
- When things are over
here, we'll move back east.
Get a big house, Clint
Mailer will be something.
You'll look at things
differently then.
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Maybe you'll even learn
to be a wife again.
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[crickets chirping]
[boots thudding]
[dog barking]
[light music]
[horse snorting]
- Where are you going?
- The horses need watering.
I'll be down at the stream.
- I can do that.
- The way the patrols have
been going through here,
you'd better stay outta sight.
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[light music]
[floorboard thudding]
[gentle music]
[plates clanking]
- Between your doctoring
and your cooking,
I believe those Coyoteros
wasted an arrow.
- Feeling that much better?
- I'm feeling real good lately.
Now, I noticed you didn't
ask me many questions.
- Anything in particular
I should know?
- The law would say you
were harboring a criminal.
Those troopers were
bringing me in
because I grabbed an
army payroll.
- All I know is you're the man
who's gonna get my son back.
Oh, I found this in your shirt
before I washed it this morning.
[crickets chirping]
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- The Indians want the guns.
They're not gonna
bother your boy.
- It's lonely without him.
That photograph, is she waiting
up on some mountain too?
- No.
She's dead.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- We'd only been married about
a year when the war broke out.
I was on the losing side,
so was she.
She was killed.
When Sherman's army came
through, they burned everything.
She was trapped inside the
house, couldn't get out.
Wasn't even enough left
of her to bury.
- The war has been
over a long time.
- Not for everybody it hasn't.
- She must have been
a fine woman
to have a man lover
her like that.
[light dramatic music]
Goodnight.
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[suspenseful music]
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[Nancy groaning]
[Nancy screaming]
[horses trotting]
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[knee thudding]
[man groaning]
[water splashing]
[fist thudding]
[water splashing]
[dramatic music]
[fist thudding]
[water splashing]
[fist thudding]
[suspenseful music]
- I saw him come down over the
mountain and head this way.
- Your face.
- Now, you go on back
to the house,
and you get up.
- [Nancy] What are you
gonna do with him?
- He's gonna take me
to his camp.
- The Coyoteros?
- There's only one language
an Indian understands.
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[horse trotting]
[light music]
[birds chirping]
[light dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
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- The white man thinks
little of his life.
- We made a deal.
You said that if you
got the guns,
our people wouldn't be harmed.
- I keep my word.
- But your brave don't.
This one tried to attack
the mother of the boy.
- He lies, Kai-La.
- Only the truth would make
him brave enough to come here.
The woman mean more to
you than your own people?
If you had harmed her, we
would not get the guns.
We would be trapped in this
hills till the soldiers come.
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You are no longer our brother.
You are no longer Coyotero.
Leave us.
If I see you here again,
I will have you killed.
From now on, you live and
die by your own hands.
You are alone.
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- I don't see the boy.
- He has not been harmed.
[light dramatic music]
[light music]
- Did you come to get me out,
Mr. Cooper?
- Not just yet, Timmy.
- Is Pa gonna get the guns?
- I'm sure he is.
He made a deal with Kai-La,
didn't he?
- Yes, sir.
I, I ain't never been away
Ma and Pa much before.
- Oh, yeah.
They treatin' you all right,
boy?
- All right for Injuns, I guess.
I think I'm scared.
- Anybody would be.
But you'll be home
before you know it.
- Don't take too long, Mr.
Cooper.
- Yeah.
[light dramatic music]
- Tomorrow will be
the fifth sun.
You have not many days left.
[horse trotting]
[light dramatic music]
- Oh, Wade, did they
let you see Tim?
- I talked to him.
- Then he's all right?
- They're not gonna do
anything to him.
They can't afford to.
- Ah, he seems so far away.
[light dramatic music]
- He's gonna be all right.
Quit worrying.
[light dramatic music]
- It's a terrible thing
loving anyone so much.
Your whole life grows
around them.
- Yeah, I know.
- You won't let yourself
love that way again,
will you, Wade?
- I haven't wanted that
responsibility since my wife
died.
[somber music]
- Did it help to become
what you are?
- Perhaps.
- She wouldn't have wanted that.
No woman would.
[light dramatic music]
- We're fooling ourselves.
You saved my life and
I saved yours.
Makes us even.
- And you don't want
anything else
to be important but
Clint's gold.
- It's the way it has to be.
Clint, he's getting off cheap.
I'm leaving him you.
[horse trotting]
- Oh, it's Clint.
He's alone.
- Did you get to Nogales?
- Your men are out there.
They wanted me to make
sure the law wasn't around.
- Yeah, well that'd be
Jud's thinking.
He wants to live to be
an old man, I think.
- They told me to tell
you to show yourself.
- There's no need to
check on your gold.
If it was gone, I would be too.
[crickets chirping]
- Well, you might at least
tell me you're glad I'm back.
- I am, Clint.
You know that.
[Wade whistling]
- Mike, Jud.
[crickets chirping]
Men.
- My friend, you've got more
lives than the proverbial cat.
- And you need a bath, Jud.
- When the master calls, I come.
Even when a bath
seems preferable.
- How'd you get away
from them blue bellies?
- It's a long story.
Charlie, put those
horses in the barn.
Keep 'em outta sight.
- Sure, boss.
- Wait.
I thought you might be
looking a little naked.
This'll keep you warm.
- You think of everything,
don't you, Jud?
- Always.
- Come on in.
- Well, now, this must
be the lady of the house.
- Nan, the boys are hungry.
- All right, Wade.
- Isn't every woman jumps
when you say so, Wade.
- This is strictly business.
Don't you forget it, any of you.
- She ain't yours, Wade.
Or are you saying she is?
- Are you talking about my wife?
- Charming woman, Mr. Mailer.
- Yeah, mister, we
like what we see.
- Mike!
- Mike, boy.
I admit to a certain curiosity
as to whose gun is faster,
yours or Wade's, but since
Wade is the key
to a small fortune for us,
I'd hate to find out now
the quickest gun was yours.
- He could shoot your eyes out
before you could blink 'em.
Now you stay away from him.
- I ain't no gunslinger,
but he was saying something
about you and Nan.
- And what do you wanna hear?
That you can't trust her?
- I want all of you outta
here as quick as you can get.
- Put that down and
leave us alone.
[door slamming]
- Now that's what I'd
call a civilized married couple.
Each has their own room.
- Must get mighty cold
around here in the winter.
[men chuckling]
- Now, you listen to me.
When you finished eating,
go to the barn.
We'll talk there.
And that's as close as
I wanna see any of you
get to this house after that.
[horse snorting]
- That woman's made a
fool out of you, Wade.
First, you show us all
that gold under
the floor in that house,
then you tell us we have
to steal guns from
the army to give
to the Indians before
we can even touch it.
- That sounds plum crazy to me.
What's to stop us from grabbing
that gold now and getting out?
- You wouldn't want Wade
to break his promise
to the little lady now,
would you?
- You're the fool, Jud.
[clanking]
Two things that are stopping us.
First, you don't care about,
that's the Mailer boy.
- You're right, we don't care.
- Second, 20,000 in gold.
Split up five ways, how
far do you think
that's gonna get any one of us.
- If we're not talking
about 20,000,
what are we talking about?
- More gold than any of
us will ever see
the rest of our lives.
- That could depend on
how long a man lived.
- I suppose all that
gold's just laying around
waiting for us to put
in our pockets?
- Mailer's mine's a glory
hole and I know where it is.
And the Coyoteros want only
to get out of those hills.
So, we get 'em the guns.
Once they're out, we can
work that mine in peace,
milk it to the bone.
Should the law get
too close to us,
we load up all the gold
that we can carry.
Enough to make us all rich.
Duck down across the
border into Mexico.
- I'll bet that's one
promise Wade
didn't make the little lady.
- Yes, sir, if I had some
liquor, I'd sure drink to that.
- It's not gonna be as
easy as you make it sound.
- Anytime you don't like
following my orders,
you can get out.
Now, it's a two day ride
to Apache Bend,
so I suggest you get
some rest, all of you.
[crickets chirping]
- Mike, just how fast
is your gun hand
at this time of night?
- As fast as it has to be.
Why?
- In the morning, Wade'll
be pushing us into his deal.
I don't like it.
- What's not to like
about a gold mine?
- The army and the Indians stand
between us and that gold mine.
Would you say that our
chances were very good?
All that stands between us
and all the gold in that house
is the Mailers and Wade.
- You want me to gun 'em?
- Well, as a man who's
gambled all his life,
I'd say the odds were
better that way.
- Kill Wade?
I don't know, Jud.
I don't know.
- Charlie, you're
exerting your brain again.
You think better with
your muscles.
We could take that money
and be on our way to
Nogales between daybreak.
- Wade had no right making
us stay in the barn.
[pistol clicks]
I'm willing to say that
he's no better than we are.
- Tex?
- Working the mines sounds
like honest work to me.
But then, I don't think
I'd be no good at it.
- Charlie?
- Wade never did me no harm,
but I ain't no good alone.
- Yeah, that's what I like.
Nice, honest election.
- But that door's locked.
How are we gonna do it?
- Well, we just walk up
to the door and knock,
and when somebody comes,
Mike'll be waiting.
[dramatic music]
- Clint, Clint!
Get up.
Now do as I say.
- What is it?
[light dramatic music]
[knocking]
[dramatic music]
- [Mike] Cooper ain't here.
- We're taking that gold
and Wade isn't stopping us.
- Mike.
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
[gunshots banging]
[dramatic music]
- They were gonna take the gold.
Cooper killed him.
- How did you know?
- I always wondered what
you'd do if you ever thought
you had everything your way.
- You still want those
guns, you need us Wade.
I'll do it your way.
Isn't that enough?
- Bury him.
- Oh, just bury him.
You find killing that easy?
- You think they'd
have let us live?
- I'm sorry.
It's just that, I once said
your gun was important to you.
I didn't know it would be
important to me.
Thank you, Wade.
- You'd better be ready
to ride in the morning.
[light dramatic music]
[crickets chirping]
[door thudding]
- You haven't said a
word in hours.
- It's a sweater for Tim.
I want it finished when
he gets back.
- Tim, always Tim.
- Oh, Clint.
- Maybe you had more to
say to Cooper.
- You're still asking if
anything went on between us?
- I think I have a
right to know.
- All right.
He kissed me because I
wanted him to.
- Because you wanted him to?
Aren't you afraid to
tell me that?
[slapping]
- I don't know why I did it,
Clint.
Maybe it was just an
escape for me.
Nothing else happened.
He wouldn't let it.
- I waited a long time for you
to unlock that door for me.
Or maybe you only want
Cooper to have the key.
[door slamming]
[dramatic music]
[crickets chirping]
[light dramatic music]
[horses trotting]
- All right.
[man groaning]
About ready?
- All set.
- Get a bull.
Go get your horse.
[wagon clanking]
[light dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
Keep your mouth shut.
Get over against the wall.
[pistol butt thudding]
[fist thudding]
[dramatic music]
Sit down.
Don't try to be a hero.
Nobody's gonna get hurt.
[light dramatic music]
Pick up your horses, move out.
- Ya!
[Tex shouting]
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
- He saw us.
They'll have every
trooper in Arizona
lookin' to hunt us down.
We'll all hang.
- Get outta here.
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
- No, hey, hey!
- All right, get the
wagon over the road, fast.
Charlie, Jud, help get
that wheel back on.
[dramatic music]
Ya!
[light dramatic music]
- Troop halt.
- They cut off the road.
[dramatic music]
They're in there some where.
- Foragers.
Troop forward with a walk.
- [Man] Walk.
[light dramatic music]
[wagon creaking]
- Charlie, get your back
underneath that wagon.
[Charlie groaning]
- They'll be on top of
us in a few minutes.
Let's get out of here.
- Not without those guns.
- What do I care about guns?
A man gets to be my age, he
looks forward to dying natural.
- Ow, my back.
My back's caving in.
Get that wheel on!
[wheel thudding]
- There.
Hope she sticks.
- They're closing in fast.
- We'd be a lot better off
if we ditched these guns.
- I'll worry about the guns.
Now, we're gonna make
a run for it.
Tex, get up there and get
'em outta here.
[light dramatic music]
- Ya!
- Go on.
- At a charge, ho!
[dramatic music]
[horses trotting]
[suspenseful music]
- [Wade] Charlie,
pick up my horse.
[dramatic music]
[gunshots banging]
[explosion booming]
- Whoa!
Cut around, alert the fort.
- All right, they're gonna
be watching the main roads,
so we'll find us a back trail.
Let's go.
[wagon creaking]
[crickets chirping]
- We can only guess
Cooper intends
selling those guns to Indians.
He and his gang are
somewhere in this area.
So are the Coyoteros.
I don't think it's a
coincidence.
- You told us you were
getting more men.
Even if the Indians
have the guns,
what good will it do them?
- Those reinforcements
aren't here yet, Mrs. Mailer.
And the way things stand,
those Coyoteros could slaughter
my entire garrison and
murder every sucker
who gets between them
and the Mexican border.
- The army's supposed to keep
the peace here in the valley.
You shoulda had more men
to handle the Indians.
- There's something
bothering me, Mr. Mailer.
Why have the Coyoteros
left you alone?
- Your patrols have
been going through here
looking for Wade Cooper.
That must have kept them away.
- That's possible.
By tomorrow, I may not
have a patrol left.
You'll be on your own.
It's hard to understand how
even a man like Wade Cooper
can turn against his own people.
Troop forward.
[horses trotting]
- All right, get in the barn.
Stay there and keep outta sight.
- He thinks we're
mixed up in it.
Well, does that bother you?
- We are mixed up in it, Clint.
You and Tim and I.
We're to blame, not Wade.
- Are you out of your
mind, defending Cooper?
- I don't know.
Would you believe me
if I told you
Wade isn't doing this
for the money?
- Either the gold bought
'em or you did.
Which is it?
- Does it make a difference?
- If you lied to me about
you and him, so help--
- You shouldn't leave
your door open.
Somebody might hear something
you don't want 'em to hear.
[door slamming]
For your information, Mr.
Mailer,
that nothing can buy
me but money.
- Did you get the guns?
- I got 'em.
We're taking 'em over
the Coyoteros tomorrow.
- The army was here
looking for you.
- I know.
- Now, look, the 20,000
is behind that counter.
Take it and you and your
cutthroats get outta here.
- Don't you even wanna
know where the guns are?
They're in your gold mine.
- You took your men to my mine?
- They'll be safe there.
Nobody ever found that
spot but you.
The boys were quite impressed.
Richest vein they ever saw.
- You get your men outta there.
$20,000 is what you
get and no more!
- I figure the job's
worth a lot more.
- Wade, you gave your word.
- And you believed him.
Cooper, you're not
gonna get my mine.
That Captain isn't
very far away.
I'll tell 'em you
forced us into this.
He'll know how to deal with you.
- [Nancy] Clint!
[barrel crashing]
[fists thudding]
[groaning]
[fists thudding]
What are you gonna do with him?
- I've had to deal with a lot
of rats in my day, Mailer,
but never one who'd sell
his own son out.
- Tim's not my son.
Hear me Cooper?
He's not my son.
[dramatic music]
[Nancy gasping]
- Leave me alone, go back!
Just go.
Oh, don't stop me, Wade.
Don't stop me, please.
- Are you trying to run
away from the truth?
- No, not now.
Let me go, Wade.
I can't let it happen.
You heard what the Captain said.
There aren't gonna be enough
troops to stop the Coyoteros.
- It's too late to
change that now.
- Well, I can try.
I'm not gonna let Tim
grow up knowing his life
had cost a lot of others.
If I can get away
from the Indians,
we won't have to give
them the guns.
- [Wade] You were going
up to the Coyotero camp?
- If I failed, it would be
better if they killed us both.
- Tell me something and
it's important.
What did Clint mean
about the boy?
- [Nancy] It doesn't
concern you.
- Tell me.
- All right.
You said you had a year
of love in your marriage.
I had nothing.
Tim's father died the the day
before we were to be married.
[somber music]
- You let Tim believe that
Clint's his father, is that it?
- That's one lie I
wouldn't want him
to live with from now on.
Now you've heard
what you wanted.
Let me go.
- You're not going up there.
Now, listen to me.
We both dug our own graves
before we were dead.
It doesn't have to be
that way now.
- Well, nothing's changed.
- We have to be the
ones to change it.
Getting Tim isn't all
there is to it.
The guns are still there,
the Coyoteros could find 'em.
- You said, we're the ones
who have to change things.
What did you mean by that?
- I wanna be the one to
go after Tim.
Now, if I can get him,
then I'll destroy the guns,
blow them up.
- You'd do that?
But your men want the mine.
If you spoil it for
them, they'll kill you.
- They were willing to
kill me for $20,000 before.
They're gonna have to
settle for that now.
- Oh.
- We're gonna need horses.
But you'll have to be careful.
My men are still in the barn.
After you get them, meet
me at the river.
Wait there.
- All right, Wade.
[dog barking]
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[horse snorting]
[gate creaking]
[suspenseful music]
[horse neighing]
[Tex gasping]
- What, what, what?
[suspenseful music]
- Kinda late for a ride,
isn't it Mrs. Mailer?
Where were you going?
I said, where were you going?
[Nancy gasping]
Take her in the house.
[light dramatic music]
Hey, Wade!
Where's Cooper?
- [Clint] Get these
ropes off me.
- [Jud] I said, where's Cooper?
- [Clint] I don't
know where he is.
- [Tex] No, well maybe
your wife does.
She was trying to take a
couple of horses.
- You were going away
with Cooper?
- I wouldn't have stayed
here with you Clint.
Even if I had never met Wade.
- You mean Wade was gonna go off
and leave all that
gold just for us?
- Where is he?
- I'm not gonna tell you.
- Maybe you would
rather tell me?
- I can't.
- All right, Mrs. Mailer.
If Wade Cooper wants you,
he'll have to come back
here to get you.
And when he does,
we'll be waiting.
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[light dramatic music]
[dog barking]
[suspenseful music]
[light music]
[suspenseful music]
- Timmy.
- Yeah?
- Are you sure this'll get
us to the mine.
- Yeah, I know the way, Mr.
Cooper.
- Well, I sure hope so.
Sun's gonna be coming up soon.
Let's go.
[dramatic music]
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
- Let it go.
Let it go!
[suspenseful music]
You drove me from my people.
[body thudding]
[men groaning]
[fists thudding]
[man gasping]
[dramatic music]
[somber music]
[light dramatic music]
[horse snorting]
[horse neighing]
[muffled talking]
[dramatic music]
[man groaning]
[speaking foreign language]
- We have been betrayed.
The boy has been taken.
Ride before they get away.
Ride, kill!
[horse neighing]
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
- See, I told you I
knew the way!
- Wait here, Timmy.
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
[explosion booming]
[light dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
- [Kai-La] Go after them.
[Coyotero hollering]
- See anything?
- No.
- All right.
You wanted to know about
Wade, now I'll tell you.
The explosion you heard,
he destroyed the guns.
- You're crazy, he wanted
that gold as much as we did.
- I'm telling you the truth.
- You'd let him do it, knowing
the Coyoteros would kill Tim?
- The explosion meant he
has Tim with him.
Now, I'm warning you, get out
of here before it's too late.
- She's right, Jud.
In a little while, this place'll
be crawling with redskins.
- There's still the 20,000.
- You're leaving that gold.
No guns, no deal.
- Oh, Clint, let them take it.
- You've got nothing to
say around here anymore.
All right, put down those sacks.
Get out.
- You're asking for more trouble
than you can handle, Mailer.
- Get out.
[gunshots banging]
[dramatic music]
- [Nancy] Clint.
Clint!
- You get the horses,
I'll bring the gold.
[light dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
- Keep going, Timmy.
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[horses neighing]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
Timmy, when I tell you to,
I want you to make a run
for the river.
- But what about you?
- I'll be all right.
Your mother's waiting
there for ya.
Now go, quick!
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[suspenseful music]
[gunshot banging]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
- Come with me.
- Whoa!
Draw rifles.
Left wheel at a charge, ho!
- Woo!
- Yee-haw!
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[Timmy panting]
[light music]
- Mom!
- Timmy!
- Mom!
- Oh, Timmy.
Oh, Timmy.
Why isn't Wade with you?
- He sent me alone, Mom.
Those Coyoteros were
awful close.
Where's Pa?
- Timmy.
- Yes'm?
- He's dead.
- Dead?
- He was trying to help me.
Oh.
- Oh, Mom.
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[Coyotero shouting]
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
[gunshot banging]
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[horse neighing]
[Coyotero hollering]
- [Soldier] Drop your rifles.
Get rid of your weapons.
- [Soldier] Slow down, all
of ya, get your hands up.
- [Soldier] Cease firing.
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[dramatic music]
[light music]
- You've got a long ride.
Find that new life.
[uplifting music]
[light dramatic music]
[light music]
- [Narrator] In 1871, the
Gila Bend Mountains of Arizona
became the last stronghold of
the Apache Coyotero Indians.
Led by their chief, Kai-La,
they broke out of their
reservation where they had been
confined after Geronimo's
escape to Mexico.
Despite the presence of
the United States Army
at Fort Welter, they staged
savage hit and run raids.
Their arrows and tomahawks
left a trail of death
across the entire territory.
[dramatic music]
[light music]
- Lieutenant, I don't know much
about the jails in Arizona.
They got big locks on 'em there?
- Yeah, big enough if you're
thinking about breaking out.
- Oh, just thinking
about tomorrow.
A man's always gotta think
about tomorrow.
[horses trotting]
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
- Group to the right!
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
This is where we'll take cover.
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[horses neighing]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
- About these handcuffs,
you're gonna need
every gun you can get.
- I can't trust your gun,
Cooper, get behind those rocks.
[light dramatic music]
[gunshot banging]
- If you don't shoot
straighter than that,
I'm never gonna see a jail.
- I'm not taking those
handcuffs off.
[gunshot banging]
Do the best you can.
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[gunshot banging]
[man groaning]
[dramatic music]
[gunshots banging]
[Coyotero hollering]
[man screaming]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshot banging]
[man groaning]
[gunshots banging]
- Get down, you idiot.
[gunshot banging]
Let him be.
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[Coyotero cheering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero cheering]
- You have done well.
There will be six more
guns for our braves.
[Coyotero hollering]
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[light dramatic music]
[somber music]
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
[light dramatic music]
[branch crunching]
[light dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
[body thudding]
[light music]
[water splashing]
[dramatic music]
[light music]
- Oh.
[Wade coughing]
The arrow.
- Coyotero.
[dramatic music]
[light music]
- You'll have to ride.
[Nancy groaning]
Try to get up.
Please try.
[dramatic music]
[light dramatic music]
[shovel clanking]
- All right, drag it out, Tim.
- [Tim] Sure, Pa.
[light dramatic music]
[water trickling]
- What are you waiting for?
- It's awful hot.
- Ah, a little sweat
never hurt anybody.
- Yes, sir.
- Come on.
- [Nancy] Clint.
[dramatic music]
- Are you crazy bringing
somebody here?
- He's hurt.
- It's Cooper, Wade Cooper.
I've seen posters on
him is Bisbee.
- Well, I didn't know, Clint.
I found him at the stream.
He said it was the Coyoteros.
- Coyoteros?
Where did it happen, Cooper?
I've gotta know!
- In heaven's name, Clint,
get the arrow out of him.
- If the Coyotero is loose,
I'm not hanging around up here.
Come on, get him over
to the wagon.
[Wade groaning]
- Gee, Wade Cooper, and he
ain't even wearing a gun.
- There's one in his belt, son.
- Well, you took your
time telling us about it.
- [Nancy] He could have used it
before if he wanted to, on me.
Of course, that
wouldn't occur to you.
- You were in the stream,
you said.
Why should he wanna shoot
a naked woman?
- Did you have to say
that in front of Timmy?
- Maybe I'm not afraid
to tell him the truth.
Come on, let's get outta here.
[light dramatic music]
[wagon creaking]
[horses trotting]
[light music]
- Pa, is he gonna be all right?
- Better than he should be.
- Pa, what if the rest
of his gang's around?
[light music]
- That's enough, we
don't owe him anything.
Cooper, I wanna know something.
Where did you catch that arrow?
- Over near the Hassayampa.
- Clint, if they're that close.
[horses trotting]
Oh, Timmy, get down.
[horses trotting]
- Just a minute.
[dramatic music]
That's a patrol.
You won't need that gun.
Put it down.
[intense dramatic music]
Those blue bellies don't
know I'm in here.
You'll keep it that way.
- Company, hold.
[light dramatic music]
You folks don't have
too much time.
We're warning
everybody in this area
to clear out and get to
Fort Welterman.
- What is it, the Coyoteros?
- How did you know
about the Indians?
- A settler just road through.
He said he heard about it.
- The Coyoteros broke
out of the reservation.
Now, they're holed up in
those mountains.
And until
reinforcements get here,
we don't have enough men
to go in there after them.
We've seen what they
can do to anybody
they get their hands on.
Now, take my advice.
Go to the Fort.
Forward ho!
[horses trotting]
- 10 years I grew up and
starve on that filthy mountain.
Just when I hit it rich,
I have to leave.
- Your life is more
important now.
- That mountain is 10
years of my life.
Well, they'll need
food and water.
- Pa, Pa, come quick!
- Let him be.
Get some things together.
- Well, we can't just
leave him here like this.
- I got $20,000 in gold
on that wagon.
Wade Cooper is not going
to ride with us.
- Timmy, hurry, go to the corral
and get your father's horse.
- Yes'm.
- Some day Timmy will
understand what a conscious is.
I'd like for him to
think you had one.
- Don't be a fool, Nan.
He's a killer.
You heard him threaten us.
- [Nancy] You have no
right to judge him.
You have no right to
judge anybody.
- You didn't feel that way
about me before we were married.
- You wanted me, Clint.
- You were a woman then.
I'm leaving him.
When we get to the fort,
I'm going to tell the
army he's here.
- You're either more afraid
of a gun than your husband
or you think faster.
You convinced that Captain
that it was a settler
that told you about
the Coyoteros.
- Your gun is very
important to you, isn't it?
- It's settled a few
differences.
- It wasn't loaded.
I emptied it more
than an hour ago.
- Does your husband know that?
- [Nancy] No.
- Why didn't you turn me in?
- What would I be trying to
prove, I'm better than you are?
When you go wrong, you're the
one who has to live with it.
That can be hell enough.
[door thudding]
- Would you get ready?
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
- No, don't!
[intense dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
- Get the guns.
[light dramatic music]
Kill them.
- Wait!
Wait!
You want guns, we have
only a few here.
- Stop.
Let him speak.
- I can get you many guns.
Enough for every brave
in your tribe.
- Why would a white man
help the Coyotero?
- I'm willing to trade our
lives for guns.
- He is trying to trick us.
Kill him, Kai-La.
- You haven't a chance fighting
the white soldiers without guns.
Why the army'll hunt you
down on the mountains
and destroy all the Coyoteros.
Your tribe will be wiped out.
- The white soldiers
will never find
the Coyotero in the mountains.
- When 10 suns have
come into the sky,
you will have the guns.
- Can we believe the white man?
He lies to save his life.
- Take him.
If he lies, the boy will die.
- No!
[light dramatic music]
No, no!
- There's no need to
take the boy.
- You have 10 days.
[Coyotero hollering]
[horses trotting]
- Nan.
[Nancy crying]
- Oh, they'll kill him.
- I couldn't know
they'd grab the boy.
- Oh, Clint, what are
we gonna do?
You can't get those
guns, you know you can't.
- I had to say something.
They'da killed us.
[light dramatic music]
[Nancy crying]
Cooper, don't get any big ideas.
Keep your hand off of those.
- Really hit it big.
Should be a regular glory hole.
How much gold you expect's
in all those bags?
- Clint!
Is that all the two of
you can think about now?
What are you gonna do about Tim?
- What's it worth to you, Mrs.
Mailer,
if I get you those guns?
- Oh, anything.
Oh, anything at all.
You know that.
- It's your turn, Mr. Mailer.
- 10,000 in gold when delivered.
- And now I'll tell you
how I see it.
I figure I owe you something,
ma'am.
So, the guns aren't
gonna cost you anything.
But your husband, I don't
owe him a thing.
So, it's gonna cost him
$20,000 in gold.
- 20,000?
- Oh, give it to him.
I would have expected Wade
Cooper to drive a harder
bargain.
- You'd better talk.
That Chief gave you 10
days to get the guns.
How long will it take
you to get to Nogales?
- I wasn't figuring on
traveling anywhere.
- What is it you want?
- What men I have left are
all in Nogales.
Now, I know where the guns are,
but I can't get 'em by myself.
- Now, look, Cooper.
If you're expecting
that 20,000--
- Oh, please, Clint.
You know we can't travel.
Getting to Nogales and back
will take four or five days.
He'll go, Mr. Cooper.
- All right.
I'll give you a note to
a man named Jud Willis.
That'll be all you need.
- You realize I'll be leaving
him alone with all that gold?
- You'll also be leaving
me here with your wife.
That'd bother some men more.
- I'll expect her to
remember she is my wife.
[light dramatic music]
- Clint.
He was right.
Leaving me alone with
a man like Wade Cooper
would bother some men more.
- That mine's gonna make you
the wife of a rich husband.
Cooper isn't worth
losing that to you.
- Clint, why do you always
stop me from loving you?
I can't go on just
being grateful.
- When things are over
here, we'll move back east.
Get a big house, Clint
Mailer will be something.
You'll look at things
differently then.
[light dramatic music]
Maybe you'll even learn
to be a wife again.
[light dramatic music]
[crickets chirping]
[boots thudding]
[dog barking]
[light music]
[horse snorting]
- Where are you going?
- The horses need watering.
I'll be down at the stream.
- I can do that.
- The way the patrols have
been going through here,
you'd better stay outta sight.
[light dramatic music]
[light music]
[floorboard thudding]
[gentle music]
[plates clanking]
- Between your doctoring
and your cooking,
I believe those Coyoteros
wasted an arrow.
- Feeling that much better?
- I'm feeling real good lately.
Now, I noticed you didn't
ask me many questions.
- Anything in particular
I should know?
- The law would say you
were harboring a criminal.
Those troopers were
bringing me in
because I grabbed an
army payroll.
- All I know is you're the man
who's gonna get my son back.
Oh, I found this in your shirt
before I washed it this morning.
[crickets chirping]
[light dramatic music]
- The Indians want the guns.
They're not gonna
bother your boy.
- It's lonely without him.
That photograph, is she waiting
up on some mountain too?
- No.
She's dead.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
- We'd only been married about
a year when the war broke out.
I was on the losing side,
so was she.
She was killed.
When Sherman's army came
through, they burned everything.
She was trapped inside the
house, couldn't get out.
Wasn't even enough left
of her to bury.
- The war has been
over a long time.
- Not for everybody it hasn't.
- She must have been
a fine woman
to have a man lover
her like that.
[light dramatic music]
Goodnight.
[dramatic music]
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
[dramatic music]
[Nancy groaning]
[Nancy screaming]
[horses trotting]
[dramatic music]
[knee thudding]
[man groaning]
[water splashing]
[fist thudding]
[water splashing]
[dramatic music]
[fist thudding]
[water splashing]
[fist thudding]
[suspenseful music]
- I saw him come down over the
mountain and head this way.
- Your face.
- Now, you go on back
to the house,
and you get up.
- [Nancy] What are you
gonna do with him?
- He's gonna take me
to his camp.
- The Coyoteros?
- There's only one language
an Indian understands.
[dramatic music]
[horse trotting]
[light music]
[birds chirping]
[light dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
[light dramatic music]
- The white man thinks
little of his life.
- We made a deal.
You said that if you
got the guns,
our people wouldn't be harmed.
- I keep my word.
- But your brave don't.
This one tried to attack
the mother of the boy.
- He lies, Kai-La.
- Only the truth would make
him brave enough to come here.
The woman mean more to
you than your own people?
If you had harmed her, we
would not get the guns.
We would be trapped in this
hills till the soldiers come.
[dramatic music]
You are no longer our brother.
You are no longer Coyotero.
Leave us.
If I see you here again,
I will have you killed.
From now on, you live and
die by your own hands.
You are alone.
[light dramatic music]
- I don't see the boy.
- He has not been harmed.
[light dramatic music]
[light music]
- Did you come to get me out,
Mr. Cooper?
- Not just yet, Timmy.
- Is Pa gonna get the guns?
- I'm sure he is.
He made a deal with Kai-La,
didn't he?
- Yes, sir.
I, I ain't never been away
Ma and Pa much before.
- Oh, yeah.
They treatin' you all right,
boy?
- All right for Injuns, I guess.
I think I'm scared.
- Anybody would be.
But you'll be home
before you know it.
- Don't take too long, Mr.
Cooper.
- Yeah.
[light dramatic music]
- Tomorrow will be
the fifth sun.
You have not many days left.
[horse trotting]
[light dramatic music]
- Oh, Wade, did they
let you see Tim?
- I talked to him.
- Then he's all right?
- They're not gonna do
anything to him.
They can't afford to.
- Ah, he seems so far away.
[light dramatic music]
- He's gonna be all right.
Quit worrying.
[light dramatic music]
- It's a terrible thing
loving anyone so much.
Your whole life grows
around them.
- Yeah, I know.
- You won't let yourself
love that way again,
will you, Wade?
- I haven't wanted that
responsibility since my wife
died.
[somber music]
- Did it help to become
what you are?
- Perhaps.
- She wouldn't have wanted that.
No woman would.
[light dramatic music]
- We're fooling ourselves.
You saved my life and
I saved yours.
Makes us even.
- And you don't want
anything else
to be important but
Clint's gold.
- It's the way it has to be.
Clint, he's getting off cheap.
I'm leaving him you.
[horse trotting]
- Oh, it's Clint.
He's alone.
- Did you get to Nogales?
- Your men are out there.
They wanted me to make
sure the law wasn't around.
- Yeah, well that'd be
Jud's thinking.
He wants to live to be
an old man, I think.
- They told me to tell
you to show yourself.
- There's no need to
check on your gold.
If it was gone, I would be too.
[crickets chirping]
- Well, you might at least
tell me you're glad I'm back.
- I am, Clint.
You know that.
[Wade whistling]
- Mike, Jud.
[crickets chirping]
Men.
- My friend, you've got more
lives than the proverbial cat.
- And you need a bath, Jud.
- When the master calls, I come.
Even when a bath
seems preferable.
- How'd you get away
from them blue bellies?
- It's a long story.
Charlie, put those
horses in the barn.
Keep 'em outta sight.
- Sure, boss.
- Wait.
I thought you might be
looking a little naked.
This'll keep you warm.
- You think of everything,
don't you, Jud?
- Always.
- Come on in.
- Well, now, this must
be the lady of the house.
- Nan, the boys are hungry.
- All right, Wade.
- Isn't every woman jumps
when you say so, Wade.
- This is strictly business.
Don't you forget it, any of you.
- She ain't yours, Wade.
Or are you saying she is?
- Are you talking about my wife?
- Charming woman, Mr. Mailer.
- Yeah, mister, we
like what we see.
- Mike!
- Mike, boy.
I admit to a certain curiosity
as to whose gun is faster,
yours or Wade's, but since
Wade is the key
to a small fortune for us,
I'd hate to find out now
the quickest gun was yours.
- He could shoot your eyes out
before you could blink 'em.
Now you stay away from him.
- I ain't no gunslinger,
but he was saying something
about you and Nan.
- And what do you wanna hear?
That you can't trust her?
- I want all of you outta
here as quick as you can get.
- Put that down and
leave us alone.
[door slamming]
- Now that's what I'd
call a civilized married couple.
Each has their own room.
- Must get mighty cold
around here in the winter.
[men chuckling]
- Now, you listen to me.
When you finished eating,
go to the barn.
We'll talk there.
And that's as close as
I wanna see any of you
get to this house after that.
[horse snorting]
- That woman's made a
fool out of you, Wade.
First, you show us all
that gold under
the floor in that house,
then you tell us we have
to steal guns from
the army to give
to the Indians before
we can even touch it.
- That sounds plum crazy to me.
What's to stop us from grabbing
that gold now and getting out?
- You wouldn't want Wade
to break his promise
to the little lady now,
would you?
- You're the fool, Jud.
[clanking]
Two things that are stopping us.
First, you don't care about,
that's the Mailer boy.
- You're right, we don't care.
- Second, 20,000 in gold.
Split up five ways, how
far do you think
that's gonna get any one of us.
- If we're not talking
about 20,000,
what are we talking about?
- More gold than any of
us will ever see
the rest of our lives.
- That could depend on
how long a man lived.
- I suppose all that
gold's just laying around
waiting for us to put
in our pockets?
- Mailer's mine's a glory
hole and I know where it is.
And the Coyoteros want only
to get out of those hills.
So, we get 'em the guns.
Once they're out, we can
work that mine in peace,
milk it to the bone.
Should the law get
too close to us,
we load up all the gold
that we can carry.
Enough to make us all rich.
Duck down across the
border into Mexico.
- I'll bet that's one
promise Wade
didn't make the little lady.
- Yes, sir, if I had some
liquor, I'd sure drink to that.
- It's not gonna be as
easy as you make it sound.
- Anytime you don't like
following my orders,
you can get out.
Now, it's a two day ride
to Apache Bend,
so I suggest you get
some rest, all of you.
[crickets chirping]
- Mike, just how fast
is your gun hand
at this time of night?
- As fast as it has to be.
Why?
- In the morning, Wade'll
be pushing us into his deal.
I don't like it.
- What's not to like
about a gold mine?
- The army and the Indians stand
between us and that gold mine.
Would you say that our
chances were very good?
All that stands between us
and all the gold in that house
is the Mailers and Wade.
- You want me to gun 'em?
- Well, as a man who's
gambled all his life,
I'd say the odds were
better that way.
- Kill Wade?
I don't know, Jud.
I don't know.
- Charlie, you're
exerting your brain again.
You think better with
your muscles.
We could take that money
and be on our way to
Nogales between daybreak.
- Wade had no right making
us stay in the barn.
[pistol clicks]
I'm willing to say that
he's no better than we are.
- Tex?
- Working the mines sounds
like honest work to me.
But then, I don't think
I'd be no good at it.
- Charlie?
- Wade never did me no harm,
but I ain't no good alone.
- Yeah, that's what I like.
Nice, honest election.
- But that door's locked.
How are we gonna do it?
- Well, we just walk up
to the door and knock,
and when somebody comes,
Mike'll be waiting.
[dramatic music]
- Clint, Clint!
Get up.
Now do as I say.
- What is it?
[light dramatic music]
[knocking]
[dramatic music]
- [Mike] Cooper ain't here.
- We're taking that gold
and Wade isn't stopping us.
- Mike.
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
[gunshots banging]
[dramatic music]
- They were gonna take the gold.
Cooper killed him.
- How did you know?
- I always wondered what
you'd do if you ever thought
you had everything your way.
- You still want those
guns, you need us Wade.
I'll do it your way.
Isn't that enough?
- Bury him.
- Oh, just bury him.
You find killing that easy?
- You think they'd
have let us live?
- I'm sorry.
It's just that, I once said
your gun was important to you.
I didn't know it would be
important to me.
Thank you, Wade.
- You'd better be ready
to ride in the morning.
[light dramatic music]
[crickets chirping]
[door thudding]
- You haven't said a
word in hours.
- It's a sweater for Tim.
I want it finished when
he gets back.
- Tim, always Tim.
- Oh, Clint.
- Maybe you had more to
say to Cooper.
- You're still asking if
anything went on between us?
- I think I have a
right to know.
- All right.
He kissed me because I
wanted him to.
- Because you wanted him to?
Aren't you afraid to
tell me that?
[slapping]
- I don't know why I did it,
Clint.
Maybe it was just an
escape for me.
Nothing else happened.
He wouldn't let it.
- I waited a long time for you
to unlock that door for me.
Or maybe you only want
Cooper to have the key.
[door slamming]
[dramatic music]
[crickets chirping]
[light dramatic music]
[horses trotting]
- All right.
[man groaning]
About ready?
- All set.
- Get a bull.
Go get your horse.
[wagon clanking]
[light dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
Keep your mouth shut.
Get over against the wall.
[pistol butt thudding]
[fist thudding]
[dramatic music]
Sit down.
Don't try to be a hero.
Nobody's gonna get hurt.
[light dramatic music]
Pick up your horses, move out.
- Ya!
[Tex shouting]
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
- He saw us.
They'll have every
trooper in Arizona
lookin' to hunt us down.
We'll all hang.
- Get outta here.
[dramatic music]
[suspenseful music]
- No, hey, hey!
- All right, get the
wagon over the road, fast.
Charlie, Jud, help get
that wheel back on.
[dramatic music]
Ya!
[light dramatic music]
- Troop halt.
- They cut off the road.
[dramatic music]
They're in there some where.
- Foragers.
Troop forward with a walk.
- [Man] Walk.
[light dramatic music]
[wagon creaking]
- Charlie, get your back
underneath that wagon.
[Charlie groaning]
- They'll be on top of
us in a few minutes.
Let's get out of here.
- Not without those guns.
- What do I care about guns?
A man gets to be my age, he
looks forward to dying natural.
- Ow, my back.
My back's caving in.
Get that wheel on!
[wheel thudding]
- There.
Hope she sticks.
- They're closing in fast.
- We'd be a lot better off
if we ditched these guns.
- I'll worry about the guns.
Now, we're gonna make
a run for it.
Tex, get up there and get
'em outta here.
[light dramatic music]
- Ya!
- Go on.
- At a charge, ho!
[dramatic music]
[horses trotting]
[suspenseful music]
- [Wade] Charlie,
pick up my horse.
[dramatic music]
[gunshots banging]
[explosion booming]
- Whoa!
Cut around, alert the fort.
- All right, they're gonna
be watching the main roads,
so we'll find us a back trail.
Let's go.
[wagon creaking]
[crickets chirping]
- We can only guess
Cooper intends
selling those guns to Indians.
He and his gang are
somewhere in this area.
So are the Coyoteros.
I don't think it's a
coincidence.
- You told us you were
getting more men.
Even if the Indians
have the guns,
what good will it do them?
- Those reinforcements
aren't here yet, Mrs. Mailer.
And the way things stand,
those Coyoteros could slaughter
my entire garrison and
murder every sucker
who gets between them
and the Mexican border.
- The army's supposed to keep
the peace here in the valley.
You shoulda had more men
to handle the Indians.
- There's something
bothering me, Mr. Mailer.
Why have the Coyoteros
left you alone?
- Your patrols have
been going through here
looking for Wade Cooper.
That must have kept them away.
- That's possible.
By tomorrow, I may not
have a patrol left.
You'll be on your own.
It's hard to understand how
even a man like Wade Cooper
can turn against his own people.
Troop forward.
[horses trotting]
- All right, get in the barn.
Stay there and keep outta sight.
- He thinks we're
mixed up in it.
Well, does that bother you?
- We are mixed up in it, Clint.
You and Tim and I.
We're to blame, not Wade.
- Are you out of your
mind, defending Cooper?
- I don't know.
Would you believe me
if I told you
Wade isn't doing this
for the money?
- Either the gold bought
'em or you did.
Which is it?
- Does it make a difference?
- If you lied to me about
you and him, so help--
- You shouldn't leave
your door open.
Somebody might hear something
you don't want 'em to hear.
[door slamming]
For your information, Mr.
Mailer,
that nothing can buy
me but money.
- Did you get the guns?
- I got 'em.
We're taking 'em over
the Coyoteros tomorrow.
- The army was here
looking for you.
- I know.
- Now, look, the 20,000
is behind that counter.
Take it and you and your
cutthroats get outta here.
- Don't you even wanna
know where the guns are?
They're in your gold mine.
- You took your men to my mine?
- They'll be safe there.
Nobody ever found that
spot but you.
The boys were quite impressed.
Richest vein they ever saw.
- You get your men outta there.
$20,000 is what you
get and no more!
- I figure the job's
worth a lot more.
- Wade, you gave your word.
- And you believed him.
Cooper, you're not
gonna get my mine.
That Captain isn't
very far away.
I'll tell 'em you
forced us into this.
He'll know how to deal with you.
- [Nancy] Clint!
[barrel crashing]
[fists thudding]
[groaning]
[fists thudding]
What are you gonna do with him?
- I've had to deal with a lot
of rats in my day, Mailer,
but never one who'd sell
his own son out.
- Tim's not my son.
Hear me Cooper?
He's not my son.
[dramatic music]
[Nancy gasping]
- Leave me alone, go back!
Just go.
Oh, don't stop me, Wade.
Don't stop me, please.
- Are you trying to run
away from the truth?
- No, not now.
Let me go, Wade.
I can't let it happen.
You heard what the Captain said.
There aren't gonna be enough
troops to stop the Coyoteros.
- It's too late to
change that now.
- Well, I can try.
I'm not gonna let Tim
grow up knowing his life
had cost a lot of others.
If I can get away
from the Indians,
we won't have to give
them the guns.
- [Wade] You were going
up to the Coyotero camp?
- If I failed, it would be
better if they killed us both.
- Tell me something and
it's important.
What did Clint mean
about the boy?
- [Nancy] It doesn't
concern you.
- Tell me.
- All right.
You said you had a year
of love in your marriage.
I had nothing.
Tim's father died the the day
before we were to be married.
[somber music]
- You let Tim believe that
Clint's his father, is that it?
- That's one lie I
wouldn't want him
to live with from now on.
Now you've heard
what you wanted.
Let me go.
- You're not going up there.
Now, listen to me.
We both dug our own graves
before we were dead.
It doesn't have to be
that way now.
- Well, nothing's changed.
- We have to be the
ones to change it.
Getting Tim isn't all
there is to it.
The guns are still there,
the Coyoteros could find 'em.
- You said, we're the ones
who have to change things.
What did you mean by that?
- I wanna be the one to
go after Tim.
Now, if I can get him,
then I'll destroy the guns,
blow them up.
- You'd do that?
But your men want the mine.
If you spoil it for
them, they'll kill you.
- They were willing to
kill me for $20,000 before.
They're gonna have to
settle for that now.
- Oh.
- We're gonna need horses.
But you'll have to be careful.
My men are still in the barn.
After you get them, meet
me at the river.
Wait there.
- All right, Wade.
[dog barking]
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[horse snorting]
[gate creaking]
[suspenseful music]
[horse neighing]
[Tex gasping]
- What, what, what?
[suspenseful music]
- Kinda late for a ride,
isn't it Mrs. Mailer?
Where were you going?
I said, where were you going?
[Nancy gasping]
Take her in the house.
[light dramatic music]
Hey, Wade!
Where's Cooper?
- [Clint] Get these
ropes off me.
- [Jud] I said, where's Cooper?
- [Clint] I don't
know where he is.
- [Tex] No, well maybe
your wife does.
She was trying to take a
couple of horses.
- You were going away
with Cooper?
- I wouldn't have stayed
here with you Clint.
Even if I had never met Wade.
- You mean Wade was gonna go off
and leave all that
gold just for us?
- Where is he?
- I'm not gonna tell you.
- Maybe you would
rather tell me?
- I can't.
- All right, Mrs. Mailer.
If Wade Cooper wants you,
he'll have to come back
here to get you.
And when he does,
we'll be waiting.
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
[light dramatic music]
[dog barking]
[suspenseful music]
[light music]
[suspenseful music]
- Timmy.
- Yeah?
- Are you sure this'll get
us to the mine.
- Yeah, I know the way, Mr.
Cooper.
- Well, I sure hope so.
Sun's gonna be coming up soon.
Let's go.
[dramatic music]
[light dramatic music]
[dramatic music]
- Let it go.
Let it go!
[suspenseful music]
You drove me from my people.
[body thudding]
[men groaning]
[fists thudding]
[man gasping]
[dramatic music]
[somber music]
[light dramatic music]
[horse snorting]
[horse neighing]
[muffled talking]
[dramatic music]
[man groaning]
[speaking foreign language]
- We have been betrayed.
The boy has been taken.
Ride before they get away.
Ride, kill!
[horse neighing]
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
- See, I told you I
knew the way!
- Wait here, Timmy.
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
[explosion booming]
[light dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
- [Kai-La] Go after them.
[Coyotero hollering]
- See anything?
- No.
- All right.
You wanted to know about
Wade, now I'll tell you.
The explosion you heard,
he destroyed the guns.
- You're crazy, he wanted
that gold as much as we did.
- I'm telling you the truth.
- You'd let him do it, knowing
the Coyoteros would kill Tim?
- The explosion meant he
has Tim with him.
Now, I'm warning you, get out
of here before it's too late.
- She's right, Jud.
In a little while, this place'll
be crawling with redskins.
- There's still the 20,000.
- You're leaving that gold.
No guns, no deal.
- Oh, Clint, let them take it.
- You've got nothing to
say around here anymore.
All right, put down those sacks.
Get out.
- You're asking for more trouble
than you can handle, Mailer.
- Get out.
[gunshots banging]
[dramatic music]
- [Nancy] Clint.
Clint!
- You get the horses,
I'll bring the gold.
[light dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
- Keep going, Timmy.
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[horses neighing]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
Timmy, when I tell you to,
I want you to make a run
for the river.
- But what about you?
- I'll be all right.
Your mother's waiting
there for ya.
Now go, quick!
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[suspenseful music]
[gunshot banging]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
- Come with me.
- Whoa!
Draw rifles.
Left wheel at a charge, ho!
- Woo!
- Yee-haw!
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[Timmy panting]
[light music]
- Mom!
- Timmy!
- Mom!
- Oh, Timmy.
Oh, Timmy.
Why isn't Wade with you?
- He sent me alone, Mom.
Those Coyoteros were
awful close.
Where's Pa?
- Timmy.
- Yes'm?
- He's dead.
- Dead?
- He was trying to help me.
Oh.
- Oh, Mom.
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[Coyotero shouting]
[Coyotero hollering]
[suspenseful music]
[gunshot banging]
[Coyotero hollering]
[dramatic music]
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[horse neighing]
[Coyotero hollering]
- [Soldier] Drop your rifles.
Get rid of your weapons.
- [Soldier] Slow down, all
of ya, get your hands up.
- [Soldier] Cease firing.
[Coyotero hollering]
[gunshots banging]
[dramatic music]
[light music]
- You've got a long ride.
Find that new life.
[uplifting music]
[light dramatic music]
[light music]