Gunmen from Laredo (1959) - full transcript

Looks like you're traveling in style.
This is the life

I sure with the weather
would make up its mind.

So do I.

JARO: This is a
very stubborn wheel.

GIL: Like my wife, Jaro.

A team of mules
couldn't have kept her home.

But she is not stubborn,
Amigo. She is a very brave woman.

I don't see how you figure.

This has been a great opportunity
for her to see the country.

Free transportation,
free room and meals.

The room is an old tent,



and the good meals would be
not good without her cooking them.

Oh, cooking's no problem.
Don't I always dry the dishes?

Si.After she washes them.

[CHUCKLES]And there's another reason
why she is brave.

She marry you. Oh, that makes her brave?

To marry a man
makes any woman brave.

Well, don't let her hear you
or I'll have to raise her wages.

The only raise I want
is another cushion.

I could even use two more.

How much farther is it
to the Laredo cutoff?

Just over the next hill.

We'll water the herd
and camp there tonight.

Maybe make
San Antonio tomorrow. I hope so.

Oh, Fierre is right.
You are a brave girl.



A most beautiful brave girl.

With sand in my hair,
freckles on my nose

and a ton of mud under my fingernails,
you must be crazy.

Yep, really crazy, about you.

Sure like the way
you talk, mister.

Well, it's been
a long hard trip.

Soon be over.

Laredo would have been much easier,
wouldn't it Gil?

We'd probably be there by now.

It's just as well
to go around it this way.

We'll find a buyer
for the herd in San Antonio.

You wouldn't be avoiding Laredo
because I happen to be along, would you?

I would. There's a man
there by the name of Keefer.

He and his brothers
run the cattle market.

So we could sell the cattle.

No, not to Ben Keefer. I was in a
cattle deal with him once before.

It broke up
with a little gun play.

One of his men was killed. Oh?

Oh, it was a fair fight but
Keefer couldn't believe it that way.

He made a few threats and if we meet again,
I know there'll be more shooting.

Look, Katy, we've had
two good years together.

I've been able to get by
without getting into any trouble.

I'd kind of like to
keep it that way.

Onward to San Antonio.[CHUCKLES]

How much longer
are we gonna wait?

They'll be along soon.
This rain won't stop them.

You're sure going
to a heap of trouble

just to knock off a couple of
hundred head of cattle ain't ya?

You think I rode all the
way out here just for that?

That's all you told me.

Well, Bob, I had a run in
with this fellow once.

Name's Reardon.
A friend of mine got shot.

I don't like my friends
getting shot. Understand?

We knock off the cattle
and we knock off the people.

Maybe they won't show.

Bringing that herd in
all the way from Mexico,

they could go in any direction.

Jordon?

I told you I saw 'em cross the
Rio Grande early this morning.

They're passing up Laredo
and heading for San Antonio.

They gotta come through here.

With a circuit judge in town,
ain't you got enough worries?

This is not going to be
any worry.

[COWS MOOING]

[COWBOYS HERDING]

KATY: The cattle will be
glad to get a drink.

Their last chance
at water for miles.

Jaro!

We'll camp on the other side.

Hold the herd here until
I check the creek bottom.

Don't want to
run into any soft spots. Si.

Be careful,
Mister Reardon. I will, Mrs. Reardon.

Let's go.

[SOFTLY] Hee-yah!

[AD LIB YELLS TO CATTLE]

[GUNSHOT ECHOES]

Hee-yah! Hee-yah!

[COUGHS]

[SIGHS]

Jaro!

Katy!

Katy!

Katy!

[PANTING]

Katy!

Katy, Katy!

Katy, Katy![GASPS] Gil...

Gil

you're, you're here. Oh, Katy!

Gil... hold me

[DOG BARKING]

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

You looking
for somebody? Ben Keefer.

Well, he's busy. Maybe his
brothers can accommodate you.

I said I was looking for Ben.

If you want to see him
you'll have to wait.

Now get out of my way!

Why you...

Now hold it right there!
Both of you!

Now where's your brave brother?

BEN: You looking for me,
Reardon? Hold that gun right where it is.

I don't think you'll be
needing this anymore.

Well, you don't
show much surprise.

Should I? Well,
most people would.

What are you talking about?

Well, thanks
for leaving me alive,

but you didn't
draw the line at killing

a defenseless woman, did you?

You making up
some kind of story?

I don't have to make one up.

Oh, you slipped up on me, Ben,

and you're going to be sorry you
did right up to the hour I kill you.

I told you once before
there's wasn't room enough

in the same territory
for both of us.

I never thought you'd make it
this easy for me.

Reardon, you made it real easy.

Why, half the people in this
room saw him try to draw on me.

[MUTTERING]They did?

That's an interesting way
to look at it.

Sutton's gun never even
left its holster.

You made sure he didn't have
any chance at all, didn't you?

Chance?

Did the two you killed
a few hours ago have a chance?

Aren't you a little mixed up?

I've been working upstairs
in my office all night.

There are witnesses here
that can prove that. You're a liar, Keefer.

You were at the Laredo cut-off
just before sundown.

And you left me for dead
after you murdered my wife.

Talks kinda crazy, doesn't he?

Shoots kinda crazy, too.

You and your brothers... Huh,
you got it all figured, haven't you?

There's a circuit judge
due here tomorrow.

You tell him your story.

We'll tell him ours.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

[PEOPLE CLAMORING]

Close that bar and let's
get this trial started.

BEN: Archie, close it!

You men, I picked for the jury

leave your drinks
and sit over here.

[CHATTER]

This Circuit Court with Judge Raymond
Parker presiding is now in session.

Juryman, take off you hats.

I've been mixing around
a little this morning,

now and then overhearing about
favoritism and certain conditions

existing in this town
that might affect the trial.

Want to say
right from the start,

there's no favoritism,
no conditions' in this court of law.

We're going to
have a fair trial.

A man is dead, and
if the jury finds Gil Reardon

guilty of murder, as charged,

he's going to be punished.

He's going to be sentenced
according to the law.

You understand that Mr. Reardon?

I do.

And, if the jury finds
the accused innocent,

he is to be set free.

Understand that, Mister Keefer?

I do. There's no
doubt about his guilt.

Uh, we've got a jury here
to decide that.

You understand
your duties, Jury?[CHATTER]

You men of the jury, will you stop
gabbing and listen to what I have to say.

Oh, we're listening, Judge.

You've got to decide if what
the witnesses swear to is the truth

or if what the defendant
swears to is the truth.

We know all that, Judge.

Swear 'em in
and let 'em start talking.

Well, I've got something else
to say, first.

I told a few of you
what's in this envelope.

It's papers, giving this district
a United States Marshal.

I want to say that I
recommended the appointment.

Some of you've already
met the gentlemen.

He's a good man. He's honest.

Stand up, Matt.

Matt Crawford.

Now, I, I don't become a representative
of the law here until tomorrow.

But there is just one thing

I'd like to mention, in advance

while we're all friends.

[LAUGHING]If you don't want trouble

keep out of trouble.[LAUGHS]

Well that
goes for you, too, Marshal.

If you don't want trouble,
keep out of it.

That right, boys?

Mister Keefer, everybody here...

When there's trouble
I don't keep out of it.

I get in it, with both feet.

All right, Marshal, all right.

You can make more speeches
tomorrow on your own time.

The first man to be heard in this case
is Ben Keefer who makes the charges.

Step up, Mister Keefer,
and be sworn in.

[CROWD MURMURING]

Do you promise to tell
the truth, the whole truth

and abide by the verdict
of this Court so help you God?

I do. Your charge is that
Gil Reardon

came into this saloon yesterday

and shot Bob Sutton
in cold blood, killed him.

BEN: That's right, Judge,
and with witnesses to prove it.

All right, Judge, we're ready.

Everybody sit down now.

The Court is open again.

Everybody sit.

You men got a verdict? Yes, sir.

What is it?

We listened to all
that's been said and

sworn to very careful, Judge,

and we all agree on guilty.

JUDGE: I have no choice but
to accept the findings of the jury.

Namely, that you, Gil Reardon,

did shoot and kill
one Bob Sutton

without reasonable cause
or provocation.

Now what kind of
a trial is this?

A fair one, Mister Reardon,
a fair one. You had your say.

Oh, I had my say,
but I don't think anyone heard it.

Well, why didn't you get answers
to the questions I brought up?

Questions don't count. You've got to
have evidence, and you haven't any.

All you had was charges
and no witnesses.

And all you had is the
story of three brothers

who would lie, steal or kill
for each other.

Mister Reardon,

the men on this jury
tried you, I didn't.

They heard everything you said

and they heard everything the Keefer said,
and all agree that you're guilty.

I can't fight that,
and neither can you.

[MURMURING]

Quiet!

To this charge and
specification as heard here today,

you, Gil Reardon,
are hereby sentenced to not loss that 10

nor more than 25 years

in the Territorial Prison
at Unionville, New Mexico.

[CROWD CHATTERING][STRIKES HAMMER]

This court is adjourned.

Everybody to the bar!
Drinks are free for an hour.

[PEOPLE CHEER]

I guess you can start your job

a day earlier than
you expected, Marshal.

I'll turn Reardon
over to you now.

You'll have to deliver him
to the Unionville Prison.

Uh, oh, Reardon,
I'm sorry about you wife.

Ten to 25 years.
That's a long time.

I'm really sorry.
I couldn't help it.

So long, Marshal.

I'm innocent, Marshal.

Too bad you didn't have
more proof on your side.

Could that mean you believe me?

All I said was it's too bad
you haven't got more proof.

Well, you stay here long enough,
you may run into some of that proof.

This town really needs
a cleaning, Marshal.

If this town needs it,

I'll clean it up.

Too late to do me any good.

[PEOPLE CHATTERING]

[THUNDER]

MAN: ♪♪♪ Nobody knows
the trouble I've seen

♪♪♪ Nobody knows but Jesus[SCRAPING]

♪♪♪ Nobody knows
the trouble I've seen

♪♪♪ Glory hallelujah ♪♪♪

Again, Smokey.♪♪♪ Nobody knows
the trouble...♪♪♪

BOWDRE: Sing something else,
will you?

That song's driving me crazy.

Mister Gil... Yeah?

I can't sing no more.

I'm worried. They'll
shoot you down dead.

Shut that talk. It's true.

Those guards
can see in the dark.

Like big owls, with big eyes.

Will you shut up? Oh,
leave him alone.

Him and you!
I ain't waiting no longer.

We waited so long
we'll get caught.

Reardon did solitary
for me once.

I'm not leaving him this way.

They find him with this iron
half cut he's as good as dead.

So you do make it.
Laredo's a long ways off.

Talking, talking. Minutes more.
Just minutes.

When we're over the wall,
we go separate. Understand?

You go any way you want to.

I promised Reardon
I'd get him to Laredo.

He can't' find his way across
that stinking desert without me.

[GRUNTS]

I wish you were coming with us.

There's nothing on the outside for me,
nothing.

Goodbye, Smokey.

[THUNDER][WIND HOWLING]

Look!

How bad is it?

Looks like three of them
heading towards the fence.

We got two of them.
One went over.

Let him go.
He'll run into his own hell.

He can't cross
the first wash in this.

If he does he'll never
get by the Apaches.

That'll be tough to do.

WOMAN: [STRUGGLING]

[SIGHS]

I know you are from prison.

They keep you with iron chains.

How you go free? Well, let's talk
about you first.

How'd you get tied up?

Where'd you learn
to speak English?

I go to Reservation school.

I'm Mescaleros.

Apache Mescaleros.

You're no Indian,
you're Mexican.

I was Mexican
when I was very small.

Before I was stolen.

But I'm Mescaleros Indian
now. I'm too tired to argue.

Well, how'd you
get in this fix? I did not come freely.

[CHUCKLES] I can believe that.

The Chiricahuas.

Three days ago, Delgados,
the son of his chief, he steal me.

Well, this is some way
to spend a honeymoon.

I know what that means.
No honeymoon.

ROSITA: I hate Delgados.

I fight him.

He tie me here
while he go hunting.

[SCREECHING]

[BOTH GRUNTING]

[GRUNTING]

[GROANS]

Good.

This was Delgados?

Yes. Now I am free.

What do they call you?

Natahna.Natahna.

There is a Mexican name,
I like. Oh?

Rosita.Rosita.

Yeah, that fits better.

Rosita. It's more Mexican.

Uh, pretty Mexican, too.

Where'd the army saddles
come from?

Delgados steal them
before he steal me.

He's taken this
right out of a fort.

Chircahua dogs
sneak like coyotes at night.

Yeah. Sure, sure.

Oh, I could stand fresh
clothes and a cleaning up.

Now do I have to
tie you to a tree?

No.You won't run away?

No.

I like you.

I am glad we are alone.

I will fix food.

[HORSE SNORTS]

You know the country well?

Very well. I ride all
over with Mescalero's

until I go to
reservation school.

Until Delgados steal me.

Delgados, Chirichaua dog!

Have you ever been that way?

You have not? Let's say I haven't been
over that part.

That is bad way.

Some rock, big canyon
not much water.

Desert God make big storm
this time of year.

Oh, you believe in
Desert Gods now, huh?

I know them best.

That is bad way.

You come with Rosita.

My village not many days away.

Enough food in saddle.

My father make you big friend.

Check your canteen,
we'll get started.

We find plenty of water
on the way to my village.

Well, we're heading that way

to the Texas line. Tejano?

Check you canteen!

Now I don't like you.
I'm sorry you find me.

Well, that can be taken care of.

I've got an appointment
in Laredo.

You just got me across those
hills and you're on your own.

This is no good.

The Chiricahuas hate Mescalaros.

If the Chiricahuas find
the son of their chief dead,

Coloradas himself
will follow our trail.

Better we go to my village.

Now do you get up there alone,
or do I tie you on?

And don't get any runaway ideas.
I'll shoot your horse down if I have to.

Now the sooner we get to Laredo the
sooner you can get back to your people.

Now, get up there.

I was told this uh, this crossing
shouldn't take more than five or six days.

You see that it doesn't.

Head down there. That water will
keep our tracks covered for a while.

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE AMERICAN]

Delgados.

[PEOPLE MURMURING]

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE AMERICAN]

MEN: [EXCLAIMING]

Well?

No use, Matt. Ben Keefer's too
smart to do his own dirty work.

He's got five witnesses
that'll swear he was

twenty miles away
from that shooting last night.

I've been a lot of places, Dave,

the smart hombres
all make mistakes.

Just a question of time. Time!

Marshal, you've been here over
four months and I've been here three.

That Keefer stranglehold
is getting stronger.

Could be if it gets too tight it
might break of its own accord.

Hmm, or break us. Take it easy, Dave.

Just keep your hook baited,
and be patient.

Fish bound to get hungry

sooner or later they'll bite.

I want Ben Keefer for sure,

the brothers I can hope for,

but I want Ben cornered.
I want him dead to rights.

Well,
that's a pretty big order. He's cagey.

We've got us another worry here.

Telegraph operator delivered
this message while you were out.

Gil Reardon escaped
from the Unionville Prison. How?

It doesn't say.
It's from Captain Garrick,

the Prison Superintendent.

What's he mean, if Reardon lived through
a cloudburst he thinks he'll come here?

I reckon he remembers
all the facts of the trial.

When I delivered Reardon
to him we talked it over.

Why a man would have to be
loco to try coming across that desert.

When a man's got a solid
reason of getting somewhere,

he might go loco
trying to get there.

Marshall, you heard
Reardon in court.

What do you think now
of his story?

Just what I thought then.

I wish he'd had more proof
to back it up.

Then you do believe
him. Just what you said.

The Keefers are smart hombres.

They know how to
tighten a stranglehold.

Well, if I were
in Reardon's shoes,

I'd be high-tailing it far away
from here not looking for trouble.

Would you? Yes, I would.

If you loved your wife
and you knew who killed her

and where you could find him,

would you high-tail it away?

Well, I...

Well, Ben Keefer and I are
having a few drinks one night.

Enough to loosen
his tongue a little.

He said he first met Reardon
in Dodge.

They had a little run in
of some kind.

Right after that

he heard that Reardon
got married and left Dodge.

Ben thought he had hung up his guns
and settled down somewhere in Texas.

Better if he had.

Trying to cross
that desert, well...

I think we can
start watching for him.

Well, these Apaches don't want
any white man on my part of their land,

dead or alive.

Well, even if he does get here,

he couldn't do anything
against those Keefers.

Reardon's the kind
who always plays showdown.

Cards on the table
face up, one draw.

One winner.
One loser, huh? That's right.

That's right. Well, I think I'll
break the good news to somebody.

A worrying man might worry
himself into making mistakes.

And mistakes

might just speed up breaking that
stranglehold that uh, you were talking about.

Well, it's always a
pleasure to see

a United States Marshal in here.

What can I do for
you Matt? Drink?

I'll have a beer.

Maybe he's got another
closing order he can't' make stick.

When I can prove
your extra activities

I'll make that
closing order stick.

You know, Marshal, when you
first came to Laredo,

I thought I was
going to like ya.

You seemed to have a lot of sense,
even for a lawman.

You're making me change my mind.

Want to know something, Ben?

You may have to change it
right back again.

I just had a message from the prison
superintendent at Unionville Prison.

Should that interest me?

Gil Reardon's heading for
Laredo. Coming across the desert.

You add it up.

Coming across the desert, huh?

He'll never make it.

I thought he had at least ten
more years to do in that lock up?

The walls weren't high enough.

It's up to the law to nail
him. It's your job to get...

Don't you ever tell me
what my job is? Now just a minute.

And don't you,
"Just a minute me".

Remember, Ben, a rattler can got stopped
on permanently if a man's fast enough.

Nah.

[HORSE NEIGHING]

Rosita, you got to get down.

[HORSE NEIGHS]

Give him a mile or so to find
out he isn't lame any longer.

Which way to that ledge you
told me about in the water?

That way in big canyon,
four or five hour's maybe.

The Chiricahuas.

Better we had gone
to my village.

Coloradas will
never give up our trial.

We've got a good start.
Maybe we can hold it.

Rosita, you ride my horse.

I'll lead yours until he knows
he can carry some weight.

Indian would make Rosita walk.

I know. Now, get up on mine.

I want to make that ledge
before dark.

Water is up there.

Why you trust me like this?

Because you don't like
Chiricahuas any more than I do.

That is true. But how you know
I not lead you around the desert,

and not straight across it?

Rosita had a wish to do that.

Sometimes people just know things about
other people without knowing the reasons.

Sometimes I know things too.

And the reasons.

I go first.

Why do you run from law?

It's a long story.

This man you look for in Laredo.

He help you to be free of law?

Not quite.

I might get in deeper. Why?

You go to kill him?

Because of your woman?

My woman as you call her,
is dead!

I'm glad.

It's right to be honest.

I say I am glad.

I am. Is it wrong?

I say what I think. Like...

Like we are here alone.

And I am glad. Are you?

I haven't
given it a thought. That is not honest.

That is not true.

I see your eyes,
they talk to me.

You look at me sometimes like...

Like a man looks at his woman.

Like you want me for... Why can't you talk
about something else?

About the prison? No!

About the man in Laredo,
the man you hate.

Hate is no good, Gil.

It eats in here.

It changes a good spirit.

The law no follow us
across the Mexican border.

We will go.
I know the way. To what?

To tomorrow. Tomorrow
with no running away.

Rosita had hate too.

Now, no good to remember.

If I can change, Gil can change.

There's some things
a man has to do

if he's going to
live with himself

no matter where.[NEIGHING]

[HORSES WHINNY]

Better see
what's bothering them.

Not Apaches.

It's the Storm God.

Animals always know.

The Chisera. Chisera?

What's that?

It is evil.

Tomorrow the sun will hide.

The sky will turn black.

And the devil wind
will come. Ah!

Tomorrow it will come.
You will see.

It can mean death.

Better we stay here.[WIND HOWLING]

Devil wind come.

It will blow hard.

Have to chance it.

To Laredo? That's it.

And if I do not go on?

I've heard what Chiricahuas do to
Indian girls they find with white men.

[WIND HOWLING]

[NEIGHING]

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE AMERICAN]

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE AMERICAN]

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE AMERICAN]

[SHOUTING] We've
got to find cover.

Down there! There is a cave.

[HORSE WHINNIES]

[SIGHS]

No, Gil, no.

You don't want to kiss me?

Yes, yes, but just because
I kiss you does not...

I be good woman for you.

But afraid... Of what?

I always be honest.

Indians or white man
can love many times.

But not Rosita.

I want to love for real.

Only once... Only one man.

Don't be afraid.

Well? Thought you'd
be back yesterday. Couldn't make it.

You can forget
all about Reardon.

Nothing to worry about now.

Good. How'd you do it?

We ran into one of them, storms.

Must have choked everything in
the desert and in the foothills, too.

First a rain and then
one of them Chisera winds.

Couldn't see my hand,
couldn't see my horse.

I could hardly breathe.

That Reardon's
out of our hair for good.

Uh-uh. He is, huh?

Where were you
during this terrible storm?

We holed up.

Holed up,
huh? Could Reardon have done the same?

Why, not a chance!

Besides,
we had horses and water.

Did you see him dead?

No, but... I made that same mistake
myself once, remember?

Yeah, but we couldn't live
through that storm. Nobody could.

I told you two dumb heads to make sure,
well what are you sure of?

A lousy stinking sandstorm
that you lived through, didn't you?

So could he.

You two, better figure a way
of posting a lookout.

Because if Reardon's alive,

he'll be coming in.

Glad you're along, Bass.
You make best coffee.

What do you aim to do, Matt?

If Reardon did get through
the Chisera,

its' been three days. We're not
going to catch him sitting here.

Dave, you'll be old
before your time.

First, you figure what you'd
do in the other fella's shoes.

Then you sit in the middle of
the road and wait. Oh, but Matt...

Save a lot of
wear and tear, too, son,

on man and horse.

He'll be coming this way.

You know, it might not be too
bad if he was to slip past us.

That wouldn't be much
to our credit.

No, but it might just be a fighting chance
for Laredo to get rid of the Keefers.

If we see Reardon,
we'll take him in.

You've got
the first watch, Bass.

Then you,
Dave. Rouse me at three for my turn.

Texas foothills.

Gil, just once more
I ask you to... No, it has to be this way.

I'm just like an
Indian squaw to you.

I've got a job to finish.
I told you.

And if you finish it,
they take you back to prison.

It proves nothing.

You throw our life
together, away.

Our life together? Would that be wrong now?

A man's got to live
with himself first,

or he isn't good for anybody.

Well,
maybe someday... Maybe you'll be dead, too.

Maybe!

I go with you. I help.

You're going home
where it's safe.

The Chiricahuas don't want you.

It's me the Chief wants. I go with you.

No!

Now, you're, you're
a good guide, Rosita

and thanks for
getting me this far

but from here on in I go alone.

Now we're through. We're
finished. You go back to your home.

[GALLOPING]

Now where do you think
you're going?

This isn't the way
to your village.

I was lost! You were not!

All right. I were not!

Go ahead. Tie me to the horse
if you think so little of me.

Now what am I
going to do with you?

I could tell you what you would do,
but you will not do it.

I have told you
and you will not do it. No!

[SIGHS]

Well, what are you going to do,
Rosita, sit up there all day?

[LAUGHS]MATT: Hold it, Reardon!

Don't do anything foolish, son.

You're covered.

Well, the new Marshal
right on the job.

When there's trouble
he jumps in with both feet.

Take it, Bass.

Picked yourself a pretty
good looking companion.

Ah, I should have figured this.

I'm glad you didn't. You
saved me a heap of trouble.

I don't mean this ambush.

I should of figured the law is
still doing Keefer's dirty work.

I'll pass that for now, Reardon.

Let's see if these fit.

No! Rosita! Rosita! No! No!

Leave her alone.

I made her show me the way. No!

Where'd you pick her up? Tied to a tree.

With a sign hanging above her
reading, 'Help yourself'?

Now give me time, Marshal. I'll
try and think of something better.

Check her saddlebags for grub.

If she hasn't got any give her some
of ours. We'll send her on her way.

Can we have a couple of
minutes together?

Yeah.

I was right.

I should have taken you
to the border. No, it's better this way.

Bring up their horses, Dave.

We've got to make that old
stagecoach station before dark.

We've got plenty of water.

Give her one of our
extra canteens. Yeah, she'll need it.

You'll be happier
with your people.

No. I belong with you.

It has to be this way, Rosita.

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE AMERICAN]

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE AMERICAN]

Hee-yah! Hee-yah! Hee-yah!

There you are.

[SIGHS]

I can't figure you, Reardon.

You'd of been a lot smarter
to head for the border.

The law will take care
of the Keefers.

Sooner or later... I thought maybe I could
speed things up a little.

How much extra time
will I get for the breakout?

You ought to quit thinking
about Keefer.

Quit remembering about
your wife, too.

It'll all even off, somewhere.

It always does.

Be a lot smarter
to wash it out of your system.

Put it all behind you.

I would have,
after ten minutes in Laredo.

I'll slip those off
if I get your word.

That Rosita...

She an Indian girl gone Mexican
or Mexican girl gone Indian?

A little of both.

Seemed like a nice girl, too.

All for you. Is that what she said?

From where I was looking she
didn't have to say it. Well, forget her.

[HORSE NEIGHING]

It's the girl.

Gil! Coloradas!

It is Coloradas. I see him and many others,
not far away now.

The Chiricahuas. They won't give us
any trouble.

Well, they will considering I had to,
polish off this Chief's son.

Ridiculous. These two cooked up
that story in case he was captured.

Why, Colorado's Reservation is
over the other side of the big canyon.

That Injun wouldn't
dare leave it.

He did! They're coming.

We go quick, or we all die.

You think she's
telling the truth? She always does.

We're moving.

Kill the fire.

Inside.

You two stay back here.

All right, Marshal. Get 'em off.

Oh, you've got my word.

How about a gun? Dave cover the door.

Not yet.

Hey! Look out here.

Wait.

He's coming in for a powwow.

Don't get jumpy.

Now look...

I've got a small spread below
the border near Cervantes.

Got a Mexican couple
living on it now.

I'll write 'em for you. Uh, something else.

Now this girl, well,
she's alone and uh...

Well she'll have some sort of
a chance living on my place.

See that she gets there,
will you? Be glad to...

If we get out of here. But you are still...

Uh, I think you can get
Coloradas to settle for me.

What? That's the deal.

Nothing doing.
Like I said Reardon...

We ride out of here
like we came in, together.

What's left of us.
Or we don't ride.

Lawman speaks good, Gil.

We ride together,
or we don't ride.

That's it.

Coloradas come for white man
who killed my son.

And for girl.

MATT: You're off your
reservation bounds, Coloradas.

You want to bring the
soldiers down on your people?

You give me man and girl?

I'm taking them both to Laredo.

GIL: You want me, Coloradas?

I thought I told you
to stay put.

Sorry, Marshal, this is my deal.

You speak brave words,
Coloradas,

with your Chiricahuas
right behind to protect you.

Brave like your son Delgados
who attacks an unarmed man.

And once, the Chircahuas
were known as warriors.

Your tongue is like a
knife. I mean it to cut deep.

A Chiricahuas will not dare
fight one man alone.

He is not brave enough.

A Chiricahuas is a coward.

You are brave? Ten times more
than Coloradas.

When the sun is high. We
will see who is the warrior.

So you're the dealer.

Well, son, you sure
dealt yourself a hand.

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE AMERICAN]

One lone hatchet between 'em.

Apaches call it
the Battle of the Warriors.

It's always to the death.

[SHOUTING]

[CROWD CHEERING]

If Reardon comes out top dog,

those Indians,
left without a leader,

will scatter to the wind.

With them busy watching
the fight,

we'll never have a better chance to
grab our horses. We could use 'em.

I'll try it. Not without me.

[APACHES CHEERING]

[COLORADOS SCREAMS]

Let's move fast.
Our horses are back here.

Laredo...

That's what you
wanted to see, isn't it? Marshal, I...

Life takes some
funny twists, don't it?

With you here, this isn't funny.

I've got to
build myself a smoke.

Anybody got the makings?

No, Gil! Ha!

Why that son of a gun,
stole my rifle.

You're letting him die.

He's making his own ride.

He's got his ten minutes.

Howdy!

It'll cost you a dollar for the
night. That includes a rubdown.

Collect it from the Marshal.
He'll be picking him up.

The Marshal? Do me a favor,
will ya?

Why sure. Tell Ben Keefer,
Gil Reardon's in town.

Reardon? Oh, you're Reardon.

I was at your trial.

The Marshal said
you broke out of...

Just tell Ben Keefer I'm
moving his way in five minutes.

Oh, yes sir. Sure.

Right away, Mister Reardon.

[INAUDIBLE]

Reardon's in town.

He sends word ahead that he'd be
coming up the street in five minutes.

You shouldn't have
shot his wife, Ben.

He wants you.

Take your rifle.

You can get him from the roof
of that building across the street.

And don't miss. Go out that way.

Let's go.

Walt will be in position
in a few seconds.

I could cross over there.

That way we'd have him
between us. You stick with me.

Let's go.

Slow down.

Let him come to us.

[GUNFIRE]

[CRASH]

Let's go.

Go on, Ben draw!

You killed Walt and Jordon.
Isn't that enough?

You murdered my wife. Not them.

You shoot me down
and you're no better.

My gun is holstered. Draw it!

Draw it! You want to shoot me
in cold blood? Go ahead!

I've come a long way
to kill you.

But you can't do it, can you?

Look...

I'm throwing my gun away.

All right. You had your chance.

Your wife would be proud of you.

[GUNSHOT]

Gil!

Rosita! Gil!

Reardon's horse, get him!

[SPURS HORSE]

I'm ready now, Marshal.

What for? I don't know
what you're talking about, Gil.

But Marshal, I'm ready now to...

Bass, hurry up with that horse.

Get up on your horse.
Get up, little lady.

You, too.

Do you think you can
find your way to the border?

The border? Yes, yes!
I know the way!

There's a little spread
near a place called Cervantes.

Marshal. Now get! Get!

[CHUCKLES]

MATT: Adios, amigos.

It'll all even up in the end.

Always does.

I guess we'll have to report
that he got away from us.Yep.

The Prisoner escaped
in a hail of bullets.

Sure want loco, didn't he?

You know, I'd say this town
just got its first slice of good luck.

You might make a
peace officer yet, Dave.

I'll buy the drinks.