Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961): Season 1, Episode 35 - The Conquerors - full transcript
A concerned father hires Josh to retrieve his son, a passionate young ideologue whose gift for rousing rhetoric is being used by plunderers to recruit freedom fighters to serve in their phony liberation of Baja California.
Men of good will are what we want,
men of spirit and courage whose blood
boils at the thought of injustice.
If you can't stand for
the human spirit to be chained,
to be whipped, to be starved,
then join us!
Sign up now for decency
and the love of your fellow man!
We've all been told of the unfair
slavery that exists below the border.
We've all heard of the terror...
That boy sure can talk.
More than that, Gregg.
He believes what he's saying.
Faith.
That's what it takes
to sell everything. Faith.
Well, he's got it all right.
Send a man across the border
to hang this on anything standing up.
What do they say?
Rise against your masters,
throw off your chains.
Become free men.
The Liberators are coming.
That's us?
That's us.
All we're gonna liberate
is gold and silver!
THE CONQUERORS
Two men here to see you.
Gentlemen, come over here.
Gentlemen.
- You remember my friend the Sheriff.
- 'Morning.
Señor Rubero,
the Mexican council to Arizona.
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
Enjoy the wine I sent over?
The council has something
he wants to say.
Do you still intend to follow
through with this expedition?
Sir,
my heart bleeds for the oppressed
people of lower California.
It's my intent to raise the poor
peon from the depths of bondage
to take his place
in the society of men.
I admire your sentiments, Señor.
I could admire them even more
if they had a hint of honesty!
My government instructs me to inform
you that if you cross the border,
you do so as an invading army.
The government of Mexico
will not stand aside.
Do you think that men
of such high purpose
will be stopped by a government...
The consequences
will be on your head!
You asked me to see him.
I have.
All right, Señor.
I will notify my government
and ask for a suitable welcome
for your troops of liberators!
He means it, you'll have the whole
Mexican army on you.
- Call the whole thing off.
- I'm American.
I can't stand by and see slavery
practiced on my fellow man.
Have it your way,
but you won't even get near 'em.
US troops are on their way
to stop you cold.
- We can't fight the army.
- We're not going to.
We move out, I don't want this paper
army to fall apart before the border.
Get those men ready to move,
we're going out right away.
Get those horses ready!
Line up right here, gentlemen!
You men won't regret this,
you're fighting for a great cause.
That's him!
Much obliged.
- Keep an eye on my horse for me?
- Sure!
Hey, Wilson!
Yes.
- My name's Randall.
- How do you do. Come to join us?
No. I got a message
from your father.
He wants me to bring you home.
1000 miles away and he's trying
to tell me what to do.
- I'm sorry.
- What do you want?
I'm taking this man home.
Join us! The rewards both of
the flesh and spirit are prodigious.
Like the rewards you got
riding with Quantrell's raiders?
You're a liar.
Mandeville is one of the finest man
I know.
It's all right, Arnold, I was
with Quantrell until he turned bad.
I left him because I couldn't
stomach his actions.
You sir, why do you turn your back
on our enterprise?
Is there anything more glorious
than liberating your fellow men?
Do they ask to be liberated?
How can they ask, chained together
in the fields like animals?
Mexican graveyards
are full of liberators
who tried to pull a stunt
before the war.
That's your business.
Come on, boy.
I'm going down to help the peons!
Now listen.
You might think these are liberators
but they're just a bunch of thieves.
- D'you hear me?
- You wouldn't understand.
Well, maybe I don't.
- I'm taking you back to El Paso.
- I have 50 men who disagree.
Why start trouble? One man
more or less doesn't mean anything.
This one does.
You call these men rabble.
That's why I need Arnold.
What turns rabble into an army?
Morale.
That's what this soldier gives them.
I'm still taking him back.
How are you feeling?
You got yourself quite a lump there.
That's what I like:
a man who can size up a situation.
- They take off for the border?
- They won't come back.
Not under their own power.
Where are you going?
Mexico!
You're arrested for invading
the soil of Mexico.
Bind him to the tree.
Why take him prisoner?
Let's kill him now.
We are not barbarians
like his group.
I ain't go nothing to do
with any group.
You're a gringo.
- Is that a crime?
- Since Mandeville, it is.
- I got nothing to do with him.
- Can you prove it?
There's no reason to believe you.
- I got nothing to do with the man.
- I saw you following them.
I was looking for someone.
You're looking for gold and silver.
We met your men by the river.
We were 15, they were 50.
Nothing to do with me.
All of my life I've lived
in Las Puntes.
Yesterday, Americans came
and said they would liberate us.
"From what?" we asked.
From our government they said.
We told them we were content
as we were.
They burned our homes
and killed our people.
Today there is no more Las Puntes!
Listen, that's not the way.
He'll be tried. He'll be hung
in a legal and proper fashion.
Meanwhile, the gringos plan
to attack Ensenada
and take the silver from the mines.
We will be ready. We'll get
the men we need and be waiting.
Take the prisoner to Mexicali.
Will you ride with me
to fight the gringos?
To reach Ensenada, your friends
must pass through Verdi Canyon.
I give you my word,
none of them will get out alive.
Look after him.
You move an inch and I'll kill you.
Easy, mister!
I wouldn't if I were you.
Take it out and with your fingertips
and toss it on the ground.
Up, up!
Come on, up!
Where's Mandeville?
I don't know.
You were with him.
I'm not now.
Carrying a lot of freight.
Prospecting equipment I picked up.
Get off that horse.
Go on, sit on that rock.
Pretty. Where'd you get it?
Figure it out for yourself.
I asked you nice.
Las Puntes! I got it there.
Where you taking it?
Back to the States.
Mandeville and me
were gonna split it up.
Suppose you and I take it back.
Keep it together.
Hold it!
We're gonna wait till dark,
then have a talk to Mandeville.
Get off the animal.
Look, kid, there's nobody regrets
more than me what happened.
- Just had to be done that way.
- Why?
I thought we came to free the people,
not to kill them.
I didn't even know what we wanted
or why we came.
Son, in every movement of this kind
there's bound to be some killing
that on the surface
seems to be unnecessary.
But it just seems to be that way.
Look what happened
during the revolution,
We had to kill the British.
That was a declared war,
this one isn't!
I'll try to explain again.
Get down.
Now listen.
We gonna walk straight into
Mandeville's tent.
If we meet anybody,
you tell them we're friends.
You open your mouth and I kill you.
Go on.
Whatever you say, I won't believe
you had to kill women and children.
I won't believe that!
Well, I don't much care
how you look at it.
I know what's got to be done
for this glorious cause.
Drop your gun, Mr. Randall, right now.
Your young friend's life
depends on it.
- What are you doing here?
- We found the gold and silver.
Really walked in, didn't I?
What d'you think of
your great liberator now?
If I get out of this alive,
d'you think you'd be ready
to go home?
I sure am.
I wouldn't be able to permit that.
Yeah. You ain't going
much farther anyway.
How can you stop us?
I'm in no position to stop anybody.
How will that army feel when they
find out you been stealing them?
They won't be very happy.
But they won't hear about it.
If you open your mouth,
Arnold will be the first to die.
And just so you'll remember it,
we're keeping you here with us.
Alive.
You'll never make it to Ensenada,
do you hear me?
- Really?
- How do you know?
The Mexicans will be waiting for you.
They'll cut you to ribbons.
I've already thought of that.
It's possible but hardly probable.
I said my piece,
you do what you want.
That's a load I think I can carry.
Keep your eye on them.
If they try anything,
it'll give us two more horses.
Why not do it now?
Why take them at all?
When we leave Ensenada
the Mexicans will want somebody
to take out their grievance on.
Can you think of anybody better?
We move out
first thing in the morning.
Forward...
ho!
Matt, Bob!
Better scout that pass.
No, amigo. Wait!
All right, sir.
Men, just through that pass
is what we've come for!
Just through that pass!
- Keep your eye on me.
- What?
Stay close to me, do you hear?
Forward!
Don't break!
Hello, Arnold!
Hi, Dad.
Thank you, Mr. Randall.
My pleasure.
I hope this will in some part repay
what I owe you.
Something wrong?
You said I could name my own price.
Of course. What is the full price?
I'll take this.
Let your son make his own decisions.
He's earned it.
You know,
nobody's always right,
nobody's always wrong.
Can I get a drink of your water?
Subtitles by Teletota
men of spirit and courage whose blood
boils at the thought of injustice.
If you can't stand for
the human spirit to be chained,
to be whipped, to be starved,
then join us!
Sign up now for decency
and the love of your fellow man!
We've all been told of the unfair
slavery that exists below the border.
We've all heard of the terror...
That boy sure can talk.
More than that, Gregg.
He believes what he's saying.
Faith.
That's what it takes
to sell everything. Faith.
Well, he's got it all right.
Send a man across the border
to hang this on anything standing up.
What do they say?
Rise against your masters,
throw off your chains.
Become free men.
The Liberators are coming.
That's us?
That's us.
All we're gonna liberate
is gold and silver!
THE CONQUERORS
Two men here to see you.
Gentlemen, come over here.
Gentlemen.
- You remember my friend the Sheriff.
- 'Morning.
Señor Rubero,
the Mexican council to Arizona.
Pleased to make your acquaintance.
Enjoy the wine I sent over?
The council has something
he wants to say.
Do you still intend to follow
through with this expedition?
Sir,
my heart bleeds for the oppressed
people of lower California.
It's my intent to raise the poor
peon from the depths of bondage
to take his place
in the society of men.
I admire your sentiments, Señor.
I could admire them even more
if they had a hint of honesty!
My government instructs me to inform
you that if you cross the border,
you do so as an invading army.
The government of Mexico
will not stand aside.
Do you think that men
of such high purpose
will be stopped by a government...
The consequences
will be on your head!
You asked me to see him.
I have.
All right, Señor.
I will notify my government
and ask for a suitable welcome
for your troops of liberators!
He means it, you'll have the whole
Mexican army on you.
- Call the whole thing off.
- I'm American.
I can't stand by and see slavery
practiced on my fellow man.
Have it your way,
but you won't even get near 'em.
US troops are on their way
to stop you cold.
- We can't fight the army.
- We're not going to.
We move out, I don't want this paper
army to fall apart before the border.
Get those men ready to move,
we're going out right away.
Get those horses ready!
Line up right here, gentlemen!
You men won't regret this,
you're fighting for a great cause.
That's him!
Much obliged.
- Keep an eye on my horse for me?
- Sure!
Hey, Wilson!
Yes.
- My name's Randall.
- How do you do. Come to join us?
No. I got a message
from your father.
He wants me to bring you home.
1000 miles away and he's trying
to tell me what to do.
- I'm sorry.
- What do you want?
I'm taking this man home.
Join us! The rewards both of
the flesh and spirit are prodigious.
Like the rewards you got
riding with Quantrell's raiders?
You're a liar.
Mandeville is one of the finest man
I know.
It's all right, Arnold, I was
with Quantrell until he turned bad.
I left him because I couldn't
stomach his actions.
You sir, why do you turn your back
on our enterprise?
Is there anything more glorious
than liberating your fellow men?
Do they ask to be liberated?
How can they ask, chained together
in the fields like animals?
Mexican graveyards
are full of liberators
who tried to pull a stunt
before the war.
That's your business.
Come on, boy.
I'm going down to help the peons!
Now listen.
You might think these are liberators
but they're just a bunch of thieves.
- D'you hear me?
- You wouldn't understand.
Well, maybe I don't.
- I'm taking you back to El Paso.
- I have 50 men who disagree.
Why start trouble? One man
more or less doesn't mean anything.
This one does.
You call these men rabble.
That's why I need Arnold.
What turns rabble into an army?
Morale.
That's what this soldier gives them.
I'm still taking him back.
How are you feeling?
You got yourself quite a lump there.
That's what I like:
a man who can size up a situation.
- They take off for the border?
- They won't come back.
Not under their own power.
Where are you going?
Mexico!
You're arrested for invading
the soil of Mexico.
Bind him to the tree.
Why take him prisoner?
Let's kill him now.
We are not barbarians
like his group.
I ain't go nothing to do
with any group.
You're a gringo.
- Is that a crime?
- Since Mandeville, it is.
- I got nothing to do with him.
- Can you prove it?
There's no reason to believe you.
- I got nothing to do with the man.
- I saw you following them.
I was looking for someone.
You're looking for gold and silver.
We met your men by the river.
We were 15, they were 50.
Nothing to do with me.
All of my life I've lived
in Las Puntes.
Yesterday, Americans came
and said they would liberate us.
"From what?" we asked.
From our government they said.
We told them we were content
as we were.
They burned our homes
and killed our people.
Today there is no more Las Puntes!
Listen, that's not the way.
He'll be tried. He'll be hung
in a legal and proper fashion.
Meanwhile, the gringos plan
to attack Ensenada
and take the silver from the mines.
We will be ready. We'll get
the men we need and be waiting.
Take the prisoner to Mexicali.
Will you ride with me
to fight the gringos?
To reach Ensenada, your friends
must pass through Verdi Canyon.
I give you my word,
none of them will get out alive.
Look after him.
You move an inch and I'll kill you.
Easy, mister!
I wouldn't if I were you.
Take it out and with your fingertips
and toss it on the ground.
Up, up!
Come on, up!
Where's Mandeville?
I don't know.
You were with him.
I'm not now.
Carrying a lot of freight.
Prospecting equipment I picked up.
Get off that horse.
Go on, sit on that rock.
Pretty. Where'd you get it?
Figure it out for yourself.
I asked you nice.
Las Puntes! I got it there.
Where you taking it?
Back to the States.
Mandeville and me
were gonna split it up.
Suppose you and I take it back.
Keep it together.
Hold it!
We're gonna wait till dark,
then have a talk to Mandeville.
Get off the animal.
Look, kid, there's nobody regrets
more than me what happened.
- Just had to be done that way.
- Why?
I thought we came to free the people,
not to kill them.
I didn't even know what we wanted
or why we came.
Son, in every movement of this kind
there's bound to be some killing
that on the surface
seems to be unnecessary.
But it just seems to be that way.
Look what happened
during the revolution,
We had to kill the British.
That was a declared war,
this one isn't!
I'll try to explain again.
Get down.
Now listen.
We gonna walk straight into
Mandeville's tent.
If we meet anybody,
you tell them we're friends.
You open your mouth and I kill you.
Go on.
Whatever you say, I won't believe
you had to kill women and children.
I won't believe that!
Well, I don't much care
how you look at it.
I know what's got to be done
for this glorious cause.
Drop your gun, Mr. Randall, right now.
Your young friend's life
depends on it.
- What are you doing here?
- We found the gold and silver.
Really walked in, didn't I?
What d'you think of
your great liberator now?
If I get out of this alive,
d'you think you'd be ready
to go home?
I sure am.
I wouldn't be able to permit that.
Yeah. You ain't going
much farther anyway.
How can you stop us?
I'm in no position to stop anybody.
How will that army feel when they
find out you been stealing them?
They won't be very happy.
But they won't hear about it.
If you open your mouth,
Arnold will be the first to die.
And just so you'll remember it,
we're keeping you here with us.
Alive.
You'll never make it to Ensenada,
do you hear me?
- Really?
- How do you know?
The Mexicans will be waiting for you.
They'll cut you to ribbons.
I've already thought of that.
It's possible but hardly probable.
I said my piece,
you do what you want.
That's a load I think I can carry.
Keep your eye on them.
If they try anything,
it'll give us two more horses.
Why not do it now?
Why take them at all?
When we leave Ensenada
the Mexicans will want somebody
to take out their grievance on.
Can you think of anybody better?
We move out
first thing in the morning.
Forward...
ho!
Matt, Bob!
Better scout that pass.
No, amigo. Wait!
All right, sir.
Men, just through that pass
is what we've come for!
Just through that pass!
- Keep your eye on me.
- What?
Stay close to me, do you hear?
Forward!
Don't break!
Hello, Arnold!
Hi, Dad.
Thank you, Mr. Randall.
My pleasure.
I hope this will in some part repay
what I owe you.
Something wrong?
You said I could name my own price.
Of course. What is the full price?
I'll take this.
Let your son make his own decisions.
He's earned it.
You know,
nobody's always right,
nobody's always wrong.
Can I get a drink of your water?
Subtitles by Teletota