Action (1954) 75 minutes ~ Black & White
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Richard Sale (written for the screen by)
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden and James Gleason
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Richard Sale (written for the screen by)
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden and James Gleason
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00:00:10Officer. Can you tell me the way to three rivers about two miles to the first main
00:00:15intersection then turn left it's about sixty miles thanks what town is this
00:00:20suddenly suddenly what no no that's the name of the funny name for
00:00:25a town hangover from the old days that's the way things used to happen here
00:00:30suddenly I see road agents gamblers gunfighters well I take it things have
00:00:36changed uh-huh things happen so slow now the town council is figuring to change
00:00:40the name to gradually thanks officer pleasure come back.
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00:02:16Todd?
00:02:18Uh-huh.
00:02:20Well, no.
00:02:22I guess not.
00:02:23She wouldn't let me.
00:02:25Who's she?
00:02:26Mom, of course.
00:02:27Well, then you better say mom, Pidge.
00:02:29It's kind of not polite to say she like that,
00:02:31especially about your mother.
00:02:32Well, anyway, she wouldn't.
00:02:35You know, I bet I can guess what's on your mind.
00:02:37Bet you can't.
00:02:39Well, now let's see.
00:02:41You want an ice cream soda?
00:02:42Not a bad idea, but that's not it.
00:02:45You want to go to the movies?
00:02:47No, it's a war picture.
00:02:48Mom will let me see war pictures.
00:02:50Boy, oh boy, this is tougher than I thought.
00:02:53I got it.
00:02:55You want that baseball bat.
00:02:57No, but you're awful warm.
00:03:02Is that it?
00:03:03Sure, that's it.
00:03:04Ain't it a beauty?
00:03:06But shucks, it's no use.
00:03:08Mom wouldn't let me have it.
00:03:10She doesn't like guns.
00:03:11I know.
00:03:12It's because of my father being killed in the war.
00:03:15Look, Pidge, if you had the gun, what would you do with it?
00:03:18Stick up a filling station?
00:03:19Stick up a filling station?
00:03:21Heck no.
00:03:22I'd be sheriff.
00:03:23And I'd catch all those road agents and cattle rustlers,
00:03:25just like you.
00:03:27But what about mom?
00:03:29Well, I think we can talk her into it,
00:03:31what with you wanting to be a peace officer and all.
00:03:33We got lots of time.
00:03:34Mom's still in the market getting groceries.
00:03:37Let's go.
00:03:43Let's go.
00:03:56Oh, hello.
00:03:57I've got it.
00:03:58Oh, thanks, Todd.
00:03:59Hello.
00:04:00Hi.
00:04:01Can I give you a lift up the house?
00:04:02Thanks anyway, but I have the car with me.
00:04:04Going to church tomorrow?
00:04:05Yes.
00:04:06I'll pick you up about a quarter to 11, huh?
00:04:08You never give up, do you?
00:04:12Ellen, I know how you feel.
00:04:13Believe me, I do.
00:04:14And I've tried to understand, but...
00:04:16I haven't asked you to understand.
00:04:18That's because I'm in love with you.
00:04:21Todd, you...
00:04:22You shouldn't say that to me.
00:04:25Why not?
00:04:26It's true.
00:04:27Don't, Todd.
00:04:30Ellen, you can't go on being a widow forever.
00:04:32It's been over three years since Pete died.
00:04:35Don't you understand?
00:04:36No one can take Pete's place.
00:04:38I'm not trying to take Pete's place.
00:04:39I'm trying to make a place of my own.
00:04:41You've been wonderful, Todd.
00:04:43And I'm grateful.
00:04:44Really, I am.
00:04:45But I can't help how I feel.
00:04:50Ellen, you've got to stop doing this to yourself
00:04:52because you're doing it to Pidge, too, as well as to me.
00:04:55You're digging a big black pit
00:04:56and shoving all of us down into it.
00:04:57Leave me alone, Todd, please.
00:05:03Pidge, where did you get that gun?
00:05:05I bought it for him, Ellen.
00:05:07Todd, how could you?
00:05:09We thought you wouldn't mind, Mom,
00:05:11because I'm going to be a sheriff, just like Todd.
00:05:14Take it off, Pidge.
00:05:15Ellen.
00:05:16I can't help it, Todd.
00:05:17You know I can't stand seeing him play with a gun.
00:05:19But the boy's got to learn sometime
00:05:20that guns aren't necessarily bad.
00:05:22Depends on who uses them.
00:05:24Todd carries one, doesn't he?
00:05:26Yes, but...
00:05:27Well, then?
00:05:28Just take it off, Pidge.
00:05:29Aw, gee.
00:05:33That's $3, please.
00:05:40Ellen.
00:05:43I know you don't want the boy to see war pictures,
00:05:45but it seems...
00:05:46Teaching children the art of death and destruction,
00:05:48the cruelties, the tortures...
00:05:49He's got to know that these things exist.
00:05:51Then he can fight against them when it's his turn.
00:05:54You can't wrap the boy in cellophane.
00:05:56I can try, as long as possible.
00:05:59Look, when a house is on fire,
00:06:01everybody has to help put it out,
00:06:03because the next time it might be your house.
00:06:05Todd, don't.
00:06:16Church tomorrow, Ellen?
00:06:18No, Todd, I can't go with you.
00:06:20Well, I can't go on asking you to be turned down.
00:06:23I mean that.
00:06:33I can't.
00:06:51Bebop?
00:06:52Going over to Tilly's for a cup of java.
00:06:54You can handle things. It's a quiet day.
00:06:56It's been a quiet day in this burg for the last 50 years.
00:07:03You?
00:07:13Good night, Sheriff.
00:07:15What's the word?
00:07:16Get out of here. Get the Sheriff.
00:07:18Tell him to get over here fast. It's an emergency.
00:07:20Hey, take it easy, Pappy. 25-mile speed limit.
00:07:22Where's the Sheriff?
00:07:23Try the office.
00:07:24Hey, what's the...
00:07:26Where's Todd?
00:07:27Catch your breath, easy.
00:07:29It's an emergency. Ed Hawkins has got to see him right away.
00:07:31What happened?
00:07:32I don't know. Something came over the wire.
00:07:34Ed wouldn't even show me.
00:07:36Yeah, that's funny.
00:07:37Well, there's Todd now.
00:07:39Hey, what's the word?
00:07:41Get out of here fast. It's an emergency.
00:07:43Hey, what's the word?
00:07:44Catch your breath, easy.
00:07:45It's an emergency. Ed Hawkins has got to see him right away.
00:07:47What happened?
00:07:48I don't know.
00:07:49Hey, what's the word?
00:07:50Catch your breath, easy.
00:07:51It's an emergency. Ed Hawkins has got to see him right away.
00:07:53What happened?
00:07:54I don't know.
00:07:55Hey, what's the word?
00:07:56Catch your breath, easy.
00:07:57It's an emergency. Ed Hawkins has got to see him right away.
00:07:58What happened?
00:07:59I don't know.
00:08:00Hey, what's the word?
00:08:01Catch your breath, easy.
00:08:02It's an emergency. Ed Hawkins has got to see him right away.
00:08:03What happened?
00:08:04I don't know.
00:08:05Hey, what's the word?
00:08:06Catch your breath, easy.
00:08:07It's an emergency. Ed Hawkins has got to see him right away.
00:08:08What happened?
00:08:09I don't know.
00:08:10Hey, what's the word?
00:08:11Catch your breath, easy.
00:08:13Aah.
00:08:34Lord Edmondson.
00:08:35Thanks. Get out of here.
00:08:36Well wait a second. I want to know what it's about.
00:08:38It's top secret. Get out of here.
00:08:40I run my pants off.
00:08:41Hello?
00:08:43Oh, shucks.
00:08:47What's the word?
00:08:48Listen to this. I haven't finished typing it yet.
00:08:50Sheriff Todd Shaw, Suddenly California Confidential Code Hangover.
00:08:55Special train number 1019 carrying the President of the United States
00:09:00will arrive suddenly 5 p.m. today.
00:09:03President will detrain and drive to White Springs Ranch.
00:09:06Will require adequate transportation.
00:09:08Appreciate cooperation.
00:09:10Your staff with Secret Service operatives arriving 115.
00:09:14Connie, Acting Chief, U.S. Secret Service.
00:09:18No mistakes, huh?
00:09:19Only in typing.
00:09:225 p.m.
00:09:25Can I use your phone?
00:09:26Help yourself.
00:09:28Give me State Police Headquarters at Weatherby.
00:09:31What's that code word again?
00:09:32Hangover.
00:09:33Hangover.
00:09:36Hello? This is Todd Shaw down to Suddenly.
00:09:38I want to speak to Captain Aaron.
00:09:41There's number 20, the 66 closet.
00:09:43Hello, Captain Aaron.
00:09:45This is Todd Shaw.
00:09:46Say, look.
00:09:47I've got a message here.
00:09:48The code word is hangover.
00:09:50Now, I'm going to need five of your cars,
00:09:52two men to a car, and one Thompson gun to each car.
00:09:54And you...
00:09:57Oh, you did, huh?
00:09:59That's well. Right. Thanks.
00:10:02I got the same message.
00:10:03Aaron says the show on the road already.
00:10:05Those State cops don't fool around, do they?
00:10:07No, they don't.
00:10:08Say, you didn't spill this, did you?
00:10:11It says confidential.
00:10:13Let's just keep it that way.
00:10:15I'll run over to Kaplan's garage.
00:10:16I'll be back in a minute.
00:10:27Hello, Sheriff. I'll be right with you.
00:10:29That's not soon enough, Iz.
00:10:30So?
00:10:31I want the big black Cadillac at 4.30.
00:10:33The limousine?
00:10:34Yeah. Park it at the station. Backed in.
00:10:37Somebody getting married? Like the Sheriff?
00:10:39Don't be funny. This is police business.
00:10:41Don't tell anyone.
00:10:42I don't get it.
00:10:43You're not supposed to.
00:10:444.30, yeah? No slip-ups.
00:11:05Mr. Kearney?
00:11:06That's right.
00:11:07My name's Shaw.
00:11:08Get my message?
00:11:10What message?
00:11:11Hangover.
00:11:13May I see your credentials?
00:11:18Mrs. Wilson?
00:11:19Aye.
00:11:21Haggerty?
00:11:23Yes, sir.
00:11:25Mr. Kearney?
00:11:27Yes, sir.
00:11:29Mr. Kearney?
00:11:30Aye.
00:11:31Mr. Kearney?
00:11:32Aye.
00:11:34Shultz and Kelly.
00:11:36Glad to make your acquaintance.
00:11:37Yeah, I got your message.
00:11:39You're a careful man, Sheriff.
00:11:40Not always.
00:11:41This seemed like a good time to be, though.
00:11:43We always have to be.
00:11:45May I see your credentials?
00:11:47I, uh...
00:11:50I've got a limousine ordered for 4.30. It'll be parked right here.
00:11:53Good.
00:11:54State police have five cars on the road from Weatherby.
00:11:57Excellent.
00:11:58I guess that's about it.
00:11:59Not quite.
00:12:01You can still be of help to us.
00:12:04We'll have to check all of those stores facing the station.
00:12:07Mr. Kearney, I know every proprietor in this town.
00:12:10You can take my word for it.
00:12:11I can't take your word for anything.
00:12:13I'm sure they're okay.
00:12:15Just routine.
00:12:16All right, boys.
00:12:19We'll park a limousine between the tracks when the special arrives.
00:12:23Pretty rough in there.
00:12:24Maybe.
00:12:25Easier to cover.
00:12:26All state police cars can go in there, too.
00:12:29All right.
00:12:30Oh, uh...
00:12:31Who lives up there on the hill?
00:12:34Pop Benson.
00:12:35His grandson and his daughter-in-law.
00:12:37We'll check it.
00:12:39Mr. Kearney,
00:12:40if there's one place in this town doesn't need checking, it's that one.
00:12:43Pop Benson used to be in the Secret Service himself,
00:12:46before a bad ticker retired him.
00:12:48Pop Benson?
00:12:49You don't mean Peter Benson?
00:12:51That's right.
00:12:53I'll be a monkey's uncle.
00:12:55What do you mean?
00:12:58Pete Benson used to be my old boss.
00:13:00No.
00:13:01How do you like that, huh?
00:13:03Therefore, Mr. Shaw, he'll be the last one in the world to object.
00:13:06Pete Benson, for heaven's sake.
00:13:14Probably a wrecked fire.
00:13:16Probably a tube.
00:13:17Would you please call Judd and have him come up and fix that thing before you wreck it?
00:13:21Wreck it? Wreck it?
00:13:22Look, I'll have you understand I built a television transmitter in 38
00:13:26before you even knew what television was.
00:13:28Yes, but did it work?
00:13:29I don't know. I never did get to finish the receiver.
00:13:31Well, this is a receiver, and I do wish you'd called Judd.
00:13:34I don't want to bother Judd. Besides, it's time and a half on Saturday.
00:13:37Well, that'll be cheaper than what it'll cost when you get through diddling with it.
00:13:40Oh, now, Ellen, stop taking it out on me just because you and Todd had a fight.
00:13:46You haven't touched your cake.
00:13:48Don't want it.
00:13:49Pidge, darling, I made it especially for you.
00:13:52You made it because you wouldn't let me wear my gun.
00:13:54Drink your milk, darling.
00:13:56Sissy.
00:13:57What?
00:13:58That's what the guys call me.
00:14:00Well, I don't care what they call you.
00:14:02I'm your mother, and I think I know what's best for you.
00:14:06Pidge.
00:14:10Pidge, you shouldn't walk out when I'm talking to you.
00:14:12I thought you were finished.
00:14:14Well, the boy's just disappointed, that's all, Ellen.
00:14:17Dad, please stop interfering.
00:14:20First, you cancel him out on the hike with Cub Scouts, and the next thing...
00:14:24Pidge, go to your room.
00:14:26I'll have this old set prigging in a minute, son.
00:14:28You and me will watch the ball game.
00:14:31Dad, I've had this for the last time.
00:14:34Ellen, you're a grown-up girl.
00:14:36You got a problem you haven't worked out.
00:14:38That's no reason why Pidge should have your problem.
00:14:41I've only done what I thought was right, Dad.
00:14:45I read about an experiment once.
00:14:47Kept germs away from a kid.
00:14:49Raised him pure and scientifically.
00:14:51First time he got out in the rough, he caught cold and died of pneumonia.
00:14:54What does that have to do with Pidge?
00:14:56The kid hadn't been exposed. He had no immunity.
00:14:59There's cruelty and hatred and tyranny in the world.
00:15:01You can't make believe they aren't there.
00:15:03And Pidge has got to learn what is the law and what isn't the law, so he can defend it.
00:15:07Defend it?
00:15:08So he can become a soldier and go out and be murdered like his father was?
00:15:14My son was killed in the performance of his duty, Ellen.
00:15:17Duty.
00:15:18Being blown to bits.
00:15:20Being blown to bits on some God-forsaken battlefield,
00:15:22thousands of miles from where he was born.
00:15:24You call that duty?
00:15:26Yes, Ellen.
00:15:27Well, is that what you'd like for Pidge? Would that make you happy?
00:15:30If Pete could hear you now, I think he'd be ashamed of you.
00:15:36How can you say a terrible thing like that?
00:15:40When the old boys wrote those words,
00:15:42life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
00:15:44they sounded mighty nice.
00:15:46But they wouldn't have been worth a plug nickel if somebody hadn't made them stick.
00:15:51Grandpa! Grandpa! Grandpa!
00:15:53The window! Look out the window!
00:15:55Golly!
00:15:56What is it?
00:15:57Coming down the mountain from Weatherby.
00:15:59A whole raft of state troopers.
00:16:01See them?
00:16:17She'll cut it fine.
00:16:19She couldn't possibly be surprised with all those sirens blasting.
00:16:22I try to beat them.
00:16:24State troopers. Right on time.
00:16:26Yeah, they're good.
00:16:28The best.
00:16:29All right, Pa, follow me.
00:16:30Okay.
00:16:32Well, there are two routes to the White Springs Ranch.
00:16:35You can go over the mountains here,
00:16:37or you can drop down on the main highway,
00:16:39go on into three rivers,
00:16:40and the ranch is about 20 miles farther on.
00:16:42We'll stick to the main highway.
00:16:44Too much chance of an ambush in those mountains.
00:16:46Yes, Haggerty?
00:16:47We'd use a roof watch in those stores, Chief,
00:16:49beside the street check.
00:16:50Look, Mr. Kearney,
00:16:52every proprietor in this town has been here at least five years.
00:16:55I know them, I know their kids.
00:16:56No, it isn't that, Sheriff.
00:16:58It's the stranger that might use one of those stores for cover.
00:17:01I'd like them to lock up at ten minutes to five.
00:17:04Stay locked up until ten minutes after five.
00:17:06Oh, and put a man on the roof, too.
00:17:08All right, Berg, give him the word.
00:17:10No one, including the proprietors,
00:17:12out of the remain of those stores at locking time.
00:17:15Anyone seen inside after ten minutes of five
00:17:17might be shot on sight.
00:17:19Like the man says, it's important.
00:17:21Yes, sir.
00:17:23Tell Wilson to keep the station clear.
00:17:25Schultz will take over troopers
00:17:26and block off traffic approaches from 430 on.
00:17:28Right.
00:17:29Now, there's another hazard, sir,
00:17:30a house up in the hill.
00:17:32Yeah, I know.
00:17:34I'll check that one myself.
00:17:35Yes, sir.
00:17:39Todd, what the hades is going on in this, Berg?
00:17:42Did some galoot make a uranium strike?
00:17:44No, not exactly.
00:17:45Now, look, Slim, you take over here,
00:17:47and I'll catch up with you later.
00:17:49From 430 on, I want all pedestrian traffic
00:17:51kept off Main Street between Oak and Alder.
00:17:54The state boys will help you
00:17:55if anybody in town squawks while you smooth things over.
00:17:58They know you,
00:17:59and this is all gonna seem a little strange to them.
00:18:01I'm confused myself.
00:18:02Never have seen so many cops.
00:18:04What goes on?
00:18:06Ah, this is Mr. Kearney,
00:18:07special agent in the Treasury Department,
00:18:09Secret Service.
00:18:10Kearney?
00:18:11Slim Adams, one of my deputies.
00:18:13How do you do?
00:18:14Secret Service?
00:18:16I get it.
00:18:17They're shipping the national debt through here in gold bars.
00:18:21Just don't worry about it.
00:18:22You'll find out later.
00:18:23All right, come on.
00:18:25Let's go and check that car you hired.
00:18:28Got him! Got him all!
00:18:30Buffalo Bill,
00:18:31you better put that gun away before your mom sees it.
00:18:33You tame your hive.
00:18:39Well, Dad, I do wish you'd call Judd
00:18:41and let him come up and fix that.
00:18:43Sure.
00:18:44I'll call him.
00:18:45I'll call him.
00:18:46I'll call him.
00:18:47I'll call him.
00:18:48I'll call him.
00:18:49I'll call him.
00:18:50I'll call him.
00:18:51I'll call him.
00:18:52I'll call him.
00:18:53I'll call him.
00:18:54I'll call him.
00:18:55I'll call him.
00:18:56He didn't fix that.
00:18:57Shucks, Ellen.
00:18:58I knew ohms law before the even passed it.
00:19:00I don't want Pitch to miss the ballgame
00:19:02after missing the movie and everything.
00:19:04All right, boy.
00:19:05Come on, get ready to plug this said in
00:19:07while I hold this screw down,
00:19:08and we'll see what happens.
00:19:09Okay.
00:19:11Dad, are you sure you know what you're doing?
00:19:13Ellen, please.
00:19:14I know,
00:19:15but it says on the back of that
00:19:16that there are 5,000 volts,
00:19:18and that's dangerous.
00:19:19Ellen, will you please stop being a woman.
00:19:23Ready, boy?
00:19:24Plug in!
00:19:26Oh!
00:19:28Dad!
00:19:29Dad, are you all right?
00:19:30Well, I guess I'm all right.
00:19:32It just scared the pants off me, that's all.
00:19:34Golly, look at this!
00:19:35I guess maybe you better call Judd, huh?
00:19:38Honestly.
00:19:39That was a close call, boy.
00:19:42How much is 5,000 volts?
00:19:44Enough.
00:19:45To kill you?
00:19:46Well, it'll probably pick you up and toss you across the room.
00:19:49That is, unless you were standing in a puddle of water,
00:19:51and then you'd be grounded.
00:19:52And if you were grounded, it'd kill you deader than a doornail.
00:19:54Will it hurt?
00:19:56Like blazers.
00:19:57You stay away from that set now.
00:19:58And stay away from those wall plugs.
00:20:00Don't monkey with electricity unless you
00:20:02know what you're doing.
00:20:03Why did you, Grandpa?
00:20:06You got me there, boy.
00:20:09I'll get her.
00:20:10Judd says he'll be up in a little while.
00:20:12I'm sorry.
00:20:14Honestly.
00:20:17Yes?
00:20:17Mrs. Benson?
00:20:18That's right.
00:20:19Is your husband at home?
00:20:21My husband?
00:20:22No, I'm a widow.
00:20:23What I should have asked was, are you the owner of this house?
00:20:26No, I'm not.
00:20:27It belongs to my father-in-law.
00:20:28What is it you want?
00:20:30I'm John Barron, special agent.
00:20:32Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:20:33These are my men.
00:20:35Do you suppose I could have a few words with Mr. Benson?
00:20:38Well, just a moment.
00:20:39Won't you come in?
00:20:40Dad?
00:20:43Oh, hi, gents.
00:20:45John Barron, special agent.
00:20:47For heaven's sake, FBI.
00:20:49May we come in?
00:20:50Why, sure, sure.
00:20:52Come right in.
00:20:53Come right in, make yourself at home.
00:20:54Thanks.
00:20:55Not at all.
00:20:56I get quite a kick out of this.
00:20:57Used to be with the Treasury Department myself.
00:20:58Really?
00:20:59Back in the old days.
00:21:01Collected in total revenue, eh?
00:21:02Tax collector, not on your life.
00:21:04Secret service.
00:21:05You don't say.
00:21:06Grandpa was President Coolidge's bodyguard.
00:21:09You don't say.
00:21:09Yep, back in 1928.
00:21:11Youngest retirement in the service.
00:21:13Called him a heart.
00:21:14Not heart, trouble, you understand.
00:21:15An accident on one of Cal's fishing trips.
00:21:18A hunter.
00:21:19Got the slug right here.
00:21:20Say, that's a nasty one.
00:21:23How come you're still alive?
00:21:24I don't know.
00:21:25Lodged in my heart.
00:21:26They took it out.
00:21:26Had to take it easy, so they retired me.
00:21:28You're lucky.
00:21:29Lucky you're still if it hadn't hit me.
00:21:31I want to be in the Secret Service someday.
00:21:33Thought you was going to be a sheriff like Todd.
00:21:35Squirts like you are supposed to grow up and be president.
00:21:38Name is Pidge, Mr. Barron.
00:21:39Glad to meet you, Pidge.
00:21:40I ain't a squirt.
00:21:42Mr. Barron, what did you want to see us about?
00:21:44Is something wrong?
00:21:45Nothing wrong yet, Mrs. Benson, but there might be.
00:21:47We're just checking.
00:21:48On us?
00:21:50On the house.
00:21:51Do you mind if we have a look around?
00:21:52Help yourself, but what I want to know.
00:21:53We're going to have a look around with or without
00:21:55your permission, Mr. Benson.
00:21:56It's an emergency.
00:21:57Check it.
00:22:08There must be something the matter.
00:22:10Anyone else live here besides you three?
00:22:12No.
00:22:15Anyone been by here today?
00:22:16No.
00:22:17Just the usual routine.
00:22:18Willie Harris left the milk.
00:22:19What's this all about, Mr. Barron?
00:22:21Just being careful.
00:22:22I'll explain later.
00:22:26Two bedrooms, one bathroom.
00:22:27All clear.
00:22:28One here, just like they said.
00:22:34Kitchen, back pantry, back door.
00:22:36Stairs go downhill to garage under kitchen.
00:22:38Cellar, door, and hall.
00:22:39Clear.
00:22:40Car in the garage.
00:22:43Look at this for a setup.
00:22:49I'm sorry, folks, but I'm afraid we're going
00:22:50to have to hang around for a while.
00:22:51Why?
00:22:52What's the matter?
00:22:53Don't be alarmed. There's nothing wrong.
00:22:54Well, of course there's something wrong.
00:22:55The FBI doesn't pay us a visit for the heck of it.
00:22:57Well, I won't stay.
00:22:58I'll take pictures.
00:22:59No, ma'am.
00:23:00Nobody leaves the house until we do.
00:23:02Why not?
00:23:03What's happened?
00:23:04Look, just go about your business
00:23:05like it was any other Saturday afternoon.
00:23:07Read your papers, look at your TV.
00:23:09Anything you want, but nobody leaves the house.
00:23:15Something fishy about all this.
00:23:17It's official business.
00:23:19What sort of official business?
00:23:20Mr. Benson is a former agent of the Secret Service.
00:23:22You should understand.
00:23:24Either I'm getting old and stupid, or else I'm.
00:23:26At 5 PM this afternoon, the President of the United States
00:23:29arrives in town on a special.
00:23:31What?
00:23:32Golly!
00:23:33The President?
00:23:34Well, that's different.
00:23:36You mean to say the President's going
00:23:37to get off the train here?
00:23:39That's right.
00:23:40Golly, Gramps, you gotta go down and see it.
00:23:41We just gotta.
00:23:42The President?
00:23:43Why, that's the greatest thing ever happened to this town.
00:23:45Can we go down and see it, Gramps?
00:23:46Can we?
00:23:47Sorry, kid, no.
00:23:50Betty, bring in the gear, put the car out back.
00:23:53Bart, you see the back door is locked tight,
00:23:55and check the cellar to be sure.
00:23:59I still don't understand.
00:24:00Mr. Benson, it should be obvious to you
00:24:03that if anybody wanted to kill the President,
00:24:04he could do a beautiful job of it right
00:24:07from this window of yours.
00:24:09With the love of Mike, that may be true,
00:24:10but you don't think that Elia mean.
00:24:11Of course not.
00:24:13But we have to remain here to protect you and the President
00:24:15from somebody else who might.
00:24:17Oh.
00:24:34Carney.
00:24:35Yeah?
00:24:36Is this all routine?
00:24:37It seems to me to be kind of overboard.
00:24:39I mean, all this checking and everything,
00:24:40as though you expected this town to.
00:24:41Sheriff, have you noticed any strangers
00:24:44in town during the past week?
00:24:46No.
00:24:47Are you sure?
00:24:48Sure I'm sure.
00:24:49I know everybody in this burg.
00:24:50The only strangers we get are tourists.
00:24:52You know, we get them all the time, stopping for gas,
00:24:55a bite to eat, that's all.
00:24:56We want to know from either you or your deputies
00:24:58the minute any stranger doesn't keep going through.
00:25:01Then this isn't routine.
00:25:03No, it isn't.
00:25:05Can you tell me?
00:25:07The Los Angeles police picked up a small-time stool
00:25:09pigeon night before last.
00:25:10Shot through the lungs and left for dead.
00:25:12Smiley bitters.
00:25:13Before he died, he told them something was up.
00:25:16What do you mean something was up?
00:25:17An assassination attempt.
00:25:20Well, can you believe that?
00:25:21In our business, we can't afford not to.
00:25:23I mean, the tip of a dying stool pigeon.
00:25:26The stoolie seemed very proud of being an American
00:25:28before he kicked off.
00:25:31Meaning, crime is crime, but this is something else again.
00:25:34Right.
00:25:35So we can't take any chances.
00:25:36Let's go.
00:25:42Can we see the president, Grandpa?
00:25:45Can we, Mom?
00:25:46No, Pidge, we have to stay here.
00:25:47You can watch him from here.
00:25:48But I want to get up close.
00:25:50Well, use your telescope, boy.
00:25:51Bring him right up the eye.
00:25:53Sorry, Pidge.
00:25:55No dice.
00:25:56Back door locked.
00:25:57How about the phone in the kitchen?
00:25:58Want me to yank it?
00:25:59No, we don't change the pattern at all.
00:26:00Give Benny a hand.
00:26:06Mr. Barron, uh, something I don't understand.
00:26:09I was in the service myself.
00:26:10So you told me.
00:26:12And though we made every precautionary check,
00:26:13we never went to extremes like this unless, uh,
00:26:15unless you were tipped that there was
00:26:16to be an attempted assassination.
00:26:18You don't mean it.
00:26:19I mean it.
00:26:20But you're FBI.
00:26:21Secret Service is responsible for the safety
00:26:23of the president.
00:26:24We're using everybody this trip, Mr. Benson.
00:26:27Have a look down there.
00:26:29State troopers, your local law enforcement agencies, and us.
00:26:34You don't know if old Dan Carney is down there, do you?
00:26:36He and I worked together in the old days.
00:26:38He's chief of the presidential staff now.
00:26:41That's confidential information.
00:26:44This is a terrible thing.
00:26:46That's your worry, Mr. Benson.
00:26:48Of course it's my worry.
00:26:49I'm an American, ain't I?
00:26:50It's everybody's worry.
00:26:52Car.
00:26:53Somebody's driving up to the house.
00:26:54Who is it?
00:26:58It's Don.
00:26:59He's the sheriff, Mr. Barron.
00:27:01There's someone with him.
00:27:02Who's with him?
00:27:03Well, I don't know.
00:27:04I've never seen him before.
00:27:05Well, for the love of Mike.
00:27:07What?
00:27:07Well, it isn't old Dan Carney.
00:27:09He's gray as an old shirt and red in the face as ever.
00:27:15Hi, Pop.
00:27:15Got an old friend of yours here.
00:27:16Dan, you dirty old Irishman.
00:27:18Dan Carney.
00:27:19Oh, Pop, how are you?
00:27:19It's great to see you.
00:27:20Hey, why aren't you dead?
00:27:21Oh, old buzzards like me live forever.
00:27:23Hey, old hawk, how are you getting bald?
00:27:25Well, just what do you expect after 25 years?
00:27:28Come on in.
00:27:29Come on in and make yourself at home.
00:27:30This is my daughter-in-law.
00:27:31How do you do?
00:27:32This is my grandson, Pidge.
00:27:33Hiya, Pidge.
00:27:33Pidge, this is Mr. Carney, Secret Service.
00:27:36He guards the president.
00:27:37Why, Mr. Barron?
00:27:39Who?
00:27:39Barron.
00:27:40Oh, you didn't know.
00:27:41Your boys got here ahead of you.
00:27:49Shoot her!
00:27:49Shoot her!
00:27:50Shoot her!
00:27:52Shoot her!
00:27:53Shoot her!
00:27:54Shoot her!
00:27:55Shoot her!
00:27:56Shoot her!
00:27:57Shoot her!
00:27:58Shoot her!
00:27:59Shoot her!
00:28:00Shoot her!
00:28:01Shoot her!
00:28:02One sound from the kid, Pop, and he's dead.
00:28:09John, watch him.
00:28:10I'll fix it.
00:28:10Good.
00:28:11All right.
00:28:12You two go to the dining room and make sure the kitchen desk
00:28:17is in the opening.
00:28:34How are you, sweeties?
00:28:34Come in, come in, come in.
00:28:36�를
00:28:36Come in, come in.
00:28:38You get the message, brave boy?
00:28:46Mom!
00:28:47Mom!
00:28:48Pidge, now you gotta be still.
00:28:51No noise.
00:28:53You stink!
00:28:54Pidge, shut up!
00:28:56Guts?
00:28:57He's only eight.
00:28:59Lots of guts.
00:29:02Mom.
00:29:05No trouble with you.
00:29:06You're all busted up.
00:29:16All right.
00:29:18Take care of her.
00:29:20You got it now.
00:29:21Let's be practical.
00:29:23I don't want any more shooting around here.
00:29:26I want it nice and quiet and cozy.
00:29:29Now get her up and bring her around and explain to her that one phony and she's got a kid with his throat cut.
00:29:35Doesn't make much noise that way.
00:29:38The same goes for you, too.
00:29:39Anybody steps out of line, the boy.
00:29:43That's simple enough.
00:29:47Ellen.
00:29:48Ellen, listen to me.
00:29:50Ellen, pay attention.
00:29:52Now listen to me and don't look like that.
00:29:54Everybody is all right.
00:29:56You've got to get a hold of yourself.
00:29:58No matter what happens, you've got to hang on.
00:30:00If you scream or make one false move, you'll murder the boy.
00:30:04You understand?
00:30:05You'll murder Pidge.
00:30:11Did you hear him, lady?
00:30:13Yes.
00:30:16Good.
00:30:17Now we're all in accord.
00:30:19All right, all right, inside.
00:30:21We'll get a long time to wait.
00:30:22Relax.
00:30:26Move the kitchen table in front of the window.
00:30:30All right, sit down, sit down.
00:30:31Look at your TV.
00:30:32No, it's working.
00:30:33Well, work him over then.
00:30:34Fix him up.
00:30:36Don't sit there waiting to blow your car.
00:30:37Keep yourselves occupied.
00:30:38I've got to think.
00:30:50Todd, Todd, are you badly hurt?
00:30:52Bullet hit the bone, broke it, I guess.
00:30:54He's bled a lot.
00:30:55We need a doctor.
00:30:56Look at his face.
00:30:58Tell her, Pop.
00:31:00You're the doctor, Ellen.
00:31:01We can't have no doctor.
00:31:02We can't set a broken arm.
00:31:04Tough.
00:31:06Can you?
00:31:07Me?
00:31:08Straighten his fracture?
00:31:11You couldn't take it.
00:31:13You straighten that.
00:31:16Hold on, brave boy.
00:31:30Tie it up.
00:31:34May we take him into the bedroom?
00:31:36Sure.
00:31:37But the boy stays here.
00:31:48And leave the door open.
00:31:54All right, let's go to work.
00:32:16Pop, we've got to do something.
00:32:18I know, I know.
00:32:19But what, what?
00:32:20They cut Pidge.
00:32:21No, none of us count.
00:32:22Not even Pidge.
00:32:23We haven't got a chance.
00:32:24As long as we're alive, we've got a chance.
00:32:26We've got to find a flaw in his plan.
00:32:28We'll think of something.
00:32:30Pop, haven't you got a gun?
00:32:32A gun?
00:32:36Yeah, right near the door.
00:32:37My gun.
00:32:45Is it loaded?
00:32:46No.
00:32:48I hid the cartridge in the counter Pidge.
00:32:52You're a dirty, lousy gangster.
00:32:55Leave him alone, Benny.
00:32:56Did you hear what he said?
00:32:57Yeah, I heard what he said.
00:32:58He's been looking at too much television.
00:33:00He ain't a bad squirt.
00:33:01Just tell him to shut up.
00:33:03Sure, sure.
00:33:06This thing's metal.
00:33:08Steel top, chrome legs.
00:33:11I figured wood.
00:33:12No difference.
00:33:13Use the bracket.
00:33:14Screw them to the leg and then to the floor.
00:33:15That way the table won't dance.
00:33:16You're a coward.
00:33:17You're a bunch of cowards.
00:33:20You're getting too fresh.
00:33:22So button it.
00:33:25Johnny, why all the trouble?
00:33:26Big deal.
00:33:27This is a lot of work.
00:33:28Do it, Benny.
00:33:29But Johnny, I don't see why we...
00:33:30I said just do it, Benny.
00:33:33Once you get the gun anchored, you got a solid base.
00:33:36You'll see when we get to it.
00:33:38This gun's got a heavy recoil.
00:33:39It won't stand still.
00:33:43And we got just three seconds to nail the President.
00:33:47And I don't want the table to shimmy when we get to it.
00:33:50A Tommy gun would do just as good.
00:33:52Tommy gun stinks.
00:33:53No accuracy, no punch.
00:33:55Might as well use a revolver.
00:33:58This is the gun.
00:34:01When I was in the Army...
00:34:02So I wasn't in the Army.
00:34:04Tighter, tighter.
00:34:07Pop, you fired those cartridges yet?
00:34:09Not yet.
00:34:10This is quite a gun, Benny.
00:34:12Quite a gun.
00:34:14I did a lot of chopping in the war with a baby like this.
00:34:17A lot of chopping.
00:34:22You're wrong about me, Pidge.
00:34:24Being a coward.
00:34:26Last war, I got a silver star.
00:34:30North of Casino, pocket of resistance.
00:34:33I killed 27 men, all by myself.
00:34:37I won a silver star, a medal.
00:34:39I stole it.
00:34:45They're hurting Pidge.
00:34:47All right, take it easy, take it easy.
00:34:49Johnny, take it easy.
00:34:53Johnny, relax.
00:34:54For the love of Mike, what's a silver star?
00:34:56I won it.
00:35:00Okay, Johnny.
00:35:02Okay, you won it.
00:35:10I got him.
00:35:12They've been there a long time.
00:35:14Yeah, get him back in here.
00:35:19What are you all trying to pull?
00:35:23All of you, inside.
00:35:27Come on, come on.
00:35:34Feeling better?
00:35:35Yeah.
00:35:36You're lucky.
00:35:37He didn't mean to wing you, he meant to blow your brains out.
00:35:39He's a bad shot.
00:35:41Yeah, but I'm not.
00:35:42So maybe you better sit down and stay there.
00:35:44That way it'll be safer for everybody.
00:35:46You got that duty look in your eye.
00:35:48I've seen it up on the line.
00:35:50The line? You up on the line?
00:35:52Some other time. Down.
00:36:01Botch, you fool!
00:36:02His car's out front. Put it in the garage, quick.
00:36:07I have to think of everything.
00:36:09Oh, great. Just great.
00:36:11Might as well advertise.
00:36:13There's a close one.
00:36:22Hot in here.
00:36:32See what time it is?
00:36:35All right, suppose you tell me what happens in this house
00:36:37on a Saturday afternoon between 4 and 5.
00:36:39Pattern.
00:36:42Smart guy.
00:36:44Sure, and we don't break that pattern.
00:36:47We're here for a reason, and if we break it,
00:36:49we might blow the deal, you know?
00:36:51Mario slings the paper over the fence around 4.30 or so.
00:36:54Delivery boy.
00:36:56Does he come in?
00:36:58Anyone else?
00:36:59Si Hammel went up the mountain hunting jackrabbits.
00:37:02He'll be buying his way back.
00:37:04Will he stop?
00:37:06Not unless he's got something to brag about.
00:37:09Anybody else?
00:37:10Nobody.
00:37:13Anybody know that you and the other guy were coming up here?
00:37:16That's an interesting question.
00:37:18What's the interesting answer?
00:37:20You guess.
00:37:21Tell him, Todd.
00:37:23Sheriff, if you think I have any qualms about killing this kid,
00:37:26you couldn't be more wrong.
00:37:29The thing about killing him or you or her or him
00:37:32is that I wouldn't be getting paid for it.
00:37:36And I don't like giving anything away for free.
00:37:39Neither do I,
00:37:41including information.
00:37:44Your guts are showing all over the place, brave boy.
00:37:47No, no, not me.
00:37:49I'm scared.
00:37:50You see, the way I figure it, Baron, I'm a dead man anyway.
00:37:53So's the boy, so's Ellen, so's Pop.
00:37:56It's just a question of now or later.
00:37:58If it gives the President a bit of an edge, why don't we get it now?
00:38:01They won't hurt us. They won't hurt Pidge. He said so.
00:38:03Because it's convenient, Ellen.
00:38:05You think these crumbs would kill the President
00:38:07and then take off, leaving us behind to identify them?
00:38:09You said you wouldn't hurt Pidge.
00:38:11Sure, sure, and I meant it.
00:38:13Don't listen to this guy.
00:38:15He's just being brave with your kid's life.
00:38:17I know guys like that in the Army.
00:38:19We're just doing a job, that's all.
00:38:21Identifying us is not involved.
00:38:24By 7 o'clock tonight, we'll be out of the country
00:38:26and you'll never see us again.
00:38:27Tell him, Todd, tell him.
00:38:29Never mind, lady.
00:38:30We'll just assume that they knew he was coming up here.
00:38:33So that if somebody else comes up to check on him,
00:38:35you can tell him the Sheriff and his friend were here,
00:38:37but they had to go someplace else.
00:38:39That's all.
00:38:40I have to go to the bathroom.
00:38:46Go with him, Bart.
00:38:50I don't need any help.
00:38:51Come on, come on.
00:38:54Okay, table's screwed down.
00:38:56All right, get the tripod up there,
00:38:58drill a hole in each leg, bolt the tripod to the table,
00:39:00put it center in front of the window.
00:39:03I thought I told you to sit down.
00:39:05Just stretching my legs.
00:39:07You're a very careful man.
00:39:09That's right.
00:39:11Plan on everything, huh?
00:39:12Sheriff, the first man to shoot to the moon
00:39:14on a rocket will take pains, too.
00:39:16Of course, that's never been done before.
00:39:17Neither is this.
00:39:18Doesn't that worry you?
00:39:20Haven't got time to worry.
00:39:22I just make my plans and carry them out.
00:39:25That's what John Wilkes Booth thought, too.
00:39:28Booth?
00:39:29Ha!
00:39:30I'm no actor,
00:39:31busting my leg on a stage so I can yell down with the tyrants.
00:39:34If Booth wasn't such a ham, he might have made it.
00:39:38He got pretty far at that, though.
00:39:40The guy who killed Garfield didn't make it, either.
00:39:43Him?
00:39:44He didn't plan anything.
00:39:45Just took a lucky shot, strictly left-handed,
00:39:47just like McKinley.
00:39:49And Zangara got the cheer for his try at Roosevelt.
00:39:53He had to try it in a crowd.
00:39:56I hate crowds.
00:39:58So nobody ever made it?
00:40:01Up till here.
00:40:04I'm just a guy making a living.
00:40:07And I think you're stretched long enough, as you were.
00:40:15Bart, take over Benny's work.
00:40:17Okay.
00:40:18Yeah, Johnny.
00:40:21Go downtown, see what's going on down there,
00:40:23especially the station plan.
00:40:24Leave the car here.
00:40:25Why me?
00:40:27Because Wheeler can fly a plane, and you can't.
00:40:29Oh, but me, I'm expendable, huh?
00:40:31No, I just don't want anything to happen to Wheeler.
00:40:33But why can't I take the car?
00:40:34Because if they nail you, Benny,
00:40:35we need the car to get to the plane.
00:40:37Johnny, that place is crawling with coppers.
00:40:38You're getting paid, ain't you?
00:40:40Yeah.
00:40:41You can't say you ain't getting enough.
00:40:45I'll be back.
00:40:46Johnny.
00:40:49Look, nice and steady, just like you wanted it.
00:41:00Open the curtains.
00:41:08Trap.
00:41:10Big, beautiful, booby trap.
00:41:13You can't do this. You can't do it.
00:41:17Come on.
00:41:21You're wrong, lady.
00:41:25Take a look.
00:41:30Come on, take a look.
00:41:32I can do it, and I'm going to do it.
00:41:37But you're an American citizen.
00:41:39Sure.
00:41:40And in one minute after 5,
00:41:42I'm going to be a very rich American citizen.
00:41:45You'll never get away with it.
00:41:46Shut up.
00:41:52I'm going to pay for this.
00:41:54I'm going to pay.
00:41:55I'm going to pay.
00:41:56I'm going to pay.
00:41:57I'm going to pay.
00:41:58I'm going to pay.
00:41:59I'm going to pay.
00:42:00I've got a stomach ache.
00:42:02Take a pill.
00:42:03Maybe the old man's right, Johnny.
00:42:05It's a terrible thing, a terrible thing.
00:42:06Turn it off, will you?
00:42:07Just another man, a man with the president.
00:42:12Yeah.
00:42:13Yeah, I never killed a president before.
00:42:16Beep, beep, beep.
00:42:19Who's that?
00:42:20That's Judd Kelly.
00:42:21Television set went on the blink,
00:42:23Ellen sent for him to come and fix it
00:42:25so the boy could watch the ball game.
00:42:26Why didn't you tell me?
00:42:27Well, we simply forgot, that's all.
00:42:29He's a harmless boy, Byron, don't hurt him.
00:42:32Okay, but if you cross me...
00:42:34He won't, he won't.
00:42:37All right, Pop, you got the ball.
00:42:42Let him in, but watch it.
00:42:45Ellen, we gotta keep this man talking.
00:42:48Why?
00:42:49Why, because that's his weakness.
00:42:51Sooner or later, he'll drop his guard.
00:42:53We gotta find a way to get Pop's gun.
00:42:55Hi, Pop.
00:42:56What's new?
00:42:57Hello, Judd.
00:42:58I came to help you fix your rig
00:42:59before you electrocuted yourself.
00:43:00Come on in.
00:43:02Todd, what happened to you?
00:43:04Ask him.
00:43:05Same thing will happen to you
00:43:07unless you do exactly as you're told.
00:43:09You're kidding.
00:43:11Is that real?
00:43:12It's real, all right.
00:43:14What's your name?
00:43:15Judd Kelly.
00:43:16What are you doing here?
00:43:17I came to fix the television set.
00:43:19Drop it.
00:43:20All right, Bart, case me.
00:43:22I don't have any dough, if that's what you want.
00:43:25What is this, a stick-up?
00:43:27Yeah, that's right.
00:43:28It's a stick-up.
00:43:29You'll never get away with it.
00:43:31Go over and sit down, buster.
00:43:33Take your luggage with you.
00:43:34You two, out.
00:43:40I don't take it.
00:43:41Did they rob the bank?
00:43:43What's the gun for?
00:43:44What's going on?
00:43:46Where's your store?
00:43:47Main Street.
00:43:48Who runs it?
00:43:49Just me.
00:43:50All alone?
00:43:51Do you have to point that gun at me?
00:43:52Alone?
00:43:53Answer him.
00:43:54Yeah.
00:43:55You locked up when you left?
00:43:56Nobody knows you were coming here.
00:43:58That's right.
00:43:59Just a service call.
00:44:01That gun makes me nervous, mister.
00:44:03I'm not going to be a hero.
00:44:05You can put the gun away.
00:44:07Sure.
00:44:08But I'm telling you, buster, like the others,
00:44:11one pass and the kid gets it.
00:44:15That's right.
00:44:16He gets it.
00:44:18So you see, his life depends on you.
00:44:20Got it?
00:44:21Yeah.
00:44:24Wilson?
00:44:26He back yet?
00:44:27No.
00:44:28He's certainly been gone a long time.
00:44:44Maybe we ought to load the gun now to be sure, huh?
00:44:47No.
00:44:48That's just what the sheriff would like.
00:44:50Forget about me.
00:44:51I've had it.
00:44:53Don't con me, sheriff.
00:44:55If this gun was loaded, one of you brave boys
00:44:57might decide to go for the ride just to fire it.
00:44:59And if you fired it, that might alert a few state cops down there
00:45:02and the game would be over, wouldn't it?
00:45:05You got any food in the house?
00:45:07Of course I have.
00:45:09I'm going to grab a bite, Bart.
00:45:10Watch him.
00:45:11Bring me a little glass of milk, will you, Johnny?
00:45:13My ulcer's murdering me.
00:45:14Just watch him, Bart.
00:45:15Watch him.
00:45:19I don't dig it.
00:45:21Would somebody tell me what's going on?
00:45:22Sit down.
00:45:23Be quiet.
00:45:25Sit down.
00:45:45Haven't you any feelings at all?
00:45:47No, I haven't, lady.
00:45:49They were taken out of me by experts.
00:45:52Feelings are a trap.
00:45:54Show me a guy with feelings and I'll show you a sucker.
00:45:58It's a weakness.
00:45:59Makes you think of something besides yourself.
00:46:03If I had any feelings left in me at all, it'd be for me.
00:46:06Just me.
00:46:08Don't you ever think of your mother, your father.
00:46:10Think of them?
00:46:13I used to think of them a great deal.
00:46:18My mother wasn't married.
00:46:21My old man was a dipso.
00:46:23They left me in a home.
00:46:25A home.
00:46:32You stink!
00:46:33Johnny!
00:46:34Pidge, come back here!
00:46:37Hey, kid, hold it.
00:46:38Pidge! Pidge!
00:46:39Get him.
00:46:41Stick him up or I'll blast you.
00:46:43Nice going, Bart.
00:46:45It's only a cat pistol.
00:46:46I gave it to him myself.
00:46:48Darn you, Don John! Darn you!
00:46:52I ought to beat his brains out, the little...
00:46:54What's so funny?
00:46:55You should have seen your face.
00:46:57A cat pistol.
00:46:58Go ahead, laugh yourself sick.
00:47:00That's a pretty good model, though, isn't it?
00:47:02They make them real, don't they?
00:47:03Hey, Pidge, blow his brains out.
00:47:06A couple of big, bald, bad men
00:47:08getting scared to death by a six-bit cat pistol.
00:47:10I ought to beat that kid.
00:47:12I'm not sure that he couldn't take you.
00:47:14Go put some milk on your ulcer and bring me a piece of the cake.
00:47:17Yeah, I need some milk.
00:47:19Paint's pretty bad.
00:47:20Where's Benny? Why don't we hear from Benny?
00:47:25Sit.
00:47:31If this isn't a stick-up, what is it?
00:47:34Did you come up here to fix the television set, Junior?
00:47:36Yeah.
00:47:37Well, then fix the television set.
00:47:39Todd, what's going on?
00:47:41They're planning to assassinate the President, Judd.
00:47:43Which President?
00:47:44The President of the United States.
00:47:46He arrives here this afternoon.
00:47:47You're kidding.
00:47:50No, no, you're not kidding.
00:47:53The President?
00:47:56Kill the President?
00:47:58They can't.
00:47:59They couldn't do a thing like that.
00:48:01They're stinking traitors.
00:48:02They're Benedict Arnolds.
00:48:04Are you guys crazy?
00:48:05You can't do a thing like that.
00:48:07Sit down, reckless.
00:48:08Don't you realize what that means?
00:48:10That's assassination.
00:48:12He's your President, too.
00:48:14Take a deal with you, boy.
00:48:15We kill you instead of the President.
00:48:17That's even, Stephen.
00:48:18Okay with you?
00:48:20Thought not.
00:48:21Anybody else want to take the heat off the President?
00:48:23How about you, Sheriff?
00:48:24It's a bad joke, Baron.
00:48:26Anybody else want to volunteer?
00:48:28They're commies.
00:48:29They're enemy agents.
00:48:33All right, who is behind it, Baron?
00:48:37I haven't the slightest idea.
00:48:39Well, what's in it for you?
00:48:42The cure is hard to say.
00:48:44Well, I'll ask.
00:48:46I like you, Sheriff.
00:48:47You got guts.
00:48:48You must have been a good soldier.
00:48:50I got by.
00:48:51I won a Silver Star.
00:48:52That's pretty good.
00:48:53Killed 27 Jerries all by myself.
00:48:55You're a born killer, that's all.
00:48:57Yeah.
00:48:58Some guys liked it.
00:48:59I know a couple.
00:49:00Hard to match up, isn't it, Baron?
00:49:02Just when you get real good at something, you're a murderer.
00:49:06Yeah, over there, you can knock over a whole platoon.
00:49:08Or a guy invents a bomb and kills 100,000 people just like that.
00:49:11And maybe gets more medals.
00:49:13Here, you put a slug in a double-crossing squirt that isn't even worth burying,
00:49:16and you have to take the gas.
00:49:18Baron, why do you hate the President so?
00:49:20I got no feeling against the President.
00:49:22I'm just earning a living.
00:49:24By treason.
00:49:25Haste those craps.
00:49:26Don't give me that politics, Jazz.
00:49:27It's not my racket.
00:49:28I don't even know who's paying me, and I don't want to know.
00:49:30What's the difference?
00:49:31Didn't it occur to you why they want you to do it?
00:49:34Certainly it did.
00:49:35But that makes them suckers, not me.
00:49:37I'm the guy who's getting it made.
00:49:39Listen, Sheriff, a man can stand for so much,
00:49:41and no more.
00:49:43Why, before the war, I drifted and drifted and ran.
00:49:46Always lost in a great big crowd.
00:49:49I hated that crowd.
00:49:51I used to dream about the crowd once in a while.
00:49:54I used to see all those faces scratching and shoving and biting.
00:49:59And then the mist would clear,
00:50:01and somehow all those faces would be me.
00:50:04All me and all nothing.
00:50:08But the war changed everything, ain't it?
00:50:11I'm no traitor, Sheriff.
00:50:13I won a Silver Star.
00:50:16And learned how to kill.
00:50:19Yeah.
00:50:21Maybe I did.
00:50:24Maybe that changed everything.
00:50:27Maybe people began to know who I was.
00:50:31After the show, I hooked up with an outfit for good dough.
00:50:34The fingers said where and how much,
00:50:37and Johnny Barron did the job.
00:50:40You think anybody else could handle this job?
00:50:42You think Benny Wheeler could do it without me?
00:50:44You're talking too much, Johnny.
00:50:46There's nobody else can do this job because they got too much feeling.
00:50:49And feeling's no good.
00:50:52I got nothing against the President, Sheriff.
00:50:55He's just worth a half a million bucks to me.
00:50:58Tax-free.
00:51:00Making my own laws about the taxes, too, Pop.
00:51:03The guy is goofy.
00:51:05The guy is goofy.
00:51:06Shut up, Judd.
00:51:08Listen to him, Buster.
00:51:10And don't ever say that again.
00:51:12Ever.
00:51:16You heard him, Judd.
00:51:21A half a million dollars, huh?
00:51:24Yeah.
00:51:26That's a lot of scratch, Sheriff.
00:51:28A man could retire on that amount of scratch.
00:51:30How do you know it'll ever be paid?
00:51:32I don't know if it's been paid.
00:51:33And the rest?
00:51:35I'll get it.
00:51:37I wouldn't be sure.
00:51:38It's not just a man.
00:51:40It's the President.
00:51:41That's what's so funny.
00:51:44The laugh is on the guys who are paying the freight.
00:51:46All this loot, and they don't even know what they're doing.
00:51:49A half a million clams for absolutely nothing.
00:51:52Because tonight at 5 o'clock, I kill the President.
00:51:55One second after 5, there's a new President.
00:51:57What changes?
00:51:59Nothing.
00:52:01What are they paying for?
00:52:02Nothing.
00:52:04Otherwise, I wouldn't have taken the job, Sheriff.
00:52:06You'd have taken it.
00:52:09You think so?
00:52:10Yeah.
00:52:11Why?
00:52:18All right, take it easy.
00:52:20Come on, lady.
00:52:25Do as you're told, and everything will be fine.
00:52:27Answer straight, clean, and plain.
00:52:29Answer it.
00:52:33Hello?
00:52:34Miss Benson, let me speak to the Chief.
00:52:37Benny?
00:52:38Yeah.
00:52:39Train's on time.
00:52:41The car will be waiting in front of the station like you figured, facing you.
00:52:44Fine.
00:52:45Get back as soon as you can and don't be followed.
00:52:47Check.
00:53:00There's the big boy's car now.
00:53:03Lovely target.
00:53:05Hey, hold it, mister.
00:53:10Yes, officer.
00:53:12What is it?
00:53:13What's your name?
00:53:14Fred.
00:53:15Fred Whitaker.
00:53:16What are you doing in town?
00:53:18I'm looking for my wife.
00:53:20You're looking for your wife?
00:53:21Yes, sir.
00:53:22You're looking for your wife?
00:53:23Yes, sir.
00:53:24You're looking for your wife?
00:53:25Yes, sir.
00:53:26You're looking for your wife?
00:53:27Fred Whitaker.
00:53:28What are you doing in town?
00:53:29Just passing through.
00:53:31Where's your car?
00:53:32I don't have one.
00:53:33I hitchhiked in from Three Rivers, waiting for the train out.
00:53:35Figured I'd take the train out to L.A.
00:53:37What train?
00:53:39The 5 o'clock.
00:53:40The 5 o'clock.
00:53:41Now, that's right strange.
00:53:43Why, officer?
00:53:44Because we don't have any 5 o'clock train that stops here, mister.
00:53:47Except today.
00:53:49And that happens to be a special that you don't know about.
00:53:52Except that you do.
00:53:57Must be some mistake.
00:53:58You made it.
00:54:00Oh, now, look, officer.
00:54:02I got a identification.
00:54:05I can prove who I am.
00:54:07I got my driver's license right here.
00:54:13Come on.
00:54:22Gunfire.
00:54:27Gunfire.
00:54:57Gunfire.
00:55:13Hold it!
00:55:14Don't shoot him!
00:55:24I told you not to kill him.
00:55:25Not to kill him? After he...
00:55:26He was our only leak.
00:55:28Come on.
00:55:36So long, Benny.
00:55:38You think they got him?
00:55:39I only hope he's dead.
00:55:40Haggerty.
00:55:41Yes, sir.
00:55:42We got him.
00:55:43Dead, unfortunately.
00:55:45Wasn't Kearney's last checkpoint the house on the hill?
00:55:47That's right, but he and the sheriff were gonna check the White Springs ranch route, too.
00:55:51We haven't been able to reach them.
00:55:52Well, take two troopers and backtrack him.
00:55:54Start with the house on the hill.
00:55:55We've got to find Kearney.
00:55:56Right.
00:56:00Now, we got trouble.
00:56:02Everybody except Mrs. Benson, down the cellar.
00:56:04What are you gonna do?
00:56:05Nothing, I hope.
00:56:06Move.
00:56:09Anybody gets brave, kill them all.
00:56:11You can only hang once.
00:56:25Ed, stay up there.
00:56:30Now, look, get a grip on yourself.
00:56:31I want you to look relaxed.
00:56:33If you don't pull this off, everybody is dead.
00:56:35Do you understand?
00:56:36All of us, dead.
00:56:37So be yourself.
00:56:38I don't know what you mean.
00:56:39They'll come up here to check whether Kearney and the sheriff were here,
00:56:42and I want you to go out front.
00:56:43I don't want them in the house.
00:56:44I can't. I don't know how.
00:56:45I don't know what to say.
00:56:46Just go out and water the flowers.
00:56:48Do anything you like, but keep busy.
00:56:52Lipstick and rouge, quick.
00:56:55Now, listen to me carefully.
00:56:57They'll come up to check whether Kearney and the sheriff were here.
00:57:00Certainly they were here.
00:57:02They came up to check the house, but at 3 o'clock they left here.
00:57:05They went out on the White Springs Ranch Road.
00:57:07They took Pop and the kid with them.
00:57:09And that's the last you saw of them.
00:57:11You got it?
00:57:13You got it?
00:57:14Yes, yes.
00:57:16You look like a ghost.
00:57:17Step on it.
00:57:21Pull it off, lady, or everybody is dead.
00:57:23Everybody.
00:57:32He's getting rattled, Pop.
00:57:33How do you mean?
00:57:34He didn't expect Bennett to get shot.
00:57:37Got anything in mind?
00:57:39Maybe.
00:57:40Now, listen.
00:57:41Shut up, you guys.
00:57:46Mrs. Benson?
00:57:47Yes.
00:57:48My name's Haggerty.
00:57:49Then you must be one of Mr. Kearney's men.
00:57:51That's right. Has he been here?
00:57:52I haven't seen him since they left.
00:57:54They came up here about 3 o'clock to check the house, they said.
00:57:57I don't know why.
00:57:58Who is they?
00:57:59Why, Mr. Kearney and Sheriff Shaw.
00:58:01Then they said they had to check the White Springs Ranch Road.
00:58:03Is your father-in-law, Mr. Benson, here?
00:58:06Well, no.
00:58:08No, he isn't.
00:58:10You see, he used to be Mr. Kearney's chief.
00:58:12Yes, I know.
00:58:14So, Mr. Kearney took him along, my little boy, too.
00:58:17Then you're alone?
00:58:20Yes.
00:58:22And you haven't heard from them since they left?
00:58:24No, no, I haven't.
00:58:26Something's wrong. I know something's wrong.
00:58:29No, no, Mrs. Benson, nothing's wrong.
00:58:31We're just checking, that's all.
00:58:34But if you see or hear from them before I do,
00:58:36please have them check the detail down at the railroad station.
00:58:39It's very important. Thanks.
00:58:46All right, lady. Inside.
00:58:53Come on, come on.
00:58:58Very nice.
00:58:59Very nice job.
00:59:01Congratulations.
00:59:04You don't like me, do you?
00:59:08You're an animal.
00:59:09I don't like you either.
00:59:11Animals kill each other to live. That's what you're doing.
00:59:15How do you like your roast beef? Medium rare or well done?
00:59:19All right, Bart, run them in. It's clear.
00:59:26I wish you were dead.
00:59:29You haven't got the guts.
00:59:32Just give me a chance.
00:59:36There's your chance.
00:59:40Go ahead, take it.
00:59:42I don't want to die.
00:59:45Go ahead, take it.
00:59:48But remember the squirt in the cellar.
01:00:01That's right.
01:00:03Think of the president first.
01:00:06Let's not think of ourselves.
01:00:10I didn't give you a whole chance,
01:00:12but you didn't even take a half a chance.
01:00:24Is everything okay, Johnny?
01:00:26Sure, everything's fine.
01:00:29She played her part really well.
01:00:31It should be on TV.
01:00:33You.
01:00:34Didn't I tell you to fix the TV set?
01:00:36You told me to set.
01:00:37Get your stuff and fix it. It will keep you from getting patriotic.
01:00:40I'm just sitting here.
01:00:42Fix the set and shut your mouth.
01:00:44I don't like what you say anyway.
01:00:46Now fix it. We still have time.
01:00:53The floor is yours.
01:01:02Open it.
01:01:11About 200 yards.
01:01:16Baron, isn't that a German rifle?
01:01:18Yes. Do you know it?
01:01:20I know it.
01:01:21Where were you during the war?
01:01:24All the way from the Kasserine Pass.
01:01:26I went to Silver Star. Where were you?
01:01:28Normandy to the Elbe by the way of the boats.
01:01:30Did you get up into Germany?
01:01:32No.
01:01:33I bet you were one of those big shot guys, huh?
01:01:35With the big guns.
01:01:37No.
01:01:38I bet you were one of those big shot guys, huh?
01:01:40With the gold bar on the shoulder.
01:01:41No. No. I was a corporal.
01:01:43How about you?
01:01:44Corporal?
01:01:45I made sergeant.
01:01:46You didn't like officers.
01:01:48Officers. Big shots.
01:01:50Yes, sir. No, sir.
01:01:51Salute, sir.
01:01:53Big shots.
01:01:54You don't like big shots.
01:01:56Not when you're a bigger sheriff.
01:01:58I killed more juries than any five officers put together.
01:02:02I did some pretty good chopping in the war.
01:02:04Pretty good.
01:02:05Like I said before, you're a born killer, that's all.
01:02:08Yeah. They taught me how and I liked it.
01:02:12My CO used to stand there and shake like a leaf while I chopped.
01:02:15If more guys like me had command...
01:02:16Tell me one thing, Baron.
01:02:18How come you missed Germany?
01:02:20They sent me home.
01:02:21My tour was finished.
01:02:22Your tour?
01:02:23In the infantry?
01:02:24Are you kidding?
01:02:25Why you finish your tour in the infantry when they plant you in a box?
01:02:28Tour.
01:02:29That was for the Air Corps.
01:02:30Turn it off.
01:02:31Yeah. You probably went over the hill.
01:02:33I said turn it off.
01:02:34You know, Baron, you got the yard look.
01:02:36You look yard bird to me.
01:02:37I'm telling you, Sheriff, turn it off.
01:02:39Big shot with the yard birds, huh?
01:02:41Come on now, tell me.
01:02:42Where were you court-martialed?
01:02:43What was it for?
01:02:44Rape?
01:02:45No, no. Not rape.
01:02:47Killing. That's what you like. Killing.
01:02:48Maybe shooting down unarmed PWs, huh?
01:02:50Sit down and shut up.
01:02:53But, by golly, you got away with it, so...
01:02:57I got it. Section 8.
01:02:59You went out on a Section 8.
01:03:00Section 8.
01:03:02Psycho in charge of killing, huh?
01:03:04You know, I knew guys like you.
01:03:06Killing was sweet.
01:03:07Rather kill a man than love a girl.
01:03:09A real kick. The thrill with the guts.
01:03:11Stop it, Todd. Stop it.
01:03:12Or maybe you didn't like your CO.
01:03:14Maybe you shot him in the back, that it.
01:03:15Maybe you killed...
01:03:20Like I said, shut up.
01:03:24Todd.
01:03:26Todd, darling, it's hopeless.
01:03:28Oh.
01:03:29It's not 5 o'clock yet.
01:03:33Gonna keep your chops shut?
01:03:35Yeah.
01:03:36Hurts, huh?
01:03:38It hurts.
01:03:39Well, I can keep kicking as long as you keep shooting your face off.
01:03:42Oh, I know.
01:03:43Pop, you were right when you blew the power tube.
01:03:47I didn't mean to.
01:03:48I didn't mean to.
01:03:50You were right when you blew the power tube.
01:03:53I have one here.
01:03:54I'll have a Perkin in a second.
01:03:56You know, I was thinking, Judd,
01:03:58if you were to clamp the main plate lead
01:04:00to a good ground like that table there,
01:04:02we'd get a better picture.
01:04:03A lot of lines in it now.
01:04:06Clamp the main plate lead to the table.
01:04:09Cut the static lines.
01:04:11Expert.
01:04:12First he wrecks the set,
01:04:13and then he tells the kid how to fix it.
01:04:15Main plate lead?
01:04:21That's right, Judd.
01:04:23All it needs is a high-potential ground.
01:04:25We're a long way from the broadcasting station.
01:04:27What are you guys yapping about?
01:04:29Technical talk, mister.
01:04:30I'm no radio man.
01:04:31Battleship New York, World War I.
01:04:33Franz beat the Germans single-handed.
01:04:35Not exactly, son, but I was there at Scapa Flow
01:04:37when the German fleet surrendered.
01:04:39All right, all right.
01:04:40Stop the bullying.
01:04:41And fix that set, will you?
01:04:42Yes, sir.
01:04:44Oh!
01:04:46Dad.
01:04:47Dad, what is it?
01:04:48Pain, Beth.
01:04:49What hit him?
01:04:50It's his heart.
01:04:51He has a bad heart.
01:04:52Pitch, my pals, stop drawing the bureau.
01:04:54I'll get him.
01:04:55You stay put.
01:04:56The kid will get him.
01:05:17Pitch, put down that gun
01:05:18and get some water for your grandpa.
01:05:20But, Mom, listen.
01:05:22You heard me, Pitch.
01:05:25Oh, gee.
01:05:31You know what I think, Pop?
01:05:33I got a feeling your heart attack's a phony.
01:05:35The pain's bad.
01:05:36It's all right.
01:05:37It's all right.
01:05:38It's all right.
01:05:39It's all right.
01:05:40It's all right.
01:05:41It's all right.
01:05:42It's all right.
01:05:43It's all right.
01:05:44It's all right.
01:05:45The pain's bad.
01:05:46I'm warning you.
01:05:47If you're trying to pull something,
01:05:48you better watch it.
01:05:49Baron, I've been thinking...
01:05:50You've been thinking
01:05:51you'd like to take a crack at this rifle.
01:05:53You think I want to get myself killed?
01:05:54Yes.
01:05:55Frankly, Sheriff,
01:05:56I don't think you'd mind getting yourself killed.
01:05:58Nobody wants to die.
01:06:00Do we have to talk about it?
01:06:01Why don't you shut up?
01:06:02No guts.
01:06:03Nerves.
01:06:04That's all that gets on my nerves.
01:06:05Now, why would I want to get myself killed?
01:06:07Because it's five minutes to five
01:06:09and a shot might bring those State Troopers
01:06:11storming all over the joint
01:06:12before the President arrives.
01:06:14But, Sheriff, I can put you away in two seconds
01:06:16by twisting your arm again.
01:06:18That way is no noise.
01:06:19So don't go winning any post-mortem medals.
01:06:22I wouldn't enjoy winning a post-mortem medal
01:06:24any more than you're going to enjoy that post-mortem money.
01:06:26What'd you say?
01:06:27What'd he say?
01:06:28I said nobody ever made it.
01:06:30And you won't either.
01:06:33You don't think so?
01:06:36So you got a plane.
01:06:38You'll never reach it ahead of the police.
01:06:39And if you do, you'll never make it to the border.
01:06:41You ever hear of the jet fighter?
01:06:43You know how many airstrips there are
01:06:44between here and the border?
01:06:46You know a fella could get an education
01:06:48just listening to this guy?
01:06:49What, maybe he's right, Johnny.
01:06:50Look, you said half the money had already been paid.
01:06:53A smart guy would hit the road right now,
01:06:55fly out of here, skip the President,
01:06:57spend the money in South America, alive.
01:06:59He's right, Johnny.
01:07:02Why take the risk?
01:07:03We can lamb now. We can make it.
01:07:05We don't have to fool with this thing.
01:07:06It's too big, Johnny.
01:07:07There's something wrong with it.
01:07:08Chicken.
01:07:09Chicken?
01:07:10All right, so call it chicken.
01:07:12Who wants to be rich and dead?
01:07:13They'll get us.
01:07:14They never missed yet, Johnny.
01:07:15The guy's right. You've got the loot.
01:07:17Let's take off and get out of here for good.
01:07:18Once we're across the border...
01:07:19Take those craps.
01:07:20Though Benny wasn't chicken,
01:07:21they didn't waste any time on him.
01:07:23I tell you, we haven't got a chance.
01:07:25Turn it off, Bart.
01:07:29You're embarrassing me in front of the Sheriff.
01:07:31But Johnny, even if we swing it,
01:07:33he's the President.
01:07:34They'll never give up.
01:07:35And you don't figure that the guys who are paying off
01:07:37are just gonna let you fly away, do you?
01:07:39They'll be after you just like the Secret Service.
01:07:42I thought of that, too, Sheriff.
01:07:44It might be an internationally embarrassing situation
01:07:47if the Feds happen to catch up with us first.
01:07:49So, Bart, you just gotta realize
01:07:51that everybody's gonna be on your tail
01:07:53from 5 o'clock until the day you die.
01:07:56There's a hole in your argument, Sheriff.
01:07:58What is it?
01:07:59We're already wanted for murder,
01:08:00so you can only take the gas once.
01:08:02They'll get us, Johnny.
01:08:06They won't get us, Bart.
01:08:08Not us.
01:08:09Not us.
01:08:10You sure, Johnny?
01:08:13You leave it to me.
01:08:18You're sick, man. You're sick.
01:08:20I don't like that.
01:08:23Don't play God just because you've got a gun.
01:08:28But you see, Sheriff, that's the way it is.
01:08:30When you've got a gun, you are a sort of God.
01:08:33If you had the gun, I'd be the chump and you'd be the God.
01:08:37The gun gives you the power of life and death.
01:08:41It's a funny sort of feeling to have control of life and death.
01:08:44You must have had it during the war.
01:08:47You could miss a man if you had a mind to,
01:08:50or you could kill him dead in his tracks.
01:08:53And that made you kind of God, and I liked it.
01:08:57Without the gun, I'm nothing.
01:09:00And I never had anything before I got one.
01:09:03First time I got one on my hands and killed a man,
01:09:05I got some self-respect.
01:09:08I was somebody.
01:09:11Like this kid over here.
01:09:13If that cap pistol was a real gun and I didn't have a gun,
01:09:16he'd be a kind of a God, too.
01:09:18And if I wanted my life, I'd worship the ground he walks on.
01:09:22And I'd pay him the half a million dollars for my life.
01:09:26Because life is all I have.
01:09:31But the squirt doesn't have the gun. I have.
01:09:33And I can lose the lightning.
01:09:44No noise, just pictures.
01:09:54Butterfingers.
01:10:03You're wrong about God and the gun, Sheriff.
01:10:06Without the gun, you would never have spit at me.
01:10:09You would never have even noticed me.
01:10:11But because of the gun, you'll remember me as long as you live.
01:10:30Where is it now?
01:10:31Blowing for the 66 crossing. Outside town.
01:10:35All right. Nobody moves. This is it.
01:10:38You, over there.
01:10:40Johnny, let me see once.
01:10:42We're gonna do it, Bart. This is my meat. We're gonna do it.
01:10:44Just a second.
01:10:51Return fire!
01:11:01Return fire!
01:11:31Return fire!
01:12:01It didn't stop.
01:12:09It didn't stop.
01:12:11It didn't stop!
01:12:31Don't.
01:12:43No.
01:12:46Don't.
01:12:47No.
01:12:49Please, no.
01:12:52No.
01:12:54No.
01:13:02Are you sure you're going to be all right, Mr. Benson?
01:13:04Oh, don't worry about me, Mr. Wilson. I'll be all right. I don't need any nursemaid.
01:13:09We're certainly grateful to you.
01:13:11How come the train went right through the station?
01:13:13We simply canceled the stopover.
01:13:15We couldn't take a chance on the President's safety once it was proven the assassins were in town.
01:13:19The President went on to Los Angeles.
01:13:21That's sufficient, huh?
01:13:22I'm afraid so.
01:13:23Someday those guys are going to stop taking you for amateurs, huh, Mr. Wilson?
01:13:26I hope not.
01:13:27Well, thanks again, Mr. Benson.
01:13:29Oh, no.
01:13:30You too, young man.
01:13:31Oh, that's all right.
01:13:33Someday I'm going to be a bodyguard just like you.
01:13:36Nonsense, boy. You're going to grow up to be President.
01:13:38Presidents have bodyguards.
01:13:40And grandpops?
01:13:41And grandpops. Especially grandpops.
01:13:58Ellen?
01:14:00How's Judd?
01:14:02He didn't make it.
01:14:05And Slim?
01:14:06Critical, but they think he'll be all right.
01:14:10I guess somebody had to make the mistake.
01:14:12What?
01:14:14Something Dad said this morning.
01:14:16About principals.
01:14:18Get in, Todd. I'll drive you home.
01:14:21No, thanks. I've got to go over to the office.
01:14:26Can I pick you up for church tomorrow?
01:14:30Yeah.
01:14:34Yeah. That'd be swell.
01:14:51Say, officer.
01:14:52Yeah?
01:14:53Could you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
01:14:55You go down to the first intersection, you turn left, it's about 60 miles.
01:14:59Thanks. What's this town?
01:15:01Suddenly.
01:15:02Suddenly what?
01:15:03Now, that's the name.
01:15:05That's a funny name for a town.
01:15:09Oh, I don't know.
01:15:14I don't know about that.
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