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00:06 [music]
00:26 Who's this?
00:29 A stranger.
00:31 [music]
00:38 Hi there.
00:40 Who are you?
00:42 Name's Randall.
00:43 I'm Jack Radovich.
00:45 Well, glad to know you.
00:46 What are you doing out here?
00:47 Oh, just passing through.
00:49 Say, uh, wonder if I could have a cup of that coffee?
00:52 Sure, help yourself.
00:54 Splash.
00:55 [birds chirping]
01:06 Say, uh, what'd he do?
01:10 He killed a man.
01:11 Why? What's it to you, mister?
01:13 Nothing. Just wondering.
01:16 Must have been a pretty fast trial, wasn't it?
01:18 He didn't need a trial. He admitted it himself.
01:20 Come on, let's get it over with.
01:22 Say, excuse me, mister.
01:23 Look, I know this is none of my business, but I think you're making a mistake.
01:26 What are you talking about?
01:27 Well, you're hanging a man without a trial.
01:29 That's lynching.
01:30 Boy, I'll find out you hung him.
01:32 He's just liable to hang you.
01:34 Now let me tell you something, big mouth.
01:36 He killed a man, and he's gonna hang for it.
01:39 That isn't the only rope we've got.
01:41 And the more I look at you, the more I'm beginning to think we ought to make this a double hanging.
01:45 [♪♪♪]
01:48 [♪♪♪]
01:59 [♪♪♪]
02:02 You gonna hang him with that?
02:19 Why?
02:20 You're kind of going about it the wrong way, aren't you?
02:22 Mister, you don't shut up. You just might join him.
02:25 What are you talking about, Randall?
02:27 I must have wrong kind of a knot for hanging.
02:29 You can make a better one.
02:30 In my sleep.
02:32 All right, big mouth, let's see.
02:41 Randall, just what are you doing around here?
02:45 Oh, I'm going in the fry pan for that big celebration.
02:48 I hear it's really something.
02:50 That's right, the best in the country.
02:52 Horse races, shooting matches.
02:54 Even got a band playing this year.
02:56 Yeah, that's what I hear.
02:58 Come on, don't take all day.
03:00 You can't rush something like this.
03:02 Who'd he kill?
03:05 A man named Harper.
03:07 Why?
03:08 Over a girl.
03:10 She came into town to play the guitar and sing at the last chance.
03:13 Saloon?
03:15 My place.
03:16 Oh.
03:17 Titus, Harper, anybody special?
03:19 No, just a saddle tramp.
03:21 Tell me something.
03:24 Any of you fellas lawmen?
03:26 No, we got no real law in fry pan.
03:29 Why? What difference does it make?
03:31 Like I said before, you hang him now, they could try you for murder.
03:35 Find you guilty.
03:36 You'd be here.
03:37 Let it go for you, too.
03:38 Not me, mister.
03:40 Before he drops, I'll be long gone.
03:42 You got a better idea, Randall?
03:44 Maybe.
03:45 Tomorrow's the fourth, right?
03:47 Yeah.
03:48 Yeah, big celebration, a lot of people coming into town.
03:51 Yeah.
03:52 Yeah.
03:53 Yeah?
03:54 Why don't you give them a real show?
03:56 You mean hang him then as a part of the celebration?
03:59 Sure, you got the whole town taking part in it then.
04:01 Law gets sore, they can't just arrest a few people.
04:04 You can't try the whole town.
04:06 Anyway, think of the business.
04:08 People riding in from all over.
04:10 See that fella, hot, thirsty?
04:13 Yeah.
04:15 No, no, let's hang him now. That's what we chased him for.
04:17 Now, wait a minute.
04:18 You may want to be responsible for what happens.
04:20 I'm not sure I do.
04:22 You were sure when we started out.
04:24 Well, I've had time to think it over since then.
04:26 Why don't we leave it up to a majority and see how they feel?
04:29 Now, all those in favor of taking Pringle back into town
04:38 and having a public hanging,
04:40 which will make the Fourth of July celebration something to really remember,
04:43 raise your hands.
04:45 Say, uh, three for and three against.
04:50 Somebody's got to break the tie, and, uh...
04:52 Well, I think I got a better right to vote than Pringle there.
04:56 I vote we hang and we get back in town.
05:00 Well, that settles it. We wait.
05:02 Well, I know you fellas are disappointed.
05:04 So to make up for it,
05:06 tomorrow during the celebration, the drinks are on the house.
05:09 Until noon.
05:11 Say, uh, if nobody objects,
05:13 I'll borrow the drinks while we're out here.
05:15 I, uh, got a couple of bottles in my saddlebag.
05:19 ( birds chirping )
05:21 Well, there you go.
05:33 What's your stake on this, Randall?
05:36 - I don't know. - You know Pringle, don't you?
05:38 Uh-uh.
05:40 Think I'm lying, don't you?
05:43 Mark, tomorrow the sun will come up.
05:45 I'm gonna be watching you, Randall.
05:47 You step out of line just a little bit,
05:49 and you'll never take another step.
05:52 Fair enough.
05:55 Well, I guess another day, Pringle.
06:05 What are you gonna do with it?
06:07 Just take it easy, I guess.
06:09 How about a shot of that whiskey?
06:11 Sure.
06:15 ( birds chirping )
06:17 What's in this for you?
06:22 Oh, just heat lentils, that's all.
06:25 Ah, that don't ring true.
06:28 Nobody does anything for free.
06:30 You're no different the way I figured.
06:34 ( horse whinnies )
06:36 You pig!
06:49 Why isn't he hanging?
06:53 He killed Harper. Why is he still alive?
06:55 Well, we were gonna hang him.
06:57 And this fella here wrote in and gave us a better idea.
07:00 Really?
07:02 He suggested we take Pringle back into town
07:04 and hang him as the finale of the celebration tomorrow.
07:06 Why not do it now?
07:08 'Cause it wouldn't be legal, that's why.
07:10 None of us are duly appointed lawmen.
07:12 Tomorrow in town will make that different?
07:15 Not different, but at least the whole town will be in on it.
07:18 Nobody can point a finger at just a few of us.
07:21 As long as you hang him, I don't care how or where.
07:24 Good. First thing in the morning, we'll head back to town.
07:27 ( birds chirping )
07:29 There'll be a large crowd to see you die.
07:38 ♪ As I walked out in the streets of Laredo ♪
07:45 ♪ As I walked out in Laredo one day ♪
07:49 ♪ I spied a young cowboy wrapped up in white linen ♪
07:54 ♪ Wrapped up in white linen as cold as the clay ♪
07:59 ♪ I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy ♪
08:03 ♪ His words are as straight as I can see ♪
08:05 You don't care for the singing, Mr. Randall?
08:07 Oh, fine, as long as my voice isn't in it.
08:10 Then we can talk.
08:12 Well, what you wanna talk about?
08:14 Why did you wanna postpone the hanging?
08:19 Well, suppose you tell me why you wanted it stopped.
08:22 Maybe you got those other fellas there
08:24 believing you wanted 'em killed.
08:26 Not me, lady.
08:28 What makes you think I have any interest in him?
08:30 Well, he was that motherly slap you gave him.
08:33 Things aren't always what they seem.
08:35 That's what I'm trying to say here.
08:38 We were once very good friends, Pringle and I, back in Texas.
08:43 Figured it was something like that.
08:45 I ran away from him after a silly quarrel.
08:48 He came here and found me in the arms of another man.
08:52 And he, uh, killed him.
08:55 It's my fault that he's waiting to be hanged.
08:58 Well, it figures.
09:00 You can do everything you can to get him out of it, right?
09:03 Where do your sympathies lie?
09:05 Well, whenever there's a woman involved,
09:08 I kinda lean in that direction.
09:10 Will you help me?
09:12 Tell me something.
09:14 If I hadn't have been here, what did you plan to do?
09:17 I don't know.
09:19 I'd have figured out something.
09:21 What's in it for me?
09:23 My gratitude.
09:25 Well, it's kind of a hard thing to spend.
09:28 So are a lot of worthwhile things.
09:31 All right, you got my help.
09:37 Now, you stay close to your friend there.
09:39 When the noise starts, you cut him loose.
09:41 Get on out of here and scatter those horses while you're going.
09:44 What about you?
09:45 Don't worry about me. I know what I'm doing.
09:48 Listen, I'll meet you on the road going into Tucson.
09:51 Go ahead.
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11:27 [grunting]
11:36 [gunshot]
11:38 [grunting]
11:40 [gunshot]
11:42 [gunshots]
11:51 I told you. I told you all along.
11:54 But you were too anxious to make a lousy dollar.
11:56 I had nothing to do with it.
11:58 You better be able to prove it.
12:00 We'll have to catch those horses and get them ready to ride.
12:03 Don't matter where he goes, I'll get to him.
12:06 You mark it down.
12:08 Josh Randall, he's gonna be a dead man.
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12:51 I think we got company.
12:55 Randall?
12:57 Come on, wait a minute. He's a friend.
13:00 I got no friends.
13:02 He kept you off the end of a rope. What more do you want?
13:05 It's not what I want that counts.
13:07 Get those horses out of sight.
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13:19 Stop right there, Randall. Keep your hands off the gun.
13:30 Get down.
13:36 Hands behind your neck.
13:39 All right, turn around.
13:44 I've been following you for quite a spell.
13:46 Why?
13:48 Well, mainly because they've been following me.
13:51 Why, you half-wit, you led them right to us.
13:57 Yeah? Sure looks that way, doesn't it?
13:59 What'd you follow us for?
14:01 I told you I'd meet you on the way into Tucson, didn't I?
14:04 Shut up! You get that gun off him.
14:10 Is that the gratitude you were telling me about?
14:13 Come on, let's go.
14:16 You're right first, Estrela.
14:18 You next, Randall. And remember,
14:20 you decide to get smart, I got this rifle ready.
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14:30 Looks like we might have lost him.
14:48 I got a hunch maybe we ought to leave him here.
14:51 Leave him alone. He's just trying to help us.
14:54 He sure got a funny way of showing it.
14:57 Suit yourself, Lester.
14:59 Well, that outfit sure must have a good trail, then.
15:08 Thought maybe we lost him, huh?
15:13 Well, make for those mountains, and we'll double back.
15:18 Come on, let's go.
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16:15 Well, that's the last we'll see of them.
16:23 Bloodhound couldn't follow a trail through this country.
16:26 Yeah?
16:30 Well, then one of them must be a Bloodhound.
16:32 'Cause they're doing it.
16:34 You been leaving a trail for them, Randall?
16:37 Listen, that rope they got will fit me just as well as it will you, pal.
16:41 Give me.
16:43 What's the matter? You got something there you don't want me to see?
16:46 In the hat.
16:48 Now give me.
16:50 That the reason you didn't want me to hang, Randall?
17:08 How long you been down my trail?
17:10 Ever since you left Texas.
17:12 Couldn't let a bunch of amateurs hanging $1,000 worth of reward money, could I?
17:15 You're crazy.
17:19 You pull that trigger, and they're gonna hear you.
17:21 They're gonna be up here, and they're gonna hang you out on the spot, you understand?
17:23 Well, they gotta be slowed down.
17:26 And I can't think of a better way to do it than with you.
17:29 Now turn around.
17:31 Turn around!
17:35 Talk your way out of this one, Randall.
17:37 Come on, let's go.
17:41 Talk your way out of this one, Randall.
17:43 Come on, let's go.
17:45 (dramatic music)
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18:19 Why would a man leave his heart here?
18:22 Probably just one of his tricks to slow us down.
18:24 He wouldn't leave his heart just for that.
18:27 Tucson's not more than an hour away.
18:29 Do you figure that's where he went?
18:31 I just like to get my hands on Randall, that's all.
18:34 Where are your friends, Randall?
18:48 They're old friends of mine.
18:50 You helped them escape.
18:52 Well, come on, it'll go better with you if you tell us the truth.
18:55 Now you talk.
18:57 Right. I helped them escape.
19:00 Pringle's worth money to me.
19:02 What do you mean, money?
19:03 He's wanted, he's got a price on his head.
19:05 How much?
19:07 500.
19:09 And you were gonna keep it and not tell us?
19:11 Hold it, Bull.
19:12 I say hang him.
19:14 It won't get us the money Pringle is worth.
19:16 Look, let me make a suggestion.
19:18 We ride on into Tucson because that's exactly where Pringle's gonna go.
19:21 We can nail him there in town and I'll split the reward with you.
19:24 Fourth of July celebration going on.
19:26 We could have a party there for a long time.
19:28 I don't trust him.
19:30 Do you know anybody in Tucson that'll vouch for you?
19:33 Yeah.
19:35 The marshal.
19:37 Why does he need somebody to vouch for him?
19:39 Well, if he ain't who he says he is,
19:41 and there ain't no reward on Pringle,
19:43 I'm gonna help you give that celebration in Tucson
19:46 the same kind of an ending we'd planned for Fry Pan.
19:49 Come on, Bonnie Hunter.
19:52 [ music ]
19:54 [ gunfire ]
20:18 There, this looks better than Fry Pan.
20:21 Go, you and the other boys go on.
20:23 Get with the booze and the dancing.
20:25 Randall and I are gonna pay a call on the marshal.
20:28 Here you go, boys.
20:30 I'll just ride into the marshal with you.
20:36 There's plenty of time for the celebrating later.
20:38 Now let's go and get it over with.
20:40 We've got a real good party. Come on.
20:43 [ gunfire ]
20:45 I've been expecting you, Judge.
20:57 Hello, Virgin.
20:59 Who's bringing who in?
21:01 What's the charge?
21:03 You know him?
21:05 Sure, Bonnie Hunter, Judge Randall. Why?
21:07 He helped a killer escape from a posse near Fry Pan, marshal.
21:10 Was there any law with that posse?
21:12 No, it's not that.
21:14 He helped Jake Pringle escape so he wouldn't lose the bonnie.
21:16 There's 500 on Pringle's head.
21:18 Did you tell him that, Josh?
21:20 $500.
21:22 Yeah. I may have been wrong about the price.
21:25 But I was trailing for a month
21:27 and I just hate to see a man hung for free.
21:29 Well, I'm sorry you boys went to all this trouble.
21:32 But I'm afraid you're all in for a disappointment.
21:34 Take a look.
21:36 [ siren wailing ]
21:38 Pringle?
21:55 Uh, what happened?
22:01 A gal named Mr. Lita brought him in about an hour ago.
22:04 He was bent over his saddle with a hole right through his middle.
22:07 She gave me this.
22:09 That's how I knew you'd show up.
22:11 Yeah. She clean her reward?
22:14 Yeah, she's still waiting in town for it.
22:16 The whole thousand.
22:18 A thousand?
22:20 But you said-- Yeah, yeah, I know.
22:22 Well, uh, where would I find it?
22:24 Last I heard, she was down the street at the Two Deuces.
22:27 Oh, the Two Deuces.
22:29 Listen, gentlemen, I want to thank you very much for your participation.
22:32 Hold it! Hold it!
22:34 Like I told you, he's a good friend.
22:37 I don't figure anything should happen to him while he's in town.
22:40 Besides, if you're gonna go after Randall, somebody's gonna get hurt.
22:43 And I've learned it usually isn't him.
22:47 [Drum roll]
22:50 [Indistinct chatter]
22:58 [Indistinct chatter]
23:01 Now, uh, you sure you don't want to split that reward with me?
23:22 I'm sure.
23:24 [Indistinct chatter]
23:27 You're a hard woman.
23:31 Not really, Josh.
23:33 I love Jake Pringle, I think.
23:37 But there are so many men in Arizona...
23:41 and so little money.
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24:29 Filmed by Four Star.
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