Discovering that the US president is scheduled to pass through a small town, three gangsters find the perfect spot on top of a hill. There, they await his arrival in order to assassinate him.
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00:00:00Officer, can you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
00:00:13About two miles to the first main intersection, then turn left.
00:00:16It's about 60 miles.
00:00:18Thanks. What town is this?
00:00:20Suddenly.
00:00:21Suddenly what?
00:00:22No, no, that's the name.
00:00:24It's a funny name for a town.
00:00:26Uh-huh. Hangover from the old days.
00:00:28That's the way things used to happen here.
00:00:30Suddenly.
00:00:31I see.
00:00:32Road agents, gamblers, gunfighters.
00:00:34Well, I take it things have changed.
00:00:36Uh-huh.
00:00:37Things happen so slow now, the town council is figuring to change the name to Gradually.
00:00:42Thanks, officer.
00:00:44Pleasure. Come back.
00:00:58Come back.
00:00:58THE END
00:01:28THE END
00:01:58Hello there, Pidge.
00:02:08Hi, Todd.
00:02:09Where's your mother?
00:02:10We've been shopping. I've got to put this up in the car. Want to come?
00:02:14Yeah, sure.
00:02:18Todd?
00:02:19Uh-huh.
00:02:20Well, no. I guess not. She wouldn't let me.
00:02:26Who's she?
00:02:27Mom, of course.
00:02:28Well, then you better say Mom, Pidge. It's kind of not polite to say she like that, especially about your mother.
00:02:33Well, anyway, she wouldn't.
00:02:35You know, I bet I can guess what's on your mind.
00:02:38Bet you can.
00:02:40Well, now, let's see. You want an ice cream soda?
00:02:43Hmm, not a bad idea, but that's not it.
00:02:46You want to go to the movies?
00:02:48No, it's a war picture. Mom will let me see war pictures.
00:02:52Boy, oh boy, this is tougher than I thought.
00:02:54I got it. You want that baseball bat?
00:02:58No, but you're awful warm.
00:03:03Is that it?
00:03:04Sure, that's it. Ain't it a beauty?
00:03:07But shucks, it's no use. Mom wouldn't let me have it. She doesn't like guns.
00:03:12I know.
00:03:14It's because of my father being killed in the war.
00:03:17Look, Pidge, if you had the gun, what would you do with it? Stick up a filling station?
00:03:21Stick up a filling station? Heck no.
00:03:23Well, I'd be sheriff, and I'd catch all those road agents and cattle rustlers, just like you.
00:03:29But what about Mom?
00:03:30Well, I think we can talk her into it, what with you wanted to be a peace officer and all.
00:03:34We got lots of time. Mom's still in the market getting groceries.
00:03:39Let's go.
00:03:53Oh, help!
00:03:58I've got it.
00:03:59Oh, thanks, Todd. Hello.
00:04:00Hi. Can I give you a lift of the house?
00:04:03Thanks, anyway, but I have the car with me.
00:04:05Going to church tomorrow?
00:04:06Yes.
00:04:07I'll pick you up about a quarter to eleven, huh?
00:04:09You never give up, do you?
00:04:12Ellen, I know how you feel. Believe me, I do, and I've tried to understand, but...
00:04:16Well, I haven't asked you to understand.
00:04:19That's because I'm in love with you.
00:04:22Todd, you...
00:04:22You shouldn't say that to me.
00:04:25Why not? It'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? No one can take Pete's place.
00:04:38I'm not trying to take Pete's place. I'm trying to make a place of my own.
00:04:42You've been wonderful, Todd, and I'm grateful. Really, I am, but...
00:04:46I can't help how I feel.
00:04:48Ellen, you've got to stop doing this to yourself, because you're doing it to Pidge, too, as well as to me.
00:04:55You're digging a big black pit and shoving all of us down into it.
00:04:58Leave me alone, Todd, please.
00:05:03Pidge, where did you get that gun?
00:05:05I bought it for him, Ellen.
00:05:08Todd, how could you?
00:05:09We thought you wouldn't mind, Mom, because 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.
00:05:19What the boy's got to learn sometime, the guns aren't necessarily bad.
00:05:22Depends on who uses them.
00:05:24Todd carries one, doesn't he?
00:05:26Yes.
00:05:27Well, then...
00:05:28Just take it off, Pidge.
00:05:30Oh, gee.
00:05:34That's three dollars, please.
00:05:41Ellen.
00:05:44I know you don't want the boy to see war pictures, but it seems...
00:05:46Teaching children the art of death and destruction.
00:05:49The cruelties, the tortures.
00:05:50He's got to know that these things exist.
00:05:52Then he can fight against them when it's his turn.
00:05:55You can't wrap the boy in cellophane.
00:05:57I can try.
00:05:58As long as possible.
00:06:00Look, when a house is on fire, everybody has to help put it out.
00:06:04Because the next time, it might be your house.
00:06:05Todd doesn't.
00:06:06Church tomorrow, Ellen?
00:06:19No, Todd.
00:06:19I can't go with you.
00:06:21Well, I can't go on asking you and be turned down.
00:06:24In the meantime...
00:06:24Big Bob.
00:06:52Going over to Tilly's for a cup of java.
00:06:55You can handle things. It's a quiet day.
00:06:57It's been a quiet day in this bird for the last 50 years.
00:07:04You?
00:07:14Good night, Sheriff.
00:07:16What's the word?
00:07:17Get out of here. Get the Sheriff. Tell him to get over here fast. It's an emergency.
00:07:22Hey, take it easy, Pappy. 25 miles speed limit.
00:07:33Where's the Sheriff?
00:07:34Try the office.
00:07:36Hey, what's the...
00:07:37Where's Todd?
00:07:39Catch your breath. He's...
00:07:40It's an emergency. Ed Hawkins has got to see him right away.
00:07:43What happened?
00:07:43I don't know. Something came over the wire.
00:07:46Ed wouldn't even show me.
00:07:47Yeah, that's funny.
00:07:48Well, there's Todd now.
00:07:52What happened?
00:07:53That's right, I see you right there.
00:08:23Hello, Ed.
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.
00:08:40For peace sake, Ed. I run my pants off.
00:08:42Blow it.
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.
00:08:56Special 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.
00:09:09Appreciate cooperation, your staff, with Secret Service operatives
00:09:13arriving 1-15, Connie, Acting Chief, U.S. Secret Service.
00:09:18No mistakes, huh?
00:09:20All the typing.
00:09:225 p.m.
00:09:26Now, can I use your phone?
00:09:27I hope so.
00:09:29Give me State Police Headquarters in Weatherby.
00:09:31What's that code word again?
00:09:33Hangover.
00:09:34Hangover.
00:09:36Hello.
00:09:37This is Todd Shaw down to Suddenly.
00:09:39I want to speak to Captain Aaron.
00:09:41There's number 20, the 66th closet.
00:09:44Hello, 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, two men to a car, and one Thompson gun to each car, and you...
00:09:55Oh, you're dead, huh?
00:09:59Swell.
00:10:00Right.
00:10:00Thanks.
00:10:02I got the same message there, and it says the show on the road already.
00:10:05Gee, those state cops don't fool around, do they?
00:10:07No, they don't.
00:10:08Say, uh...
00:10:09You didn't spill us, did you?
00:10:11It says confidential.
00:10:14Let'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.
00:10:17Okay.
00:10:28Hello, Sheriff.
00:10:28I'll be right with you.
00:10:29That's not soon enough, Iz.
00:10:31So?
00:10:31I want the big black Cadillac at 4.30.
00:10:33The limousine?
00:10:34Yeah.
00:10:35Park it at the station.
00:10:36Backed in.
00:10:37Somebody getting married?
00:10:38Like the Sheriff?
00:10:39Don't be funny.
00:10:40This 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, huh?
00:10:45No slip-ups.
00:10:46I don't know.
00:11:07I don't know.
00:11:11I don't know.
00:11:11I don't know.
00:11:11Mr. Kearney?
00:11:17That's right.
00:11:18My name's Shaw.
00:11:20Get my message?
00:11:21What message?
00:11:23Hangover.
00:11:25May I see your credentials?
00:11:30Mrs. Wilson?
00:11:31Hi.
00:11:33Haggerty?
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.
00:11:44We always have to be.
00:11:46May I see your credentials?
00:11:48I, uh...
00:11:49I've got a limousine ordered before 30.
00:11:52It'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.
00:12:00Not quite.
00:12:01You can still be of help to us.
00:12:05We'll have to check all of those stores facing the station.
00:12:08Mr. Kearney, I know every proprietor in this town.
00:12:11You can take my word for...
00:12:12I can't take your word for anything.
00:12:14I'm sure they're okay.
00:12:16Just routine.
00:12:17All right, boys.
00:12:18We'll park the limousine between the tracks when the special arrives.
00:12:24Pretty rough in there.
00:12:25Maybe.
00:12:26Easier to cover.
00:12:28All state police cars can go in there, too.
00:12:30All right.
00:12:30So, uh, who lives up there on the hill?
00:12:35Pop Benson.
00:12:36His grandson and his daughter-in-law.
00:12:38We'll check it.
00:12:39Oh, Mr. Kearney.
00:12:41If there's one place in this town doesn't need checking, it's that one.
00:12:44Pop Benson used to be in the Secret Service himself.
00:12:46For a bad ticket, retired him.
00:12:49Pop Benson?
00:12:50You don't mean Peter Benson.
00:12:51That's right.
00:12:53Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle.
00:12:56What do you mean?
00:12:58Well, Pete Benson used to be my old boss.
00:13:01No.
00:13:02How do you like that, eh?
00:13:03Therefore, Mr. Shaw, he'll be the last one in the world to object.
00:13:07Pete Benson, for heaven's sake.
00:13:15Probably a rectifier.
00:13:17Probably a tube.
00:13:18Would you please call Judd and have him come up and fix that thing before you wreck it?
00:13:22Wreck it?
00:13:22Wreck it?
00:13:23Look, I'll have you understand.
00:13:24I built a television transmitter in 38 before you even knew what television was.
00:13:29Yes, but did it work?
00:13:30I don't know.
00:13:31I never did get to finish the receiver.
00:13:33Well, this is a receiver, and I do wish you'd call Judd.
00:13:35I don't want to bother Judd.
00:13:36Besides, there's time and a half on Saturday.
00:13:38Well, that'll be cheaper than what it'll cost when you get through diddling with it.
00:13:41Oh, now, Alan, stop taking it out on me just because you and Todd had a fight.
00:13:47You haven't touched your cake.
00:13:49Don't want it.
00:13:51Pete, darling, I made it especially for you.
00:13:53You made it because you wouldn't let me wear my gun.
00:13:56Drink your milk, darling.
00:13:58Sissy.
00:13:59What?
00:14:00That's what the guys call me.
00:14:02Well, I don't care what they call you.
00:14:04I'm your mother, and I think I know what's best for you.
00:14:08Pidge.
00:14:12Pidge, you shouldn't walk out when I'm talking to you.
00:14:14I thought you were finished.
00:14:16Well, the boy's just disappointed, that's all, Alan.
00:14:19Dad, please stop interfering.
00:14:22First, you cancel him out on the hike with Cub Scouse.
00:14:25And the next thing...
00:14:26Pidge, go to your room.
00:14:28I'll have this all set pregnant in a minute, son.
00:14:30You and me will watch the ballgame.
00:14:31Dad, I've had this for the last time.
00:14:35Ellen, you're a grown-up girl.
00:14:37You've got a problem you haven't worked out.
00:14:39That's no reason why Pidge should have your problem.
00:14:42I've only done what I thought was right, Dad.
00:14:46I read about an experiment once.
00:14:49Kept germs away from a kid.
00:14:51Raised him pure and scientifically.
00:14:53First time he got out in the rough, he caught cold and died in pneumonia.
00:14:56What does that have to do with Pidge?
00:14:58The kid hadn't been exposed.
00:14:59He had no immunity.
00:15:01There's cruelty and hatred and tyranny in the world.
00:15:03You can't make believe they aren't there.
00:15:05And Pidge has got to learn what is the law and what isn't the law so he can defend it.
00:15:09Defend it?
00:15:10So he can become a soldier and go out and be murdered like his father was?
00:15:16My son was killed in the performance of his duty, Ellen.
00:15:19Duty?
00:15:20Being blown to bits on some godforsaken battlefield thousands of miles from where he was born.
00:15:25You call that duty?
00:15:26Yes, Ellen.
00:15:27Well, is that what you'd like for Pidge?
00:15:29Would that make you happy?
00:15:31Pete could hear you now.
00:15:32I 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, life, 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.
00:15:49Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandpa!
00:15:54The window!
00:15:54Look out the window!
00:15:55Golly!
00:15:56What is it?
00:15:57Coming down the mountain from Wetherby.
00:15:59A whole raft of state troopers.
00:16:01See him?
00:16:02Sure cut it fine.
00:16:19You couldn't possibly be surprised with all those sirens blasting.
00:16:22Well, I try to beat them.
00:16:24State troopers.
00:16:25Right on time.
00:16:27Yeah, they're good.
00:16:28The best.
00:16:29All right, Bart, 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, or you can drop down to the main highway, go on into
00:16:39three rivers, and 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.
00:16:47Yes, Agherty?
00:16:47We'd use a roof watch in those stores, Chief, beside the street check.
00:16:51Look, Mr. Carney, every proprietor in this town has been here at least five years.
00:16:55I know them, I know their kids.
00:16:56Oh, it isn't that, Sheriff.
00:16:58It's the stranger that might use one of those stores for covers.
00:17:02I'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, Bert, give him the word.
00:17:10No one, including the proprietors.
00:17:13I'd like them to lock up at ten minutes to five.
00:17:14Anyone seen inside after ten minutes to five might be shot on sight.
00:17:19Like the man says, it's important.
00:17:22Yes, sir.
00:17:23Tell Wilson to keep the station clear.
00:17:25Schultz will take over troopers and block off traffic approaches from 4.30 on.
00:17:28Right.
00:17:29Now, there's another hazard, sir.
00:17:30A house up in the hill.
00:17:33Yeah, I know.
00:17:34I'll check that one myself.
00:17:36Yes, sir.
00:17:40Todd, what the Hades is going on in this bird?
00:17:42Did some galoot make a uranium strike?
00:17:45No, not exactly.
00:17:46Now, look, Slim, you take over here, and I'll catch up with you later.
00:17:50From 4.30 on, I want all pedestrian traffic kept off Main Street between Oak and Alder.
00:17:55The state boys will help you.
00:17:56If anybody in town squawks, why, you smooth things over.
00:17:59They know you, and this is all going to seem a little strange to them.
00:18:02I'm confused myself.
00:18:03Never have seen so many cops.
00:18:05What goes on?
00:18:07Ah, this is Mr. Kearney, special agent in the Treasury Department.
00:18:10Secret Service.
00:18:11Kearney?
00:18:12Slim Adams, one of my deputies.
00:18:14How do you do?
00:18:15Secret Service?
00:18:17I get it.
00:18:18They're shipping the National Debt through here in gold bars.
00:18:22Just don't worry about it.
00:18:23You'll find out later.
00:18:24All right, come on.
00:18:25Let's go and check that car you hired.
00:18:27Come on.
00:18:42Get them.
00:18:43Got them all.
00:18:44Now, hello, Bill.
00:18:45You better put that gun away before your mom sees it.
00:18:47You, Tanya, hide.
00:18:53Dad, I do wish you'd call Judd and let him come up and fix that.
00:18:57Shucks, Ellen.
00:18:58I knew Holmes' law before they even passed it.
00:19:00Well, I don't want Pitch to miss the ball game after missing the movie and everything.
00:19:04All right, boy.
00:19:05Come on.
00:19:05Get ready to plug this set in while I hold this screw down.
00:19:08We'll see what happens.
00:19:09Okay.
00:19:10Dad, are you sure you know what you're doing?
00:19:12Ellen, please.
00:19:13I know, but it says on the back of that that they're 5,000 volts, and that's dangerous.
00:19:18Ellen, will you please stop being a woman?
00:19:23Ready, boy?
00:19:23Plug in.
00:19:24Dad, Dad, are you all right?
00:19:30Well, I guess I'm all right.
00:19:32It could scare the pants off me, that's all.
00:19:34Golly, look at this.
00:19:35I guess maybe you better call Judd, huh?
00:19:37Oh, honestly.
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, I'll probably pick you up and toss you across the room.
00:19:49That is, unless you were standing in a puddle of water, and then you'd be grounded.
00:19:51And if you were grounded, it'd kill you dead or in a doornail.
00:19:54Well, it hurt.
00:19:55Like blazes.
00:19:56You stay away from that set now, and stay away from those wall plugs.
00:20:00Don't monkey with electricity unless you know what you're doing.
00:20:03Why did you, Grandpa?
00:20:05You got me there, boy.
00:20:08I'll get her.
00:20:10Judd says he'll be up in a little while.
00:20:12I'm sorry.
00:20:14Honestly.
00:20:16Yes?
00:20:17Mrs. Benson?
00:20:18That's right.
00:20:19Is your husband at home?
00:20:20My 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.
00:20:26It belongs to my father-in-law.
00:20:28What is it you want?
00:20:29I'm John Barron, special agent.
00:20:31Federal 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!
00:20:42Oh, how are you, gents?
00:20:44John Barron, special agent.
00:20:45For heaven's sake, FBI.
00:20:49May we come in?
00:20:50Why, sure, sure.
00:20:51Come right in.
00:20:52Come right in.
00:20:53Make yourself at home.
00:20:54Thanks.
00:20:54Not at all.
00:20:55I get quite a kick out of this.
00:20:56Used to be with the Treasury Department myself.
00:20:58Really?
00:20:59Back in the old days.
00:21:00Collective internal revenue, eh?
00:21:02Tax collector?
00:21:02Not on your life.
00:21:03Secret service.
00:21:04You don't say.
00:21:05Grandpa was President Coolidge's bodyguard.
00:21:08You don't say.
00:21:09Yep.
00:21:10Back in 1928.
00:21:11Youngest retirement in the service.
00:21:13Con of my heart.
00:21:13Not heart.
00:21:14Trouble, you understand.
00:21:15An accident on one of Cal's fishing trips.
00:21:17A hunter.
00:21:18Got the slug right here.
00:21:20Say, that's a nasty one.
00:21:22How come you're still alive?
00:21:23I don't know.
00:21:24Lodged in my heart.
00:21:25They took it out.
00:21:26Had to take it easy, so they retired me.
00:21:27You're lucky.
00:21:29Lucky you're still if it hadn't hit me.
00:21:30I'm going to be in the Secret Service someday.
00:21:32Thought you was going to be a sheriff like Todd.
00:21:35Squids like you are supposed to grow up and be president.
00:21:37Name is Pidge, Mr. Barron.
00:21:38Glad to meet you, Pidge.
00:21:39I ain't a squirt.
00:21:41Mr. Barron, what did you want to see us about?
00:21:43Is something wrong?
00:21:45Nothing wrong yet, Mrs. Benson, but there might be.
00:21:47We're just checking.
00:21:48On us?
00:21:49On the house.
00:21:50Do you mind if we have a look around?
00:21:51Help yourself, but what I want to know...
00:21:53We're going to have a look around with or without your permission, Mr. Benson.
00:21:55It's an emergency.
00:21:57Check it.
00:21:57There must be something the matter.
00:22:09Anyone else live here besides you three?
00:22:11No.
00:22:14Anyone been by here today?
00:22:16No.
00:22:16Just the usual routine.
00:22:17Willie Harris left the milk.
00:22:19What's this all about, Mr. Barron?
00:22:20Just being careful.
00:22:22I'll explain later.
00:22:22Two bedrooms, one bathroom.
00:22:26All clear.
00:22:28One here.
00:22:29Just like they said.
00:22:34Kitchen, back pantry, back door.
00:22:35Stairs go downhill to garage under kitchen.
00:22:37Cellar door in halt.
00:22:39Clear.
00:22:39Car in the garage.
00:22:42Look at this for a setup.
00:22:43I'm sorry, folks, but I'm afraid we're going to have to hang around for a while.
00:22:51Why?
00:22:52What's the matter?
00:22:52Don't be alarmed.
00:22:53There'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 of...
00:22:58No, ma'am.
00:23:00Nobody leaves the house until we do.
00:23:01Why not?
00:23:02What's happened?
00:23:03Look, just go about your business like it was any other Saturday afternoon.
00:23:06Read your papers.
00:23:07Look at your TV.
00:23:09Anything you want.
00:23:10But nobody leaves the house.
00:23:11There's something fishy about all this.
00:23:17It's official business.
00:23:18What sort of official business?
00:23:19Mr. Benson, as a former agent of the Secret Service, you should understand.
00:23:23Either I'm getting old and stupid or else I'm...
00:23:26At 5 p.m. this afternoon, the President of the United States arrives in town on a special.
00:23:31What?
00:23:32Golly!
00:23:32The President?
00:23:34Well, that's different.
00:23:36Do you mean to say the President's going to get off the train here?
00:23:38That's right.
00:23:39Golly, Gramps, you've got to go down and see it.
00:23:40We just got to.
00:23:41The President?
00:23:42Why, that's the greatest thing ever happened to this town.
00:23:44We go down and see Gramps, can't we?
00:23:46Sorry, kid.
00:23:47No.
00:23:49Benny, bring in the gear.
00:23:51Put the car out back.
00:23:52Bart, you see the back door is locked tight.
00:23:54And check the cellar to be sure.
00:23:55I still don't understand.
00:24:00Mr. Benson, it should be obvious to you that if anybody wanted to kill the President, he could do a beautiful job of it, right from this window of yours.
00:24:08But the love of Mike, that may be true, but you don't think that Ellie and me...
00:24:11Of course not.
00:24:12But we have to remain here to protect you and the President from somebody else who might.
00:24:15All.
00:24:17All.
00:24:33Kearney.
00:24:34Yeah?
00:24:34Is this all routine?
00:24:37Seems to me to be kind of overboard.
00:24:38I mean, all this checking and everything, as though you expected this town to...
00:24:41Sheriff, have you noticed any strangers in town during the past week?
00:24:45No.
00:24:46Are you sure?
00:24:47Sure, I'm sure.
00:24:48I know everybody in this berg.
00:24:50The only strangers we get are tourists.
00:24:52You know, we get them all the time.
00:24:53Stopping for gas, if I to eat, that's all.
00:24:55We want to know from either you or your deputies the minute any stranger doesn't keep going through.
00:25:01Then this isn't routine.
00:25:03No, it isn't.
00:25:04Can you tell me?
00:25:06The Los Angeles police picked up a small-time stool pigeon night before last.
00:25:09Shot through the lungs and left for dead.
00:25:11Spiley bitters.
00:25:12Before he died, he told them something was up.
00:25:15What do you mean something was up?
00:25:17An assassination attempt.
00:25:19Well, 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.
00:25:25The stoolie seemed very proud of being an American before he kicked off.
00:25:30Meaning, crime is crime, but this is something else again.
00:25:33Right.
00:25:34So, we can't take any chances.
00:25:36Let's go.
00:25:41Can we see the present, Grandpa?
00:25:44Can we, Mom?
00:25:45No, Pidge, we have to stay here.
00:25:47You can watch him from here.
00:25:48But I want to get up close.
00:25:49Well, use your telescope, boy.
00:25:51Bring him right up the eye.
00:25:52Ah.
00:25:53Sorry, Pidge.
00:25:54No dice.
00:25:55Back door locked.
00:25:56How about the phone in the kitchen?
00:25:57Want me to yank it?
00:25:58No, we don't change the pattern at all.
00:26:00Give Benny a hand.
00:26:00Mr. Barron, uh, something I don't understand.
00:26:08I was in the service myself, so you told me.
00:26:11And though we made every precautionary check, we never went to extremes like this unless, uh...
00:26:15Unless you were tipped that there was to be an attempted assassination.
00:26:17You don't mean it.
00:26:18I mean it.
00:26:19But you're FBI.
00:26:21Secret Service is responsible for the safety of the president.
00:26:24We're using everybody this trip, Mr. Benson.
00:26:26Have a look down there.
00:26:29State troopers, your local law enforcement agencies, and us.
00:26:33You don't know if old Dane Carney is down there, do you?
00:26:35He and I worked together in the old days.
00:26:38He's chief of the presidential staff now.
00:26:40That's confidential information.
00:26:43This is a terrible thing.
00:26:45That's your worry, Mr. Benson?
00:26:47Of course it's my worry.
00:26:48I'm an American, ain't I?
00:26:49It's everybody's worry.
00:26:51Car.
00:26:52Somebody's driving up to the house.
00:26:53Who is it?
00:26:57It's time.
00:26:58He's the sheriff, Mr. Barron.
00:27:00There's someone with him.
00:27:01Who's with him?
00:27:02Well, I don't know.
00:27:03I've never seen him before.
00:27:04Well, for the love of Mike.
00:27:06What?
00:27:07Well, it isn't old Dane Carney.
00:27:09Gray than an old shirt and red in the face as ever.
00:27:14Hi, Pop.
00:27:15Got an old friend of yours here.
00:27:16Dane, you dirty old Irishman.
00:27:17Dane Carney.
00:27:18Oh, Pop, how are you?
00:27:19It's great to see you.
00:27:20Hey, why aren't you dead?
00:27:21Oh, old buzzers like me live forever.
00:27:23Hey, old Hawkeye, you're getting bald.
00:27:25Well, just what do you expect after 25 years?
00:27:27Come on in.
00:27:28Come on in.
00:27:29Make yourself to home.
00:27:30This is my daughter-in-law.
00:27:31How do you do?
00:27:31This is my grandson.
00:27:32Pidge.
00:27:32Hiya, Pidge.
00:27:33Pidge, this is Mr. Carney.
00:27:34Secret Service.
00:27:35He guards the president.
00:27:36By Mr. Barron.
00:27:38Who?
00:27:39Barron.
00:27:39Oh, you didn't know.
00:27:40You boys got here ahead of you.
00:27:48Shut up!
00:27:49One sound from the kid, Pop, and he's dead.
00:28:05The train muffled it.
00:28:29Get rid of him.
00:28:32Put him in the cellar.
00:28:35You better take the rug with you, so give away.
00:28:43You get the message, brave boy?
00:28:45Mom.
00:28:46Mom.
00:28:48Pidge, you gotta be still.
00:28:49No noise.
00:28:50You stink.
00:28:52You stink.
00:28:53Pidge, shut up.
00:28:55Guts.
00:28:56He's only eight.
00:28:58Lots of guts.
00:29:01Mom.
00:29:02No trouble with you or you're all busted up.
00:29:06All right.
00:29:17Take care of her.
00:29:19You got it now.
00:29:20Let's be practical.
00:29:21I don't want any more shooting around here.
00:29:25I want it nice and quiet and cozy.
00:29:28I'll get her up and bring her around and explain to her that one phony and she's got a kid with a throat cut.
00:29:34Doesn't make much noise that way.
00:29:37The same goes for you, too.
00:29:38Anybody steps out of line, the boy.
00:29:43That's simple enough.
00:29:46Ellen.
00:29:48Ellen, listen to me.
00:29:49Ellen, pay attention.
00:29:51Now, listen to me.
00:29:52I don't look like that.
00:29:53Everybody is all right.
00:29:55You've got to get a hold of yourself.
00:29:57No matter what happens, you've got to hang on.
00:30:00If you scream or make one false move, he'll murder the boy.
00:30:03You understand?
00:30:04He'll murder Pidge.
00:30:10Did you hear him, lady?
00:30:13Yes.
00:30:14Yes.
00:30:16Good.
00:30:16Now we're on the court.
00:30:18All right, all right.
00:30:19Inside.
00:30:20We'll get a long time to wait.
00:30:21Relax.
00:30:25Move the kitchen table in front of the window.
00:30:29All right, sit down, sit down.
00:30:30Look at your TV.
00:30:31They're working.
00:30:33Well, work him over then.
00:30:34Fix him up.
00:30:35Don't sit there waiting to blow your car.
00:30:36Keep yourselves occupied.
00:30:38I've got to think.
00:30:38Todd, Todd, are you badly hurt?
00:30:51Mulder hit the bone broken, I guess.
00:30:53He's bled a lot.
00:30:54We need a doctor.
00:30:55Look at his face.
00:30:58Tell her, Pop.
00:30:59You're the doctor, Ellen.
00:31:00We 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.
00:31:14Hold on, brave boy.
00:31:29Tie it up.
00:31:33May we take him into the bedroom?
00:31:34Sure.
00:31:36But the boy stays here.
00:31:47And leave the door open.
00:31:53All right, let's go to work.
00:31:54Pop, we've got to do something.
00:32:17Yeah, I know, I know.
00:32:18But what?
00:32:18What?
00:32:19They've got Pidge.
00:32:20No, none of us count.
00:32:21Not even Pidge.
00:32:22We haven't got a chance.
00:32:23As long as we're alive, we've got a chance.
00:32:25We've got to find a flaw in his plan.
00:32:27We'll think of something.
00:32:29Nope.
00:32:30Haven't you got a gun?
00:32:32Gun?
00:32:35Yeah, right in the drawer.
00:32:37My gun.
00:32:44Is it loaded?
00:32:45No.
00:32:45Kill it.
00:32:47I hid the cartridge in the counterpitch.
00:32:50You're a dirty, lousy gangster.
00:32:53Leave him alone, Benny.
00:32:55Do you hear what he said?
00:32:56Yeah, I heard what he said.
00:32:57He's been looking at too much television.
00:32:59He ain't a bad squirt.
00:33:00Just tell him to shut up.
00:33:02Sure, sure.
00:33:05This thing's metal.
00:33:06Steel top, chrome legs.
00:33:09I figured wood.
00:33:11No difference.
00:33:12Use the bracket.
00:33:13Screw him to the leg and then to the floor.
00:33:14That way the table won't dance.
00:33:15You're a coward.
00:33:16You're a bunch of cowards.
00:33:18And you're getting too fresh.
00:33:21So button it.
00:33:24Johnny, why all the trouble?
00:33:26Big deal.
00:33:26This is a lot of work.
00:33:27Do it, Benny.
00:33:28But, Johnny, I don't see why we...
00:33:29I said just do it, Benny.
00:33:30Tony, once you get the gun anchored, you got a solid base.
00:33:35You'll see when we get to it.
00:33:37This gun's got a heavy recoil.
00:33:38It won't stand still.
00:33:42And we got just three seconds to nail the president.
00:33:46I don't want the table to shimmy when we get to it.
00:33:49Oh, a Tommy gun would do just as good.
00:33:51The Tommy gun stinks.
00:33:53No accuracy.
00:33:53No punch.
00:33:54Might as well use a revolver.
00:33:55This is the gun.
00:34:00When I was in the army.
00:34:02So I wasn't in the army.
00:34:03Tighter, tighter.
00:34:06Pop, you find those cartridges yet?
00:34:08Not yet.
00:34:09This is quite a gun, Benny.
00:34:11Quite a gun.
00:34:13I did a lot of chopping in the war with a baby like this.
00:34:16A lot of chopping.
00:34:21You're wrong about me, Pidge.
00:34:23Being a coward.
00:34:24Last war, I got a silver star.
00:34:29North of Casino.
00:34:30Pocket of Resistance.
00:34:32I killed 27 men.
00:34:34All by myself.
00:34:36I won a silver star.
00:34:37Metal.
00:34:39I stole it.
00:34:44They're hurting Pidge.
00:34:46All right, take it easy.
00:34:47Take it easy.
00:34:48Johnny, take it easy.
00:34:50Stay there.
00:34:50Johnny, relax.
00:34:54For the love of Mike, what's a silver star?
00:34:55I 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.
00:35:13Yeah, get him back in here.
00:35:19What are you all trying to pull?
00:35:23All of you inside.
00:35:28Come on, come on.
00:35:29Feelin' better?
00:35:35Yeah.
00:35:36You're lucky.
00:35:37He didn't mean the wing, he meant to blow your brains out.
00:35:39He's a bad shot.
00:35:40Yeah, 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?
00:35:50You up on the line?
00:35:51Some other time.
00:35:52Down.
00:35:53Down.
00:35:53Down.
00:35:53Down.
00:35:53Down.
00:35:53Down.
00:35:53Down.
00:35:53Down.
00:35:53Down.
00:35:55Down.
00:35:57Down.
00:35:59Down.
00:36:01Badass, you fool!
00:36:02What?
00:36:02His car's out front.
00:36:03Put it in the garage, quick.
00:36:06I have to think of everything.
00:36:08Oh, great.
00:36:09Just great.
00:36:10Might as well advertise.
00:36:13There's a close one.
00:36:21Hop in here.
00:36:29See what time it is?
00:36:34All right, suppose you tell me what happens in this house
00:36:36on a Saturday afternoon between 4 and 5.
00:36:39Pattern.
00:36:41Smart guy.
00:36:44Sure, and we don't break that pattern.
00:36:46We're here for a reason, and if we break it,
00:36:48we might blow the deal, you know?
00:36:50Mario slings the paper over the fence around 4.30 or so.
00:36:54Delivery boy.
00:36:55Does he come in?
00:36:57Anyone else?
00:36:58Si Hammond went up the mountain hunting jackrabbits.
00:37:01He'll be buying his way back.
00:37:03Will he stop?
00:37:05Not unless he's got something to brag about.
00:37:08Anybody else?
00:37:09Nobody.
00:37:12Anybody know that you and the other guy were coming up there?
00:37:15That's an interesting question.
00:37:17What's the interesting answer?
00:37:19You guess.
00:37:20Tell him, Todd.
00:37:22Sheriff, if you think I have any qualms about killing this kid,
00:37:25you couldn't be more wrong.
00:37:28The thing about killing him or you or her or him
00:37:31is that I wouldn't be getting paid for it.
00:37:33And I don't like giving anything away for free.
00:37:39Neither do I.
00:37:41Including information.
00:37:43Your guts are showing all over the place, brave boy.
00:37:45No, no.
00:37:47Not me.
00:37:48I'm scared.
00:37:49You see, the way I figure it, Baron, I'm a dead man anyway.
00:37:52So's the boy.
00:37:53So's Ellen.
00:37:54So's Pop.
00:37:55It's just a question an hour later.
00:37:57And if it gives the president a bit of an edge, why, then we get it now.
00:38:00They won't hurt us.
00:38:00They won't hurt Pidge.
00:38:01He said so.
00:38:02Because it's convenient, Ellen.
00:38:04You think these crumbs would kill the president and then take off,
00:38:07leaving us behind to identify them?
00:38:08You said you wouldn't hurt Pidge.
00:38:10Sure, sure.
00:38:11And I meant it.
00:38:12Don't listen to this guy.
00:38:14He's just being brave with your kid's life.
00:38:16I know guys like that in the army.
00:38:18We'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 and you'll never see us again.
00:38:27Tell him, Todd.
00:38:27Tell him.
00:38:28Never mind, lady.
00:38:29We'll just assume that they knew he was coming up here.
00:38:32So that if somebody else comes up to check on him,
00:38:34you can tell him the sheriff and his friend were here,
00:38:36but they had to go someplace else.
00:38:39That's all.
00:38:39I have to go to the bathroom.
00:38:45Go with him, Bart.
00:38:49I don't need any help.
00:38:50Come on, come on.
00:38:54Okay, table's screwed down.
00:38:55All right.
00:38:56Get the tripod up there.
00:38:57Drill a hole in each leg,
00:38:58bolt the tripod to the table,
00:38:59put it center in front of the window.
00:39:03I thought I told you to sit down.
00:39:04Just stretching my legs.
00:39:06You're a very careful man.
00:39:09That's right.
00:39:10Planned on everything, huh?
00:39:12Sheriff, the first man they shoot to the moon
00:39:13and a rocket will take pains, too.
00:39:15Of course, that's never been done before.
00:39:17Neither is this.
00:39:18Doesn't I worry you?
00:39:20Haven't got time to worry.
00:39:21I just make my plans and carry them out.
00:39:24That's what John Wilkes Booth thought, too.
00:39:27Booth!
00:39:28Ha!
00:39:29I'm no actor.
00:39:30Busting my leg on a stage
00:39:32so I can yell down with the tyrants.
00:39:34If Booth wasn't such a ham,
00:39:35he might have made it.
00:39:37He got pretty far at that, though.
00:39:39The guy who killed Garfield didn't make it, either.
00:39:42Him?
00:39:43He didn't plan anything.
00:39:45Just took a lucky shot,
00:39:46strictly left-handed,
00:39:46just like McKinley.
00:39:48And Zangara got the cheer
00:39:49for his try at Roosevelt.
00:39:52He had to try it in a crowd.
00:39:55I hate crowds.
00:39:57So nobody ever made it.
00:40:00Up till here.
00:40:01I'm just a guy making a living.
00:40:06And I think you've stretched long enough,
00:40:08as you were.
00:40:14Bart,
00:40:14take over Benny's work.
00:40:16It's okay.
00:40:16Benny.
00:40:17Yeah, Johnny.
00:40:20Go downtown,
00:40:20see what's going on down there,
00:40:21especially the station plan.
00:40:22Leave the car here.
00:40:23Why me?
00:40:25Because Wheeler can fly a plane,
00:40:27and you can't.
00:40:28Oh, but me, I'm expendable, huh?
00:40:29No, I just don't want anything
00:40:31to happen to Wheeler.
00:40:32Well, why can't I take the car?
00:40:32Because if they nail you, Benny,
00:40:34we need the car to get to the plane.
00:40:36Johnny, that place is called with cops.
00:40:37You're getting paid, ain't you?
00:40:39Yeah?
00:40:40You can't say you ain't getting enough.
00:40:43I'll be back.
00:40:45Johnny.
00:40:48Look, nice and steady,
00:40:49just like you wanted it.
00:40:53Open the curtain.
00:41:07Trap.
00:41:09Big, beautiful, booby trap.
00:41:12You can't do this.
00:41:13You can't do it.
00:41:19You're wrong, lady.
00:41:23Take a look.
00:41:28Come on.
00:41:29Take a look.
00:41:44I can do it,
00:41:45and I'm going to do it.
00:41:48But you're an American citizen.
00:41:50Sure.
00:41:52And one minute after five,
00:41:53I'm going to be a very rich American citizen.
00:41:55You'll never get away with it.
00:41:56Shut up.
00:42:00I got a stomachache.
00:42:01Take a pill.
00:42:03Maybe the old man's right, Johnny.
00:42:04It's a terrible thing.
00:42:05A terrible thing.
00:42:05Turn it off, will you?
00:42:06Just another man.
00:42:07A man.
00:42:08But the president.
00:42:11Yeah.
00:42:13Yeah, I never killed a president before.
00:42:15Who's that?
00:42:20That's Judd Kelly.
00:42:21Television set went on the blink.
00:42:23Ellen sent it for him to come and fix it
00:42:24so that the boy could watch the ball game.
00:42:25What'd you tell me?
00:42:26Well, we simply forgot, that's all.
00:42:28He's a harmless boy, Baron.
00:42:29Don't hurt him.
00:42:31Okay.
00:42:31But if you cross me, I...
00:42:33He won't.
00:42:33He won't.
00:42:35All right, Pop.
00:42:36You got the ball.
00:42:37Let him in, but watch it.
00:42:42Ellen, we got to keep this man talking.
00:42:47Why?
00:42:48Why?
00:42:48Because that's his weakness.
00:42:50Sooner a lady will drop his guard.
00:42:52We got to find a way to get Pop's gun.
00:42:54Hi, Pop.
00:42:54What's new?
00:42:55Hello, Judd.
00:42:56Think I better get up and fix your rig
00:42:57before you electrocuted yourself.
00:42:59Come on in.
00:43:01Todd, what happened to you?
00:43:03Ask him.
00:43:04Same thing will happen to you
00:43:05unless you do exactly as you're told.
00:43:08You're kidding.
00:43:10Is that real?
00:43:11It's real, all right.
00:43:12What's your name?
00:43:14Judd Kelly.
00:43:14What are you doing here?
00:43:16I came to fix the television set.
00:43:18What's up?
00:43:19All right, Bart.
00:43:19Case.
00:43:21I don't have any dough.
00:43:22That's what you want.
00:43:24What is this, sir?
00:43:25A stick-up?
00:43:26Yeah, that's right.
00:43:27It's a stick-up.
00:43:28You'll never get away with it.
00:43:30Go over and sit down, Buster.
00:43:32Take your luggage with you.
00:43:33You too.
00:43:34Now.
00:43:39I don't take it.
00:43:40Did they rob the bank?
00:43:42What's the gun for?
00:43:43What's going on?
00:43:45Where's your store?
00:43:46Main Street.
00:43:46Who runs it?
00:43:47Just me.
00:43:48All alone?
00:43:49Do you have to point that gun at me?
00:43:50Alone?
00:43:51Answer him.
00:43:52Yeah.
00:43:53You locked up when you left?
00:43:55Nobody knows you were coming here.
00:43:56That's right.
00:43:57Just a service call.
00:43:59That gun makes me nervous, mister.
00:44:01I'm not going to be a hero.
00:44:03You can put the gun away.
00:44:05Sure.
00:44:06But I'm telling you, Buster, like the others.
00:44:09One pass and the kid gets it.
00:44:13That's right.
00:44:15He gets it.
00:44:16So you see, his life depends on you.
00:44:18Got it?
00:44:19Yeah.
00:44:22Wilson?
00:44:24Carney back yet?
00:44:25No.
00:44:26He's certainly been gone a long time.
00:44:43Maybe we ought to load the gun now, to be sure, huh?
00:44:46No.
00:44:46That's just what the sheriff would like.
00:44:49Forget about me.
00:44:49I've had it.
00:44:50Don't con me, sheriff.
00:44:53The minute this gun was loaded, one of you brave boys might decide to go for the ride just to fire it.
00:44:57And if you fired it, that might alert a few state cops down there, and the game would be over, wouldn't it?
00:45:03You got any food in the house?
00:45:05Of course I have.
00:45:07I'm going to grab a bite, Bart.
00:45:08Watch him.
00:45:09Bring me a little glass of milk, will you, Johnny?
00:45:10My elf is murdering me.
00:45:12Just watch him, Bart.
00:45:13Watch him.
00:45:14I don't dig it.
00:45:19Will somebody tell me what's going on?
00:45:20Sit down.
00:45:21Be quiet.
00:45:22Have you any feelings at all?
00:45:45No, I haven't, lady.
00:45:47They were taken out of me by experts.
00:45:48Feelings are a trap.
00:45:53Show me a guy with feelings, and I'll show you a sucker.
00:45:57It's a weakness.
00:45:58Makes you think of something beside yourself.
00:46:02If I had any feelings left in me at all, it'd be for me.
00:46:05Just me.
00:46:07Don't you ever think of your mother, your father?
00:46:09Think of him?
00:46:12I used to think of him a great deal.
00:46:13My mother wasn't married.
00:46:19My old man was a dipsel.
00:46:22They left me in a home.
00:46:24A home.
00:46:30You stink!
00:46:32Johnny!
00:46:33Pinch, come back here!
00:46:36The kid, hold it!
00:46:37Pinch!
00:46:37Pinch!
00:46:38Get him.
00:46:39Stick him up or I'll blast you.
00:46:41Nice going, Bart.
00:46:44It's only a cap pistol.
00:46:45I gave it to him myself.
00:46:46Darn you, don't you?
00:46:48Darn you!
00:46:51I 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 cap pistol.
00:46:58Go ahead, let yourself sick.
00:46:59That's a pretty good model, though, isn't it?
00:47:01They make it real, don't they?
00:47:02They are, Pinch.
00:47:03Blow his brains out.
00:47:04A couple of big, bold, bad men getting scared to death by a six-bit cap 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.
00:47:19Pain's pretty bad.
00:47:20Where's Benny?
00:47:20Why don't we hear from Benny?
00:47:24Sit.
00:47:25Sit.
00:47:30If this isn't a stick-up, what is it?
00:47:34Did you come up here to fix a television set, Junior?
00:47:36Yeah.
00:47:36Well, then fix a television set.
00:47:39Todd, what's going on?
00:47:40They're planning to assassinate the president, Judd.
00:47:42Which president?
00:47:44The president of the United States.
00:47:45He arrives here this afternoon.
00:47:47You're kidding.
00:47:49No.
00:47:50No, you're not kidding.
00:47:53The president?
00:47:55Kill 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.
00:48:14Make 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.
00:48:22Anybody else want to take the heat off the president?
00:48:24How about you, Sheriff?
00:48:25It's a bad joke, Baron.
00:48:27Anybody else want to volunteer?
00:48:29They're commies.
00:48:30They're enemy agents.
00:48:30All right.
00:48:34Who is behind it, Baron?
00:48:38I haven't the slightest idea.
00:48:40What's in it for you?
00:48:42You're curious, aren't you, Sheriff?
00:48:44What, I last?
00:48:44I like you, Sheriff.
00:48:47You've got guts.
00:48:48You must have been a good soldier.
00:48:50I got by.
00:48:51I want a silver star.
00:48:53That's pretty good.
00:48:54I killed 27 jerrys all by myself.
00:48:56You're a born killer, that's all.
00:48:58Yeah.
00:48:59Some guys liked it.
00:49:00I know a couple.
00:49:02Baron.
00:49:03Just 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 he gets more medals.
00:49:13Here, you put a slug in a double-crossing squirt that isn't even worth burying and you have to take the gas.
00:49:18Sir, I got no feeling against the President.
00:49:23I'm just earning a living.
00:49:25By treason.
00:49:25Ace those craps.
00:49:27Don't give me that politics, Jazz.
00:49:28It's not my racket.
00:49:29I don't even know who's paying me and I don't want to know.
00:49:31What's the difference?
00:49:32Didn't it occur to you why they want you to do it?
00:49:35Certainly it did.
00:49:36But 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, I know 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.
00:49:55I used to see all those faces scratching and shoving and biting.
00:49:59And then the mist would clear and somehow all those faces would be me.
00:50:05All me and all nothing.
00:50:08But the war changed everything, eh, Baron?
00:50:12I'm no traitor, Sheriff.
00:50:13Sheriff, I won a silver star.
00:50:17And learned how to kill.
00:50:20Yeah.
00:50:22Maybe I did.
00:50:25Maybe that changed everything.
00:50:27Maybe people began to know who I was.
00:50:29After the show, I hooked up with an outfit for good dough.
00:50:35The fingers said where and how much.
00:50:37And Johnny Baron did the job.
00:50:40You think anybody else could handle this job?
00:50:42You think Benny Wheeler could do it without me?
00:50:43Talking too much, Johnny.
00:50:44There's nobody else can do this job because they got too much feeling.
00:50:49And feeling's no good.
00:50:50I got nothing against the president, Sheriff.
00:50:55He's just worth a half a million bucks to me.
00:50:57Tax-free.
00:51:00Making my own laws about the taxes too, Pop.
00:51:03The guy is goofy.
00:51:05Shut up, Judd.
00:51:07Listen to him, Buster.
00:51:09And don't ever say that again.
00:51:11Ever.
00:51:11Ever.
00:51:14You heard him, Judd.
00:51:16Half a million dollars, huh?
00:51:23Yeah.
00:51:24That's a lot of scratch, Sheriff.
00:51:26A man could retire on that amount of scratch.
00:51:29How do you know it'll ever be paid?
00:51:30Half of it's been paid.
00:51:32And the rest?
00:51:33I'll get it.
00:51:35I wouldn't be sure.
00:51:36It's not just a man.
00:51:38It's the president.
00:51:39That's what's so funny.
00:51:42The laugh is on the guys who are paying the freight.
00:51:44All the sleuthing, they don't even know what they're doing.
00:51:47A half a million clams for absolutely nothing.
00:51:51Because tonight at five o'clock, I kill the president.
00:51:53One second after five, there's a new president.
00:51:56What changes?
00:51:58Nothing.
00:51:59What are they paying for?
00:52:01Nothing.
00:52:02Otherwise, I wouldn't have taken a job, Sheriff.
00:52:05You'd have taken it.
00:52:07You think so?
00:52:08Yeah.
00:52:09Why?
00:52:14All right, take it easy.
00:52:18Come on, lady.
00:52:23Do as you're sold and everything will be fine.
00:52:25Answer is straight, clean, and plain.
00:52:28Answer it.
00:52:32Hello?
00:52:33Miss Benson, let me speak to the chief.
00:52:36Benny?
00:52:37Yeah.
00:52:38Train's on time.
00:52:39The car will be waiting in front of the station like you figured, facing you.
00:52:43Fine.
00:52:44Get back as soon as you can and don't be followed.
00:52:46Check.
00:52:46Here's the big boy's car now.
00:53:14Lovely target.
00:53:14Hey, hold it, mister.
00:53:20Yes, officer.
00:53:22What is it?
00:53:23What's your name?
00:53:24Fred.
00:53:25Fred Whitaker.
00:53:26What are you doing in town?
00:53:28Just passing through.
00:53:29Where's your car?
00:53:30I don't have one.
00:53:31I hitchhike in from Three Rivers, waiting for the train now.
00:53:34Figured I'd take the train on to L.A.
00:53:35What train?
00:53:37The five o'clock.
00:53:38The five o'clock.
00:53:40Now, that's right strange.
00:53:41Why, officer?
00:53:42Because we don't have any five o'clock train that stops here, mister.
00:53:46Except today.
00:53:47And that happens to be a special that you don't know about.
00:53:50Except that you do.
00:53:55Must be some mistake.
00:53:56You made it.
00:53:59Oh, now look, officer.
00:54:00I...
00:54:00I got identification.
00:54:02I can prove who I am.
00:54:05I got my driver's license right here.
00:54:11Come on.
00:54:21Gunfire.
00:54:21Gunfire.
00:54:39Gunfire.
00:54:40Yeah.
00:54:45Gunfire.
00:54:49Gunfire.
00:54:50Hold it! Don't shoot him!
00:55:20I told you not to kill him.
00:55:24Not to kill him? After he...
00:55:25He was our only lake.
00:55:27Come on.
00:55:35So long, Benny.
00:55:37You think they got him?
00:55:38I only hope he's dead.
00:55:39Haggerty!
00:55:40Yes, sir.
00:55:41We got him.
00:55:42Dead, unfortunately.
00:55:44Wasn't Carney's last checkpoint, the house on the hill?
00:55:46That's right, but he and the sheriff are going to check the White Springs ranch route, too.
00:55:50We haven't been able to reach them.
00:55:51Well, take two troopers and backtrack him.
00:55:52Start with the house on the hill.
00:55:54We've got to find Carney.
00:55:55Right.
00:55:59Now, we got trouble.
00:56:01Everybody except Mrs. Benson down the cellar.
00:56:03What are you going to do?
00:56:04Nothing, I hope.
00:56:05Move.
00:56:08Anybody gets brave, kill them all.
00:56:09You can only hang once.
00:56:20Ed, stay up there.
00:56:29Now, look, get a grip on yourself.
00:56:30I want you to look relaxed.
00:56:32If you don't pull this off, everybody is dead.
00:56:34Do you understand?
00:56:35All of us dead.
00:56:36So be yourself.
00:56:37I don't know what you mean.
00:56:38They'll come up here to check whether Carney and the sheriff were here,
00:56:40and I want you to go out front.
00:56:42I don't want them in the house.
00:56:43I can't.
00:56:43I don't know how.
00:56:44I don't know what to say.
00:56:45Just go out and water the flowers.
00:56:47Do anything you like, but keep busy.
00:56:50Lipstick and Rouge, quick.
00:56:54Now, listen to me carefully.
00:56:56They'll come up to check whether Carney and the sheriff were here.
00:56:59Certainly they were here.
00:57:00They came up to check the house.
00:57:02For the three o'clock, they left here.
00:57:04They went out on the White Springs Ranch Road.
00:57:06They took Pop and the kid with him.
00:57:08And that's the last you saw of them.
00:57:10You got it?
00:57:11You got it?
00:57:12Yes, yes.
00:57:14You look like a ghost.
00:57:16Step on.
00:57:20Pull it off, lady, or everybody is dead.
00:57:22Everybody.
00:57:31He's getting rattled, Pop.
00:57:32How do you mean?
00:57:33He didn't expect Bennett to get shot.
00:57:36Got nothing in mind?
00:57:38Maybe.
00:57:39Now, let's...
00:57:39Shut up, you guys.
00:57:45Mrs. Benson?
00:57:46Yes?
00:57:47My name's Hangerty.
00:57:48Then you must be one of Mr. Carney's men.
00:57:50That's right.
00:57:50Has he been here?
00:57:51I haven't seen him since they left.
00:57:53They came up here about three o'clock to check the house, they said.
00:57:56I don't know why.
00:57:57Who is they?
00:57:59Why, Mr. Carney and Sheriff Shaw.
00:58:00Then 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.
00:58:09You see, he used to be Mr. Carney's chief.
00:58:12Yes, I know.
00:58:14So, Mr. Carney took him along, my little boy, too.
00:58:17Then you're alone?
00:58:20Yes.
00:58:21And you haven't heard from him since they left?
00:58:24No, no, I haven't.
00:58:26Something's wrong.
00:58:27I know something's wrong.
00:58:28No, no, Mrs. Benson, nothing's wrong.
00:58:30We're, uh, we're just checking, that's all.
00:58:33But if you see or hear from them before I do,
00:58:36please have them check the detail down at the railroad station.
00:58:38It's very important.
00:58:39Thanks.
00:58:45All right, lady, inside.
00:58:53Come on, come on.
00:58:58All right, Bart, run a minute, it's clear.
00:59:28I wish you were dead.
00:59:34You haven't got the guts.
00:59:37Just give me a chance.
00:59:41Here's your chance.
00:59:45Go ahead, take it.
00:59:48But remember the squirt in the cellar.
00:59:50That's right.
01:00:03Think of the president first.
01:00:07Let'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.
01:00:13Everything okay, Johnny?
01:00:26Sure, everything's fine.
01:00:29She played her part real good.
01:00:30It should be a television.
01:00:33You.
01:00:34Didn't I tell you to fix the television set?
01:00:36You told me to set.
01:00:37Get your stuff and fix it.
01:00:38It'll keep you from getting patriotic.
01:00:40I don't do something.
01:00:41I'll blow my top just sitting here.
01:00:43Fix the set and shut your mouth.
01:00:44I don't like what you say anyway.
01:00:46Now fix it.
01:00:47We still got time.
01:00:53What are yours?
01:01:02Open it.
01:01:02About 200 yards.
01:01:20Baron, isn't that a German rifle?
01:01:22Yeah.
01:01:22You know it?
01:01:23I know it.
01:01:24Where were you during the war?
01:01:27All the way from the Kasserine Pass.
01:01:29I won a Silver Star.
01:01:30Where were you?
01:01:31Normandy to the L by way of the Bulls.
01:01:34You get up into Germany?
01:01:35No.
01:01:37Bet you're one of those big shot guys,
01:01:38huh, with the gold bar on the shoulder.
01:01:39No?
01:01:40No, I was a corporal.
01:01:41How about you?
01:01:42Corporal?
01:01:43I made sergeant.
01:01:44You didn't like officers.
01:01:47Officers.
01:01:47Big shots.
01:01:48Yes, sir.
01:01:49No, sir.
01:01:49Salute, sir.
01:01:51Big shots.
01:01:52You don't like big shots.
01:01:54Not when you're bigger, Sheriff.
01:01:56I killed more juries than any five officers put together.
01:01:59I did some pretty good chopping in the war.
01:02:03Pretty good.
01:02:03Like I said before, you're a born killer, that's all.
01:02:06Yeah.
01:02:07They taught me how and I liked it.
01:02:10My CO used to stand there and shake like a leaf while I chopped.
01:02:13If more guys like me had to...
01:02:14Tell me one thing, Baron.
01:02:15Baron, how come you missed Germany?
01:02:18They sent me home.
01:02:19My tour was finished.
01:02:20Your tour?
01:02:22In the infantry?
01:02:23Are you kidding?
01:02:24Why you finish your tour in the infantry when they plant you in a box?
01:02:27Tour.
01:02:28That was for the Air Corps.
01:02:29Turn it off.
01:02:29Yeah, you probably went over the hill.
01:02:31I said turn it off.
01:02:32You know, Baron, you got the yard look.
01:02:35You look yard bird to me.
01:02:36I'm telling you, Sheriff, turn it off.
01:02:38Big shot with the yard birds, eh?
01:02:39Come on now, tell me.
01:02:40Where were you court-martialed?
01:02:42What was it for?
01:02:43Rape?
01:02:44No, no, not rape.
01:02:45Killing, that's what you like.
01:02:46Killing.
01:02:47Maybe shooting down on RPWs, eh?
01:02:49Sit down and shut up.
01:02:51But, by golly, you got away with it, so...
01:02:55I got it.
01:02:56Section 8.
01:02:57You went out on a Section 8.
01:02:59Section 8.
01:03:00Psycho in charge of killing, eh?
01:03:02You know, I knew guys like you.
01:03:04Killing was sweet.
01:03:06Rather kill a man than love a girl.
01:03:08A real kick.
01:03:09The thrill with the guts.
01:03:10Stop it, Todd, stop it!
01:03:11Or maybe you didn't like your CO.
01:03:12Maybe you shot him in the back, that it?
01:03:14Maybe you killed...
01:03:15Ow!
01:03:19Like I said, shut up!
01:03:29Todd.
01:03:30Todd, darling, it's hopeless.
01:03:33Oh.
01:03:34It's not 5 o'clock yet.
01:03:38Gonna keep your trap shut?
01:03:40Yeah.
01:03:41Hurts, huh?
01:03:42It hurts.
01:03:44Well, I can keep kicking as long as you keep shooting your face off.
01:03:46I know.
01:03:48Pop, you were right.
01:03:50You blew the power tube.
01:03:51I have one here.
01:03:53Now we're perking in a second.
01:03:54You know, I was thinking, Judd.
01:03:57If you were to clamp the main plate lead to a good ground like that table there, we'd get
01:04:01a better picture.
01:04:02A lot of lines in it now.
01:04:05Clamp the main plate lead to the table.
01:04:08Cut the static lines.
01:04:09Expert.
01:04:10First he wrecks the set, and then he tells the kid how to fix it.
01:04:14Main plate lead?
01:04:15That's right, Judd.
01:04:27All it needs is a high-potential ground.
01:04:29We're a long way from the broadcasting station.
01:04:31What are you guys yapping about?
01:04:32Technical talk, mister.
01:04:34I'm an old radio man.
01:04:35Battleship New York.
01:04:36World War I.
01:04:37Grass beat the Germans single-handed.
01:04:38Not exactly, son, but I was there at Scapa Flow when the German fleet surrendered.
01:04:42All right, all right.
01:04:43Stop the bullin'.
01:04:44And fix that set, will ya?
01:04:46Yes, sir.
01:04:47Oh!
01:04:49Dad!
01:04:50Dad, what is it?
01:04:51Paid bat.
01:04:52What hit him?
01:04:52It's his heart.
01:04:53He has a bad heart.
01:04:53Pidge, my pal's top drawer of the bureau.
01:04:56I'll get him.
01:04:56You stay put.
01:04:58The kid'll get him.
01:05:08Pidge, put down that gun and get some water for your grandfather.
01:05:29But, Mom, listen.
01:05:30You heard me, Pidge.
01:05:34Oh, gee.
01:05:38You know what I think, Pop?
01:05:41I got a feeling your heart attacks are phony.
01:05:44Pain's bad.
01:05:45I'm warning, if you're trying to pull something, you better watch it.
01:05:48Baron, I've been thinking.
01:05:49You've been thinking you'd like to take a crack at this rifle.
01:05:51You think I want to get myself killed?
01:05:53Yes.
01:05:54Frankly, Sheriff, I don't think you'd mind getting yourself killed.
01:05:57Nobody wants to die.
01:05:59Do we have to talk about it?
01:06:00Why don't you shut up?
01:06:01No guts.
01:06:02Nerves.
01:06:02That's all it gets on my nerves.
01:06:04Now, why would I want to get myself killed?
01:06:06Because it's five minutes to five,
01:06:08and a shot might bring those state troopers storming all over the joint
01:06:10before the president arrives.
01:06:12But, Sheriff, I can put you away in two seconds by twisting your arm again.
01:06:16That way is no noise.
01:06:18So don't go winning any post-mortem medals.
01:06:21I wouldn't enjoy winning a post-mortem medal any more than you're going to enjoy that post-mortem money.
01:06:25What'd you say?
01:06:26What'd he say?
01:06:26I said nobody ever made it.
01:06:28And you won't either.
01:06:32You don't think so?
01:06:33So you got a plane.
01:06:36You'll never reach it ahead of the police.
01:06:38And if you do, you'll never make it to the border.
01:06:40You ever hear of the jet fighter?
01:06:42You know how many airstrips there are between here and the border?
01:06:45You know a fellow could get an education just listening to this guy?
01:06:48But maybe he's right, Johnny.
01:06:49Look, you said half the money had already been paid.
01:06:52A smart guy would hit the road right now.
01:06:54Fly out of here.
01:06:55Skip the president.
01:06:56Spend the money in South America.
01:06:57Alive.
01:06:59He's right, Johnny.
01:07:01Why take the risk?
01:07:02We can lamb now.
01:07:03We can make it.
01:07:04We don't have to fool with this thing.
01:07:05It's too big, Johnny.
01:07:06There's something wrong with it.
01:07:08Chicken.
01:07:08Chicken?
01:07:10All right, so call it chicken.
01:07:11Who wants to be rich and dead?
01:07:12They'll get us.
01:07:13They never miss yet, Johnny.
01:07:14The guy's right.
01:07:15You've got the loot.
01:07:16Let's take off and get out of here for good.
01:07:17Once we're across the border...
01:07:18Take those craps.
01:07:19No, Benny wasn't chicken.
01:07:20They didn't waste any time on him.
01:07:22I tell you, we haven't got a chance.
01:07:24Turn it off, Bart.
01:07:25You're embarrassing me in front of the sheriff.
01:07:30But, Johnny, even if we swing it, he's the president.
01:07:33They'll never give up.
01:07:34And you don't figure that the guys who are paying off are just going to let you fly away,
01:07:37do you?
01:07:38They'll be after you just like the Secret Service.
01:07:41I thought of that too, Sheriff.
01:07:43It might be an internationally embarrassing situation if the feds happen to catch up with
01:07:48us first.
01:07:49So, Bart, you just got to realize that everybody's going to be on your tail from five o'clock until
01:07:53the 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, so 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.
01:08:09You sure, Johnny?
01:08:12You leave it to me.
01:08:13You're sick, man.
01:08:18You're sick.
01:08:19I don't like that.
01:08:21Don't play God just because you've got a gun.
01:08:27But you see, Sheriff, that's the way it is.
01:08:29When you've got a gun, you are a sort of God.
01:08:32If you had the gun, I'd be the chump and you'd be the God.
01:08:36The gun gives you the power of life and death.
01:08:38It's a funny sort of feeling to have control of life and death.
01:08:43You must have had it during the war.
01:08:45You could miss a man if you had a mind, too.
01:08:48Or you could kill dead in his tracks.
01:08:51And that made you kind of God.
01:08:53And I liked it.
01:08:55Without the gun or nothing.
01:08:58And I never had anything before I got one.
01:09:02First time I got one on my hands and killed a man, I got some self-respect.
01:09:05I was somebody.
01:09:09Like this kid over here.
01:09:11If that cap pistol was a real gun and I didn't have a gun,
01:09:15he'd be a kind of a God, too.
01:09:16And if I wanted my life, I'd worship the ground he walks on.
01:09:20And I'd pay him the half a million dollars for my life.
01:09:25Because life is all I have.
01:09:29But the squirt doesn't have the gun.
01:09:31I have.
01:09:32And I can loose the lightning.
01:09:35The score is all tied up.
01:09:42Five and five.
01:09:43No noise.
01:09:43Just pictures.
01:09:44First time this season.
01:09:53Butterfingers.
01:09:54Going like this.
01:09:55They're going to have that pennant two years in a row.
01:09:57Now we pause briefly for our station.
01:09:59You're wrong about guarding the gun, Sheriff.
01:10:04Without the gun, you would never have spit at me.
01:10:07You would never have even noticed me.
01:10:09But because of the gun, you'll remember me as long as you live.
01:10:13Where is it now?
01:10:30Blowing for the 66 crossing.
01:10:32Outside town.
01:10:32All right.
01:10:35Nobody moves.
01:10:35This is it.
01:10:36You.
01:10:37Over there.
01:10:38Johnny.
01:10:39Let me see once.
01:10:40We're going to do it, Bart.
01:10:41This is my meat.
01:10:42We're going to do it.
01:10:42Just to see.
01:10:43Let's see.
01:10:50Return fire!
01:10:51Let's go.
01:11:21Oh
01:11:51It didn't stop
01:12:21It didn't stop
01:12:27It didn't stop
01:12:29No
01:12:42Don't
01:12:44No
01:12:46Please
01:12:48No
01:12:50No
01:12:52No
01:12:54Are you sure you're gonna be alright, Mr. Benson?
01:13:03Oh, don't worry about me, Mr. Wilson. I'll be alright. I don't need the nursemaid
01:13:07We're certainly grateful to you
01:13:09How come the train went right through the station?
01:13:11We simply cancelled the stopover
01:13:13We couldn't take a chance on the president's safety once it was proven the assassins were in town
01:13:17The president went on to Los Angeles
01:13:19Mr. Fishing, huh?
01:13:20I'm afraid so
01:13:21Someday those guys are gonna stop taking you for amateurs, huh, Mr. Wilson?
01:13:25I hope not
01:13:26Well, thanks again, Mr. Benson
01:13:27No, no
01:13:28You too, young man
01:13:29Well, that's alright
01:13:30Someday I'm gonna be a bodyguard just like you
01:13:34Nonsense, boy
01:13:35You're gonna grow up to be president
01:13:36And presidents have bodyguards
01:13:38And grandpops?
01:13:39And grandpops
01:13:40Especially grandpops
01:13:41Ellen
01:13:58How's Judd?
01:14:00He didn't make it
01:14:02And Slim?
01:14:04Critical, but they think he'll be alright
01:14:07I guess somebody had to make the mistake
01:14:10What?
01:14:12Something Dad said this morning
01:14:14About principles
01:14:16Get in, Todd
01:14:18I'll drive you home
01:14:19Oh, thanks
01:14:21I've got to go over to the office
01:14:25Can I pick you up for church tomorrow?
01:14:33Yeah, that'd be swell
01:14:40Say altar?
01:14:41Yeah?
01:14:42Could you tell me the way to Three Rivers?
01:14:43Ah, you go down to the first intersection, you turn left, it's about 60 miles
01:14:57Thanks
01:14:58What's this town?
01:14:59Suddenly
01:15:00Suddenly what?
01:15:01Now, that's the name
01:15:03That's the name
01:15:04That's a funny name for a town
01:15:08Oh, I don't know
01:15:13I don't know about that
01:15:33That's a funny name
01:15:39What great?
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