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Gunsmoke - "Grebb Hassle" (Old Time Radio, 1957) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Marshal Matt Dillon has been forced to kill Alvin Greb,
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: and he fears that Alvin's younger brother, Billy, may follow
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: the same dangerous path. Dillon sets out to deal with
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: the younger Greb before the situation worsens. This is Gunsmoke,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Greb Hassel, CBS episode 257, first heard on March 10th, 1957.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: William Conrad stars as Dylan, with Parley Bear as Chester,
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Howard McNair as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty Russell.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Vic Perrin, Vivi Janis, and Sam Edwards are also heard.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Les Crutchfield wrote the script, and Norman MacDonald produced and directed,
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: with Rex Corey providing the music. We now take you
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: back to the original broadcast.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: gun smoke.
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: Gun smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Guns Move, starring William Conrad. The story of the violence
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: that moved west.
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  Speaker 3: With young America. And the story of a man who
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: moved with it. I'm that man. Matt Dillon, the United
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  Speaker 3: States Marshal. The first man they look for and the
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: last they want to meet. It's a chancery job. And
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely.
• 1:48
  Speaker 4: Guns Move.
• 2:13
  Speaker 3: The town sure does seem deserted tonight, Mr. Dillon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty late, Chester. Well, it won't be like this
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  Speaker 3: much longer. End of the month, the toll herd will
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: start rolling in, and there won't be no peace around
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  Speaker 3: here for a fall. You're a hard man to please.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I ain't complaining. It'd be kindly nice to have
• 2:30
  Speaker 4: some life and excitement.
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  Speaker 3: How are you, Marshal? You remember me? Yeah, sure, I
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: remember you, Elvin. Now, you've grown some.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: I've had two years to do it, eh?
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Put on any sense, have you, along with the weight?
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  Speaker 3: Enough so I'm still not in jail.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I gave you a year, didn't I? Said you'd either
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  Speaker 3: be jailed or hung by then.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: I sure hate to disappoint you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Chester, you remember Elvin Grab, don't you? Yes, sir, I do.
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  Speaker 3: And I still got no use for him. You men
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  Speaker 3: sure ain't very friendly. What are your plans, Owen? Nothing much.
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  Speaker 3: Just got a hankering to see the old hometown. Your
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  Speaker 3: Ma and Billy are getting along fine without you. Why
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: don't you leave them alone? I figured they might need
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: some help, maybe. You didn't figure it when you lived here.
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  Speaker 3: And you haven't worried about them for the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Ma.
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  Speaker 3: You shut up and listen to me. Two years ago,
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  Speaker 3: after I let you get away with everything but murder
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  Speaker 3: just for your mother's sake, I finally ran you out
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  Speaker 3: of town, and I told you not to come back. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I remember. All right. You are back. By this time,
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  Speaker 3: you don't get any second chances. You make one wrong
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  Speaker 3: move and I'm on you, Elvin. A man can change, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Some can and some can't. I'm just telling you how
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  Speaker 3: you stand and dodge. Don't look down there.
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  Speaker 2: Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of girls riding out behind the bank there.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Marshal. That's why you've been so talkative, huh? You're
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  Speaker 3: their lookout.
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  Speaker 5: Lookout?
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  Speaker 3: Now, Marshal, I'll throw you in the river. Hey, Greb,
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  Speaker 3: come back here. You're under arrest. Not yet, Marshal. Now,
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  Speaker 3: while I've got a gun in my holster... Don't be.
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  Speaker 4: A fool, Greb.
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  Speaker 3: Albie's dead, Chester. We gonna go after him, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's too dark now. We couldn't track him tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Matt!
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  Speaker 3: Is that you, Matt? Yeah, over here, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: What happened, Matt?
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  Speaker 3: Take over it with you, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see. What? Why, it's young Elvin Graham.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even know he was.
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  Speaker 2: Around this part of the country.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's come home now, Doc. Just stay.
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  Speaker 4: This doggone land is just plain bone star, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty poor ground, all right.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see how nobody could make a living off
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  Speaker 4: in a homestead like this.
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  Speaker 3: That'd take some scratching, I guess, especially with just her
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  Speaker 3: and Billy to do the work.
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  Speaker 4: You're saying there's trouble with the crowd?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Bet she's already had it. Seems like to me we
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  Speaker 4: could have took.
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  Speaker 3: Time for some breakfast while we rode way out of here.
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  Speaker 3: And I wanted to tell her before somebody else did.
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  Speaker 1: Hey!
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  Speaker 4: Get in the seat!
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  Speaker 3: Get on there! Let's give her a hand. Those calves
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  Speaker 3: are getting away from her.
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  Speaker 5: Circle those over there by the barn and I'll pick
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  Speaker 5: up these along the fence here. All right, that's good enough, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: The rest of them will follow.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Can you get the gate closed? Yes, I do. There's
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  Speaker 4: dogs and chairs.
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  Speaker 5: Enough to drive a body clean out of the mine.
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  Speaker 4: There. Much obliged to you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Chester. That's no problem, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: Well, come on up to the house, Marshal. I'll get
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  Speaker 4: on a pot of coffee. Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Why didn't you get Billy out here to
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  Speaker 3: give you a hand? Billy?
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  Speaker 4: And he ain't the reason you're here?
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  Speaker 3: Why should he be?
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  Speaker 5: I'm worried sick, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: He acted real funny all day yesterday. Then this morning
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  Speaker 4: he sat it up and took off for dawn.
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  Speaker 3: I heard him right out of the yard first I
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  Speaker 3: knowed of it.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know where he went, what he's up to.
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  Speaker 4: He acted mighty strange like last night.
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  Speaker 3: He wouldn't look me in the eye.
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  Speaker 4: That ain't like him, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: Billy ain't like Elvin.
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  Speaker 3: Pray to Lord he don't never get like him. Elvin
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  Speaker 3: came back yesterday, Miss Greb.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: He was around town last night.
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  Speaker 4: Then Billy seen him. That's why he was acting the
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  Speaker 4: way he was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: I hoped he'd never come back. Even if he is
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  Speaker 4: my own son.
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  Speaker 3: He'll work on Billy now.
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  Speaker 4: He'll get him started down the same road he's on.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Greb. Elvin's dead.
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  Speaker 4: Dead?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and he and two other men broke into the
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  Speaker 3: cattleman's bank last night. When I started to arrest him,
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  Speaker 3: he drew and fired at me. Did he?
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  Speaker 1: Elvin.
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  Speaker 4: I think I'd better sit down.
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: Here, ma'am, sit on this chair.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I remember the winter he was for, and he
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: caught the pox.
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  Speaker 4: I took care of him night and day for a
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  Speaker 4: whole week. Thinking any hour we was going to lose him.
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  Speaker 4: Might have been better if we had.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Miss Grip.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I know for three, four years it was going
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  Speaker 4: to end this way, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. We should have been some way to
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  Speaker 3: avoid it.
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  Speaker 4: What did I do wrong, Marshal, back along the years?
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  Speaker 4: Some place that made him turn bad?
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  Speaker 3: A person never knows, I guess, ma'am. They just do
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  Speaker 3: the best they can. I gotta know.
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  Speaker 4: I got Billy to think of.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think he knew, Miss Gregg, about Elvin being killed?
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  Speaker 4: Not when he left this morning. He couldn't have. He
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: was home all night. Nobody's been here.
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  Speaker 3: He was probably meeting the three of them somewhere. A hideout, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I reckon.
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  Speaker 3: There's a ham mission.
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  Speaker 4: And some other vittles.
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  Speaker 3: What can I do, Marshal? Then it just can't go bad. Well,
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  Speaker 3: Lee Sullivan won't be a wrong influence on him. Not now, anyway.
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  Speaker 4: You really think that, Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: I ain't so sure.
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  Speaker 5: Must be a terrible feeling, Max.
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  Speaker 3: What are you talking about, Kitty?
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  Speaker 4: Those two men who got away last night.
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  Speaker 3: Not knowing who they are or where they are. The
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  Speaker 3: poor one, they'll step out from behind a building and
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  Speaker 3: try to shoot you in the back.
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  Speaker 4: They don't have much reason to do that.
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  Speaker 3: You killed Elvin Gregg. He was in with them. Revenge
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  Speaker 3: is a reason.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: I just hope maybe they left the country. I doubt
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  Speaker 3: if they have, Kitty. I think they're holed up somewhere
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  Speaker 3: around Dodge.
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  Speaker 4: Matt, I don't see how you can be so calm
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not calm, Kitty. Not till I find Billy Grip.
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  Speaker 3: If you find him, you'll find them all. I hope so.
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  Speaker 3: But you know he's joined.
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  Speaker 2: Up with them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're probably right.
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter, Jessica? Billy Grip.
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  Speaker 4: Did he come in here just now?
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  Speaker 3: No, I... I had a score. I'd just seen him
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  Speaker 3: on the seat. Some kid that sure looked like him.
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  Speaker 4: And he's heading right in.
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  Speaker 3: Behind you.
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  Speaker 4: Evening, Billy. You're a rocking killer.
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  Speaker 3: Your brother chose Billy, I didn't. You know what he
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: was up against. Now you better put that gun away.
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  Speaker 3: Sure I will.
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  Speaker 4: After I've gifted it in you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Billy, I'll give a kid more chances than I
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  Speaker 3: would a man, but not enough to get myself killed.
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  Speaker 3: Now you hand over that gun. Stay back, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: I ain't fooling.
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  Speaker 3: Did the gang give you the gun? Did they send
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  Speaker 3: you in to do their dirty work for them? Stop.
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  Speaker 4: Don't come any closer.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not putting up with any more foolishness, Billy. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you give me that gun before I throw you over
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  Speaker 3: my knee and take the flat of my hand to you.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: I said hand that over.
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  Speaker 4: No. No. No. Thanks. I'll kill you. Sorry, I'll kill you.
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  Speaker 3: Chester. Yes, sir. Take him over and lock him up.
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  Speaker 4: Richard, come on now, Billy.
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  Speaker 1: You're killing me.
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: You took a big chance, Matt. A kid like that's
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: worse than a gunfighter. Yeah, I know, Kitty. But I
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: can't keep him alive.
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: Bye, Gene, Mr. Jones. I wouldn't mind being in jail myself,
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: getting vittles like this, Gene.
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: There's some who wouldn't agree with you, Chester. Getting them
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: fetched to you? It's just like a fancy hotel. Here's
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: your breakfast, Willie. I don't want none. Maybe you'll change
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: your mind. Take it inside, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. It's the same type of breakfast I had
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  Speaker 4: this morning.
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: I told you I don't want it.
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  Speaker 4: All right, then.
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  Speaker 3: Leave it. Let them eggs and saltboard go to wasting.
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  Speaker 3: We can just eat cold mush tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 4: I want out of here, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: You ain't got nothing to hold me for. Judge Bent
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  Speaker 3: says different. He's going to set bail this afternoon or tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow will pay it. Yeah? Then you'll probably let her.
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  Speaker 3: You really hate her, don't you, Billy?
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: Hate her? You crazy?
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: If you don't hate her, why are you doing the
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: same thing to her that your brother did? You shut up!
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: I just don't understand. Elvin was big. He took anything
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: he wanted and didn't ask nobody.
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  Speaker 3: He's not big now, Billy. No bigger than the rest
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: of them out there on Boot Hill.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna pay for that, Marshal.
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: If they don't get you, I will.
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: They?
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  Speaker 3: Who's they, Billy? You'd like to know, wouldn't you? They're
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: a pair of sneaking, thieving rats, the same as Elvin was.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: You don't owe them anything. Now, where are they?
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: Matt!
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: You were there? Oh, yeah.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: I'll be right out, Doc. You better think it over, Billy.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: You think it over, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you won't call them rats when we're on a
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: gun trip or killing my horse.
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  Speaker 3: He's pretty head up, ain't he?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Come on in, Doc. Oh, Matt, you still got the
• 14:13
  Speaker 3: grub boy here? We just took him his breakfast.
• 14:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, good.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: I figured maybe you'd want to know about his ma.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: Know what about her? It was that herd of yearling
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: calves she's got out there. Seems that she was trying
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: to work them by herself, and they knocked her down
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: and trampled her. But she hurt bad. Well, she'd be
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: laid up in bed a week or so. She looks
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: worse off than she is.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: Well, you'd think the Indians had.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Caught her maybe and beat her to a pulp. And
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: my trouble never comes single once it starts. Wait a minute, Doc.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Yeah, it might work. If she'll go
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: along with it, it just might work. We'll leave the
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: horses here. All right. Come on, Bella, let's go in
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: and see her.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: What happened to her?
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Why won't you tell me what happened to her?
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: I guess she wants to tell you herself.
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  Speaker 4: Ma? Ma, where are you? In here, Billy.
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  Speaker 3: All right, go on. Ma, you all right?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I'm so busy.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: At least I guess I will be. Doc says I will, but.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Billy, why they got handcuffs on you?
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: It ain't nothing, Ma.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Marshall said he knowed where you was, and he bet.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: You, but.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: What's he done, Marshall?
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Well, he just lost his head a little, ma'am. I
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: might have been willing to forget that part, but... Well,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: he's dead set on protecting a couple of bank robbers.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: And I figured a jail cell might change his mind
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: for him.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: Them two that was with Elvin, them two that was...
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: His partners, friends, that's who you're protecting.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Now, Ma.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: You're a sneaking coward. Just as low and mean and
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: worthless as Elvin had got to be. He's dead, Ma.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: You got no call to talk about him like that.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Dead, yes. Better off dead. I'm his own Ma, Sam.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: You ought to have been here this morning, Billy. Shake
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: hands with your friends. Maybe you could have helped him.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: What you talking about?
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Look at me. How do you think this happened?
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: They wouldn't do that. They're your friends. Yours and Elvin's.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: All I've seen was the handkerchiefs over their faces. They
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: said Elvin had told them I was keeping money for them.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Money they'd stole somewhere. Well, they didn't. They couldn't have
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: dragged me out in the yard, did they? Used their boots,
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: a chunk of stove wood.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I'll kill them.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: So help me, I'll kill them both.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Why them?
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: They're the same kind as Elvin. They were his friends. Well,
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: they ain't my friends. Marshal, their names is Chuck Speller
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: and Curly Tolman.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: They're at that old abandoned sod house west of Branchport Crossing,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: just above the ridge.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know where it is, Billy. All right, take
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: the handcuffs off, Chester.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Marshal. I get pretty crazy. Well, I'll do
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: it once in a while, Billy. Elvin must have been
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: the same kind that he wouldn't have run with him.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I guess he wasn't so big at all. No, Billy,
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: not very big, I'm afraid.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Billy, would you mind fixing me a cup of tea? Sure, Ma.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Right away. Now, you just lay back there and rest.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: You're going to be well in no time.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I lied to him, Marshal. It was a white lie, though,
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: wasn't it?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: About as white as they come, Miss Graham. Well, Chester,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: I guess we'd better go bring him in. Come on. Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Stars William Conrad as
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  Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Marshal.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Harley Bear as Chapter, Howard
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: McNair as Doc, and Georgia.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Ellis as Kitty.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: This evening's Gunsmoke presentation, Greb Hassel, now comes to its close.
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