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- 0:00Speaker 1: In Dodge City, young Texan Trace Gore arrives intent on
- 0:04Speaker 1: challenging Leif Tugwell, a gunman whose reputation is known throughout
- 0:08Speaker 1: the country. From September 30th, 1956, this is Gunsmoke, episode 234,
- 0:14Speaker 1: The Brothers. William Conrad stars as Marshal Matt Dillon, who
- 0:20Speaker 1: knows Tugwell from his own earlier days as a lawman
- 0:23Speaker 1: and tries to prevent a public confrontation. Parley Bear, Georgia Ellis,
- 0:28Speaker 1: and Howard McNear are heard as Chester, Kitty, and Doc
- 0:31Speaker 1: in a script by William F. Lester for CBS. And now,
- 0:35Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West... There's
- 0:52Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
- 0:55Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of Gunsmoke. Gunsmoke,
- 1:18Speaker 2: starring William Conrad. transcribed story of the violence that moved
- 1:22Speaker 2: west with young America and the story of a man
- 1:26Speaker 2: who moved with it.
- 1:27Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
- 1:32Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
- 1:36Speaker 3: It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful.
- 1:40Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
- 1:45Speaker 5: Mr. Dillon?
- 1:47Speaker 4: Mr.
- 1:48Speaker 5: Dillon? Yeah, what is it, Chester? Oh, there you are.
- 2:14Speaker 6: I didn't know you was asleep.
- 2:16Speaker 4: I wasn't asleep. I was just trying to get there.
- 2:19Speaker 6: Yeah, but I didn't see you laying here on the cot.
- 2:20Speaker 6: I was looking for you to be setting up.
- 2:22Speaker 4: How could I sleep setting up, Chester?
- 2:25Speaker 7: I didn't know you was sleeping.
- 2:27Speaker 3: I wasn't sleeping, Chester. We just went through that.
- 2:31Speaker 6: Gracious, I ain't going to tell you what I come
- 2:33Speaker 6: to tell you.
- 2:35Speaker 4: All right, that's fine with me.
- 2:37Speaker 7: Bye, Jing.
- 2:38Speaker 4: I don't know it's going to be so fine for
- 2:39Speaker 4: you at all.
- 2:41Speaker 3: You don't trust her any more of this, and I'm
- 2:43Speaker 3: going to take you out and soak you in brine.
- 2:46Speaker 6: And while you're doing that, Leif Tugwell's probably going to
- 2:49Speaker 6: be shooting down some innocent citizen.
- 2:52Speaker 4: Leif Tugwell? That's right.
- 2:54Speaker 6: I'd know that long, sad face anywhere. His hair is
- 2:58Speaker 6: Mike Gray, but it's him right enough, Mr.
- 3:00Speaker 8: Dillon.
- 3:01Speaker 4: He always did look like an undertaker.
- 3:03Speaker 8: No, he ought to.
- 3:04Speaker 6: He's buried enough men.
- 3:05Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe. But at least he never went looking for trouble.
- 3:08Speaker 6: He always manages to find it without looking.
- 3:11Speaker 7: I don't like no part of him, Mr.
- 3:12Speaker 4: Dillon. I'll go have a talk with him. Where is he?
- 3:15Speaker 7: He went up to Doc's office.
- 3:17Speaker 6: And if I was you, when he comes out, I'd
- 3:18Speaker 6: tell him to keep right on going.
- 3:20Speaker 7: All the way back to Texas.
- 3:22Speaker 3: I've known Leif Tugwell a long time, Chester. I know
- 3:25Speaker 3: him when he helped clean up San Antonio. They're mighty
- 3:27Speaker 3: proud of him down there. He's no cheap gunman to
- 3:30Speaker 3: be told to get out of town.
- 3:32Speaker 4: All right, then.
- 3:33Speaker 7: Ask him to leave. Because if you don't, Mr. Dillon,
- 3:36Speaker 7: there'll be trouble as sure as shooting.
- 3:50Speaker 4: Matt.
- 3:59Speaker 7: Matt Dillon.
- 3:59Speaker 4: What? Oh, Matt, you old son of a gun. Hello, Leif.
- 4:04Speaker 7: I heard they pinned a badge on you.
- 4:06Speaker 3: Well, I was just on my way up to Doc's
- 4:08Speaker 3: to see it. Oh, it's Chester Proudfoot.
- 4:11Speaker 4: Hi, son.
- 4:11Speaker 7: Don't believe I heard about you.
- 4:13Speaker 4: Well, I've heard an.
- 4:14Speaker 7: Awful lot about you, Mr. Tugwell. Well, you don't have
- 4:16Speaker 7: to call me Mr.
- 4:17Speaker 4: son.
- 4:18Speaker 7: And you don't have to call me son.
- 4:19Speaker 6: I'm old enough to have saw you kill a man
- 4:21Speaker 6: back in Abilene.
- 4:22Speaker 3: Never mind, Chester. Why don't you go on over to
- 4:25Speaker 3: the Long Branch and have a beer, huh? I'll just
- 4:27Speaker 3: do that, Mr.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Dillon.
- 4:28Speaker 7: By golly, I'll just do that. Kind of feisty, ain't he?
- 4:35Speaker 3: Well, it's not so much that, Leif. He just doesn't
- 4:38Speaker 3: like trouble, that's all.
- 4:41Speaker 4: And neither do I.
- 4:42Speaker 7: But you think I do, huh?
- 4:44Speaker 4: I know better than that. But I'd appreciate it if
- 4:47Speaker 4: you took particular pains to steer clear of it while
- 4:50Speaker 4: you're here in Dodge.
- 4:51Speaker 7: I won't start anything, Matt.
- 4:53Speaker 4: Good. Then we won't worry about it.
- 4:56Speaker 1: We?
- 4:57Speaker 7: That'd be quite a show.
- 4:58Speaker 1: You and me could almost charge admission.
- 5:01Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe you could, Leif. But one of us would
- 5:04Speaker 3: be winding up using his cut for a burial.
- 5:10Speaker 4: Come on, I'll buy you a beer.
- 5:11Speaker 7: I don't think so, Matt.
- 5:13Speaker 4: No? Now who's getting feisty?
- 5:17Speaker 7: Look, I carry a gun, sure.
- 5:19Speaker 1: If I'm a little faster than the next, it's because
- 5:22Speaker 1: I've had to be. But I never killed a man
- 5:24Speaker 1: who wasn't trying to kill me first. Is that against
- 5:27Speaker 1: the law in Dodge?
- 5:28Speaker 4: No, it isn't.
- 5:29Speaker 3: But we got a big population up on Boot Hill, Leif.
- 5:33Speaker 3: And I'm interested in keeping it from getting any bigger.
- 5:36Speaker 1: So am I. By exactly one.
- 5:39Speaker 4: Me.
- 5:42Speaker 5: The End.
- 6:08Speaker 4: Hello, Kitty.
- 6:10Speaker 8: Matt, I didn't see you come in.
- 6:13Speaker 4: That's probably because you weren't looking.
- 6:16Speaker 8: No. After all, what do I care about who comes
- 6:19Speaker 8: in here as long as I got money to spend?
- 6:21Speaker 4: You can be more friendly than that.
- 6:23Speaker 7: Only to my friends.
- 6:25Speaker 8: Thank heaven most of our customers aren't.
- 6:28Speaker 3: I take it you're not feeling very kindly toward people tonight.
- 6:33Speaker 8: Not very. Maybe it's just because I get sick of
- 6:36Speaker 8: men stalking one another like wolves. Baring their teeth, hating
- 6:40Speaker 8: one another. Why can't they sing and laugh and dance
- 6:44Speaker 8: once in a while?
- 6:45Speaker 4: Well, they do, and you know it.
- 6:47Speaker 8: Not tonight, they don't.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Are you thinking of somebody in particular?
- 6:52Speaker 7: Well, that one doesn't help.
- 6:55Speaker 5: Who?
- 6:56Speaker 8: That fellow at the bar. The one with the face
- 6:58Speaker 8: like a hound dog. Look at the space on each
- 7:01Speaker 8: side of him. You'd think it was poison.
- 7:04Speaker 4: He is kidding. That's Leif Tugwell. Oh.
- 7:10Speaker 8: He seems quiet enough for a man with his reputation.
- 7:13Speaker 3: And that's his reputation I'm worried about. Every would-be gunman
- 7:17Speaker 3: in Kansas would like to be able to say that
- 7:19Speaker 3: he'd taken Leif Tugwell.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Mr.
- 7:21Speaker 9: Dillon.
- 7:22Speaker 8: Mr. Dillon.
- 7:23Speaker 7: Oh, hello, Miss Kitty.
- 7:24Speaker 8: Hello, Chester.
- 7:24Speaker 1: Hey, Mr.
- 7:25Speaker 6: Dillon, there's a young fellow over at the Alapaganzas talking
- 7:27Speaker 6: pretty big, and it's all about Leif Tugwell.
- 7:30Speaker 4: Oh? What does he look like?
- 7:31Speaker 7: Small, stocky, got a real mean mouth on him.
- 7:35Speaker 4: Maybe I better go calm him down.
- 7:37Speaker 7: Wait a minute.
- 7:38Speaker 4: You won't have to.
- 7:38Speaker 7: That's him just come in.
- 7:40Speaker 1: There.
- 7:41Speaker 7: Fat one looking around like he's going to.
- 7:42Speaker 4: Buy the place.
- 7:44Speaker 7: He can't be over 18.
- 7:46Speaker 4: They're the worst kind, Kitty The young ones trying to
- 7:49Speaker 4: make a fast name for themselves What if I drink a.
- 7:52Speaker 7: Sad face, fellow bartender? The one with gray hair Stand around, folks,
- 7:59Speaker 7: stand around.
- 8:02Speaker 9: I suppose you all didn't know there was a famous
- 8:04Speaker 9: man here tonight.
- 8:07Speaker 7: You're gonna drink with me, Tugwell.
- 8:12Speaker 4: Son, I don't think Mr. Tugwell wants to drink with.
- 8:16Speaker 7: You You standing up for him, Marshal? I can handle this, Matt.
- 8:22Speaker 7: Calls you by your first name. Must be he's a
- 8:26Speaker 7: friend of yours.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Maybe as long as we're bandying names about, you'll tell
- 8:29Speaker 3: me your name.
- 8:31Speaker 7: It's Gore. Trace Gore. And I'm from Texas.
- 8:36Speaker 9: Tugwell knows all about Texas.
- 8:37Speaker 7: That's where he's running from. I never ran away from
- 8:41Speaker 7: anything in my life, Gore.
- 8:43Speaker 4: So that makes you a liar. What? All right, give
- 8:47Speaker 4: me that gun, Gore.
- 8:49Speaker 7: I came a long way to kill him.
- 8:51Speaker 4: I said give it to me. All right, now you
- 8:56Speaker 4: get out of here.
- 8:59Speaker 9: I sure never thought I'd see the day when any
- 9:01Speaker 9: lawman's badge would be big enough for Leif Tugwell to
- 9:04Speaker 9: hide behind.
- 9:04Speaker 4: Chester.
- 9:05Speaker 7: Yes, sir?
- 9:06Speaker 4: Get him out of here. Here's his gun. You can
- 9:08Speaker 4: give it back to him outside.
- 9:10Speaker 2: Come on, boy.
- 9:11Speaker 4: Let's go.
- 9:11Speaker 7: I'll get you in here.
- 9:19Speaker 1: You shouldn't have done that, Matt. You'll just go screw
- 9:22Speaker 1: up his courage another notch.
- 9:25Speaker 4: What do you want here in Dodge, Leif? You getting
- 9:28Speaker 4: ready to tell me to leave? I don't want to.
- 9:33Speaker 4: In a way, you and I are sort of brothers
- 9:35Speaker 4: under the skin. We're what? You were a marshal in
- 9:39Speaker 4: San Antonio, Leif. Now, why don't you make my job
- 9:43Speaker 4: easier for me? I'll tell you something, Matt.
- 9:47Speaker 1: A man gets tired of running from a lot of
- 9:48Speaker 1: would-be gunmen that ain't dry behind the ears. This ain't
- 9:52Speaker 1: the first time Gore's tried it on with me. You
- 9:55Speaker 1: mean he followed you here? All the way from Sweetwater.
- 9:59Speaker 1: I pinned his ears. back with a bottle down there.
- 10:02Speaker 1: This time it'll have to be with a.
- 10:03Speaker 8: 45.
- 10:03Speaker 3: Aren't you forgetting something, Leif?
- 10:07Speaker 1: Yeah, what?
- 10:09Speaker 4: About staring clear of trouble while you're here. Doc. Hey, Doc.
- 10:36Speaker 7: In the back room, Matt.
- 10:44Speaker 4: I saw your light, Doc.
- 10:45Speaker 10: Oh, I'm glad you came up. I've been alone here
- 10:48Speaker 10: watching these test tubes last six hours.
- 10:50Speaker 4: Oh, that looks like blood.
- 10:52Speaker 2: It is.
- 10:53Speaker 4: Probably the easiest blood ever drawn in Dodge. He was willing.
- 10:57Speaker 4: Who was it?
- 10:59Speaker 10: And that I don't ask you who got picked up
- 11:01Speaker 10: for being drunk on Front Street.
- 11:03Speaker 4: Okay, Doc, I'm sorry. What I really came to see
- 11:06Speaker 4: you about was Leif Tugwell. What about him?
- 11:10Speaker 3: Now, you've known him a long time, Doc. I want
- 11:13Speaker 3: you to help me talk him into leaving Dodge.
- 11:15Speaker 7: He'll be leaving tomorrow, man.
- 11:18Speaker 4: Well, I want him out before he has to kill
- 11:19Speaker 4: a man. And tomorrow may be too late.
- 11:23Speaker 10: I promised Leif a while ago I wouldn't discuss this,
- 11:26Speaker 10: but under the circumstances, I'd better tell you. That's his
- 11:31Speaker 10: blood in those tubes.
- 11:33Speaker 4: He can't hold a gun, much less pull the trigger.
- 11:37Speaker 6: Why?
- 11:38Speaker 4: There's no cure for the disease Leif has. Nobody even
- 11:42Speaker 4: knows what causes it.
- 11:44Speaker 10: The nervous system goes to pieces and so does the
- 11:47Speaker 10: muscle control.
- 11:50Speaker 4: Why didn't he tell me?
- 11:51Speaker 10: Well, put yourself in Leif's spot.
- 11:53Speaker 7: He was a big man once.
- 11:55Speaker 10: Weakness doesn't come easy to that kind.
- 11:58Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you're right, Doc.
- 12:01Speaker 3: I probably would have done the same thing.
- 12:04Speaker 10: Well, anyway, I got no cause to worry about Leif
- 12:07Speaker 10: Tugwell killing anybody.
- 12:09Speaker 4: No, Doc. But what about his getting killed? Uh, Chester. Hey, Chester.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
- 12:43Speaker 3: Look, Chester, there's no sense in both of us keeping
- 12:46Speaker 3: a night watch. Why don't you go get some sleep?
- 12:48Speaker 4: Well, I tried to, Mr.
- 12:50Speaker 7: Dillon.
- 12:51Speaker 4: But I keep thinking of the way I treated Leif Tugwell.
- 12:56Speaker 7: You know what I'm going to do?
- 12:58Speaker 8: What?
- 12:59Speaker 6: I'm going over to his hotel first thing in the
- 13:01Speaker 6: morning and apologize.
- 13:02Speaker 4: He was mighty patient with Gore. He was patient because
- 13:06Speaker 4: he had to be, Chester. Had to be?
- 13:08Speaker 7: Forevermore, Mr.
- 13:10Speaker 9: Dillon.
- 13:11Speaker 7: Leif could have ate that young.
- 13:12Speaker 6: Fool for supper.
- 13:13Speaker 4: Could have, maybe. But not now. He's a sick man, Chester.
- 13:18Speaker 4: He can't even use a gun anymore. Did he tell
- 13:21Speaker 4: you that?
- 13:22Speaker 3: No, but Doc did. That's why Leif came to Dodge.
- 13:25Speaker 3: He figured maybe Doc could help him.
- 13:27Speaker 6: Why the Sam Hill didn't he say something?
- 13:30Speaker 3: All he's got left is his pride, Chester. When a
- 13:34Speaker 3: man becomes a legend, he wants to keep it that way,
- 13:38Speaker 3: I guess.
- 13:41Speaker 5: All right, I'll be down in a minute.
- 14:15Speaker 8: Marshal?
- 14:16Speaker 4: Yeah, what is it, Gord?
- 14:19Speaker 7: That hotel across the street. That's where Leif Tugwell stands.
- 14:24Speaker 8: Oh, is it?
- 14:24Speaker 7: Now, you know it is, Marshal.
- 14:28Speaker 9: And I know he's got to come out sometime. Did
- 14:32Speaker 9: you hear what he done to me?
- 14:34Speaker 4: He said something about it.
- 14:36Speaker 7: He shamed me. Hit me with a bottle right in
- 14:39Speaker 7: front of the whole town of Sweetwater.
- 14:41Speaker 4: He only did it to keep from killing you, son.
- 14:44Speaker 7: You got it wrong, Marshal. It's me who's going to
- 14:47Speaker 7: kill him.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Why don't you go back to Texas, Gore?
- 14:53Speaker 7: Oh, I will, Marshal.
- 14:55Speaker 4: I will.
- 14:56Speaker 3: I know you're kind, Gore. You listen to too many
- 14:58Speaker 3: lies around a campfire. You got no hair on your face,
- 15:02Speaker 3: but you blow yourself up to the size of a man.
- 15:04Speaker 7: You got no call talking to me this way.
- 15:06Speaker 4: You shut up and listen. Now, being cock of the
- 15:10Speaker 4: walk isn't all you've got it figured to be. You
- 15:13Speaker 4: talk a lot about killing, but there's being killed, too,
- 15:17Speaker 4: and you're dead a long time.
- 15:21Speaker 7: Is that all, Marshal?
- 15:23Speaker 4: Yeah, that's all.
- 15:26Speaker 7: I think I'll go get me a drink. Join me?
- 15:30Speaker 4: No, thanks. I'm superstitious.
- 15:33Speaker 5: I'm superstitious.
- 15:45Speaker 4: Mr.
- 15:45Speaker 7: Dillon?
- 15:46Speaker 8: Mr. Dillon?
- 15:47Speaker 4: Yeah, what is it, Chester?
- 15:48Speaker 7: You better come quick. They're out in front of the
- 15:49Speaker 7: long branch.
- 15:50Speaker 6: Leif and that damn fellow Gore.
- 15:52Speaker 7: They're picking to have a showdown.
- 15:54Speaker 4: Leif knows he can't pull a gun.
- 15:56Speaker 7: Well, he don't act like it. How are you going
- 15:58Speaker 7: to stop him?
- 15:59Speaker 3: That's Gore I'm going to stop. Leif doesn't need stopping.
- 16:03Speaker 3: You wait here, Chester.
- 16:03Speaker 4: Yes.
- 16:09Speaker 8: Leif!
- 16:11Speaker 7: Stay out of this, Matt.
- 16:14Speaker 9: It'll be self-defense on both sides. No law against that,
- 16:18Speaker 9: is there, Marshal?
- 16:19Speaker 4: No, there isn't, son.
- 16:20Speaker 3: You know, Leif, this kind of reminds me of the
- 16:24Speaker 3: time you killed those three men in Abilene.
- 16:26Speaker 4: That's the fastest draw I ever saw.
- 16:29Speaker 1: I told you to stay out of this, man.
- 16:33Speaker 7: You're too far away, Gore. You'll never hit a man
- 16:36Speaker 7: from there. You're gonna fight, come a little closer. I'll
- 16:40Speaker 7: call my own hand, Leif.
- 16:41Speaker 3: Trouble with these youngsters is they get nervous, Leif. Worst
- 16:46Speaker 3: thing that can happen in a gunfight, son.
- 16:49Speaker 7: I ain't nervous, Marshal.
- 16:50Speaker 4: Why, you don't have to be ashamed of it. There
- 16:51Speaker 4: aren't many amateurs like you could face a man like
- 16:54Speaker 4: Leif Tugwell without their hands sweating.
- 16:58Speaker 7: Give the boy his chance, Matt.
- 16:59Speaker 4: That's what I'd like to see him have, Leif. Look
- 17:03Speaker 4: at him. The boy's hands are starting to twitch right now.
- 17:06Speaker 4: He's getting scared, Leif.
- 17:07Speaker 7: I ain't scared. Come on, son. Let's get this over with.
- 17:15Speaker 3: Son, sometimes they die slow and hard. A bullet makes
- 17:20Speaker 3: a big hole in a man's insides that can churn
- 17:22Speaker 3: him up bad.
- 17:23Speaker 1: Here.
- 17:26Speaker 7: You stay out of this, Marshal.
- 17:27Speaker 4: Now, why don't you stay out of it, son? Why
- 17:29Speaker 4: don't you clear out?
- 17:30Speaker 3: Why don't you get on your horse and go on
- 17:32Speaker 3: back to Texas? You've got a lot of living ahead
- 17:36Speaker 3: of you that way. Here you haven't got any, and
- 17:41Speaker 3: you're smart enough to know it. You can be lying
- 17:45Speaker 3: dead there in five seconds.
- 17:50Speaker 7: Well, son, you coming at me?
- 17:57Speaker 8: No.
- 17:59Speaker 7: No, I ain't. Changed my mind.
- 18:04Speaker 1: When you do like the marshal says, you go on home.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 18:11Speaker 4: All right, folks.
- 18:12Speaker 10: The show's over.
- 18:13Speaker 5: Now, why don't you all go about your.
- 18:15Speaker 7: Business, huh?
- 18:16Speaker 8: Go on.
- 18:17Speaker 4: All right. I guess I'll be moving along, Matt. Back
- 18:30Speaker 4: to Texas? No, not this time.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go out to California.
- 18:36Speaker 4: Get myself a small spread and sit under a tree.
- 18:40Speaker 7: Use your words. I'll have a lot of living ahead.
- 18:43Speaker 4: Of me that way. Yeah, I think you would have. Goodbye, Mr. Tugwell.
- 18:51Speaker 4: You don't have to call me Mr., son. Goodbye, Matt. Goodbye, Liz.
- 19:01Speaker 6: By golly, a man like that's got a right to
- 19:04Speaker 6: be called mister.
- 19:06Speaker 4: Yeah, he has that, Chester. He sure has that.
- 19:14Speaker 5: The End.
- 19:39Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
- 19:43Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
- 19:44Speaker 4: Marshal.
- 19:46Speaker 2: The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by William Lester
- 19:49Speaker 2: with editorial supervision. by John Meston. The music was composed
- 19:53Speaker 2: and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Tom Hanley
- 19:56Speaker 2: and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin
- 20:00Speaker 2: and Sam Edwards. Parley Bear as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc,
- 20:04Speaker 2: and Georgia Ellis as Kitty.
- 20:07Speaker 1: This has been Gunsmoke, episode 234, The Brothers. Follow Gunsmoke
- 20:12Speaker 1: for more classic broadcasts.