Latest / Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio / Gunsmoke — Lost Rifle [episode 225], Broadcast 7/29/1956 (Western Radio Drama)
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- 0:10Speaker 1: Gun Smoke brought to you by Chesterfield. Chesterfield packs more
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- 0:22Speaker 1: satisfy the most. Around Dodge City and in the territory
- 0:30Speaker 1: on West, there's just one way to handle the killers
- 0:33Speaker 1: and the spoilers. And that's where the US Marshall and
- 0:36Speaker 1: the Smell of gun Smoke. Guns Smoke, starring William Connry,
- 1:00Speaker 1: the transcribe story of the violence that moved west with
- 1:03Speaker 1: young America and the story of a man who moved
- 1:07Speaker 1: with it.
- 1:08Speaker 2: I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first
- 1:13Speaker 2: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
- 1:16Speaker 2: It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
- 1:21Speaker 2: and a little lonely.
- 1:54Speaker 3: Hey, Tipple Muller, horse, you are an oars that I
- 1:57Speaker 3: can get mine in there?
- 1:58Speaker 4: This hitch racks purty crowded, Paris, can't you tie up
- 2:01Speaker 4: someplace else?
- 2:02Speaker 5: I said, move him over? Yeah, I don't do that.
- 2:07Speaker 4: No, you hit my horse again, I'll shoot you.
- 2:13Speaker 5: Paris.
- 2:14Speaker 2: You won't do nothing.
- 2:19Speaker 5: What's the matter with you? You drunk?
- 2:22Speaker 3: You gotta complain about something, Tip, Yeah, Paris, I gotta complaint.
- 2:29Speaker 6: Go ahead, Tip A long way.
- 2:31Speaker 2: All right, hold us there, you man, You stay out
- 2:33Speaker 2: of this, Marshall. Not likely.
- 2:35Speaker 5: Now I look here, Marshall.
- 2:37Speaker 3: I know you're a friend of Tipples, but I don't
- 2:40Speaker 3: know as I like.
- 2:40Speaker 5: You're protecting him this hart.
- 2:42Speaker 2: I'm not protecting anybody, Paris. I'm stopping a gunfight. Now,
- 2:45Speaker 2: you got moving.
- 2:46Speaker 5: I'll meet you anytime, Paris.
- 2:47Speaker 2: You'll shut up?
- 2:48Speaker 3: Well, meet right enough? Well, you ain't got your nurse
- 2:52Speaker 3: made around? Why'd you stop it?
- 2:58Speaker 7: Mad?
- 2:58Speaker 5: He had it coming to him.
- 3:01Speaker 2: You're pretty hot tempered, aren't you. Ben?
- 3:03Speaker 5: Did you see what he done?
- 3:04Speaker 2: That snow raising does shoot him?
- 3:06Speaker 1: Man?
- 3:06Speaker 4: And you know an ordinary man? No, but that Paris
- 3:08Speaker 4: has been looking for trouble for a long time.
- 3:10Speaker 2: O what he's like.
- 3:12Speaker 4: But you keep away from him, then it's found to happen, Matt,
- 3:15Speaker 4: sooner or later. And I don't hide from no man.
- 3:17Speaker 4: You know me well enough for that.
- 3:36Speaker 5: This dog on Old River is awful high for this
- 3:38Speaker 5: time of year. Ain't what you've done.
- 3:40Speaker 2: I must have been having some big rains up in Colorado.
- 3:43Speaker 8: Oh, now that's where I'd like to be upping them
- 3:47Speaker 8: tall cool mountains. Yeah, my, just think of laying on
- 3:53Speaker 8: your back up there in the deep grass, drinking snow
- 3:58Speaker 8: water and eating trout.
- 3:59Speaker 9: And listening to all him pretty birds singing away.
- 4:04Speaker 2: Oh well, miss your Chester.
- 4:06Speaker 5: Oh, I ain't going no word.
- 4:11Speaker 2: He look on the bank there.
- 4:15Speaker 5: I'm fellow fishing. You must fell asleep.
- 4:21Speaker 2: He isn't a sleep Chester.
- 4:24Speaker 5: No, sir, I don't believe he is. What that's Frank Pash,
- 4:37Speaker 5: mister Dillon.
- 4:38Speaker 2: Yeah, shot in the back.
- 4:43Speaker 5: Oh that's terrible.
- 4:47Speaker 2: There's a pole.
- 4:50Speaker 5: My golly.
- 4:50Speaker 9: He was sitting here fishing and somebody sneaked up and
- 4:53Speaker 9: shot him.
- 4:54Speaker 5: Oh that's a mean way to die.
- 4:58Speaker 2: I've got a wagon and carry him back to all right.
- 5:02Speaker 5: Get on Chester, I can't see nobody.
- 5:08Speaker 2: All right, come out of there. You can't get both
- 5:11Speaker 2: of us. Come out of We'll start shutting.
- 5:13Speaker 10: Josh and Marshall.
- 5:14Speaker 11: I'm coming.
- 5:17Speaker 5: Well, it's only a kid, Sandy Spangler, Andy, what are you.
- 5:22Speaker 2: Doing out here?
- 5:23Speaker 10: Not of Marshall. I was gonna go fishing, but I
- 5:26Speaker 10: lost my line.
- 5:27Speaker 2: Why were you hiding in the brush him?
- 5:31Speaker 12: I heard a shot some time ago, and I come
- 5:32Speaker 12: looking around. I found him laying there, and I got
- 5:35Speaker 12: scared when I heard you ride up, so I hid.
- 5:38Speaker 2: You didn't see anybody.
- 5:39Speaker 10: No, I didn't see nothing. Whoever did it was gone.
- 5:42Speaker 9: Oh my goodness, mister Young, the way Frank and Ben
- 5:49Speaker 9: Tipple was carrying on. You don't suppose Ben could have
- 5:53Speaker 9: did it?
- 5:53Speaker 5: Do you? I know he's a good friend of yours.
- 5:56Speaker 2: No, never mind, Chester Well, let's get back to town.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Come on, Annie, you can ride behind me. That whistling
- 6:28Speaker 2: man Bobby Haggart really started something tonight. The Calypso Boys
- 6:32Speaker 2: join in. Ready, Amigos.
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- 6:59Speaker 1: packed by Accurrae. This electronic miracle removes human error in
- 7:04Speaker 1: cigarette manufacture. So Accurrae Chesterfield is firm and pleasing to
- 7:09Speaker 1: the lips. Mild yet deeply satisfied. Yes, Chesterfield gives you
- 7:14Speaker 1: something no other cigarette.
- 7:15Speaker 2: Can give you.
- 7:17Speaker 13: Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
- 7:23Speaker 1: To the touch, to the taste. Chesterfield packs more pleasure
- 7:27Speaker 1: because it's more perfectly packed by Chesterfield. Mild, yet they
- 7:32Speaker 1: satisfy the most.
- 8:00Speaker 2: M hell, I've Ben, I'm mad. Come in.
- 8:16Speaker 5: Uh, I was about to take a little nap. Now
- 8:19Speaker 5: schooled offs? Uh?
- 8:23Speaker 2: Ben, you heard what happened to Frank Paris yesterday?
- 8:28Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I heard? Well are you asking me if
- 8:35Speaker 5: I did?
- 8:35Speaker 7: It?
- 8:36Speaker 2: Meant most everybody in Dodge thinks you did?
- 8:39Speaker 5: And what do you think?
- 8:41Speaker 2: Well, I've been telling everybody I've known Ben Temple a
- 8:44Speaker 2: long time and that he's hot tempered, and that Frank
- 8:47Speaker 2: Paris has been proud name every chance he had. But
- 8:51Speaker 2: the Paris didn't even have his gun out. Besides, he
- 8:54Speaker 2: was shot in the back. What are people saying to that?
- 8:59Speaker 2: That's then you're a friend of mine. I think that's
- 9:02Speaker 2: why I haven't arrested you.
- 9:04Speaker 5: We'll use it.
- 9:07Speaker 2: I'd go after my own brother if I thought he
- 9:09Speaker 2: murdered a man.
- 9:09Speaker 5: Ben happened yesterday morning? Sometimes, did I?
- 9:16Speaker 7: Matt?
- 9:17Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
- 9:19Speaker 5: I got no alibi for then. I wasn't with nobody.
- 9:25Speaker 2: That's too bad. It would have helped.
- 9:33Speaker 5: I might have shot Frank Perry someday he met, but
- 9:36Speaker 5: never in the back.
- 9:38Speaker 2: I know that, Ben. But until I find out who
- 9:42Speaker 2: did it, you better lay low.
- 9:59Speaker 14: Just look at this place, Matt, oh what's wrong, kitty.
- 10:03Speaker 14: Well maybe the biggest saloon in Dodge, but it's surely emptiest.
- 10:07Speaker 2: Oh, you're getting greedy, kiddy, and.
- 10:09Speaker 5: It's about time. I'm you're not getting younger.
- 10:12Speaker 2: You're gonna be able to retire before you're thirty.
- 10:15Speaker 10: Why not?
- 10:16Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad somebody's getting rich around here. Law sure isn't.
- 10:21Speaker 5: No, but the law keeps busy.
- 10:24Speaker 2: Huh.
- 10:25Speaker 14: Joe Spangler and his paw. I think he's looking for you, matt.
- 10:29Speaker 6: Oh evening, Miss Kiddy, evening.
- 10:37Speaker 7: I want to talk to you, Marshall.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Go ahead, Spangler.
- 10:41Speaker 7: I don't know why you ain't got Ben Tippling.
- 10:44Speaker 2: G Frank Parris was a friend of yours, wasn't they?
- 10:49Speaker 2: I don't matter, and it doesn't matter that Ben Tipple's
- 10:52Speaker 2: a friend of mine. He didn't do it, Spangler.
- 10:56Speaker 7: There's a lot of people think you did more.
- 10:59Speaker 2: You're have any proof.
- 11:00Speaker 6: I'm a boy and here I think he saw a
- 11:03Speaker 6: Tipple out there, and I'll get it out of him.
- 11:07Speaker 7: I whipped him once already.
- 11:09Speaker 2: Look, Spangler, your boy had told me. If he's saying anybody,
- 11:12Speaker 2: why would he try to protect Ben Temple? Scared scared
- 11:15Speaker 2: of what.
- 11:16Speaker 7: You what you might do to him if he talked.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Just a minute, Spangler, Now.
- 11:27Speaker 7: He's gonna talk before I'm through.
- 11:30Speaker 2: You can get out of here. You're making me mad.
- 11:34Speaker 6: No, I didn't even to do that, Marshall. All I
- 11:38Speaker 6: wanted is to get you to do your job before
- 11:42Speaker 6: somebody has to do it for you.
- 11:47Speaker 5: Easy, man.
- 11:50Speaker 2: Yeah, I to take him apart.
- 11:57Speaker 9: That wouldn't help him.
- 11:58Speaker 2: It'd make me feel better.
- 12:01Speaker 14: You'll be all right soon you find out who did
- 12:04Speaker 14: kill pass?
- 12:04Speaker 2: How am I gonna find that out? Kitty? With all
- 12:07Speaker 2: this going on, he's as safe as a bear and
- 12:09Speaker 2: a hickory tree. Well, looks to me like you're gonna
- 12:27Speaker 2: have a busy day today, man, I am why dog?
- 12:29Speaker 1: Well, I don't know now.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Maybe it's because you did so little yesterday. Do I
- 12:35Speaker 2: owe you some money or something?
- 12:37Speaker 7: Doctor?
- 12:37Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, you're all paid that.
- 12:39Speaker 2: But uh, you know, man, I've been thinking how much
- 12:43Speaker 2: you want? Dog?
- 12:44Speaker 15: Oh?
- 12:45Speaker 5: Ten dollars dood eh?
- 12:49Speaker 2: Hey yeah, oh oh thank you? Sure I just pay
- 12:54Speaker 2: it back by Friday.
- 12:55Speaker 16: That's oh no, you think I was merely asking.
- 12:58Speaker 2: For a loan. You have your own way of doing things, doctor.
- 13:05Speaker 16: So's he Uh, look that filthy spanere. He's coughing his
- 13:12Speaker 16: boy around again.
- 13:15Speaker 2: I've had about enough of his ways.
- 13:17Speaker 7: I warned you, boy, I've warned you.
- 13:21Speaker 4: What you did.
- 13:24Speaker 7: You won't learn, will you? All right?
- 13:27Speaker 6: That spangling fire? You just get out of here, Marshall.
- 13:32Speaker 6: You ain't interfering in this.
- 13:34Speaker 2: Let the boy go spankling.
- 13:35Speaker 7: Let him go.
- 13:37Speaker 2: I set that Andy, you stand over here. He won't
- 13:46Speaker 2: hit you again.
- 13:47Speaker 10: I didn't mean to do it. I told him I didn't.
- 13:49Speaker 2: What did you do? Andy?
- 13:50Speaker 10: I lost his rifle. I bought it to go hunting.
- 13:53Speaker 10: I fell across the river and I lost it.
- 13:55Speaker 7: I order to kill you, marshall.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Don't try it, spangler not come on, get on your feet.
- 14:00Speaker 7: What right you got coming between the man and his boy?
- 14:04Speaker 2: No, I guess, but I took it anyway.
- 14:06Speaker 7: Kid ought to be in jail stealing like he does.
- 14:09Speaker 2: It wasn't stealing.
- 14:10Speaker 7: It ain't none of your business.
- 14:11Speaker 6: Boy who now, I ain't gonna talk to you about
- 14:14Speaker 6: it any I'll see to you later.
- 14:20Speaker 2: You beat him, I got, and I'll throw you in jail.
- 14:24Speaker 10: He won't beat me cause I ain't going home, not ever.
- 14:28Speaker 2: What do your mother think, Annie?
- 14:30Speaker 10: I got no mother?
- 14:33Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot any and he hates me.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Look uh and he If things get bad, you come
- 14:43Speaker 2: see me anytime? Will you do that? Maybe I don't
- 14:48Speaker 2: let your paw make you say anything. It isn't true. Andy,
- 14:51Speaker 2: you don't have to you understand. Yeah, all right, now
- 14:58Speaker 2: you just remember you you can come see me anytime.
- 15:21Speaker 1: Where are you listening to gun smoke in your favorite easy.
- 15:24Speaker 6: Chair or.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Out driving?
- 15:30Speaker 1: Oh? There you are in the kitchen. Say you want
- 15:34Speaker 1: to make whatever you're doing more enjoyable. Have a Chesterfield.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Enjoy Chesterfields better taste and mildness. It stands to reason
- 15:43Speaker 1: a cigarette made better and packed better smokes better, tastes better,
- 15:48Speaker 1: and Chesterfield is more perfectly packed by accurae. This electronic
- 15:53Speaker 1: miracle removes human error in cigarette manufacture. So Accurae Chesterfield
- 15:58Speaker 1: is firm and please into the lips, Mild yet deeply satisfying. Yes,
- 16:03Speaker 1: Chesterfield gives you something no other cigarette.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Can give you.
- 16:07Speaker 13: Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
- 16:13Speaker 1: To the touch, to the taste, Chesterfield packs more pleasure
- 16:17Speaker 1: because it's more perfectly packed by Chesterfield. Mild, yet they
- 16:22Speaker 1: satisfy the most.
- 17:01Speaker 9: Look at all them stars up there just to shine
- 17:04Speaker 9: in a way.
- 17:05Speaker 2: Yeah, and look at all those lights in the saloons,
- 17:09Speaker 2: just to shine in a way.
- 17:12Speaker 5: You ain't much of a nature lover, are you not?
- 17:15Speaker 13: Well?
- 17:16Speaker 2: I got work to do, say well, for the next
- 17:19Speaker 2: few hours, I gotta walk around and try to make
- 17:21Speaker 2: sure nobody's gonna get cheated or get too drunk or
- 17:24Speaker 2: get killed.
- 17:25Speaker 5: Many You're right, sometimes that can turn into it. We'll
- 17:30Speaker 5: look you there, it's Andy. Now what's he up to?
- 17:34Speaker 10: Washingilling?
- 17:35Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 17:36Speaker 2: What's the trouble?
- 17:37Speaker 10: They're in that alley right back here?
- 17:38Speaker 2: Come on, well, who's in.
- 17:41Speaker 12: The alley corners to drop? He get out and you're
- 17:46Speaker 12: waiting for him to come by?
- 17:48Speaker 2: Said, how do you know? What were you doing there?
- 17:49Speaker 10: I thought pose after me? But he's gonna shoot the tipple.
- 17:52Speaker 2: I know he's I can stop him.
- 17:55Speaker 13: I don't know how.
- 17:57Speaker 2: All right, let's slow down here. Uh, you wait here
- 18:02Speaker 2: with Chester and he I'm gonna go on there alone.
- 18:09Speaker 6: Sit your warve and you re teat to fool whether
- 18:12Speaker 6: he's will admit it, and you know it.
- 18:14Speaker 5: I wouldn't have minded shoot. And Frank Paris is not
- 18:17Speaker 5: in the back, not even to him.
- 18:20Speaker 7: I guess I'm gonna have to culle.
- 18:22Speaker 2: You'll die yourself if you pull that trigger. Spangler Marshall,
- 18:28Speaker 2: Now you drop that gun.
- 18:30Speaker 7: No, he killed Frank Parrish, and I'm gonna shoot him.
- 18:34Speaker 7: If I die for it.
- 18:35Speaker 2: Myself, I'll be a fool.
- 18:37Speaker 5: He's got my gun.
- 18:38Speaker 2: Magic, Just stand steady better, Marshall, he get back, Andy.
- 18:42Speaker 10: I gotta chell you something he he shook away from him.
- 18:45Speaker 5: Mister done.
- 18:46Speaker 10: It's charrible important.
- 18:47Speaker 2: I'll me keep an eye on Spangler Chester. Yes, a
- 18:49Speaker 2: right now? What is it any area?
- 18:51Speaker 4: And over?
- 18:51Speaker 10: I got a whispering?
- 18:55Speaker 7: What's going on there?
- 18:56Speaker 5: Never mind?
- 18:57Speaker 9: You got two men who'll shoots you out, A spangler
- 18:59Speaker 9: and you better than trying nothing.
- 19:01Speaker 7: Get tired of this? What's that kid doing here? Anyway?
- 19:05Speaker 5: Well, he didn't come here to murder nobody like his
- 19:07Speaker 5: paw did.
- 19:07Speaker 7: Man Tipple was the murderer, not me.
- 19:10Speaker 2: Oh yes, and Spangler Temple doesn't shoot Frank Paris.
- 19:14Speaker 7: You said that before Andy did it? Andy?
- 19:19Speaker 2: He just told me what are you saying? It was
- 19:23Speaker 2: an accident. He saw something moving, he thought it was
- 19:26Speaker 2: an animal, so he fired at it. I don't believe
- 19:29Speaker 2: the day he took your rifle when he found he
- 19:32Speaker 2: shot Paris he got scared him through the rifle under
- 19:34Speaker 2: the river.
- 19:35Speaker 5: You tell him it's true.
- 19:37Speaker 10: I was too scared to kill anybody before.
- 19:40Speaker 2: All Right, you heard him spangling. I put up that God,
- 19:45Speaker 2: don't believe he's lying.
- 19:48Speaker 7: You stay where you.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Are, put up your gun, I said, not hardly. You
- 20:04Speaker 2: killed him, Matt, He almost killed me then, Andy, Kay,
- 20:16Speaker 2: I'm sorry about your paw, but uh, you go with
- 20:20Speaker 2: Chester now? Huh?
- 20:23Speaker 10: He wasn't my paw. What My real paw died a
- 20:27Speaker 10: long time ago. Myma told me about it once. You
- 20:30Speaker 10: made me change my name. Oh, I guess that's why
- 20:35Speaker 10: I never did like me much?
- 20:37Speaker 7: Beat me all the time.
- 20:38Speaker 10: Yeah, Marshall, what and when are you gonna hang me?
- 20:46Speaker 2: Hang you for shooting mister Parris? Is that what you've
- 20:51Speaker 2: been thinking?
- 20:53Speaker 10: I admitted doing it, didn't I It was an accident.
- 20:56Speaker 2: Andy, nobody's gonna hang you?
- 21:01Speaker 7: Then?
- 21:02Speaker 13: What?
- 21:02Speaker 6: Matt?
- 21:04Speaker 2: He's a mighty brave boy.
- 21:07Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sure is why he spoke up just now
- 21:12Speaker 4: to save my life, thinking he'd be hung for it,
- 21:15Speaker 4: didn't he?
- 21:18Speaker 5: Andy, how'd you like to come home with me?
- 21:22Speaker 4: I got a place for a boy like you.
- 21:25Speaker 10: You mean that, I sure do, Marsha, You believe me.
- 21:30Speaker 10: Think he means it.
- 21:33Speaker 11: Yeah, and I think he means it mm.
- 21:58Speaker 7: In a moment.
- 21:58Speaker 17: Our star William Conrad.
- 22:05Speaker 13: Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
- 22:12Speaker 1: A cigarette made better and packed better smokes better, tastes better,
- 22:16Speaker 1: and Chesterfield is more perfectly packed. By accurae, this electronic
- 22:20Speaker 1: miracle removes human error in cigarette manufacture, so accurate. Chesterfield
- 22:25Speaker 1: is firm and pleasing to the lips, Chesterfield mild, Yet
- 22:29Speaker 1: they satisfy the.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Most you know along the frontier, whether because of Indians,
- 22:37Speaker 2: a gunman's bullet or lack of water, death was always
- 22:42Speaker 2: near at hand. But next week it's a girl who
- 22:46Speaker 2: causes the death of four men. And that was the West.
- 22:52Speaker 2: Good Night.
- 22:54Speaker 17: Gun Smoke were uced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars
- 22:57Speaker 17: William Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. Our story was
- 23:01Speaker 17: specially written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music
- 23:05Speaker 17: composed and conducted by Rex Cory, sound patterns by Tom
- 23:08Speaker 17: Hanley and Bill James. Featured in the cast were John Dayner,
- 23:12Speaker 17: Vic Perron, Richard Bial's and Jack Prussian, Barley Bear is Chester,
- 23:17Speaker 17: Howard mcneer is Doc and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy Live
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