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Lux Radio Theatre - "The Westerner" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: In Vinegaroon, Texas, west of the Pecos, saddle tramp Cole
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  Speaker 1: Harden is brought before Judge Roy Bean, whose saloon court
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  Speaker 1: serves the local cattlemen. Cole's quick thinking wins him a
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  Speaker 1: precarious reprieve, then draws him into the growing dispute between
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  Speaker 1: cattlemen and homesteaders and toward Jane Ellen Matthews, a homesteader's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: From September 23, 1940, this is Lux Radio Theater's 274th broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: The Westerner, adapted from Samuel Goldwyn's 1940 motion picture, Gary Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport reprise their film roles as
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  Speaker 1: Cole Harden, Judge Roy Bean, and Jane Ellen Matthews. Cecil B.
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  Speaker 1: DeMille is your host, with music by Louis Silvers. And now,
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Gary
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  Speaker 2: Cooper in The Westerner with Walter Brennan and Doris Davenport.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Cecil B.
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  Speaker 4: DeMille.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. I have a telegram
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  Speaker 2: here from Helen Hayes. She says, best wishes to you
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  Speaker 2: and the Lux Radio Theater. May your seventh season be
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  Speaker 2: so good it surpasses the other six. Just like Helen Hayes,
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  Speaker 2: wishing good to others. So this seems the right time, Helen,
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  Speaker 2: to wish you all success in your new programs. but
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  Speaker 2: it'll be hard to top the performances you've given us
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  Speaker 2: in the past. I'm going to be one of your
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  Speaker 2: listeners next Sunday night, September 29th. I wouldn't miss the
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  Speaker 2: Helen Hayes opening broadcast on the CBS network for anything
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  Speaker 2: in the world. Good luck, Helen. We'll be listening. A
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  Speaker 2: few weeks ago, on a flight across this continent, I
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  Speaker 2: had a bird's-eye view of the jagged mountains and broad plains,
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  Speaker 2: the quiet towns and bustling cities, the haystacks and the smokestacks.
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  Speaker 2: A bird's-eye view of America... It was a panorama of achievement,
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  Speaker 2: a vision of freedom fulfilled. It was a script in
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  Speaker 2: my hand that went well with what I saw. It
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  Speaker 2: was the script of tonight's play, The Westerner, a play
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  Speaker 2: about some of the men who dreamed America and made
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  Speaker 2: the dream come true. To those men, Samuel Goldwyn paid
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  Speaker 2: a tribute in his motion picture just released, and to
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  Speaker 2: them we dedicate this radio production with the same stars
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  Speaker 2: you'll see on the screen, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and
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  Speaker 2: Doris Davenport. The Westerner is a story of the march
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  Speaker 2: of empire toward the setting sun, of men who shoot
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  Speaker 2: first and ask questions later. It's a story of one
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  Speaker 2: man in particular in this rough scramble for land and power,
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  Speaker 2: a man with a sense of justice and a way
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  Speaker 2: with a gun. His name is Cole Harden, and he's
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  Speaker 2: played tonight by Gary Cooper. Ordinarily, Gary is no easier
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  Speaker 2: to pin down for a date at a microphone than
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  Speaker 2: he is for a speech at a banquet. But this time,
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  Speaker 2: I had him right in the cast of my Northwest
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  Speaker 2: Mounted Police, and I got my man. We're proud to
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  Speaker 2: present a play like The Westerner because it's part of
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  Speaker 2: the old American tradition, and it's brought to you by
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  Speaker 2: a modern American tradition, Lux Toilet Soap. We think that
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  Speaker 2: American women are the most beautiful women in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and we're mighty proud that so many of them use
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  Speaker 2: Lux Toilet Soap to help them stay that way. As
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  Speaker 2: our curtain rises, it's a signal for action, romance, and excitement.
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  Speaker 2: We begin Act One of The Westerner, starring Gary Cooper
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  Speaker 2: as Cole Harden, with Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean,
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  Speaker 2: and Doris Davenport as Jane Ellen Matthews.
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  Speaker 4: The Westerner.
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  Speaker 2: In the throes of rebirth, after the war between the states,
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  Speaker 2: America moved west, where the land was free. First came
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  Speaker 2: the cattlemen, and with them, Judge Roy Bean, who took
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  Speaker 2: the law into his own hands, administering justice according to
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  Speaker 2: his likes. His court was a barroom. His sentences were
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  Speaker 2: swift and to the point. The strong limb of a
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  Speaker 2: tree and six feet of rope. Then into his stronghold
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  Speaker 2: moved another army, the homesteaders. who plowed the soil and
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  Speaker 2: fenced the field to bring security to their wives and children.
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  Speaker 2: War was inevitable, a war out of which grew the
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  Speaker 2: Texas of today. And the bloodiest battleground of that war
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  Speaker 2: was west of the Pecos.
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  Speaker 3: Quiet! Quiet!
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  Speaker 4: This is a hangin' on a shindig! All set, Judge.
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  Speaker 4: We're ready to swing the homesteader. Shad Wilkins, you've been
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  Speaker 4: tried and found guilty of the most serious crime west
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  Speaker 4: of the Pecos. To wit, shooting a steer. Got anything
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  Speaker 4: to save yourself for the sentence this court's executed?
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  Speaker 2: I told you those cowherders shot at me first. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't mean to kill that steer on purpose. I was
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  Speaker 2: aiming at the man.
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  Speaker 4: It's your bad luck you missed him. That's the trouble
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  Speaker 4: with you sod busters. You can't shoot straight. But when
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  Speaker 4: I move that horse out from under you, by gobs
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  Speaker 4: you'll hang straight. Shad Wilkins, may the Lord have mercy
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  Speaker 4: on your soul.
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  Speaker 5: Ha-ha!
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  Speaker 4: All right, boys. Everybody over at the bar. The drinks
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  Speaker 4: are on me. Now, propose a toast to the greatest
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  Speaker 4: woman in the world. There's a picture right up there.
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  Speaker 4: To the fairest flower that ever bloomed, Miss Lily Langtree.
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  Speaker 4: Hold it, boys. Hold it. You there, stranger. Why aren't
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  Speaker 4: you drinking? Didn't you hear the toast?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Lily Langtry. I thought you meant your friend. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know that included me.
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  Speaker 4: That includes every man that drinks at my bar.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to join you. Have you ever met Miss Langtry, Judge?
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  Speaker 4: No, I never met her. I never met the sun,
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  Speaker 4: I never shook hands with the moon, and I've never
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  Speaker 4: been introduced to no clouds.
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  Speaker 2: Say, that's all right. Too bad Lily Langtry couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: heard that.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever seen her?
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  Speaker 2: No. No, I was in England once when she was
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  Speaker 2: playing at the Empire, but I... I didn't get around
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  Speaker 2: to it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you was in England once and you could have
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  Speaker 4: seen it, but you never got around to it, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Get out of my bar. Huh? Get out of my bar.
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  Speaker 3: Go on, get!
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sure, I didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. To the Jersey Lily, boys. Miss Lily Lane.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 4: Gee, what's going on out there, Chickenfoot? Looks to me
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  Speaker 4: like Black Jack's bringing in another prisoner. Prisoner, huh? Hand
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  Speaker 4: me my law books under the bar. Get in there.
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  Speaker 4: Go on.
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  Speaker 2: Keep moving. Give us room, boys.
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  Speaker 4: What you got there, Black Jack?
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  Speaker 2: A horse, the judge.
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  Speaker 4: Prisoner to the bar. Chickenfoot, the law. Order in the court.
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  Speaker 4: Here you hear your court of vinegar on the on session.
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  Speaker 4: Where's the prisoner? Which one's the prisoner? I guess you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about me. Are you Judge Bean? That's right. Why? Well,
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  Speaker 4: nothing much. I've heard of you. So is a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people. What's the charge, Black Jack?
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  Speaker 2: We caught him on Chicken Boots' horse that was stole
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  Speaker 2: last week.
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  Speaker 4: A horse, Pete? Where's he at?
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  Speaker 2: Right outside.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see. Let me see. Well, so it is.
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  Speaker 3: Pete!
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  Speaker 4: Guess we got a case, all right. People of Vinegaroon, again,
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  Speaker 4: you can use any name you like. Cole Harden. What
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  Speaker 4: are you doing in Vinegaroon? Oh, just passing through. Homesteading? No.
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  Speaker 4: Where do you head from? Oh, no place particular. What
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  Speaker 4: are you heading for? No place special. Oh, saddle bum, huh? Well,
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  Speaker 4: it's all right to live on a horse if it's
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  Speaker 4: your own horse. Chicken foot, swear him in. You swear
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  Speaker 4: to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth,
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  Speaker 4: shall I help you? Take off your hat. Now, cold heart,
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  Speaker 4: now tell you. Here, here, order. What do you want
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  Speaker 4: in here?
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  Speaker 5: Are you Bean?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am, Judge Roy W.
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  Speaker 6: Bean.
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  Speaker 5: My name's Jane Ellen Matthews.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Miss Matthews. What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 5: What have you done with Shad Wilkins?
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  Speaker 4: Shad Wilkins?
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  Speaker 5: He was working in the field when some of your
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  Speaker 5: wranglers came up and took him away.
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  Speaker 4: Shad Wilkins, Shad Wilkins. Oh, yeah. He was hanging around
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  Speaker 4: out here a while back, but he ain't around now.
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  Speaker 5: Your men not only took him away, but they tore
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  Speaker 5: down the fence. Not a stick of it was left standing.
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  Speaker 4: That so?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that so. And you needn't pretend you don't know
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  Speaker 5: about it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it don't surprise me none. It's again the law
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  Speaker 4: to build fences hereabouts.
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  Speaker 5: What law? Whose law?
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  Speaker 4: Mine.
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  Speaker 5: Now you listen to me, Mr. Bean.
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  Speaker 4: Judge Bean.
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  Speaker 5: You're no more a judge than I am.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that if now as you. I might
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  Speaker 4: consider it contempt of court.
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  Speaker 5: It's contempt, all right. You call this a court?
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  Speaker 4: I do, and it happens to be in session right now. Southeast,
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  Speaker 4: get the young lady a chair. Now you sit down, Matthews,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll tend to your case in a minute. Cole Harden,
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  Speaker 4: you're charged with stealing a horse. Guilty or not guilty?
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  Speaker 4: Not guilty. Where's exhibit A?
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  Speaker 5: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Where's the horse? Bring in the horse, Chickenfoot. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 3: Look out.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Matthews, when cattle can't get to water, they die.
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  Speaker 5: There's miles of river on each side of our homestead.
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  Speaker 4: This country's unfenced rangeland that all this was and all
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  Speaker 4: this will be. Get in there. Get in there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Judge, there he is. Oh, boy. Oh, Hardin,
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  Speaker 4: it's my duty to inform you that the last knee
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  Speaker 4: of an equine is a capital offense, punishable by death.
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  Speaker 4: But you can rest assured that in this court, a
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  Speaker 4: horse thief always gets a fair trial before he's hung. Chickenfoot,
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  Speaker 4: that's your horse? Oh, sure he is. Ownership of the
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  Speaker 4: horse clearly established. It belongs to Chickenfoot. That's my ruling.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't contest it, Your Honor. Maybe the horse
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  Speaker 8: does belong to Chickenfoot here, but I didn't steal it.
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  Speaker 4: How'd you get it then? I bought it. Order in
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  Speaker 4: the court. That all you got to see? That's all?
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  Speaker 5: No, it's not. I'm not going to stay here and
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  Speaker 5: see anybody railroaded like this.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Matthews, I don't... recollect you as summoned as a
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  Speaker 4: witness in this trial.
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  Speaker 5: What kind of a trial is it when a prisoner
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  Speaker 5: isn't even allowed to have anybody speak for him?
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  Speaker 4: You an attorney, miss?
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  Speaker 5: I'm as much an attorney as you are a judge.
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  Speaker 4: You know this man?
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Ever seen him before?
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  Speaker 5: No, but.
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  Speaker 4: Can you prove he didn't steal a horse? No, but...
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  Speaker 4: Then he don't need no lawyer. Okay. This man was
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  Speaker 4: caught in a stolen horse, and this juror's 16. That's
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  Speaker 4: pretty facey evidence. The case is closed, and that's my ruling.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and it's just like all your rulings.
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  Speaker 4: The courtroom will now be cleared of everybody excepting the judge,
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  Speaker 4: the jury, the prisoner, and the witnesses. I guess that
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  Speaker 4: means you, Miss Matthews.
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  Speaker 5: I'll go. I don't want to see any more. Murder,
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  Speaker 5: that's what it is. This man hasn't got a chance,
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  Speaker 5: and you know it. But you never give anybody a chance.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't give us one when you stampeded the cattle
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  Speaker 5: over our crops. You thought you'd starve the homesteaders out,
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  Speaker 5: but you didn't. You can pester us and rob us
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  Speaker 5: and kill us, but you can't stop us. Because there'll
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  Speaker 5: always be more coming, more and more. And we'll stay
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  Speaker 5: on our farms in spite of you and your courtroom
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  Speaker 5: and your killers.
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  Speaker 4: By gob, she's all right. She'd make a good cattleman.
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  Speaker 4: If it wasn't for Lily, I'd marry her. Gentlemen of
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  Speaker 4: the jury, you heard the case. Again, the accused, pro
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  Speaker 4: and con. And now I guess you better retire to
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  Speaker 4: consider a verdict. Chickenfoot, you better take Pete out for
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  Speaker 4: a little fresh air.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Take him out, Bart. I got work to do. Jury
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  Speaker 4: to the rear. Come on, now. Come on, Bart. Take
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  Speaker 4: him out there easily. You suppose it's all right for
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: the prisoner to take a drink? Why, sure. We don't
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  Speaker 4: aim to inflict no cruel or unusual punishment on a man,
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  Speaker 4: even if he is a horse thief. Join me, Your Honor?
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  Speaker 4: Don't mind if I do. Don't spill none of that liquor, son.
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  Speaker 4: It eats right into the bar.
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  Speaker 8: Well, here's to the most beautiful lady, the beautiful lady
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  Speaker 8: on the wall, Miss Lily Langtree.
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  Speaker 4: Say, is that a bullet in her face? Yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: the man that fired that bullet was hauled out of
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  Speaker 4: here feet first. Is that so? Well, he ought to be.
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  Speaker 8: Any man that had shooted a picture of Lily Langtree
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  Speaker 8: ought to be killed.
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  Speaker 4: It's just retribution. Hmm.
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  Speaker 8: You wouldn't admire Miss Lily's, too? Well, that's putting it mildly.
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  Speaker 8: She's the most beautiful woman I ever met.
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  Speaker 4: Met? Met? You mean to tell me you met Lily Langtree,
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  Speaker 4: the real her in the flesh? Oh, many times. Wonderful actress.
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  Speaker 4: How'd you get to know her? Well, that's a long story, Judge.
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  Speaker 4: Mighty fine liquor. What do you call it? Rub of
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  Speaker 4: the brush. Go on. Did you get to know her
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  Speaker 4: real well? It's got character.
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  Speaker 8: I said, did you get to know her real well? Now, Judge,
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  Speaker 8: a gentleman never discusses a lady in a bar room.
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  Speaker 8: Who said it's a bar room? This is a courtroom.
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  Speaker 8: Tell me, is she as pretty as them pictures? The
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  Speaker 8: picture's never been made that can do justice to Lily Langtry.
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  Speaker 4: See, is she good-natured? An angel. I'll never forget the
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  Speaker 4: night we met. Yeah, go on. What's she like?
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  Speaker 8: I'll never forget it as long as I live. You've
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  Speaker 8: been down around Llano Bay, ain't you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know how it is at sunset? You can
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  Speaker 8: look out and that water ain't exactly blue and it
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  Speaker 8: ain't exactly purple. It's a kind of color a man
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  Speaker 8: can feel, but he can't put a name to.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's Lily's eyes. My gosh. How about her hair?
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  Speaker 4: Her hair? Oh, well, that's a tough one, Judge. Well, now... Well,
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  Speaker 4: you know... You know how.
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  Speaker 8: Bright and coppery and gold-like a young chestnut horse is
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  Speaker 8: running in the bright sun?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Well, her hair is something like that in the daytime.
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  Speaker 8: You mean it's different at night? Well, not different, but
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  Speaker 8: just sort of more so.
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  Speaker 4: By God! I, uh... I got a lock of her hair.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 4: You mean to tell me you actually got the real... Well,
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  Speaker 4: I don't suppose you'd ever part with that lock of hair,
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  Speaker 4: no matter what a man is willing to give. A
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  Speaker 4: man don't trade things like that. Of course not. Say,
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  Speaker 4: let's have a look at it. Well, I haven't got
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  Speaker 4: it with me. Where's it at? It's with my stuff
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  Speaker 4: in El Paso. El Paso, huh? Uh-huh. Suppose you could
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  Speaker 4: write for it. Sure. Wouldn't take long to get here
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  Speaker 4: by mail, coach? Oh, about two or three weeks. Two
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  Speaker 4: or three weeks, huh? Yeah, about. Mm-hmm. Jury's ready, Judge.
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  Speaker 4: Come on in. Well, what's the verdict? Why, you know
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  Speaker 4: what the verdict is.
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  Speaker 5: Guilty.
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  Speaker 4: Hardin, there's only one thing you can do. You're sentenced
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  Speaker 4: to hang. That's my ruling. Turn loose the prisoner's hands, boy.
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  Speaker 2: But, Judge, you just ruled.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't finish my ruling. The court sentenced the prisoner
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  Speaker 4: to hang, but the court didn't say when. So long
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  Speaker 4: as there's reasonable doubt... What reasonable doubt, Judge? We caught
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  Speaker 4: him with Chickenfoot's horse.
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  Speaker 2: There ain't any room for doubt.
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  Speaker 5: Order!
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  Speaker 4: I've been talking to the prisoner. Your friend, Lily Langtrees.
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  Speaker 4: Stands to reason no friend of Lily Langtrees goes around
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  Speaker 4: stealing horses. Leastways, there's reasonable doubt. His sentence is suspended
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  Speaker 4: for two or three weeks until I can look into
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  Speaker 4: the matter further. That's my ruling. Court's adjourned.
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  Speaker 2: Can a man get a drink now?
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  Speaker 4: Sure he can. Hi, Evans. Evening, Judge. What'll it be?
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  Speaker 4: Jersey lily special. Ain't seen you for some time, Evans.
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  Speaker 5: Nope.
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  Speaker 4: Made up north.
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  Speaker 2: Just rode in.
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  Speaker 4: Pardon, mister. Yeah? What's on your mind? I heard you
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  Speaker 4: say you've been up north. Say, you don't happen to
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: have a twin brother, do you?
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  Speaker 3: No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: Then maybe you better pay me that money you owe me.
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  Speaker 3: You're local, brother.
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  Speaker 4: I don't owe you nothing. You owe me $ 60.
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  Speaker 6: Get away from me.
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  Speaker 2: $ 60.
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  Speaker 4: Get away, I tell you.
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  Speaker 8: Say, look, mister, I don't happen to have a gun
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  Speaker 8: on me. But I want that money, and I want
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  Speaker 8: it now.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: Boy, you... Give him room, boys. Give him room. And
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: all the rules of the court, no interfering in differences
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  Speaker 4: of opinion. Hey, that was pretty nice work, Hardin.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Now, with the permission of the court, I'll just....
• 16:07
  Speaker 8: Take my $ 60 out of his pocket. Give me just
• 16:09
  Speaker 8: a minute. I ain't so sure that's legal. Yeah, well,
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: it is in this case. You see, this friend of
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: yours is the man who sold me that horse.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: What? Then he's the fellow that stole it from me.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Get him up off that floor.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I'll knock him. Take it easy.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Stand right where you are.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Look out, chicken foot. He's got you covered.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Put away that gun, Evans.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I'm going out that door.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Anybody makes a move, I'll drop him. That goes double
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: for me. Put down that gun. I'm warning you. Come on, you.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Move.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: You got him, Judge. Right through the heart. That's where
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: I aimed. How much you got in his pockets? Let
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: me see.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: 50, 60... Eighty.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Eighty-four dollars and six bits. You find eighty dollars for
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: disorderly conduct and four dollars and six bits for carrying
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: concealed weapons. Now you men get some rope and string
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: him up. String him up? Why, he's dead already. We
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: hang horse thieves, don't we? String him up like I
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: tell you. All right. Pardon. You can have his horse
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: and outfit. Come on, have a drink. Rubber the brush?
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Rubber the brush. Say when, son.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: When?
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: I guess I can match that. When? Well, son, here's
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: to a lock of Miss Lily's hair. That's coming from
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: El Paso.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Better have another one on that. Make it a good
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: one this time. Say when, son. When? Good boy. Say,
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: you went.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Morning, Judge. Time to get up. Huh? Who are you?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Who are you? Sorry if I woke you. I was
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: just leaving. Oh, you were?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: What a.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, oh, stranger.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: Come here, quick. What's the matter? Straighten out my neck,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: will you? Grab a hold of my head now and
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: jerk it quick. Oh, thank you. Where's my neck? You see,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I was hung once, but my friends cut me down
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: in time. Now, when I don't live right, why, the
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: crick comes back on me. Now, who are you, anyhow?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: What are you doing here? Well, don't you remember?
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: I'm the fellow that filled up the inside straight on
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: one chicken foot's horse. He's waiting outside for me now,
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: saddled and ready to go.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Well, so long, Judge. Nice to have met you. One
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: chicken foot horse. Inside straight. Never saw him before in
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: my life. Man, it's crazy. I buy gobs that lock
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: of hair.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, you!
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Come back here! Come back! Come back, you! What's all
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the excitement, Judge? Get out of my way. I gotta
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: catch that fella. Get me a horse.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Anybody's horse. Quick!
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Hey, you, pull up that horse.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Stop, you hear?
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Judge, I'm in a hurry.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Pull up that horse or by gobs I'll.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Pull you down off of it. Ha, ha, try it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: All right, I will. Hey, look.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Out.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Why, you crazy old... That lock of hair, Lily's hair.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: You promised to write the old parcel for it, don't
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: you remember? We drank on it. When are you going
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: to do it, huh? You ain't going to crawfish? No.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: The first post office I come to. Oh, my neck.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Straighten her out with you, son. Thanks. You manger. old scorpion.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: You might have got us both killed.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Here, Pete.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Come on, fella. That's a boy. Come on now, easy. Hey, son.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Where you going? California. What do you want to go
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: to California for? See the Pacific Ocean. Just like the
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: gulf down at Llano Bay. It's bigger. Why don't you
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: stay around Vinegaroo in a while? We could have a
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: lot of fun together, you and me. We could talk
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: about Lily and... No, I'm on my way. Listen, it's
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: a great country here west of the Pecos. A fella
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: could really make something of himself. Why, when I first
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: come here, I didn't have nothing. Now I'm boss of
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: the whole section. That's mighty fine, Judge. You know... You know,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: I saw the cotton to you the first time I
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: seen you. Why don't you put in with me?
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: Well, I tell you, Judge, it's nice of you to
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: ask me, but I'm heading for California, and nothing short
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: of hanging can stop me.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. You can't go. You're under suspended sentence
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: for horse stealing. Why, you hung Evans for that. You're
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: under suspended anyhow. Who are you? What do I know
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: about you? How do I know they ain't looking for you?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: You're under arrest for disorderly conduct, for disturbing the peace,
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: for vagrancy, and you're on your way back to town
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: with me, and that's my ruling. Sorry, Judge. Come back here.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Thanks for everything. Come back or I'll shoot. No, you won't.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I won't, huh? I'll show you. So long. By gobs,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: he stole my gun.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: In a moment.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport come back to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the microphone for the second act of The Westerner. But now, Mr.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: DeMille has a special guest here on our stage to
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: introduce to you. Just before our broadcast of September 9th,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, the telephone rang and my secretary informed
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: me that Russell Patterson, the famous artist, was calling from
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: New York. I was reasonably certain that Russ didn't want
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: to use me as a model, and he didn't. However,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: that call led to the appearance here tonight Of the
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: lovely Miss Vera Gilmer, the modern cameo girl. Miss Gilmer,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: will you and Mr. Ruick tell the story from the beginning?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: We certainly will, Mr.
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: DeMille, and thank you.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Well, Miss Gilmer, suppose you tell us what you were
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: doing about two weeks ago.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Two weeks ago, Mr.
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: Ruick, I was a photographer's model in New York. But
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: it seems like two years ago. So much has happened.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Just how did it all happen?
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: Well, Russell Patterson called me up one day and asked
• 22:22
  Speaker 10: me if I'd like to go to Hollywood. I thought
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: perhaps one of my friends was playing a joke on me,
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: but I said yes anyway. Then I discovered it wasn't
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: a joke at all. He had picked me as the
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: modern cameo girl.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: And the trip to Hollywood?
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: You see, Mr. Patterson listened to the Lux Radio Theater
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: and heard about the Scarlett O'Hara brooches you're offering, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: he seemed to think that I was the modern cameo girl.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I quite agree with Russell Patterson.
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: Well, he telephoned Mr. DeMille from New York and told
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: him about the idea. And it seems that Mr. DeMille said,
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: send her out. So here I am, just after my
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: first trip in a plane, in a TWA straddle liner
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: at that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I'll bet that was thrilling. But tell me, isn't that
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the original Scarlett O'Hara brooch you're wearing now?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: No, it isn't.
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: It's one of the brooches you're offering on the program.
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: And I brought along a whole set of matching pieces,
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: a ring, bracelet, pendant, and earrings. And, of course, a
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: brooch to present to Miss Vivian Lee.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: What have you been doing since you came to Hollywood,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Miss Gilmer?
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: Well, the first day I was in town, Mr. DeMille
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: asked me to have lunch over at Paramount. After we'd
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: talked for a while, he said he might have a
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: part for me in his next picture, Leap the Wild Wind.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Two weeks ago, a model in New York, and now
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: the modern cameo girl with a chance for a part
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: in a DeMille picture.
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: I can hardly believe it. But one thing I do know.
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: This Scarlet O'Hara brooch I'm wearing is one of the
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: loveliest jewelry pieces I've ever seen. My friends, among them
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: some of New York's most style-conscious models... have commented on
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: how timely cameo jewelry is and how nicely it fits
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: in with the newest fashions. I just know everyone would
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: like you to tell how to get one of these
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: simulated cameo brooches for themselves.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for coming to the Lux Radio Theater,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Miss Gilmer, and good luck with your movie career. Now,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: here's the way to get a Scarlett O'Hara brooch, designed
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: after the one Vivian Leigh wore in Gone with the Wind.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I know you'll want one because it's so rich and distinctive-looking.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: The brooch is simulated cameo and the pure white head
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: is beautifully contrasted against an ebony background. The lovely gold-finished
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: setting has a classic Grecian border design that tells you
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: right away of the fine craftsmanship that went into the brooch.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: It has a safety clasp, too. Now, to get this fine,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: expensive-looking jewelry piece, just buy three cakes of Luxe toilet
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: soap and ask your dealer for a handy order blank.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: or write your name and address on a piece of
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: paper and send it with the three Lux Toilet Soap
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: wrappers and 15 cents in coins, no stamps, please, to
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Lux Toilet Soap, Box 1, New York City. I'll repeat
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: that address. Lux Toilet Soap, Box 1, New York City.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Your Scarlet O'Hara brooch will be mailed to you promptly,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: and with it, you'll receive an illustrated order blank for
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: additional matching pieces, ring, bracelet, pendant, and earrings, all beautifully designed...
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: all at amazing bargains. Get your Lux toilet soap and
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: send the three wrappers and 15 cents in coin for
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: your Scarlet O'Hara brooch tomorrow without fail. This offer is
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: good only in the United States. Now, our producer, Mr. DeMille.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Act two of The Westerner, starring Gary Cooper as Cole Harden,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Walter Brennan as Judge Roy Bean, and Doris Davenport as
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Jane Ellen Matthews. West of the Pecos, the land shall
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: be free for the grazing of cattle. That was Judge
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Bean's law, enforced by a roaring sixth shooter. On the
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: homestead farms, hired hands dropped their tools and ran, leaving
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: the crops to wither in the sun. Only the braver
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: souls remained to plead and beg and fight And one
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: of these was Jane Ellen Matthews.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: You're cowards. That's what you are. Afraid of your own shadows.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: This is our land. It belongs to us. We have
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: a right to be here, and it's our duty to
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: stay here.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: We hired out for farm work, miss, not a civil war.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: There's no fit place to homestead in.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Land's no good when there's all this lead flying over it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: You'd shoot back, maybe they'd stop bothering you.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: We did shoot back.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: What of Shad Wilkins? He ain't a-trying it no more.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Shad Wilkins is only one man. My daughter's right in
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: a lot of ways. She says you've a duty to stay,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: and it is a duty.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: To open this country, make it free, not lawless.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: We're sorry, Mr.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Matthews, but we don't want no part of it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Come on, Jacky.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: And they call themselves men.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I told you what it'd be like, Mr.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Matthews.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: My hands quit the same way yesterday.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: But you're going to stay. You're not going to leave Wade.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I own my land. I'll stay, all right.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: But we've got to do something and do it fast
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: or there won't be a hired hand left in the country.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: What can we do?
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: We can fight fire with fire. There's enough homesteaders left
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: that feel the same way I do. We can give
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: Judge Bean the same thing he gave Shad Wilkins.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: No, Wade.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: That's not the way. Just more killing and more bloodshed.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: We can't win like that.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I gotta get over to the farm.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Aren't you going to stay for supper?
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: I'll be back.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Father.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: You suppose Wade meant what he said?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: There's no telling about Wade. I was thinking, though, maybe
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: if some of us did see Roy Bean, appeal to
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: him for justice... Justice?
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: If you'd seen him yesterday pretending to try that prisoner. Well,
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: the man didn't have a chance. He.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, that man. The one I was just... I saw
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: him plain as day looking in the window.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: You were seeing things, Jane Ellen. They hanged that man.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: I saw him, I tell you.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Who's there? Evening. Am I intruding?
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, no. You're not. It's just I thought you were
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: a ghost.
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: I guess you're partly to blame I'm not. I just
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: stopped by to thank you.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Father, this is Mr.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Hardin. Welcome, Mr.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Hardin.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: You mean to tell me Bean tried you and you
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: didn't hang?
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Well, your daughter was my lawyer. I guess she's the
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: one that got me off.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: I knew you weren't a horse thief.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Thanks. What made you so sure?
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, I just knew.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Are you working anywhere, son?
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: No, no, I'm heading for California. I see.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Well, Mr. Hardin, I suppose a body that's just been
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: hanged is apt to be a bit hungry.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: You can stay for supper.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't want to put you out any.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, not at all. Sit down here, Mr. Hardin.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Thank you. You're very kind.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I think he likes it here, Jane Ellen. Wouldn't surprise
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: me if we've got him.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: What's he doing now?
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Out feeding his horse.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Looks good and strong. Probably could take the place of
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: two men.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I was thinking that. I was also thinking you might
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: add on a little more welcome.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: How do you mean?
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, just keep smiling at him. And if it should
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: come up not your like, you might mention what a
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: handsome man he is. Can't do any harm.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Father, I'm not going to.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Look out. Everything all right, Hardin?
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Fine, thanks.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I'll go see about your bunk.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't trouble.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: No trouble at all.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Uh, can I give you a hand?
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, no thanks. Just sit down and make yourself comfortable.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Well, I won't argue. with you. If I had to
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: wash dishes, I guess I'd give up eating.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Well, what do you do about the dishes when you're home?
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Home? You mean in a house?
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Well, you live in a house, don't you?
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: No, ma'am. My house is all out there. All one
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: room with the sky for a roof.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: Pretty big place.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Yep, got some space to rent.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: And California's your next stop, huh?
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: California? Yeah, but I don't stop. Oregon next, I guess.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Well, all places aren't just the same. Wouldn't you rather
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: stay a little longer in some places?
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Nope, they're all the same. Beautiful when you leave them.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: It's, well, it's like the turtles. They carry their houses
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: with them. If I had to build me a house,
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: I'd have it on wheels.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: Not me. I'd want my house so that nothing could
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: ever move it. Down so deep that an earthquake couldn't
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: shake it, and a cyclone would be just another wind
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: going by.
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: Well, you say, who wants to be a turtle? And
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: I say, I hope you'll be very happy in your house. Well,
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: I guess I'll be getting along.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, say, wait a minute.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: What?
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I'll bet I know something we would agree on.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Well, in about a week now, we're going to husk
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: the corn. And I'll bet you'll agree that that's fun.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Huh? Husking corn fun?
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I'd rather wash dishes. Oh. Well, it was a fine
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: supper and good cooking.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Oh, Mr. Hardin.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: You're a very handsome man, you know.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: I doubt that, but I'm a very, very tired one.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Good night.
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: Get out of there.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Hey, get out of that corner. Go on.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Shoot, shoot.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: Go on.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: There he goes. Oh, that was fine, Mr.
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: Hardin.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: If anybody told me yesterday I'd be playing tag in
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: a cornfield with.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: A lot of cows, I'd... If we had some men
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: that would ride fence, there wouldn't be any cows in
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: the cornfield.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: That's right, isn't it? You know, you were sure cute
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: last night, Miss Matthews.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: What was cute about me?
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: Well, in the first place, I've never been so welcome
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: anywhere in my life. And when I said I didn't
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: like picking corn, well, that was.
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  Speaker 4: When you were cute.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Now you're making fun of me.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Well, it's more fun than picking corn. Jane Ellen! Pardon! Hey,
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: look at your father. I wonder what's up.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: Father, what is it?
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I tried to stop him. They wouldn't listen to me.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: It's the wrong thing to do. I begged him not to.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Who? What happened?
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Wade Hopper's rounded up some of the men. The homesteaders,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: they're going to town to lynch Judge Bean.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: When did they leave? About an hour ago.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: They took our wagon.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Get off that horse, quick.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Where are you going?
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Into town.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Oh!
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Bean, Bean, where are you? Thunder and lightning. You back
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: from California ready? Hey, you got to get out of
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: here and don't stop for nothing. Did you write to
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: El Paso? Hey, listen, just get on your horse and
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: get because they're after you. Did you write to... Who's
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: after me? The homesteaders. They're going to string you up. Why,
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: that bunch of plow-pushing, sod-busting... They're outside right now. A
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: whole wagonload of them. A wagonload? Why, I can handle
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: a trainload of them. I'll tear their livers out. Get
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: in that back room. What for? Let go. I'm locking
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: you in there till they leave. You're locking nobody in.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: I'll shoot my way out. Get in there.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Open up. Open this door.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: Morning, gentlemen. What'll it be? It'll be Roy Bean.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Where is he?
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: He's out for a while.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's because you came down here and warned him.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: I told you Judge Bean is out.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: All right, we'll wait.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Make a move and I'll shoot you. Wait, Judge. I'm
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: handling this. Keep your hands up, all of you. Cole,
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: start collecting them shotguns and set them down this end
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: of the bar easy like. Go on. Drop your rifles, boys.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: He's holding the cards right now. Now, Judge, I'll take yours.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: There you go, you crazy. Thanks. The drinks are on me, gentlemen.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: We're not drinking with you, Hardin, or him either. I
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: ain't serving none of my liquor to no bunch of
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: tomato kissing, plow pushing... Now, Judge, we don't want any
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: harsh words to spoil this friendly little get-together. Get-together? Why,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: this pack of weasels invade the dignity of my courtroom?
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Come in here armed with malice of forethought to kick
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: up a rumpus?
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: Now, look, you being a judge, you know there's always
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: two sides to any question. Now, these men have come
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: here with a legitimate grievance.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: We're not asking you to speak for us, Hardin. No,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: not me either.
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: Well, that makes it unanimous. I'm going to talk for
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: the both of you. There's a law here against fencing
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: land that seems nothing short of murder to people raising crops.
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: But it's common sense to men running cattle. I've seen
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: this kind of war before. The cattlemen came in first
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: and then the homesteaders moved in and fenced them out.
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: They had crops for a year and then a dry spell,
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: a drought. So the homesteaders moved out and the Russian
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: thistle and the gypsum weed moved in. And the big
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: spaces were all broken up by little quarter sections. And
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: the homesteads left empty. And the houses caved in and
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: the land no good for man or cattle.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you spoiled the land in the east. Now you
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: come here to spoil this land. Well, this here's a
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: big country. Yeah, but it ain't big enough for cattlemen
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: and homesteaders and it never will be. Now clear out
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: of here. That's my ruling. All right, Bean.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: We're going.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: We're going back to build our fences. If you do,
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: you better build coffins along with them. You sure told
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: them off, son.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: Yep, and now I'm going to tell you off. I'm
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: sorry I stopped them from lynching you. They got a
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: right to defend their homesteads. This ain't homestead land. You
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: just said so yourself. The government didn't say so. I'm
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: the government here.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: By gobs, I don't see how you can talk up
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: for scum like that.
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: Well, they proved up on their land, and they've got
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: deeds to it. When you make war on them, you're
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: making war on their women and.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: Kids, too.
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: Those people were starved out last year. I heard about
• 35:59
  Speaker 8: those cattle being stampeded over their crops. And there's too
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: many strays running loose in that valley right now. Only
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: they're not strays. What do you want me to do?
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: Risk them cattle and fine them a couple of dollars
• 36:09
  Speaker 8: apiece for trespass?
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Now, look. Those people don't take up much room with
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: their little shirt-sized pieces of land. Why don't you be
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: a real judge? For all the people. Why don't you.
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: Try to see their side of it and help them
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: instead of fight them. Make peace around here instead of war.
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: There's plenty of room for everybody. Then everybody would look
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: up to you. Then someday maybe they'd put up a
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: statue out there in the street. A statue with carbon
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: on it. To Roy Bean, a real judge.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: What are you doing? Catching a fish? I guess I'm
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: wasting my time. Hold on. Wait a minute. Did you
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: write that letter to El Paso yet? No. You promised
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: we drank on it. I didn't have to write it.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I had that lock of hair on me all the time.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: You did? Well, why didn't you give it to me then?
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: If I'd have given it to you, you'd have hung me,
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: wouldn't you? Might have at that. Let's have a look
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: at it, would you? I haven't got it on me. Suffering,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: bleeding chickamoggy, where's it at? Well, I left it over
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: at the Matthews place. Oh, how is she? Huh? Come on,
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: I'll ride right over there with you. No, you won't.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: You mean you're going to crawfish? You ain't going to
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: give it to me? Sure, I'll give it to you.
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: When?
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: When the last steer's out of that valley? All right.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: I'll pass the wood around to the boys. No, you don't.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: You're going to help run those cattle out, and I'm
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: going along with you to see that it's done. Don't
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: you trust me, Cole? When I was a kid, I
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: had a pet rattlesnake. I was fond of it, but
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't turn my back on it.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: You're all right.
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: I'm going back now and gather my stuff. And that
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: lock of hair.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: Yep, the lock of hair. I'll remember it. Morning, Jane Ellen.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: Why are you stopping? California's that way.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't seem to be in favor here. Anything wrong?
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: They told me you spoke up for Bean, Mr.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Hardin.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Well, I... Well, I did try to tell them Bean's
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: point of view.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: Why didn't you tell him ours?
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: Well, I did that, too. And we got together. You
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: won't have to patrol your fields any longer. The judge
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: gave me his word. They'd round up all the cattle
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: in this valley and take them.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Out of here.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: You think he'd keep his word.
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm going along with him to see that he does.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: You mean it, don't you?
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am. Now, there's just one more thing I'd like
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: to say.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: What?
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Let me look at you.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: No.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: No, you're not the.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Prettiest girl I ever saw.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: Well, that's good news. Who asked you?
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: But you got the prettiest hair I ever saw.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: I never saw anything like it. Uh, could I, uh...
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Could I clip a lock of it?
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: No, you can't.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Uh, will you clip one?
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: No, I won't.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Kind of a deadlock, isn't it?
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: But I.
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: I sure would like to have it. You don't suppose
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: I could sort of talk you into it, do you?
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: I doubt it.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Well, sit down, will you? I, uh... I brought
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: along a pair of scissors. You know, just in case.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: My gosh. A lock of Lily's hair. It's genuine, ain't it?
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: Cut it off with my own hands.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: By gobs.
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: Remember, you said every steer out of the valley by
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: harvest time, and that's around 9am.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Week. They'll be out. You got my word. I hope so.
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: They're figuring on a little celebration. I'd hate to disappoint them.
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: It's hard to believe. Not a steer around for miles,
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: and the crop half-reaped. It's too good to be true.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: Don't be so gloomy, Wade. We're celebrating the occasion, not
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: brooding over it.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Just the same, it's funny.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: I don't trust him, Mr. Matthews. Well, shall we go back?
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: No, Cole. Not yet. There's something I want to show you.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: Tell me something... What did you ever do with that
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: lock of hair?
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, your hair. Why, I.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: Show it to me.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, nobody can see that. Not even you.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: Look, Cole. There's what I wanted to show you. The
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: best piece of homestead land in the whole country. Used
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: to belong to one of the hired men that left us,
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: and now it's anybody's. You just claim it.
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, see, that's a fine piece of land, all right. Yep, see,
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: look at the feet up on those slopes over there,
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: and that... And that strip along the bottom's fine for
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: wheat or corn.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: And that little knoll right there, it's just begging for
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: a house.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Do you know how to build a house?
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: No.
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: Well, you have the kitchen there and the bedroom there
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: and the parlor right smack here in the middle.
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, and it would have to have the right things
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: in it, too.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: What sort of things?
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, fires and lamplight. The smell of coffee in the
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: morning and the sound of rain on the roof.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: You make it sound pretty nice.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: Couldn't be on wheels, though. It'd be there to stay.
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: When you talk about it, it don't sound bad.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: Cold.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Hey, what's that?
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Look, fire. The wheat fields are on fire.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: What happened?
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Go to your homes, everybody. Protect your houses.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Who did it?
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Judge Bean and his men. They set fire to every
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: field in the valley. Go to your homes.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: Bean and his men. You told me he promised to
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: let us alone.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: He gave me his word.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: Our whole crop's burning to the ground. That's how good
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: his word is, and yours too.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Jane, Ellen.
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: You knew we were going to be burned out. You
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: must have known. That's why you herded all the cattle
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: out so they wouldn't be burned with the crops.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: You don't believe that, Jane Ellen.
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: Get away from me.
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: Don't you touch me.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: I hate you.
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: I hate you.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: In just a moment, Mr. DeMille and our stars, Gary Cooper,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport, We'll bring you Act Three
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: of The Westerner. While we're waiting, I'm going to ask
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Sally to read you a letter from Mrs.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Henry R.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Stearns of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• 42:38
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• 42:38
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• 42:41
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• 42:43
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• 42:46
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• 42:49
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 42:50
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• 42:54
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• 42:58
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• 43:05
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• 43:08
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• 43:12
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• 43:15
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• 43:18
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• 43:21
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• 43:27
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• 45:06
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• 45:11
  Speaker 9: ¶ ¶.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Curtain rises on the third act of The Westerner. Throughout
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: the night, the fire rages, sweeping across the green valley,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: turning the houses to heaps of gray ash, the fertile
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: fields to a sea of smoldering black. In the desolate dawn,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: the homesteaders move slowly across the plain to a new
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: and more friendly land. But there's one who stays behind,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: a victim of hate and lawlessness, Jane Ellen's father, buried
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: now beneath the soil he loved so well.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: Man that is born of woman has but a short
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: time to live. He cometh up, and is cut down
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: like a flower. He fleeth as if it were a shadow,
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: and never continueth in one's day. In the midst of life,
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: we are in death.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Jane Ellen, I just heard about your father. I came
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: to see if I could help you.
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: They ran him down with their horses. Judge Bean's men.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: He tried to stop them, and they killed him.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: The wagon trains left. The homesteaders have all gone, Jane Ellen.
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: I'm staying. Nobody's going to drive me away from my land.
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: Not with cattle or fire or killing my father or
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: anything else. I'll be here long after Bean and his
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: gang of murderers are gone.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Sure you will. And me too.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: I don't want you. I don't want any of Roy
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: Bean's friends around me. I don't need your help. I
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: can do what I have to do alone.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: So can I. I'll be back, Jane.
• 47:32
  Speaker 9: Ellen.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: So this town, Peterford, known as Vinegaroon, is hereby christened Langtree. Langtree, Texas!
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: give a woman a whole town of four, but I'm
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: a-doing it. And from now on, this whole section's gonna
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: bloom like the Jersey Lily herself.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Quiet!
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: Quiet!
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: I ain't through yet. Miss Langtree's coming soon to play
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: a night over in Fort Davis. And I want every
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: legal resident of Langtree, Texas, to go over and see
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: the godmother of this here town, a town of cattlemen,
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: fur cattlemen, and by gobs run by cattlemen. Now, in
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: honor of this great occasion, I'm dishing out free beer
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: to one and all. And anybody found sober after sundown
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: is liable to arrest for disorderly conduct. And that's my ruling.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Let her go! I'd like to see you for a minute, Judge. Why, Cole,
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: by gobs, man, I'm glad to see you. Well, I
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: never wanted to see a man so much before in
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: my life.
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: What for?
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: What for? Why don't you know what for? She's coming
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: to Fort Davis. Lily Langtree's coming to Fort Davis. Lily Langtree?
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: Lily Langtree, yeah. And you and me are going over
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: there together. You're going to introduce me to her. My
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: gobs are going to meet her.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: I just can't believe it.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: I want to talk to you, Judge. Yeah, all right.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: And look, what I got to tell her when I
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: see her. See that sign over there? Langtree. That's the
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: name of this town. A great town after a great woman.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: I said I wanted to talk to you. Sure, Cole.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: This is a great day. I tell you, it's the
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: greatest day in the history of Texas. Come on inside.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: Sit down, Cole. I'll fix you a drink. Say when, son. When? Huh?
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: What's the matter with you? Nothing. Quite a fire, wasn't it?
• 49:36
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, the fire. Yeah, wasn't it, though? Yeah.
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: Too bad. Yeah. I wonder who was behind it. Oh,
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: fire don't need nothing behind it. Fire has a way
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: of moving all its own. Here's how, Cole. Wait a minute.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: Before I drink with you, Judge, I want to know
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: you had nothing to do with it. Me? Why, how
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: can you say a thing like that? Didn't I round
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: up all them cattle for you? Wasn't I right in
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: here in town when the fire broke out?
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: Didn't I?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: And what's more, I ain't got no idea who done it.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Now drink up. Don't you believe me? No. Now, listen, son.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: I told you how it was, and I don't want
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: you calling me no liar. Now, drink hearty. Will you
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: swear by that? There ain't no reason there should be,
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: but I'm willing. All right. I swear I had nothing
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: to do with it. I swear by the revised statutes.
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: By gobs, if there was a Bible in town, I'd...
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Where's that lock of hair?
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: That lock of hair, where is it? Right here with me.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: Let me see it. Will you swear on that? Will you?
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: All right, it was me. I burned their houses and
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: the crops. I run them farmlands out. And if you
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: think I'm sorry, you're crazy. I'm proud and glad to
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: rid the country of them. It was either them or us.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: And now the range grass will grow back. And someday
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: the cattlemen will put up a statue of me out
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: there in the street.
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: And they'll write on it, to Judge Roy Bean. He
• 51:00
  Speaker 8: give us back the land. You get warrants in Fort Davis,
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: don't you? Yeah, that's where they get them. But they
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: don't know how to spell my name. It's been tried before.
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: I'll get one.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Cole!
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: And this time, you're going to get what's coming to you. Cole,
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: you and me's friends. I done what I had to.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: You think I was wrong. But if it was my
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: own son come over here with a warrant, he'd have
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: to be first in the drawer. I aim to be,
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: unless I get it in the back before I get
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: out of here.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: So long, Cole.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: So long, Judge.
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: Raise your right hand.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Do you, Cole Hardin, solemnly swear to carry out the
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: duties of deputy sheriff according to the law and in
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the best interest of the state and citizens thereof?
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I do. Here's your warrant for Roy Bean.
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: Good luck, Hardin.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: Quiet! Go ahead, chicken foot. I tell you, I seen
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: Cole Hardin over in Fort Davis. I was buying those
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: tickets for a little lanky for you, and I seen
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: him coming out of the sheriff's office with a star
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: on his shirt.
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: Got a one-track mind, ain't he? A deputy, huh? If
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: I was you, Judge, I wouldn't go anywhere near Fort
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: Davis to see the best actress ever was.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Me neither.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: How do you know you ain't heading into a trap?
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: Them hombres is just.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Waiting down there for you.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: Why, you pack of yellow bellies. Chickenfoot, give me them tickets.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: You mean you're going to Fort Davis alone? Not by
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: a jugful, I ain't. You're all going with me as
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: I got on right up the opera house. But I'm
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: going in alone. I bought out the whole house just
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: for me, see? I ain't sharing the Jersey Lily with
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: no one.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: Come on, get out of here.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: Get off the street.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Let's get out of here.
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: Town's kind of deserted, Judge. Yeah. They must have heard
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: I was on my way.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: There's the Opry house.
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: Pull up. All right, boys, tie your horses over there.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Take your places outside the theater and stay there. I
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: want strict privacy all during the show. You'll get it.
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: I'm going in now. Chickenfoot, give me one of them tickets.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Right this way, sir. Your seat's over here.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: My seat's anywhere I want to sit.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, certainly, but right here will do.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: When does Miss Langtry go on.
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: In the play?
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Well, as soon as the curtain goes up, sir.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: Well, when's that?
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Well, when the audience is here. You're the first one.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: And I.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: I'm the only one. We can start right now. But
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: I don't... Don't you hear good? I'm the audience. I'm
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: the only one here. Except me, Judge. Why, you. Don't
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: make a move for your gun. Usher, you better beat it.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, certainly.
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: Now look, Judge.
• 54:03
  Speaker 8: I'm coming over there. I'm coming over to get you. Yeah,
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: you better come a-shooting. I'm hoping that won't be necessary.
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: Just keep your hands where.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: They are, Judge. Deputy now, hey, Cole? Yep. That star
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: on your shirt makes a right good target. Yeah. I
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: hate to do this, Cole. Maybe I'll beat you to it.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: All right, let's see. Judge. Now... Now you... You see
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: what you've done? You stopped the show. How are we
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: going to see Lily? We waited a long time for this. Now...
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: Now it's too late.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: No.
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: No, it isn't.
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: She's back there now waiting to see you.
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: What?
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: She knows all about you. She wants to meet you.
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: She told me so herself. She wants to... She wants
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: to meet me. Help me. Help me stand up. There
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: she is. She's coming. She's coming right here. I can
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: stand alone. Turn me loose. I tell you, that's my ruling. Miss...
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: Miss Langtree?
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 55:32
  Speaker 8: Miss Langtree, I'd like to present an old admirer, Judge
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: Roy Bean.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: How do you do? I'm... I'm pleased to... to meet you, ma'am. I... Judge.
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: Judge!
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: There's your house, Mrs.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: Hardin.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: The last nails driven and the last stones in place.
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: Not a wheel in sight.
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, Cole, it's wonderful.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: Look.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: Hey, look across the valley.
• 56:09
  Speaker 5: Why, it's the homesteaders. They're coming back again.
• 56:14
  Speaker 8: Yep, wagons as far as your eye can see. Coming
• 56:17
  Speaker 8: back in peace to build a state. It's the promised land.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, and Doris Davenport are back at
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: the microphone without six shooters. Things are a little calmer
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: in the state of Texas these days, aren't.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: They, Gary?
• 56:51
  Speaker 8: Well, we were all down there last week, C.B. It
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: was pretty lively around Fort Worth and Dallas.
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: And we all had a grand time at the premiere
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: of The Westerner. The people in Dallas and Fort Worth
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: really got out the red carpet for us.
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: But nobody shot at us. Maybe they liked the picture.
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: Ha, ha.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Gary, I think your idea of audience criticism may be
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: just a bit dated.
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: It's the judge being influenced.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: If my memory doesn't fail me, the judge was not
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: exactly fiction.
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: No, sure. He's a lot too real for the good
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: health of quite a few people. As a matter of fact, C.B.,
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: we met a fellow that used to work for him
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: while we were making a westerner. Yeah, the judge hired
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: this fellow to hold up a train.
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: Was there any gold on the train?
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: No, just lily laundry. That's the way the.
• 57:31
  Speaker 8: That was the judge's way, rather, of inviting her to
• 57:34
  Speaker 8: the town of Langtree.
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: How romantic. What happened, Gary?
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: Well, the fellow missed the train. Yeah, and the judge
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: never let him come back to town again.
• 57:41
  Speaker 5: I suppose that's why he's still alive. You know, Mr. DeMille,
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: this is the first time I've ever been in the
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: Lux Radio Theater. But I'm a regular listener and a
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: regular Lux soap user, too. As a matter of fact,
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: I was a good customer of yours long before I
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: started working in pictures. Lux soap agreed with my skin
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: from the very first time I tried it. So naturally,
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: I've used it ever since.
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: Another luxe soap booster, C.B. More the merrier, Gary.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: And I think we'll have a lot of boosters for
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: next week's play, too. What's it going to be, C.B.?
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Next Monday night, Walter, we're going to have Claudette Colbert
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: and Fred McMurray on the stage. And you'll hear them
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: in the play His Girl Friday. It's adapted from the
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Columbia Picture Success and brings Claudette to this microphone as
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: a wisecracking girl reporter. Fred McMurray is the boss editor.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: But bossing a reporter like Claudette Colbert is no easy job.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Add the fact that the reporter was formerly the editor's wife,
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: and the sum of the situation for us is a
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: brilliant comedy romance next Monday night.
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: Well, that sounds good to me, C.B., and I'll be
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: in the audience. Good night. Good night.
• 58:47
  Speaker 5: Good night, Mr. C.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: That was great play action tonight, partner. Oh, Gary, check
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: your guns at the stage door. Our sponsors, the makers
• 59:03
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• 59:05
  Speaker 2: be with us again next Monday night when the Luxe
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Radio Theater presents Claudette Colbert. and Fred McMurray in His
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: Girl Friday.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: This is Cecil B.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. Here is important
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: news for those of you who live in communities not
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: operating on daylight saving time. If you live in a
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: community which does not operate on Daylight Saving Time, you
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: will hear this program beginning next Monday night, one hour
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: later than heretofore. Heard in tonight's play were Lou Merrill
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: as Chickenfoot, Fred Shields as Wade, Harry Humphrey as Caliphate,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: Donald Curtis as Blackjack, John Deering as Shad Wilkins, Brooks
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: Benedict as Bart, J. Michael as Evans, Ted Arthurs as Hod,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Hal K. Dawson as Theater Manager, Forrest Taylor as Farmer,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: and Gloria Holden as Lily Langtree. The stars of The
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Westerner appeared tonight through the courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn. The
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• 1:00:05
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• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: in Gone with the Wind, the Selznick International picture produced
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: by David O. Selznick and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Our music
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: is directed by Louis Silvers, and your announcer has been
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Melville Roick. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: This concludes Lux Radio Theater's The Westerner. Good night, and
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: thank you for sharing this broadcast with us.