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- 0:00Speaker 1: When Kitty comes to the aid of Josefina Ramirez, a
- 0:03Speaker 1: young Mexican woman harassed by two men in Dodge City,
- 0:07Speaker 1: Marshal Matt Dillon takes on the task of getting her
- 0:10Speaker 1: safely home. But at the Ramirez farmstead outside town, Josefina's father, Miguel,
- 0:17Speaker 1: meets them with a gun, and fear for his daughter
- 0:20Speaker 1: is driving him toward his own form of justice. From
- 0:24Speaker 1: CBS on August 3rd, 1958, this is Gunsmoke, episode 330,
- 0:31Speaker 1: Miguel's Daughter. William Conrad stars as Matt Dillon, with Georgia
- 0:37Speaker 1: Ellis as Kitty, Parley Bear as Chester Proudfoot, and Howard
- 0:41Speaker 1: McNair as Doc Adams. Marion Clark wrote the script, Norman
- 0:47Speaker 1: MacDonald directed and produced. Here is the original broadcast.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West, there
- 1:06Speaker 2: is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
- 1:09Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
- 1:12Speaker 2: gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the
- 1:36Speaker 2: violence that moved west with young America. And the story
- 1:39Speaker 2: of a man who moved with it. I'm that man.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look
- 1:47Speaker 2: for and the last they want to meet. It's a
- 1:50Speaker 2: chancy job. And it makes a man watchful. And a
- 1:55Speaker 2: little lonely.
- 1:56Speaker 3: The man sure needs his dinner. Not one like that
- 2:07Speaker 3: he don't have.
- 2:24Speaker 4: He was feeding us better than that on the trail. Well,
- 2:27Speaker 4: based in there, you don't.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Have to look out for a rattlesnake where you sit
- 2:31Speaker 1: down at the table.
- 2:33Speaker 5: I'm going to get me something to wash that food
- 2:35Speaker 5: down with right now.
- 2:36Speaker 4: Maybe that'll help.
- 2:40Speaker 5: This place looks good enough.
- 2:43Speaker 4: Now, Jake. Oh, senor. You run right into her, Jake.
- 2:47Speaker 4: You bump into her real hard. So I did.
- 2:50Speaker 5: Run right into a pretty little girl. My basket.
- 2:53Speaker 6: I must have my basket.
- 2:55Speaker 5: Oh, you don't need to worry now. But the egg.
- 2:57Speaker 5: I caught the basket, all right.
- 2:59Speaker 4: May I have it, please?
- 3:00Speaker 5: Well, it seems to me you owe me a little something.
- 3:04Speaker 7: Oh.
- 3:04Speaker 1: If I hadn't caught this basket, it'd have dropped, sure,
- 3:07Speaker 1: and them eggs would have all broke.
- 3:09Speaker 5: Now, ain't that so, Ab?
- 3:10Speaker 4: Sure, Jack.
- 3:11Speaker 5: It was me who's kept them eggs from breaking.
- 3:14Speaker 4: I am grateful, senor.
- 3:16Speaker 1: I figure you might want to thank me for the favor.
- 3:20Speaker 5: I thank you, senor.
- 3:23Speaker 1: Now, that ain't exactly what I mean. But a little
- 3:26Speaker 1: gal like her'd know.
- 3:27Speaker 5: What I mean, wouldn't she, Ab?
- 3:28Speaker 4: Sure she would, Jack. Sure she would.
- 3:32Speaker 5: Just come here.
- 3:32Speaker 4: I'll show you. Please, Senor. Just a little kiss. No.
- 3:36Speaker 5: After that, boy. I got a kick.
- 3:39Speaker 4: Oh, shit.
- 3:40Speaker 7: Spooky.
- 3:40Speaker 5: Is it wrong?
- 3:41Speaker 4: Come on now.
- 3:41Speaker 5: Fancy it. A little kiss ain't going to hurt you, no?
- 3:45Speaker 5: Sure not.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Boy, all you black-eyed little gals can kiss plenty of times.
- 3:49Speaker 5: Now, ain't that right? Come on now. It ain't no
- 3:51Speaker 5: different with me.
- 3:52Speaker 4: I will not kiss you.
- 3:54Speaker 6: Let me go.
- 3:56Speaker 4: No.
- 3:56Speaker 5: Let me go. You let her go. Put that girl down. Well, now,
- 4:01Speaker 5: who do you think you are?
- 4:02Speaker 8: Never mind who I am.
- 4:03Speaker 5: You leave her alone. You've got no call to start.
- 4:05Speaker 7: You let her go or I'll send for the law.
- 4:07Speaker 5: Oh, we're just having some fun.
- 4:10Speaker 7: Yeah, a fine brand of fun. Two hulks like you
- 4:12Speaker 7: tormenting a young girl.
- 4:13Speaker 5: Hey, come on, honey. You come with me. You two
- 4:17Speaker 5: go along now. Look, we ain't done nothing.
- 4:19Speaker 4: You get along.
- 4:20Speaker 5: Come on. Senorita. Kitty will do.
- 4:32Speaker 4: Those men.
- 4:35Speaker 5: Those men, they were wrong.
- 4:36Speaker 4: I do not care.
- 4:37Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, honey.
- 4:38Speaker 6: Now, don't you worry.
- 4:40Speaker 7: Come on inside.
- 4:42Speaker 5: You can wash your face and calm down.
- 4:44Speaker 4: Thank you. Well, is she still around here, Kitty?
- 5:05Speaker 7: I left her up in my room, Matt.
- 5:07Speaker 4: She was pretty upset. Did you find out who she was?
- 5:10Speaker 7: Yeah, her name's Josefina. Josefina Ramirez.
- 5:13Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 5:14Speaker 7: She and her father had taken over the old Grimes
- 5:16Speaker 7: place west of town.
- 5:17Speaker 4: Oh, that's a pretty run-down outfit, as I remember it.
- 5:20Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess they're having a tough time with it.
- 5:23Speaker 7: They haven't been here very long.
- 5:25Speaker 4: Probably won't stay long either. That's pretty mean land.
- 5:28Speaker 5: Matt?
- 5:30Speaker 4: Yeah, what?
- 5:30Speaker 7: Well, I'm... I was wondering if you had something awful
- 5:35Speaker 7: important to do the.
- 5:36Speaker 4: Rest of the afternoon.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Nothing too important, I guess.
- 5:41Speaker 6: Why?
- 5:42Speaker 4: She's a real scared girl, Matt.
- 5:44Speaker 5: I'd hate for those two brutes.
- 5:46Speaker 7: To get their hands on her again.
- 5:47Speaker 4: What do you want me to do?
- 5:50Speaker 7: I thought you might drive her out to her place.
- 5:55Speaker 1: You think chaperoning young girls home is part of my job?
- 5:59Speaker 8: Oh, Matt.
- 6:00Speaker 4: All right, Kitty. I'll be glad to do it.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I'll have Chester hitch up a buggy and we'll get
- 6:06Speaker 1: her out there in time for supper. Thanks, Matt.
- 6:09Speaker 7: I'll have her waiting out front.
- 6:11Speaker 1: Guess there's no use looking for those two men now.
- 6:14Speaker 7: Why not?
- 6:15Speaker 4: Well, if.
- 6:17Speaker 1: You took out after him. They're probably halfway to Wichita
- 6:20Speaker 1: by now.
- 6:20Speaker 7: Matt?
- 6:21Speaker 1: I know what I'm talking about. I haven't seen you
- 6:23Speaker 1: when you were riled.
- 6:24Speaker 7: Well, you're about to see me riled again if you're
- 6:27Speaker 7: not careful.
- 6:28Speaker 5: You go on now. Get that buggy, huh?
- 6:54Speaker 1: I think we can catch the shortcut along here pretty soon, Mr.
- 6:57Speaker 6: Dillon.
- 6:58Speaker 4: Is that right, Josephina?
- 7:00Speaker 5: Yes, senor.
- 7:01Speaker 7: There is a little road across the field after the
- 7:04Speaker 7: next turn.
- 7:05Speaker 4: Ah, well, we'll get you home before it really turns dark.
- 7:09Speaker 3: Senor?
- 7:10Speaker 6: Uh-huh?
- 7:12Speaker 7: I would thank you, senor, if you would let me
- 7:15Speaker 7: off here at the little road.
- 7:17Speaker 5: Well, that's an awful long walk for anybody, Miss Josephine.
- 7:20Speaker 5: I would like it.
- 7:21Speaker 4: You don't want us to drive you all the way home, huh?
- 7:23Speaker 1: No, senor. Look, Josephina, it's close to dark. I think
- 7:27Speaker 1: maybe we'd better go on with you.
- 7:29Speaker 4: Sure, it ain't no trouble.
- 7:30Speaker 5: Just a little piece more to go and now we've
- 7:31Speaker 5: turned on.
- 7:32Speaker 1: But you do not understand.
- 7:35Speaker 5: Out there behind them rocks.
- 7:37Speaker 4: Get out on the wagon, Josephina. Tuster, jump off and
- 7:39Speaker 4: come back to your side.
- 7:40Speaker 5: Wait, wait, don't shoot.
- 7:42Speaker 4: Come back here, you'll be killed. It's not that I
- 7:44Speaker 4: want to lose it to you, senor.
- 7:47Speaker 5: Don't shoot again.
- 7:48Speaker 4: Put down your gun, you crazy fool.
- 7:50Speaker 5: You come no closer.
- 7:51Speaker 4: Josefina, step here with me. What's going on?
- 7:56Speaker 3: Father, you are wrong.
- 7:57Speaker 4: Come up here with me if I say.
- 7:59Speaker 2: These men are not like the others.
- 8:01Speaker 4: They have not bothered you?
- 8:03Speaker 3: No, father.
- 8:04Speaker 8: They have brought me home so I would be safe.
- 8:07Speaker 6: I will talk to him.
- 8:14Speaker 4: Why don't you put your gun down? I talk better
- 8:16Speaker 4: that way. Tell me who you are, senor.
- 8:19Speaker 5: He is the U.S. Marshal at Dodge City.
- 8:23Speaker 7: Oh. Oh.
- 8:26Speaker 4: The man who uphold the law. Well, I tried to.
- 8:28Speaker 1: And who are you?
- 8:31Speaker 4: My name is Senor Miguel Ramirez. Do you always ambush
- 8:36Speaker 4: people who come out to your place? Only when I
- 8:38Speaker 4: feel for my daughter.
- 8:40Speaker 1: Well, I can't blame you if I want to protect her.
- 8:43Speaker 1: But if you're so worried about her, why do you
- 8:44Speaker 1: let her go to town alone? Hmm.
- 8:46Speaker 8: See, it's not good, but we are in need of
- 8:50Speaker 8: all the money we can earn, senor, to make this
- 8:52Speaker 8: place go. The eggs have to be sold. Today my
- 8:55Speaker 8: cow is calving. I could not go to town, so
- 8:59Speaker 8: I sent Josefina. It's no one else. She did not
- 9:04Speaker 8: return in the daylight.
- 9:06Speaker 1: You decided the worst to happen.
- 9:08Speaker 8: Oh, senor Marshall, you do not know how it can be.
- 9:11Speaker 8: We have moved four times trying to find a good home.
- 9:16Speaker 8: But for a young girl from Mexico in your country,
- 9:19Speaker 8: it's not easy.
- 9:20Speaker 4: Your men... Yeah, yeah. I know it can be bad.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Look, Ramirez, you can't shoot everybody who comes out here.
- 9:29Speaker 4: You know.
- 9:30Speaker 8: I do not wish for trouble, senor. I came to
- 9:33Speaker 8: your country. I hope for a better way to live.
- 9:36Speaker 8: But if they bring trouble to my daughter... She's a
- 9:40Speaker 8: good girl.
- 9:41Speaker 4: Yeah, I know she is. If they bring trouble to
- 9:43Speaker 4: my daughter, then I will kill them. is the way
- 9:47Speaker 4: it must be.
- 9:47Speaker 1: You can't take the law on your own hands, Ramirez.
- 9:50Speaker 1: That's the way it must be, too.
- 9:52Speaker 4: I can't keep.
- 9:53Speaker 1: That won't do Josefina any good.
- 9:55Speaker 4: Now listen to me, Ramirez.
- 9:58Speaker 1: I know things can be hard. But you'll get protection
- 10:01Speaker 1: from the law like anyone else.
- 10:04Speaker 4: But you let the law handle things. I protect my daughter.
- 10:08Speaker 4: But you'll have to be alive to do that. Do
- 10:09Speaker 4: you understand?
- 10:10Speaker 6: Señor.
- 10:12Speaker 4: All right.
- 10:14Speaker 1: From now on, you better see that Josefina stays close
- 10:16Speaker 1: to home, huh?
- 10:19Speaker 4: Justin, come on.
- 10:20Speaker 6: Let's get back to town.
- 10:41Speaker 1: Here's where she lived, Hap. Here's the Mexican's place.
- 10:47Speaker 4: It ain't much. Sure ain't.
- 10:50Speaker 5: You stay here. I'll go in and get the girl.
- 10:52Speaker 4: Get off your horse. It's old man.
- 10:53Speaker 6: He's got a gun.
- 10:55Speaker 1: There's no need for the gun, old man.
- 10:58Speaker 5: We just come to pay a little visit to your daughter.
- 11:01Speaker 7: You.
- 11:01Speaker 5: Get off my land.
- 11:04Speaker 1: We just come to pass the time of day.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 11:07Speaker 5: We seen her in town yesterday. Figured we'd like to
- 11:10Speaker 5: see her out.
- 11:10Speaker 4: I'll order you once more. Turn your horse.
- 11:14Speaker 5: Right back.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Now, it seems to me you'd take kindly to us
- 11:18Speaker 1: coming to call.
- 11:19Speaker 5: We're a lot better than your girls been.
- 11:21Speaker 4: Used to, and we got.
- 11:22Speaker 5: Watch out, old man.
- 11:25Speaker 4: Next time I go, we'll be shot in the head.
- 11:27Speaker 4: Now you go. Look here, you old.
- 11:30Speaker 5: Come on, let's get out of here.
- 11:45Speaker 4: What are you doing, Jack? What are you stopping for?
- 11:51Speaker 5: We're out of sight, ain't we?
- 11:52Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 11:54Speaker 1: We ain't gonna let no dirt farmer drive us off
- 11:56Speaker 1: in his land.
- 11:59Speaker 4: What are you gonna do?
- 12:01Speaker 5: You just come along with me. You see what I'm
- 12:04Speaker 5: gonna do.
- 12:05Speaker 4: I ain't so sure, Jack. You scared?
- 12:07Speaker 7: Well, no.
- 12:09Speaker 1: No, I ain't scared, but I don't wanna go killing
- 12:11Speaker 1: no old man.
- 12:12Speaker 5: We ain't gonna kill nobody.
- 12:15Speaker 1: I'm just gonna pay a visit to that pretty little
- 12:17Speaker 1: girl like we set out to do.
- 12:19Speaker 4: How are we gonna do that?
- 12:22Speaker 5: Get off your horse and tie him up.
- 12:25Speaker 4: Leave the horses? Do like I tell you.
- 12:26Speaker 5: Now we're gonna sneak back through the scrub. That little
- 12:34Speaker 5: gal's gonna get a real surprise.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Now then, Doc, you don't think food like this can
- 12:53Speaker 1: hurt you, huh?
- 12:54Speaker 5: Well, I've got a theory about it, Matt.
- 12:59Speaker 4: It better be good. Part of the scientific.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Now then, I've done a lot of research on it
- 13:05Speaker 1: at considerable personal risk.
- 13:07Speaker 4: Is that so?
- 13:09Speaker 5: Yes, by eating the food myself.
- 13:12Speaker 1: And I've come to the conclusion that you build up
- 13:14Speaker 1: an immunity to.
- 13:15Speaker 4: Terrible slop like this.
- 13:18Speaker 5: And your stomach gets even stronger.
- 13:20Speaker 4: Are you the doc? Yes.
- 13:24Speaker 6: Yes, I'm the doc.
- 13:24Speaker 4: You've got to come, doc. We've got a gal out
- 13:26Speaker 4: there in the country. Speak up, man. Speak up.
- 13:32Speaker 6: Ain't he the marshal?
- 13:34Speaker 5: Of course he's the marshal.
- 13:36Speaker 4: I'll wait and see you alone, doc.
- 13:37Speaker 1: I think I'd better know about any girl you've got
- 13:40Speaker 1: out in the country.
- 13:41Speaker 4: Well... It really ain't nothing bad.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Just bad enough to need a doctor in a hurry,
- 13:46Speaker 1: is that it?
- 13:48Speaker 4: Who is she?
- 13:49Speaker 5: Oh, just a little Mexican gal.
- 13:51Speaker 4: From the Ramirez place?
- 13:54Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:55Speaker 5: What happened to her?
- 13:56Speaker 4: Well, I don't really know, Doc.
- 13:58Speaker 5: My partner and me, we were just having fun with her.
- 14:01Speaker 4: She fell down. Hit her head, I guess. She ain't
- 14:05Speaker 4: moved since. Come on, Doc. I'll get Chester and we'll
- 14:09Speaker 4: ride along with you.
- 14:09Speaker 1: Sure, Matthew.
- 14:11Speaker 4: Come on, you.
- 14:12Speaker 1: Sure, Marshal.
- 14:13Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll lead you right out there. You bet you will.
- 14:16Speaker 3: I left him right over there under that tree.
- 14:21Speaker 6: Jack!
- 14:21Speaker 1: Jack, I've run the dock.
- 14:40Speaker 5: He sure ain't answering you none.
- 14:42Speaker 4: In the woods there.
- 14:44Speaker 5: Where's the girl?
- 14:45Speaker 1: Right there.
- 14:45Speaker 4: By that tree. Josephina. Josephina.
- 14:56Speaker 6: Do not touch me.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Oh, my head.
- 15:00Speaker 4: It hurts. It's Marshal Dillon, Josephina.
- 15:03Speaker 8: Doc Adams is here, too.
- 15:06Speaker 4: Let's see now.
- 15:07Speaker 7: Chester.
- 15:08Speaker 4: Chester. Would you hold the lantern? Sure, Doc. You just
- 15:13Speaker 4: lie still, Justina. It isn't going to hurt.
- 15:22Speaker 5: Can you tell me how this happened?
- 15:26Speaker 4: They were after me, Doctor. They were waiting for me.
- 15:30Speaker 6: In the dark.
- 15:32Speaker 3: There.
- 15:32Speaker 6: It's going to be all right. She dragged me out
- 15:36Speaker 6: in this field with a big hand over my mouth,
- 15:39Speaker 6: and I fell down.
- 15:41Speaker 4: I fell down.
- 15:41Speaker 5: She wouldn't have got hurt, none, if she hadn't have
- 15:43Speaker 5: been fighting so. Well, she kicked me something fierce. Dear me,
- 15:48Speaker 5: ain't that a shame.
- 15:50Speaker 4: I think she's all right, Matt. She hit her head.
- 15:52Speaker 6: A good track, but she'll be all right.
- 15:54Speaker 4: Can we move her, Doc? Yes, I think so. It
- 15:57Speaker 4: won't hurt her at all. I'll take her home in
- 15:59Speaker 4: the bus.
- 15:59Speaker 1: I better go along, too. Her father isn't going to
- 16:01Speaker 1: be easy to deal with. I don't see why he
- 16:04Speaker 1: should be. Chester, you take Ab back and lock him up, huh?
- 16:07Speaker 1: We'll hold him till we're sure the girl's going to
- 16:09Speaker 1: be all right.
- 16:10Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
- 16:11Speaker 5: I'll do that, Mr.
- 16:11Speaker 7: Jones.
- 16:12Speaker 4: Well, I didn't hurt her none.
- 16:13Speaker 5: The doc says she's all right. There's no need to
- 16:15Speaker 5: lock me up.
- 16:16Speaker 1: You ought to beg me to lock you up, rather
- 16:18Speaker 1: than have her father out looking for you.
- 16:21Speaker 4: Now, come on, doc. Let's get her into the buggy.
- 16:44Speaker 4: She's sleeping just fine. You see that she gets a
- 16:48Speaker 4: lot of rest for the next couple of days, Ramirez.
- 16:50Speaker 4: She's all right. How did you hear him, Ramirez? The
- 16:55Speaker 4: doctor says Josephina's all right. She just needs a little rest.
- 16:59Speaker 4: I hear the words, Marshal. I'll wait for you out
- 17:03Speaker 4: in the buggy.
- 17:03Speaker 1: All right, doctor.
- 17:04Speaker 4: I'll be along in a minute.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Ramirez, I want to say a couple of things to you.
- 17:15Speaker 4: Hey, Ramirez, are you listening? I will listen.
- 17:17Speaker 5: Good.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Because I'm not asking you to do anything.
- 17:21Speaker 4: I'm telling you. Now, you let me handle this. Your
- 17:25Speaker 4: daughter's all right. And we got the man locked up.
- 17:28Speaker 4: There were two men, senor. I know.
- 17:30Speaker 1: And we'll find the other one. But you let me
- 17:32Speaker 1: handle it, do you hear? You can't take the law
- 17:34Speaker 1: into your own hands. Now, do you understand me?
- 17:40Speaker 4: I hear the words. Well, you better hear them. And
- 17:43Speaker 4: you better remember them. Oh, come in, come in. Oh, hello, Ramirez.
- 18:10Speaker 1: Well, folks don't usually bother to knock.
- 18:12Speaker 4: At this office. You're Martian. How's Josefina? Oh, she is well. Ah, good, good. Well,
- 18:19Speaker 4: don't you want to come on in?
- 18:21Speaker 8: No, señor, I can't say what I must say from
- 18:23Speaker 8: the doorway.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Now, Ramirez, don't get any crazy ideas again. We'll pick
- 18:28Speaker 1: that man up one of these days.
- 18:30Speaker 5: It is not necessary.
- 18:31Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
- 18:32Speaker 1: We don't want him to get away with that any
- 18:34Speaker 1: more than you do.
- 18:34Speaker 4: It is not necessary for you to pick him up.
- 18:38Speaker 4: What do you mean? I brought him to you. Where
- 18:43Speaker 4: is he? He's just outside, senor. Outside? On my horse.
- 18:49Speaker 4: He's tied on my horse. Yes, I see. I killed him, senor.
- 19:01Speaker 8: Now I have come to bring you.
- 19:03Speaker 4: Both of us. You just had to do it, didn't you?
- 19:12Speaker 8: Say, your marshal, the law of a man's honor, this
- 19:18Speaker 8: has to be in his own hands.
- 19:24Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Ramirez. I'm sorry it had to be this way.
- 19:32Speaker 6: THE END.
- 19:55Speaker 4: Gunsmoke.
- 19:56Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as
- 20:00Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, U.S.
- 20:01Speaker 1: Marshal.
- 20:02Speaker 2: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Marion Clark,
- 20:05Speaker 2: with editorial supervision by John Meston.
- 20:08Speaker 4: Featured in the cast were.
- 20:09Speaker 2: Lynn Allen, Lawrence Dobkin, Vic Perrin, and Dick Crenna.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Harley Bear as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc, and Georgia
- 20:16Speaker 1: Ellis as Kitty. This is George Walsh inviting you to
- 20:23Speaker 1: join us again next week for another story on Gunsmoke.
- 20:27Speaker 1: Gunsmoke closes with Miguel's daughter. Follow the 50 greatest old-time
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