All language subtitles for 15 - The Colonel Harris Story

It's kinda like comin' home,
ain't it, ma'am?

There's no place in
the world like this.

Well, to tell you
the truth, ma'am,

the troops are mighty glad
you're comin'.

Colonel Harris
is sure getting edgy.

I thought he'd be
too busy to miss me.

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How's the book work
comin', Major?

Well, I'm just trying
to figure out

how we're going to
break even on this trip.

I hear that, uh, Colonel Harris

has been sent back
to Fort Young to command.

Oh, yeah. He's a friend
of yours, isn't he?

That's puttin' it mildly.

Jim Bridger and I used to spend
a lot of time at the fort.

The colonel and his wife had
a big hand in raising me.

Just like I've always
told you, Major...

The army never
does anything right.

Aw, Charlie,
you can't blame the army

for the way Flint turned out.

After all, the army does
make mistakes, you know.

You better watch him, Major.

I think he's trying to
get out of some work.

Well, now that you
mention it, Bill,

I would like to ride up to the
fort and say hello to the Harrises.

I haven't seen them
since before the war.

Flint, uh, how old
is their daughter now?

They don't have one.

Well, you be careful.

I understand the Comanche
is gettin' kind of touchy

up in this part of the country.

You don't have to worry
about the Comanches.

You're too far south.

They won't give you
any trouble at all.

Yeah, I suppose not.

How long do you figure on bein'?

Oh, two or three days.

I oughta be able to meet you
at Spring Peak.

Well, you be there,
you understand?

I'm not paying you
to make social calls.

Major, check the record...
You're hardly paying me at all.

Listen you keep your eyes peeled

when you get up
in that Red Bow country.

Understand he's got
a pretty sister!

Princess!

What do you want?

Howdy. Where's the princess?

The old squaw? Uh-huh.

Not here anymore.

This is my store.

Well, since when?

Since last week.

Do you know
where I can find her?

Ha ha. I don't know, mister.

Why don't you go
and talk to the army?

They took her away.

Do you want somethin'
or don't ya?

What do you mean
the army come and took her?

I mean, they took her away
when they rounded up all the Injuns.

I reckon she's over at the fort.

Well, don't look at me.
I didn't do it.

Ha. Go and talk to the army.

I will.

Where are you going?

I want to talk
to one of these women.

Princess?

Princess?

Flint! Flint McCullough!

Whoever heard of
a Comanche princess crying?

I sorry. So much happened.

Why are you in here?

Everything wrong, Flint,
everything.

Princess, who put you in here?

Colonel Harris.

Why, you must be mistaken.
He wouldn't do that.

Flint, Mrs. Harris dead.
One week.

Charity?

How?

Comanches.

By...

Princess, what has that
got to do with you?

Colonel Harris go wild in head.

You know him once.
You no know him now.

He kill wherever.

Shoshones, Comanches...
All tribes.

Talk to him!

All right, Princess,
I'll talk to him.

Flint, there be war soon.

You my people.
Comanches my people.

Where I go? What I do?

I'll talk to him, Princess.

Can I see the colonel, please?

Tell him McCullough,
Flint McCullough.

Flint!

Colonel Jim!

Flint, boy.

That'll be all, Major.

It's been a long time.

Well, sit down.

What can I do for you?

I just learned about Charity.

Naturally, it came
as a great shock to me.

I know how it feels
to have your heart torn out

while you're still alive.

I know how much you loved her.

So did I.

I'm afraid we all did.

Colonel, I just saw
the princess.

Maybe you can explain to me
why she's a prisoner.

You heard about Red Bow?

Comanche war chief?
Yes. What about him?

I mean Red Bow!
He's Bowman Lewis!

She didn't tell me that.

Well, I don't suppose
she told you

that he's been organizing
his forces for war,

that he's a traitor,

that he's been using
everything he learned

from his father and me
and the army against us!

That he murdered Charity!

I'm sorry, Colonel,
I can't believe that.

Would you like to see
the Comanche arrows

that I took from her poor...

Get out, Flint.

Don't you get mixed up
in it, too.

Don't get mixed up in it.

I've heard you say, "Harry Lewis
is the best friend I've ever had,"

and you put his wife
in a compound.

Bowman Lewis was almost
a brother to me.

Now he's gone back to live
with the Comanches.

Then you tell me...

Then you tell me Bowman's
Comanches murdered your wife,

and she's about the closest
thing I ever had to a mother.

How can you say,
"Don't get mixed up in it"?

Colonel, Bowman was...

well, almost like a son
to you and Charity.

Do you really believe
he could murder her?

She was murdered by Comanches!

Well, what does that prove?

He gives the orders
to the Comanche nation!

Nobody else.

Why do you think
they sent me back here

to Fort Young after ten years?

Because Red Bow
was organizing for war,

and Washington thought
that I could keep the peace.

You can.

Not with a savage, murderous,
treacherous wild animal!

Not with a traitor!

Is he a traitor because he
chooses his mother's people?

He was raised by the army!

I fought for the Confederacy.
What does that make me?

That was different.

What's different about it?

Colonel, let me talk to Bowman.

Maybe I can arrange some kind
of a conference between you two.

I'm not interested
in a peace conference.

Are you interested in a war?

You want to talk to him...
all right.

You tell him I want the men
who murdered Charity,

and I want him... here
at this fort within a week,

or I'll move my entire command
against the Comanches.

I'll tell him.

And if he doesn't like it,

you remind him that his mother

may not like a
federal prison, either.

You wouldn't do that.

The Comanches murdered my wife,

and they're going to pay!

And so will the entire frontier,

and I doubt your wife
would want that.

Take me to Red Bow.

Take me to Red Bow.

Grey Bear tells me
you came to see me.

Why?

I don't talked to my friends

with my hands tied, usually.

Grey Bear tells me
you want to talk.

I have just come
from Fort Young.

I know about Charity.

Oh. Did Colonel Harris tell you?

No. I learned from your mother.

Did you see her?

How is she?

She's a hostage.

The colonel holds you
responsible for his wife's murder.

I know.

Flint...

I gave commands to my braves
to avoid conflict.

Some of the younger braves,
they disobeyed that command.

They rode toward Canada.
On the way, they met Charity.

I see.

Does the colonel know that?

Yes. I sent word to him
by a party.

And?

He hanged them.

Bowman, I bring a message
from the colonel.

If the men responsible
for Charity's murder

are not surrendered
to the fort in three days,

your mother will be sent
to a federal prison,

and the entire regiment will
move against the Comanche nation.

What sort of people
does he think we are?

If he hurts my mother, I won't
leave a white man or a woman alive

between the Missouri
and the Rockies.

You two learn very well
from each other.

He wants to butcher
the entire Indian world

because of his wife's murder,

and you want to butcher the
whites because of your mother.

I thought you wanted
to help the Comanches?

With your attitude,
you'll destroy them.

This is a Comanche war lance.

It breaks easily... by itself.

This is Crow. This is
Ute. This is Blackfoot.

Together, they do not break.

Already the Apaches are here.

Warriors, not negotiators.

Already I talk to the chiefs
of the other tribes.

All differences are forgotten.

Nations will become one nation.

Oh, you'll talk to us, Flint.

You and Harris and the rest!

Or you'll have more war
than you can handle!

There's been talk of an
Indian confederation for years.

It won't stop the colonel.

This is not just talk.

Already I have an army.

In two months, perhaps
three, I'll have a great army,

and then we'll talk
from a position of strength.

If you move against
the colonel now,

your confederation will be
destroyed before it is even born.

Talk to him.

What is your interest in this?

What is my interest in it?

You're as good a friend
as I've ever had,

and the colonel's been
almost a father to me,

and you ask me
what my interest is.

Do you expect me to stand by

while you two hack at each other

until one or both
of you is destroyed?

Bowman, talk to him.
What have you got to lose?

You tell Jim Harris
that my chiefs and I

will meet him at Sublette
Wells in three days.

If he wants to talk, we'll talk,

but if he wants to fight...

He'll talk.

I hope so.

We really want peace, Flint.

Now it's up to Harris
and his government.

Don't kid yourself, Bowman.

It takes two to make a quarrel

and two to patch one up.

Move it along.

Karl.

Hello, Princess.

How are they treating you?

I know nothing.

What of Bowman?

I don't know.

Look, don't worry about it.

This will all blow over soon.
We'll get you out of there.

No.

Flint, boy!

Karl Boehmer!

I heard you was around.
I've been on patrol.

And I heard you got another
rocker. Congratulations!

I got it tattooed to my arm.

Oh, yeah? You're looking good.

Well, I feel pretty good.

Hey, what's that all about?

What?

The Utes. Why are
they locking them up?

Oh, them. Well, it ain't healthy
to be an Indian around here lately.

You know about Mrs. Harris.

Yeah, but what's that
got to do with them?

I've been with the colonel
a long time.

He took it real bad,
real bad, Flint.

So did I.

So did I.

So did the princess
and so did Bowman.

Maybe we better talk about
something else.

Somebody's gotta talk about it!

If we don't, the colonel's gonna
rip the high plains wide open.

I'm just a sergeant, boy.

You're more than a sergeant,
Karl. You're his friend.

No, I ain't.
Not since Charity died.

I say, "Yes, sir," and I say,
"No, sir," and that's all I say.

That goes for everyone else
around here.

He lost a lot more
than his wife out there.

Now what's that
supposed to mean?

I gotta check in with the troop.

We'll have a beer
together sometime.

You say he has some Jicarilla
warriors already with him?

At least 200
that I've seen myself.

And he talked to the
Blackfeet and the Utes?

Among others.

Understand, Major, I'm
not playing spy for the army.

I brought you a message
from Bowman.

He'll meet you at
Sublette Wells in two days.

What do you think, Major?

I think we ought
to talk with him.

You do?

With the colonel's permission...

that's what you were
sent out here for, sir.

I was sent here to use
my own judgment!

Then why don't you use it?

Colonel, I'll tell you again,

Bowman cannot possibly
comply with your demands.

The braves you ask for aren't
even in the country anymore.

Colonel, you can't order
Bowman around.

He's not a little boy
playing at the fort anymore.

He's an Indian chief.

A half-naked politician.

I've been fighting
politicians all my life.

Then you ought to know
the way to win with them

is with words, not bullets.

All right. Go to Bowman.

Tell him I'll meet him
at Sublette Wells.

And you'll talk peace?

To talk peace.

I'll tell him with pleasure.

Jim, it's a good thing McCullough
showed up when he did.

You think so?

Of course I do.

Yes, of course.

Major, I want three troops,

mounted to ride
to Sublette Wells,

combat ready, and two guns!

What?

Don't you hear well, Major?

Or is it that you
disapprove of my tactics?

I just don't understand them.

Well, then I'll make them
clear to you.

All the leaders
of the Comanche nation

will be at Sublette Wells
in two days.

Major, the way to kill a
rattlesnake is to cut off its head!

McCullough's brought Red Bow out
into the open where I can get at him,

and that's exactly
what I'm going to do!

Jim, you gave him your word.

If you think
I'm going to let him

muster the combined strength

of all the tribes against us,

you're badly mistaken.

The Comanches have
butchered their last woman,

if I have to kill every Indian
old enough to draw a bow.

Now, you have
your orders, Major.

Carry them out.

I'll get him for you, Charity,

I swear I will!

HARRIS: Forward ho!

He must think me the fool.

He comes well-prepared
to talk peace.

I don't understand, Bowman.
He gave his word.

He wants to fight, we'll fight.

No, you let me talk to him.

You've done everything
you can, Flint.

Now you stay out of it...

You have nothing to lose.
Let me talk to him.

All right.

But if he keeps coming,
we'll be waiting for him.

This time we have enough
braves to make it stick.

All right.

Halt.

Is this the way you keep
your word, Colonel?

Bowman knows what a battalion
means as much as I do.

What are you doing out here?

Tryin' to save your neck.

You better clear
out of here, Flint.

You think the Comanches
are just sitting waiting for you?

Bowman's got the
Jicarilla Apaches with him.

If you keep moving, you'll
move right into an ambush.

Do you think I'm a fool?

You've been using this
tribal confederation myth

to keep me from punishing
your Comanche friends.

It's no myth, Colonel.

I don't like bleeding hearts.

They can't be trusted.

Sergeant Boehmer.

Yes, sir? Arrest this man.

Keep him confined to a supply
wagon until we've made contact.

I warned you colonel.

Come along, son.

I'm telling the truth, Karl.

You're moving
right into an ambush.

I wouldn't be surprised.

Well, isn't there something
you can do about it?

I am. I'm following orders.

Yeah. Well, so did Custer's men.

That's right.

Forward ho!

What if McCullough is right?

About the confederation?

Doesn't exist.

About the ambush.

Our scouts are out, Mr. Shegan.

If there are Indians out
there, they'll let us know.

Wait!

Rapid fire to the flanks!

Kill them!

Colonel Harris!

Bugler, sound withdraw!

Come on, Colonel.

Colonel, look!

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm all right.

Take a look.

Now you see why the army
does not worry me anymore.

I wouldn't look too close,
Bowman.

You'll recognize the faces
of a lot of your friends.

You will come with me.

McCullough's going
with them, sir.

Well, why shouldn't he?
He brought them here.

You saw it, Major.
We'll hang him for it!

At least they didn't
turn him over to the squaws.

I'm sorry I cannot
help your men, Karl,

but they must take the same
chances as my warriors in battle.

Any sign of Harris?

We never found his body.

Then he'll be back.

I hope so.

You won't be so glad if he
shows up with reinforcements.

The butcher is proud.
He will not beg for help.

He won't have to.

All he has to do is wire and
say the situation is out of hand.

Bowman, you've had your revenge.

Why don't you quit
while you're still ahead?

Why? Already we have an army.

In another month,
we'll have a great army.

Robert E. Lee had
a great army, too.

I know something about
hopeless fights.

You can't possibly win.

But we can die, and we
can take every white man

west of the Missouri with us.

Flint...

You don't have to stay here.

I'd better stay here.
I'm a white man.

It makes my position clear.

You ought to go, son.

Just because
I know Harris is wrong

doesn't mean I think he's right.

They're going to slit our
throats before this is done.

Ooh.

Jim, the surgeon told you
to keep that arm in a sling.

It'll be all right
in a couple of days.

Princess, come in, come in.

That'll be all, trooper.

Sit down, Princess.

You heard what happened.

I heard.

A lot of good men were
killed out there, unnecessarily.

You cannot blame Bowman.

You made him do it.

You're right, Princess.

I don't deny it.

I wanted to come
back here to Fort Young.

You didn't know that,
did you, Princess?

When I learned that Bowman
had become chief of the Comanche.

To kill here?

Of course not.

I thought Bowman
would listen to me.

Princess,
when your husband died,

I looked on Bowman
as a little part of him

that I... I could never lose.

He still had you.

But he needed a father.

Just as I needed a son.

What father wants
to kill his son?

What son kills
his father's wife?

Bowman not kill Charity
any more than I.

I sorry for you.

It doesn't matter
who killed her.

We all made mistakes.
I more than anybody else.

Locking you up, blaming
all the Indians for Charity's...

for what happened to Charity.

I hope it's not too late.

For what?

I have a message here
for your son.

I ask him to come
to the fort to make peace.

He not believe you. I do not.

I don't blame you after what
happened at Sublette Wells,

but defeat
can be a great teacher.

You know what will happen if
the Comanche take the path of war.

Princess... we used to mean
a lot to each other.

You and your husband, Bowman,

Charity, and myself.

Flint.

And look at us now.

There's a little
time left, Princess,

but now very much.

If my son come, will he be safe?

On my love for Charity,
I swear that he will.

He can come, and he can go...

No matter
what comes of our talks.

I can make a treaty, Princess.

I have the authority...

but peace is up to you
and Bowman.

Suppose it were Charity
asking you this, Princess,

instead of me...

It's in her name that I ask it.

You tell Bowman that.

All right. I go.

You won't be sorry, Princess.

I promise you that.

Major, you'll ride
with the princess

and bring me Bowman's reply.

Gladly, Colonel.

I think you've done
the only sensible thing, Jim.

So do I, Major.

Does he tell the truth?

I think he does.

Colonel Harris is
a man of his word.

I know what sort of man
Harris is.

Sergeant Boehmer!

Major, hello.

Glad to see you're
all right, Major.

McCullough, I figured
I'd see you here.

Major, if you think Flint
betrayed you, you're wrong.

He tried to warn you.

You didn't exactly
treat him as an enemy.

BOEHMER: You got it
crossed up, Major.

Flint's being held here
the same as the rest of us.

Flint, read this from Harris.

"Red Bow, Chief
of the Comanche nation.

"The Comanches have
won a notable victory,

"proving that their chief
remembers well

"the lessons he learned
at his old friend's knee,

"but more soldiers
will come, and more,

"until the Indian sinks
under a sea of cavalrymen,

"until the nations of the
plains are but a legend.

"Does the chief remember the
lessons he learned as a boy?

"Long before
the War Between the States,

"Charity Harris...

"told two small boys,

"'Even if war comes,
remember, you are friends,

'remember what you mean
to one another.'"

"And let us talk, please,
Bowman Lewis,

"for my friendship
for your dead father

"and yours for my dead wife.

"Come to Fort Young
in the name of peace

and in...
and in the name of Charity"?

In the name of Charity.

Is it a trick?

I don't know.

There's no trick.

My son, I think it is
as Major says.

Bowman...

you have a responsibility...

to your people.

If you don't at least
try and negotiate this

and the war should come,

then the blood of many
people, yours and mine,

will lie on your head.

Do not go, Red Bow.

The butcher baits his trap
with a spirit of a dead squaw.

Already the tribes gather.

The Jicarilla Apaches
are here now.

The Crow are on the way.

They are separate like
the fingers on a hand.

Old grievances die hard.

Tell Jim Harris I'll meet
him at the fort in two days.

Harris has released my mother,

so I send him Sergeant Boehmer.

The rest of the captives
will stay here.

You won't be sorry.

Is not for me to be sorry.

If there's any treachery...

the fingers on the hand
will close into a fist...

and will fall with such a force,

that it will shake
your very nation!

Got him!

Got him!

That's the way to finish
a jackal, Major.

Don't hunt him! Trap him!

Sir!

He'll want a reception,
certainly,

one befitting
a man of his station.

Well, "B" Troop
will line the parade ground,

and "A" Troop
will be at the walls.

The minute he's
inside the gate, Major,

we'll take him!

You can't be serious!

And McCullough will be with him!

Both of them! Perfect! Ha ha!

What did I tell you, Major?

I told you we'd
see them hang, didn't I?

Didn't I?!

You can't do this, Jim.
You gave them your word.

Don't speak to me
of my word, Major.

That filthy renegade has
murdered his last white woman.

I don't owe him anything
but a rope.

There is such a thing as honor!

This is a soldier's honor!

As long as I'm
in command of this post,

it's the only honor that counts!

Or has he gotten to you the
same way he did to McCullough?

I know you, Shegan.

All along you've been
bleeding for the poor Indian.

Make peace.
Let 'em go on butchering.

Are you a fool or a traitor?

Anybody but a fool would know

you can't make peace
with wild animals!

A fool or a traitor,
which one are you?!

I am a soldier, sir.

Very well, Major.

Then act like one!

You have your orders.

Yes, sir.

MAN: Troops, atten-hut!

Present arms!

Order arms!

Red Bow is here.

So I see.

Lieutenant Roberts!

Carry out your orders!

Gates closed!

"In the name of Charity."

Lieutenant Roberts,
put them in the hole.

Come on.

I'm sorry.

Doesn't matter.

You wouldn't have come here

if I hadn't talked you into it.

I would have come anyway.

What happens to one man
is not important.

What is important that my
people know what to expect

from a man like Colonel Harris.

Bowman...

It'll be a long ride.

You may not enjoy it.

Leave him alone.

If your friends try
to free you, you'll be shot.

Oh, Bowman, since you're
such an important man,

you'll get a private compartment

all the way to Fort Kearney.

Flint...

you'll have to ride
on the wagon,

but you're not a chief.

You're only a traitor!

Will you get away from here?!

Must be warm down there.

I'll get you boys some water,

as soon as we get
to Fort Kearney.

Well, trooper?

Nothing, sir.

He tries to escape
or any Indians show up,

shoot him.

Right there in the cage
like he is?

That's the order!

That ain't right, Sergeant.

I don't care what kind
of an Injun he is.

Major, I've been
in this man's army

since Andy Jackson was a pup,

and I ain't question
no orders yet, only...

Yes?

If I was you, I'd kinda keep
an eye on Colonel Harris.

Sergeant Boehmer. Yes, sir.

Colonel Harris
is your commanding officer.

And mine.

That's what worries me.

You understand that if you
try to escape, you'll be shot?

I'm not worried about
a court-martial, Colonel,

but I think they'll be interested
in the way you handle things.

I'll worry about that
when the time comes.

Colonel Harris!

Indians!

There's your myth, Colonel.

You don't stand a chance.

Where'd they all come from?

McCULLOUGH: Utes...

Comanches...

Apaches...

Those up in the hills
there are Crows.

Your men will be cut to ribbons.

We're here to fight
Indians, aren't we?

Colonel, you don't mean
to go out there?

Major, this is
the United States Cavalry.

We don't wait for
the enemy to come to us.

Get the troops ready to move.

Yes, sir.

Sergeant, have the troops
ready to fall in.

Troopers, prepare to mount!

On the double!

Company, attention!

Men, we took a beating
the other day,

but not because
we were outfought.

We were betrayed!

Now, there isn't a man here

who didn't lose friends
at Sublette Wells,

and there isn't a man here
who doesn't want to avenge them!

There'll be no treachery today.

They're waiting to meet us
in open battle.

To us falls the honor

of crushing the Indian power
forever!

Today! Now!

Sergeant Boehmer.

Yes, sir.

You will ride beside the wagon.

When the first shot is fired,
you will kill Red Bow.

Yes, sir.

Major Shegan, mount the troops.

Prepare to mount!

Mount!

You men listen to me!

There must be 3,000 braves
out there,

the warriors of
a half a dozen tribes!

You don't stand
a chance against them!

Shut up, McCullough!

You go outside of these gates,
and they'll slaughter you!

There must be ten of them
for every one of you!

You don't stand a chance!

Sergeant Boehmer,
shoot that man!

Shoot him, that's an order!

No, sir.

As you wish, Sergeant.

Men, Colonel Harris is ill.

In accordance with the
appropriate articles of war,

I hereby assume command
of this post.

Colonel, if you'll accompany
to the post's surgeon.

I'll accompany you to hell!

Sergeant Boehmer.

Yes, sir?

Take Colonel Harris
to the post hospital.

Treat him kindly, understand?

Of course, sir.

Flint...

better have those hands
taken care of.

Release, Red Bow.

Well, Bowman...

it's been good to see you,
in spite of everything.

It's a good treaty.

Perhaps we'll have peace
for a little while.

Let's hope a long one.

SHEGAN: Oh, Flint.

General Collins wants a word
with you both before you leave.

Major Shegan tells me of
the close personal relationship

that each of you
once had with Ji...

Well, with the former
post commander.

I hope you won't
judge him too harshly.

There are many ways
to fall in battle, and...

Jim Harris's way
was perhaps the worst.

I know. I feel sorry for him.

Are you? I'm glad.

He was a good soldier.

There any hope for him?

The Surgeon-General
reports that Jim

won't be in the hospital
for a long time.

Now, there will be peace,
Mr. Lewis?

The Indian will not
break the treaty.

Good.

General.

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