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How to get to the end of this

lecture?

I'm going to talk a little bit about

how to get to the end of this

lecture.

I'm going to his place now.

What's your business with Grant?

I'd say it was personal.

I've seen you somewhere before.

I'm trying to remember where.

What makes it so important?

I just thought you might be one of

those new guns the Oklahomans bring in.

I'm no gun.

I guess that fancy pistol of yours fooled

me.

The way that holster's cut down.

Like a man who wants to draw fast.

I bought it from a man who got

to be pretty good.

Look out!

Turn out quick.

Like a man who's done it before.

You stick to your whiskey, Marshal.

I'll handle the election.

Your passengers are waiting.

I won't keep them long.

Not the way you deal cards.

That might mean something I don't like, Stacy.

You'd better get out of here.

I mean it like it sounds.

Pay bail, car charge.

That's what you are.

I'm going to get you out of here.

Take your money.

Six years, three months and two days.

You told me once this was the only

place you ever called home, so I figured

sooner or later you'd show up here.

You sent me some letters and I sent

them back unopened.

Didn't that tell you something?

Like what?

Like maybe we're no good for each other.

It's only the beginning.

Used to be like that.

Not anymore.

It's a big business now.

Another couple of years and we'll be somebody.

I can use you, Steve.

I planned it that way.

Thanks, but it's not for me.

What do they do to you up there?

Give you religion or something?

No, they gave me plenty of time to

think about what I wanted most when I

got out.

You know what it was, Marie?

To live in peace on a small ranch.

That's all I wanted.

I won't get it taking sides with you

or anyone else.

There's a lot I can give you, Steve.

There's a lot more you can take away.

I haven't been here since I was ten.

They say he knows every face he's ever

seen on a wanted poster.

I'm not wanted anymore.

I've paid my debt to society.

That won't make any sense.

You're going to need me, Steve.

If I do, I'll come looking for you.

It's just Steve Ward.

He's a fool.

Looks like your reunion wasn't all it was

supposed to be.

Why don't you mind your own business?

I thought you said you didn't know her.

I stopped a man from taking a shot

at her.

She invited me in for a couple of

drinks.

She was grateful.

There's no knowing how far her thanks will

take you.

What did you say your name was?

I didn't.

Well, now, son, the sheriff's got a mind

to know.

You'd better tell him.

Ward.

Stephen Ward.

How long are you staying in town, Ward?

As long as I want to.

Well, you'll be staying in case I want

you.

You won't.

Now, if you're through with your cross-examination...

I'm sure he's one of her men.

I reckon we'll just have to wait till

he proves it.

He's half the trigger man he's supposed to

be.

We may need him.

We don't need his gun to win this

election.

We need his brains.

The voters are stampeding behind Grant.

If we haven't got long, they're going to

turn him in Marsh's direction.

Don't you know how to break up a

stampede?

First, you scare off the leader.

And all you've got left is a bunch

of idiots.

A bunch of brainless cattle.

Grant don't scare easy.

Well, maybe we haven't tried hard enough.

Where are you keeping the new men?

At my place.

You send them out to Grant's this afternoon

to make a little noise.

Let him know we're still thinking up.

Come on inside.

I want to send them all a little

note.

This will be my town before I'm finished.

I'm going to win this election.

We are going to win.

I've got a stake in it too.

I think we were doing the same thing.

Only in that watering trough over there.

Only that time you weren't wearing any clothes.

What are you talking about?

Oh, it's all right.

I think I was about nine and you

were about two at the time.

You're Steve Ward?

Right.

I must say you've certainly changed a lot

since then.

Home in the right places too.

I heard shooting.

It seemed to come from here.

It did.

Oklahoma sent some of her men here on

a scare raid.

Is he one of them?

This is Steve Ward, Dad.

Ephraim Ward's grandson.

Now I see it.

You're all Ephraim's grandson, all right.

Glad to have you home, boy.

I'm glad to be here.

It's a miracle some of that lead didn't

stop me, though.

She can't buy us out, so she's trying

to scare us off.

Did you get a look at them?

If we can identify them, we'll get the

sheriff to lock them up.

Oh, I just heard the shooting.

They were gone when I rode up.

But they must have gone right past you.

There's only one trail on that hill.

Oh, they didn't.

This letter says you're the executor for my

grandfather Ward's estate.

You're a long time laying claim to it.

Yeah, he's been gone more than four years

now.

Well, I've been on the move.

Just got the word of his death a

couple of months ago.

How much money you got?

Thirty-eight dollars.

Why?

You'll know why when you see the estate.

We can walk there.

It's just over the rise.

Yeah, I remember.

Not much of a ranch anymore.

All I want from it is a lot

of peace and quiet.

Got a need for quiet.

To be left alone.

You don't sound like you're going to be

much of a neighbor, Steve.

I'm not.

Thirty-eight dollars won't do much for that.

There were debts and taxes.

Had to sell the cattle to meet the

obligations.

Tornado two years ago did that to the

house.

I made

Johnny fightin' that woman.

What woman?

Linda.

I've heard of her.

Maybe the bank will help you get started.

Yeah, maybe.

Go on over and have a bite with

us.

If you don't mind, I think I'd rather

stay here.

A neighborly thing to do would be to

have a bite with us your first night

here.

Like I said, I'm not much on that

good neighbor stuff.

So you do.

I'll swing it.

How about moving about Steve Ward?

He sure brought out the woman in you.

He'll be back.

Whimpering like an orphaned calf.

When after the election?

If you win it.

He just moves in and pushes me into

a dark corner.

Is that it?

More than likely.

We stood between us.

Stood between us?

You were never that close.

Come on.

Welcome back to your house.

Oh, thanks.

I had a little housecleaning to do.

So did we.

One of the men threw a rock through

a window.

This was wrapped around it.

That's playing it kind of rough.

Did your dad report it to the sheriff?

I haven't told him.

And I'm not going to.

Why not?

This is the one thing that might scare

him.

She's tried everything and now this.

What's so important about your dad being elected?

Somebody's got to fight her.

My dad's willing to try.

Do you know how many ranches she's cheated

and blackmailed?

She's taken over one third of the rangeland

already and she's just getting started.

You saw those men this afternoon, didn't you?

No, I didn't.

But you had to the way you came

down the hill.

I'll put my bed over here.

If you could identify one of them, it

would break her.

The sheriff's been looking for something like that.

Look, it isn't my fight.

I don't care who wins what.

One politician's like any other politician and one

fights like another fight.

You want to straddle the fence.

That's pretty hard to do when it's barbed

wire.

I've got a tough hide.

I don't know whether I hate you or

feel sorry for you.

Get out of my way.

For a peaceful man, you're awfully fast to

pull a gun.

I just want to talk to you.

How much does she want to buy me

off for now?

$10,000 for a ranch that's worth maybe

five.

Oklahoma's got a real yen for that place

of yours.

For the last time, tell her I'm not

selling.

That I'm not withdrawing from the race and

tell her I'm going to win it.

Now, Mr. Grant, what good's a dead assemblyman

going to be to anybody, to the voters

or his daughter?

Let me buy.

Is Oklahoma the wavering before the people's desire

for reform?

People can be molded like...

A woman.

Why don't you get...

Few people bother to listen to my speeches.

It's amazing how many of your regulars have

deserted your cause.

Now take Anderson.

Now vote for Marsh, Queen Dowager of Silver

Hill.

For honest and forthright corruption, give Marsh your

vote.

Shut up, Marsh!

Fire me, Marie.

Please.

Is that so?

You, uh, got him locked up?

No.

They got away this time.

The one that kept Stacy from killing you?

Oh, yeah.

Well, I never saw him before today.

That's a good view of it.

That's what you said last time, when I

ran Marsh against Jackson.

It won't be me.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Get him here any way you can.

Now you're talking sense.

Election can prune order that Oklahoma wants to

give us.

Any disturbance, any meeting that's broken up by

violence, I want you to meet it in

the same way.

If you can't, kill him.

Tell me you'll leave from Ward's, grandson.

I didn't think it was any of your

business.

I still don't.

There goes your gunslinger.

Without a gun.

Oh, I can spot him a mile away.

It's in their eyes.

You could be wrong, Sheriff.

I ain't wrong too often.

You better wear this for a while, honey.

The next three days are gonna be tough

ones.

She's fighting hard.

She can't stop it now.

Sometimes, not very often.

I wonder if it's worth it.

You must have been listening to our new

neighbor.

Don't be too hard on him.

He's a troubled man.

I wish a new way.

Come on.

The Sheriff's brought in some new deputies.

One of them will be watching this place.

What about you?

I hate to see you ride alone.

I'll be all right.

Bye.

Thank you.

Open up for

decency.

My dad's life has been threatened, and mine

too, for the same reason.

And you think this doesn't touch you?

I'm not letting it.

You must hate people an awful lot to

feel the way you do.

Or is it yourself you hate?

Up here,

Sharon.

Downstairs, I'm a saloon keeper.

Up here, I'm a woman.

There's no denying that.

I'm gonna tie you in with that murderer

or die trying.

And I want you around when I do.

I'm not going anywhere.

I have my own free will.

All the women are for Grant.

Possibly you forgot about these.

$700 worth.

It's the women, Marie.

They beat you.

I'm not beat, you hear me?

Leave him alone, Marie.

What makes you so sure Grant will win

the election, Anderson?

80% of the votes are pledged to

him.

You can scare some of them off, but

not all of them.

It's too late.

It's a lie.

You say anything to the sheriff and your

wife gets the IOUs, you understand?

I won't say nothing.

First thing they'll do if they win is

run us out of town.

It's not too late.

I told you to do it my way.

This is what puts you on top.

This will keep you there.

Nothing else.

Grant's daughter.

That's how we'll get to him.

Get her.

How?

Grant's holding a meeting tonight at Saddle Bend.

He won't be home until late.

Sheriff's got a deputy guarding the place.

Well, supposing one of your men, somebody she

doesn't know, were to become that deputy.

Supposing he were to tell her that her

father's been hurt and wants to see her.

There'd be no noise.

No fuss.

Might work at that.

Do you

think it's about time you got rid of

him?

I'll let you know when that time comes.

Do you want me to go in alone?

Look more natural that way.

I don't know.

What if something goes wrong?

Just keep riding.

And don't let me catch up with you.

Because if I do...

I'll kill you.

I've been waiting for you, Tom.

Well, here I am.

Just swore in a bunch of new deputies.

Good shot, Solem.

Yeah, so I hear.

All right, hear this.

Next man that pulls a poster down and

ruffs up a voter or breaks up a

meeting gets shot.

No arrests, no questions.

Shot.

You're telling this to the wrong man, Sheriff.

There's a new boss man now.

It wasn't until he come around that things

started happening.

What do you mean?

You didn't know?

Now, Sheriff, they say you know every gunman

in the country.

You wouldn't care to tell me who he

is?

I might.

For a little consideration.

What is it?

I like this town.

If Grant wins...

and I guess he will...

I want to stay here.

And you'd sell Oklahoma out?

She's selling me out.

Taking what I helped build and giving it

to a newcomer.

All right, who is it?

I wouldn't want it said that I gave

you his name.

But if you look in your wanted file

of eight years ago...

you'll recognize a face.

You won't forget my little consideration.

Will you, Sheriff?

Here it is.

What do you say now, Sam?

This was eight years ago.

What are you going to do?

Telegraph Tulsa for more details, then go pick

him up.

That'll be soon enough.

I thought you were my father.

I'm one of the Sheriff's deputies, ma'am.

I'm afraid your father won't be home for

a while.

She hasn't killed him.

He's hurt pretty bad.

I have to take you to him.

I'll get my horse.

In town.

In Silver Hill?

That's right.

He was speaking in Saddle Bend tonight.

You're mistaken.

Go!

Was he

a friend of yours, Steve?

Is that why you did it?

You'd better get back in the house.

I'll wait here till your dad comes back.

I'll look after myself.

I...

I hate you.

Do you?

No.

No, I don't hate you.

I don't even know you're alive.

I think I proved you wrong about that.

What?

Hanson, whatever your name is, stand up.

Kind of early for a call, isn't it,

Sheriff?

I got a telegram early this morning.

They seem to think you're something of a

gunfighter down Tulsa Way.

It's past history.

Is Marie Oklahoma Saunders past history, too?

Would you come out to help out her

campaign?

The rough things are over.

Came here for peace and quiet.

Looks like I might just as well have

moved into a railroad station.

All right, go through his things, Sam.

You know, once a gunslinger, always a gunslinger,

Ward.

It's in the blood.

Six years in prison can bleed it out

of you.

Nothing but this.

Let me tell you something.

I ain't one of them legal sheriffs, Ward.

If a gunman hits my town, I give

him one warning.

If he don't take it...

Well, I get rid of him anyway.

He means it, son.

This place isn't much, Sheriff.

But it's mine and I'm staying.

All right.

As far as I'm concerned, this is the

badge of your trade.

I see you wearing this in town.

And I go gunning for you.

Oh, yeah, another thing.

You was negotiating to do some business with

the bank and some of the other trade

people.

Forget it.

I'm going to have a talk with them.

Sheriff, if you ever see me wearing this

in town, you'll know I'm gunning for you.

Well, Caesar.

How goes the campaign?

Shut up.

Not so good, eh?

I hear the rumbling in the street among

the good citizens.

The tiny insignificant people with their one little

vote.

Looking at you makes me sick to my

stomach.

And you to mine.

The grand girl has identified Blackie.

Do you know what happens to us if

the Sheriff gets him and he talks?

It was worth the gamble.

We'll be taking bigger ones before we're through.

Well, it looks bad.

It'll look good again.

The fall and decline of the Oklahoman Empire.

Shut up, I said.

Will you two cut it out?

Yelping at each other like a couple of

kids all the time.

The dogs howl when the fox is cornered.

A few barks do not make a kill,

Santa.

Don't forget that.

I know

that Dad is furious at what the Sheriff

has done.

Maybe he can straighten it out after the

election.

You know, he may get my vote yet.

I wish you had told me about yourself.

Then I would have understood that you're not

shooting Blackie.

Come to tell me you're leaving town?

I'll be here long after you're gone, Sheriff.

I love you.

Oh, Steve.

It's easy to forget why I'm here, Marie.

You're here because we belong together.

Did you tell the Sheriff about me?

But I told you he'd find out.

You have a man with a scar working

for you.

Blackie Thompson, what about him?

He tried to kidnap the grant girl.

I fought him off.

You fought him off?

That's a good one.

That could cost me a lot of money.

A lot of everything.

I don't want to talk about them, I

want to know about us.

What's to be said about us?

That we spent a few exciting years together?

A fire lit in me every time I

looked at you.

And I killed for you.

You talk like there's only a past, Steve.

Is there a tomorrow for us?

I went in that prison one man and

came out another, Marie.

I don't think you'd be interested in the

new Steve Wharton.

What did you come here for then?

A business proposition.

I'll put up my ranch as security for

a loan to get it started again.

You're a poor Steve.

Sheriff's got to run you out of town.

What is it you're looking for?

I'm not sure.

Respectability, maybe.

You can buy that.

You've got enough money.

I can make you a congressman in two

years.

Senator in five.

Like Jimmy Marsh?

Are you going to let me have the

money?

No.

Welcome back, Blackie.

Stagecoach driver spotted him.

I've got some good news for you.

That deputy you beat up over at the

Grand Prince will live to testify against you.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Take me in there and lock me up.

Maybe we'll stop off first and have a

little talk with Marie.

All you have to tell her is that

you've been on a payroll.

Take me in there.

I know my rights.

All right.

Lock him up in one of them legal

rights of his.

He won't open his mouth more than a

smoker's cigarette.

Look, Jim, ride over to the Grand place

and bring Mr. Grant and his daughter into

town.

They're going to stay here until after the

election is over.

And keep them in your sight all the

time.

Hey, new coat.

Working yourself up, ain't you?

Master strategist at work.

Take a walk.

I think I will.

Grant's holding a big rally tonight and the

town is filling up with happy, frantic voters

who still think Grant's going to win.

We know better, don't we?

Well, they got lucky.

You've got to get to them before that.

How?

Grant's holding a meeting tonight.

Everybody in town will be there, including the

sheriff and his men.

This will be your last chance to talk

to Grant before the election.

That's quite a night's work you're laying out

for me.

Do it!

Just like the good old days.

Sam!

Wake up, Sam!

Sam!

Open the window!

That's a man in a stinking hole!

Let me see it.

Part of this was on the floor near

Blackie.

Must have grabbed for him.

All right, you two cover the roads out

of town.

Let's go.

Look, you've

got to get out of here and quick.

The sheriff's on his way over.

Why?

Blackie was killed in the cell, and they

found a letter addressed to you.

Well, that doesn't prove I killed him.

He's not coming here to prove anything.

He's coming to kill you.

I'll be all right.

I'm just going over to the hotel.

Susan's going to meet me there.

Mr. Grant, what's going to happen is up

to you.

You're wasting your time.

$15,000 for your ranch.

The signed notes saying you're withdrawing have gone

a long way.

Time and money fighting you.

If I was to quit now, I'd be

telling my friends and neighbors that I'm no

better than Marsh or these men.

Get him out of here.

Just as well.

They'll go crazy when they find him.

I'm getting out of here.

Go on.

I don't need you.

I don't need anybody.

I don't need anybody.

I'm at the

hotel.

Why?

I almost

forgot.

I was to tell you he's been laying

down in the back room all evening.

Bad headache or something.

Is that in case the sheriff asks?

Grant is missing.

They're looking for his body, Marie.

And when they find it...

Shut up, Marsh.

What you need is a drink, Senator.

You're fired.

A rat seek better chorus.

It's like a funeral parlor in here.

How come you never get drunk?

I've developed an immunity to whiskey.

And morals.

Senator, meet a man who's just acquired morals.

I envy you.

You found it, didn't you?

No.

You think I'm lying, don't you?

I can't lie to you, Steve.

Never could.

Am I lying?

No.

Do you know anything about it?

About me?

I'm just a bartender.

Speak up.

Was it addressed to Steve Ward, care of

general delivery, Tulsa, Oklahoma?

Yeah, that's it.

If I were to tell you who had

such a letter this afternoon, would it distress

him?

I guess it would.

To the point where he'd want to kill

me?

In that case, I would be justified in

seeking a safer climate and a cleaner one.

Are you going to tell me?

Of course.

Tom Blake had it this afternoon.

Where is he?

I guess Marie can tell you that.

Oh, and by the way, give her my

fond goodbyes.

Yeah.

Steve Ward just went up to talk to

Marie.

Ward?

That solves my problem.

They killed Grant.

Let's go get her.

Sam, we've

got to stop them.

Come on.

And you won't tell me where Tom is?

I have no idea.

How soon can you get out of town?

An hour, maybe less.

Why?

All right, I'll give you an hour.

Then I'll tell the sheriff everything I know.

You're giving me an hour to get out

of my town?

Who do you think you're talking to?

Sixty minutes.

You're the one who'd better go.

Let them.

Who do you think you were dealing with,

farmhands?

Get me something to tie him with, Marie.

Tie him up.

There's your big hero, Marie.

Where are you going?

To break...

What's going to happen to him?

He's going to save our necks.

You'd better go downstairs.

He'll be all right until we need him.

What's going on here?

They killed Grant.

All right, go home.

Go home, I told you.

I'll take care of this.

They're coming here, Marie.

I'll shoot the first one that sets foot

on this porch.

Where is Steve Ward?

I don't know.

Come on, Ann, let's go.

Let's go.

There he is.

Let's go.

You're an officer of the law.

You've got to stop them.

How many sworn deputies are in there?

They kept me tied up up there.

They found your gun near them.

Talk.

What do you want?

Go on, get out of here, I'm telling

you.

You let a man die for something he

didn't do.

A man you loved.

I hate him.

You knew he didn't kill the sheriff, and

you knew he didn't kill Blackie, didn't you?

I don't know anything.

Hurry up, it's getting late already.

Everything's caved in.

I'm moving.

You better get out of here, too.

You're in worse shape than I am.

They know everything.

We told them.

What's the difference?

I'll need this more than you will.

Look, you've been holding me off for,

five years.

I might have known.

It wasn't even worth it.

Where is he?

Come on

She's getting away!

Transcription and Translation (AI) by Kasamaruti/GM JUL 2025