All language subtitles for 3_gold_rush_maisie

Good evening. I'm sorry to disturb you,
but... Look, mister, I don't blame you

for coming at the door with a gun in
this neighborhood, but would you mind

pointing it a bit to the south?

You alone?

Mister, I've never been so alone in my
life.

What do you want?

Well, here's what's happened.

I was on my way to trucks and sea, and I
got as far as out there a little ways

and my car died on me. What I know about
fixing a car you could put in your

eyes, so I'm just looking for somebody
to help me. I'm no mechanic.

Oh, now, mister, don't be so unfriendly.
Every man knows something about a car.

I've got a hundred miles to do tonight,
and I should be in trucks and right now,

so won't you please take a look at it? I
told you I'm no mechanic.

Oh, now, please, just look, Tex.

My name isn't Tex.

Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know what I'm
saying. I'm in such terrible shape.

Oh, won't you please just take a look at
it anyway? I'll be glad to pay you for

your trouble.

There's nothing I can do.

What kind of a man are you, and what
sort of a place is this anyway?

Those houses have nothing in them but
rats, and now you come to the door and

won't even help a girl when she's in a
jam.

Oh, this is the worst yet. What am I
going to do?

All right, come on.

Gee, thanks.

For a minute there, things looked awful
black.

Say, what kind of a town is this anyway?

A ghost town. A ghost town.

Oh.

Line's clogged, battery's run down, the
cylinder head's cracked.

What you need is a car.

And to think I paid that guy 25 good
bucks for it.

Do you think you can fix it?

Oh, sure, right now. That's a cinch.

But I absolutely gotta get the trucks
in. I got a singing job waiting, and if

don't nail it quick, I'm liable to lose
it.

What am I gonna do?

I wouldn't know.

Well, I absolutely can't lose out on
that job.

Look, mister.

You thought out quite a bit already.
Couldn't you get real big -hearted and

drive me to Truxton? I know I could work
out a deal with the boss to pay you for

your trouble.

What do you say?

I haven't got a car.

Oh, you haven't got a car.

Well, what happens now?

Do I spend the night out here with those
lions?

They're not lions. They're coyotes.

What's the odds? They all got teeth.

Oh, nothing's going to happen to you.
Just tuck yourself away in this thing,

by morning, some stray car may pass and
give you a lift.

the idea of keeping a girl guessing like
that, Tex. I mean, mister.

So what is your name?

Mine's Maisie Revere.

Maisie? Mm -hmm.

Oh, mine's Bill Anders.

You got a suitcase or something with
clothes in it? Yeah, my costume's

Here, I'll take it.

Mr. Anders was nice enough to say I
could stay here tonight, so it looks

you've got company.

My name's Maisie Revere. What's yours?

I say, it looks like you've got company.
My name's Maisie Revere. I heard you.

Well, what happened to you?

Somebody steal your bicycle?

In here.

Uh, Maisie?

What's the matter with your smiling
roommate?

Never mind him.

Well, such as it is, here it is. Well, I
couldn't ask for better unless you got

a spare coat I could throw over me.

We got plenty of better. Oh, that's
grand, but I don't want you to wait on

Take off your hat.

I'll be right back.

You been eating local weed? Shut up.

What's the matter with you anyway?

What's the matter with me? Shut up.

I feel a call to speak out, Mr. Anders.

Ain't you always said the only way to
steer clear of trouble is steer clear of

people? And ain't you always said you
don't hold no liking for people?

So what?

Well, she's people, ain't she? The worst
kind.

Female. Don't bother me. I'm busy.

Well, if you want to know what I'm going
to do, I'm going out and bunk in the

barn. That's a swell idea. Get started.

If you'd take my advice, Bill Anders,
you'd do the same.

Go on. Beat it. Beat it.

Hey, you're blonde.

That's right, right.

Well, you had your hat on before. I
didn't see. No blondes around here?

Nobody around here.

Girls, I mean. Oh, the two of you live
alone here. You and, uh, Happy Puss?

Fred? Yeah, he's my hired man, Fred
Gubbins.

Don't tell me you went out and hired
him. I thought he must have been left

in a will.

Oh, clean sheets, too.

Here, I'll do this.

Oh, let's do it together. It'll go
faster.

So you're a singer.

Well, I've often asked myself the same
question, but that's how I've been

getting by up to now.

As for the Hula Paradise Cafe, for the
money they're offering me, I know

not expecting Jeanette McDonald.

The Hula Paradise?

Yeah, you know the place?

Nope, but I'll remember next time I go
to town.

Yeah, do that.

Although, from what I hear, it's not a
first -class place, and these days it's

any port in a storm.

Well, I think I'll say goodnight now,
Mr. Anders, and a million thanks for

a real friend in need.

You'll need another blanket. Oh, no, no.
This will do fine. I don't want you to

be cold.

Be right back.

Thought we might have a little nightcap.

Well, thanks a lot, but I found out long
ago if I skipped alcohol, I skipped a

lot of headaches.

Aspirin won't cure.

Well, I think I will if you don't mind.

Well, it's your house, mister, but would
you just as soon have it in the other

room? I think I'll turn in.

Oh, you wouldn't make me have it all
alone, would you?

It isn't often I have any company.

Or want any, for that matter.

Tomorrow you'll be on your way to the
hula heaven, and I'll be back playing

-handed rummy with Fred.

Come on.

Let's sit down for a while.

Why, sure, Bill, if you put it that way.

Only, you know what I'd just love to
have if we're going to chat a while?

What? Some nice, strong coffee. I
thought I got a whiff of it from the

when I first come in.

It sure would pep me up if you could
steak me to a cup.

Well, there's some all made on the
stove.

Well, I never saw such a place.
Everything a girl could want, ready,

and piping hot.

Hold everything.

Hey. I changed my mind about the coffee.
Save me a cup for breakfast.

Good night, Bill, and many thanks.

Now, don't be mad, Bill, even though you
got the right. This is how it has to

be. Why, for two cents, I'd kick this
door in.

and just in time for breakfast. No, you
don't.

Oh, what's the matter?

You like your coffee black, Whitey?

Whitey?

What the devil do you think you're doing
now?

It's all ready, Bill. Breakfast for
three.

I told you I wasn't mad last night.

Well, evolve it.

Oh, tell... Oh,

I'm sorry, Bill. I'll make you some
more. You'll

make me nothing. We had breakfast three
hours ago.

Oh, I'm sorry. I saw you working in my
car.

Well, then why didn't you come out and
ask?

Questions are a whole lot cheaper than
groceries.

Well, you were working on the car for
me, so I thought I'd make breakfast for

you. I did it to get you out of here.

Maybe you'll feel better when I pay you
for it. I've only got $6.

$60 wouldn't pay for the trouble of
getting that wreck to go. It may not be

of a car, but it's got a better
disposition than you'll ever have. My

disposition will improve a whole lot the
minute you get in that heap and get out

of my sight. That'll be just as quick as
I can swallow some of these 18 -carat

eggs. Unless you think your chickens
might object.

at the station to see me off.

Turn on the ignition and put it in high.

Don't let out the clutch till it picks
up speed.

Well, how can it pick up speed if I
don't start the engine?

The battery's dead. We've got to push.

Oh.

Take off the brake.

Make it snappy. What do you want me to
do? Pull it out by the roots?

Don't let out the clutch till I say so.

I wouldn't dare say what I think of
either one of you.

Only get this straight. When I finish
pushing this time, I'm finished with

of you. For good. Don't worry, brother.
I'd walk the hundred miles before I'd

expose myself to you again.

And that goes double for that ugly rumor
you got working for you.

Come on, let's get this over with.

Give me the gun!

Start walking.

Sorry to set you down, too, Miss Maisie.
You've sure been good company.

Listen, you've been more than that to
me. You've been a lifesaver.

After two days of that hike, and I just
about made up my mind to lie down beside

the road with a farewell note pinned to
my chest.

Honest, I couldn't have made that last
25 miles under my own power.

Whoa, Lily.

How many miles you get a gallon? That's
what I want to know.

Home at last.

Well, thanks for the sweater. You're
welcome.

Do you think I can get... Oh, you bet.
Just because. Step on the brake.

There you are.

Thanks.

Well, thanks a million.

Anytime you and the missus can come in
and see the show.

Wait till I tell Ma I carried a sure
enough actress into town. Well, you just

tell her she's lucky I didn't kidnap
you. Men like you don't grow on trees.

On your way, sonny.

and gentlemen.

We have your favorite artist here with
us tonight.

Charming Miss Dora Divine.

That's it. Begging the speech.

Miss Divine will do for you a dance. So
if you like her number, just clap. Good

evening. You like to have special booth,
Miss?

I checked this. Oh, thanks. I'm not a
customer. I'm the senior you hired to

agency in Phoenix.

I'm pleased to meet you, mister.

Never mind. I said to telegram me about
you three days ago. Yeah, I know I'm a

little late, but I had a terrible time
making it here. You see, I'm... No,

you're too late.

I have other entertainment.

You mean somebody else got my job?

Yeah, her.

I like her fine, too. Too bad, lady. Too
bad?

Well, it's a lot worse than that,
mister.

I spent 25...

since I started out. You don't know what
I've been through to get here.

Well, I'm sorry. You go someplace else.

Couldn't you use another act? I've got a
swell routine.

I'd even be willing to take a cut in
salary.

No, business no good.

Well, can't you put me on the payroll
long enough to pay my fare back to

Phoenix? I'm almost flat broke.

Oh, look. Please, mister, have a heart.

Well, you can have a meal.

Tell them in the kitchen to give me the
60 cent bill. But then you go.

Thanks, Curly.

But I'm fussy about where I eat.

That grape.

That Damon of cellophane spinach.

Yeah. Well, I've got to find something
else fast.

What can I pick up in my line around
here, honey? I'd take anything.

Almost.

This town's a terrible tomato.

I sure wish I could get out of it.

That's that, huh?

Well, maybe you can tell me where I can
get a decent meal, Chief. My stomach's

as empty as a tail.

Say, you might try Harry's place.

It's on the corner of the highway.

can quit your jobs and your trucks and
anything else that's holding you back

hike off for the rest and make a quick
fortune. But look at me, nailed down

behind this counter for the rest of my
life.

See what I'm up against?

Behind life for a man.

Suppose you're on your way there, too.

I'm away where?

Why, the goldfield's like everybody else
but me.

What goldfield?

You mean to say you ain't heard about
Morrison's big strike?

No, where was it, in Alaska?

Alaska? Why, it's right here in our
neighborhood, sister. Only about a

miles from here. Ain't you heard?

Ready?

Why don't you pull down the gate? There
ain't no rush on customers.

Should have thought of that sooner.

Now, as I was saying, it's only about
100 miles from here where it's at.

Only 100 miles?

Sure, that's all. It's a place between
here and Phoenix. They had a gold boom

there about 25 years ago with the town
and all.

But that died out.

But this guy Morrison was prospecting
around there, and he struck it rich.

And when the word got out, well...

The papers say the people is pouring
into that old ghost town like ants.

Ghost town?

Say, that sounds like the place I went
through a few days ago, but there wasn't

anybody living there. Just a couple of
screwy guys on a ranch.

It was just two days ago that the extras
about it come out.

You must have just missed it. Sure
thing.

Seems like everybody in seven states
quit their jobs or whatever they're

packed up and made for the old boom
town.

That is, all except Harry.

Things are going to be pretty dead
around here.

I'm beginning to believe that myself.

Have you got a paper I could see?

Yeah.

Can't keep you from reading about it
anyway.

Even crowded the war news clear back on
the society page.

Morrison's ore was assayed at $60 ,000 a
ton.

60 ,000 smackers. Oh, sometimes a man
gets disgusted. Say, with all these

people, they'd have to have night spots,
wouldn't they?

Night spots?

Why, sure, they'll have plenty of them.

Bars, cafes, dance halls.

Ain't you ever seen any movies?

Why, in them gold towns, everybody's got
plenty of money. They don't care how

they spend it as long as they have a
good time.

I never thought I'd want to see that
place again, but I'm changing my ideas

fast.

I'd sure like to land me a job in one of
those cafes singing.

You a singer?

Yeah.

In a manner of speaking.

Well, sooner I get there and stake my
claim, sooner I'll have the price to

in and hear you warble a number.

So long, Harry.

I won't forget you or them fancy two
-bit meals when I'm a millionaire.

Oh, pipe down.

Don't let it get you, Harry.

So long, lady.

Be seeing you up there.

Yeah, maybe it will.

Say, mister.

What is it, kid?

Could you please heat up this bottle of
milk, mister? Oh, Gus.

Hiya, kid.

What do you hear from the mob?

Give me the usual and bad down on the
onions.

Gus is here. Plenty of tears.

All you gotta do is put the bottle in
hot water.

I said I haven't got time. On your way,
kid.

Please, mister.

Go on. One with the bowed forehead won't
break your arm.

Oh, all right.

Thanks a lot, lady.

That's okay, kid.

The milk's for my baby sister.

She's over in the filling station with
the folks.

We're on our way to the Gold Rush.

Pop says if we drive all night, we can
make it by morning.

Is that so?

We're going to stake us out a claim and
get rich.

You going to the Gold Rush, too?

Uh -huh.

How are you going there? In your car?

Yeah.

My name's Jubilee Davis, but they all
call me Juby.

What's yours?

Maisie Revere.

That sure is an awful pretty hat,
Maisie.

Yeah, I kind of like that style myself.

Thanks ever so much, mister.

Guess I'd better hurry.

Gladys sure yells her head off when she
gets hungry.

Maybe Gladys got the right idea.

Yeah. Well, goodbye, Maisie.

So long, honey.

Who are you trying to fool, Maisie? You
ain't got no wheels, but I have.

I got a nice beer truck with plenty of
room on the driver's seat.

Yeah.

You'd need space.

Say, I'm driving right through that gold
town, too.

Might take on a passenger.

If she had a lot of pep and liked a lot
of laughs.

You know what I mean?

Say, I know some swell jokes. They tell
me I'm as poor pep as a sand flea.

The only trouble is I'm, uh, what's that
you call it?

Allergic?

Huh? Yeah.

I'm allergic to beer trucks.

Was that by chance a crack?

Not by chance.

What's the bad news?

Twenty cents.

If you take my advice, we'll get the
exterminators in here quick.

This is the first time I've ever seen a
termite big enough to drive a truck.

Good night, all.

you about. Back up, Pop.

You mean the lady with the big hair?

Uh -huh. Back up, Pop. Back up.

What's the matter, Maeve? Did something
go wrong with your car?

Oh, yeah.

I guess I forgot to tell you it broke
down back at the Gold Town. I'm just

starting out after it. Well, say, if you
need a ride, you can come along with

us. Can't she, Pop?

We're headed there, too. Glad to give
you a lift, ma 'am.

Where'd you believe spokes, Miss Maisie?
She told us how nice you was to her in

the cafe.

We'd be mighty pleased if you cared to
join in with us.

Well, thanks a lot, but you're already
pretty crowded.

Why, just look at all the room back
here.

Here, I'll push Gladys' bed over here.

A young lady like you never knows what
kind of strangers might be offering

this time of night.

There's a lot in what you're saying. It
certainly is nice of you, but...

Honest, I don't see how... Always room
for one more.

Look at all the room in the middle.

Gladys can sleep on that pile of
blankets, can't she, Mom?

We say you'll come, Maisie.

Well, thanks a lot. If you're positive
another passenger wouldn't put you out.

Not a mite. We're glad to have you.
Hooray!

Where can this go, Pop?

Put your feet up, son.

Climb right in, Maisie. It certainly is
sweet of you.

All set back there?

Yep.

the milk heated up for.

You said we was gonna eat, Mom.

Now, just hold your horses.

But I'm hungry, Mom. Stop pestering Mom,
Harold.

Don't you never think of nothing but
your old stomach?

Would you care for a bit of dinner?

Dinner?

Oh, no, thanks. I just had a big dinner
back at the Beanery. I couldn't eat

another mouthful.

Then here, Harold.

I'm not very hungry.

I guess I'm kind of wrought up about
getting so near the gold town.

Yeah. You going to stake you out a claim
up there and get rich too, Maisie?

No, Juby. I'm just going to get me a job
in a cafe.

Cooking?

No, honey.

Singing or dancing or both, maybe.

Honest?

Honest.

Say, where are you folks from?

Well, our home state's Arkansas.

Well, we ain't been there more than a
year.

Not since we lost the farm.

Oh, you lost it?

Well, we was only tenant anyways.

It didn't really belong to us for five
years.

It's all the drought and dust, and the
banks wouldn't loan us no more, and we

had to get off.

Gee, that's too bad.

We've been in five states following the
crops around.

Me and Harold's getting so we can pick
almost as much together as Mom can.

But we don't have to go around looking
for no more crops to pick now.

We're prospectors.

We ain't never in any one place more in
two or three weeks.

Sometimes only a couple of days.

It kind of irks me, them not growing up
educated, but it don't seem there's

nothing we can do about it.

I'll take Gladys for you. She falls
asleep on you. She'll be fixing that

stuff with you so I can bed her down.
Oh, I'd like to hold her, Mrs. Davis.

Besides, I ought to make up to her
somehow for taking her seat.

Well, if you would like to.

If we get us a lot of gold, we figure on
getting us a real house again.

And then me and Harold's going to
school.

Oh, I ain't going to no school.

I'm just going to eat chocolate candy
and ice cream until I bust wide open.

up, Harold. First we gotta find the gold
before we can spend it. Ain't it the

truth, though?

Maybe it ain't gonna be so easy as we
think.

The gold's up there, ain't it? All we
gotta do is go and look for it.

Well, I got good eyes and a strong back
and a pickaxe, and what's more, a mighty

strong hankering to get us our share.

All we need's the right luck.

I got a feeling your luck's gonna be
good.

That's the very thing Pop said, Maisie.
We ain't had no car trouble in 200

miles, either.

I'm awful sorry about your car.

That's about the worst luck you can
have, ain't it?

Yeah.

Maybe so.

Gee, I never believe it's the same
place. They're jammed in here like

I wonder if any of them found any gold
yet. I'd like to make a few inquiries

about that before I pick us out of
campsite. Don't get too far from

Looks like business ought to be booming
all right.

When are we going to eat, Mom?

I can't cook no breakfast before we set
up a stove.

Oh, there's a grocery store. I'd like to
get some food. Sure.

I'll come along, too. Yeah.

What can I do for you?

First of all, five or six cans of milk.
The best you got.

It's all the same, quarter a can.

Two bits apiece?

This ain't no neighborhood chain store,
lady. I got to truck everything in, and

it ain't no easy job, neither.

Yeah, you look overworked.

Well, nobody's asking you to buy. Keep
your shirt on, sonny boy. I got five

bucks to spend on groceries, and I want
a lot for my money.

Now, the milk, four cans of pork and
beans, a couple of cans of corned beef,

half a dozen oranges.

What? No patties to foie gras?

Are your eggs fresh, too?

I'll take some if they are.

Howdy, partner.

Howdy. Any strikes outside the big one?
I'll say ten or twelve anyway.

They're just squatting on their clays
waiting for the assailant to come along.

Expect them any day now. Ten, twelve,
you say? Say, that's sure good news.

luck. Thank you.

Do you hear what he said, Sarah?

You must be hungry, Miss Maisie. I guess
we all are, so I wanted to have

breakfast on me today, see?

My, there's enough here for four days.

Milk, pork, and beans? Pork and beans?

Yep, a whole can for you alone, Harold.

Oh, I call that mighty friendly of you,
ma 'am. You get $5 .25 for it, too.

Well, judging from the prices they're
asking and getting around here, I ought

make that five bucks back easy with a
half a dozen songs.

Oh, boy, let me, let me. Guess what
we're going to do.

cost? Five dollars?

Say, what's the big idea? This ground
doesn't belong to you.

I got it claimed and staked out, lady.
That's as good as owning it. Drive on,

Mr. Davis. There's other places. Sure,
plenty of places without no water. But

maybe you folks don't mind going a
little dry.

We can tote the water, Bert. We got
buckets.

Buckets won't do you no good.

The waters give out free gratis only to
them that pays the five dollars.

How much cash we got left, sir?

Okay, mister, I guess this spot will
have to do.

Five dollars, then, in advance.

Oh, well, never mind that. I'll give you
an extra buck for waiting a couple of

days. Oh, no, sister.

You stay here, you gotta pay now.

Well, I'm getting a job today in town.
You'll get your dough back.

A job doing what?

Singing, mister, singing.

Where? In the middle of the street?

I do my work in cafes and cabarets.
Catch?

Ain't no such here.

But they told me there'd be a lot of
places like that.

In a gold rush, people gotta have
entertainment someplace to have a good

and spend their money.

Sister, nobody in this town's got any
money. You don't see any Rolls Royces or

Ritz hotels, do you?

If folks wasn't so hard up, they
wouldn't be here looking for gold. So

pay up or move on.

What are we going to do for water, Bert?
Try someplace else near here. They

can't all be like him or they'd pass a
law.

Come on, Bert. Suit yourself.

Oh, come on, mister, be a sport.

I said cash in advance, and it won't do
no good to beg.

When's that going to be?

Listen, you big... Ain't no use arguing.
We'll have to move to where there ain't

no water.

Why don't you get your brother there to
scratch your back sometime?

Mom,

you said we was going to eat.

Stop your hollering, Harold. How can I
get breakfast till we find a place to

stand? But where are we going to camp?
My stomach's rattling.

I'll rattle your teeth if you don't hash
up Harold Davis.

Ain't gonna do us no good. That there's
private property.

Yeah, I get the message on Mr. Bill
Anders' fancy sign, but all I care is

got space and plenty of water to spare.

Go on, drive in.

Hadn't we ought to ask first?

Go on, Pop. Do what Maisie says.

What are you doing back here? Take it
easy. I just want to get my car, that's

all. Why come to me? I haven't got it.
Well, I didn't think you had it in your

pocket. Where is it? In the barn?

How should I know?

I haven't got time to stand around
all... Just a minute.

I left it right out in front of your
place.

The last I saw of it three days ago, it
wouldn't budge.

Somebody must have moved it, and the
only person around here who could have

who's got a place to keep it out of
sight is you.

How's your eyesight?

Nothing wrong with my eyes.

Then take a look around the barn if you
won't believe me.

the devil have you been up to?

You see, boss, we needed a car. So you
remodeled my car.

I knew you had it, but I thought it'd at
least be in one piece. I tell you, I

didn't know anything about it.

Where's the engine?

In the ditch. It weren't no good. What
do you mean it weren't no good? Mr.

here was going to fix it up so I could
get back to Phoenix. And now look at it.

Why didn't you say something to me
first? Well, she went away and left it.

you figure that gives you the right to
hack it up and make paper clips out of

it. Well, you're wrong, Twinkle Toes. I
paid twenty...

Five bucks for it. That's more than you
could raise before.

Five nothing.

You'll pay ten or I'll call a cop.

What cop?

It's worth ten to get rid of you.

Don't worry, brother. I won't be around.

This ten will get you out of my sight as
far as Phoenix, I hope.

Yeah.

Fred.

Who are those imbeciles parked over
there?

I don't know. Honest, I don't. They're
no imbeciles. They're friends of mine.

Is that so?

Well, tell them to beat it right now.

in for me on account I beat you to the
punch once. There's no reason for you to

take your spite out on these people.

Don't think that bothers me, or ever
has.

This is private property. Get them off.
Looks like it's all private property

around this neck of the woods.

They're charging five bucks a week to
camp any place near water, and the

just haven't got the price.

And speaking of water, they're out of
that, too. Go on, Bert. Fill up your

bucket.

If you think I'm running a camp for a
bunch of gold -crazy tourists, you're

crazy. Crazy tourists?

Just because they're grabbing at a
chance to make a living for their kids

their little baby?

Well, all I can say is they've been
pushed around long enough.

You heard what I said. Yeah, and I've
seen that big shiny gun you got, too.

Go on, get it. And then come on over and
try to put us off.

Come on, folks, let's get out of here.

Boy, you sure told him off.

Yes, sir, stood right up to it.

Mr. Andrews, my lamp. What'd he say? He
said a plenty, but you should have heard

me. He'd give him what for?

She wasn't scared of my bed. Me scared
of him.

Just let him try to wave that gun under
my nose and put us off. We're staying

right where we are.

Go on, Mr. Davis, put up your tent.

Go on, get your stuff out of the car.

Go on, Bert.

Guess maybe I better.

You said we, Maisie. That means you're
staying...

a minute, honey. I've got to get to
Phoenix somehow or other. Come on, Juby.

Give me a hand over here. Okay, Pop.

Before you leave, Maisie, I've got to
tell you, I sure do thank you for being

nice to us, getting us this campsite and
water, but most of all, the food you

bought. It'll last us four or five days,
and we're bound to find gold before

then.

Yeah, but what if you don't?

Oh, well, we'll manage somehow.

We always have.

Oh, gee, Maisie, I wish you wasn't going
away.

Why can't you stay here and go
prospecting with us?

You ain't got a car nor a job.

I've been thinking along those same
lines myself.

You have?

Well, say now, if you've changed your
mind and want to go looking for gold,

can stay right here with us and welcome.

We got a swell tent and plenty of
bedding. Mom, she might stay and go

prospecting with Pop.

Tell her we got room. Mom, tell her to
stay.

Why, sure. Bert could rig things up
easy.

If it's equipment you're worried about,
I got a pickaxe to spare.

We could go partners if you like.

You'd want to save them good clothes,
but between me and Bert, we could outfit

you. See, Maisie, ain't nothing to worry
over. You'll make your fortune like us.

Please say yes.

Okay, then.

Put it there, partner.

Oh, Maisie.

Well, now it's all settled. We best
pitch in and make camp so you two

can get right to work after the gold.

That's right.

Well, I guess the last one will be on me
after all.

at a fresh guy once for daring to call
me a gold digger.

Let me take a swing

at it once, Pop. Now, Juby, we ain't got
an extra pickaxe and this is no time

for play.

Help yourself to mine while I bend my
blisters in the other direction.

get up. Right as rain.

Struggled yesterday.

No. Say, that's dandy.

Sure are glad to see you, Elmo. Howdy,
Mr. Beecher.

Well, this will be a jubilee.

My land's in three years. She's grown up
like a wheel. This here's Miss Maisie

Revere. Her and me's gonna be partners.
Meet her old neighbor, Elmo Beecher.

Pleased to meet you, ma 'am. Oh, same
here.

Maisie's hands got blistered up from the
pickaxe. Now, that's a shame.

But they'll call us up good and tough in
time. Yeah.

Say, how long you been at it? Oh, a
couple of days. Ain't had no luck yet.

Suppose you hear about Ben Hartley and
the Sullivans hitting it this morning.

Them folks here, too?

Sure. There's a parcel of us. There's
Frank Tyler and his family and the Joe

Carters. Well, if that don't beat the
Dutch, my Sarah will be pleased. You've

got to all come over to our place for a
visit. We sure will.

You know, it's kind of peculiar, all of
us old dirt farmers winding up here

looking for gold.

Sounds more to me like there's something
peculiar about farming. Sure, Maisie.

Elmo and the rest of them ain't got no
farms now no more than we have.

They've been following the crops around
for a couple of years, same as us.

Oh. Now on to three years for me and Ma.

Say, how's your missus anyway?

Oh, Sarah's just fine. Just same as
always. Seems like she can just take

as they comes along.

She just keeps a -smiling and saying
everything's going to come out all

Well, I... If only some gold had come
out all right and give us the high sign.

If only we could walk right up to the
place.

Now, there's a spot around here you
might try.

I was looking at it myself before I made
my strike.

I'll be pleased to walk over with you.
Call that mighty friendly on me, Elmo.

How about it, Maisie? Yeah, where is it?

Straight ahead.

Only about a mile and a half.

you, Maisie. Oh, I've been tired.

I know. I can't think when.

Never mind, Maisie. We'll find the gold.

And when I'm grown up and rich, I'm
going to have pretty clothes just like

I'm going to have me a hat that sits
back with flowers on it, a charm

a dress that swings kind of when I walk,
like a princess, like you.

That's sweet, honey.

Well, anyway, if you work for what you
get, it can be anything, and you don't

have to apologize for it.

But if you ever take anything from
anybody, be sure it's the best.

You mean, if someone was to give me a
dress, it would have to be a real nice

dress? You bet.

Listen, as soon as you take something
from somebody, you've lost part of your

right to tell them to go jump in the
lake, and that's awful important for a

on her own.

So you've got to be sure what they're
offering is top.

If it's a fur coat, it's got to be that
genuine article, run up by an ermine,

not by a white cat.

And if it's jewelry...

Carrots are no thanks.

And if it's love, well, if he gives you
his whole heart, grab it quick, because

there's nothing better than that.

But don't ever go shares.

You don't know what I'm talking about,
do you, honey?

Well, it does sound a little bit mixed
up.

But all I know is when I grow up, I want
to be just like you.

If you're like me, sweetie, you
certainly will be mixed up.

If only it'd help us to find the gold.

Make it soon.

Oh, please.

If it ain't asking too much.

Amen.

Yeah, honey, I have a new blister.

Here, have a swallow.

Think I will.

I wonder if we had an order to move on
somewhere else.

Oh, it's early. Yeah, we got plenty of
time.

Yeah, time.

The Beaches is down to their last sack
of cold meal.

He can't get no credit at the store,
even on his claim.

Listen, I'd like to have a dime for
every dollar I've got on credit.

It's a wonder to me I haven't got a
government job.

Well, let me know when you're ready to
move on.

Bert.

Bert, come here.

Take a look at this.

It looks like it, doesn't it?

What do you think?

Where'd it come from? Here, right here.

It looks just like Elmo said it would.

It's gold.

We've got it. It's gold.

Oh, Bert, all our troubles are over.
We're in the money.

We've got to stake out our claim. We've
got to put up a discovery monument.

Is it too much?

Yeah,

when you come right down to it, there
ain't one of us that ain't got the same

idea in the back of our heads.

You reckon that there are sales show up
tomorrow?

Yeah, I look forward for sure.

Whatever that is.

Just listen to what I'm carrying on down
there. So much noise, I had to give up

reading my catalog.

You want I should get out the shotgun
and run them off?

Play a couple of hands at the casino or
just talk?

I'm going to bed.

Put some water on the heat. Go on before
I grab your gun and let it go scanty.

No, no, wait just a minute.

You can't come running into a man's
house like that. You, a man?

Standing there making speeches while we
and this little baby are half gone and

no place else to go? I can think of a
lot of names to call you, but a man

one of them. I never raised my hand to a
man in my whole life.

Except for Bert once, and he's my own
husband.

Would you send these kids back into the
rain, Mr. Anderson?

Get some towels. Here, Sarah, get the
kids. Go on. Come on, I'll tend to her.

Oh, I hate to put you out like this, Mr.
Andrews. Who's putting him out? He's

got an extra room and I can sleep on the
couch.

No, listen to me, sister.

You can have some towels and dry off,
but I'm not running any hotels.

You are tonight, mister. Believe me, the
service smells.

But don't worry, you'll get paid. Bert
and me struck it rich today.

We'll give you a bonus that'll make your
eyes bug out.

Here, if you're going to stand around
like a floor walker, beat one. I got

things to do. Go on, Bert.

Hey.

Come on with those towels.

Hurry up with that hot water, Gubbins.
Hurry up.

You're tender.

Everybody set?

Yes, we're fine.

Tell Mr. Anders thanks for us.

And then, for the land's sakes, hustle
out of them clothes. Yeah, I will.

I'll put the lamp out.

They asked me to thank you for them.

Well, I guess I'll turn in as soon as
the coaster's clear.

Where's the phantom?

In bed.

Say, I sure could use a hot lemonade
without the spike, I mean.

Any chances?

What do you think I'm doing now?

Better get those wet clothes off.
There's a bathrobe in there on the

I'll bring the drink in when you're
ready.

Gee, thanks.

Go on, make it snappy.

Drink this while it's hot.

Gee, I never thought you'd remind me of
my mother.

Thanks just the same, but I told you
once I don't use it. I can make enough

trouble for myself sober.

You can make enough trouble for me
without pneumonia. Drink it up and don't

argue.

Okay. But I want it understood that
nothing I say from now on can be used

against me.

Don't worry. I stopped listening long
ago.

You're so...

frank and outspoken. You just say
everything that comes into your mind.

It's really a darn shame nothing nice
ever comes into your mind.

Well, what do you know?

You do know how to laugh.

I can laugh, all right.

I never found much to laugh about.

Have things been so tough?

Oh, no, life's been great.

I just have no sense of humor, I guess.

Well, you got everything else you need.
I mean, hands and feet, and you're not

blind or crippled or sick.

No, I'm sound in wind and limb.

And anybody could tell you had plenty of
schooling.

I bet you went all the way through high
school.

And college.

No kidding.

Gee.

You know, I thought so many times I
could have taken schooling if I just had

time.

I'm not really ignorant.

Just uneducated.

All through college.

I used to go with a college fellow once.

He played the saxophone in the band.

I guess he went to the wrong school,
though. He didn't know much.

Well, I don't know much either.

Just enough to figure out what I want
out of life.

What's that?

To be let alone.

She sure must have bounced you down
awful hard.

Nothing so romantic.

Then who taught you so many things that
aren't so?

My stepfather, mostly.

Oh, and my brother.

What a prince of good fellows he is.

And a couple of wrong guys can make you
swear off the human race.

You sure convince easy.

You're the little friend of all the
world, aren't you?

You're just nuts about everybody.

Oh, no.

I can spot a phony a mile off with the
sun in my eyes. And I can hate a phony,

too, with all I got, and that's plenty.

But when I run across swell people, I am
nuts about them.

Now take the Davises. You take the
Davises.

No, you take the Davises.

Do you good to make friends with some
nice people? Might make you feel better.

feel fine.

I bought this flea -bitten ranch just
because I wanted to get away from

And now look at them, swarming all over
the place like locusts. And squawking

because I won't let them camp around my
well.

I've seen enough of people.

And they're all alike.

There you go, making loud noises again.

They're not all alike, Bill. They're all
different.

For instance, I never saw anybody like
you before. And I'll make you a

bet that the first time you try liking
people, you love it.

There's not going to be any first time.
I'll leave that to you.

You've got the Davises around your neck
and they're tying you down.

Okay.

I ought to try putting some bread on
some water.

Bill, I'm going to sleep very soon.

But before I do, I want to say
something.

I want to say... thanks for everything.

No!

You've been awfully, awfully kind in a
sort of nasty way.

Sleep sweet, Bill.

Elmo, you don't reckon the rains will
hold up that fair ass there another day,

do you? No, he'll be along any time now.

My Albert's up there now watching the
play.

for what you done last night.

Hope we didn't put you to too much
trouble. I couldn't be helped.

Say, you certainly got A number one soil
here.

Wonderful how good rain brings
everything pushing off.

Pity you can't irrigate the whole piece.

Ain't anything wouldn't grow here.

I could irrigate, all right. Got enough
water?

Plenty. You have?

Well, why ain't you done it then?

Suits me the way it is.

Well, gee, mister...

When age you gave me sure had a sense of
humor. I slept like a baby. Better.

I'm settling down here.

Yeah.

Coast town would be alive again.

We'd have people for neighbors instead
of pack rats.

Might be all right at that.

All right?

Why not?

They're not so bad.

Give me some room and I'll run.

There you go, Joe.

Two dollars.

William Hardtack, me.

Mister, how soon will we hear?

It'll take most of the day. Oh, I have a
heart. If I have to wait more than two

hours, I'll bust.

Tear up, brother. A day isn't long to
wait for your ship to come in.

You said it, man. You gotta wait, you
gotta wait.

Partner, this is the best two dollars we
ever spent. It sure took me by surprise

that we had to pay to have a horse, eh?

What? I thought right along the
government paid this fella to come down

do it free.

Ah, you're talking about that fella from
the state mining department.

He's only down here to look over the
Morrison claim.

You've got to pay this here fella for
his work. It don't seem right for you to

be putting up all of it when we're
supposed to be going shares.

I sure wish I could pay my half. Listen,
you will.

I'll be after you with a summons to
collect that fuck as soon as we sell our

claim.

When you sell your claim, you ain't
going to have no small change in your

Nothing under a hundred. Thanks. Yes.

You want this filed under two names?
Sure do.

Bert Davis and Maisie Revere.

That's two dollars. Cash. Well, what
does that look like?

Wampum.

That's V -I -E -R.

That's right. And just be careful not to
get our stuff mixed up with anybody

else's. I'm paid to be careful, lady.
Well, now all we gotta do is wait. Next.

Pardon me, Maisie. Pardon me.

It sure takes a lot of doing to melt the
gold out.

Seems like the minute's got lead feet
all right.

Sure taking your time making up your
mind, Elmo.

I ain't the only one around here taking
their time.

If that there ass here don't get a move
on, the sun's going to set her for long.

Tarnation is nigh on to supper already.

Ain't that man never going to let us
know?

Here come the U .S. Cavalry!

That's Mr.

Andrews. That man that owns the ranch.
Who's the other fella?

That man.

What?

Come on in, Stetson.

This is Mr. Anders. He owns the ranch up
near the digging. How are you? You some

water to be assayed, Mr. Anders? Not me.

How does Anders rate going in there?

He probably wants to ask the government
guys, can he be postmaster of the new

town? If he'd hurry that fellow up, he
could be mayor for all of me.

Thanks very much.

Carson's claim. Sure, that's him.

Bert, they're coming outside.

Oh, God, me folks, I gotta be by Bert,
and I was only here the noon.

Quiet, me.

Quiet, everybody.

I'd like to explain something to you.
Sure, Sonny, go right ahead.

They sent me out here from the Arizona
Bureau of Mines to complete the survey

we've been making ever since this gold
rush started.

You're a...

Five years ago, a couple of men struck a
rich pocket of gold.

And overnight, this place became a town.

The big strike then proved a failure.

In a couple of weeks, this was just a
ghost town, full of empty shacks and

coyotes. Well, it ain't empty now,
mister.

That's just what it is, a fluke. The
findings support exactly what we

The ore is so poor, it hardly pays for
the trouble of digging it out.

It isn't worth using machinery on, much
less trying to do it by hand.

To stay here and work it would mean
poverty, perhaps even starvation.

I don't believe it.

Read off that list.

I'm not supposed to make it public, but
if you want me to, I will.

Beecher, $3 .50. Reuben Walters, $1 .75.

William H .T. Meigs, $2 .80.

175.

Caravan Jackson, 280.

What's the matter?

Oh, can't you leave me alone?

Come on, what's the matter?

Gold? Well, what do you suppose?

If the odds were a million to one
against you, I could have told you that.

you could.

Well, isn't that fine?

You must be feeling great being so
right.

Honest, it's worth pushing the Davises
and the Beechers and the Sullivans and

all of them off a cliff into nothing so
as you can say I told you so.

They can see that ghost town staring him
in the face.

Gold mining's been tried here before.
They should never... They never wanted

be gold miners.

No? No, they're farmers. They're people
who work with the land.

Put their work in, you wouldn't get a
living out of it.

But they lost their farms, see?

The banks got them with the dust.

They got kids, and they're hungry and
broke.

It was starvation herded them into gold
mining, wanting to eat.

Not wanting to get rich quick.

What are they going to do? Look for some
kind of work that'll let them eat.

Hope for it, anyway.

It's the sense of hoping. Because when
you quit hoping, you're dead. That's

And let me tell you this, mister, I
could have told him, Anders.

Burton and Sarah Davis broke are seven
million times richer than you are right

now. Yeah? Yeah.

I may not be a fine character, but I'm
eating. Sure, you're eating, but they're

alive.

What am I, dead? So close to it, it'd
take a pretty experienced coroner to say

yes or no.

Certains, Sarah, have known what it's
like to love somebody.

They got each other and their kids and
hope.

You got your land, but you're sour and
you're lonesome and you got Fred

I know who wins for my money and there's
no photo finish either.

Never mind the lecture. Where are they?
What do you care?

They're down by the tent. Them and 20
other families holding a meeting.

A meeting?

How do you mean holding a meeting?

I mean holding a meeting.

Well, what about?

Well, it'll be pretty hard for you to
understand being like you are about

people.

They got to move on to someplace, see?

There's prunes to be picked here and
oranges to crate there and cotton crops

someplace else, maybe.

They figure out if they all went to the
same place, they'd be competing with

each other, so they're down there
deciding who goes where.

They'll all starve, most likely.

But in this way, they're spreading the
starvation out over a couple of states

and not bringing it on each other.

I'm going down there.

What are you going to do, crow over him?

Just you dare, Bill Anderson.

Will you just wait and see what I'll do?

Matt and Ned Sullivan, you're down for
Santa Clara Valley.

Okay. Chances are as good there as
anywhere else.

Davis. Yes, sir? Before you make
definite plans, I've got a little

that I'd like to put up to you.

Why, sure, Mr. Anders. Was it just for
me personally, or... All of you here and

as many others as want to put in with
you. Step in here beside me, Mr. Anders,

so everybody can hear.

I had a talk with those government men
today.

That's why I went down, you know, when
they were making the assay.

I thought all this land around here was
open for homesteading.

They said it is. Yes, we know, but
you've got to prove up your claim inside

two years.

That's right. You've got to work the
land.

While you're doing it, how are you going
to eat?

Well, you're going to get the tools or
the water, either. Yeah, that's what we

like to know.

I've got the water.

There's a table of it under my land,
enough to feed a couple of thousand

I've never tapped it, never developed my
own acreage.

I want to do that.

Now, here's my deal.

I've got the water and the little
capital.

I'll put up the money to buy tools,
plows, a tractor, seed for the first

What's the catch?

What do you want from us? Yeah, yeah,
what have we got to do?

Dig the irrigation ditches for my land
and yours.

Help me get my acreage planted first.

Just your labor.

That's all I want from you.

It's a cinch to irrigate this land.

Working together, we could get the whole
valley under cultivation by next

spring.

Hold on a minute, Mr. Anders.

It sounds good, all right, but there's
some details I don't get.

We can't work our land till yours is all
planted and watered? Yeah, what about

that, Mr. Anders?

That's right.

I get help on my acreage first and
return for what I loan to start things

moving. How we eat meantime.

We got families.

Yeah, how about that?

I'd take care of that.

I haven't got much ready cash.

We'd have to spread it out and make
every cent count, but you wouldn't

What guarantee have we got that when
your work's done, we get our end?

Only my word.

A mighty flimsy guarantee to stake all
that work on.

Supposing something was to happen to you
or you change your mind after your

work's done, where'd we be? Sounds like
the Garden of Eden without no snakes.

But it sure is chancy.

You people don't trust anybody, do you?

I see I made a bad guess. Forget it.

I don't mistrust you, Mr. Anders.

I'll put in with you. No, no, I had a
bad idea. Forget it. Bill, don't say

Wait a minute, everybody. You can't say
no to him.

It cost him plenty to ask the lot of you
to be neighbors and partners of his.

He had to come out of a shell. A shell
with barnacles on it.

He could go on living all right the way
he was.

But what about you?

Here's your chance to have homes again
and farms and raise your kids decent.

Oh, you can't turn it down.

I never knew there were people living
the way you've had to live till I met

Davises.

I know what's the matter. You think it's
too good to be true.

You've taken such a beating today and
for the past five years you figure

a catch to everything.

Well, there's no catch to this.

It's a straight offer from a straight
guy.

Oh, can't you see? He's given you a
chance for life.

You're right, Maisie. I'll go in with
you, Mr. Anders. Your word's good enough

bound for me. How many says yes to Mr.

Anders? Speak out!

Come on! Speak up!

We better stop the others that are
leaving already. There'll be a lot of

who want to stay.

Sure, I need them all. Mr. Anders, I
just can't find the words.

Oh, it's okay, Bert. Skip it. God bless
you, Mr. Anders. We'll never forget it

to you.

Oh, Maisie, ain't it wonderful?

You said it is. Now you'll never go
away. Now we'll have a regular house

rooms on the roof. And the best room of
all will be for you.

No, honey, not for me. Yes, it will,
Maisie. We're not going picket now.

We're going to have a farm. You heard
Pop and Mr. Anders say so.

I know, sweetie, but I've got to be
pushing on. Get me a job, see?

I'm pulling out for Phoenix in the
morning somehow or other.

No. No, Maisie, you can't. I don't want
you to go away.

Oh, I'm sorry, sweetie.

But this time I've really got to go.

Hold everything, Joe.

We've got land and water right here.
Hey, fool.

We're all going to Homestead.

There's land in one for all.

Turn back. There's farmland.

Glory be.

Farmland.

So long, honey.

I'll send you postcards from wherever I
am.

I wish you wasn't going, Maisie.

Oh, I kind of hate to go myself.

Will you send me the chocolate creams
like you said?

Cross your heart.

Cross my heart, Harold.

Thanks a million for the car, Bert.

I'm tickled pink we had it to give you,
Macy.

We won't need it. Now we're settling
down for good. No.

Well, goodbye, little sprout.

So long, Freddy Weddy.

Be a good boy.

Sarah.

The best of everything, honey.

You deserve it and you'll get it. You're
bound to.

There's wonderful things ahead of you,
Maisie.

Just a little bad luck's held you back
up to now from what's yours by rights.

The finest in the land.

Being beautiful like you would make a
lot of women proud and uppity.

But you're so nice with it.

You have a sweet nature, Maisie.

Along with being pretty as a picture.

Me? Listen.

If I could look in the glass and see a
face like yours looking at me.

If I could live to earn a face like
yours and have what you've got, honey,

that'd be all I'd ask.

Goodbye, Sarah.

I only hope the car holds together.

She will.

You've got her.

Well, it looks like time for my curtain
speech to you, Bill.

You've been swell, and I know you're
going to be happy.

I just don't seem to be able to find the
right words to tell you thanks for all

you've done.

I guess you'll have to be satisfied with
a big kiss instead of a speech.

Well, here goes.

You ought to stay, Maisie.

Not me, Bill.

All I know about groceries is they taste
good and cost plenty.

Coax them to sprout a little out of my
line.

Well, so long, honey.

But you don't even know if you can get a
job.

No, but then again, I never have known.

Oh, you'll be coming back to see the
Davises. Am I?

Come back, Maisie.

Soon. Well, cutie pie, just you keep
that lemonade recipe handy in case I do.

Goodbye, Poe.

Goodbye, Maisie. Goodbye, Maisie.