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Danon

I assumed that something like this was happening.

We have to discuss the matter, Tom.

It is no longer the moment, he was warned.

This is Hatton's water, and Hatton's land.

I'm tagging Hatton calves.

You know that.

You are ready to die

From the West,

Dick Powell presents:

The Zane Gray Theater.

One of my favorite stories of Zane Gray,

It is titled "Cattle Theft".

This was the gentle art of

Shoot at midnight, to cattle of your neighbor.

and sell them quickly.

To fight those.... thefts,

the ranchers began to mark their cattle.

A marking iron like this was heated and placed on the hip of the cow.

Each ranch had its own brand.

The bar 8, bar X, bar triangle,

There were more bars on the ranches than in the town.

The rustlers like any other thief,

They looked for ways to stay in business.

If he stole some cows, let's say... bar 8

it simply changed the brand, with the so-called "running iron".

Observe

From bar 8... to square 8.

As simple as changing the laundry label of your neighbor's clothes.

Oh, by the way, if this little message in Harold Clark's free newsletter gives you any idea,

There is a famous epitaph in Tombstone, Arizona, which says:

He brought a cow that was not his, A prison was not, if not the gallows.

Tonight's story is about the theft of cattle, and the problems of a man.

that looks a lot, much like me.

"The long way home".

Pa.

Ben.

Jenny

Oh I'm not hungry.

I can not eat either.

Tom must have been crazy riding alone to the Hatton ranch,

especially at night.

Pa do not start worrying, it must be coming.

It must have come back a long time ago.

Your husband has a bad temper.

And when he goes looking for problems, he usually finds them.

I know.

Mam... I'll give you another half hour.

If he does not come back by then, I'll go out and get him.

For...

Jenny

Hey...

Tom?

Oh Tom. -What happened Tom? Who did it?.

Who was?. Who was?. Tom. I have to know, Tom, you have to tell me.

Who was?. Yancey?

Yancey Hatton?

It was Kimbal, Kimbal Hatton? It is not like this?.

You came very far, Tom, you came home to tell me.

I can not do anything unless I know it.

Yountz

Yountz, George Yountz?

And his foreman ?.

Hall... Hall...

Holliday, Charlie Holliday.

George Yountz and Charlie Holliday.

Go to Bob's house and tell him to call all the men.

Let's go out now. -Go and do what I told you.

More deaths are going to revive him.

With revenge.

That's all we have left, Jenny. Everything that we have left.

Hi Cass.

Sam Gracie, what are you doing back here?

Hello dan.

Sam Gracie

How are you?.

The news travels fast.

You left the Kansas stagecoach.

No, 15 days in the chair.

Andrew is not a town for a Yankee soldier to return home,

you should know that ..

I know that the war ended 3 years ago,

and that there are more important things to worry about.

And I do not think anyone will ride from Kansas if the diligence is done in one night.

My brother is dead, what are you going to do about that?

It's none of my business.

What kind of response is that? Are you a man of law or an assistant?

Wait a minute.

You're going to sit in your office while my family and the Hattons

shoot in the street. What kind of oath did you make

when they chose you ?.

Now listen to me.

You do not know what you're talking about

I know they will face each other, and that your job is to prevent it.

I'm going to put this inside your narrow Yankee head.

Your brother Tom surprised a couple of men from Hatton,

marking calves of Hatton cattle.

Tom lost.

The next day your father and his riders shot them.

Nobody is going to win this if your father and Yancey Hatton decide to finish it.

And is that good for you?

And why should not it be right? Both sides claim self-defense.

You know more than that.

All I know is that Kimbal Hatton has one less man,

and now he is going to shoot the first Gracie to be found.

Better go back to Kansas.

Do not worry about it.

That is your thing.

I leave the city and I do not return until Friday.

If you're going to be around here, you better get yourself a revolver.

I have my companion revolver.

Maybe you need another one if you meet Kimbal Hatton,

while I'm away.

This is not Yankee territory.

Kimbal has his ways, it can also be a crazy territory.

Home Sweet Home.

Hello Jenny.

Sam.

I did not want to scare you.

I'm so glad you're here.

I'm glad I could come.

Let me look at you

How much time has passed?

Seven years.

Seven years.

A long time.

At first glance you look very good,

Kansas must have treated you very well.

It's a good place for a bad lawyer because the good ones left.

You... you look good too, Jenny.

I did not know you were coming, Sam.

Either way, I figure I must accept my loss.

I closed the office and came south as soon as I knew they killed him.

I... I'm terribly sorry for Tom.

A month ago now,

today.

It must be hard for you.

Yes.

But not in the way you think.

What do you mean?.

Sam, you remember the time when we were little,

we promised ourselves that there would never be a lie between us.

Yes.

Well, now I can not lie to you.

I did not love him.

A man I chose out of spite when you went north.

I can not cry for him.

I should dress in mourning, but I can not cry for him.

Sony

Sony started all this.

The Hattons were willing to talk, but he did not want to,

I wanted to kill.

You know what kind it was,

he liked to hurt... Kill.

I know.

And it still stands between us.

I'm glad.

Oh This will not do.,

Everything is changed,

nothing has changed.

I know.

You better go back to the house.

I do not know who rides on a chair with a Yankee bed underneath.

I'm tired of the Yankee word.

I have a better one for you.

I'm tired of the Yankees.

Not in our form.

And I do not intend to receive one on my property.

I thought that the last 7 years could change things.

They do not change a set of principles.

Not in Texas, in any way.

I think you better go.

First I want to talk to you.

You had your conversation with me a long time ago.

You made your decision when you ran away from us.

The war ended three years ago, I want to forget it.

Oh... just forget her.

Forget Andy, James.

Pieces in Misionary Ridge.

They were my brothers, I loved them as much as you.

You have to stop this hatred, can not you see that?

Why did you come here?.

I try to make some sense in you and in Yancey Hatton.

This is not your fight. Stay out of it.

We will handle it.

We have driven it all the way.

Weapons do not fix anything.

If that thing is the honor...

but you do not understand that.

I understand that this way of being is a disease,

a kind of Texas fever.

Accumulate your stupid hatred and pride to start a fire

which will then make you spend the rest of your life feeding it.

Get out of here.

I rode 600 miles to say this,

It does not matter what you think of me,

You can not allow this killing to continue.

You will not allow Ben to expose himself to the Kimbal Hatton weapon.

Go away.

I will not leave. I'm your son. I'm a Gracie

I belong here

Father, please, I want to return.

Hey

Sam.

Ben, how are you?

Sam, why did not you tell me? When you came?.

Oh A couple of hours ago.

Making money with the accused,

Well, maybe better than that.

I see that you have changed a lot,

How tall are you now?

Almost 6 feet..., and not very smart.

Already a grown man. It's hard to believe.

You are going to stay.

Oh you know how things are, I have an office in Newton

and many obligations.

You mean you spoke thunder and lightning with the old man.

Yes.

Sam, I do not know what's going on in his head.

Live the rancor as if it were a piece of hard meat.

The more time passes, the more it lets it grow.

Returning home now I can not change that.

You better come in, he will not like you to talk to me.

Where are you going?.

I'll sleep in "El Verde" tonight,

and in the morning I will go back to Kansas.

Can I see you before you leave?

No, You can not.

It does not matter how good you are with that revolver.

Stay out of town, you understand.

Oh hell, Sam.

Come to Kansas sometime, I'll show you the place.

All right.

Goodbye Sam.

See you later, be careful.

Cass... whiskey.

Do not leave Cass, I do not like to drink alone.

You are not alone Sam.

Remember me.

Yes, you are Kimbal Hatton.

We were friends once.

Yes, some time ago.

You drink with me

Sure, I'll drink with you.

They told me you did all the way from Kansas.

Yes.

On the way to Comanche.

Yes.

Without taking a car.

If they really wanted to attack you, one more weapon would not have helped anything.

I already know how you are.

Then weapons are something that creates problems for men.

They tend to harden men and boys.

What did your brother Tom think of that?

Tom and I did not agree on some things.

I should have known that.

He was not a man who thought, like your Sam,

I could not speak so well either.

You know, men who know how to speak must live a full and useful life,

dying in bed, with his pockets full and his skin full.

You have the right idea, boy.

Think and lie.

Get out of the middle talking when the first bulls run,

as it must be a strong man,

he will leave us all with his mouth closed.

Very good speech yours.

But I have nothing with you.

Take another drink.

No thanks.

Give him a bottle, Cass.

Now let's try again.

You are wasting your time.

all the water is in the land of Travers.

Maybe we can make cattle break their fences

Cass give him a revolver.

Not inside here, Kimbal.

Outside, please.

Give him a revolver, Cass.

Sam, you're a coward.

You're a disgusting coward.

Afraid to take on what yours can not do.

You knock on the wrong door, Kimbal.

This is not my fight.

You are a Gracie.

Take it,

Come on, take it.

I do not use revolver, Kimbal, you know it ..

It would be foolish to try to defeat a gunman at his own game, is not it?

After all, no speech can make you anything but a pedant.

It runs on my own.

What did you say in your letter ?.

I told him you needed him.

That you would not admit it, but that you wanted it to come back.

What else?.

Maybe you do not want to hear it.

Keep going.

I said you were proud of your studies.

But that you were his father and he was your son.

I hoped that when they saw each other they would remember that.

You put a lot of yourself.

I guess so.

I thought you were human.

When riding north?

He told Ben that tomorrow.

Where is ben?.

Who seeks it ?.

Your horse is not there.

Maybe he has gone to town?

To Sam.

The men are waiting,

We are going home.

You go ahead, I'll wait here for Sam to come out.

What makes you think it's going to come out?

This is Ben Gracie's horse, it's up there with Sam.

I'll wait for him, even if he has to be here all night.

You're too anxious to shoot.

You will see.

I'll tell him to come. He will come.

You will not go dad.

Yancey Hatton is not going to retire now that the whole town knows what happened.

Come on, let's have a drink.

Go ahead, I'll stay right here.

Oh You're coming here, Ben. This is full of Hatton men.

I could not let you leave for another 7 years.

Sam... Sam, I really can not believe that the old thunder wants you to go.

You do not know anything about that.

But I know him.

That piece of meat that he was eating went through his throat,

immediately after you left.

He wants you to come back, he just does not know how to ask you.

Hey, maybe you can stay in town until he accepts it.

No, too many stones in the road.

Sam, I do not care if you were with Sherman, I do not give a damn.

I only want you to come back.

I return to the North in the morning.

Sam, you can not give up your own family.

Do not resign, they expelled me.

Think no more.

You are as bad as him.

I am sorry.

My decision is taken.

Now, watch me make the good Sam come down here.

Hey, Ben.

Ben Gracie

Get down here, Ben.

Or your revolver is silent like your older brother's.

Do not pay attention, he has his guns and he is brave.

Hey Ben, you're a coward like your brother.

Fearful of shooting like a man ..

With time he will get tired.

I can not stay here and let him continue with that.

Wait.

He's a gunslinger, Ben.

It will not go down, Kimbal.

Like your Sam, he does not have the courage to face a man and shoot him.

It's that Sam.

Hey Ben Gracie, you hear me up there.

Maybe some of that Yankee cowardice hit him, is not it, Sam?

Let him talk.

You can spend the night there. In the morning...

Hey you hear me up there, Ben Gracie.

Ben...

Let me see that.

The bone is not broken.

Come here, Sam.

I'm going there, Kimbal.

Here, hold it there.

Stop, it's Sam.

Look for a revolver, this time there will be no trick.

I have a proposal for you, Yancey.

You and your speeches.

Wait Kimbal.

Yancey, if you want more shootings you will have them.

There are some men of Gracie that match yours.

We can shoot all over the city, kill us,

and keep this stupid fight until the day of the final judgment.

I can finish this here and now.

You're going to stop talking and find yourself a boy revolver.

I'll find a revolver.

If you, Yancey, give me your word, that it does not matter who walks out of this,

there will be no more killing.

Be Kimbal or me, it will be the last.

It's okay, you have my word.

Do not go.

Have you heard what I said?

I heard it.

I also want your word.

After this is over, look for Yancey Hatton and shake her hand.

Kimbal is a gunslinger, he will kill you.

That scares you to the nose, is not it?

I'm waiting.

It's okay, you have my word.

Give me your revolver.

Sam,

Yes.

What I said today, I did not mean it, I'm sorry.

It's good to hear that.

You can not beat him, do not try,

let him come,

stand on your side, let him shoot,

do not be nervous,

Take your time, and aim, listen to that, aim...

Yes.

Good luck boy. -It will pull everyone back.

Point.

We're going to kill Ben Gracie, Yancey.

They are not going to kill anyone.

I gave my word

This the end. All of you, leave the city.

And fast.

As boys we used to go fishing together.

He liked to fight, more than anything else,

he liked to fight.

Ahead.

Yancey

We're going home.