Original subtitles

[ theme music playing ]

Relax, Steve. Let the driver do the hurryin'.

I figure it's my turn. He's been drivin' now for 200 miles.

Just seems like 200. 140.

Still, that's a long way to go just to buy a few chickens.

Oh, I wouldn't call these just chickens, Trampas.

They're a new strain.

We're gettin' close to Red Rock.

Developed back in Rhode Island someplace.

Double the eggs, double the meat--

if you can take Wade Anders' word for it.

Can you take his word?

Anders?

[ chuckles ] He'd skin your beard off in a deal.

Oh, he's shifty, devious,

devoid of principle...

and the best friend I ever had.

[ laughs ]

TRAMPAS: Steve.

He said he'd meet us at the stage.

Well, maybe he's waitin' for us in the waitin' room.

More likely in the nearest saloon.

Come on.

Take a look in there.Yo.

[ whistles ] Get up! Hey!

Haah!

[ laughing ]

Oh, man, I'm sorry.

I didn't even have a drink yet.

Sorry. Here's your hat.

MAN: Mangy half-breed...

My, I'm clumsy.

Ruin a man's hat droppin' it on the ground like that.

Pick it up.

You hear me, dog-eater? Pick up the hat.

You don't care what happens to your hat, do ya?

Come on. Come and get it.

Somethin' wrong with your ears, boy? Maybe you don't need a hat.

Just a little bear fat and a handful of feathers, huh?

MAN: Leave it be, Indian lover.

Oof!

Hold it. Hold it.

Pick that up.

Hand it back.

Here.

Get your hat cleaned.

Come on, now. Let's have no more trouble.

Ah...

I don't recall seein' you around here.

That's a way of askin' you what you're doin' in town.

JUDGE: I brought him.

Henry Garth.

Henry Garth!

Well, you! Oh!

Wade Anders! Boy, it's been some time!

It sure has.

It's 12, 13 years, and you haven't changed a bit.

Where did the time go? How did we let it get away from us, huh?

JUDGE: That's something even youcan't do anything to stop,

but I'll bet you gave it quite a tussle, huh?

[ laughing ]

Henry Garth.

Well, come on. Let's go out to the ranch.

The wagon's right over there. Come on.

What's this? Another one of your boys?

JUDGE: Steve Hill.Hi.

And that one answers to Trampas.

Howdy.

Who's this?

Well, that's my oldest son.

ANDERS: He's the one that's named after you-- Hank.

Hank!

Hi.

Well...

Let's see this place of yours. Fine.

I can manage.

Hey.

You got somethin' to keep you out of trouble for a while?

I'll find somethin'.

Not the bay.

Why?

He'll make a good horse when I get him broke.

Ifyou get him broke. And if he don't break you.

Arms and legs ain't too easy to come by, you know.

Now, you leave him alone, you understand?

I understand.

You wouldn't be lookin' for the cookhouse, would you?

[ chuckles ] I've been told it's impolite to sniff.

Ah, you're a guest. You'll eat in the house.

MAN: Pa? Ah.

It's been so long, I keep forgettin'.

This is Ben, my youngest.

This is Judge Garth you heard me talk about.

All my life.

Just so long as you heard the right things.

Mind if we help you with the horses?

Yeah, it seems we're used to workin' for what we get to eat.

Well, I mighta known you had 'em trained good.

Okay, I'll, uh-- I'll call you as soon as the grub's ready.

Yo.

Ben, my name's Trampas.

Howdy, Trampas.Howdy.

Nice spread you got here.

Your pa must be proud of it.

He's got the right. Some years, we run up to 5,000 head.

[ whistles ] Well, that's enough to get you up early.

You've got your animals mixed.

It's the chickens that get you up.

Hey, Jim? Take care of these, will ya?

Why don't we get out the bay?

We gonna break ourselves a horse.

Boy, I would never have believed it.Rhode Island Reds.

They breed the straight color like that.

Yeah, well, I can see that.

Pa started with half a dozen. Had 'em shipped out.

They're about the only ones in the territory, and that's no accident.

Pa wouldn't sell a Red for love or money.

No, sir.

Not for love nor money.

But for you, Henry... yes.

'Cause you're my friend.

I have a feeling this little sentiment's gonna cost me more than the chickens will.

[ laughs ]

[ laughs ] Well, I was just testin'.

I just wanted to see if you still remembered.

Oh, yes, I remember, Wade.

I remember a lot of things.

She's pretty, wasn't she?

And good. Good as the day is long.

But...

But not like...?

No, some things come to a man only once, I guess.

Do the boys know?

What, that they got different mothers? No.

No, somehow the right time to tell 'em never came along.

Hey, you ain't finished.

I thought you wanted to sell some Reds.

Oh, you wanna dicker straight out,

just like that, huh?Just like that.

You don't wanna study on them chickens at all?

You don't-- you don't care about seein' what you're buyin'?

I take your word.Oh-ho!

Then you got the short end right to start.

[ laughs ]

Well, let the buyer beware. I've been warned.

Let's get on with it.

[ clears throat ] Well, Henry...

Truth to tell, there issomethin' else.

Ah.

Well, I won't say I'm surprised.

You know how it was with us, Henry, when we started.

The sweat runnin' down our back by day,

and the cold squeezin' us dry by night.

I remember.

Well, we made it, Henry.

We scratched and clawed and we dug out a life for ourselves.

You know, right now I got 30,000 acres, free and clear.

Makes all those hard times seem worthwhile, doesn't it?

No.

Not unless I have someone to leave 'em to.

Well, you have Hank and Ben.

Well, Ben...

he don't care about the land.

Sometimes I don't think he cares about anything.

He's a good boy, mind you. I never had to raise my hand to him,

but he just don't care.

And Hank?

You want them chickens, don't you, Henry?

We were talkin' about your boys.

Any ones you want, all you want-- free.

As a gift from me to you.

Free except for one thing.

My boy Hank goes with 'em.

To Shiloh?

As a hand-- regular wages. No favors asked or given.

Don't turn me down, Henry.

You're about the only hope I got left.

If you walk away from me now, I'm gonna lose my boy.

Well, it can't be thatbad.

Someday, he's gonna bust wide open and ride out.

I know it.

But why? Well...

he's-- he's-- he's a walkin' powder keg,

just lookin' for a place to explode.

And I'm the fuse! Yeah!

We come within three feet of each other, and the sparks fly.

We can't even sit at the same table together.

And don't ask me why, because I don't know.

I just can't talkto the boy.

Maybe it isn't a talking-to he needs.

Oh, you mean a good beatin'. [ chuckles ]

Who's gonna give it to him? Me?

You think that's what I need? A child?

A powder keg?

No, but don't you see?

Henry, thereit might be different.

At Shiloh, he won't be the boss's son.

In Medicine Bow, he won't be Wade Anders' boy.

Maybe there he'll calm down some.

And then later on, when he's ready to come home, why...

maybe I'll be different, too.

I don't know, Wade. I'm sorry, but--Henry.

You owe me.

I've never said it to you before and I take no pleasure in sayin' it now,

but you do owe me.

And you owe his mother, too.

All right.

But I make no guarantees--

I'm not running a training school for wild boys...

and you can't break a man the way you would a horse.

Nobody sets a horse like Hank does.

He's good.

All right, he's realgood.

[ horse neighs ]

He's got no call to do that.

You learn anything?

How to ruin a good horse.

Judge'd dock you a month's pay

for yankin' on a horse's mouth like that.

Happens I ain't hired out to the Judge.

So...

you went right ahead and climbed up on the bay.

Climbed up and stayed up. He's just about broke now.

Then, you go on upstairs and clean up.

See how it feels to climb up on the afternoon stage.

You're goin' back with Judge Garth. You're gonna work for him.

No why or wherefore. Not one lousy word.

Just ships me out like a head of beef.

He was riled up on account of the bay.

The horse had nothin' to do with it!

He's been riled up since the day I was born.

Well, now, what's that supposed to mean?

All right.

I'm just the dumb kid brother.

But I knowyou two could get along.

If you only once did somethin' he asked you to.

Hank, you're stubborn. That's the funny part.

I guess that's why he loves you the way he does.

That's a lie and you know it.

I was just tryin--I ain't like him!

I never was and I never want to be, that plain enough?

I'm sorry.

Forget it.

Ben...

Don't let him sell the bay, will ya?

He's gonna be a good horse.

You grab him, you hear?

You ready?

I've been ready to leave here for a long time.

I suppose you think this is easy on me. Well, it ain't.

It's-- it's for your own good.

You never did anything for my own good in your whole--Then I'm doin' it now!

I built somethin' here.

And now I'm gonna build a man good enough to take charge of it after I'm gone.

You wanna be that man, don't you, Hank?

Nothin' I ever say makes any sense to you, does it?

You want me to go. I'm goin'.

Anything else?

I guess not.

JUDGE: I've seen this a thousand times,

but comin' back from a trip like this, it still seems new.

I'll admit silence can be a virtue, but...

isn't there anything you wanna know?

Wages.

A dollar a day and keep.

Time off?

You work one Sunday out of four. Saturday night included.

The rest?

Whatever you say.

Go into town?

If you want.

I'll want.

Well, you'll find the bunkhouse comfortable.

Steve and Trampas'll show you the ropes.

And if there's anything you wanna know-- any problem--

you come to me.

The house is always open.

Daddy!

Daddy!

Ho-ho! [ giggles ]

Oh.

Hey, no chickens?Couldn't afford the fare.

Mr. Anders is gonna freight 'em down.

But he sent his son here as a guarantee. This is Hank Anders.

He's gonna work at Shiloh.

My daughter, Betsy.

It's a pleasure.

Um, I, uh-- have some cookies in the oven.

That's a real pretty girl.

Uh... the boys'll get you settled in the bunkhouse.

Come on.

Pick an empty bunk and it's yours.

Thanks.

It's not much, but it's home.

I've heard you call it worse than that.

Well, now. [ chuckles ]

Goin' somewhere?

Yep. Denver.

Hmm. Well, I think I can keep things under control while you're gone.

Gosh, that's a load off my mind.

Oh, uh-- Hank?

This is the foreman. Hank's the new hand.

Oh, I--

Nice shavin' mugs, aren't they?

The Judge gives 'em to every hand who's been here at least a year.

Sort of an anniversary present.

You'll get one.

Wanna bet?

All right, let's get 'em loaded.

How 'bout a breather? I'm beat.

From what?

I don't know what's bitin' you,

but I'm just tryin' to do a day's work.

I'm not in any kind of race. Neither am I.

The faster we get 'em loaded, the sooner they get in the ground.

Then what?

Then I'm my own boss for the rest of the day

and I don't have to keep company with anyone but myself.

That meet with your approval?

Maybe you oughta take it a little easier.

You wouldn't wanna make the rest of us look bad, would ya?

I'm here to work, remember?

I ain't takin' wages to stand and jaw.

Hey!

Sorry.

Three to Sam. Whitey?

Give me two.

Two.

And Jake's out.

Oh, yeah...

I'll just scrape along with these.

Three dollars to keep the rabbits out.

You can sit in if you like.

I don't play with strangers.

Suit yourself.

Thanks.

I didn't know I needed your permission.

Well, isn't anyone gonna keep me honest?

Sam?

Just three dollars, Whitey, that's all.

If I was you, I'd raise.

I'll raise you three.

You saw my hand.

I did?

It's all yours.

Told ya he was bluffin'.

It's gettin' very warm in here, isn't it?

Can't you tell? Why don't you go outside and, uh-- cool off a little.

Deal me in.

JUDGE: Hank?

I'd like you to have dinner with us tonight-- at the house.

7:30.Is that an order, boss?

It's an invitation... from a friend of your father's.

Well, maybe you oughta ask him.

I'm just a hired hand, remember?

Hi, Trampas. Betsy.

The Judge in?In the study.

Thank you.

[ knock on door ]

Come in.

The boys just got in, Judge.

They say they're scratchin' for grass north of the river.

They wanna move 'em down.

All right. First thing in the morning.

Yo. Trampas--

How are things in the bunkhouse?

For now? Quiet.

Keep an eye on him.

I'll do that.

[ men hollering ]

[ cows moo ]

Whoa, whoa!

[ whistles ] Haah!

Whoa!

Whoa, whoa!

[ whistles ] Yaah!

Whoa, whoa!

[ whispers ] Easy, boy.

Yaah!

Yaah!

Come on!

Hyaah!

Come on, get goin'!

Yaah!

Come on!

Yaah!

Let's go!

Oh!

What kinda way is that to end a race?

Are you still in one piece? What'd you pull me off for?

To keep you from breakin' your neck.

You hadn't oughta ride till you know how.

Till I know how?

I've been riding horses since I was three years old.

My mistake. Mistake?

All right. I'm sorry.

Are you always so serious and-- well, gruff?

I don't think I've ever seen you smile.

You haven't seen that much of me.

Well, Daddy invited you over to the house the other night for dinner.

Why didn't you come?

You sorry I didn't?

I only work one Saturday night out of four.

Maybe one of these--

[ horses approach ]

Here's your horse, Betsy.

Thanks.

I picked him up on the other side of the rise.

You're not takin' wages to stand around and jaw.

I ain't a steer, neither.

You don't have to ride herd on me.

Looks like somebody should.

You rode off and left the herd--

It was my fault.

He was only tryin' to help.

I'm much obliged.

I had to pull her off.

He took the bit in his teeth.

She can ride as well as any hand on the ranch.

Ben.

Did you get him?

You missed.

Well, it's hard to see a weasel in the dark, Pa.

Five nights runnin', you wait out here for him,

he comes back, and you miss!

Pa--

I'm warnin' you straight out and plain--

if that weasel gets another one of my Reds,

I'm gonna boot you from here to Laramie and back!

Now, you move outta here before I get mad!

Yes, sir.

Well?

Nothin'.

I'm just wondering who you're mad at--

me, the weasel, or Hank.

Ahh.I wouldn't worry about him, Pa.

Most likely, the Judge is workin' him pretty hard.

Well, you know Hank never did have much taste for letter-writin'.

Let's get to bed.

There, this is the last. We'll be done before dark.

[ chuckles ] I know, it doesn't make it clean any better,

but it sure makes it smell better.

There's no reason why soap should smell so raw.

She keeps smellin' up that soap, I'm gonna have to go courtin' every night.

Startin' tonight.It is Saturday.

That's right, it is.

There, it's hardening now. I think it should be fine by morning.

You can get the rest of it out now.

Hi!

Today's Saturday. I know.

That means tonight's Saturday night.

That means there's a dance in town.

You can go around.

Little Fawn--

You could've moved.

For her?

I never heard of an Indian makin' soap--

or usin' it, either.

I gotta admit, it smells better than most.

Flowers or somethin'?

Lilacs, huh?

That's real nice.

She a Blackfoot or Crow?

Crow. What difference does that make?

If you'll excuse me, I'm busy.

HANK: I didn't hear you say about tonight.

I get a notion to go to that dance,

I'm gonna need somebody to dance-- You mean, you want me to go.

Well, you see anybody else I could dance with?

Just takes a yes or no.

Little Fawn.

Right here.

You stinkin' fleabag!

It was my fault.Nah, her! She did it!

HANK: Sneaking and sly, I never seen one of her kind

that wasn't crooked as a dog's hind leg!

TRAMPAS: It was an accident.

I saw it.

The Judge wants to see you, Betsy.

You knew I was waitin' for an answer.

She's only 17.

You makin' the rules?

The Judge.

You don't believe me, ask him yourself.

He doesn't let her go out on Saturday night.

With anybody, or just with me?

You spell it out real plain, don't ya?

You read it any way you like.

Or you show me another way.

All right, you learned me-- I ain't good enough to talk to her,

but a stinkin' Indian like--Hold your tongue.

I saw what I like!

Garth's a Squaw lover and his whelp's just like him.

I'm gonna wash that dirty mouth of yours, cowboy.

Come on!

Hey, Anders.

Judge Garth wants you and me to--

Hey, Anders.

Come on!

You all right? Yeah. Is he?

Your Honor.

Well, looks like you had your Saturday night early.

I had my Saturday afternoon.

After I sober up, thenI'm gonna have my Saturday night.

I don't think so.

You rode outta here when you still had work to do.

The man who did your work-- he'll have your night off.

You get inside and soak your head.

When you sober up, I want to see you. Yes, sir.

[ shot fires, dishes shatter ]

[ shot fires ]

[ clicks ]

You're not as drunk as you pretend to be.

I ain't drunk at all.

You-- then what?

Just mean? Just plain, crazy, ornery mean?

Just spite?

You don't have to spite me, boy. I'm not your father.

Then stop actin' like him.

Stop tryin' to tell me how to run my life.

Do this, do that. Stand up, boy, sit down, come to dinner!

I'm trying--To do his work for him, ain't ya?

To try to make a man outta me, huh?

Well, I'll tell you something, mister.

I was twice the man when I was 12 than he'll ever be.

Your father and I--Oh, cut it out, Judge.

I've heard it all before.

Wade Anders, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter,

rancher, logger!

Wade Anders, the bravest of the brave.

Wade Anders, empire builder...

who didn't have the guts to tell a six-year-old boy his mother was a Crow Squaw.

All right, Judge-- you and me, we don't get along.

Now, I don't wanna be here, and you don't want me here either.

Should I quit, or would you rather fire me?

How long have you known about your mother?

Depends upon how you count time.

Yesterday, or...

a thousand years.

My whole life.

I knew it before I ever broke my first horse.

Know who told me?

He didn't, I'll guarantee you that. He never said one word to me.

He just hid it like the dirty thing he thought it was-- like the dirty thing it is!

He loved your mother more than anything in this world.

Just not enough to marry her.

He wantedto.

They were waiting for the Circuit Judge to come through, but...

There was a lot of cholera that year.

All of a sudden, she was gone.

I'll bet there was a celebration that day.

I'm sorry, boy.

For what?

For showin' me how you really feel--

how the old man really feels?

Hank, he loves you.

Well, tell me again on the fourth of July and I'll send up a rocket.

We were prospecting, your father and I.

Got caught in an early snow.

Just blew up outta nowhere.

When we stumbled into that Crow winter camp,

I was just about gone.

Your mother sat up with me six days and six nights.

She pulled me through.

And they fell in love.

And we stayed on at the camp till the next summer,

because she wanted to be with her own people when you were born.

Not because he was ashamed of her-- or of you.

That's the whole story.

Doesn't change anything.

Doesn't make me somebody else.

Do you haveto be somebody else?

I'll send for my things.

You've got some wages coming.

Give 'em to the Squaw.

And I said to myself, "They can think what they want to.

"These are not the middle ages. This is the 19th century,

and women just don't live behind bars anymore."

Thanks.

Get up.

When's the first stage?

Where to?

Pick a town.

Tomorrow morning.

Well, save me a seat.

[ music playing ]

And that's just the way I feel about it.

It's like I told Amy--

there's just too much gossip in this town.

If I decide to go to the dance with Trampas,

it doesn't necessarily mean that, um--

Trampas? Huh?

What kinda horse is it?

Uh, what horse?

[ chuckles ]

If I thought for a minute that you were looking at another girl--

I'm not.

I gotta go see a man.

Oh, yeah, all right. Well, you go ahead.

What are you gonna do?

Uh-- I'll find something.

Well, I was wondering.

Wondering what?

How long a lady might have to wait before you asked her to dance.

Just long enough for a gentleman to be a gentleman.

Here.

That's good.

Puts a nice, fresh taste on the world.

Look, I know it's gonna be money out of my pocket,

but ain't you takin' it a little fast?

Mister, I just got rid of one watchdog.

I ain't lookin' to pick up another.

BARTENDER: I'm just sayin', you got the whole night.

I'm just sayin' I'm gonna need it.

Barney.Oh, hiya, Trampas.

Fill it up.

Long as I keep payin', you keep fillin'.

No more for him. I'm talkin' for the Judge.

Trouble with that, you can't talk for me--

account of I don't work for the Judge anymore.

Can't say I'm gonna miss him, either.

I'm gonna miss you.

A fella kinda gets used to someone stickin' so close like that--

practically like ridin' in the same saddle.

Practically like you got your foot in his stirrup. [ laughs ]

That's plain comfortin' to know you got someone around like that--

someone tellin' you what you can say and what you can't,

and what you can do, and what you better skip.

Who you can take to a dance and who you ain't even allowed to ask!

It doesn't matter that the girl wants to go--

it only matters that she's the Judge's daughter.

Shut up.

Man, that's a funny-- that's a realfunny thing.

The Judge's daughter!

That don't make a girl different.

That whiskey hasn't cleaned up your mouth any.

I was just drinkin' for the taste. It's really very good.

[ chuckles ] Why don't you try it?

Not in here, now, please!

I don't think I can wait.

I'm not lookin' for a gunfight.

You found one, just the same.

That's fire water talkin'.

Oh, boy, you just killed yourself.

You wanna die, you find somebody else.

I'm not gonna do it.

BARNEY: Trampas!

[ music stops, crowd murmurs ]

What are you doin'?

Uh-- just passing time, Pa.

Oh.

You could find a better way to pass it.

Like figurin' out what to do with that new breedin' stock of ours.

Well, we have a foreman for that.

That foreman isn't gonna own this ranch someday.

Well, it's your time. Pass it as you want.

Only, while you're passin' it, tell him for me that--

Tell who, Pa?

Tell him he was right about the bay.

Turned out to be a good horse.

[ horse neighs ]

I'll see.

Well?

You got a telegram, Pa.

From Medicine Bow.From Hank, huh?

[ chuckles ] It figures.

Don't write letters, no-- throw away your wages on telegrams.

Well, what's he say?

What?

What's the matter? Is he in trouble again?

I'm askin' you, boy!

We'll be needin' two horses.

Pa-- Now, Ben.

Pa, you can't mean it.

That's a murderous ride from here to Medicine Bow.

Well, maybe you're right.

Maybe it is too hard.

Maybe I oughta just go it alone.

I'll-- I'll saddle two horses.

[ knock on door ]

Come in.

You wanted to see me, Judge?

I'm sending 1,000 head up to Laramie.

The Virginian can't make it back in time. You be trail boss.

Me? Trail boss?

Don't you want the job?

[ sighs ] No--

No.

Well, you got it.

I wanna stay, Judge.

Sooner or later, somebody's gotta tell 'em how it happened.

Nobody knows that better than me.

Doyou know how it happened?

Well, I was there.

I wasn't there, but I should've been.

No, Trampas, you pulled the trigger, but the responsibility is mine.

[ sighs ] I'll have to wait on that drive, Judge.

I gotta be at the hearin',

and the sheriff won't get back from Cooper Lake till Tuesday.

Yeah, I know.

When's the funeral?

Tomorrow afternoon.

Aren't you gonna wait on his pa?

I wired for instructions. I never got any.

He could never make it in time, anyway-- even if he took the first stage.

You're gonna kill the horses.

We'll buy more.You're gonna kill yourself...

if you don't stop and rest awhile.

Your brother lyin' dead and you talk to me of rest.

And I don't know why,

or where, or how.

If I thought it would do him any good.

It'll do megood.

All them... years. Wasted years.

You work and you sweat and you think you're building somethin' solid.

Then a little piece of paper knocks it all over.

Pa...Little yellow piece of paper with black marks on it.

Rest a while. An hour or so.

Here, hand me up.

You heard me. I said hand me up.

Nice afternoon.

Don't you usually visit with your friends?

Marcy, mostly, but she's in St. Louis.

Oh. I forgot.

You know...

I've been thinking... about St. Louis.

I might have to go there in the fall.

I suppose I could arrange to take you along...

if you screamed, and beat your little heels--

acted up.

I thought you wanted to go.

[ sighs ]

I just keep thinking if I'd been nicer to him...

No, darling, you're wrong.

But, Dad, if he wanted to take me to the dance--

He wanted a lot of things.

He just didn't know how to reach for them.

I've got the buggy hitched up.

I'll be right out.

Howdy. Can I help you gents?

All outside rooms, fresh linen twice a week,

and we're the only hotel in town anyway.

We ain't lookin' for rooms.

Oh.We're lookin' for Henry Garth.

Judge Garth? Yeah.

His spread is due north. But you won't find him there.

Well, then where?

The church-- at the funeral.

[ grunts ]

Tie 'em up.

Henry Anders wasn't known to me personally, of course.

But he was a man... and men have faults.

But there's good in them, also.

There's good in every man... if we know where to look.

There's good in every thing.

There hasto be,

or else there isn't any sense to life...

or death.

And there's a lesson to be learned from the death of any man.

Just as the cloud burst that washes away roads and bridges

appears to be doing nothing but harm,

The death of any man always appears to be futile...

and cruel.

But after the harshest rain, the bridges are always rebuilt.

The roads, reinforced.

Plant life flourishes where once before there might've been only barren soil.

So might it be with the death of this man we mourn today.

And, to that end, let us pray.

Amen.

Wasn't expecting you. I didn't think you could possibly make it.

What happened?

I couldn't put it all in the telegram. What happened?

He got in a gunfight.

With who?

Who killed him?

I'm askin' you who!

Mr. Anders...

I didn't want to kill him.

He pushed me into it.

There were witnesses. They all said the same thing.

Why not? This is your town, ain't it, Henry?

Wade, this isn't the time or the place--

I trusted you. I took your word.

I'm sorry-- deeply sorry.

Sorry don't do me no good.

Sorry don't hand him back to me.

Sorry don't make him anything but dead!

I never claimed to perform miracles, Wade. You knew that.

What I know is I never saw him again.

What I know is somebody gunned him down!

Mr. Anders...

please try to understand--

Oh, I understand. You're standin' there, ain't ya?

You can see and hear and laugh and hurt and...

you're alive! I understand that.

Pa...

Come on, we left the horses.

JUDGE: Wade.

You ought to get yourself some rest.

Come over to Shiloh. We've got the room.

I'd be pleased if you'd leave us to ourselves.

If you wish.

I'll ride out to see you in about a month or so. It'll... be easier.

You think it'll ever be easy?

He hurts.

He wants to hurt somebody else.

They'll be clearin' outta town.

Keep outta their way.

How long you figure to stay?

Hard to say.

Well, you just... let me know.

Why's it hard to say, Pa?

I thought you just wanted a night's rest.

What else?

You have to ask a thing like that?

Yeah, I'm askin'.

Your brother's fresh in his grave.

Because he forced a fight.

Oh, and that's all there is to it, huh?

Don't you have anyfeelings?

Sure, I got feelings, Pa.

I got plenty of feelings.

But that don't change the fact that Hank is dead.

And he's gonna stay dead from now until the world turns blue,

and there is nothin'-- nothin'-- that you or I--

Yeah, yeah, just go on talkin'.

Go on talkin'. Have a nice little conversation.

Stay up here while the men that killed your brother--

What do you want, Pa?!Nothin'!

From you... nothin'.

'Cause that's what you've given me all your life.

Oh, God, just for 10 minutes, give me a good right hand.

Yeah, and a gun? And a straight aim?

That's what you're driving at, isn't it? Another killing.

I've thought a lot of things about you.

I never thought you were a coward.

You never thought I was anything--

one way or another.

You never even thought.Oh, Ben.

The truth, Pa.

For once in our lives, let's have the truth between us.

Since the day I was born,

you never thought about me at all. Ah...

All right, all right. You want a killing.

That's exactly what you're gonna get.

[ door slams ]

Whoa.

Whoa, sir.

Whoa.

You'll be starting that drive tomorrow?

Yes, sir.

[ horse approaches ]

Still got that 1,000 head cut out.

Anytime you're through with the sheriff.

I'm through.

All over?

All over.

[ horse approaches ]

Go strap on your gun.

What for?Just do it, Trampas.

It was him.

Now, there's a dozen men you can ask.

It was him.

I didn't wanna do it. I tried to walk away.

He wouldn't let me.

That killing's done with.

Let's talk about the one that's comin' up.

Oh, Ben, come on!

Will you listen?Steve.

Stay out of it.

Look, Ben, I know how you feel,

but you're wrong.

You got no reason!Don't I?

Stay inside.

Ben, what's the matter with you? You're not provin' anything!

Are you outta your mind? Huh?

You're gonna have to fight.

Sooner or later, you're gonna have to fight me,

because every time I see you,

you gonna get the same treatment till you strap on a gun!

You don't put on a gun, you better stay clear of town,

because I'll beat you down one side of the street and up the other.

See that he doesn't leave the ranch.

Well.

You look real, uh-- fancy.

That's a good-fittin' coat-- with or without the gun belt.

I still think that tailor saw you coming.

$14 for a coat and a pair of pants. That's expensive...

to be laid out in.

Well, I said everything I could.

[ sighs ]

Oh, one thing.

You gonna make me do it again?

Maybe you been thinkin' about it.

Maybe you changed your mind about goin' into town.

Hey...

you wouldn't think that just one good--

Oof!

You're makin' a bad situation worse.

You think it'd be worse?

Another funeral? That'dbe worse.

What'll be gained?Suppose you ask Pa.

Wade Anders isn't a vengeful man.

Not vengeful-- empty.

A man feels that deep about his son and he loses him?

He's got nothin' left!

He's got you.Nothin'! Nobody!

I never was.

You're his son!

He doesn't want you dead!

Wade Anders, you're a fool.

You lost one boy, now you're tossin' the other away.

I didn't ask your opinion.

Haven't you been hit hard enough?

Hank's gone!

There's nothing on God's Earth you can do about it.

Don't lose Ben, too.Ben is his own boss.

He'll do anything you tell him.

Hank couldn't do--Leave him out of this!

You're a stupid man, Wade.

You don't know why Hank got himself killed.

You don't wantto know about Ben.

There's only one reason why he's pushin' for this fight--

'cause he wants to be important to you.

And if he can't, he'd just as soon be dead.

They thought alike, your two boys.

They just went about it in different ways.

My Hank didn't want to die.

Well, he didn't want to live! That's for sure!

Not as a half-breed whose father's ashamed of him!

W-- what are you sayin'--

That's what he thought.

'Cause you never told him about his mother.

Hank knew? How?

What difference does that make now?

You didn't tell him, and he thought it was 'cause you're ashamed!

Only it wasn't shame, was it, Wade?

It was plain, ordinary, simple fear.

Fear of what he'd say and how he'd act.

Get outta here, Henry.

Now that same fear is showing through again.

You're just too scared to take Ben and tell him you love him.

Get outta here, I said!

You tell me you're gonna stop the killing that's gonna take place out there!

Wade, a few days ago, you had two live boys...

but you didn't have any sons.

You can still save Ben.

Ben.

Trampas, get back!

Don't do it, boy.

Ben, don't do it. Come on, now.

Don't do it. I don't want you to.

Ben, I don't wanna kill him!

Listen, boy, I can't lose anything more.

If I lose you, I lose everything I got.

Now, you stop, you hear me?

If I have to whip the livin' daylights out of you--

you listen to me, I'm your pa!

All right!

Maybe they're not much good,

but at least I still got a pair of hands.

No, I'm-- I'm not gonna let you do it, boy.

I want you to come home-- with me.

Ow!

Oh.

[ sobs ]

I-- I'm glad you didn't take me up, son.

It'd take a bigger man than me to whip a full-grown Anders,

stubborn as this family is.

Come on, son, let's go home.

[ horse approaches ]

Did you kill him?

There was no killing.

Did Ben fight?

He fought...

and won.