1 00:00:02,336 --> 00:00:04,532 Will you listen to me, you mule-headed Maverick? 2 00:00:04,705 --> 00:00:06,037 - I'm listening. - He hates you. 3 00:00:06,206 --> 00:00:08,236 It was him that tried to kill you, and he'll 4 00:00:08,260 --> 00:00:10,268 do it again. You've got to get out of here. 5 00:00:10,444 --> 00:00:12,572 It took me a long time to get a coat like this. 6 00:00:12,746 --> 00:00:14,840 It's a small rip. A few stitches, it'll never show. 7 00:00:15,015 --> 00:00:17,177 I'll send you the new one as soon as it's finished. 8 00:00:17,351 --> 00:00:21,049 - Mike, you've convinced me. - Well, have I now? I'll get your horse. 9 00:00:21,221 --> 00:00:23,359 I'll even ride to the end of town with you. 10 00:00:23,383 --> 00:00:24,055 I'm staying. 11 00:00:24,224 --> 00:00:25,248 What? 12 00:00:25,425 --> 00:00:29,055 A man like King has gotta be stopped. I'm gonna stop him. 13 00:00:29,229 --> 00:00:31,562 I don't know how, but I'm gonna stop him. 14 00:00:31,732 --> 00:00:35,169 Well, the coat will never be finished in time for the funeral. 15 00:02:01,254 --> 00:02:03,314 Thank you, sir. 16 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,461 Don't bother to sign, we haven't anything. 17 00:02:08,629 --> 00:02:12,191 I'd like something comfortable in the front, with a view of the street. 18 00:02:12,366 --> 00:02:14,858 We're completely out of accommodations. 19 00:02:15,035 --> 00:02:17,561 I suggest you try one of the miner's boarding houses. 20 00:02:17,738 --> 00:02:21,106 I wonder if you'd mind, uh, keeping this safe for me, please. 21 00:02:43,196 --> 00:02:46,633 We'll take care of it, Mr. Maverick. 22 00:02:49,002 --> 00:02:52,097 Oh. Oh, certainly. 23 00:03:00,147 --> 00:03:02,309 Well, now. 24 00:03:09,756 --> 00:03:11,315 You broken-down moocher. 25 00:03:12,025 --> 00:03:13,755 Beat it. 26 00:03:15,829 --> 00:03:18,025 Mr., uh...? 27 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:21,759 Thayer, sir. Joshua Thayer. 28 00:03:21,935 --> 00:03:26,396 It's against my principles to drink alone. Would you care to join me? 29 00:03:27,274 --> 00:03:29,573 I'd be delighted, sir. 30 00:03:29,810 --> 00:03:31,073 Double it is, one dollar. 31 00:03:31,244 --> 00:03:33,804 Walter? Ahem, whiskey, my boy. 32 00:03:33,980 --> 00:03:36,506 How many times have I tried to throw you out of here? 33 00:03:36,683 --> 00:03:39,915 My guest ordered whiskey. I'll have the same. 34 00:03:40,153 --> 00:03:43,783 - That's very kind of you, sir. - Maverick. Bret Maverick. 35 00:03:43,957 --> 00:03:47,587 It's extremely kind of you, Mr. Maverick, but why do you bother? 36 00:03:47,761 --> 00:03:49,320 No one else does. 37 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:53,397 Percentage. I'm a gambler. 38 00:03:54,267 --> 00:03:58,170 Then you ought to be able to recognize an ace-deuce when you see one. 39 00:04:00,941 --> 00:04:03,843 There's always a natural on the bottom. 40 00:04:06,113 --> 00:04:09,914 I understand there's usually a big game here Saturday nights. 41 00:04:10,083 --> 00:04:11,949 Upstairs. 42 00:04:13,186 --> 00:04:16,315 - What's the matter? Rigged? - Doesn't have to be. 43 00:04:16,490 --> 00:04:21,121 People in this town are so used to losing to Mr. Phineas King... 44 00:04:21,294 --> 00:04:22,592 they do it instinct... 45 00:04:22,763 --> 00:04:24,857 Ahem, instinctively. 46 00:04:25,031 --> 00:04:27,557 Phineas King, the one who owns the mine? 47 00:04:27,734 --> 00:04:31,193 And everything else in Echo Springs... 48 00:04:31,438 --> 00:04:33,373 including this, uh... 49 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:35,736 That very excellent whiskey. 50 00:04:36,143 --> 00:04:38,044 Would you give my friend another drink? 51 00:04:38,211 --> 00:04:40,237 Thank you, sir. 52 00:04:43,784 --> 00:04:45,912 None for me. Double or nothing? 53 00:04:56,663 --> 00:04:59,895 - Good night, Mr. Thayer. - Good evening, sir. 54 00:05:03,637 --> 00:05:05,731 Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. 55 00:05:05,906 --> 00:05:09,968 Now, if any of you think I was trying to run one, just look at the cards. 56 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:12,544 We all know you never bluff, Phineas. 57 00:05:12,712 --> 00:05:15,341 Oh, incidentally, Stoller was in the bank again... 58 00:05:15,515 --> 00:05:17,275 trying to raise money on that mine of his. 59 00:05:17,417 --> 00:05:19,657 - Did you give it to him? - Of course not. You told me... 60 00:05:19,753 --> 00:05:22,416 All I said was that his mine is worthless, and it is. 61 00:05:22,589 --> 00:05:24,509 If it weren't, I would have absorbed it long ago. 62 00:05:25,859 --> 00:05:28,140 But you run the bank, continue to make your own decisions. 63 00:05:29,496 --> 00:05:31,795 - But be careful how you handle my money. - Ha-ha-ha. 64 00:05:31,965 --> 00:05:34,400 What's your business, Mr. Maverick, mining? 65 00:05:34,568 --> 00:05:37,402 - Grass inspector. - You inspect grass? 66 00:05:37,571 --> 00:05:40,370 The kind that's always greener in the other fellow's yard. 67 00:05:41,875 --> 00:05:44,868 And you stop to do a little mowing too, occasionally, I presume? 68 00:05:45,378 --> 00:05:46,573 When it's green enough. 69 00:05:48,515 --> 00:05:51,144 Well, we can't say he didn't warn us. - Ha, ha. 70 00:05:51,318 --> 00:05:52,342 Anybody open? 71 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:54,881 Maintain. 72 00:05:55,455 --> 00:05:57,515 I'll, uh, bet 10. 73 00:05:58,191 --> 00:06:00,558 - Call. - Call. 74 00:06:02,362 --> 00:06:05,025 - Cards? - Two. 75 00:06:07,334 --> 00:06:09,064 Give me one. 76 00:06:10,070 --> 00:06:11,368 I'll have three, please. 77 00:06:12,706 --> 00:06:14,299 Three. 78 00:06:15,609 --> 00:06:18,875 Ahem, well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. 79 00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:21,207 Three for me. Ahem. 80 00:06:23,850 --> 00:06:25,045 Ah. 81 00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:28,086 - Richard? - I'll check the bet. 82 00:06:28,788 --> 00:06:30,256 Check. 83 00:06:30,557 --> 00:06:33,049 I bet 300. Ahem. 84 00:06:34,828 --> 00:06:36,592 Uh-uh. 85 00:06:36,763 --> 00:06:39,426 - Too rich for me. - I'm out. 86 00:06:42,836 --> 00:06:44,395 Anybody argue with a 10 full? 87 00:06:44,971 --> 00:06:47,702 On a three-card draw. How do you like that? 88 00:06:47,874 --> 00:06:50,776 Oh, excuse me, I, uh... Folding on three aces? 89 00:06:50,944 --> 00:06:53,539 Why, you're a very conservative poker player, Mr. Maverick. 90 00:06:55,015 --> 00:06:56,677 I just hate to be second best, Mr. King. 91 00:06:58,151 --> 00:06:59,511 The boy will have his little joke. 92 00:07:05,926 --> 00:07:07,792 Well, I'll keep the opener moving. 93 00:07:08,194 --> 00:07:09,560 I bet 500. 94 00:07:10,063 --> 00:07:12,055 I've had it. 95 00:07:14,901 --> 00:07:16,893 Cards, Maverick? 96 00:07:17,404 --> 00:07:18,963 Three. I'd like a cut. 97 00:07:35,655 --> 00:07:37,146 Three for me. 98 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:55,435 Your bet, Mr. King. 99 00:07:56,343 --> 00:07:58,278 I bet $1000. 100 00:08:01,414 --> 00:08:02,438 I'm out of money. 101 00:08:04,250 --> 00:08:05,343 Oh, that's too bad. 102 00:08:05,752 --> 00:08:08,688 I didn't say broke, Mr. King, I said out of money. 103 00:08:09,322 --> 00:08:11,655 I've got $4000 in the hotel safe. 104 00:08:11,825 --> 00:08:13,885 I'll settle up after the hand. 105 00:08:15,261 --> 00:08:18,163 I've heard that story before. I prefer to see the money. 106 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:20,300 Oh, Mike, get me a piece of paper and a pencil. 107 00:08:20,467 --> 00:08:23,266 Go downstairs and get the money, if there is any. 108 00:08:24,471 --> 00:08:25,991 Write the clerk a little note, please. 109 00:08:26,139 --> 00:08:30,076 You know, just to keep everything open and aboveboard. Thank you. 110 00:08:50,397 --> 00:08:53,890 - Here it is. It says 4000. - Thank you. 111 00:08:54,167 --> 00:08:56,568 One thousand, do you call or not? 112 00:09:02,942 --> 00:09:05,605 I call and raise 3000. 113 00:09:08,014 --> 00:09:09,539 Do you call the bet, Mr. King? 114 00:09:09,716 --> 00:09:12,811 Oh, ha, ha. Well, if you don't mind, I'd like to see the money. 115 00:09:12,986 --> 00:09:15,717 You call the bet and I'll open the envelope. 116 00:09:27,033 --> 00:09:29,468 By Jonathan, Mr. Maverick, I gotta hand it to you. 117 00:09:29,636 --> 00:09:31,628 You're a very smart poker player. 118 00:09:31,805 --> 00:09:33,706 Looking right down my throat, weren't you? 119 00:09:33,873 --> 00:09:36,775 I could almost see what you had for lunch, Mr. King. 120 00:09:37,177 --> 00:09:41,581 Ha, ha. Well, Mike, uh, settle up with, uh, Mr. Maverick, will you? 121 00:09:41,748 --> 00:09:43,910 I think I've had enough tonight. 122 00:09:44,084 --> 00:09:46,883 Ha, ha. It's been a very interesting evening. 123 00:09:56,896 --> 00:09:59,365 Whatever you're drinking, lad, is on the house. 124 00:09:59,532 --> 00:10:01,621 First time anyone tucked King's tail between 125 00:10:01,645 --> 00:10:03,469 his legs and tickled his chin with it. 126 00:10:03,636 --> 00:10:07,004 Tell me, lad, was the money in the envelope or wasn't it? 127 00:10:07,173 --> 00:10:10,701 Mike, there's two things a gentleman doesn't discuss. 128 00:10:10,877 --> 00:10:12,709 The ladies he's known and his poker. 129 00:10:14,347 --> 00:10:17,374 - Be seeing you. - That you will, lad. 130 00:10:19,385 --> 00:10:21,752 You dropped something, mister. 131 00:10:24,557 --> 00:10:26,082 Who was that? 132 00:10:26,259 --> 00:10:27,852 I never saw him before. 133 00:10:28,027 --> 00:10:29,723 What'd he give you? 134 00:10:29,963 --> 00:10:31,989 I'll be right back. 135 00:10:39,405 --> 00:10:41,772 Anyplace in town I can get a bite to eat this late? 136 00:10:41,941 --> 00:10:45,378 The only place open is that Chinese joint down the street. 137 00:10:45,545 --> 00:10:47,377 What do you think about this, Maverick? 138 00:10:47,547 --> 00:10:49,812 It's a heck of a way to ruin a good deck of cards. 139 00:10:49,983 --> 00:10:51,178 Did you check out? 140 00:10:51,351 --> 00:10:55,288 No, I guess I should have, but I got a serious vice, curiosity. 141 00:10:55,455 --> 00:10:58,289 I'd like to find out why anyone would want me out of town. 142 00:10:58,458 --> 00:11:02,691 - But you were at the desk. - Just paying two weeks rent in advance. 143 00:11:04,464 --> 00:11:06,160 Maverick? 144 00:11:06,332 --> 00:11:08,597 I'd have been mighty disappointed in you if you hadn't. 145 00:11:28,621 --> 00:11:32,319 - Oh. - Oh, you're awake. Good. 146 00:11:32,492 --> 00:11:35,223 Water? You got a drink of water? 147 00:11:35,728 --> 00:11:37,094 Who are you? 148 00:11:37,263 --> 00:11:38,287 Edie Stoller. 149 00:11:38,464 --> 00:11:40,549 Papa and I found you in the ditch last night. 150 00:11:40,573 --> 00:11:42,401 In case you're wondering who you are... 151 00:11:42,569 --> 00:11:45,095 your name's Bret Maverick and you come from Chicago. 152 00:11:45,271 --> 00:11:47,240 It's printed on the inside of your coat. 153 00:11:47,407 --> 00:11:50,070 Thanks. That clears up a lot. 154 00:11:53,179 --> 00:11:55,876 Now, if you'll tell me where I am and what I'm doing here... 155 00:11:56,049 --> 00:11:58,518 Where else would you be in the condition you were in? 156 00:11:58,685 --> 00:12:00,916 Honestly, I thought you were gonna die. 157 00:12:01,087 --> 00:12:05,115 Papa said if you woke up, I wasn't suppose to ask you questions till you felt better. 158 00:12:05,291 --> 00:12:08,352 But you do feel better, lots better, don't you? 159 00:12:09,295 --> 00:12:12,732 Now, tell me, what happened? You were set upon by thieves, weren't you? 160 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:14,595 - Thieves? - Outlaws. 161 00:12:14,767 --> 00:12:17,498 Big hairy men with bandannas over their faces. 162 00:12:17,670 --> 00:12:21,038 No. They were attacking her, weren't they? 163 00:12:21,207 --> 00:12:22,732 - Her? - Your fiancée. 164 00:12:22,909 --> 00:12:25,105 The girl you came west to marry. 165 00:12:25,278 --> 00:12:27,110 - Are you married? - No. No, I'm... 166 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,044 Good, then they were after your money. 167 00:12:29,616 --> 00:12:31,812 - My money? My money. Ooh. - Oh, they didn't take it. 168 00:12:31,985 --> 00:12:35,353 Papa's got it for you. Thousands of dollars. 169 00:12:35,655 --> 00:12:37,055 Wait a minute. 170 00:12:38,124 --> 00:12:41,526 If you were robbed, why wouldn't they take the money? 171 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:43,593 You did the robbing, that's it. 172 00:12:44,063 --> 00:12:45,429 What? MR. STOLLER: Edie? 173 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:48,324 That's Papa back from the mine. 174 00:12:48,501 --> 00:12:51,528 Scooch down and cover up and go to sleep. 175 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:55,065 You're sure you're not married? 176 00:12:55,241 --> 00:12:56,265 Good, go to sleep. 177 00:13:09,022 --> 00:13:10,902 Besides, educated women don't make good wives... 178 00:13:11,057 --> 00:13:13,492 unless you make their feet small like the Chinese... 179 00:13:13,660 --> 00:13:17,222 so they can't run away with a French duke, isn't that right, Mr. Maverick? 180 00:13:17,597 --> 00:13:18,621 It's logical. 181 00:13:18,798 --> 00:13:20,718 You wouldn't marry that kind of woman, would you? 182 00:13:20,867 --> 00:13:21,994 Edie, clear the table. 183 00:13:22,168 --> 00:13:25,070 Well, I just bet you that Mr. Maverick would much rather have a woman... 184 00:13:25,238 --> 00:13:29,266 who could cook and sew and keep house and clear the table. 185 00:13:29,442 --> 00:13:31,035 - Edie. - All right. 186 00:13:31,210 --> 00:13:33,406 Send me to Boston, let me marry a French duke... 187 00:13:33,579 --> 00:13:36,310 and lose my citizenship. He doesn't care. 188 00:13:37,684 --> 00:13:40,916 Well, if I'm gonna drive you to town, we'd better get started. 189 00:13:41,087 --> 00:13:43,989 - If you're still of a mind to go. - Oh, thank you. 190 00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:47,286 I never had a town pulled out from under me before. I don't like it. 191 00:13:47,460 --> 00:13:48,985 There are lots of other towns. 192 00:13:49,162 --> 00:13:51,791 And vengeance is a poor reason for doing anything. 193 00:13:51,964 --> 00:13:53,899 You weren't robbed, what are you going back for? 194 00:13:54,067 --> 00:13:58,004 Answers, Mr. Stoller. If someone's that mighty anxious to get rid of me... 195 00:13:58,171 --> 00:14:00,572 I'd like to know who and why. 196 00:14:05,011 --> 00:14:07,071 All right, out. 197 00:14:07,246 --> 00:14:08,976 Close the door. 198 00:14:09,148 --> 00:14:12,175 - You, say "ah." - Ah. 199 00:14:12,352 --> 00:14:15,754 I'm gonna ask you just one time, mister. Who paid you to bushwhack me? 200 00:14:15,922 --> 00:14:18,221 - Mike. Big Mike. - Big Mike? 201 00:14:21,394 --> 00:14:22,487 Ah. 202 00:14:30,803 --> 00:14:33,238 Why, Mr. Maverick, uh... 203 00:14:40,313 --> 00:14:42,179 Well, Bret, my boy, it's good to see you. 204 00:14:50,823 --> 00:14:52,689 That anger looks almost real. 205 00:14:52,859 --> 00:14:54,487 It's good and real. 206 00:14:54,660 --> 00:14:57,061 Come now, Mike, your boys were much rougher on me. 207 00:14:57,797 --> 00:14:58,958 My boys? 208 00:14:59,132 --> 00:15:01,328 Pinky and I just came to an understanding. 209 00:15:01,601 --> 00:15:04,093 Why'd you have me bushwhacked? 210 00:15:04,937 --> 00:15:06,838 I'll make a bargain with you. 211 00:15:07,006 --> 00:15:10,636 I'll tell you why if you'll forget who told you. 212 00:15:10,843 --> 00:15:12,471 Then it doesn't end with you. 213 00:15:12,645 --> 00:15:15,672 Now, would I be beating you up for any purpose of me own? 214 00:15:16,015 --> 00:15:17,176 Is it a deal? 215 00:15:18,384 --> 00:15:20,114 All right, go ahead. 216 00:15:20,286 --> 00:15:22,551 Well, do you mind putting that thing down first? 217 00:15:22,722 --> 00:15:26,318 I talk better when I'm not expecting to get a bullet in me chest. 218 00:15:26,859 --> 00:15:28,191 I gave you my word. 219 00:15:29,028 --> 00:15:30,860 I'll keep it. 220 00:15:31,097 --> 00:15:32,497 I don't know why but I believe you. 221 00:15:38,371 --> 00:15:40,169 Oh, I'm sorry, laddybuck... 222 00:15:40,339 --> 00:15:43,867 but I just had to return that lovely greeting you gave me. 223 00:15:44,110 --> 00:15:47,239 I'd have been disappointed in you if you hadn't. 224 00:15:48,047 --> 00:15:50,209 However, it makes me feel sort of stupid. 225 00:15:50,383 --> 00:15:53,751 Any man who can make his way this far back ain't stupid. 226 00:15:55,621 --> 00:15:57,283 Now... 227 00:15:57,757 --> 00:16:01,216 as to who wanted you out of town, it was Phineas King. 228 00:16:01,394 --> 00:16:02,418 Phineas King? 229 00:16:02,595 --> 00:16:06,589 Don't go busting in on him like you did me, he'll kill you. Or have it done for him. 230 00:16:06,766 --> 00:16:08,496 Sure, Phineas King. 231 00:16:08,668 --> 00:16:11,263 Well, if you know why, I wish you'd tell me. 232 00:16:11,437 --> 00:16:15,204 Because your Mr. King is a card cheat, and he knows I know it. 233 00:16:15,374 --> 00:16:18,776 Oh, you're crazy. He owns the town and $5 million. 234 00:16:18,945 --> 00:16:20,777 Maybe so, but he still cheats... 235 00:16:20,947 --> 00:16:23,143 the way some men drink, because they have to. 236 00:16:23,416 --> 00:16:25,385 I don't believe that. 237 00:16:26,953 --> 00:16:28,546 Cut. 238 00:16:38,965 --> 00:16:41,560 You're holding three 10s to my pair of queens. 239 00:16:52,979 --> 00:16:54,470 Hmm. 240 00:16:55,281 --> 00:16:57,011 Remind me not to play poker with you. 241 00:16:57,183 --> 00:16:58,446 You play with King. 242 00:16:59,485 --> 00:17:01,716 He does it even better. 243 00:17:25,912 --> 00:17:29,610 - There's a Mr., uh... - I know, Maverick. Tell him to come in. 244 00:17:31,384 --> 00:17:33,012 Sit down, sit down. Ahem. 245 00:17:33,185 --> 00:17:35,984 - Have a cigar. - No, thanks. 246 00:17:36,255 --> 00:17:38,539 Well, Mr. King, you've gone to considerable 247 00:17:38,563 --> 00:17:40,818 trouble to have me moved out of your town. 248 00:17:41,861 --> 00:17:43,159 What are you talking about? 249 00:17:43,329 --> 00:17:46,529 A man doesn't have to be bright to figure that when he's dragged into an alley... 250 00:17:46,699 --> 00:17:50,500 beaten up and dumped into a ditch, somebody doesn't want him around. 251 00:17:50,670 --> 00:17:53,606 - And you think I did that? - That's right. 252 00:17:53,773 --> 00:17:57,642 Now, look here. I don't know whether you've gotten in any trouble or not... 253 00:17:57,810 --> 00:18:00,905 - but please don't come into my office... - I know why you did it. 254 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,049 You have to win at everything, don't you? 255 00:18:03,215 --> 00:18:06,743 The town is yours, the mines, $5 million... 256 00:18:06,919 --> 00:18:08,911 but you can't stop there, now it's poker. 257 00:18:09,088 --> 00:18:11,353 - Oh. - You gotta win at that too. 258 00:18:11,524 --> 00:18:13,049 Not for the money, just win. 259 00:18:13,225 --> 00:18:15,751 What are you trying to say? 260 00:18:16,862 --> 00:18:19,161 That you're a cheat, Mr. King, and you know I know it. 261 00:18:19,332 --> 00:18:21,392 You've got me all wrong. Now, I don't know... 262 00:18:21,567 --> 00:18:23,968 I'm not leaving, Mr. King, not yet. 263 00:18:24,136 --> 00:18:26,605 Not till the tailor fixes me a new coat. 264 00:18:26,772 --> 00:18:29,173 I'll have him send you the bill. 265 00:18:35,281 --> 00:18:37,182 - You mean kill him? - I didn't say that. 266 00:18:37,350 --> 00:18:39,819 There's only one way to get rid of a man permanently. 267 00:18:39,986 --> 00:18:44,287 Do what you're getting paid to do and don't bother me with the details. 268 00:18:52,465 --> 00:18:54,991 You listen to me, I don't mind doing your dirty work... 269 00:18:55,167 --> 00:18:58,035 when there's a profit to be made and nobody's hurt too bad. 270 00:18:58,204 --> 00:19:00,284 But I've never murdered a man and I'll not start now. 271 00:19:00,439 --> 00:19:02,704 Not for you or all the silver in this territory. 272 00:19:02,875 --> 00:19:06,471 If you want Maverick killed, you get somebody else to do it, not me. 273 00:19:07,246 --> 00:19:10,444 That place you run may be called Big Mike McCombs... 274 00:19:10,616 --> 00:19:13,814 but bear in mind, I can always hire someone else. 275 00:19:14,387 --> 00:19:17,414 Well, now, maybe that might not be too bad either. 276 00:19:17,590 --> 00:19:21,425 The sawdust has been getting awful dirty around the joint anyhow. 277 00:19:31,771 --> 00:19:35,708 Oh, no. Ugh. 278 00:19:42,081 --> 00:19:44,778 Kind of wandered off the trail a little, haven't you, Josh? 279 00:19:44,950 --> 00:19:46,179 What are you doing here? 280 00:19:46,352 --> 00:19:48,821 - Well, you're in my room. - So are you. 281 00:19:48,988 --> 00:19:50,718 I mean, I... 282 00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:54,486 I thought you left town. The word got around you... 283 00:19:54,694 --> 00:19:55,821 You're all right. 284 00:19:55,995 --> 00:19:57,987 - I'm all right. - Yeah. 285 00:19:59,632 --> 00:20:04,900 Well, the room was paid for and I didn't like to see it go to waste. 286 00:20:05,071 --> 00:20:06,869 Well, I mean, I... 287 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:09,668 - Oh, you understand. - Sure. 288 00:20:11,143 --> 00:20:12,475 Well, I'll get out of your way. 289 00:20:12,645 --> 00:20:14,841 - Better stay where you are. - You want your room. 290 00:20:15,014 --> 00:20:18,542 - It's your room. I'll get another one. - Oh, you're too decent, Bret. 291 00:20:18,718 --> 00:20:20,687 You'll never make it in this town. 292 00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:23,114 You're a lamb among wolves. 293 00:20:23,289 --> 00:20:24,416 That your trouble? 294 00:20:26,125 --> 00:20:27,684 Part of it. 295 00:20:27,860 --> 00:20:29,761 You know what I was? 296 00:20:30,529 --> 00:20:32,395 I was a judge once. 297 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:35,693 A judge. 298 00:20:36,569 --> 00:20:38,731 Could have gone far... 299 00:20:39,338 --> 00:20:44,504 if I'd learned to say yes to the right people and no to the bottle. 300 00:20:45,077 --> 00:20:49,344 Trouble is, the right people are always the wrong people. 301 00:20:49,548 --> 00:20:52,177 I thought I saw an 11 under that acey-deucey. 302 00:20:52,618 --> 00:20:55,144 You shouldn't have come back, Maverick. 303 00:20:55,387 --> 00:20:58,755 Phineas King is wrong people. 304 00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:01,227 See you, Josh. 305 00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:11,971 - Where have you been all afternoon? - Getting measured for a new coat. 306 00:21:12,138 --> 00:21:13,665 Come on, I'll buy you a drink. 307 00:21:13,689 --> 00:21:15,870 Not here, we'll go someplace else. Come on. 308 00:21:20,379 --> 00:21:22,575 - Where's your horse? - At the livery stable. Why? 309 00:21:22,748 --> 00:21:26,207 I'll get it. Go pack and meet me here in 10 minutes. You're leaving town. 310 00:21:26,385 --> 00:21:26,972 Who says so? 311 00:21:26,996 --> 00:21:29,048 I say so. I hate funerals and love postcards. 312 00:21:29,221 --> 00:21:31,181 Drop me one, I'll write back and tell you about... 313 00:21:32,792 --> 00:21:34,090 Look out! 314 00:21:39,064 --> 00:21:41,397 Are you all right, lad? 315 00:21:44,603 --> 00:21:46,663 You set me up for a target. 316 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,402 Oh, no, not again. 317 00:21:55,614 --> 00:21:57,810 Will you listen to me, you mule-headed Maverick? 318 00:21:57,983 --> 00:21:59,315 - I'm listening. - He hates you. 319 00:21:59,485 --> 00:22:01,492 It was him that tried to kill you and he'll 320 00:22:01,516 --> 00:22:03,547 do it again. You've got to get out of here. 321 00:22:03,722 --> 00:22:05,657 It took me a long time to get a coat like this. 322 00:22:05,825 --> 00:22:08,056 It's a small rip. A few stitches, it'll never show. 323 00:22:08,227 --> 00:22:10,389 I'll send you the new one as soon as it's finished. 324 00:22:10,563 --> 00:22:14,330 - Mike, you've convinced me. - Well, have I now? I'll get your horse. 325 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:16,638 I'll even ride to the end of town with you. 326 00:22:16,662 --> 00:22:17,334 I'm staying. 327 00:22:17,503 --> 00:22:18,562 What? 328 00:22:18,737 --> 00:22:22,333 A man like King has gotta be stopped. I'm gonna stop him. 329 00:22:22,508 --> 00:22:24,773 I don't know how, but I'm gonna stop him. 330 00:22:24,944 --> 00:22:28,472 Well, the coat will never be finished in time for the funeral. 331 00:22:35,621 --> 00:22:38,887 "Notice. I want everyone in the town of Echo Springs to know... 332 00:22:39,058 --> 00:22:42,961 that Phineas King did not make any attempt to kill me today. 333 00:22:43,128 --> 00:22:44,152 Bret Maverick." 334 00:22:53,606 --> 00:22:56,007 Sue him, you nincompoop! Drag him into court. 335 00:22:56,175 --> 00:22:58,474 - On what grounds? - Libel, defamation of character. 336 00:22:58,644 --> 00:23:03,275 Libel? What Maverick says in that ad is absolutely true. 337 00:23:03,449 --> 00:23:06,851 You did not make any attempt to kill him today, did you? 338 00:23:07,019 --> 00:23:08,180 Why, certainly not, but... 339 00:23:08,354 --> 00:23:12,189 And you'd better make it your business to see that nothing does happen to him... 340 00:23:12,358 --> 00:23:14,759 because the day that ad doesn't appear in the paper... 341 00:23:14,927 --> 00:23:19,365 you're gonna have the whole town on your doorstep demanding to know why. 342 00:23:19,932 --> 00:23:22,231 By heaven, you're right. 343 00:23:23,035 --> 00:23:27,268 But I still control this newspaper. I can have that ad refused. Hmm. 344 00:23:27,439 --> 00:23:29,101 Can you? 345 00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:32,705 Well, can't I? 346 00:23:33,913 --> 00:23:35,472 Hmm. 347 00:23:42,421 --> 00:23:45,050 I'm worried about old Josh over there. 348 00:23:45,591 --> 00:23:48,322 You know, I've been thinking. 349 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:49,619 Election's coming up. 350 00:23:49,795 --> 00:23:52,924 Supposing a couple of us were to write his name in for judge... 351 00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:54,464 throw him a vote or two... 352 00:23:54,633 --> 00:23:57,831 make him feel important, like somebody cared. 353 00:23:58,003 --> 00:23:59,904 Wouldn't influence anything... 354 00:24:00,072 --> 00:24:02,940 but it just might give him a reason to stop drinking. 355 00:24:03,108 --> 00:24:05,441 It's a nice thought. 356 00:24:05,978 --> 00:24:08,174 It's a real nice thought. 357 00:24:09,014 --> 00:24:11,848 - I'll give him my vote. - Good. 358 00:24:12,017 --> 00:24:13,781 - Don't tell anybody about it. - Oh, no. 359 00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:16,081 - Wouldn't want him to think it's a gag. - No. 360 00:24:16,255 --> 00:24:18,781 Just between you and me. 361 00:24:18,958 --> 00:24:21,052 You and me? Funny. 362 00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:26,261 We'll keep it between you and me, just the two of us. 363 00:24:26,432 --> 00:24:27,923 All right. 364 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:31,264 - Why not? Just you and me. - Why not? 365 00:24:31,437 --> 00:24:33,633 - Between you and me. - Sure. 366 00:24:33,806 --> 00:24:34,830 You and me? 367 00:24:35,007 --> 00:24:37,408 - You and me, huh? - Sure. 368 00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:48,215 Oh, well, this is your night again, Richard. 369 00:24:48,387 --> 00:24:51,118 Ha, ha. I anticipate a very close election. 370 00:24:52,858 --> 00:24:56,989 - Here's to you, judge. - Well, another election, same old thing. 371 00:24:57,162 --> 00:24:59,688 - Could be worse. - Yeah? How? 372 00:25:01,867 --> 00:25:05,963 Ha. The fools, they actually think they're electing somebody. 373 00:25:06,138 --> 00:25:08,664 - Maybe they are. - Wishful thinking, laddybuck. 374 00:25:08,841 --> 00:25:11,361 They might as well print it in the X's alongside Bixby's name... 375 00:25:11,477 --> 00:25:14,572 - and save the trouble of writing. - Ah, you're right. 376 00:25:14,780 --> 00:25:18,512 - Here. Here he is. - Well, gentlemen, here it is. 377 00:25:18,684 --> 00:25:21,153 Let's see what it is. - Open up. 378 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:23,619 Post it up there. 379 00:25:23,789 --> 00:25:25,155 Come on, open it up. 380 00:25:25,324 --> 00:25:27,293 Go on, put it up there. 381 00:25:27,459 --> 00:25:30,122 Let's show Judge Bixby what the town thinks of him. 382 00:26:15,174 --> 00:26:16,870 Josh! How about that? 383 00:26:33,025 --> 00:26:34,891 All right. Quiet down. Quiet down. 384 00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:39,061 - Here, let me say something. - Thank you very much. I didn't know I... 385 00:26:39,098 --> 00:26:41,829 Men, men, I know you made a good choice. 386 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,367 Josh here knows the law and how to use it. 387 00:26:44,536 --> 00:26:47,734 I believe Echo Springs has elected a wise and honest judge. 388 00:26:56,915 --> 00:27:00,374 Thank you. Thank you. 389 00:27:00,986 --> 00:27:03,182 I'm a drunk, Bret. 390 00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:09,295 A busted miserable vagrant. A no-good polluted bum. 391 00:27:09,962 --> 00:27:12,932 And you made me a judge. Why? 392 00:27:13,098 --> 00:27:15,431 - You're none of those things... - Oh, don't con me. 393 00:27:15,601 --> 00:27:19,402 I got mind enough left to know that there's got to be an angle. 394 00:27:19,571 --> 00:27:22,700 Well, whatever it is, there's something you've got to know. 395 00:27:22,875 --> 00:27:26,175 No one has ever bought me, no one ever will. 396 00:27:26,512 --> 00:27:29,311 I didn't buy you, Josh. You're on your own. 397 00:27:29,882 --> 00:27:30,941 Strictly? 398 00:27:31,416 --> 00:27:32,850 You don't owe me a thing. 399 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:37,987 By the way, how good are those two books on mining law you loaned me? 400 00:27:38,157 --> 00:27:41,355 Oh, they're not very up-to-date. 401 00:27:41,527 --> 00:27:46,158 One of them goes back about 16 years and the other one about 25. 402 00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:47,629 Pretty obsolete, huh? 403 00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:49,995 Well, I don't know. 404 00:27:50,202 --> 00:27:53,468 Law has been around as long as human nature. 405 00:27:53,639 --> 00:27:55,767 Neither of them have ever changed very much. 406 00:27:56,575 --> 00:27:59,443 - Yeah, well, good night, Josh. - All right. 407 00:27:59,611 --> 00:28:01,291 You were a judge from the moment I met you. 408 00:28:01,446 --> 00:28:05,383 I'm glad they finally made it official. Good night. 409 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:44,952 - Then your mine, Stoller, is here. - Yeah. 410 00:28:45,123 --> 00:28:46,682 - Yours, Kriedler, here. - Mm-hm. 411 00:28:46,858 --> 00:28:48,156 And this is yours, Jackson. 412 00:28:48,327 --> 00:28:50,296 - And, Lawson, this is yours. - That's right. 413 00:28:50,462 --> 00:28:54,194 - You're all adjacent to King's holdings. - Sure, it's all the same hill. 414 00:28:54,366 --> 00:28:56,631 Only, King gets the corn and we get the shucking. 415 00:28:56,802 --> 00:28:58,395 What's your proposition, Maverick? 416 00:28:59,104 --> 00:29:01,005 - I know how you... - Anybody want some cake? 417 00:29:01,173 --> 00:29:03,199 Uh, later, Edie, when we're through talking. 418 00:29:03,375 --> 00:29:06,038 Oh, you can eat and talk too, you always do. 419 00:29:06,211 --> 00:29:09,147 - Let's have it, Maverick. - I know how you can beat King. 420 00:29:09,314 --> 00:29:11,977 I know how you can increase the yields of your mines... 421 00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:15,450 to equal, if not out-produce, King himself. 422 00:29:15,787 --> 00:29:17,346 How do we do it, Maverick? 423 00:29:18,156 --> 00:29:21,558 Well, first, we form a company. 424 00:29:21,827 --> 00:29:22,851 Then when the... 425 00:29:50,922 --> 00:29:53,153 They wouldn't have the nerve. 426 00:29:53,325 --> 00:29:55,851 - They're mining your ore. - And stealing my money. 427 00:29:56,028 --> 00:29:58,759 Wholesale, judging by the deposits in the bank last month. 428 00:29:58,930 --> 00:30:01,764 I told you so. I've got an instinct about people. 429 00:30:01,933 --> 00:30:03,265 That Maverick's a crook. 430 00:30:03,435 --> 00:30:05,199 I'll have them all behind bars. 431 00:30:05,370 --> 00:30:07,965 Mining my silver, the thieves. 432 00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:12,271 And you, what am I paying you for? You're supposed to be my lawyer, stop him. 433 00:30:12,444 --> 00:30:14,640 Get an injunction out against every one of them. 434 00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:17,612 Take them into court. Hang them. 435 00:30:18,984 --> 00:30:23,513 Then, as the result of your professional exploration surveys... 436 00:30:23,689 --> 00:30:27,558 soundings and et cetera, you are certain beyond any doubt... 437 00:30:27,726 --> 00:30:30,924 that the New Hope interests are, in actuality... 438 00:30:31,096 --> 00:30:33,224 mining through Mr. King's property? 439 00:30:33,398 --> 00:30:34,457 Obviously. 440 00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:39,069 Thank you. That is all, Your Honor. 441 00:30:39,504 --> 00:30:42,030 You may question the witness, Mr. Maverick. 442 00:30:42,207 --> 00:30:44,176 No questions, Your Honor. 443 00:30:45,110 --> 00:30:48,239 Ahem, you may take your seat. 444 00:30:50,415 --> 00:30:52,611 Mr. Maverick, are you certain you do not need... 445 00:30:52,784 --> 00:30:54,980 to be represented by trained counsel? 446 00:30:55,153 --> 00:30:56,519 Quite certain, sir. 447 00:30:57,723 --> 00:30:59,089 But so far, Mr. Maverick... 448 00:30:59,257 --> 00:31:02,352 you have not challenged the statement of a single witness. 449 00:31:02,527 --> 00:31:05,463 I can't, their statements are unchallengeable. 450 00:31:06,898 --> 00:31:09,800 Well, then, call your witnesses. 451 00:31:09,968 --> 00:31:13,735 I can't do that either. We haven't any. 452 00:31:14,439 --> 00:31:16,965 Then you admit you're stealing Mr. King's ore. 453 00:31:17,142 --> 00:31:20,840 Now, hold on there. Stealing means taking something that you have no right to... 454 00:31:21,012 --> 00:31:23,106 and we have every right to mine that ore... 455 00:31:23,281 --> 00:31:25,876 regardless of whose property we go through. 456 00:31:27,819 --> 00:31:32,985 You have the right to legally penetrate into land owned by Phineas King... 457 00:31:33,458 --> 00:31:35,654 remove the ore from that land... 458 00:31:35,827 --> 00:31:41,698 smolder and pocket the silver extracted from that ore? Mr. King's ore? 459 00:31:42,033 --> 00:31:45,435 Mr. King has no claim to the silver we mine. 460 00:31:45,637 --> 00:31:47,936 According to the law, the answer is yes. 461 00:31:48,206 --> 00:31:49,868 According to the law, you say? 462 00:31:50,041 --> 00:31:55,173 The federal mining laws of this country, specifically the apex law. 463 00:31:55,347 --> 00:31:57,248 The apex law. 464 00:31:57,416 --> 00:32:01,148 "To any prospector who first locates an outcropping mineral vein... 465 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:05,222 such surface indication of the ore to be known as the apex of the vein... 466 00:32:05,390 --> 00:32:08,588 said owner is guaranteed the right to follow that vein downward... 467 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,253 even when it leads unto the holdings of claims located beside it." 468 00:32:13,732 --> 00:32:15,492 I knew he'd do it. - He told him. 469 00:32:15,634 --> 00:32:17,034 That's all we're doing, Your Honor. 470 00:32:17,169 --> 00:32:20,537 Following our original veins, which according to this law and that map... 471 00:32:20,705 --> 00:32:22,799 we have every legally guaranteed right to do. 472 00:32:24,543 --> 00:32:26,239 Your Honor. 473 00:32:26,411 --> 00:32:28,107 Your Honor. 474 00:32:28,447 --> 00:32:30,143 Your Honor... 475 00:32:30,315 --> 00:32:33,308 this is as foul and deliberate a piece of legal hocus-pocus... 476 00:32:33,485 --> 00:32:34,976 as I have ever witnessed. 477 00:32:35,153 --> 00:32:36,553 Veins are never continuous. 478 00:32:36,721 --> 00:32:40,590 They're always broken or cut off and terminated by worthless rock. 479 00:32:42,093 --> 00:32:46,690 This shabby charlatan is using a ridiculous archaic conception... 480 00:32:46,865 --> 00:32:50,529 disproved by every mining authority in existence. 481 00:32:50,702 --> 00:32:52,500 The apex law is outmoded. 482 00:32:52,671 --> 00:32:57,132 It's a useless piece of legal shale, absolutely and utterly obsolete. 483 00:32:57,309 --> 00:33:00,336 But never repealed. We stand on the law, Your Honor. 484 00:33:05,951 --> 00:33:08,614 This court is recessed until 10:00 tomorrow morning. 485 00:33:20,332 --> 00:33:23,268 - Come in. - Evening, judge. 486 00:33:23,435 --> 00:33:24,801 Hello, Phineas. 487 00:33:24,970 --> 00:33:26,915 You know, I got a little bit worried, Josh. 488 00:33:26,939 --> 00:33:27,201 Hmm. 489 00:33:27,372 --> 00:33:30,501 Your decision tomorrow can cost me an awful lot of money. 490 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:32,473 It's costing me an awful lot of sleep. 491 00:33:32,644 --> 00:33:36,012 Well, of course, I realize that you're obligated to Bret Maverick but, uh... 492 00:33:36,181 --> 00:33:38,309 Oh, no offense, no offense, it's perfectly natural. 493 00:33:38,483 --> 00:33:42,352 - After all, he did get you elected. - And a lot more. 494 00:33:43,255 --> 00:33:46,487 And if ever I can do him a favor, I'll do it... 495 00:33:46,658 --> 00:33:48,354 outside a courtroom. 496 00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:52,487 You know that claim of his is as asinine as the law he's evoked to support it. 497 00:33:52,831 --> 00:33:56,563 I'll acquaint you with what I know tomorrow morning at 10:00, Phineas. 498 00:33:57,402 --> 00:33:58,768 I see. 499 00:33:58,937 --> 00:34:03,568 Well, that's a long time to wait considering what's at stake. 500 00:34:06,177 --> 00:34:07,236 Josh. 501 00:34:09,581 --> 00:34:11,072 No, thanks. 502 00:34:11,249 --> 00:34:13,480 Well, suit yourself. 503 00:34:17,822 --> 00:34:19,688 Ah. 504 00:34:21,259 --> 00:34:25,390 You know, I'm liable to lay awake all night, worrying. 505 00:34:25,764 --> 00:34:29,223 I'd give almost anything to get a good night's sleep. 506 00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:34,066 Maybe even $100,000. 507 00:34:34,573 --> 00:34:36,542 A hundred thousand dollars? 508 00:34:36,708 --> 00:34:38,199 Mm-hm. 509 00:34:39,544 --> 00:34:41,308 Think it over. 510 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,082 Just keep running with your research. Good night. 511 00:35:04,135 --> 00:35:06,195 Please rise. 512 00:35:30,061 --> 00:35:31,222 Be seated. 513 00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:44,974 It is the decision of this court that there is no legal cause... 514 00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:49,308 for an injunction against the operations of the New Hope Mining Company. 515 00:35:51,216 --> 00:35:52,240 We won! 516 00:35:53,618 --> 00:35:54,847 Don't worry. 517 00:35:57,589 --> 00:35:59,148 - On King's face? - Yeah. Ha-ha-ha. 518 00:35:59,324 --> 00:36:01,725 I've done dang a few smart things in my life... 519 00:36:01,893 --> 00:36:05,557 but when I pulled this young fellow out of the ditch, I sure did us a favor. 520 00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:07,570 - You sure did, all right. Ha, ha. - Excuse me. 521 00:36:07,632 --> 00:36:09,032 - Yeah. - Sure, go ahead. 522 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,328 I believe you did. 523 00:36:11,503 --> 00:36:14,268 - What's the trouble? - I just came from the railroad station. 524 00:36:14,439 --> 00:36:17,204 Guess who just boarded the train for the territorial seat? 525 00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:19,742 - Bixby. - How'd you know? 526 00:36:19,911 --> 00:36:23,439 King's bound to appeal to higher courts to reverse Thayer's decision. 527 00:36:23,615 --> 00:36:26,983 - Bixby's out to put the pressure on. - Ah, fat chance they got. 528 00:36:27,152 --> 00:36:30,645 Very fat, Mike. They'll win it. 529 00:36:35,794 --> 00:36:38,161 Any news from Bixby on the mail train this morning? 530 00:36:38,329 --> 00:36:39,957 - No, Mr. King. - No. 531 00:36:40,131 --> 00:36:44,000 Sitting here helpless while Maverick and those crooks are robbing me blind. 532 00:36:44,169 --> 00:36:46,297 Not only that, they're stealing all my miners. 533 00:36:46,471 --> 00:36:48,167 Ten hours a day instead of 12... 534 00:36:48,339 --> 00:36:51,537 and 10 cents more an hour, and with my money! 535 00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:55,203 Well, until we get a decision, we could meet the competition. 536 00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:56,575 - Raise wages. - Raise wages. 537 00:36:56,748 --> 00:37:00,378 - Reduce hours. - Reduce hours? Me? I will not. 538 00:37:00,552 --> 00:37:03,078 It's bad enough being robbed without giving money away. 539 00:37:03,254 --> 00:37:04,847 - Besides, it's immoral. - Immoral? 540 00:37:05,023 --> 00:37:07,583 Working 10 hours a day. You can only sleep eight hours. 541 00:37:07,759 --> 00:37:10,058 What do they do with the other six? 542 00:37:11,362 --> 00:37:14,059 I've got it, Fennelly. We've got them licked. 543 00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:16,133 Harris! 544 00:37:18,269 --> 00:37:22,297 And your total profit thus far is slightly in excess of $600,000. 545 00:37:23,675 --> 00:37:26,804 And not a word from Phineas, not a peep. 546 00:37:26,978 --> 00:37:30,005 - What can he do? - That's against me, what can he do? 547 00:37:30,181 --> 00:37:31,979 - Ha-ha-ha. - Six hundred thousand. 548 00:37:33,351 --> 00:37:36,253 Oh, that's trouble. Big trouble. 549 00:37:37,155 --> 00:37:40,523 The mines. They're flooding the mines. The water's coming down in sheets. 550 00:37:40,692 --> 00:37:43,560 - Coming down from where? - The Silver Lady, all King's tunnels. 551 00:37:43,728 --> 00:37:46,027 - King flooded his own mine? - Right into ours. 552 00:37:46,197 --> 00:37:48,428 There's your answer. Now we know what he can do. 553 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,469 Flood our mines and keep them closed until he gets that court decision. 554 00:38:11,422 --> 00:38:15,018 Listen to this one. The lady said, "No, I ain't going buggy riding..." 555 00:38:15,193 --> 00:38:18,721 - You read that one yesterday. - Yeah, yeah, I guess I did. 556 00:38:18,897 --> 00:38:21,799 You've been hanging around here so much lately, why, I forget. 557 00:38:22,066 --> 00:38:25,503 Not much else to do. Mine shut down, town wearing black crepe. 558 00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:28,377 Yeah, it's getting ugly. A lot of bad feeling 559 00:38:28,401 --> 00:38:30,670 building up towards your friend, Maverick. 560 00:38:30,942 --> 00:38:33,411 Well, why Maverick? King flooded the mines. 561 00:38:33,778 --> 00:38:36,043 Maverick started it and they blame him. 562 00:38:36,214 --> 00:38:38,547 It don't take long for hungry men to get violent... 563 00:38:38,716 --> 00:38:41,036 and when that happens, they'll go after his scalp first. 564 00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:07,376 Bad news, Mike. Listen. 565 00:39:07,779 --> 00:39:11,341 "Verdict today assured. Maverick and New Hope finished. 566 00:39:11,516 --> 00:39:14,111 Returning noon train tomorrow. Bixby." 567 00:39:15,353 --> 00:39:18,812 Willy? Willy? 568 00:39:19,257 --> 00:39:21,954 Ah, where is that Willy? 569 00:39:26,564 --> 00:39:28,692 Willy! 570 00:39:36,975 --> 00:39:39,706 "Verdict today assured Maverick and New Hope. 571 00:39:46,885 --> 00:39:49,047 Finished. Returning noon train tomorrow. Bixby." 572 00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:52,140 So help me, well, the next time I find you asleep, you're fired. 573 00:39:52,290 --> 00:39:55,624 Now, you get that message over to Mr. King's office right away. 574 00:40:09,374 --> 00:40:11,570 Come on down! 575 00:40:16,014 --> 00:40:17,539 We've got him, boys. 576 00:40:17,715 --> 00:40:20,549 Bret Maverick will be lucky to leave this town alive. 577 00:40:20,985 --> 00:40:22,613 Bret! Bret! 578 00:40:22,787 --> 00:40:26,155 - Don't shout, you make me nervous. - You've got reason to be nervous, boy. 579 00:40:26,324 --> 00:40:28,384 That mob's meat eaters and you're the meat. 580 00:40:28,559 --> 00:40:30,027 You gotta get out of this town. 581 00:40:30,194 --> 00:40:32,026 I tried. They got the place surrounded. 582 00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:35,059 Did they get a wire from Bixby yet? 583 00:40:35,233 --> 00:40:38,169 I couldn't snatch it like you wanted, but I did fix it a little. 584 00:40:38,336 --> 00:40:40,601 - King won all right. - Fix it? How? 585 00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:42,764 Well, now it reads like maybe King lost. 586 00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:45,075 Are you sure he'll think that? 587 00:40:45,243 --> 00:40:48,008 Oh, he'll think it, but only till tomorrow till Bixby gets here. 588 00:40:48,179 --> 00:40:50,512 I thought it'd give you time to pack up and get. 589 00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:54,218 Mike, did anyone ever tell you you were beautiful? 590 00:40:54,385 --> 00:40:56,445 - Huh? - Come on. 591 00:41:01,192 --> 00:41:03,889 - Come on down! - Quiet! 592 00:41:04,395 --> 00:41:06,091 There he is. They got him. 593 00:41:07,565 --> 00:41:08,863 All right now. All right now. 594 00:41:10,535 --> 00:41:12,265 All right, boys, what's the problem? 595 00:41:12,437 --> 00:41:16,397 - Don't con us, you're leaving town. - You got yours, now we're gonna take ours. 596 00:41:16,574 --> 00:41:18,634 Who closed the mine and threw us out of work? 597 00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:21,439 - You're getting rich and we starve! - Here, look at this. 598 00:41:21,612 --> 00:41:23,342 It's a thousand-dollar bill. 599 00:41:24,048 --> 00:41:26,916 Listen to me and when I get through, if there's a man among you... 600 00:41:27,085 --> 00:41:29,765 who doesn't like what I said, he can come up and claim this bill. 601 00:41:29,921 --> 00:41:32,516 Go on, Maverick! Tell us what suckers you made out of us... 602 00:41:32,690 --> 00:41:35,592 while you were getting rich enough to wave that in our face! 603 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,800 I'm not rich. I've never been in this for the money. 604 00:41:37,929 --> 00:41:41,491 This started out as a battle for rights. Yours, mine, everyone's. 605 00:41:41,666 --> 00:41:45,467 But it's gotten out of hand, and both Phineas King and I realize it. 606 00:41:45,636 --> 00:41:49,368 And I'll tell you something else. I was wrong about Phineas King. 607 00:41:49,540 --> 00:41:51,270 He's a fine man. 608 00:41:51,676 --> 00:41:53,144 Me? 609 00:41:53,311 --> 00:41:56,611 Wait. He fights, and he fights hard. 610 00:41:56,781 --> 00:41:59,046 But not at the expense of defenseless employees... 611 00:41:59,217 --> 00:42:02,551 whose interest is always the first consideration. 612 00:42:02,854 --> 00:42:06,723 I'll tell you something even more important. The mines are going to open. 613 00:42:08,393 --> 00:42:11,056 What does he mean, the mines are going to open? 614 00:42:11,229 --> 00:42:14,893 As you all know, the issue is still in the courts. 615 00:42:15,066 --> 00:42:19,231 How long it will take to get a decision is always unpredictable. 616 00:42:19,404 --> 00:42:22,272 You men have to work and you're going to work. 617 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:26,377 Because Phineas King and the New Hope Company of independent miners... 618 00:42:26,544 --> 00:42:28,240 are about to merge. 619 00:42:29,714 --> 00:42:31,649 Merge? What's he talking about merge? 620 00:42:34,018 --> 00:42:37,011 Yes, sir, we're gonna be partners. 621 00:42:37,188 --> 00:42:38,417 And that's not all. 622 00:42:38,589 --> 00:42:40,820 At Mr. King's insistence... 623 00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:43,621 all the reforms innovated by the New Hope Company... 624 00:42:43,795 --> 00:42:46,230 including the 10-cent-an-hour raise... 625 00:42:46,397 --> 00:42:50,164 and the shorter hours, are to be included in the agreement. 626 00:42:52,403 --> 00:42:54,668 He wouldn't have it any other way. 627 00:42:57,708 --> 00:43:01,304 I'm going over to Mr. King's office now and draw up the papers. 628 00:43:01,479 --> 00:43:05,177 When you see us together in that window, you'll know it's official. 629 00:43:08,052 --> 00:43:10,487 I got your horse waiting around the back. 630 00:43:17,295 --> 00:43:21,164 Mergers, raises, shorter hours, and I'm to agree to that? 631 00:43:21,332 --> 00:43:23,198 Oh, if he asks me... 632 00:43:23,367 --> 00:43:26,087 if he dares to come up here and ask me, so help me, I'll kill him. 633 00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:29,558 - No, Phineas, stop. - No, Phineas, you can't do that. 634 00:43:29,674 --> 00:43:32,007 - Come in. - Telegram, Mr. King. 635 00:43:32,176 --> 00:43:36,876 Now, wait a minute. I'm sorry I'm late. I didn't know it was that important. 636 00:43:37,048 --> 00:43:38,607 - Here. - What does it say? Read it. 637 00:43:38,783 --> 00:43:41,378 What do you think I'm gonna do, you nincompoop? 638 00:43:42,687 --> 00:43:47,250 "Verdict today assured Maverick and New Hope. Finished." 639 00:43:47,425 --> 00:43:49,860 - They upheld Maverick? - We're finished? 640 00:43:50,027 --> 00:43:52,223 "Returning noon train tomorrow. Bixby." 641 00:43:52,396 --> 00:43:54,365 - Enjoying the show, Phineas? - Why you...? 642 00:43:54,532 --> 00:43:57,696 - You heard. How does it sound? - Like the rattle of a diamondback. 643 00:43:57,869 --> 00:44:00,134 If you think you can blackmail me into that kind... 644 00:44:00,304 --> 00:44:02,411 Wait a minute, I've just given those men out 645 00:44:02,435 --> 00:44:04,469 there a mighty glowing description of you. 646 00:44:04,642 --> 00:44:08,340 You wouldn't wanna disillusion them. If I were to tell them you backed out now... 647 00:44:08,513 --> 00:44:11,483 Backed out? I promised them nothing. I'd just as soon merge... 648 00:44:11,649 --> 00:44:14,847 with a nest of rattlesnakes as you and your thieving conspirators. 649 00:44:15,219 --> 00:44:18,553 You lose more every day those mines remain closed than this agreement... 650 00:44:18,723 --> 00:44:20,817 - would cost you in a month. - It's worth it. 651 00:44:20,992 --> 00:44:22,051 Worth it? 652 00:44:22,226 --> 00:44:24,661 To see men out of work? Families going hungry? 653 00:44:24,962 --> 00:44:28,831 Your fortune is built on their discoveries, they're entitled to some consideration. 654 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,095 Yeah, sure. Half of everything I own, I suppose. 655 00:44:32,270 --> 00:44:33,761 Nothing of what you own. 656 00:44:33,938 --> 00:44:36,999 All they ask for in this contract is just enough to get along. 657 00:44:37,175 --> 00:44:40,168 Five percent of the future profits of the combined companies. 658 00:44:40,444 --> 00:44:43,278 What? Five percent? 659 00:44:43,447 --> 00:44:46,781 Oh, and who gets the other 95 percent, you? 660 00:44:47,585 --> 00:44:51,113 I'm pulling out of Echo Springs tomorrow. Thought that might be an added inducement. 661 00:44:51,289 --> 00:44:53,315 Ha, ha, I wish I could believe that. 662 00:44:53,491 --> 00:44:56,484 Well, what'll it be, Phineas? Do you sign? 663 00:44:56,661 --> 00:44:59,187 Or do we go out there and tell those men you refuse... 664 00:44:59,363 --> 00:45:01,628 and wait for the decision of the higher court? 665 00:45:01,799 --> 00:45:03,062 Ahem, well... 666 00:45:03,234 --> 00:45:05,965 The decision. Oh, yeah. Yes, yes, of course, I'm... 667 00:45:06,137 --> 00:45:08,106 Hmm. Yeah. 668 00:45:10,041 --> 00:45:11,761 What do you think we ought to do? 669 00:45:11,909 --> 00:45:14,105 - For once, it's imperative that you... - Oh... 670 00:45:14,679 --> 00:45:17,911 Five percent isn't such a bad proposition after all. 671 00:45:18,082 --> 00:45:19,914 I knew you would see it that way. 672 00:45:20,084 --> 00:45:21,143 - Oh, yes. - Here he is. 673 00:45:21,319 --> 00:45:23,515 Here he is, men. Here's our man. 674 00:45:58,089 --> 00:46:00,490 I'm sure sorry to see you go, Bret. 675 00:46:00,658 --> 00:46:02,490 Thank you, John. 676 00:46:02,693 --> 00:46:04,491 I kind of hate to leave. 677 00:46:04,662 --> 00:46:07,427 - I'll take that, Maverick. - Thank you, Lawson. 678 00:46:07,965 --> 00:46:10,366 I'll be leaving too in a few days, Mr. Maverick. 679 00:46:10,534 --> 00:46:12,196 Nothing to keep me here now. 680 00:46:13,070 --> 00:46:14,732 Think you'll ever be in Boston? 681 00:46:15,139 --> 00:46:16,539 I might, Edie. I just might. 682 00:46:17,975 --> 00:46:20,171 Here's where I'll be. 683 00:46:21,279 --> 00:46:24,738 Doggone it, Maverick, now that you're leaving, I don't want you to go. 684 00:46:24,915 --> 00:46:27,544 Stay here and take care of things for me, will you? 685 00:46:27,718 --> 00:46:29,380 I'll make you a big man. 686 00:46:30,221 --> 00:46:33,555 Thanks, no, Phineas. The bigger I'd get, the smaller the town would get. 687 00:46:33,724 --> 00:46:35,800 I'd like to leave it the size I found it. 688 00:46:35,824 --> 00:46:37,923 But a lot better than you found it, Bret. 689 00:46:38,095 --> 00:46:40,758 - Goodbye, Bret. - Good luck, Josh. 690 00:46:43,034 --> 00:46:44,502 - So long, everybody. - Bye, Bret. 691 00:46:44,669 --> 00:46:46,109 So long, Bret. - Goodbye. 692 00:46:46,270 --> 00:46:48,205 If you see Big Mike, tell him goodbye for me. 693 00:46:48,372 --> 00:46:49,738 Right. MAN 3: We'll do that. 694 00:46:49,907 --> 00:46:51,500 Good luck, Bret. - So long. 695 00:46:58,316 --> 00:47:00,182 Phineas! 696 00:47:04,955 --> 00:47:07,584 Well, I see you got rid of Maverick. 697 00:47:07,758 --> 00:47:09,750 No trumpets for the returning hero? 698 00:47:09,927 --> 00:47:12,362 - You're fired. - Fired? Ha, ha, very funny. 699 00:47:12,530 --> 00:47:15,193 After I got that apex decision reversed in your favor. 700 00:47:15,366 --> 00:47:17,631 - Reversed? - Certainly. Didn't you get my telegram? 701 00:47:17,802 --> 00:47:21,330 Sure, I got your telegram, you blockhead. Here it is. Read it. 702 00:47:24,942 --> 00:47:29,073 "Verdict today assured. Maverick and New Hope finished." 703 00:47:29,246 --> 00:47:30,680 That isn't the way I read it. 704 00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:34,182 Well, there are a couple of misplaced punctuation marks. 705 00:47:34,852 --> 00:47:37,686 Well, I'll be a son of a gun. 706 00:47:37,888 --> 00:47:40,790 Remember that poker game where he raised me with the envelope? 707 00:47:40,958 --> 00:47:43,120 - Yeah. - What do you think he had in it? 708 00:47:43,294 --> 00:47:46,128 - How would I know? - No, you wouldn't. 709 00:47:46,497 --> 00:47:50,901 It was guts. Nothing but guts. 710 00:47:51,168 --> 00:47:53,330 And you're still fired. 711 00:47:56,807 --> 00:47:58,207 Mind if I ride along with you? 712 00:47:58,376 --> 00:48:00,311 - How far? - Wherever you're going. 713 00:48:00,478 --> 00:48:02,140 Any particular reason? 714 00:48:02,313 --> 00:48:04,714 Whatever it is, something's bound to be happening. 715 00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:06,407 I just couldn't bear to miss it.