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I know this land.

It's rich land.

Plenty of good water and fields knee-deep in grass.

A place where a steer can get its belly full

and a man doesn't have to worry about tomorrow.

I'm coming home.

Another 35 miles, 40, maybe,

and I'll see the town of Shelby,

blistering out there in the hot sun.

Just the way it was when I had to leave it two years ago.

Just two years.

But it feels like 20,

when I remember what I had to leave behind.

And sometimes it feels like 100,

when I remember the men I've had to kill.

Hold it!

Don't pull them, Clint.

You know there ain't nothing better

than a dead gunslinger.

Cagle?

You hear that, Donovan?

Clint knows who it is without even looking.

You fellas standing guard this way,

old Spangler must be somewhere around.

Big as life.

What's he doing in Montana?

Now, could be he'd like to ask you that question.

Spang!

Hey, Spang!

Well, by gravy.

If it ain't the devil hisself!

Clint Cooper!

Hiya, Clint boy!

Good to see you, Spang.

I caught him coming up on the high trail, Spang,

so I thought I'd better bring him in.

You thought right, Cagle.

You wouldn't want an old friend to go riding by

without giving him an invite, would you? Come on, boy.

Yes, sir, talk of the devil.

I was saying to the boys just yesterday,

"I bet you my old friend Clint Cooper

would give plenty to be with us right now."

Coffee, boy.

Kind of a long way from Missouri, aren't you?

Longer than a horse's tail, that's for sure.

Here, have some meat. No thanks.

You still wearing them tied down. Sit.

They make me a living.

A living?

Oh, boy, don't you never learn?

I'm alive. I eat.

One of these days that gun of yours won't be so fast,

then you'll lose your appetite real sudden.

We used to be a good team, Spang.

Yeah. Best hired guns in the business.

Yeah, but a fella's gotta look to the future.

Now you take me. I got 15 men working for me.

Any time we need money, vittles, liquor, women,

we just go get them.

And there ain't a sheriff

or a posse west of the Mississippi can stop us.

How about it, boy?

You want to join up with your old friend?

Something important get you to Montana?

Maybe something important brung us both to Montana.

My reason is personal.

Danged if you ain't the closest-mouth Cayuse

I ever chinned with!

Just how personal do you think

a bank full of gold and greenbacks is?

It must be busting at the seams to bring you all this way.

Juicy as a fat cat.

Them cattle buyers come in and just loaded her with cash

for buying herds after the cattle drive.

And if you hadn't heard

that money was here ready to be took

you wouldn't be here, would you, Clint?

I told you, I have other reasons.

Sure you told me, boy.

Only I wouldn't want the two of us trying for that same bank.

You could guarantee it by riding with me.

What I have to do, I can't use any help.

Even if the money's in Shelby?

And it ain't only the money.

We're taking the whole town. All of it.

Shucks, there ain't enough men in Shelby to stop us.

And just think of it, boy,

we could burn that place to the ground if we wanted to.

You'd ought to like that

considering how you and that town feel about each other.

Make them sorry they ever heard of Clint Cooper, eh, boy?

When I go to Shelby, I'm going alone.

You think you're going to get that money without me?

Well, you're wrong, boy.

I don't like to kill friends, Clint, but...

Makes us even, Spang.

I'm kind of against dying.

Now that's a might more reasonable.

Never hurt a man none to change his mind.

Nope.

Never.

Don't move.

I'll catch up with you, boy.

You'll have to stay alive to do it, so tell them that.

Let him get to his horse, boys.

Grab a hold of this rope, Spang.

Now walk me to the door.

Thanks, Spang!

Come on, Dex! Get that double-crossing catamount!

Get him before he gets to Shelby.

There it is, the town I was born in.

And now I'm going to find out

if it still wishes I'd never been born.

See you on Sunday, Mrs. McCready.

Rick, what's that murderer doing back here?

He won't be here long.

Scotty, you'd better get out there.

Clint Cooper is back

and Rick Morrison saw him.

Scotty.

Clint.

Let's have it.

I never argue with the law.

Inside.

If you wanted to commit suicide,

you could have found a lot easier way.

You're one of the few people around

that ever cared whether I did or not.

Clint.

There hasn't been a shooting in Shelby since you left.

Who gets the medal, you or the town?

All right, I know how you feel.

But when you rode out of here two years ago,

they thought your guns were gone for good.

When I rode back here today, I could have used that on Rick Morrison.

But I didn't.

Now, that should tell you where I stand.

I'm not the one you have to convince.

Do you think for one minute

that Tom Morrison's forgotten that you killed his two sons?

It was them or me. You know it, and this town knows it.

And they know this.

Your gun has got too fast and too sudden.

And from what I hear about your reputation,

they've got a lot faster and a lot suddener in the last two years.

Scotty, it sounds to me like

you're letting some of this town's hate rub off on you.

I got a job to do.

Friendship or not,

I can't let a gunslinger stay here.

You might just have to put up with it.

My father's dead now, Scotty.

I aim to claim the ranch.

And start another battle with the Morrisons?

No deal, Clint.

Now water your horse and get out.

I don't want any trouble here.

You're going to get it, whether you want it or not.

Jud Spangler will be raiding Shelby before the day's over.

Spangler?

He knows most of the men are away on a cattle drive

and the bank's full of cattle-buying money.

You seem to have an awful lot of information.

He wanted me with him.

As soon as he finds the two dead men I left at Big Rock Canyon,

he'll be coming.

Big Rock?

If they ride their horses into the ground,

they could be here by sundown.

Most likely night.

Depends on how long it takes them to find the two dead ones.

There's something I don't understand.

Knowing how you feel about this town,

you still came here to warn us.

Finding out how the town still feels about me,

I should have saved myself the ride.

School's letting out.

I have those kids to worry about.

I could use every gun hand I could get.

You asking me to stay now, Scotty?

I didn't hear you making any offer.

That's right, I didn't.

If I do stay, it'll be for my own reasons.

You mean Helen? She's over at the schoolhouse.

Thanks.

Clint, uh, don't mention Spangler. I, uh...

I don't want a panic in this town.

You took a long time, Sheriff.

When are you getting Cooper out of here?

When I have to answer to you, I'll turn in my badge.

Sheriff, we'd like to know.

You'll know when I'm ready.

This doesn't concern any of you.

Now go on about your business.

Keely.

As soon as I get the other councilmen,

we're going to have a meeting. About what?

Be here.

Now you've been a very naughty girl.

I'm sorry.

Nonetheless, I'm going to have to punish you.

Now I want you to take this home and write it 50 times.

Fifty times! Fifty times.

And bring it back to me in the morning.

Yes, Miss Reed. Very well. Now go on.

Clint!

You look fine, Helen.

Nobody ever thought we'd ever see you again.

It's like seeing a ghost.

Come close to being one several times.

Come on, don't you want to be the first one to say

you're glad I'm back?

I am glad, Clint.

It makes it worth some of the thinking I've been doing

about you the past two years.

What did you think, Clint,

that I might change my mind about us?

Kind of a hope I had with me.

What kind of a hope could I have?

You're still wearing that gun. You haven't stopped killing.

I've had time to think about that, too.

I think I could leave the law in Scotty's hands now.

Helen, the past can be forgotten.

There's still a lot of future for us if we want it.

You have no right to expect anything of me, Clint.

What did you think, that this schoolhouse could be my whole life?

When you left, you left me nothing to love.

I needed something.

Now it's too late.

No, it isn't too late. Now, you listen to me.

My father's ranch sits on good land.

We can turn that into one of the best

cow outfits in this country.

Something we'd be proud of.

Something we'd be proud to hand onto our children.

Why didn't you think of that two years ago?

Now listen to me and let this end it.

One week from Sunday, Scotty and I are being married.

It's kind of funny.

I always kind of thought

the difference between Scotty's job and mine was a badge.

Guess I was wrong.

If it had to happen...

I'm glad it's Scotty.

He deserves someone like you.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

You trying to ride the flesh off of that horse,

or did you forget he belongs to me?

If I ever forgot, you'd remind me.

That's right.

And I'll also remind you that you're only living

by the grace of God and Tom Morrison.

You got anything to say to that?

Yeah.

I'm glad I'm only your nephew and not one of your sons.

You talk about my boys like that again

and I'll run you right off of this ranch.

You'll get nothing from me, do you hear? Nothing!

You've been taking out on me ever since Clint Cooper left.

Well, you can stop now. He's back!

Where?

In town. Just rode in.

Get our guns.

You going for him now, in broad daylight?

Two years I've waited.

Two years.

Get our guns!

I promise you,

there'll be a grave for Clint Cooper too.

There's two of us.

You make him draw first, you understand that?

I want him dead legal,

like an execution.

Mrs. Swanson.

A long time, Mike.

Clint, please.

I gotta ask you to leave.

It wouldn't be good business for me.

Whiskey.

Leave it.

Welcome back, Cooper.

Mr. Morrison, please.

You think your gun's fast enough for the two of us?

I had to answer that question many times.

This will be the last time.

Is that what you thought when you sent

your sons gunning for me?

You stood in my way.

You tried to steal our land, Morrison.

Why are we talking so much?

You gonna draw, Cooper?

You're awfully anxious to have me draw first.

That's so Mike can tell the sheriff we killed you legal.

Are you ready to take your chances?

I didn't come looking for you.

Now, leave me alone.

Cooper, you're yellow!

Now, draw!

Sorry.

Can't oblige you.

Not today, anyway.

Are you weaseling out of it, Cooper?

That's the only kind of trouble I can afford, Morrison!

Tom, that's enough!

Clint, if you started this, I swear to you...

No, no, no, Scotty.

I gotta be honest.

Clint was just having a peaceful little drink,

when they started all this.

And I'm not finished.

You damn fool! We got other trouble.

That's your trouble. Cooper is mine.

Look, Keely and Mitchell are over

at my office right now for a meeting I called.

Now, are you going to be there or not?

I'm going to that meeting right now.

I'm going to tell that council that you're staying on

and helping us or not?

Can you think of any reason why I should?

No, I can't.

Then that's what you'll tell them.

All right, Clint. Good luck.

Get it started without me.

You're a mess, Clint.

I gotta admit, the Morrisons didn't look much better.

I was going to drop by to...

see you, Dan, but...

I guess I just needed a drink first.

I know, Clint.

Scotty told me that you saw Helen.

I got some cold water and liniment at the hotel,

or don't you even want to stay long enough to make repairs?

Take a look.

No, he's dead.

The rock-headed idiot got hisself killed!

Hey, that looks like Dex!

Well?

It looks like they both was in no condition

to come back and warn us.

That gunslinging snake!

Spang, he's got a big head start on that money.

That he has, Cagle, that he has.

Well...

In that case, we're just going to have to figure

if the law don't catch him, we will.

Come on around here.

I reckon this liniment won't do much good

for the kind of hurt you think you have.

Nothing holding me here, Dan.

When you left Shelby, you spit on the town.

All of us didn't spit back.

In my business, can't have any friends.

I found that out today.

So you'd rather just ride out of here

and keep on using those guns

for something that can't ever matter to...

I didn't want it that way, Dan.

See you.

Clint.

Is that what you'll be saying tomorrow,

when you're wondering what Spangler did to this town?

Spangler will want more than money, I can tell you that.

I'm sure you all remember what he did to Big Bend, Ironville and Franksburg.

And when he wanted women, he took them.

And after his men got liquored up enough,

they burned the towns to the ground.

And that's what he has in mind for Shelby.

What can we do?

We'll never get our ranch hands back from the drive.

No, no, they're too far away.

Why are we taking Cooper's word for it?

He and Spangler rode together.

This could be some kind of a trick.

Are you out of your head? Am I?

You've got some kind of a guarantee that Cooper here

won't be a paid killer behind our backs

while Spangler hits us from the front?

I said I'd stay here and help fight Spangler.

If I wanted to kill you, Morrison, you'd be dead already.

Back off, Morrison!

We're wasting a lot of time we haven't got.

Now Spangler might be 20 miles from this town right now.

How do we vote? Mitchell?

Well, Scotty, you're the law.

If you think he should stay, it's your decision.

Keely?

We need help. That's all I know.

You know how I vote.

All right, there's four against you, Morrison.

Clint, you know Spangler best.

You got any ideas?

The town's fairly well protected from both sides by the hills.

Why don't we build a barricade at each end of the street?

Keely, you spread the word without getting the women hysterical, huh?

Mitchell, you tell the reverend we'll put the women and children

up in the church. - Right.

Make sure there's water and food and plenty of blankets.

Morrison, you got extra guns in your place.

Bring them in.

All right, sheriff, it's your party.

But I'm going to tell you something.

I'm going to remember not to turn my back on Cooper.

What do I do? Get all the extra men

and drag out everything you can use for the barricades.

Right.Scotty.

What about the money? Are you going to leave it in the bank?

Why?

Seems to me that would be the first place Spangler'd look.

You're right. I'll see that it's moved.

Good. If he breaks through,

that might give us the extra time we need.

The town knows what it has to face now.

And it's doing its job.

The men are tensing up.

I can see how scared the women are.

I wish I could tell them

that we're a lot smarter than Spangler.

But I can't.

And in the end

that's going to make the big difference.

Let's get those bales off that wagon.

Food and water's in the church. Helen's getting the blankets now.

As well, bring out that kerosene.

Setting fire to a barricade like that

is liable to burn up the whole town.

If we don't, Spangler will.

Go inside and take seats.

Everybody stay calm.

Hey, Reverend Staley, how come we're having church on a Thursday?

If it was up to me, young fella,

we'd have it every day.

Reverend, if my husband and the other men knew what was happening here,

I'm sure they could get back in time.

The sheriff is the best judge of

how much time we have, Mrs. Swanson.

I'll bet there's going to be a lot of shooting around here, huh, Reverend?

Oh, get moving, Tim. The reverend's busy.

There's more blankets if you need them.

May as well go ahead and douse it.

Clint, I...

I don't know who else has thanked you for helping,

but I'd like to.

As long as I was coming back anyway,

sorry I couldn't have brought better news.

Right there, Dan.

There you are, Helen.

Ms. Reed, are we going to sleep on those?

I don't see why not?

During the Sunday sermons, Pa sleeps without a bed.

You go back and stay with your mother.

Now, where can I set all this up?

Well, let's see.

I guess maybe this would be the safest place.

Oh. Mitchell.

Yes, Scotty?

Help me put this table up here, will you?

Right.

Right up here.

Some other things I want to bring in.

Is everything getting organized?

Best we can.

Helen, there's something I think you ought to know.

This note was left on my desk.

Clint left it there.

Clint?

It says that if we get out of this mess

that he wants us to take his ranch as a wedding present.

Oh, Scotty, no.

How do you refuse a fella

that gives you the only thing he owns?

Then he's planning to leave Shelby.

You don't want him to, do you?

Do you?

Scotty, I said I would marry you.

That hasn't changed.

Hasn't it?

Sooner or later I...

I guess we had to find out.

You loved him before...

and you still love him.

Nobody's to blame for that.

This stuff go to the sheriff's office?

Yeah.

Guns for a bunch of old men,

farmers, storekeepers, and they won't even know what to do with them.

You think we haven't got a chance against Spangler?

It'd be a miracle.

Cooper's guns can make a difference.

And if that happens, the town'll change its thinking about Cooper.

He could get to be a big man.

If you'd been smart enough to make him draw in the first place,

everything would be settled by now.

He won't be so big.

He'll be cut down to size before this night's over.

Load up.

How's it going?

I got the women and children in the church.

I found that note you left.

Why didn't you tell me about you and Helen

before I went to see her?

You know how many times I asked her

before she agreed to marry me?

She was always hoping you'd come back.

Have you been drinking?

She wants no part of me.

I just left her.

Helen and I won't be getting married.

Does that answer your question?

Did you get that money moved out of the bank?

There's a trap door in the jail.

That ought to keep Spangler guessing for a little while.

Cagle, since you and Donovan are the only two around

with honest faces,

it seems like you should be the ones to ride into Shelby

and find out if the law's caught up

with our old friend, Clint Cooper.

And, uh, what if we find Clint

just kind of hanging around on a tree?

Well, now, that'd be a good way of knowing for sure

he ain't got to the bank ahead of us.

The main thing for you to find out, is the money still there?

We'll be over in them rocks until you get back.

Been a long wait.

Seems to me he should have been here by now.

Never depend on Spangler doing what you expect him to.

Think I'll go down and see how Dan's making out.

Make sure that there's enough kerosene on that barricade.

Just keep walking, Cooper. No noise.

You picked a hell of a time to start something, Morrison.

I waited too long to let Spangler have the pleasure of killing you.

One shot would bring everybody running.

You ain't worth going to jail for, Cooper.

Besides, a gun makes it too fast.

Get the rope.

You really work hard at hating, don't you, Morrison?

Did you ever see a man dancing at the end of a rope

with his feet just barely off the ground?

He dies slow, Cooper.

So slow it would make my waiting worth these last two years.

You take away a man's sons,

you take away everything he's got to live for.

Too bad your father can't be here to see his son die.

Wait, no guns.

If he wants it that way, let him have it that way.

Circle him. I'll get him from this side.

All right, Cooper,

if they want to hang me for killing you,

that's the way it's going to be.

Get those women back in the church!

Get back to your posts.

Clint, what the hell is...

They didn't give me any choice, Scotty.

Tom's dead. Both of them.

What are you men doing here?

You trying to make it easy for Spangler?

Now, get back to your posts.

Reverend, you get back to the church.

Cooper's going to hang for this.

He's a killer, just like we all said.

I never thought Cooper'd gun them down at a time like this.

I told you to get back to your posts. I mean it.

You can't believe I went gunning for the Morrisons.

They were going to string me up.

Well, I don't believe it, Clint.

Helen, you stay out of this.

Give me your gun, Clint.

You're not going to arrest him?

What do you want me to do?

I don't make the laws.

Clint has to stand trial, whether I want him to or not.

Let's go.

Dan, you got no business here.

I had to see if you'd really do it.

You're locking Clint up.

Do you think I got a choice?

Don't you think I want him out there on the barricade with us?

His gun gave us a chance.

And you're letting a lot of backbiting idiots talk you out of it.

Sheriff, something out on the road.

Scotty...

Good luck.

Thanks. I'll need it.

I'll see you later, boy. The Lord willing.

There's only two of them.

Hold it right there!

Howdy, sheriff.

Looks like you fellas are getting ready

for some kind of a turkey shoot.

You might even say that a turkey wouldn't be safe here tonight.

Uh, you folks expecting some kind of trouble?

Nothing we can't handle.

Where you boys from?

Mountain country, up around Butte.

We holed up last night at, uh, Goose Egg.

Joe Wylie's trading post?

Yeah, that's right. Round-up's about over down our way,

so we figured we'd head out to the summer grass country.

Better you keep heading.

Well, we was figuring on leaving some of our money over to the saloon.

There's a creek back about five miles.

Best you stick to water.

Well, that's mighty inhospitable, sheriff.

We just don't want any strangers staying in our town

and getting shot up by Spangler and his mob.

Spangler?

Name's enough to give you the creeps.

With that critter coming I should think you'd want us to stay around

and give you some help.

Now you just move back there slow and easy, back down the road.

I wouldn't want any of my men to mistake you for a turkey.

Well, now, sheriff, we ain't ready to be stuffed yet,

so thank you very much for the warning.

We could have used them. Why did you say we had plenty of men?

You think we should have told Spangler we don't.

Spangler?

They just came in to look the situation over

so Spangler'll know which way to move.

You're just guessing.

There were two more guns we could have used.

They didn't come from Goose Egg.

Joe Wylie hasn't had that trading post for six months now.

Then why didn't you jail them?

Because I thought they might serve us better

if they went back and told Spangler we were ready for him.

Do you think that'll stop him from coming?

With those two showing up, the gang must be close by.

It won't take them long to get back to Spangler and give him the news.

But that's all the time we've got to find out

whether he's coming or not.

You'd better get back to the other barricade.

That sheriff was bluffing.

He gave you a big song and dance about having a lot of men.

I guess your faces ain't as honest as I thought they was.

He had you figured.

He sure wasn't bluffing about them barricades.

Or them gun hands he's got behind him.

Gun hands!

There ain't 10 men in the whole town

know which end of the gun does the shooting.

Yeah, well, I'd sure hate to find out

by having them practicing on me.

Listen to me,

I'll tell you just when you get shot and when not.

You understand that?

Don't forget it.

You know, he's been around too long.

Now he's figuring of dying of old age.

So you don't like them barricades, eh, Cagle?

They gotta be took, Spang,

and it ain't going to be easy.

Do you think my brains are drying up or something?

See anything of Clint Cooper?

Nope. Not a sign.

Dirty yellow-livered rat brought them a warning.

All right, mount up. We're moving in.

All my life I've had to fight for something or against it,

now I can't do either.

All I can do is wait.

Wait and try not to think about

what Spangler's going to do to this town.

We didn't bluff him.

God have mercy on us.

All right.

All right, boys, this is where we split up.

Lacey, you take your men and circle the town.

You'll know when to come in on the other side.

Just keep them pinned down at that barricade, remember.

We'll take care of the rest.

Okay, let's go!

They'll be here any minute now.

Reverend, I'm relying on you

to keep things calm as possible in here.

All this killing.

Men with families.

Peace, the word of God.

How does a man bring them to this country?

You've brought them, Reverend.

I can't tell you why there are men like Spangler.

Scotty, is it so impossible to reason with Spangler?

Reason?

Anything is worth trying, if it would save one life here.

Do you really believe that I can get Spangler to understand that?

I don't know, Scotty.

Sometimes even an animal can be made to understand.

All right, Reverend.

Take care of things here.

Helen...

You help him.

I'm going out and have a look around.

Out there?

You men hold your positions.

Don't fire unless you have to.

I won't have to tell you when.

Scotty!

Scotty, come back! Scotty!

Oh, Scotty, come back.

Oh, Scotty, come back.

Oh, he's going out there alone.

He's going because he thinks he must.

Perhaps he saw me lose faith with my job.

He's keeping faith with his.

Spangler...

I'm Sheriff Wade.

Sheriff!

Well, by gravy, if this ain't the night of nights.

The sheriff hisself coming out all alone

to extend the hand of welcome.

You might say that.

Only I don't think it's the kind of welcome you'll want.

And you didn't want to see old Spang get plugged,

so you come all the way out here to warn him, huh?

Something like that.

I don't want to see you get shot,

and I don't want to see my town get shot up.

Well now, that's mighty good arguing.

'Cepting I got nothing you want.

You got something I want.

Tell you what, sheriff, make a deal with you.

You let us get that money peaceable-like,

and you can guarantee your ladies that we'll spend it all on them.

That's what I came out here to tell you.

We knew you were coming, so we had plenty of time to get the money out of town.

I know how much time you had. It weren't enough.

I'm telling you it isn't here.

And you don't have enough men to find out whether it is or not.

Sheriff, you're either the biggest liar I ever see,

or the bravest man...

If you think I'm lying, why don't you try and take that barricade?

That was just what I was fixing to do.

Only you're standing in the way.

The hour of great trial is upon us. Let us pray.

Father in heaven, spare us from these men of great evil

who live by terror and bloodshed,

and whose only law is the law of the gun.

All right, get them out!

Rest of you men get back there and cover us.

They're charging! They're charging! Keep firing.

All right. Let's go!

Now!

Dynamite! MAN: Get out.

They've blown up the other end.

What happened, Dan?

Spangler's got the town.

What I can tell, we're the only two men left.

Spangler's gunning for you.

The money's gone.

That fool sheriff weren't lying.

I'll be hogtied. That's the first time I ever killed a man

who told the truth.

That money's got to be someplace.

It's gotta be here in town.

We're gonna find out where.

You four men keep your eyes open.

Cagle, Donovan, come with me.

They're heading for the church.

The door of my church is always open.

You didn't have to do that.

Well, now, Reverend, old Spang is too ornery for converting,

and too suspicious to just walk in with his hat in his hand.

Then what do you want?

Well, now, I'd admire to get an invite to your little church social here.

But like I always say, business before pleasure.

The sheriff kept telling me that the money weren't in the bank,

right up until the time I killed him.

You filthy, murderer. Get out!

Isn't it enough that you've killed a lot of innocent men here today?

What do you want now, the blood of women and children?

I don't like no babbling women.

I never seen a woman yet who wouldn't run off at the mouth.

You know, all I have to do is squeeze a little

and I could mess up that pretty face of yours.

In heaven's name, let her be.

All right, Reverend, since you're so polite.

Now, uh, maybe you'll be polite enough

to tell me where the money is?

We don't know anything about the money.

Is that so?

Well...

And maybe we'll just take this little lady as a hostage,

until somebody around here remembers.

She doesn't know. None of us do.

You got 15 minutes to remember.

And this lady'll entertain us until you do.

So the longer it takes you to remember,

the longer she'll entertain us.

We'll be in the saloon.

Ladies.

Jake, get them horses in the church.

How do we do it, Clint? There are six of them.

And only two of us. Wait a minute.

He'll know what's happening.

Reverend, what about Helen?

I'm glad you let Clint out, Dan.

It's what I came over to do.

I don't believe what happened with the Morrisons tonight

was your fault. Thank you, Reverend.

But what about Helen?

Spangler made it more than clear

what would happen to her unless we tell him where the money is.

He gave us 15 minutes.

Clint, there's no law in this town now.

If you'd consent to wearing this deputy's badge...

You can't take Spangler alone.

Clint, it doesn't make sense.

I'll need some help, Dan.

You don't need much help being a fool.

Maybe I'm a bigger one.

What do you want me to do?

I want you to open up your hotel.

I'm going to bring you some guests, so get ready.

Go out the back way. Don't let them see you.

Come on, princess, take a swig.

Nothing like it to make a lady forget she's a lady.

What do you want me to do?

Drink to the men you've killed here?

That's a good idea.

Hey, Cagle,

do you expect the princess to drink out of a bottle?

Bring her a glass.

Come on, princess, drink up.

Enough of this stuff and you and me

can get real friendly in 15 minutes.

You pig!

You dirty, rotten pig!

How do you like that, boys?

The only one in the whole town that ain't afraid of old Spang.

And it turns out to be a woman.

Oh, a real fighting woman.

Yes, sir, give me one like that every time.

Full of gumption.

Hey, Spang, we got company.

The reverend coming to tell us about the money?

It's an old friend of yours.

Clint Cooper.

Clint coming here alone to get hisself killed.

Well, now, boys, you just get ready to accommodate him.

Donovan, Cagle. Jake.

Well, Spang,

never thought I'd see you twice in the same day.

I don't figure it'll ever happen again,

seeing as you ain't got long to live.

Want to kill me, you'll have to take the leavings,

after the town gets through hanging me.

I figured they'd at least elect you mayor,

since you're the one that warned them I was coming.

I even offered to help fight you.

They threw me in jail.

Sit down.

Have a drink.

On the house.

Jail, huh?

How come you to get loose?

A good friend of mine let me out.

Figured you'd be gunning for me.

He weren't far wrong. You cost me a lot of men.

You can always get men.

But you can't always get $100,000.

100,000?

You know something I don't?

That could be.

Like where that money's hid?

Well, come on, boy, don't keep old Spang hung up by his hair.

Where's she hid?

I could lead you to it.

Do you hear that, boys?

Old Clint's gonna save us a mess of looking.

Now, if that ain't...

Wait a minute.

If you know where the money's hid,

how come you didn't grab it and light out of here?

You didn't have to come to me.

Spang, you used to be a pretty good horse trader.

Ain't nobody never sold Spang a horse with bum teeth yet.

Then you ought to recognize a good deal when you see one.

You take the money.

I'll take the girl.

Her?

Why not? She's got all of her teeth.

I'll say she has. And she bites hard with all of them.

You mean to say you got a yen for this filly

worth $100,000 in cold cash?

I told you I had a personal reason for coming back here.

Well, by gravy.

What about it? Deal?

No offense, princess,

but the way I look at is

women gets old and fat,

but money always stays the same.

You've got a deal.

Now, let's go dig up them greenbacks.

We'll do it my way.

The girl goes with me.

You can send two men, two. I don't aim to get ganged up on.

Now, Clint, you ought to trust me better than that.

I trust you, Spang. You trust me,

but we just can't trust each other.

Clint, you old bronc. You can horse trade for me any time.

Cagle! Donovan! Give old Clint here a helping hand.

Wait!

Something for you to remember, princess,

in case anyone starts dealing from the bottom of the deck.

My men here ain't got no religion about killing a woman.

I come into this town for money and women.

And you know, danged if I can think of one reason

Clint give me for changing my mind.

Go watch where they're going.

A hotel.

Where you got that money hidden, in a mattress?

Not exactly.

Get the junk out of there. There's a trapdoor underneath.

Come on, do as he says.

There's no trapdoor in here.

What are you trying to pull?

Stand still or you'll never find out.

You think Spangler's going to let you get away with your skin?

Back up, and shut up.

Get the rope, Dan.

Well...

They're still in there.

Well, this cuts the odds by two.

But what about the others?

They'll be along.

Helen, you'd better go upstairs.

Hurry.

That does it.

Too bad Clint ain't married to the princess.

She'd make a fine-looking widow.

You sure called the turn on Spangler coming after us.

All you have to do is think like a corkscrew.

Get ready.

Clint, Spangler's going to be coming for you.

That's the whole idea.

Clint, I want you to live.

If I do, it'll be because of this.

Take a look through the window.

Well, do you see anything?

Nothing.

Get around the side. Try to move in.

Cagle, is Cooper still around?

In there?

You move your heads again, they'll come off.

What's the matter with you? You got your ears plugged up too?

Get in there and untie them.

I'll cover you.

Get in there.

Hold it! That's far enough.

Drop them.

Well, what are you waiting for? Untie them.

They can't, Spang.

You'll have to come in and untie them yourself.

You conniving snake of a...

Thought I'd better double-cross you,

before you double-crossed me.

All right, unbuckle it.

The other hand.

Drop it.

Are you still there, Spang?

Yeah, Cooper, I'm here,

and I'll still be here for your funeral.

You'd better go into another business.

After today you couldn't raise enough men to raid an old folks' home.

We'll see about that.

Any time you want to come out, I'll be waiting.

You wait here.

Helen! Clint said to stay put.

There's only the two of us left, Spang.

We could settle it quick.

All right, Clint.

You call the play.

Just like old times, Spang.

I won't draw till you go for your gun.

Fair enough.

I'm coming out.

I guess we're gonna have to forget about old times, Clint.

Cagle is fixing to shoot you in the back.

That's older than old, Spang.

You don't expect me to swallow that.

Have it your way, Clint.

But Cagle ain't sentimental like us.

Any particular place you wanna get it, Clint?

Any last words?

Yeah. Go!

Oh, Clint...

Now don't go blaming yourself.

You did what you had to do.

I know.

You know, it takes all kinds of tools to clear the land.

I don't think we'll be needing this one anymore.

Come on.