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Come on, Sam.

[Sam barks]

[Sam barks]

[Sam barks]

[Sam barks]

Sam, you been eatin' loco weed?

What's a matter with you?

[Apaches yelling]

All right, I got you.

Well, come on.

[Yelling]

[Sam barks]

Shut up, Sam.

Nothin' we can do.

They're already dead.

[Sam barks]

Come on, Sam. We gotta meet Colonel Crook.

(Crook) The Army needs those horses now.

Why won't Neomo deliver them to the fort?

Well, he wants cash before delivery.

Army regulations won't allow us to send money below the border

or pay until delivery.

Yeah, well, we both know that.

Doesn't he trust the United States government to pay?

–No, he doesn't. –Well, there must be a way to convince him.

Well, there is.

We'll just take him the money. That's all.

Must be another way.

Can't send an Army man into Mexico without getting into trouble with the government.

Hondo, you'll have to go and talk to Neomo.

I don't have to do anything.

Mmm.

I've already sent word to Captain Richards

to meet you at the Valverde waystation on the border.

I told Richards you'd volunteer for this job.

Once you get Neomo and those horses across the border

Captain Richards can do the rest.

I oughta volunteer to have my head looked into.

Hondo

getting Neomo is an easy job, as jobs go.

But watch out for the renegade who's been kicking up so much trouble along the border.

A half-breed name, uh...

Diablo.

Ándale!

[Laughs]

Eh, que queme! [Laughs]

Why?

Why, señor?

Why do you do this to me?

Play hard, eh, amigo?

[Laughs]

(Diablo) Maybe too hard, huh?

Neomo make it too hard for you?

This is nothing to what an Apache will do when he attacks.

He burn down your house.

He cut off your scalp.

No, señor.

Apache he's my friend.

They never attack us, señor!

He waters his horses in my well, señor.

He... he won't attack us.

[Laughs]

You must be lucky, amigo.

You only have to pay me $100 American to protect you from me.

[Diablo laughs]

One... one hundred dollars?

American.

We meet at Arroyo Caliente.

High noon tomorrow.

Hmm?

Hasta mañana.

Adios.

Ándale! Hyah!

Where am I going to get one hundred American dollars?

(Hondo) Yeah, well, uh, I got three ladies.

–Beats sixes. –Sure ain't my day.

I got me a skunky little old pair of nothin'.

Well, I guess there's over $100 there.

Open up that apron.

Cash it in for

five $20 gold pieces if you got 'em.

Ah, that cleans me out.

I don't know why I didn't just stick with Cap' Richards

instead of moseyin' on along ahead.

Now I got no drinkin' money a'tall.

[Clears throat]

Bartender, uh...

bring a bottle of whiskey.

Drinks are on me.

On me. That's my money you won.

Twenty, forty,

sixty, eighty, one hundred.

Oh, that's what I call awful.

Ah, ah, ah, ah!

Leave it there. I like to suffer.

What in tarnation are you doin'?

Baggin' my winnings.

In your hat?

No, in my bank.

I think you have another customer for your bank.

Señor...

please...

do not make me shoot you.

Please.

I don't wanna make you shoot me.

This is my...

my first holdup.

Please...

do... do what I say.

Sí?

Sí.

Su sombrero, por favor.

The hat, señor.

The hat!

Give him your hat.

He don't know what he's doin'?

Bet he don't know what he's doin'. That's why you gotta watch him.

Give me a good honest hired gun anytime.

Give him your hat!

–No, no! –Gimme that gun!

Your hat, señor.

The hat.

Señor...

this money...

she's not for me.

Diablo...

he burn down my hacienda

if I don't pay.

Gracias.

–Hey, wait... –Hondo!

Don't go out there. You can't tell what he'll do.

Look, he just took my hat.

It's only Carlos Hernandez.

Lives across the border.

Go after him in the daylight.

Yeah, tomorrow.

Aw...

Captain, you see a fella run outta here?

Little Mexican fellow just rode off. Why?

Well, he just robbed my bank.

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(Richards) What's wrong with this hat?

–Nothin' wrong with that hat. –You'll wear it?

–No, I won't. –Why not?

Because it's not my hat!

A hat's a hat, isn't it, Mr. Lane?

No, it's not. I drank water outta that hat.

It was a roof over my head. As a matter of fact...

All right, all right!

(Richards) I'm not gonna argue about it anymore. You can do what you like about the hat

after you bring Neomo and the horses back to me.

Now look, he won't come unless you pay him.

I thought you promised Colonel Crook.

I didn't promise him anything.

Well, do you intend to try?

–Yeah! –Good!

After I get my hat.

Hey, Hondo, where you headin'?

–South. –Well, you want me to ride along with ya?

No, I don't need any help just to get my hat.

Hondo, you ain't ridin' out across that desert half-naked

like that without a hat.

I ain't gonna wear anybody's hat unless it's my own.

Oh, Hondo, you're plumb loco.

You'll get sunstroke or somethin' like that.

Poundin' leather out in the desert, no hat.

I'm tellin' ya, you better get a hat!

(Buffalo) Hondo! Hondo!

Why, I think you're already touched a mite. No hat...

Buffalo was right, Sam.

Too much of that sun'll kill a man.

[Barks]

I sure miss that hat.

That's man best friend, his hat. [Sam barks]

Next to his dog.

[Barks]

Yeah, no hat ever smelled out a water hole.

[Sam barks]

All right, Sam. I got you.

[Horse neighs]

Talk!

Only want horse. Need horse.

Is that how you Apaches get your horses?

–Who's your chief? –Neomo.

I swear to you, Emberato

these two will be punished for trying to steal your horse.

There's nothing worse than a horse thief.

No, nothing worse than a horse thief who fails to steal the horse.

It is for trying and failing that they must be punished.

Well, just don't try me again. Do your stealin' someplace else.

So, Emberato

you come to my land.

Why?

Well, you don't wanna talk in front of your braves, do you?

I thought maybe we'd have a little pow-wow.

–You remembered? –Yeah, I remember.

Mmmm.

This is good.

Yeah, your one Indian that can sure hold his whiskey.

[Chuckles] Whiskey I hold good.

Hondo

does not have dislike for redskin?

Yeah, sometimes I do.

Neomo has dislike for white skin...

sometimes.

That's good. We'll get along just fine.

Well, you'll get paid when you deliver the horses to Fort Lowell.

Oh, no.

You pay me now.

Then I deliver the horses.

Well, that's not the Army way.

I do not care about the Army way.

This is Neomo's way.

Well, I don't care either way.

(Neomo) Wait, Emberato.

We have not yet finished our, uh...

pow-wow.

Here.

Take the rest of it. Maybe you'll feel more like doin' business

after you've finished the bottle.

This is all?

–Well, you want some more? –Much more.

Well, you'll get some more when you deliver the horses.

Emberato

sometimes Neomo dislikes you very much.

You can't please everybody.

Where do you go?

I gotta see a man about a hat.

Mr. Baker, you know this territory.

What's taking Mr. Lane so long to get back here with Neomo?

Well, it could be that, uh...

Mr. Baker.

It could be that he ain't found his hat.

His hat?

What's so special about an old beat-up Rebel hat?

Well, now that ain't just an old beat-up Rebel hat to Hondo.

That hat was given to Hondo at Appomattox

by the General hisself.

What general?

Oh, now you know Captain that as far Hondo's concerned

there is only one general:

Lee.

Of course it could be that Hondo's still with Neomo.

You know sometimes it takes two or

or even three jugs of firewater to

soften up an Injun like Neomo.

No, no, I disagree with you, Mr. Baker.

I don't think Mr. Lane would give whiskey to an Indian.

[Laughs] You don't.

It's against the law.

Now, Neomo he likes the medicine bottle

better than he likes the medicine man.

Well, I certainly hope you're wrong about it.

I wouldn't want a story like that to get back to Colonel Crook.

[Buffalo laughs]

Well, now Crook knows

that Neomo likes to look down the neck of a jug of whiskey

when and if'n he can get it.

You know he could've tangled with Diablo.

Yeah, he could have.

But if'n he did, you and me don't have to worry

'cause Hondo can take care of hisself.

[Laughs]

[Gunshots]

[Sam barks]

Stay here, Sam.

[Gunshots]

Who are you?

Chico, señor.

Chico Hernandez?

What're you shootin' at me for?

I thought you were a bad man.

Papa says there are bandidos here.

Yeah, he oughta know. Where is he?

Padre not here.

He go.

Go where?

Business.

(Maria) Socorro!

–Who's that? –Mamá.

Oh, Mamá, she gonna birth the baby.

You must help.

Well, I got business of my own to take care of.

You gotta help me, señor.

I have never birthed baby before.

Please, señor.

–Señor. –Will you stop callin' me señor?

[Maria moaning]

Easy, ma'am.

Just take it easy. Everything'll be all right.

You ever birthed baby before, Señor Hondo?

Not Señor Hondo. Just... just Hondo?

Well, Hondo?

Well, if you don't

count, uh, cattle, sheep, or

or dogs, no.

Señor

is it time for baby to come?

Well, only the baby knows that, I guess.

When is your

pa comin' back?

I tell you already, señor...

business.

Will you stop callin' me señor?

(Carlos) Here it is, señor.

It is all there.

One hundred American

dollars in...

in gold. Sí?

[Laughs] Sí! It's gold, eh? Gold!

[Laughs]

Tell me, amigo

how is it possible you find so

much money so quick?

Wasn't easy, señor.

I must steal.

I never...

steal before, señor.

It made me sick.

Sí.

First time

it make you sick.

(Carlos) Yes.

Second time

it's not so bad.

After that

well, you find out.

It make you feel good! [Laughs]

Find out?

(Diablo) One hundred more American dollars tomorrow.

Same time, high noon.

This time we meet a different place.

Your place.

Señ...

(Carlos) Señor...

where can I get another

one hundred American dollars?

My wife, señor...

she's going to have a...

a baby.

Qué bien!

Name the baby for me!

Baby for me! [Laughs]

And if you want the baby to have papa

and papa with a house...

one hundred dollar American

mañana, amigo.

Vámonos!

[Screams] Señor!

I guess it's gettin' to be that time.

–Gracias. –De nada.

What happened, señor?

Nothin'.

So far.

You better go get some more water.

But, Hondo

already I fill all the buckets.

Just keep bringin' it in.

And heat it. We need hot water...

señor.

Señor, two Indians out on the hill.

Why do they sit and look, señor?

Always they come down to water their horses.

Well, they haven't got any horses. They're probably lookin' to steal mine.

Now! Ahora!

The baby come now!

Chico

I told you to stay over by that window

and keep an eye on those Apaches, didn't I?

No bullets, señor. All gone.

All right, take mine.

Now look, if they come close just fire a couple of shots over their head.

–You understand? –(Maria) Socorro!

Comin', ma'am.

Well, you go ahead and yell. Just yell all you want.

Maybe that baby'll wanna come into this world

just to see what all that hollerin' is about.

(Hondo) Go ahead!

Yell!

Chico, are they still out there?

Sí, still there.

Ay, señor, I think the time is close.

I don't know what I can do for you, ma'am.

I'm burning up, señor.

It's so hot.

A little water, please?

They come now, señor!

The Indians, they're getting closer!

Well, hold your fire as long as you can.

Gracias.

[Gunshots]

Socorro! Señor...

[Moans]

[Gunshots]

Well, it's just not right baby gettin' born

everybody spoilin' for a fight.

[Gunshot]

[Hammer clicks]

Señor...

It's all right, ma'am. I'm stayin'.

[Hammer clicks]

Hondo!

I try. It no shoot.

You ran outta ammunition.

No use. Apaches go away.

–Good. –With your horse.

[Moans]

It's the baby.

Better get in the other room.

Wait till I call you. Go on.

Take it easy, ma'am. You're just fine.

Everything'll be just fine.

Ave María purísima...

[Maria moaning]

[Moaning continues]

[Baby crying]

[Door opens]

Chico, you got a...

you got a real pretty little baby sister.

Me?

–I got sister? –Yep.

Sister... me...

[Barks]

What're you braggin' about? You weren't any help.

Can I see my sister?

Well...

Please, Hondo.

Yeah, why not.

[Barks]

Pretty.

My sister!

[Barks]

[Baby cries]

(Maria) Dónde está tu papá, Chico?

She wants my papá.

Well, she's not the only one.

Papá! Papá, he come!

Mamá, Papá.

–Es tu papá. –Ay, qué bueno.

Well, it's about time.

María

María

–María! –Carlos! –Papá!

Baby sister, see?

It's my sister.

Oh, we were so worried about you.

A baby!

She's here.

How'd all this happen?

Hondo.

Hondo...

Please, señor...

Your... your money, I... I...

did not mean to steal it.

Diablo, he... he made me do it.

Please, señor.

Take it easy. Just...

tell me where my

hat is.

Sombrero. Hat.

–Hat? –Yeah, my hat.

Papá, come quick!

Looks like one of Diablo's men.

You said he'd come at high noon, didn't you? It's not high noon yet.

Well, I mighta known he'd come lookin' for me.

Hey, Buffalo!

Hondo!

Kitchy kitchy kitchy kitchy coo

[Laughs]

Kitchy kitchy coo.

Kitchy kitchy kitchy coo? What kinda talk is that?

You know what kinda talk that is. That's baby talk.

Don't you worry this... this old kid

she knows what Buffalo's sayin' to her.

Kitchy kitchy kitchy coo.

[Laughs]

No, I don't want none, Hondo.

All right, did Captain Richards send you to spy on me?

Oh, it wasn't nothin' like that. He was...

Well, we was worried about you.

I never knew you to get

sick over worry before.

Well, it's only natural when a

fella don't show up when he's supposed to that you

start wonderin' what happened to him.

Well now, you know what happened.

Well... [Laughs]

Now that I see what you been up to

helpin' to birth that pretty little baby, I...

Hey, ain't that fella in there

the one that stole your hat?

Yeah, he's the one that stole my hat.

–Well, ain't you gonna get it back? –No, he ain't got it!

Who does?

Diablo.

But I'm gonna get it back today at high noon.

You ain't goin' gunnin' for Diablo?

No, he's comin' here.

And I reckon that

it's gonna have to be you and me against him and his gang.

Oh, now wait a minute. I didn't lose my hat.

That Diablo's a mean fella.

Besides, I don't like them odds you just mentioned.

Yeah, well, you got $100 stashed in your pocket?

Aw, Hondo, you know all I got in my pocket's a hole.

All right, then it's gotta be you and me and maybe the kid.

He's... he's pretty good with a gun.

Well, and we got his pa, too.

No, no, señor.

We know nothing about guns.

You've done enough for us already.

I can't ask you to fight this El Diablo for us.

I'm not doin' it for you. I want my hat back.

You ain't foolin' me none, Hondo.

You're thinkin' about that little bitty baby in there.

I'm thinkin' about my hat, Buffalo.

Well, what we need are reinforcements.

–I'm gonna borrow your horse. –What?

Hey, what're you lightin' outta here for?

Hondo, what do you expect me to do?

What is it that Hondo plan to do?

I do not know, Papá

but he will make a good plan. You'll see.

Hondo, I tell ya it ain't gonna work.

It's a dadgum ding-busted crazy idea!

You gotta be...

You gotta be touched in the head from

from goin' naked in the sun too long without your hat!

Buffalo, will you just do as I told you and leave the rest to me?

Sam, you stay here.

Hondo!

Don't leave me! You'll get me killed!

Sam, he's aimin' to get us killed.

(Buffalo) Hondo!

Hondo!

Keomo!

Keomo!

Emberato, wait!

I promised you they will be punished.

Now all I want is my horse back.

Bring Emberato's horse.

Well...

it's gettin' to be that time.

What time?

High noon. I guess I better get outta here before the attack starts.

Attack? What attack?

Fella said he was gonna just take over all this land.

Run out all the Apaches, Mexican farmers, everybody.

Who says this?

Well, his name is Diablo.

He's gonna start by... by, uh...

burnin' down Hernandez's place.

Why, Hernandez is our friend.

We... we water our horses in his well.

Yeah, well, I guess you're gonna have to pick another place to water your horses

'cause he's gonna poison that well.

And then afterwards he said he was gonna

throw you off of your land, too.

This is my land.

Nobody runs me off my land.

Nobody!

And I will fight for it.

Yeah, well, that's up to you.

If you want to fight for it, you can fight for it.

Diablo's already picked the time and place.

Papa, many bandidos come!

Ay, Dios mío!

Dios mío, please!

(Maria) Carlos.

I must help you.

No.

No, María.

You must not worry.

My María...

needs her mother.

The Señor Buffalo, is he still there?

Sí, still there.

(Diablo) Señor Hernández!

You see the sun?

It is high noon!

Diablo has come for his money!

Chico...

Chico...

what are we going to do?

Do what Señor Buffalo tells us to do.

Señor Buffalo is smart like Hondo...

almost.

(Diablo) Hernandez

if you don't come out now

maybe a little accident happen to your house!

Do what Señor Buffalo tells you to do.

You must!

[Diablo laughs]

Señor Hernández!

Buenos días, amigo!

...if you have the money.

If you don't

días malos.

Muy malos.

I... I have the money, señor

–Only... –Only?

(Buffalo) Only he don't have to give it to you.

[Laughs]

You say he don't have to give it to me?

Oh, no. It ain't me that says he don't have to give it to you.

It's the fella that runs this territory

says he don't have to give it to you.

This is my territory!

Well, that ain't the way I hear it.

This other fella says it's his territory

and he says he's gonna protect Hernandez

against you.

Huh? I protect you from me!

There's nothing I can do, señor.

[Cocks gun]

[Gunshot]

Who?

Who take over my territory? You tell me or I kill you.

Well, uh...

if you're so certain you gotta know, it's

Neomo, the chief of the Apaches.

[Laughs]

Neomo! Eh?

[Laughs]

Neomo! Big laugh!

[Laughs] Very funny!

Neomo again, the horse thief.

[Laughs]

Neomo would not dare ride against the great Diablo.

I wouldn't be too sure about that, amigo.

Ándale! Amigos, vayan!

–We're going to the house. –But, Papá, can we stay?

No, you come in there and protect your mother and your little sister.

Do not shoot until I tell you.

This is the man that says he runs this territory.

That's the fella says he runs the territory.

[Chuckles]

I am Neomo!

I order you to leave!

I am Diablo.

You order me nothing.

Hernandez is my pigeon.

I will pluck him, not you.

This is my land!

Come and be buried on it!

Now we fight!

Stop, please help me!

My baby! My baby's not breathing!

Señor, help!

Help me! Help me!

My baby's dying! She's not breathing!

Please help me!

It is a trick, Hondo.

No, it's no trick.

You stay here.

I will go see.

(Carlos) Please help me!

(Hondo) It's not breathing. It's just not breathing.

My baby! My baby!

Mine, too. I put a lotta time into gettin' this baby born. It's...

It's gonna be all right. It's gotta be all right.

What can we do?

Well, you can try prayin' or somethin'.

Señor, I would like to help. I have sister of my own.

But I know nothing.

My baby! My baby!

Well, it acts like it... like it's holdin' its breath.

Come on, baby, breathe.

You came along when things were tough and you made it.

You can make it now.

Live!

Live!

–Live! –It ain't doin' no good, Hondo.

Well, maybe not, but I know somethin' that might.

[Gunshot]

[Baby crying]

[All laughing]

That's the first time I ever knowed a gunshot to put life back into a critter.

[Laughing]

Qué bien! [Laughing]

Señor Hondo!

Gracias, Señor Hondo.

My baby's back with us.

Here to stay it looks like.

Hey, it's good, Hernandez! Huh?

Hey, feliz strong baby like me!

You name the baby after me.

No!

He will be named after me.

Well, it's... it's a girl, isn't it?

Yes. [Laughing]

[All laughing]

Salud, dinero, amor! Todo bueno!

My present to the baby will be a good Apache blanket.

Gracias. Mil gracias.

And Diablo will give the baby all his protection from any bad men

...free.

And $100 for dowry.

Ah, but the $100 it belongs to Señor Hondo.

No, Diablo's right.

That $100 belongs to that baby.

[Baby crying]

We are lucky to have such good friends.

Especially you, Señor Hondo.

Excuse me. I must change the baby now.

And gracias, señor, for everything.

Well...

now all I want is my hat.

Where is it, my hat?

Ah...

Well, I just threw it over here when...

Yeah, you mean after all this time it's gone again?

I don't understand. I just throw it when...

[Diablo laughing]

He's very smart dog, señor. He know your hat.

Well, it's not my hat he knows. It's his water dish.

Neomo, you, uh, ready to go back to the fort and

deliver those horses?

Oh, yes, Emberato.

I am ready to go to Fort Lowell.

And, uh...

deliver the horses, hm?

Señor, Señor?

Little sister will be baptized next Sunday.

You come back to be godfather, sí?

Godfather? Hondo?

[Laughs]

Baby named for you, señor.

A girl named after me?

Sí, Embarata.

With an 'a'.

Well, now hold on a minute now. You know Emberato means "bad temper."

(Chico) Sí.

Sí, that's my sister.

She cry all the time now.

Well...

All right. I'll be here

[Diablo laughing]

Vámonos!

[Sam barking]

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