1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,074 My Friend Flicka 2 00:01:46,399 --> 00:01:47,627 Papa! 3 00:01:47,700 --> 00:01:49,099 Papa! 4 00:01:49,168 --> 00:01:50,829 What now, Hildy? 5 00:01:50,903 --> 00:01:52,234 Look! 6 00:01:54,073 --> 00:01:56,303 Gee whiz. Again. 7 00:01:56,375 --> 00:01:58,309 What�s the matter, Gus? 8 00:02:02,348 --> 00:02:03,440 Cigarette. 9 00:02:06,485 --> 00:02:07,918 Ken riding her? 10 00:02:07,987 --> 00:02:10,148 He was,but not now. 11 00:02:10,222 --> 00:02:11,484 Hildy. 12 00:02:13,826 --> 00:02:15,418 Whoa, whoa. 13 00:02:17,730 --> 00:02:19,630 Doggone that kid. 14 00:02:19,699 --> 00:02:21,132 Look at this. 15 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,134 I hope he�s all right. 16 00:02:23,202 --> 00:02:25,636 Young�uns fall light. He�s used to it. 17 00:02:25,705 --> 00:02:27,138 He could get hurt. 18 00:02:27,206 --> 00:02:29,231 Saddle Shorty. I better go see. 19 00:02:29,308 --> 00:02:30,570 Ja, Boss. 20 00:02:49,261 --> 00:02:50,523 Never mind, Gus. 21 00:03:03,743 --> 00:03:05,176 Ken. 22 00:03:05,244 --> 00:03:06,336 Yes, sir? 23 00:03:06,412 --> 00:03:07,743 Come here. 24 00:03:12,818 --> 00:03:14,251 You all right? 25 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,685 Sure, I�m all right. 26 00:03:15,755 --> 00:03:17,620 Cigarette toss you again? 27 00:03:19,392 --> 00:03:20,484 Yes, sir. 28 00:03:20,559 --> 00:03:22,618 You ""digged"" your heels in her. 29 00:03:22,695 --> 00:03:23,957 I didn�t. 30 00:03:26,232 --> 00:03:27,665 Did you, Son? 31 00:03:27,733 --> 00:03:28,995 Yes, sir. 32 00:03:29,068 --> 00:03:32,003 Ken, aren�t you ever going to grow up? 33 00:03:32,071 --> 00:03:35,507 I�ve told you not to clap your heels into her. 34 00:03:35,574 --> 00:03:37,007 Look at that bridle. 35 00:03:37,076 --> 00:03:39,510 Second one you�ve broken this week. 36 00:03:39,578 --> 00:03:41,478 I�m sorry, Dad. 37 00:03:41,547 --> 00:03:44,107 Oh, you found the saddle blanket. 38 00:03:44,183 --> 00:03:45,616 What saddle blanket? 39 00:03:45,684 --> 00:03:47,948 I lost it yesterday afternoon. 40 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:50,853 You forgot to cinch the saddle properly. 41 00:03:50,923 --> 00:03:52,083 Yes, sir. 42 00:03:52,158 --> 00:03:54,592 Gee whiz,it�s all ""tored."" 43 00:03:54,660 --> 00:03:56,093 Will you keep quiet? 44 00:03:56,162 --> 00:03:59,097 It got caught on some barbed wire. 45 00:03:59,165 --> 00:04:00,598 You�re the doggonest kid for losing, busting,and forgetting. 46 00:04:00,666 --> 00:04:03,134 47 00:04:05,771 --> 00:04:07,204 Breakfast is all ready. 48 00:04:07,273 --> 00:04:08,672 Where�s Ken? 49 00:04:08,741 --> 00:04:09,901 He�s coming. 50 00:04:11,043 --> 00:04:12,772 Cigarette tossed him again. 51 00:04:19,685 --> 00:04:22,620 I don�t know what I�ll do with that boy. 52 00:04:22,688 --> 00:04:25,122 Doesn�t pay any attention to what I say. 53 00:04:25,191 --> 00:04:27,921 Always losing equipment or breaking it somehow. 54 00:04:27,993 --> 00:04:29,426 He�s still a child. 55 00:04:29,495 --> 00:04:32,430 He�s old enough to have his wits about him. 56 00:04:32,498 --> 00:04:35,433 He�s walking around with his head in the clouds. 57 00:04:35,501 --> 00:04:37,765 It�s a wonder he doesn�t trip. 58 00:04:43,209 --> 00:04:44,369 Morning, Mom. 59 00:04:44,443 --> 00:04:45,876 Come on, darling. 60 00:04:45,945 --> 00:04:48,379 Eat your oatmeal while it�s hot. 61 00:04:53,853 --> 00:04:55,115 Good heavens. 62 00:04:57,189 --> 00:04:58,486 What is it? 63 00:04:58,557 --> 00:05:00,184 Ken�s report card. 64 00:05:02,528 --> 00:05:05,964 I suppose you�re not surprised you haven�t been promoted. 65 00:05:06,031 --> 00:05:07,396 No, sir. 66 00:05:07,466 --> 00:05:09,400 Here, look at your marks. 67 00:05:09,468 --> 00:05:12,266 Let him eat his breakfast first. 68 00:05:15,074 --> 00:05:16,939 Just as a matter of curiosity how do you go about getting a zero on an examination? 69 00:05:17,009 --> 00:05:21,309 70 00:05:21,380 --> 00:05:24,315 40 in history, 1 7 in arithmetic,but a zero? 71 00:05:27,753 --> 00:05:32,349 Just as one man to another,what goes on in your head? 72 00:05:32,424 --> 00:05:35,359 What have you got to say for yourself? 73 00:05:35,427 --> 00:05:36,587 Nothing, sir. 74 00:05:36,662 --> 00:05:39,096 What were the questions you missed in that English exam? 75 00:05:39,165 --> 00:05:40,689 76 00:05:40,766 --> 00:05:43,462 We were to write a composition. 77 00:05:43,536 --> 00:05:45,868 Couldn�t you think of anything? 78 00:05:45,938 --> 00:05:47,872 I was going to write about how you lost your polo mare how the albino stole her from Banner. 79 00:05:47,940 --> 00:05:50,374 80 00:05:50,442 --> 00:05:53,036 81 00:05:53,112 --> 00:05:54,704 Well, why didn�t you? 82 00:05:54,780 --> 00:05:56,213 I got to thinking. 83 00:05:56,282 --> 00:05:57,715 I thought we had time. 84 00:05:57,783 --> 00:06:00,479 I thought the hour had just begun... 85 00:06:00,553 --> 00:06:01,986 when the school bell rang. 86 00:06:02,054 --> 00:06:03,487 You never even got started. 87 00:06:03,556 --> 00:06:05,148 Not a single word, Ken? 88 00:06:05,224 --> 00:06:06,316 No. 89 00:06:06,392 --> 00:06:07,723 Just daydreaming, huh? 90 00:06:07,793 --> 00:06:09,522 No, I was thinking about-- 91 00:06:09,595 --> 00:06:10,857 About what? 92 00:06:12,364 --> 00:06:13,797 About my colt. 93 00:06:13,866 --> 00:06:15,697 You haven�t got a colt. 94 00:06:15,768 --> 00:06:18,168 Dad, give me a colt,won�t you? 95 00:06:18,237 --> 00:06:21,673 You�ll get one when you learn how to treat one. 96 00:06:21,740 --> 00:06:23,207 You�ll have to buck up. 97 00:06:23,275 --> 00:06:24,970 Trouble is,you don�t try. 98 00:06:25,044 --> 00:06:26,671 I do try, Dad. 99 00:06:26,745 --> 00:06:28,679 I�d like to see some proof. 100 00:06:28,747 --> 00:06:31,181 Meantime, you�ll study an hour a day to make up your work. 101 00:06:31,250 --> 00:06:32,842 103 00:06:34,019 --> 00:06:34,951 Come in. 104 00:06:36,755 --> 00:06:38,188 Good morning,Missus. 105 00:06:38,257 --> 00:06:39,690 Good morning, Gus. 106 00:06:41,327 --> 00:06:42,919 What�s today, Boss? 107 00:06:42,995 --> 00:06:45,156 Good day to move the horses. 108 00:06:45,231 --> 00:06:47,665 It�s time they were off the meadows. 109 00:06:47,733 --> 00:06:49,064 A storm�s cooking up. 110 00:06:49,134 --> 00:06:50,396 Can I help? 111 00:06:50,469 --> 00:06:54,405 Four older horses have to be in shape for the rodeo and those three-year-olds have to be broke. 112 00:06:54,473 --> 00:06:57,408 113 00:06:57,476 --> 00:06:59,376 Can�t I help move them? 114 00:06:59,445 --> 00:07:00,878 Great guns, no. 115 00:07:00,946 --> 00:07:03,380 It�s tough enough to move 1 00 horses all fresh as blazes after a winter out without a kid along to make them nervous. 116 00:07:03,449 --> 00:07:05,883 117 00:07:05,951 --> 00:07:08,385 118 00:07:08,454 --> 00:07:11,218 - I�ll be right out. - Ja, Boss. 119 00:07:13,292 --> 00:07:15,226 Want another cup of coffee, dear? 120 00:07:15,294 --> 00:07:16,727 No, I had enough. 121 00:07:16,795 --> 00:07:18,285 Got to get started. 122 00:07:31,944 --> 00:07:34,879 Kenny, you can ride any horse on the ranch. 123 00:07:34,947 --> 00:07:37,882 Why are you so set on having a colt? 124 00:07:37,950 --> 00:07:39,383 It isn�t just riding. 125 00:07:39,451 --> 00:07:42,386 I want a colt to be friends with me. 126 00:07:42,454 --> 00:07:45,890 I want a colt of my own, all my own. 127 00:07:48,394 --> 00:07:50,328 You better start your studying. 128 00:07:50,396 --> 00:07:51,829 Get it over with. 129 00:08:32,638 --> 00:08:33,798 Bye, Daddy. 130 00:08:33,872 --> 00:08:35,134 Bye. 131 00:08:37,343 --> 00:08:38,810 Ken, what are you doing? 132 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,745 I�m doing my arithmetic, Mom. 134 00:09:51,717 --> 00:09:53,378 Where are we going? 135 00:09:53,452 --> 00:09:55,647 To watch Dad bring in the horses. 136 00:09:55,721 --> 00:09:57,655 We can take the shortcut. 137 00:09:57,723 --> 00:09:59,657 No, you better stay here. 138 00:09:59,725 --> 00:10:02,387 It�s tough enough bringing in 1 00 horses... 139 00:10:02,461 --> 00:10:04,759 all fresh after a winter out without having a girl tagging along making them nervous. 140 00:10:04,830 --> 00:10:08,163 141 00:10:08,233 --> 00:10:11,168 Those horses ain�t scared of me. 142 00:11:10,562 --> 00:11:11,824 Good morning. 143 00:11:46,999 --> 00:11:48,864 Nice work, Banner. 144 00:11:54,706 --> 00:11:57,641 Banner don�t let those mares get away with nothing. 145 00:11:57,709 --> 00:12:01,372 Banner�s got everything it takes to make a great horse--brains, heart, and courage. 146 00:12:01,446 --> 00:12:02,879 147 00:12:02,948 --> 00:12:05,940 If he�d just pass it on to all the colts. 148 00:12:06,018 --> 00:12:07,451 What horses we�d have then. 149 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:34,907 Whoa now! 150 00:12:34,980 --> 00:12:36,379 Whoa now! Whoa there! 151 00:12:36,448 --> 00:12:38,109 Look out, Gus. They�re stampeding! 152 00:12:49,628 --> 00:12:52,062 Gus, try to head them off. 153 00:12:58,804 --> 00:13:00,237 Stop them, Banner! 154 00:13:03,008 --> 00:13:05,704 They�re making straight for the rock slide. 155 00:13:05,777 --> 00:13:07,745 Head them off, Banner. 159 00:14:19,785 --> 00:14:22,219 What are you doing here? 160 00:14:23,522 --> 00:14:26,150 I--I came to see the horses. 161 00:14:26,224 --> 00:14:28,590 I didn�t mean to do it. 162 00:14:28,660 --> 00:14:31,151 I didn�t mean to scare them. 164 00:15:18,241 --> 00:15:22,405 Jeepers, if I could ever have a colt like that. 165 00:15:44,267 --> 00:15:47,031 Are we on the downgrade? 166 00:15:47,103 --> 00:15:51,540 I never had so many bills and less money to pay them. 167 00:15:51,608 --> 00:15:54,543 We can�t sell our horses at a profit. 168 00:15:54,611 --> 00:15:57,045 They�re good horses with good blood. 169 00:15:57,113 --> 00:15:59,547 Mm-hmm, all but that albino strain. 170 00:15:59,616 --> 00:16:02,483 They got a crazy streak in them. 171 00:16:02,552 --> 00:16:05,020 No use trying to sell them. 172 00:16:05,088 --> 00:16:08,387 I wouldn�t even get back the cost of raising them. 173 00:16:09,893 --> 00:16:11,952 I�d rather shoot them. 174 00:16:12,028 --> 00:16:15,464 I would, too, if they weren�t so doggone fast. 175 00:16:15,532 --> 00:16:19,593 I hoped to get one decent colt out of that bunch. 176 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:25,502 Rob... 177 00:16:25,575 --> 00:16:27,440 give Ken a colt. 178 00:16:27,510 --> 00:16:28,772 Huh? 179 00:16:28,845 --> 00:16:31,279 I want you to give Ken a colt. 180 00:16:31,347 --> 00:16:34,077 After that stunt he pulled this morning? 181 00:16:34,150 --> 00:16:36,175 You know he didn�t mean to. 182 00:16:36,252 --> 00:16:37,685 He doesn�t deserve a colt. 183 00:16:37,754 --> 00:16:39,654 Won�t you ever give him one? 184 00:16:39,722 --> 00:16:41,656 Sure. I�ve been expecting to. 185 00:16:41,724 --> 00:16:44,056 If he pays attention to his studies-- 186 00:16:44,127 --> 00:16:45,389 Uh-uh. 187 00:16:45,462 --> 00:16:47,225 No. 188 00:16:47,297 --> 00:16:48,457 That�s another thing. 189 00:16:48,531 --> 00:16:51,967 That isn�t going to get anzwhere. 190 00:16:52,035 --> 00:16:54,697 Didn�t he study today? 191 00:16:54,771 --> 00:16:57,672 He exposed himself to his books. 192 00:16:57,740 --> 00:17:01,198 Good heavens. Nothing I say to him makes any impression. 193 00:17:01,277 --> 00:17:03,142 He wants his own colt. 194 00:17:03,213 --> 00:17:05,306 He can�t think of another thing. 195 00:17:05,381 --> 00:17:06,814 But that�s all backwards. 196 00:17:06,883 --> 00:17:09,511 You don�t bribe children to do their duty. 197 00:17:09,586 --> 00:17:11,019 It�s not a bribe. 198 00:17:11,087 --> 00:17:12,520 What would you call it? 199 00:17:12,589 --> 00:17:14,523 I just have a feeling... 200 00:17:14,591 --> 00:17:17,583 Ken isn�t going to pull anything off. 201 00:17:17,660 --> 00:17:19,093 It�s time he did. 202 00:17:19,162 --> 00:17:21,426 Maybe a little thing like this would turn the trick. 203 00:17:21,498 --> 00:17:22,931 204 00:17:22,999 --> 00:17:24,432 That isn�t a little thing. 205 00:17:24,501 --> 00:17:27,334 It isn�t easy to break and school a colt. 206 00:17:27,403 --> 00:17:30,736 I won�t have a good horse spoiled by his carelessness. 207 00:17:34,911 --> 00:17:37,038 Rob, it�s important. 208 00:17:37,113 --> 00:17:39,547 He�s got to succeed at something. 209 00:17:39,616 --> 00:17:41,049 What he needs is-- 210 00:17:41,117 --> 00:17:42,550 Is to snap out of it. 211 00:17:42,619 --> 00:17:45,179 If you want to put it that way. 212 00:17:45,255 --> 00:17:47,189 He needs to grow up. 213 00:17:47,257 --> 00:17:49,851 How would having his own colt help? 214 00:17:49,926 --> 00:17:51,359 Oh, you know. 215 00:17:51,427 --> 00:17:53,292 Something of his own responsibility. 216 00:17:53,363 --> 00:17:54,796 217 00:17:54,864 --> 00:17:57,799 He�d have something real that he cared about more than those things he goes mooning about. 218 00:17:57,867 --> 00:18:00,335 219 00:18:05,642 --> 00:18:06,904 Don�t go. 220 00:18:11,114 --> 00:18:13,548 I�d like to give Ken a colt. 221 00:18:13,616 --> 00:18:16,551 I�d like to get closer to the boy somehow but every time I get set for a get-together session he hands me a facer like what he pulled today. 222 00:18:16,619 --> 00:18:20,385 223 00:18:20,456 --> 00:18:24,051 224 00:18:24,127 --> 00:18:26,561 Rob, didn�t you ever want anything more than anything else in the world? 225 00:18:26,629 --> 00:18:29,689 226 00:18:31,267 --> 00:18:34,134 Yes. You. 227 00:18:42,378 --> 00:18:44,403 You do understand. 231 00:19:54,283 --> 00:19:55,375 Where�s Ken? 232 00:19:55,451 --> 00:19:58,386 Probably looking at the ducks on the landing. 233 00:19:58,454 --> 00:20:01,389 For Pete�s sake,what ducks on what landing? 234 00:20:01,457 --> 00:20:03,322 That old print of mine. 235 00:20:03,393 --> 00:20:05,827 He likes to look at them. 236 00:20:07,096 --> 00:20:09,530 Gus says Rocket broke away last night. 237 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:11,328 Thinks she�s got a colt somewhere. 238 00:20:11,401 --> 00:20:13,733 We�ll have to look for her. 239 00:20:13,803 --> 00:20:16,101 I�ll find her. 240 00:20:16,172 --> 00:20:18,106 Good. I�ll go with you. 241 00:20:18,174 --> 00:20:20,608 Son, I�m taking back yesterday�s order. 242 00:20:20,677 --> 00:20:23,111 You can forget that hour of study. 243 00:20:25,648 --> 00:20:26,979 Thanks, Dad. 244 00:20:28,985 --> 00:20:30,111 And, Ken... 245 00:20:30,186 --> 00:20:32,518 I�m going to give you a colt. 246 00:20:34,223 --> 00:20:35,781 A colt? 247 00:20:44,167 --> 00:20:45,600 A colt of my own? 248 00:20:45,668 --> 00:20:46,930 Mm-hmm. 249 00:20:49,605 --> 00:20:52,540 I�ll give it to you a week from today. 250 00:20:52,608 --> 00:20:55,702 That�ll give you time to make your own choice. 251 00:20:55,778 --> 00:20:58,212 I can have any colt on the ranch? 252 00:20:58,281 --> 00:21:00,272 - Ayearling? - That�s right. 253 00:21:06,255 --> 00:21:07,449 Gosh. 254 00:21:16,499 --> 00:21:21,061 Jeepers, maybe I can have the one I saw yesterday. 255 00:21:27,410 --> 00:21:29,844 Come on,you old jughead. 256 00:21:33,049 --> 00:21:34,482 Come on there. 257 00:21:34,550 --> 00:21:36,711 Oh, come on. Come on. 258 00:21:36,786 --> 00:21:39,721 Oh, step on my foot,would you? 259 00:21:39,789 --> 00:21:41,154 Come on. 260 00:21:46,195 --> 00:21:49,130 Why don�t you take Highboy for your colt? 261 00:21:49,198 --> 00:21:50,665 That chump? 262 00:21:52,034 --> 00:21:54,969 Don�t think I�m riding Cigarette because I want to. 263 00:21:55,037 --> 00:21:56,504 It�s because I have to. 264 00:21:56,572 --> 00:21:58,005 Then how about Lassie? 265 00:21:58,074 --> 00:22:01,475 She�s as fast as anything and black as ink. 266 00:22:04,113 --> 00:22:07,344 Who said I wanted a black horse? 267 00:22:07,416 --> 00:22:09,179 How about College Boy? 268 00:22:09,252 --> 00:22:11,186 He�s smart like a fox. 269 00:22:13,256 --> 00:22:15,190 I�m going to pick a filly. 270 00:22:15,258 --> 00:22:17,590 I know the one I want, too. 271 00:22:17,660 --> 00:22:19,093 I hope I find her. 272 00:22:20,897 --> 00:22:23,331 Hey, don�t do that again, Hildy. 273 00:22:23,399 --> 00:22:24,832 Cigarette�s kind of nervous. 274 00:22:24,901 --> 00:22:26,630 She might kick you. 275 00:22:26,702 --> 00:22:30,069 She better don�t. I�ll kick her back. 276 00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:38,171 Thanks, Tim. 277 00:22:38,247 --> 00:22:39,509 OK. 278 00:22:39,582 --> 00:22:41,345 Ready, Ken? 279 00:22:41,417 --> 00:22:42,611 Yes, sir. 280 00:22:45,221 --> 00:22:47,689 Don�t see why I can�t go, too. 281 00:22:47,757 --> 00:22:50,191 You�re a girl. That�s why. 282 00:22:50,259 --> 00:22:51,692 Check your cinch? 283 00:22:51,761 --> 00:22:53,023 Yes, sir. 284 00:22:53,095 --> 00:22:54,653 Let�s go. 285 00:22:56,098 --> 00:22:58,532 Ken, don�t you want your hat? 286 00:22:58,601 --> 00:23:00,034 Oh, thanks, Mom. 287 00:23:11,147 --> 00:23:14,310 Don�t see why I can�t be a boy. 288 00:23:15,551 --> 00:23:17,610 Even you�re a boy... 289 00:23:17,687 --> 00:23:18,949 I guess. 290 00:23:38,441 --> 00:23:41,376 Maybe you think it�s funny,giving you a colt when you deserve a good hiding. 291 00:23:41,444 --> 00:23:43,878 292 00:23:43,946 --> 00:23:45,379 Flunking all your exams then pulling that stunt yesterday. 293 00:23:45,448 --> 00:23:47,382 294 00:23:47,450 --> 00:23:50,442 Don�t think I�m letting you off. 295 00:23:50,519 --> 00:23:51,781 I�m not. 296 00:23:51,854 --> 00:23:53,754 I haven�t gone soft. 297 00:23:53,823 --> 00:23:56,223 Don�t get that into your head. 298 00:23:56,292 --> 00:23:59,227 I expect as much now as I ever did. 299 00:23:59,295 --> 00:24:00,728 This isn�t any reward because you haven�t won any reward. 300 00:24:00,796 --> 00:24:03,264 301 00:24:03,332 --> 00:24:04,924 This is a partnership. 302 00:24:05,001 --> 00:24:07,936 One of these days,I�ll need your help. 303 00:24:08,004 --> 00:24:11,440 You have to be trained so you can give it. 304 00:24:11,507 --> 00:24:13,441 Every man needs training. 305 00:24:13,509 --> 00:24:14,806 Discipline. 306 00:24:14,877 --> 00:24:17,437 I got mine at West Point. 307 00:24:17,513 --> 00:24:18,775 And how. 308 00:24:20,716 --> 00:24:23,150 You�re going to train that colt. 309 00:24:23,219 --> 00:24:25,653 I�ll help you with the first breaking but you�ll train it,and it�ll train you. 310 00:24:25,721 --> 00:24:28,656 311 00:24:28,724 --> 00:24:29,918 Yes, sir. 312 00:24:29,992 --> 00:24:33,894 You and your mother may have to care for this ranch without me pretty soon. 313 00:24:33,963 --> 00:24:35,396 314 00:24:35,464 --> 00:24:36,897 Where will you be? 315 00:24:36,966 --> 00:24:40,402 I may have to go back into the army. 316 00:24:40,469 --> 00:24:41,902 You understand,don�t you? 317 00:24:41,971 --> 00:24:43,063 Yes, sir. 318 00:24:43,139 --> 00:24:45,869 You make a good pony out of that colt and let it make a man out of you. 319 00:24:45,942 --> 00:24:48,775 320 00:24:48,844 --> 00:24:49,776 Yes, sir. 321 00:24:58,454 --> 00:25:00,388 I rode all through here yesterday. 322 00:25:00,456 --> 00:25:02,390 I didn�t leave any colts behind. 323 00:25:02,458 --> 00:25:05,393 If Rocket had a colt,she wouldn�t leave it. 324 00:25:05,461 --> 00:25:07,395 I saw a colt yesterday... 325 00:25:07,463 --> 00:25:10,398 that got separated from the bunch in the stampede a sorrel filly with a cream mane and tail. 326 00:25:10,466 --> 00:25:13,492 327 00:25:13,569 --> 00:25:15,002 Sounds like Rocket�s yearling. 328 00:25:15,071 --> 00:25:16,060 Rocket�s? 329 00:25:16,138 --> 00:25:18,698 The filly sired by Banner last spring. 330 00:25:18,774 --> 00:25:21,106 That�s what was wrong with Rocket-- 331 00:25:21,177 --> 00:25:23,111 she missed that little filly. 332 00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,911 She�d very likely console herself with a yearling. 333 00:25:35,091 --> 00:25:38,527 Should pick up a track around here someplace. 334 00:25:52,608 --> 00:25:54,269 Hey, Boss! 335 00:26:07,223 --> 00:26:09,623 A cat. 336 00:26:09,692 --> 00:26:12,126 That�s a mountain lion,all right. 337 00:26:12,194 --> 00:26:13,627 Ja. A big one. 338 00:26:13,696 --> 00:26:16,426 Haven�t had one around here for a long time. 339 00:26:16,499 --> 00:26:20,435 Good thing we got the brood mares out of here. 340 00:26:20,503 --> 00:26:23,063 Maybe we better look around that cave. 341 00:27:08,484 --> 00:27:10,918 Well, it got one of them. 342 00:27:10,986 --> 00:27:12,248 It�s dark brown. 343 00:27:12,321 --> 00:27:13,913 It�s Rocket�s, I guess. 344 00:27:13,989 --> 00:27:15,923 Tim was right. She had one. 345 00:27:15,991 --> 00:27:18,084 Didn�t she know it was dead? 346 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:19,752 Yes and no. 347 00:27:19,829 --> 00:27:21,763 Mares are funny about death. 348 00:27:21,831 --> 00:27:23,594 They�ll leave a dead foal then remember it and hunt for it. 349 00:27:23,666 --> 00:27:25,930 350 00:27:26,001 --> 00:27:28,435 Will the mountain lion get any other horses? 351 00:27:28,504 --> 00:27:32,099 Not now, Kenny. They�re all out on the range. 352 00:27:32,174 --> 00:27:34,938 Can�t he get the horse and colts there? 353 00:27:35,010 --> 00:27:36,944 Not where there�s no cover. 354 00:27:37,012 --> 00:27:38,946 Their only chance is surprise. 355 00:27:39,014 --> 00:27:41,949 If a horse is off by itself a lion will jump on it,bite through the spine. 356 00:27:42,017 --> 00:27:45,214 357 00:27:45,287 --> 00:27:46,447 Quick kill. 359 00:28:08,811 --> 00:28:09,743 It�s Rocket. 360 00:28:09,812 --> 00:28:11,473 And her filly. 361 00:28:31,934 --> 00:28:34,869 What a pretty little flicka she is. 362 00:28:34,937 --> 00:28:36,427 Flicka< What does that mean? 363 00:28:36,505 --> 00:28:38,905 Swedish for ::little girl.�� 364 00:28:43,612 --> 00:28:47,946 Flicka. That�s what I�ll call her. 365 00:28:48,017 --> 00:28:48,949 My colt. 366 00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:51,451 Your colt? 367 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,546 Yes, sir. That�s the one I want. 368 00:28:56,792 --> 00:28:58,282 Rocket�s filly, Ken? 369 00:28:58,360 --> 00:28:59,452 Yes, sir. 370 00:29:01,697 --> 00:29:04,564 I hoped you�d make a wiser choice. 371 00:29:04,633 --> 00:29:06,567 You know how I feel about Rocket�s line of horses. 372 00:29:06,635 --> 00:29:08,227 373 00:29:08,304 --> 00:29:10,568 But she�s fast. Rocket�s fast, too. 374 00:29:10,639 --> 00:29:12,072 They�re my worst horses. 375 00:29:12,141 --> 00:29:15,668 There�s not one among them with any real sense. 376 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,914 The mares are hellions,the stallions outlaws. 377 00:29:20,983 --> 00:29:21,915 They�re untamable. 378 00:29:21,984 --> 00:29:24,418 I�ll tame her. 379 00:29:24,486 --> 00:29:27,922 Nobody�s ever been able to tame a one of them. 380 00:29:27,990 --> 00:29:30,925 You want a horse that�ll be a friend? 381 00:29:30,993 --> 00:29:31,925 Yes, sir. 382 00:29:31,994 --> 00:29:34,588 You�ll never make a friend of her. 383 00:29:34,663 --> 00:29:37,427 Look what they did to get back together. 384 00:29:37,499 --> 00:29:41,492 No fence in the world will ever hold them. 385 00:29:41,570 --> 00:29:43,504 You better change your mind. 386 00:29:43,572 --> 00:29:44,884 No. 387 00:29:46,886 --> 00:29:50,822 OK, Ken. I promised you could make your own choice. 388 00:29:50,890 --> 00:29:52,551 But remember-- Rocket�s loco and 1 0-to-1 the colt is, too. 389 00:29:52,625 --> 00:29:55,321 390 00:29:55,394 --> 00:29:58,830 But she may not be. Banner�s her father. 391 00:29:58,898 --> 00:30:00,195 All right. 392 00:30:00,266 --> 00:30:03,758 We�ll bring her in tomorrow or the next day. 393 00:30:30,096 --> 00:30:33,031 It�s silly to write horses� names on things. 394 00:30:33,099 --> 00:30:34,532 Horses can�t read. 395 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,795 People can read. 396 00:30:36,869 --> 00:30:38,359 But Pop can�t. 397 00:30:38,437 --> 00:30:41,702 Besides, you ain�t even got a horse yet. 398 00:30:41,774 --> 00:30:44,868 What do you mean I haven�t got a horse? 399 00:30:44,944 --> 00:30:46,377 Well, it ain�t here. 400 00:30:46,445 --> 00:30:48,379 Dad�s bringing her in today. 403 00:30:52,451 --> 00:30:55,818 That�s Mr. Sergent. He�s got lots of race horses. 404 00:30:55,888 --> 00:30:57,583 He�s got a fat belly, too. 405 00:30:57,656 --> 00:31:00,318 Hey, Gus,is Rob around? 406 00:31:00,393 --> 00:31:02,327 Ja. He�s in the house. 407 00:31:04,397 --> 00:31:05,329 Hi, Rob. 408 00:31:05,398 --> 00:31:06,330 Hi, Charley. 409 00:31:06,399 --> 00:31:07,832 How you been doing? 410 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:08,832 Good. You? 411 00:31:08,901 --> 00:31:10,163 Swell. 412 00:31:10,236 --> 00:31:12,670 Glad to see you. Sit down. 413 00:31:12,738 --> 00:31:16,674 Rob, I�m shipping a carload of horses to Los Angeles. 414 00:31:16,742 --> 00:31:20,337 Maybe you�d like to go in on the deal and share the shipping expenses. 415 00:31:20,413 --> 00:31:22,176 416 00:31:22,248 --> 00:31:23,681 Might do that. 417 00:31:23,749 --> 00:31:26,684 There�s room in the car for four more horses. 418 00:31:26,752 --> 00:31:28,743 Sounds pretty good. 419 00:31:28,821 --> 00:31:31,187 You know, Pop says Flicka�s loco like her mother. 420 00:31:31,257 --> 00:31:32,724 421 00:31:32,792 --> 00:31:34,282 Don�t say that, Hildy. 422 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,260 Well, ain�t her fault. 423 00:31:36,328 --> 00:31:40,264 She can�t help it if her mom�s crazy, can she? 424 00:31:40,332 --> 00:31:41,856 Banner�s got sense. 425 00:31:41,934 --> 00:31:44,562 She could be like her father,couldn�t she? 426 00:31:44,637 --> 00:31:46,195 I don�t know. 427 00:31:46,272 --> 00:31:48,035 When I do something dumb... 428 00:31:48,107 --> 00:31:50,974 Mom says I take after the old man and when I do something smart Pop says I sure don�t take after the old lady. 429 00:31:51,043 --> 00:31:53,477 430 00:31:53,546 --> 00:31:57,141 431 00:31:57,216 --> 00:31:59,810 You haven�t got anything like Rocket. 432 00:31:59,885 --> 00:32:01,819 That she-devil can outrun any animal you�ve ever seen. 433 00:32:01,887 --> 00:32:03,821 434 00:32:03,889 --> 00:32:04,821 You�re crazy. 435 00:32:04,890 --> 00:32:06,824 Like to make a bet? 436 00:32:06,892 --> 00:32:07,824 Hello, Charley. 437 00:32:07,893 --> 00:32:09,326 Well, hello there, Nell. 438 00:32:09,395 --> 00:32:10,726 No. Don�t get up. 439 00:32:10,796 --> 00:32:12,730 I only have a minute. 440 00:32:12,798 --> 00:32:14,959 What are you two talking about? 441 00:32:15,034 --> 00:32:16,092 Rocket. 442 00:32:16,168 --> 00:32:19,001 If I could get a mare to do 443 00:32:19,071 --> 00:32:20,834 She�ll make you a fortune if you could break her. 444 00:32:20,906 --> 00:32:22,840 445 00:32:22,908 --> 00:32:25,172 My broncobuster can break any horse. 446 00:32:25,244 --> 00:32:27,508 He can do it if she�s worth breaking. 447 00:32:27,580 --> 00:32:29,343 Worth it? Didn�t I tell you? 448 00:32:29,415 --> 00:32:31,349 How much do you want? 449 00:32:31,417 --> 00:32:32,679 - 500. - 500. 450 00:32:32,751 --> 00:32:33,683 Dollars. 451 00:32:34,753 --> 00:32:36,345 You got a stopwatch? 452 00:32:36,422 --> 00:32:38,014 No. I got a speedometer. 453 00:32:38,090 --> 00:32:39,022 Good enough. 454 00:32:39,091 --> 00:32:40,023 Let�s go. 455 00:32:40,092 --> 00:32:42,356 I�ll get lunch ready for you. 457 00:32:59,945 --> 00:33:02,004 There they are. 458 00:33:04,216 --> 00:33:05,945 Isn�t Flicka beautiful? 460 00:33:31,977 --> 00:33:34,309 She�s heading for the north range. 461 00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:36,541 We�ll clock her there. The ground�s flat. 463 00:33:58,304 --> 00:33:59,737 She�s like a locomotive. 464 00:33:59,805 --> 00:34:03,366 Does she always run with her nose up? 465 00:34:03,442 --> 00:34:05,000 Yeah. She�s a stargazer. 468 00:34:51,957 --> 00:34:53,948 Look at the speedometer. 469 00:34:59,098 --> 00:35:01,692 Faster, Boss. She ain�t half trying. 471 00:35:14,580 --> 00:35:17,515 If she does 472 00:35:34,266 --> 00:35:36,598 Jumping jeepers! 473 00:35:47,479 --> 00:35:49,344 Well, what do you say? 474 00:35:49,415 --> 00:35:50,848 It�s a deal if she�s delivered sound in wind and limb. 475 00:35:50,916 --> 00:35:53,851 476 00:35:53,919 --> 00:35:56,854 Just how you�ll do that is anybody�s guess. 477 00:35:56,922 --> 00:35:59,356 You leave that to me. 478 00:36:13,272 --> 00:36:14,762 Look out for Rocket. 479 00:36:22,648 --> 00:36:24,548 Get in there,get in there! 480 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,954 Tim, throw a rope on her. 482 00:36:39,832 --> 00:36:42,767 Won�t be easy to get her in. 483 00:36:48,140 --> 00:36:50,165 Stay with her, Tim. 484 00:36:53,746 --> 00:36:54,906 Come on! 485 00:37:04,656 --> 00:37:07,625 Get that noose off her neck. 486 00:37:07,693 --> 00:37:09,354 Be careful, Rob. 487 00:37:09,428 --> 00:37:12,363 Think I�d deliver her with string hanging on her? 488 00:37:12,431 --> 00:37:15,764 I put it on. I�m going to get it off. 489 00:37:17,169 --> 00:37:18,261 Look out! 490 00:37:22,007 --> 00:37:25,443 Open that chute gate so she can see through. 491 00:37:29,181 --> 00:37:30,409 Get in there. 492 00:37:33,218 --> 00:37:34,708 Shut the gate. 493 00:37:39,024 --> 00:37:40,753 Get the truck. 494 00:37:48,534 --> 00:37:49,967 Whoa. That�s it. 495 00:38:14,893 --> 00:38:17,418 Sergent expects her in good shape. 496 00:38:17,496 --> 00:38:20,488 Try not to skin her up. 497 00:38:20,566 --> 00:38:22,830 Get her out of here. 498 00:38:33,512 --> 00:38:36,447 Well, that�s that. 499 00:38:36,515 --> 00:38:38,449 You mean that�s $500. 500 00:38:38,517 --> 00:38:41,611 It�ll come in mighty handy,won�t it? 501 00:38:56,301 --> 00:38:57,325 Dad, look! 502 00:38:58,470 --> 00:38:59,732 Oh, Rob. 503 00:39:13,452 --> 00:39:15,511 That finished her. 504 00:39:19,992 --> 00:39:21,050 Well? 505 00:39:21,126 --> 00:39:23,617 She�s dead. 506 00:39:23,695 --> 00:39:25,128 Poor old Rocket. 507 00:39:25,197 --> 00:39:27,927 It�s too bad,but these things will happen. 508 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,867 Just takes little lick to kill horse. 509 00:39:34,506 --> 00:39:37,441 There�s one thing I can still do. 510 00:39:59,464 --> 00:40:02,399 Hello, Williams? This is McLaughlin. 511 00:40:02,467 --> 00:40:03,900 OK. Thanks. 512 00:40:03,969 --> 00:40:07,905 Look, Williams, I got a load of horses for you. 513 00:40:07,973 --> 00:40:09,406 Yeah, those albinos. 514 00:40:09,474 --> 00:40:12,910 Yep. Every one of them,Rocket�s whole tribe. 515 00:40:12,978 --> 00:40:16,914 There should be some good horseflesh among them. 516 00:40:18,984 --> 00:40:22,249 All right, your own price. Good. 517 00:40:22,321 --> 00:40:25,017 Yep. There are nine of them. 518 00:40:26,992 --> 00:40:29,927 Wait a minute. There may be 1 0. 519 00:40:29,995 --> 00:40:31,428 Ken, come here. 520 00:40:35,734 --> 00:40:39,101 Here�s a chance to do a sensible thing. 521 00:40:39,171 --> 00:40:42,106 I want you to choose another colt... 522 00:40:42,174 --> 00:40:45,109 and let me sell Flicka to Mr. Williams. 523 00:40:46,511 --> 00:40:50,072 I�m asking for your sake as well as mine. 524 00:40:50,148 --> 00:40:53,379 What�s the use having another Rocket? 525 00:40:53,452 --> 00:40:55,044 You saw what happened. 526 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,054 I�m going to tame Flicka. 527 00:40:57,122 --> 00:40:58,384 That�s impossible. 528 00:40:58,457 --> 00:41:00,721 Sometimes bad horses get tamed. 529 00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:03,386 You don�t want a loco horse, do you? 530 00:41:03,462 --> 00:41:04,895 I want Flicka. 531 00:41:04,963 --> 00:41:06,396 Look at me. 532 00:41:06,465 --> 00:41:08,899 Dad, please. She�s mine. 533 00:41:12,304 --> 00:41:14,568 Sorry to keep you waiting, Williams. 534 00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:17,073 I thought there was one more. 535 00:41:17,142 --> 00:41:19,076 No. There are only nine. 536 00:41:19,144 --> 00:41:20,907 Right. I�ll send them over. 537 00:41:20,979 --> 00:41:21,911 So long. 540 00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:14,797 Git! 541 00:42:18,737 --> 00:42:20,170 Well, that�s that. 542 00:42:20,238 --> 00:42:21,671 Sure is a wild one. 543 00:42:21,740 --> 00:42:23,867 We�ll let her think it over. 544 00:42:37,255 --> 00:42:39,450 She�ll go right through that wire. 545 00:42:39,524 --> 00:42:40,684 She�ll never go over. 546 00:42:44,396 --> 00:42:45,829 It turned her. 547 00:42:45,897 --> 00:42:48,229 Dad, she has got sense. 548 00:42:55,340 --> 00:42:56,466 Flicka! 549 00:42:56,541 --> 00:42:58,475 I knew it,that crazy-- 550 00:42:58,543 --> 00:42:59,510 Rob, hurry! 554 00:43:11,723 --> 00:43:13,918 There now. 555 00:43:25,737 --> 00:43:28,103 Don�t think she�ll pull out of it. 556 00:43:30,308 --> 00:43:32,242 Maybe it�s just as well. 557 00:43:32,310 --> 00:43:35,177 Hadn�t been this way,it would�ve been another. 558 00:43:35,247 --> 00:43:37,875 A loco horse isn�t worth the bullet... 559 00:43:37,949 --> 00:43:40,213 it takes to shoot it. 560 00:43:41,686 --> 00:43:43,278 Now easy, girl. 561 00:43:48,193 --> 00:43:49,751 Flicka. 562 00:44:21,102 --> 00:44:24,037 Eat your dinner,Kenny. 563 00:44:24,105 --> 00:44:26,096 Do I have to, Mom? 564 00:44:26,174 --> 00:44:29,075 You heard what your mother said. 565 00:44:29,144 --> 00:44:30,543 Flicka, she�s-- 566 00:44:30,612 --> 00:44:32,239 Let him go to her. 567 00:44:32,314 --> 00:44:34,544 He can�t do her any good. 568 00:44:34,616 --> 00:44:36,982 Gus and Tim dressed her cuts. 569 00:44:37,052 --> 00:44:40,249 She snaps out of it,she�s got water and oats. 570 00:45:09,084 --> 00:45:12,520 Oh, Flicka, I didn�t mean to hurt you. 571 00:45:14,089 --> 00:45:15,522 Get well. 572 00:45:15,590 --> 00:45:17,683 Please be all right. 573 00:45:24,599 --> 00:45:26,624 Gee, she was pretty. 574 00:45:26,701 --> 00:45:29,033 What do you mean ::was��? 575 00:45:29,104 --> 00:45:30,366 She is. 576 00:45:31,439 --> 00:45:33,031 She�s beautiful. 577 00:45:33,108 --> 00:45:37,340 I meant when she was running back there. 578 00:45:44,052 --> 00:45:46,384 Say, Ken. 579 00:45:46,454 --> 00:45:48,479 Tomorrow, if you want to take care of her... 580 00:45:48,556 --> 00:45:50,649 I�ll do your work for you. 581 00:45:50,725 --> 00:45:54,661 Would you, Hildy? Gee, that�d be keen. 582 00:45:54,729 --> 00:45:56,993 Sure. I�ll exercise Cigarette bring in the wood,and dry the dishes. 583 00:45:57,065 --> 00:46:00,000 584 00:46:00,068 --> 00:46:02,832 You can stay with Flicka all the time except when you�re sleeping. 585 00:46:02,904 --> 00:46:04,496 586 00:46:04,572 --> 00:46:06,506 Thanks, Hildy. 589 00:46:58,026 --> 00:47:01,462 Gus, she�s going to be all right, isn�t she? 590 00:47:01,529 --> 00:47:02,962 Pretty good chance if we could get her to eat. 591 00:47:03,031 --> 00:47:05,056 592 00:47:19,547 --> 00:47:21,811 Maybe she don�t like oats. 593 00:47:24,552 --> 00:47:26,486 I�ll get her some hay. 594 00:47:43,338 --> 00:47:44,270 Whoa. 595 00:47:50,512 --> 00:47:52,946 Don�t run away, Flicka. 596 00:47:53,014 --> 00:47:55,949 Don�t be afraid of me. I�m Ken. 597 00:47:58,953 --> 00:48:01,251 This is hay. You�ll like it. 598 00:48:01,322 --> 00:48:02,482 Have some. 599 00:48:02,557 --> 00:48:05,526 Take it easy. She�s been scared pretty bad. 600 00:48:32,987 --> 00:48:35,956 She�s eating. She�s going to get well. 601 00:48:36,024 --> 00:48:37,651 Ja. It�s good sign. 602 00:48:57,879 --> 00:49:00,313 Move her to the calf pasture. 603 00:49:00,381 --> 00:49:02,975 There�s shade there and a running stream. 604 00:49:03,051 --> 00:49:04,518 And she�ll be alone. 605 00:49:04,586 --> 00:49:06,076 I thought horses like company. 606 00:49:06,154 --> 00:49:08,816 Not her. She�s a lone wolf. 607 00:49:08,890 --> 00:49:12,656 She might jump out of the calf pasture and get away. 608 00:49:12,727 --> 00:49:14,991 She won�t jump out. 609 00:49:15,063 --> 00:49:17,827 She won�t jump anything for a long time. 611 00:49:28,076 --> 00:49:29,008 Ken. Breakfast. 612 00:49:29,077 --> 00:49:30,009 Coming, Dad. 613 00:49:31,312 --> 00:49:34,247 What�s he so chipper about this morning? 614 00:49:34,315 --> 00:49:35,748 Flicka. She�s better. 615 00:49:35,817 --> 00:49:37,148 Coming along, huh? 616 00:49:37,218 --> 00:49:39,413 Mm-hmm. She�s almost well. 617 00:49:39,487 --> 00:49:41,580 The cuts are all healed up and she�s eating like a horse. 618 00:49:41,656 --> 00:49:43,920 619 00:49:43,992 --> 00:49:45,289 Ooh. 620 00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,420 Maybe we�re going to have a pleasant summer after all if she doesn�t turn out to be another Rocket. 621 00:49:48,496 --> 00:49:51,260 622 00:49:51,332 --> 00:49:52,765 Oh, I hope not. 623 00:49:54,335 --> 00:49:56,769 Ken, what kind of manners is that? 624 00:49:56,838 --> 00:49:58,135 Sorry, Mom. Morning, Dad. 625 00:49:58,206 --> 00:49:59,366 Morning, Ken. 626 00:50:01,676 --> 00:50:04,338 How were the ducks on the landing this morning? 627 00:50:04,412 --> 00:50:06,277 What ducks on what landing? 628 00:50:08,283 --> 00:50:09,773 Oh. Those. 629 00:50:09,851 --> 00:50:11,284 Hardly noticed them. 630 00:50:11,352 --> 00:50:13,980 Been so busy with Flicka. 631 00:50:14,055 --> 00:50:15,716 Now that Flicka�s getting better don�t forget you�ve got other duties. 632 00:50:15,790 --> 00:50:17,951 633 00:50:18,026 --> 00:50:19,960 Oh, yes, sir. 634 00:50:20,028 --> 00:50:22,223 Give some time to your colt but not all your time. 635 00:50:22,297 --> 00:50:24,060 636 00:50:24,132 --> 00:50:26,066 I won�t. Will you come down... 637 00:50:26,134 --> 00:50:28,227 and look at Flicka this morning see how she is? 638 00:50:28,303 --> 00:50:29,565 639 00:50:29,637 --> 00:50:32,071 Will Her Highness let you get near her? 640 00:50:32,140 --> 00:50:33,573 Well, not too close. 641 00:50:33,641 --> 00:50:35,404 She�s still a little scared. 642 00:50:35,476 --> 00:50:37,910 But she�ll let you look at her from the other side of the fence. 643 00:50:37,979 --> 00:50:40,413 644 00:50:40,481 --> 00:50:43,245 That�s big of her. After breakfast, I�ll take a look. 645 00:50:43,318 --> 00:50:44,250 Oh, swell. 646 00:50:45,486 --> 00:50:46,418 Ooh! 647 00:50:47,488 --> 00:50:48,420 Kenny. 648 00:51:04,672 --> 00:51:06,162 Good morning, Flicka. 649 00:51:09,344 --> 00:51:11,778 Flicka, Dad�s coming to look at you. 650 00:51:11,846 --> 00:51:13,973 Be a good girl and don�t run away. 651 00:51:20,088 --> 00:51:22,079 Well, she does look good. 652 00:51:24,792 --> 00:51:26,885 Her cuts are all healed up except for the one on the right front leg. 653 00:51:26,961 --> 00:51:29,395 654 00:51:29,464 --> 00:51:30,897 It�s almost well. 655 00:51:30,965 --> 00:51:32,023 She�s beautiful. 656 00:51:35,403 --> 00:51:36,335 Dad? 657 00:51:37,638 --> 00:51:40,072 Do you think she�s loco? 658 00:51:40,141 --> 00:51:41,233 659 00:51:41,309 --> 00:51:44,073 I�d have sworn it by the way she�s behaved ever since she was born. 660 00:51:44,145 --> 00:51:45,908 661 00:51:45,980 --> 00:51:48,073 In fact,we�ve never seen her except when she�s looked terrified. 662 00:51:48,149 --> 00:51:49,912 663 00:51:49,984 --> 00:51:52,418 Every horse looks wild in the eye when it�s terrified. 664 00:51:52,487 --> 00:51:53,749 665 00:51:53,821 --> 00:51:55,584 She tried jumping that fence. 666 00:51:55,656 --> 00:51:57,749 Anyone can try the impossible once. 667 00:51:57,825 --> 00:52:00,419 There�s the old saying-- ::It couldn�t be done but the darn fool did it anzway.�� 668 00:52:00,495 --> 00:52:02,656 669 00:52:02,730 --> 00:52:04,755 Horses have jumped over 6 feet. 670 00:52:04,832 --> 00:52:07,130 Maybe Flicka thought she could do it. 671 00:52:08,336 --> 00:52:10,270 We�ll forgive her that one. 672 00:52:10,338 --> 00:52:12,272 Point is,will she learn? 673 00:52:12,340 --> 00:52:14,604 Can she learn? 674 00:52:14,675 --> 00:52:16,870 Rocket couldn�t. Or wouldn�t. 675 00:52:16,944 --> 00:52:20,744 Dad, maybe I�ll never get her trained. 676 00:52:20,815 --> 00:52:23,215 Heavens, Son,what have I been telling you all these weeks? 677 00:52:23,284 --> 00:52:24,717 678 00:52:24,786 --> 00:52:26,219 Didn�t you understand? 679 00:52:26,287 --> 00:52:28,949 What did you think loco meant? 680 00:52:29,023 --> 00:52:31,719 Sort of goofy or wild--hard to handle. 681 00:52:31,793 --> 00:52:34,523 Oh, no, Son. Much more serious than that. 682 00:52:34,595 --> 00:52:36,529 There�s inherited insanity among animals just as there is among humans. 683 00:52:36,597 --> 00:52:39,031 684 00:52:39,100 --> 00:52:40,533 Bad blood carries on and albino blood isn�t safe for any filly to have. 685 00:52:40,601 --> 00:52:44,037 686 00:52:44,105 --> 00:52:45,402 But you said maybe it�s just because she�s been scared. 687 00:52:45,473 --> 00:52:48,067 688 00:52:57,685 --> 00:53:00,119 She�s got a very intelligent face. 689 00:53:00,188 --> 00:53:01,917 Much better than Rocket�s. 690 00:53:03,191 --> 00:53:04,624 Fine, delicate mouth. 691 00:53:04,692 --> 00:53:06,125 And such lovely eyes. 692 00:53:06,194 --> 00:53:07,957 Mm-hmm. Set far apart. 693 00:53:08,029 --> 00:53:10,657 We�ll have to see how she responds to training. 694 00:53:10,731 --> 00:53:12,665 How can I train her? 695 00:53:12,733 --> 00:53:16,066 All you can do is try and win her confidence. 696 00:53:18,139 --> 00:53:21,575 You know, Son, if you take everything away from a living creature-- 697 00:53:21,642 --> 00:53:23,473 698 00:53:23,544 --> 00:53:26,911 freedom, friends,its home, habits happiness-- 699 00:53:26,981 --> 00:53:28,005 700 00:53:28,082 --> 00:53:30,573 it�ll turn in sheer need and desperation to the one thing that�s left. 701 00:53:30,651 --> 00:53:32,915 702 00:53:32,987 --> 00:53:34,921 In this case,that�s you. 703 00:53:34,989 --> 00:53:35,921 Me? 704 00:53:35,990 --> 00:53:38,754 Yes. You�re her whole life now. 705 00:53:38,826 --> 00:53:40,987 Make her to like it. 706 00:53:41,062 --> 00:53:44,429 Oh, I will, Dad. I will. 707 00:53:44,499 --> 00:53:47,434 Give her love and companionship. Talk to her. 708 00:53:47,502 --> 00:53:49,129 Will she understand me? 709 00:53:49,203 --> 00:53:50,602 Of course. 710 00:53:50,671 --> 00:53:53,606 A horse can tell you a lot of things, too if you watch and expect it to be sensible and intelligent. 711 00:53:53,674 --> 00:53:56,472 712 00:53:56,544 --> 00:53:59,604 Pay attention to all the little signs. 713 00:53:59,680 --> 00:54:01,978 The way it moves its body. 714 00:54:02,049 --> 00:54:04,847 The ears. The eyes. The whinnies. 715 00:54:04,919 --> 00:54:07,513 That�s its way of talking, Ken. 716 00:54:07,588 --> 00:54:08,520 That�s right. 717 00:54:08,589 --> 00:54:11,114 There�s a neigh of terror. 718 00:54:11,192 --> 00:54:12,625 A scream of rage. 719 00:54:12,693 --> 00:54:14,627 A whinny of nervous impatience. 721 00:54:15,696 --> 00:54:18,062 The nicker of longing or hunger or friendliness. 722 00:54:18,132 --> 00:54:19,190 723 00:54:19,267 --> 00:54:23,067 You learn its language,and it�ll learn yours. 724 00:54:23,137 --> 00:54:24,570 And never forget horses understand everything you say to them. 725 00:54:24,639 --> 00:54:27,836 726 00:54:27,909 --> 00:54:29,240 Everything, Dad? 727 00:54:29,310 --> 00:54:30,242 Everything. 729 00:54:33,981 --> 00:54:37,075 You mean if they�re not loco. 733 00:54:48,496 --> 00:54:49,895 All right, all right you�re hungry for your oats but I�m hurrying as fast as I can. 734 00:54:49,964 --> 00:54:51,727 735 00:54:51,799 --> 00:54:54,597 736 00:55:08,015 --> 00:55:08,947 There. 737 00:55:09,016 --> 00:55:10,449 There you are. 738 00:55:10,518 --> 00:55:11,951 Come and get it. 739 00:55:29,637 --> 00:55:31,264 Good, isn�t it? 740 00:55:34,775 --> 00:55:37,608 You do understand me,don�t you, Flicka? 741 00:55:40,915 --> 00:55:44,681 Eat it all so you�ll be big and strong like Banner. 742 00:55:48,656 --> 00:55:51,090 You�ve got a very smart father, Flicka. 743 00:55:51,158 --> 00:55:53,592 You�ve got to forget all your wild ways and be just like him. 744 00:55:53,661 --> 00:55:55,595 745 00:55:55,663 --> 00:55:57,995 Who are you talking to? 746 00:55:58,065 --> 00:55:59,293 Flicka. 747 00:56:00,835 --> 00:56:04,293 Aw, horses can�t understand people�s talk. 748 00:56:04,372 --> 00:56:05,771 That�s all you know. 749 00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,774 Flicka understands everything I say. 750 00:56:11,679 --> 00:56:15,137 What�s more,she talks back to me. 751 00:56:15,216 --> 00:56:16,877 Aw, poo. 752 00:56:18,419 --> 00:56:20,353 Maybe you don�t know it but horses got a language all their own. 753 00:56:20,421 --> 00:56:22,582 754 00:56:22,657 --> 00:56:24,591 There�s a neigh of terror a scream of rage a whinny of nervous impatience a nicker of longing-- 755 00:56:24,659 --> 00:56:26,092 756 00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:28,094 757 00:56:28,162 --> 00:56:29,595 758 00:56:29,664 --> 00:56:30,722 Eee-h-h-h! 759 00:56:32,300 --> 00:56:34,268 There�s a nicker of hunger. 761 00:56:35,336 --> 00:56:37,270 Can you wiggle your ears? 762 00:56:37,338 --> 00:56:38,270 Oh... 764 00:56:40,775 --> 00:56:42,208 What�s she saying now? 765 00:56:42,276 --> 00:56:44,744 Oh, she�s telling me she�s finished her oats. 766 00:56:44,812 --> 00:56:45,744 Oh. 767 00:56:45,813 --> 00:56:47,906 Maybe she�s saying thank you, too. 768 00:56:47,982 --> 00:56:49,745 Maybe she wants more oats. 770 00:56:51,152 --> 00:56:53,086 Maybe she�s had too many. 771 00:56:53,154 --> 00:56:56,089 Maybe she�s got a pain in her stomach. 772 00:56:56,157 --> 00:56:58,591 Maybe she needs some castor oil. 773 00:56:58,659 --> 00:57:00,593 Only gluttons need castor oil. 776 00:57:04,298 --> 00:57:05,731 She wants something. 777 00:57:07,668 --> 00:57:09,602 Oh, I know. She�s thirsty. 778 00:57:09,670 --> 00:57:12,104 Why don�t you go and get a drink? 779 00:57:12,173 --> 00:57:14,903 There�s a whole lake full of water. 780 00:57:16,610 --> 00:57:18,202 Oh, all right. 781 00:57:29,123 --> 00:57:31,557 Boy, you sure are getting spoiled. 782 00:57:45,306 --> 00:57:48,002 Oh, gosh. I forgot. Your Pop�s back. 783 00:57:48,075 --> 00:57:51,272 For Pete�s sake. Why didn�t you tell me? 784 00:57:51,345 --> 00:57:54,337 I�ve got to see him right away! 786 00:58:01,322 --> 00:58:02,721 You hear that? 787 00:58:02,790 --> 00:58:05,258 That means she doesn�t want me to go. 788 00:58:05,326 --> 00:58:07,419 Aw, I betcha it just means she�s got gas on her stomach. 789 00:58:07,495 --> 00:58:09,929 791 00:58:19,106 --> 00:58:22,098 Bet you I didn�t forget anything this time. 792 00:58:22,176 --> 00:58:25,543 Flour, salt, ham-- What about my hairpins? 793 00:58:25,613 --> 00:58:29,049 How could I forget anything as important as hairpins? 794 00:58:29,116 --> 00:58:30,879 They�re in there. 795 00:58:30,951 --> 00:58:32,179 Dad! 796 00:58:38,125 --> 00:58:40,150 Dad, did you get it? 797 00:58:40,227 --> 00:58:41,159 Get what? 798 00:58:41,228 --> 00:58:42,160 You know. 799 00:58:42,229 --> 00:58:44,288 Sorry. I forgot all about it. 800 00:58:47,134 --> 00:58:49,227 You did get it,didn�t you? 801 00:58:49,303 --> 00:58:51,396 Sure, I did. It�s a beauty. 802 00:58:51,472 --> 00:58:52,905 Where is it? 803 00:58:52,973 --> 00:58:54,998 Well,just a minute, Son. 804 00:58:55,075 --> 00:58:56,406 Your work done? 805 00:58:56,477 --> 00:58:57,409 Yes, sir. 806 00:58:57,478 --> 00:58:58,740 Did you exercise Cigarette? 807 00:58:58,813 --> 00:59:01,077 Yes, sir. She�s in her own pasture and I tied the gate. 808 00:59:01,148 --> 00:59:02,809 809 00:59:02,883 --> 00:59:04,316 Good. Is she hot? 810 00:59:04,385 --> 00:59:08,221 No, sir. I cooled her off on the way home. 811 00:59:08,354 --> 00:59:10,117 Give her a good workout? 812 00:59:10,189 --> 00:59:13,124 Yes, sir, and I didn�t lose or break anything. 813 00:59:13,192 --> 00:59:15,626 Good work, Son. You�re really coming along. 814 00:59:15,695 --> 00:59:17,458 Can I have it now? 815 00:59:17,530 --> 00:59:19,054 It�s in the front seat. 816 00:59:21,868 --> 00:59:23,301 You were right, Nell. 817 00:59:23,369 --> 00:59:25,803 The filly sure did the trick. 818 00:59:25,872 --> 00:59:27,305 He�s a changed boy. 819 00:59:31,878 --> 00:59:32,970 Flicka! 820 00:59:33,046 --> 00:59:35,776 Flicka, I�ve got something for you! 821 00:59:40,319 --> 00:59:42,583 Look. Brand-new saddle blanket. 822 00:59:42,655 --> 00:59:44,145 Tailor-made especially for you. 823 00:59:45,291 --> 00:59:47,191 Isn�t it keen? 824 00:59:47,260 --> 00:59:49,490 When you grow up,we�ll put it on you. 825 00:59:49,562 --> 00:59:52,497 Won�t even know you�ve got a saddle on your back. 826 00:59:52,565 --> 00:59:54,032 We�ll go riding on the range fly like the wind. 827 00:59:54,100 --> 00:59:56,068 828 00:59:57,370 --> 00:59:58,302 Look. 829 00:59:58,371 --> 01:00:00,236 Got your name on it. 830 01:00:11,350 --> 01:00:13,648 Oh, Flicka, I didn�t mean to scare you. 831 01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:15,051 Honest, I didn�t. 832 01:00:20,059 --> 01:00:22,994 Come back, Flicka. Oh, please come back. 833 01:00:23,062 --> 01:00:24,927 You don�t have to have it. 834 01:00:24,997 --> 01:00:26,430 I won�t ever ride you or put a saddle on you if you don�t want me to. 835 01:00:26,499 --> 01:00:28,660 836 01:00:28,735 --> 01:00:30,635 837 01:00:30,703 --> 01:00:32,603 You�ll just be my friend. 839 01:00:52,525 --> 01:00:53,457 Mom... 840 01:00:54,527 --> 01:00:56,961 did you ever want anything terribly? 841 01:00:57,029 --> 01:00:58,963 Most everyone wants something, dear. 842 01:00:59,031 --> 01:01:01,966 But you�ve grown up. 843 01:01:02,034 --> 01:01:03,467 You�re married. 844 01:01:03,536 --> 01:01:05,470 You�ve got Dad and me. 845 01:01:07,373 --> 01:01:08,806 Why, you�re finished. 846 01:01:08,875 --> 01:01:11,810 Then I shouldn�t still be wanting, should I if I�m finished? 847 01:01:11,878 --> 01:01:13,311 848 01:01:13,379 --> 01:01:14,812 But people do, Ken. 849 01:01:17,316 --> 01:01:18,681 Everyone? 850 01:01:20,153 --> 01:01:21,085 Always, Mom? 851 01:01:21,154 --> 01:01:23,850 Don�t you ever really get finished? 852 01:01:25,491 --> 01:01:27,755 Yeah, I wonder. 853 01:01:27,827 --> 01:01:30,762 Maybe sometimes,for a minute or two. 854 01:01:32,498 --> 01:01:35,490 What is it you want now, Ken? 855 01:01:35,568 --> 01:01:39,937 I do so want Flicka to be all right and not loco. 856 01:01:40,006 --> 01:01:42,440 Oh, perhaps she isn�t loco, dear. 857 01:01:42,508 --> 01:01:44,942 We don�t know yet for sure but if she is, Ken wanting won�t change it. 858 01:01:45,011 --> 01:01:47,309 859 01:01:47,380 --> 01:01:49,371 860 01:01:49,448 --> 01:01:52,349 If she is, it�ll look bad for her, won�t it? 861 01:01:52,418 --> 01:01:55,478 Let�s see what happens when we try to halter-break her. 862 01:01:55,555 --> 01:01:56,988 Does she have to be? 863 01:01:57,056 --> 01:01:59,149 We�ve got to find out,don�t we? 864 01:01:59,225 --> 01:02:00,317 I suppose so. 865 01:02:00,393 --> 01:02:02,827 As soon as she�ll let you touch her... 866 01:02:02,895 --> 01:02:05,523 we�ll have a try at it. 867 01:02:05,598 --> 01:02:07,657 What if she won�t let us? 868 01:02:07,733 --> 01:02:10,031 She loves you,doesn�t she? 869 01:02:10,102 --> 01:02:12,627 Oh, yes. I�m sure she does. 870 01:02:12,705 --> 01:02:14,502 Well, that shows she�s intelligent. 871 01:02:14,574 --> 01:02:15,836 How does it, Mom? 872 01:02:15,908 --> 01:02:18,775 It�s just a way of putting away fear. 873 01:02:21,013 --> 01:02:22,947 Don�t you understand,Ken that if you find love if a person or an animal finds love it�s the same as finding safety. 874 01:02:23,015 --> 01:02:24,949 875 01:02:25,017 --> 01:02:27,952 876 01:02:28,020 --> 01:02:30,454 877 01:02:30,523 --> 01:02:32,957 It�s comfort and friendliness and help. 878 01:02:33,025 --> 01:02:34,458 Everyone longs for it. 879 01:02:34,527 --> 01:02:36,461 And if Flicka�s found it and yet doesn�t have sense enough to know she�s found it and goes around being crazy and silly with fear, then-- 880 01:02:36,529 --> 01:02:38,963 881 01:02:39,031 --> 01:02:40,965 882 01:02:41,033 --> 01:02:43,627 883 01:02:43,703 --> 01:02:45,671 Then she�d be loco. 885 01:03:07,860 --> 01:03:08,792 Good morning. 886 01:03:08,861 --> 01:03:10,294 Where�d you catch them? 887 01:03:10,363 --> 01:03:12,797 At that deep hole under the falls. 888 01:03:12,865 --> 01:03:15,299 Put them in here. Thank you. 889 01:03:18,871 --> 01:03:20,395 Well, Boss,what today? 890 01:03:20,473 --> 01:03:22,304 Look over the mowing machines. 891 01:03:22,375 --> 01:03:24,309 We have to get at the haying soon. 892 01:03:24,377 --> 01:03:25,867 Those stackers need repairs. 893 01:03:25,945 --> 01:03:27,879 Oh, Gus. Before we begin... 894 01:03:27,947 --> 01:03:30,814 I want to help Ken halter-break his filly. 895 01:03:32,151 --> 01:03:34,984 I want you and Tim to be on hand. 896 01:03:35,054 --> 01:03:36,146 Where, Boss? 897 01:03:36,222 --> 01:03:39,055 The calf pasture,and we�ll do it right now. 898 01:03:41,060 --> 01:03:43,028 But, Dad, maybe we better wait a little while. 899 01:03:44,397 --> 01:03:46,831 900 01:03:46,899 --> 01:03:49,265 She�ll let you close to her now, won�t she? 901 01:03:49,335 --> 01:03:51,826 Oh, yes. Flicka�s my friend now. 902 01:03:51,904 --> 01:03:53,462 She likes me, but-- 903 01:03:53,539 --> 01:03:55,439 Good. I�m glad to hear that. 904 01:03:55,508 --> 01:03:58,636 It�s a fine thing to have a horse for a friend. 905 01:03:58,711 --> 01:04:01,271 Flicka�s never had a rope around her neck. 906 01:04:01,347 --> 01:04:03,781 She may fight us putting one on her now. 907 01:04:03,849 --> 01:04:06,784 Maybe she�ll act like she did when she arrived. 908 01:04:06,852 --> 01:04:09,013 Maybe she�ll act like Rocket. 909 01:04:09,088 --> 01:04:10,953 She has to be halter-broken sometime. 910 01:04:11,023 --> 01:04:13,457 Might as well get it over with. 911 01:04:13,526 --> 01:04:15,960 Get ready. I�ll be right down. 912 01:04:24,203 --> 01:04:27,138 Didn�t you find a broken mule shoe last night? 913 01:04:27,206 --> 01:04:28,138 Yes. 914 01:04:28,207 --> 01:04:30,141 That�s good luck, ain�t it? 915 01:04:30,209 --> 01:04:32,473 Yes, but if I make a mistake... 916 01:04:32,545 --> 01:04:34,775 Dad may blame it on Flicka. 917 01:04:34,847 --> 01:04:36,280 And then he wouldn�t-- 918 01:04:41,387 --> 01:04:43,218 Call her, Ken. 919 01:04:57,303 --> 01:04:58,235 Flicka! 920 01:05:02,408 --> 01:05:04,342 Have your loop ready, Tim. 922 01:05:21,694 --> 01:05:23,821 Put your bandanna around her neck. 923 01:05:23,896 --> 01:05:26,194 Tie it in a loose knot. 924 01:05:34,974 --> 01:05:36,805 Easy, Flicka. Easy. 925 01:05:40,379 --> 01:05:42,609 Now take your belt off. 926 01:05:48,554 --> 01:05:50,112 Slip it through the bandanna. 927 01:05:58,230 --> 01:06:01,791 Now take ahold of the belt and lead her around. 928 01:06:31,630 --> 01:06:33,996 All right. Now bring her back. 929 01:06:36,669 --> 01:06:38,603 Let go of the loop. 930 01:06:38,671 --> 01:06:41,265 Hold your hand under her chin. 931 01:06:43,576 --> 01:06:44,508 That�s it. 932 01:06:47,913 --> 01:06:49,642 I�d call that halter-broken. 933 01:06:49,715 --> 01:06:51,615 But it isn�t a halter, Dad. 934 01:06:51,684 --> 01:06:54,278 You really take some convincing, young man. 935 01:06:54,353 --> 01:06:56,787 All right. Give us the halter, Gus. 936 01:06:57,857 --> 01:07:00,792 There you are. Put it on her. 937 01:07:02,027 --> 01:07:03,460 Go ahead, Son. 938 01:07:05,197 --> 01:07:06,596 But how, Dad? 939 01:07:06,665 --> 01:07:09,225 Just the way you put it on Cigarette. 940 01:07:14,006 --> 01:07:16,497 All right,now lead her around again. 941 01:07:39,398 --> 01:07:42,162 How did she get halter-broke, Dad? 942 01:07:42,234 --> 01:07:44,327 That�s the way we break horses... 943 01:07:44,403 --> 01:07:46,166 on the Goose Bar ranch. 944 01:07:46,238 --> 01:07:48,206 You figure it out, Ken. 945 01:07:48,274 --> 01:07:51,004 Come on, boys. Let�s get at those machines. 946 01:07:53,412 --> 01:07:55,073 Then she�s not loco. 947 01:07:56,515 --> 01:07:58,107 She�s not loco. 948 01:08:04,356 --> 01:08:06,950 You could have knocked me down with a feather. 949 01:08:07,026 --> 01:08:09,790 I knew she liked me pretty well, but gosh she let me halter-break her without even an argument. 950 01:08:09,862 --> 01:08:11,796 951 01:08:11,864 --> 01:08:13,126 952 01:08:13,199 --> 01:08:15,633 Flicka�s a smart filly,just like her father. 953 01:08:15,701 --> 01:08:17,931 All girls are smart like their pops. 955 01:08:23,475 --> 01:08:24,806 She�s calling me. 956 01:08:24,877 --> 01:08:26,310 She sure is, Kenny. 957 01:08:26,378 --> 01:08:28,312 That�s the nicker of friendliness. 958 01:08:28,380 --> 01:08:30,473 Bet you she�s just hungry. 959 01:08:34,887 --> 01:08:37,321 Gus, something�s happened to her! She�s limping. 960 01:08:37,389 --> 01:08:39,220 Something�s wrong with her front leg. 961 01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:42,993 Flicka, what�s the matter? 962 01:08:43,062 --> 01:08:44,552 What�s happened to you? 963 01:08:48,167 --> 01:08:49,998 It�s that barbed-wire cut. 964 01:08:50,069 --> 01:08:52,162 But that was all healed up. 965 01:08:52,238 --> 01:08:54,536 But it didn�t heal right. The leg�s swollen. 966 01:08:54,607 --> 01:08:55,539 Is that bad? 967 01:08:55,608 --> 01:08:56,575 Means infection. 968 01:08:56,642 --> 01:08:58,701 Infection? That�s dangerous, isn�t it? 969 01:08:58,777 --> 01:08:59,766 You betcha. 970 01:08:59,845 --> 01:09:02,279 Hildy, you talk too much. 971 01:09:02,348 --> 01:09:04,111 I think it hurts her. 972 01:09:04,183 --> 01:09:06,549 She ain�t bearing any weight on it. 973 01:09:06,619 --> 01:09:09,110 What do you do for a horse infection? 974 01:09:09,188 --> 01:09:11,281 Just the same like for people-- 975 01:09:11,357 --> 01:09:13,587 put on poultice so it�ll drain. 976 01:09:13,659 --> 01:09:16,787 I�ll get Mom to make a poultice. 977 01:09:16,862 --> 01:09:18,796 Ja, I think you better. 978 01:09:55,567 --> 01:09:57,933 She has got sense,hasn�t she, Mom? 979 01:09:58,003 --> 01:10:00,437 She knows we�re helping her,doesn�t she? 980 01:10:00,506 --> 01:10:03,270 Of course she does. She�s a good little girl and we�ll get her out of this in no time. 981 01:10:03,342 --> 01:10:06,277 982 01:10:18,023 --> 01:10:19,456 Slack off!. 983 01:10:24,430 --> 01:10:25,829 Rip it! 984 01:10:29,468 --> 01:10:31,993 Dad, I�d like to talk to you. 985 01:10:32,071 --> 01:10:33,038 What about? 986 01:10:33,105 --> 01:10:34,163 About Flicka. 987 01:10:34,239 --> 01:10:37,231 For the love of Mike,can�t you see I�m busy? 988 01:10:37,309 --> 01:10:39,209 Can�t be worrying about that filly. 989 01:10:43,916 --> 01:10:45,907 I�m sorry, Dad. 990 01:10:49,455 --> 01:10:50,888 Just a minute, Ken. 991 01:10:55,928 --> 01:10:57,327 What is it, Son? 992 01:10:57,396 --> 01:10:58,328 Flicka worse? 993 01:10:58,397 --> 01:10:59,830 Dad, she�s so sick. 994 01:10:59,898 --> 01:11:02,332 Will you come down and see her? 995 01:11:02,401 --> 01:11:04,835 Maybe you can do something to help her. 996 01:11:04,903 --> 01:11:08,168 All right. I�ll come have a look at her. 997 01:11:14,913 --> 01:11:16,346 She�s lying down again. 998 01:11:20,419 --> 01:11:22,353 Good heavens. What�s happened to her? 999 01:11:22,421 --> 01:11:25,185 She�s been getting awfully thin. 1000 01:11:25,257 --> 01:11:26,383 Thin! 1001 01:11:26,458 --> 01:11:28,858 I�m afraid she ain�t going to pull out of it. 1002 01:11:28,927 --> 01:11:31,361 Pull out of it? She�s dead already. 1003 01:11:31,430 --> 01:11:33,330 How long�s she been like this? 1004 01:11:33,399 --> 01:11:35,867 She�s been real sick the last few days. 1005 01:11:35,934 --> 01:11:38,698 It�s the fever. It�s burning her up. 1006 01:11:51,450 --> 01:11:52,883 She�s going to die. 1007 01:11:52,951 --> 01:11:55,317 We�ll have to put her out of her misery. 1008 01:11:55,387 --> 01:11:56,649 Oh, no, Dad. 1009 01:11:56,722 --> 01:11:57,984 I�m sorry, Ken. 1010 01:11:58,056 --> 01:12:00,149 It isn�t fair to an animal to let it suffer like this. 1011 01:12:00,225 --> 01:12:02,489 1012 01:12:10,903 --> 01:12:13,838 Pick a time when Ken isn�t around. 1013 01:13:00,385 --> 01:13:01,317 Gus! 1014 01:13:05,891 --> 01:13:09,019 Gus, when are you going to do it? 1015 01:13:09,094 --> 01:13:13,827 I was--I was going down soon now, Kenny. 1016 01:13:13,899 --> 01:13:15,332 Don�t do it tonight. 1017 01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:16,833 Wait till morning. 1018 01:13:16,902 --> 01:13:18,335 Just one more night. 1019 01:13:19,404 --> 01:13:20,336 Gus. 1020 01:13:22,875 --> 01:13:24,672 Well, in the morning,then. 1021 01:13:24,743 --> 01:13:27,974 It�s got to be done. Your father gave the orders. 1022 01:13:28,046 --> 01:13:31,675 I know. I won�t say anything more. 1025 01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:48,420 I�m coming, Flicka. 1026 01:14:48,489 --> 01:14:49,922 I�m coming. 1027 01:15:03,170 --> 01:15:04,330 Flicka? 1028 01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:08,437 Flicka, where are you? 1029 01:15:32,733 --> 01:15:34,530 Oh, my little Flicka. 1030 01:16:58,819 --> 01:17:00,753 Give him one of these every hour. 1031 01:17:00,821 --> 01:17:02,948 I�ll call to see him tomorrow morning. 1032 01:17:13,167 --> 01:17:15,101 He�s a very sick boy. 1033 01:17:15,169 --> 01:17:17,103 It isn�t only the cold and fever-- 1034 01:17:17,171 --> 01:17:18,968 He had a shock,Dr. Scott. 1035 01:17:19,039 --> 01:17:20,006 Something happened-- 1036 01:17:20,073 --> 01:17:22,974 He�s been sad about a horse I gave him. 1037 01:17:23,043 --> 01:17:24,169 It�s been sick. 1038 01:17:24,244 --> 01:17:26,371 Oh, I see. 1039 01:17:26,447 --> 01:17:31,111 Well, you�d better have this prescription filled right away. 1040 01:17:31,185 --> 01:17:33,119 I�ll follow you into town and bring it right back. 1041 01:17:33,187 --> 01:17:35,052 1042 01:17:35,122 --> 01:17:36,054 Don�t worry. 1043 01:17:51,672 --> 01:17:54,106 How is the little boy,Missus? 1044 01:17:54,174 --> 01:17:55,607 Gus, he�s so sick. 1045 01:17:55,676 --> 01:17:57,906 Poor little boy. 1047 01:18:02,182 --> 01:18:03,809 Gus, is Flicka dead? 1048 01:18:03,884 --> 01:18:08,548 No. Tim and me fixed her up in a blanket sling. 1049 01:18:08,622 --> 01:18:10,055 She can�t stand alone but she drank a bucket of water. 1050 01:18:10,123 --> 01:18:12,057 1051 01:18:12,125 --> 01:18:15,060 Did Rob say you didn�t have to shoot her? 1052 01:18:15,128 --> 01:18:17,562 No, but I couldn�t do it. 1053 01:18:17,631 --> 01:18:22,125 When I found them like that this morning, I-- 1054 01:18:22,202 --> 01:18:24,136 I know what you mean. 1055 01:18:24,204 --> 01:18:26,138 She�s got plenty of strength. 1056 01:18:26,206 --> 01:18:29,869 Sometimes I think, Gus,miracles can still happen. 1057 01:18:29,943 --> 01:18:32,878 It was the water washing the fever out of her but it was Ken giving her courage. 1058 01:18:32,946 --> 01:18:36,382 1059 01:18:36,450 --> 01:18:39,248 All night that little fella sitting by her saying, ::Hold on, Flicka. 1060 01:18:39,319 --> 01:18:41,014 1061 01:18:41,088 --> 01:18:42,521 ::I�m here with you. 1062 01:18:42,589 --> 01:18:44,352 The two of us together.�� 1063 01:18:46,660 --> 01:18:48,093 I�ll tell Ken. 1064 01:18:48,161 --> 01:18:51,096 Maybe it will help him get well knowing she�s still alive. 1065 01:18:51,164 --> 01:18:52,893 1066 01:18:54,935 --> 01:18:56,869 There�s a storm coming up, Missus. 1067 01:18:56,937 --> 01:18:59,201 I�ll stay here if you need me. 1068 01:18:59,273 --> 01:19:00,706 Thank you, Gus. 1070 01:19:37,411 --> 01:19:39,504 I thought you�d never get here. 1071 01:19:39,580 --> 01:19:41,013 How is he? 1072 01:19:41,081 --> 01:19:42,514 Better. He�s been resting. 1073 01:19:42,583 --> 01:19:45,017 Good. We need some hot water. 1074 01:19:51,158 --> 01:19:53,092 Did you do as I told you? 1075 01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:54,593 Boss, I couldn�t. 1076 01:19:54,661 --> 01:19:57,687 I gave the order,and you�ve had plenty of time. 1077 01:19:57,764 --> 01:19:59,322 I just couldn�t do it. 1078 01:19:59,399 --> 01:20:00,832 Where�s the rifle? 1079 01:20:00,901 --> 01:20:02,334 In the bunkhouse. 1080 01:20:02,402 --> 01:20:03,835 Go get it. 1081 01:20:11,044 --> 01:20:12,477 Oh, Rob, please don�t. 1082 01:20:12,546 --> 01:20:13,979 He knows she�s alive. 1083 01:20:14,047 --> 01:20:15,981 He thinks she�ll get well. 1084 01:20:16,049 --> 01:20:18,483 Give him something to hope for. 1086 01:20:28,929 --> 01:20:32,126 Would have been better if she were shot weeks ago. 1087 01:20:32,199 --> 01:20:34,599 It�s been nothing but misery for everyone. 1088 01:20:34,668 --> 01:20:37,102 Look what it�s done to Ken. 1089 01:20:37,170 --> 01:20:38,603 I wish you wouldn�t, Rob. 1090 01:20:38,672 --> 01:20:39,604 He needn�t know. 1091 01:20:39,673 --> 01:20:40,901 He�ll hear the shot. 1092 01:20:40,974 --> 01:20:42,407 He�ll think it�s thunder. 1093 01:20:42,476 --> 01:20:44,171 He�ll know it�s the rifle. 1094 01:20:44,244 --> 01:20:45,711 I�m sorry, but it�s just no good letting sick animals live. 1095 01:20:47,314 --> 01:20:50,340 1096 01:21:15,108 --> 01:21:16,939 It�s raining. 1097 01:21:17,010 --> 01:21:19,444 The rain won�t hurt her, darling. 1098 01:21:19,513 --> 01:21:22,448 Flicka�s been out in thunderstorms all her life. 1099 01:21:23,984 --> 01:21:26,919 That was Dad�s car,wasn�t it, Mom? 1100 01:21:26,987 --> 01:21:28,352 Yes, dear. 1103 01:21:59,453 --> 01:22:02,286 Please, darling. It was only the thunder. 1105 01:22:39,826 --> 01:22:42,317 Don�t worry about the cat. 1106 01:22:42,395 --> 01:22:44,761 I�m staying with you for the night. 1107 01:22:46,366 --> 01:22:49,301 Feel a lot better if I had a drink and some dry clothes. 1108 01:22:49,369 --> 01:22:50,631 1109 01:22:50,704 --> 01:22:52,137 I�m a drowned rat but so are you. 1110 01:22:52,205 --> 01:22:53,968 1111 01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:54,972 Rob! 1112 01:22:55,041 --> 01:22:55,973 Oh, Rob. 1113 01:22:56,042 --> 01:22:56,974 Yeah? 1114 01:22:57,043 --> 01:22:58,476 You all right? 1115 01:22:58,545 --> 01:22:59,477 Sure. 1116 01:23:01,815 --> 01:23:03,407 Ken�s asleep. 1117 01:23:03,483 --> 01:23:04,916 Gus is with him. 1118 01:23:04,985 --> 01:23:07,249 I got worried about you. 1120 01:23:21,568 --> 01:23:23,001 But I thought-- 1121 01:23:24,704 --> 01:23:26,137 I heard a shot. 1122 01:23:26,206 --> 01:23:27,639 It was a mountain lion. 1123 01:23:27,707 --> 01:23:29,140 Did you get him? 1124 01:23:29,209 --> 01:23:30,699 I will before morning. 1125 01:23:40,120 --> 01:23:41,553 I couldn�t do it. 1126 01:23:41,621 --> 01:23:45,717 She wants to die,she�ll have to do it by herself. 1127 01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:48,593 Ken heard the shot. 1128 01:23:50,597 --> 01:23:52,224 How�d he take it? 1129 01:23:52,299 --> 01:23:53,732 Well, he took it. 1130 01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:58,396 He didn�t question it,he didn�t seem to rebel. 1131 01:24:08,315 --> 01:24:09,748 If he wakes up and asks don�t tell him she�s still alive. 1132 01:24:09,816 --> 01:24:11,750 1133 01:24:11,818 --> 01:24:12,750 But, Rob-- 1134 01:24:12,819 --> 01:24:14,753 She may be dead by morning. 1135 01:24:14,821 --> 01:24:16,254 Wouldn�t surprise me. 1136 01:24:16,323 --> 01:24:17,756 He�s accepted her death. 1137 01:24:17,824 --> 01:24:21,692 If he knows she�s still alive,he�ll be all upset again. 1138 01:24:24,598 --> 01:24:26,031 I won�t tell him. 1141 01:25:53,954 --> 01:25:55,353 Thanks, Flicka. 1143 01:26:09,045 --> 01:26:10,273 Morning, Dad. 1144 01:26:12,082 --> 01:26:14,016 How do you feel this morning? 1145 01:26:14,084 --> 01:26:15,517 Much better, thanks. 1146 01:26:15,585 --> 01:26:19,021 Enough better to go out in the warm sunshine? 1147 01:26:21,591 --> 01:26:23,388 I guess so. 1148 01:26:23,460 --> 01:26:24,893 It�s doctor�s orders. 1149 01:26:24,961 --> 01:26:27,896 Come on. I�ll help you get dressed. 1150 01:26:54,724 --> 01:26:57,591 Dad...where are we going? 1151 01:26:59,129 --> 01:27:00,687 The calf pasture. 1152 01:27:00,764 --> 01:27:02,197 That�s right, Son. 1154 01:27:26,890 --> 01:27:28,255 Flicka. 1155 01:27:29,659 --> 01:27:31,718 It is Flicka. 1156 01:27:31,795 --> 01:27:33,456 But I thought-- 1157 01:27:33,530 --> 01:27:36,897 I didn�t shoot her. I couldn�t. 1158 01:27:36,967 --> 01:27:38,400 That shot you heard? 1159 01:27:38,468 --> 01:27:40,402 That was the mountain lion. 1160 01:27:40,470 --> 01:27:42,165 I killed him. 1161 01:27:42,238 --> 01:27:43,796 Ohh. 1162 01:27:43,873 --> 01:27:46,273 Ohh. 1163 01:27:46,343 --> 01:27:47,605 Easy, Ken. 1165 01:27:56,286 --> 01:27:57,480 Flicka. 1167 01:28:05,328 --> 01:28:07,023 Oh, Flicka. 1168 01:28:18,308 --> 01:28:21,141 She did get gentle,didn�t she, Dad? 1169 01:28:21,211 --> 01:28:23,202 Gentle as a kitten. 1170 01:28:25,048 --> 01:28:27,516 She�s given us a lot of trouble, Son but she�s taught us some important things, too. 1171 01:28:27,584 --> 01:28:30,451 1172 01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:33,853 You, responsibility. 1173 01:28:35,191 --> 01:28:40,288 Me, there is such a thing as hope beyond hope. 1174 01:28:40,363 --> 01:28:43,799 That sometimes, when things are at their lowest ebb all we need do is have a little more love a little more patience,and a little more faith. 1175 01:28:43,867 --> 01:28:47,803 1176 01:28:47,871 --> 01:28:51,329 1176 01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:55,101