Original subtitles

They called me mad Jack, and if there's anybody in these mountains that knows the real story of James Adams, that'd be me.

So I'm putting it down in writing just the way it happened in hopes of setting the record straight.

And my friend Adams was accused of a crime he didn't commit.

So he escaped into the mountains, leaving behind the only life that he ever knew.

Now that wilderness out there ain't no place for a green horn.

And his chances of surviving were mighty slim, where no time at all for he was beaten down, bragged, nearly stubborn.

Well, about then he come upon a grizzly bear cub all alone and helpless.

Adams knew that little critter couldn't survive without his help, so he started right down that cliff, risking his own life to save him.

Now that cub took the Adams right off.

That was when he discovered he had a special kind of way with animals.

They'd just come right up to him like he was a natural part of the wilderness.

But that bear cub, he was extra special.

As he growled he became the best friend Adams ever had, and together they became a legend.

There's a world where we don't have to run anywhere. There's a time where Carl are all living free and harmony and majesty.

Take me home, take me home, take me home, take me home, take me home.

The wilderness is a funny sort of place. It can be all quiet and peaceful like in the morning, but there's plenty more to it than meets the eye.

And the first one who's going to find that out is a green horn.

Adams can tell you about that. Before he got his cell settled in with Ben and learned how to survive, he went through it all.

And then some. But I'll say this. He worked never as green as that fella we run into one autumn up in the mountains.

Now there was a galoot who was a plum flat-out danger to himself and everybody else too.

Well I'm surprised we're all still alive today.

Good morning Joshua.

I hope you enjoy your rest Ben.

Really does my heart good to see you so comfortable.

I can't recommend it from my back though. But my heart feels great.

You know Joshua? We got to find another place for Ben to sleep. I don't think I'm ever going to stand up straight again.

You're good, Trent.

Yeah that tree gives me an idea.

I guess I could build a mauine to. A little shoulder of his own.

He'd be more comfortable. And I know I'd be more comfortable.

Where's Jack was here? For this help I can get there a lot faster.

Don't it feel funny to you ever second?

That's peculiar. The hackles on my neck is erasing.

You get to feeling that somebody's got their eye on us.

Man I can't help it if you ain't sensitive.

I know I'm not crazy I tell you I feel something.

You reckon there could be somebody up there? Yeah.

You're right that's a fool notion. It wouldn't be anybody up there except maybe a long horned sheep.

Or a bounty hunter looking for the price on Adam's head.

Do you want a drink? Mm-hmm. Better get one.

Oh I say there.

Arnie.

Marvelous day isn't it? Just right.

You got your boots a little wet there young fella.

Well glad you can drop in.

Where are you from anyway? You lost from a hunting party? Oh I'm not lost.

No indeed I'm on my own quite alone. I'm doing rather well if I tell myself.

Well in that case you know where you are and how to get back to where you come from.

Wherever that is. Well nice meeting up with you. I reckon.

Yes it was. I mean it is.

Wait.

You don't mind if I follow along do you? The company you know.

Or alone out here.

Can't stop you from following I guess.

You are it.

I'm fine. It's just asthma. Corner case.

There. You see if you're smart. You'll be going home.

Now before you get yourself killed.

One of them.

See. I mean that.

I can't.

I'm coming.

You don't have to slow down for me. I'm right behind you.

Why ain't slowing down. I'm stopping.

I can't go on further you know.

Suit yourself. I'm making camp right here for the night.

Oh.

Looks like a good place for it.

What would you know about that?

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm scared.

What would you know about that?

I've studied these things.

Not. Who ever heard of studying campsite.

They have to our life.

By the thing well.

Greatest book ever published.

Everything in it.

How to play as new trails.

How to survive.

Under any circumstances.

Does it tell you anything in that backwoods Bible about collecting wood for a fire?

You just leave the fire to me, old man.

Oh, man.

Let's see how the fire would.

Well, it wasn't so hard to find.

I say, old man, that doesn't seem to be much wood about.

I sort of, uh, stumbled onto this. I hope it'll be enough.

Nothing well says. If you strike at the correct angle, you can see the fire.

I think it's a good thing.

I think it's a good thing.

Nothing well says. If you strike at the correct angle.

I think I, uh, what in tarnation?

I'll take care of it. Just get over here and stomp it out with them tender feet of urine.

Now, what'd you do that for? That's all the water I had. When roughing it, accidents will happen.

I'll never mind about the water, old man. I'll get us some more.

Oh, where? There ain't no springs out here. And that, that, that, that quick we crossed is miles back there.

Nothing well is most explicit on the subject. What I can be found anywhere if you just know where to look.

Well, look.

Nothing well.

Nothing well.

Well, I found some. Oh, that's good. Where'd you find it?

Right where nothing well said to look in the center of a hollow log.

Oh, that's right.

No, no, no, no thinking.

There's usually, uh, skunk water from a hollow log takes the mind of getting used to, but I see you took to it right away.

Have some grub. Oh, no, no, thanks. I couldn't.

When was the last time you hit?

Well, I don't exactly remember. But Leppingwell says that a man can go without food for weeks without any ill effect.

It builds a man's stamina, fortitude, makes him strong.

You, uh, never did say exactly why he was appearing these mountains.

Oh, didn't I? Well, I have a purpose. A very important purpose.

Are you bounty hunter?

Hardly, old man.

I've been called the high service. I know that. I'm absolutely sure of it. Destiny is beckoning to me.

You got relieved. Not like you mean.

I'm gonna be somebody someday, but I've been plagued with illnesses ever since I was a child.

My father says that physical fitness is the key to success.

So that's why I'm out here.

To learn through hardship. To build myself up. To be ready for those great years ahead.

Well, you wander around these mountains by yourself for very long, and you're not gonna have too many great years ahead of you.

I'll just stay with you.

Doesn't matter where you're going. The experience. Now, now, now, wait.

You may need the experience, but I don't.

So tomorrow morning, you're heading downhill. You just follow right down this valley.

Keep the afternoon sun on your right. And in five days, you come to a settlement and you can take stagecoach east.

Your fortitude will take care of you, so you won't need any grub.

Mm. You've got your skunk water, so you won't get thirsty.

Good night.

Well, I woke up before day break, left him some food, and lit out of there.

Tender feet, they...well, they make me nervous.

I figured he could keep himself alive, least till he got to a town somewhere.

Sides. He had old laughing wells along the help mouth.

Now, where'd you all come from?

Just what I need. An audience.

Well, come on fellas, how about a little help?

Well, at least you didn't deserve it. Come on over here.

Well, I appreciate the thought, but I'm afraid I need a little more heft than that.

Ben! Thank you for picking up to handle this.

Come on over here. I need a little muscle on this.

That's a boy. I gotta get these logs over there. Okay, pull.

That's a boy. Now, what did I think of this sooner?

You can help build your own shelter.

Hey! Ben! Hold it, Ben! No!

Oh, no!

If I thought you did that on purpose, pull the house.

Anybody home? I've been walking so long these moccasins feel like two-friend pants sitting on a hot bar.

What'd you do? I have an earthquake? Yeah, about the name of Ben. I'm building a moline too.

He's been so used to sleeping in the house with me and he just don't make a good roommate.

Bunker and an abandoned be a real pleasure compared to this fella I run into a couple of days back.

Stranger has strange as they come. A real green horned kid. Not in this country.

All by his lonesome never been there any further away from home than his mama's apron strings.

Talk about your tendery. He wanted to take along. But I just pointed his nose towards home and I tailed it out of there.

Funny little guy? Yeah. Wearing baggy pants? Yeah.

Any boots? Yeah. Has glasses? Yeah. Where did you see? Right behind you.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh, oh, oh.

How'd he do? My name is Rose Belt. Theodore Rose Belt?

No.

Snores, too. I couldn't hear him over the rack that he was making last night.

Remind me to saw Millet log in season. I don't snore.

Us mountain men can't afford to snore. We live too dangerously.

Infident. Did I ever tell you about old one-eared grogan?

When it come to snore and he was a regular one-man riverboat band.

One time he was blaring away thinking he was hit out in his big whack in his old sheet-type mountain lion cubs along.

And thinking all that cater-watered with a heat-type mountain lion, she just jumped back in the mirror.

You heard that? Yeah. Yeah.

Incidentally, I'm sorry about that J-bird calling me in here at the camp.

Oh, that's no harm, though. Did he tell you what he's doing out here anyway?

Yeah, something about proving himself, being a naturalist and a bunch of funny talk about being a man of destiny.

Can you imagine that a little runt tenderfoot like that?

Well, it's hard to judge what's inside a man, by the way, he looks, or by the way, he acts.

Well, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but if he looks foolish, acts foolish, and talks foolish, you can be pretty darn sure he is foolish.

Adams. Adams.

Hmm.

Hmm.

In the end.

In the end.

In the end.

Help.

Help.

Help.

In the end.

Help. In the end.

Help. In the end. Attack.

I want you. I'm an expert.

I would have fined you this surrender immediately.

I may have to exert force.

Pass me. That's the habit.

Indians. Indians?

There ain't but one, and he's friendly.

At least, wait as he was.

Loom this understanding, Mr. Roosevelt.

This is Nicoma, my blood brother.

Nicoma?

Teddy Roosevelt.

Gradyard.

What were you doing?

He attacked me with a bucket of water.

A bucket of water?

Huh?

Ballahaja.

Deelik Chick.

Now see what you've done.

He says you're crazy and that you stink.

He's only his way home.

Well, I didn't mean...

I certainly didn't expect it.

It'll soon work itself out.

A pitch in the hand, let's clean this mess up.

It's hardly my fault, after all.

What do you like that?

Wasn't his fault, so now he doesn't want to help clean it up.

I got a feeling Teddy Roosevelt never had to do much for himself.

I think he's always had somebody to pick up after him.

Poor little rich boy.

All by himself.

Not worth the powder and take the blow him up.

Don't do that.

Oh, terribly sorry old man.

And don't call me old man, my name is Jack.

The fellow doesn't like to be reminded.

Besides, I ain't that old.

Just to figure a speech old man.

Jack.

What is that?

Oh, that's a...

Curtain.

She's a friend of Adam.

Here she's taking the light into you.

Oh, this should be interesting.

Jack.

Jack.

Jack.

Jack.

Do you want something or do you plan to just make it a career following me around?

Wanted to ask you something old man.

Boy.

Well, now that I'm here, I'd like to look around a bit, you know?

Well, there's nothing stopping you.

I wanted to borrow your animal.

My boy.

You're a butro.

Oh, number seven, no, look.

Deride.

Get around a bit better than on foot.

Oh.

Do you want to ride number seven?

Righto!

Well, if it's all right with number seven,

it sure is all right with me, but I feel I better warn you, young man.

I'm not sure that number seven is the...

...gritin' type.

Ah, lots of mere bag of pal, bag of hook.

I mean, I'm a splendid horseman.

Written all my life.

Master of the Oyster Bay Fox hunt, you know?

Number seven's right over there.

You just help yourself.

Thanks old man.

Say goodbye to your friend.

Ah!

What's going on out here?

Mr. Theodore Rosie felt.

It was about to show us some of his splendid horsemanship.

On seven?

Yeah.

It's amazing the way some fellers will pick to commit suicide.

We get all dressed up for the occasion to boot.

Gentlemen?

Well, didn't you warn him?

It sure I warned him.

But he wouldn't listen.

Didn't think he would.

Like he told me.

He's destined for high places, and he's about to go to one right now.

What he's forgetting is that when you go up, you gotta come back down too.

Mm-mm!

All right!

Whoa!

Get him!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Good try, Teddy!

Ah!

Oh, he ain't gonna try it again.

I'm afraid Mr. Theodore was behind the barn door when they passed out the brains.

Hang on, children!

Hang on!

Let's try and give these people a horse!

Whoa!

He's trying to hold on!

He's eating!

He's eating!

Oh!

I sort of figured that number seven wouldn't take to be in road.

Oh, Pully, try!

Huh?

It sure was, Teddy.

You all right?

It's just fine.

I'll just put this around here and tighten it up.

It'll be fine.

We get this lashed up.

Good bound bark covering.

It'll be good.

What do you think, Ben?

Black and pretty nice place to spend your nights, don't it?

It's all handmade.

I got to feel him.

He's not too impressed with it.

He ain't slim with me no more.

He's just gonna have to get used to the idea.

Mmm!

Mmm!

Bear!

Ugh!

Greatly bear!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Bear!

Ugh!

Greatly bear!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Bear!

Ugh!

Greatly bear!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Bear!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Don't just stay right there.

Mmm!

Old Bill.

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

I forgot to remember what's laughing well, said.

The mane come and the face a bit pretty.

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

Mmm!

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Mmm!

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Mmm!

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Oh!

Hello there.

I've come you to be chasing Ben Franklin that way.

Is that your bear?

He thinks I'm his.

Oh!

Heh heh heh...

Jason a bear!

You know, he wasn't Jason Ben.

He thought Ben was on a rampage.

He risked his life to warn us.

Speak of the devil.

Speak of the devil.

I wanted to say goodbye.

You don't mean that you have to leave us.

No, not exactly.

Oh.

I want to try it myself.

What you've accomplished here in this valley, I'm very, very impressed.

I want to do the same thing.

He.

I'm sure I can succeed.

I have quite a few ideas of my own.

I'd like to wish you luck.

He's going to need it.

Thank you.

So, that tenderfoot Theodore Rose is help.

He just marched right off into the hills.

Figuring to conquering the wilderness, I guess.

Well, hello.

Hello.

Wonderful how friendly the animals are.

Gertrude, that's not very polite.

Hey.

Now, hello.

Don't do anything rash.

I wonder how laughing well recommends we talk to a porcupine.

Cautiously, I presume.

Gertrude?

Gertrude, where are you?

This is a sticky situation.

I wish I could tell you I was sorry to see you go.

Oh.

This election of a permanent campsite is all important.

Next is the construction of a sound where the proof shelter.

Seems reasonable.

First, choose a medium-sized sapling.

Carefully, not in the direction you wish it to fall.

And he will wave.

Well, there's a medium-sized sapling.

Carefully, not in the direction you wish it to fall and he will wave.

A very simple fact, usually a velocity-based gradient gives a huge effect on something.

Peaceful.

Another???

Right?

And you have a guaranteed effect on what's going on.

Now, notching a tree to fall where you want it to fall ain't as easy as it might sound.

First off, you've got to know what you're doing.

Rossie felt could chop a pretty handy lick, all right, but it's where on the tree you

do the chopping, not how good you do it.

It counts.

If you're notching a tree on one side, the tree falls away from you.

If you're notching on the other, it'll land right smack on top of you.

You're away.

I guess it don't take a heap of figurins to know on which side of the tree Mr. Rossie

felt made his notch.

Well, that does it.

I think that's sturdy enough.

Not even number seven could pull that down.

Short to Ben.

Ben?

There you go, Ben.

You knew home.

Pretty nice, huh?

You don't seem to impress with it.

Well, just give him a little time.

You'll get used to it.

Come on, Ben.

Go on in.

Come on, Ben.

Go on inside.

He loves it.

Well, Adams, I gotta admit, when you're right, you're right.

He just loved it.

He tore it.

That's good truth.

You up, son?

He sure does.

Having feathers, you ruffle.

Probably got tired of hanging out with that four-eyed hoot-out.

I don't think so, Jax.

She's awful upset.

Something must have happened to Theodore.

Something happened to Theodore long before he attacked himself, does.

Come on, Jax.

But Theodore said he could take care of himself.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

Theodore said he could take care of himself.

You're a dumber, number seven.

First you lose your home to a bear.

Now you lose your senses to a green horn.

Well, I better go look after him.

Well, you slow down, Adams.

I ain't got wings.

We could walk in order.

Some green horn kid anyway.

I don't think Leffingwell fully explained all aspect to the wilderness experience.

Help me.

Help me.

Help somebody.

Help.

Look out.

Look out.

Oh, I have to be careful.

Easy now.

I just gotta grab the mic behind me.

Don't you move, Theodore.

Got him.

Well, nothing broken.

That's good.

Now why don't you take your pack and your woodsman Bible and get on home before you get yourself killed or one of us?

No.

You didn't understand.

That tree falling on me was just a fluke.

I've learned a lot since I've been on my own.

Theodore, Jack's got a good point.

It takes a long time to learn to survive in the wilderness.

You can't expect it.

I can too survive.

And I'll prove it.

I'll lead us back to your cabin by the shortest safest route.

Hmm.

He says he's going the wrong way.

I know it, but you got admirers' determination.

Come on, let's follow him.

Are you crazy?

He's going the wrong way.

You know, sometimes number seven is easier to understand than you are.

Now, how's come you to take an interest in a, in a, in a four-eyed, bow-legged, tender foot like that?

Are you once took a shine to a clumsy good for nothing tender foot?

Yahoo!

Me.

Come on, let's go.

Come on, hold on.

Hold on.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

There.

Better roll the time.

Stronger, too.

A regular Hercules.

Are we getting close to home, Theodore?

Ah, yes.

Very close.

Um, this way.

Ha.

Ha.

Ha.

Have you seen enough determination yet?

Come on.

Get in.

Get in.

See one thing for you, Theodore?

You sure know how to pick the hardest way to get some words?

Here, I'll take your truth.

Come on.

Give me your hand.

Hold on.

There you go.

Hang on, dear truth.

Mm.

Grab a hold of my hand, Teddy.

That's it.

Watch them loose.

I'm gonna get a grip.

Well, there goes the trail down.

What trail there was.

This is great.

Here we are on top of the gorge. The only way down is to have wings or a thousand feet of good rope.

You should have just let those rocks take me with them.

There's something else I should tell you.

I'm lost.

I know that.

You know that.

Why didn't you say something?

Because you had to find out for yourself.

Let's go find ourselves a way out of this place.

I've been in some pretty nasty predicaments in my time, but I usually don't need some green arm to help me get in him.

Now, me and Adams was stuck on top of a mountain with a tender foot whose gumption was bigger than his brain.

I don't mind telling you I had better days.

This was a bridge.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

This was a bridge once.

Not much of it left anymore.

I doubt if it hold a man's weight.

And that's a long ways down.

No, wait.

I don't weigh much.

Teddy, no. Teddy.

The indoor, you're crazy if you go out there.

That bridge wouldn't hold a skinny fleet.

Much less a green kid with no brains now.

Get back here.

You know, I started to think you might have took on some sense back there when you figured out you was lost.

But now I can see that you and number seven are probably two of the dumbest critters on this herd.

Hold on, Teddy.

Nothing well never said anything about bridges.

I guess I'm on my own.

Teddy, blow yourself up slow and easy.

I'm all right.

Go, come out.

Go, go, go.

Teddy, that tree over there.

You've got to drop that tree across the gorge.

Right there.

I'm not sure I can make it fall properly.

If it misses, Teddy, notch it on this side.

Down low, and then put a notch deep on the other side just above it.

Use that rock as a wedge. Do you understand?

That'll be the day.

Now maybe if your name was laughing well.

That's right, Theodore. That's an axe.

Now get yourself the choppin'.

Notch it on this side. That's right. All right.

Let me go.

Let me go.

Let me go.

Easy, Jack.

It's just one step at a time.

Adam, I do know how to walk and do that for years.

Can I give you a hand?

Jack.

It's splendid.

It's splendid.

That about does it, eh?

Yeah. Now let's find a way out of here.

Up this way, be my guess. Come on.

The coma's gonna lead you back to town.

I won't say goodbye, because I'd like to come back again someday.

But I will say thank you, all of you, for putting up with me and my mistakes.

Certainly made enough of them.

Everybody makes mistakes, Teddy. But you realized yours.

And you've got the courage and the determination to overcome those mistakes.

No.

Okay. I got the message.

You got as much determination as Teddy.

You can sleep in the cabin.

But I get the bed.

I've grown to love the wilderness.

I think everybody should have the opportunity to experience nature the way I have.

Right in the thick of it, you might say.

Well, I've had a bully bully time.

So long, Teddy.

So long, old Jack.

Teddy?

Funny thing about Teddy. What's that, Adams?

I got a good feeling about him.

Theodore Rosie felt.

You'll never mount to a hill of beams. Take my word for it.

Deep inside the forest is adoring to another land.

Here is our life and home.

We are staying,

if forever in the beauty of this place,

although we keep on hoping.

Maybe there's a world where we don't have to run.

Maybe there's a time when Carl our own living free,

or the knee in majesty.

Take me home.

Take me home.

Take me home.