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Anybody home? Come on in!

You got yourself a gun, huh?

Why you?

Because I got here first.

We can't stay here, Crowley.

Listen.

When whoever owns the place comes back, we'll grab them. Don't worry about it.

There's no prison guards to stop us now.

What are you afraid of, Egan?

I don't know which is worse,

living two days in that stinking swamp or spending time in a Hillsboro prison.

Egan, you made your choice when we broke out. And he's dying.

But, Lear... Lear, where have you got the money buried, Lear?

I already took three bullets from him.

Bleeding like a stuck pig. Lear, we took you with us, didn't we?

Even though you're blind.

Nobody could help that the two guys just got you.

I'll tell you where the body is.

Where'd you bring my son?

You tell him who wants him.

He'll come.

Over here? Is that the one? No? All right, all right, all right.

All right, open up again. Open up again.

Move your tongue over. Move your tongue over. All right.

That one? All right, all right, all right.

All right, okay. All right, he's got to come up, don't he?

Now, it's very simple. We're going to tie a string to one end of the tooth,

and then to the doorknob here, set you back there, slam the door. No, no, no,

Skipper, the tooth feels fine now.

Now, listen, Carney, I've been hearing that for three weeks now,

and I'm sick and tired of being kept awake while you moan away in your cabin. Well,

I don't hanker for no darn. I'll be pulling out my tooth.

I'll go see a doc right now.

We don't have the time.

I got a car to deliver to Grover's Junction by nightfall.

You bit me! Mr. Blake, don't look at me.

You've been keeping me awake, too.

Let me keep the tooth. I'll have it out when we get back.

It's not bad. Maybe it's better.

Get off this boat. You're going to have that tooth out right here and now.

You just said you couldn't wait.

Yeah, well, I'll manage without you. I'll pick you up here tomorrow morning.

You have to.

Yes, you have to.

He's right, Carney. You're making the whole crew nervous. Yes, sir.

Look, it's the only tooth that ever gave me any trouble,

and I don't want to be hasty about having it out. Get up that plank!

Bye-bye.

See you tomorrow. How long are you going with him?

What are you saying? And you're staying with him. Now,

when I see him in here tomorrow morning, I don't want that tooth out and no ifs,

ands, or buts. I'm making you responsible.

That's just dandy. Yeah, well,

it's going to be dandy if I get a good night's sleep for a change. All right,

better cast off all this plank.

Never look back. It's bad luck. I tell you, I'm feeling no pain. Oh, yeah?

Look, it's easy for a fellow to get somebody else's... Oh, shut up.

Oh, now you're mad at me. I'm burning up.

Can you imagine being a master pilot playing nursemaid to a yellow-bellied engineer?

Oh, just a minute, Mr. Blake. Dumb is kind of harsh words.

Would you care for a poke in the nose? I would only care to get you to a doctor,

and I'm going to poke you on the nose unless you get me for gold.

I don't feel no more pain. I suppose it was all a figment of your imagination.

Now you hit the nail right on the head.

I don't think I'll need a doctor after all. Oh, the heck you don't.

Come on. Now, I'm not trying to argue.

Let's stop in and have just one little drink. Harney. Just to calm my nerves.

Harney, that is not going to do you any good.

Now, I'm not trying to weasel out. Just one little friendly drink, that's all.

One, one.

This way, bartender, refreshment for a couple of gentlemen, whiskey.

Another one for being with friends.

And another one for being kind enough to accompany me.

Barney, if you think you're getting me drunk, You're off your rocker.

No such thing crossed my mind, Mr. Blakey. Sure.

Oh, look at all that beautiful whiskey.

Let me see that too, huh?

Which one is it?

I don't remember.

Ain't that something? Let's have another one for cheers. Well, just another one.

I tell you what. Here's to Captain Holden. The best

old captain on the Mississippi. Here, here.

Mr. Blake, do you know something?

I like you.

I like you too, Carney.

Let's have all my teeth out.

Oh, no.

One tooth.

Mr. Blake, you are a tribute to the service.

Well, I can say the same about you, Mr. Carney. Thank you. Oh, ain't this something?

I don't feel no pain. I don't feel nothing. I ain't never felt there in my life.

Where did you say the doctor is?

Just around the corner.

Do you think he can make it?

Good thing one of us is sober, huh?

Where are we going, old pal? Let's have a drink. Barney,

I'm going to get you a big dip. Right.

I got a customer for you, Doc. Hey.

Chip Ahoy!

How do you like that, Carney?

Nobody around.

Well, that tooth has got to come out, Carney.

Carnie! Carnie! That's too big.

Too big.

Way too big.

Ah!

Here's a little baby that's gonna pull that tooth out for you, Carney.

Now you just open your mouth, and I'm gonna pull it out,

and it ain't going to hurt you or nothing!

Oh.

You, uh, you fellas...

Looking for somebody?

Just for you, Doc.

For me?

Well, I'm flattered.

What can I do for you?

Oh, there's nothing wrong with me.

Oh.

Is something wrong with you? No, no, I never felt better.

Well...

What's the problem, then? Well, we got an old man back in the country.

Hurt real bad. Needs a doctor.

Oh. Hey, you don't want me. No. Besides, I got work to do here.

It's gonna be easier than I thought.

Doc. Huh?

Get your bag.

You gentlemen just refuse to understand.

I have got a tooth to pull.

We don't have time to argue. Your old man wants to see you.

My old man?

You have a father, haven't you?

Well, of course I've got a father.

Everyone's got a father. What's so special about that? Yours is dying,

and you're gonna fix him up.

Oh, now, look, fellas.

You got the wrong man.

Honest, you've got the wrong man. I'm no doctor.

I can't fix anybody up.

Besides...

If you want a doctor, you just wait till he shows up here.

Yeah, we're gonna wait, all right. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Get the bag.

You want a doctor, send for one.

If we're wrong, Egan, we don't go back. We don't have that much time.

Lear might be dead even now.

Lear?

Who's Lear?

We know who he is. He's your old man. That's where we're taking you, Doc.

Look.

Look at these hands.

Now, do those look like the hands of a doctor? Look.

Don't do that again, mister, or you'll be sorry.

Now, we'll take a nice, peaceful walk.

Crowley.

Crowley.

Are they here yet?

No.

Old man, you got any rags?

He's bleeding too much. We ain't got no rags. We got nothing.

Well, you did have a pretty good ranking, old man.

And looks like you got something pretty nice here, too.

If you want to use our cabin, you go ahead.

You leave her be.

Why didn't you just keep hunting like you said you was doing, huh?

Anyhow, another day we would have been out of here.

Yes, you sure are pretty, miss. Come here.

You treat me like that was something pretty bad.

I'm not so bad if you act friendly.

Where are your friends, mister?

Stop asking questions, gal. Do your cooking. You shut up.

Well, we broke jail.

Just waiting around for the doc to take care of you.

Old man, what's your name?

Name's Pinty Walters.

That's my daughter.

We harm nobody.

Well, you'd turn us in if you had the chance, wouldn't you?

We're poor as church mice. We just want to be let alone.

You mean you like living like this?

What's wrong in that?

Selling skins in season and firewood when people want it.

Crowley.

Yeah.

Where is he?

Why is he kept there?

You just take it easy. You want to be in good shape when he does come, don't you?

Like he said, you rest easy, Mr. Lear.

They ain't far off.

They'll be here in no time.

That's done too soon, girl.

Done too soon.

My name's Lisa.

Lisa.

There they are.

They're coming, Lear.

Boys give you a hard time, huh, Doc?

Doc, I don't know how to use that bag. I know more doctor than you are. He's lying.

Took him right out of his office.

I told you, you got the wrong man.

Old man, come on out here.

You wouldn't try to fool us, would you, Doc?

Oh, yeah.

I don't even know what you're up to. How am I going to fool you?

Old man, do you know the people down at Killian Station? Ought to.

They've been living here for 20 years.

Well, you look at him and tell me if he's Doc Lear.

Never saw him before in my life.

I told you.

You got the wrong man.

You do that once again, and I'll kill you.

You just feel lucky I haven't already killed you. Why, these fellas, who are they?

They broke out of the jail in Hillsborough.

You better do what they tell you, or somebody's gonna get hurt. Nah.

Nobody's gonna get hurt, old man.

Mister, we just want you to do a favor for us, and then we'll let you go.

Who are you?

Well, I'm the pilot on the riverboat Enterprise.

And if anybody's got a favor coming to them, it's me.

After what you fellas put me through.

Yeah, that's too bad we inconvenienced you like that.

But you see, there's a man dying in there,

and all he's been asking is to see his son before he dies.

The favor we want you to do is go in there and just sit down and listen to him talk.

That's all. You just sit there and listen to him.

After it's all over, we'll go our way and you go yours.

What guarantee?

Well, no guarantee, just our word.

But we've got nothing to do with you, mister.

Well, he'll know I'm not his son. No, he's blind.

He hasn't seen his son for 15 years.

Please, all we ask you to do is a favor for a dying man.

Do it, mister.

We can't save the old man's life now he's too far gone.

But you might be saving ours.

All I wanted to do was get a friend's tooth pulled. All right, all right.

You stay here.

You're pretty smooth, ain't you? Well, you have to be for $100,000.

Like I've always said, you can't do a thing one

way, there's always another. Give me the bag.

You two keep your eye on that old man.

Here he is, Lear. I brought him for you.

You there, son?

Speak up.

Let me look at your wounds here.

Never mind my wounds.

Get out, Crowley.

Oh, Lear, I'm a friend of yours.

I said, get out!

You asked for this.

Go on, do what he says.

Somebody's still in the room.

I could tell. Get him out, son.

Let me feel your face.

Yeah, you got a mustache, ain't you?

It figures.

All good doctors have a mustache or a beard.

The patients like that, don't they?

Fifty years.

I don't like it. You don't like with him in there.

He won't give us any trouble.

Maybe.

How sure are you he'll tell us where the money is after the old man tells him?

He'll tell us.

You kept the name Steven, didn't you?

That's what your ma called you just before she died.

And now you're a doctor.

You even sound like a doctor.

You made something of yourself.

You still live with Sheriff Clay?

Yeah.

I left you at his house with $100 pinned to your shirt.

Remember that?

Yeah.

He said he'd take care of you.

That dicey sent me to prison 15 years ago.

They can't figure you out, mister.

Why you trying to fool a dying man?

Keep asking questions like that, old man,

you ain't gonna live long enough to find out.

How long we waiting?

Till I say. Here, take some water.

I guess I'm the last of a breed.

Never made much of my life except leaving you to the world to be something.

Isn't that right, son?

I don't expect no love from you.

I just wanted to see you once more before I die.

That's why I lied to him to have him get me out of that jail.

I let him think the story was true.

The story?

What story?

Before I was caught, I buried $100,000. I never did.

It was all a lie, all of it.

But I let them think I had all these years.

So they treat me nice in prison.

They figured I'd lead them to it someday.

You mean they think you know where the money is,

and they think you're telling me now?

That's why they helped me escape with them.

You get a bit here.

I'll tell him the truth.

I, I... Stevie.

Stevie!

That's what he told you, huh?

There never was any money, Crowley.

He just told you that story so you'd help him get out of prison.

He only wanted to see his son.

Looks like you fell for it.

You're lying, Mr. Crowley.

He was going to tell you himself. I was coming for you. Real convenient.

Him dying? Think we're going to let you walk

out of here knowing where $100,000 is buried?

That story was never true.

How come it was for 15 years?

I'm telling you the truth. Oh, you're good.

You're a real good liar. With $100,000,

you don't have to go back to that butt of yours, do you? Just live like a gent.

With velvet collars.

Dough skin shoes.

Fancy hotels in San Francisco, maybe, or even a trip to Europe.

Yes, sirree, $100,000 can go a long way, can it?

Tie that on the rafter.

It would be worth lying for, wouldn't it, mister?

Put him up on the rafter.

Get his boots off.

Tell him where the money is, mister.

I can't. There is no money. Get back here.

Run.

Give me that rifle, old man. Now you get going.

Let's not press our luck, son.

Better we lose them. Well, we're gonna have to deal with them sometime. Uh-uh.

They don't know this swamp like I do.

Let's go through there.

Come in.

It's me. Oh, you got the tooth out, huh? No.

What do you mean, no?

Where you been? I don't know.

You don't know? Where's Blake?

I thought he'd be waiting for me here.

Waiting for you, he's supposed to stay with you.

Well, the tooth don't hurt no more.

It's just my head. Oh, you've been drinking.

You and Blake got drunk, didn't you? I guess so, just a little. Yeah,

and you never got to the doctor, did you? I don't know where we got to.

I sobered up about an hour ago and found myself walking

in the streets here. Where'd you come from?

I don't remember. That's why I was looking for Blake.

To tell me. To tell you?

Well, I'll tell you where!

The minute I turn my back, Blake goes out with a dame on each arm.

You were out looking for dames, weren't you? I don't remember seeing none. Boy,

a couple of drunken bums I hired are on my boat.

We're going to go out and find him.

Oh, my head feels like it's coming off.

Yeah, and that's the next step.

Let's go. Oh, God.

Hey, hey, slow down, will you?

Wait up, Paul.

I'm sorry. Paul, you're traveling too fast.

Oh, no, no, you're doing fine, but the swamp.

I thought I could navigate any place,

but this is like being inside the belly of a cow.

Are you sure you know where you're headed? Yes, sir. You can relax.

We'll stay here for a while. I'm going to look around. Let me have my rice. Take it.

Oh.

He's just like Quicksilver, isn't he?

That's Pa all right.

You trust him, don't you?

I have no choice.

I ain't never been this close to a riverboat man before.

Well, there's nothing different about us.

But there is. Traveling the way you're doing.

Seeing all them different places.

Where all you been, mister?

You don't have to call me mister.

My name's Blake.

Blake.

Well, you know, up and down the river, usual

places, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans.

What do the women wear in New Orleans?

Same thing they do in St. Louis.

Dresses.

What's your name? What do they call you?

Lisa. Lisa Walters.

Haven't you ever traveled anyplace, Lisa?

No place ever.

Is it nice down river?

All them big cities and all them fancy dressed ladies.

Are they really beautiful? You know,

all my life I've wanted me a silk dress with velvet bows on it.

And rhinestone buckles for my shoes.

Don't you worry, Lissa. A pretty girl like you, you'll get them.

Maybe. Someday.

Someday when you find a fella to give them to you, huh?

I guess a girl would have to be mighty lucky to find a fella to do that.

Where's your pa, anyway? Hey, Mr. Walters!

He be coming. Why can't we just talk a while?

Ah, look at you.

Pretty as a picture, both of you.

Look, Mr. Waters, I have got to get back to my boat. That's where we're taking you,

except it's going to take time. How much time?

Well, I can't rightly figure.

We've got to cut around so we don't run into them thieves.

Imagine them thinking you know where that money's hid. Yeah.

Look, how far is it to Killian Station? Eight or ten miles. Well, let's get going,

hmm? Sure, but what's the rush?

Lisa, look, can you make your pa understand? I'm in an awful hurry.

We don't want to get caught with them thieves, do we? I'm not arguing that.

Then I'll take you to the abandoned mine up at Sands Point.

We got vittles up there. Cast him for when we go hunting.

You ain't married, are you, mister? Married?

Jane answered him.

No.

Wait till you eat Lisa's apple pie.

Best little old cookie you ever seen in all your bold days.

Can't we get going now? Sure enough, I know your

problem. Lead the way, boy, right through there.

Making his story stick real neat.

Story?

He knows where all that money's buried, honey. How do you know?

Better hunch.

Now, there's no better man I could get for you.

Except one that knows where all that cash is hid.

Oh, that ain't what I want.

I know it ain't. You're a woman.

Hey, you coming?

Be right with you.

You're my only child.

You deserve the best. I'm getting it for you.

I just like him, Pa.

I never met a riverboat man before.

Then just keep up your soft talking, me lady.

But he wants to get back to his boat.

Except I ain't taking him.

I'm gonna keep him right here till you win his heart.

How are you going to hold him?

Easy.

He can't find his way back to the river, and he knows it.

Hey, Mr. Walters, come on.

A hundred thousand dollars.

But, Pa, you could be wrong.

Maybe he don't know where that money's hid.

What have you got to lose either way?

He's working, Edie.

Hey, Mr. Walters, what's holding you up?

Stop hollering. Them fellas that are near here, they'll hear us. All right,

all right, but what are you doing back here? I thought I heard something.

No, nothing at all. Let's go.

I'm so tired, I'm breathing from memory.

We've looked in every saloon and every shack along the waterfront, Mr. Clay.

I told you, he had nothing to do with women.

Why don't you shut up? Somebody must have seen him. What do you look like? Well,

he's kind of dapper, stocky fella, wears a mustache.

He's wearing a pilot's cap and a peacoat.

Wait a minute.

Would these belong to him? Where'd you find these?

Up at Doc Lear's house. The one up there to turn out the lights.

I thought you said you didn't get up at the Doc's house. I don't remember.

You don't remember. Well, let's go see.

Wait a minute.

It won't do any good. The doc's out of town.

Went to Natchez yesterday to a medical society meeting.

I put him on the Southern Star myself. Southern Star?

It wouldn't matter which boat he took.

I'm watching how these things got up at the docks. Well, I don't know.

Maybe it was kidnapped or something.

Kidnapped? We'd want to pay ransom for Blake.

Pilots are a dime a dozen. Not a pilot like Mr. Blake.

Oh, just an idea.

Yeah, like the rest of your ideas. Like the idea of you and Blake getting drunk.

Come on, Connie, let's get out of here.

Sorry to have bothered you, Mr. Clay.

No bother at all. It's all a part of my job.

Yeah.

Way do you fry Lisa's fried chicken one of these days.

Paul, stop talking like that.

You ever think of getting married, Mr. Blake?

I'll let you two alone for a while. I got to stand lookout. Please. Andy,

I ought to go stand lookout.

You rest a while.

Wouldn't think of it. No saying. I know every sound

in that swamp out there. Nothing fools me.

Speaking about being fooled, when are you getting me back to my boat?

We've been traveling around for 10 hours. You just leave that to me, son.

We got a lot of them fellas out there. They're desperate. You ought to know that.

Ah, we lost them hours ago.

I don't think you're getting me back to my boat at all.

I think you're taking me around in circles.

You better not, Penny.

Are you trying to pull my leg, Mr. Blake? I'm liable to pull your neck.

What are you up to anyway, Penny?

Pa, I told you, you're spoiling everything.

Kind of like an invitation for you to follow, ain't it?

These ways, that's the way my old woman got me.

Don't be shy, mister.

Just cause you might be a rich man ain't no reason you can't share it with Lisa.

Dress her up in some fancy duds, she'd look like a million dollars.

At least like a hundred thousand.

Lisa, I'm sorry, I...

I guess I shouldn't have talked to your pa like that.

Maybe you was right.

Why do you say that?

Hmm?

Never mind.

Hmm.

I just didn't want Pa to say all them things to

you about my cooking and being pretty and such.

I don't know much about your cooking, but... Oh,

he was right about you being pretty.

Blade... I gotta tell you something.

I mean about Pa and me.

What? Tell me what, Lisa.

Well, Pa, he... Well, Pa what?

He wants you to marry me.

I'll bet you got a dozen fellas crazy about you.

I don't want just any fella. I want the right one.

And your pa thinks I'm the right one.

Because I know where the money is, hmm?

I don't think that.

What do you think?

Well, I didn't think you could do it, honey, but by and drum you did.

Landed yourself an educated fella just like you always wanted to.

Congratulations.

And now that it's all in the family, will you

tell us where that cash is hid, Mr. Blake?

Pa, I don't want the money.

Money never hurt nobody, honey.

Boy, I knowed you had it. Knowed you had it all along.

You fooled them fellas back there, didn't you?

Yeah, I fooled them, Penny.

I fooled them.

I guess you thought I wanted to keep that money all to myself, huh?

But it's a long way up river.

You're gonna have to get me back to my boat so we can get at it at all.

Way up river.

It's in an iron box, buried on Swog's Point, under the water wheel.

A hundred thousand dollars.

And how can we get going, Pindy? Sure enough,

we'd better douse that fire so nobody know we've been here.

I told you, didn't I, honey?

How long before the raft's ready? Be ready in a minute.

You better get Lisa.

I put my hair up for you, Blake. How do you like it?

Oh, good. Look, it's time to go.

Well, stay a minute.

Oh, I can't. Your pa says the raft is all ready. We've got to get going.

A minute can't hurt none.

Blake, ain't you got nothing to say to me?

Say to you?

Like what?

Wouldn't it be nice if we had us a little place

of our own and along the river somewhere?

Oh, now stop it, Lisa, stop.

And I could wait for you every night to come bring

in McGeegaws from Memphis and New Orleans. Lisa, stop.

What are you doing to yourself?

Look, look, you're just a young girl,

and you've got a lot of growing up to do before you think about getting married.

Now, you know I'm fond of you, but I don't love you.

I know it.

I reckon I knowed it all along.

What are you doing this to yourself?

A gal's got to have a dream.

Doesn't she?

What did he do to you, Lisa?

Nothing.

He just told me the truth.

That he didn't love me.

What about that bad money?

There never was any money, Pindy.

No, money. Not a dime.

But you're willing to hock your only daughter to get your filthy mitts on her,

weren't you? I've done it for her as well as for me. No,

quit trying to weasel out of it. What kind of a father are you anyway?

I ain't weaseling.

I didn't just pick anybody. I picked a fellow like you, didn't I?

Yeah, you did.

Now, look, you go on and find your daughter and apologize to her. Go on. Oh.

Here, hold it. Drop the rifle.

Drop it!

You want that girl alive, you better get us to the money and do it right now.

What then?

You just worry about the girl.

There is no money, Crowley.

Mister, we have five seconds. All right.

You know Sands Point?

Where's that? It's an old abandoned mine.

Lear buried the money there.

Where's there?

Well, if I told you that, you wouldn't need me then, would you, Crowley? All right,

you lead the way. Come on. Now, you be nice to me, honey.

Maybe I'll let you have a share in my loot, huh?

We just come from the mine. You get us back there.

But you said there was no money. Time, Penny. We need time.

Hold it right there.

Clyde, watch the girl and the old man.

You move, come on.

Now, don't worry, honey.

I'll take good care of them. Oh, stop being brave, old man.

You've traded for a bottle of whiskey.

Come on, mister, where is it? Well, it's in this tunnel someplace, about 60 feet.

Lear died before he could tell me exactly where it was.

Just have to look for it around in here.

Hey, here it is!

What?

I know.

We took Clyde, had him all tied up.

How'd you, how'd you do that? Lisa throw dust in his eyes, and when he went down,

I just kept kicking him till I found his jawbone.

Oh.

Now do you think you can get me back to my boat? Like a quickie jumpy. Here you go.

Yeah, I bet that old man never saw so much money

in his life as when they handed him that reward.

He promised me he was going to put her through school with the money.

Yeah?

What'd you promise him?

Nothing.

Oh, stop fretting, honey.

He was too old for you anyhow.

Paul?

You think maybe I could get me a new dress?

Ah, trouble with women. Always worrying about clothes.

How about a hat to go with it?

It's fine now, Mr. Blake. A little better, huh?

Yeah, Skipper, I'll have that next stop.

I should have done this a long time ago.

Now, Mr. Black!

Save him all this trouble? No!