August 6, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Gun Smoke, brought to you by Chesterfield to put a
smile in your smoking always by Chesterfield, made the modern
way with Accurrae. Around Dodge City and in the territory
on West, there's just one way to handle the killers
(00:31):
and the spoilers, and that's with a US Marshall and
the smell of gun Smoke. Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad,
(00:58):
the transcribed story of the violent that moved west with
young America and the story of a man who moved
with it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Mad.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, come on with that table in the back. I
want you to meet Ida Stewart.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
All right.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It has only been working here about a week.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Isn't that gil Varden sitting with her?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Miss Kiddy? Marshall, Dylan, how about gil?
Speaker 6 (02:02):
And I bought the Marshall over so you could meet him.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Marshall?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Pleasures been telling me a lot about you.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
He's quite an.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Admirer of yours.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's good to know. I got some friends.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
He always did right by me, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
He never caused anybody any trouble. Gil and I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Aim to well, if you will excuse us now. I
promised i'd try to bring Gill a little luck at Tarot.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
See you again, Marshall.
Speaker 9 (02:27):
Sure, come on, Hona, and you'd better bring me luck too.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
She sure has a way with kids kids.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Gill's twenty kitty to me.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's a kid.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I've known kids who were men at sixteen.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Oh sure, but there aren't many of them.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah. Maybe it's good to take your time growing up.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh maybe, as long as you don't take forever like
Henry gann over there.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
He must be forty and all.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
He's ever learned to be is a loud bully.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
I don't call him growing up.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, I don't care much for Gant myself.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You look at him right now, Matt. He's trying to
go in on Gill and Ida all yeah, that gainst me.
It's gonna be trouble man. Look, he and Gil are
going outside.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I better go through some water on that shoot him
for me, Matt. All right, everybody's stay inside.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Stop it, Marshall, he'll shoot him.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'll stop it idea. Okay, Gil, you're wearing a gun.
You called at you man? Now how did he get here?
I won't having a gun play.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
You know that he's gonna shoot me because I call
his girl a bad name.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Marshall, he eat that something. If there's any shooting, I
will do it again.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
All right, I'll fight him bare handed, you.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Little scratch again. You'll leave him alone, we'll get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'll kill you. Can't one way or another. I'll kill you.
Hear that, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
He means he's gonna shoot me in the back. You
wouldn't dare try it. No other way I've heard all
I want to hear. I told you to leave Gant.
He's a coward. He's a dirty little coward.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You know what he called, Adam Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Forget it, Gil, and you forget about killing him too.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
No, I won't I get him.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You want to hang for killing a man like Henry Gant?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You don't know. And maybe Kitty was right. Maybe you
are only a kid after all.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Stop shut for all your friends. This year is this
easy way give Chester Fields? This year is so bright
and gay, rapped and ready there the.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Best to buy Gardens of Chesterfields.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
The sad is fine.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
This Christmas, give everyone Chesterfields. Chesterfields are easy to give
because they come ready to give in a bright red
special holiday carton that's wrapped in its own colorful Christmas ribbon.
Everyone enjoys Chesterfields smoother, cooler, smoking pleasure. So to all
your friends this year, say Merry Christmas with cartons of Chesterfields,
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no rapping, no time. They're easy to give because they
come ready to give Chesterfields in the bright red special
Holiday carton, rapped and read there the.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Best to buy Gardens of Chesterfields.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
The sad is five.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Morning doc.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Eh oh, Well, well.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Good morning man. You've been sleeping in that chair all night.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Why wasn't asleep?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Your eyes were closed?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You ever hear a man doing a little thinking?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What were you thinking about?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Doc oh?
Speaker 10 (06:43):
About sitting out here in the morning sun, settling my
breakfast and breathing fresh air, wishing good for my friends
and evil for my enemy.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's pretty started thinking.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
When I was doing fine and you came along spoiled it,
I might as well go up to my office and.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Back to the sordid trade.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I mean, what's his hurry? Who is it your pardon.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
Maybe he's being chased by Indians, he sure acts like it,
or maybe just exercising his horse.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'll stick with the Indian theory.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
Yeah, when I was a young man, I used to
ride like that. Oh, I was fearless as an Negro.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
No wonder the woman loved me.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You know you better get up to your office dock.
You don't handle his fresh air too well.
Speaker 10 (07:30):
Oh you think I'm lying. You never heard about the
time the preacher's daughter and I were about to a loaf.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That did I helped carry you home the night you
invented that story, do, mister Dan.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Seems like everybody's in a hurry this morning.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Henry gain't then killed mister Dylan. What a cowboy found
him half mile off the town. He was shot in
the back.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Dad was shot in the back.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Yes, you're shot in the back. Must have happened last night.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Sometime. We won't have much trouble catching his killer. He
just rode by here, all right, Let's go Chester. By
the time Chester and I picked up a couple of
rifles at the office and got saddled, gil Varden had
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a good start on us. So to make sure a
catching him, we each took an extra horse along. We
tracked him south and rode hard till noon without even
seeing him. But then we found his horse. It had
sold on him and was standing head down and feet apart,
near a wagon and a wagon. He was sitting there
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with no team to pull it, but harness strew it
all over the ground and on the seat, stoney faced
and unmoving. Was a gray haired country woman had a man.
I'm Marshall Dylon. I'm looking for the man who was
riding that horse out there.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
He's gone.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, uh, what did he do? Take your team?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
He took him?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Oh, man, you just can't sit out here.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Cain't go no place without a team.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh there's a ranch about a mile west of here.
Give that horse a little more rest and he can
carry you that far. We'll wreck a blanket on him
for you.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Huh, can't leave my man here? What my husband? He's
in the back, marshal, under them blankets.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh, what's the matter with him? Is he sick?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
He's dead? Killed? Dead?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Man? Who has stored your team?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
He done it? He rode up and never said a word.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
My man reached in the back for his rifle, and
this fellow shot him.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I just can't leave Gilvarden to do a thing like that.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
He was shaken like a leaf. He's plumb scared, Marshall,
scared of you.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I guess he's got a reason to be man, especially now.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Go catch him before he hurts anybody else. I'll manage
her as soon as I stop aching a little.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't like to leave you.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
I'll be all right, but stop him.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
He's done enough Chester. Bring a horse over, will you.
We'll fix a rate for her.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
See my first husband was killed by Indians, Marshall, bad
as it was, I never hated them Indians.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
It's different now somehow.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yes, man, I'll catch him, ma'am, I promise you. I
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sure do feel sorry for that poor lady.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Mister Dyllon.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
How I guess Gil figures he can't hang but once
justin what that into him.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
He's the last man in the world i'd expect to
run a wild killing people.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I like she said, he's scared, blind, crazy, scared. No
telling what he'll do next.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
My hey, look, there's a couple of buffalo out there.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I've been watching them, but they aren't buffalo. No, they're horses.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Hey, you're right. One of them just put his head up.
Say it must be that team. They're big enough. Yeah,
I don't see Gil. No, Hey, maybe he's laying out
in the grass there waiting for us.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I maybe there's something on the ground there. Looks like
a man.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It is a man, and he's lying face up.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
He must have got throwed knocked out. Huh.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I've won. That team goes a better rider than that. Well,
something's happened to him, isn't Guild Just.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Get some cowboy miss you're doing. Yeah, he's been shot.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
And it looks like gilded a little horse trade and
chester the rough way you.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Left this gun with the team and a bullet.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
In my chest.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
That bolly's really going crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We'll catch him quick enough. Unless this man was riding
an awful good horse.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
There's no way of tell him about that.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
No, well, let's get busy. We buried the stranger as
best we could, and then take up Gil Bardon's trail again.
A mid afternoon, His track showed we were closing on him. Still,
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it was almost dusk before we saw a sod hut
up ahead and a saddle horse standing in front of him.
On one side was a corral holding two other horses,
but Gil and whoever owned the place were nowhere in sight.
We made a circle, rode up behind the hut and dismounted.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
He ain't been here very long, mister jallon and horse,
and his is still windy.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I don't know whether to wait for him to come
out or go in after him.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
It'd be a lot safer to wait if he ask me.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
There might be somebody in there with him.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Either way, we've got him.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Now. Look, Uh, Chester, you wait at the edge of
the cabin there. If he runs out alone, take him. Huh,
all right, we're too late.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
All right, drop your gun?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Got No, you are right what you're doing? Yeah, come
on in Chester.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Did he kill that Fellah.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I'll take a look. You've got Gil's gone and he's
still conscious. Yeah, he killed him, alright.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Gill, don't look hurt too bad.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I tried to shoot him on the shoulder ever there,
and a freight one bullet went a little low his eyes.
He's open, Gil, Can you talk?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You busted my chest?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
He let me open your shirt for you.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I like him. Uh, you might live.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
At that, not with two bullets in me.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You wanna try it, Gil? Try what There's a wagon
outside it'll be a rough trip, but we might get
you in the docks.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
You shoot a man and then you try to save him.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I've done it before.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
I asked this fellow to trade horses, but he figured
I was running and he tried to jump me.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I shot him.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
He shot a lot of people today.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
Go I didn't want to. I didn't know what I
was doing except running. I heard about gant I knew
it was me you'd.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Be after But you mean you heard about gant Ah.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
I'm getting dizzy. I'm gonna fall.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Hold me, marshl you're lying on the floor.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Gill, I'm gonna fall.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
She did no, he's still breathing what. I don't know
what he meant, but he shouldn't admit killing him. Let's
get him back to Dodge if we can, maybe we
can find out what this is all about. Stop shop
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for all your friends this year.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
This easy way give Chesterfield this year, so bright and gay,
rapped and ray. They're the best you guys, Gardens of Chesterfields.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
They satisfied this Christmas. Give everyone Chesterfields. Chesterfields are easy
to give because as they come ready to give in
a bright red special holiday carton that's wrapped in its
own colorful Christmas ribbon. Everyone enjoys Chesterfields smoother, cooler, smoking pleasure.
So to all your friends this year, say Merry Christmas
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with cartons of Chesterfields, no wrapping, no time. They're easy
to give because they come ready to give. Chesterfields in
the bright red special holiday carton, rapped and.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Ready are the best to buy cartons of Chesterfields.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
They sadis five.
Speaker 11 (18:00):
Mm hm.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You go back up to the docks Chester are waiting
the office. When Gilt comes to you, let me know
alright what you doing.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
He's a awful tough boy.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He had to be to survive that trip.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He wore me out and I wasn't even shot.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Oh say, if you leave the office, you'd better let
me know whereat you'll be.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, I will Chester like kiddy. Well Matt, oh, I don't.
Oh what are you girls doing here?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
We've been waiting for you, Matt. Well you heard your
bot Gillan this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Ah yeah, he's have a docks owsy Marshall, but he's
got two bullets and Hi mighta he survived that wagon trip,
but Doc can't tell him much yet.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Hally's still alive? And I've seen men pull through shot
up a lot worse than he is. Even if he
does leave him, he'll hang, won't he? Yeah? He hang?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I'm sorry, Ida, it's all my fault, your fault, Ida,
did it matter? Say what killed Henry Gant? Ida's She
came and told me about it.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
That's she had left.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Gant tried to run off with her, but she got
his gun away from him, and she'd killed him with it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That's true, Ida, Are you trying to cover for Gil?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Gil's gonna hang anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It's true that it was self defense. Why didn't you
come tell me about it?
Speaker 6 (19:35):
I was scared to.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I I didn't think about it being self defense.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I was too scared to think.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yeah, yeah, she was mad. I had a terrible time
calming her down. She told him the truth, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, I believe her. Gil hadn't run everything, it'd be fine.
He got scared too, idn't real scared? But why he
didn't do anything? Well, they'd threatened to shoot Gant, and
when he heard about it, I guess he was like you.
He just stopped thinking.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Hello, Chester, I didn't expect to find you here as
girl conscious Chester. I know he ain't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
He he did.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
He died just a couple of minutes ago. Doctor done
all he could for him.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Kid, you killed him, Marshall, Why why'd you have to
kill him? He was only a boy.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That isn't fair.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
What chance did he have against you? He shot him
down easy?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Why did you have to do it?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I don't like it any better than you do. Gil
just killed three men, and I don't think they wanted
to die anymore than he did.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
In a momentar star William Conrad. Remember friends, this Christmas,
give everyone Chesterfields. Say if you remember the milkman, the
postman and the others who make life easier for you
during the year, Well, there's still plenty of time to
get them Chesterfields. Just drop by your neighborhood cigarette dealers
anytime this coming week. You'll find Christmas cartons of Chesterfields
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are easy.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
To give because they come ready to give.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
In a bright red special holiday carton with its own
colorful Christmas ribbon. So to all your friends this year,
say Merry Christmas with cartons of milder better tasting Chesterfields.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Enough that city was the into the railroad and the
beginning of the frontier, and it was filled or overflowing
with people from all walks of Life. Next week during
the Christmas season, two Real mountain Men come to Dodge
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to win their three generation feud, just in time for
Twelfth Night, And that was the West. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. Our story was specially
written for gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory, sound patterns by Tom Henley
and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards,
Eleanor Tannon, John Dayner and Anne Morrison, Harley bear Is Chester,
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Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy. Make
Christmas their Red Letter Day, their L and M Read
Letter Day. Give them the Christmas card and full of
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America's best. Yes. Give L and M's on Christmas Day
to friends that smoke, the build a wave. L and
M's got everything the gift for Christmas Day.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
This is it for Christmas. L and M filters and
the handsome Christmas carton. No fuss with ribbons of paper.
It's all wrapped and ready to give this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Give L and M. Christmas Cartons.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story,
as Matt Dillon US Marshall fights to bring law and
order out of the wild violence of the West End
gun smoke, in in in
Speaker 8 (24:19):
In
Gun Smoke, brought to you by Chesterfield to put a
smile in your smoking always by Chesterfield, made the modern
way with Accurrae. Around Dodge City and in the territory
on West, there's just one way to handle the killers
(00:31):
and the spoilers, and that's with a US Marshall and
the smell of gun Smoke. Guns Smoke, starring William Conrad,
(00:58):
the transcribed story of the violent that moved west with
young America and the story of a man who moved
with it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Mad.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Yeah, come on with that table in the back. I
want you to meet Ida Stewart.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
All right.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
It has only been working here about a week.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Isn't that gil Varden sitting with her?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Miss Kiddy? Marshall, Dylan, how about gil?
Speaker 6 (02:02):
And I bought the Marshall over so you could meet him.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Marshall?
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Pleasures been telling me a lot about you.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
He's quite an.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Admirer of yours.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's good to know. I got some friends.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
He always did right by me, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
He never caused anybody any trouble. Gil and I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Aim to well, if you will excuse us now. I
promised i'd try to bring Gill a little luck at Tarot.
Speaker 8 (02:26):
See you again, Marshall.
Speaker 9 (02:27):
Sure, come on, Hona, and you'd better bring me luck too.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
She sure has a way with kids kids.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Gill's twenty kitty to me.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
That's a kid.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And I've known kids who were men at sixteen.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Oh sure, but there aren't many of them.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah. Maybe it's good to take your time growing up.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh maybe, as long as you don't take forever like
Henry gann over there.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
He must be forty and all.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
He's ever learned to be is a loud bully.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
I don't call him growing up.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
No, I don't care much for Gant myself.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You look at him right now, Matt. He's trying to
go in on Gill and Ida all yeah, that gainst me.
It's gonna be trouble man. Look, he and Gil are
going outside.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I better go through some water on that shoot him
for me, Matt. All right, everybody's stay inside.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
Stop it, Marshall, he'll shoot him.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'll stop it idea. Okay, Gil, you're wearing a gun.
You called at you man? Now how did he get here?
I won't having a gun play.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
You know that he's gonna shoot me because I call
his girl a bad name.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Marshall, he eat that something. If there's any shooting, I
will do it again.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
All right, I'll fight him bare handed, you.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Little scratch again. You'll leave him alone, we'll get out
of here.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I'll kill you. Can't one way or another. I'll kill you.
Hear that, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
He means he's gonna shoot me in the back. You
wouldn't dare try it. No other way I've heard all
I want to hear. I told you to leave Gant.
He's a coward. He's a dirty little coward.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
You know what he called, Adam Marshall.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Forget it, Gil, and you forget about killing him too.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
No, I won't I get him.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You want to hang for killing a man like Henry Gant?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You don't know. And maybe Kitty was right. Maybe you
are only a kid after all.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Stop shut for all your friends. This year is this
easy way give Chester Fields? This year is so bright
and gay, rapped and ready there the.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Best to buy Gardens of Chesterfields.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
The sad is fine.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
This Christmas, give everyone Chesterfields. Chesterfields are easy to give
because they come ready to give in a bright red
special holiday carton that's wrapped in its own colorful Christmas ribbon.
Everyone enjoys Chesterfields smoother, cooler, smoking pleasure. So to all
your friends this year, say Merry Christmas with cartons of Chesterfields,
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no rapping, no time. They're easy to give because they
come ready to give Chesterfields in the bright red special
Holiday carton, rapped and read there the.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Best to buy Gardens of Chesterfields.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
The sad is five.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Morning doc.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Eh oh, Well, well.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Good morning man. You've been sleeping in that chair all night.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Why wasn't asleep?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Your eyes were closed?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You ever hear a man doing a little thinking?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What were you thinking about?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Doc oh?
Speaker 10 (06:43):
About sitting out here in the morning sun, settling my
breakfast and breathing fresh air, wishing good for my friends
and evil for my enemy.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's pretty started thinking.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
When I was doing fine and you came along spoiled it,
I might as well go up to my office and.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Back to the sordid trade.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I mean, what's his hurry? Who is it your pardon.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
Maybe he's being chased by Indians, he sure acts like it,
or maybe just exercising his horse.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'll stick with the Indian theory.
Speaker 10 (07:15):
Yeah, when I was a young man, I used to
ride like that. Oh, I was fearless as an Negro.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
No wonder the woman loved me.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You know you better get up to your office dock.
You don't handle his fresh air too well.
Speaker 10 (07:30):
Oh you think I'm lying. You never heard about the
time the preacher's daughter and I were about to a loaf.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
That did I helped carry you home the night you
invented that story, do, mister Dan.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Seems like everybody's in a hurry this morning.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Henry gain't then killed mister Dylan. What a cowboy found
him half mile off the town. He was shot in
the back.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Dad was shot in the back.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Yes, you're shot in the back. Must have happened last night.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Sometime. We won't have much trouble catching his killer. He
just rode by here, all right, Let's go Chester. By
the time Chester and I picked up a couple of
rifles at the office and got saddled, gil Varden had
(08:18):
a good start on us. So to make sure a
catching him, we each took an extra horse along. We
tracked him south and rode hard till noon without even
seeing him. But then we found his horse. It had
sold on him and was standing head down and feet apart,
near a wagon and a wagon. He was sitting there
(08:40):
with no team to pull it, but harness strew it
all over the ground and on the seat, stoney faced
and unmoving. Was a gray haired country woman had a man.
I'm Marshall Dylon. I'm looking for the man who was
riding that horse out there.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
He's gone.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Well, uh, what did he do? Take your team?
Speaker 6 (09:06):
He took him?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Oh, man, you just can't sit out here.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Cain't go no place without a team.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh there's a ranch about a mile west of here.
Give that horse a little more rest and he can
carry you that far. We'll wreck a blanket on him
for you.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Huh, can't leave my man here? What my husband? He's
in the back, marshal, under them blankets.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Oh, what's the matter with him? Is he sick?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
He's dead? Killed? Dead?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Man? Who has stored your team?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
He done it? He rode up and never said a word.
Speaker 11 (09:45):
My man reached in the back for his rifle, and
this fellow shot him.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I just can't leave Gilvarden to do a thing like that.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
He was shaken like a leaf. He's plumb scared, Marshall,
scared of you.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I guess he's got a reason to be man, especially now.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Go catch him before he hurts anybody else. I'll manage
her as soon as I stop aching a little.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't like to leave you.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
I'll be all right, but stop him.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
He's done enough Chester. Bring a horse over, will you.
We'll fix a rate for her.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
See my first husband was killed by Indians, Marshall, bad
as it was, I never hated them Indians.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
It's different now somehow.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yes, man, I'll catch him, ma'am, I promise you. I
(10:56):
sure do feel sorry for that poor lady.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Mister Dyllon.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
How I guess Gil figures he can't hang but once
justin what that into him.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
He's the last man in the world i'd expect to
run a wild killing people.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I like she said, he's scared, blind, crazy, scared. No
telling what he'll do next.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
My hey, look, there's a couple of buffalo out there.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I've been watching them, but they aren't buffalo. No, they're horses.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Hey, you're right. One of them just put his head up.
Say it must be that team. They're big enough. Yeah,
I don't see Gil. No, Hey, maybe he's laying out
in the grass there waiting for us.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
I maybe there's something on the ground there. Looks like
a man.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It is a man, and he's lying face up.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
He must have got throwed knocked out. Huh.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
I've won. That team goes a better rider than that. Well,
something's happened to him, isn't Guild Just.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Get some cowboy miss you're doing. Yeah, he's been shot.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
And it looks like gilded a little horse trade and
chester the rough way you.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Left this gun with the team and a bullet.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
In my chest.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
That bolly's really going crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We'll catch him quick enough. Unless this man was riding
an awful good horse.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
There's no way of tell him about that.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
No, well, let's get busy. We buried the stranger as
best we could, and then take up Gil Bardon's trail again.
A mid afternoon, His track showed we were closing on him. Still,
(12:59):
it was almost dusk before we saw a sod hut
up ahead and a saddle horse standing in front of him.
On one side was a corral holding two other horses,
but Gil and whoever owned the place were nowhere in sight.
We made a circle, rode up behind the hut and dismounted.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
He ain't been here very long, mister jallon and horse,
and his is still windy.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Well.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I don't know whether to wait for him to come
out or go in after him.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
It'd be a lot safer to wait if he ask me.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
There might be somebody in there with him.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Either way, we've got him.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Now. Look, Uh, Chester, you wait at the edge of
the cabin there. If he runs out alone, take him. Huh,
all right, we're too late.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
All right, drop your gun?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Got No, you are right what you're doing? Yeah, come
on in Chester.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
Did he kill that Fellah.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I'll take a look. You've got Gil's gone and he's
still conscious. Yeah, he killed him, alright.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Gill, don't look hurt too bad.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I tried to shoot him on the shoulder ever there,
and a freight one bullet went a little low his eyes.
He's open, Gil, Can you talk?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
You busted my chest?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
He let me open your shirt for you.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
I like him. Uh, you might live.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
At that, not with two bullets in me.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You wanna try it, Gil? Try what There's a wagon
outside it'll be a rough trip, but we might get
you in the docks.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
You shoot a man and then you try to save him.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I've done it before.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
I asked this fellow to trade horses, but he figured
I was running and he tried to jump me.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I shot him.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
He shot a lot of people today.
Speaker 9 (15:32):
Go I didn't want to. I didn't know what I
was doing except running. I heard about gant I knew
it was me you'd.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Be after But you mean you heard about gant Ah.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
I'm getting dizzy. I'm gonna fall.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Hold me, marshl you're lying on the floor.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Gill, I'm gonna fall.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
She did no, he's still breathing what. I don't know
what he meant, but he shouldn't admit killing him. Let's
get him back to Dodge if we can, maybe we
can find out what this is all about. Stop shop
(16:37):
for all your friends this year.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
This easy way give Chesterfield this year, so bright and gay,
rapped and ray. They're the best you guys, Gardens of Chesterfields.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
They satisfied this Christmas. Give everyone Chesterfields. Chesterfields are easy
to give because as they come ready to give in
a bright red special holiday carton that's wrapped in its
own colorful Christmas ribbon. Everyone enjoys Chesterfields smoother, cooler, smoking pleasure.
So to all your friends this year, say Merry Christmas
(17:15):
with cartons of Chesterfields, no wrapping, no time. They're easy
to give because they come ready to give. Chesterfields in
the bright red special holiday carton, rapped and.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Ready are the best to buy cartons of Chesterfields.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
They sadis five.
Speaker 11 (18:00):
Mm hm.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You go back up to the docks Chester are waiting
the office. When Gilt comes to you, let me know
alright what you doing.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
He's a awful tough boy.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
He had to be to survive that trip.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
He wore me out and I wasn't even shot.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Oh say, if you leave the office, you'd better let
me know whereat you'll be.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, I will Chester like kiddy. Well Matt, oh, I don't.
Oh what are you girls doing here?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
We've been waiting for you, Matt. Well you heard your
bot Gillan this morning.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Ah yeah, he's have a docks owsy Marshall, but he's
got two bullets and Hi mighta he survived that wagon trip,
but Doc can't tell him much yet.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Hally's still alive? And I've seen men pull through shot
up a lot worse than he is. Even if he
does leave him, he'll hang, won't he? Yeah? He hang?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I'm sorry, Ida, it's all my fault, your fault, Ida,
did it matter? Say what killed Henry Gant? Ida's She
came and told me about it.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
That's she had left.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Gant tried to run off with her, but she got
his gun away from him, and she'd killed him with it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That's true, Ida, Are you trying to cover for Gil?
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Gil's gonna hang anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
It's true that it was self defense. Why didn't you
come tell me about it?
Speaker 6 (19:35):
I was scared to.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I I didn't think about it being self defense.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I was too scared to think.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yeah, yeah, she was mad. I had a terrible time
calming her down. She told him the truth, all right.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, I believe her. Gil hadn't run everything, it'd be fine.
He got scared too, idn't real scared? But why he
didn't do anything? Well, they'd threatened to shoot Gant, and
when he heard about it, I guess he was like you.
He just stopped thinking.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Hello, Chester, I didn't expect to find you here as
girl conscious Chester. I know he ain't.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
He he did.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
He died just a couple of minutes ago. Doctor done
all he could for him.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Kid, you killed him, Marshall, Why why'd you have to
kill him? He was only a boy.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That isn't fair.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
What chance did he have against you? He shot him
down easy?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Why did you have to do it?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I don't like it any better than you do. Gil
just killed three men, and I don't think they wanted
to die anymore than he did.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
In a momentar star William Conrad. Remember friends, this Christmas,
give everyone Chesterfields. Say if you remember the milkman, the
postman and the others who make life easier for you
during the year, Well, there's still plenty of time to
get them Chesterfields. Just drop by your neighborhood cigarette dealers
anytime this coming week. You'll find Christmas cartons of Chesterfields
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are easy.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
To give because they come ready to give.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
In a bright red special holiday carton with its own
colorful Christmas ribbon. So to all your friends this year,
say Merry Christmas with cartons of milder better tasting Chesterfields.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Enough that city was the into the railroad and the
beginning of the frontier, and it was filled or overflowing
with people from all walks of Life. Next week during
the Christmas season, two Real mountain Men come to Dodge
(22:17):
to win their three generation feud, just in time for
Twelfth Night, And that was the West. Good Night.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. Our story was specially
written for gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
and conducted by Rex Cory, sound patterns by Tom Henley
and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards,
Eleanor Tannon, John Dayner and Anne Morrison, Harley bear Is Chester,
(22:52):
Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddy. Make
Christmas their Red Letter Day, their L and M Read
Letter Day. Give them the Christmas card and full of
(23:13):
America's best. Yes. Give L and M's on Christmas Day
to friends that smoke, the build a wave. L and
M's got everything the gift for Christmas Day.
Speaker 12 (23:22):
This is it for Christmas. L and M filters and
the handsome Christmas carton. No fuss with ribbons of paper.
It's all wrapped and ready to give this Christmas.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Give L and M. Christmas Cartons.
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