August 29, 2025 • 24 mins
Gunsmoke was a beloved American radio Western drama series centered on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad. The program aired from 1952 to 1961 and is widely considered one of the greatest western series ever produced for radio or television. It was gritty, featuring tough and sometimes very violent subject matter. Gunsmoke is a treasured classic that left a permanent mark of the history of radio and westerns.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
(00:42):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
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.
Had a little lone.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Man, alright.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Cut the cards there?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Oh, I get it, that young fellow. Get your money
on a table. Look, mister, I got holding up that game.
You want cards?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You don't you?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yes, I want?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Well they see your money? Well there, eh, what's that thing?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
It's a solid gold fop.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Yeah, don't look that much to me. Well you think
Joe and I ain't shred.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Mm I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's told.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
You don't seem like a young drifter like himuight have
no gold.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
It's gold, all right. Why don't you ask somebody who.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Knows this ain't no assay office. Go on, kid, you
get some money we'll d you a.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Hey, now, wait a minute, ask her, kitty, well she'd know,
ask her.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
In case she'd know about gold.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
All right, hey, kitty, come here away.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Just what's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Look at this thing, will you?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Kiddy?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
M the watch fob?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But uh is it gold?
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Feels like gold to me? Who says it isn't?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Shut up?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
The kid wants to use it for a poker steak, Kitty,
He just wanted to be sure it was worth something.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Well, that's probably worth too much to be lost in
a poker game.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
There, I told you, home one stole deal up the car.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm gonna I'm beginning to feel lucky all at once.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yah Chester, alright, declare I shown him? Glad I found you,
mister don Oh what's the trouble?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Oh well try just think.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You better get on back the office right away. You
sound mighty excited. Somebody start on Indian uprising or something
with usertains my dad the prisoner escape. No it ain't
that neither. Oh you are gonna tell me what it is?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Good?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yes, sir, he had said, lady, what lady?
Speaker 9 (03:38):
What that lady's sitting there waiting for you in the office.
Who wish he wouldn't tell me, mister Donkey, wouldn't tell
me nothing. He's just setting there fanning ourselves. Traded a
ram rod claiming he wants to see the marshal and
where's he at?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And whine he tend to his office? All right, I'll
see to it. How old you a hammer? I'll have
a well, yes, a little bit high.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
The first thing is you're gonna go for the mail
for them? Again, that's right, I already garden, mister, only
I brung it early this morning.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Don't you remember that?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, you never know, Chester, they might have forgot to
give you some of it. They ain't been but two
circuits go on Chester.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Oh, yes, sir, I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Be back directly.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Good morning, ma'am. Yes, sir.
Speaker 10 (04:33):
Are you the Marshall?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yes, ma'am Matt Dylan. What can I do for you?
Speaker 10 (04:37):
Well, for one thing, young man, you can be here
when you're needed. I do not think this is the
proper way to run a United States Marshall's office, even
in this forsaken country.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, even the United States Marshalls have to eat sometimes, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (04:51):
That's so. Yes, Now, do you know who I am?
Speaker 8 (04:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Ma'am, I dog, is there any reason why I should?
Speaker 10 (04:57):
Most people do. I am Miss Junior's Chamberlain. My husband
was the late Senator Chamberlain.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well, I'm glad to meet you, Miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 10 (05:07):
I require your assistance.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh, how's that?
Speaker 10 (05:10):
I have come to Dodge City in search of my grandson.
I want you to find him.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Maybe you better tell me a little more about it,
Mss Chamberlain. Has he done anything?
Speaker 10 (05:19):
Done anything? What do you mean hasn't done anything?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I mean, is he wanted? Why?
Speaker 10 (05:23):
Of course he's wanted. That's what I'm telling you. I
want him to come home and forget this nonsense about
the West. He is wanted back at Yale College, where
he belongs.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I guess we're talking about different things, ma'am. What I
want to know is has he broken the law?
Speaker 10 (05:40):
Certainly not Chamberlain's don't break the law, Marshall. Dylan and
Junius is a Chamberlain juniors Chamberlain the third.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, I don't think you need a us Marshall, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, if your grandson hasn't broken the law.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
You often find people you not, Yes, ma'am, I will
men and horses at your disposal. You have the authority
to organize a search party.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I have the authority.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
I want you to use it. I want you to
organize a.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Search at once, Miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
I want you to find my grandson. I see no
need to say more.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, there's a need for me to say more. I
can't organize a kind of a search that you're talking about.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Why why not? You are the Marshal, are you not?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'm the Marshal, all right, ma'am. And you may find
it hard to believe, but my job has a lot
more to it than riding off after a boy wanted
by Yale College. Why how dare you the Marshal's office
can't close down to look forever stray.
Speaker 10 (06:39):
Miss Chamberlain, I have great influence in Washington.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well that's too bad, ma'am, that you don't have more
influence with your grandson.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
You refuse to help, Miss.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
In I'll keep an eye out for him, and I'll
let you know if I hear anything about him. But
that's about the best I can do.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
I believe I have a right to expect more, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm sorry, Miss Chamberlain. I wouldn't worry too much. He'll
probably turn up and dodge one of these days, and
i'll see if I can't send him home to you.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
That won't be necessary, Marshal. I intend to stay here
until I find him, and I'll just take him home myself.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Hello, man, we ordered a steak for you.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
You're not thinking if Mama gets here, mister John be
sure I had been offering some terrible stringy steak around
his place.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
Oh, I don't think he'll be too particular about the food, Chested,
just so he gets the chance to eat in peace.
From what I hear, he's lucky to sneak in here
without being caught by that woman who.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Is causing him so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You too think it's all pretty funny, don't you a math?
Speaker 8 (08:09):
There's two ways of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
You take me to Chamberlain. Now, I've never met her,
but I hear she's a strong, good woman doing what
she thinks is right.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
All over time.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
You'll have to admit, math, picture of an old lady
going around like a pingerton man, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, well, I'll feel more like laughing after she moves
on out of Dotch. I bet you will.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Some of the men down for long. Brand say, she's
not being too complimentary to you, kind of talks as
though she's doing your job for you, looking for that boy.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, well, uh, mis doing it.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
There's one thing about this all that I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But you are laughing, though, aren't you? Chester? Well, y's right,
I was laughing all right, but but what well, it's
just that I ain't never heard of this place that
fella escape from?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What place? What are you talking about? Well?
Speaker 9 (09:00):
That that Yale is the place that lady says he
broke close from.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Uh what is that place? Mister doing some kind of
a stockade or suthing call it. It seemed like a
stockade of Ylchester. Now would you go ahead and eat
and let miss Chamberlaine do the worrying about the Yale?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh it ain't so?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What ain't so?
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Turn around and look, I swear there was the old
lady over there standing in the doorway.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Bigger's life.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Yeah, good glory, she's coming on like a stern wheeler.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Man just ain't safe.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Nowhere is no more.
Speaker 10 (09:53):
Yes, ma'am do you own this establishment?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Well?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Uh, not exactly, man, that is I am.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
I wonder it should be good enough to summon the proprietor.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, do you see man?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Is he not here?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I kill you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right, miss kitty.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
My name is Killy Russell.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
I was asking for the proprietor. I wasn't expecting you.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
I wasn't exactly expecting you with But I'm the proprietor.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
Oh isn't that odd?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Not especially?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
You're very direct, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I have to be Yes.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Well, I like directness. I'll come to the point. I
am missus Junius Chamberlain.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I've heard of you, Missus Chamberlaine.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
Yes, uh, Miss Russell, I am looking for my grandson.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
I heard about that too.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
I can get no official help from your Marshall, so
I've had to undertake the task myself. The Marshall says
his office canneth cope with problems of this nature. Now,
Miss Russell, I would appreciate it if you would take
this description of my grandson. His name is Junius Chamberlain,
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the third.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
That much I know.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
I would appreciate it very much. If you would keep
your eyes open, Miss Russell, I'd like you to let
me know if the boy comes into your establishment.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
My eyes open and not, Missus Chamberlain, I very well
might not see him.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
You'd see him. Junius is a gentleman. I'll be staying
at the dodge house. A good day, miss Russell.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Good day.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
You want some more coffee, kiddy?
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Well go on. Why did you say then?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (12:01):
She just swept out, proud as you please, as though
she'd been in the governor's mansion instead of a saloon.
I tell you, Matt, she had me kind of flab
her guest.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, you've got a lot of company, Matt.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
I'm not sure, of course, but I think I did
see her grandson. Oh what was this about a week ago?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
What did he tell you his name?
Speaker 8 (12:23):
No? No, he didn't, ma'am. Matt's why I didn't say
anything to the woman about it. Anyway, I don't know
where the boy is now.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, what makes you think it was, young Chamberlain.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Do you remember me telling you about Lustowe calling me
over to a poker game to tell him whether a
watch fob was pure gold or not?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
H you told me I thought it was.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Well, since I saw missus Chamberlain, I haven't been able
to get that watch fob out.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Of my mind.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, why is that?
Speaker 8 (12:48):
It had a design on it matt Family crest or
something like that, and missus Chamberlain was wearing a pin
with the same design on it. I could swear to it.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh, I'm glad you didn't Miss Chamberlain. Woul probably ever
had the cavalry out looking for the boy. By now
a man.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
The boy means a great deal to his grandmother. I
don't think you should joke about it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm not joking, kiddy. I don't see anything funny about
the whole thing. I don't know what in the world
got into mister Bodkin. I don't know, but he seems
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mighty upset about something. Maybe his bank got robbed or
something commercial. You've got to come quick. What is it,
mister Barkin? What's wrong? I just got robbed, is what's wrong.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
One of the men got hit. He's lying there in
the street.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Come out, Chester. Who was shot him?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I did?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I had to shoot him. There were two of them.
They were holding up the bank.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Where's the other one? He got away right out of towe.
All right, we're just stand outside way you let me
in there. Looks like he's hurt, bads, you know, Yeah,
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that's what happened.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Uh, Like I say, there were two of them. Came
into the bank, guns drawn, demanded the money. I shot
at him. I don't think I hit the other one.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I sure didn't miss this one. I mean he's dead, No,
not yet. You know who he is, no, Marshal, I
never saw him before. You recognize him? Chester? Mostly I don't.
He's one peculiar thing, though, Miss gone's that now? Look
at there hanging from his gun?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Bill h.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh, yeah, I never seen no gunman wearing.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
A watch above there before of you.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He may not be an ordinary gunman. Chester. Come on,
let's get him up to dark. The doctor reckon he'll
make it, mister Dylan. Noh, he doesn't think so. Are
you gonna try talking to him?
Speaker 9 (15:07):
And?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I guess I better? Who? Maybe order? Wait? The dog
gets back now, it probably should, but I don't know
how long he's gonna be conscious. Chamberlain, Hm, hm, Chamberlain,
can you hear me?
Speaker 10 (15:28):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm Marshall Dylan. I'd like to ask you a couple
of questions.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
What what did you call me?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Chamberlain? Is not your name?
Speaker 11 (15:40):
I ain't you got nothing to do with that name, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
There's no need to hide or anything.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
Now, maybe dying. But hint the feared, anybody better name
it Chamberlain. He's a feared he yellow livery.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
How did you get this watch from?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I wanted or.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I wanted their? Marshall?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Can I work for luck?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
He'd run off and let me get shot? Said Luck?
I mean Chamberlain was with you in the bank. Yeah,
he was with me. He wouldn't stand in the fight.
He ran He just tell me one thing. Where did
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Chamberlain go? The old boom place? That's where we hit out.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
You get him, Marshall, get him from me.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, I'll big get named for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Mister Jillon.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
The Rochester. Don't you think it's the awful mean day
to go out hurting the man? They're all mean Chester? Well,
I know that. But if it was nice and cool
and pretty, and it was nice and cool and pretty,
you wouldn't wanna be working at all? Would you quit complaining?
I ain't complaining. Well, I'm glad to hear that. I'm
not in any frame of mind to listen to you.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
But you doing any kind of funny that nobody ain't
found out who that dead gunman he is yet?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And he was much more interested in telling me who
he wasn't than who he was. No wonder why he
didn't wanna be mistaken for a Chamberlain. Now there's the
Boone place. M come on, we'll ride right up to
the house. I'll say you cover me as I go in.
I don't think there's gonna be any trouble, al right, sure,
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al right, you stay with the horses, see Chamberlain, Matt Dollan,
come on out, come on out. I'll coming after you
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right now, all right, come on out, then all the
way out.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I uh, I don't know what you want me for, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Where's your gun?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I don't wear a gun, Marshal.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You were wearing one on the bank this morning.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
But I didn't use it, Marshall. I I didn't use it.
I didn't steal anything. I didn't hurt anybody. I just
rode right out of town.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Now you can ride right back in again.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
But you haven't any right to do this to me, Marshall.
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That's just what your partner said. Now, come on, Chamberlain,
get on your horse. I'll take him in chester a rcher.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Oh well, I put up the horses there.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Not yet. I want you to go over to the
Dodge house for me and get miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
My grandmother here in Dodge. You want me to bring
her over to the jail.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's what I said, Chester, Right to the jail, all right,
Come on, Chamberlain.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
My grandmother's a determined woman. She has a lot of
influence in Washington.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Alright, get in there.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
My grandmother has great family pride, Marshal. She won't take
kindly to my being in jail.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I'm kind of ashamed to have you here. Myself is
j yeah, Chester.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
She must have thought us right up with John.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
She's halfway across the street.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Where's my grandson.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
He's in the cell here, Miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
I want to talk to.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Him, alright, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I told him you wouldn't let me stay in jail.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Well, Juniors, I must say I I would rather have
found you indifferent surround it.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I know it's the way they do things out here.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Back home.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
They would never have locked up a Chamberlain.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
I hope not. Junius.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
We'll go ahead, Grandmother tell him about us.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
I want to know some things about your Junius.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
We can talk later. Getting to let me out first.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Is it true, Junius, that you participated in the hold
up of the bank this morning.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I didn't do anything, Grandmother, I swear it.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Were you there, Yes, I.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Was there, but I didn't do anything. I didn't take anything.
I didn't shoot anybody.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
But you threatened to.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
It was just a prank, nothing more than a prank.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
And when there was trouble you turned and ran.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Why of course I ran. I didn't want to get involved,
and you.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
Left your your partner crime to bleed and die alone.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
But I was thinking of the family. I was thinking
of the table and name.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
The chamberlain name has never been worn by cowards, Junius.
But Grandmother, right or wrong, we don't run. Marshall dyllon, Yes, ma'am.
Could your ma'am help me back to the hotel. I'm
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a little tired.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I'll go with you, Miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
You can't leave me here. You've got to help me.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
I can't help the old Junius. I pray it's not
too late for you to help yourself. Marshall Dillon right away, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, take my.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
Eye, Marshal will will they be severe with him?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'll even have a sentence to serve man. But as
he said, he didn't really hurt anybody. Except You.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. The story was specially
written for gun Smoke by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. Featured in the cast were Jeanette Nolan,
Sam Edwards, Joseph Kearns, Vic Karron and Jess Kirkpatrick, Harley
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bear Is Chester and Georgia Ellis is Kidding.
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the Smell of
Guns Smoke Gun Will spoke, starring William Conrad, The story
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of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
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.
Had a little lone.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Man, alright.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Cut the cards there?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Oh, I get it, that young fellow. Get your money
on a table. Look, mister, I got holding up that game.
You want cards?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You don't you?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yes, I want?
Speaker 6 (01:40):
Well they see your money? Well there, eh, what's that thing?
Speaker 5 (01:48):
It's a solid gold fop.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Yeah, don't look that much to me. Well you think
Joe and I ain't shred.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Mm I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
It's told.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
You don't seem like a young drifter like himuight have
no gold.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
It's gold, all right. Why don't you ask somebody who.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
Knows this ain't no assay office. Go on, kid, you
get some money we'll d you a.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Hey, now, wait a minute, ask her, kitty, well she'd know,
ask her.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
In case she'd know about gold.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
All right, hey, kitty, come here away.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
Just what's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Hey?
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Look at this thing, will you?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Kiddy?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
M the watch fob?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
But uh is it gold?
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Feels like gold to me? Who says it isn't?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
What did I tell you?
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Shut up?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
The kid wants to use it for a poker steak, Kitty,
He just wanted to be sure it was worth something.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Well, that's probably worth too much to be lost in
a poker game.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
There, I told you, home one stole deal up the car.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm gonna I'm beginning to feel lucky all at once.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yah Chester, alright, declare I shown him? Glad I found you,
mister don Oh what's the trouble?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Oh well try just think.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You better get on back the office right away. You
sound mighty excited. Somebody start on Indian uprising or something
with usertains my dad the prisoner escape. No it ain't
that neither. Oh you are gonna tell me what it is?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Good?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yes, sir, he had said, lady, what lady?
Speaker 9 (03:38):
What that lady's sitting there waiting for you in the office.
Who wish he wouldn't tell me, mister Donkey, wouldn't tell
me nothing. He's just setting there fanning ourselves. Traded a
ram rod claiming he wants to see the marshal and
where's he at?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And whine he tend to his office? All right, I'll
see to it. How old you a hammer? I'll have
a well, yes, a little bit high.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
The first thing is you're gonna go for the mail
for them? Again, that's right, I already garden, mister, only
I brung it early this morning.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Don't you remember that?
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, you never know, Chester, they might have forgot to
give you some of it. They ain't been but two
circuits go on Chester.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Oh, yes, sir, I'll.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Be back directly.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Good morning, ma'am. Yes, sir.
Speaker 10 (04:33):
Are you the Marshall?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yes, ma'am Matt Dylan. What can I do for you?
Speaker 10 (04:37):
Well, for one thing, young man, you can be here
when you're needed. I do not think this is the
proper way to run a United States Marshall's office, even
in this forsaken country.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, even the United States Marshalls have to eat sometimes, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (04:51):
That's so. Yes, Now, do you know who I am?
Speaker 8 (04:54):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Ma'am, I dog, is there any reason why I should?
Speaker 10 (04:57):
Most people do. I am Miss Junior's Chamberlain. My husband
was the late Senator Chamberlain.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well, I'm glad to meet you, Miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 10 (05:07):
I require your assistance.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh, how's that?
Speaker 10 (05:10):
I have come to Dodge City in search of my grandson.
I want you to find him.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Maybe you better tell me a little more about it,
Mss Chamberlain. Has he done anything?
Speaker 10 (05:19):
Done anything? What do you mean hasn't done anything?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I mean, is he wanted? Why?
Speaker 10 (05:23):
Of course he's wanted. That's what I'm telling you. I
want him to come home and forget this nonsense about
the West. He is wanted back at Yale College, where
he belongs.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I guess we're talking about different things, ma'am. What I
want to know is has he broken the law?
Speaker 10 (05:40):
Certainly not Chamberlain's don't break the law, Marshall. Dylan and
Junius is a Chamberlain juniors Chamberlain the third.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Well, I don't think you need a us Marshall, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (05:55):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Well, if your grandson hasn't broken the law.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
You often find people you not, Yes, ma'am, I will
men and horses at your disposal. You have the authority
to organize a search party.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I have the authority.
Speaker 10 (06:07):
I want you to use it. I want you to
organize a.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Search at once, Miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
I want you to find my grandson. I see no
need to say more.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, there's a need for me to say more. I
can't organize a kind of a search that you're talking about.
Speaker 10 (06:22):
Why why not? You are the Marshal, are you not?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'm the Marshal, all right, ma'am. And you may find
it hard to believe, but my job has a lot
more to it than riding off after a boy wanted
by Yale College. Why how dare you the Marshal's office
can't close down to look forever stray.
Speaker 10 (06:39):
Miss Chamberlain, I have great influence in Washington.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well that's too bad, ma'am, that you don't have more
influence with your grandson.
Speaker 10 (06:48):
You refuse to help, Miss.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
In I'll keep an eye out for him, and I'll
let you know if I hear anything about him. But
that's about the best I can do.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
I believe I have a right to expect more, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm sorry, Miss Chamberlain. I wouldn't worry too much. He'll
probably turn up and dodge one of these days, and
i'll see if I can't send him home to you.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
That won't be necessary, Marshal. I intend to stay here
until I find him, and I'll just take him home myself.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Hello, man, we ordered a steak for you.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
You're not thinking if Mama gets here, mister John be
sure I had been offering some terrible stringy steak around
his place.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
Oh, I don't think he'll be too particular about the food, Chested,
just so he gets the chance to eat in peace.
From what I hear, he's lucky to sneak in here
without being caught by that woman who.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Is causing him so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You too think it's all pretty funny, don't you a math?
Speaker 8 (08:09):
There's two ways of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
You take me to Chamberlain. Now, I've never met her,
but I hear she's a strong, good woman doing what
she thinks is right.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
All over time.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
You'll have to admit, math, picture of an old lady
going around like a pingerton man, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, well, I'll feel more like laughing after she moves
on out of Dotch. I bet you will.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
Some of the men down for long. Brand say, she's
not being too complimentary to you, kind of talks as
though she's doing your job for you, looking for that boy.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, well, uh, mis doing it.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
There's one thing about this all that I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
But you are laughing, though, aren't you? Chester? Well, y's right,
I was laughing all right, but but what well, it's
just that I ain't never heard of this place that
fella escape from?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
What?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
What place? What are you talking about? Well?
Speaker 9 (09:00):
That that Yale is the place that lady says he
broke close from.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Uh what is that place? Mister doing some kind of
a stockade or suthing call it. It seemed like a
stockade of Ylchester. Now would you go ahead and eat
and let miss Chamberlaine do the worrying about the Yale?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh it ain't so?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
What ain't so?
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Turn around and look, I swear there was the old
lady over there standing in the doorway.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Bigger's life.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Yeah, good glory, she's coming on like a stern wheeler.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Man just ain't safe.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Nowhere is no more.
Speaker 10 (09:53):
Yes, ma'am do you own this establishment?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Well?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Uh, not exactly, man, that is I am.
Speaker 10 (10:00):
I wonder it should be good enough to summon the proprietor.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, do you see man?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Is he not here?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I kill you.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
All right, miss kitty.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
My name is Killy Russell.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 10 (10:14):
I was asking for the proprietor. I wasn't expecting you.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
I wasn't exactly expecting you with But I'm the proprietor.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
Oh isn't that odd?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Not especially?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
You're very direct, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I have to be Yes.
Speaker 10 (10:33):
Well, I like directness. I'll come to the point. I
am missus Junius Chamberlain.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
I've heard of you, Missus Chamberlaine.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
Yes, uh, Miss Russell, I am looking for my grandson.
Speaker 8 (10:47):
I heard about that too.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
I can get no official help from your Marshall, so
I've had to undertake the task myself. The Marshall says
his office canneth cope with problems of this nature. Now,
Miss Russell, I would appreciate it if you would take
this description of my grandson. His name is Junius Chamberlain,
(11:10):
the third.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
That much I know.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
I would appreciate it very much. If you would keep
your eyes open, Miss Russell, I'd like you to let
me know if the boy comes into your establishment.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
My eyes open and not, Missus Chamberlain, I very well
might not see him.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
You'd see him. Junius is a gentleman. I'll be staying
at the dodge house. A good day, miss Russell.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Good day.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
You want some more coffee, kiddy?
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Well go on. Why did you say then?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (12:01):
She just swept out, proud as you please, as though
she'd been in the governor's mansion instead of a saloon.
I tell you, Matt, she had me kind of flab
her guest.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, you've got a lot of company, Matt.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
I'm not sure, of course, but I think I did
see her grandson. Oh what was this about a week ago?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
What did he tell you his name?
Speaker 8 (12:23):
No? No, he didn't, ma'am. Matt's why I didn't say
anything to the woman about it. Anyway, I don't know
where the boy is now.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Well, what makes you think it was, young Chamberlain.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
Do you remember me telling you about Lustowe calling me
over to a poker game to tell him whether a
watch fob was pure gold or not?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
H you told me I thought it was.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Well, since I saw missus Chamberlain, I haven't been able
to get that watch fob out.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Of my mind.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, why is that?
Speaker 8 (12:48):
It had a design on it matt Family crest or
something like that, and missus Chamberlain was wearing a pin
with the same design on it. I could swear to it.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh, I'm glad you didn't Miss Chamberlain. Woul probably ever
had the cavalry out looking for the boy. By now
a man.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
The boy means a great deal to his grandmother. I
don't think you should joke about it.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm not joking, kiddy. I don't see anything funny about
the whole thing. I don't know what in the world
got into mister Bodkin. I don't know, but he seems
(13:31):
mighty upset about something. Maybe his bank got robbed or
something commercial. You've got to come quick. What is it,
mister Barkin? What's wrong? I just got robbed, is what's wrong.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
One of the men got hit. He's lying there in
the street.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Come out, Chester. Who was shot him?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I did?
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I had to shoot him. There were two of them.
They were holding up the bank.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Where's the other one? He got away right out of towe.
All right, we're just stand outside way you let me
in there. Looks like he's hurt, bads, you know, Yeah,
(14:13):
that's what happened.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Uh, Like I say, there were two of them. Came
into the bank, guns drawn, demanded the money. I shot
at him. I don't think I hit the other one.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I sure didn't miss this one. I mean he's dead, No,
not yet. You know who he is, no, Marshal, I
never saw him before. You recognize him? Chester? Mostly I don't.
He's one peculiar thing, though, Miss gone's that now? Look
at there hanging from his gun?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Bill h.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh, yeah, I never seen no gunman wearing.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
A watch above there before of you.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He may not be an ordinary gunman. Chester. Come on,
let's get him up to dark. The doctor reckon he'll
make it, mister Dylan. Noh, he doesn't think so. Are
you gonna try talking to him?
Speaker 9 (15:07):
And?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I guess I better? Who? Maybe order? Wait? The dog
gets back now, it probably should, but I don't know
how long he's gonna be conscious. Chamberlain, Hm, hm, Chamberlain,
can you hear me?
Speaker 10 (15:28):
What?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I'm Marshall Dylan. I'd like to ask you a couple
of questions.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
What what did you call me?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Chamberlain? Is not your name?
Speaker 11 (15:40):
I ain't you got nothing to do with that name, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
There's no need to hide or anything.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
Now, maybe dying. But hint the feared, anybody better name
it Chamberlain. He's a feared he yellow livery.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
How did you get this watch from?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I wanted or.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I wanted their? Marshall?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Can I work for luck?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
He'd run off and let me get shot? Said Luck?
I mean Chamberlain was with you in the bank. Yeah,
he was with me. He wouldn't stand in the fight.
He ran He just tell me one thing. Where did
(16:39):
Chamberlain go? The old boom place? That's where we hit out.
Speaker 11 (16:49):
You get him, Marshall, get him from me.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, I'll big get named for a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Mister Jillon.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
The Rochester. Don't you think it's the awful mean day
to go out hurting the man? They're all mean Chester? Well,
I know that. But if it was nice and cool
and pretty, and it was nice and cool and pretty,
you wouldn't wanna be working at all? Would you quit complaining?
I ain't complaining. Well, I'm glad to hear that. I'm
not in any frame of mind to listen to you.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
But you doing any kind of funny that nobody ain't
found out who that dead gunman he is yet?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And he was much more interested in telling me who
he wasn't than who he was. No wonder why he
didn't wanna be mistaken for a Chamberlain. Now there's the
Boone place. M come on, we'll ride right up to
the house. I'll say you cover me as I go in.
I don't think there's gonna be any trouble, al right, sure,
(18:09):
al right, you stay with the horses, see Chamberlain, Matt Dollan,
come on out, come on out. I'll coming after you
(18:30):
right now, all right, come on out, then all the
way out.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I uh, I don't know what you want me for, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Where's your gun?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
I don't wear a gun, Marshal.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You were wearing one on the bank this morning.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
But I didn't use it, Marshall. I I didn't use it.
I didn't steal anything. I didn't hurt anybody. I just
rode right out of town.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Now you can ride right back in again.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
But you haven't any right to do this to me, Marshall.
I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That's just what your partner said. Now, come on, Chamberlain,
get on your horse. I'll take him in chester a rcher.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Oh well, I put up the horses there.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Not yet. I want you to go over to the
Dodge house for me and get miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
My grandmother here in Dodge. You want me to bring
her over to the jail.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's what I said, Chester, Right to the jail, all right,
Come on, Chamberlain.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
My grandmother's a determined woman. She has a lot of
influence in Washington.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Alright, get in there.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
My grandmother has great family pride, Marshal. She won't take
kindly to my being in jail.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I'm kind of ashamed to have you here. Myself is
j yeah, Chester.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
She must have thought us right up with John.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
She's halfway across the street.
Speaker 10 (20:44):
Where's my grandson.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
He's in the cell here, Miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 10 (20:49):
I want to talk to.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Him, alright, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I told him you wouldn't let me stay in jail.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Well, Juniors, I must say I I would rather have
found you indifferent surround it.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I know it's the way they do things out here.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Back home.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
They would never have locked up a Chamberlain.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
I hope not. Junius.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
We'll go ahead, Grandmother tell him about us.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
I want to know some things about your Junius.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
We can talk later. Getting to let me out first.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Is it true, Junius, that you participated in the hold
up of the bank this morning.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I didn't do anything, Grandmother, I swear it.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
Were you there, Yes, I.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Was there, but I didn't do anything. I didn't take anything.
I didn't shoot anybody.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
But you threatened to.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
It was just a prank, nothing more than a prank.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
And when there was trouble you turned and ran.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
Why of course I ran. I didn't want to get involved,
and you.
Speaker 10 (21:57):
Left your your partner crime to bleed and die alone.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
But I was thinking of the family. I was thinking
of the table and name.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
The chamberlain name has never been worn by cowards, Junius.
But Grandmother, right or wrong, we don't run. Marshall dyllon, Yes, ma'am.
Could your ma'am help me back to the hotel. I'm
(22:29):
a little tired.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I'll go with you, Miss Chamberlain.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
You can't leave me here. You've got to help me.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
I can't help the old Junius. I pray it's not
too late for you to help yourself. Marshall Dillon right away, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Yeah, take my.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
Eye, Marshal will will they be severe with him?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
I'll even have a sentence to serve man. But as
he said, he didn't really hurt anybody. Except You.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
Conrad as Matt Dillon Us Marshall. The story was specially
written for gun Smoke by Marion Clark, with editorial supervision
by John Meston. Featured in the cast were Jeanette Nolan,
Sam Edwards, Joseph Kearns, Vic Karron and Jess Kirkpatrick, Harley
(24:24):
bear Is Chester and Georgia Ellis is Kidding.
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