October 18, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Around Darge 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, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence
(00:41):
that moved west with young America and the story of
a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Way y, wake up done, you know, Come on, son,
wake up to Day's the day.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I don't want to do it now.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You mustn't waste times. The stagecoach from Hay City to.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Dodge, you'll be going past James Crossman and you'll miss it.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh my reck'st already for your done. You can start
out with a nice hot stomach.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Boy, I got the heart for it.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Ras you're sixteen now, you got to get your hand
in sometime. You know you're probably getting out soon. We
have to have something to show him for all his
years in there. My just plean don't want to rob
a stage coach. Oh no res, that's no way to talk.
This is a chance for you to get started. It's
(02:07):
high time for you to be thinking about your future.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
All right, they've got the deuce for I tell you, Ras,
you fair shame.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Me carrying on this way. What if your power was
to hear you talk like this? Or your big brothers.
No chance of them here in mall.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Ain't one of them's got less than two years to go.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Ras, I've had enough of your foolishness. Now get up
out of that bed and get to that stage. Coach.
All right, I got your favorite breakfast. How many insides wreck?
I got you white Wall? Yeah, thanks, I got Buck
saddled for your two sons, Brock.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Although that's done it, I ain't going well.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You surely ain't gonna walk to a hold up boy.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
But you know how spooky Buck gets with me more
the minute I pick up the bridle reins.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
He gets a hump in his back.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I just can't sit that horse.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
He's run off women and asked him to time I
rode him.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, I ain't going on with Buck.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Then go steal a horse you like and have done
with it. We need another one around here anyway, Jeeves,
steal a horse. Mall, then eat your breakfast and ride
out on buck. I ain't giving you no choice, ras
Hawkins hard more.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
I'll do it, but I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The sugar man, Oh sure, kiddy, thank you, I'd like
it back when you finished it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Heyhad dog thank you, like Chester says, helps.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
The coffee slip down.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Don't say what do you hear from him?
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Man?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Ever get the haze city?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah he did.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I got a telegram last night. He's coming back on
the stage. Why they delivered the papers and the haze
all right? But his horse broke away.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
That's too bad.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
It was pretty fun of that horror. Oh, Chest is fine,
and every horse he's getting. I hope he doesn't forget
my calico.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Calico.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I asked him to bring me back what he could else,
and he's going to pick it out for sure.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Oh kiddy, don't you know that Chester can hardly tell
one color from another. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I think dog's right, kitty. He wears some hollering outfit old.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Time, just so he brings the calico, and lots of it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't make the.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Colors work, Yeah, I'm sure you will, but just be
prepared for a few surprises.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
H all right, folks, we rest the horses here. You
got five minutes to stretch your legs, mister Dobbs, mister Dobbs,
(05:14):
when we start out again, would you mind me setting
up there if you rich to fuffo crowded inside and
you're proud for with the Marshall's office.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
In Yes, I well, I was sure.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Hoping you would ride up there with me. Poor horse
of mine broke his leg and hayz, I had the
surest time I ever had a shotgun missing. She Oh well,
now I ain't here on.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Official business or nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I told you I just needed.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
To ride back to Dodge. And wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
We ain't even got a pistol on you.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Oh no, I know you Look at where's your shotgun?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What I need on them for?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I know you got a couple of revolvers in that suitcase,
in't you? Well?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
No, I got that suitcase full of calicoat from his kiddy.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
She's a friend of mine and all coo. Yeah, oh,
I got her some wheel night.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
When i'd known that you wasn't riding official like, I'd
have refused this running.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I told you my horse broke.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I know but I thought that was just talk part
of a plan to make you be in here. Look naturally,
he said, he didn't want to call attention to the money.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Who said, what a banker in his.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He's sending it to the bank in Dodge. All right, everybody, lord,
we're moving.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Out, mister Dobbs. Mister Dobbs, just how much money is.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
The banker sending the Dodge twenty thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You need thousands?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
What, mister Dobbs, the worst outlaws in the country after us,
that the word has got out?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Next, just what I know?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Come on, let's get up on the box there. If
I live through this, I'm going.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Back to Boston and hall teachers. Hang on, everybody, d.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Sure cooling?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
You angry?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But you see something up ahead there?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Well no I thought I did, but I reckon not.
And if your dogs, you better throw this thing down
until we get to Dodge City. You'd have brought your
shotgun like you should have, Like do you ry no
shot today?
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Light?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Or what the passengers?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Somebody in there must be carried a rifle. Dad, you've
seen all impact you you get aboard me a cowboy or.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
A hundred a month?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
And he looking on her where where crown of dust
throwing up from around the bend.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
There come yeah, moving.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Towards too, like a horse was running or something. I
knew it.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
I knew yawn.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Now maybe it's just a gust of wind.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Oh it won't be I a long horset. Look fair,
he got throwed?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Or pull up the kitness your dog. Pull it up.
It is hurt.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I think we're making a mistake.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Pull up, poo.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Bah aw.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That ain't no hold. Look at him, he's just a
young kid.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Well, he ain't no more a young.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Hold of the man.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You got a gun. Better get down.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I knew it.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
The rest of you too.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Outside everybody shake out of that space.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Coach, my good idea.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Now you're just looking here, young fella. You gotta watch
on you, Yes, I do. I'm gonna throw it on
the ground there.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Pour my watch on the ground.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That goes for everybody.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I like you to throw your watch at your money
where I can get him easy.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I'm bullying rodly quick on that trigger.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Come on, hurry up.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
I'm gonna go down there. All right.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Everybody back in the stage accept you except me.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
You're gonna help me gather up this stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Hell war, right, Clara, ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
We need something to put it in.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
How about that satchel? A packer? Who would it?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I tell you shh, he knew about your gold lord.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I said, hand me down that satche and he.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Ain't giving you.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Oh yes I am.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
I ain't gonna get no lobster dogs. Don't do that.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Don't don't don't do it here, I don't hold thanks mister,
And now you chester.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Her and you pile all them watches and things in there.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Well you this way, mister Dunham.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Here about this.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
He sure gonna come after you long.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Fair take it man.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
That thing's heavy handed to take both hands?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
You carry you me?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Well, I gotta hold this gun.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
No you don't what he says, don't make his king.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Let's get started.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Are you gonna lose me?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
We can walk it tain't far walk.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Well, I don't know where bucket, but well there's two
men chest.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
They're probably a whole gang covering us from somewhere.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Come on you, mister Dobbs.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
You see the miss kiddy, get your caligory and tell
mister Doney, sure and tell mister don't pick up that.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Bag and start moving.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh this is crazy, you don't.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Make no sense at all.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
It's cussing.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Satchel's helly now, sir, are we gonna get the where
we're going?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
We're learning now? Chester was fair little shirt? What's that
your hideout?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
That's my home?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Mall have some beat?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Mall right, yeah, moll, it's me.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
We'll get on in here. For where have you been?
I've been worn sick? Why?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Who's at?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
What's you?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
That's Chester? He helped me carry the stuff?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Chester proud, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Why?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Why you're.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Red? This is not Dylan resistant, that's mom.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
You got to look in the bag, mam.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Go on, Now what have you done?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Ras helps up the stagecoach, that's what he done, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
What raise hawking? Have you been a robbing again? How
many times?
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I'm all you.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Saying you was one?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Who's to ask?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Shut your mouth now? Not another word out of your
out box? Your head?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I hope he hasn't caught you any trouble, mister p Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Ma'am, uh No, he ain't troubled me too much.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
He done his fair shritotin. He's just that I ain't
used to walking in these boots.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Rag.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Don't stand there get a chair for mister proudfoot.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Whence you gonna look in the bag? Man? Get the chair?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Rag a right trouble up to Harry are old?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I said?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Is mighty good?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Did you say?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'll fix you a nice suffering before you go, mister
proudfud Maybe to help you to forgive my son for
what he's done.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Forgiving won't be up to me, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Be more up to the bank people.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Bank people, yes.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Ma'am, they're the one sending the money.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, I see that bag, mister proudfoot.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Well, of course you can't hear, ma'm you see, maw
they're awful, pretty rare, so close.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
They're pretty old right hey, olm bills? Look at them all?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Where old em bills come from?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Rash?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Why you.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Just wait till your pa here's about you? That's better
and watching home off rash. You better give me that
gun to yours I'm holding. Don't nobody get touched.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Let me see.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I there you are, now, let's see you'll get out
of that one.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Play a tough game of checkers, dog, of course I do,
but not up or not.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Here beat duck.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Take a look.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
If I'd have had a waste of youth like you, Andy,
I'd be better at this game.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Just talk, Doc, plain, ordinary talk.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
When Chester gets back, I can start winning again.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Don't put the border way. He should be in here
any minute now. The stage just came in. Which which
one of you is in?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Marshall?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I am what's the matter? We've been held up, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Thestige has been held up. Uh.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
They got all the money the whole twenty hours are
you're talking about the banker and hes were sending it
to Dodge City.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Chester was on that stage.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
They got him to Marshall, took him with him. I
forced him at gunpoint.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Where did this happen? Not far from here? Just decide
of jeans crossing? Now, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Marshall?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
How many men were there?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I only saw one, but I think there was a
man named Buck yet out give me a right?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You just stay here, Doc asking me, I'm coming you
matter all right here? I'll get my horse. Tell me
something that that Chester put up a fight.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
He looked to me like he was going to He
had an awful serious look on his face.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Ester, this time you may be in real trouble, right
(15:41):
you out there.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, come in here, No, just you. I wanted to
tell Julia all right, Rose that door? What's where is he?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Chester?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
He's out back washing up?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Why I got a plan for what for killing him?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Ma, we ain't gonna kill chest.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
To keep your voice down, listen to me. Done. I
can't let that money just walk away from here.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Oh, you ain't right to kill somebody.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Ras, don't make it any harder than it is. Him
looking at me with them big sad eyes of his. Now,
here's what I want you to do me. You ain't
expect me to do it. Don't be so selfish, Ras.
Think of your paw and the boy's coming home to.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
All that money.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
While we never had to steal a solitary cent again.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Well, I ain't never gonna steal again.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Anyway, Rag normal, I never want to gainst you before.
But I am now just one quick shot before supper.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
No, I tell you my son's abounding to obey his mama,
not in.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Something like this.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
He ain't. We never done killing before, and we ain't
gonna start with Chester. And it looks like I'll have
to do it myself. Where can't we work for a
living like everybody else?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Chester?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Chester, honey, come on in Stuffer's ready.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Good Mama, you are.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
There on taking thought. I think I'll wait till after supper.
Them sweet breads turned out pretty good, and be ashamed
to waste all that food.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Here's where it happened dark. Yes, you can see where
the stage almost like the road. A single horse run
off that way? See them? Look footsteps over here? Uh
uh yeah? Two men?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
What do you make of it that?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I don't know how they continue up this way right.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Off cossoy oh, mate, don't suppose they walk Chester off aways? Now?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I don't know, doctor, but we'll follow these steps as
far as they go.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Helling, I ster, mister, don't he just called on you
for help all the time?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
If mine?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
He's sweet, red tasty. You know my mom used to
make him this way.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I was just little, but I can still remember anything.
You don't see, just ass chest.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Well, thanks you, h like I said, mister Dylan, who
really needs you now?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Today? For instance, I was coming back from Hayes City
after taking some legal documents over the port.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Mmm. Sure wish I could get a job like that,
So do I rag?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh, now, rise will make out Miss Hawkins. I'll just
take this money and everything back. And when mister Dunn,
here's how Raz didn't know he.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Was stealing the bank's money.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Why if I ask him, you just come on out
and talk to Raz morningn't say nothing about the bank money.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Ras keep still eat cheek us back.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yes, I mean, especially when I tell mister Dolan what
a nice mama Raz has got.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
You know, ma'am, I I didn't never get to know.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
My mama Chester.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
She died when I was just a teen, and see
little falling Chester knew something was talking. From what I
can remember, she is a good deal like you.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Here Chester. Take the gun.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Oh you've been keeping it from the Ras.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Now, ma'am, I ain't necessarily no more.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
I figure he's kindly.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Seen the light.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Ras get him out of here.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
What what did I do?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Ches high?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yo?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Wh I'm mister Dylan and dark when no, how did
you get heaven a nice stept? Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yes, darc I am, oh, mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Everything is alright.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I got the money from the bank, the watchers and
everything at setting right there on the table, now, ain't
you glad?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah? I'm glad Chester.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Ma.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
The Marshalls come to take me away like you did,
Loop and then.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Ohr headache, might have known you'd come.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Mat.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
You two know each other, dark Uh. I wanna talk
to Hetty with you and Chester take a rise outside.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Oh yes, Mas, come on Chester heart.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeh been a long time, Matt, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Heady, it has.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I had almost forgotten about you.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I was hoping you had, didn't you put Paul on
the boys away. I been waiting on Raz, waiting for
him to grow up. But looks like I waited too long, Hendy.
I want you, Matt, don't preach to me. Oh, you
win in a way because poor Ras.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Won't ever be any more than he is right now,
and you'll.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Let him be himself.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Only Rav could bring home twenty thousand dollars and a
marshal's assistance at the same time.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
And you'll let him be.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well, I'll let him be.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Promise you that good.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I I'll drop by once. And though I loved this
to make sure, wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Be you if you didn't, Hendy. I was at the
window when you.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
But you changed your mind about shooting Chester.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Matt, did you ever take a good look at him.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
As I have?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
He's safe wherever he goes.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, Look, Hetty, I'm gonna tell him and Dodge that
the hold up man dropped his loop making a getaway.
Now I can get the money to the bank and
the watchers back to the passengers.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Well, I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I never thank you, Matt, But where's well he's all.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I up left.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Now, that's not why I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Headye, thank you, Matt Dylan. Can I serve you a
cup of hot coffee before you go?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, no thanks? Hennae h and uh heda the satul.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Oh dear.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Here you are, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
He produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
(23:31):
as Matt villen Us Marshall. The story was specially written
for Gunsmote by Tom Henley, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
Featured in the cast were Jeannette Nolan, Sam Edwards and
McCarron Harley. There is Chester Howard McNear is doc and
Georgia Ellis is kidding.
Around Darge 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, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence
(00:41):
that moved west with young America and the story of
a man who moved with it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm that man, Matt dyllon United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Way y, wake up done, you know, Come on, son,
wake up to Day's the day.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I don't want to do it now.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You mustn't waste times. The stagecoach from Hay City to.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Dodge, you'll be going past James Crossman and you'll miss it.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Oh my reck'st already for your done. You can start
out with a nice hot stomach.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Boy, I got the heart for it.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Ras you're sixteen now, you got to get your hand
in sometime. You know you're probably getting out soon. We
have to have something to show him for all his
years in there. My just plean don't want to rob
a stage coach. Oh no res, that's no way to talk.
This is a chance for you to get started. It's
(02:07):
high time for you to be thinking about your future.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
All right, they've got the deuce for I tell you, Ras,
you fair shame.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Me carrying on this way. What if your power was
to hear you talk like this? Or your big brothers.
No chance of them here in mall.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Ain't one of them's got less than two years to go.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Ras, I've had enough of your foolishness. Now get up
out of that bed and get to that stage. Coach.
All right, I got your favorite breakfast. How many insides wreck?
I got you white Wall? Yeah, thanks, I got Buck
saddled for your two sons, Brock.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Although that's done it, I ain't going well.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You surely ain't gonna walk to a hold up boy.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
But you know how spooky Buck gets with me more
the minute I pick up the bridle reins.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
He gets a hump in his back.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I just can't sit that horse.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
He's run off women and asked him to time I
rode him.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, I ain't going on with Buck.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Then go steal a horse you like and have done
with it. We need another one around here anyway, Jeeves,
steal a horse. Mall, then eat your breakfast and ride
out on buck. I ain't giving you no choice, ras
Hawkins hard more.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
I'll do it, but I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The sugar man, Oh sure, kiddy, thank you, I'd like
it back when you finished it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Heyhad dog thank you, like Chester says, helps.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
The coffee slip down.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Don't say what do you hear from him?
Speaker 7 (03:47):
Man?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Ever get the haze city?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah he did.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I got a telegram last night. He's coming back on
the stage. Why they delivered the papers and the haze
all right? But his horse broke away.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
That's too bad.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
It was pretty fun of that horror. Oh, Chest is fine,
and every horse he's getting. I hope he doesn't forget
my calico.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Calico.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I asked him to bring me back what he could else,
and he's going to pick it out for sure.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Oh kiddy, don't you know that Chester can hardly tell
one color from another. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I think dog's right, kitty. He wears some hollering outfit old.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Time, just so he brings the calico, and lots of it.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't make the.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Colors work, Yeah, I'm sure you will, but just be
prepared for a few surprises.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
H all right, folks, we rest the horses here. You
got five minutes to stretch your legs, mister Dobbs, mister Dobbs,
(05:14):
when we start out again, would you mind me setting
up there if you rich to fuffo crowded inside and
you're proud for with the Marshall's office.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
In Yes, I well, I was sure.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Hoping you would ride up there with me. Poor horse
of mine broke his leg and hayz, I had the
surest time I ever had a shotgun missing. She Oh well,
now I ain't here on.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
Official business or nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I told you I just needed.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
To ride back to Dodge. And wait a minute.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
We ain't even got a pistol on you.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Oh no, I know you Look at where's your shotgun?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What I need on them for?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I know you got a couple of revolvers in that suitcase,
in't you? Well?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
No, I got that suitcase full of calicoat from his kiddy.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
She's a friend of mine and all coo. Yeah, oh,
I got her some wheel night.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
When i'd known that you wasn't riding official like, I'd
have refused this running.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I told you my horse broke.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I know but I thought that was just talk part
of a plan to make you be in here. Look naturally,
he said, he didn't want to call attention to the money.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Who said, what a banker in his.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He's sending it to the bank in Dodge. All right, everybody, lord,
we're moving.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Out, mister Dobbs. Mister Dobbs, just how much money is.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
The banker sending the Dodge twenty thousand dollars?
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You need thousands?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
What, mister Dobbs, the worst outlaws in the country after us,
that the word has got out?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Next, just what I know?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Come on, let's get up on the box there. If
I live through this, I'm going.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Back to Boston and hall teachers. Hang on, everybody, d.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Sure cooling?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
You angry?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But you see something up ahead there?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Well no I thought I did, but I reckon not.
And if your dogs, you better throw this thing down
until we get to Dodge City. You'd have brought your
shotgun like you should have, Like do you ry no
shot today?
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Light?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Or what the passengers?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Somebody in there must be carried a rifle. Dad, you've
seen all impact you you get aboard me a cowboy or.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
A hundred a month?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
And he looking on her where where crown of dust
throwing up from around the bend.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
There come yeah, moving.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Towards too, like a horse was running or something. I
knew it.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
I knew yawn.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Now maybe it's just a gust of wind.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Oh it won't be I a long horset. Look fair,
he got throwed?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Or pull up the kitness your dog. Pull it up.
It is hurt.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I think we're making a mistake.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Pull up, poo.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Bah aw.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That ain't no hold. Look at him, he's just a
young kid.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Well, he ain't no more a young.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Hold of the man.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
You got a gun. Better get down.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
I knew it.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
The rest of you too.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Outside everybody shake out of that space.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Coach, my good idea.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Now you're just looking here, young fella. You gotta watch
on you, Yes, I do. I'm gonna throw it on
the ground there.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Pour my watch on the ground.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That goes for everybody.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I like you to throw your watch at your money
where I can get him easy.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I'm bullying rodly quick on that trigger.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Come on, hurry up.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
I'm gonna go down there. All right.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Everybody back in the stage accept you except me.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
You're gonna help me gather up this stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Hell war, right, Clara, ain't gonna do it.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
We need something to put it in.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
How about that satchel? A packer? Who would it?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
I tell you shh, he knew about your gold lord.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I said, hand me down that satche and he.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Ain't giving you.
Speaker 7 (09:30):
Oh yes I am.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
I ain't gonna get no lobster dogs. Don't do that.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Don't don't don't do it here, I don't hold thanks mister,
And now you chester.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Her and you pile all them watches and things in there.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Well you this way, mister Dunham.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Here about this.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
He sure gonna come after you long.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Fair take it man.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
That thing's heavy handed to take both hands?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
You carry you me?
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Well, I gotta hold this gun.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
No you don't what he says, don't make his king.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Let's get started.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Are you gonna lose me?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
We can walk it tain't far walk.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Well, I don't know where bucket, but well there's two
men chest.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
They're probably a whole gang covering us from somewhere.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Come on you, mister Dobbs.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
You see the miss kiddy, get your caligory and tell
mister Doney, sure and tell mister don't pick up that.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Bag and start moving.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh this is crazy, you don't.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
Make no sense at all.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
It's cussing.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Satchel's helly now, sir, are we gonna get the where
we're going?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
We're learning now? Chester was fair little shirt? What's that
your hideout?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
That's my home?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Mall have some beat?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Mall right, yeah, moll, it's me.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
We'll get on in here. For where have you been?
I've been worn sick? Why?
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Who's at?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
What's you?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
That's Chester? He helped me carry the stuff?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Chester proud, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Why?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Why you're.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Red? This is not Dylan resistant, that's mom.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
You got to look in the bag, mam.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Go on, Now what have you done?
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Ras helps up the stagecoach, that's what he done, ma'am?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
What raise hawking? Have you been a robbing again? How
many times?
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I'm all you.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Saying you was one?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Who's to ask?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Shut your mouth now? Not another word out of your
out box? Your head?
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I hope he hasn't caught you any trouble, mister p Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Ma'am, uh No, he ain't troubled me too much.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
He done his fair shritotin. He's just that I ain't
used to walking in these boots.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Rag.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Don't stand there get a chair for mister proudfoot.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
Whence you gonna look in the bag? Man? Get the chair?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Rag a right trouble up to Harry are old?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I said?
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Is mighty good?
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Did you say?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I'll fix you a nice suffering before you go, mister
proudfud Maybe to help you to forgive my son for
what he's done.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
Forgiving won't be up to me, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Be more up to the bank people.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Bank people, yes.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Ma'am, they're the one sending the money.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, I see that bag, mister proudfoot.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Well, of course you can't hear, ma'm you see, maw
they're awful, pretty rare, so close.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
They're pretty old right hey, olm bills? Look at them all?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Where old em bills come from?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Rash?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Why you.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Just wait till your pa here's about you? That's better
and watching home off rash. You better give me that
gun to yours I'm holding. Don't nobody get touched.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Let me see.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I there you are, now, let's see you'll get out
of that one.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Play a tough game of checkers, dog, of course I do,
but not up or not.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Here beat duck.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Take a look.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
If I'd have had a waste of youth like you, Andy,
I'd be better at this game.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Just talk, Doc, plain, ordinary talk.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
When Chester gets back, I can start winning again.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Don't put the border way. He should be in here
any minute now. The stage just came in. Which which
one of you is in?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Marshall?
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
I am what's the matter? We've been held up, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Thestige has been held up. Uh.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
They got all the money the whole twenty hours are
you're talking about the banker and hes were sending it
to Dodge City.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Chester was on that stage.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
They got him to Marshall, took him with him. I
forced him at gunpoint.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Where did this happen? Not far from here? Just decide
of jeans crossing? Now, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Marshall?
Speaker 7 (14:52):
How many men were there?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I only saw one, but I think there was a
man named Buck yet out give me a right?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You just stay here, Doc asking me, I'm coming you
matter all right here? I'll get my horse. Tell me
something that that Chester put up a fight.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
He looked to me like he was going to He
had an awful serious look on his face.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Ester, this time you may be in real trouble, right
(15:41):
you out there.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Yeah, come in here, No, just you. I wanted to
tell Julia all right, Rose that door? What's where is he?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Chester?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:02):
He's out back washing up?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Why I got a plan for what for killing him?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Ma, we ain't gonna kill chest.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
To keep your voice down, listen to me. Done. I
can't let that money just walk away from here.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Oh, you ain't right to kill somebody.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Ras, don't make it any harder than it is. Him
looking at me with them big sad eyes of his. Now,
here's what I want you to do me. You ain't
expect me to do it. Don't be so selfish, Ras.
Think of your paw and the boy's coming home to.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
All that money.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
While we never had to steal a solitary cent again.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Well, I ain't never gonna steal again.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Anyway, Rag normal, I never want to gainst you before.
But I am now just one quick shot before supper.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
No, I tell you my son's abounding to obey his mama,
not in.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Something like this.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
He ain't. We never done killing before, and we ain't
gonna start with Chester. And it looks like I'll have
to do it myself. Where can't we work for a
living like everybody else?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Chester?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Chester, honey, come on in Stuffer's ready.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Good Mama, you are.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
There on taking thought. I think I'll wait till after supper.
Them sweet breads turned out pretty good, and be ashamed
to waste all that food.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Here's where it happened dark. Yes, you can see where
the stage almost like the road. A single horse run
off that way? See them? Look footsteps over here? Uh
uh yeah? Two men?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
What do you make of it that?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I don't know how they continue up this way right.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Off cossoy oh, mate, don't suppose they walk Chester off aways? Now?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I don't know, doctor, but we'll follow these steps as
far as they go.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Helling, I ster, mister, don't he just called on you
for help all the time?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
If mine?
Speaker 6 (18:42):
He's sweet, red tasty. You know my mom used to
make him this way.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I was just little, but I can still remember anything.
You don't see, just ass chest.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Well, thanks you, h like I said, mister Dylan, who
really needs you now?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Today? For instance, I was coming back from Hayes City
after taking some legal documents over the port.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Mmm. Sure wish I could get a job like that,
So do I rag?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh, now, rise will make out Miss Hawkins. I'll just
take this money and everything back. And when mister Dunn,
here's how Raz didn't know he.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Was stealing the bank's money.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Why if I ask him, you just come on out
and talk to Raz morningn't say nothing about the bank money.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Ras keep still eat cheek us back.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Yes, I mean, especially when I tell mister Dolan what
a nice mama Raz has got.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
You know, ma'am, I I didn't never get to know.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
My mama Chester.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
She died when I was just a teen, and see
little falling Chester knew something was talking. From what I
can remember, she is a good deal like you.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Here Chester. Take the gun.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Oh you've been keeping it from the Ras.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Now, ma'am, I ain't necessarily no more.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
I figure he's kindly.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Seen the light.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Ras get him out of here.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
What what did I do?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Ches high?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yo?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Wh I'm mister Dylan and dark when no, how did
you get heaven a nice stept? Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yes, darc I am, oh, mister Dylan.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Everything is alright.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I got the money from the bank, the watchers and
everything at setting right there on the table, now, ain't
you glad?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah? I'm glad Chester.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Ma.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
The Marshalls come to take me away like you did,
Loop and then.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Ohr headache, might have known you'd come.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Mat.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
You two know each other, dark Uh. I wanna talk
to Hetty with you and Chester take a rise outside.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Oh yes, Mas, come on Chester heart.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Yeh been a long time, Matt, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
Heady, it has.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I had almost forgotten about you.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I was hoping you had, didn't you put Paul on
the boys away. I been waiting on Raz, waiting for
him to grow up. But looks like I waited too long, Hendy.
I want you, Matt, don't preach to me. Oh, you
win in a way because poor Ras.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Won't ever be any more than he is right now,
and you'll.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Let him be himself.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Only Rav could bring home twenty thousand dollars and a
marshal's assistance at the same time.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
And you'll let him be.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
Well, I'll let him be.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Promise you that good.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I I'll drop by once. And though I loved this
to make sure, wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Be you if you didn't, Hendy. I was at the
window when you.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
But you changed your mind about shooting Chester.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Matt, did you ever take a good look at him.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
As I have?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
He's safe wherever he goes.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Yeah, Look, Hetty, I'm gonna tell him and Dodge that
the hold up man dropped his loop making a getaway.
Now I can get the money to the bank and
the watchers back to the passengers.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Well, I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I never thank you, Matt, But where's well he's all.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
I up left.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Now, that's not why I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Headye, thank you, Matt Dylan. Can I serve you a
cup of hot coffee before you go?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
No, no thanks? Hennae h and uh heda the satul.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Oh dear.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Here you are, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
He produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
(23:31):
as Matt villen Us Marshall. The story was specially written
for Gunsmote by Tom Henley, with editorial supervision by John Meston.
Featured in the cast were Jeannette Nolan, Sam Edwards and
McCarron Harley. There is Chester Howard McNear is doc and
Georgia Ellis is kidding.
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