August 7, 2025 • 18 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 (00:08):
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 Guns, starring William Conrad, the story of the
(00:40):
violence 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 Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a lone man. Hey un hell out, Yes,
(01:16):
sir oh, I was thinking of that. Sliding is done, real, peaceful,
Tom Constable's all I need. I'm not gonna recommend the
government spend any money up there. Tell me about that
Chester or anything been happening here this past week. Nothing much.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
One fella kindly got killed last night. But outside of that,
it's been dulls winter Oh who got killed winding on
some wandering cowboy.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Who killed him.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A man called Pate to tell me give a self defense, miness.
Don't pure and simple that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You see it. It won't know, sir well, who did well?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I believe the only man who's seen The whole thing
was that gambler ben Cecil Cisel. He's new here the
last few days, been playing card dar at the Long Branch.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You don't seem to know a whole lot about it, Chester.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
No, sure I don't, but I was just starting to
find out when I've seen you riding up the street.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Uh huh? And well were you last night? Chester?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I wouldn't be no gentleman to tell him what you're done?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Alright, I hope you had.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
A good time, cause, Yesterre, I had a fine time.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yes, fine, alright, you can put my horse up.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It on.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm gonna go with the Long.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Ground y Yes, sure, I'll come on when i'm two.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I'll wait for you there.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Hello, man, when'd you get fired?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Alright? Just rode down and kitty out the Seeah, pretty good?
Tell me something, Kitty. Were you here all last night?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Thinking of the killing we had?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I did you see it?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Of it?
Speaker 7 (02:59):
I was saddling there at the bar, and Pet and
ben Cecil and the cowboy were at a table in
the back.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And a Chester hurt that it was self defense.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Oh, a cowboy drew first match, But I don't know
that you'd.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Call it self defense?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh why not? He wasn't after pay, He was after
Ben Secil.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
H yeah, he wasn't even looking at Paige match, he
was looking at Thistle. Even so when he started to draw,
it was paid.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
He killed him.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Pet caused that self defense?
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Well, he claims he thought the cowboy was drawn on him. Besides,
he said the cowboy knew Sile wasn't mean non, wasn't
he He never is?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I see? Tell me, Kitty, is this peate always around
when Ben Sisel's dealing?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I mean, sure, is Matt always?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And he's pretty handy with a gun.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Is he too handy for an ordinary man?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Matt?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah? Uh so? Uh? Ben Cecil is another crooked game.
We're using a hired gunman to protect him when he's caught.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I don't know how you can prove it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Why would I find Ben Cecil now, Kitty? You know?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Yeah, standing at the bottle over there on a long
black coat.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Huh oh good, I see it, then, Cecil, that's me.
My name's Dylan Cecil. I'm the US Marshall here. Oh
I thought you were out of town, how I was? Well,
what do you want? Marshall? Where you from? Sissel? All
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over Marshall, you know how gamblers are, Yeah, I know,
but your gamble lasts I uh back east. Why how
long's Pate been working for you? Working for me? What
are you trying to say, Marshall, I'll make it real simple.
The way you operate has already let the one killing here,
and I'm not gonna have any more. I didn't kill anybody, Marshall.
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There are plenty of witnesses to that. Whereas Pile. I
don't know where he is, but why should I. I
want to talk to him, and I want you with me.
When I do. Getting kind of pushy, Marshall, I can
get a lot worse. I suppose we go outside and
wait for a friend who's coming here to meet me,
and then we'll go talk to Pate. Shall we get moving?
(05:14):
Eight rooms up here? Marshall, I don't know if he's
in or if he Isn't you start thinking that someplace
he might be sure?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Sure, I wouldn't blame if we're not being here, mister Dylan.
This is the worst hotel in Dodge.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's the room. This is it? All right? Knock on
the door, tell him you want to talk to him. Okay,
if you're going to wish I hadn't knocked. Who's that?
It's Ben Cecil? Hello, Cecil? Who's these two? This is
(05:49):
Marshall Dylon. Payte Marshall Dylon, what's he doing here? We'll
come inside and tell you. Prade.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Now wait a minute, Marshall, get out of the door. Now,
now you look, Marshallly, if you come here over that
cowboy last night, it's no use. Everybody saw it, knows
I killed him in self defense.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Of course he did. There's plenty of witnesses to that.
You're a smart sizle, but you're a coward. That's why
you need a hired gun to help you when you're
caught dealing crooked. Better watch what you're saying. Why I
don't carry a gun, Marshal, But Pate does. It happens
to be a good friend of my chair. But right
now Pete's gun belt is hanging on that chair over there.
You see it, blasted fool? Pay shut up?
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Huh Now, Marshall, I I ain't afraid of you, but
but you you're armed and I'm not.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Chester sa go get his gun belts.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Yes, that's pretty brave of you, Marshall arresting an unarmed man.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm not arresting you, Fate. I wish I couldn't. And
what are you doing? Chester? Unbuckle that belt and hand
it to him here? You are alright? Put it on, Fate,
put it on. That's right, okay, all right? You got
your gun on?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, get out of Dodge. What I said, get out
of Dodge right now.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
I I ain't done nothing, Marshall, I go, I got
no quar with you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What kind of gunman are you paint? You afraid of him?
The kind of gunman that can be hired isn't the
kind that's gonna take any real chances? I said, I
I got no quar with you. I don't. I don't
like this, you know you? You let me out of here,
out of Dodge, picky shirts. It's no good town anyway.
His doors open. Marshall's right, sister, This job don't pay enough.
(07:47):
I guess you win. Marshall. You won't find any gunman
here who'll hire out to you, now, says we'll, So
you might as well learn the day straight. Oh I
always do, Marshall. Yeah, come on, Chester, let's get out.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Maybe you should have run Sisil out of Dodge too.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'd rather he stayed just for maybe next time I
can arrest him and see him hung like he deserves.
It didn't take Fat any longer to leave Dodge than
to find his horse and get mounted. And for the
next week there was no trouble from ben Cecil. He
went on dealing cards, and although everybody was watching him
pretty close, nobody found any reason to complain about him.
(08:29):
He didn't win much money, but I began to think
maybe he decided that being honest had some value. Anyway,
Doc and I were talking about him in my office
one noon. H a man like ben Cecil doesn't change man.
He's a crook, and it alwers me when he's worse
than the crook. He's practically a murder. He's also a coward, Doc.
That's why I think maybe I got him stopped. We
(08:50):
got him fixed now.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
In order to stay free, he's got to stay honest.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, Oh, that must be a hard choice for a
man like that. Everything away, Oh, oh, Chester, mister.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
John, I'd just seen the dog gun sting out on
the street there.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, what was that?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well, sir, who would you say, is the last man
in UHD you'd ever expect to start carrying a sixth gun.
I am yeah, no, no, besides.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
The VI doct, I can't think of anybody except Doc
who doesn't carry a gun.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Now, Chester, Well, what about Cooter Smith, Cooder Smith. If
I hadn't saw him, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Leave it neither. Or what's he doing with the gun?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Just leaning on a post down the street there?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
He shouldn't be allowed to wear a gun man like him.
Now have to go bring him in here. I wanna
talk to him, alright, you o gat him? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Things that get mighty bad around here when even Cooter
Smith decides to arm himself.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Man, Uh, Cooter's pretty harmless.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Oh well, you never know a man like that to
be harmless one day and dangerous the next.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's the matter with Cooter anyway, Doc, I don't know
for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I did examine him once and then look to me
like he got kicked in the head by.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
A horse at one time.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He won't say so for some reason, but maybe he
doesn't even.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Remember whatever it was that sure met him. Half simple
we've seen men were so heed you. Oh could her
come on in? Hello?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Could her, oh, god like come here?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Like? Chester, said myshlf Good. I Uh, I wanted to
talk to you, could her.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Well, you never told me to come here before.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You never wore a gun before, he could her.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Uh oh, that well, that's for my job, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Your job? What job will work? I got? What kind
of a job is it? Why?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I don't rightly know yet, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Why can you tell me what you do?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Know?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Then? Like? Who hired you?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Well, the fella that give me this gun. He hired
me for an awful lot of money, he said.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And who was that? Was it? Ben something? Ben secl Noah,
that's him.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
You gonna pay me for wearing this gun?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
He is. Uh he tell you why it's afternoon?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
What?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Well, that's well, he's gonna tell me everything I gotta do.
He's gonna talk to me somemorre this afternoon. He sure
talks a lot that fault.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, okay, Couder, you can go along now. But uh,
I hope you don't know Cisel will talk you in
when they trouble.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Uh it ain't that, Marshall. Well as you don't try
to make a fool out of me, sometimes people do.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I don't like that. Yeah, sure, Cooter.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I think I'll go talk to him now and make.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Sure goodbye if I could have.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, what in the world do you make of that?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think maybe if Cissel's crazier than Couter is. Sister.
I'm gonna be at the Long Branch tonight to make
sure not kiddy.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Tell him, man, what are you doing around here early tonight?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm looking for ben Cetle over there is the troubles
mar that. Maybe, Oh, Marshall, sissle. Cooter Smith telt me
you were talking to him this morning. I was, and
he'll be here in a minute. You can talk to
him some more. Fine. Oh, I don't know, Marshall. Maybe
(12:34):
it won't be so fine. Oh h Cooter's not as
easy going as most people seem to think. He isn't. Oh,
for example, you tie a gun on him, it kind
of changes his whole character, makes him mean. Marshall, you'd
be surprised, how mean? Yeah, I guess I would.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Uh, you don't believe me. I'll show you Houda. Hey, Cooter,
go ahead, Cooter, I told him you go ahead now, Michall. Yeah, Cooter,
(13:14):
I'm gonna draw on you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
MacHall, I'm gonna shoot you, but I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I look, Cooter, you know better than that. Is this
what you been putting into his head? Says Oh, don't
d don't you look at him, Marshall, you look at me.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Just don't you look at him? You just look at me.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So that said, okay, Cooter, her go ahead draw?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Why I am I'm going to you?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You look out, Marchhall.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I I sure I am.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, you're not cooler. You haven't got a touch. I
watch that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Huh huh.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Cooter. There you see you're too slow. I got my
gun out and you haven't even touched yours.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
No, I I'm touched mine.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Your guy's pointing at me. I man, man, he's not
gonna help your cooter. Yes, yeah, he he is too.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
If him, it's gonna shoot you with him, you think so? Man, man,
he he's gonna kill me. Man, you you guys shoot
him up. But I can't stand that.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I double oh, so say you ought to be real proud.
I I didn't do nothing, Marshall. I wasn't gonna shoot you.
I don't even carry a gun, you know, Yeah, sure,
but Coulder didn't know what you told him to make
(14:44):
me start for my gun and then you'd shoot me
from the side where I couldn't see you. You told him
be safe. That ain't so much Well, what you planned
was to make me kill him. It wouldn't look so
good for me to kill a man like Couder. But
if nobody had stand for that, they'd laughed me right
out of town. That's what you were figuring on, wasn't it.
I I I had nothing to do with it, Marshall.
I wasn't thinking. You're not not get out as smart
as I thought you were. But you're leaving town, Cecil.
(15:07):
I'm gonna give you one hour, and I hope you'll
take longer. But what you make me do with that
Cooter is gonna be a real pleasure to drag you
out of town.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Cy will leave you at Miss Jyne.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
He's start sidling up in the stable over there. Chest.
I'm gonna give him about one more minute. But the
docs say about Cooter, Oh Coooter's fine. Start give him
some powders and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
He's real calm.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Now where is he? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
He left Doc's quite a little bit ago.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You're explained to him what Cecil was trying to do.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh yes, sir, I made it real plain like.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You told me, And you think he understands now.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He understands everything. Mister Dinan. You know it's funny, But
like Doc I said, getting scared so bad he fainted
seems to help Cooter think straighter at least about what happened.
He ain't near as so fuzzy as usual.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Not goold uh sciss those times up. I'm going on
that stable now and run him out. He won't give
you no plight all he wants, but I kind of
wish he would.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You could have run him out a large long time ago.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I wanted to catch him Chester. I wanted to bring
him to Troy.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That means hard to save him.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I'll come home.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But then he's dumb its Cooter, he's killed them.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Sizel alright, dropped the gun, Cooder, I I dropped it.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I ain't gonna shoot no more.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Shut him right in the head. Mister know he he.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Lied to me?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You mean a fool out of mean? Why did you
have to kill him? Cooter? I was running him out
of Dodge. Don't you shoot me, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
I wasn't gonna shoot you on that guy, Wasn't I
like you? Sissel told me, I I wasn't doing anything bad.
I I wasn't gonna shoot you, sister, was gonna shoot you.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I like you, all right, all right, Couter, I know that.
I just calmed down. I'm not gonna hurt you.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
You're pointing that gun at me.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
No, I guns back of my hole, Streetcutter, look at it.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
See I am looking at it, and I can't stand it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
No, I qut it, sot her.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well, ain't you going after him?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That's scary, even worse.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
That's bad enough now, but he killed a man, he murdered.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
He won't run far Chester. I'll find him when his
trial comes up. Yeah, I done enough to cooot her
for one day.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, it ain't your apault, mister Dinner.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
No, that doesn't make me feel any better about it.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Gun Smoke for Houston, directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
stars William Conrad as Matt dyllon Us Marshall.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
The story was specially written for guns.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Book by John Meston. Featured in the cast were Frank Katie,
Barney Phillips and Vic Parron, Harley Bear is Chester, Howard
mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Allis 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 Guns, starring William Conrad, the story of the
(00:40):
violence 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 Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the less they want to meet.
It's a chance a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a lone man. Hey un hell out, Yes,
(01:16):
sir oh, I was thinking of that. Sliding is done, real, peaceful,
Tom Constable's all I need. I'm not gonna recommend the
government spend any money up there. Tell me about that
Chester or anything been happening here this past week. Nothing much.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
One fella kindly got killed last night. But outside of that,
it's been dulls winter Oh who got killed winding on
some wandering cowboy.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Who killed him.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
A man called Pate to tell me give a self defense, miness.
Don't pure and simple that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
You see it. It won't know, sir well, who did well?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
I believe the only man who's seen The whole thing
was that gambler ben Cecil Cisel. He's new here the
last few days, been playing card dar at the Long Branch.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
You don't seem to know a whole lot about it, Chester.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
No, sure I don't, but I was just starting to
find out when I've seen you riding up the street.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Uh huh? And well were you last night? Chester?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I wouldn't be no gentleman to tell him what you're done?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Alright, I hope you had.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
A good time, cause, Yesterre, I had a fine time.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yes, fine, alright, you can put my horse up.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It on.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm gonna go with the Long.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Ground y Yes, sure, I'll come on when i'm two.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I'll wait for you there.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Hello, man, when'd you get fired?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Alright? Just rode down and kitty out the Seeah, pretty good?
Tell me something, Kitty. Were you here all last night?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Thinking of the killing we had?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I did you see it?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Of it?
Speaker 7 (02:59):
I was saddling there at the bar, and Pet and
ben Cecil and the cowboy were at a table in
the back.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
And a Chester hurt that it was self defense.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Oh, a cowboy drew first match, But I don't know
that you'd.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Call it self defense?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Oh why not? He wasn't after pay, He was after
Ben Secil.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
H yeah, he wasn't even looking at Paige match, he
was looking at Thistle. Even so when he started to draw,
it was paid.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
He killed him.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Pet caused that self defense?
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Well, he claims he thought the cowboy was drawn on him. Besides,
he said the cowboy knew Sile wasn't mean non, wasn't
he He never is?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I see? Tell me, Kitty, is this peate always around
when Ben Sisel's dealing?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I mean, sure, is Matt always?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And he's pretty handy with a gun.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Is he too handy for an ordinary man?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Matt?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah? Uh so? Uh? Ben Cecil is another crooked game.
We're using a hired gunman to protect him when he's caught.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I don't know how you can prove it.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Why would I find Ben Cecil now, Kitty? You know?
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Yeah, standing at the bottle over there on a long
black coat.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Huh oh good, I see it, then, Cecil, that's me.
My name's Dylan Cecil. I'm the US Marshall here. Oh
I thought you were out of town, how I was? Well,
what do you want? Marshall? Where you from? Sissel? All
(04:25):
over Marshall, you know how gamblers are, Yeah, I know,
but your gamble lasts I uh back east. Why how
long's Pate been working for you? Working for me? What
are you trying to say, Marshall, I'll make it real simple.
The way you operate has already let the one killing here,
and I'm not gonna have any more. I didn't kill anybody, Marshall.
(04:47):
There are plenty of witnesses to that. Whereas Pile. I
don't know where he is, but why should I. I
want to talk to him, and I want you with me.
When I do. Getting kind of pushy, Marshall, I can
get a lot worse. I suppose we go outside and
wait for a friend who's coming here to meet me,
and then we'll go talk to Pate. Shall we get moving?
(05:14):
Eight rooms up here? Marshall, I don't know if he's
in or if he Isn't you start thinking that someplace
he might be sure?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Sure, I wouldn't blame if we're not being here, mister Dylan.
This is the worst hotel in Dodge.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's the room. This is it? All right? Knock on
the door, tell him you want to talk to him. Okay,
if you're going to wish I hadn't knocked. Who's that?
It's Ben Cecil? Hello, Cecil? Who's these two? This is
(05:49):
Marshall Dylon. Payte Marshall Dylon, what's he doing here? We'll
come inside and tell you. Prade.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Now wait a minute, Marshall, get out of the door. Now,
now you look, Marshallly, if you come here over that
cowboy last night, it's no use. Everybody saw it, knows
I killed him in self defense.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Of course he did. There's plenty of witnesses to that.
You're a smart sizle, but you're a coward. That's why
you need a hired gun to help you when you're
caught dealing crooked. Better watch what you're saying. Why I
don't carry a gun, Marshal, But Pate does. It happens
to be a good friend of my chair. But right
now Pete's gun belt is hanging on that chair over there.
You see it, blasted fool? Pay shut up?
Speaker 8 (06:32):
Huh Now, Marshall, I I ain't afraid of you, but
but you you're armed and I'm not.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Chester sa go get his gun belts.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
Yes, that's pretty brave of you, Marshall arresting an unarmed man.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I'm not arresting you, Fate. I wish I couldn't. And
what are you doing? Chester? Unbuckle that belt and hand
it to him here? You are alright? Put it on, Fate,
put it on. That's right, okay, all right? You got
your gun on?
Speaker 7 (07:04):
Now?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah, get out of Dodge. What I said, get out
of Dodge right now.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
I I ain't done nothing, Marshall, I go, I got
no quar with you.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
What kind of gunman are you paint? You afraid of him?
The kind of gunman that can be hired isn't the
kind that's gonna take any real chances? I said, I
I got no quar with you. I don't. I don't
like this, you know you? You let me out of here,
out of Dodge, picky shirts. It's no good town anyway.
His doors open. Marshall's right, sister, This job don't pay enough.
(07:47):
I guess you win. Marshall. You won't find any gunman
here who'll hire out to you, now, says we'll, So
you might as well learn the day straight. Oh I
always do, Marshall. Yeah, come on, Chester, let's get out.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Maybe you should have run Sisil out of Dodge too.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
I'd rather he stayed just for maybe next time I
can arrest him and see him hung like he deserves.
It didn't take Fat any longer to leave Dodge than
to find his horse and get mounted. And for the
next week there was no trouble from ben Cecil. He
went on dealing cards, and although everybody was watching him
pretty close, nobody found any reason to complain about him.
(08:29):
He didn't win much money, but I began to think
maybe he decided that being honest had some value. Anyway,
Doc and I were talking about him in my office
one noon. H a man like ben Cecil doesn't change man.
He's a crook, and it alwers me when he's worse
than the crook. He's practically a murder. He's also a coward, Doc.
That's why I think maybe I got him stopped. We
(08:50):
got him fixed now.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
In order to stay free, he's got to stay honest.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, Oh, that must be a hard choice for a
man like that. Everything away, Oh, oh, Chester, mister.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
John, I'd just seen the dog gun sting out on
the street there.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yeah, what was that?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well, sir, who would you say, is the last man
in UHD you'd ever expect to start carrying a sixth gun.
I am yeah, no, no, besides.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
The VI doct, I can't think of anybody except Doc
who doesn't carry a gun.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Now, Chester, Well, what about Cooter Smith, Cooder Smith. If
I hadn't saw him, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Leave it neither. Or what's he doing with the gun?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Just leaning on a post down the street there?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
He shouldn't be allowed to wear a gun man like him.
Now have to go bring him in here. I wanna
talk to him, alright, you o gat him? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Things that get mighty bad around here when even Cooter
Smith decides to arm himself.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Man, Uh, Cooter's pretty harmless.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Oh well, you never know a man like that to
be harmless one day and dangerous the next.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's the matter with Cooter anyway, Doc, I don't know
for sure.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I did examine him once and then look to me
like he got kicked in the head by.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
A horse at one time.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He won't say so for some reason, but maybe he
doesn't even.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Remember whatever it was that sure met him. Half simple
we've seen men were so heed you. Oh could her
come on in? Hello?
Speaker 6 (10:15):
Could her, oh, god like come here?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Like? Chester, said myshlf Good. I Uh, I wanted to
talk to you, could her.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Well, you never told me to come here before.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
You never wore a gun before, he could her.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Uh oh, that well, that's for my job, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Your job? What job will work? I got? What kind
of a job is it? Why?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I don't rightly know yet, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Why can you tell me what you do?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Know?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Then? Like? Who hired you?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Well, the fella that give me this gun. He hired
me for an awful lot of money, he said.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
And who was that? Was it? Ben something? Ben secl Noah,
that's him.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
You gonna pay me for wearing this gun?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
He is. Uh he tell you why it's afternoon?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
What?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Well, that's well, he's gonna tell me everything I gotta do.
He's gonna talk to me somemorre this afternoon. He sure
talks a lot that fault.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Yeah, okay, Couder, you can go along now. But uh,
I hope you don't know Cisel will talk you in
when they trouble.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Uh it ain't that, Marshall. Well as you don't try
to make a fool out of me, sometimes people do.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
I don't like that. Yeah, sure, Cooter.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I think I'll go talk to him now and make.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Sure goodbye if I could have.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, what in the world do you make of that?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think maybe if Cissel's crazier than Couter is. Sister.
I'm gonna be at the Long Branch tonight to make
sure not kiddy.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
Tell him, man, what are you doing around here early tonight?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm looking for ben Cetle over there is the troubles
mar that. Maybe, Oh, Marshall, sissle. Cooter Smith telt me
you were talking to him this morning. I was, and
he'll be here in a minute. You can talk to
him some more. Fine. Oh, I don't know, Marshall. Maybe
(12:34):
it won't be so fine. Oh h Cooter's not as
easy going as most people seem to think. He isn't. Oh,
for example, you tie a gun on him, it kind
of changes his whole character, makes him mean. Marshall, you'd
be surprised, how mean? Yeah, I guess I would.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Uh, you don't believe me. I'll show you Houda. Hey, Cooter,
go ahead, Cooter, I told him you go ahead now, Michall. Yeah, Cooter,
(13:14):
I'm gonna draw on you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
MacHall, I'm gonna shoot you, but I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I look, Cooter, you know better than that. Is this
what you been putting into his head? Says Oh, don't
d don't you look at him, Marshall, you look at me.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Just don't you look at him? You just look at me.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
So that said, okay, Cooter, her go ahead draw?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Why I am I'm going to you?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
You look out, Marchhall.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I I sure I am.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
No, you're not cooler. You haven't got a touch. I
watch that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Huh huh.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Cooter. There you see you're too slow. I got my
gun out and you haven't even touched yours.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
No, I I'm touched mine.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Your guy's pointing at me. I man, man, he's not
gonna help your cooter. Yes, yeah, he he is too.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
If him, it's gonna shoot you with him, you think so? Man, man,
he he's gonna kill me. Man, you you guys shoot
him up. But I can't stand that.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I double oh, so say you ought to be real proud.
I I didn't do nothing, Marshall. I wasn't gonna shoot you.
I don't even carry a gun, you know, Yeah, sure,
but Coulder didn't know what you told him to make
(14:44):
me start for my gun and then you'd shoot me
from the side where I couldn't see you. You told him
be safe. That ain't so much Well, what you planned
was to make me kill him. It wouldn't look so
good for me to kill a man like Couder. But
if nobody had stand for that, they'd laughed me right
out of town. That's what you were figuring on, wasn't it.
I I I had nothing to do with it, Marshall.
I wasn't thinking. You're not not get out as smart
as I thought you were. But you're leaving town, Cecil.
(15:07):
I'm gonna give you one hour, and I hope you'll
take longer. But what you make me do with that
Cooter is gonna be a real pleasure to drag you
out of town.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Cy will leave you at Miss Jyne.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
He's start sidling up in the stable over there. Chest.
I'm gonna give him about one more minute. But the
docs say about Cooter, Oh Coooter's fine. Start give him
some powders and stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
He's real calm.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Now where is he? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
He left Doc's quite a little bit ago.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
You're explained to him what Cecil was trying to do.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Oh yes, sir, I made it real plain like.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
You told me, And you think he understands now.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He understands everything. Mister Dinan. You know it's funny, But
like Doc I said, getting scared so bad he fainted
seems to help Cooter think straighter at least about what happened.
He ain't near as so fuzzy as usual.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Not goold uh sciss those times up. I'm going on
that stable now and run him out. He won't give
you no plight all he wants, but I kind of
wish he would.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
You could have run him out a large long time ago.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I wanted to catch him Chester. I wanted to bring
him to Troy.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
That means hard to save him.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I'll come home.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But then he's dumb its Cooter, he's killed them.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Sizel alright, dropped the gun, Cooder, I I dropped it.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I ain't gonna shoot no more.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Marshall.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Shut him right in the head. Mister know he he.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Lied to me?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You mean a fool out of mean? Why did you
have to kill him? Cooter? I was running him out
of Dodge. Don't you shoot me, Marshall.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
I wasn't gonna shoot you on that guy, Wasn't I
like you? Sissel told me, I I wasn't doing anything bad.
I I wasn't gonna shoot you, sister, was gonna shoot you.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I like you, all right, all right, Couter, I know that.
I just calmed down. I'm not gonna hurt you.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
You're pointing that gun at me.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
No, I guns back of my hole, Streetcutter, look at it.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
See I am looking at it, and I can't stand it.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
No, I qut it, sot her.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well, ain't you going after him?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
That's scary, even worse.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
That's bad enough now, but he killed a man, he murdered.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
He won't run far Chester. I'll find him when his
trial comes up. Yeah, I done enough to cooot her
for one day.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, it ain't your apault, mister Dinner.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
No, that doesn't make me feel any better about it.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Gun Smoke for Houston, directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
stars William Conrad as Matt dyllon Us Marshall.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
The story was specially written for guns.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Book by John Meston. Featured in the cast were Frank Katie,
Barney Phillips and Vic Parron, Harley Bear is Chester, Howard
mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Allis is Kidding
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