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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 gone. Will Spoke, starring William Conrad, the story

(00:41):
of the violence that moved west with young America and
the story of a man who moved with it. 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 chancey job, and it makes a man watchful
and a little lonely.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Fa fa I hiding cover Rodd's back.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I didn't know if he was to the house. Well,
I yeah, Well we you lost, finding Dodge lost?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, you know I wasn't lost, Paul, been there twice
since we come here.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
What kipt you? Well? Uh stopped off? Ain't one of
them saloons.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
You know. I ain't never been in one of them places, Paul.
You go in one, you just keep right on riding
through town and don't never bother to come back home.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
I know, Paul, what kept you?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Well? There was one of them medicine shows. Paul fella
with a magic act and a pretty girl you.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Were supposed to ride right home.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, I was thinking on you, Paul, with them pains
in your back.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I this licks her, some fella was talking about it
would have fixed you up real good. You didn't buy none.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well you know, I didn't have no money for Paul. Mum.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
They was selling a lot of it, and folks was
drinking it down right there. You could see right away
that they was feeling better.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Did you get what you went for?

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Sure, Paul.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I fetched the paper from the lawyer fella and about
buying this place.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
And I fetched the mail too.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Mail.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Now, who would be writing?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's from Jim? He must have found out we'd moved here. Shit,
you must want something pretty bad. Well, he he's coming
through this way. He wants to stop and stay a spell.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, he ain't welcome Jim's You were bar same as.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Not anymore, he ain't.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You ain't seen him in three years. That was his doing.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Not mind him and his fancy manners and his fancy women.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
He didn't belong around his home no more.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Why I'd kind of like to see Jim again. Paul,
you ain't gonna do it. Your brother's gone bad. Rufe
mean fancy bad. He didn't come when you're maw lay dying,
and he ain't coming here whilst I live now, You
got that straight?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yes, Paum, All right, then come help me with his
stock and try to do something right for once.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Play more coffee, Sheriff. You'd like another cup of it?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (03:57):
It should too, nicely?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Thank you, Chester, trouble fall, hot and everything? Oh no, thanks?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Ah, Hello, Blair, Sorry to keep you waiting, Matt.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
I've been extending to him the courtesies of your office.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Mister John, you've been what, give me some coffee? I
don't know if that was a courtesy or not. How's that?
It's all right, Chester, matter of fact, I'll have some myself.
Well sure, Ah, something on your mind, Blair? Besides I
cover coffee here.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Matt, there is after man i'd like you to keep
a lookout for. I think he may pass through here
in his way from Texas.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Uhuh? Names? What Dell? Jim Woodell? Thanks?

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
What's he done? Just about everything? But I want him
for murder? He got a circular on it. No, there
isn't one out yet. Uh huh? What does he look like?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
He doesn't look like the kind of gets in trouble.
He's a slick one, never carries a gun, dresses like
a dude.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Does he act like one?

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, he's a soft spoken fella, fancy manner, especially with
the lea.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
They shouldn't be too hard to spot if he comes
through a place like Dodge. Maybe not, but I'd be
careful with him.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
No, he likes to do his kill him with a knife,
and he don't care much whether it's a man or
a woman.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
I allowed to keep an eye out for him, Blair.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
If you spot him when you lock him up, I
can come and get him.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, I'll let you know if I do. Just look
at that.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Look at what the plate full of leftover they serve
you for stew.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I don't know, kid, Hey, they's pretty good to me.
Everything tastes good, do you now? Food's foods?

Speaker 5 (05:46):
You know at the trouble of this town? What the food,
the food and everything in it?

Speaker 1 (05:53):
And the people. Ah, somebody been giving you trouble?

Speaker 5 (05:57):
Oh No, isn't anybody in particular, just everybody.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's taken on a lot of church, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Sometimes I think if I see another drunken cowboy.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
I'll scream your saloon makes a lot of money off
of drunken cowboys, kiddie.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, but I don't have to like it.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Maybe not. Ah, A lot of other people in town.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
Yeah, they're either blown dry by the prairie or trying
so hard to scrabble for money they never look up.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
You're in a mood for fair, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Then sometimes I just get sick of it all.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
H I sort of admit that Dodgers in the prettiest
place I've ever seen.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
Well, the people aren't very pretty.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Oh, come on, kitty, I have some more coffee. It
make you feel better?

Speaker 5 (06:42):
It no, thanks, you have some. I think I'll go on.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
You sure? Yeah? Sure? Uh? You want me to come
along with you? Oh?

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Thanks, I'll go on alone. See you later, alright, kitty,
Thanks for dinner.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh hello, miskinty. Hell, I beg your pardon.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
You could at least look where you're going.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Did I hurt you, ma'am?

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (07:19):
No, no, you didn't hurt me.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I certainly am re laved to hear that, my person.
I'll get here you are, ma'am, And if there's any diamonds,
I'll be glad to buy you a new one. Well
it no, it doesn't really hurting you be sure? Now?
Who is right clumsy?

Speaker 3 (07:35):
At me?

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Bumping into a lady like that?

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Oh, it could happen to anyone, and you'rening Dodg Juntson.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Why yes, ma'am Jack Norman at your service.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
Well, I don't know where you came from, mister Norman,
but you sure don't act like the men around this town.
They had bump into you without even noticing.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I find it hard to believe anyone wouldn't notice you, ma'am.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
No, sir, mister Norman, you don't act like anybody I know.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
All right, two bears, Sam, two bears.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
It's my turn to buy mister Jollan.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
All right, Chester gets your money up. I got it
right here, and you're a real sport Chester.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh it ain't nothing.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
We are.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Hey when I declare, mis Joan on hot day, a
glass of beer taste almost as good as a cup
of my coffee.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Yeah, that was a sort of a joke, mister Jyllan,
that was.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
That's a nice fellow, any of that. This kitty is
having a drink with he seems all right, surege I
would like to have her sit down on his table.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Kitty saw us a lot of drinks that way infect your.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Look.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
She's coming over here. Ye should lose money on us,
and I reckon you will. I ain't got no more
to spend.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Hell, home is Kitty Chester?

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Alright, Kitty, you boys want to sit down?

Speaker 1 (09:27):
No thanks, Kitty. I got to be getting back and
Chester's out of money.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
Sounds like I'm wasting my time.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Your friend.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
That mister Norman going to be in town for long.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
I don't know Chester. He's having pretty good luck at
that poker game over there. You may not be in
any hurry.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
See they just dealt him in again.

Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah, I hope he has good luck.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
He's in with a tough bunch.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Oh, he can handle himself, all right.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Hold on just standing me, Mark, Yeah, I ain't the
one to grab hold of Marshall.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
He's the one that pulled the knife Norman. Yes, sir,
he sure did. All right? What about that Norman?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Man has to protect his interest, Marshall. It was a
crooked deal.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
And nothing dirtier than a knife fighter. I'll take your knife.
That won't be necessary, Marshall. I won't hurt him. I said,
I'll take the knife. I don't now that's better. How
do you always carry a knife from him. I don't

(10:39):
like guns, Marshall, Dylan. I see you've been in Texas lately. Yes,
I have.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
I'm on my way from there now.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
I wear are you headed well? I haven't made up
my mind, just sort of going from town to town,
taking it as it comes. With your knife handy, Well, Marshall,
man has to protect himself. If you ever killed anybody
with that knife, it was necessary once, Marshal, Like I said,
a man needs protection. Yeah, Oh is the law? How's that?

(11:12):
I'm gonna lock you up.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
For a couple of days for getting into a fight.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I haven't hurt anybody, move.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Man. Yeah, did she be a little hasty?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Maybe? But I'm gonna hold him until I hear from Blair.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
I don't think Jack's a killer.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Well, I don't know whether he is or not yet.
I'm still gonna lock him up. You've got no right
to do this, Marshall. You can argue about that of.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Jail and making a big mistake if I am. I'm
sure I'll hear about that.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I'm sure you will too. All right, come on, Chester,
let's get him out of here.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Okay, Oh she are was the telegram for him? It's John.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Uh the sheriff were.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think he's the right fella.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, everything matches up with his name.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Oh con change that easing? H Yeah, I know one thing.
I'll be glad to be rid of him, one way
or the other.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
He seems quiet enough when I'm around Chester. Is he
causing you trouble?

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
What he does? The only nain't even what he says.
It's war the way he says.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
And he's a smooth talker, all right. Well, like a.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Smart act my way of thinking.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
How good did you find out anything about Jack Norman?

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, mister Dune just got a telegraph about him. Sheriff
claims he's the right one.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
All right.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Well, at about time he came and made certain, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Oh they can't start for a day or two. He's
got something to tend to and wisita.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
So Norman sits in jail while Sheriff Blair takes his time.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh, Kitty, there isn't anything I can do about it.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
Maybe not that you had to arresting in the first place.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah, come on, Chester, Poor kitty takes over my.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Office Sometimes I think I could do a better.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Job of it.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
And she kind of oh fears up, ain't she I
mean by that fella Norman getting put in jail.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Chester, don't try to figure out women.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Now, there's nothing wrong with your appetite. I can say that.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
That's the marshal of stuff back here with her.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Well, now, mister Dillon is a busy man tending to
hear his job, and I'm part of his job. Go
on tell him I want to see him, will.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Mister dollon?

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, Chester, he wants to see you. I'll take the
chay back. You got something to say to me? Yes, Marshall,
I do. I think it's about time we were honest
with each other, all right. I just want you to
know I understand how you, Marshalls have to operate. That's

(14:19):
you hear about a crime, then you have to arrest somebody, anybody,
to make a show of doing your job. That's the
way you figure it. That's the way it is. Well,
I can see how you have to do these things.
But don't you think it's about time to let me go?

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Now?

Speaker 4 (14:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (14:35):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
You haven't got a shred of evidence against me, matt
All that uh back here, doc Oh, Matt the red
boy just rode into town for me he says, there's
been a terrible ruckus out at.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
The Waddell place.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Whatdell, there are those new folks out west of the town.
The old man has been hurt bad, stab, I understand.
I thought maybe you'd want to ride out.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
With Yeah, yeah, doctor do come on? Oh good you
you got the water? Pour something into that pan when

(15:20):
you're mad? Yeah, I sure, doctor here, thank you. I'll
just hold his head up a little. Uh huh, easy, easy,

(15:42):
we'll fix it. Who did this?

Speaker 4 (15:44):
What?

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Mum?

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Can you tell me? Who did it?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
How you should have known.

Speaker 7 (15:52):
And never thought that me is your own Paul, Well,
you tell me about it. He jim my boy, he
wanted to hide here in the house, and he wouldn't
let him. We we we ain't got much, Marshall, but
we abide by the law.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
And I I told him to go. And then what happened, Well,
he was trying to get in there the door.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
You know, I wouldn't let him. He cut me knife
to his own paw.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Why did they come, mister my No?

Speaker 3 (16:28):
He he made Roof go with him, poor slow Roof.
Jim y Jim will kill him, Marshall.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
And he tell me where he went. Just try and
tell me that.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
I'm not sure loaded the horses were supplies. He coulda
doubled back toward Texas.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Alright, we'll find him. No, I don't don't want no
harm to come to roof. He he ain't bright, he's
a good boy, and Jim will kill him. Maybe I
can stop that, mister Wade.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
That's why I don't understand why this Jim took his
brother along with him. You think he'd have finished him.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Off along this pall. They figures to use him some way.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Chester, maybe, but you can think that anyhow, Never.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Mind, Chester, Just keep your eye on that.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Shack of a head figure that might be up there.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
It might be anywhere going in there. Yeah, leave the
horses behind these rocks and bring your rifle. I will
head for the sight of get down. Yes you found, Yeah,

(18:06):
just stay low, don't come any closer. I'm a US Marshall.
What know, there are two of us. I'm honored, marshall.
You have a better chance if you give yourself up.
Can't quite see that, Marshall. We can wait your out what.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
No, No, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Look he opened the door.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Two of us, two.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Rupe, and the door just Dooky's standing there without no
gun or nothing.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
No, that's the other one. What hell Yeah, brother's an
innocent man. No us letting him get hurt.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I hope you'll feel that way, Marshall. Ruth won't get
hurt as long as you let me move freely. You
understand it won't work. What be your fault if it doesn't.
I'm moving out of here now, roof in front of me.
I'm coming for your horses. You make any move out after.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Shoot Roof, you'll do it too much doing there.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Don't shoot Chester. Glad to see you have good judgment, Marshall.
You just walk steady roof like you stop. Jim shot him,
Government Sester, don't come any closer my shots.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
It's doing.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Well.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
I didn't mean to kill him.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
I I Chester, you that's fine, get your canteen, sue
uh Rufe, Jim your brother's dad, Rufe. We didn't have
much choice. Not I know that, Marshall. H Paw h

(20:23):
house paw. He has a chance.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well, you tell him, tell him what you tell him.

Speaker 8 (20:34):
I I stopped him show rope sure and I I
had done much for Paul he thought was right.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
But you tell him, you tell him. I stopped. Jim.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Nope, that was right, Marshall, wasn't it? That was right? Rufe?

Speaker 9 (20:59):
Will you tell hauh, Yeah, I'll tell him.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Alright, Norman, you can go about time.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I uh, I'm sorry. I'm wrong about you. I know,
I know you're sorry. But I've been sitting in this
cell for a week, waste a lot of my time. Oh,
don't let me waste any more of it. Then you
gotta figure a small town law man doesn't know any better. Alright,
go on, get out of here.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
My pleasure, My pleasure, Marshall, tell gone here if you don't.
He didn't have no right to talk to you like that.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
I don't know Chester. I can't blame him. Yeah, but
he was right about one thing. I locked up the
wrong man. Well maybe you did.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
But you got the right man too.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Didn't you. Yeah, well there's brother's help. I got him.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Mm. People's a bunch of smart alex They ain't got
no notion of what it takes me a law man,
track him in the trailing and risking life and land
for folks that don't appreciate it, and half the time
don't even deserve it. They make me sick, that's what
they do dog on him, Miss doone, Miss Doone. I'd

(22:38):
be proud to buy a beer.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
I thank you, Chester, I'd like that. I like that
a lot.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Gun Smoke, produced and directed.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
In Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt
Dylan Us Marshall. The story was specially written for gun
Smoke by Mariam Clark, with an editorial supervision by John Meston.
Featured in the cast were Harry Bartel, Sam Edwards, Laurence Bobkin,
McCarron and Jack Moyles, Harley Bear Is Chester, Howard mcneer

(23:47):
is Doc and Georgia Alliss Kiddy
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