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This radio dramatization of the film aired on January 9, 1949.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The NBC Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Screen Director's Guild Assignment production Stagecoach, Director John Ford, stars John.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Wayne, Clad Trevor, Ward Bond.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is the Screen Directors Guild production of the United
Artists motion picture classic Stagecoach, starring John Wayne, Claire, Trevor
and Ward Bond, and introducing the director of the film,
John Ford.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Are carrying me Ba.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Where the childs are?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
In eighteen eighty five, the stage coach was the only
means of travel on the American frontier, and in those
days no name struck more dread into the hearts of travelers,
and Geronimo neither of the warlike Apaches.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
This, folks, is a story of.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
A party of people who travel from Tonto to Lordsburg
by stagecoach in eighteen eighty five. It's a story still
told by the.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Indians in the land of Arizona, land of the Apache Indian,
where the roaming Chiacawa fought the mighty white invader stood
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the white man's city Tonto, Tonto, where the flying wagon
let the white man call the stagecoach stop to take
men to the westward, where Geronimo was leader chief of
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the Apache Indian.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Well, that's hardiest, folks, Geronimo's a patches on the war
paths up ahead, Bernard, every.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Ranch and signed.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
And the question before the party assembled in this stage,
coach is shall we continue?
Speaker 9 (03:14):
I say yes, continue.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
But missus Mallory, should you be traveling in your condition?
Speaker 10 (03:20):
My husband is in apache Wells with his troops. I
want to be with him when our baby arrives.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Madam, I am a gambler, and I admire and respectable gamble.
But aren't you gambling with a life besides your own?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
I forgot to tell him at the hat peel we're
getting a Calvary escort for the patch of Wells.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
That settles it.
Speaker 11 (03:40):
I'm going on count me in, of course, Buck, all.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Right, I will find my shotgun guard.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You don't have to go no further back, but clearly
we'll don't go.
Speaker 12 (03:51):
How are you, shirt and pinks, and I'll be riding
shotgun up next to you.
Speaker 13 (03:56):
This chip book? You what for? Ringo kid escape from
his I'm looking for.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Him, the fellow who shot Jed Michael dead.
Speaker 12 (04:03):
I hear he's heading for Lordsburg to shoot it out
with the three Plumber boys. So I'll be right up
there next to you, Buck all the way to Lordsburg.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
There she comes Tunnel Hill.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Now they're calling the stagecoaches let to stand back, but doctors, yeah,
stand stand out of the road.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
There, Dallas, girl, Thanks Doc hail stage brush sherriot.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Doc, Doc.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
Why do I have to leave town? Because because all
these women here say I have to.
Speaker 14 (04:41):
I don't want to go to Lordsburg.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
No more do I, Dallas, But you are a lady
somewhat too hospitable to gentlemen. I am a doctor somewhat
too hospitable to spirits. We girl are the dregson Tonso
they and us from their midst come, Dallas.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Be a glorified drag like me.
Speaker 15 (05:07):
Whoa buck?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You have acquired?
Speaker 13 (05:12):
Two more eager?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Questus engine gazin duck.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I thank them for that mark of respector tell them
they may be seated now, answered Dallas, thanks to take
your place beside the other lady them.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Forward on the Lordsburg.
Speaker 13 (05:44):
Why you drive into this canyone buck?
Speaker 16 (05:46):
Now?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I'm to be hard to shoot at and kid Dromo's
the patches are in these hill.
Speaker 13 (05:51):
I'm with you. Buck along that.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Don't make me bullet down Kingdom High. Here she comes up, Pata, if.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Your shirt on, stop the coach.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It ain't a Patches summing up a head blocking the
road with a rifle.
Speaker 13 (06:09):
Here he comes, whoever he is? What it's a Ringo kid.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
That's right, buck Hi, Curly Ringo didn't expect to find
the sheriff riding shot gun.
Speaker 13 (06:23):
I was heading for Lordsburg, same as you, Ringo.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Well my horse went lame, so you got another passenger.
Speaker 13 (06:29):
I'll take that rifle first, Ringo.
Speaker 12 (06:31):
That's so, Sheriff, you're under a wrist for the murder
of Jed Michael.
Speaker 11 (06:36):
Sorry, Curly, but this Winchester here says difference.
Speaker 13 (06:40):
Story, Ringo.
Speaker 12 (06:41):
And if you look back up the road a piece
you will see rs go to the United States Cavalry
coming up.
Speaker 13 (06:47):
Oh, I'll take that rifle now, Ringo.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
Sure, Sheriff, you better hold onto it. You mayn't need
it before we get to lrds Burke.
Speaker 13 (06:55):
Thanks, you can get into the coach.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Now, what's obliged, Sheriff?
Speaker 13 (07:02):
You're going back?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Ye yep, Suli yep.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
So you're the famous ringold kid, and.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
My friends call me Ringo. Right, name's Henry, Henry.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I remember you say I fixed your arm when you
was just a little sprout. There's no higher in a
quarter of bourbon. That was my kid brother broke his arm.
It did a good job too, Doc, even if you
was drunk.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, thank you. So how's your brother now?
Speaker 11 (07:45):
It was murdered him and my dad by the three
plumber boys.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, good luck when you get the lordsburg Son.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
Thanks doc.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Missus Mallory, you're tired. Would you like to rest your
head on my shoulder?
Speaker 10 (08:01):
No, thank you, mister Hatfield. Would you mind if I
sat over on your side of the coach?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Not at all, ma'am.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Excuse me, yes, of course.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Right here, Missus Mallory, Thank you, mister Hatfield.
Speaker 11 (08:16):
MM I must have the plague haunt elis you?
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Oh no, it's not you.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I have a drink, hot Field.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
No, thank you, No, thank you, he says, have a drink, Doc, Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (08:34):
You're not gonna move away from me, are you?
Speaker 5 (08:37):
No?
Speaker 13 (08:38):
Ringo.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Well, I guess I can't expect to break out of
prisoner into society in the same way.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Sh she'll hear you.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
I guess I'm pretty dumb for sitting down beside a
lady like you, Dallas, lady, thanks for nothing moving.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Don't please? Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 11 (09:00):
Ain't I seen you someplace before.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
No, no, no, you haven't.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
I wish I had, though.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
I know you. I mean I know who you are.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
I used to be a good callahan. A few years back.
Things happened, Yes, things happen.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
What ring up.
Speaker 11 (09:23):
Dock's getting a snowball?
Speaker 9 (09:26):
Things happen. And now they'll take you back to prison, not.
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Till I finish your job Lordsburg Ringo. I I wish
you wouldn't wish I wouldn't what?
Speaker 14 (09:38):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Nothing nothing?
Speaker 11 (09:42):
Who found that drive?
Speaker 13 (09:46):
Why doesn't he drive more castle?
Speaker 11 (09:48):
He's playing at smart?
Speaker 13 (09:49):
Hatfield?
Speaker 11 (09:50):
You talk to the mountains apaches don't like snaw Well,
he might.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Have some consideration for missus Mallory and her condition.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
I'll be all right, mister Hatfield. Thank you?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Whoa hello? Buttle patch?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
You well shut your head? Who I patch?
Speaker 14 (10:08):
You well, mister Hatfield?
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Why didn't my husband and his troops meet us here?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
The wrangler tells me that Captain Mallory has been sent
ahead to Lordsburg Lotsburg.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
We'd better turn around and follow the cavalry escort.
Speaker 11 (10:35):
To tato Oh.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
We can't do that with the patches on the war path.
And he's safe to go through a patch of country
with our escort.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
I say we ought to turn back.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
There's only one way to find out. Take a vote.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
What do you say, Missus Mallory, on to Lordsburg or
back to Tonto.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
I want my husband with me when our baby's born.
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Doc. Ain't you forgot this?
Speaker 13 (10:55):
Lady? You mean Dallas?
Speaker 14 (10:58):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:58):
I say go, I'm nothing to go back to Doc.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Marsburg passed the bottle past the battle Ringo.
Speaker 13 (11:08):
Ringo's married prisoner. I'm voting his proxy, I say, Lordsburg,
I feel.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
I am at the service of Missus Mallory.
Speaker 13 (11:17):
Thank you buck.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Now, lord burgd is Aristo step inside and get some grubs.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Looks fry.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
The better take my arm up these steps, Missus Mallory.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
No, thank you, really, I'm uh, I'm.
Speaker 16 (11:35):
Quick, Missus Mallory.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
I've got it, Doctor Boone, Missus Mallory needs your help.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Oh it's no use.
Speaker 14 (11:46):
He's drunk.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Ringo.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
I don't know for sure, but I think you better
go inside and start eating some water.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
All you want, then something.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Carrier inside.
Speaker 17 (11:56):
Mister Hatfield, allow me, allow me, I'll carry her myself.
You saucy, thank you, sir, you drunken swine, Thank you,
now if you'll open the door for me, Dallas. Yes,
drunken swine of a doctor.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Doc honest, ain't you ashamed?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Did I understand that swine? They call me a drunken swine.
I wish I could do something.
Speaker 13 (12:28):
There is something you can do.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
But yeah, but what can you do in your condition?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I can drink all of the hot black coffee you
can make, I sir, am a doctor.
Speaker 16 (12:41):
Get fussy, get busy.
Speaker 18 (13:07):
Hudson River Radio dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The NBC Theater is presenting the Screen Directors Guild production
of Stagecoach starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, and Ward Bond,
with screen director John Ford.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Where the Kyles.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Are Hatchie Wells. The White Man called that here the
White Square had her child, while the flying wagon waited, waited,
while my tribesmen gathered on the hills and on the
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desert gathered the Apache warriors, while the White Square had
her child, and the flying wagon waited.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Oh, it makes me nervous being held up like this
in Apache country.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
You just when they're mad at us.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Again, wiet Buck, someone's coming, Dallas.
Speaker 14 (14:55):
Look it's a little girl.
Speaker 11 (14:59):
A girl.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
Let me see it.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Well, I'll be dog go.
Speaker 12 (15:03):
That's real fine, Edi, Dallas, real fine?
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Oh yes, curly, it's.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Fine a baby? How I mean?
Speaker 11 (15:13):
I'll explain it to you sometime.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Buck listen boys, dark boom, three cheers for Doc Boom.
Never mind the three chairs, just pour me four fingers instead.
I'm thirsty, Dallas, it's me, Ringo. You want to be
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outside here at night alone? But she's like to pick
off strays.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Well you're here now, yeah.
Speaker 11 (16:00):
I'll watched you with that baby today. You look you
look well nice.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
I just wanted to hold it a minute.
Speaker 11 (16:10):
You're visiting in Lordsburg?
Speaker 13 (16:12):
Uh?
Speaker 14 (16:13):
I have friends there?
Speaker 13 (16:14):
Oh good, Ringo?
Speaker 9 (16:17):
Why don't you escape?
Speaker 11 (16:18):
I aim to in Lordsburg?
Speaker 9 (16:20):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Now?
Speaker 9 (16:21):
Why not go over the border?
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Now?
Speaker 11 (16:23):
My father and brother were shot down by the Plumber boys.
I guess you don't know how it feels to lose
your folks that way.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
My folks were killed by Indians when I was a kid.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Oh well, that's tough. It's a hard country, especially for
a girl.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
You have to live no matter what.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
That's it. Look, miss Stellis, you've got no folks, neither
of I. Maybe I'm crazy to ask you, but well
I still got a ranch down across the border and I. Well,
I guess I'm crazy being close to you like this.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
But Ringo, Ringo, you don't You don't know who I am.
Speaker 11 (17:02):
Or I know I want to marry you, Dallas. Ringo,
that ain't an answered, Dallas.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Ringdo you can't go to Lortsburg, not now. The Plumber
boys will be three to one against you. You'll get killed.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
Can't tell you, can't win, can't run away from it either.
Speaker 15 (17:24):
How can you talk about our life together when you
want to throw your life away?
Speaker 13 (17:27):
Well?
Speaker 11 (17:28):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 9 (17:30):
Get away? I'll follow you.
Speaker 10 (17:31):
You mean that, Dallas, But I just can't leave missus,
Mallory and her baby.
Speaker 17 (17:35):
Now.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
But listen, there's a horse all saddled and ready for
you in the corral.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Yeah, there's a rifle in this saddle boot.
Speaker 14 (17:42):
Now get going.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
I'll come after you.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
I'm counting on that, Dallas, with my life.
Speaker 14 (17:46):
Good bye, Ringo, Watch out for Apaches.
Speaker 11 (17:50):
I got a rifle now, and I got you. Don't worry, Dallas.
I'll be waiting. Hold it, whoa hold it, hold it boy.
Speaker 13 (18:19):
Easy.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Smoke signals on the ridge, Apaches. I gotta warn Dallas
and the others. I gotta go back.
Speaker 15 (18:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
On the ridge and on the mesa smoke dat chirikawa fires,
Raise the fires, told my nation, strike the white man's
lying wagon, Raise my kinsman, raise apatchies, chieftain's horsemen, rifles,
stage coach on the Lordsburg trail. What's the signals on
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the mesa? Thus the writing in the sky, Thus my
fierce Apache horseman following the Lordsburg trail.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
We're making good time. I say we're out of danger now,
thanks to Ringo here. Very decent of you to come back.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Ringo, i'ldn't be too sure we're out of danger yet.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
I feel we'll be in Lordsburg soon, then, very soon.
How's the baby sleeping? Doctor told me what you did
for me? Thank you very much. Dallas.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
You know danger? What's my appetite? Indeed, does lea see
there must be a bottle of something lifts in this bag?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That a bullet It just missed your head.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Doctor on the floor, Miss Mallory, Dallas, you and miss
Mallory get out apachees, hundreds of them.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Hey ho, he's calling you from the driver's spring.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Go here's you in chest to use it me and
use it?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Thanks, got my rife, big a goat.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Of a patey got it.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
See that engine on that Mustang coming alongside. Don't talk shoots,
allow your scene and now you're don't you ladies?
Speaker 14 (20:37):
All right?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
For you all right, now your scene and now you're.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Don't lady all right?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Huge General will be good enough to shoot Indians instead, up,
I'd be able to hit get down Apache, I'll help
hat Field, We got it.
Speaker 14 (20:52):
Faster, try faster fire.
Speaker 17 (20:56):
Horror, Oh, missus Mallory, you'll get hurt, easy, hat reason,
I can use the.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
War half of beer.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Give me your pistol dot take your texts, war doll interns.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Patchies all have big families.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Don't talk, shoot, they can't out ambienation.
Speaker 14 (21:15):
Why a fucking curly stop firing outside bucks.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Yet Curley's empty too, This looks like it.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
No, no, I have only three bullets left.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
That's enough. Indians won't get your Missus Malory or the baby.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
No, no, they won't listen.
Speaker 14 (21:34):
Get out, No, listen, it's a budle. Listen.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's a cavalry from Lardsburg.
Speaker 14 (21:44):
Patty, you're running away?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Gory?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
How's that feel, Jeff glory?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Glory?
Speaker 18 (22:17):
Well, good night, ringo.
Speaker 11 (22:19):
This is is this where you live? In Lordsburg?
Speaker 9 (22:23):
I told you, I warned you.
Speaker 11 (22:26):
I told you you didn't know me.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
This part of town is no place for a nice girl,
but it's all.
Speaker 14 (22:32):
Right for me.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
I say goodbye, ring say goodbye.
Speaker 11 (22:38):
I asked you to marry me, didn't I?
Speaker 14 (22:41):
Oh, never forget you asked me?
Speaker 11 (22:43):
Going back and wait for me in a stagecoach. Where
are you going business? Well, the Plumber boys, I'll just
take a slow walk down main Street and see what happened.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
Dear Lord. This stagecoach don't pass much for a church,
but I'm praying to you're here, Please Lord. It's three
to one against Ringo out there, and the Plumber Boys
are dead shots, awful dead shots. Lord, like I was saying, Lord,
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it's two to one.
Speaker 14 (23:31):
Word.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
He's all I got and all.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
I ever want.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
So please, dear Lord, please let me have him back.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
Please, please, please?
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Who who's got out there?
Speaker 13 (24:11):
Ring Yeah?
Speaker 14 (24:12):
You heard, no, prayed for you.
Speaker 13 (24:16):
You did good.
Speaker 14 (24:18):
Let's get out of here, then escape.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
You don't have to anymore. Before he kissed in, Luke
Plumber confessed he killed Jed Michael.
Speaker 14 (24:27):
You're free, yeah, and they didn't even hurt you.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
Dead shots like the Plumber.
Speaker 11 (24:34):
Boys, deadest dead judge, you ever saw Ringo, tell us
what are you crying for? Nothing's happened.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Thus the story of those brave men, riders of the
flying wagon in the land of Arizona, where Geronimo was chief,
in the Great Land in the desert, where the flying
wagon galloped that the white men called the stagecoach, bringing
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brave men to the West.
Speaker 18 (26:01):
Hudson River Radio dot com, But dot com makes it cool.
The NBC Theater presents.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Screen Director's Guild Assignment production Stagecoach, Director John Ford, stars John.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Wayne, Clad Trevor, Ward Bond.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is the Screen Directors Guild production of the United
Artists motion picture classic Stagecoach, starring John Wayne, Claire, Trevor
and Ward Bond, and introducing the director of the film,
John Ford.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Are carrying me Ba.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Where the childs are?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
In eighteen eighty five, the stage coach was the only
means of travel on the American frontier, and in those
days no name struck more dread into the hearts of travelers,
and Geronimo neither of the warlike Apaches.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
This, folks, is a story of.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
A party of people who travel from Tonto to Lordsburg
by stagecoach in eighteen eighty five. It's a story still
told by the.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Indians in the land of Arizona, land of the Apache Indian,
where the roaming Chiacawa fought the mighty white invader stood
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the white man's city Tonto, Tonto, where the flying wagon
let the white man call the stagecoach stop to take
men to the westward, where Geronimo was leader chief of
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the Apache Indian.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Well, that's hardiest, folks, Geronimo's a patches on the war
paths up ahead, Bernard, every.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Ranch and signed.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
And the question before the party assembled in this stage,
coach is shall we continue?
Speaker 9 (03:14):
I say yes, continue.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
But missus Mallory, should you be traveling in your condition?
Speaker 10 (03:20):
My husband is in apache Wells with his troops. I
want to be with him when our baby arrives.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Madam, I am a gambler, and I admire and respectable gamble.
But aren't you gambling with a life besides your own?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:33):
I forgot to tell him at the hat peel we're
getting a Calvary escort for the patch of Wells.
Speaker 9 (03:38):
That settles it.
Speaker 11 (03:40):
I'm going on count me in, of course, Buck, all.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Right, I will find my shotgun guard.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
You don't have to go no further back, but clearly
we'll don't go.
Speaker 12 (03:51):
How are you, shirt and pinks, and I'll be riding
shotgun up next to you.
Speaker 13 (03:56):
This chip book? You what for? Ringo kid escape from
his I'm looking for.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Him, the fellow who shot Jed Michael dead.
Speaker 12 (04:03):
I hear he's heading for Lordsburg to shoot it out
with the three Plumber boys. So I'll be right up
there next to you, Buck all the way to Lordsburg.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
There she comes Tunnel Hill.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Now they're calling the stagecoaches let to stand back, but doctors, yeah,
stand stand out of the road.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
There, Dallas, girl, Thanks Doc hail stage brush sherriot.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Doc, Doc.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
Why do I have to leave town? Because because all
these women here say I have to.
Speaker 14 (04:41):
I don't want to go to Lordsburg.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
No more do I, Dallas, But you are a lady
somewhat too hospitable to gentlemen. I am a doctor somewhat
too hospitable to spirits. We girl are the dregson Tonso
they and us from their midst come, Dallas.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Be a glorified drag like me.
Speaker 15 (05:07):
Whoa buck?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You have acquired?
Speaker 13 (05:12):
Two more eager?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Questus engine gazin duck.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I thank them for that mark of respector tell them
they may be seated now, answered Dallas, thanks to take
your place beside the other lady them.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Forward on the Lordsburg.
Speaker 13 (05:44):
Why you drive into this canyone buck?
Speaker 16 (05:46):
Now?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I'm to be hard to shoot at and kid Dromo's
the patches are in these hill.
Speaker 13 (05:51):
I'm with you. Buck along that.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Don't make me bullet down Kingdom High. Here she comes up, Pata, if.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Your shirt on, stop the coach.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
It ain't a Patches summing up a head blocking the
road with a rifle.
Speaker 13 (06:09):
Here he comes, whoever he is? What it's a Ringo kid.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
That's right, buck Hi, Curly Ringo didn't expect to find
the sheriff riding shot gun.
Speaker 13 (06:23):
I was heading for Lordsburg, same as you, Ringo.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Well my horse went lame, so you got another passenger.
Speaker 13 (06:29):
I'll take that rifle first, Ringo.
Speaker 12 (06:31):
That's so, Sheriff, you're under a wrist for the murder
of Jed Michael.
Speaker 11 (06:36):
Sorry, Curly, but this Winchester here says difference.
Speaker 13 (06:40):
Story, Ringo.
Speaker 12 (06:41):
And if you look back up the road a piece
you will see rs go to the United States Cavalry
coming up.
Speaker 13 (06:47):
Oh, I'll take that rifle now, Ringo.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
Sure, Sheriff, you better hold onto it. You mayn't need
it before we get to lrds Burke.
Speaker 13 (06:55):
Thanks, you can get into the coach.
Speaker 11 (06:58):
Now, what's obliged, Sheriff?
Speaker 13 (07:02):
You're going back?
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Ye yep, Suli yep.
Speaker 8 (07:18):
So you're the famous ringold kid, and.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
My friends call me Ringo. Right, name's Henry, Henry.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I remember you say I fixed your arm when you
was just a little sprout. There's no higher in a
quarter of bourbon. That was my kid brother broke his arm.
It did a good job too, Doc, even if you
was drunk.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, thank you. So how's your brother now?
Speaker 11 (07:45):
It was murdered him and my dad by the three
plumber boys.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, good luck when you get the lordsburg Son.
Speaker 11 (07:54):
Thanks doc.
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Missus Mallory, you're tired. Would you like to rest your
head on my shoulder?
Speaker 10 (08:01):
No, thank you, mister Hatfield. Would you mind if I
sat over on your side of the coach?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Not at all, ma'am.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
Excuse me, yes, of course.
Speaker 8 (08:12):
Right here, Missus Mallory, Thank you, mister Hatfield.
Speaker 11 (08:16):
MM I must have the plague haunt elis you?
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Oh no, it's not you.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I have a drink, hot Field.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
No, thank you, No, thank you, he says, have a drink, Doc, Yes.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 11 (08:34):
You're not gonna move away from me, are you?
Speaker 5 (08:37):
No?
Speaker 13 (08:38):
Ringo.
Speaker 11 (08:39):
Well, I guess I can't expect to break out of
prisoner into society in the same way.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Sh she'll hear you.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
I guess I'm pretty dumb for sitting down beside a
lady like you, Dallas, lady, thanks for nothing moving.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
Don't please? Why are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 11 (09:00):
Ain't I seen you someplace before.
Speaker 9 (09:03):
No, no, no, you haven't.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
I wish I had, though.
Speaker 9 (09:08):
I know you. I mean I know who you are.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
I used to be a good callahan. A few years back.
Things happened, Yes, things happen.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
What ring up.
Speaker 11 (09:23):
Dock's getting a snowball?
Speaker 9 (09:26):
Things happen. And now they'll take you back to prison, not.
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Till I finish your job Lordsburg Ringo. I I wish
you wouldn't wish I wouldn't what?
Speaker 14 (09:38):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Nothing nothing?
Speaker 11 (09:42):
Who found that drive?
Speaker 13 (09:46):
Why doesn't he drive more castle?
Speaker 11 (09:48):
He's playing at smart?
Speaker 13 (09:49):
Hatfield?
Speaker 11 (09:50):
You talk to the mountains apaches don't like snaw Well,
he might.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Have some consideration for missus Mallory and her condition.
Speaker 9 (09:59):
I'll be all right, mister Hatfield. Thank you?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Whoa hello? Buttle patch?
Speaker 7 (10:05):
You well shut your head? Who I patch?
Speaker 14 (10:08):
You well, mister Hatfield?
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Why didn't my husband and his troops meet us here?
Speaker 8 (10:27):
The wrangler tells me that Captain Mallory has been sent
ahead to Lordsburg Lotsburg.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
We'd better turn around and follow the cavalry escort.
Speaker 11 (10:35):
To tato Oh.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
We can't do that with the patches on the war path.
And he's safe to go through a patch of country
with our escort.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
I say we ought to turn back.
Speaker 11 (10:43):
There's only one way to find out. Take a vote.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
What do you say, Missus Mallory, on to Lordsburg or
back to Tonto.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
I want my husband with me when our baby's born.
Speaker 11 (10:53):
Doc. Ain't you forgot this?
Speaker 13 (10:55):
Lady? You mean Dallas?
Speaker 14 (10:58):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:58):
I say go, I'm nothing to go back to Doc.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Marsburg passed the bottle past the battle Ringo.
Speaker 13 (11:08):
Ringo's married prisoner. I'm voting his proxy, I say, Lordsburg,
I feel.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
I am at the service of Missus Mallory.
Speaker 13 (11:17):
Thank you buck.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Now, lord burgd is Aristo step inside and get some grubs.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Looks fry.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
The better take my arm up these steps, Missus Mallory.
Speaker 10 (11:30):
No, thank you, really, I'm uh, I'm.
Speaker 16 (11:35):
Quick, Missus Mallory.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
I've got it, Doctor Boone, Missus Mallory needs your help.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Oh it's no use.
Speaker 14 (11:46):
He's drunk.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Ringo.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
I don't know for sure, but I think you better
go inside and start eating some water.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
All you want, then something.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
Carrier inside.
Speaker 17 (11:56):
Mister Hatfield, allow me, allow me, I'll carry her myself.
You saucy, thank you, sir, you drunken swine, Thank you,
now if you'll open the door for me, Dallas. Yes,
drunken swine of a doctor.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Doc honest, ain't you ashamed?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Did I understand that swine? They call me a drunken swine.
I wish I could do something.
Speaker 13 (12:28):
There is something you can do.
Speaker 7 (12:29):
But yeah, but what can you do in your condition?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
I can drink all of the hot black coffee you
can make, I sir, am a doctor.
Speaker 16 (12:41):
Get fussy, get busy.
Speaker 18 (13:07):
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Speaker 1 (13:28):
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Speaker 3 (13:49):
Where the Kyles.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Are Hatchie Wells. The White Man called that here the
White Square had her child, while the flying wagon waited, waited,
while my tribesmen gathered on the hills and on the
(14:18):
desert gathered the Apache warriors, while the White Square had
her child, and the flying wagon waited.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Oh, it makes me nervous being held up like this
in Apache country.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
You just when they're mad at us.
Speaker 11 (14:34):
Again, wiet Buck, someone's coming, Dallas.
Speaker 14 (14:55):
Look it's a little girl.
Speaker 11 (14:59):
A girl.
Speaker 13 (15:00):
Let me see it.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
Well, I'll be dog go.
Speaker 12 (15:03):
That's real fine, Edi, Dallas, real fine?
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Oh yes, curly, it's.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Fine a baby? How I mean?
Speaker 11 (15:13):
I'll explain it to you sometime.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Buck listen boys, dark boom, three cheers for Doc Boom.
Never mind the three chairs, just pour me four fingers instead.
I'm thirsty, Dallas, it's me, Ringo. You want to be
(15:52):
outside here at night alone? But she's like to pick
off strays.
Speaker 9 (15:56):
Well you're here now, yeah.
Speaker 11 (16:00):
I'll watched you with that baby today. You look you
look well nice.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
I just wanted to hold it a minute.
Speaker 11 (16:10):
You're visiting in Lordsburg?
Speaker 13 (16:12):
Uh?
Speaker 14 (16:13):
I have friends there?
Speaker 13 (16:14):
Oh good, Ringo?
Speaker 9 (16:17):
Why don't you escape?
Speaker 11 (16:18):
I aim to in Lordsburg?
Speaker 9 (16:20):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Now?
Speaker 9 (16:21):
Why not go over the border?
Speaker 10 (16:23):
Now?
Speaker 11 (16:23):
My father and brother were shot down by the Plumber boys.
I guess you don't know how it feels to lose
your folks that way.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
My folks were killed by Indians when I was a kid.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Oh well, that's tough. It's a hard country, especially for
a girl.
Speaker 9 (16:40):
You have to live no matter what.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
That's it. Look, miss Stellis, you've got no folks, neither
of I. Maybe I'm crazy to ask you, but well
I still got a ranch down across the border and I. Well,
I guess I'm crazy being close to you like this.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
But Ringo, Ringo, you don't You don't know who I am.
Speaker 11 (17:02):
Or I know I want to marry you, Dallas. Ringo,
that ain't an answered, Dallas.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Ringdo you can't go to Lortsburg, not now. The Plumber
boys will be three to one against you. You'll get killed.
Speaker 11 (17:21):
Can't tell you, can't win, can't run away from it either.
Speaker 15 (17:24):
How can you talk about our life together when you
want to throw your life away?
Speaker 13 (17:27):
Well?
Speaker 11 (17:28):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 9 (17:30):
Get away? I'll follow you.
Speaker 10 (17:31):
You mean that, Dallas, But I just can't leave missus,
Mallory and her baby.
Speaker 17 (17:35):
Now.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
But listen, there's a horse all saddled and ready for
you in the corral.
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Yeah, there's a rifle in this saddle boot.
Speaker 14 (17:42):
Now get going.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
I'll come after you.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
I'm counting on that, Dallas, with my life.
Speaker 14 (17:46):
Good bye, Ringo, Watch out for Apaches.
Speaker 11 (17:50):
I got a rifle now, and I got you. Don't worry, Dallas.
I'll be waiting. Hold it, whoa hold it, hold it boy.
Speaker 13 (18:19):
Easy.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
Smoke signals on the ridge, Apaches. I gotta warn Dallas
and the others. I gotta go back.
Speaker 15 (18:31):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
On the ridge and on the mesa smoke dat chirikawa fires,
Raise the fires, told my nation, strike the white man's
lying wagon, Raise my kinsman, raise apatchies, chieftain's horsemen, rifles,
stage coach on the Lordsburg trail. What's the signals on
(19:05):
the mesa? Thus the writing in the sky, Thus my
fierce Apache horseman following the Lordsburg trail.
Speaker 8 (19:36):
We're making good time. I say we're out of danger now,
thanks to Ringo here. Very decent of you to come back.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Ringo, i'ldn't be too sure we're out of danger yet.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
I feel we'll be in Lordsburg soon, then, very soon.
How's the baby sleeping? Doctor told me what you did
for me? Thank you very much. Dallas.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
You know danger? What's my appetite? Indeed, does lea see
there must be a bottle of something lifts in this bag?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That a bullet It just missed your head.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Doctor on the floor, Miss Mallory, Dallas, you and miss
Mallory get out apachees, hundreds of them.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Hey ho, he's calling you from the driver's spring.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Go here's you in chest to use it me and
use it?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Thanks, got my rife, big a goat.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Of a patey got it.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
See that engine on that Mustang coming alongside. Don't talk shoots,
allow your scene and now you're don't you ladies?
Speaker 14 (20:37):
All right?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
For you all right, now your scene and now you're.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Don't lady all right?
Speaker 8 (20:44):
Huge General will be good enough to shoot Indians instead, up,
I'd be able to hit get down Apache, I'll help
hat Field, We got it.
Speaker 14 (20:52):
Faster, try faster fire.
Speaker 17 (20:56):
Horror, Oh, missus Mallory, you'll get hurt, easy, hat reason,
I can use the.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
War half of beer.
Speaker 6 (21:03):
Give me your pistol dot take your texts, war doll interns.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Patchies all have big families.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Don't talk, shoot, they can't out ambienation.
Speaker 14 (21:15):
Why a fucking curly stop firing outside bucks.
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Yet Curley's empty too, This looks like it.
Speaker 9 (21:21):
No, no, I have only three bullets left.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
That's enough. Indians won't get your Missus Malory or the baby.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
No, no, they won't listen.
Speaker 14 (21:34):
Get out, No, listen, it's a budle. Listen.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
It's a cavalry from Lardsburg.
Speaker 14 (21:44):
Patty, you're running away?
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Gory?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
How's that feel, Jeff glory?
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Glory?
Speaker 18 (22:17):
Well, good night, ringo.
Speaker 11 (22:19):
This is is this where you live? In Lordsburg?
Speaker 9 (22:23):
I told you, I warned you.
Speaker 11 (22:26):
I told you you didn't know me.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
This part of town is no place for a nice girl,
but it's all.
Speaker 14 (22:32):
Right for me.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
I say goodbye, ring say goodbye.
Speaker 11 (22:38):
I asked you to marry me, didn't I?
Speaker 14 (22:41):
Oh, never forget you asked me?
Speaker 11 (22:43):
Going back and wait for me in a stagecoach. Where
are you going business? Well, the Plumber boys, I'll just
take a slow walk down main Street and see what happened.
Speaker 9 (23:07):
Dear Lord. This stagecoach don't pass much for a church,
but I'm praying to you're here, Please Lord. It's three
to one against Ringo out there, and the Plumber Boys
are dead shots, awful dead shots. Lord, like I was saying, Lord,
(23:30):
it's two to one.
Speaker 14 (23:31):
Word.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
He's all I got and all.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
I ever want.
Speaker 9 (23:38):
So please, dear Lord, please let me have him back.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
Please, please, please?
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Who who's got out there?
Speaker 13 (24:11):
Ring Yeah?
Speaker 14 (24:12):
You heard, no, prayed for you.
Speaker 13 (24:16):
You did good.
Speaker 14 (24:18):
Let's get out of here, then escape.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
You don't have to anymore. Before he kissed in, Luke
Plumber confessed he killed Jed Michael.
Speaker 14 (24:27):
You're free, yeah, and they didn't even hurt you.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
Dead shots like the Plumber.
Speaker 11 (24:34):
Boys, deadest dead judge, you ever saw Ringo, tell us
what are you crying for? Nothing's happened.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Thus the story of those brave men, riders of the
flying wagon in the land of Arizona, where Geronimo was chief,
in the Great Land in the desert, where the flying
wagon galloped that the white men called the stagecoach, bringing
(25:26):
brave men to the West.
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