Rawhide (1959) s01e04 Episode Script

Hyah! ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? Keep movin', movin', movin'? Though they're disapprovin'? Keep them dogies movin'? Rawhide? Don't try to understand 'em? Just rope 'em, throw, and brand 'em? Soon we'll be livin' high and wide? My heart's calculatin'? My true love will be waitin'? Be waitin' at the end of my ride? Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on? Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide? Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in, let 'em out? Cut 'em out, ride 'em in? Rawhide? ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? Hyah! Hyah! Rawhide!? Hyah! Sedalia Trail is a thousand miles of dust, deep river crossings and stampedes.
A job forgotten by those who wait for their cattle at the end of the drive, but not forgotten by the men in the saddle who bring the cattle through like me, Gil Favor, trail boss.
Let go! Let go! Now I got to change my shirt.
They won't even know you have a shirt.
They'll know when I get through with 'em.
Tascosa Junction here I come! Take it easy, Billy.
I'm breaking the rules as it is letting any of you go into town.
Still breaking a rule.
There's no harm in entertainment, Mr.
Favor.
Good to know somebody's alive beside themselves.
Don't think you're going to make any permanent dent in Tascosa Junction, Billy.
Trail towns were born to handle trouble.
Mr.
Favor, I'm going to try.
It isn't going to give me any trouble, Mr.
Favor.
What you counting your money for? You getting married? I'm saving it, Wish.
Would you take care of this for me, Mr.
Favor? It'll be safe with you.
Right.
There's plenty of gals there and everything, Mushy.
There's a sheriff over there named Lindstrom.
I didn't meet him, but they say he's pretty tough.
Of course, he don't want to drive any business away.
Somebody's got to stay with the nighthawkers.
Oh, I've seen these trail towns.
They're all alike.
You go on and have a good time.
Thanks, Wishbone.
That's great, Wish.
You sure you're ready for this, Rowdy? I'm ready.
Now, listen, all of you! You're warned the liquor's most likely watered and the games crooked, so make the best of it.
And no fighting or you'll answer to me.
Let's go! Better come and go along, Wishbone.
Ah.
Look like you're going to be busy tonight tending jail, Claggert.
Ah, they don't mean no harm.
Just getting it out of their system.
Stop drumming up trouble for everybody, Poke.
I don't want you out here.
Go away.
Leave me alone and go away.
Maybe I don't want to.
You know, if they don't get somebody in that jail pretty soon, you going to lose your job working for Lindstrom.
Then you going to have all day sitting out here by your daughter's grave.
Get out.
Get out! You don't like nobody knowing, do you? That if you wasn't such a drunk, maybe you could have tooken better care of her.
Maybe she wouldn't be lying out here.
Get out of here.
Go on! Maybe I going to tell Lindstrom you ain't tending to business, sitting here hugging a gravestone instead of cleaning out the jail.
Get out! Hey, you, what do you think you're doing?! Hyah! Mushy, want to bet on the black with me? I bet you'll be broke in five minutes.
Mr.
Favor, you go on ahead.
I'm going to check the town over a little bit.
New customers for Texas Street.
Don't get any ideas.
Stop it, will you, Sid? I'm sorry, Clovis.
I didn't mean it.
You meant it.
I told you to wear this ring.
I want them down there to know who you belong to.
They know.
They all think I'm lucky to have a wife like you.
The whole town thinks I'm lucky.
What's wrong with me, Clovis? You want to hear again, Sid? What's the matter with us? You said you trusted me, and I trusted you.
Until you started looking at other men- younger men.
That's what I mean.
You don't trust me.
I want to.
How can I? Why didn't you try? Why didn't you give me a chance? I did try.
What can I do to make it right with us? For one thing, you could get me out of these clothes.
I'm still wearing the ones I wore when I worked in the dance hall.
You could give me enough money so I could buy clothes fit for a wife.
How do I know if I give you money you don't take the next stage and run away? If I wanted to do that, I could have gotten somebody to give it to me.
You try it.
You just try.
You can't make a move in this town that I don't know about.
That's right.
Now leave me alone, Sid.
Just leave me alone.
Give me another bottle of that Old Bill Warren.
Favor! You were right about this wheel, but I didn't think it was gonna bethatcrooked.
Twelve, red.
Sorry, boys, nobody on.
You're just bucking the tiger, Billy.
I'm going to change to red.
Well, I'm going to stay with the black.
Now, get that wheel rolling.
You know, for a guy with a gold colic, you're awful slow.
Give me another bottle of Old Bill Warren! Mr.
Claggert.
Oh, Miss Clovis.
You shouldn't be seen talking to me.
Did you get it? Did you get it, Mr.
Claggert? I'm sorry, Miss Clovis.
I couldn't sell it for you.
Nobody on the early stage wanted it.
Nobody had money to buy fancies like this.
If I had the money, I'd give it to you myself.
Sure.
I'm scared, Miss Clovis.
If he thought I was helping you get away, I don't know what he'd do.
It's all right, Mr.
Claggert.
Go ahead.
Thank you, ma'am.
Oh.
Terribly sorry.
That's all right, that's all right.
I hope I didn't break nothing.
Oh, you didn't.
Thank you very much.
I-I'll be glad to pay for it.
Hey, you fellows got something of mine? I found it on the boardwalk.
Well, I want to thank you for finding it, ma'am.
When I saw it, I thought maybe it might be my lucky day, lucky enough to help me out of my trouble.
I couldn't even open it.
I couldn't look inside of it.
I was afraid maybe I couldn't give it back.
Oh, well, there's no money in it.
Just pictures of my family.
I wouldn't want to lose them, though.
You in, uh, some kind of trouble, ma'am? Some.
Well, maybe I can help.
Let's get away from here.
Not down Main Street.
Too many eyes on you, too many tongues start wagging.
Yeah.
Well, I can't say that I blame you.
A drover's got a mean reputation.
Oh, it isn't that.
Tascosa Junction is a mean town.
Maybe you know somewhere we could go.
Huh? I can't be seen with you- or anybody- anytime.
Hey, well, wait, wait.
Uh I got a I got my horse down here.
I I'm gonna get him shod down at the blacksmith shop.
I'll be there if you want to walk by.
If it don't come up, I want to turn the wheel over and find out why.
Yeah! Come on, boys, play a little.
One bottle of booze on black.
Hello.
You like horses? I know how to handle them.
I'm a little afraid of them.
You ever seen them put a shoe on? It doesn't, uh, hurt.
It looks kind of awful, but it doesn't really hurt them.
I always thought it hurt very much.
No, it doesn't hurt them.
You don't have to talk if you don't want to.
I don't want to get you in trouble, you know.
Oh, this can't get me in trouble.
What about you? I can do what I want.
I can't.
Why? I just can't.
A girl like you can do anything.
A girl like mecan't do anything.
Want to know something? What? I think you're the nicest girl I've ever met.
"Nicest.
" Yeah.
Want to know how come I live in a town like this? That doesn't make any difference.
My hometown is Springfield, Illinois.
I came out to be a schoolteacher.
Yeah.
Well, they all say that.
Well, that's what I came out to do, but that's not what I'm doing.
I'm selling drinks to people who come in night after night.
Look, uh I'm not asking any questions.
I know.
I'm just telling you on my own.
Feels kind of good to have somebody nice to talk to.
Well, a-a girl has to eat.
Do you have any folks back there in Springfield? A girl like you, stuck in a place like this with no man? I mean, a friend to look after her? That's why you want help, huh? To get out of here? I just can't seem to get the money together.
You'd think I could manage it, but Well, you see, you have to wear fancy clothes to work in a place like that and well, they keep taking the price out of your wages and I never catch up.
But here I am, telling you all my troubles.
Why don't you tell me about you? Well Not much to tell about me.
Just a trail drover, that's all.
I liked you the moment I saw you, though- the way you looked, that is, and I like you more as time goes on.
You see, there's really not too much to tell about me.
Those your men? They're mine.
Scaring the citizens we can rule out.
They're sort of used to that from you waddies, but that water trough your man shot up will have to be paid for.
Agreeable.
I'll leave the money with the barkeep.
Tascosa Junction don't mind a little fun on a pay-as-you-go basis.
That sounds like a reasonable town.
I think I'll take a look at it.
I'm about out of money.
Here's some money, if you want some money! More money! We might be an open town, mister, but I wouldn't try tearing it apart.
It's been tried before.
Is he one of yours, too? Yeah.
I don't want your men sleeping it off all over town in the morning.
Pack them back with you when you go.
"Clovis.
" That's a pretty name.
I like "Rowdy," too.
How much money was it, uh you needed to get out of town? Fifty dollars.
Fifty dollars? Whew.
That's a lot of money.
Well, listen, forget it.
Just forget it.
No, no, no.
No, wait.
I want to help you, really I do.
I never met anybody like you.
Listen, it was silly for me to ask somebody I don't even know to help me.
I was just desperate.
Well, look, I'm gonna get the money for you.
You wait here, huh? Wait right here.
Mr.
Favor! I I was, uh thinking maybe you, you might give me that money I gave you, and maybe some of my back pay, too.
I'm going to hit him with his crooked wheel.
Come on, Billy, go on and hit him.
Billy! Hold up! This wheel's crooked as a dog's hind leg, Mr.
Favor.
We're going to bust it and get our money.
Billy, you knew it was a crooked game.
We're just going to get our money back, Mr.
Favor.
Pete, get them rounded up.
All right, let's get back to the herd.
Shorty.
What's the big idea?! Get off my bar.
Break it up.
Get out of here.
You're ruining the place.
Cut it out! All right, let's hit the street.
Break it up.
Everybody.
Come on.
Hey, it's me, boss! I've had enough.
Let's get out of here.
Break it up, break it up.
Come on, let's go.
Scarlet! Get out.
Come on, let's hit it! Keep your hands in back of that bar.
All right, come on, let's go.
Come on, let's go! Step it up! Come on, Billy.
Coming, Mr.
Favor.
Mr.
Favor! Hey, they got Billy! Hey! Hey! Nothing we can do.
He's dead.
Let's get 'em! Better stay where you are.
Get out of town! Get back.
Hit it, Rowdy! Go back to camp! Get out! You running out? I'll be back, just me alone.
That all right with you? That's all right with me.
Max in there is deader than Kelsey's ear.
I told him.
I told him.
Now he'll come back wanting to pay for a couple of broken chairs, won't he? Won't he?! I guess so, Mr.
Lindstrom.
Take that cowhand over to the parlor.
What's the matter? What are you back here for? From now on, you stay in camp- all of you.
What are we going to do about Billy? I'm going back to town.
Why can't we all go? The only justice Billy's going to get's from all of us.
Billy asked for trouble- he got it.
You were warned beforehand the wheels were crooked.
I'm going back to see he gets a decent burial.
That's all.
Pete! Move the cattle in the morning.
I'll catch up.
Well, I-I'll go take care of his burial, Mr.
Favor.
I have to go into town anyway.
Why? Well, I-I'd like that money that's coming to me.
For what? Well, I want to lend a girl $50.
What's the matter, Mr.
Favor? If you're lending it to that girl I saw you in town with, don't.
You don't have to worry about her.
He don't want you to get took, Rowdy.
No one's taking me, Mr.
Favor.
A woman like that's always taking somebody.
Look, she's a decent girl and she needs help.
Believe me, Rowdy, I've known women like that all my life.
She'll only give you a hard time and make a fool of you to boot.
She needs help, Mr.
Favor, and I want the money that's coming to me.
Not for her.
Not Well, then I'm quitting the drive as of now.
A man quits in the middle of a drive only once.
I never take quitters back.
Well, I only quit once.
You make me wish I could reach for a hickory rod.
You don't need a hickory rod, Mr.
Favor.
You've got two good fists.
Now, if you think I need a lesson and you're the teacher, you go ahead and try.
All right, I'll give you your fight.
In Sedalia- if your temper's still with you by then.
I never fight with my men on the trail.
Well, I'm not your man anymore.
If you don't see fit to fight, you take back what you said about Miss Clovis, right in front of everyone who heard you.
The quickest way to douse a fire is to quench the spark.
There's no call for that, Rowdy.
I'll just square that for you, Wishbone.
Let me, Mr.
Nolan- I'm nearer his age.
Hold it! You've earned your fight, Rowdy.
The only reason he lostthisfight, he was fighting two people- me and his bad temper.
I want those wages, Mr.
Favor.
You want me to try and take them? I'll hold still if you want to belt me, Wishbone.
You hitting me isn't what hurts, boy.
Rowdy.
No hard feelings.
Yeah.
Pete- Take over.
Right.
Wishbone, make us some coffee, will you? Jim and Joe, go out and relieve the herders.
The rest of you relax.
I'm looking for the sheriff.
You can wait, if you want.
He'll be in about 11:00.
All righty.
If you're business ain't troubling ya, I can give you a game of checkers.
Gets lonely sitting here.
Well, maybe you can help me.
I'm looking for a girl.
She's kind of, um, short.
Got blondish hair.
Real pretty.
And when she talks, she's got a nice warm sound to her voice.
Warm? They all got warmth in their voice, Mister.
Well, her name's Clovis.
You've heard of her, haven't you? So help me, no.
Maybe the best thing for you is to get out of town right now.
Hey, uh you know most everybody in Tascosa Junction, don't you, Mister? Well, I ought to.
I've been here five years.
Well, I'm looking for a girl.
I don't know her last name.
I don't even know where she lives.
A girl? Yeah.
We had a bunch of drovers in here today, but I don't know where any girl is.
Unless maybe she's over at the Red Tank helping them straighten up.
Oh, no, no, no, she wouldn't be over there.
There's decent people in this town, isn't there, Mister? Well, I guess so.
I'm here.
Well, her first name's Clovis.
Excuse me.
Hey, wait.
Clovis there's a button off my shirt.
Yeah, there's a button off your shirt.
I thought maybe you'd fix it like a good wife.
That's right.
Like a good wife, I'll fix it.
I get the feeling again you think I'm too old for you.
No, you're not.
Who was the boy? What boy? Across the street from where I stood.
You were talking to him.
Nobody.
I never saw him before.
I was lonely, I talked to him.
Nobody in this town ever talks to me anymore.
Nobody.
They remember what happened to the last man who put his hands on you.
He was dancing with me and he was drunk.
He touched you.
For dancing with me, he ended up in that jail of yours.
He got out, didn't he? Sure your way.
So you could shoot him in the back while he was trying to escape.
I didn't want to kill him.
You got to listen to me.
I didn't want to kill him.
Clovis All right.
It'll be a lesson for you to remember.
Nobody gets ideas about you.
I did it before.
And if I have to, I'll do it again.
Who's that? Me, Poke.
What do you want? Li-Like you said, I should keep my eyes open for you.
Well, there's a kid in town.
He's asking everybody where he can find Miss Clovis.
He's over to the Red Tank.
He's one of them fellas shot up the Red Tank.
Well, you said that you'd give me two dollars every time.
No one you knew.
You won't get him in jail, Sheriff.
You ain't gonna get him to make a run for it.
That's right.
You might as well pour that back in the bottle.
I don't want it.
Maybe you got a wrong name, Mister.
I never heard of anybody named Clovis.
I haven't got a wrong name.
Like to know what everybody so shut mouthed about around here.
Didn't your outfit do enough damage? Now get out of here.
Your outfit's sure got a nerve.
My outfit totes its bills.
What's the cost? They killed your croupier, didn't they? Poke, get out of here.
Well, all I said Oh, you beat it.
People got to die.
Things like that got to happen.
That being the case, the score's even.
Who does the burying in this town? Traeger.
You find what you come for? One of my men was killed here this afternoon.
How much for burying? It's usual for the county to pay the burial cost to the cemetery.
I didn't ask that.
How much.
$20 with the tombstone.
Wooden.
Name's Billy Grant.
Born? Don't know where or when.
Just put the name.
Put San Antone, Texas.
That's where I picked him up.
It'll be written, not carved.
Seems like a mighty flimsy way of fixing a headpiece.
It'll fade in a month.
It'll last just as long as the memory of him.
All right, Rowdy.
Let's go back to the camp.
I quit the drive, Mr.
Favor.
I quit.
You remember that? Remember? I also remember you're quicker on words than you are on thinking things out.
Thought maybe you did some thinking since you rode out of camp.
I been doing some thinking.
I've been doing a lot of thinking.
It all adds up to the same thing.
Come on, Rowdy.
Believe me, I know something about a woman.
You don't know everything.
When we're on the trail, I never question your word, Mr.
Favor.
It's law.
But there are even things you can be wrong about.
There's lots of things I can be wrong about.
But I'm not wrong in wanting what's best for my men.
It's been a long time since I started needing a shave in the morning.
I don't need a wet nurse anymore.
Is that what I been to you, a wet nurse? Mr.
Favor, when you're always riding me in and you never say anything good even when I do things right, I don't get sore at that.
I realize you're trying to make me do my job better.
And be able to step into my boots when the time comes.
I can take that.
I'm even grateful.
But this is different.
Meaning? Meaning it's a personal private matter, that's what.
Meaning it's none of my business.
If you want to put it that way, yeah.
I'm putting it that way, but I'm not going to take it.
It's no use, Mr.
Favor.
It's no use at all.
I'm not gonna throw away all the time and training I've spent on you.
There's nothing you can do about that.
That all ended up back there at camp.
And you're not my trail boss anymore.
Say, when's the next stage out of here? Midnight.
Thanks.
You ain't letting him get away with this, are you, Sheriff? Nobody's done nothing, Poke.
Ain't they, though? This ought to be real good, Claggert.
You didn't like what happened to the other one, did ya? Get out.
You let me alone.
Sheriff Get out of here! Don't hurt nobody else, Lindstrom.
Since when are you taking up for anybody? When I talk to you, answer me.
It's about Miss Clovis, ain't it? Why don't you let her go? Haven't you hurt her enough? Maybe she likes the boy.
A drunken yellow-bellied lout like you begging for somebody else.
Are you drinking? Is that where you're getting your nerve? I'm just asking you not to hurt the girl.
What are you remembering, Claggert, your daughter? Are you trying to make up for her throwing herself away because you couldn't take care of her? Well, I didn't think you'd come back.
I want to prefer charges against the man I just fired.
He's over at the Red Tank.
I caught him trying to steal a horse.
I want to teach him a lesson by having him spend a few days in jail.
What are you up to, Mister? All right.
It's still a lesson I've got to teach him.
But not for stealing a horse.
No, he's stuck on some girl here in town.
Want to break it up.
They're sort of stuck on each other, is that it? I'm not sure about her.
But I'm not taking a chance it'll get that far.
He's over at the Red Tank, huh? Let's find him.
Mister How much you pay me, I tell you where Miss Clovis is? Who's there? It's me, Rowdy.
Brought you the money I promised you.
I told you I would, Clovis.
Well, I don't want it.
Look, I'm not leaving here till you tell me what's the matter.
You're in some kind of trouble, aren't you? I looked all over the place, and I Who are you, Clovis? You married? Yes.
You didn't tell me you were married.
I needed the money to get away from him.
Listen, I lied to you.
I stole your wallet and I lied to you because I was looking for an easy mark.
Well, listen, haven't you heard enough? Get out of here.
Well, I want to help you.
I don't care if you lied.
I want to help you.
Here's the money.
You keep your money, Rowdy.
You save it for somebody who'll appreciate it.
Now get out of here.
Go, please.
There he is, Sheriff.
Take him.
Take me for what? Attempted horse stealing.
Horse stealing? What are you trying to pull, Mr.
Favor? What horse are you talking about? The horse I rode into your outfit when I joined up with you? I never heard you lie, and I've been with you a long time.
What horse are you talking about? You know why he wants me locked up? I know what the charge is.
Well, I'll tell you why he wants me locked up.
He wants to keep me away from a girl named Clovis.
You know her? I know her.
I always thought you fought fair, Mr.
Favor.
I guess Miss Clovis must've caught your eye, too.
You're the law, but don't you go roughin' me up.
There was no call for that, Sheriff.
It's my lookout how I treat my prisoners.
Who are you? Rowdy's trail boss.
Pack your things.
That doesn't give you any right to come in here.
The way you girls can spot a kid like Rowdy and take him every time.
What are you talking about? I didn't do anything to him.
He's a nice kid.
I'm puttin' you on the 12:00 stage.
You got 15 minutes, and, uh, hand over the money.
I didn't take it.
Hand over the $50 you cadged from him.
I didn't take his money.
Now, look, he's one of my men.
He signed on for the trail, and I aim to keep him, so you might as well forget about him, because he's going to stay in jail until you're safely out of town.
Jail? You turned him over to Sheriff Lindstrom? On a trumped-up charge that'll hold him until you're out of town.
You want him killed? A few hours in jail never killed anybody.
Do you know who I am? I'm Lindstrom's wife.
His wife.
Now, you get that boy out of jail before Sid kills him.
Get some things on.
You're comin' with me.
I tell you, Sheriff, I didn't steal any horse of his, and I can prove it.
How? Now, you take me out to the outfit.
The men out there saw me quit.
They'll tell you I didn't steal anything of his.
Take his gun, Claggert.
Look, I'm not lyin' to you, Sheriff.
I didn't say you were, boy.
Look, I'm a fair man.
Aren't I, Claggert? Aren't I, Poke? Just as fair as rain, Sheriff.
Poke, shut up.
Please don't do anything, Sheriff.
Do what? Now, what's he talkin' about? I'm going to do just like you asked.
You and me are goin' to ride out to that outfit of yours.
Let's go.
Thanks, Sheriff.
Someday, they gonna learn not to touch Miss Clovis, ain't they? Claggert? Where you goin', Claggert? Sheriff! Poke, Poke, where's the sheriff? Did he have a prisoner with him? He sure has.
What's so funny? Why don't you ask Claggert? Claggert will tell you.
Claggert! Who's Claggert? Well, he's the jailer.
He's ridin' off.
Maybe he's goin' out to see the fun.
What's goin' on here? What's he done with his prisoner? Took him away.
Boy said that he could prove he didn't steal no horse.
Lindstrom took him out to his outfit.
That's not Sid's way.
He doesn't prove anything.
It's a trick.
This is as far as we're goin', boy.
What? I said this is as far as we go.
I thought we were goin' out to the outfit to prove I didn't steal that horse.
I'm not interested in whether you stole a horse or not.
What's between you and that girl back there? What did she tell you? Well, what do you mean- Miss Clovis? How'd you know about me and Clovis? Oh, it's Clovis now, huh? Real friendly.
What did she tell you? Well, that she's married.
She's married to me.
You shouldn't have put your hands on her.
Put my hands on her? I didn't.
I never touched her.
All she wanted was my help- that's all.
I didn't do her no harm, mister.
You ain't never gonna do anybody no harm.
They'll just find you tomorrow morning hung from that saddle resisting arrest.
Lindstrom! Hold it, Lindstrom.
You keep out of this, Claggert.
There's only one way to free Miss Clovis from you.
Now you stay right where you are.
He got what was comin' to him, too.
I No one did anything.
Y-You must've lost your mind.
I'm going to give you one chance, boy.
You start runnin'.
Maybe you can get away from me.
Maybe.
I told you, I never did anything, mister.
Start runnin'.
Rowdy! Stay away from him, Mr.
Favor! He's crazy! Sid, he don't mean nothin' to me! You got to believe me! It was all my fault! Clovis, you stay away from him! Clo No No.
I didn't mean it, Clovis.
I didn't mean it.
You dirty old man.
You murderer.
Drop your gun, Lindstrom.
Clov I I It's as good a way as any.
They would've hanged him.
Maybe we better get her back to town.
Yeah.
I wish I'd listened to you.
I was wrong, too, Rowdy.
You mean, she wouldn't take the money from you, either? No.
You were right about her, Rowdy.
She is a good woman.
Head 'em up! Move 'em out! ?Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'? Keep rollin', rollin', rollin'? Though the streams are swollen? Keep them dogies rollin'? Rawhide? Through rain and wind and weather? Hell-bent for leather? Wishin' my gal was by my side? All the things I'm missin'? Good vittles, love and kissin'? Are waiting at the end of my ride? Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on? Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide? Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in, let 'em out? Cut 'em out, ride 'em in? Rawhide? ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? Hyah! ?Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'? Hyah! ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'?