STAGECOACH TRANSCRIPT 1939, Walter Wanger Productions, Directed by John Ford, Screenplay by Dudley Nicoles WHITE SCOUT These hills here are full of Apaches. They've burned every ranch building in sight. He had a brush with them last night. Says they're being stirred up by Geronimo. CAPTAIN SICKELS Geronimo? How do we know he isn't lying? WHITE SCOUT Naw, he's a Cheyenne. They hate Apaches worse than we do. CAPTAIN SICKELS Clear the wire to Lordsburg. NON-COM That's Lordsburg now, sir. They seem to have something very urgent to tell you, sir. CAPTAIN SICKELS Well, what's wrong? NON-COM The line went dead, sir. CAPTAIN SICKELS What've you got there? NON-COM Only the first word, sir. CAPTAIN SICKELS Geronimo. BUCK Whoa! Whoa! Steady, whoa! MAN #1 Well, so long, Buck. MAN #2 Nice trip, Buck? BUCK Oh, so-so. WELLS FARGO AGENT Howdy Buck. Got that payroll for the mining company? BUCK Yes, sir. Right here in this box here. WELLS FARGO AGENT Good. Give me a lift, Jim, will ya? BUCK Jim, I'll pay you that two bits when I come through. JIM Okay, Buck. BUCK Okay, now. Here are... hey, you kids get away from those wheels. Well, sir we run into a little snow up there, it wasn't quite bad, though you fellas better prepare for a good frost. Passengers out for Tonto. BUCK You better get out and stretch your legs, I mean your limbs, ma'am. We're gonna change horses here. LUCY Is there some place here where I can have a cup of tea? BUCK Well, yes, ma'am, you can get a cup of coffee at the hotel across the street there. LUCY Thank you, driver. BUCK You're looking a little... LUCY I'll be all right, thank you. BUCK Yes, ma'am. NANCY Why, Lucy Mallory! LUCY Nancy! How are you, Captain Whitney? WHITNEY Fine, thanks, Mrs. Mallory! NANCY Why, whatever are you doing in Arizona? LUCY I'm joining Richard in Lordsburg. He's there with his troops. WHITNEY He's a lot nearer than that, Mrs. Mallory. He's been ordered to Dry Fork. NANCY Why, that's the next stop for the stagecoach. You'll be with your husband in a few hours. NANCY Oh, I'm so glad to see you, Lucy. Sit down, darling. We'll have a cup of coffee. You must be tired from that long trip. LUCY Who is that gentleman? WHITNEY Hardly a gentleman, Mrs. Mallory. NANCY I should think not. He's a notorious gambler. BUCK Hello, Mink. Howdy, Frank. Well, Marshall, I'm looking for my shotgun guard. Is he here? CURLY Out with a posse, Buck. Trying to catch the Ringo Kid. BUCK Ringo? I thought Ringo was in the pen. CURLY He was. BUCK Busted out? Well good for him. FIRST DEPUTY It's my guess the Kid's aiming to get even with them Plummer boys. SECOND DEPUTY It was their testimony that sent him to the penitentiary. BUCK Well, all I gotta say is that he better stay away from that there Luke Plummer. Why, gosh, Luke's run all of Ringo's friends out of Lordsburg. Why the Last trip there I seen him hit a rancher on the head with the barrel of his gun and well, he just laid it wide open like a butchered steer. CURLY You seen Luke Plummer in Lordsburg? BUCK Yessiree! CURLY You boys take care of the office for a coupla days. I'm going to Lordsburg with Buck. Going to ride shotgun. BUCK Oh, gosh, if I could just learn to keep my big mouth shut. AGENT Here's the payroll, Mr. Gatewood. GATEWOOD You know, ever since I opened this bank I've been trying to tell those people to deposit their payrolls six months in advance. It's good, sound business. AGENT It's good business for you, Mr. Gatewood. GATEWOOD Well, there's your receipt. Fifty thousand dollars. And remember this...what's good for the banks is good for the country. (00:04:43)** DOC BOONE Now, now, now, my dear lady! LANDLADY Good riddance to bad rubbage. Now, get out and stay out! I'm keeping your trunk 'cause you ain't paid your rent. DOC BOONE "Is this the face that wrecked a thousand ships, And burned the towerless tops of Ilium? Farewell, fair Helen. DALLAS Doc! Doc, can they make me leave town when I don't wanna go? Do I have to go? SHERIFF Now, Dallas, don't you go making no fuss. DALLAS Do I have to go, Doc? Just because they say so? SHERIFF Now, Dallas, I've got my orders. Don't blame these ladies. It ain't them. DALLAS It is them. Doc, haven't I any right to live? What have I done? DOC BOONE We have been struck down by a foul disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the Law and Order League are scouring out the dregs of the town. Come on, be a proud, glorified dreg like me. SHERIFF You get going, Doc. You're drunk. LANDLADY Huh! Two of a kind. Just two of a kind. DOC BOONE Take my arm, Madame la Comtesse. The tumbrel awaits. To the guillotine. LANDLADY Oh, wait till I get my badge, girls. I'll join you. PEACOCK If ever you go East, brother, come out to our house for dinner. No one in all Kansas City, Kansas sets a better table than my dear wife, Violet. DOC BOONE Jerry. JERRY Yeah, Doc? DOC BOONE Jerry, I admit as one man to another, that economically I haven't been of much value to you. But, suppose you could put one on credit? JERRY If talk was money, Doc, you'd be the best customer I got. DOC BOONE I'm leaving town, Jerry. JERRY Honest? DOC BOONE Yes, old friend, and I thought you might, out of memory of our many happy... JERRY All right, Doc, just this one. DOC BOONE Thank you, Jerry. JERRY Here's a man goin' on the stagecoach with you. He's an Easterner, from Kansas City, Missouri. PEACOCK Kansas City, Kansas, brother. DOC BOONE To your health, Reverend. PEACOCK I'm not a clergyman. My name is Peacock. I'm a... JERRY He's a whiskey drummer. DOC BOONE A what? Well! Well, how are you Mr. Haycock! I... PEACOCK Peacock! DOC BOONE Don't tell me, sir, I know, I know a familiar name and an honored name! I never forget a face or a friend. Samples? Hmm. Ahh, rye! BUCK Well, Brownie, lookee here, Giddyap, whoa! Back up there... MRS. GATEWOOD I want five dollars, Henry. GATEWOOD Certainly, my dear, certainly. Well, what is it to be this time, my dear. A pair of shoes... MRS. GATEWOOD I want to pay the butcher. Dinner's at twelve o' clock. GATEWOOD Don't worry, my dear. I'll be there. MRS. GATEWOOD I've invited the ladies of the Law and Order League. BUCK All aboard for Dry Fork, Apache Wells, Lee's Ferry, and Lordsburg! MARSHAL I'll take that, Dallas. DALLAS Oh, thanks. DEPUTY In you go, Dallas, and a pleasant voyage. MAN Here's your baggage, Doc. DOC BOONE Thank you, thank you, my friend. Curly, my shingle. Carry it with honour. PEACOCK I'll take it, Doctor. DOC BOONE Oh, no, no trouble at all. No trouble at all. Why, I'll carry it on my lap. Here we go. Here we go, everyone. MRS. GATEWOOD Mrs. Whitney, you're not going to let your friend travel with that creature! NANCY She's right, Lucy. And besides, you're not well enough to travel. LUCY It's only a few hours, Nancy. I'm quite all right. NANCY But you shouldn't travel a step without a doctor. LUCY There is a doctor, dear. The driver told me. MRS. GATEWOOD Doctor? Doc Boone? Why he couldn't doctor a horse. NANCY Now, Lucy, darling, you must be very careful. Take good care of yourself. Oh, watch that step now. BUCK Lady folks ride facing forward, please. NANCY There you go. DEPUTY Pleasant journey, Mrs. Mallory. LUCY Thank you, goodbye. NANCY Goodbye. DOC BOONE Goodbye. (00:10:03)** HATFIELD Like an angel in a jungle. A very wild jungle. COWBOY What are you doing, Hatfield? Talking to yourself? HATFIELD You wouldn't understand, cowboy. You've never seen an angel, nor a gentlewoman, nor a great lady. I raise, gentleman. MAN Well, so long, Buck. MAN So long, Curly. MAN Nice trip, boys. CURLY Wait a minute. Hold it, the cavalry's coming. BUCK Steady, girl. BLANCHARD Captain Sickels asks if you will deliver this dispatch in Lordsburg the moment you arrive. The telegraph line has been cut. CURLY Sure. BLANCHARD We're going with you as far as the noon station at Dry Fork. There'll be a troop of cavalry there and they'll take you on to Apache Wells. From Apache Wells you'll have another escort of soldiers into Lordsburg. But you must warn your passengers that they travel at their own risk. CURLY At their own risk? Well, what's the trouble, Lieutenant? BLANCHARD Geronimo! BUCK Geronimo? Well, then I ain't going. CURLY Will you sit down! BLANCHARD Of course, the Army has no authority over you gentlemen. If you think it unsafe to make the trip... CURLY This stage is going to Lordsburg. If you think it ain't safe to ride along with us, I figure we can get there without you soldier-boys. BLANCHARD I have my orders, sir, and I always obey orders. BUCK Oh... CURLY Did you all hear what the lieutenant said? LUCY Yes, we heard. CURLY Well, me and Buck are takin' this coach through, passengers or not. Now whoever wants to get out, can get out. DOC Courage, courage, Reverend. Ladies first. CURLY How about you, Dallas? DALLAS What are trying to do, scare somebody? They got me in here, now let 'em try to put me out. There are worse things than Apaches. CURLY If you'll take my advice ma'am, you won't take this trip. LUCY My husband is with his troops in Dry Fork. If he's in danger, I want to be with him. PEACOCK Well, you see, brother, I have a wife and five see... DOC Then you're a man. By all the Powers that be, Reverend, you're a man. CURLY All right, folks... HATFIELD Marshal, make room for one more? I'm offering my protection to this lady. I can shoot fairly straight if there is need for it. CURLY That's been proved too many times, Hatfield. All right, get in. We're late. HATFIELD Tell them to move over, sir. CURLY Close the door. BUCK Oh, Curly, we... CURLY Get going, Buck. BUCK Oh, Bessie, Bonnie, Bill...Sweetheart, come on now, girl... DOC Farewell, ladies. Goodbye. BUCK Whoa...whoa... GATEWOOD Room for another passenger? BUCK Sure is, Mr. Gatewood. Goin' to Lordsburg? GATEWOOD That's right. Just got a telegram, had to stop and pack this bag. BUCK Hi, Bessie, hi there Bonnie, Blackie, Bill, ho! Bess, Bonnie, Queenie, steady girl, git along. Well, if there's anything I don't like, it's drivin' a stagecoach through Apache country. CURLY Funny ketchin' Gatewood outside of town that way. BUCK I just took this job ten years ago so I could make enough money to marry my Mexican girl, Juliette. I been workin' hard at it ever since...Bonnie get over. Whoa! CURLY At marriage? BUCK Certainly. My wife's got more relatives than anyone you ever did see. I bet I'm feedin' half the state of Chihuahua. Sweetheart! CURLY Don't it seem funny to you about Gatewood? BUCK Yeah. And what do I get to eat when I'm home in Lordsburg? Nothin but frijole beans, that's all, nothin' but beans, beans, beans. Bessie, Bonnie, Blackie, girl, now get along. (00:14:42)** GATEWOOD Excuse me, ladies, uh, close quarter, uh warm today. DOC Your wife made if warm for me, Gatewood. She was chairman of our farewell committee. GATEWOOD Hmm-hmm. Fine-looking bunch of soldier boys back there. It always gives me great pride in my country when I see such fine men in the U.S. Army. Anybody know where they're going? PEACOCK Brother, aren't you aware of what's happened? GATEWOOD Happened? I, I don't follow you, Reverend. PEACOCK I'm not a clergyman. I'm... DOC My friend is a whiskey drummer. We're all going to be scalped, Gatewood. Massacred in one fell swoop. That's why the soldiers are with us. GATEWOOD He's joking, of course. PEACOCK Oh, no, he's not. Oh, dear, no. I wish he were. DOC It's that old Apache butcher, Geronimo. Geronimo, nice name for a butcher. He's jumped the reservation, he's on the warpath. GATEWOOD Geronimo? Why weren't the passengers notified? Why wasn't I told? DOC We were told, Gatewood. Weren't you told when you got that message from Lordsburg? GATEWOOD Oh, yes, yes, of course...I forgot... BUCK Steady now, string out, sweetheart! Now, doggone it, they're bringin' up her grandfather all the way from Mexico to live with us. CURLY I can't figure out how he got that message. BUCK Who, her grandfather? CURLY No, Gatewood. BUCK Sweetheart! CURLY Said he got a message. BUCK Sweetheart. CURLY The telegraph line ain't workin'. BUCK Sweetheart. RINGO Hold it! BUCK Whoa, steady! Whoa, whoa! Hey, look, it's Ringo. CURLY Yeah. Hello, Kid. RINGO Hello, Curly. Hiya, Buck, how's your folks? BUCK Oh, just fine, Ringo, except my grandfather came up... CURLY Shut up! RINGO Didn't expect to see you ridin' shotgun on this run, Marshal. Goin' to Lordsburg? CURLY I figured you'd be there by this time. RINGO Nope, lame horse. Well, it looks like you've got another passenger. CURLY Yeah. I'll take the Winchester. RINGO You may need me and this Winchester, Curly. I saw a ranch house burnin' last night. CURLY You don't understand, Kid. You're under arrest. RINGO Curly... BLANCHARD Everything all right, Marshal? CURLY Everything's all right, Lieutenant. RINGO Hope I ain't crowdin' you folks none. PEACOCK Oh, no...the more the merrier. BUCK Bonnie, Bessie, Blackie. Yo! Bessie! Ain't Ringo a fine boy? CURLY I think so. BUCK Hey, you're just smarter'n a trade rat. You knew all the time he was goin' to Lordsburg. Hey, reckon what he meant he saw rach houses burnin'? CURLY Apaches. BUCK Oh, Apaches. GATEWOOD So you're the notorious Ringo Kid. RINGO My friends just call me Ringo. Nick-name I had as a kid. Right name's Henry. DOC Seems to me I knew your family, Henry. Didn't I fix your arm once when you were, oh, bucked off a horse? RINGO Are you Doc Boone? DOC I certainly am. Now let's see, I'd just been honorably discharged from the Union Army, after the War of the Rebellion. HATFIELD you mean the war for the Southern Confederacy, suh? DOC I mean nothing of the kind, sir. RINGO That was my kid brother broke his arm. You did a good job, Doc, even if you was drunk. DOC Thank you, son. Professional compliments are always pleasing. PEACOCK Yes, they are. DOC What happened to that boy whose arm I fixed? RINGO He was murdered. (00:20:20)** HATFIELD Put out that cigar. You're annoying this lady. DOC Excuse me, madam. Being so partial to the weed myself, I sometimes forget that it disagrees with others. HATFIELD A gentleman doesn't smoke in the presence of a lady. DOC Three weeks ago I took a bullet out of a man who was shot by a gentleman. The bullet was in his back. HATFIELD You mean to insinuate... RINGO Sit down, mister. Doc don't mean no harm. BUCK Be careful of Bessie up there now. Take it easy, hold it steady, girl. take a look and see if there ain't a stone in the hoof of that hoss down there. DOC Well, if it isn't my old friend Sergeant Billy Pickett! Well, how are you, Billy? MRS. PICKETT He's fine. Doc, and mighty glad to see you. Great heavens to Betsy, we didn't figure on no stagecoach comin' through, with them Apaches raisin' Cain. I was just tellin' Billy to hitch up the buckboard so we could take the young un's into... GATEWOOD Wait a minute, wait a minute you mean to say there are no troops at this station? MRS. PICKETT Ain't no soldiers here but what you see. LUCY But my husband, Captain Mallory! I was told he was here. MRS. PICKETT He was, dearie, got orders night afore last to join the soldiers at Apache Wells. BUCK Well, that means we got to go back. GATEWOOD I can't go back. Oh, look here, driver, this stage has started for Lordsburg and it's your duty to get us there. And it's your duty, young man, to come along with us. BLANCHARD It's my duty, Mr. Gatewood, to obey orders. I'm sorry, sir. BUCK Oh, well, if you soldiers go back, Lieutenant, it means we all have to go back. BLANCHARD My orders are to return from here immediately. And I can't disobey those orders. RINGO I think we can get through all right, Curly. BUCK Oh, no, don't egg him on. Kid, I'm driving this here outfit and, well, the soldiers go back, so am I. GATEWOOD I call this a desertion of duty. I'll report you to your superior officers. And if necessary I'll take it up with Washington. BLANCHARD That's your privilege, sir. But if you give us any trouble here I'll have to put you under restraint. GATEWOOD Now don't lose your temper, don't lose your temper. CURLY I'll tell you how we'll settle it. We'll take a vote. Inside everybody. Come on, Buck. BUCK Oh, Curly, I don't want to. MRS. PICKETT Now you girls, set yourselves down and I'll get you something to eat. CURLY Now, folks, if we push on we can be in Apache Wells by sundown. Soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry. Then it's only a hoot and a holler into Lordsburg. BUCK Well... CURLY We got four men can handle firearms, five with you, Ringo. Doc can shoot, if sober. DOC I can shoot...I can shoot. CURLY Now, Mrs. Mallory, I, I ain't goin' to put a lady in danger without she votes for it. LUCY I've traveled all the way here from Virginia. I'm determined to get to my husband. I won't be separated any longer. CURLY What's you vote, mister? RINGO Where's your manners, Curly? Ain't you gonna ask the other lady first? CURLY Well, what do you say? DALLAS What difference does it make? It doesn't matter. GATEWOOD I vote that we go on. I demand it. I'm standing on my legal rights! CURLY What do you say, Hatfield? HATFIELD Lordsburg. CURLY Four. You, Doc? DOC I am not only a philosopher, sir, I'm a fatalist. Somewhere, sometime there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josian Boon. Why worry when or where? CURLY Yes or no? DOC Having that philosophy, sir, I have always courted danger. During the late war, when I had the honor to serve the Union under our great President Abraham Lincoln, ah...and General Phil Sheridan. Well, sir, I fought 'midst shot and shell and the cannons' roar. CURLY Do you want to go back or not? DOC No! I want another drink. (00:25:20)** CURLY That's five. How about you, Mr. Hencock? PEACOCK Peacock. Umm, I'd like to go on, Brother. I want to reach the bosom of my dear family in Kansas City, Kansas, as quickly as possible. But I may never reach that bosom if we go on, so, under the circumstances, you understand, Brother, I think it best we go back with the bosoms, I mean the soldiers. CURLY One against. Well, Buck? BUCK I... CURLY Buck says aye. That's six. I'm votin' your proxy, Kid. You go with me. RINGO Ain't nothing keeping me out of Lordsburg, Curly. CURLY There sure ain't. Well, folks, that settles it. We're going through. Set down folks, and eat your grub. Come on, Buck, we'll change them horses. BUCK Aw but Curly, ain't we gonna eat? CURLY We'll eat later. BUCK Oh. MRS. PICKETT Here you are, folks. Food on the table. Help yourself. You got a long ride ahead of you. You ain't drinkin', Billy? RINGO Sit down here, ma'am. DALLAS Thanks. HATFIELD May I find you another place, Mrs. Mallory? It's cooler by the window. LUCY Thank you. RINGO Looks like I got the plague, don't it? DALLAS No, no, it's not you. RINGO Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week. DALLAS Please, please. HATFIELD You're ill, Mrs. Mallory? LUCY No, it's just that I...I'll be all right. You've been very kind, why? HATFIELD In the world I live in one doesn't often meet a lady, Mrs. Mallory. LUCY Have you ever been in Virginia? HATFIELD I was in your father's regiment. LUCY I should remember your name. You're Mr. Hatfield? HATFIELD That's what I'm called, yes. DALLAS Why do you look at me like that? RINGO Just trying to remember. Ain't I seen you some place before, ma'am? DALLAS No! No, you haven't. RINGO Hm, I wish I had though. DALLAS I know you, I mean, I know who you are. I guess everybody in the Territory does. RINGO Yep, well, I used to be a good cowhand, but...things happened. DALLAS Yeah, that's it, things happen. Now they'll take you back to prison. RINGO Not till I finish a job, In Lordsburg. DALLAS But you can't, you're going there as a prisoner. BUCK All aboard for Apache Wells, Lee's Ferry... CURLY All right, folks, the horses are changed. We'd better get going... BUCK ...and Lordsburg, maybe. CURLY All right, get going, Ringo. Mrs. Pickett, tell Billy the buckboard's all ready. MRS. PICKETT All right, Marshal, we're ready. BLANCHARD I'll say goodbye now, Mrs. Mallory, and my compliments to your husband. CURLY Come on, let's get going. PEACOCK I still feel that we ought to go back with the soldiers. (00:30:58)** BUCK Bridesmaid! Baby! Whoa! What'd you say? CURLY Nothin'. BUCK Well, why don't you say something? A feller gets nervous setting here like a dummy with nothing to do but think about those Indians. CURLY You say something. You been sitting here all day talking without making any sense. BUCK All right, I'll say something that makes sense, If I was you I'd let 'em shoot it out? CURLY Let who? BUCK Luke Plummer and the Kid. There'd be a lot more peace in this Territory if that Luke Plummer was so full of lead he couldn't hold his liquor. CURLY I ain't saying i don't share you sentiments, Buck, but you're a born fool. BUCK Oh, I know that. CURLY In the first place, Luke would kill the Kid in a gunfight. In the second place if Luke did get shot he's got two brothers just as ornery as he is. Naw, the only safe place for Ringo is in the pen and I aim to get him there all in one piece. BUCK Well, I'll be doggoned if I didn't do you an injury, Curly. I figured you was after the reward. CURLY Reward? Why the Kid's old man and me was friends, we used to punch cattle together. Besides, I could use that five hundred in gold. BUCK Bridesmaid! Steady! Steady, girl! Bridesmaid, in line! GATEWOOD I can't get over the impertinence of that young lieutenant! I'll make it warm for that shavetail! I'll report him to Washington. We pay taxes to the government and what do we get? Not even protection from the Army. I don't know what the government's coming to! Instead of protecting business men, it pokes its nose into business. Hm, why they're even talking now about having bank examiners, as if we bankers don't know how to run our own banks. I actually had a letter from some popinjay official saying they were going to inspect my books! I have a slogan, gentlemen, that should be emblazoned on every newspaper in the country. America for Americans! The government must not interfere with business! Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something shocking, over one billion dollars a year! What this country needs is a business man for President! DOC What the country needs is more fuddle. PEACOCK What? DOC Fuddle! GATEWOOD Your drunk. DOC I'm happy, Gatewood. Boo! CURLY How come you're taking this road? It's gonna be cold up there. BUCK I'm using my head. Those breech-clout Apaches don't like snow. DALLAS Maybe you'd like to sit next to me? You could put your head on my shoulder. LUCY No, thank you. HATFIELD How are you feeling, Mrs. Mallory? LUCY Is there any water? HATFIELD Driver, canteen, please. Just a minute, Mrs. Mallory. LUCY Haven't I seen this crest before? Isn't this from Greenfield Manor? HATFIELD I wouldn't know, Mrs. Mallory. I won this cup on a wager. (00:35:02)** RINGO How about the other lady? DALLAS Thanks. RINGO Sorry, no silver cups. DALLAS This is fine. GATEWOOD No. PEACOCK Please, doctor... BUCK Yow...yow... BUCK Whoa, steady, whoa...Howdy, Chris. Seven hours from Dry Fork. Pretty fast driving, amigo! CURLY Get the folks a bite to eat, Chris, while we change horses. We're pushin' right on to Lordsburg. CHRIS You come without soldiers? BUCK Oh, we weren't scared. We didn't see one Apache, did we, Curly? CURLY Where's the cavalry, Chris? BUCK Yeah, where is the soldiers? CHRIS There ain't no soldiers. BUCK Huh? CHRIS Soldiers have gone. LUCY Where's Captain Mallory? Where's my husband? Where is he? CHRIS You his wife, I think? LUCY Yes, where is he? Did he go with his men? CHRIS Si, senora. Leetle, what you call it, scrimmage, with the Apaches last night. Soldiers take Captain Mallory to Lordsburg. I think he get hurt, maybe. LUCY Badly? CHRIS Si, senora...I think so. DALLAS Mrs. Mallory, I'm awfully sorry, if there's anything I could... LUCY I'm quite all right, thank you. HATFIELD Marshal, come here, quickly. DALLAS Come on, Doc. RINGO Let's go, Doc. (00:40:02)** PEACOCK Poor woman... GATEWOOD A sick woman on our hands! That's all we needed. BUCK I...I feel kinda sick myself. GATEWOOD We're in a fine fix, my friends. It's a fine country we're living in. The Army has no right to leave a public place like this undefended. RINGO Looks to me like the Army's got its hands pretty full, mister. DALLAS Have you a wife? CHRIS Si, senora, I think. DALLAS Call her. CHRIS Yakima! DALLAS Ringo, go into the kitchen, and get hot water, lots of hot water, please. RINGO Yes, ma'am. Hey, Chris, Done la concina? (Where's the kitchen?) CHRIS A qui esta, Keed. (Here it is, Kid). HATFIELD A fine member of the medical profession! Drunken beast! DOC Coffee. Give me coffee, lots of it! DOC More, more... CURLY Isn't that enough, Doc? That's four? DOC More, blacker, stronger... CURLY You'll have it coming out your ears in a minute. DOC Keep 'er coming, Curly. CURLY All right, Doc...Now drink it down, Doc. Drink it down. RINGO Get it down. CURLY That'll make you feel better. RINGO All right, Doc? HATFIELD Isn't that drunken swine sober yet? CURLY He's doing the best he can. HATFIELD Well, hurry. CURLY Tin horn. RINGO How are you feeling? DOC Fine. Thanks! Again! RINGO Sit down here, Doc. CURLY Keep the fire going, Chris. Plenty of hot water. PEACOCK Savage! CHRIS That's my wife, Yakima, my squaw. PEACOCK Yes, but she, she's a savage. CHRIS Si, senor, she's little bit savage, I think. Get into the kitchen, pronto, and get some hot water, go on, quick. GATEWOOD There's something funny about this. That woman's an Apache! CHRIS Sure, she one of Geronimo's people, I think. Maybe not so bad to have Apache wife, eh? Apaches don't bother me, I think. CURLY All right, Doc? DOC All right. All right. All right, Dallas. YAKIMA Al pensar en ti (When I think of you) Tierra en que naci (Land where I was born) Que nostalgia siente mi corazon (What sadness fills my heart) En mi soledad (In my loneliness) Con este cantar (With this song) Siento alivio y consuelo en mi dolor (I feel relieved and consoled in my pain) No men, get out. Las notas tristes de esta concion (The sad notes of this song) Me traen recuedos de aquel amor (They bring me remembrance of that love) Al pensar en el (When I think of him) Vuelve a renacer (Is born again) La alegria en mi triste corazon (The happiness in my sad heart) CURLY Ringo! BUCK It's them vaqueros! They've run away. CURLY Yeah, with the spare horses. (00:45:00)** BUCK Them coyotes gimme the creeps. They sound, well, it sounds just like a baby..... black eight. BUCK It's a baby. DALLAS It's a little girl. BUCK It's a little girl. Well, I'll be doggoned. Why didn't somebody tell me? HATFIELD How is Mrs. Mallory? DALLAS She's going to be all right. BUCK Well, I'll be doggoned. Did you know? Well, I'll be doggoned. PEACOCK Don't do that. PEACOCK Dr. Boone! CURLY Come on, boys, three cheers for old Doc Boone! ALL Hip, hip... PEACOCK Quiet! BUCK Well, we oughta be... PEACOCK Quiet! Mrs. Mallory... CURLY Oh! CHRIS Kid, I know why you want to go to Lordsburg. I like you, I know your Pop, he was a good friend of mine. If you know who's in Lordsburg, you stay away, I think. RINGO You mean Luke Plummer? CHRIS Luke, Ike, and Hank, all there together. I saw them. RINGO Sure of that, Chris? CHRIS Sure. I can tell you the truth, I know... RINGO Thanks. That's all I wanted to know. CHRIS Si, you crazy if you go. I think you stay way, Kid. Three against one is no good. RINGO You oughtn't to go too far, Miss Dallas. Apaches like to sneak up and pick off strays. You, ah, visiting in Lordsburg? DALLAS No, no, I have friends there, and maybe I can find work. Say, look, Kid, why don't you try to escape? Why don't you get away? RINGO I aim Lordsburg. DALLAS Why Lordsburg? Why don't you make for the border now? RINGO My father and brother were shot down by the Plummer boys. I guess you don't know how it feels to lose your own folks that way. DALLAS I lost mine when I was a kid. There was a massacre in Superstition Mountain. RINGO That's tough, especially on a girl. DALLAS Well, you gotta live, no matter what happens. RINGO Yeah, that's it. Look, Miss Dallas. You got no folks, neither have I, and well, maybe I'm taking a lot for granted, but I watched you with that baby, that other woman's baby, you looked well...well, I still got a ranch across the border. It's a nice place, a real nice place...trees, grass, water, there's a cabin half built. A man could live there, and a woman. Will you go? DALLAS But you don't know me. You don't know who I am. RINGO I know all I want to know. Will you go? DALLAS Oh, don't talk like that. (00:50:30)** CURLY What you doin' out here, Kid? Stick close to the reservation. CHRIS Curly! Oh, Curly! Oh, Curly! Curly! CURLY What's wrong, Chris? CHRIS My wife, Yakima, she run away. When I wake up she was gone. CURLY The way you come bustin' in here you'd think we... RINGO Oh... CURLY Excuse me, Kid. ...come busting in here, you'd think we were being attacked. You can find another wife, Chris. CHRIS Sure I find another wife! But she take my rifle and my horse! Oh, I never sell her, I love her so much. I beat her wid de whip, and she never get tired! DOC Your wife? CHRIS No, my horse! I can find another wife easy, yes, but not a horse like that. Mala Yakima. GATEWOOD I knew that woman was a thief. CURLY What's the matter with you, Gatewood? GATEWOOD My valise! Where's my valise? Which one of you have got it? BUCK Here it is. I been usin' it for a pillow. I didn't think you would mind. GATEWOOD I told you to keep your hands off my things? BUCK Yes, sir. If that squaw of yours finds some Apaches and bring 'em back here... CHRIS My wife's people won't bother me, I think. BUCK They bother me, I think. DOC Chris, is this bar open? CHRIS Sure, all the time, senor, si. Here you are, Doc. GATEWOOD Well, what are we wasting time for? Let's make a break for it. HATFIELD We've got a sick woman to think of. GATEWOOD Do you want her to stay here and be butchered, with the rest of us? HATFIELD Why don't you ever think of someone else in your fat, worthless life? GATEWOOD Do you realize... CURLY Easy, easy, quiet, boys, quiet. We ain't been butchered yet. But you're right, we'd better get goin' for Lordsburg as soon as we can. RINGO Might be a good idea, Curly, if, uh, Doc took a look at the patient BUCK Yeah, and Little Coyote. GATEWOOD Won't you join me, Doctor? DOC No, thanks. DOC Good morning. Well, you're looking pretty chipper. You're up early, Dallas. LUCY She didn't go to bed, Doctor. I'm afraid she sat up all night, while I slept. DALLAS Oh, I slept a lot in the chair. Well, anyway, it was nice to stay awake and hold the baby. DOC Hmm, we've got to get you to Lordsburg, Little Coyote. That's what the boys christened her last night when she squalled. Little Coyote. How do you feel? LUCY Fine, thank you. A little tired...Doctor, do you think my husband. DOC Never mind him! The best medicine he can have is to see you two safe and sound. You just make up your mind you're going to get there. LUCY I have made up my mind. DOC That's the stuff. LUCY I am going to get there. DOC You need strength, so get all the rest you can. Dallas, do you suppose you can fix up a little broth? LUCY She has already. DOC Good! How about making some coffee for the boys? Now you get some sleep, Mrs. Mallory. And don't look so proud. I've brought hundreds of those little fellows into the world, once upon a time, and the new one was always the prettiest. DALLAS Doc...Ringo asked me to marry him. Is that wrong for a girl like me? If a man and woman love each other, it's all right, ain't it, Doc? DOC You're going to be hurt, child...worse than you've ever been hurt. Don't you know that boy's headed back for prison? Besides, if you two go into Lordsburg together, he's going to know all about you. (00:55:00)** DALLAS He's not going into Lordsburg. All I want is for you to tell me it's all right. DOC Gosh, child, who am I to tell you what's right or wrong? All right, go ahead, do it if you can. Good, good luck. DALLAS Thanks, Doc. DOC Ringo. CURLY Well, Doc? DOC Both doing nicely. She's a real soldier's wife, that young lady. GATEWOOD Good, good. Then we can leave immediately. DOC Well, not for a day or so, if you want my professional advice. GATEWOOD What do you mean a day or so? Stay another day? Why? DOC Where were you when the stork came last night, Gatewood? HATFIELD I refuse to allow Mrs. Mallory to travel until she and the child are out of danger. GATEWOOD What do you mean danger? Aren't we in worse danger here? PEACOCK I don't wish to intrude, but, I've had five children, I mean my dear wife has, and much as I dislike discussing it in this hour of our trial, I, I believe the doctor's right. DOC Spoken like a man, Reverend. GATEWOOD I say we ought to leave here before the Apaches find us. That's common sense. HATFIELD I wish you were ten years younger, Gatewood. GATEWOOD Don't let my white hairs stop you. BUCK Wait a minute, I... CURLY Wait a minute... BUCK Aw, Curly, I haven't said a word... CURLY Now you shut up. If we argue this thing out right we'll get somewhere. Let's all sit down and talk sensible. Come on, Buck, sit down. DOC There's a young woman in the kitchen making coffee. She needs help. RINGO Thanks, Doc. DOC Say, Kid, how old were you when you went to the pen? RINGO Oh, I was going on seventeen... RINGO Morning, ma'am. DALLAS Morning. RINGO I, uh, laid awake most of the night, wondering what you'da said if Curly hadn't busted in. Guess you was up kinda late, too, I heard you moving around. You didn't answer what I asked you last night. DALLAS Look, Kid, why don't you try to escape? There's a horse out there in the corral. Curly won't go after you because he can't leave the passengers in a fix like this. RINGO I got to go to Lordsburg. Why don't you go to my ranch and wait for me? DALLAS Wait for a dead man? You haven't got a chance. It was three against one when the Plummers swore that you killed their foreman and got you sent up. It'll be three against one in Lordsburg. RINGO Well, there's some things a man just can't run away from. DALLAS How can you talk about your life and my life when you're throwing 'em away? Yeah, mine, too! That's what you're throwing away if you go to Lordsburg! RINGO What do you want me to do? DALLAS Would it make us any happier if Luke Plummer was dead? One of his brothers would be after you with a gun. We'd never be safe. I don't want that kind of life, Ringo. RINGO Well, I don't see what else I can do. DALLAS Go now, get away, forget Lordsburg, forget the Plummers. Make for the border and I'll come to you. RINGO Do you mean that? DALLAS Yes, I do. RINGO Will, you go with me, Dallas? DALLAS Oh, I can't leave Mrs. Mallory and the baby. I'll come to you from Lordsburg. I swear it. RINGO Well, I oughta have my rifle. DALLAS I've got one...right here. I got it last night, while they were all asleep. RINGO You mean you thought of this last night? DALLAS Yes, don't ask any more questions, not now. BUCK Oh, gosh, Curly, there ain't no Apaches behind us. We can still go back to Tonto. GATEWOOD No, I insist we go on to Lordsburg. CURLY What do you think, Chris? CHRIS Geronimo between here and Lordsburg...with my horse, I think. DOC My horse has gone... She has gone astray... With the sun... BUCK Quiet, Doc. This is a serious matter, ain't it? DOC My dear Buck, if I have only one hour to live, I'm going to enjoy myself. PEACOCK Doctor, I don't begrudge my samples, but I think... BUCK Now you hush up! I've stood enough of you. Now this is a serious problem and I'm the only one who is talking sense. Now if Curly... CURLY If we can get to the ferry, we'll be all right. The question is what are we going to do about that lady and her baby. HATFIELD Doctor Boon has settled that for us, suh, and I demand respect for his professional opinion. DOC Hatfield! CURLY Ringo! Ringo! Ringo! DALLAS Hurry, Ringo. CURLY Ringo! DALLAS Hurry! Goodbye! (01:00:00)** DALLAS Ringo, don't stop! Go on, go on! Keep riding...Ringo, go on, go on...Curly, stop. Let him go! RINGO You don't need them, Curly. I ain't going to run away. CURLY I'll say you ain't. RINGO Look at them hills. CURLY Apaches! RINGO War signals. BUCK Bridesmaid! Yow...yow...Hey, Curly, why don't you take them cuffs off the kid? He's mighty handy with a gun. CURLY You drive them horses. I'll take care of the Kid. BUCK Oh! GATEWOOD Can't you drive any faster? Thick-headed lout! We've got to make that ferry. A man works all his life to get hold of some money so that he can enjoy life and has to run into a trap like this. PEACOCK Trap, Brother? You mean the Apaches? There's been no sign of them. GATEWOOD You don't see any signs of them. They strike like rattlesnakes. If you hadn't insisted on waiting for her, we'd have been across the ferry by this time. HATFIELD You talk too much, Gatewood. GATEWOOD Your threats don't faze me, Hatfield. You're nothing but a tinhorn gambler. HATFIELD How would you like to get out and walk? GATEWOOD You can't put me out of a public conveyance! DOC Now, now gentlemen, gentlemen! RINGO Take it easy, Gatewood. We may need that fight before we get to the Ferry. GATEWOOD You wouldn't be much good in a fight, you jailbird. HATFIELD Oh, leave the Kid alone. He's handcuffed. PEACOCK Gentlemen, please, let's not forget the ladies, bless them. Let's have a little Christian charity one for the other. CURLY Well, folks, we're coming into Lee's Ferry now. BUCK Lordsburg next stop. Nice girl, get along, get along. Curly, look! Look at the ferry, it's burned, too. CURLY Hatfield, stand guard over there. GATEWOOD Where's the Army? What are the soldiers doing? DOC Curly, what can I do? CURLY Stay there, Doc. Ringo, come here, I need you. GATEWOOD Are they going to let Geronimo pillage and burn the whole country? CURLY Will you give me your word you won't try to escape again? RINGO I give you my Lordsburg. CURLY Get in the coach with them women? RINGO I gave you my word. DALLAS Ringo, don't. CURLY Buck, drive into the river up to the hubs. BUCK Baby, Bridesmaid, Yow! Come on, Baby, whoa, girl, steady now... RINGO Look out, Curly. CURLY Kid, take your suspenders and cross-tie them wheels. BUCK Sorry about the saddle, Kid. CURLY Ready, Kid? RINGO All set. CURLY Ready, Buck? BUCK All ready, Curly. CURLY Here we go. Just sit tight, folks, and you'll be all right. BUCK Honey, chile. Steady, steady, Bridesmaid. Come on, girl. Easy now. Whoa, girl. That's the girl. Whoa, take it easy. (01:05:00)** BUCK All aboard for Lordsburg, Lordsburg. Say, Curly. CURLY Yeah, what? BUCK Do you think I ought to charge Mrs. Mallory's baby half fare? Sweetheart! GATEWOOD Well, we'll soon be in Lordsburg. Well, sorry I flew off the handle, Hatfield. My apologies, Doctor. No hard feelings, I hope. PEACOCK All in all, it's been an exciting, a very interesting trip, has it not? DOC Well, now that the danger is past, Mr. PEACOCK ...Peacock. DOC And ladies and gentlemen, since it's most unlikely that we will ever have the pleasure of meeting again socially, I'd like to propose a toast...Major, Gatewood, Ringo, your health. GATEWOOD Thanks. HATFIELD Thank you, sir. BUCK Get on, girl. Get on, get on, yow, yow, yow, yow, yow, yooow, yooooow. GATEWOOD I warned you, I warned you of this danger. I told you not to wait for that woman. Let me out of here, I tell you. HATFIELD Get back, you fool. BUCK Yow, yow, yooow. GATEWOOD We'll all be killed, we'll all be slaughtered! BUCK Yow, yow, yow, yooow! DOC Will you shut up! I've got a patient here. Get back, you fool. GATEWOOD Take your hands off me, you drunken fool. CURLY Get the leader. BUCK Yow, yow, yow, yo, yo, yo! (01:10:00)** CURLY Kid. The leaders, kid. Get the leaders. DOC Curly, more ammunition. LUCY Do you hear it? Do you hear it? It's the bugle! They're blowing the charge! HATFIELD If you see Judge Greenfield, tell him his son... CAPTAIN Thank heaven you're safe, Lucy. LUCY Where's Richard? Is he all right? CAPTAIN He's all right, don't you worry. WOMAN #1 It isn't a bad wound. CAPTAIN We'll take you to him immediately. WOMAN #2 Where's the baby, dear? NURSE I'll take the baby. LUCY Dallas, if there's ever anything I can do for... DALLAS I know. VOICE Orderly! (01:15:20)** FAT MAN It's the Ringo Kid! THIN MAN Yeah. LUKE Aces and eights. GAMBLER Dead man's hand, Luke. FAT MAN Ringo Kid's in town. THIN MAN Yeah, driving the stage. LUKE (in Spanish) My brothers. SPANIARD Si, patron. LUKE Cash in. SOLDIER Easy now. Easy. That's right. PEACOCK Goodbye, Miss Dallas. If you ever come to Kansas city, Kansas, I want you to come out to see us. DALLAS Well, thanks, Mr... PEACOCK Peacock. MAN #1 Hello, Buck! You got through all right! BUCK All right, Jim. MAN #2 All right, folks, you're all right. Unload. BUCK Well...Lordsburg. MAN #3 Thank you, thank you, Doctor. Well, thank you. CURLY Well, Kid. RINGO Curly, how long will they give me for breakin' out? CURLY Oh, about another year. RINGO You know where my ranch is? CURLY Yeah. RINGO Will you see that she gets there all right? CURLY Dallas? RINGO Yeah. This is no town for a girl like her. Will you do it? CURLY Sure. SHERIFF Hiya, Marshal, get my man through all right? CURLY I don't need 'em. GATEWOOD If you don't want to lose your business, Sheriff, you'd better take care of him yourself. SHERIFF What's your name, Mister? GATEWOOD My name is Gatewood. Ellsworth H. Gatewood. SHERIFF Oh, Gatewood! You didn't think they'd had the telegraph wire fixed, did you? GATEWOOD You let me go... RINGO Can I meet you back here in ten minutes? I gave you my word, Curly. I ain't going back on it now. CURLY No ammunition. RINGO I lied to you, three left. (to Dallas) Come on. (01:20:20)** DALLAS Good night, Kid. RINGO Is this where you live? DALLAS No! RINGO I got to know where you live, don't I? DALLAS No, don't come any further. It's all been a crazy dream! I been out of my mind, just hoping. Say goodbye here, Kid. RINGO We ain't never gonna say goodbye. DOC Can I have that? LUKE Give me the shotgun...shotgun! GIRL Luke, Luke, please don't. DALLAS Well, Kid, I...I told you not to follow me. RINGO Dallas! I asked you to marry me, didn't I? DALLAS I'll never forget you asked me, Kid. That's something. RINGO Wait here. BUCK Whoa! Ringo said he'd be passing this way in six or seven minutes. LUKE Come on. DOC I'll take that shotgun, Luke. LUKE You'll take it in the belly if you don't get outa my way. DOC I'll have you indicted for murder if you step outside with that shotgun. LUKE We'll attend to you later. DOC Don't ever let me do that again. (01:25:53)** GIRL'S VOICE Luke! EDITOR Hey, Billy! Billy, kill that story about the Republican Convention in Chicago and take this down. The Ringo Kid was killed on Main Street in Lordsburg tonight and among the additional dead were...leave that blank for a spell. TYPESETTER I didn't hear any shooting, Ed. EDITOR You will, Billy, you will. A PLUMMER I missed him at four feet. DALLAS Ringo, Ringo, Ringo... CURLY Ready, Kid? RINGO Thanks, Curly. Curly's going to see that you get to my place across the border. Well...goodbye, Dallas. DALLAS Goodbye. CURLY Maybe you'd like to ride aways with the Kid? DALLAS Please. DOC Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization. CURLY Yeah...Doc, I'll buy you a drink. DOC Just one. THE END