True Grit

0:00:02 > 0:00:09This programme contains some violent scenes

0:00:34 > 0:00:37'People do not give it credence that a young girl could leave home

0:00:37 > 0:00:40'and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood.

0:00:40 > 0:00:42'But it did happen.

0:00:42 > 0:00:46'I was just 14 years of age when a coward by the name of Tom Chaney

0:00:46 > 0:00:50'shot my father down and robbed him of his life and his horse

0:00:50 > 0:00:53'and two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

0:00:55 > 0:00:57'Chaney was a hired man

0:00:57 > 0:00:59'and Papa had taken him up to Fort Smith

0:00:59 > 0:01:02'to help lead back a string of Mustang ponies he'd bought.

0:01:02 > 0:01:06'In town, Chaney had fallen to drink and cards

0:01:06 > 0:01:08'and lost all his money.

0:01:08 > 0:01:11'He got it into his head he was being cheated

0:01:11 > 0:01:14'and went back to the boarding house for his Henry rifle.

0:01:14 > 0:01:18'When Papa tried to intervene, Chaney shot him.'

0:01:18 > 0:01:19HOOFBEATS

0:01:19 > 0:01:22'Chaney fled.

0:01:25 > 0:01:26'He could have walked his horse,

0:01:26 > 0:01:30'for not a soul in that city could be bothered to give chase.

0:01:32 > 0:01:34'No doubt Chaney fancied himself scot-free.

0:01:36 > 0:01:38'But he was wrong.

0:01:38 > 0:01:41'You must pay for everything in this world, one way and another.

0:01:41 > 0:01:46'There is nothing free, except the grace of God.'

0:02:12 > 0:02:13All right!

0:02:33 > 0:02:35Is that the man?

0:02:35 > 0:02:37That is my father.

0:02:37 > 0:02:41If you would like to kiss him, it would be all right.

0:02:41 > 0:02:45He's gone home. Praise the Lord.

0:02:45 > 0:02:46Why is it so much?

0:02:46 > 0:02:49The quality of the casket and of the embalming.

0:02:49 > 0:02:53The lifelike appearance requires time and art.

0:02:53 > 0:02:56And the chemicals come dear. The particulars are in your bill.

0:02:59 > 0:03:01If you'd like to kiss him, it would be all right.

0:03:01 > 0:03:03Thank you. The spirit has flown.

0:03:03 > 0:03:05Your wire said 50.

0:03:05 > 0:03:08You did not specify that he was to be shipped.

0:03:08 > 0:03:11Well, 60 is every cent we have. It leaves nothing for our board.

0:03:11 > 0:03:14Yarnell, you can see to the body's transport to the train station

0:03:14 > 0:03:16and accompany it home. I will have to sleep here tonight.

0:03:16 > 0:03:19I still have to collect Father's things and see to other business.

0:03:19 > 0:03:21Your mama didn't say nothing about you seeing to no business here.

0:03:21 > 0:03:25It is business Mama doesn't know about. It's all right, Yarnell. I dismiss you.

0:03:25 > 0:03:27- I'm not sure... - Tell Mama not to sign anything

0:03:27 > 0:03:30until I return home and see that Papa is buried in his Mason's apron.

0:03:31 > 0:03:33Your terms are agreeable, if I may pass the night here.

0:03:33 > 0:03:35Here? Among these people?

0:03:37 > 0:03:39These people?

0:03:39 > 0:03:41I'm expecting three more souls.

0:03:41 > 0:03:43Sullivan, Smith,

0:03:43 > 0:03:46and His Tongue In The Rain.

0:03:46 > 0:03:49Ladies and gentlemen, beware and train up your children

0:03:49 > 0:03:51in the way that they should go.

0:03:51 > 0:03:55You see what has become of me because of drink.

0:03:55 > 0:04:01I killed a man in a trifling quarrel over a pocket-knife.

0:04:01 > 0:04:04If I had have received good instruction as a child...

0:04:04 > 0:04:07- Can you point out the sheriff? - Him with the moustaches.

0:04:07 > 0:04:10..I would be with my wife and children today.

0:04:10 > 0:04:13I do not know what is to become of them.

0:04:13 > 0:04:17But I hope and pray that you will not slight them

0:04:17 > 0:04:21and compel them to go into low company.

0:04:22 > 0:04:24Stop whimpering, boy!

0:04:29 > 0:04:34Well, I killed the wrong man, is the which-of-why I'm here.

0:04:36 > 0:04:39Had I killed the man I meant to, I don't believe I'd have been convicted.

0:04:39 > 0:04:42I see men out there in that crowd is worse than me.

0:04:45 > 0:04:46OK.

0:04:49 > 0:04:52Before I am hanged, I would like to say...

0:04:55 > 0:04:58HE SINGS

0:04:58 > 0:04:59CROWD GASP AND WHOOP

0:04:59 > 0:05:01APPLAUSE

0:05:04 > 0:05:05No, we ain't arrested him.

0:05:05 > 0:05:09Ain't caught up to him. He lit out for the Territory.

0:05:09 > 0:05:11I would think that he's throwed in with Lucky Ned Pepper,

0:05:11 > 0:05:15whose gang robbed a mail hack yesterday on the Poteau River.

0:05:15 > 0:05:17Why are you not looking for him?

0:05:17 > 0:05:19I have no authority in the Indian Nation.

0:05:19 > 0:05:22Tom Chaney is the business of the US Marshals now.

0:05:22 > 0:05:24- When will they arrest him? - Not soon, I'm afraid.

0:05:24 > 0:05:27The marshals are not well staffed, and I'll tell you frankly,

0:05:27 > 0:05:31Chaney is at the end of a long list of fugitives and malefactors.

0:05:32 > 0:05:34Could I hire a marshal to pursue Tom Chaney?

0:05:34 > 0:05:37You have a lot of experience with bounty hunters, do you?

0:05:37 > 0:05:40That is a silly question. I am here to settle my father's affairs.

0:05:40 > 0:05:42- All alone? - I am the person for it.

0:05:42 > 0:05:45Mama was never any good at sums, and she could hardly spell "cat".

0:05:45 > 0:05:47I intend to see Papa's killer hanged.

0:05:47 > 0:05:51Well, nothing prevents you from offering a reward and so informing the marshals.

0:05:51 > 0:05:54It would have to be real money, though, to be persuasive.

0:05:54 > 0:05:56Chaney is across the river in the Choctaw Nation.

0:05:56 > 0:05:58I will see to the money. Who's the best marshal?

0:05:59 > 0:06:01I would have to weigh that.

0:06:01 > 0:06:03William Waters is the best tracker.

0:06:03 > 0:06:06He's half-Comanche and it is something to see him cut for sign.

0:06:06 > 0:06:09The meanest is Rooster Cogburn.

0:06:09 > 0:06:11He is a pitiless man, double tough,

0:06:11 > 0:06:13and fear don't enter into his thinking.

0:06:13 > 0:06:15He loves to pull a cork.

0:06:16 > 0:06:20The best is probably LT Quinn.

0:06:20 > 0:06:23He brings his prisoners in alive. He may let one slip by now and again

0:06:23 > 0:06:28but he believes that even the worst of men is entitled to a fair shake.

0:06:28 > 0:06:30Where can I find this Rooster?

0:06:31 > 0:06:33The jakes is occupied.

0:06:33 > 0:06:37I know it is occupied, Mr Cogburn. As I said, I have business with you.

0:06:37 > 0:06:38I have prior business.

0:06:39 > 0:06:42You have been at it for quite some time, Mr Cogburn.

0:06:42 > 0:06:44There is no clock on my business!

0:06:44 > 0:06:47To hell with you! How did you stalk me here?

0:06:47 > 0:06:49The sheriff told me to look in the saloon.

0:06:49 > 0:06:53In the saloon, they referred me here. We must talk.

0:06:53 > 0:06:55Women ain't allowed in the saloon.

0:06:55 > 0:06:58I was not there as a customer. I am 14 years old.

0:07:01 > 0:07:03Well, the jakes is occupied.

0:07:03 > 0:07:05Will be for some time.

0:07:12 > 0:07:13Good evening.

0:07:24 > 0:07:27If you would like to sleep in a coffin, it would be all right.

0:07:47 > 0:07:49How much are you paying for cotton?

0:07:51 > 0:07:55Nine and a half for low-middling and ten for ordinary.

0:07:55 > 0:07:57We got most of ours out early.

0:07:57 > 0:08:00Sold it to the Woodson Brothers in Little Rock for 11 cents.

0:08:00 > 0:08:04Then I suggest you take the balance of it to the Woodson Brothers.

0:08:05 > 0:08:07We took the balance to Woodson.

0:08:08 > 0:08:10We got ten and a half.

0:08:11 > 0:08:13Why did you come here to tell me this?

0:08:13 > 0:08:15I thought we might shop around up here next year,

0:08:15 > 0:08:18but I guess we're doing all right in Little Rock.

0:08:18 > 0:08:19I'm Mattie Ross.

0:08:21 > 0:08:23Daughter of Frank Ross.

0:08:25 > 0:08:27A tragic thing.

0:08:27 > 0:08:31May I say your father impressed me with his manly qualities.

0:08:31 > 0:08:34He was a close trader, but he acted the gentleman.

0:08:34 > 0:08:37Well, I propose to sell those ponies back to you that my father bought.

0:08:37 > 0:08:39That, I fear, is out of the question.

0:08:39 > 0:08:41I will see that they're shipped to you at my earliest convenience.

0:08:41 > 0:08:43We don't want the ponies now. We don't need 'em.

0:08:43 > 0:08:45Well, that hardly concerns me.

0:08:45 > 0:08:47Your father bought the ponies and paid for them

0:08:47 > 0:08:50and there is an end of it. I have the bill of sale.

0:08:50 > 0:08:53And I want 300 for Papa's saddle horse that was stolen from your stable.

0:08:55 > 0:08:58You'll have to take that up with the man who stole the horse.

0:08:58 > 0:09:02Tom Chaney stole the horse while it was in your care. You are responsible.

0:09:03 > 0:09:04I admire your sand,

0:09:04 > 0:09:07but I believe you will find I'm not liable for such claims.

0:09:07 > 0:09:10You were the custodian. If you were a bank and were robbed,

0:09:10 > 0:09:12you could not simply tell the depositors to go hang.

0:09:12 > 0:09:16I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world as it is is vexing enough.

0:09:17 > 0:09:20Secondly, your valuation of the horse is high by about 200.

0:09:20 > 0:09:22How old are you?

0:09:22 > 0:09:24If anything, my price is low.

0:09:24 > 0:09:26Judy is a fine racing mare.

0:09:26 > 0:09:29I've seen her jump an eight-rail fence with a heavy rider. I'm 14.

0:09:29 > 0:09:32Well, that's all very interesting.

0:09:32 > 0:09:35The ponies are yours. Take them.

0:09:35 > 0:09:38Your father's horse was stolen by a murderous criminal.

0:09:38 > 0:09:40I had provided reasonable protection for the creature

0:09:40 > 0:09:43as per our implicit agreement.

0:09:43 > 0:09:46My watchman had his teeth knocked out and can take only soup.

0:09:46 > 0:09:48- I will take it to law. - You have no case.

0:09:48 > 0:09:51Lawyer J Noble Daggett of Dardanelle, Arkansas may think otherwise,

0:09:51 > 0:09:55as might a jury, petitioned by a widow and three small children.

0:09:58 > 0:10:02I will pay 200 to your father's estate

0:10:02 > 0:10:04when I have in my hand a letter from your lawyer

0:10:04 > 0:10:07absolving me of all liability from the beginning of the world to date...

0:10:07 > 0:10:09I will take 200 for Judy,

0:10:09 > 0:10:13plus 100 for the ponies and 25 for the grey horse that Tom Chaney left.

0:10:13 > 0:10:15He was easily worth 40.

0:10:15 > 0:10:17That is 325 total.

0:10:17 > 0:10:19The ponies have no part in it. I will not buy them.

0:10:19 > 0:10:22Then the price for Judy is 325.

0:10:22 > 0:10:26I would not pay 325 for a winged Pegasus!

0:10:26 > 0:10:29As for the grey horse, it does not belong to you.

0:10:29 > 0:10:31The grey horse was lent to Tom Chaney by my father.

0:10:31 > 0:10:32Chaney only had the use of him.

0:10:34 > 0:10:39I will pay 225 and keep the grey horse.

0:10:39 > 0:10:41- I don't want the ponies. - I cannot accept that.

0:10:41 > 0:10:44There will be no settlement after I leave this office. It will go to law.

0:10:44 > 0:10:46All right, this is my last offer.

0:10:46 > 0:10:48250.

0:10:48 > 0:10:51For that I get the release previously discussed

0:10:51 > 0:10:53and I keep your father's saddle.

0:10:53 > 0:10:55The grey horse is not yours to sell.

0:10:55 > 0:10:57The saddle is not for sale. I will keep it.

0:10:57 > 0:10:59Lawyer Daggett will prove ownership of the grey horse.

0:10:59 > 0:11:01He will come after you with a writ of replevin.

0:11:01 > 0:11:02- A what?- A writ of replevin.

0:11:02 > 0:11:06All right, now listen very carefully, as I will not bargain further.

0:11:06 > 0:11:10I will take the ponies back, and the grey horse, which is mine,

0:11:10 > 0:11:13and settle...for 300.

0:11:13 > 0:11:18Now, you must take that or leave it and I do not much care which it is.

0:11:20 > 0:11:25Lawyer Daggett would not wish me to consider anything under 325.

0:11:25 > 0:11:29But I will settle for 320 if I am given the 20 in advance.

0:11:29 > 0:11:32Now, here is what I have to say about that saddle.

0:11:38 > 0:11:40Frank Ross's daughter?

0:11:40 > 0:11:43Oh, my poor child.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46My poor child.

0:11:47 > 0:11:51Are you gonna be stayin' with us or are you hurrying back home to your mama?

0:11:51 > 0:11:53I'll stay here if you can have me.

0:11:53 > 0:11:57I just spent last night at the undertaker's in the company of three corpses.

0:11:57 > 0:12:01I felt like Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones.

0:12:01 > 0:12:03Well, God bless you.

0:12:03 > 0:12:07You'll be rooming with Grandma Turner.

0:12:07 > 0:12:08We've had to double up,

0:12:08 > 0:12:11what with all the people in town come to see the hanging.

0:12:13 > 0:12:16This was in your poor father's room.

0:12:16 > 0:12:20That is everything. There are no light fingers in this house.

0:12:28 > 0:12:32If you need something for to tote the gun around,

0:12:32 > 0:12:35I can give you an empty flour sack for a nickel.

0:12:40 > 0:12:42SNORING

0:12:55 > 0:12:57MAN SPEAKS

0:13:04 > 0:13:07..I could get him to talk sense about what he found up there.

0:13:07 > 0:13:10And we were close enough that Deputy Marshal Potter and me

0:13:10 > 0:13:14thought we'd better ride over ourselves and investigate.

0:13:14 > 0:13:16What did you see when you arrived?

0:13:16 > 0:13:20Old woman was out in the yard, dead,

0:13:20 > 0:13:22with blowflies on her face.

0:13:22 > 0:13:26The old man was inside with his breast blown open by a scattergun

0:13:26 > 0:13:28and his feet burned.

0:13:28 > 0:13:29He was still alive, but just was.

0:13:29 > 0:13:32Said it was them two Wharton boys done it. Rode up drunk...

0:13:32 > 0:13:37- Objection. Hearsay. - Dying declaration, Your Honour.

0:13:37 > 0:13:39Objection's overruled. Proceed, Mr Cogburn.

0:13:39 > 0:13:43Them two Wharton boys, that'd be Odus and CC,

0:13:43 > 0:13:46throwed down on him and asked him where his money was.

0:13:46 > 0:13:50When he wouldn't tell 'em, they lit pine knots, held them to his feet.

0:13:51 > 0:13:53He told them the money was in a fruit jar,

0:13:53 > 0:13:57under a grey rock at the corner of the smokehouse.

0:13:57 > 0:13:59- And then? - Well, he died on us.

0:13:59 > 0:14:03- Passed away in considerable pain. - What did you do then?

0:14:03 > 0:14:06Me and Marshal Potter went out to the smokehouse.

0:14:06 > 0:14:10And that rock had been moved and the jar with the money in it was gone.

0:14:10 > 0:14:12- Objection. Speculative. - Sustained.

0:14:12 > 0:14:16You found a flat grey rock in the corner of the smokehouse

0:14:16 > 0:14:18with a hollowed-out space beneath it...

0:14:18 > 0:14:22If the prosecutor's going to give evidence, I suggest he be sworn.

0:14:22 > 0:14:24Mr Cogburn, what did you find, if anything,

0:14:24 > 0:14:26in the corner of that smokehouse?

0:14:26 > 0:14:27Found a flat grey rock

0:14:27 > 0:14:30with a hollowed-out space under it and nothing there.

0:14:30 > 0:14:31- Then what did you... - No jar or nothing.

0:14:31 > 0:14:35- What did you do then? - Well, rode up to the Whartons'

0:14:35 > 0:14:37near where the North Fork strikes the Canadian.

0:14:37 > 0:14:40- What did you find? - Branch of the Canadian.

0:14:40 > 0:14:42I had my glass.

0:14:42 > 0:14:45We spotted them two boys and their old daddy, Aaron,

0:14:45 > 0:14:47down the creek bank with some hogs.

0:14:47 > 0:14:52They'd killed a shoat, had a fire built under a wash pot for scalding water.

0:14:52 > 0:14:54- What did you do? - Announced we was US Marshals.

0:14:54 > 0:14:58I hollered out to Aaron that we needed to talk to his two boys.

0:14:59 > 0:15:03He raised an axe and commenced to cussing us and blackguarding this court.

0:15:03 > 0:15:05What did you do then?

0:15:06 > 0:15:09Backed away from the axe and tried to talk some sense into him.

0:15:11 > 0:15:15While this was going on, CC, he edges over to the wash pot there,

0:15:15 > 0:15:19behind the steam, and picks up a shotgun.

0:15:19 > 0:15:21Potter seen him, but it was too late.

0:15:22 > 0:15:25CC Wharton pulled down on Potter with one barrel

0:15:25 > 0:15:29and turned to do the same for me, and I shot him.

0:15:29 > 0:15:31The old man raised the axe, and I shot him.

0:15:33 > 0:15:35Odus lit out and I shot him.

0:15:39 > 0:15:42CC Wharton and Aaron Wharton were dead when they hit the ground.

0:15:42 > 0:15:44Odus was just winged.

0:15:44 > 0:15:46Did you find the jar with the 120 in it?

0:15:46 > 0:15:48- Leading. - Sustained.

0:15:48 > 0:15:53- What happened then? - I found the jar with 120 in it.

0:15:53 > 0:15:55What became of Odus Wharton?

0:15:55 > 0:15:57There he sits.

0:15:59 > 0:16:00You may ask, Mr Goudy.

0:16:00 > 0:16:02Thank you, Mr Barlow.

0:16:15 > 0:16:17Mr Cogburn,

0:16:17 > 0:16:22in your four years as US Marshal, how many men have you shot?

0:16:23 > 0:16:25I never shot nobody I didn't have to.

0:16:25 > 0:16:27Well, that was not the question.

0:16:27 > 0:16:29How many?

0:16:30 > 0:16:31Shot, or killed?

0:16:31 > 0:16:35Let us restrict it to "killed" so that we may have a manageable figure.

0:16:35 > 0:16:38About 12, 15.

0:16:38 > 0:16:41Stopping men in flight, defending myself, et cetera.

0:16:41 > 0:16:45Around 12, he says, or 15.

0:16:45 > 0:16:48So many you cannot keep a precise count.

0:16:48 > 0:16:51I have examined the records and can supply the accurate figure.

0:16:51 > 0:16:54Oh?

0:16:54 > 0:16:57I believe them two Wharton boys makes it 23.

0:16:57 > 0:17:00And how many members of this one family,

0:17:00 > 0:17:02the Wharton family, have you killed?

0:17:03 > 0:17:05Immediate, or...?

0:17:05 > 0:17:07Did you also shoot Dub Wharton, brother,

0:17:07 > 0:17:09and Clete Wharton, half-brother?

0:17:10 > 0:17:14Clete was selling ardent spirits to the Cherokee. Come at me with a kingbolt.

0:17:14 > 0:17:16A kingbolt?

0:17:16 > 0:17:23You were armed and he advanced upon you with nothing more than a kingbolt?

0:17:23 > 0:17:24From a wagon tongue?

0:17:24 > 0:17:27I've seen men badly tore up with nothing bigger than a kingbolt.

0:17:27 > 0:17:30- I defended myself. - Returning to the other encounter,

0:17:30 > 0:17:33with Aaron Wharton and his two remaining sons.

0:17:33 > 0:17:37You sprang from cover with your revolver in hand.

0:17:37 > 0:17:38- I did.- Loaded and cocked?

0:17:38 > 0:17:41If it ain't loaded and cocked, it don't shoot.

0:17:41 > 0:17:46And like his son, Aaron Wharton advanced against an armed man?

0:17:46 > 0:17:48He was armed, he had an axe raised!

0:17:48 > 0:17:51I believe you testified you backed away from Aaron Wharton?

0:17:51 > 0:17:54- That's right. - Which direction were you going?

0:17:54 > 0:17:57I always go backwards when I'm backing up.

0:17:57 > 0:17:58LAUGHTER

0:18:00 > 0:18:02Very amusing.

0:18:02 > 0:18:05Now, he advanced upon you much in the manner of Clete Wharton,

0:18:05 > 0:18:08menacing you with that little old kingbolt

0:18:08 > 0:18:10or rolled-up newspaper, or whatever it was.

0:18:10 > 0:18:14Yes, sir. He commenced to cussing and laying about with threats.

0:18:14 > 0:18:16And you were backing away?

0:18:16 > 0:18:19How many steps before the shooting started?

0:18:21 > 0:18:23Seven, eight steps.

0:18:23 > 0:18:28So, Aaron Wharton, keeping pace, advancing away from his campfire,

0:18:28 > 0:18:31seven, eight steps.

0:18:31 > 0:18:34What would that be, 15, 20 feet?

0:18:34 > 0:18:35I suppose.

0:18:35 > 0:18:39Will you explain to this jury, Mr Cogburn,

0:18:39 > 0:18:42why Mr Wharton was found immediately by his wash pot,

0:18:42 > 0:18:45one arm in the fire, his sleeve and hand smouldering?

0:18:45 > 0:18:47Did you move the body after you shot him?

0:18:47 > 0:18:49Why would I do that?

0:18:49 > 0:18:51You did not drag the body over to the fire, fling his arm in?

0:18:51 > 0:18:54- No, sir.- Two witnesses who arrived on the scene

0:18:54 > 0:18:56will testify to the location of the body.

0:18:56 > 0:18:59You do not remember moving the body!

0:18:59 > 0:19:02So it was a cold-blooded bushwhack,

0:19:02 > 0:19:05while poor Mr Wharton was tending to his campfire.

0:19:05 > 0:19:07Objection!

0:19:07 > 0:19:11If that's where the body was, I might have moved him. I do not remember.

0:19:11 > 0:19:14Why would you move the body, Mr Cogburn?

0:19:14 > 0:19:18Them hogs rooting around, they might have moved him.

0:19:19 > 0:19:21I do not remember.

0:19:24 > 0:19:26Pencil-neck son of a bitch.

0:19:26 > 0:19:27Rooster Cogburn?

0:19:27 > 0:19:29- What is it? - I'd like to talk to you a minute.

0:19:29 > 0:19:31What is it?

0:19:31 > 0:19:34They tell me you're a man with true grit.

0:19:37 > 0:19:39What do you want, girl? Speak up, it's suppertime.

0:19:39 > 0:19:41Let me do that.

0:19:41 > 0:19:43Your makings are too dry.

0:19:43 > 0:19:46I'm looking for the man who shot and killed my father, Frank Ross,

0:19:46 > 0:19:47in front of the Monarch Boarding House.

0:19:47 > 0:19:49The man's name is Tom Chaney.

0:19:49 > 0:19:53They say he's over in Indian Territory and I need somebody to go after him.

0:19:53 > 0:19:55What's your name, girl?

0:19:55 > 0:19:58My name is Mattie Ross. We're located in Yell County.

0:19:58 > 0:20:00My mother is at home looking after my sister Victoria

0:20:00 > 0:20:01and my brother Little Frank.

0:20:01 > 0:20:05Best go home to them. They will need help with the churning.

0:20:05 > 0:20:07There is a fugitive warrant out for Chaney.

0:20:07 > 0:20:08The government will pay you 2 for bringing him in

0:20:08 > 0:20:10plus 10 cents a mile for each of you.

0:20:10 > 0:20:13On top of that, I will pay you a 50 reward.

0:20:15 > 0:20:17What are you?

0:20:17 > 0:20:19What've you got there in your poke?

0:20:21 > 0:20:24My God, a Colt's Dragoon.

0:20:24 > 0:20:25You're no bigger than a corn nubbin.

0:20:25 > 0:20:27What're you doing with a pistol like that?

0:20:27 > 0:20:30- I intend to kill Tom Chaney with it. - Kill Tom Chaney?

0:20:30 > 0:20:32If the law fails to do so.

0:20:32 > 0:20:33That piece will do the job for you,

0:20:33 > 0:20:37if you find a high stump to rest it on and a wall to put behind you.

0:20:37 > 0:20:38Nobody here knew my father

0:20:38 > 0:20:41and I'm afraid nothing is going to be done about Chaney except I do it.

0:20:41 > 0:20:45My brother is a child and my mother is indecisive and hobbled by grief.

0:20:46 > 0:20:48- I don't believe you have 50. - I have a contract

0:20:48 > 0:20:50with Colonel Stonehill which he will make payment on

0:20:50 > 0:20:53tomorrow or the next day, once a lawyer countersigns.

0:20:55 > 0:20:59I don't believe in fairy tales or sermons or stories about money, baby sister.

0:20:59 > 0:21:01But thanks for the cigarette.

0:21:41 > 0:21:44Isn't your mama expecting you home, dear?

0:21:44 > 0:21:48My business is not yet finished.

0:21:48 > 0:21:50Mrs Floyd, have any rooms opened up?

0:21:50 > 0:21:54Grandma Turner is... The bed is quite narrow.

0:21:54 > 0:21:56The second-floor back did open up,

0:21:56 > 0:22:00but that gentleman on the porch has just taken it.

0:22:00 > 0:22:03But don't worry yourself, dear.

0:22:03 > 0:22:05You're not disturbing Grandma Turner.

0:22:05 > 0:22:08SNORING

0:22:26 > 0:22:28COCKEREL CROWS

0:22:29 > 0:22:31CRACKLING

0:22:47 > 0:22:49My name is LaBoeuf.

0:22:50 > 0:22:52I've just come from Yell County.

0:22:53 > 0:22:56We have no rodeo clowns in Yell County.

0:23:00 > 0:23:03A saucy line will not get you far with me.

0:23:03 > 0:23:05I saw your mother yesterday morning.

0:23:05 > 0:23:07She said for you to come right on home.

0:23:07 > 0:23:09What was your business there?

0:23:20 > 0:23:22This is a man I think you know.

0:23:24 > 0:23:27You called him Tom Chaney, I believe.

0:23:27 > 0:23:30Though, in the months I've been tracking him, he has used the names

0:23:30 > 0:23:33Theron Chelmsford, John Todd Andersen, and others.

0:23:33 > 0:23:36He dallied in Monroe, Louisiana, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas,

0:23:36 > 0:23:38before turning up at your father's place.

0:23:38 > 0:23:43Why did you not catch him in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, or Monroe, Louisiana?

0:23:43 > 0:23:44He is a crafty one.

0:23:44 > 0:23:46I thought him slow-witted, myself.

0:23:48 > 0:23:49That was his act.

0:23:49 > 0:23:52It was a good one. Are you some kind of law?

0:23:52 > 0:23:54That's right.

0:23:56 > 0:23:57I'm a Texas Ranger.

0:23:59 > 0:24:02That may make you a big noise in that state.

0:24:02 > 0:24:05In Arkansas, you should mind that your Texas trappings and title

0:24:05 > 0:24:06do not make you an object of fun.

0:24:07 > 0:24:10Why have you been ineffectually pursuing Chaney?

0:24:11 > 0:24:15He shot and killed a state senator named Bibbs in Waco, Texas.

0:24:15 > 0:24:17The Bibbs family put out a reward.

0:24:17 > 0:24:19How came Chaney to shoot a state senator?

0:24:19 > 0:24:21My understanding is there was an argument about a dog.

0:24:21 > 0:24:23Do you know anything about the whereabouts of Chaney?

0:24:23 > 0:24:26He is in the Territory, and I hold out little hope for you earning your bounty.

0:24:26 > 0:24:29- Why is that? - My man will beat you to it.

0:24:29 > 0:24:31I have hired a deputy marshal, the toughest one they have.

0:24:31 > 0:24:34And he's familiar with the Lucky Ned Pepper gang

0:24:34 > 0:24:35they say Chaney's tied up with.

0:24:35 > 0:24:38Well, I will throw in with you and your marshal.

0:24:38 > 0:24:39No.

0:24:39 > 0:24:42- Marshal Cogburn and I are fine. - It'll be to our mutual advantage.

0:24:42 > 0:24:46Your marshal, I presume, knows the Territory. I know Chaney.

0:24:46 > 0:24:48It is at least a two-man job taking him alive.

0:24:48 > 0:24:51When Chaney is taken, he's coming back to Fort Smith to hang.

0:24:51 > 0:24:54I'm not having him go to Texas to hang for shooting some senator.

0:24:54 > 0:24:57It is not important where he hangs, is it?

0:24:57 > 0:24:59It is to me. Is it to you?

0:24:59 > 0:25:03It means a great deal of money to me. It's been many months' work.

0:25:03 > 0:25:06I'm sorry that you are paid piecework and not on wages,

0:25:06 > 0:25:09and that you have been eluded the winter long by a halfwit.

0:25:12 > 0:25:15You give out very little sugar with your pronouncements.

0:25:15 > 0:25:16While I sat there watching you,

0:25:16 > 0:25:18I gave some thought to stealing a kiss,

0:25:18 > 0:25:21though you are very young and sick and unattractive to boot.

0:25:21 > 0:25:24But now I have a mind to give you five or six good licks with my belt.

0:25:26 > 0:25:28One would be as unpleasant as the other.

0:25:30 > 0:25:32If you wet your comb, it might tame that cowlick.

0:25:34 > 0:25:37"Mattie, I wish you would leave these matters entirely to me,

0:25:37 > 0:25:40"or at the very least, do me the courtesy of consulting me

0:25:40 > 0:25:42"before entering such agreements.

0:25:42 > 0:25:43"I am not scolding you

0:25:43 > 0:25:48"but I am saying your headstrong ways will lead you into a tight corner one day.

0:25:48 > 0:25:51"I trust the enclosed document will let you conclude your business

0:25:51 > 0:25:54"and return to Yell County.

0:25:54 > 0:25:56"Yours, J Noble Daggett."

0:25:56 > 0:25:59I was as bad yesterday as you look today.

0:25:59 > 0:26:01I was forced to share a bed with Grandma Turner.

0:26:02 > 0:26:05I am not acquainted with Grandma Turner.

0:26:05 > 0:26:06If she is a resident of this city,

0:26:06 > 0:26:09it does not surprise me that she carries disease.

0:26:09 > 0:26:11HE COUGHS

0:26:11 > 0:26:14This malarial place has ruined my health,

0:26:14 > 0:26:16as it has my finances.

0:26:16 > 0:26:17I owe you money.

0:26:17 > 0:26:19You have not traded poorly.

0:26:19 > 0:26:21Certainly not!

0:26:21 > 0:26:25I am paying you for a horse I do not possess

0:26:25 > 0:26:28and have bought back a string of useless ponies

0:26:28 > 0:26:30which I cannot sell again.

0:26:30 > 0:26:32- You're forgetting the grey horse. - Crow bait!

0:26:32 > 0:26:34You are looking at the thing in the wrong light.

0:26:34 > 0:26:38I am looking at it in the light of God's eternal truth.

0:26:38 > 0:26:41Your illness is putting you down in the dumps.

0:26:41 > 0:26:42You will soon find a good buyer for the ponies.

0:26:42 > 0:26:46I have a tentative offer of 10 per head

0:26:46 > 0:26:49from the Pfitzer Soap Works of Little Rock.

0:26:49 > 0:26:52It would be a shame to destroy such spirited horseflesh.

0:26:52 > 0:26:55So it would. I am confident the deal will fall through.

0:26:57 > 0:27:00Look here. I need a pony. And I will pay 10 for one of them.

0:27:00 > 0:27:04No, that's the lot price. No, no... Wait a minute.

0:27:05 > 0:27:06Are we trading again?

0:27:09 > 0:27:10This one's beautiful.

0:27:28 > 0:27:31He don't know he got a rider. You too light.

0:27:31 > 0:27:32Easy, boy.

0:27:35 > 0:27:37He think he got a horsefly on him.

0:27:37 > 0:27:40He's very spirited. I'll call him Little Blackie.

0:27:40 > 0:27:42That's a good name.

0:27:44 > 0:27:46What does he like for a treat?

0:27:46 > 0:27:49Well, ma'am, he's a horse.

0:27:49 > 0:27:50So he likes apples.

0:27:52 > 0:27:55- Thank Mr Stonehill for me. - No, ma'am.

0:27:55 > 0:27:57I ain't supposed to utter your name!

0:27:59 > 0:28:00See? Sleep.

0:28:00 > 0:28:02SNORING

0:28:02 > 0:28:04That is fine. I will wake him.

0:28:05 > 0:28:07Marshal Cogburn?

0:28:08 > 0:28:09It is I, Mattie Ross, your employer.

0:28:11 > 0:28:13- How long till you are ready to go? - Go where?

0:28:13 > 0:28:16Into the Indian Territory, in pursuit of Tom Chaney.

0:28:18 > 0:28:21Oh. You're the bereaved girl with stories of El Dorado.

0:28:23 > 0:28:24How much money you got there?

0:28:24 > 0:28:28I said 50 to retrieve Chaney. You did not believe me?

0:28:28 > 0:28:31I did not know.

0:28:31 > 0:28:32You are a hard one to figure.

0:28:32 > 0:28:34How long for you to make ready to depart?

0:28:34 > 0:28:36Well, hold on, sis.

0:28:37 > 0:28:42I remember your offer, but I do not remember agreeing to it.

0:28:42 > 0:28:45If I'm to go up against Ned Pepper,

0:28:45 > 0:28:48I will need 100. That much I can tell you. 100.

0:28:51 > 0:28:53To retrieve your man, 100.

0:28:55 > 0:28:57I will take that 50 in advance.

0:28:57 > 0:29:02- There will be...expenses.- You are trying to take advantage of me.

0:29:02 > 0:29:04I'm giving you the children's rate.

0:29:04 > 0:29:05I'm not a sharper.

0:29:05 > 0:29:10I'm an old man sleeping in a rope bed in a room behind a Chinese grocery.

0:29:10 > 0:29:13- I have nothing. - You want to be kept in whiskey.

0:29:13 > 0:29:16I don't need to buy that. I confiscate it.

0:29:16 > 0:29:18I'm an officer of the court.

0:29:18 > 0:29:19Thank you.

0:29:19 > 0:29:22100, that's the rate.

0:29:22 > 0:29:25I shall not niggle. Can we depart this afternoon?

0:29:25 > 0:29:28We?

0:29:28 > 0:29:30You are not going. That is no part of it.

0:29:30 > 0:29:33You have misjudged me if you think I am silly enough to give you 50

0:29:33 > 0:29:34and watch you simply ride off.

0:29:34 > 0:29:36I'm a bonded US Marshal.

0:29:36 > 0:29:39That weighs but little with me. I will see the thing done.

0:29:39 > 0:29:40Goddamn ducks.

0:29:40 > 0:29:43I can't go after Ned Pepper and a band of hard men

0:29:43 > 0:29:46- and look after a baby at the same time.- I am not a baby.

0:29:46 > 0:29:48I won't be stopping at boarding houses

0:29:48 > 0:29:50where there's warm beds and hot grub on the table.

0:29:50 > 0:29:53I'll be travelling fast and eating light.

0:29:53 > 0:29:56What little sleeping is done will take place on the ground.

0:29:56 > 0:29:58I have slept out at night before.

0:29:58 > 0:30:02Papa took me and Little Frank coon-hunting last summer on the Petit Jean.

0:30:02 > 0:30:03We were in the woods all night.

0:30:03 > 0:30:06We sat around a big fire and Yarnell told ghost stories.

0:30:06 > 0:30:10- We had a good time.- Coon-hunting?

0:30:10 > 0:30:12This ain't no coon hunt.

0:30:12 > 0:30:15- It is the same idea as a coon hunt. - It don't come within 40 miles of being a coon hunt.

0:30:15 > 0:30:19You're just tryin' to make your work sound harder than it is. Here is the money.

0:30:19 > 0:30:20I aim to get Tom Chaney

0:30:20 > 0:30:22and if you are not game I will find somebody who is game.

0:30:22 > 0:30:24All I've heard out of you so far is talk.

0:30:24 > 0:30:25I know you can drink whiskey and snore

0:30:25 > 0:30:27and spit and wallow in filth and bemoan your station.

0:30:27 > 0:30:29The rest has been braggadocio.

0:30:29 > 0:30:32They told me you had grit, and that is why I came to you.

0:30:32 > 0:30:33I'm not paying for talk.

0:30:33 > 0:30:36I can get all the talk I need and more at the Monarch Boarding House.

0:30:40 > 0:30:42Leave your money.

0:30:42 > 0:30:44Meet me here at seven o'clock tomorrow morning.

0:30:44 > 0:30:46We'll begin our coon hunt.

0:30:54 > 0:30:57"Dearest Mother,

0:30:57 > 0:30:59"I'm about to embark on a great adventure.

0:31:00 > 0:31:03"I have learned that Tom Chaney has fled into the wild

0:31:03 > 0:31:05"and I shall assist the authorities in pursuit.

0:31:05 > 0:31:08"You know that Papa would want me to be firm in the right,

0:31:08 > 0:31:10"as he always was.

0:31:10 > 0:31:12"So do not fear on my account.

0:31:12 > 0:31:15"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

0:31:15 > 0:31:17"I shall fear no evil.

0:31:17 > 0:31:22"The author of all things watches over me, and I have a fine horse.

0:31:22 > 0:31:25"Kiss Little Frankie for me and pinch Violet's cheek.

0:31:25 > 0:31:27"Papa's death will soon be avenged.

0:31:30 > 0:31:32"I am off for the Choctaw Nation."

0:31:38 > 0:31:40Where is Marshal Cogburn?

0:31:40 > 0:31:42Went away. Left this.

0:31:47 > 0:31:50"Here inside is a train ticket for your return home. Use it.

0:31:50 > 0:31:55"By the time you read this, I will be across the river in the Indian Nation.

0:31:55 > 0:31:59"Pursuit would be futile. I will return with your man Chaney.

0:31:59 > 0:32:01"Leave me to my work. Reuben Cogburn."

0:32:10 > 0:32:11Is that Marshal Cogburn?

0:32:11 > 0:32:14- That is the man. - Who's he with?

0:32:14 > 0:32:15I do not know.

0:32:15 > 0:32:17Take me across.

0:32:17 > 0:32:19So, you're the runaway.

0:32:19 > 0:32:22Marshal told me you'd show up. I'm to present you to the sheriff.

0:32:22 > 0:32:25That is a story. Let go of my horse. I have business across the river.

0:32:27 > 0:32:29If you don't turn around and take me across,

0:32:29 > 0:32:32you may find yourself in court where you don't want to be.

0:32:32 > 0:32:33I have a good lawyer.

0:32:41 > 0:32:42Hey!

0:32:44 > 0:32:46Go, Little Blackie! Come on!

0:33:55 > 0:33:58That is quite a horse.

0:33:58 > 0:33:59I will give you 10 for him.

0:33:59 > 0:34:01From the money you stole from me?

0:34:01 > 0:34:04That was not stolen. I'm out for your man.

0:34:04 > 0:34:05I was to accompany you.

0:34:05 > 0:34:08If I do not, there is no agreement and my money was stolen.

0:34:08 > 0:34:10Marshal, put this child back on the ferry.

0:34:10 > 0:34:12It's a long road, and time is a-wasting.

0:34:12 > 0:34:15If I go back, it is to the US Marshals Office to report the theft of my money.

0:34:15 > 0:34:18And futile, Marshal Cogburn, "Pursuit would be futile,"

0:34:18 > 0:34:20is not spelt F-U-D-E-L.

0:34:31 > 0:34:33It is time for your spanking.

0:34:33 > 0:34:37Now you will do as the grown-ups say

0:34:37 > 0:34:40or I will get myself a birch switch and stripe your leg!

0:34:44 > 0:34:46Are you going to let him do this, Marshal?

0:34:49 > 0:34:52No, I don't believe I will.

0:34:52 > 0:34:55- Put your switch away, LaBoeuf. - I aim to finish what I started.

0:34:55 > 0:34:59That will be the biggest mistake you ever made, you Texas brush-popper.

0:35:13 > 0:35:15Hoorawed by a little girl.

0:35:27 > 0:35:29I am not accustomed to so large a fire.

0:35:30 > 0:35:35In Texas, we will make do with a fire of little more than twigs...

0:35:37 > 0:35:41..or buffalo chips, to heat the night's ration of beans.

0:35:41 > 0:35:43And it is Ranger policy

0:35:43 > 0:35:46never to make your camp in the same place as your cookfire.

0:35:46 > 0:35:50Very imprudent to make your presence known in unsettled country.

0:35:57 > 0:35:59How do you know Bagby will have intelligence?

0:35:59 > 0:36:00He has a store.

0:36:00 > 0:36:03That makes him an authority on movements in the Territory?

0:36:03 > 0:36:06We have entered a wild place.

0:36:06 > 0:36:10And anyone coming in, wanting any kind of supply,

0:36:10 > 0:36:11cannot pick and choose his portal.

0:36:14 > 0:36:15That is a piece of foolishness.

0:36:15 > 0:36:17All the snakes are asleep this time of year.

0:36:17 > 0:36:20- They have been known to wake up. - Let me have a rope, too.

0:36:20 > 0:36:24A snake would not bother you. You are too little and bony.

0:36:25 > 0:36:28You should fetch water for the morning and put it by the fire.

0:36:28 > 0:36:31- The creek's gonna ice over tonight. - I'm not going down there again.

0:36:31 > 0:36:33If you want any more water, you could fetch it yourself.

0:36:33 > 0:36:36You're lucky to be travelling in a place where a spring is so handy.

0:36:36 > 0:36:40In my country, you can ride for days and see no groundwater.

0:36:40 > 0:36:43I have lapped filthy water from a hoofprint

0:36:43 > 0:36:45and was glad to have it.

0:36:45 > 0:36:47If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies

0:36:47 > 0:36:50who says he has never drank water out of a horse track,

0:36:50 > 0:36:52I think I'll shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.

0:36:52 > 0:36:54You do not believe it?

0:36:54 > 0:36:57I believed it the first 25 times I heard it.

0:36:57 > 0:37:00Maybe... Maybe it is true.

0:37:01 > 0:37:04Maybe lapping water off the ground is Ranger policy.

0:37:04 > 0:37:07You are getting ready to show your ignorance now, Cogburn.

0:37:07 > 0:37:09I don't mind a little personal chaffing

0:37:09 > 0:37:12but I won't hear anything against the Ranger troop from a man like you.

0:37:16 > 0:37:18How long you boys been mounted on sheep down there?

0:37:18 > 0:37:20My white Appaloosa will still be galloping

0:37:20 > 0:37:23when that big American stud of yours is winded and collapsed.

0:37:23 > 0:37:25Now make another joke about it.

0:37:25 > 0:37:28You're only trying to put on a show for this girl Mattie

0:37:28 > 0:37:30with what you must think is a keen tongue.

0:37:30 > 0:37:32This is like women talking.

0:37:32 > 0:37:33Yes, that is the way.

0:37:33 > 0:37:36Make me out foolish in this girl's eyes.

0:37:36 > 0:37:38I think she has you pretty well figured.

0:37:46 > 0:37:48Would you two like to hear the story of The Midnight Caller?

0:37:50 > 0:37:51One of you is gonna have to be The Caller.

0:37:51 > 0:37:53And I will tell you what to say.

0:37:53 > 0:37:56And I will do all the other parts myself.

0:38:18 > 0:38:21- Good morning, Marshal. - Morning.

0:38:21 > 0:38:22Where is Mr LaBoeuf?

0:38:22 > 0:38:26Down by the creek, performing his necessaries.

0:38:26 > 0:38:29Marshal Cogburn, I welcome the chance for a private parley.

0:38:29 > 0:38:34I gather that you and Mr LaBoeuf have come to some sort of agreement.

0:38:34 > 0:38:36And as your employer, I believe I have the right to know the particulars.

0:38:36 > 0:38:39The particulars is that we bring Chaney

0:38:39 > 0:38:41down to the magistrate in San Saba, Texas,

0:38:41 > 0:38:45where they have a considerable reward on offer, which we split.

0:38:46 > 0:38:48I did not want him brought to Texas,

0:38:48 > 0:38:51to have a Texas punishment administered for a Texas crime.

0:38:51 > 0:38:53That was not our agreement.

0:38:53 > 0:38:56What you want is to have him caught and punished.

0:38:56 > 0:38:59I want him to know that he is being punished for killing my father.

0:38:59 > 0:39:01You can let him know that. You can tell him to his face.

0:39:01 > 0:39:04You can spit on him and make him eat sand out of the road.

0:39:04 > 0:39:06I will hold him down.

0:39:06 > 0:39:10If you want, I'll flay the flesh off the soles of his feet

0:39:10 > 0:39:13and find you an Indian pepper you can rub into the wound.

0:39:13 > 0:39:14Isn't that a 100 value?

0:39:14 > 0:39:16No, it is not.

0:39:16 > 0:39:19When I have bought and paid for something, I will have my way.

0:39:19 > 0:39:21Why do you think I'm paying you if not to have my way?

0:39:21 > 0:39:26It's time for you to learn you cannot have your way in every little particular.

0:39:26 > 0:39:29If you find I fail to satisfy your terms,

0:39:29 > 0:39:31I will return your money at the end of this expedition.

0:39:31 > 0:39:34Little Blackie and I are riding back to the US Marshals Office.

0:39:34 > 0:39:36- This is fraud. - God damn it!

0:39:36 > 0:39:39- What's going on? - This is a business conversation.

0:39:39 > 0:39:40Is that what you call it?

0:39:40 > 0:39:43It sounds to me like you're still being hoorawed by a little girl.

0:39:43 > 0:39:44- Did you say hoorawed? - That was the word.

0:39:44 > 0:39:46There is no hoorawing in it.

0:39:46 > 0:39:48My agreement with the marshal antedates yours.

0:39:48 > 0:39:50- It has the force of law. - The force of law?

0:39:50 > 0:39:52This man is a notorious thumper.

0:39:52 > 0:39:56He rode by the light of the moon with Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson.

0:39:56 > 0:39:58Them men was patriots, Texas trash!

0:39:58 > 0:40:00They murdered women and children in Lawrence, Kansas.

0:40:00 > 0:40:02That's a goddamn lie!

0:40:02 > 0:40:04What army was you in, mister?

0:40:04 > 0:40:06I was at Shreveport, first with Kirby Smith...

0:40:06 > 0:40:09Yeah? What side was you on?

0:40:09 > 0:40:11I was in the army of Northern Virginia, Cogburn,

0:40:11 > 0:40:12and I don't have to hang my head when I say it.

0:40:12 > 0:40:15If you had served with Captain Quantrill...

0:40:15 > 0:40:16Captain?

0:40:16 > 0:40:19Captain Quantrill indeed!

0:40:19 > 0:40:22- Best let this go, LaBoeuf. - Captain of what?

0:40:25 > 0:40:29Good, then. There's not sufficient dollars in the state of Texas

0:40:29 > 0:40:31to make it worth my while to listen to your opinions.

0:40:31 > 0:40:34- Our agreement is nullified. - That suits me.

0:40:34 > 0:40:38- It's each man for himself. - Congratulations, Cogburn.

0:40:38 > 0:40:40You've graduated from marauder to wet nurse.

0:40:43 > 0:40:44Adios!

0:40:50 > 0:40:52We don't need him, do we, Marshal?

0:40:55 > 0:40:56We'll miss his Sharps carbine.

0:40:58 > 0:41:00It's apt to get lively out here.

0:41:21 > 0:41:23Hey!

0:41:25 > 0:41:26Go!

0:41:33 > 0:41:35Stay here, sister.

0:41:35 > 0:41:36I will see Bagby.

0:41:53 > 0:41:54DOOR OPENS

0:41:58 > 0:41:59Has Chaney been here?

0:41:59 > 0:42:02No. Coke Hayes was, two days ago.

0:42:02 > 0:42:06Coke runs with Lucky Ned. He bought supplies with this.

0:42:09 > 0:42:11This is Papa's gold piece.

0:42:11 > 0:42:12Tom Chaney, here we come.

0:42:12 > 0:42:15It's not the world's only California gold piece.

0:42:15 > 0:42:19- They are rare here. - They are rare.

0:42:19 > 0:42:21But if it is Chaney's, it could just as easily

0:42:21 > 0:42:24mean that Lucky Ned and his gang fell upon him,

0:42:24 > 0:42:25as that he fell in with them.

0:42:25 > 0:42:27Chaney could be a corpse.

0:42:27 > 0:42:30That would be a bitter disappointment, Marshal. What do we do?

0:42:30 > 0:42:32Pursue.

0:42:32 > 0:42:34Ned is unfinished business for the marshals, anyhow,

0:42:34 > 0:42:36and when we have him we'll also have Chaney,

0:42:36 > 0:42:39or learn the whereabouts of his body.

0:42:39 > 0:42:40Bagby didn't know which way they went,

0:42:40 > 0:42:42but now that we know they come through here,

0:42:42 > 0:42:45they couldn't be going but one of two ways -

0:42:45 > 0:42:48heading north towards the Winding Stair Mountains,

0:42:48 > 0:42:50or pushing further west.

0:42:50 > 0:42:52I suspect north. More to rob.

0:42:52 > 0:42:55I bought an eating place called The Green Frog,

0:42:55 > 0:42:58started calling myself Burroughs.

0:42:58 > 0:42:59But my drinking picked up

0:42:59 > 0:43:03and my wife did not care for the company of my river friends.

0:43:03 > 0:43:05She decided to go back to her first husband.

0:43:05 > 0:43:08He was a clerk in a hardware store.

0:43:09 > 0:43:12She said, "Goodbye, Reuben.

0:43:12 > 0:43:16"A love of decency does not abide in you."

0:43:16 > 0:43:18There's your divorced woman talking about decency.

0:43:18 > 0:43:21I told her, "Goodbye, Nola.

0:43:21 > 0:43:24"I hope that little nail-selling bastard keeps you happy this time."

0:43:24 > 0:43:26She took my boy with her, too.

0:43:27 > 0:43:30He never cared for me anyway.

0:43:31 > 0:43:35I guess I did speak awful rough to him.

0:43:35 > 0:43:37I did not mean anything by it.

0:43:37 > 0:43:40You would not want to see a clumsier child than Horace.

0:43:42 > 0:43:44I'll bet he broke 40 cups.

0:43:57 > 0:43:58GUNSHOT

0:44:11 > 0:44:14Is it Chaney?

0:44:14 > 0:44:16I would not recognise the soles of his feet.

0:44:16 > 0:44:19Well, you'll have to clamber up and look.

0:44:20 > 0:44:22I'm too old and too fat.

0:44:22 > 0:44:26The Green Frog had one billiard table,

0:44:26 > 0:44:29served ladies and men both - mostly men.

0:44:29 > 0:44:33I tried running it myself for a while, but couldn't keep good help.

0:44:33 > 0:44:36And I never did learn how to buy meat.

0:44:37 > 0:44:39Is that him?

0:44:39 > 0:44:40I believe not.

0:44:40 > 0:44:42Well, cut him down.

0:44:42 > 0:44:45- Why?- I might know him.

0:44:48 > 0:44:52That was when I went out to the Staked Plains of Texas,

0:44:52 > 0:44:56shooting buffalo with Vernon Shaftoe and a Flathead Indian named Olly.

0:44:56 > 0:45:00The Mormons had run Shaftoe out of Great Salt Lake City.

0:45:00 > 0:45:01Don't ask me what for.

0:45:01 > 0:45:04Call it a misunderstanding and leave it go at that.

0:45:06 > 0:45:11Well, the big shaggies is about all gone now.

0:45:11 > 0:45:13Damned shame.

0:45:13 > 0:45:16I'd give 3 right now for a pickled buffalo tongue.

0:45:20 > 0:45:21Why did they hang him so high?

0:45:21 > 0:45:24I do not know.

0:45:24 > 0:45:26Possibly in the belief it'd make him more dead.

0:45:40 > 0:45:42I do not know this man.

0:45:42 > 0:45:43HORSE SNORTS

0:46:11 > 0:46:13MUFFLED CONVERSATION

0:46:20 > 0:46:23Why is he taking the hanged man? Did he know him?

0:46:23 > 0:46:25He did not.

0:46:25 > 0:46:27But it is a dead body.

0:46:27 > 0:46:30Possibly worth something in trade.

0:46:30 > 0:46:32'Well, my second wife, Edna,

0:46:32 > 0:46:34'she got the notion she wanted me to be a lawyer.'

0:46:34 > 0:46:38Bought this heavy book called Daniels on Negotiable Instruments

0:46:38 > 0:46:41and set me to reading it.

0:46:41 > 0:46:43Never could get a grip on it.

0:46:43 > 0:46:46I was happy enough to set it aside and leave Texas.

0:46:47 > 0:46:50There ain't six trees between there and Canada,

0:46:50 > 0:46:52and nothing else grows but has stickers on it.

0:46:52 > 0:46:54That's...

0:46:54 > 0:46:55GUNSHOT

0:46:55 > 0:46:57I knew it.

0:46:57 > 0:47:00- Knew what? - We're being followed.

0:47:00 > 0:47:04I asked that Indian to signal with a shot if someone was on our trail.

0:47:05 > 0:47:07Should we be concerned, Marshal?

0:47:07 > 0:47:11No. It's Mr LaBoeuf, using us as bird dogs

0:47:11 > 0:47:14in hopes of cutting in once we've flushed the prey.

0:47:14 > 0:47:17Well, perhaps we could double back over our tracks,

0:47:17 > 0:47:19and confuse the trail in a clever way.

0:47:19 > 0:47:22No, we will wait right here.

0:47:23 > 0:47:27Offer our friend a warm hello, and ask him where he is going.

0:47:33 > 0:47:35WIND BLOWS

0:47:46 > 0:47:48CLANKING

0:48:21 > 0:48:22You are not LaBoeuf.

0:48:24 > 0:48:26My name is Forster.

0:48:27 > 0:48:30I practice dentistry in the Nation.

0:48:30 > 0:48:33Also, veterinary arts

0:48:33 > 0:48:38and medicine on those humans that will sit still for it.

0:48:39 > 0:48:41You have your work cut out for you there.

0:48:43 > 0:48:49Traded for him with an Indian, who said he came by him honestly.

0:48:49 > 0:48:53I gave up two dental mirrors and a bottle of expectorant.

0:48:56 > 0:48:59Do either of you need medical attention?

0:48:59 > 0:49:00No.

0:49:02 > 0:49:04It's fixing to get cold.

0:49:04 > 0:49:07Do you know of anywhere to take shelter?

0:49:07 > 0:49:09I have my bearskin.

0:49:13 > 0:49:17You might want to head over to the Original Greaser Bob's.

0:49:18 > 0:49:23He notched a dugout into a hollow along the Carrillon River.

0:49:23 > 0:49:29If you ride the river, you won't fail to see it.

0:49:29 > 0:49:33Greaser Bob, the Original Greaser Bob,

0:49:33 > 0:49:36is hunting north of the Picketwire

0:49:36 > 0:49:40and would not begrudge its use.

0:49:40 > 0:49:43- Much obliged. - I have taken his teeth.

0:49:44 > 0:49:49I will entertain an offer for the rest of him.

0:49:57 > 0:49:59Take my jacket.

0:50:00 > 0:50:02Creep up onto the roof.

0:50:03 > 0:50:06If they're unfriendly, I'll give you a sign to damp the chimney.

0:50:30 > 0:50:31Who is out there?

0:50:32 > 0:50:34We're looking for shelter.

0:50:34 > 0:50:36No room for you here. Ride on.

0:50:38 > 0:50:41- Who all's in there?- Ride on.

0:51:01 > 0:51:03COUGHING FROM WITHIN

0:51:03 > 0:51:05RAISED VOICE FROM WITHIN

0:51:05 > 0:51:06COUGHING FROM WITHIN

0:51:09 > 0:51:11COUGHING FROM WITHIN

0:51:15 > 0:51:16GUNSHOT

0:51:17 > 0:51:18GUNSHOTS

0:51:20 > 0:51:23I'm a Federal officer! Who's in there?

0:51:23 > 0:51:28- A Methodist and a son of a bitch! - This is Rooster Cogburn.

0:51:28 > 0:51:32Columbus Potter and five other marshals is out here with me.

0:51:32 > 0:51:34We've got a bucket of coal oil.

0:51:34 > 0:51:37In one minute, we will burn you out from both ends.

0:51:37 > 0:51:41- There's only two of you. - Go ahead and bet your life on it.

0:51:41 > 0:51:42How many of you is in there?

0:51:42 > 0:51:46Just the two of us, but my partner's hit and he can't walk.

0:51:46 > 0:51:48COUGHING

0:51:48 > 0:51:49Is that Emmett Quincy?

0:52:08 > 0:52:12You said it was a man on the roof. I thought it was Potter.

0:52:12 > 0:52:15You was always dumb, Quincy, and remain true to form.

0:52:15 > 0:52:20This here's an awful lot of sofky. You boys looking for company?

0:52:20 > 0:52:24That is our supper and breakfast both. I like a big breakfast.

0:52:26 > 0:52:28Sofky always cooks up bigger than you think.

0:52:28 > 0:52:32And a good store of whiskey here, as well.

0:52:32 > 0:52:35What are you boys up to, outside of cooking banquets?

0:52:35 > 0:52:37We was just having our supper.

0:52:37 > 0:52:39We didn't know who was outside, weather like this.

0:52:39 > 0:52:43It might have been some crazy man. Anyone could say he is a marshal.

0:52:43 > 0:52:45- My leg hurts.- I'll bet it does.

0:52:50 > 0:52:53When was the last time you seen your old pard Ned Pepper?

0:52:53 > 0:52:59- I do not know him. Who is he?- I'm surprised you don't remember him.

0:52:59 > 0:53:02He's a skinny fellow, nervous and quick. His lip's all messed up.

0:53:02 > 0:53:05That don't bring anybody to mind.

0:53:05 > 0:53:10There is a new boy that might be running with Ned.

0:53:10 > 0:53:14He's got a powder mark on his face, a black place.

0:53:14 > 0:53:17He calls himself Chaney. Or Chelmsford, sometimes.

0:53:17 > 0:53:21- Carries a Henry rifle. - That don't bring anybody to mind.

0:53:21 > 0:53:24Black mark, I would remember that.

0:53:24 > 0:53:28You don't remember nothing I want to know, do you, Quincy?

0:53:28 > 0:53:32- What do you know, Moon?- We don't know those boys you're looking for.

0:53:32 > 0:53:37I don't know those boys. I always try to help out the law.

0:53:37 > 0:53:39By the time we get to Fort Smith,

0:53:39 > 0:53:43that leg will be swelled up tight as Dick's hatband.

0:53:43 > 0:53:46It will be mortified and they will cut it off.

0:53:46 > 0:53:48If you live, that'll get you two or three years

0:53:48 > 0:53:52- in the Federal house up in Detroit, there.- You're trying to get at me.

0:53:52 > 0:53:54They'll teach you how to read and write up there,

0:53:54 > 0:53:59but the rest won't be so good. Them boys, they can be hard on a gimp.

0:53:59 > 0:54:04- You are trying to get at me.- Now... give me good information on Ned,

0:54:04 > 0:54:06I'll take you down to Bagby's store tomorrow

0:54:06 > 0:54:08and get that ball taken out of your leg.

0:54:08 > 0:54:11Then, I'll give you three days to clear the Territory.

0:54:11 > 0:54:14We don't know those boys you're looking for.

0:54:14 > 0:54:18- It ain't his leg.- I was... - Don't go flapping your mouth, Moon.

0:54:18 > 0:54:22- Let me do the talking.- I was saying...- We are weary trappers.

0:54:22 > 0:54:24Who worked you over with the ugly stick?

0:54:24 > 0:54:28The man Chaney with the marked face killed my father.

0:54:28 > 0:54:31He was a whiskey drinker like you and it led to killing, in the end.

0:54:31 > 0:54:34If you answer the marshal's questions, he will help you.

0:54:34 > 0:54:36I have a good lawyer at home and he will help you, too.

0:54:38 > 0:54:41I am puzzled by this. Why is she here?

0:54:41 > 0:54:44Don't jaw with these people, Moon. Don't you go jawing with that runt.

0:54:44 > 0:54:48I don't like you. I hope you go to jail. My lawyer will not help you.

0:54:48 > 0:54:49My leg is giving me fits.

0:54:49 > 0:54:53A young fellow like you don't want to lose his leg. No.

0:54:53 > 0:54:55- We seen... - He's trying to get at you.

0:54:55 > 0:54:57- With the truth. - We seen Ned and Hayes two days ago.

0:54:57 > 0:54:59Don't you act the fool! If you blow, I will kill you!

0:54:59 > 0:55:03I'm played out. I need a doctor! We met Ned and Hayes two days ago.

0:55:03 > 0:55:05HE SCREAMS

0:55:17 > 0:55:19Goddamn it!

0:55:26 > 0:55:30Oh, Lord, I am dying.

0:55:31 > 0:55:33Do something. Help me.

0:55:33 > 0:55:36I can do nothing for you, son.

0:55:36 > 0:55:38Your pard has killed you and I have done for him.

0:55:38 > 0:55:40Don't leave me lying here.

0:55:40 > 0:55:43Don't let the wolves rip me up.

0:55:43 > 0:55:44I'll see you're buried right.

0:55:44 > 0:55:47Tell me about Ned. Where did you see him?

0:55:47 > 0:55:51Two days ago. Bagby's store.

0:55:51 > 0:55:56They are coming here tonight to get remounts and sofky.

0:55:56 > 0:55:59They just robbed the Katy Flyer at Wagoner's Switch.

0:56:00 > 0:56:01I'm gone.

0:56:03 > 0:56:06Send the news to my brother, George Garrett.

0:56:06 > 0:56:10He is a Methodist circuit rider in South Texas.

0:56:10 > 0:56:13Shall I tell him you was outlawed up?

0:56:13 > 0:56:15It don't matter. He knows I'm on the scout.

0:56:17 > 0:56:21I will meet him later, walking the streets of glory.

0:56:22 > 0:56:24Well, don't be looking for Quincy.

0:56:36 > 0:56:37(What do we do when they get here?)

0:56:37 > 0:56:42They ride up. What we want is to get them all in the dugout.

0:56:42 > 0:56:46I'll kill the last one that goes in, then we'll have them in a barrel.

0:56:46 > 0:56:47You will shoot him in the back?

0:56:47 > 0:56:50It'll give them to know our intentions are serious.

0:56:50 > 0:56:55Then I'll call down, see if they'll be taken alive.

0:56:55 > 0:57:00If they won't, I'll shoot them as they come out.

0:57:00 > 0:57:02I'm hopeful that three of their party being dead

0:57:02 > 0:57:04will take the starch out of them.

0:57:06 > 0:57:07You display great poise.

0:57:10 > 0:57:12It's just a turkey shoot.

0:57:14 > 0:57:20There was one time, in New Mexico, we was being pursued by seven men.

0:57:20 > 0:57:23I turned Bo around and taking them reins in my teeth

0:57:23 > 0:57:25rode right at them boys,

0:57:25 > 0:57:27firing them two Navy sixes I carry on my saddle.

0:57:27 > 0:57:32Well, I guess they was all married men who loved their families,

0:57:32 > 0:57:35- as they scattered and run for home. - Well, that is hard to believe.

0:57:35 > 0:57:40- What is?- One man riding at seven. - It's true.

0:57:40 > 0:57:42You go for a man hard enough and fast enough,

0:57:42 > 0:57:45he don't have time to think about how many is with him.

0:57:45 > 0:57:47He thinks about himself,

0:57:47 > 0:57:50how he might get clear of that wrath that's about to set down on him.

0:57:50 > 0:57:51Why were they pursuing you?

0:57:54 > 0:58:00I robbed a high-interest bank. You can't rob a thief, can you?

0:58:00 > 0:58:03Never robbed a citizen. Never took a man's watch.

0:58:03 > 0:58:07- It is all stealing.- That's the position they took in New Mexico.

0:58:18 > 0:58:19One man.

0:58:21 > 0:58:23I did not figure them to send a scout.

0:58:42 > 0:58:43Damn.

0:58:45 > 0:58:48- Hello?- It is LaBoeuf.

0:58:54 > 0:58:56We have to warn him, Marshal.

0:59:00 > 0:59:02DISTANT HORSES' HOOVES RUMBLE

0:59:03 > 0:59:04Too late.

0:59:04 > 0:59:05GUN COCKS

0:59:33 > 0:59:34Texas Ranger.

0:59:34 > 0:59:35What do we do, Marshal?

0:59:35 > 0:59:38We sit. What does he do?

0:59:56 > 0:59:59(Him in the woolly chaps is Lucky Ned.)

1:00:09 > 1:00:11Well, that's that.

1:01:02 > 1:01:03Well, that didn't pan out.

1:01:09 > 1:01:12You managed to put a kink in my rope, pardner.

1:01:13 > 1:01:17- I'm severely injured. - Yes, you got drug some.

1:01:17 > 1:01:20Also shot by a rifle.

1:01:20 > 1:01:24That's quite possible. The scheme did not develop as I had planned.

1:01:25 > 1:01:29You've been shot in the shoulder, but the bullet passed through.

1:01:29 > 1:01:33- What happened to your mouth? - I believe I bit myself.

1:01:33 > 1:01:37A couple of teeth loose and... Yeah, the tongue is bit almost through.

1:01:37 > 1:01:41Do you want to see if it will knit or should I just yank it free?

1:01:41 > 1:01:45I know a teamster who bit his tongue off, being thrown from a horse.

1:01:45 > 1:01:48After a time, he learned to make himself more or less understood.

1:01:48 > 1:01:52- I'll just yank it free. - Argh!- What? What's that, now?

1:01:52 > 1:01:55- Knit.- What's that now? - Knit. It will knit.

1:01:55 > 1:01:59Very well. It's impossible to bind a tongue wound.

1:01:59 > 1:02:03- Too bad. We just run across a doctor of sorts.- Marshal?

1:02:03 > 1:02:05But I do not know where he was headed.

1:02:05 > 1:02:08I saw him, too. It's how I came to be here.

1:02:08 > 1:02:12- Neither of these men are Chaney. - I know, and I know them both.

1:02:12 > 1:02:18That ugly one is Coke Hayes. Him uglier still is Clement Parmalee.

1:02:18 > 1:02:20Parmalee and his brothers have a silver claim

1:02:20 > 1:02:22in the Winding Stair Mountains

1:02:22 > 1:02:24and I bet that's where Lucky Ned's gang is waiting.

1:02:24 > 1:02:27We'll sleep here, follow in the morning.

1:02:27 > 1:02:29We promised to bury the poor soul inside.

1:02:29 > 1:02:33Ground is too hard. If them men wanted a decent burial,

1:02:33 > 1:02:35they should have got themselves killed in summer.

1:02:39 > 1:02:40Sleep well, Little Blackie.

1:02:40 > 1:02:44I have a notion that tomorrow we will reach our object.

1:02:44 > 1:02:48We are hot on the trail. It seems that we will overtake Tom Chaney

1:02:48 > 1:02:52in the Winding Stair Mountains. I would not want to be in his shoes.

1:03:02 > 1:03:04As I understand it, Chaney, or Chelmsford,

1:03:04 > 1:03:09as he called himself in Texas, shot the Senator's dog.

1:03:09 > 1:03:12When the Senator remonstrated, Chelmsford shot him, as well.

1:03:12 > 1:03:14Now, you could argue that the shooting of the dog

1:03:14 > 1:03:17was merely an instance of malum prohibitum,

1:03:17 > 1:03:20but the shooting of a senator is indubitably an instance

1:03:20 > 1:03:24- of malum in se. - Malla-men what?- Malum in se.

1:03:24 > 1:03:28The distinction is between an act that is wrong in itself,

1:03:28 > 1:03:31and an act that is wrong only according to our laws and mores.

1:03:31 > 1:03:32It is Latin.

1:03:33 > 1:03:38I'm struck that LaBoeuf has been shot, trampled,

1:03:38 > 1:03:43and nearly severed his tongue and not only does he not cease to talk,

1:03:43 > 1:03:45but he spills the banks of English.

1:03:49 > 1:03:53I was within 300 yards of Chelmsford once.

1:03:54 > 1:03:56The closest I have been.

1:03:56 > 1:03:59With the Sharps carbine, that is within range.

1:03:59 > 1:04:03But I was mounted, and had the choice of firing offhand

1:04:03 > 1:04:06or dismounting to shoot from rest,

1:04:06 > 1:04:09which would allow Chelmsford to augment the distance.

1:04:09 > 1:04:14I fired mounted...and fired wide.

1:04:19 > 1:04:21You could not hit a man at 300 yards

1:04:21 > 1:04:24if your gun was resting on Gibraltar.

1:04:24 > 1:04:28The Sharps carbine is an instrument of uncanny power and precision.

1:04:28 > 1:04:30I have no doubt that the gun is sound.

1:04:31 > 1:04:36# My clothes is all ragged My language is rough

1:04:36 > 1:04:41# My bread is corn dodgers Both solid and tough

1:04:41 > 1:04:44# And yet I am happy and live at my ease

1:04:44 > 1:04:50# On sorghum molasses and bacon and cheese. #

1:04:50 > 1:04:52Greer County Bachelor, that was.

1:04:54 > 1:04:56I do not believe he slept.

1:04:56 > 1:04:59HE CONTINUES TO SING HAPHAZARDLY

1:05:04 > 1:05:07Fort Smith is a healthy distance, LaBoeuf,

1:05:07 > 1:05:10but I would encourage the creature you ride to head thither.

1:05:10 > 1:05:14Out here, a one-armed man looks like easy prey.

1:05:14 > 1:05:18And a one-eyed man who can't shoot? Why don't you turn back, Cogburn?

1:05:18 > 1:05:22I'll do fine. I know where the Parmalee claim is.

1:05:22 > 1:05:26I am uninjured and well-provisioned and we agreed to separate.

1:05:26 > 1:05:29In conscience, you cannot cite our agreement.

1:05:29 > 1:05:32- You're the one who shot me. - Mr LaBoeuf has a point, Marshal.

1:05:32 > 1:05:34It is an unfair leg-up in any competition

1:05:34 > 1:05:35to shoot your opposite number.

1:05:35 > 1:05:39Goddamn it! I do not accept it as a given that I did shoot LaBoeuf.

1:05:39 > 1:05:41There were plenty of guns going off.

1:05:41 > 1:05:43I heard the rifle and I felt the ball.

1:05:43 > 1:05:46- You missed your shot, Cogburn, admit it.- Missed my shot?!

1:05:46 > 1:05:50You are more handicapped without the eye than I without the arm.

1:05:50 > 1:05:53I can hit a gnat's eye at 90 yards.

1:06:03 > 1:06:07That Chinaman is running them cheap shells on me again.

1:06:07 > 1:06:09I thought you were going to say the sun was in your eyes.

1:06:09 > 1:06:12That is to say, your eye.

1:06:55 > 1:06:57Two at one time!

1:07:10 > 1:07:13I will chuck one high. Hold fire.

1:07:21 > 1:07:24- There.- There?

1:07:24 > 1:07:26- My bullet.- Your bullet?

1:07:26 > 1:07:29If you hit what you aim at, explain my shoulder!

1:07:29 > 1:07:31Gentlemen, shooting cornbread

1:07:31 > 1:07:33- is getting us no closer to the Ned Pepper gang.- One more.

1:07:33 > 1:07:36This will prove it. Please hold fire.

1:08:58 > 1:09:00Find our way back!

1:09:00 > 1:09:03Very few fiddle tunes I have not heard.

1:09:03 > 1:09:06Once heard, they're locked into my mind for ever.

1:09:14 > 1:09:16Lucky Ned?

1:09:26 > 1:09:28Lucky Ned!

1:09:31 > 1:09:33Very good, Cogburn. Now what?

1:09:39 > 1:09:41Oh, goddamn it.

1:09:41 > 1:09:44Cogburn does not want me eating out of his store.

1:09:44 > 1:09:46That is silly. You have not eaten and it is my store, not his.

1:09:46 > 1:09:48Let him starve!

1:09:50 > 1:09:55He does not track! He does not shoot, except at foodstuffs!

1:09:55 > 1:09:58- That was your initiative. - He does not contribute.

1:09:58 > 1:10:02He's a man who walks in front of bullets!

1:10:02 > 1:10:05Mr LaBoeuf drew single-handed upon the Lucky Ned Pepper gang

1:10:05 > 1:10:07- while we fired safely from cover. - We?

1:10:07 > 1:10:11It is unfair to indict a man when his jaw is swollen and tongue mangled

1:10:11 > 1:10:15- and who is unable to rise to his own defence!- I can speak for myself.

1:10:15 > 1:10:18I am hardly obliged to answer the ravings of a drunkard.

1:10:18 > 1:10:23It is beneath me. I shall make my own camp elsewhere.

1:10:25 > 1:10:28It is you who have nothing to offer, Cogburn.

1:10:28 > 1:10:30A sad picture indeed.

1:10:30 > 1:10:33This is no longer a manhunt. It is a debauch.

1:10:33 > 1:10:38The Texas Ranger presses on, alone.

1:10:39 > 1:10:42Take the girl. I bow out.

1:10:45 > 1:10:47A fine thing to decide once you brought her

1:10:47 > 1:10:50- into the middle of the Choctaw Nation.- I bow out! I wash my hands!

1:10:50 > 1:10:52Gentlemen, we cannot fall out in this fashion.

1:10:52 > 1:10:54Not so close to our goal, with Tom Chaney nearly in hand.

1:10:54 > 1:10:59In hand? If he is not in a shallow grave

1:10:59 > 1:11:03somewhere between here and Fort Smith, he is gone!

1:11:03 > 1:11:08Long gone! Thanks to Mr LaBoeuf, we missed our shot.

1:11:08 > 1:11:13We've barked and the birds have flown! Gone, gone, gone!

1:11:13 > 1:11:17Lucky Ned and his cohort gone. Your 50 gone!

1:11:17 > 1:11:20Gone the whiskey, seized in evidence!

1:11:20 > 1:11:23The trail is cold, if there ever was one.

1:11:26 > 1:11:27I'm...

1:11:27 > 1:11:32I'm a foolish old man who has been drawn into a wild-goose chase

1:11:32 > 1:11:36by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop!

1:11:36 > 1:11:40Well, Mr LaBoeuf, he can wander

1:11:40 > 1:11:43the Choctaw Nation for as long as he likes.

1:11:43 > 1:11:45Perhaps the local Indians will take him in

1:11:45 > 1:11:48and honour his gibberings by making him chief!

1:11:48 > 1:11:55You, sister, may go where you like. Our engagement is terminated.

1:11:57 > 1:11:58I bow out.

1:12:05 > 1:12:09- I am going with you. - That is not possible.

1:12:09 > 1:12:11Have I held you back?

1:12:11 > 1:12:14I have a Colt's Dragoon revolver which I know how to use,

1:12:14 > 1:12:17and I will be no more of a burden to you than I was to the marshal.

1:12:17 > 1:12:22That is not my worry. You've earned your spurs. That is clear enough.

1:12:22 > 1:12:25You've been a regular old hand on the trail.

1:12:26 > 1:12:27But Cogburn is right,

1:12:27 > 1:12:30even if I would not give him the satisfaction of conceding it.

1:12:32 > 1:12:40The trail is cold and I am considerably diminished.

1:12:40 > 1:12:44How can you give up now after the many months you've dedicated to finding Chaney?

1:12:44 > 1:12:46You have shown great determination.

1:12:46 > 1:12:49I misjudged you.

1:12:52 > 1:12:54I picked the wrong man.

1:12:58 > 1:13:01I would go on in your company if there were a clear way to go.

1:13:03 > 1:13:09But we'd be striking out blindly. Chelmsford's gone.

1:13:09 > 1:13:14We chased him right off the map. There's nothing for it.

1:13:18 > 1:13:24I'm bound for Texas. Time for you to go home, too.

1:13:24 > 1:13:29The marshal, when he sobers, is your way back.

1:13:29 > 1:13:32I will not go back. Not without Chaney, dead or alive.

1:13:35 > 1:13:37I misjudged you, as well.

1:13:39 > 1:13:43- I extend my hand. - Mr LaBoeuf, please.

1:13:56 > 1:13:57Adios.

1:15:41 > 1:15:42I know you.

1:15:45 > 1:15:49Your name is Mattie. You're little Mattie, the book-keeper.

1:15:51 > 1:15:53- Isn't that something? - Yes, and I know you, Tom Chaney.

1:15:56 > 1:15:59- What are you doing out here? - Come to fetch some water.

1:15:59 > 1:16:02I mean, what are you doing in these mountains here?

1:16:02 > 1:16:06I have not been formally deputised, but I'm acting as an agent

1:16:06 > 1:16:08for Marshal Reuben Cogburn and Judge Parker's court.

1:16:13 > 1:16:15I have come to take you back to Fort Smith.

1:16:20 > 1:16:23Well, I will not go. How do you like that?

1:16:23 > 1:16:26There is a posse of officers up there who will force you to go.

1:16:26 > 1:16:29That is interesting news. How many is up there?

1:16:29 > 1:16:33Right around 50. And they're all well-armed and they mean business.

1:16:33 > 1:16:35What I want you to do now is come on across the creek

1:16:35 > 1:16:37and walk in front of me up that hill.

1:16:37 > 1:16:41I think I will oblige the officers to come after me.

1:16:41 > 1:16:44Well, if you refuse to go, I will have to shoot you.

1:16:44 > 1:16:49Well, then, you had better cock your piece.

1:16:49 > 1:16:54- All the way back. Till it locks. - I know how to do it.

1:16:54 > 1:16:59- You will not go with me? - No, it's just the other way around. You're going with me.

1:17:09 > 1:17:12- I did not think you would do it. - Well, what do you think now?

1:17:12 > 1:17:14One of my short ribs is broken.

1:17:14 > 1:17:18You killed my father when he was trying to help you. I have one of the gold pieces

1:17:18 > 1:17:22- you stole from him. Now give me the other.- Nothing's gone right for me.- Mattie!

1:17:22 > 1:17:25- I'm down here!- Now I'm shot by a child?- Chaney is taken into custody.

1:17:32 > 1:17:33- Help me!- Mattie!

1:17:36 > 1:17:37Marshal!

1:17:43 > 1:17:45Take them horses you got and move!

1:17:50 > 1:17:52Tom, you get on up that hill. Don't you stop.

1:17:56 > 1:18:00- Who all's down there?- Marshal Cogburn and 50 more officers.

1:18:05 > 1:18:08You tell me another lie and I'll stove your head in.

1:18:08 > 1:18:10Just the marshal.

1:18:12 > 1:18:13Rooster.

1:18:15 > 1:18:18Cogburn! You hear me?

1:18:21 > 1:18:24You answer me, Rooster!

1:18:24 > 1:18:27I will kill this girl. You know I will do it.

1:18:28 > 1:18:32The girl is nothing to me! She's a runaway from Arkansas!

1:18:32 > 1:18:36That is all very well. Do you advise that I kill her?

1:18:38 > 1:18:43Do what you think is best. She's nothing to me but a lost child.

1:18:45 > 1:18:47Think it over first.

1:18:47 > 1:18:51I have already thought it over. You get mounted double fast!

1:18:51 > 1:18:56If I see you riding over that bald ridge to the north-west, I will spare the girl.

1:18:56 > 1:18:58You have five minutes!

1:18:58 > 1:19:02There will be a party of marshals here soon, Ned!

1:19:02 > 1:19:05Let me have the girl and Chaney, and I will mislead them for six hours.

1:19:05 > 1:19:09Too thin, Rooster. Too thin!

1:19:09 > 1:19:12Your five minutes is running! No more talk.

1:19:15 > 1:19:16Get on up that hill!

1:19:16 > 1:19:18ANIMAL NOISES

1:19:20 > 1:19:21Quiet there.

1:19:21 > 1:19:24NOISE CONTINUES

1:19:28 > 1:19:32- Farrell, see to Tom's wound. - Can I have some of that bacon?

1:19:32 > 1:19:35You help yourself. Have some of the coffee.

1:19:35 > 1:19:37I do not drink coffee. I'm 14.

1:19:38 > 1:19:41Well, we do not have buttermilk and we do not have bread.

1:19:41 > 1:19:43- We are poorly supplied. - Where is she?!

1:19:43 > 1:19:46- What are you doing here? - I ought to wring your scrawny neck.

1:19:46 > 1:19:47You let that go.

1:19:49 > 1:19:50What happened, huh?

1:19:50 > 1:19:52I will tell you and you will see that I am in the right.

1:19:52 > 1:19:55Tom Chaney shot my father to death in Fort Smith,

1:19:55 > 1:19:57and robbed him of two gold pieces and stole his mare.

1:19:57 > 1:20:00I was informed Cogburn had grit and hired him to find the murderer.

1:20:00 > 1:20:03A few minutes ago, I came upon Chaney watering the horses.

1:20:03 > 1:20:06He would not be taken in charge and I shot him.

1:20:06 > 1:20:10If I had killed him, I would not be now in this fix. My revolver misfired.

1:20:10 > 1:20:14It will do it. It will embarrass you every time.

1:20:14 > 1:20:17Most girls like to play pretties, but you like guns, do you?

1:20:17 > 1:20:21I do not care a thing in the world about guns. If I did, I would have one that worked.

1:20:21 > 1:20:25I was shot from ambush, Ned. My horses was blowing and making noise. That officer got me.

1:20:25 > 1:20:27How can you sit there and tell such a big story?

1:20:27 > 1:20:30That pit is 100 feet deep and I will throw you in it.

1:20:30 > 1:20:33I'll leave you to scream and rot! How do you like that?

1:20:33 > 1:20:35No, you won't. This man will not let you have your way.

1:20:35 > 1:20:40- He is your boss and you have to do as he tells you. - Well, nothing's going my way.

1:20:40 > 1:20:42Was that Rooster waylaid us night before last?

1:20:42 > 1:20:49- It was Marshal Cogburn and myself. - You and Cogburn. Quite the posse.

1:20:49 > 1:20:51DISTANT GUNSHOT

1:21:05 > 1:21:09- Let us move, Ned. - In good time, Doctor.

1:21:09 > 1:21:15- What happened to Quincy and The Kid? - They are both dead.

1:21:15 > 1:21:18I was in the very middle of it. It was a terrible thing to see.

1:21:18 > 1:21:21Please, let us move, Ned. The marshal's gone.

1:21:21 > 1:21:25- Do you need a good lawyer? - I need a good judge.

1:21:25 > 1:21:28What happened to Coke Hayes, the old fellow shot off his horse?

1:21:28 > 1:21:32Dead as well. His depredations have come to an end.

1:21:32 > 1:21:35Your friend Rooster does not collect many prisoners.

1:21:35 > 1:21:37He is not my friend.

1:21:39 > 1:21:41He's abandoned me to a congress of louts.

1:21:41 > 1:21:45- You do not varnish your opinion. - Are we off?

1:21:45 > 1:21:48Let us cut up the winnings from the Katy Flyer.

1:21:48 > 1:21:50There'll be time for that at The Old Place.

1:21:50 > 1:21:52- I will mount the bay. - I have other plans for you.

1:21:52 > 1:21:55- Must I double-mount with the doctor?- No.

1:21:55 > 1:21:57No, too chancy with two men up, if it comes to a race.

1:21:57 > 1:22:00Tom, you wait here with the girl.

1:22:00 > 1:22:03When we reach Ma's house, I'll send Carroll back with a fresh mount.

1:22:03 > 1:22:06You will be out by dark and we will meet you at The Old Place.

1:22:06 > 1:22:10I do not like that. Let me ride with you, Ned, just out of here anyway.

1:22:10 > 1:22:14- We're short a horse. - Marshals will come swarming.

1:22:14 > 1:22:16Hours, if they come here at all. They'll think that we've all gone.

1:22:16 > 1:22:19I am not staying here by myself with Tom Chaney.

1:22:19 > 1:22:21- That's the way I will have it. - He will kill me.

1:22:21 > 1:22:24You heard him say it. He's killed my father and now you will let him kill me.

1:22:24 > 1:22:30He will do no such thing. Tom, you know the crossing at Cypress Forks, near the log meeting house?

1:22:30 > 1:22:36When you are mounted, you take the girl and leave her there. Do you understand, Tom?

1:22:36 > 1:22:39Any harm comes to that child, you do not get paid.

1:22:41 > 1:22:44(Harold, let me ride up with you.)

1:22:44 > 1:22:46HE LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY

1:22:46 > 1:22:49Farrell! I will pay you 50 out of my winnings. I am not heavy.

1:22:49 > 1:22:51Do the calf again, Harold!

1:22:51 > 1:22:54HE IMITATES CALF

1:22:54 > 1:22:57DISTANT LAUGHTER

1:23:18 > 1:23:20Everything is against me.

1:23:20 > 1:23:22You have no reason to whine.

1:23:22 > 1:23:25If you act as the bandit chief instructed, and no harm comes to me,

1:23:25 > 1:23:27you will get your winnings at The Old Place.

1:23:27 > 1:23:31Lucky Ned has left me, knowing I am sure to be caught when I leave on foot.

1:23:31 > 1:23:35I must think over my position and how I may improve it.

1:23:35 > 1:23:37Where is the second California gold piece?

1:23:39 > 1:23:42- What have you done with Papa's mare?- Keep still.

1:23:42 > 1:23:45Are you thinking about The Old Place?

1:23:45 > 1:23:48Look here, if you let me go, I will swear to it in an affidavit

1:23:48 > 1:23:52and once you are brought to justice, it may go easier on you.

1:23:54 > 1:23:56I tell you, I can do better than that.

1:24:02 > 1:24:03I need no affidavit.

1:24:09 > 1:24:10All I need is your silence.

1:24:15 > 1:24:17Your father was a busybody like you.

1:24:17 > 1:24:23In honesty, I do not regret shooting him. He thought Tom Chaney was small.

1:24:23 > 1:24:27And you, you would give me an affidavit. You're all against me. Every...

1:24:34 > 1:24:35So that is Chelmsford.

1:24:36 > 1:24:39Strange to be so close to him at last.

1:24:39 > 1:24:42Mr LaBoeuf. How is it that you are here?

1:24:42 > 1:24:45I heard a shot and went down to the river.

1:24:45 > 1:24:51Cogburn outlined a plan. Mind your footing, there's a pit there.

1:24:51 > 1:24:54His part, I fear, is rash.

1:24:56 > 1:24:59He returns for Lucky Ned.

1:25:15 > 1:25:19Well, Rooster, will you give us the road?

1:25:19 > 1:25:21One against four? It is ill-advised.

1:25:21 > 1:25:24- He would not be dissuaded. - Hello, Ned.

1:25:24 > 1:25:29- How many men is with the girl?- Just Chaney. Our agreement is in force.

1:25:30 > 1:25:33She was in excellent health when last I saw her.

1:25:33 > 1:25:37Farrell, I want you and your brother to stand clear.

1:25:37 > 1:25:43You as well, Doctor. I have no interest in you today.

1:25:43 > 1:25:48What is your intention, Rooster? You think one on four is a dogfall?

1:25:48 > 1:25:51I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned.

1:25:51 > 1:25:56Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience.

1:25:56 > 1:25:57Which will you have?

1:25:57 > 1:26:02I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!

1:26:02 > 1:26:04LAUGHTER

1:26:06 > 1:26:08Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!

1:26:23 > 1:26:27- Shoot them, Mr LaBoeuf. - Too far. Moving too fast.

1:27:07 > 1:27:12Well, Rooster... I am shot to pieces.

1:27:12 > 1:27:16It seems neither of us is to see Judge Parker.

1:27:25 > 1:27:27(Oh, Lord.)

1:27:38 > 1:27:43Woo-hoo! Some bully shot! That was 400 yards, at least.

1:27:43 > 1:27:47Well, the Sharps carbine is a...

1:28:01 > 1:28:04Stand up, Tom Chaney!

1:28:40 > 1:28:41Mr LaBoeuf.

1:28:45 > 1:28:46Are you alive?

1:29:56 > 1:29:57Mr LaBoeuf!

1:29:59 > 1:30:01RATTLESNAKE RATTLING

1:30:02 > 1:30:04Mr LaBoeuf!

1:30:06 > 1:30:08Mr LaBoeuf!

1:30:11 > 1:30:12Are you there?

1:30:13 > 1:30:16- I'm here!- Can you clamber out? - I cannot.

1:30:16 > 1:30:19- There are snakes.- They awake?

1:30:19 > 1:30:20Yes.

1:30:25 > 1:30:27RATTLING

1:30:31 > 1:30:32Argh!

1:30:32 > 1:30:34I am bit!

1:30:44 > 1:30:47- Does Mr LaBoeuf survive?- He does.

1:30:47 > 1:30:50Even a blow to the head could silence him for only a few short minutes.

1:30:50 > 1:30:51Where are you bit?

1:30:56 > 1:30:58Look away now.

1:31:24 > 1:31:26I have her. Up with us!

1:31:32 > 1:31:34We're up, Mr LaBoeuf. Take her.

1:31:36 > 1:31:37She's snakebit.

1:31:40 > 1:31:43We're off. I'll send help for you as soon as I can.

1:31:43 > 1:31:44Don't wander off.

1:31:45 > 1:31:47We are not leaving him.

1:31:47 > 1:31:50I must get you to a doc, sis, or you're not going to make it.

1:31:50 > 1:31:55- I'm in your debt for that shot, pard.- Never doubt the Texas Ranger.

1:31:55 > 1:31:57Go on!

1:31:57 > 1:31:59Ever stalwart.

1:32:58 > 1:33:03We must stop. Little Blackie is played out.

1:33:03 > 1:33:07We have miles yet. Come on, you!

1:33:07 > 1:33:09No!

1:33:12 > 1:33:15- That's it. Come on, now!- No, stop!

1:33:35 > 1:33:40- He's getting away. - Who's getting away, sis?

1:33:40 > 1:33:41Chaney.

1:34:15 > 1:34:17No. No!

1:34:17 > 1:34:18No, no, no!

1:34:20 > 1:34:21No, no!

1:34:26 > 1:34:28No!

1:35:51 > 1:35:53I've grown old.

1:36:14 > 1:36:16'A quarter century is a long time.

1:36:31 > 1:36:34'By the time we reached Bagby's store,

1:36:34 > 1:36:38'my hand had turned black. I was not awake when I lost the arm.

1:36:40 > 1:36:45'The marshal had stayed with me, I was told, till I was out of danger.

1:36:45 > 1:36:47'But he departed before I came round.

1:36:47 > 1:36:50'Once home, I wrote him with an invitation to come by

1:36:50 > 1:36:53'the next time he found himself near Yell County

1:36:53 > 1:36:56'and collect the 50 I still owed him.

1:36:56 > 1:37:00'I did not hear back from Marshal Cogburn and he did not appear.

1:37:03 > 1:37:07'Then, one day I received a note from the marshal, with a flyer enclosed.

1:37:09 > 1:37:11'He said he was travelling with a Wild West show,

1:37:11 > 1:37:14'getting older and fatter.

1:37:14 > 1:37:16'Would I like to come visit him when the show came to Memphis

1:37:16 > 1:37:18'and swap stories with an old trail mate?

1:37:19 > 1:37:22'He would understand if the journey were too long.

1:37:25 > 1:37:28'Brief though his note was,

1:37:28 > 1:37:30'it was rife with misspellings.'

1:37:31 > 1:37:36Yessum? I am Cole Younger. This is Mr James.

1:37:37 > 1:37:41It grieves me to tell you that you have missed Rooster.

1:37:41 > 1:37:43He passed away three days ago

1:37:43 > 1:37:45when the show was in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

1:37:45 > 1:37:49Buried him there in the Confederate cemetery.

1:37:49 > 1:37:54Reuben had a complaint what he referred to as "night hoss"

1:37:54 > 1:37:57and I believe the warm weather was too much for him.

1:38:00 > 1:38:01We had some lively times.

1:38:03 > 1:38:05What was the nature of your acquaintance?

1:38:07 > 1:38:12I knew the marshal long ago. We, too, had..."lively times".

1:38:14 > 1:38:15Thank you, Mr Younger.

1:38:17 > 1:38:19Keep your seat, trash.

1:38:21 > 1:38:26'I had the body removed to our plot and I have visited it over the years.

1:38:31 > 1:38:33'No doubt people talk about that.

1:38:33 > 1:38:36'They say, "Well, she hardly knew the man.

1:38:36 > 1:38:39'"Isn't she a cranky old maid?"

1:38:39 > 1:38:43'It is true, I have not married. I never had time to fool with it.

1:38:46 > 1:38:49'I heard nothing more of the Texas officer, LaBoeuf.

1:38:49 > 1:38:53'If he is yet alive, I would be pleased to hear from him.

1:38:53 > 1:38:56'I judge he would be in his 70s now,

1:38:56 > 1:38:58'and nearer 80 than 70.

1:38:58 > 1:39:03'I expect some of the starch has gone out of that cowlick.

1:39:03 > 1:39:05'Time just gets away from us.'