0:02:00 > 0:02:07This film contains some scenes of a sexual nature.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Come on, girls!
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Whoa.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47Hello, Bob. Afternoon, Miss Cuddy.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51C'mon inside. I got supper ready.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06THEY LAUGH
0:05:08 > 0:05:12The pie is made out of peaches...
0:05:12 > 0:05:13from a can!
0:05:14 > 0:05:17They had four of those cans. I don't know who got the other three.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20I don't know who could afford em! It's good pie.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23If it pleases you, we might have a postprandial recital.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Do what?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31A bit of music.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33I like music.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39# On the distant prairie
0:05:39 > 0:05:41# Where the heather wild
0:05:41 > 0:05:46# In its quiet beauty lived and smiled
0:05:46 > 0:05:51# Stands a little cottage and a creeping vine
0:05:51 > 0:05:57# Loves around its porch to twine
0:05:57 > 0:06:02# In that peaceful dwelling was a lovely child
0:06:02 > 0:06:07# With her blue eyes beaming soft and mild
0:06:07 > 0:06:13# And the wavy ringlets of her flaxen hair
0:06:13 > 0:06:16# Floating in the summer air
0:06:18 > 0:06:23# Fair as a lily, joyous and free
0:06:23 > 0:06:28# Light of that prairie home was she
0:06:28 > 0:06:33# Everyone who knew her felt the gentle power
0:06:33 > 0:06:38HE SNORES # Of Rosalie the Prairie Flower. #
0:06:48 > 0:06:50That sure was pretty singing, Miss Cuddy.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55I got some cheese.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57Cheese?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59Yes ma'am. You know I gotta a few sheep out.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02I know.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04I made some cheese outta their milk.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Wondered if you'd like to have some?
0:07:07 > 0:07:08I got some here in my pocket.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Well...
0:07:10 > 0:07:12cheese would be a fine finish
0:07:12 > 0:07:14to our fried chicken dinner and peach pie this evening.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Well, then...
0:07:18 > 0:07:19here it is.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39This is fine cheese, Bob.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43So why not marry?
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Do what? Why not throw in together...
0:07:49 > 0:07:52land, animals and women's lives...?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54The whole ball of wax.
0:07:55 > 0:08:00We could use my capital and know-how to improve your claim and mine.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04And if the union produces children, so much the better.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Looked at from any angle,
0:08:07 > 0:08:08it works.
0:08:12 > 0:08:13So why not marry?
0:08:15 > 0:08:18I reckon I go back east to find me a wife.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Please, Mr Giffen.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24I won't take no for an answer.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Miss Cuddy...
0:08:27 > 0:08:29I appreciate the offer and supper...
0:08:29 > 0:08:32and concert and all...
0:08:32 > 0:08:34but I cannot marry you.
0:08:34 > 0:08:35Will not.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Won't.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39I ain't perfect...
0:08:39 > 0:08:41but you are too bossy...
0:08:42 > 0:08:44..and too plum damn plain.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Ain't no medicine for it.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17This one here still is breathing a little bit, Momma.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38TRANSLATED FROM DANISH:
0:10:04 > 0:10:06WIND HOWLS
0:10:45 > 0:10:46Oh, my Jesus!
0:10:54 > 0:10:56To what do I owe this pleasure, Reverend?
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Springtime, Miss Cuddy!
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Are Clydene and the kids getting along all right?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Meaner and ever growing by the minute.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05Put your mule up and come on inside the house.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15There has been some trouble 'mongst the women hereabouts.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19I've heard about it.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23It's bad.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Guess what I'm ordering?
0:11:27 > 0:11:28I couldn't.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29A melodeon.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31You are not! Yep.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33I don't trust shipping a piano, so...
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Soon as I get into Loup,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38I'm going to order a Mason and Hamlin melodeon.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40You'll have the only melodeon in the territory.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45Back home, I used to play the piano by the hour.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49I can't live without real music much longer.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53I could help you with them dishes.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56I don't want any help with the dishes.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59So...
0:11:59 > 0:12:02how you getting along with that Giffen boy?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07He uses my mules when I don't need them.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09He helps me with my corn.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12We planted some potatoes together and we keep the fences up.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16How you getting along?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19When my bulls have finished their work here, I let him turn 'em out on his heifers.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Well...
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Seems like you are getting along together all right.
0:12:24 > 0:12:25Feed him a meal every now and then...
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Like you do me.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30You're a good citizen, Mary Bee.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33The bed up on the loft has fresh linen on it.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36Take the slop out to the hogs before you go to sleep.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06BABY CRIES
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Hell, no!
0:14:11 > 0:14:14This here is a goddamn free country, Dowd! Can't nobody make me do it.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain, Vester.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20Especially not in His own house.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23No, I won't go. I can't. Why not?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26In the name of our Saviour, Vester. I ask you, why not?
0:14:26 > 0:14:29I can't take no time away from the crops and I got the girls to look
0:14:29 > 0:14:31after and I can't afford to pay for no wagon.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33I ain't in on this deal.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Then what are we going to do about Theoline?
0:14:36 > 0:14:38Pitch her down a hole in the outhouse.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41You are a poor specimen of a man, Vester Belknap!
0:14:45 > 0:14:47I came here for the drawing. Me too.
0:14:47 > 0:14:48Let's get it over with.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49What about Vester?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51I'll draw for Vester.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52What do you mean?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54I said I will draw for him.
0:14:54 > 0:14:55What did she say?
0:14:55 > 0:14:59I said I will draw for Vester Belknap.
0:14:59 > 0:15:00Can we proceed?
0:15:03 > 0:15:05This is a painful occasion for you and your families
0:15:05 > 0:15:07and I grieve for you.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10Your wives are fine and godly women.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12But life gave them more than they could bear.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Now we'll draw lots.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Whoever draws the black bean
0:15:17 > 0:15:20will carry the women home to from where they come from.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Shall we defer to the lady?
0:15:23 > 0:15:24I'll draw last. I'll go first.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Keep your hands closed until everybody has drawn.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28Thor.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30Miss Cuddy.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Put your hands in a circle here.
0:15:35 > 0:15:36On the count of three...
0:15:36 > 0:15:39One... If that bean in my hand is black, I don't know... ..two,
0:15:39 > 0:15:40three.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Does that mean Vester has to go?
0:15:44 > 0:15:45He said he wouldn't.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47He has to, he's one of us.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49I baptized him.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52I don't trust Vester. Me neither.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54It's true, Reverend.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Vester is a brute with no conscience.
0:15:57 > 0:15:58I'll go.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00You can't. Yes, I will.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02A woman?
0:16:02 > 0:16:04I can ride as well as anybody.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06I can handle a team and shoot. You all know that.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08And I can cook and care for
0:16:08 > 0:16:10those women better than any of you can.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Hell, she's right.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14She's sure as hell right!
0:16:14 > 0:16:16That's mighty kind of you, Miss Cuddy.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18You tell us what you need and we'll see to it.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20When will you leave?
0:16:20 > 0:16:23As soon as I can. Today is May 5th.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26She could be back in time to celebrate 4th of July with us.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Reverend Dowd, we cannot allow this.
0:16:28 > 0:16:32It is not a lone woman's place to drive a wagon across this country.
0:16:32 > 0:16:36Much less when it carries three of the Lord's least capable children.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Then why not go with me, Mrs Linens? We could do it together.
0:16:39 > 0:16:41You too, Mrs Polhemus. Better still.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45No, you have husbands and family to care for as you should.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48But I do not, because I live, uncommonly, alone.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Enough. Please...be seated.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57I'm afraid y'all are right about Mr Belknap.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01He's untrustworthy with a task of this gravity.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03And we need a homesman.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07We will do everything we can to equip and accommodate for this journey, Miss Cuddy.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11If you gentlemen will excuse me for a minute?
0:17:28 > 0:17:29DOG BARKS
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Come to look after your wagon?
0:17:54 > 0:17:55I did.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02My Lord, what is that?
0:18:02 > 0:18:06It's a train wagon. Traded for it last year.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08Since then it's been sitting out here in the snow.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12When Svendsen and Sours came around here wanting a wagon,
0:18:12 > 0:18:16I gave 'em a hell of a deal on it. I give it to 'em!
0:18:16 > 0:18:19I cut the windows, a little bigger...
0:18:19 > 0:18:21greased it real good.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Set some new spokes and felloes.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27That's just the right thing for them women.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56I put a sliding bolt on the door.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59What for?
0:18:59 > 0:19:00Lock them ladies in.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Why would I do that?
0:19:03 > 0:19:04Stop and think about it.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07No.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12What's that?
0:19:13 > 0:19:15You might want to tie something down.
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Put in ten of 'em.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Oh, my!
0:19:22 > 0:19:24I'm not sure I'm ready.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25Are you scared?
0:19:25 > 0:19:28A little. Listen here, Mary Bee.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31You got a passable rig...
0:19:31 > 0:19:32mules.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38And you're as good a man as any man hereabouts.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41And you're doing a hell of a fine thing..
0:19:41 > 0:19:43So go ahead on...
0:19:43 > 0:19:45get to it...
0:19:45 > 0:19:47and do it.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50Does everybody know?
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Yep.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54What are they saying?
0:19:54 > 0:19:55Don't say nothing.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00People like to talk about death and taxes.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04When it comes to crazy...
0:20:05 > 0:20:07..they stay hushed up.
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Miss Cuddy!
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Mary Bee!
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Mary Bee!
0:20:48 > 0:20:51I tried to catch you in town, but you was already gone.
0:20:51 > 0:20:52What do you want, Reverend?
0:20:52 > 0:20:55To give you these. They're letters to the women's closest kin
0:20:55 > 0:20:57around Hebron, Iowa, and on back east.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Your journey will be long, difficult and dangerous.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02I expect it will.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04God bless you, woman.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05Bless you and keep you.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08You know I believe in you, don't you? I truly do. I know it.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10I'd go in your place, if I could.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Now let us pray.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Heavenly Father, look down upon thy daughter.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Bless her in this undertaking.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Grant her Thy strength, guide her with Thy grace...
0:21:24 > 0:21:26that she may carry home these poor souls.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28We beg of Thee.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31In the name of Jesus Christ, Thy only begotten son
0:21:31 > 0:21:33who gave his life...
0:21:34 > 0:21:36..for the sins of man.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Amen.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49Come on outta there! You claim jumpin' son of a bitch!
0:21:49 > 0:21:51You come on down in here,
0:21:51 > 0:21:53and you'll be a sad bastard long as you live
0:21:53 > 0:21:54and that won't be very long.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56And you're a son of a bitch too, you bastard!
0:21:56 > 0:21:58This here is Bob Giffen's place.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01Bob Giffen has gone and abandoned this place,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04and I have filed a new claim with lawyers.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Get the hell off my roof or face lethal recourse!
0:22:07 > 0:22:09God damn it, I got lawyers!
0:22:09 > 0:22:10GUNSHOTS
0:22:29 > 0:22:30GUN COCKS
0:22:47 > 0:22:49We need to hang that son of a bitch!
0:22:53 > 0:22:55Come on!
0:23:00 > 0:23:01Whoa!
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Whoa, whoa...
0:23:20 > 0:23:21Whoa.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Are you are an angel?
0:23:24 > 0:23:25You're not dead.
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Help me.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Would you help me?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31For God's sake?
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Suppose I do...
0:23:33 > 0:23:35what would you do for me?
0:23:35 > 0:23:39Anything! Anything! As God is my witness!
0:23:39 > 0:23:41If I cut you down, will you do what I tell you to?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Hell, yes, I will! Swear to God!
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Swear to it? I swear.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49Swear to that Almighty God you been talking about?
0:23:51 > 0:23:53Vengeance is mine...
0:23:53 > 0:23:55sayeth the Lord.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56Bringing in sheaves and...
0:23:58 > 0:23:59..and do unto others...
0:23:59 > 0:24:03if you cut me down from this goddamn tree...
0:24:03 > 0:24:06I'll do anything you tell me to. I swear on God's holy name.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08Please.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16All right.
0:24:16 > 0:24:17I'll save you.
0:24:17 > 0:24:18HE WHIMPERS
0:24:24 > 0:24:25HE CRIES
0:24:28 > 0:24:29I got a job of work for you.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45But if you try and hurt me,
0:24:45 > 0:24:47or you try and run away...
0:24:49 > 0:24:50..I'll kill you.
0:24:58 > 0:24:59Take off the noose.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04HE CRIES
0:25:18 > 0:25:19I need to collect my possibles.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30This is Bob Giffen's place.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31I never met him.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34What happened to his sheep? I ate 'em.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38No, you've been blasted out by vigilantes and hanged for jumping Bob's claim.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Hell! That's abandonment. Look at it.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41He didn't abandon nothing.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44He just went back east, to find himself a wife.
0:25:46 > 0:25:47It's abandoned.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52I'm sure it is.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57This is abandonment.
0:25:59 > 0:26:00Damn...
0:26:00 > 0:26:01HE SPITS
0:26:09 > 0:26:10Ho.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Unhitch and stable the mules.
0:26:22 > 0:26:23Tend to my mare, Dorothy,
0:26:23 > 0:26:27and see to it that all the stock on the place is fed and watered.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29Your horse needs feed too.
0:26:31 > 0:26:32Or if you don't care to, I will
0:26:32 > 0:26:34and then your supper'll be an hour late.
0:26:40 > 0:26:42Get up that way now! Get up there now!
0:26:44 > 0:26:45Get up!
0:26:48 > 0:26:49Get up there!
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Clean up before you come in here.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51What's this job of work you have in mind?
0:27:51 > 0:27:53I'd be grateful if you'd not use my good chair that way.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58My name is Cuddy. Mary Bee Cuddy.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59Where's Mr Cuddy?
0:27:59 > 0:28:01I'm unmarried.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03What's the job?
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Three women in this country have lost their minds,
0:28:08 > 0:28:10their husbands can't care for them properly.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14You and I are going to take them back across the river to Iowa.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16The Missouri River? We leave tomorrow.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Hell, that's five goddamn weeks from here!
0:28:19 > 0:28:22I will not sit still for profanity in my house.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24I can see why you're single!
0:28:29 > 0:28:32I need someone who can hunt and guide and spell me at the reins,
0:28:32 > 0:28:34help with the animals on the trip.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36That's why I set you free.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39It's your job and you sworn to do it.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44Three crazy women for five weeks is a lot more than I bargained for.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46If you lied to me
0:28:46 > 0:28:48and intend on abandoning your responsibility,
0:28:48 > 0:28:50then you are a man of low character.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55More disgusting pig than honourable man.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57Thank you for the kind words, sister.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00You're no prize in yourself. You're plain as an old tin pail and you're bossy!
0:29:02 > 0:29:05But I'll set out with you, because I said I would...
0:29:05 > 0:29:09and I'll help you tend your cuckoo clocks as long as it suits me.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11However, I will up and leave when, where and if I please.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13Now, if you don't mind me asking you,
0:29:13 > 0:29:15where the hell is my goddamn bed?
0:29:15 > 0:29:17In the stable,
0:29:17 > 0:29:19where you belong.
0:30:28 > 0:30:29SHE SINGS:
0:30:33 > 0:30:34SHE JOINS IN:
0:30:46 > 0:30:47BABY CRIES IN DISTANCE
0:31:05 > 0:31:06SHE COUGHS
0:31:43 > 0:31:44The winds blown all the corn over.
0:31:46 > 0:31:47I know it.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51All we can do is burn the cobs in the stove.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55There ain't no corn for us to eat.
0:31:55 > 0:31:56Just cobs.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59Just bare old cobs.
0:31:59 > 0:32:00I know it.
0:32:00 > 0:32:01The wheat and oats are dead.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03I know about it.
0:32:04 > 0:32:05What do you know?
0:32:06 > 0:32:07Are you crazy?
0:32:20 > 0:32:21Pull up here.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26You better lock me in the wagon. Why?
0:32:26 > 0:32:30I done cheated one rope, I don't want to chance another. Them sons of bitches will try to hang me again.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32Oh. You might be recognised.
0:32:53 > 0:32:56You got any money? Some.
0:32:56 > 0:32:59Why? I need three boxes of paper cartridges for a Navy Colt 36
0:32:59 > 0:33:01and a jug of whisky.
0:33:01 > 0:33:03Bullets maybe. But no whisky.
0:33:03 > 0:33:04Why not?
0:33:04 > 0:33:07Can't have you getting drunk around poor defenceless women. No.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10Well, then I won't go east with you. Goodbye, Cuddy.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21What's your name?
0:33:21 > 0:33:23That's my business.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25I'm going to the bank and I need your name.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28Oh, well, hm. Let's say George.
0:33:28 > 0:33:29George what?
0:33:29 > 0:33:34Umm...Briggs.
0:33:34 > 0:33:35George Briggs.
0:33:35 > 0:33:37That's right.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39George Briggs.
0:33:41 > 0:33:42George Briggs!
0:33:58 > 0:33:59KNOCKING
0:34:00 > 0:34:01Read this.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Here, I'll read it for you.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10"Mr George Briggs, care of Mrs Altha Carter,
0:34:10 > 0:34:12"Ladies Aid Society, Methodist Church, Hebron, Iowa."
0:34:12 > 0:34:13So?
0:34:13 > 0:34:17I put banknotes for $300 inside this envelope. This for you.
0:34:17 > 0:34:18Oh! Why not let me have it now?
0:34:18 > 0:34:21Right this minute I'm going to the Post Office to put it in the mail.
0:34:21 > 0:34:22Why not carry it along with us?
0:34:22 > 0:34:24When we get to Hebron, Mrs Carter will have it for you.
0:34:44 > 0:34:47Her boy is not very not old. Have to watch him close.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50I don't know what he'll do when we take Arabella away.
0:35:24 > 0:35:25Ma'am.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35Well, there she is.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38My wife, Belle.
0:35:38 > 0:35:40It's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs Sours.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46She won't say nothing, Miss Cuddy.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48She just sits and looks out the window...
0:35:50 > 0:35:53..it's like her body is all stoved up.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58I have to carry her to the outhouse...
0:35:58 > 0:36:01undress her nights, dress her in the morning.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03How long has she been like this?
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Ever since...
0:36:08 > 0:36:10I don't even know her no more.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14How old is your wife?
0:36:14 > 0:36:1519.
0:36:15 > 0:36:17And you?
0:36:17 > 0:36:1921.
0:36:19 > 0:36:20I see.
0:36:24 > 0:36:29My, but she was beautiful, Miss Cuddy.
0:36:29 > 0:36:30She may be once again.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35Mr Briggs, will you litter up your leisure long enough to lend a hand?
0:36:35 > 0:36:36Now.
0:37:07 > 0:37:08I wish you God's comfort, Garn.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14Here's...this too.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18Her grandma's wedding gift.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20I reckon it should go with her.
0:37:20 > 0:37:24I'll keep it for her and see she takes it home.
0:37:24 > 0:37:25We'll be back in a few weeks.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28You'll hear from me through Reverend Dowd that she's safe.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36Step up there! Yah!
0:37:36 > 0:37:37Goodbye!
0:37:43 > 0:37:44Goodbye!
0:37:45 > 0:37:47You don't love me!
0:37:47 > 0:37:49You won't even look at me.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54You don't give a tinker's damn!
0:37:54 > 0:37:57Just go on home and play with that damn doll.
0:37:57 > 0:37:58Leave me up against it.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03You don't love m!
0:38:05 > 0:38:08Goodbye. For all I care, you can just go to hell!
0:38:09 > 0:38:11Goodbye!
0:38:12 > 0:38:14You don't love me!
0:38:17 > 0:38:18KNOCKING
0:38:24 > 0:38:26Good Morning, Mr Svendsen.
0:38:28 > 0:38:29Come in.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36She's ready.
0:38:36 > 0:38:37Why is she tied?
0:38:37 > 0:38:40"God will strike you down", she says to me.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49SHE SCREAMS
0:38:50 > 0:38:52She thinks she's God.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01Her cousin will pick-up in Iowa and take her to asylum.
0:39:16 > 0:39:17How will we get her loaded?
0:39:25 > 0:39:28Unbolt the wagon door.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30Stop it! Stop it!
0:39:30 > 0:39:32SHE SCREAMS
0:39:32 > 0:39:33SCREAMS CONTINUE
0:39:35 > 0:39:37Open the wagon door!
0:39:44 > 0:39:46Help me...push her in.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52Do not untie her1
0:39:52 > 0:39:54She will try to kill you,
0:39:54 > 0:39:55she'll try to kill her, too.
0:39:55 > 0:39:56Come out!
0:40:02 > 0:40:05What are you doing with that son of a bitch? No!
0:40:05 > 0:40:06He's going with us.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09He's the one who tried to take over Bob Giffen's place.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11I need help. Surely you understand!
0:40:11 > 0:40:12He was supposed to hang.
0:40:13 > 0:40:15Mr Svendsen.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17Get down off that wagon.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19Get down off that wagon right now!
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Or I will shoot you where you sit.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25I can't do this alone. I need him. Now you leave us be!
0:40:25 > 0:40:26Get us moving.
0:40:29 > 0:40:33You boys didn't have balls to hang me. You wanted my horse to do it for you, didn't ya?
0:40:33 > 0:40:35C'mon! Let's go.
0:40:35 > 0:40:36Come on!
0:40:38 > 0:40:40Keep that gun on that son of a bitch.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47I'll watch over your wife, Mr Svendsen, I promise.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49She'll be safe with me.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14You girls go to your room while I talk to your mama.
0:42:26 > 0:42:28Theoline, this is Mary Bee.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31Undo! Undo your hands? I am.
0:42:31 > 0:42:32Undo, undo...
0:42:32 > 0:42:35Undo, undo, undo...
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Do you know me, Theoline?
0:42:37 > 0:42:39Undo, undo, undo... Line, darling,
0:42:39 > 0:42:42I am, Mary Bee, your friend.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44Ta...
0:42:44 > 0:42:45Don't you know me?
0:42:45 > 0:42:48Tha, tha, ta...
0:42:48 > 0:42:51Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta...
0:42:55 > 0:42:56SNIFFLING
0:42:59 > 0:43:01CHILD WHIMPERS
0:43:09 > 0:43:12Now listen, girls...
0:43:12 > 0:43:13your mother is very sick.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19But she loves you just the same as she always has.
0:43:19 > 0:43:23And you must love her too and help her as much as you can.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Here are some things I want you to do for her
0:43:26 > 0:43:29I want you to undress her, heat some water...
0:43:29 > 0:43:32and give her a nice bath... with soap.
0:43:32 > 0:43:33From face to feet.
0:43:33 > 0:43:34Right on the bed?
0:43:34 > 0:43:36Right on the bed.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39Wash and dry her hair, too. Then brush and comb it.
0:43:39 > 0:43:43Then find some clean clothes for her and underwear...
0:43:43 > 0:43:44and dress her again.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49Now, while you do all this,
0:43:49 > 0:43:51I want you to smile at her and say kind things.
0:43:53 > 0:43:55Do you know a little song you can sing?
0:43:55 > 0:43:57We know Flow Gently, Sweet Afton.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00That would be fine.
0:44:01 > 0:44:02And when you're finished all this,
0:44:02 > 0:44:04I want you to do some chores for your father too.
0:44:06 > 0:44:08You're now the ladies of the house.
0:44:08 > 0:44:10I want you to sweep it out,
0:44:10 > 0:44:14wash the dirty dishes, take the bedding outdoors and air it.
0:44:15 > 0:44:18Show him how grown up you are.
0:44:18 > 0:44:20Will you do that for him, for me?
0:44:21 > 0:44:23All right.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25Now start singing.
0:44:25 > 0:44:28# Flow gently, sweet Afton... # Good.
0:44:28 > 0:44:30And remember... # Among thy green braes... #
0:44:30 > 0:44:33..love your dear mother. # Flow gently, I'll sing thee... #
0:44:33 > 0:44:38Now you get busy as bees. # A song in thy praise
0:44:38 > 0:44:43# Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise
0:44:43 > 0:44:49# My Mary's asleep by the murmuring stream
0:44:49 > 0:44:54# Flow gently, sweet Afton Disturb not her dream
0:44:54 > 0:44:59# Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds through the glen
0:44:59 > 0:45:04# Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den... #
0:45:04 > 0:45:05WHINING AND MOANING
0:45:19 > 0:45:20Mrs Svendsen, is that you?
0:45:24 > 0:45:27Please, stop wailing, Mrs Svendsen.
0:45:29 > 0:45:31Mrs Svendsen, I asked you to stop.
0:45:31 > 0:45:34Please do!
0:45:34 > 0:45:35WAILING CONTINUES
0:45:38 > 0:45:40Stop!
0:45:40 > 0:45:42Mrs Svendsen, you stop!
0:45:42 > 0:45:44WAILING STOPS
0:45:57 > 0:45:59WAILING RESUMES
0:46:17 > 0:46:19WAILING AND CRYING CONTINUES
0:46:30 > 0:46:33Do you think these mules will make it all the way to the Missouri River?
0:46:33 > 0:46:36I doubt it, not without a good feedin' of corn.
0:46:36 > 0:46:40The one twitching her ears, she knows she's the subject of our discussion.
0:46:40 > 0:46:43She's the thinker. The other one's the worker.
0:46:43 > 0:46:45They should have names, what should we name them?
0:46:45 > 0:46:49Mules don't need names. They need feed and corn's the best there is.
0:46:49 > 0:46:53I'll name that one Grace, and that one Redemption.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56My mare, her name is Dorothy, after my sister.
0:46:56 > 0:46:58She's married to a doctor up in New York State.
0:46:58 > 0:47:00That's where we're from.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03Dorothy has a little six-year-old boy and a baby on the way.
0:47:05 > 0:47:08Our mother died when we were little girls.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15What's your horse's name?
0:47:16 > 0:47:17Brown.
0:47:55 > 0:47:57You didn't give me but two damn skinny blankets.
0:47:57 > 0:47:58It gets cold at night out here!
0:47:58 > 0:47:59You noticed.
0:48:01 > 0:48:03We need to head south-east, follow the river bottoms.
0:48:03 > 0:48:04No.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09We'll meet more people that way, in case we need help.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11You're going to meet three kinds of people out here.
0:48:11 > 0:48:14You're going to meet wagon trains that don't want to see crazy people.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16You're going to meet traders who will surely rape you.
0:48:16 > 0:48:18And you're going to meet Indians, who will kill you...
0:48:18 > 0:48:21and then rape you. After they kill me, no!
0:48:21 > 0:48:25We're going to go straight east to the river. We're hauling an odd lot of freight.
0:48:25 > 0:48:27They are not freight, they are human beings.
0:48:27 > 0:48:28They're crazy.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30They're precious to the Lord.
0:48:30 > 0:48:31Precious to me, too.
0:48:31 > 0:48:33Give me that skillet. About $300 worth.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37Wake up! Time to get moving!
0:48:40 > 0:48:42Get up and go pee!
0:48:46 > 0:48:47Go on, there, girl.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56Go on. Watch your head on that hub.
0:48:56 > 0:48:57There, baby, go on!
0:49:04 > 0:49:05Let's go.
0:49:16 > 0:49:17Pee.
0:49:18 > 0:49:19Goddamn!
0:49:21 > 0:49:21LOUD THUMP
0:49:24 > 0:49:26Squat down. LOUD THUMP
0:49:26 > 0:49:28Squat down!
0:49:28 > 0:49:29Now, pee!
0:49:33 > 0:49:34THUMP
0:49:37 > 0:49:38THUMP
0:49:40 > 0:49:41THUMP
0:50:03 > 0:50:05WIND HOWLS
0:50:24 > 0:50:28God...will strike you down.
0:52:13 > 0:52:18SHE HUMS QUIETLY
0:53:48 > 0:53:51God...will strike you down.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59I love trees.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02I don't to get to see very many trees.
0:54:03 > 0:54:04I miss them.
0:54:06 > 0:54:08God will strike...
0:54:10 > 0:54:11New York...
0:54:12 > 0:54:14..has lots of trees.
0:54:39 > 0:54:40Whoa!
0:54:57 > 0:55:00Surely you wouldn't defile and desecrate...?
0:55:00 > 0:55:02You are horrible.
0:55:03 > 0:55:04And morbid!
0:55:13 > 0:55:15I don't want to be cold any more when I'm trying to sleep.
0:55:15 > 0:55:18I need this buffalo hide, and that dead Indian don't.
0:55:32 > 0:55:33I was in the Dragoons.
0:55:35 > 0:55:37Company C 1st US Division.
0:55:39 > 0:55:40Fort Kearny.
0:55:42 > 0:55:48Had us a right smart scuffle one time down there in Kansas with them goddamn Kiowas!
0:55:48 > 0:55:51Tell me. We was headed out to Fort Leavenworth.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54Supply train.
0:55:54 > 0:55:57Six mule wagons and a herd of 300 horses.
0:55:57 > 0:56:00And we had Kiowas like flees trailing us!
0:56:00 > 0:56:03War paint. Sassy.
0:56:03 > 0:56:06Big as life and twice as natural.
0:56:06 > 0:56:08They wanted them horses.
0:56:08 > 0:56:09I see.
0:56:10 > 0:56:13Well, we camped down on the Arkansas River one night
0:56:13 > 0:56:18and them teamsters picketed 36 mules
0:56:18 > 0:56:22and they picketed 300 horses in the sand. Sand!
0:56:22 > 0:56:26Hell, them picket pens wouldn't hold a prairie dog in that sand.
0:56:26 > 0:56:29Sure enough, that night...
0:56:29 > 0:56:33Kiowas come through and stampeded the whole bunch and away they went.
0:56:33 > 0:56:35Oooooh-weee.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37Trampled the wagons all to pieces.
0:56:37 > 0:56:39Got the stock all tangled up in the ropes
0:56:39 > 0:56:42and crippled up with the flying picket fence.
0:56:42 > 0:56:47And them Kiowas just running through there hooping and hollering.
0:56:47 > 0:56:49My, oh, my, wasn't we riled!
0:56:49 > 0:56:52We blew the bugles,
0:56:52 > 0:56:55boots and saddles and away we went after them with the sun rising.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58We caught Kiowas here and we caught Kiowas there.
0:56:58 > 0:57:01We caught them in bunches and killed every one of 'em.
0:57:01 > 0:57:05We rounded up our stock and drove it right through the middle of the goddamn Kiowa camp,
0:57:05 > 0:57:07tore it all to hell.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14Pretty fine job of work.
0:57:14 > 0:57:15Company C 1st US Dragoons!
0:57:17 > 0:57:19Well, how interesting.
0:57:21 > 0:57:23Whooo-ee!
0:57:24 > 0:57:27# I don't want none of your weevily wheat
0:57:27 > 0:57:29# I don't want none of your barley
0:57:29 > 0:57:33# I want some flour and half an hour To bake a cake for Charlie
0:57:37 > 0:57:39# There a cherry tree
0:57:39 > 0:57:42# There goes the cherry
0:57:42 > 0:57:44# The more you want to kiss a girl
0:57:44 > 0:57:46# The more she'll want to marry
0:57:49 > 0:57:51# Charlie, he's fine young boy
0:57:51 > 0:57:53# Charlie, he's a dandy
0:57:53 > 0:57:56# Every time he goes town
0:57:56 > 0:57:59# He'll bring the girls some candy. #
0:58:05 > 0:58:07HE SIGHS
0:58:13 > 0:58:14What are they?
0:58:14 > 0:58:16Pawnee, probably.
0:58:16 > 0:58:17BUGLE BLOWS
0:58:18 > 0:58:19What was that?
0:58:19 > 0:58:20Bugle.
0:58:20 > 0:58:24Somewhere along the line they killed themselves a US cavalry bugler.
0:58:26 > 0:58:27BUGLE BLOWS
0:58:28 > 0:58:30What do they want?
0:58:30 > 0:58:31Whatever we got.
0:58:31 > 0:58:33Trouble is they don't know what that is.
0:58:33 > 0:58:35They never ain't never seen a wagon like this,
0:58:35 > 0:58:38could be goods inside...soldiers.
0:58:38 > 0:58:40Anything to them. Hell, they don't know.
0:58:42 > 0:58:43I count four rifles amongst 'em.
0:58:51 > 0:58:53If they think we're worth the trouble, we're dead.
0:58:56 > 0:58:57I'll try to buy 'em off.
0:58:57 > 0:58:58Whoa!
0:59:07 > 0:59:09If something happens to me and they come all the way down here,
0:59:09 > 0:59:11don't you fool with that carbine.
0:59:11 > 0:59:13You get in the wagon quick as you can.
0:59:13 > 0:59:16You shoot the women in the head and then shoot yourself.
0:59:17 > 0:59:19You got four good rounds.
0:59:47 > 0:59:48Come on. Turn around here.
0:59:48 > 0:59:50Ho! Get out of here!
0:59:50 > 0:59:52Get out of here!
0:59:52 > 0:59:57THEY WHOOP AND YELL
1:00:07 > 1:00:08What will they do with Dorothy?
1:00:10 > 1:00:11They'll probably eat her.
1:00:55 > 1:00:57SHE SCREAMS
1:01:00 > 1:01:01No!
1:01:13 > 1:01:14What the hell?
1:01:19 > 1:01:20SHE CRIES
1:01:27 > 1:01:29She's gone, Mr Briggs!
1:01:29 > 1:01:30Mr Briggs! She's gone!
1:01:30 > 1:01:32She's gone! We have to get her back!
1:01:32 > 1:01:34Cuddy, it was a goddammed horse.
1:01:34 > 1:01:37Get up, you lout!
1:01:51 > 1:01:55She hasn't taken a step by herself since we put her on the wagon.
1:01:55 > 1:01:56Hell's bells...
1:01:58 > 1:02:00That girl done run off.
1:02:17 > 1:02:18Morning! Morning!
1:02:19 > 1:02:21Where you from, friend?
1:02:21 > 1:02:24Freight train, camped down south a little ways.
1:02:24 > 1:02:25Big 'un?
1:02:25 > 1:02:2730 wagons, six yoke.
1:02:27 > 1:02:29Two weeks out of Fall City, headed for Salt Lake.
1:02:29 > 1:02:31You the driver?
1:02:31 > 1:02:34I am! Out hunting meat. You seen any?
1:02:34 > 1:02:38No, not today. I am out looking for this young lady here.
1:02:38 > 1:02:39She's lost.
1:02:39 > 1:02:41She ain't now.
1:02:42 > 1:02:44Friend...
1:02:44 > 1:02:46I got a frame wagon back there.
1:02:46 > 1:02:50I'm carrying three crazy women to a church in Iowa
1:02:50 > 1:02:53so they can go home back east.
1:02:53 > 1:02:55This young girl is one of 'em.
1:02:55 > 1:02:57She's married.
1:02:57 > 1:02:58Her name is Sours.
1:03:00 > 1:03:03She had three little children. Lost 'em all to the diphtheria
1:03:03 > 1:03:05in short order and she lost her mind.
1:03:07 > 1:03:09She ran away from us last night.
1:03:10 > 1:03:11I'm her friend.
1:03:11 > 1:03:13So am I.
1:03:13 > 1:03:16You wouldn't want her, not the way she is.
1:03:16 > 1:03:18She can spread her legs, can't she?
1:03:20 > 1:03:22I tell you what.
1:03:22 > 1:03:24Why don't we leave it to her?
1:03:24 > 1:03:26See here, sweet thing.
1:03:26 > 1:03:28Who'd you rather go with? Him or me?
1:03:31 > 1:03:34Well, there you be. She cottons to me already.
1:03:34 > 1:03:35Friend, I'm taking this girl home.
1:03:35 > 1:03:38Not likely. She's mine now.
1:03:38 > 1:03:41Possession is nine points of the law,
1:03:41 > 1:03:43and it's all of us out here now, ain't it?
1:03:43 > 1:03:45Sorry, I'll just have to have her.
1:03:45 > 1:03:47God Almighty!
1:03:50 > 1:03:51Fight you for her.
1:03:51 > 1:03:54Best man takes the prize. How's that?
1:03:54 > 1:03:55I'm agreeable.
1:03:55 > 1:03:56All right.
1:03:56 > 1:04:00I say "pitch", we pitch these guns. How's that?
1:04:00 > 1:04:01Any time.
1:04:03 > 1:04:04Pitch!
1:04:06 > 1:04:07God Almighty!
1:04:10 > 1:04:13Say it again and act right this time.
1:04:13 > 1:04:14Pitch!
1:05:05 > 1:05:08HE COUGHS AND GASPS
1:05:16 > 1:05:17GUNSHOT
1:05:30 > 1:05:32Goodbye.
1:05:32 > 1:05:33Did you have to take an eternity?
1:05:35 > 1:05:36Oh, she's nearly froze to death.
1:05:38 > 1:05:41You lost one horse, Cuddy, here's you another one.
1:05:41 > 1:05:43Where did you get this horse? The man let us have him.
1:05:43 > 1:05:45Why would he do that?
1:05:45 > 1:05:47Because he was dead. Miss Sours shot him.
1:06:12 > 1:06:14Who would do such a thing?
1:06:14 > 1:06:15Indians.
1:06:15 > 1:06:17For the clothes.
1:06:38 > 1:06:39Wolves.
1:06:51 > 1:06:53"Cissy Hahn.
1:06:53 > 1:06:55"11 years, two months, nine days.
1:06:55 > 1:06:59"God loved her and took her home unto Him."
1:06:59 > 1:07:00Let's go, Cuddy.
1:07:02 > 1:07:05I intend to tidy up this grave.
1:07:05 > 1:07:07Getting late. I don't care.
1:07:07 > 1:07:08Suit yourself, I'm going on.
1:07:09 > 1:07:12Then I'll take a horse and join you later
1:07:12 > 1:07:14Not mine, you won't.
1:07:14 > 1:07:17You'll have to ride that train horse.
1:07:21 > 1:07:22I want a shovel, too.
1:07:43 > 1:07:46Oh, sweet, merciful Father...
1:07:48 > 1:07:50..prince Jesus,
1:07:50 > 1:07:52good shepherd,
1:07:52 > 1:07:54harvester of righteousness...
1:07:55 > 1:07:58..take Thee this token and bury them deep...
1:07:59 > 1:08:02..carry in...carry,
1:08:02 > 1:08:05in love let us sleep.
1:08:05 > 1:08:07Send me summons to wed Thee one day.
1:08:09 > 1:08:10Love us,
1:08:10 > 1:08:12and love me.
1:08:12 > 1:08:14Oh, love me, I pray.
1:08:20 > 1:08:21Amen.
1:09:59 > 1:10:02SHE SOBS WEAKLY
1:10:30 > 1:10:31HORSE MUNCHES
1:10:47 > 1:10:48SHE COUGHS
1:11:32 > 1:11:33SHE CRIES
1:11:39 > 1:11:42Why...? Why?
1:11:42 > 1:11:43Why didn't you light a fire for me?
1:11:53 > 1:11:55SHE WAILS
1:11:58 > 1:12:00What about supper?
1:12:01 > 1:12:05SHE CONTINUES TO WAIL
1:12:05 > 1:12:06I did light a fire for you, Cuddy.
1:12:10 > 1:12:11Where's that shovel?
1:12:13 > 1:12:16I lost the goddamn shovel!
1:12:16 > 1:12:18Who cares about a shovel?
1:12:20 > 1:12:23You are...insane!
1:12:23 > 1:12:25The hell I am, Cuddy, I'm trying
1:12:25 > 1:12:29to move along to the river as quick as I can and draw that $300.
1:12:29 > 1:12:31And that's all there is.
1:12:33 > 1:12:34There ain't no more.
1:12:38 > 1:12:42SHE WAILS
1:12:49 > 1:12:50SHE HUMS
1:13:13 > 1:13:15# If I should prosper
1:13:15 > 1:13:17# Hear my heart pray
1:13:19 > 1:13:23# Send me a summons to wed thee one day
1:13:24 > 1:13:28# Take me this token and love me always
1:13:30 > 1:13:35# But if I should perish, thy promises keep
1:13:35 > 1:13:41# Take thee our two hearts and bury them here
1:13:42 > 1:13:47# Take thee our tokens In love let us sleep. #
1:14:12 > 1:14:14I couldn't sleep.
1:14:14 > 1:14:15I could.
1:14:15 > 1:14:17How long now till we get there?
1:14:17 > 1:14:19How long?
1:14:20 > 1:14:22A week...
1:14:22 > 1:14:23thereabouts.
1:14:23 > 1:14:25Maybe a month. Hell, I don't know.
1:14:28 > 1:14:29It's almost over now.
1:14:29 > 1:14:32Will you stay in Iowa or come back to the territory?
1:14:32 > 1:14:34I don't know.
1:14:34 > 1:14:36You're not much for making plans.
1:14:36 > 1:14:38No, not much.
1:14:40 > 1:14:44Mr Briggs, you're an intelligent man...
1:14:44 > 1:14:45and if you think on it,
1:14:45 > 1:14:48I'm sure you'll see the wisdom in it.
1:14:48 > 1:14:52After we've turned them over to Mrs Carter...
1:14:52 > 1:14:55why don't we marry and come back together?
1:14:55 > 1:14:59I'm 31 years old. If I'm ever to marry, it better be soon and...
1:14:59 > 1:15:02you're not getting any younger.
1:15:02 > 1:15:04You see my house, my stock...
1:15:04 > 1:15:07I've got two fine claims and money in the bank.
1:15:07 > 1:15:11I'm in good health and capable of child bearing.
1:15:11 > 1:15:15I plan to buy shoats next spring and fatten 'em on corn,
1:15:15 > 1:15:18and come next summer I'll have 60 acres under wheat.
1:15:20 > 1:15:23I plan to put in pumpkins, too.
1:15:24 > 1:15:27We'd make a good team, you and I.
1:15:27 > 1:15:32If we pull together, we're bound to prosper. Don't you agree?
1:15:32 > 1:15:33I ain't no farmer.
1:15:33 > 1:15:36Well, you could try. You could try.
1:15:36 > 1:15:38I tried it one time, with a widow woman,
1:15:38 > 1:15:40up north of Wamego.
1:15:40 > 1:15:43Up and down them goddammed rows, daylight till dark.
1:15:43 > 1:15:46There's prettier things to look at than the ass end of an ox.
1:15:46 > 1:15:47One morning I just rode off.
1:15:49 > 1:15:51You deserted her.
1:15:51 > 1:15:55When I left, I was sorry. But I never did look back.
1:15:55 > 1:15:57I see.
1:15:57 > 1:15:58So you won't marry me?
1:15:59 > 1:16:00No.
1:16:00 > 1:16:03I won't.
1:16:03 > 1:16:06I know I'm plain as an old tin pail...
1:16:06 > 1:16:08but would you think about it from here to Hebron
1:16:08 > 1:16:10and talk with me about it again?
1:16:10 > 1:16:11Talk's cheap.
1:16:13 > 1:16:14Mr Briggs,
1:16:14 > 1:16:18perhaps you don't realise what a grand thing you are doing taking
1:16:18 > 1:16:20these poor, helpless women home.
1:16:20 > 1:16:24If you don't, I assure you, the good Lord does and I do.
1:16:24 > 1:16:28This might be the finest, most generous act of your life.
1:16:28 > 1:16:30It might be $300.
1:16:33 > 1:16:35You won't marry me?
1:16:35 > 1:16:36No.
1:16:38 > 1:16:40And I am plain.
1:16:43 > 1:16:45I wish you'd say one kind word to me.
1:16:45 > 1:16:46Like what?
1:16:46 > 1:16:49That I'm a good woman. That I've helped you.
1:16:49 > 1:16:53Fair enough. You're a damn good woman, Cuddy, and you helped me.
1:16:53 > 1:16:54Ah...!
1:17:02 > 1:17:03I deserted from the Dragoons.
1:17:05 > 1:17:08That's right, Company C 1st US.
1:17:08 > 1:17:11Fort Kearny. Stole a horse and away I run.
1:17:13 > 1:17:15I ain't attached to nothing.
1:17:17 > 1:17:18Just me.
1:17:38 > 1:17:40No.
1:17:40 > 1:17:41I want...
1:17:41 > 1:17:43to lie with you.
1:17:43 > 1:17:45No.
1:17:45 > 1:17:46You must.
1:17:46 > 1:17:47I saved your life.
1:17:48 > 1:17:49No...
1:17:59 > 1:18:01Please...
1:18:01 > 1:18:03spare me my dignity, sir.
1:18:44 > 1:18:45Raise your knees.
1:18:50 > 1:18:51Take me in your hand.
1:18:55 > 1:18:58Just you remember, Cuddy, I didn't force you.
1:18:58 > 1:18:59I will.
1:18:59 > 1:19:00If I hurt you, I can't help it.
1:19:00 > 1:19:02I know.
1:19:02 > 1:19:04You asked me. I didn't ask you.
1:19:04 > 1:19:05I know.
1:19:05 > 1:19:07So let me in you.
1:19:08 > 1:19:10Yes.
1:19:12 > 1:19:14SHE GASPS QUIETLY
1:19:51 > 1:19:52Cuddy?
1:19:57 > 1:19:58Cuddy!
1:20:57 > 1:20:58HE SIGHS
1:21:00 > 1:21:02My God in heaven, Cuddy,
1:21:02 > 1:21:05we made a deal to carry these women back to Iowa.
1:21:05 > 1:21:07And I kept my word and here you done broke yours.
1:21:09 > 1:21:11Oh, sh...
1:21:28 > 1:21:29See here?
1:21:29 > 1:21:31You see what you've done? You've killed her.
1:21:31 > 1:21:34Look at her! You killed her!
1:21:34 > 1:21:38Too damn crazy to pay attention to anything! Goddamn lunatics!
1:21:38 > 1:21:40You don't know nothing about this world.
1:21:42 > 1:21:43You can't even piss straight.
1:21:47 > 1:21:49Hadn't been for you, Mary Bee wouldn't be dead.
1:21:51 > 1:21:53She wouldn't even be out here!
1:21:55 > 1:21:59If you hadn't gone crazy, she wouldn't have made this trip.
1:21:59 > 1:22:03If you'd stayed steady and strong, she'd be alive
1:22:03 > 1:22:05and at home. In her own house.
1:22:05 > 1:22:07And so would you. But, no.
1:22:07 > 1:22:10You went crazy and drove her crazy and it killed her.
1:22:10 > 1:22:12What have you got to say about that?
1:22:15 > 1:22:16Tha...
1:22:35 > 1:22:36Oh...
1:22:50 > 1:22:51Well, I'll be...
1:23:12 > 1:23:13I'm going on by myself.
1:23:16 > 1:23:17You're on your own.
1:23:19 > 1:23:22Far enough along here east where somebody will come along and tend to you.
1:23:25 > 1:23:28There ain't a damn one of you can understand a word I'm saying.
1:24:06 > 1:24:08SHE SHRIEKS
1:24:08 > 1:24:10Oh, my God...!
1:26:18 > 1:26:20Whoa. Whoa...!
1:26:30 > 1:26:32How do?
1:26:32 > 1:26:35I'm carrying three women outside, haven't had anything to eat for three days.
1:26:35 > 1:26:38They need supper now, rooms for the night and hot baths.
1:26:38 > 1:26:39We're full up.
1:26:42 > 1:26:44With what?
1:26:44 > 1:26:45People.
1:26:46 > 1:26:49Mister, I didn't come in here for trouble.
1:26:49 > 1:26:53But I am tired. And when I'm tired I'm easy to aggravate.
1:26:53 > 1:26:55Now, this is a hotel. I've got money.
1:26:55 > 1:26:59I want supper now, then I want a room for myself
1:26:59 > 1:27:01and I want a room for three women
1:27:01 > 1:27:03and I want four hot baths. Is there reason why not?
1:27:03 > 1:27:05Wait here a minute.
1:27:17 > 1:27:20MEN'S VOICES UPSTAIRS
1:27:23 > 1:27:24FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRS
1:27:26 > 1:27:28Greetings! How do?
1:27:28 > 1:27:31My name is Aloysius Duffy. And yours is...?
1:27:31 > 1:27:33Briggs.
1:27:33 > 1:27:36I understand you are in need of a meal and accommodations, Mr Briggs
1:27:36 > 1:27:39That's right. For myself and three passengers. Women.
1:27:39 > 1:27:40Oh!
1:27:40 > 1:27:43Unusual cargo, I must say.
1:27:43 > 1:27:47In any case, Mr Briggs, I regret I cannot oblige you.
1:27:47 > 1:27:49Why not? This is a hotel, ain't it?
1:27:49 > 1:27:51Have a drink on the house.
1:27:57 > 1:27:58Grand.
1:28:01 > 1:28:03Oh...
1:28:03 > 1:28:04There she went.
1:28:04 > 1:28:08Now, then, Mr Briggs, you couldn't have shown up
1:28:08 > 1:28:09at a more inauspicious time.
1:28:09 > 1:28:13It so happens a party of 16 potential investors
1:28:13 > 1:28:15is coming from St Louis by steamboat and coach.
1:28:15 > 1:28:19I trust you recognise, we cannot accommodate anyone else.
1:28:19 > 1:28:22These are gentlemen of means
1:28:22 > 1:28:25and the fate of our entire venture may very well depend on...
1:28:25 > 1:28:27We had a bad winter.
1:28:27 > 1:28:29Travelled a long way to get here.
1:28:29 > 1:28:31And they ain't had nothing to eat for three days.
1:28:33 > 1:28:35I'm sorry.
1:28:35 > 1:28:37The women are in bad shape, they're...
1:28:37 > 1:28:40awful hungry.
1:28:42 > 1:28:44Let me see them.
1:28:46 > 1:28:47HE WHISPERS
1:29:04 > 1:29:06SHE SCREAMS Good God!
1:29:06 > 1:29:08You can't turn us away.
1:29:08 > 1:29:09I can't.
1:29:21 > 1:29:22Mr Briggs...
1:29:22 > 1:29:25those women are pitiful, I concede.
1:29:25 > 1:29:27But we can't have them here tonight.
1:29:27 > 1:29:30The milk of human kindness be damned.
1:29:30 > 1:29:34Now, kindly, be out the door and take that wagon away from here.
1:29:34 > 1:29:36And God speed to you.
1:29:38 > 1:29:42Shoe's on the other foot now. You put them guns down on the floor real careful
1:29:42 > 1:29:44and get us our supper on the table right goddamn now.
1:29:48 > 1:29:50Shoe's back where it belongs, Mr Briggs.
1:29:52 > 1:29:54Grand. Well done.
1:29:55 > 1:29:57Be on your way, my friend.
1:29:57 > 1:30:00And lament you neglected my offering a whiskey.
1:30:00 > 1:30:03All right. But I tell you what, you are the worst bunch
1:30:03 > 1:30:08of lying, thieving, pisshead sons of bitches I'll ever run into.
1:30:08 > 1:30:11You turn your back on these poor women, you'll answer for it for the rest of your lives.
1:30:13 > 1:30:14You won't sleep.
1:30:14 > 1:30:16You'll choke on your whiskey and on your water.
1:30:16 > 1:30:20The food you eat will block up your bowels...
1:30:20 > 1:30:22and you'll die of your own shit.
1:30:22 > 1:30:25Your mothers and your sisters
1:30:25 > 1:30:27and your wives and your daughters
1:30:27 > 1:30:30will curse your broke dick souls.
1:30:31 > 1:30:33Get on!
1:30:33 > 1:30:34Get on, ya, ya!
1:30:34 > 1:30:36Get on, get on!
1:30:36 > 1:30:38Get up, now!
1:30:38 > 1:30:39Go on!
1:30:41 > 1:30:42Go on, get on, get on!
1:30:44 > 1:30:46Oh, for God's sake.
1:30:54 > 1:30:55Come on, get on!
1:31:25 > 1:31:27I'm going to go get us something to eat.
1:31:27 > 1:31:30Now, you all be good girls and go to sleep.
1:31:30 > 1:31:32I'll be back directly.
1:32:18 > 1:32:19You need to get on out of here.
1:32:29 > 1:32:30Don't look back, darling.
1:32:45 > 1:32:47MUFFLED SHOUTS
1:33:00 > 1:33:01GUNSHOT
1:33:01 > 1:33:02Son of a bitch!
1:33:05 > 1:33:06Goddamn, that hurts!
1:33:11 > 1:33:12Ah, shite...
1:33:32 > 1:33:34SHOUTS CONTINUE
1:33:35 > 1:33:38SCREAMING
1:34:24 > 1:34:25GLASS SHATTERS
1:34:25 > 1:34:27SCREAMING
1:34:57 > 1:34:58BELL RINGS
1:36:01 > 1:36:04She looked ridiculous...
1:36:05 > 1:36:08Pardon, ma'am, I'm looking for a woman by the name of Altha Carter.
1:36:08 > 1:36:10Do you know where her house is at?
1:36:10 > 1:36:11That would be the minister's wife.
1:36:11 > 1:36:14Yes, ma'am, that's right. It would be.
1:36:14 > 1:36:17Go on down to the Methodist church. The house across the street,
1:36:17 > 1:36:19that's the parsonage.
1:36:19 > 1:36:21All right, ma'am.
1:36:21 > 1:36:22Thank you.
1:36:22 > 1:36:24Come, Maisy. Don't look at him.
1:36:24 > 1:36:25Come on!
1:36:42 > 1:36:43Whoa!
1:37:17 > 1:37:18Sir?
1:37:20 > 1:37:22Afternoon, ma'am. Are you Mrs Altha Carter,
1:37:22 > 1:37:24the wife of the Methodist minister?
1:37:24 > 1:37:25I am.
1:37:25 > 1:37:29Well, ma'am, my name is Briggs. I'm from the territories, Loup,
1:37:29 > 1:37:32and I've brought you three women.
1:37:33 > 1:37:34Women?
1:37:36 > 1:37:37Oh!
1:37:39 > 1:37:41Oh, for goodness' sakes, yes!
1:37:43 > 1:37:46You have been a long time coming, Mr Briggs.
1:37:46 > 1:37:50I am relieved you are here. I'm sorry, Reverend Carter isn't.
1:37:50 > 1:37:53He is out burying a beloved member of our congregation.
1:37:55 > 1:37:58Just a minute... I thought a woman named Cuddy was bringing them.
1:37:58 > 1:38:00That's what Reverend Dowd wrote.
1:38:00 > 1:38:02She was with us up to a week ago, ma'am.
1:38:02 > 1:38:06I'm sorry to tell you that a fever took her.
1:38:06 > 1:38:08I buried her and we moved on.
1:38:09 > 1:38:11Mary Bee Cuddy...
1:38:12 > 1:38:13..was her name.
1:38:15 > 1:38:17Oh what a...
1:38:17 > 1:38:19terrible loss.
1:38:19 > 1:38:22She must have been a fine, brave human being.
1:38:22 > 1:38:23She truly was.
1:38:26 > 1:38:28They've ridden all this way
1:38:28 > 1:38:29in that box?
1:38:31 > 1:38:32Oh, mercy!
1:38:36 > 1:38:39Well...it's time to meet them.
1:38:41 > 1:38:43I'm not sure I'm ready.
1:38:51 > 1:38:52Get over there.
1:39:06 > 1:39:09You must have had an awful winter.
1:39:09 > 1:39:10We did, ma'am.
1:39:34 > 1:39:37Put them on the settee, Mr Briggs.
1:39:45 > 1:39:48Do they speak? No.
1:39:55 > 1:39:58Do they understand anything?
1:39:58 > 1:39:59Ma'am, I don't know.
1:40:03 > 1:40:06I noticed their eyes move round the room.
1:40:06 > 1:40:08What does that mean?
1:40:08 > 1:40:10That's hard to tell.
1:40:11 > 1:40:15Perhaps each remembers a parlour
1:40:15 > 1:40:17from her own past.
1:40:18 > 1:40:20Poor, poor dears.
1:40:20 > 1:40:24Have you noticed any improvement in their condition?
1:40:24 > 1:40:27They don't scrap with each other or try to run off any more.
1:40:27 > 1:40:29Tell me their names.
1:40:29 > 1:40:32That's Theoline Belknap. She killed her baby. Oh, no, no, no!
1:40:32 > 1:40:36Please, don't tell me, Mr Briggs. I don't care to know.
1:40:36 > 1:40:39That one there is a Norsky woman by the name of Gro Svendsen.
1:40:39 > 1:40:41Very well.
1:40:41 > 1:40:43And that's Arabella Sours.
1:40:43 > 1:40:46She's only a girl. Why, she even has a doll.
1:40:46 > 1:40:48She had three little children, lost them all
1:40:48 > 1:40:49to the diphtheria in three days.
1:40:49 > 1:40:51Dear Lord!
1:40:51 > 1:40:53Please, don't say any more.
1:40:55 > 1:40:58There's letters on all three of 'em in this bag here,
1:40:58 > 1:41:00about their kin folks and all.
1:41:00 > 1:41:02I better move on.
1:41:04 > 1:41:07They just might jump up and try to follow me.
1:41:07 > 1:41:08Oh...
1:41:08 > 1:41:10I think this room will hold them.
1:41:12 > 1:41:13Oh! I almost forgot.
1:41:19 > 1:41:21This is for you, Miss Sours.
1:41:22 > 1:41:24It's lovely.
1:41:24 > 1:41:27Maybe you'll want it,
1:41:27 > 1:41:28one fine day.
1:41:37 > 1:41:39Well, goodbye, ladies.
1:41:43 > 1:41:44God bless you.
1:42:00 > 1:42:02They'll be all right.
1:42:02 > 1:42:04I want to say goodbye to you.
1:42:04 > 1:42:07You can give this wagon and those mules
1:42:07 > 1:42:10and that horse and everything else to the Methodist women.
1:42:10 > 1:42:13Maybe they can sell everything, use the money to pay for railroad fare and whatever else.
1:42:14 > 1:42:18Mr Briggs! I'm delighted.
1:42:18 > 1:42:21How very generous of you.
1:42:21 > 1:42:23Tell the reverend to give those mules a good feeding of corn.
1:42:23 > 1:42:26Will you go back to the territory?
1:42:26 > 1:42:27I don't know.
1:42:27 > 1:42:30If you do, please thank Reverend Dowd for me.
1:42:30 > 1:42:31And wish him well.
1:42:31 > 1:42:33Yes, ma'am.
1:42:33 > 1:42:34Well, then.
1:42:35 > 1:42:39This is our goodbye, Mr Briggs. Give me your hand.
1:42:39 > 1:42:43God our Father, bless this good man, wherever he may go.
1:42:43 > 1:42:45Keep watch over him.
1:42:45 > 1:42:48Cause Thy face to shine upon him
1:42:48 > 1:42:51and bring him home to Thee one day.
1:42:51 > 1:42:54In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
1:42:54 > 1:42:58I hope we meet again, Mr Briggs. Goodbye.
1:43:00 > 1:43:02You can go on now.
1:43:48 > 1:43:50Oh, yes.
1:43:50 > 1:43:51Looks splendid, sir.
1:44:03 > 1:44:04INAUDIBLE
1:44:13 > 1:44:15How old are you?
1:44:15 > 1:44:1616.
1:44:16 > 1:44:19You ain't got no shoes on your feet.
1:44:19 > 1:44:21Well, that's my business, ain't it?
1:44:40 > 1:44:42I'll take them shoes, right there.
1:44:50 > 1:44:51DOOR OPENS
1:44:52 > 1:44:53MURMUR OF CONVERSATION
1:44:57 > 1:44:58MAN LAUGHS
1:45:01 > 1:45:02CONVERSATION STOPS
1:45:17 > 1:45:20Playing high stakes, sir. Can you show $50?
1:45:20 > 1:45:23There's $300 for you.
1:45:23 > 1:45:25Mind if I have a look?
1:45:25 > 1:45:26Suit yourself.
1:45:32 > 1:45:34Have a look at this, Mr Carmichael.
1:45:43 > 1:45:44Bank of Loup?
1:45:44 > 1:45:46Up near Wamego.
1:45:46 > 1:45:48How long since you been there, sir?
1:45:48 > 1:45:50Five, six weeks.
1:45:50 > 1:45:52Bank of Loup went bust. Happens all the time
1:45:52 > 1:45:55to sod buster banks in the territory.
1:45:55 > 1:46:00I've lost more than my fair share of this wildcat paper.
1:46:00 > 1:46:02Do you have any greenbacks?
1:46:02 > 1:46:03No...
1:46:03 > 1:46:05I spent it all.
1:46:05 > 1:46:09Well, I'm sorry, sir. I cannot accept these banknotes.
1:46:09 > 1:46:11Nobody around here will.
1:46:12 > 1:46:14Sorry, but you can't sit at the table unless you're playing.
1:46:14 > 1:46:15Sorry, but you can't sit at the table unless you're playing.
1:46:15 > 1:46:16I'll have to ask you to leave.
1:46:16 > 1:46:17Why?
1:46:19 > 1:46:20Please, leave the table, sir.
1:46:24 > 1:46:27You're not socially acceptable here, see?
1:46:44 > 1:46:47You ever know a woman by the name Mary Bee Cuddy?
1:46:47 > 1:46:49No, sir.
1:46:49 > 1:46:51These are for you.
1:47:00 > 1:47:02You've still got to pay your bill.
1:47:02 > 1:47:05That gravy and them biscuits you made was pretty good.
1:47:05 > 1:47:06Thank you.
1:47:07 > 1:47:09I got a good piece of advice for you.
1:47:11 > 1:47:14When you get grown, don't marry some shit-healed kid headed west
1:47:14 > 1:47:17to make a claim on a farm he ain't built yet.
1:47:17 > 1:47:18Don't you do that.
1:47:18 > 1:47:19You stay here.
1:47:20 > 1:47:21Why?
1:47:21 > 1:47:23Because I told you to.
1:47:24 > 1:47:26Who is Mary Bee Cuddy?
1:47:26 > 1:47:27Mary Bee Cuddy...
1:47:28 > 1:47:31..was as fine a woman as ever walked.
1:47:34 > 1:47:36You will never know her.
1:47:36 > 1:47:37Well, then, so what?
1:47:37 > 1:47:39So what?
1:47:41 > 1:47:45You are the living, breathing reason...
1:47:45 > 1:47:47she will never be lost.
1:47:50 > 1:47:52That's all right, darling.
1:47:53 > 1:47:55You're a strange man.
1:47:55 > 1:47:56I expect I am.
1:47:58 > 1:48:00Why don't we marry?
1:48:02 > 1:48:03Maybe.
1:48:12 > 1:48:13MURMUR OF CONVERSATION
1:48:31 > 1:48:32LAUGHTER
1:48:37 > 1:48:38Haul away!
1:48:42 > 1:48:44CONVERSATION AND SHOUTS CONTINUE
1:48:48 > 1:48:50All right, your way.
1:48:50 > 1:48:51Give him some slack there.
1:49:13 > 1:49:14Shove off!
1:49:21 > 1:49:22Hang on to the left.
1:49:25 > 1:49:26Hang on, walk it down, walk it down.
1:49:29 > 1:49:30All right, we're moving.
1:49:33 > 1:49:34Let me catch up.
1:49:36 > 1:49:38Together now.
1:49:44 > 1:49:46# Take her by her lily-white hand
1:49:48 > 1:49:50# Lead her like a pigeon
1:49:52 > 1:49:54# Make her dance the weevily wheat
1:49:54 > 1:49:56# Scatter her religion... #
1:49:56 > 1:49:58You boys know the Weevily Wheat?
1:49:58 > 1:49:59Hell, yeah. Get on up here.
1:50:02 > 1:50:04# O Charlie, he's a fine young man
1:50:04 > 1:50:06# Charlie, he's a dandy
1:50:06 > 1:50:08# Every time he goes to town
1:50:08 > 1:50:10# He brings the girls some candy... #
1:50:17 > 1:50:20Hey, cut out that noise! There's people here trying to sleep!
1:50:21 > 1:50:22GUN COCKS
1:50:22 > 1:50:24GUNSHOT
1:50:24 > 1:50:26You sons of bitches!
1:50:27 > 1:50:28We are heading west, goddammit!
1:50:30 > 1:50:32You bet her lips are goddamn level!
1:50:34 > 1:50:36# O Charlie, he's a fine young man
1:50:36 > 1:50:39# Charlie, he's a dandy
1:50:39 > 1:50:41# Every time he goes to town
1:50:41 > 1:50:43# He brings the girls some candy
1:50:45 > 1:50:47# Charlie here and Charlie there... #
1:50:47 > 1:50:48SINGING AND MUSIC CONTINUES
1:51:00 > 1:51:01GUNSHOT
1:51:13 > 1:51:15Clap your hands!
1:52:46 > 1:52:49If you lie your whole life,
1:52:49 > 1:52:52you cannot escape.
1:52:52 > 1:52:54Welcome to Redwater.
1:52:54 > 1:52:55I know this is the right place.
1:52:55 > 1:52:57I've been waiting my whole life.