00:00THE END
00:33THE END
01:00My name's Jess Joy. This is Charlie Sims. What's your name, mister?
01:04That's none of your business, son.
01:06You know him, Charlie?
01:07It's been a long time.
01:09Been set before the war.
01:12Step out where I can see you, mister.
01:20I don't... I don't know.
01:22Are you going to a hang-in, mister? Are you the one?
01:25Take him away before he gets hurt, friend.
01:29Well, then you are him.
01:31That's right, son.
01:33I'm the one that's come to help Morty Taw hang your brother.
01:36Yeah.
01:37Yeah, Tate, for sure.
01:40I guess I was too young to remember when you went away.
01:43I was only 15, I guess.
01:52No!
01:54Right, this is us!
02:01I knew you were a gunfighter.
02:04I didn't want to fight.
02:06I knew you'd kill him.
02:09You got the looks of a man that likes it.
02:14Charlie, you know me better than that.
02:17You was a hard-nosed kid.
02:20I never did like you.
02:24You know how long you got to live now?
02:42Morty.
02:43Tate.
02:44You're as likely as ever, twice as mean-looking.
02:47How long's it been?
02:49Ten years.
02:50The warring end, son.
02:53Where'd it happen?
02:54Vicksburg.
02:56I didn't run fast enough, Morty.
02:58You're home, son.
03:00What do you think of it?
03:02The same.
03:04A little smaller, a little dirtier.
03:07Just a memory, Morty.
03:08It doesn't exist anymore.
03:10Mary's still here.
03:12Memories of her.
03:14Just Jory stopped me in the hills last night.
03:17I had to kill him.
03:20That telegraph operator's got a big mouth.
03:22Come on up.
03:24I'll show you where Mary is.
03:35You gave me my life once.
03:37I haven't forgotten.
03:38I'd like to pay the debt and be on my way.
03:41Let's go hang in there.
03:43You can kiss me goodbye tomorrow morning, boy.
03:47That's where we hang him.
03:49That was the time I liked him.
03:57Glad you'd come back, Morty.
03:59It's getting kind of lonesome.
04:01Want to go eat now?
04:03I kind of thought I'd go fishing.
04:08Any of them come yet?
04:09No.
04:11I guess they're gathering up at Charlie Simms' place.
04:13Funny thing, he ain't kin, but he'll eat them in.
04:15Do you remember it?
04:17Yeah, we're you both.
04:18How are you?
04:21I'm going to go fishing, Morty.
04:23Kind of late in the day for that.
04:26What do you want me to say?
04:27That I've got a wife and family?
04:28I've got a wife and family, Morty.
04:30I want to keep alive.
04:31Then it'll crawl into your hole.
04:33Morty, you took your pay in the summer, mister.
04:36Now it's winter.
04:37You either earn it or crawl out of my sight.
04:43Dyson, crawl!
04:44All right, Morty.
04:46Even the Lord must take a fair with a friend.
04:55I guess neither of us have changed, Morty.
04:58You're still pretty mean inside.
05:01We could have used you.
05:05Another shotgun could have kept us alive.
05:09Unless you decide to walk away, too.
05:14Do you know how many there's going to be?
05:17No.
05:18Maybe six.
05:20Maybe a dozen.
05:22It could be more.
05:24Jory's got a lot of kinfolk.
05:27They may not like him.
05:29Nor what he's done.
05:31But they ain't going to see him hang.
05:33Well, they died for it?
05:35Never knows both.
05:37How about the rest of the town?
05:42Come on, now.
05:43I'll show you the pig.
05:46You're ain't real good this week, ain't you, Morty?
05:48She killed two men.
05:50A boy.
05:52And a woman.
05:55He had to reload his shotgun to do it.
05:58Would you like to read what they said at the trial?
06:00Well, you've got a weak stomach.
06:15Morty!
06:16Now, that hammering ain't music to my ears.
06:20Can't you tell him to wait until I go to sleep or something?
06:30Well, but...
06:32Tate!
06:34Jory.
06:37You here to help him?
06:39That's right.
06:42Take my life away.
06:46Well, what happened to your arm, Cribble?
06:49Got shot.
06:50You stay here, you'll get killed, old buddy.
06:53With a shotgun?
06:55Like those others?
07:02Ah, Curly.
07:11Been a long time since anybody called me that.
07:14I guess so.
07:15You're too ugly for that now.
07:18But I can remember a curly-headed kid.
07:20I used to steal apples with and go swimming with, fight with.
07:29And now you want to hang me.
07:33You killed all those people?
07:35Yeah, sure as old Glory did.
07:37They flew around there like they was rag dolls.
07:44Tate.
07:46It's not your war.
07:49No, it ain't.
07:52But I want that to Morty.
08:13Why didn't you just kill him?
08:17The shot went a little high.
08:19I don't know.
08:21Maybe I...
08:22I'm wearing this tin badge too long.
08:24Maybe I took him in the shoulder on purpose.
08:27You gonna stay?
08:29Why'd he do it?
08:31Love.
08:33He wanted to marry the girl.
08:35She turned him down.
08:37He killed the whole family.
08:40Switched the trigger twice.
08:43Three times.
08:47It was a big burying.
08:50Yeah.
08:52I'm gonna sway in.
08:56It's just a dented tin star.
08:58Don't look like much, does it?
09:01A lot of good men who want it, though.
09:04Raise your right hand.
09:10Here, bud.
09:12Uh-huh.
09:13He's a cousin.
09:15I don't reckon I can...
09:16Hold a gang.
09:21You know what I am, Morty?
09:23Gunfighter.
09:25Now, I know you, uh...
09:26Settle out a store in that tin star.
09:28You want me to wear it?
09:31No.
09:33But nobody else will, and I owe you a debt.
09:35And no more than he does.
09:38I aim for your heart.
09:39The shot just went a little bit high.
09:41I was a punk kid.
09:42I could have killed you, Morty.
09:43You're a bad shot.
09:45I hope you've improved.
09:48Are you going to raise your hand?
09:52You get $5 a day.
09:55Tomorrow morning.
10:11Not finished yet, Julie?
10:13No.
10:14It's just another job I...
10:16You stink, Julie.
10:18Maybe I'll kill you tonight.
10:39How much you get paid on this job, Morty?
10:41$200 a month.
10:44A lot of money these days.
10:47Ah, your coffee.
10:50You never did make good coffee.
10:52There's a chicory in it.
10:54Strong.
10:55You got to have a taste for it.
10:57I guess that goes for the job, too, huh, Morty?
11:02It's as rewarding as anything.
11:05You ask yourself why you're here.
11:07And what the Lord wants you to do.
11:10You know, most lives are a waste.
11:13Doctor, preacher.
11:15That's not a waste.
11:17Maybe a peace officer.
11:20You want me to read the Bible now?
11:25Well, it wouldn't hurt.
11:28Tate.
11:30I hope you can shoot that thing.
11:34Five times without reloading, Morty.
11:58Hear that outside?
12:00Yeah, I hear it.
12:03That's a pleasure having a large family.
12:07Like my pa, who was an educated man, used to say.
12:11A large family is a solace and a warmth to you in your time of trial.
12:16Tate.
12:20Now, get out.
12:22It's not your job.
12:25Joey.
12:28I had to kill your brother last night.
12:30He tried to stop me on the way in.
12:32Now, why don't you hang big and stop this slaughter?
12:35Jesse.
12:36That's right.
12:39Jesse.
12:40Stop it before we have to do any more killing.
12:45Grandpa!
13:06I'm hungry.
13:09I ain't no cook.
13:11It's going to be a long night.
13:14Why don't you get some sandwiches?
13:17At the Kansas City Steak Palace.
13:20It's too late.
13:22Ain't gone, Lou, please.
13:25There's a girl over there that looks a lot like your Mary.
13:30The third cousin, I think.
13:44Morning.
13:45This town should have stood by you.
13:47They're afraid.
13:50You ever been afraid, gunfighter?
13:53All the time.
13:54Get out of the light.
13:56You take care of yourself.
14:18I guess you must feel mighty proud.
14:21Has he ever done anything to you?
14:23I told you it was just a job.
14:25How much are you getting paid?
14:27Five dollars plus the wood and the nails.
14:30Oh.
14:33That comes your time.
14:36There's the wood and the nails.
14:38Pick it up, Joy.
14:39You go to hell.
14:41Mister.
14:43I come all the way from Colorado to attend this hanging.
14:48Now, I'm cold, I'm tired, and I'm hungry.
14:51Now, I don't know you by your first name.
14:54What you do as friend Charlie here tells you, too,
14:57I'm going to shoot you where you stand.
15:00Pick up, Red Mooner.
15:04You're taking too long.
15:10I'm going to tell you a third time, now.
15:12Tate, you're taking up some.
15:15You don't kill him by trying to stop the building of a gallow.
15:18Go on, Charlie.
15:33The job's finished, Morty.
15:35It's for free.
15:40Who are the other two?
15:42Lord knows.
15:43Nephew, cousin.
15:47Well, I'll get some food.
15:57I was watching.
16:05Want something?
16:06Yeah.
16:10Give me about a half a dozen sandwiches, huh?
16:13Ham's all right.
16:16Sure.
16:21I heard somebody was coming to help Morty.
16:24I didn't believe it, though.
16:25Why not?
16:27I don't know.
16:27I just didn't believe it.
16:30I never saw a gunfighter before.
16:33You Mary Eden's cousin?
16:36That's right.
16:38Her married name was Tate.
16:41She's been dead ten years.
16:43You look like her.
16:45That's what they say.
16:48Did you know her?
16:50Mm-hmm.
16:51I never saw her.
16:54I didn't move here till I was fifteen.
17:00We act a lot, too.
17:03Well, I can't say.
17:05It's been so long since...
17:08Since then, I can't remember anything about her except the way she looked.
17:14Sometimes I can't even remember that.
17:16You know, it's a funny thing looking like somebody else.
17:20Makes you wonder about them.
17:25You don't remember her?
17:29I mean, do we smile alike or talk alike?
17:33You know what I mean.
17:35Well...
17:37I'd say you were just a shade prettier.
17:40You're flim-flamming me.
17:42No.
17:43You owe me a dollar.
17:47All right.
18:06It's almost time.
18:07Do you want some coffee?
18:08No.
18:11I'll be here any time now.
18:16They'll come through that door.
18:19They'll kill you.
18:24Friend there, he's a...
18:25He's a dead man.
18:30You still got a chance to live, though.
18:31You walk away from it.
18:34Do you want the coffee?
18:40Morty.
18:43I was drunk.
18:46I didn't know what I was doing to those people.
18:50You're sorry for it?
18:53Well, in my soul, sure I'm sorry for it.
18:56That's going to make her breathe and live and love and walk again.
18:59No!
19:03I was drunk!
19:11Morty.
19:21You were right.
19:23I should have killed.
19:25You saved a lot of blood on the streets tonight.
19:29You know, more smelly.
19:31And it's going to be soon.
19:35I may as well get used to the dark.
19:39In there?
19:40It's built like a fort, but I'd hate to get caught inside.
19:44You know, there's a notion going around nowadays that punishment is to cleanse the soul.
19:50Make a man over again.
19:52But it's more than that.
19:54It's retribution.
19:57It's an eye for an eye.
20:00That's why I'm going to hang him, son.
20:04And the gunfighters, too.
20:06I use it for the same reason you do, Morty.
20:09To cut down the odds.
20:11Inside or out.
20:12You say?
20:14Outside.
20:16Through the alley.
20:40I'll wait on the other side of the building.
20:44Don't blow my head off.
20:45Come on.
21:29Come out from hiding, old man.
21:31Keep talking like that, son.
21:34You're liable to lose my good will.
21:37Where's the gunfighter?
21:39Fighting.
21:42Quick, boy!
21:53You got a dirty mouth, boy.
21:56I've known you since I wore knee britches, and I don't want to kill you.
22:00Funny thing, I never even liked him.
22:04Can I know I never liked him?
22:06I don't want to kill you.
22:37Funny.
22:39You're an old fool.
22:41He spent all work for $5 a day.
22:45Charlie seems he's still around here, at least I think he is.
22:49Rush him out.
23:06You're an old fool.
23:14THE END
23:38Someday
23:40Someday
23:41Someday nothing
23:44You tell me something
23:47You figure you were worth it
23:54Are you alright?
24:00Why don't you stay around a while?
24:03I'm getting a little too old
24:05I have people shooting at me
24:07Five dollars a day
24:08Ain't nothing to be sneezed at
24:11Thank you, Morty
24:11But
24:12That sicker in your coffee
24:14Would like to kill me
24:15If I took it too often
24:21You take care, huh?
24:25Son
24:30Five dollars
24:33You're in it
24:38Thank you, Morty
24:39You're in it
24:48You're in it
24:52You're in it
25:07Thanks for Holding Io
25:17The End
