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Gun smoke, starring Wyndon Conrad, the transcribed story of the violence that moved west with
young America, and the story of a man who moved with it.
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they
want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Nice little house he's got here, Quaid.
A fellow with all his money can afford a nice house, Mitch.
There he is, coming out of a barn.
Let's go have a little talk with him.
He ain't a very big fellow.
We shouldn't have much trouble now.
Hello there.
Get down and rest a while, man.
I'll get down.
You stay mounted, Mitch.
I'll be back, Quaid.
Why don't you both get down?
I got a pot of coffee on the stove in there, and I might scare up a little bacon if you're
real empty.
We've ate.
We camped in them cottonwoods out there last night.
Oh, you did?
Well, why didn't you ride in?
I could have slept you in the barn.
I don't get much company out here.
I know.
We've been watching the place.
You're alone here, ain't you?
I've always been all alone.
Obie Tater, huh?
Obie Tater, that's right, mister.
But, uh, how come you know my name?
Well, everybody's heard of you, Obie.
A man that spends money the way you do gets kind of famous like.
Oh, I don't spend money no more.
That was when I first come here.
Oh, I'm broke now.
Well, that ain't the way we heard it, Obie.
We heard you drove mule back in Sacramento plumber loaded with gold double eagles.
Oh, that ain't so.
A thousand dollars is all the gold I scratched out of California.
And I spent it building this ranch.
Sure don't know why people keep talking about how rich I am.
They'll quit talking soon enough, Obie.
Huh?
You ain't gonna be rich no more.
Yeah, no, you sure ain't.
What are you talking about?
I'm gonna ask you real nice, Obie, where you got that gold head?
Oh, wait a minute.
What are you fellas up to?
You gonna tell us?
You come here to rob me, didn't you?
Well, it ain't no use.
There's nothing to rob.
I told you you wouldn't talk, Wade.
We'll have to bounce it out of him.
Go ahead, Mitch.
Take down your rope.
No, I ain't even armed.
You can't hang me.
We ain't gonna hang you, Obie.
We're just gonna give you a little ride.
Feet first.
Go on, Mitch, rope him.
No, don't put that rope away.
You ain't gonna drag me.
Yes, we are, Obie.
It's just what we're gonna do.
Oh, Mitch, watch out!
Oh, Mitch!
Obie Tater.
Hello, Chester.
Marshall Dylan.
How are you, Obie?
Now, what brings you into Dodge?
Oh, I had to see Doc Adams, Marshall.
Well, you are kind of peeked looking, Obie.
You been sick?
I ain't been sick.
Been hurt.
Hurt?
What happened, Obie?
Three weeks ago, Marshall.
I'd like to die.
What'd you do?
Would you fall off a horse or something?
Oh, I didn't.
I got drugged.
What?
Yeah, two fuzzies.
Yeah, but I got a little bit of a headache.
Oh, I see.
Well, if you're gonna die, you're gonna get a little bit of a headache.
Well, you're gonna get a little bit of a headache.
but you do you fall off a horse or something
wanted and i got drugged
what to follow
come by my place and throw the rope
on me and
drug me cross-pair
or who did
what for
never seen him before my show but
uh... one was called
uh... the other uh... quade
so no more
whenever it no
mitchner quade around here why did they do it over
and martin you know how everybody thinks i'd come back from california with a lot
of gold doubly good
makes them rich
or think to court that that don't stop them
you just go right on thing yeah i've heard the talk
roadies to follow if they wanted to rob me
hold on my my cold and my god i don't have no gold money
wouldn't believe that's a wonder they didn't tell you
or they pretty near did march
i felt awful when they got through
you think they'll come back
said they wasn't done with me yet they said
uh... they'd find a way to open me up
terrible thing are should be included like that for no reason at all
and especially when you even
got no gold money
that's too bad the rumor got started in the first place
i've tried to stop it but
you know how i am i'm very smart
can hardly sign my name marshall
it's that's why i've always got job by any fast talkers comes along
online
well we can't stop what people think of it
and we can find those two men
you think you recognize them
there's a high shorewood march
okay just might be hanging around dot
let's go look at our nowhere
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marcia billin we must have been in every flunen
and house and dot and get foot for a little bit of a moral they will try to
texas trail
well what are you going to do with my tomorrow
uh... there's enough left of my get through
here we are
okay take a good look around
painted the bar
painted the table back there it could we should not have been a martial art
retired i guess i got my full strength back
sorrel they wouldn't
uh... let's go over there with kitty another girl
so i'd like that marco
i heard a woman's voice over a half a year
alok eddie
alkyd a this is uh... all be catered
well i don't know your name
met so big
and the family though i'm not like that
and this is my full bill how do you do my do you like that
uh...
uh... i can't
that's not pretty name uh...
hello melly
thank you all
ellen new here
don't have been a dot by the week
i like it though
and i didn't stay a while
all that'd be nice
sure hope you do
it depends
depends on what
people are both
i meet somebody i like of thing
you will
why not
you meet somebody
pretty girl like you
here now i told you
by the way how you feeling now
all one fine
talk adam couldn't find nothing real wrong he just said to take it easy for a
while
trouble over you've been sick
all it's it's not that couple of
coupler colors come by my place in
treatment kind of rough i'm okay now
you know if i know
canada young man like you anyway
i'm very young no more not pushing sixty-five
why don't believe it
but you know what i think that's a man
i do
quite you do
uh...
be proud to take you over the bar and buy you a drink any kind of a drink you
want uh... wait a minute now they we got a couple more places to look at that can
wait mark today important we do that bar sometime out we have a point we come
i'd love to be
and maybe you'll tell me about that
back in california and all of that
i'd rather hear about you
come to talk
i didn't take a long
alumnology
what do you know about it
i don't know anything
really
i was a good talker but
and they might about it
felt that you come here alone
well i know she did
do you have any friends here i mean if you've seen her with anyone in particular
i don't pay much attention
why not something wrong
i'm not getting
and sure gonna be
uh... good morning
about doc
the found all the t-shirt not yet dot with testers are looking for it but
maybe haven't had the right places now we've looked everywhere dot
you know elam elis just plain disappeared book well i wouldn't worry
about it
they'll be back
i hope so
this is the second day they've been gone
i tried to talk to obey that first night but he was
actin like a man of a dream or a little bit of a mad man sweet young dream
dot will be tater will never see sixty a call a chance not to do with that
and surprise if you don't understand these matters
or why should i always come ask you about anytime at anytime be glad to advise
you and as many a pitfall i might say different through the coming in time
and you may consider me like a father
like a father
well that's my tonight's
yes the benefit of my experience is yours not just any time or
coming back
how does a man get out of new orleans with two different husbands gunman for
two husband's gunning for him why i had to go out and you are too
well i don't know i must have been drunk what did i tell you about that
same night you told me about how you come to leave philadelphia
like i did
well well that happened long ago long time ago i
i don't appreciate your remembering that either
here is what i found it
come on in all the all the teacher what about time you showed up again
what's all the fuss about
you think i was a criminal or something we've been worried about your all the way
you've been
honeymoon at the dodge house
paid the clerk ten dollars not tell nobody we were there
i'm from up all
you mean you're married all a militia
was love at first sight march
i propose to make her my wife and i am proud to say
she accepted me right off i never thought you'd go that far
fine girl marshall
finder
issue of it
well i think that i think that's your wife
there's something i got a terrible jealous marshall that's what you are
yashen on you
all the time when you were going to do this at a major listen to me the other
night
say it out marshall
got to get back to my bride
we're leaving for the ranch today
i'm half tempted to let you find out for yourself
i'm not what what uh... we don't
but you remember the other night when you first met a lot of our show she asked
you if you were feeling okay again
now i think that just like it all
always consider other people mean particularly
well you're feeling so happy tell me something
how come she knew you've been hurt
you came here straight from docs that day and nobody knew anything about what
happened to you except doc and just earn me now who told our knowledge i don't
know what differences
well they listen to me this
that's something wrong with our
i don't know for sure she's in with those fellows mitch and quaid but if she
hasn't she got explaining to do
are still doing
alamalish is now mrs all be catered
if you don't have to explain that into nobody
uh... you've got fine woman marshall
and i won't stand for no talk again
love sweet young dream and i don't like being a local maddie can't hear you or
anybody else
except that girl now that's no way to talk about me i thought you were my
friend we are your friend not anymore you're not
you were doctor check there nobody
i've got me a wife now and i don't need you
you'll see
but i hope it isn't too late when we do
i hope you're still alive to see too
i don't know how alamalish planned to do it but she was a clever girl
and i was sure she had some way in mind to have a little bit
but you don't know of course was that
didn't have any money
and that she was wasting her time
and i was afraid that when she failed
mitch and quaid had come back
alistair make kill
he was still alive about a week later however when just and i happen to be in
the country not far from his ranch
and wrote over to have a look
at home i'm a bill
i'm going to be a little bit of a cat with all that
mocombo
by the matter
what's that smoke
what
but it's what
other thing
right
it's dark
stop and every now and again
maybe you've got something stuff that
maybe
you know if you couldn't be the house you'd think it was indian thing
uh...
stop now
but we've got what's the third
but just when we get inside don't say anything about how that smoke look
you think it was a thing
anybody at home
i thought you know
so do it
what are you doing out here
our nearby so we thought we'd stop and say hello well that's fine
but i can't ask you and i'm
really cleaning out
uh... you've got to come back some other time i'd love to see you then pressure
where's all the all the
or he went off somewhere this morning
i don't expect him back to late next time i shall
you come here next time i'll cook you dinner that's okay
we'll see another time
you do that much
dry
come on
i declare mr dylan i never got treated like that my whole life not by nobody
she wasn't expecting this just had her upset
i don't care that's not used not even often man a cup of coffee she didn't
want us in the house
fact i don't think she wants us anywhere around here
they were we going to take a look in the barn
and if all the other not here we're going back to the house
well but elizabeth he took up for some words this morning
i was kind of nervous just a minute minute
all day
i'll be paid
right where you are
all over the area
he shot that's marshall bill and over and trust her
oh
sorry marshall i couldn't see it first
i was in the back there and i had the door open and i think you mentioned
can't blame me for being jumped that's all right
what are you doing in here
ala told us you weren't around
ala told
well i don't know how to talk
what is it over
some wrong between you two
marshall bill and i owe you an apology
not listening to you back in dog
you were right about the whole thing
all that woman married me for it was my gold money
and i've told her and i've told her i ain't got none but you won't
ala talk on her show
but there's something else that might
she does more than
talk more
woman
the devil actually what do you mean what you've been doing
won't feed me for one thing she won't even boil my coffee
it started the first night we got here marshall
as soon as i show her my gold money she says she'll be a good wife
i tried to tell her the place is hers what she need money for even if i had it
now for lancet i never heard of a wife that wouldn't cook for a man
or any doctor
where do you think i've been sleeping
out here in the barn
can't even sleep in my own house she says she'll run off into the prairie if i
come anywhere near
well all the
if woman done that in texas you'd have a right to give her back
i don't want to give her back
darn pretty
and besides there's something else
she ain't going to
the devil me no more
after tonight she said she said after tonight it's all over she said she
won't give me no more trouble
after tonight uh... that's what she said
justin
yesterday go get our horses and bring them into the barn where they can't be
seen
and when you get back
you and opi and i are going to go to the house and sit on and wait
for tonight
uh...
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you might as well
sat down and i'll use your
where yourself out walking around that way
got nothing to do with it
and i think it's not quite
and you shouldn't worry about it all
will find out if you know when they get here
you're awful
my argument
what they're going to nobody neither
just trying to put the fire out
sure
it's important coming up on time
it's too dark
hell but i think they do
all right
you know what my kitchen
i sure wish i had my gun marks now i'll be
now that would have seemed to it you weren't armed
and will happen coverage so don't worry
you make a big mistake mark nevermind that up
you just remember what i told you
give us away and your friends will die
come on just
there's going to be some surprise and commitment
well i hope so just
uh... but i get back out of the light
they're the comments
quiet
even though they
you remember all the pay
better government
wilson
thinking
how
he
anyway
are
is
that just
all right got well way the wider
or you
your content with my gun quite look at our plant where he went right
here such that marked for their program are
held apart
I tell ya!
You signaled we was to come in.
You know nobody double crosses me, Ella.
Nobody.
Don't do it, Quaid!
All right, Mitch, you're next.
I got my hands up, Marshal.
I ain't drawn.
Quaid shot her, Marshal.
He done killed her.
Just a...
Yes, sir.
Get Mitch's gun.
Yes, sir.
Come on, give it to me.
Get your hand away.
Who'd think any man could be low enough to...
I'm not gonna tell you.
I'm not gonna tell y'all I'm not gonna tell y'all who to shoot and who to shoot the woman.
She double crossed him, that's why he did it.
No, Mitch, Ella had nothing to do with the Marshal bein' here.
She signaled us to ride in tonight.
That meant she'd given up when she was goin' away with us.
Given up?
The fella couldn't find his money, and nobody could.
You're nothin' but an ol' liar, Obie Tater.
You ain't got no money at all.
A liar!
I told everybody a thousand times I ain't got no money.
It doesn't matter now, Obie.
Take Mitch outside and tie him up.
Yes, sir.
Come on, Mitch, outside.
Get moving.
All right.
I'm going to use your own rope to tie him up.
All right.
She's dead, Marshall.
I'm sorry, Obeye.
It just wasn't fast enough.
It wasn't your fault, Marshall.
You know something?
What, Obeye?
I was awful fond of her.
Ruinous as she treated me.
She was a dog gone pretty.
And I'd have told her if she just acted like a wife should.
That's all she had to do.
Them other fellas could have killed me before I'd have told them.
But I'd have told Ella.
What are you talking about, Obeye?
You'd have told Ella what?
About my gold money.
Your money?
It's in the rain barrel outside, Marshall.
A whole big sack full of gold double eagles.
What?
You mean you had that money all the time?
Sure, it's true.
But you won't tell nobody.
Will you, Marshall?
No, Obeye.
I won't tell anybody.
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Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald,
stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
Tonight's story was specially written for Gun Smoke by John Meston,
with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey.
Featured in the cast were Joseph Kern, Virginia Gregg, Nick Perrin, and Barney Phillips.
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
Join us again next week as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal,
fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in Gun Smoke.
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