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In Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke.
Gun smoke starring William 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 chancey job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
I swear this is a lonesome looking ranch in the whole state of Kansas, Mr. Dillon.
That's no place for a man who likes company, Justin.
Three days ride from Dodge, 150 miles. It'd get me talking to myself.
Now let's drive an old tub Claver a little crazy.
Not so crazy. He ain't finally selling out.
Let's leave him here.
I ain't laid eyes on old Tup in over a year.
He hasn't changed any. And that's what worries me.
What do you mean?
I'm not sure the old man's competent when it comes to business like selling a ranch.
Oh, there he is. Hey, Tup, hello.
Hello.
Look at his hair. He must use it for a napkin.
That's bear grease, trust it.
Looks like he ain't washed it since he was a boy.
How, Tup, how are you?
Fit to fight day or night.
Hello, Tup.
Well, I see you're looking sloppy as ever, Chester.
I'm looking sloppy? What, Tup not going your old high?
Never mind, Chester.
Well, I'd never bother.
Well, now that's how I remember him.
Tup, we've been up on the Republican River. We heard that you're selling your ranch.
Yeah, want to buy it?
No, no, no. We just thought we'd stop by and see how you're doing.
Oh, I'm doing right good, Marshal.
Well, why are you selling, Tup?
Oh, I'm tired of being alone. Need help out here, getting old.
How much are you asking for the place?
Ten thousand and a date worth a dollar more. You want it?
No, I don't want it. But have you found anybody who's interested?
That's why I'm riding the Dodge next week. I'll find somebody.
Well, I wish you'd come see me when you get there.
Yeah, maybe I will when I get there. You can buy me a drink, Marshal.
I'll be glad to, Tup.
Well, so long.
Bye, Tup.
Goodbye.
If the ocean was fisky and I was a duck, I'd have told about them and drink it all up.
Good, Mr. Dung, ain't that awful?
He's a fine old man, Chester, for all his loose-minded ways.
He's half simple. He ain't got a lick of sense.
The first fellow who comes along is going to rob him blind.
No, he isn't, Chester. Not if I can help it.
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Oh, Matt.
Oh, hello, Doc.
Sit down, sit down, my boy.
No thanks, Doc. I had enough sitting last week.
Oh, yeah, oh, say, that was a long ride you made.
Well, we didn't accomplish much, but we saw an awful lot of country.
You know, that's what I like about your job, you get paid whether you accomplish anything or not.
You know, you're complaining because you can't collect money off of dead men, Doc.
Oh, is that so? You talk easy, Matt, Dylan.
You're forgetting how you might get sick.
I'm too healthy to worry about having to stay on the good side of you, you miserable old...
All right, now you've done it.
Now you're going to have to buy me a drink.
My pleasure, Doc. Let's go to the long branch.
I knew if I waited long enough some conscience-stricken heathen would come along and ask me into a bar.
I don't mind, Doc. It's some poor devil you might have to operate on this afternoon that I'm worried about.
After you.
Thank you, thank you.
Oh, well, now, shall we stand at the bar?
Wait a minute, Doc.
What?
That's Tup Claver sitting over there.
Oh, yes. I saw him on the street a while ago.
Who's that with him?
I don't know, Matt.
Look, Doc, order me a drink, will you? I'll be with you in just a minute.
I'll take a look at it.
All right.
Ah, hello, Tup.
Oh, sit down, Marshall. Sit down.
I thought you were going to look me up when you got to Dodge.
Oh, Marshall, this here is Mr. Wayne Rutman.
How do you do, Marshall?
Mr. Rutman.
He's aiming to buy my ranch.
Oh, is that so?
Oh, yes. He's from Kansas City.
He wants to see the ranch before we make a deal, though, Marshall.
Well, I can understand that.
You want to see the money, don't you?
Well, it was your I.D.
Well, of course, and you will see it.
Two weeks from now, I'll have it deposited in the bank here.
Well, it'll only take a week to ride up and see the ranch and come back.
No, I want to send for the money first.
Why? I ain't going to sell without I get paid anyway.
Evidence of good faith, Tup.
I want you to know I have the money that I'm ready to buy before I look the ranch over.
Yeah, don't make sense to me.
Marshall, do you see anything wrong in doing it my way?
I don't see it makes any difference.
There you are, Tup.
I'll be going now, and two weeks from today, I'll meet you at the bank.
Agreed?
Sure, sure, I'll be there.
Good. Bye, Marshall.
Bye, Mr. Revin.
Ho, ho, dead doe, you never know.
My, my, my, my.
Uh, what?
Ho, ho, de...
Never mind, never mind, Marshall.
Nice filler, huh?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, where did you run into him?
Well, at the hotel this morning.
I told everybody I was selling my ranch and his eyes lit up and he bought me a drink.
Ho, ho, I got to come to town more often.
When do the ladies get here, Marshall?
You never mind the ladies.
Yeah, but I'm going to be rich.
Fifteen thousand dollars worth.
What?
Yep, fifteen thousand dollars, Marshall.
But you were only asking ten.
Yeah, but he said that he's as rich as can be and wants to do right by an old man like me.
Now, ain't he a nice fella, Marshall?
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
But, uh, I'll be there to find out for sure.
Come in.
Hello, Mr. Barkin.
Well, come in, Marshall.
What can the bank do for you today?
Well, it's been two weeks, Mr. Barkin, I told you I wanted to be here when Ruttman and Tup Claver showed up.
Of course, of course.
But Wayne Ruttman's already been here, Marshall.
Oh, he has?
Deposited fifteen thousand dollars cash, just like that.
That's an awful lot of money.
I wish there were more businessmen like him around.
Well, morning, gentlemen.
Here's Tup.
Oh, you, Marshall.
How about that, Tom?
Where's Ruttman?
He said he'd meet you at the stable about noon, Tup.
He'll be ready to ride up to the ranch with you, and the money's here, fifteen thousand.
It's been deposited.
I'll take your word for it, Barkin.
If Ruttman decides to buy, he'll give you a note for the money.
All you'll have to do is come here and collect it.
Well, sounds easy.
Nothing to it.
Well, I don't see anything wrong with the deal, do you, Mr. Barkin?
Certainly not.
You're a lucky man, Tup.
If he decides to buy it.
Oh, he'll buy it.
Place looks fine.
I just got back this morning.
Ah, so that's where you've been.
Riding and dreaming, Marshall.
Dreaming of money.
Oh, good luck, Tup.
There ain't no such thing, Marshall.
Luck's for fools and sinners.
You'll see.
Oh, yes, you'll see.
If the ocean runs whiskey and I was a dog, then thank you very much.
Ah, hello, Kitty.
Matt.
What's the matter? Did I scare you?
I guess we were concentrating pretty hard on those dresses in the window.
Matt, this is Mary Emmett.
How do you do, Mary?
Hello, Marshall.
Mary's an old friend of mine.
She's just passing through on her way to Denver.
Why don't you stay and dodge a while, Mary?
They got enough pretty girls in Denver.
Kitty's told me about you, Marshall.
I don't believe a word you say.
Ah, well, then I guess you really are old friends.
It's been 15 years, hasn't it, Mary?
Ever since New Orleans.
We were awful young men, weren't we?
Well, you grow up pretty fast in that town.
Oh, we sure did.
What's just the matter? I'd like him to meet Mary, too.
Oh, he went in the bank, Kitty.
He claimed he had to change some money.
I wish I had some money.
I'd change it right in the store.
Look at that purple dress, Matt.
Kitty, you've got a hundred dresses.
Well, then I've lost 95 of them.
The others are in rags.
Well, the one you're wearing looks nice.
This thing wouldn't look good on a gal from the deep, piney wood.
Kitty, you haven't changed a bit.
As long as I've known you've complained about your wardrobe.
I'll stop one day, Mary, when I get a million dollars.
Mr. Dillon!
That's just a matter.
Oh, yeah. Well, look, maybe I can join you two later and have a drink with you.
I hope you will, Marshal.
Okay, we'll do that.
Bye.
Hey, Mr. Dillon, they're having an awful row in the bank there.
Oh, who is it?
Mr. Botkin and that fellow Rutman.
Oh, is Rutman back?
Got back this morning. He says he wants his money.
He's decided not to buy Tufts Ranch.
Oh, what's the trouble?
Well, Mr. Botkin says...
Well, you'd better ask him.
They are at the tellers when...
Mary, you keep quiet a minute, Rutman.
Marshal Dillon, you settle this.
What's the trouble, Mr. Botkin?
He won't give me my money. That's the trouble.
You haven't got any money here.
$15,000 is all.
Here's your note, Rutman. You signed it.
My note?
Can I see it a minute, Mr. Botkin?
Sure.
Give whatever money I have in bank to Tufts Cleaver.
Signed Wayne Rutman.
It's impossible.
Well, isn't this your writing, Rutman?
Of course it's his, Marshal. Tufts brought it in two days ago.
Two days ago?
Now, that's a lie. Three days ago, I left him at his ranch 150 miles from here.
Nobody could ride that in one day.
Well, somebody's sure lying.
He was here and I gave him the money.
Then it's up to the Marshal to get it back.
Right now.
I'll be waiting at the Dodge house, Marshal.
Mr. John.
Yeah, what, Justin?
I've got to hide him where old Tufts might be at.
Well, let's go find him.
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Now, by golly, there he is, sitting right on the porch.
What's he doing way out here, Chester?
Well, sir, he told me he didn't like the Dodge house and he was going to board here at the Wood of Clancy's.
Now, he mentioned that he'd have a shotgun across his lap.
Well, now, what's he doing with that?
Hello. Hello. Marshall? Chester?
From Settersville.
Who's the gun for, Tup? Wayne Rutman?
Can't never tell, Marshall.
A man carrying as much money as I am. No, sir.
Now, Rutman's kind of upset about that money, Tup.
He is?
Mm-hmm. He wants it back.
Wants it back?
Well, I don't understand, Marshall. He gave me the note.
Yeah, I know. I saw it.
Well, is there something wrong with it?
No, Mr. Botkin says it's in his handwriting.
Well, then what's the fuss?
Marshall, I don't want to do nothing illegal. You know that.
You gave Rutman the deed to your ranch, didn't you?
Of course I did. Why else would he be giving me that note for the money?
Tup, how did you ride 150 miles in one day?
Now, you ain't saying that's illegal, are you?
No, it's not illegal, Tup. It's impossible.
Eh, eh, Marshall, we ought to get this whole thing straightened out.
I think we're better, Tup.
And you tell Wayne Rutman to be at the Long Branch tonight.
We'll settle it there. I won't be accused in no wrongdoing, Marshall.
No, no, not me.
Well, there he is, Rutman. The same table where you first made the deal.
You stand up for me, Marshall. You make him give me back my money.
Well, evening, gentlemen. Sit down.
How about that?
I, eh, I hear you've got a complaint, Rutman. What's wrong?
I changed my mind. I don't want your ranch.
You don't want it?
Here's the deed. Now hand over the money.
Oh, but we made a deal. I gave you the deed and you gave me the note for the money.
Oh, I said I've changed my mind.
No, it's too late, Rutman. You've already bought the ranch. It's yours.
Fifteen thousand dollars for that place. Don't be a fool.
I didn't make you pay it.
Rutman, that should tell me something.
Tup only asked ten thousand. Now why did you offer him fifteen?
Well, I, eh, I'll answer that, Marshall.
He wanted to make sure I wouldn't sell it to nobody else.
He had it all figured out.
He rode out to my ranch with me and we made a deal.
I gave him the deed and he gave me the note.
Then he said he had to go on to Hay City and wouldn't be riding back with me.
But I know that he aimed to get back here as fast as he could and draw his money out of the bank before I could get here with his note.
That way he'd have both his money and the ranch.
He'd get the ranch for free.
This whole thing is ridiculous. I'm giving you back your deed, Tup.
You can have the ranch. I want that money.
Wait a minute. I'll tell you what I'll do, Rutman.
Now the ranch is only worth ten thousand dollars. Everybody knows that.
So I'll buy it back for ten.
What?
Yep. I've got money right here.
You want it?
No, I want the whole fifteen. I had to borrow ten thousand. I've got to return it within a week.
I can't help that, Rutman.
The ranch ain't worth more than ten thousand dollars and that's all I'll pay for it.
Now you can take it or leave it.
Marshall, are you going to sit there and let him cheat me out of five thousand dollars?
Sir Rutman, you don't have to sell the ranch.
I've got to return that ten thousand. There'll be trouble if I don't. Bad trouble.
Well, there it is. Right there on the table.
I'm going to go get me a gun.
Uh-uh. No you don't, Rutman.
I'll find him when you're not around, Marshall.
Hey Rutman, look over there at that bar. You see them five fellers?
What about them?
They're mighty good friends of mine and they're staying right here in town as long as I do in case of any trouble.
Ah, looks to me like you're licked, Mr. Rutman.
Now you either pick up the ten thousand or the deed and you get out of here. Now.
You'll hear about this, Marshall. Cheating me.
I said get going, Rutman.
Crux.
Well, he took the money and left the deed, Marshall. I still got my ranch and five thousand dollars to boot.
Tup. Who are those friends of yours at the bar there?
Oh, I'm giving a party tonight, Marshall. You're invited too. All the drinks are on me.
How about why them?
Well, they're just fellers I know. They live thirty, forty miles apart all the way up to my ranch.
Oh.
When I rode back here to see Rutman's money like he wanted me to, I left a horse at each one of them fellers' place.
So that's how you made the trip in one day.
A day and a night, Marshall.
You had your own pony express.
Well, I kind of figured maybe I ought to get here before Rutman did.
You kind of figured right, Tup.
Now, Marshall, you know that I'm honest at daylight.
I always have been.
Of course, I do stretch the blanket a little when it's blanket stretching time.
I tell you what, Tup.
Why don't we get that party going, huh?
And now our star, William Conrad.
Thank you, George.
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Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston, with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey.
Sound patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Ralph Moody, Harry Bartel, Joe DuVal, and Kathy Marlowe.
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
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Formed in 1906 from a nucleus of some 50 existing boys clubs, the National Boy Guidance Organization today numbers 435 member clubs from coast to coast, serving more than 450,000 boys.
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Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story of the Western Frontier when Matt Dillon, Chester Proudfoot, Doc, and Kitty, together with all the other hard-living citizens of Dodge, will be with you once more.
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