Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there is just one way to handle the
killers of the spoilers and that's with a US Marshal and the smell of Gunsmoke.
Gunsmoke starring William Conrad, the 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 chance a job that makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Ma, Ma, Ma it's Pete.
I come home like I said.
Ma, you hear me?
Come home hurt.
Ma, are you looking for somebody?
It's Pete.
I'm looking for Ma Belvin.
It's her place isn't it?
Pete, I'm your brother Joe, don't you know me?
Of course I've grown some, you ain't seen me since you left home.
Where's Ma?
She is, she ain't here Pete.
Well fetch her, I'm hurt bad.
I can't do that.
Fetch her.
I rode hard for her, healing.
She, she's dead.
Dead?
Ma, she's dead?
A year ago, she went thin.
She'd been ailing a long time.
I always aimed to come home I told her.
Come on, I'll help you down off that horse.
Here, and the back room.
Now lay down there on the bed.
Oh it's bad.
I'll take a look.
I ain't as good as Ma, but I've been right handy with the stock.
You got a hole in you for fair.
It ain't no use.
Ma could have helped me.
Ma had healing hands.
It ain't no use.
It ain't all that bad.
I'll get the doctor.
No doctor.
He'll fix you up.
No, you ain't gonna bring no doctor.
You talk light headed Pete.
A doc knows more about healing than Ma.
You bring the doc, you'll bring the law.
The law?
Leave it be.
You wanted Pete?
I said leave it be.
I gotta know.
Alright, you gotta know.
I'm wanted.
The law wants me.
What for?
We robbed a bank.
I got shot.
I come home.
I brung my share out in them saddle bags.
I come home for Ma's healing.
I brung the money.
I'm glad she didn't know.
Pete?
I'll bring you some breakfast.
You gotta try.
You gotta keep your strength up.
You worsen like this, I gotta do something Pete.
Now you just listen to me a little bit.
I've been thinking.
You ain't never killed nobody had you?
No, I ain't never killed.
And the law just wants you for the money you stole?
That's a plenty.
Yeah, but you could give it back.
You could give it back and save the law a lot of hunting and tracking.
You're talking crazy.
No I ain't Pete, no I ain't.
You gotta have help.
Now I'm gonna ride into Dodge for the doc.
The law?
Don't you worry none.
I'll see the marshal.
I'll tell him you want to square things up.
The law's supposed to be fair ain't it?
Alright then.
Now you give back the money and it'll be alright.
Pete?
Alright, you just stay there resting.
I'll get the doc and I'm gonna hurry Pete.
I'm gonna hurry.
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Here you are, Matt.
Thank you, Kenny.
I thought Chester's coffee would have ruined your taste for this stuff.
Sam's coffee isn't that much better, Kenny.
Don't let him hear you say that.
I've said it to him a couple of times.
What did Sam say?
He said I could always drink whiskey.
Well, he's right about that.
You know, he may be making the coffee bad on purpose.
Oh, well, no.
I don't know about that.
Yeah, right here, son.
I'd like to talk to you.
Why don't you sit down, son?
Thank you, ma'am, but I ain't just easy in a place like this.
Would you come outside, Marshal?
All right, son.
I'll see you later, Kenny.
Sure, Matt.
What's your name, boy?
Joe.
Joe Belvin.
Belvin?
Your place is east of town, isn't it?
About 12 miles.
I haven't talked to you before, have I?
No, Marshal.
I ain't spent much time in town.
Well, it didn't take a man wasting his self in a town like Dodge.
All right, Joe, we can talk here.
What can I do for you?
Well, Marshal, it's about the law.
Yeah?
What about the law?
I've been figuring on a problem.
Where you going?
The law is writ so as to be fair, ain't it?
Well, that's the general idea, yeah.
It ain't just for locking up and hanging, is it?
Maybe you better tell me what you're driving at, Joe.
Well, it's like this, Marshal.
Suppose a man done something wrong, and then he squares it up.
Wouldn't be no use to arrest him now, would there?
That would depend on what he's done.
Well, like robbing a bank?
Oh, that'd be pretty hard to square, Joe.
But the way I figured, Marshal, a man, if he hadn't hurt nobody,
could save the law a lot of trouble.
How's that?
Well, he could turn the money back, couldn't he?
Yeah, yeah, he could do that.
That's what I said. That's the way I seen it. He'd be square.
Yeah, but he'd still have to stand trial, Joe.
What kind of law is that?
The law that was broken.
That ain't right, Marshal. The law's supposed to help folks, ain't it?
It's not supposed to help folks rob a bank, Joe.
Wouldn't it be easier for you if you got the money?
Now listen to me. I don't know what's on your mind, but I can tell you what's on mine.
I'm not interested in things being easier.
Getting hold of the money wouldn't make no difference?
Wouldn't make any difference.
It don't seem that the law'll help a man, and that's a fact. He could do better without it.
Joe, you get ideas like that in your head, and you're bound for trouble.
You ain't off with me nothing but trouble.
I'll be moving on, Marshal, and thanks for nothing. I won't be forgetting neither.
I hope you won't, Joe.
Doc! Hello, Doc!
Huh? Oh, hello, Doc.
Yeah, hey, Matt, do me a favor. Would you please?
Well, sure, Doc. What is it?
Will you see that this letter gets to the post office in time to get on stage?
I just got a call to go out of town. I'd like to get started right now.
Sure, I'm headed that way anyway.
Well, thank you, Matt. Here it is.
Must be pretty important.
Well, I'm sending for a new medical book. I'd like to get it as soon as I can.
Why, Doc, I thought you knew everything already.
Well, I may have that, but I'd like to give the new books a chance.
Where are you going, Matt?
Where are you headed for in such a hurry?
Out to the Belvin place.
The Belvin place? Who's sick out there?
I don't know yet. The boy just said to hurry. So I'll see you later, Matt.
Yeah, Doc. I'll see you later.
It's a pretty long 12-mile gas leak.
You know, folks hear you talk like that, Chester. They'll say you're getting old.
Well, folks can just mind their own business.
I don't mind writing out no words when I know what I'm doing,
but this don't make much sense to me, Mr. John. I'm trying to tell you that.
I'm sorry you don't approve.
Riding out here to see about somebody that's sick, we don't even know who it is.
That's Doc's job, ain't it?
If I have a hunch, it may be our job, too.
Yeah, we turn in here.
I didn't know nobody else lived out here but that boy since that old lady died.
Must be somebody there now. Right, right up to the porch.
Right, sir.
Well, Doc couldn't have stayed very long. His buggy ain't here.
Yeah.
Well, let's see who is here.
Anybody home?
Open up.
Well, if there's a sick person in there, he must be real bad off not to hear that.
Yeah.
Now, let's go in.
You look in the kitchen, Chester. I'll see to that room.
Ain't nobody in the kitchen that's going.
Nobody in the other room either.
Seeming mighty strange.
What do you think you're doing walking into a man's house like?
Oh, it's you, Marshall.
Hello, Joe.
You ain't got no call to come busting in here.
I was looking for Doc Adams. He said he was coming out here.
It was a mistake.
Oh? He said somebody was sick.
It was a mistake, I tell you. There ain't nobody here.
Well, I can see that.
You can go on, then.
I can see something else, too, Joe.
There's been quite a bit of blood spilled in that other room.
That ain't no business of yours.
Maybe not. But if it is my business, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble by telling me about it.
I told you, Marshall. I don't need no help from the law.
I hope you're right, Joe. I just hope you're right.
Who is that?
It's me, Pete. They've gone.
You didn't tell them nothing?
I didn't tell them nothing. And I ain't going to, neither.
I told you you were going to dodge that... the law beyond me.
They ain't found you? I even got you out of the house before the doctor came.
Yeah, but you should have listened to me.
You still gotta have help.
Help? There ain't no help.
Well, sure there is, Pete. I'll find it.
I bet you Low and Raleigh are laughing for faith.
Low and Raleigh? They friends of yours?
Oh, sure. They're friends. They're partners.
Where are they, Pete?
They sure would like to see me.
They someplace near?
Oh, they ain't far. They wouldn't be far.
Come on, Pete. Tell me where to find them.
They wouldn't be far.
Where would they be?
I rode off and left them. I come home from Ma's healing.
Where, Pete?
Ma, Ma.
Tell me where.
I rode off and left them.
That shack near... near the creek, near Reed's Creek.
All right. You just lie...
Come on. Joe, Joe.
Yeah, Pete?
You ain't... ain't gonna bring the law on me.
Don't you worry about that.
We'll get help without the bang-dole law.
You just lie easy. I'll be back.
Stop right there.
Sure. Sure, mister.
Get off your horse.
No.
Now walk up here nice and slow and easy.
You don't need to worry none about me.
That's right, Sonny. I don't.
You got a gun?
No, mister. I ain't.
I ain't never believed much in shooting.
You ain't that nice.
Your name, Raleigh? Or, uh, Low?
You better come on in the house, kid.
And remember, you may not wear a gun, but I do.
Oh, I ain't got no...
Just shut up till we get in there.
Go on.
Why didn't you finish him out there?
Well, now, Raleigh, this young fella's kind of interesting.
He ain't ought to take no chances.
He knows both our names.
Now how do you suppose he found that out?
Yeah, who told you?
Why, he...
Now how do you suppose he knew right where to find us?
You should have shot him.
Plenty of time for that.
First, though, I'd like to know a few answers.
Well, there ain't nothing I...
Better make it good, kid.
Raleigh gets awful nervous when folks know where he is.
I'm trying to tell you. Pete sent me.
Pete sent you?
Well, now ain't that interesting.
Let's hear the whole story, kid.
Well, he didn't exactly send me, but he needs help.
And he told me you were his partner, so I come.
So old Pete needs help, and we'll go find him.
Where is the kid?
Why, he's at the place, the home place, out of Dodge.
So old Pete went home.
He come home shot?
Yeah, yeah, I know.
He figured Ma could heal him, but Ma's dead.
I went for the doc, but the marshal wouldn't make no deal, so I hid him.
I come to you for help.
The marshal wouldn't make no deal?
I just sounded him out some, but even if Pete gave back the money,
the marshal said he'd have to stand trial.
You told the marshal about the money?
Oh, I didn't come right out and tell him.
No, mister, I just...
Well, I just wanted to find out if somebody gave the money back,
would they go free?
Then what did you do?
Well, I rode back to the place and hid Pete and hid the money,
and I come after you for help.
You hear that, Raleigh?
The kid come for our help.
Yeah, and he knows where the money is.
We better let him take us to old Pete, don't you think?
Yeah, I guess we'd better.
Oh, it's you, Matt.
Come in.
I just got a minute, Doc.
Well, sit down. What's on your mind?
I was wondering about that call you got to go out to the bellroom, please.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I said call you got to go out to the bellroom, please.
Boy, you know, I was wondering about that, too.
Oh, what do you mean?
Well, when I got out there, Matt, there wasn't anybody there.
No. If anybody had been sick, he sure got up and walked away in a hurry.
The bellroom boy asked you to go out there, huh?
Yeah, that's right.
Just a few minutes before I saw you on Front Street, remember that?
Uh-huh.
He said somebody needed a doctor, bad.
And you didn't see him at all?
Not out there, I didn't.
How was that?
Well, I drove on our little father to see old lady Height, and on the way back,
I saw the boy running up from the stream bank.
Did you see where he went?
He headed for the barn.
And a few minutes later, he passed me on the road, and he was riding like the Pony Express.
Boy, he didn't even so much as wave to me as he went by.
Do you think he's up to something?
Maybe I'd talk him a friend of his.
We can leave the horses here.
It's just a short spell down to the creek.
Oh, thank you.
Where's the money?
We can get that later, after we tend to peak.
Here, Riley, we ought to tend to peak first off.
He's waiting for you.
Right down here.
He won't be waiting long.
He's right down here in these bushes.
I've run them, Pete.
I've run your partners.
Oh, no.
That's right, Pete.
The kid brung us right here.
Oh.
Grew right up and got us and brung us here.
Oh, Riley, I didn't mean it.
You can have the money.
Sure we can.
And don't you worry none about that, Pete.
Your kid brother's going to tell us just where it is.
I was going to bring it back and split it up.
Oh, but you won't have to do that now, will you?
We're right here.
What are you all talking about?
This ain't no time for joy.
Pete needs your help.
Well, I tell you, kid, we're going to fix it so Pete won't never need no more help at all.
Get out of the way, kid.
You're going to shoot him?
No.
Stand aside, kid.
Why do you want to shoot him?
You know how the law wouldn't make no deal, kid.
Well, we won't either.
What do you mean?
He run off with the money, all right, all of it.
He took our cut too.
But listen.
And that ain't honest, kid.
No.
He's got an answer for it.
Please, no.
Go ahead, Raleigh.
No.
You killed him.
I came to you for help and you killed me.
Stand easy, kid.
You wouldn't want to make the same mistake your brother made, would you?
Now, where's the money?
I ain't going to show you nothing.
Persuade him a little, Raleigh.
No.
You going to show us?
No, I ain't.
All right, Raleigh.
Get him along.
Drop your gun.
It's the law.
Get him.
Here now, Mr. Jones.
Yeah, come on.
That big one's dead.
Yeah.
This other one's not going to live long.
You all right, Joe?
Yeah, I'm all right.
I still look here.
He's dead, too.
They shot my brother.
He was hurt bad and I brought them to help and they shot him.
He was my only kin and they shot him.
I'm sorry, Joe.
He would have given the money back.
Marshall, he said so.
They didn't give him no chance.
He'd have been better off with the law, Joe.
You'd have locked him up.
But he'd have had a chance.
Now, come on, Chester.
Let's get this one to Doc.
I thought you said he was dying, Mr. Jones.
Yeah.
But we've got to give him his chance, too.
Gun smoke, produced and directed in Hollywood by the American Civil Rights Association.
The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Marion Clark with editorial supervision
by John Meskin.
Featured in the cast were Sam Edwards, Lawrence Dodkin, Harry Bartel, and Vic Perrin.
Farley Bear is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Hawkins is Kitty.
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