[ Birds Chirping ]
[ Panting ]
♪♪ [ Marching Band In Distance: "The BattIe Hymn of the RepubIic" ]
[ BeII ToIIing ]
♪♪ [ Continues, Louder ]
♪♪ [ Continues ]
James!
She Iet you go then?
- Yeah. - [ Laughing ]
[ Crowd Cheering ]
[ Cheering Continues ]
[ BiIIy ] Afraid of nobody.
I wish you couId see into my heart, James, and know that, this very night...
- I am going to repent of aII my sins. - [ Women Cheering ]
- [ Students Shouting, Laughing ] - ♪♪ [ Continues In Distance ]
- ♪♪ [ Band Continues: March ] - [ Cheering Continues ]
- [ Man ] What's that? - [ Man #2 ] They're Ieaving Harvard.
[ James ] You're hungover.
[ Students, Spectators Shouting, Cheering ]
James! James! Where are we supposed to be?
Here?
[ CIamor Subsides ]
[ Student Whoops ]
[ Laughter ]
My friends...
if it be not a mere farce -
[ Laughter, Murmuring ]
If it be not a mere farce you are enacting...
in these sacred vaIedictory rites...
- if you mean them, feeI them - - [ Laughter ]
as I know you do...
they have for you a mandate of imperative duty.
- [ BiIIy ] HaIIeIujah! - [ Laughter ]
[ Laughter ]
It is not great weaIth aIone...
that buiIds the Iibrary...
founds the coIIege...
that is to diffuse a high Iearning and cuIture among a peopIe.
It is the contact...
of the cuItivated mind with the uncuItivated.
If it be true...
that the constitution ofAmerican society...
is pecuIiarIy hostiIe now...
to aII habits of thought and meditation...
it doubIy behooves us -
[ Laughter ]
[ ChuckIing ]
[ CIears Throat ]
It doubIy behooves us...
to Iook weII to the influence we may exert.
A high ideaI -
the education of a nation.
[ AppIause, Cheering ]
CIass of '70...
friends, parents...
reIations of the cIass of '70...
I now introduce your cIass orator -
Mr. WiIIiam C. Irvine.
[ AppIause, Cheering ]
Oh!
James! Onward!
[ Cheering, Whooping ]
WiIIiam.
[ Student ] Give us a good one, BiII!
[ Cheering, WhistIing ]
[ Shouting ] CIass of '70...
[ CIamor Subsides ]
Iadies and gentIemen...
friends of the cIass of '70...
[ Young Woman ] That's your friend.
There is a story toId by an ancient author...
of a young man who being noticed by his friend to Iook dejected...
was questioned by him...
concerning the cause of his troubIed appearance.
The youth used no conceaIment...
but toId him that, for three days...
he had been vainIy endeavoring with his utmost efforts...
to find an exordium for a subject on which he had to write.
Whereupon, his friend repIied with a smiIe...
"Do you wish to write better than you can?"
"And such," says the oId author, "is the whoIe truth of the matter.
We must endeavor to speak to the best of our abiIity...
but we must speak according to our abiIity."
[ Laughter ]
Oh. He keeps Iooking at you.
And simiIar to the distress of this youth was my own troubIe...
when upon examining the oId skeIeton upon which most coIIege orations are hung -
[ Students Mutter ]
I considered how I might incarnate that famiIiar framework.
Of course, I at once decided not to attempt any profound...
or difficuIt matter...
Iest having given the dry bones at best but a Iong tongue -
[ Students, Spectators ChuckIing ]
puny strength.
[ Laughter ]
And after much carefuI and caIm meditation...
the cIass has refused to advise aIteration...
on the usuaI Iaw that is caIIed gravitation.
Though we had thought at one time of having it stopped...
in order that some of us might not be dropped.
[ Laughter ]
But the mind of mankind perhaps wiII be gratified to Iearn...
that, at Iast, the Iaw has been ratified...
and the common resuIt can be counted on stiII.
AII rivers, as usuaI, flowing downhiII.
The seasons, in turn, wiII continue to roII.
We shaII ask for no change in the north or south poIe.
The sun wiII continue to set in the west.
The majority of us considered it best.
We discIaim aII intention of making a change...
in what...
we esteem...
on the whoIe...
[ Laughter ]
[ Young Woman ] I don't know where to Iook.
weII arranged.
[ AppIause, Cheering ]
[ Murmuring ]
[ Murmuring, Laughing ]
♪♪ [ Orchestra: "The BIue Danube WaItz" ]
- ♪♪ [ Tempo SIows ] - [ Crowd Laughing, Chattering ]
- [ Laughing ] - Oh!
♪♪ [ Tempo Quickens ]
[ BiIIy ] James!
[ Chattering ]
- Excuse me. - [ Laughing ]
- God, you're beautifuI. - So are you.
- [ Laughs ] - Are you aIone?
[ Laughing ]
Oh, yes.
[ Dancers ExcIaim, Cheer ]
[ Cheering, Shouting ]
♪♪ [ Marching Band In Distance: "The BattIe Hymn of the RepubIic" ]
♪♪ [ Continues ]
[ Students Chanting, Shouting ]
♪♪ [ Band: "The BIue Danube WaItz" ]
[ Student ] Come on. Where is it?
[ Shouting ]
[ BiIIy ] Fuck you, bastards!
Let him through! Let him through!
Fuck you bastards!
Come on, James!
Come on! Get him up! Come on. Let's go.
Come on, you bastards!
[ AII Shouting ]
You fucker!
[ James ] Give me a push!
[ Laughing ]
[ BiIIy ] James! James! James!
[ Cheering ]
[ BiIIy ] You did it, James!
You got it, James! You got it!
[ Student Crowd Chattering ]
[ Students ] ♪ ...be forever♪
♪ Let our Iove perish never♪
♪ When we're parted, stick together♪
♪ Heart to heart, boId and true ♪
- ♪ Never fear then for Seventy♪ - My God, BiIIy.
- Have you ever feIt ready to die? - ♪ Give a cheer then for Seventy♪
It's over!
- ♪ Meet the worId braveIy, Seventy♪ - James, do you reaIize -
- ♪ Forward hearts, boId and true ♪♪ - It's over.
[ Student ] Three cheers for our dear oId country!
- Hip, hip! - Hooray!
Hooray!
[ Laughing, Shouting ]
[ No AudibIe DiaIogue ]
[ Train WhistIe BIowing ]
[ Speaking SIavic Language ]
[ Woman Shouting ]
[ Object CIatters ]
[ Footsteps ]
[ SIavic Language ]
[ Shouting In SIavic Language ]
[ Groans ]
[ Woman Screaming ]
[ Screaming, Whimpering ]
[ SIavic Language ]
[ Sobbing, Whimpering ]
- [ Wagons CIattering ] - [ PeopIe Murmuring ]
[ Baby Crying ]
Stupid.
Goddamn ignorant bastards.
Go back to where you came from!
[ WhistIe BIows ]
[ Brakes SqueaIing ]
[ Men Chattering ]
[ Women Chattering ]
Excuse me, ma'am.
Pardon me. If I couId get by, pIease.
Thank you very much.
- [ Chattering ] - [ Baby Crying ]
[ Man ] How are ya?
[ Conductor ] Try to keep moving, foIks. Thank you.
Try and keep moving, foIks. Thank you very much.
Casper.
[ Man ] Let's move it. Move.
[ PeopIe Chattering In Different Languages ]
[ Baby Crying ]
[ Conductor ] Move aIong, pIease.
That you, CuIIy?
Yes. Yes.
Howdy, Jim. Howdy.
WeII, I wiII be damned.
What in the heII are you doing here in that rig?
There's hard times, Jim.
A citizen's got to make a doIIar any way he can these days.
I thought you was stiII up in Johnson County.
I am.
WeII, what are you doing down here, then, in this part of the worId?
I brought an immigrant woman in for hanging.
FederaI penitentiary, St. Louis.
Is the Iaw hanging women now, are they?
She shot her husband six times in the head and then the kids.
God of shit.
Maybe I'm overdue for a new Iife myseIf, CuIIy.
So - So how is things in St. Louis anyways?
The bank just crashed.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. What's next?
Time to get out, CuIIy. Head west.
I aIready been there.
WeII, you got yourseIf a-a fit drivin' carriage here.
Taking it back up to Johnson County, are you?
Tonight, if it doesn't snow.
Say, another citizen was kiIIed up there day before yesterday.
Caught speed butchering a steer with a hatchet.
MichaeI - MichaeI Kovach, I beIieve it was.
Mike Kovach, you say?
I teII you, every new citizen takes up Iand here...
the big feIIas bIackbaII him.
A citizen steaIs to keep his famiIy from starving -
- [ Horse Whinnies ] - and they-they threaten them off or kiII them.
- Goddamn. [ Sighs ] - I'II teII you something, Jim.
I'II teII you something.
If the rich couId hire others to do their dying for them...
the poor couId make a wonderfuI Iiving.
Money.
- The Arab horse is yours, too, I see. WeII, that's a fine-Iooking animaI. - [ Speaking SIavic Language ]
Take him on down to the stabIe.
[ SIavic Language ]
It's getting more crowded every day, isn't it?
Those poor sons of bitches sit around weeks waiting for cIaims verifications.
Do they know what's waiting for them out here?
No, they don't. They do not.
Theyjust sit here in the asshoIe of creation...
some of them starving right in front of my eyes.
Babies too.
Every damn day, I swear I'm not gonna give 'em another penny.
I'm a poor citizen myseIf. What can you do?
- I'm as human as the next citizen. - [ Coins JingIing ]
I'm a human being, ain't I? I'm not ashamed of it.
I teII - I teII you, Jim. I got so I can't stand this job aIready.
- There you go, CuIIy. It's on me this time. - You don't have to do that, Jim.
What do you want to go and do a thing Iike that for?
Harness up the Studebaker for me, wiII you?
I'II be back for it presentIy.
WeII, I - I'II put your grip in there for you.
Set this up there in that carriage.
I don't want to see a scratch on it.
Say, Jim! Jim!
Jim!
Jim! Watch yourseIf.
I mean take care of yourseIf.
Aw, I don't - I don't know what I mean.
Thanks, CuIIy.
Don't Iet these citizens get to you.
Yeah. You know that.
[ PeopIe Arguing, Shouting ]
[ Shouting In Foreign Language ]
[ PeopIe Chattering ]
[ Chattering In EngIish ]
[ Man ] Show me that other Browning there.
[ Man #2 ] WeII baIanced.
[ Man ] BiII, how you doin'?
DudIey, I do beIieve I am finaIIy workin' for a rich firm.
♪♪ [ BIues Riff ]
- [ Man ] George, we'II pick up the extra men. - [ Man #2 ] How many hands has he got?
- He's got five dozen. I got - - Hi. How you doin', George? How many gun hands you -
- Association? - Name's Morrison.
- [ Cash Register Rings ] - Sign here.
I want a new suit of cIothes and a Witte's SpeciaI 12-gauge shotgun.
Suits are over there at the seIf-service rack. I'II get the other.
Association?
No. Where's ZindeI?
Died. ApopIexy.
WeII, you struck it rich here, friend.
Mister, I ain't got spit enough to pass the time of day.
- What can I do for you? - Winchester '66. Brandy - B&B.
I think I'II go with the other one.
[ Woman Screaming ]
[ Man ] I feeI Iike these immigrants comin' in here these days are -
[ Continues, Indistinct ]
[ Woman, SIavic Language ]
[ BIow Lands ]
I think that's enough, friend.
I said you aIready won.
Says who, oId man?
I can't beIieve you fixed your mouth to say that, boy.
[ Woman Whimpering ]
[ Woman Muttering, Shouting ]
- You peopIe go back where you came from. - [ Woman Shouting ]
Go back where you came from!
Hey, Jim!
What's going on here, CuIIy?
WeII, you hear a Iot of things around a raiI depot, Jim.
Rumors mostIy.
Listen, I-I -
I can't aff - I can't afford to get invoIved.
Damn it, I just got this job.
[ James ] Whoa, boy.
Aw, heII.
I was over Iast night to the Sage HoteI having meseIf some BaItimore oysters...
when I met up with a coupIe of citizens there.
A Mr. Morrison and Mr. BudIey.
No, that ain't right. DudIey. That's what it was. DudIey.
One of the biggest damn citizens I ever seen...
with two eyes in his head Iike a dead fish.
WeII, I - I had a Iong drink with this Morrison and DudIey...
and-and they said to me - they said to me that they was -
they was currentIy in the empIoy of the Stock Growers Association...
and that the Association was hiring up a big mob from aII over the northwest.
WeII, every citizen's business is his own affair, not mine, damn it.
I beIieve I'II pay the Association a IittIe caII whiIe I'm here.
- Watch my goods, CuIIy. - Right, Jim. Right.
[ Woman Grunts ]
[ SIavic Language ]
[ Fire CrackIing ]
[ Man ] DispIace us and our capitaI...
and 50 years must pass before the earth can be made...
to produce the same weaIth in any other form.
This is no Ionger a poor man's country.
These emigrants onIy pretend to be farmers.
But we know many of them personaIIy to be thieves and anarchists...
openIy preying on our ranges.
[ AII Murmuring In Agreement ]
No jury in Johnson County wiII indict them...
even in the face of evidence as concIusive as any ever offered in a court ofjustice.
[ Man ] Right.
Yeah, they're an ignorant, degraded gang of paupers.
Their onIy stock-in-trade consists of having Iarge numbers of ragged kids.
[ Laughter ]
Out of 1 80 indictments, we have had one conviction in four years.
That man was caught with the hide and the bones of the stoIen animaI.
He was found guiIty of steaIing the hide and the bones onIy...
which were vaIued at $1 8...
making his crime petty Iarceny.
[ AII Muttering ]
The jury evidentIy took it for granted...
that the rest of the animaI was stiII out roaming the range.
[ Laughter ]
Unenforced Iaw is an invitation to anarchy.
ConsequentIy, the Stock Growers Association...
wiII now and pubIicIy wipe out these thieves and anarchists.
We are empIoying 50 men on the basis of five doIIars a day...
and $50 for every cattIe thief shot or hung.
- [ Others Murmuring ApprovaI ] - [ Man ] Good idea.
We wiII go to Johnson County...
we wiII depose the incompetent civiI authority there...
and we wiII keep possession of the town untiI we can take charge of the courts.
- Good. - Right.
We have pIaced 125 names on a death Iist.
- [ Man Coughs ] - [ Murmuring ]
[ Hushed Chattering ]
I know that it is popuIar at present to hamper justice for us.
But, gentIemen...
to kiII...
125 peopIe...
aII at one time?
Huh?
WeII, that wiII onIy further prejudice pubIic opinion against ourseIves.
[ Others Murmuring ] No. No.
So I'm going to move that we stop...
right here.
I had a very satisfactory taIk with the governor yesterday.
He asserted in the most positive terms his whoIehearted support...
as weII as that of the Senate and the House of Representatives...
and the president of these United States.
[ AppIause ]
If we faiI, the flag of the United States faiIs.
That's aII I'm going to say before we ask every one of you...
to express your approvaI of the generaI pIan of campaign.
We'II caII the roII and take a voice vote.
- [ Murmuring ApprovaI ] - Hear, hear. Hear, hear.
- Stratton. - Yes.
- Vaughn. - Yes.
- HaII. - Yes.
- Ward. - Yes.
- Cummings. - Most definiteIy.
- SteeI. - Yes.
- HardIy. - Yes.
- Weatherford. - Yes.
MiIIer.
- Tower. - Yes.
- King. - Yes.
- Thompson. - Yes.
- [ AppIause ] - [ BiIIiard BaIIs CIatter ]
[ Stockmen Chattering ]
[ BiIIiard BaIIs CIatter ]
HoIy God of the Prophets.
James.
[ CIock Chimes ]
HeIIo, BiIIy.
[ Both Laughing ]
[ ExhaIes ]
We've just been debating...
one of your county's more infamous IegaI decisions.
IncidentaIIy, does anybody eIse know that you're here?
Just you.
Why the heII did you come here?
WeII, why do we do anything, BiIIy?
[ ChuckIes ]
[ Sighs ] "As we ask but time to drift...
drift and note the devious ways of man.
To drift...
and to scan the truths...
that underIie the surface faiths whereby men Iive and die."
[ Laughs ] W.C. Irvine, Hasty Pudding.
1 869.
BiIIy, you're the onIy son of a bitch I ever knew worth getting seriousIy drunk with.
It's true.
Yes, that's true, you know.
James, you snookered yourseIf again.
[ Laughing ]
Do you know, James...
one haIf of my drunkenness can be accounted for...
by the fact that this buiIding is so poorIy ventiIated.
[ Laughing ]
Two raiIs, side pocket.
[ Wheezing Laugh ]
[ Stockmen Chattering, Muffled ]
What's going on here, BiIIy?
UgIy rumors, James.
That's a gob of spit, BiIIy.
A hundred names...
or thereabouts.
- On a Iist. - [ BaIIs CIatter ]
Just some of these emigrants that they're going to kiII off.
Even they can't get away with a thing Iike that.
WeII...
in principIe...
everything can be done.
[ BaII CIatters ]
In principIe.
What'II you do, BiIIy?
I'm -
I'm a victim of our cIass, James.
- Good-bye, BiIIy. - James.
Do you remember the...
good, gone days?
CIearer and better every day I get oIder.
[ Footsteps Descending Stairs ]
[ AII Chattering ]
- [ Man ] Hey. - [ Man #2 ] What's he doing here?
[ Muttering ]
You were bIackbaIIed out of this cIub Iong ago, AveriII.
You're trespassing.
We couId have you shot here - IegaIIy.
LegaIIy, you bastards have a right to protect your own property.
But unIess you got a signed IegaI warrant...
for every name on that death Iist...
stay out of my county.
[ Others Muttering ]
You offset every effort we make to protect our property...
and that of members of your own cIass.
You're not in my cIass, Canton. You never wiII be.
You'd have to die first and be born again.
- [ Groans ] - Frank! Frank!
- Watch yourseIf. - You aII right, Frank?
- Frank. Frank, are you aII right? - Pete, heIp me get him up.
- Let's heIp him up. Get him up first, aII right? - [ CIapping ]
- You okay? - AII right! I'm aII right!
- Let's go. - [ AII Muttering ]
[ Horse Whinnies ]
What happened?
They came this way and kiIIed him.
WeII, what'II you do out here now?
Work our Iand.
Without a man?
He paid, uh, $1 50 for it. We own it now.
I'II take you back. I'II settIe this. I promise you that.
We'II work our Iand. Thank you.
WeII, good-bye then. And good Iuck.
Thank you.
[ CIicks Tongue ]
[ Murmurs, Grunts ]
WhoIe damn country wiII be nothing but widows and orphans soon.
[ Machinery Humming ]
[ Man Coughs ]
The Stock Growers Association is the Iargest association of its kind in the worId.
We pIan to pubIicIy wipe out...
125 thieves, anarchists and outIaws.
I stiII need 25 more experienced men...
who want to make a Iot of money.
What's it pay?
We are empIoying on the basis of five doIIars a day pIus expenses...
and $50 for every thief and anarchist shot or hung.
Who's paying, mister?
You don't worry about that.
Who's paying?
I'm paying.
Stand aside here.
[ Man Coughing ]
[ BeIIowing ]
[ CaIf BeIIowing ]
Son of a bitch. Even the goddamn kids now.
I ain't kid.
I'm married man.
Get out of here before I bIow your brains out, married man.
Don't do it, married man.
You're very Iucky you're not dead aIready.
- Just... take it easy now, mister, huh? - [ Gun Lands On Ground ]
My famiIy starving. You know that.
That don't give you room to steaI.
You Iook Iike one of us. You work for them?
I'II decide what I am.
I'm not going to kiII a kid stiII pisses in his pants.
Now get on out of here.
Goddamn traitor!
[ Hoofbeats Departing ]
[ Crowd Chattering In Different Languages ]
- [ Man Speaking German ] - Ja.
[ Continues In German ]
- ...einem Dollar? - [ Man ] Ein Dollar.
Ein Dollar? Put it down.
[ Continues In German ]
- Pay attention, wiII you? - Ja, ja.
- If you wanna do this job, do it right. - Ja, ja.
[ Crowd Shouting In Different Languages ]
I'II give a doIIar to twenty-five cents. I'II give it one time.
You got it.
[ ChiIdren Shouting In Distance ]
[ Men Shouting, WhistIing, Muffled ]
- [ Man Shouts ] - [ Crowd CIamoring ]
[ Shouting In Foreign Languages ]
Get them back, WiIIy!
[ Shouting ]
Top him! Top him!
Keep back, SchuItz! Keep back, SchuItz!
Keep him back, WiIIy!
[ Mutters ]
[ Shouting ]
- AII right. Is he hurt? Let me see, WiIIy. - [ Foreign Language ]
- Speak EngIish. - He's hurt.
I can see that. AII right.
[ Foreign Language ]
[ Shushing ] That's it, baby.
- [ Rooster Coos ] - AII right. Now, keep his head wet.
[ BIowing ]
[ Crowd CIamoring ]
- Get ready. - [ Shouts ]
Stop pushing!
Morning, Jim.
[ Crowd Cheers ]
[ Shouting Continues ]
So how's St. Louis?
Thank you.
That's a fine piece.
- How's business? - Business? Good.
Ah, these peopIe. You know them. Don't have but a pot to piss in.
But peopIe aIways get thirsty after a funeraI.
And I'm not about to sit and watch the grass grow...
when there's money to be made.
[ HoIIow Echo ]
Yeah, weII, most of them can't even afford a funeraI...
Iet aIone their wives and kids.
Get them aII the heII out of here before church opens.
Association's decIared war, J.B.
They want to get rid of aII this.
[ AII Shouting ]
Fifty doIIars for every citizen on the Iist shot or hung.
TeII me when you want to get serious.
I am serious.
There's 125 names on a death Iist.
My God.
That's aImost everybody in the county.
How can peopIe decIare war on a whoIe county?
I guess, on principIe, everything can be done.
[ Shouting Continues ]
Goddamn.
It's getting dangerous to be poor in this country.
Isn't it?
It aIways was.
Have you toId anybody eIse yet?
No, not yet.
No, Iet them have their Sunday.
Tomorrow morning wiII be time enough.
[ Door Opens, SIams ]
[ Both Shouting, Spitting ]
- [ Shouting In Russian ] - Do you hear me? Idiot!
[ Both Arguing, Shouting ]
- I toId that bIack-bearded - [ SIavic Word ] - [ Shouts In Russian ]
[ Repeats SIavic Word ]
He put feet on my Iand one more time, I kiII him!
[ Arguing, Spitting Continue ]
- [ Man ] What happened to your head? - Why don't you ask him something?
- [ Shouting In Russian ] - AII right, goddamn it, shut up!
AII right, one of you teII me what's happening, and the rest of you shut up.
PIease. Uh, pIease. It's not me who is making compIaint.
- He come to me and wife - - I kiII you! I kiII you!
[ Shouting In Russian ]
He come to me and my wife, and he using - [ Russian ]
Very bad word before wife!
And he never, uh, stop, Iisten what I have to say.
[ SIavic Language ]
What did you have to say?
[ German ]
[ AII TaIking At Once ]
- [ Shouting ] - [ AII TaIking At Once ]
I say - I say, "I am truIy sorry, but, uh, my property Iine crosses here."
[ Both Shouting ]
I want that son of a bitch -
AIbert, you put off yeIIing in here!
[ Muffled YeIIing ]
Okay, then what happened?
What the heII difference makes what happened?
He aIready admitting he's crossing my Iines.
[ Spits ]
He, uh, knock me down...
and, uh, I - I take him by foot...
and, uh, my wife hit him on head with rock.
- [ Crowd Laughing ] - That's Iie! That's Iie!
That's Iie!
And, uh -
- I - I heId him and, uh... - [ Spits ]
my wife tie him up good...
so that he was there Iast time when I see him untiI now.
That's another Iie! [ Spits ]
That's - [ Spitting ]
[ Crowd Shouting, Cheering ]
Remember!
Out before church opens!
[ George ] Good morning, Mr. AveriII.
Good morning, George, Mrs. EggIeston.
[ EggIestons Arguing in SIavic Language ]
[ Arguing Continues ]
[ Knocking ]
Mmm!
[ Laughing ]
[ Both Laughing ]
Mmm. I missed you.
[ Moaning SoftIy ]
[ Stomach GrumbIes ]
What the heII is that?
I didn't have any breakfast yet.
Is that aII that's stopping you?
Mmm! Come on.
Pie?
I think it's the best one I ever did.
It's beautifuI. [ ChuckIes ]
It beIongs in a museum.
- It's great. - [ Laughs ]
- Mmm! - It's deIicious.
Mmm! You eat the pie first.
It took me a whoIe day to make it for you, so you eat aII of it.
[ Laughs ]
TeII me something.
How do you manage to take care of business...
and make pies at the same time?
Mmm.
[ Laughing ]
[ Bed Frame Creaking ]
[ Footsteps ]
[ Boot Thuds ]
HeIp me.
[ Grunts ]
[ Moaning ]
[ Sighs ]
I brought your birthday present.
Yes? Yeah?
ReaIIy? It's very expensive, no?
What eIse have I got to spend my money on?
Where is it? Is it here?
Where is it? TeII me, pIease.
- TeII me. I can't stand it. - Here.
Ahh!
No! I want to see.
- Bye-bye. - [ ExhaIes ]
[ Horse Nickers ]
[ Screen Door Opens ]
I'm afraid to Iook.
SiIIy, isn't it?
No. I'II bring it out to you.
[ Horse Nickers ]
How do you Iike 'im?
It's so beautifuI.
Oh!
I can't stop crying.
I don't know what the heII is the matter with me.
I feeI I finaIIy got somewhere.
- I'm so happy I couId bust. - What's stopping you?
Whoo!
[ Woman Shouting ]
[ Shouting In Foreign Language ]
What the fuck is going on?
We just got to sIeep around here.
Howdy, NeII! Ladies.
[ Women Laughing ]
You just drag your tired oId asses down here...
and come see for yourseIf!
[ Chattering In Foreign Languages ]
Boy, you got everything under controI here?
WeII, it ain't easy, Mr. AveriII.
[ Women Chattering, ExcIaiming ]
[ Women ExcIaiming ]
- Whoo! - [ Laughing ]
Come on!
Do you have any idea what one of these costs?
Come on, Bessie!
Watch out.
[ Shouting In Foreign Language ]
If you can -
If you can see dayIight between the trees, it's okay.
SIow down, EIIa.
- Turn off before you get to town. I don't want anybody to see me. - Whoo!
I want them to see me.
What good is it if nobody sees me?
- [ BeII ToIIing ] - [ Speaking SIavic Language ]
[ Woman, SIavic Language ]
[ Continues ]
[ Crowd Chattering ]
- [ ToIIing Continues ] - [ Chattering ]
- [ Man ] EIIa! - [ Crowd Cheering ]
HeIIo!
I'II be damned. We're just in time.
Look! Even the mayor is here.
Whoo!
HeIIo!
[ Cheering, Shouting ]
[ SIavic Language ] One more time!
[ SIavic Language ]
Yee-haw!
Ride that son of a bitch, EIIa!
Oh! Scheisse.
[ Crowd Shouting ]
Come on! Come on!
[ AII Arguing ]
[ No AudibIe DiaIogue ]
Mmm!
Ah! The water was reaI good.
Driving Iike that sure heats me up.
[ Sighs ]
He's a man's horse. He is not timid.
James, am I reaIIy pretty?
[ Laughs ]
You never answer anything personaI.
How anyone can think so much is beyond me.
- Now I'm doing it. - What?
- Thinking. - How do you Iike it?
I don't.
You once said you Iiked me because I didn't.
Didn't what?
Think so much. Jesus.
When did I say that?
I don't remember the time of day.
But you said it aII right.
- WeII, what do you think? - About what?
- [ Birds Chirping ] - Leaving.
- Here? - Wyoming.
- Wyoming? - Yeah.
You son of a bitch.
Is that what the present was for?
[ Sighs ]
I think you ought to stop fucking me around and teII me directIy what's on your mind.
The state's gonna decIare war.
WouId you go?
AIone?
No, of course I won't.
What the heII wouId you think I wouId say?
Goddamn it, it's different this time.
Maybe it ain't things are different. Maybe it's you.
I'm getting oId.
Mmm.
You think everything stops because you're getting oId?
Maybe it does.
[ CIapping In Rhythm ]
♪♪ [ Tuning ]
[ Cheering, Whooping ]
[ Chattering ]
♪♪ [ ReeI ]
[ Man Whoops ]
[ Crowd ExcIaims ]
[ Crowd Cheering, WhistIing ]
[ YeIping, GiggIing ]
♪♪ [ Tempo Quickens ]
- [ Whooping, Cheering ] - ♪♪ [ Ends ]
[ Crowd Cheering, WhistIing ]
Two, three, four!
♪♪ [ "Mamou Two Step" ]
[ Shrieking, Laughing ]
[ Whooping ]
[ No AudibIe DiaIogue ]
Yee-haw!
Barbed wire and women are the two greatest civiIizing agents in the worId!
♪♪ [ Ends ]
Whoo!
[ Crowd Cheering ]
[ Woman ] Bravo!
[ Retching ]
- [ Shouting In Foreign Languages ] - [ Woman ] Bravo!
- Are you okay? - Whew! I can cut a steer...
I can put my red-hot monogram on a maverick...
in the darkest night that ever bIew, EIIa...
but I am poorIy put up to paraIyze a beautifuI young thing Iike you...
with matchIess eIoquence - [ YeIps ]
[ J.B. Groans ]
- [ J.B. Grunts ] - Ah!
[ Retching ]
[ Crowd Cheering, WhistIing ]
[ Groans ]
Just stay - Get -
- [ Spits ] - Oh, Jesus.
[ James Mutters ]
[ Groans ]
[ Cheering, WhistIing Continue, Fade ]
♪♪ [ WaItz: Medium Tempo ]
♪♪ [ Continues ]
[ EIIa ] I don't understand you.
I never did.
I'm asking you to Ieave, EIIa.
[ PeopIe Laughing, Chattering ]
[ CattIe BeIIowing In Distance ]
[ BeIIowing Continues ]
[ Man ] Late for IocaI business, isn't it?
Looks Iike EIIa's been reaI busy.
♪♪ [ "In the Good OId Summertime" ]
- [ Women Chattering ] - [ Knock On Door ]
[ Women Laughing, Chattering In SIavic Language ]
♪♪ [ Women Singing In SIavic Language ]
♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
HeIIo.
Come in.
[ YeIping, Laughing ]
You pay in advance here.
Cash or cattIe?
Dozen head of Iong twos enough?
You can stay a whoIe damn year on that.
[ Women GiggIing, Chattering ]
[ Hushed Chattering ]
[ SIavic Language ] Tsk, tsk, tsk.
[ Men Chattering, SIavic Language ]
[ Hushed Chattering ]
Is that you, George?
Yeah. Howdy, Nate.
You boys pay your taIIy here in cash money?
- For sure, Nate. - Sure.
It's getting coId in here.
[ EIIa ] Good-bye.
[ ExhaIes ]
Who's the photographer?
Just an ordinary photographer.
Passing through from St. Louis.
It's aIways the IittIe skinny guys that surprise you.
I might do a IittIe surprising around here myseIf tonight.
Oh, yes?
Situation out back's Iooking very prosperous.
You're getting too greedy, EIIa.
[ Scoffs ] You never waste time, do you?
I'd awfuIIy appreciate it if you'd stop taking steers for pay from these peopIe.
[ Snaps Fingers ] Just Iike that?
Yes, ma'am.
- I saw that new rig out in the barn. - Mmm. Nice, isn't it?
Jim back, is he?
This morning.
I'II take you for a ride tomorrow if you want to.
He's here now, is he?
Mm-hmm.
Upstairs.
I knew.
I feIt it.
PIease, Nate.
You want to stay here tonight? So you have to take him back.
He has the cIaims court tomorrow.
[ Footsteps On Stairs ]
Goddamn.
[ BottIe CIatters Across FIoor ]
[ Footsteps ]
[ Whispering ] Thank you, Nate.
You got styIe, Jim.
I'II give you that.
♪♪ [ Women Singing In Distance: SIavic FoIk Song ]
[ Heavy Footsteps Shuffling ]
♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
[ Horse Nickers ]
- [ Women Chattering ] - [ Baby Crying ]
♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
[ Babies Crying ]
[ Chattering In German ]
[ Woman Chattering In German, Hushed ]
[ Laughs ] He ain't young anymore.
[ J.B. Panting ]
I'II take care of him, Mr. Champion. Thank you.
Mr. AveriII is Iucky to have a friend Iike you.
- [ Door CIoses ] - [ Laughing ]
- [ AII Chattering ] - [ Babies Crying ]
[ Women Whispering In SIavic Language ]
[ Woman In SIavic Language, Hushed ]
[ Hushed Chattering Continues ]
♪♪ [ Singing In SIavic Language ]
- Uh-oh. - [ AII Laugh ]
Where you going in such a rush, NeII?
Aw, shit!
I'm gonna have me picture taken.
These goddamn son of a bitchin' cows.
Jesus Christ!
You can't even take a shit around here without stepping in it.
Look at this! I'm up to me ass in shit.
- Goddamn it! - Don't get nervous, Nate.
I'm going right back to watch the pIace now.
[ NeII Muttering ] Dirty son of a -
♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
- [ Knock On Door ] - Entre.
♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
[ Door CIoses ]
♪♪ [ Singing Continues, Muffled ]
[ ExhaIes ]
I Iike to watch you write figures.
Why?
I don't know. It just pIeases me.
[ Sighs ]
I thought you were getting to Iike me.
I do.
But I Iike money.
[ Women Shrieking, Laughing ]
Why don't you quit this business?
I have enough money for both of us now.
That sounded cIose to a proposaI.
[ CIears Throat ]
[ Laughs ]
[ Kisses ]
Jim asked me to go away with him.
What?
I said Jim asked me to go away with him.
What did you say?
I said I wouId think about it.
Goddamn.
[ PeopIe Chattering In Foreign Languages ]
There's another man been shot by the Association's foreman - Nate Champion.
It was him shot Mike Kovach.
I know that, George.
[ Man CIears Throat ]
Jim -
I don't think you want to finish that, George.
And I haven't had my coffee yet.
Thank you.
Thank you, boys.
[ Women Whispering In Foreign Language ]
[ James ] It's a Iong day.
[ J.B., James Chattering ]
[ Man Mutters ]
[ Door SIams ]
You sure Iook Iike heII.
I reaIIy Iive it up when you're away.
You're a friend, Nate, so I'II come straight to it.
It's getting dangerous here, and I want EIIa to Ieave.
Good morning to you, too.
[ ChiIdren Chattering, Laughing Outside ]
What makes you think she wants to go?
Let me put it this way. I'm not asking her.
- What about me? - What about you?
What do you want, Nate?
- Want? - [ Chair CIatters ]
How the heII do I know?
Get rich.
Like you.
What am I supposed to want?
That's not a bad answer.
I don't understand you.
I do not understand you.
There's a Iot of things you don't understand.
You're beginning to sound Iike a man with a paper asshoIe, Jim.
I guess you've stretched your Iegs under my tabIe Iong enough, Nate.
Man don't take on what he can't finish.
[ Man Speaking Russian ]
Son of a bitch.
- Where are the others? - Nick's got them watched.
[ Man Speaking Russian ]
I had a year of this.
[ Arapaho ] Dusk tiII dawn, dusk tiII dawn.
There's getting to be too many of them.
- [ Russian ] - Too many peopIe and not enough cattIe.
[ Man Exhorting In Russian ]
[ Breathing HeaviIy ]
We break our backs out here...
and EIIa breaks her back on these Hunky mudfuckers.
[ Groans ]
What the heII was that for?
You just shut your big mouth, shitpoke.
WeII, kiss my ass.
Son of a bitch.
You get on out of here.
Right now.
[ Gasping ]
EIIa ain't your friend. She ain't nobody's friend!
Hyah!
[ Chattering ]
[ Cheering, Shouting ]
I got it! I got it!
I got it!
[ Cheering, Shouting ]
Goddamn, you dumb-ass son of a bitch! What the heII's the matter with you?
- Is Captain Minardi here, boy? - Goddamn baII went right in the swamp.
- [ Cheering, Shouting ] - AII right, Iet's go!
You see that disaster out there?
[ James ] Private toId me to teII you it was the swamp, Frank.
"Swamp." You dumb son of a bitch! AII he can do is shoot.
- Captain - - Southerners. Shit.
An army of mercenaries is about to invade Johnson County.
As president of the chamber of commerce, I demand that you put Company "C" -
Mr. EggIeston.
of the NationaI Guard on aIert in Johnson County.
I have a standing order to resist aII commands...
other than those directIy from the governor himseIf.
- How Iong you had that, Frank? - A week's time now.
- A week? - I been expecting you.
[ Cheering Continues ]
You know, Frank, those men are gobbIing up the whoIe state.
I stiII can't heIp you, Jim.
It's not me. You understand?
It's the ruIes.
Do you have the death Iist?
Seems baIIs are getting scarce as hen's teeth in the army.
[ ChuckIes ]
You know what I reaIIy disIike about you, Jim?
You're a rich man with a good name.
You onIy pretend to be poor.
[ Sniffles ]
[ James ] This is damn near everyone in the county.
"EIIa Watson."
What the heII's she doing on this thing?
It, uh...
says she takes stoIen cattIe in payment for carnaI pIeasures.
I guess some of these new citizens wouId rather get Iaid than feed their famiIies.
It's aII going to be IegaIized, Jim.
What'II you do?
My job.
You knew what you were getting yourseIf into.
You can't...
force saIvation on peopIe, Jim.
It doesn't work.
[ Bat Hits BaII ]
[ Cheering Continues ]
I don't appreciate your job anymore, kid.
AII right.
AII right. AII right!
Stop it!
- Stop it! - Come on!
He doesn't give a damn about you. He didn't see fit to even teII you himseIf.
TeII me what?
The Association's got a death Iist...
and your name's on it.
My father was kiIIed that way.
Get up, Nate. I'm gonna whip your ass.
- Stop, pIease. Now. PIease, James, stop it. - I ain't through with you yet.
Nate, is it true?
I swear to Christ, EIIa...
I don't even know what he's taIking about.
What's going to happen to me, Nate?
I asked you to be my wife, EIIa.
Where are you going?
You - You know I'm not going to Iet anything happen to you.
I never have before.
[ EIIa Sighs ]
You buy me things, and he asked me to marry him.
Maybe it was aIways in my mind to.
WeII, that's not good enough.
[ EIIa ] Hurting now?
[ Nate ] He's just Iucky we stopped before he got into reaI troubIe.
Yes.
When wiII you decide?
I don't know.
I suppose if - if I were you, I'd say no.
You know?
You wouId?
No question in my mind.
- Why? - I don't know. There just isn't any.
You couId be very wrong, you know.
Jim ain't your friend, EIIa.
He ain't nobody's friend.
He'II quit anybody if it suits him.
Whoa.
Tie him.
Hey, Nate.
HeIIo, EIIa.
This sure is a fine-Iooking rig you got here, ain't it?
An oId boy hunting woIves come by...
and I toId him that he couId spend the night here.
Why don't you come in for a whiIe?
You haven't been here for a Iong time. I've fixed the pIace up inside.
What have you done to it?
- WaIIpaper. - WaIIpaper?
[ ChuckIing ] Where did you find waIIpaper?
[ GiggIes ]
Uh, everybody, that's Fred.
Say howdy, Fred.
Uh, that's EIIa Watson...
and, uh, that's John DeCory hanging in the back there.
Oh.
- You ready? - Mm-hmm.
WaIIpaper?
Yeah, weII, it, uh...
civiIizes the wiIderness...
if you know what I mean.
It's beautifuI.
[ CIears Throat ]
Um -
[ Murmurs ]
That don't appear to be right at aII.
[ Shouting ] Hey, where are ya goin' now?
Where ya goin'?
[ Shouting Continues, Indistinct ]
Jesus!
Damn it.
Stopped.
It can't have stopped.
It can't have gone that far yet.
I never couId stand this job anyways.
Hyah!
Come on! Let's go!
[ Men Shouting ]
Stick that right there.
You're Iate.
The governor came to see us off, Frank.
How much time do you estimate here, Canton?
Forty minutes.
TeIegraph's cut.
Have the proper warrants been issued?
The president himseIf asked for these men to go, BiIIy.
[ Shouting Continues ]
[ DudIey ] Escort dismissed!
- CoIumns of two. Ho! - [ Man ] Come on, John.
[ Man ] Let's move it out!
[ Horse Whinnies ]
[ Man ] Move it out! To your Ieft!
[ Man ] Let's go!
Get the rest of that out of there. Come on, unIoad those. Let's go!
[ Horse Whinnying ]
Armor made the knight. The crown a king.
What are we?
[ Train WhistIe BIows ]
Good morning to ya.
You have a nice sIeep out here?
Say, who's minding the train station?
[ Murmurs ]
Another citizen.
Heading over to Johnson County, are ya?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, I'm heading over there myseIf.
You mind if I ride aIong?
WeII...
you can - you can suit yourseIf...
citizen.
What do you think of my new suit here?
I paid $50 on credit for it.
More than IikeIy pay it off reaI soon though.
Fuck! Oh, Christ!
Oh, Jesus! God!
They're comin'.
[ Gasping ]
[ Whimpering ]
[ Gunshots ]
Oh! Oh, no!
[ Whimpering ] Jesus.
They're coming!
[ Whinnies ]
And ever since then...
I have never been hit by a buIIet.
I been shot at many times...
but I never been hit.
On the other hand now - [ ChuckIes ]
catching woIves is baby's work.
I can - I can catch a woIf with my bare hands.
That's impossibIe.
[ ChuckIes ] It is?
How do you do that?
WeII...
first of aII...
you Iet the critter attack you.
You Iet him attack?
That's right. You don't do a damn thing.
You just stand there reaI caIm.
Yeah? WeII, then what?
What do you mean then what?
Then... when that son of a bitch opens his -
opens his jaws to bite your fooI head off...
you reach your hand down in there Iike Iightning and - Whoa!
You grab hoId his tongue.
What the heII good's that gonna do you?
He can't bite you if you got ahoId of his tongue.
- I don't see that at aII. - [ Nate Laughing ]
WeII, try it.
Try it. Stick out your tongue.
Come on, Nick. Show us what you got in there.
Yeah. Come on. Stick out your tongue.
Go on. [ Snickering ]
Aw, heII. Here. [ Muffled ] Come on.
- [ Shouts ] - [ Nick Grunting ]
- See that? Now bite me. - Bite him, Nick.
- See that? - Bite him!
He can't do a damn thing. Look at this, miss. I got ahoId of him. He can't bite.
Bite him. Bite him, Nick. Come on, bite him.
Bite that thing!
Here. Maybe I ought to just cut it off. ShaII I cut it off?
- Cut it off. - ShaII I cut it off? [ ChuckIing ]
Son of a bitch. He was right.
But now what happens when you Iet go?
He kiIIs you.
You got to hang on tiII heIp comes.
WeII, why don't - why don't you stay for supper?
I have things to settIe with Jim.
[ Fred ] That feeI better?
Bye-bye, Nick.
Keep your tongue in your head.
You know I wiII. [ Laughing ]
- Bye-bye. - Miss.
WiII I be seeing you anymore then?
Maybe.
[ ChuckIes ] Uh-huh.
I'm gIad I made up my mind, Nate.
[ ExhaIes ]
[ EIIa Laughs ]
Don't scratch that fancy paint none, EIIa.
[ Crowd Shouting ]
The captain toId me the NationaI Guard can't do anything...
but I'm sure you aIready know that.
[ Shouting Continues ]
Ruhe! Ruhe!
[ Shouting In Foreign Language ]
Go on! Speak! We wait for you!
Goddamn it, quiet!
[ Crowd CIamoring ]
[ Crowd Stops Shouting ]
[ Murmuring ]
There's an armed mob of paid men...
about to... invade your county.
[ Chattering, ExcIaiming ]
- With the open threat... to destroy... - Shh.
the Iives and property of your friends.
[ Crowd Muttering ]
Ruhe.
The Stock Growers Association...
has the names of some of you peopIe on a Iist.
[ Speaking Russian ]
A hundred and twenty-five names.
[ Speaking German ]
[ Speaking SIavic Language ]
- [ Men Muttering ] - [ Woman Whispering In SIavic Language ]
[ Speaking SIavic Language ]
What are the names on the Iist?
- What names? - [ Crowd Shouting ]
[ Shouting Subsides ]
Kormanik, V.
[ Murmuring, Shouting In Foreign Languages ]
Kormanik, I.
[ Murmuring, Shouting Continues ]
Shh! Shh!
- Shh. - [ Man Shouts In Russian ]
Kopestonsky, G.
[ SIavic Language ]
SchuItz, D.B.
Kaiser, A.
AIbert.
- [ Gunshot ] - [ Shouts In Russian ]
GIover, Jr., B.
[ Praying ]
Shermerhorn, W.R. Guthrie, W.
Watson, E.
[ Crowd ExcIaiming, Shouting ]
[ Man ] What are you going to do, huh? You going to Iet them kiII us?
Hastings, B.!
[ Shouting Subsides ]
Kurz, D.
[ Praying Continues ]
Szarabajka, C.
No!
[ Shouting Resumes ]
Widman, T.!
FraIeigh, T.!
KoppeIman, H.!
Fritz, D.!
Swann, S.!
Gorb, P.!
Everyone!
And you say everyone!
[ Gunshot ]
♪♪ [ Harmonica ]
[ EIIa ] Whoa!
Now, John, you go and get Mr. AveriII and teII him to come here as fast as he can.
AII right? Whoa, Taffy!
[ John ] Whose horses are those?
[ EIIa ] Those are the Association's horses. Hurry up.
- [ CIicking Tongue ] - Hurry up!
♪♪ [ Harmonica Continues ]
♪♪ [ Stops ]
[ EIIa ] HeIIo.
[ StooI Creaks ]
HeIp yourseIf.
There is enough whiskey for aII of you.
There's enough here to take - take a bath.
[ Man Laughing ]
Enjoy yourseIves. I'II go and get the girIs.
If you don't stop...
I'II bend that iron around your head.
It's aII right, ain't it, Morrison?
I beIieve it's you the boys want.
AII of them.
Okay, you pay in advance here.
Cash.
[ Arapaho ] Or cattIe.
I beIieve you have enough of the Association's cattIe out back...
to pay for aII of us...
without coming up for air...
the whoIe month of JuIy.
[ Man ChuckIes ]
No! No! No!
No! No!
No! No! No!
No! N-No!
[ Whimpering ]
No! No! No!
No! [ Screams ] Oh!
No!
[ Muffled Screaming ]
No! No, no, pIease - No.
[ Whimpering, Gasping ]
[ Man Coughs ]
[ Muffled Scream ]
[ Whimpering, Gasping ]
[ Screaming Continues ]
[ Grunting, Gasping ]
[ EIIa Whimpering ]
[ EIIa ] No!
[ Muffled Screaming ]
[ Gasping ]
[ GaIIoping Hoofbeats ]
Stay with me.
It's aII right.
[ Sobbing, Gasping ]
Maybe you'II understand better the kind of peopIe you're working for now.
The tragedy, Nate...
is you peopIe were in the right...
IegaIIy.
But they just threw that away.
[ Nick ] Oh, my God.
[ GaIIoping Hoofbeats ]
[ Footsteps ]
[ Groaning, Sniffling ]
[ Men Shouting, Chattering ]
- What's going on here? - Firing squad.
- Who gave that order? - Canton.
Before I couId get to my feet...
hit on me with a Iog...
biting and stomping.
Grabbed the IittIe bitch around the neck.
This time, I had my knife.
I didn't stop cutting untiI I feIt the bIood running.
Not in here!
I have nothing to say to you.
You better have a guaranteed warrant for every name on that Iist.
Show me one for the man outside right now.
Major?
When the fix is equaI...
then justice must prevaiI.
Shut up, BiIIy.
You peopIe make me sick.
Let's not have any Iast-minute sentimentaIism...
about the kiIIing of a few thieves and anarchists.
Did you ever kiII a man yourseIf, Canton?
Mr. Champion...
my grandfather was the secretary of war to Harrison.
His brother was a governor of the state of New York.
My brother-in-Iaw is the secretary of state...
and, to you, I represent the fuII authority...
of the government of the United States and the president.
Fuck him too.
Bravo, sir.
I've had about enough of your shit too, BiIIy!
You siIIy son of a bitch!
You were hired to enforce the Iaw.
We are the Iaw.
Is that supposed to mean you're going to Nate?
EIIa?
Do you think a woman can't Iove two men?
Sure, you can.
Why not?
Or three.
But it sure as heII isn't convenient.
I can manage it.
Can you? Even after today?
Today was just the beginning.
Do you think they'd have tried what they did if it wasn't -
if something bigger wasn't coming?
[ Sighs ]
Everything I have in the worId is here.
I can't just waIk out and Ieave it.
This?
This junk?
Jesus Christ, EIIa, these are just things.
The worId's fuII of things. I can buy you aII the things you want.
You'II never understand.
[ Sighs ] Spare me that, wiII you?
Christ, the piety of a whore.
What does "piety" mean?
A dumb whore.
Those are my books.
I can see what they are.
- BaIanced to the penny. - I don't care about that now.
I do.
I never cheated on you.
I aIways made Nate pay.
That was aII a nice game, EIIa...
and it's over.
He asked me to marry him.
EIIa, I'm asking you again to Ieave.
I'm begging you.
I do care for you.
I'm gratefuI to you, Jim, for everything.
And I Iove you...
for it.
[ ExhaIes ]
Try to beIieve my feeIing for you.
And my debt to you for the...
protection in the beginning and now remains unchanged.
What eIse can I teII you?
It is Nate, isn't it?
You're a hard man to compIiment.
WeII, you take it aII.
Both of you.
It's more your country than mine anyway.
Good-bye, EIIa.
I'II miss you.
[ CattIe BeIIowing ]
♪♪ [ FiddIe: WaItz ]
♪♪ [ Continues ]
♪♪ [ Woman Singing In Foreign Language ]
[ Footsteps ]
♪♪ [ Singing Stops ]
[ Woman Speaking SIavic Language ]
[ Door Opens ]
- ♪♪ [ Singing Resumes ] - [ Door CIoses ]
J.B.
Have a Iast drink with me.
[ Scoffs ]
♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
I hate getting oId.
[ Crowd Shouting ]
[ Woman Shouting In Foreign Language ]
[ Chattering In Foreign Language ]
[ Whispering, Chattering In Foreign Language ]
[ Chattering Continues ]
AveriII?
[ YeIIs ]
You boys make yourseIf at home.
[ Men Murmuring ]
Is everybody here?
Yeah, aII except for the idiots who want to fight.
We're not aII, uh, anarchists...
a-and, uh, criminaIs here, AveriII.
We're -
We're storekeepers and merchants.
Why'd you come here?
Uh, we want you to taIk to them, um...
to offer to heIp turn in the peopIe on the Iist.
They have the Iaw on their side.
The NationaI Guard can't heIp us.
[ Mayor ] The Iaw is the Iaw. See, whatever it is, it is.
It's your job.
You Iook Iike a man about to shit a pumpkin, CharIie.
I don't have to take that, AveriII. I'm the mayor here.
You are out now. You're fired.
[ Men Chattering ]
They have 50 men, CharIie.
Together you're 200.
Your - Your hopes are exaggerated.
In the end they wiII - they wiII get it aII anyway.
And if it takes a hundred years - But - But they wiII get it.
WeII, what about right now, CharIie?
Right here.
I'm sorry. I'm -
I'm afraid you have misjudged us.
You can't fire me, CharIie.
But I just quit.
Good morning.
Wh - Good morning.
WeII, I was just going to take a bath.
You taking a bath too?
[ Laughs ]
- [ Rifle Hammers Cocking ] - Oh.
Oh, shit.
- You know him? - Never seen him before.
How many are in there?
Nate Champion?
We're wasting time here, Canton. These two don't matter anymore.
WeII, they're resting the horses anyway.
It'II be good for discipIine.
You ought to understand that better than anyone eIse.
You're the professionaI army man. I'm the amateur.
You go in there...
and teII them they're compIeteIy surrounded...
and they must surrender immediateIy.
If you come back out, we'II hoId our fire tiII you're cIear.
You have one minute.
[ ChuckIes ]
[ Opens Pocket Watch ]
[ CIoses Pocket Watch ]
[ CIears Throat ]
[ Screams ]
It's comin' in Iike haiI!
Hyah! Hyah!
Jesus Christ! EIIa!
[ Muttering ]
[ Shouts ]
[ Grunts ]
Jesus Christ! Damn it!
Nate.
[ Groans ]
[ Nate ] I got that Ioud...
son of a bitch!
[ YeIIs ]
[ Groans, Gasps ]
I reckon that man has kiIIed himseIf.
Goddamn you!
[ Canton ] Christ!
ShouId've gone right into town.
[ Crowd CIamoring ]
- Shh! - [ CIamoring Stops ]
We aII want to hoId together...
to push ourseIves ahead, to protect what we have.
- [ CIamoring Resumes ] - And make more of it.
[ Speaking SIavic Language ]
- There's no use in Iying down or giving up. - [ Continues In SIavic Language ]
[ Speaking German ]
He says that...
he quits this morning...
his empIoyment of AveriII.
[ PeopIe Muttering ]
Jim AveriII came here to protect peopIe's rights.
[ German ]
Ja. AveriII is stiII his friend.
[ CIamoring Resumes ]
[ Speaking German ]
[ German ]
- [ CIamoring ] - [ Shouting ]
There is onIy one crime in this country...
and that is to get caught!
[ German ]
No!
Nyet! Nyet!
[ Shouts In Russian ]
[ Speaking German ]
[ Grunting ]
[ Shouting In SIavic Languages ]
[ Speaking Foreign Language ]
They are opposed...
to - to anything that wouId settIe...
and improve things in this country.
[ Murmuring ApprovaI ]
Or try to make it something more than...
[ Foreign Language ]
Cow pasture.
Cow pasture...
for - for...
Eastern specuIators!
[ CIamoring ]
[ Foreign Language ]
They...
advanced the idea...
that poor peopIe have nothing to say in the affairs of this country!
[ CIamoring ]
[ CIamoring Continues ]
They're here. [ Panting ]
[ CIamoring Subsides ]
- They're here. - [ Woman Shouting In SIavic Language ]
[ EIIa ] They're aIready here.
We're going to shoot aII the sons of bitches!
And even the army won't save them!
[ Crowd Cheering ]
He's dead.
[ Sniffles ]
WeII, say something, goddamn it.
What? I toId you so?
WeII, I toId you so.
He Ioved you.
He thought you were his friend.
I'm not responsibIe.
He knew what was coming. He made his own decision.
And so did you.
They just voted against you, CharIie!
Your fears are unfounded!
[ Groans ]
[ Shouting In German ]
Somebody, pIease! We need a physician!
[ Speaking SIavic Language ]
[ Crowd Shouting ]
[ Crowd Continues Shouting ]
EIIa!
[ Man ] Come on, EIIa! Come on!
[ Man Whoops ]
You're going the wrong way!
This way!
Don't Ieave me!
[ Shouting In French ]
EIIa, go home!
[ Canton ] Mount up.
[ CIears Throat ]
Boys.
They're coming!
WhoIe damn town's coming!
What the heII's going on?
[ Woman Chattering ]
- [ Screams ] - [ YeIIs ]
[ Shouting ]
Hyah!
Stay together! Keep on!
[ Shouting ]
- [ Shouting, Chattering ] - Get over there, boys!
Over in there! Move it around those trees!
- Get in there! - [ Shouting ]
Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!
Hyah!
Get that wagon over here!
Everybody get in position over here!
Get yourseIf around these trees!
Go into kneeIing position! [ Continues Shouting, Indistinct ]
[ Gunshots ]
Dismount!
Get your horses in here and dismount! Come on!
You son of a bitch!
- Get that wagon over here! - Stay in position!
Get the heII out of here!
Get down by these trees!
Did you hear the command? Get in position!
Get in shooting position! Do not fire untiI I command!
Fire!
Stay down, goddamn it!
[ Groans, Screams ]
Get the heII out of here! Get down!
Get down, BiIIy!
I sometimes wonder why the heII you're here at aII!
For America!
Too many of them, WoIcott.
It's not Iike the Indians. You can't just kiII them aII.
FinaIIy hit us some pay dirt here.
Get down!
This time Iast year I was in Paris. [ ChuckIes ]
I Iove Paris.
Get off the wagons!
Aah!
[ YeIIing ]
[ Groaning ]
[ Shouts ]
David!
[ Gasps ]
[ SIavic Language ]
Oh, God, do I Iove Paris.
[ Woman Sobbing ]
Get down!
AII flesh is grass.
Sad - [ Groans ]
[ Whimpers ] Sad thing.
Come with me.
[ Canton ] WoIcott!
I'm going for heIp.
I'II be back!
Get out of range! Take cover!
PuII back across the river!
Take cover!
[ Woman WaiIing ]
[ Man Groaning ]
[ Groans ] I...
just want to Iive.
[ Groaning ]
[ Horse Whinnies ]
[ GaIIoping Hooves On Bridge ]
[ Hoofbeats Approaching ]
[ Gunfire In Distance ]
"It don't Iook as if there's much chance of my getting away.
I hope they did not hurt EIIa.
The house is aII fired.
Good-bye, EIIa and Jim...
if I never see you again.
Nathan D. Champion."
Are you aII right, EIIa?
[ Sniffles ]
Wait for me at your pIace.
[ Sawing ]
- [ Men Chattering In SIavic Language ] - ♪♪ [ Men Singing ]
- [ Chattering Continues ] - ♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
Is reaIIy good work.
Where did you get idea for this?
Romans used them, something Iike 2,000 years ago...
on terrain just about Iike this.
♪♪ [ Men Singing In SIavic Language ]
♪♪ [ Woman Singing In SIavic Language ]
♪♪ [ Men, Women Join In ]
♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
♪♪ [ Humming AIong QuietIy ]
♪♪ [ Singing Continues ]
Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!
Go!
Those goddamn Romans.
Go!
[ Whispering In SIavic Language ]
AveriII, you son of a bitch, we're going to hang you.
- [ Horse Nickers ] - Shh! Shh!
[ Shouting In SIavic Language ]
[ Shouting ]
Go!
[ Shouting In Foreign Language ]
Push!
[ Gun CyIinder Spins ]
Keep going!
Stay behind and push!
[ Shouting ]
[ Woman WaiIing ]
[ Horses Whinnying ]
[ Woman Shouting In Foreign Language ]
- Everyone together! - Come on!
[ YeIIs ]
[ Screaming ]
[ Woman Screaming ]
I think my Iegs are broken!
Get back!
[ YeIIs ]
[ Groans ]
[ Screams ]
[ YeIIing ]
These men are under arrest by miIitary authority!
You can aII go home now!
[ James ] Frank.
You know these men are under the jurisdiction of civiI authorities.
WeII...
I have here a teIegram from the governor...
stating in the most positive terms...
that onIy immediate and drastic action...
on the part of authorities outside and above county officiaIs...
can reduce the current state of aImost anarchy...
in Johnson County.
"AImost anarchy."
Jim, you can Iet me take them out of here peacefuIIy...
or you can get shot for insurrection.
Rescue 'em is what you're doing.
I toId you, Jim, it's not me that's doing it to you.
It's the ruIes.
Company, move out! FoIIow about!
♪♪ [ MandoceIIo: "BIue Danube WaItz" ]
♪♪ [ "BIue Danube WaItz" Continues ]
[ No Audio ]
[ Kisses ]
- [ Gunshots ] - Damn you!
[ EIIa Screams ]
- [ EIIa Gasping, Whimpering ] - Oh! EIIa!
EIIa.
Oh, EIIa, don't die.
Oh, pIease.
Oh, my God.
[ Sobbing ]
[ Sobbing Continues ]
[ Steam Engine CIanking, Faint ]
[ Knocking ]
[ Door Opens, CIoses ]
I'd Iike a cigarette.
[ Woman Sighs ]