Speaker 1: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
Speaker 1: is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
Speaker 1: And that's where the US Marshal and The Smell of
Speaker 1: Gun Smoke Gun, starring William Conrad, the story of the
Speaker 1: violence that moved west with Young America and the story
Speaker 1: of a man.
Speaker 2: Who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United
Speaker 2: States Marshall, the first man they look for and the
Speaker 2: less they want to meet. It's a chance, a job
Speaker 2: that makes a man watchful and a little lone man. Well, hello,
Speaker 2: matt Illo, Kitty.
Speaker 3: Something the matter? You look like you've lost your last friend.
Speaker 2: And I could use a drink.
Speaker 4: Come on here, see him, bring matter whiskey, William or
Speaker 4: any see him?
Speaker 2: Nice? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Now what's the trouble?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just got word of a couple of old friends.
Speaker 3: Something happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're dead.
Speaker 3: Oh m s h wish Mark.
Speaker 2: I like, sim Yeah, it's tough when Kitty, they both
Speaker 2: took the fever U and they left a kid, young boy.
Speaker 3: Ah, that's a terrible thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is boys parents both dying something like that.
Speaker 2: That's kind of funny in a way. Joe and like,
Speaker 2: I coulda been killed a lot of times. He was
Speaker 2: in the war. They were on a river boat that
Speaker 2: was sunk one time. They'd been living on a ranch
Speaker 2: in Apache country.
Speaker 3: H it was fever that finally killed him. Yeah, were
Speaker 3: you close friends?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: Uh? Joe and I rode together on the border. But
Speaker 2: his brother Will, Yeah, we were close friends.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I hope there'll be somebody to watch out after the boy.
Speaker 2: And I don't know about the rest of the time,
Speaker 2: but I know somebody will be riding hurt only this summer,
Speaker 2: somebody you know, mm m me you, yeah, Will figures
Speaker 2: the boy ought to get clear away for a.
Speaker 3: While, So you're gonna take him, and.
Speaker 2: He asked me to in this letter. Doesn't seem like
Speaker 2: a lot to do. Hold's boy, oh fifteen sixteen, somewhere
Speaker 2: along there. He won't be any trouble.
Speaker 3: You're certainly changing your tomb.
Speaker 5: Oh how's that seems to me?
Speaker 3: You've always dodged to be in a family man up
Speaker 3: to now.
Speaker 2: I'm not a kiddy.
Speaker 5: The boy needs help, Matt, course.
Speaker 3: He does, and I think you have it in here
Speaker 3: to be a real good father. I always have a kiddy.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I couldn't resist it. I think it's fine.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 3: When does a boy come.
Speaker 2: On tomorrow's stage?
Speaker 3: Well, Matt, let me know if there's anything I can do. Huh,
Speaker 3: who knows? I might be quite a mother if I.
Speaker 5: Had a chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you might, kiddy.
Speaker 5: How'd you have a good trip, David, weren't nothing to
Speaker 5: do it at all.
Speaker 2: I'd rather roade you. What.
Speaker 5: Well, stagecoach wasn't bad. But my brother rode my own
Speaker 5: horse in.
Speaker 2: That was kind of a long.
Speaker 5: Way for that, wasn't That's what my uncle Will said.
Speaker 5: But I could have done it.
Speaker 2: Maybe you could. At that.
Speaker 5: We heading for your office, Marshall.
Speaker 2: That's where your headquarters will be most of the time,
Speaker 2: and as we'll go there first.
Speaker 5: Well that's fine with me, Marshall. I'd like to be
Speaker 5: around guns.
Speaker 2: Oh now, we keep the guns locked up in the
Speaker 2: office all the time. Well, unless we're using them or
Speaker 2: cleaning them.
Speaker 5: Oh well, then I can help clean them.
Speaker 2: Maybe you can.
Speaker 5: I know how, Marshall. My paw learned me.
Speaker 2: He knew how to teach you, all right. Your Paul
Speaker 2: was a good man with a gun. Uh. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: about that day about what happened him. Must miss him
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 5: Your man, boy, I guess I do. I ain't gonna
Speaker 5: let it bother me none.
Speaker 2: Though, God a heart not it wasn't you know, A
Speaker 2: fellow's got to.
Speaker 5: Do his growing up. Marshall can't be thinking on his
Speaker 5: mad Paul.
Speaker 2: I suppose not.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have stayed at home much longer anyhow. You
Speaker 5: know Marshall Paul used to wear two guns.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember it. Well.
Speaker 5: Why don't you Marshall wear it two?
Speaker 2: Uh? Guess I figured one was heavy enough to pack around.
Speaker 5: All the real good men with a gun wear too.
Speaker 5: Why Oh, I just meant you might get where you'd
Speaker 5: need to wear two sometime. I didn't mean no, that's
Speaker 5: all right, David so far.
Speaker 2: I've just been lucky enough to get probably with one.
Speaker 2: Now Here we are go on walking.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, it's done, And I guess this must be
Speaker 5: the boy.
Speaker 2: Uh Chester, that's Dave Barrett.
Speaker 5: I'm pleased meet today.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's Chester Propfitt. He really runs things around the
Speaker 2: Marshall's office. Chester, keep an eye on you for the
Speaker 2: next few days. I'm gonna have to ride up to
Speaker 2: Hayes City.
Speaker 5: I don't need nobody to watch out for me. Marshall,
Speaker 5: there won't be no trouble, no trouble Tall.
Speaker 2: You're show him around Chester. I want to say I
Speaker 2: brought him before.
Speaker 5: I go, Yestra, sure will do that, mister d can't
Speaker 5: I go along with you Marshall and still staying here
Speaker 5: with him? And now don't you worry, boy, It won't
Speaker 5: be nothing tall for me to make you feel the home.
Speaker 2: You better stay here this time day. Maybe you can
Speaker 2: ride with me another time before you go.
Speaker 5: Sure a nice young fellow like you, you and he'll
Speaker 5: get along gifts bye ye Chester, all right, David me,
Speaker 5: I'm always alright.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to hear it. I'll see whether.
Speaker 5: Mm excuse me, boy, I gotta sweep under that cherrier
Speaker 5: sitting in Just pout your feet on them on.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: You sure do do a lot of sweeping around here
Speaker 5: out there. As the fact, boy, seems like folks brings
Speaker 5: mud on their boots all the way from Texas in
Speaker 5: the territory, just so as I can sweep up after him.
Speaker 5: But that ain't no job for a law man. Well,
Speaker 5: a long man got a right and live clean just
Speaker 5: like anybody else. Well, if I was helping the Marshall
Speaker 5: I'd do better things than that, and I did. I
Speaker 5: guess you do just about what Marshall wanted you to do. Well.
Speaker 5: I reckon, a body has to do what he's fit for. No,
Speaker 5: just hold on a minute there. I mean, it ain't
Speaker 5: like you could be no help in the gun fighting
Speaker 5: or nothing like that. I listen here to me, Dave.
Speaker 5: You're a nice young fellow, but you need a little
Speaker 5: straightening out on the way things is around here. The
Speaker 5: Marshall needs somebody around him that can shoot.
Speaker 2: I can shoot.
Speaker 5: Don't you worry nothing about back? You don't even wear
Speaker 5: a gun. A man don't need to wear a gun
Speaker 5: all the time to know how to shoot. Beside them
Speaker 5: guns on the wall ain't to wearing kind these ways.
Speaker 5: They look mighty comical on the man. If I know
Speaker 5: how to wear a gun, ain't no cost you to
Speaker 5: show off me. Somebody around this office ought to be
Speaker 5: wearing one, and I'll sit here. I don't want to
Speaker 5: catch you praying around wearing no gun. I bet the
Speaker 5: Marshall will let me wear one. It ain't likely. You
Speaker 5: see how good I can shoot him? Let me well,
Speaker 5: just don't let me that you're wearing one. But you
Speaker 5: ain't a marshall, No, I ain't. But he left me
Speaker 5: in charge of things for the next couple of days.
Speaker 5: And one of the things he left me in charge
Speaker 5: of is you. I can draw real fast. I don't
Speaker 5: want to hear no more about it. I don't want
Speaker 5: to see you wearing no gun. And that's all we
Speaker 5: are to it. Now, move awaiting them whin you're so
Speaker 5: that I can read up the rest of this office. Well,
Speaker 5: I tell you, Dave, there's no particular trick to taking
Speaker 5: out a bullet. That's so, Doc. Nope, the trick is
Speaker 5: keeping the man alive afterwards. Well, how you do that? Well,
Speaker 5: if I do the answer that, Dave, i'd be the
Speaker 5: most famous doctor in the West, and the richest too,
Speaker 5: and throw a would benign. There's so many things to consider,
Speaker 5: the size of the wound, how much blood has been lost, infection, superation. Uh, Doc,
Speaker 5: it ain't the short's good idea to go on about
Speaker 5: things like that.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 5: Well we're eating our dinner. Doc, Oh, what's the matter
Speaker 5: of chest? You're getting squeamish me? Well, I am as
Speaker 5: unsqueamish as they come, Doc. I can listen to your
Speaker 5: talk even though I am eating Rhubarbie. Well, what's the trouble, Well, Doc,
Speaker 5: it's it's the boy. He ain't used to hearing that
Speaker 5: kind of loose talk.
Speaker 2: Oh oh well, yes.
Speaker 5: Sure may be right. You don't cost to worry about me.
Speaker 5: I ain't squeaming. Oh no, no, no, of course. But
Speaker 5: Chester's right. It's a matter of good man. That ain't
Speaker 5: no bother to me. It ought to be boy, it
Speaker 5: offered me Chester. We're incarnation of you being o. I've
Speaker 5: been right here eating my dinner, Morn trees. I ain't
Speaker 5: exactly hiding ouch and well. Seems ought to be somebody
Speaker 5: taking care of things in the Marshall's office. Oh, get
Speaker 5: ease off more time and taking care of things. What's
Speaker 5: all the catawaing about? Anyway? Rather want you down the
Speaker 5: telegraph office? Why I didn't you say so? I had
Speaker 5: to find you first. They got a message, just got
Speaker 5: to be answered right away, all right, Morn, all right,
Speaker 5: keep your braces up. I'm coming. I'll take care of it,
Speaker 5: all right, I'll see you backward the office, Dave. Shouldn't
Speaker 5: take me very long to handle this. I have to
Speaker 5: go right back to the office. You don't know, right
Speaker 5: if I mose you around a little. Well, now you
Speaker 5: know if the boy is head, for heaven's sakes, he's
Speaker 5: no child Chester. I sure ain't. Well. I guess it'll
Speaker 5: be all right. Come on, Chester, I'm come in, but
Speaker 5: mind you be back there for supper? Boy here, you're
Speaker 5: sure I'll be there? Ah? Will you wander around all
Speaker 5: you like? Dave? Chester gets more like a mother hen
Speaker 5: every day. I don't need no mother. In course you don't.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it seems Chester has more talent for that than
Speaker 5: for Mushman. Yeah it's your Does a horse kick that
Speaker 5: down for you?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Hello boy? Ah?
Speaker 6: Some fools over rig right into the side of the door.
Speaker 6: Some folks rent a rig.
Speaker 5: I just don't care what happens to it.
Speaker 2: Els he just can't drive.
Speaker 5: I can drive.
Speaker 2: And so you new boy in town.
Speaker 5: Ain't you. I'm visiting the Marshall Matt Dylan.
Speaker 2: You better be good boy.
Speaker 5: He'll run you in. I ain't afraid of him.
Speaker 6: You better mind your manners just the same. I wouldn't
Speaker 6: want to start no nonsense with Matt.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna help.
Speaker 6: Him well now, I bet he's glad about that. I
Speaker 6: wish I had somebody to help me around his.
Speaker 2: Stable Hello, pheey.
Speaker 5: Oh, marh. Take care of the horse? Will you want
Speaker 5: to speed him? Yeah? Go ahead and feed him. And
Speaker 5: I ain't fixing to be back from.
Speaker 2: Him til tomorrow, and to make a night of it.
Speaker 5: Are you feeling? I sure?
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 5: I gotta find the Marshall first though he ain't his office.
Speaker 5: Ask the boy where he is? He's staying with him
Speaker 5: on sure you know where he is? Boy? Sure? Now
Speaker 5: up to Hayes City for two days troubles peely, that's
Speaker 5: hob Frank. He's out there at the old Prentice place
Speaker 5: shooting everything inside. You better give Chester then he ain't
Speaker 5: there either. I ain't seen an he Wasn't you know
Speaker 5: where he went off to? No, I don't recommend will
Speaker 5: be back for a while, though. Ah maybe I'll run
Speaker 5: into him. Somebody ought to get on out there, that's
Speaker 5: for sure. Uncertain. Yeah, I see you later along. Come on, boy,
Speaker 5: you know where the Prentice place is? Uh?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 6: It's just south of the river about a mile. I
Speaker 6: got a big old falling down.
Speaker 5: House on it.
Speaker 2: Nothing to see.
Speaker 5: What do you wanna know?
Speaker 2: For?
Speaker 5: Why? I I wanna be able to tell Chester where
Speaker 5: it is? That's all church boy.
Speaker 6: Chester knows apprentice place. Everybody around Dodge knows it.
Speaker 5: M She's sure I should have knowed here, boy hold
Speaker 5: his bridle. Yeah, say, mister, would you leave me have
Speaker 5: a horse?
Speaker 6: I got only one rule about that, boy.
Speaker 5: I'll leave you have it if you can pay for it. Oh,
Speaker 5: I can pay for it. I got money. See here,
Speaker 5: you've got a horse.
Speaker 6: You can have that one in the back stall.
Speaker 5: You can ride him, all right. I can ride him
Speaker 5: all right, And I can do a lot of other
Speaker 5: things just as good. A right man, even your standing here, boy,
Speaker 5: Soon as I see the old man, Frank h take
Speaker 5: you down for ever for a drink, I could come here.
Speaker 5: Chose a cooler day to stir up a rucus Bob
Speaker 5: Bob Frank, alright, I don't you go playing no hiding games,
Speaker 5: old man. Alright, after I rode all this way out here,
Speaker 5: and don't you start shooting off again. Neither you are
Speaker 5: to be ashamed of yourself, all a stirring up things.
Speaker 2: The way you do what.
Speaker 5: And when I might have known it, liquored yourself up
Speaker 5: to your lost your senses, And come on, gotta wake up,
Speaker 5: some hobble, wake up so I can ride you back
Speaker 5: to Dodge. Come on, old man, it's time again for
Speaker 5: you to spend a night or two in the lock up.
Speaker 5: And then, oh, my gracious mercy, you been shot. He's dead, Dave.
Speaker 5: What in the world are you doing out here? I
Speaker 5: told folks I could help the marshall and had done it.
Speaker 5: You done what well while you was lollygagging around town.
Speaker 5: I come out here and I rode right up through
Speaker 5: the gunshots, and I took care of him. You shot,
Speaker 5: Hobbed Frank. I knowed you couldn't have done it, not
Speaker 5: wearing a gun and all. He was shooting something fierce
Speaker 5: when I rode up, But I just kept on bling,
Speaker 5: young fool. It was him or me. That's the way
Speaker 5: it has to be with a gunfighter. Hob Frank ain't
Speaker 5: no gunfighter. He would What do you mean, hobb Frank
Speaker 5: never harmed nobody in his whole life. Said maybe itself
Speaker 5: the shooting. He we used to get his self liquored
Speaker 5: up regular ever for a few months or so and
Speaker 5: take his old gun and shoot it off, just hear
Speaker 5: the noise of it. But he never done to pro
Speaker 5: folks it around. He never pointed to it nobody, But
Speaker 5: I thought, yes, sir, you thought you thoughts all carnation,
Speaker 5: much as you just rode out here and killed a
Speaker 5: man I didn't miss too late to think about meaning,
Speaker 5: come on now, help me get him out of here. No, no,
Speaker 5: I'm on now. Can't even just lay in here. You
Speaker 5: ain't gonna take me in for no chun going on, man,
Speaker 5: run away from the old man. You're killed right on
Speaker 5: around in the rest of your life for all of me,
Speaker 5: all right, Hob pixture episodis nice and decent for you,
Speaker 5: nice and decent. I tell you the group miss dull
Speaker 5: night think gets too good?
Speaker 2: Point, Oh what do you mean by that?
Speaker 5: For that day to tell him that old Hobb didn't
Speaker 5: die after all? That doc pulled him through somehow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, imebe, you're right.
Speaker 6: There was no thanks to him, and that's a certain fact.
Speaker 6: It just serve him right to go on thinking he'd
Speaker 6: killed him.
Speaker 2: If we don't find him, he will go on thinking him.
Speaker 5: I ain't said sure we'd are to find him, spending
Speaker 5: all his time righting out here in this weather.
Speaker 2: You'll love you, Maybe I will, but I ain't at
Speaker 2: all sure.
Speaker 5: We ain't just send him good money after bad. You
Speaker 5: might say that's enough, all right, but what I said.
Speaker 2: That's enough. Chester. You know we gotta find this boy.
Speaker 2: That's sure.
Speaker 5: I guess we do. Now, let's do it, mister Dolan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 5: Ain't you wearing some off the road?
Speaker 2: I'm heading for that cave up there.
Speaker 5: Do you think he's hit out there?
Speaker 2: I know that if I was a boy running away,
Speaker 2: a cave would look pretty good to me. Is a
Speaker 2: place to hide, prick? Besides, it's the way his horse went. Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: all right, Chester, we'll stop here.
Speaker 5: Want me to come up with you?
Speaker 2: No, you stay with the horses.
Speaker 5: I'd admire to Hell.
Speaker 2: I'll call you if I need you a Chester. Yes,
Speaker 2: Dave Marshall, dyllon, come on out of there. You might
Speaker 2: as well come out. Dave ill left the plane trail.
Speaker 3: I ain't coming.
Speaker 2: Come on, Dave, I ain't come out never. I have
Speaker 2: to come in and get you out, do it.
Speaker 5: I ain't gonna hang, Marshall, I ain't gonna hang.
Speaker 2: Oh you're not gonna hang. You're lucky. What what do
Speaker 2: you mean the old man doesn't die? Now, come on out.
Speaker 5: You you ain't just trying to trick me.
Speaker 2: I don't have to waste my time tricking a smarter
Speaker 2: like kid like you, and I come out of that
Speaker 2: all right, Drag you out, all right, Come on all
Speaker 2: the way out, not down here? Now, where's the gun?
Speaker 5: No, I've buried it back there ways.
Speaker 2: You'll dig it up. It's one of mine, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I've seen it hanging there in the back.
Speaker 2: You stole it. I should have known better. I was
Speaker 2: figuring him to help you better explain that.
Speaker 5: Oh, Marshall. When I heard about that fellow shooting out
Speaker 5: at the printer's place, I figured I need a gun,
Speaker 5: so I went back and got one.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you tell Chester about it?
Speaker 5: I didn't think he'd be no good taking care of it. Oh?
Speaker 2: Why not? What Chester?
Speaker 5: He don't even wear no gun?
Speaker 2: I see. I left him in charge of things, didn't I?
Speaker 5: Yes, But Marshall, I didn't never see him do nothing
Speaker 5: much but just sweep out. I can shoot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I figured I could take care of that fella better
Speaker 5: than Chester could.
Speaker 2: And the newly killed him.
Speaker 5: Well he was shooting. I had to do something.
Speaker 2: You know what Chester would have done, No, sir, I don't.
Speaker 2: He'd have walked right after that man, shooting or not,
Speaker 2: and he'd have talked the gun away from him, and
Speaker 2: he'd have brought him back into Dodge or he'd be safe.
Speaker 5: Well, I didn't know.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure didn't know. You don't know much. If
Speaker 2: you think the only way to measure a man is
Speaker 2: according to whether he wears a gun or not, you
Speaker 2: don't know much.
Speaker 5: I guess maybe you're right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm right.
Speaker 5: Well, what's you gonna do with me?
Speaker 2: And until his circuit judge comes to town? I'm gonna
Speaker 2: turn you over to Chester, and I'd get ready to
Speaker 2: do a lot of sleeping, a lot of sleeping.
Speaker 1: Gun Smoke, but Houston directed in Hollywood line Norman McDonald
Speaker 1: stars William Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. The story
Speaker 1: was specially written for Gun Smoke by Mariam Clark, with
Speaker 1: editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast were
Speaker 1: Sam Edwards, Harry Bartel, Joseph Kerns and Ralph Moody. Harley
Speaker 1: Baar is Chester, Howard mcneer is Doc, and Georgia Ellis
Speaker 1: is kidding. This is George Walsh inviting you to join
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