He couldnt go on
nor could you...
...you are injured man.
Let us take you into the house.
I gotta go on.
to the Telegraph station.
We will take you.
Penelope!
Sorry, closed down for the night.
I know, but this is urgent...
No. Come out of there, you!
Cant go against the schedule.
Closed down.
Cant you make this one exception?
- No.
- get in here.
- What?
Bring a light with you.
You cant do this to me.
I wont stand for it!
...the Union of Pacific wont stand for it.
Night prowling round here, like this.
You got your ball busted my office.
Who do you think you are anyway?
My keys closed down for tonight.
You can write it,
but I wont send it anyway.
Here let me!
Territorial Recorders office,
Fort Ladsy.
Stakes...
...on plots 234... 235.
Chart it anytime,
record my name...
...thats all.
- How shall I sign?
Quirt Evans.
All sent, Mr. Evans.
Why! He ain't dead? Is he?
No just knocked out!
Thats Quirt Evans...
Look at his gun, see how many
notches he has got in his gun?
Not any that I can see
sure aint going to touch it to find out
might wake up and take it in the wrong way.
he was deputy of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone.
...the two of them shot it out the
whole Clanton bunch.
Thats Quirt Evans...
...he is quite a man with the gals...
.it says he closed the eyes of many a man
...wouldnt rise of many women.
Would you call my father please?
Yes! Mam...
Where are you taking him?
- To the wagon, taking him home.
Quirt Evans?
Crazy!
I will have a black powder bomb in my house.
Heavy, aint he?
I know of a dozen men riding night and day
...to catch Quirt Evans helpless like this.
I am worried about you people...
...I know you dont believe in guns or anything
like that, only doing good
...take my advice
Stay pretty far away from Mr. Quirt Evans.
Thank you very much for your advice.
Goodnight.
Good night.
So long, Quirt.
That Quirt Evans
is surely something.
Quirt Evans?
You know him?
Do I know Quirt Evans!
Do I know Quirt Evans?
What a question!
No... No...
If that doesnt quiet him...
I dont know what will?
...never get that bullet out of him
kicking his arms like that.
I am afraid to give him any more sedative,
he has already had enough.
Please be quiet... the doctor...
He cant hear you.
What do you suppose that?
delirious mind is searching for?
He must be in great pain
- Not that much with the amount of laud ram in him.
As if he was reaching for something.
Something specific.
I dont understand.
By now he should be completely inert.
No.
Thomas, how is the young man?
- Delirious.
A gun in this house, Thomas?
Please put these back in the gun belt...
Maybe we got to get him something
to tie him down.
Are you crazy?
- Its empty.
That was it. A Gun.
- Its a pity.
Its stupid! These wild ones
I keep pulling bullets out of them
...and setting their bones, why?
Its their destiny to wind up on boot hill.
No!
I forgot! Never speak evil, Eh!
Well, get me some more hot water
young lady.
Start patching him up for
whatever is in store for him?
Come on, help me with his boot.
Mother...
- Yes?
Tell me again.
What Dear?
- Oh, about meeting father?
You have heard that a thousand times.
He was working on the Rail road union house.
...he fell off, and I picked him up
out of the dust and held him in my arm.
He always said that I hugged him
before I even knew his name.
And you both knew right away?
- Of course.
Of course I knew he was a peaceful man....
...a member of the society.
An evil man will seek a more profitable
way of life
...than being a member of the "Friends".
Father, had a beard then, didnt he?
- Yes.
I should think that would scratch...
I prefer a man clean shaved.
He is got the constitution of a mountain lion.
He will pull through.
Barring blood poisoning.
These wild ones
never seem to get blood poisoning...
...though its common enough among the Godly.
You so called Atheists. You always feel so compelled to stretch your Godlessness.
Wash him. The bullets out.
He is in no danger.
I bet he killed a lot of people.
- No, he didnt.
How do you know?
- Thats enough, John...
...'friend' doesnt speak of such things.
Mrs. Worth, get that man out of here.
But he is badly injured, doctor.
This isnt civilized Pennsylvania...
...this is the raw frontier.
You must take a realistic attitude.
This is the place where mayhem,
theft and murder are the common place...
...instead of the unusual.
Would that justify leaving a wounded man to die?
Build a house on the side of a road
and tend to a man.
He who believes.
I dont mind your mocking
you have been a good friend to us.
I am glad I have a logical mind.
and a good heart:
Goodnight, doctor.
Goodnight.
Still having delirious spells.
Keeps mumbling about his past.
...I am afraid he has had a very violent life.
Margaret you are a nuisance.
Lets call it off, Margaret.
I have got places to go and
country to put behind.
Sure, sure, alright.
Lila, Lila,
Lila,
Will you bring some hot coffee, Penny?
Here the doctor says that he is
completely out of danger.
Just sleeping
You know Doctor...
...Penny considers him her own personal patient.
-Sit down.
Will you bring some milk dear?
And when you finish you can go up
and watch him
He doesnt need watching. He has
no temperature in the past few days.
...just a superlatively healthy animal.
...restoring his depleted strength with sleep.
He is no longer delirious.
But of course, if you
are determined to watch over him, Penny...
...perhaps you better take a pencil
and paper with you.
...his first conscious words should be recorded.
It may be of great interest to history.
And more possibly to the united states martial.
Who knows what violence is involved in his
battered bruises and bullet holes.
Would you care foe a donut, doctor?
It is not as light as it should be.
- Listen Mrs. Worth...
...you can carry this head in sand
attitude just so far in the world of reality.
...let me get this man out of your house.
I can dump him in an establishment
that passes for a hotel.
...in this off times dubious community of ours.
In Madame sanitary halo?
- Then he will be off your hands.
But he is much better off here
- Of course he is.
Who cares what happens to him?
- We do
I dont know what to say?
Once when I was studying medicine in Europe...
...I had a friend, an artist.
...he drew portraits of people and made
them resemble like animals that reminded him.
...he would have drawn this man
as a coiled cobra.
Doctor, your analogies terribly imperfect
and your naturalism faulted.
Cobras dont coil
Doctor, we are so fond of you
and we respect you so greatly...
... We assure you that you will finally realize
...that realism untempered by
sentiments of humanity
...is really just a mean hard cold
outlook on life.
...a frightened outlook.
I stand defeated.
And furthermore there are times in this house...
...that I am living in a never never land.
But dont hesitate to call on me
anytime you need help.
Hello.
You are awake?
- Sure, I am awake.
What is all this?
- What?
Where am I?
Dont you remember? Father and I
drove young into town.
Is anything wrong?
- No.
The doctor says you will be alright
in a week or two
You were delirious you know?
Two days and two nights
Oh maybe thats why I am so hungry
I can eat yearlings too...
...if I can catch one
We will get you something.
Mother!
You talked a lot in your deliria.
Mother, he is awake.
- How is he?
Hungry!
- If he is hungry, he is going to be alright.
Thanks a lot for housing.
- You are welcome.
Smoked sausages and eggs?
Sounds great.
- 2 eggs or would you like 3?
I would like 6.
- You shall have them.
Penny, get one of your fathers shirt here.
And a razor.
I will get him some food...
So I talked a lot.
- Yes.
I listened only because I thought that you might
say something about what happened to you.
...as to notifying your wife
for instance.
What did I say?
- If you had a wife.
What did I talk about?
You talked about Margaret, she...
...fell out of the red dress...
What else?
Oh, you mentioned someone named Lila.
Is that all?
If you have a wife
We could notify her.
No wife.
Thats 12.
I havent been so flattered since my donuts
won first prize back in Pennsylvania.
They must be smart in Pennsylvania.
Some of the members thought
its an exhibition of pride to enter my donut.
But what harm can there be in a little donut...
...unless, one eats so many of them, they explode,
which is likely to happen to you, young man.
...well its worth wise
to check it out.
I will help you with the dishes.
- No, you stay and watch Quirt Evans.
I am curious to know the effect of 6 eggs
and a pound of sausage and 12 donuts.
I will call you in the time of milking.
Do all you people from Pennsylvania
Talk like that?
Like what?
Thee.
We are 'friends'.
Friend of who?
- Of all.
The society of 'Friends'.
Many people call us 'Quakers'.
Oh! Its a religion.
- Its a belief.
That on the wall... each human being has an
integrity that can be hurt only
...by the act of the same human being.
and not by the act of another human being.
Is that Quaker stuff?
You mean nobody can hurt you but yourself?
Thats what the 'Friends' believe.
Well suppose somebody whacks you
over the head by a branding iron...
...will that hurt?
- Physically, of course.
But in reality, it will injure only the person
doing the act of violence.
Only a door can be hurt by an evil or mean act.
Are there many of you Quakers?
- Very few.
Sort of figured that.
Good morning gentlemen.
- Good morning.
Carrot from our garden.
I found these down at the road. It belongs
to a fella named Quirt Evans.
I understand you are a friend of his,
maybe you can help us to give them back...
Leave it here. I will make sure that he gets them.
That Quirt, he will loose his shirt
unless it is buttoned on.
...careless about everything.
I keep telling him, sooner or later.....
On second thoughts you can just tell me
where he is, and..
I can take it back to him, myself.
Where is Quirt Evans?
You mean where is he?
Ever notice how fella keep repeating the question,
just when he is stalli8ng about answering.
Yeah! Maybe if I bend this gun over his head
he will quit stalling.
But gentlemen, I hardly know Quirt Evans.
He lies too.
You have been bragging all over town
of what good friends you two are.
You know, this fella hasnt got any
good qualities, has he?
Maybe that will help your memory
I am asking about Quirt Evans.
Well all I know is...
Thanks for sewing my shirt...
...but I cant find my pants.
Get back in bed.
Laziness is the necessary things
that kept me here this long.
The doctor said that you are to stay in bed
for 4 more days.
Oye, you are up.
Thats no way to speak
to an older person, John.
We are pals...
...you dont expect pals to call me Mister,
Would you?
See, doctor send me tell you
that some men in town are looking for you.
..Said one of them is Mister Laredo Stevens.
Get my pants.
- But you are ill.
Johnny, get me my pants.
- No, John.
Will he get my pants?
Get the pants, John.
But you said,
What are you looking at?
- Thee.
What set him off?
The use of familiar speaking to.
- The what?
The Familiar, the plain language.
'Get me my pants, you said'
What about it?
Oh, among us, thee and the are used
Only among the loved ones.
...to all others, we use
You, he, and they
...mother to children, husband to wife
and children to...
Between lovers of course.
I am sorry.
- I am not.
What?
- I am not! I wished you would speak to me.
Well.
I knew right away.
That night.
Supposed to be a kind of dull life.
I could take you at lot of places...
I go.
- What?
I would rather stay here with thee
But if thee rather go someplace else,
then I go someplace else.
I sound very bold?
Well, its just that...
...I didnt think religious people
were quite so, sudden and direct...
Well thats the way I feel
and it would be dishonest to say anything else.
Yeah!
I used to wonder about it,
I suppose every girl does.
About what?
About love......
About whether or not you got to know someone
whom you know a little by little
...or it happened at once...
You are shocked....
Well, I wouldnt say shocked exactly....
...you sure get to the point.
- should I be different?
No, Penny, I like you just the way you are.
Who emptied this gun?
- Father
Quirt, a gun is a symbol of force, evil.
We never have one in our home.
Its a concession that father
allowed even an empty one.
Its only because you couldnt rest without....
- Where are the cartridges?
Outside.
Hey! Why dont we just bust in?
Because busting through doors with
Quirt Evans on the other side,
...aint my idea
of a healthy past time.
Tell them to come in.
Come in.
You can stand right there.
...against the light.
Howdy, Quirt.
You sure ran a ring around me alright.
I dont think it was right
friendly of you to beat me
..to locating that land
after my boys found it.
I am willing to listen to your side, but
I am a reasonable man.
Sure, Laredo is always reasonable
Thats why he is the biggest man
in the territory.
You are the biggest man
in the territory, Laredo?
So a lot of people say.
- I hadnt heard.
You nervous?
- No, Evans.
I cant figure out, why you keep
stepping on my toes all the time...
Well, thats your business.
I am a good loser
...I like a good loser.
Course I like any kind of good loser
better than a winner.
...yeah!
You know I had a chance to do a heap of thinking
while I was following your trail across the territory.
I followed it by the string of
ran out horses you left behind....
Well, I figured it out this way.
...Quirt, didnt really want that land.
... Because working isnt exactly in his line.
Is it in your line?
- No, of course not. I was getting it for another fella.
And well, I figured maybe you will sell.
I dont hear anything jingle.
Is it alright to put my hand
inside my shirt?
Why not?
5.000 in gold there.
I want 20.
Well okay, but I have to owe you 15,
thats all I got on me.
I have the deed in my pocket, here
- get it out.
Now, if the young lady
could find something to sign this with.
Still Laredo's hired boy, eh, Hondo?
Thicking up after him
carrying matches for his cigars.
You mind yourself.
- He will mind himself...
... Wont you Hondo?
- Miss...
..Would you mind taking this over
to Mister Evans please?
Thank you.
You know, I am sure glad to see you
up and around, Quirt...
...we heard you just got it
in the back.
Sorry to disappoint you.
And you come on over
and get the rest of that money anytime.
Anytime, that you feel you are able.
I will see you one of these days.
Well, so long, Quirt.
Saddle up my horse. Will you kid?
Throw some bags.
What would have happened if they knew
that the gun was empty?
It would have been Saturday night in sin city.
Tie on my slicker too.
Sorry.
- Oh, no, Quirt, no.
Kind of a bored you think I am.
You cant do that. We would have tended
any wounded human, and not for pay.
You dont believe in force,
so you cannot force me to take it back.
I am afraid you are outwitted, Thomas.
How long I have been here?
- Almost 3 weeks.
And I hate to get going.
But you cant. Your leg!
You are in no condition to travel.
Dont worry; your cookies have grained me up
and ready for market.
Adios, amigos.
Quirt.
Shall I pack my things?
Why?
- You would leave without me?
I got places to go...
Quirt, I dont care, it doesnt make any
difference to me... or how far...
I know so little... I.....
...I didnt know that it could happen to one
and not the other.
..I thought it always happen to both.
It isnt?
Well...
- So you do feel..?
Look, Penny...
...I am not that kind of guy
who does things suddenly.
I gotta look before I leap.
You can ask anybody, they will tell you.
...Quirt Evans is a mighty cautious citizen.
Oh then, its just that you are not sure yet?
Yeah! Sorry.
Please stay.
Its all saddled, Quirt.
Unsaddle it.
You gonna stay?
A double!
Well there is something that I
rather have than this.
A favor. A big favor.
- Well, you got them both. What is it?
Could you ride past my schoolhouse with me?
Because a lot of boys will not believe
that I know Quirt Evans.
Sure.
Everybody says that you are the fastest man
in the territory.
Well, there are those
Who will say I am pretty slow.
A mans should be able to do a good days work
after having breakfast like that.
I would see that he would do it...
Penny, where is the bucket?
I declare Penny,
I dont know whets happening to thee.
Funny thing about pan cakes
...I lose my appetite
after the first couple of dozens.
They are not very good this morning,
They are too heavy.
Wild Indian... put water
on those vegetables this morning.
I always working round here.
Thee wanted to be a farmer didnt thee?
Not any more, I dont...
Surely you could walk to the barn
without that.
What?
- The gun.
It balances me; one leg is longer than the other.
...you know the weight.
- Thee are a liar.
Throw the cows some hay.
There is a pitch fork.
While I was 15, I learnt to
hate those things.
...I swore I would leave flower and pitch forks
to farmers.
I will do it.
No, I will do it.
But its an occasion.
Thee...
- What?
Nothing... just... just thee.
Penny!
Why you wanted hay, didnt you?
Didnt Thee?
Better put this little one's in the box
Now get a bucket of water.
Water, water. All I do is carry water.
No force.
Say, wasnt this place a little drained?
With all these flumes and ditches.
Frederick Carson
turned the water off.
Frederick Carson?
He is the man who bought the ranch
from friends who couldnt make a go over
We had built a community dam, but...
It was on his property.
What did you do about it?
Dont tell me. You prayed.
Of course.
- get any water?
We didnt pray for water.
We prayed for Frederick Carson.
Carson turned off the water
and you prayed for him?
Of course.
Cant you see? By committing an evil act
the poor man injured his soul?
Be glad there is a well.
Cause it sure gets thirsty around here
...if we had to wait for Carson.
Gonna walk this pony.
Penny.
Nothing.
You sure you havent left any slack on that cinch?
Boss is sure going to howl...
This aint the first pony I ever saddled.
...he would squawk no matter
How I done it.
He is sure getting mean these days.
You can take it as his natural born.
that boil in his neck dont help him none either.
Get out of my way.
You belong behind a plough.
Who is Carson?
Dont get down. We aint taking
no saddle tramps here.
Are you deaf?
I said get moving.
Nice dam.
- Yeah, whets it up to you?
Take out the top two planks.
What did you say?
The top two. There are 16 inches
of water over there.
Who says so?
- I do.
And who might you be when you are at home?
Quirt Evans.
Well anybody might ride up here
and say he is Quirt Evans.
He is not known round here by sight.
Anybody can say that he is him.
Sure could.
There is a Q. E.
stamp on his saddle.
Well take that top planks out of the gate
you stupid idiots.
I dont need that extra water.
Step up on that pony.
Why is that?
I have done what you have told me.
You sure did.
Step up on that pony.
Well, I am that kind of guy who
tries to get along with everybody?
side me.
- wait a minute.
Sure can be taking off couple of more planks
cause I have 10 times much water than I need.
That will do for now.
Well, if you ever need more, Mr. Evans,
all you have to do is say so...
I figured that...
Hey! Mummy, water!
Water, water!
Mother, look at the flow.
Mother all the ditches are full of water.
Water! Water!
Wonderful!
Thomas!
Lets start off from the scratch...
...you got more water than you need.
You are right, Quirt,
I mean Mr. Evans.
Do you mind if I call you Quirt?
Not a bit...
There is no skin off your marks
if you let a little water over that ditch.
Absolutely no Mr. Evans...
I mean, Quirt.
You are going to be neighborly or not?
- Well, sure I am, Quirt.
Thats the way to talk.
Thomas!
Frederick Carson.
- Howdy, Mrs. Worth.
We always knew that you will change your mind.
Yes Mam, I did.
Thank you Frederick, all of us here in the valley
are grateful to you.
Well, its like just what I was saying, I aint got
any use of that extra water...
Why shouldnt let my neighbors use it?
I believe that neighbors should be friendly.
What have you got that on your neck?
A boil?
Mrs. Worth, I have been with that burnt boil...
- have you tried putting soap into it.
No, Mam. I aint.
You get down for a minute and into the house
and I will fix it for you.
You are going to hurt me?
- No...Thats a shame... it looks awful.
Well, looks like your prayer
straightened everything out.
So you think your gun changed
Frederick Carson?
Who says I pointed a gun?
I do.
- Well, I didnt.
He gave in more easily
than I expected.
Remember this quote:
"The lord moves in mysterious manner...
...at times using strange methods
in our instruments."
Me?
It would be odd.
I just got a good high after a good pie
and truckload of...
Frederick Carson.
- yes Mam?
I want you to have some of these,
They are awfully good with coffee in the morning.
Makes me to go home
and shoot my Chinese cook.
You just come back for more, anytime you like
There are always plenty.
Thanks.
- Goodbye.
Goodbye, Frederick.
- Goodbye.
I should see more of these neighbors.
Wonderful woman Mrs. Worth...
She fixed my boil.
- Penny!
Excuse me. But I think father wants to give thanks...
You know, he already thanked me?
I know, but now, he wants to
thank someone else.
Hold my pondering when I get aboard.
Will you?
Mrs. Worth is going to keep me
supplied with pies
... I ought to bring her a quarter of beef
now and then.
Finally, come to an understanding with my neighbors.
You sure did.
Oh! You knew I was scare to death,
when I made that speech to them people.
...I am glad you made me do it.
Makes me feel good.
Adios, amigo.
Dinner.
How the dinner is going to be?
Roast vegetables and of course skimpy chicken.
With the pie and cake I will try to make out.
Chicken is innocent.
- Both. I feel real good.
Oh, you do?
New dress.
Oh! Its first day.
You call it Sunday.
Quirt, do me a favor,
hitch up the ponies for father.
Sure.
Can you do me another favor?
Go for a ride with us.
- Where?
You are not to ask,
Its a surprise, a pleasant one.
Quirt, we gotta surprise for you.
He knows, I told him.
Though you arent allowed to work on Sundays.
Quirt, there is nothing with
...its just we dont believe
in doing what we know is wrong.
That makes it pretty much
"Each fellas own guess".
Each fell knows, inside.
I wouldnt wanna give lead
I didnt mean to frighten you, miss.
Is a fella named Quirt Evans around here?
Yes, I will get him.
Never mind.
I can do talking to you.
Is he been here long?
About 3 weeks I guess.
He didnt disappear for say
2 days, during that time, did him?
No.
- Hola, you weather hang man...
Penny, this is Wistful Mclintock...
the martial of the territory.
Hiya Miss!
Dont let that grey hair fool you.
He is curly wolf.
Hello, Quirt. I thought I had you butt home.
Tall fella. Fast with a gun held up
the 'Backers' stage. Killed a couple.
Well, you are tall
and some say you are a fast man.
..but I guess, I will have to take
the little lady's word for it.
When you and Laredo Stevens
are going to kill each other?
Laredo?
We water our horses out of the
same traught...
Well, I am sure, they are looking forward
to hang the survivor.
You know, I am a figuring man...
...sometimes I dont know all the answers....
...like that fella
'Quirt Evans'...
...while he was acting as Wyatt Earp's deputy
Over in Tombstone
...one day turns in his badge and starts
to build himself up a nice cattle spread.
Suddenly sells out
and he goes out in a pry.
...why? Thats what I aint figured out yet.
Sometimes things connect.
About that time a fella,
called 'Wall Ennis...
...went down in front of
Laredo Stevens...
...'Wall' was reaching his gun, some say
a gambler standing there grabbed his hand....
...maybe thats connected...
How do you stand with Wall?
I know him.
Two things connected?
I know a lot of people.
Well, I will figure it out...
...I usually do.
I am patient.
Young lady, dont be looking at him
with your eyes bugged out as a cow barge.
...there aint any future on it.
So long folks.
Quirt, please stay away from Laredo Stevens.
He owes me money.
And dont worry I might come out on top.
That will be even worse.
Worse! Will it be worse if he goes down
than I go down?
Of course, dont you see?
Oh, I will be a guy with a mud soul.
Dont make it sound so crude, Quirt,
you see why I couldnt love you.
Alright I wont lookup Laredo.
Its better this way
...every time he opens his door, every time he
hears footsteps coming round the corner...
...Laredo starts sweating thinking its me.
...his food wont set for the rest of his life.
Well alright, if I am going to be holy
I gotta get some fun out of it.
You know I feel like such a
It seems hardly a whole week
since last Thursday.
Hey Quirt.
I thought it was you.
Well, well, well
- Hello.
Mister and Mrs. Worth,
Randy McCall.
How do you do
- How do you do?
Just fine, thank you.
Well, well, well...
- You said that before.
We dont want to keep you
if you are in a hurry.
I have got no hurry. I have got no place to go.
- Well, we have.
Would you care you come along with us.
- Sure, where?
A meeting.
- To a meeting?
Yes, to a meeting.
You dont wanna go do you?
It would be nice if he could.
- Its nice to have any of Quirt's friends.
You would? Well thats fine.
You know Mam...
I am sure an old friend of Quirt.
I remember one time we were chasing cattle
down the Lawanda river...
...herd stampeded, Quirt pulled me out
from underneath it.
And there was another time remember?
In Opus Palace, down at San Antonio.
We are late.
- I know, but...
Good bye.
If you can join us it is in the grope,
just on the other side of the town.
Thank you Mam.
- Good day.
Get along.
- Good day.
He sayeth onto him "which?"
And God said...
"Though shall not kill ...
...though shall not steal...
...though shall not bear false witness...
...honor thy father and thy mother...
And though shall treat the neighbors
as though themselves.
Whets comes out of this thing
that makes it worth all this work?
Frozen pudding.
Hello, Nelson.
- Hello, Penny.
Nelson, meet Quirt Evans.
- How do you do?
- Howdy.
Nelson's our horse shoeer.
By the way I brought that
maple sugar that you love so much.
Oh, excuse me, I will put it here.
- Thank you.
Isnt this the Morgan baby?
- Yes, I am minding her.
She is sure a cute little fella.
Looks just like his father.
I will be coming up next week
to see the horses.
Fine.
I will get some water.
- Here, let me help you.
Hold this thing.
Frozen pudding.
Hold them a minute,
I want some of those flowers.
Sick or something?
I dont believe it.
Its a baby.
- Yeah, I know.
Old enough to talk?
- Of course not.
I got something I think
You would like to hear.
Laredo Stevens
is planning a big play.
...he is going to jump up some guys
that are moving a trail herd up from the north.
I figured, it may be you, me and couple of friends
can sort of play copycat.
You heard me, didnt you?
You can have my part of it.
What am I listening to?
You passing up a chance to blister Laredo?
Thats right.
Whats the matter with you Quirt?
Is the farm life...
Oh, the gem....
Stick in your head into this butt
and I will shut you up.
You are awful touchy lately... you never
used to mind what I said.
Hello.
- Hey.
Come along with the water, Quirt.
Shut up.
Quirt, would you come over here?
Sit down.
May I have your attention?
Friends, we all know the purpose
of this meeting is three fold.
...as always we give thanks to the goodness
bestowed upon us.
...and also to give thanks for particular
that our fields are getting water.
... and the crops and the livestocks thrive.
There is two marsh mellows
right at the top of the valley.
...if you take a look from out there
You can see a herd coming from 10 miles.
...Quirt Evans.
Friends...
We are happy to present you with the
token of our friendship for you.
This is 'Quirt Evans'.
We are happy to have him here with us,
because he provided us another incident
...which reaffirms our belief...
...that all men are good
if they are shown the light.
He persuaded 'Frederick Carson'
to let down the water...
...by showing him, that a man who is a friend
of another friend...
is a happy man himself.
May I shake your hands, Quirt Evans?
I want to talk to you.
This would sound like I am butting
into your business and I am.
And you are going to give me
a watch with gold case for doing it.
You dim witted nail binder!
You marry that girl.
Marry her? Why sure you mind her telling
She knows how I feel.
How would she know?
Stop yelling about shoeing horses
that aint the way to talk to a girl.
Talk to her about her.
And marry her. And do it quick.
Hey!
- come on.
Listen to this.....
Oh, brother this is good writing.
- Lets go.
What about the Bible?
You cant throw it away,
That would be bad luck.
Then keep it.
Alright. Its one book,
I am sure going to read.
I would better take her to the Morgan's.
Why did Quirt leave so abruptly?
I dont know...
Hey boss!
- Yeah?
They are right on time.
Look behind you.
Lets saddle up men.
Lets get out of here.
Look! Coming down off the hill.
Come on...
Quirt, what does beget mean?
I think I hear them.
Yeah!
- Lets get suited up.
They dont know how would I
miss this book.
You know you not very pretty. But I like it
just the same. Your plenty of head works.
Much nicer this way....
No! Anybody can just shoot these guys.
...you think of an interesting
way of doing it.
...and you know Quirt!
I hate to shoot people.
Remember I shot a man
once on Montana?
I dreamed about it,
all the next night.
Well then of course, there were no witnesses.
else you gotta shoot the witnesses.
Stop jabbering and lets go.
- Okay, take it easy pal.
Again I figured you may change your mind about
shooting Laredo along with these guys.
Step up on that horse.
- Okay, you got it.
Maybe you are just crowding Laredo
into drawing in front of a lot of people.
Gonna saving him for the big night
In town, eh!
Hey... look!
Lets go.
Take it on the outside.
Start tearing, Laredo.
Lets go.
Looks like the horse of Quirt Evans...
Yeah! Its just what it is.
This time we face...
- Yeah! I know...
With those boots
and see if you can run him down.
You know that champagne maybe lot
more fancy than whisky.
..But sure it dont give you quick action.
To tell you the truth.
I dont really like it. Its very fashionable.
How do you like it?
Tickles going down and its expensive.
So I like it.
You sleepy Tommy?
- No.
25 hot one on the red.
Place tag on the blues.
There is something in your eyes...
..That look a little bit different.
Something that appeals to me.
I love the way they change up the angels
Always full of mystery.
There is something in your smile
that are a little bit different...
Something I have been looking for ...
If I can just be sure
that you are on the level..
...I would never ask for more.
I thank for a little bit of feeling
...First time we met..
17 odd in black.
17, there goes the last button of my shirt.
Alright buddy, you wanna have another ride?
Going on 17?
Cash me in.
Place your bets.
Something that I never knew...
In every way.
...you are just a little bit different...
Thats why I love you
Thanks you for the money, daddy.
I hope....
Bourbon large glass.
There are plenty of rooms on either side...
But you had come bullying in between us ?
I didnt see you...
You interrupted a very important discussion
on serious matters regarding big things.
...me and my brothers dont like it.
Gentlemen, gentlemen...
no trouble please.
We just put the place back together
after the last difference in opinion..
...gentlemen, more over the breakage
and the overhead. Mainly the breakage.
I had a dreadful time
keeping body and soul together
What I think is going to happen...
Happens...
Here is your trip.
Whats eating you Tall man?
you had words with those Baker brothers?
Who?
- Those 4
No.
Told around they are quarrelsome citizens.
Gentlemen, lets consider the incident closed.
Watch out tempers.
Maybe I would go and apologies.
More whisky.
I will be right back, I hope.
Where have you been?
- well Randy always on a trip.
You dont know what are you doing to me...
Please... I got a large family.
Hey, wait a minute its me.
Billy, get him.
Thats my old friend, Billy.
Come on get him... come on
get hold of him.
Go on, you got him.
You got him.
Thanks.
I must have hit the wrong man.
Hey
- Sorry, Quirt. How are you doing?
Dont worry about me.
Come on.
You wait outside. Check them
and count them as we throw them out.
Its getting less.
Oh honey, I was so afraid
You would get hurt.
Its wonderful.
We have money, whisky and lovely ladies.
and just had a beautiful fight.
...I tell you, we would really ought a
be thankful
You have been reading that bible again
- Yes.
Thats something I never thought I would see.
- What?
A Bible with your name on it.
Now where would you get a bible?
Quirt!
Penny, what is wrong with you?
Table cloths dont belong in there.
Oh, I am sorry.
Quirt.
Unsaddle my horse.
Will you kid ?
Sure.
Wanna a boarder for a while?
Of course. You are always welcome
- Quirt!
Hello!
I didnt had a decent meal
since I left here. Chocolate?
Not very good, the flour you know.
I will just stick around
till you get it right.
I feed the chickens.
- So early, Penny?
Yes. Can you help me Quirt?
Does it take two to feed
a few chickens, mother?
At times, Thomas, at times.
remember?
You came back?
Yes.
Why?
I dont know exactly.
Why did you go away
without saying anything ?
I dont know exactly about tat either.
I think its because I frightened you.
I know that sounds strange
that I could frighten you, but .....
...but I mean it
You were frightened because I was stupid ....
...you thought that living with me
will be tiresome ..
..and dull after a while.
Tiresome and dull because....
...all I knew, raised since a baby..
here among the farmers I believe ..
...that people love, marry, and stay together
for ever after that
I am not such a fool not to know that
in outside world there's people ..
...it doesnt have to follow that they
marry and stay together for ever.
I know that sometimes they separate.
Are you ever going to run down
and let me talk ?
No, Quirt, thats what you were afraid of that I
tie myself around your neck ..
...and when you get tired you
couldnt get rid of me ..
I made up my mind that if you come back
I will tell you this.
...whatever you want,
Quirt, you can be...
If I go away you go with me.
If I go away,
Thee go away.
I used to be an Indian fighter.
See you cant help walking up soft on people..
Morning missy...
This young man doing any trouble
since I was here last?
A fellow over Castleway lost a big herd
of cattle a few days ago.
Well, missy... Cat got your tongue?
Why ask her?
You know I have been traveling.
You look at my coral
to see how my horse shaped up ..
I did just that...
You sure covered a lot of country.
Its a rightly weary animal..
I just want to see with the young lady
live for you.
I was going to..
You have been over to Castleway?
I have been to Rinrock
and I got witnesses to prove it.
Witnesses! For instance ?
Randy McCall, Christine Taylor.
Thats what I call witnesses?
Who else?
Lila Neal, I suppose
She would make a good alibi witness for you.
Randy, Christine and Lila...
...there's three to draw to
So Lila saw you there too?
Yes.
Come here, junk head...
You hay jumper...
Guess its a mystery here, Quirt.
...but I am patient..
...thats what hangs all you fellows
in the end.
...I am patient.
Lila?
You talked about her
when you were in delirious.
There is a sight
I never thought I would see.
Quirt Evans behind a plough.
The pony walks as soft as you do.
I taught him
Oh, I figured you should have heard him.
...except you have been thinking too hard.
Havent you got some real important business
to attend to?
Some place else.
- Sure.
But I always liked to keep you tracking
about your whereabouts.
You know, Quirt...
...I always figured I would use a noose rope
hanging around you...
Kind of respected it.
You never took the best of things....
...and all your men went down
looking at you.
go on and mind your own business.
I usually do.
Its a shame that things dont always turn out
the way it should.
Now that little girl... she would marry
some young fella ..
...who would know what to do with that plough...
Why dont you kick up that horse
and move on?
Some young fellas that can raise a lot of grain.
...the cows, sheep, the kids..
..kind of a fella
that she would always know where he was..
Do I have to run you off?
Well now I tell you.
I have never have been run off no place yet.
...where I aim to stay.
it so happens that I gotta be gone.
No, Quirt...
...you dont rate a new rope with me.
look...
...is there is a lot of fooling around
non sense have to go with it
..I am not going to stand for
a lot of dressed up and jabber up people
...looking at me,
just because I am getting married?
Quirt, come along.
oh, yes or no?
- come along.
Those are black berries?
Alright
Alright.
Havent we have enough Quirt?
Never did like black berries...
Now I know I was right.
..Its too much work
- I will get some.
Look out there is a wasp on the petunia!
- dont kill it.
Well its alright to for you to trust a wasp
and people but
...he might have known that I dont trust him
and decide to take the first bite.
And incidentally thats not petunia,
thats a daisy.
Thats a petunia.
Petunias, daisies,
daisies, petunias.
Quirt Evans.
Oh nothing.
I just like the sound of it.
Quirt. Where did you ever get such an odd name?
Fellow who raised me
gave it to me.
He found me somewhere along
a big cattle track.
Folks had been bushwhacked by the Indians,
I guess..
He was a big fella. Cattleman.
...swang a wide loop in his younger days
I think.
Wide loop?
He wasnt too careful
whose calf he threw his rope at..
Most of the old cattlemen were like that
He raised me. Quite a guy.
His name was Wall Ennis.
He was down in a gambling place...
...a fellow grabbed his gun-arm just as he drew.
He was murdered.
Stop it.
Then what?
Well I just danced around place to place.
Quirt Evans.
I dont see any gun.
- I know him, he has got a gun alright..
...I know him ..
Well, what are we waiting for?
Nothing I guess.
lets find a saloon.
You dont have to be worry about Penny, mother.
Oh, I cant help worrying,
Johnny.
Get that doctor,
Burn out the robe both ways.
Drink?
Its amazing...
...the various uses to put man in alcohol.
Each different individual
A stimulant, depressant or anodyne
Just now I am using it for anodyne
Get to the point.
Practice of medicine...
...is one of the most infuriating
profession known to man.
It takes 30 years of experience
to teach you...
...and then in the final analysis
there is nothing to do but stand and watch.
She has her elusive moment
You better speak to her
...I am not trying to argue you out
of anything.
Maybe you would better stop and think.
She wouldnt like this, Quirt!
...I am not arguing for or against
her point of view.
...I know to her, the worlds worst tragedy
would be
if you should kill a man.
...of course you could argue logically
That she wouldnt know whether
you killed him or not.
I think she would know.
Any discussion has to have
at least two participants.
Of course you can refuse to answer me.
I felt cynical....
...it would be a good opportunity to observe
what we are about to see
...a perfect example of
'An eye for an eye'.
Unfortunately I cant quote chapter and verse.
...I am too tired to be cynical.
Father, father, come upstairs!
Penny, you are very ill,
you must not be moving about.
Mother, I got to go ..
you must get back into bed.
- But he needs me.
This is insanity. I told you
to keep her in bed
You want to commit suicide?
If you dont stay under those covers young lady...
There is no fever.
You must do what the doctor says.
- mother, please.
I cant understand it.
I cant understand it at all.
There must be some logical
scientific explanation
I am too old to start
believing in miracles.
You know if you two hadnt had me covered
I will never let them harm the Jeffrey
pistol with me...
Wait till Quirt Evans hear about this...
...well, it was Dodge City 7 years back.
...when the Earps were gunning,
where me and Quirt...
Come here.
- Yes, Mr. Evans.
Laredo Stevens?
He is in the Golden Eagle,
and the pistol eating Hondo is with him.
Take him a message.
Hey, how the boys are doing?
- Celebrating?
Good, why not?
Sure you get that excited
when you make a big win like this?
Why get excited... sometimes you win
and sometimes you loose.
Dont get excited, gentlemen.
I aint looking for trouble..
I am just a carrier of a message.
- Yeah? What is it?
He said you to come out in the street..
...he his waiting for you.
- Who says?
Quirt Evans.
What is this, a joke?
Quirt Evans is...
Take a look out at the streets
See, who it really is.
Jack, take a look at the street.
Its a tall armed man with a black hat standing.....
...near the blacksmiths shop
Mind if I use the backdoor, Pitt?
- go on, Pitt.
Well, they say cats got nine lives.
He also said he was curious to know
how much whiskey you need
...to build up your nerves to come out.
You are fixing to get your ears pin back?
You need a pair of yours in the street
if you wanna pin somebodys ears back.
Hey, you drink this.
Sure, I dont have to stand near you.
Come on.
I wonder whether that
sharp shooting Martial is at town
Oh, I saw him ride out of town
an hour ago.
Thats good, we dont want him around
to spoil our play.
Yeah! I bet, thats just exactly
how you meant it.
Look out, there is going to be a shooting.
Quirt!
Quirt...
...step away from those women.
Why dont you turn around, Quirt?
Nothing ever works out right.
Had them rise up,
they got the bigger stage
...so I figured out whets the rukkas.
You down them and I hang you....
...sort of...
..Sort of killing three hawks with one stone.
...so to speak.
Nothing, nothing ever works out right.
I may have missed you, Quirt,
but I am patient..
...its only a matter of time,
when I hang you.
Not me, mister.
From now on I am a farmer.
Hey Quirt might need that.
No, no man that carries a gun
ever leaves one.
What are you going to do with it?
Hang it down on my wall at office
with a new rope.