Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers
and the spoilers and that's with a US Marshal and the smell of Gunsmoke.
Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved West with young
America and the story of a man who moved with it.
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they
want to meet.
It's a chancey job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Mr. Dillon, you reckon this cussed town will ever amount to anything?
Dodge City?
I don't know, Chester.
It might.
Why?
Well, when I look around at the way things are here, I sure do wonder sometimes.
All it needs is a better climate, good water supply, and a few decent people.
Texas would be a good place if they had all that.
Maybe they'll bow them onto something someday.
Matt?
Miss Kitty looks kindly upset about something.
Matt, wait a minute.
What's the matter, Kitty?
Oh, nothing with me.
There's a fellow over there in the long bench.
That'll cause him trouble.
Not exactly, but there's something wrong.
I know there is.
He's got a woman with him.
His wife, he says.
Men don't bring their wives into saloons, Kitty.
Yeah, I know, but it's more than that.
He says she's Indian, but I don't think she is.
And she's scared, Matt.
She's scared to death.
Scared of what?
Oh, him, I think.
He's a big brute, he mean his sin, and twice as ugly.
Well, if he's mistreating her, what...
Well, they haven't hit her yet, but he keeps threatening to.
Oh, Matt, there they are.
They're leaving.
Yeah, they're coming this way.
My gracious, he sure is big and mean-looking.
Well, he must weigh close to 280 pounds.
Hey, mister, I'd like to talk to you.
About what?
My name is Dillon.
I'm a U.S. Marshal here.
You're new in town?
I've been here three days, if that's new.
What's your name?
Taggart.
Bull Taggart, they call me.
Ah, is this lady your wife?
Is that any business of yours, Marshal?
That's what I'm trying to find out.
Do you speak English, ma'am?
Pues si, señor. A little bit.
Shut up.
Why don't you want her to talk?
Because she's a born liar, that's why, like all Indians.
There are not many Indians in this part of the country who speak Spanish.
She ain't from around here.
She's from down in the border country.
She's a daughter in mission school.
Is that right, ma'am?
Señor, I...
I warned you, didn't I?
You know what'll happen if you start lying.
Please, no.
All right, go ahead. Answer the Marshal.
Es true, señor. I learned in mission school.
Are you this man's wife?
I... I am his wife.
You're satisfied, Marshal?
Where are you staying, Bull?
I'm in a wagon. We're camping in the river bottom at the south edge of town.
I'm aiming to kill me some buffalo.
Anything else you want to know, Marshal?
Not right now, no.
Well, the way I feel about law men, they leave me alone, I leave them alone.
How's that set with you?
I'll be sitting here around, Bull.
I'll be around.
Come on, you.
Well, that girl ain't no Indian, man.
She's a Mexican, Chester. Or Spanish, maybe.
What do you think, Matt? What's it all about?
I don't know, Kitty.
I'm going to try to find out.
Hi, Doc. Are you busy?
Oh, no, Matt. Come on in.
What the devil is that thing?
Now, don't show your ignorance, Matt.
It's the latest scientific gadget in back east medicine.
It's called an electrostatic therapy machine.
It is, huh? What's it supposed to do?
Oh, what the fuck?
It's supposed to rejuvenate the nerves, improve the digestion, build red blood, regenerate the tissues.
Oh, wait a minute, I'll show you.
It's kind of take hold of the handles there, Matt.
Now, I'll just crank the... yeah, right there.
I'll just crank the accumulators a little bit.
There, now. You ready, man?
Oh, yeah, I guess so.
Makes you tingle, doesn't it?
Make me tingle? Makes me want to break your foolish neck.
Oh, well, now, Matt, it's good for you. It says so in all the journals.
Yeah. Anything to make living more complicated, huh?
Oh, so you haven't seen anything yet, Matt.
Why, in the next 60 or 80 years, there's going to be so many changes in human living, you wouldn't even recognize it.
Maybe I wouldn't want to recognize it, Doc.
Well, you can't drag your feet, Matt. You've got to move with the times.
I'm not sure that I want to go around letting people with practical joking machines have killed me.
Oh, now, you're not hurt a bit.
I've been fooling with it ever since I unpacked it, using it on myself, even.
And each time I feel better than I did before.
Well, good. Then you grab ahold of our handles and I'll turn the crank.
Mr. Gillen.
Yeah, what is it, Chester?
I'm sorry to bother you, but...
Hey, Doc, what in the world is that?
What do you want, Chester?
Oh, this fellow's looking for you. I think he says it's pretty important.
Oh? Oh, come on in, mister.
Habla español, señor.
No, I'm afraid not, except for a few words.
Then you must excuse my English, señor, which is not so much best.
Well, neither is mine, but what can I do for you?
I have the honor of being Don Marco Velasquez, señor.
Oh? I'm glad to know you, Don Marco.
This is Doc Adams here.
It's a pleasure, señor.
How do you get in?
Oh, Chester, leave that thing alone!
Marshal Gillen, you are the big law, is not correct?
Well, I am here in Dodge, I guess, yeah.
Then I must talk with you in private.
Well, I'll get out of my office, I guess.
Muy bien.
Come on, Chester.
Here we are, Don Marco.
Here.
Now, what's this all about?
This is one big matter for law, which I'm here.
Also, it's very delicate thing.
How you say is, um, affair of honor.
You understand?
Well, I'm not sure I do.
What is it exactly?
It's my wife, señor Maria.
She has disappeared.
Disappeared?
I am coming a long way from Chihuahua, Mexico.
Mexico?
I have one hacienda there.
That is where from she disappeared three week ago.
And all this time I'm follow, follow.
Here at your town, I'm only arrived one hour ago.
I see.
Always I am talk with people asking question.
And I am think she is here in this town, señor.
Well, what does your wife look like, Don Marco?
She is small, like the little bird.
With hair so soft, eyes black as night.
She is young, señor.
Most beautiful.
She speak English?
You see, like me, but not so good.
You are seen her, no?
Tell me something, Don Marco.
Did she leave you of her own free will?
I mean, run away?
She has not run away, señor.
She has been stole by one pig who have come to the hacienda when I'm away.
Señor Bull, he is call.
And when I have find him, it's like the bull he will die.
Bull?
You know where is this bull?
Yeah, I might, Don Marco.
Look, suppose you take a room over the Dodge house and let me look into it.
You are not understand, señor.
This is one affair of honor.
Don Marco, this fellow you are looking for is about as tough as they come.
He wears a gun and he probably knows how to use it.
Now that knife of yours wouldn't quite even things up.
I have one pistol when I am start out, but in one time we are far too far to the policy, I'll take it away.
They say I am not citizen, and it is law I no can have gun.
Is true law, señor?
I'm not here in Dodge, no.
One thing or other.
I have here is your law when one man try to kill you is all right you shoot him.
Is true?
Yeah, we look at it that way.
The law is self defense.
Law is self defense.
Muy bien.
Then I am go buy one pistol.
Now wait a minute.
Look, you wouldn't have a chance against Bull Taggart.
I'm sorry, señor.
It's a matter of honor.
Muchas gracias, señores.
Adios.
Come on, Chester, let's go get Bull Taggart before that crazy man of honor finds him and gets himself shot full of holes.
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Kitty.
Oh, Homer.
Chester.
Oh, Miss Kitty.
I didn't see you come in.
Kitty, have you seen Bull Taggart?
Well, he was here a minute ago.
Yeah, there he is down at the end of the bar.
Oh, good.
You were pretty serious, man.
Well, that hunt you used was right, Kitty.
I think he grabbed that girl down in Mexico and brought her up here by force.
Her husband trailed him.
I knew there was something wrong.
Have you seen her?
No, he came in alone.
And he's been drinking pretty steady, man.
You better be careful.
I intend to.
Come on, Chester.
There's too big a crowd here to risk any shooting, Chester.
I'll step up behind him and take his body.
You stay clear.
Aye, sir.
I'll be on my feet after all of you are dead and buried.
Yes, sir.
What do you think you'll do?
Here, hold this gun, Chester.
Yes, sir.
What's the big idea, Marshal?
Where's Maria Velasquez, Bull?
So she finally talked, did she?
I had a note better to leave her alone, tied up or not.
So she's out of the wagon, huh?
You ain't been out there.
No, but I'm gone as soon as I lock you up.
I warned you, Marshal.
You leave me alone, I leave you alone.
You're under arrest, Bull.
Oh, no, Marshal.
Not yet, aye?
Chester, throw some water on him.
Yes, sir.
You all right, Mac?
Yeah, I'm all right.
Senor Marshal.
Oh, you don't, Michael.
This is it, no?
Yes, the pig which I have been looking for.
Yeah, that's Bull, Techard.
He tried to resist arrest.
Now Maria's at his wagon at the south edge of town right near the river trail.
So you are the first which find him after all, Senor.
Oh, that's better that way.
You wouldn't be much good to Maria, shot down on the street.
It's such a pity that I have not find him first.
Yeah.
Well, oh, Kitty.
Yeah, Mac?
Look, if you see Darker on anywhere, ask him to come by and take a look at this fellow, huh?
Uh-huh.
I think he's all right, but I'm not.
Here now, you, you quit that.
Hey, Don Michael.
Don't worry, Senor.
I have not killed him.
Here, give me that knife.
Give it to me.
I only caught his cheek, envy, Marco Velasquez.
Well, Mr. Dillon, that's terrible.
It's the way we mark our pigs on my hacienda.
Well, we do things different up here, Don Marco.
Oh, my grace, what a heathen thing to do, I.
Now, if you'll come along to jail and sign a complaint, we'll go with you to get Maria.
One momento, Senor.
What is happened to this pig if I sign complaint?
Well, he'll go to prison for a long time.
And if I do not sign?
In that case, I'll have to turn him loose in the morning.
I got no other charge against him.
Muchas gracias, Senor.
I will not sign complaint.
Now, wait a minute.
Maria may figure different.
She will think as I do.
Well, how do you know she will?
Because I am the man, Senor.
You are pleased to tell this pig you have the scratches.
It's a matter of honor.
I will no more trouble you.
All right, I'll hold him until nine o'clock in the morning to give you a head start out of town.
Muchas gracias.
Muy buenas noches, Senor.
He must be crazy, man.
I don't know, Kitty.
He sure has got a crazy kind of honor, cutting him nischos and all.
He's got to be crazy.
Maybe.
I'm not too sure.
It's about time, Marshal. When do I get breakfast?
Whenever you walk up the street and buy it.
Now, come on out of there, Bo.
What do you mean? You turning me loose?
Alaska's refused to file charges.
Come on into the office.
Well, what do you know about that?
So the little runt didn't have the nerve.
How did I get these cuts on my cheek?
Alaska's done it with a knife point, well, you would not have thought.
Sneaky little rabbit.
I reckon I've done more to him than he's done to me.
Jester, have you got his stuff there?
Yes, sir.
Do you want to give him back his gun?
Yeah, everything.
All right, hurry up, Bo. Pick it up and get out of here.
Well, mighty nice of you fellows to take care of these things for me.
Bo, you got twenty minutes to get out of town.
You get out and you stay out.
Sure, Marshal. I don't like dodge much anyhow, now that my little friend ain't here.
Well, see you around, boys.
Well, Mr. John, there's the low, downest, meanest man I ever seen in all my born days.
Yeah.
Where he ought to be.
Mr. John, look.
What?
That wagon coming down the street.
What's that in Alaska, this fella?
What?
I thought they headed south last night.
Come on, Chester.
This whole bullet tagger hasn't seen him yet.
There he is across the street.
Maria, go to the Marshal.
Senior Marshal, protect me, please. I'm so frightened.
Hold up, Senor Bo.
What?
Wait a minute, Tom. Marco.
Senor.
I have the honor to be Marco of Alaska, Senor.
And you are my pig.
What a crazy fool.
Senor, I'm so frightened.
My mark is on your face, Senor.
Come here, my great pig. I wish to tie you on my wagon.
Why, you...
Let go.
No, Senor, please.
Let go, Maria. Let go.
It's too bad, Senior Marshal, but I think the pig is dead.
Muchas gracias, Senor Marshal.
Oh, protect me.
It was law of self-defense, Senor. No, it's true.
Now that's why you wouldn't file charges, huh?
You wanted to get him out in the street with a gun in his hand.
No, Senor, it was only because I'm one very forgivable man.
And you had Maria hang onto my arm so I couldn't have a fear, huh?
Oh, no, Senor. I was very frightened.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
Oh, sure, sure.
Is all right? We start for home now, Senor Marshal?
Well, he drew and fired first.
I guess I've got no reason to hold you.
Muchas gracias, Senor.
It's very good that you have this law of self-defense.
Con mi pala rica.
Si, Marco. Hasta la vista, Senor Marshal.
Yeah. So long, Maria.
Ahora vamos a casa.
Si, mi querido.
Pues, adios, amigos.
Adios.
All righty, Clary, if that don't beat all.
Yeah.
Well, Chester.
Yes, sir?
Suppose we walk up the street and buy us some breakfast.
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Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon,
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Featured in the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as
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