Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there is just one way to handle the killers
and the spoilers and that's where the 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 figure Amo will have your horse shod but now?
He should have Chester, he's a good blacksmith.
I swear I don't see how nothing but prairie can wear out shoes so fast.
Where's your boots on fast enough?
Well yeah, but they ain't ironed.
Though they shaped my feet thin, they might well be.
Yeah, the old tall man must be waiting for a horse.
He's a loudmouth, aren't we, Tessie?
He got through with him, that horse was so lame he couldn't walk a foot.
How to break your face?
Please, if it was my fault, something I did wrong, don't pay me anything.
What's the matter, Amo?
Marshal, this fool Dutchman messed up my pony.
Oh, maybe it was a stone bruise.
Ain't no stone bruise, Marshal, it's pinched feet, that's what it is.
I ain't paying a cent to any blacksmith who cripples horses.
Well, all the mule-headed...
It is all right, Chester, best we forget it now.
I purely don't like that, man.
How about my horse, Amo?
All finished.
Two shoes all around.
Yeah, good, good.
How much are you?
Two dollars.
All right.
Here you are.
Thank you.
Yeah, Chester, you get up behind, I'll ride you back to the office, huh?
Come on.
There.
Marshal.
Yeah.
Mr. Tolman is wrong about me.
The horse he ride just now is one I shooed two days ago.
You can see he is not lame.
And he didn't seem to be.
There sure wasn't nothing wrong with the way he traveled.
Amo, this has been going on for a long time.
Why is Tolman whoroing you?
Do you know?
Oh, maybe because I am German.
Maybe something else.
Who knows?
Well, I'll ask him to pay his bill if you like.
Oh, Marshal.
You won't get rich if you aren't paid, Amo.
Money is good, yeah, but not worth enemies.
Now, whatever you say.
Ready, Chester?
Yes, sir.
All right, hold on.
You want some coffee, Mr. John?
No, no thanks, Chester.
Say, you know what?
Lily Langford is going to be in here in a couple of weeks.
Oh, how do you know?
Well, Mr. Hippel over at the Opera House told me.
But in case I don't get to see her, he's going to let me have one of them big picture posters.
He is, huh?
The Jersey Lily.
My, I sure would like to be tall, Hogget that tall.
Hello, Mac.
Chester.
Hello, Doc.
Hey, did you know Lily Langford is going to be here?
Yes, I know.
Of course I did, Chester.
Already paid Hippel for a chair.
Oh, my, my.
Is this all you two got to do, just sit around and talk?
Things are kind of quiet, Doc.
You know, we can't always have a few shot up cowboys just to keep you busy.
Besides, we're waiting for the evening stage.
I could just get the loon of a dollar, but I could get to see the lilies.
Oh, all right, Chester, here, here, here's a dollar.
Now will you be quiet?
Here you are, Mr. Gillen.
My hat.
Marshal Gillen.
Oh, hey, Moe.
Well, come on in.
Oh, yeah, well, hello, Moe.
Say, you're all dressed up, ain't you?
You got your Sunday clothes on.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm meeting stage five o'clock.
Ah, is that so?
Got new wife coming.
Eh, you got a new wife?
You're right.
Well, I didn't know you were married, Emil.
Oh, no, not married yet.
I will get married after she arrives.
Well, who isn't, Emil?
Well, I am doing good now and want to have wife and children, but girls here in Dodge
don't want a meal for husband, so I answer advertisement in St. Louis paper.
And advertisement, then, what for?
Advertisement says young German woman wants husband, so I write to the paper and say,
come to Dodge City, be wife of Emil Volheda.
And she's coming on this evening's stage.
That is right.
Well, what do you...
Why, that's just fine.
Yeah, it sure is, Emil.
You got a place for her to stay?
Oh, yeah, I talked to Miss Adobe at the Dodge house.
She'll stay there until I get place ready behind my Smitty.
It's here, the stage is pulled up the other side of the platform.
Oh, well, well.
Well, good luck, Emil.
Marshal, you and Doc and Chester come, too.
Why?
Yeah, I want you to meet Gretchen.
We'll be proud.
Oh, good, good.
Oh, the funny thing, for a blacksmith, I'm very weak.
Elijah Cuddlestone was his name and politics was his game.
I'd like to quote him briefly, if I might.
I don't care what my colleagues say, it's my constituents that count.
Constituents, that is.
The folks who put me in their office.
I'll filibuster for them.
Filibuster, I say.
I'll talk the issue into the ground.
Into the dust, that is.
I'll delay it till I fall from exhaustion.
Till I collapse, I say.
Well, that's how Elijah used the word filibuster.
You know how it came to be a part of our political language?
Well, here's the story.
In the seventeenth century, the buccaneers who infested the West Indies and the Spanish
American coast were called freebooters.
Freebooter coming from the Dutch, free, meaning free, and bout, meaning booty.
Freebowder became filibustero to the Spanish and to the English, filibuster.
The word finally came to mean anyone waging an irregular warfare for his own gain.
Now, a filibuster may be conducted by a congressman who speaks interminably to wage war or a delaying
tactic against the legislation which he opposes.
You know, Marshal, all my life I am not afraid of anything.
But now, for no reason, my stomach is sick.
Yeah, there's only one woman getting off the stage.
That must be her.
Yeah, yeah.
You say, she's a pretty little thing, ain't she?
Yes, she sure is.
Well, go on, Amos.
She's standing there waiting.
We'll wait here.
Well, go on.
Well, go on, man, go on.
There's plenty of time to be nervous later.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Shakti manner is he now over.
and that seems to be a little bit
you wouldn't have a good understanding to talk in that way
all for heaven's sakes only one is still around
or springing her over the stretch of the English
marshall dylan
gentleman in this direction
how do you think
and welcome to the national art
thank you national
i hope you'll be very happy here
you should get up fine
i know much about him
we have written
now marshall i a will take direction to the hotel
community correction
seems a little scared engine
uh... doc she took a big chance coming out here
and come on that this is an excuse for some sort of a celebration about by a
lesser right now to just read about it right back since you're buying you know
i was just thinking
he's still little and they will still be good
for hoping don't take it in his mind to beat her now
cannot just a moment about that
generalist man
besides just a that men don't always beat their wife well i know that
uh... sam
stripped out religion
god
year
send them on were
i had already drop down on it
how drunk are you
a man allowed to say what he thinks around dodging no more martin
i want to just think in the way you are
this is between wall hater and me
there's nothing to do with the law
i'm not sure drink up and get out and take spooner and willie here with you
uh... just a minute you listen to me
and wall haters trying to mind his own business
if there's any trouble i'll know who started it and they'll go to jail
you say you can lock me up
toman african wall hater ever gets mad enough he'll kill you with his bare hands
now you leave him and that girl alone
why is he probably not a matter of
all right
you and sponer carry willie out of here
okay marshal
will go
just remember
i've got a score to settle with that blacksmith
by the end of the next week in the world later finished fixing up a little
up behind the smithy
the week after that he married gretchen schiller
on their wedding night that made quite a picture
standing there by the fire behind the smithy the great
giant of a man and his little bride
smiling and happy
as somebody brought a barrel of beer
boiled eggs and pickled pigs feet and roast chicken and smoked beef
and some of the women have brought sugar cakes and dried apple pie
some of the men whiskey
it was good fun
his two friends
i didn't think he'd have a murder
that's our williams
go find yourself
you
the i've got one way
gonna dance with this little old
how about it was it was a bit
go on gav dance you know
we are
all friends here
but i know but it is that it's a right now so much of a good
tonight the market
you are welcome here
the door and
would under table
and drink out of the break i want to dance
and start up that music
dot
drink too much to dance with the door
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Employee
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paid back
come on willy
spoiler
let's get out of here
everybody
have fun
all troubles on wedding night
uh...
home towns in america have a lot in common
and yet they're each one of a kind
take for example washington d c
a native once quit
that the city's greatest import is tourists
and its greatest export is waste paper
no figures are available on the waste paper
but tourism in washington increases each year
of course
there are the monuments and shrines of our national government
but people come for more
they drive out massachusetts avenue
the gays at embassy row
or shop on fashionable connecticut avenue
in the summer
there are concerts at the watergate
and pulled this parade
at the marine barracks
out in rock creek park
children returned their easter ducks to their natural habitat
releasing them
in pierced mill pond
in georgetown
you can board the barges for an idyllic ride out the historic chesapeake and
ohio canal
or if you have to miss it all
the beltway will whisk you around the district
on interstate four ninety five
but if your hometown is washington you already know that
we only wanted to remind you
it's still there
there wasn't any more trouble at night or in the week that followed
i kept my eyes open but there was no sign of toman or his friends
and dodgers pretty peaceful
and then late one night trouble did come but not in the way i'd expected
and then out of the crack at places when i wrote back up to the office just as
we can
john i just heard
don't like showing that you're back to the matter so they've been a fire
it was the blacks in the shop
a bunch of men still over there
or is there no i don't know nobody seen what about gretchen miscarriage occur
she's often upset poor thing
but the time we got the bucket lines going to play just about break the ground
how to get started i don't know but it's like that players up pretty quick
they didn't have time get nothing out there at the table such like
that is
much left but i think i'll go
uh... didn't get around
uh... yeah
retchen
on my show
he's gone
hulk on it's going to be all right
kitty why don't you take her over your place
that idea
you come with me honey
not come
in the back even though i think the marshals and then we are where is your
husband gretchen
it was called away
a few hours ago and then came for him
one of the men who came out there tonight
it's a time when she needs the night of the chivalry must have been there will
hear sport
yeah
the
okay
uh...
he doesn't think
i'm going to take it with me mister you are kind to see if you're right now she
needs a woman
come on
i think somebody set that
of why somebody wanted me away from my place
so he told me i was needed down the trail toward willow pen
a horse and pulled up lame because of throne shoe
but there was no hopes
although i think
it was the man's food
and if you'll say it's almost behind us i'll have him in jail by morning no
marshall i don't know for sure but anyway this icicle myself
i won't have any killing there will be no kidding
but for the first time i am very angry
not so much for me but for little crutch
what are you going to do
next time i see poor man
i will be christened less
now
home
dot williams point
uh... come on just a little step out on the porch
i think we might need a little pressure
and across the street waiting for
at all
your boys come over here
right
what do you want
crazy dot all right someone out of your drop your guns
uh... just a minute marshall up on my said
uh...
it's better
now gentlemen i think the blacksmith wants to talk with you
i don't mind
i don't mind when you are a little problem
but when you do something
uh... my correct
i'm i'm very much
we talked about i am going to fight you
or not
you'll have a hand on me
willie hill tell you the piece i don't want to fight other men but if they try
to stop
used to back
crazy no
just very angry
boys get the best
they haven't encountered
they're very simple
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consists of
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all right some of you that we have got carried these three men up his place
yet
it like that
yesterday's
capital
what's the head
patrick
get that man's face
my
great
i've i've never seen nothing like it
you want back to have a look at you
known
no worse than
chewing
missouri you know no more
now i go to gretchen
it is time to leave
we start
building
you know
with your permission i'd like to quote an excerpt from a speech by that old
political character
elijah cuddle stone
and i say it will state and declared that is that you've
pork barrel appropriations are not going to be our salvation
we must be jai say we have to get up on our hind legs i mean you you stand up
and fight for our own improvements
the pork barrel is for lopers
i mean the greedy and the weak who that is
that term pork barrel
you know what it means
well pork is fat
and fat for hundreds of years has meant plenty
you shall eat the fat of the land
about a hundred years ago in the halls of congress
meaning lucrative or rewarding
became pork
and about fifty years ago
when congressman sought larger appropriations
for such things as bridges harbor or river improvements
public buildings and so forth
to impress their constituents
they were accused of seeking
pork barrel appropriations
uh...
done
produced and directed by norman mcdonnell
stars william conrad as matt dylan u.s. marshall
featured in the cast were partly bearer s jester
howard mcnear as doc
and georgia ellis as kidding
george walsh
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