Spring Freshet | Gunsmoke (03-17-57)

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Welcome to the old-time radio westerns. I'm your host Angel Rines, and let's get into this episode.

This episode is going to be Gunsmoke original air date is March 17, 1957, and the title is Spring for Shet.

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Gunsmoke.

Around our 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 martial 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, the United States martial.

The first man they look for and the last they want to meet.

It's a chance a job, and it makes a man watchful, and a little lonely.

Just a listen to that miserable coyote, Matt Dillon.

Did you hear him? Yes, I heard him, Justin.

We're going to stop him from running, right?

There's no reason, so it's late.

It's too quiet for anything to be going on.

Well, I was thinking, I sure could do with some beer to go to bed on.

If anybody was buying.

All right, come on.

The place does sound kind of like a morgue tonight, don't it?

I don't want to, you know, the next month when the trail heard start rolling in.

You'll be lucky to get your foot inside.

Been waiting for you, Marshall.

Get your hands up.

Yeah, sure, Red.

I won't argue with a shotgun.

That's what we figured.

Take his gun, Red.

Yeah.

You, you don't mind?

Do you, Marshall?

I go ahead and do what HAC says.

He's the one who gives the orders away, I hear it.

You've got a Marshall.

Need a water lift, give the water.

I didn't know your boys were in this part of the country.

That's far enough right there.

Unless you want to see this little lady here, get her pretty looks all spoiled.

Matt, I tried to think of some way to get word to you.

That's all right, Kelly, just take it easy.

That's the idea, Marshall.

You two just take it easy.

Everything will be all right.

You got what you came after, HAC, are you still trying to get it?

We've got it.

We've been through all the boys' pockets,

along with the safe and the cash box.

Just fixing to leave when you stumbled in.

We didn't have a chance, Matt.

I walked in with a shotgun, and said,

Kitty's been the first one to go.

Forget it, Doug.

These boys' toilet and slate are one and a half of a thousand states

for a bank robbery stage.

Hold up.

How dumb you were so quick to recognize us, Marshall.

We ain't been around here before.

No, but your pictures have them.

You must have slipped into the dodge pretty quiet, huh?

That's right, Marshall.

I'm going to slip out the same way.

I suppose you were riding up over there

with the rest of the targets.

Go.

Kind of expecting more out of you, Marshall,

than what I heard about you.

So, reputations might be easy to come by sometimes.

All right, all of you.

We're riding out of here now.

We don't aim to get followed.

Red, take her on, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Figure you boys won't be so likely to try nothing

if you go along with us away.

Does that tell you, Kitty?

You'll be all right.

Anybody pokes his head out this door

next few minutes gets it shot off.

Same thing all happened to the lady.

You keep the boys in line, Marshall.

You've got a nice little town here.

It'll be a pleasure to visit it.

Let's go, Rick.

Oh, yeah.

What are you doing?

What are we going to do, Mr. Delma?

Nothing, Chester.

Oh, don't get mad.

Let's get a posse going.

Get some organized here.

They took $14 off of me.

He's just got to stand there.

Oh, the dock.

And the wreck of you.

Shut up.

Seem it on.

Now, take it easy.

It's stay away from that door.

Matt, we can't just let them ride out.

Doc, they got Kitty with them on their colors.

One move from us, and I will do exactly what they said they do to her.

Well, maybe they will anyway.

We'll give her the best chance we're able.

That's all we can do.

Oh, we spent from midnight last night until noon today, checking every trail out of Dutch.

So, Bill and his scouts have worked their river bottom for 10 miles each way.

Mr. Admiral.

Oh, countryside's on the lookout for them.

Two men and a woman.

They can't just disappear.

Well, they sure are done it so far.

Yeah, they sure are done it so far.

Come on, Chester.

Let's walk up the street and get some to eat.

All right.

First time in all my recollection, I ain't had no appetite, Speaker.

I was going to help Kitty any of this stuff, you know.

I got kindly a bad feeling.

Ain't nothing going to help her, Mr. Noon.

Why not?

I figured they'd had time now to get far enough away.

They won't need her no longer.

Why not you shut up?

Chester.

I'm sorry I didn't do that.

Talk to you like that.

Nice.

How can I understand?

Yeah, I guess we both do.

Well, have I afternoon, ma'am?

You just did?

I'll go down.

Do you find any trace of them?

No.

Nothing.

You, uh...

I'll have a bite to eat with us.

Well, I just ate by now, go, but I might sit down

and we'll give us some pie and some coffee.

If Chester can spare me, will I?

I ain't thinking much about food today, though.

Oh, is that so?

Well, Chester, if you ever reach my age,

you'll realize come fire and brimstone chaos and calamity.

The first thing a man better look out for is the stomach.

Yes, sir.

So, as he starts going off his feet, he starts going downhill.

You betcha.

And when he starts to go down, he...

Well, I sure hope Kitty's all right.

Well, y'all were upside down.

Hey, that was Kitty.

You guys?

That was down the street there somewhere.

Yeah, come on.

I wonder there was no trail.

They never even left town.

They planned a hole up for a night or two

and then right out after the search was all over.

Miss Kitty must have broke loose for a minute, huh?

That's you!

That's you!

Save it, Miles.

There's trouble up the street.

It's not up the street.

It's right over there on my store.

What?

Upstairs in the storage loft.

Should by King, he's right, Mr. Dylan.

There's a pain glass broke out up there.

Hi.

Yeah.

Is there another one to win the back, Miles?

Hi.

It's same as the one in the front.

Hey!

I reckon it seems all right.

Justa, you go cover that back one up, huh?

Yes, sir.

Me, too, still alive.

Yeah.

So far.

There's certainly mighty quiet up there, Matthew.

Now, do let's talk about it, I guess.

Well, they know they can't get out of there.

No, Doc, and we can't get in.

Matt, suppose we set fire to the building.

Oh, no, you're not.

You're not setting fire to my store.

Not to stay up there for the next year, you're not.

They just didn't have Kelly up there with them, and it'd be easy.

Sure, just wait for them to starve out.

Or else burn the place down.

When you stop seeing that, Doc, I'm just trying to be dark before I long that.

Yeah, I know.

Why don't they give up?

They know they haven't got a chance.

They have as long as they got Kelly, Doc.

I don't know.

Maybe they're finally ready to talk.

Hey, Red.

Hacks.

Kelly.

Kelly, man.

You're beaten, you know it.

Why don't you throw your guns out of that whatever?

Come on, Doc.

Well, do we throw the lady out instead, Marshall?

Look, both of you.

If anything happens to her, you know what to expect.

And if anything happens to her, she knows what to expect.

Aren't you gone home, Marshall?

Take that crowd of Yuckels with you.

We can hold out a lot longer than you can up there.

Maybe not longer than the lady can.

Oh, so help me if I get my hands on his stuff.

Hacks.

Suppose we get together and talk it over, huh?

Maybe we can work something out.

Get together, how?

You aiming to come up here and visit us?

Unless you want to meet Doc here on the street.

You'd like that, wouldn't you?

Well, what about it?

Come by yourself without your gun.

Yeah, sure. Anything you want.

Anything to wait a second.

All right, Marshall.

Be yourself then.

You gone clean out your mind, man?

You know any other way I can get under that storage lock, Doc?

Yeah, but without a gun, what?

Matt, you're just playing dog on fool.

Maybe.

But there's times when being a fool is about the wisest thing a man can fool.

You're saying this is one of the times?

I don't know, Doc.

But I sure hope so.

Hey, Doc.

Take care of my gun, will you?

You ain't really going to do it.

I'm sure he's gone at dirt.

That boy had it idiot.

But them two is killer.

I'll stay here for supposed to be around there watching that back wound.

I got some new in the takeover.

Mr. Don't listen to me.

Not you just, Matt.

There's nothing else to do, just.

Go, dang it, Matthew.

If it had done any good, I'd say go ahead and burn the place.

The stock up there in that loft isn't worth much anyhow.

That is a fair amount.

Oh, Arden ends mostly.

Stuff I don't need to get that often.

Do you think that's worth the most is that twenty sacks of concentrates?

What do you mean concentrates?

Black iron, pyrite.

Powdered.

I took them in trade from the black hawk mine.

I have been aiming to ship them east to the smelter.

They run pretty high at silver.

Well, I don't guess red and hack will be very interested in sacks of concentrates.

Matthew!

You lose your nerve.

I'll be right with you, hack.

I'll shoot you down for you, get halfway across the speed.

Why, Chester?

That's what they're figuring.

They can do it a lot easier after I'm there.

Mr. Dion, I got it.

Yeah, never mind, Chester.

Good luck, Matt.

Thanks, Matt.

You make a mighty fine target down there, Marshall.

I'll make a better one at ten feet, hack.

If you can keep your nerve that close.

Listen to them ready, talk to real brave only.

The stairs is over there to the side, Marshall.

I know that.

It's my town hack, remember?

You don't run it too good, you know?

One hurry up, Marshall, for one year boy's down there gets notion.

Are you worried, Rhett?

You'll never see today.

Shucks.

It's like a little laminal lotion.

Matt's in a gun.

I'm not going to let you out of here.

Take it easy, kitty.

I'm sorry, Matt.

You all right?

You went a done a full thing like this, if I weren't for me being here.

Sure I wouldn't.

Why am I job, kitty?

Teaching boys like these, a little respect for the world.

Marshall, did you come up here to talk to me or this lady here?

What do you say, me, hack?

Doesn't red even count?

You know what I mean.

Yeah, I know.

I just wonder how long it's going to take red to wear.

What are you talking about?

Oh, shut up, Ray.

He's just trying to start trouble.

But no, I was me.

Learn what?

You got your orders, then you're red.

I told you to shut up.

I don't take orders from him or nobody else.

Red, will you listen?

Don't you see what he's trying to do?

What?

Trying to make bad feeling between us, talking to pack of lies.

He's trying to start us fighting each other.

Yeah.

Yeah, sure he is sure.

You're easy to fool, aren't you, Red?

You believe that?

All right, that's enough now, Marshall.

It's one more word like that of all you in hand.

Heck, you haven't got a chance.

I thought you'd realize that there's two shotguns against your bare hands as we got a chain.

Yeah, but you can't use those guns up here.

Huh?

Enjoying bother to take a look at these sacks here.

What are you doing there?

Just hooking a spur and one of them.

Pepping it open.

You could have done the same thing, Heck.

Well, here's some black dust or something.

Here, let's toss some up in the air.

Don't you recognize it?

Don't get there all full-leg stuff.

Didn't either one of you ever work around a mine?

Yeah, I did.

And take a closer look, Red.

Don't you know black powder when you see it?

Oh, it's blasting powder.

That's what it is.

It's gunpowder.

No.

Now, you better lay those shotguns down easy, boys.

You pull a trigger in this whole place, and go up in one big blast.

You ride, Red.

We can't shoot nobody in here.

It'll stand a better chance going to trial.

That's why you come up here without a gun.

Oh, I see.

That's why you come up here without a gun.

All right.

Don't shoot my gun.

But we're still two against one, Marshall.

Come on, Red. Jump in.

All right, come on, Red.

See you then now, and I'm going to break your neck.

No, not me.

You win, Marshall.

All right, then help hack onto his feet.

I'll take the shotguns along.

All right, get moving, Red.

Hey, you're holding that shotgun like you was going to use it.

Just in case you change your mind.

What?

I didn't should jump from...

What's he doing with that gun?

He can't use it no more than we could.

Oh, not with all that powder.

Well, now Miles could be wrong.

Maybe it is gunpowder.

Oh, what do you see?

It looks like gunpowder.

But if it is, Miles got fooled.

He bought it for concentrates.

Black eye and pyreids.

He ain't gunpowder.

He fooled us.

A liar.

How about that?

A law man.

And cheese for lions.

Yeah, I'm a liar.

All right, I'll admit it.

But it beats being what you are.

All right, now get moving.

Down those stairs.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

You know, on the front there,

you could tell what part of the country a man was from

and how he made his living from a fatally road.

Thunder fires, recorder rigs, shy and roll,

Mexican, California, or McClellan.

The only trouble was,

he still couldn't know whether he was out to kill you or not.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Go on.

Guns, folks.

Reduced and directed blind.

Norman McGunnell.

Tars, William Conrad.

As Matt Villan,

Fura Marshall.

Eager to the cast were Marley Bear as chuckeders.

Always McGear as Duck.

And Georgia Ellis as Kitty.

George Wolfe speaking.

Dornes again, Maxley.

For another specially transcribed story on Guns, folks.

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