 With action and suspense out of the old west comes the most famous hero of them all Huffleong Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the silver spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early west Huffleong Cassidy the same hoppy you cheer in motion pictures and the same California you've left at a million times Raw courage and quick shooting have built a legend around this famous hero Huffleong is a name to be feared respected and admired for this great cowboy rides the trails of adventure and excitement William Boyd as Huffleong Cassidy and and declined as California What's our story this time Bobby? Ah, this is the story that goes to show you never can tell when a trick or two you've learned make them in handy Even save a few lives including your own Well, anyway, we call this cleanup of caribou Mesa California and I were riding toward the frontier settlement of Joshua flat up in the higher range country when I noticed something up the trail away Hey California look there up the crest of the ridge Be daring must be a dozen of them. They're riding this way as if the old nikkies self was a chaser Let's pull off the trail and get out of sight behind those boulders where they're pounding that bunch of kioses down the trail They're certainly not gonna stop and pass the time of day Well, they won't be able to see us here Say that sure was a fast-frightened bunch of hombres. Yeah. No, weren't you supposed it was going in such a rush coffee? I don't know California and it's no worry of ours. So let's be on our way. We're only about a mile from Joshua flat Yeah Well, I'll be diggity diggity turned look ahead hoppy here comes another bunch of Well Now this is getting interesting. We'll have to see what it's all about Yeah, you want to pull behind them rocks again? No, we'll stay around here on the trail and find out what's going on And get your hands up both of you Look stranger. Why are you making a mistake? Oh, we are making a mistake. Are we? Well, let me tell you two sidewinder something did you made the mistake? Dump it out of that bunch of thieving bandits and trying to backtrack it may be ambushes Ambush you what's playing you don't know who we are now We know who you are to a trigger Tompkins Steven Russel is and that's all this year Pause he needs to know the string up the both of you All right, man. Get the ropes from the niggah You've got a fight on your hands. You can't do this for me in the hop along cat city Back to hop along Cassidy and our story cleanup of caribou Mesa Hoppy in California have run into a posse which has mistaken them for members of a gang the posse was pursuing Hoppy in California have been seized and the posse is ready to hang Ranger I heard you call out a name there. Did you see hop along Cassidy? That's my name. This is my partner, California Carlson Now we sure was making a mistake. Well, we accept your apology now. You better get these many yours to stand back because I entirely cooled off yet All right, man. All right, quiet quiet Well, I hope there's no hard feelings Cassidy. No, not at all, but I minister to knowing what's going on Suppose you do some explaining sure Cassidy sure what see we all Get on have a power. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm interested myself in hearing how come I nearly got my neck stretch Well Cassidy first of all, I'm Glenn golf. I'm the deputy sheriff over the Joshiflat These year men old settlers hereabouts and you were riding as a posse chasing that bunch who passed us a while back Yeah, there was a somewhat trigger Tompkins gang. Who is this trigger Tompkins? Oh just a bad umber Moved up here with his gang about a month ago come from somewhere as south of here. We figure mm-hmm Just what have they been up to golf shooting up the town? Robin anything that ain't guarded rustling horses and cattle all over the range And that ain't all what kind of peace officers you got around here that let such things go on well See, I'm the only deputy and we're we all peaceable folk hereabouts Sides Tompkins gang is a Shifty lot of all varmints. I've heard of a shifty that ain't no reason not to stomp him out How about that golf what's been done about this? Well? Here's how it is. You see There's been no way and no one just where and when Tompkins gang ever's going to strike that's so Cassidy They come storming down off the mesa like a bunch of Comanches just when we least figure on sure if we guard the town And they hit the Rangers and if we watch the range they raid the town What about this posse here? You must have been expecting them today. Well, I was coming to that Cassidy It weren't that we was expecting to read that we we got this bunch together on the counter The only kind of what happened to any cover any cover. What is all this? We'll build covers daughter the gang come on any riding alone till the day and they It took her off to the place. They got up on caribou Mesa. Good napping. Hey, that's mighty serious Are they demanding a ransom? No, they ain't and this shows you just how sharp that trigger Tompkins is He figures as long as he's got the gal up there We don't dare make a move to get him if we let him get away with this It's like giving him the settlement and everything in it. Yeah, is he out is Cassidy Tompkins not only got the gal He's got a lot of men up there on caribou Mesa Yeah, and they're a mean lot and trigger Tompkins himself is worse than all of them put together But what can we do? Well, we got to go up there and wipe out the whole lot of no not while they got any All right, all right, take it easy you men who can tell me something about this place the gang has well Young Bob Jeffrey here continue Cassidy. Go ahead Bob tell him. Well, mr. Cassidy. It's like this Annie covers my girl and when I heard they took her off I Well, I went up on the Mesa to scout around and see if maybe I could save any that took a lot of courage Bob Shucks mr. Cassidy didn't do any good. They caught me right off Was just by luck I managed to escape in the middle of the night and get back to town Did you see much of the place Bob? What it was like. Well, I got a good look all right There's a main cabin where they got Annie and a separate bunkhouse just in the middle of the Mesa I see and how well protected is the place? Well, the Mesa is pretty hard to get to and they got guards all around the rim They have, huh? They're not taking any chances of being surprised by anyone approaching the place. Well, it's not only the guards There's lots more men keeping herd on all the stairs and horses they got up there So it's not only a question of getting up on the Mesa without being spotted but of getting past the men watching Oh, we're all the cattle they've rustled. That's right I tried to slip in through a narrow pass where there's only one guard but Well, he caught me right off But suppose you had got past him Bob? Did you have made your way to the cabin where you say they're keeping Annie? Not a chance Mr. Cassidy Triggers men are thicker than thorns on a cactus bush. You see Cassidy? Maybe the only thing to do is to collect a real big posse right up there and shoot it out I don't think so goff not as long as they got the girl her life would certainly be in danger A mass attack won't work. Well, uh, maybe you've got a better idea, huh? I think I have tonight california now go up to caribou Mesa alone Well, what are you saying Cassidy wise? Oh, man, that'd be suicide. No, it won't now. Listen goff. Here's what we'll do California now slip in among the herd up there and stampede them We'll ride in among the stampeding horses and cattle Oh I begin to see what you mean Tomkins men will be plenty busy and then you'll be able to get to the cabin where they're holding the gulf again That's it once we get back with her and your men can take over caribou mason while the gang is still scattered Pick them off as they come back from rounding up the herd Well, it might work. Yeah only It's gonna be mighty dangerous for you Cassidy. I guess you don't know how long gassy. Mr Adventures he's breath excitement. She's butter and danger Why to him that's like strawberry jam to top it all California there's a small pass to the Mesa where Bob said there was only one guard Yeah, I only hope you don't start any fast shooting before we flush him out Ah, once we get the cattle excited, he'll come out on the run I'll go up the slope on foot. There's plenty of cover for me here. You leave my horse when you go in I'll be ready for my signal count on me when I hear the hoot I'll cry you give I'll be on my way through the pass. That's it. Well, I'm off Hmm, I hope this concerned idea works That's old still young rickus That's it. Get up I'm a rip snort and fire eaten terror and I I I stole me a horse that'll make all the boys jealous Yippee Just wait. Let me see this horse. I got who's that Uh, who's who me? Come on. You speak up. I got your cover No, I don't like that. You don't recognize who I am I am the best little horse, roughly to your pumpkin's gut That's who You sure took a load on a drinking whiskey. Whoever you are Well, come along here so I can get a good look at you. Sure Sure you you wanted to go look at me. Well, go on and say I never saw you before Nice performance, california. You sure slipped up behind him quiet hoppy and the neat way you clipped him there He'll be sleeping sound to sun up. Well, let's get up on the mesa and remember ride with your body flattened out low on your horses back I'll do it hoppy, but I just hope this here stampede and trick is gonna work or we'll be a couple of uh dead hombres It's got him hoppy nothing will stop these critters now Right, let's bear off to the edge of the herd. The cabin should be over there Hoppy Hoppy, there's a light must be the cabin wonder. Yeah, that's it. All right There's a corral we can turn our horses in there with the others where they won't be noticed Good idea, then we'll know just where to find them if we need them in a hurry. Yeah, here we are All right, turn them in right Get in there get in now. Let's see how the land lies You see anyone? Nope. Everything looks clear between here in the cabin. All right. Let's get over to that window Keep in the shadows. I'll follow right behind your hoppy Keep down now. You're hoping they ain't been watching us out of that window all this time What now the girl's in there as far as I can see there's only one man guarding her What are we waiting for then let's bust on in all right get your gun out I'm going to try the door. Maybe it's unlocked ready. I'm all set hoppy here goes Get your hands up you and drop that rifle to your holding Miss culver. Are you all right? No, no go away. It's a trap. What? It's a kind of up your toilet. We've got your cupboard all around and drop your guns Well, it seems like we were expected that's right Cassidy. We've been expecting you We know all about that stampede and trick of yours as you see it didn't work It sure stampeded off every clear. You didn't have corral though Sure that much of it worked because we didn't know just how you figured out getting past the god But my men will have every one of them backed by sunup lots of things can happen between now and sunup Yeah, lots of things can happen to you And I've still got five hands besides myself to handle you two you had things all figured out, didn't you? That's right. And the important thing is we've still got the girl And now we've got hop along Cassidy himself and his partner Tomkins has spies and joshua flat mr. Cassidy He's known all along you were going to try to come here So that's it spy right in the posse and this I take it is trigger Tomkins. That's right What are you staring at so hard Cassidy you Tomkins? I'm getting that face of yours clear in my mind I like to remember the bad hombres I intend to put out a circulation Well, Cassidy will see about that Lucky come out to the bunkhouse time up and lock him up in the back room We'll see you two later and make sure you're out of circulation Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story cleanup of caribou mesa Hoppy in california have stampeded trigger Tomkins herds on caribou mesa and his gang of guards are scattered around up the animals But in going into the cabin to rescue any culver hoppy in california stepped into a trap Now disarmed and tied up. They are locked in the bunkhouse I don't see how we're gonna get out of this mess hoppy. They get us hogtide hand and food. That's a mess. All right It's not over yet california not over Tomkins and his gang already so far in bed with the law They ain't gonna worry none about a couple more crimes like murder rush. I know I've been thinking about how we're gonna get out of here before Tomkins has a chance to get around to us But we're tied up hoppy the room's locked and and and there's that guard just outside the door What can we do if we can trick the guard to come rushing in here? We'll make him on tires make him on tires Oh, you ain't making sense hoppy uh you or are you I think I am listen Can you roll yourself over here to me? Come on try it sure sure i'll try I said come on. Yeah I'm getting there uh a little more Here I am. Ah, that's fine now. Listen. They took our guns, but they we still have our cartridge belts So what good does that do never mind get some cartridges out of my belt. How my hands are tied Do it with your teeth. You got them in. I have them. Yeah. Yeah Hoppy get as many as you can into your mouth. I'll go ahead. Yeah. Yeah anything you say hoppy Work fast one come on come on two Three Five that's enough. That's good. I roll over to that iron stove in the corner and spit those cartridges in the fire and duck When the bullets start exploding that guard will come rushing into the room from then on leave it to me I go on bullets in the fire hoppy good steady now Work hoppy. Yeah sit on him that'll keep him from reaching for that shotgun he dropped when I tripped him Yeah, all right hoppy. I'll sit on him with my feet nice and convenient to batch. He's headed fine Now he's gonna untie me. Come on you and do it fast. Come on That's it There Good here california. I'll get you on All right there one more not that does it man alive Well, that sure feels better now. What are we're gonna do with this farm in here? Time up and put a gag in his mouth. Sure. I'll get him a hog tied right quick But hoppy, uh, you figure the here then bullets can all fair over in the cabin. No the cabin's too far away That's good. In that case. We won't be mixing up with tompkins for a while We're gonna deal with trigger tompkins as soon as you get this guard tied up But how are we gonna handle tompkins? He's got four men with him in that cabin and we ain't got no guns We got one the guard shotgun here But it's only got two shots two shots to take care of five humbries with a couple of six guns a piece I don't expect to shoot this gun at all. It's gonna help me to to get a brace of 45s and trigger tompkins. Let's go The way I tied that guard up in there. He ain't gonna move And he ain't gonna yell that much at least i'm sure of we don't have to worry about him What we may get into with tompkins and these men in the cabin is something else Yeah, and I can't see I like the idea of uh Hey, hey, hey wait a minute hoppy. What is it california? Well, well Here's a cook stove and in the pan here is a nice big ready-cooked beef steak Oh, he probably the guard cooked it for himself. Never mind it. Let's get going. Never mind it. Uh, uh, a good delicious beef steak But we haven't got time come on. Oh, all right. All right Hoppy, I'll just take it along with me and carrying a beef steak ain't gonna slow me down much All right, we'd better make a run for it. Keep close to those trees make for the end of the cabin there Let's go. I'm with you Hold it california. Look a shadow of the cabin there this side of the door. Uh-oh Oh, he looks mean and big What kind of dog is there? It's a mastiff. That's he's tort him and see what he does easy now He's mean all right And if he decides to let loose uh, uh and make a real noise everybody in the cabin will know we're out here That's a lot We can't afford to tangle with tompkins of these men out here in the open You think we can sneak back and get around to the cabin from the other side? I was too late for that I thought it was just crouching there waiting for us to make any move Looks like he's waiting to make a meal of us. That's it a meal Uh, what's so exciting about that the beef steak toss it to him No, not all at once a piece at a time. Oh, no Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, right right here here here. Now, let's go in closer. Toss him some more Here it goes and the rest don't act nervous nervous I ain't nervous. I just hope when he eats this chunk of steak. He won't start on me Nice dog. Nice dog Hey hobby, he's licking my hand fine Now you've made yourself a friend Let's hope he doesn't raise a ruckus before we get to the cabin. He's following right behind me Team is a kitten. We'll have to take a chance. He stays that way. Come on Hobby, I still say five men with six shooters again one man with a shotgun is too many And the sure ain't no trick that'll get them all to come out like the guard did especially not one at a time I do want them to come out california. I want them all inside the cabin and all together in the room Well, there's the winter and it's lighted up So somebody's inside Well, you get up to the window and look in Get ready to run if they spot me Shut up dog. Shut up for one little copy. They're all in there with the girl All of them are in one room. Wonderful. What's so wonderful? There's still five of them, ain't there? Never mind that Let's move playing something to you Yeah, I'd sure like to know what you figure and do well then listen You see the cabin roof on this end where the chimney comes up. Yeah, sure. I see it What of it? I want you to climb up there and the roof sure and what are you gonna be doing while I'm up there? I'm going into the cabin. No, sir. You don't leave me out of this. Well, you're going. That's what I'm going to Let me finish. I got a plan that should work if we can just time it right Now before I go in that door you get up to that chimney and once I'm inside just give me another Soon to me like such a good idea holding the girl here no longer just means more trouble than ever We ought to get rid of that so What if you had the brains of a gopher you'd know she's our best insurance against trouble No matter how big a posse they can round up nobody's gonna come up here looking for a fight as long as they know We're holding any cover That's how I figured and that's how it works Well that and hop along Cassidy fella come up here. Sure. Look what happened to him Yeah, but maybe there'll be others There'll always be others trigger Tompkins I don't care what you do to me because I know they'll finally get you. Oh, sure. Just let them try That idea worries me about as much as hop along Cassidy does right now Let's start working Tompkins because I got a lot of buckshot aimed at your middle Don't anybody move and get your hands up. Look here Cassidy You're not scaring anybody now with two shots in that gun and five of us here No, it means I'll get two of you and the posse is closing in on this place right now Oh, give me that now posse is sitting and josh were flat waiting for you to get back there Only you're not going to get back thinking anything you want Tompkins But you'll get the first load of this buckshot. Whatever else happens. Is that so? It's different now, isn't it Cassidy now. I've got the girl in front of me You want to shoot now? All right, man get him Oh Everybody heard it. I got you covered with two revolvers now That's right now I got 12 shots instead of two miss culver come over here away from Tompkins Mr. Cassidy is the posse really here Well, see for yourself. I believe the posse is coming in now. Are she the trick work coffee trick What another shot Tompkins One that did work those shots that made you all rush to the windows were only cartridges California dropped down the chimney into your fire Well, I'll be startled you a tompkins left you flat footed just long enough for me to grab your gun Nobody can beat hoppy to the draw even when he's drawn from somebody else's holsters Well, California, suppose you demonstrate some talents of your own now to these gentlemen Show them how nice and tight you can tie their hands behind their backs sure sure thing Hoppy after that we'll put them on horses and ride them into Joshua flat The posse can round up the rest of the game. Well, uh, the posse don't need to hurry them critters. We stampeded Muster on the halfway to make Now back to hop along Cassidy Say uh hoppy. Yeah I just been thinking Suppose when they tied us and locked us in that bunkhouse they hadn't left our cartridge belts on us Yeah, what about suppose there wasn't no fire going for me to drop them bullets in And suppose that beef steak wasn't the cook stove so we could feed it to the dog What could we have done to get out of that man? California there's an old indian saying that covers that situation goes, uh Packo eat all what to knock. Huh? Yeah, uh, what does that mean in america? It means don't worry about what might have happened be happy with what you've got Huh? When hoppy gets going with a few old indian tricks a kidnapped girl is rescued a bandit gang is routed And california winds up with a dog After the cleanup of caribou mesa Don't miss another thrilling experience with hoppy in california when they meet up with six little men who were green Up along cassidy starring william poid is transcribed and produced in the west by walter white jr Cleanup of caribou mesa was written by paul adams with original music under the personal direction of albert glasser All stories are based on the characters created by clarency mulford. This is a comodore production