 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 the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke, 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 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. If you're one of the millions of Americans who are suffering from the minor pains of arthritis or rheumatism, and so far haven't found any safe satisfactory relief, you should know about mentholatum deep heat rub, mentholatum deep heat rub. It's a greaseless stainless rub that you massage into your aching shoulders, knees, hands, wherever and whenever you wake. Unlike taking tablets, you don't have to wait for your system to digest it to get relief. 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Well, sure I have. You ain't got no business wasting time on a saloon gal. I'm not wasting my time. You know, a woman living ain't a waste of time when there's work to be done. I'll see you later. Evening, Miss Kitty. Oh, Shave. I, uh, seen you come in. Sit down. Have a drink. Oh, I figure I've done enough drinking for right now, but I'd admire the talk for a spell. Well, that's nice of you, Shave. Most people who come in here don't have much on their minds except whiskey. And they don't know what they're missing. Shave, I've been around noisy trail hands too long to be taken in by soft soap. I ain't using none, Miss Kitty. No. That's for true. You say things pretty nice, Shave. I bet the Marshal has some nice things to say to you. Matt, he wastes about as many compliments as he wastes bullets. You're pretty good friends, ain't you? You and the Marshal. We've known each other a long time. We ain't to see he thinks you're smart enough to talk to. Sure have seen him do it often enough. Well, sure. He has to talk to somebody. I'm handy. Well, the way I look at it, he's a lucky man. Sure. I mean it. I wish I was going to be around permanent like and give him a run for his money. Oh, are you planning to leave soon? Yeah, I'm pushing on to Texas in a day or two as soon as I get a little job finished here in town. Well, I'm kind of sorry to hear that. I kind of used to seeing you these last few days. I mean to see as much of you as I can while I'm here, Miss Kitty, if it's all right with you. Sure it is, Shave. Hi, Kitty. You ready? Yeah. Hello, Matt. Ready for what? Well, I told you I'd come by and take you along to supper, didn't I? Oh, yeah. Sure. Matt, do you know Shave Murdock? Hello, Murdock. I was sending you around the last few days. Yeah, I've been here all right, Marshal. All right, Kitty, let's go. I'm sorry to run off this way, Shave, but I'll see you before you go, won't I? Sure you will. You'll be coming back here tonight, won't you? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I guess I will. I'll be waiting. Well, come on, Kitty. Oh, I'm coming. Goodbye, Shave. Miss Kitty, I'd like you were saying your last earthly goodbyes in there. Well, it might seem strange to you, but there are folks who like to do things in a nice way. Oh, bad drifter? He's no drifter. He's in town on business. And he's a very nice fellow. All right, Kitty, all right, all right, let's go eat. Yes, yes, I'm surprised that you're able to eat at all, Matt. The way that the tooth looks. I'm chewing on the other side. Hmm. Do you have a bad tooth, Matt? Oh, it's one of the worst I ever saw. Oh, yes. Oh, it's going to be quite a painful job getting that out. Yeah, that's quite a job. You might have mentioned it. But you had other things on your mind, remember? You going to pull it out? Yes, I am. Tonight. Around midnight, I expect. Midnight? That's a fancy hour for tooth pulling, isn't it? Yeah, it's a foolish hour, if you ask me. But the marshal is a stubborn man. What does that mean, Matt? Doc's the one who's making a story out of it, as Kim. What about it, Doc? Well, Matt's going to need a lot of liquor and up to deaden the pain before I start. Well, Matt won't do it like a normal person. He's insisting on going through it at night so that he can sleep it off by morning. Stubborn is a Missouri mucus. The liquor won't taste as good in the morning, Doc. All right. We've agreed to do it your way, haven't we? Yeah, but you better start getting some liquor down you pretty soon, because you're so stiff-necked it's going to take a while to get any effect. Don't worry, Doc. If we run out of whiskey, Kitty will send us up some more. Won't you, Kitty? Sure, Matt. Do you want me to stay around, Doc? Maybe I can help hold him down. Well, now maybe. No, you go along, Kitty. I'd be glad to help. You don't want to keep that nice fella waiting, do you? Hello, Sam. Everything going all right? Oh, back so soon, Miss Kitty? No, I'm back. Well, things going fine. Not much business, though. Kind of quiet. Glad to see you back, Miss Kitty. Hello, James. Uh, I got a table over there. Care to sit down? Might as well, I guess. Oh, you sure do run a nice place here, Miss Kitty. Thanks. I ain't expecting to run into nothing like this in Texas. At least, I ain't expecting to run into nobody like you down there. You suppose I will, Miss Kitty? Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Well, I was just talking about how I'm heading for Texas. Oh, yeah, Texas. Do you know when you're leaving? You shouldn't be long now. I sort of expected the Marshal had walked you back here. Well, I would have, but Doc thought that he should go right on up to his place. Was there something to matter with the Marshal? Even lawmen get toothaches. Toothache, huh? Well, the Doc's gonna pull it for him, is that it? Yeah, just as soon as he gets enough liquor down him. Is he gonna pull it tonight? Matt wants plenty of time to sleep it off. Doc says he'll be groggy most of tomorrow as it is. I guess he ain't gonna be up and around first thing in the morning, huh? I don't think so. Well, now, Miss Kitty, that's interesting. That's mighty interesting. Oh, come on now, Shave. You sympathize with a man who's got a toothache even if he is the Marshal. Oh, you're right, ma'am. I give him my sympathy. Now, the next time you see him, you tell him that, huh? Bottle, Doc. Oh, thank you, Justin. Thank you. So, here you are, Matt. Now, start to work on this week. Um, sure, Doc. You know, Andy, try to take a lot, fill him up, don't he, Doc? Well, it'll stick a lot tonight, but you never tell about whiskey, Justin. Tonight, you can just take two drinks, and it'll do something to you. Well, you'll do things you wish you hadn't. Yeah, well, I've seen that happen. I've seen it happen, too. She healed. Well, yes, sir. I guess you haven't. Now, go on, man. Go on. Now, stop talking and bring it down. Bring it down. This isn't a social gathering, you know. All right, all right, Doc. This whiskey isn't good enough to drink like that. Well, you feel just as bad tomorrow as if it was. Go on, drink. Go on. Yes, sir. Do what you done? That's good. That's very good. You want to be sure and keep it just like that, that way. Oh, yes, indeed, I sure will. Because you're going to be in charge now for a while, you know that. Yes, sir, I know that, Mr. Allen. That's good. That's good, because you... You got to remember that Zoby, and folks like him, want to martial us and charge every minute. Oh, yes, sir. I sure do intend... Of course, it doesn't take much to be a martial. All you got to do is care about certain things and not care about certain other things. You understand that, don't stress it. Oh, yes, sir. I certainly do. Well, I don't exactly understand it, Mr. Allen, but the way you say it makes it seem like I understand it. Yes, well, all right, all right, Jesse. Hey, help me get him over to that big chip. You just got to care about certain things. Yeah, well, now, don't you worry now, Mr. Allen. Don't you worry about a thing. Hi, partners. I'm going to explain the difference between ordinary stereo phonographs and Columbia Stereo One. Listen to it all well on ordinary stereo. Now listen to it on Columbia Stereo One. A holiday sound. The difference is Columbia's stupendous stereo projection, not just a couple of speakers shooting in different directions. Columbia gives you the real thing. Fills every inch of the room with all the sound and feeling of a live performance. And I mean a Texas-sized room. Man, ain't that the prettiest money-making sound? I mean, get down to your Columbia phonograph dealer and ask. Demand to hear Stereo One by Columbia. Why, they start as low as $39.95 for portables, $129.95 for consoles. Somebody can't that well. We're losing a fortune. Gotta say, ain't nothing so hard about running a Marshall's office. That's all. Well, sure. Mr. Dill and me was talking about it just last night. All you gotta have is a town to watch out for. Yeah. And you gotta have the kind of mind to watch out for it. Looks to me like a broom might come in handy, too. Well, now there ain't no call to make no remark like that. Hey, Chester. Howdy. Hello, Leander. Oh, there's a Marshall. Well, he ain't here right now, but I'd be pleased to help him. Oh, you better find him and quick. Well, now I can't write. Do you know where he is? Well, sure I know where he is. You tell him to come on down to the bank and to come quick. It's been robbed. What? Tom Johnson was shot. Shot? Oh, well, I guess I better get on down there and see about it. Well, ain't nothing for you to see, Chester. The bank's been robbed. The officers have done it or off scot-free. The safe was blowed right open. You better go get the Marshall, Chester. This is gonna take more than a broom. All right, now you're the way to do it. Yeah, you better go and get him, Chester. They're gonna be sending out a posse without it. All right. All right. It sure don't mean much getting left in charge of a town. Chester, you're out early. Where is he? Who? Mr. Dillon, of course. What is in there? Sleeping it off. I gotta see him. All right, now, Chester, there's nothing to worry about. Everything came out just fine. I know, Doc. A nice job. If I do say something wrong, it was a nice job. Doc, I gotta go in there. Go ahead, then, for heaven's sakes. He won't know anything about it. He'll be asleep for some time yet. You don't understand, Doc. We gotta wake him up. We're gonna do no such thing. We got to, Doc. The bank's been robbed. Tom Johnson's been shot. Doc, this just ain't the kind of thing I can be in charge of. The town just won't stand still for nobody that Mr. Dillon taking care of it. All right, Chester, come on. We'll wake him up. That is an awful shit. What a head he's gonna have. Man. Oh, man. Come on. Wake up. Come on, man, now. Come on. Good. You better get me some water, Chester. Come on, all right. Come on, now. Come on. Whoa. Wake. All right, man. Come on, bud. Here you are, Doc. Oh, thank you, Chester. All right. I hate to do this, Matt. What? What's the matter? Come on, man. Now, wake up here. I'll help you sit up. What's the matter? Chester, get his feet on the floor. All right, Doc. Just get that tooth out of there. Oh, the tooth. It's all over, Matt. The tooth is out. Oh, well, there's no bother me. Let me go back to sleep. No, no, no. Don't let him stretch out again like that, Chester. Just splash some more water on him. Let him fall. Doc, go on it, Doc. Leave me alone. I'm sorry, Matt, but you've got to get up. Oh, what for? Matt, the bank's been robbed. Tom Johnson's been shot. What? What? Oh, where's Chester? I'm right here. Oh, you know what happened, Chester? Well, sure. I found out about it all right. I figured it was my job. Well, you see, them two fellas, the ones that's been hanging around the long branch, that friend of Miss Kitty's and that other one. Yeah. Well, they broke into the bank early this morning. They blowed the door clean off of safe. Well, what happened to Tom Johnson? Well, he's seen him riding off, and he started hollering, and they shot him. He's dead, Mr. Dillon. All right, Chester. Let's go. Yes, sir. I'm going to fix your powder for your head, Matt. No, thanks, Doc. I'll make it all right. It'll make you feel better. I'm not going to feel better until I catch up with those men. And now here's a message from the watchmakers of Switzerland. Swiss Vacation. Well, you know who? Win a fabulous vacation for two in beautiful Switzerland. Enter the Swiss Vacation Contest. It's easy. Nothing to buy. Pick up a free entry plank at a jewelry store or other store that sells quality watches. Then in 25 words or less, complete this statement. 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The lucky thing is, Miss Kitty and that chave followed his friends now, wasn't it? Yeah. Murder and bank robbers are a nice friend to have. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, Mr. Dillon. Now, you know I never meant nothing like that. What did you mean? Why is it clean to see? Well, point it out to me. Well, Mr. Dillon, if Miss Kitty hadn't been so friendly like with him, we wouldn't have known which way to come. Well, that was seen right not a town this way, weren't they? Well, sure they were. But what that chave fellow told Miss Kitty sort of confirmed it, you might say. Well, what did he tell her? Well, she told me that this fellow chave kept telling her about how he was heading for Texas as soon as he pulled off a big deal. Miss Kitty wanted me to be sure and tell you that. Well, you waited a while to mention it, didn't you? Yes, sir, but with the Russian bustle and all, I kindly forgot, I guess. Anyway, I guess it don't matter so much as that. They left us a clear trail. Well, it might matter. Hold up a minute. The trail leads over to this stream, all right. Well, they could have just got thirsty. It's awful hot out here. I'm going to look around a little. You find anything over on that side? No, nothing. It's up to the stream, but it doesn't lead out again. You know, if they were really going to Texas, they'd have gone straight on through. They didn't. So they must be trying to trick us just yet. They probably doubled back. You reckon all that Texas talk would just meant to fool Miss Kitty? I think it was meant to fool somebody. I was hoping I'd find you here, Doc. Oh, good morning, Kitty. Good morning. Sit down. Sit down. Have some breakfast. Yeah, thanks, Doc. A little late in the morning to eat, but I've been busy. Have some coffee? Yeah, please. That was a terrible thing about Tom Johnson. Yes, it was, Kitty. From what they tell me, he lived long enough to suffer pretty bad today. Wounds in the stomach can be very cruel. Yeah, Doc, I know. If I ever find out who the blabbermouth is, I'll be tempted to pull all of his teeth and without any whiskey. Blabbermouth? I had to be one, didn't I? It's much too much for a simple coincidence. What do you mean, Doc? I mean, I'd like to find the big talker that let those outlaws know that Matt was going to be full of whiskey yesterday morning. His tongue must be hung in the middle. I can't understand it either. You can't. No, I can't. We tried to keep it as quiet as we could. Why, Matt even insisted on my pulling the tooth at night so nobody'd know about it or get any crazy ideas. And now Tom's dead and the bank's been robbed. How awful. Matt'll find out someday. But you were... I don't envy whoever it was. No, Doc. Me neither do I. Doc, when do you think Matt'll be back? Well, I understand he came in late last night. I haven't seen him, though. Why didn't you tell me before? He didn't ask me. I'll see you later, Doc. Can I come in, Matt? Sure, Kelly. Come on in. Won't you sit down? Yeah. Something on your mind, Kelly? Well, yes, there is, Matt. There's something I want to talk to you about. Is this an official visit? Well, in a way, I guess it is. I'll be glad to help you. It's just it. Oh, Matt, I've been such a fool. It's all my fault. What's all your fault? Everything. Well, that covers a lot of territory. You know what I mean, Matt? Get taken in by that shaved Murdoch. Well, I will admit you're generally a better picker than that. I just kept listening to him talk. And I'm the one that told him, Matt. I told him about your tooth. Yeah. I figured it might have been you. And I'm the one that was so taken in with all this talk about Texas. I sent you off on a wild goose chase, Matt. They must be safe home by now. Oh, Matt, I'm sorry. I truly am. Oh, don't worry about it, Kelly. To tell you the truth, I was suspicious of that Texas talk. It's too late now. I'm ashamed of myself. Well, all he wanted with me was to find out about you. And I told him, I even helped him get away. You ought to lock me up, Matt. Well, I don't think the town would stand for it, Kitty. What do you mean? I don't think they'd like me to lock a man and a woman in the same cell. Matt, well, what? I've got shave locked up back there. You got it? Yeah. We got them both, Kitty. We left the other one buried out on the trail. I don't understand. Well, they let us on away and then double back, just like they led you on with the Texas talk. I don't see how to. Well, you don't have to, Kitty. And will you promise me that you won't try? Matt. Just leave the track into me, huh? I may not do things in a nice way like Shave does, but I'm a better man on the trail. Oh, come on. I'll buy you some dinner. When you catch cold, try my way. Take four-way cold tablets. Fast way to relieve cold distress and feel better quickly. Four-way, only 29 cents. 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