 It's Hopalong Cassidy With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Hopalong Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West Hopalong Cassidy This famous hero thrills his 60 million fans with action and dangerous adventure In the role of Hopalong Cassidy is the popular star of the motion picture series William Boyd and Appearing as that laughable old character, California is Andy Clyde now to our story Red Rock Mesa Shimmering in the heat of a noon sun lay mescalosa plain Stretching as far as the eye can see The squat settlement of mescalosa in the center with the pine covered hills of the Indian reservation to the right and Far in the distance beyond the white sands of the desert the flat top table land called Red Rock Mesa Gosh coffee ain't better sight. Yeah, it looks mighty hot down there She was mighty hot the last time I seen her in more ways than one. When was that California? In 73 the year before the command she wore mean another fella Know what was his name? Oh, it doesn't matter. No, it was not memory. What it used to be Anyway, me and this other fellow get caught ten miles out of miss Caloosa by a bunch of command she's and now run Us clean across that desert and up Red Rock Mesa nearest ever come to parking with my core When they finally corraled the command she's and put them in the reservation I shook the dust of mescalosa often my boots and promise myself. I'd never come back Well, I don't think we need to worry about the command she's now California. They've been behaving themselves for quite a while Well, I still ain't in love with a miss Caloosa country wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for this horse business of yours They haven't come in see Indians is about as tough as they come why I remember the time once when I What's the matter? That's funny, huh? Let's smoke over there at the side of the rid What are you reckon? I don't know. Let's take a look I Don't know looks like somebody's ranch house get burned down Still smoldering Couldn't have happened more than a few hours ago some time of the early morning Huffy, I ain't want to jump to conclusions, but there go on. What is it? Well a few years back We never had to think very hard when we run on to a burned ranch house command she's yeah We better get out of here. I want to talk to the marshal in mescalosa Get down down. What was that look in that timber there. It's a narrow. Let's get out of here, Huffy Keep down. We might get out the back. Let's go Hold it. They thought of that too. Well, they'll have to come and get me. I'll put your gun away We're surrounded we get out of this at all. It won't be by shooting there. Ain't nothing else to do Hoppy, maybe not what we got to try. This is one spot. We're gonna have to talk our way out of Red rock mesa for five eternal minutes hoppy in california crouch in the blackened ruins of the ranch house Waiting for something to happen then Look where there's one. I'm coming around that bowler. Give me your hand. It's a white used to be here Good put it on the stick here There now who never thought I'd see the day when hop on Cassidy would wave a white flag as an engine You want to keep your coupé in place? You'll shut up. Hello over there He's coming out. All right now cover me while I go out the medium, right hoppy and don't pull that trigger unless you have to Understand. Yeah. Yeah. Good luck hoppy. Thanks Howdy You speak English me no white man talk Me no white man way Bring other man here. I'd rather leave him where he is. They said bring other man here. What do you want? guns You have guns. Yeah, we have guns and we're gonna keep them Like Matt pie you'll make big talk You kill other man Wait a minute a white girl what happened tell me you ask white man He make big talk. Who are you? My name is Cassidy. Where are you from the bar 20 ranch quite a way north of here My friend and I just got here a few minutes ago pulled up on the ridge over there and saw the smoke came over take a look What are you doing in make close the county just come down here to buy some horses? I see Chief These aren't the men. You must let them go in peace Bring your friend out here, Mr. Cassidy. All right miss California here coffee That white gal doing here. I don't know if you sure came at the right time. Come on This is my partner California Carlson. Howdy, ma'am. How do you do? This is chief broken length of the command chief He's sorry. He made the mistake Where do you like what he was on you if you want you to go in peace? Mind if I ask what this is all about miss. Oh, it's simple enough Someone's trying to stir up another command chief war. What do you mean? Almost every ranch bordering the Indian Reservation has been raided during the last few weeks Cattle runoff buildings burn This is one of them right here. I see Do you mind if we oh, of course Chief we'd like to talk you'd better get back to the others You tell white man our story miss I will it is well Now what makes you think these raids aren't the work of the command chief. I also know I live with them Uh-uh, I keep an Indian school on the reservation From the trouble started I refused to leave with the others I know the command chief are innocent, but it's useless to plead with the ranchers and make colossus They're ready to fight now Our only hope is to catch whoever's behind these raids so when they saw California me fooling around this ranch out here They thought they did you lucky you weren't killed. Thanks to you miss, uh, Brits Martha Brits You better be on your way now the two-hour ride to make it closer just like that, huh? What do you mean? I want to stay up here and take care of things all by yourself Fight every white rancher in the county with a bunch of Indians and a lot of nerves I'm not asking anybody for help. Well, you're gonna get our help. What do you want to do? Here's your intern Thanks, thanks very much. I Would like you to do something for me and what's that the marshall and they school of it. His name is Bob Nolan Keep an eye on him for me. Will you sure? I want to look things over in town this afternoon. I'll be back here tonight Will you meet me? All right? I'll be here You know what she was talking about happy this town sure spoiling for a fight. Yeah, she wouldn't have a chance talking to these birds Well, let's see what our friend Bob Nolan thinks We're getting together tonight to take some action on this thing. I hope you'll be with it But if you ain't we're gonna go it alone. You're not gonna do anything till I say so Whitman I tell you we're tired of waiting three ranches burn in the last two weeks over a thousand head of cattle Them red skid and vomit runoff, but I'm not setting off another command she warned you I've got something more than suspicion to go on. Is that the only reason Nolan? What do you mean are you afraid your young school mom might get hurt if we tackle her precious Comanche Think it over Nolan Okay, what do you want? I'm hop along Cassidy. This is California Carlson. Howdy Marshall. Howdy We talked to miss Brit up in the foothills this afternoon. Martha. How is she fine? What did you say about she's gonna see it through from the Comanche side? I was afraid of that. Yeah, who's that folly you were talking to? Sully Whitman lost 500 head last night Whitman. I look shorter familiar It's like all the rest of them now ready to shoot a command she on site. How many counter missing now at least a couple of thousand There's no ranch around here hasn't been hit at least once. Hmm can't run all 500 had a cattle without leaving a trail We followed cattle trails till we're dizzy got nowhere. What do you mean? You got nowhere Bob? Every trail leads to the same place somewhere in the edge of the Tierra Tierra the Tierra de la Muerte Sam desert Sean what happened ambush at the edge of the Tierra. They got Bill and Larry You got horses handy Cassidy right outside, okay, come on with me It'll be dark when we get there, but I'll show you what I mean Where's the fire from Sean the rise over yonder you can see it in the moonlight back Well, what do you make of it Cassidy just like the others? Cattle tracks leading right out into the desert. How far does the visit go hundred miles or more nothing but sand dunes? Wind washes out the tracks five minutes after they're made. Hmm. Those cattle got to be somewhere You can't make a couple of thousand they'd disappear. You say you couldn't see you fired on your Sean. Nope The shots came from that rise over there Look there in the moonlight. It's an engine get down There he goes. Come on now. Here's where you fired from Sean. Yeah, no use trailing them now He's halfway through the desert and I'm satisfied now. Yeah, I saw him and it was an Indian It's all I need only one thing. What's that? Take a look at these tracks here First time I ever heard of an Indian riding a horse with iron shoes Might have stolen the horse. Maybe and maybe it was a white man dressed up to look like an Indian I think he wanted us the same as brush cover all over the hill here a Halfway to no better than to ride up the hill top against the full moon and start shooting say nothing of a Comanche Come on, let's get back to town Comanche's run off our cattle and burn our ranchers. I know you are too Baker at the edge of the desert this afternoon I'm concerned that's the last straw. I'm ready to move away. I'm gonna go struck against the Comanche Nation I'll start it up all over again I know there isn't a card in the lot here. I'm the last one is gonna run out on my duty here Hop along Cassidy and I were down to the scene of the shooting tonight And we still aren't satisfied. It was done by the Comanche. I look boys. Oh, I'm asking you wait a minute I'd like to ask the marshal here one question. I'd like to Because he's afraid a certain little school mom might get hurt in the fight All right boys, I'll get there There's only one way I can answer that kind of a charge Be saddled and ready by dawn. Oh, we're waiting to hear that Coffee in California ride up to the ruins of the farmhouse where they first met Martha Brick Hold it We'll see in a minute. There she is. Come on Martha We've been waiting for hours. They kept us pretty busy. Who's with you broken land good the town's up an arm Oh taken off a dawn arms of the teeth. I was afraid of that I'm Bob's forced into it. He asked me to get you out of here. The Indians are depending on me I can't deserve them now. Don't be silly. You can't help them by hanging around either But where can I go? Can't go back to make galosas. They think I'm a traitor Stay here in the hill wait a minute. What is it California? I'm thinking we haven't got time for that No, I'm thinking the time the command she's run me and that other fellow Fred Rock Mesa Why can't we take miss breath there? There's a trail no one knows about on the far side this fellow showed it to me. His name was What's the matter? I got it. The fellow was up there with I remember who he is. Oh, what's all of them? Solid Whitman. They're the same color that skunk who's firing up the mob down below is the fellow I got run up the mesa with you sure sure positive wait a minute now This is here in the bed Yeah, yeah, what look out in the valley there. You can see the mason the moonlight Suppose those cattle were run out into the sand dune so the wind could cover their tracks Then suppose they were turned south to the Mesa. What's it like on top prettiest land? You ever saw water there plenty of grass enough for 2,000 head of cattle for a short spell sure So Whitman pulls off the raids makes it look like the Comanches and fires up the town for another Indian war I think I know why now it begins to make sense wait or she held you left me behind Martha tell the chief to get his men together and hold up in the wood here We'll try to make it back before dawn where we're going to the top of a red rock Mesa I'm gonna leave the horses here right coffee But you see how a trailer is wider this could be so well-hidden old buckler trailer, right? wait Listen, yeah, I think we've solved the mystery of the disordering cows California. Come on now Take it easy. I might have a sentry at the top of the trail All right now around the other side of this boulder. We ought to get a look at the top of the Mesa. Watch where you stand Hoppy look right below A couple more on the other side there must be 20 men here anyway, and we only want one of them first Bring back with us for a souvenir Somehow we got to get one of those guys away from that nearest campfire You're giving me the willies facing around like that. I'm called. You mean you're yellow Sure, I'm scared. Oh, yo only admitted It's crazy. That's what it is cooking up in the need and ward to keep every man in the county busy Why have we moved 2,500 here to cows off this table top? One of the horses must have walked down the trailer, please. I'll go. Yes. There we are. I'll get him. I need the exercise I use Wondering down there this time of the night Yeah There you are you a white horse We've got What is it what your hand? Not a sound understander. I'll blow you off the top of this Mesa, California. Yeah, I think they're gagging his mouth His hands To hoppy no, he's got a long right ahead of him. He can make him do it side saddle Oh Drums up this expedition You're right up in front with the rest of us when the shooting starts Still sticking up for the command. She's are you Bob sticking up for you ranches if you only knew it What is it Sean? Well, it's getting light enough to see the hills now Take a look over there on the east bridge. Oh that boys pull up a minute. What do you reckon it is Michael? Yeah, it looks like a fire over that burned ranch house Maybe It might be a trap and our boys divide into two columns to decide leave me Cassidy I Don't know nothing. I don't know who the bosses. I never saw don't tell us that pretty you better tell us the truth I am telling you the truth. I don't know shut up Martha How's the chief coming with the fire fire? Yeah, no command she customs of California. You take care of our guests I'm going over the help with the preparations Great preparation What's he mean? Oh nothing much just rigging up a framework over the fire sort of a first for the guest of honor Hmm. Yeah back in 73. We used to call it command she conversation Nothing like good warm peace to make a man real talk Ever had dealings with the command she's missing No You've got a lot to learn Real practical folks the command she's the chief out there broken Lance He's a command she of the old school. Don't make anything this light broken lance no more What do you mean? Well, I'm mind the time in 73 just for Adobe walls when old broken lance here had a couple of white Prisoners who knew something they wasn't telling the first one was real stubborn. He wasn't talking. No, sir He just wasn't talking Something like you Yeah Well to make a long story short They drug out the conversation piece like you see here and and strung the fella up there over the fire barefooted Then begun lorning him into them red hot coals real slow Then what fellow wouldn't just like to set a real stubborn fellow So then they called it him with honey from a bee tree and tied him up on top of an anthill Then swarmed over that fella something awful. Oh, I took shot of the bitch Follower still wouldn't talk so they finally lost pinching What about the other one well, but then then command she's was awful man So when it comes other fellas turn they decided to get tough with him What you point up there it's the chief all right and the clearing by the burn cabin. I got a fire there anyone else I'm not sure Whitman couldn't see no one of course. You couldn't the name bush Nolan your broken lance is there the woods around that Cabin or full of command she's I'll take my life on it. That's just what you might be doing Sean yeah right back to the rest tell them to stay right where they are and hold their fire until they hear shots in the clearing understand What are you doing Nolan? We're going ahead to talk to broken lance Whitman. You're crazy. What's the matter Whitman you yellow? No, I'm not yellow. Let's go. There's a cabin down there Something wrong that fire burning no one around put on and take a look if we better get the others take it easy Whitman War hasn't even started you ready to jump out of your britches. Oh don't be a fool You know this is a crazy stunt as well as I do maybe You're a pretty brave Andre with a mob at your back Whitman Just wondering how you handle it alone Put down that gun You know what you did don't you two hundred men are on their way up here right now ready to shoot on site Cassidy where the shooting come from Whitman the mob's on its way up now. Where's Martha? She's all right. We got to get her out of here. Why those middle never mind that now I think we got the answer what they're looking for what's that Cassidy? You will find out Whitman. Let's go Over here. It's a trick Nolan shut up and get going Follow them around there Tell you there's something something wrong. Mr. Whitman. No, just Oh, what's the matter for us? Don't you recognize your number one hand? I never saw this man in my life No, you Whitman may found the cattle in the Mesa. I've told him the whole story Why are you freezing for an empty holster Whitman? I got your gun What is it Cassidy? You can head off your army and tell them they changed their course for Red Rock Mason or hurry They'll get their cattle back Whitman and his gang have a whole 2,500 heads for out up on top ready to move tonight Well, maybe we'd better all right out there while Mr. Whitman tells them himself Yes, I want you to know how much I appreciate what you've done I think we'll hold on to it and I'm moving on to you honey right here next to Loser All through Sharon Martha with the Comanches Bob, right? I'm sure they can get along without me now and I expect you to can get along without a couple of bar 20 cow Pokes who ought to be heading back for their own rain I've been waiting for you to make that suggestion coffee get an impatient California. Well, just a might uneasy Being so close to that their Comanche reservation and all what do you mean? Well there to tell you the truth hoppy I told that fella such a dog on good story about them Comanche tortures. I ain't been able to sleep night since