 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 that 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 then declined as California Now hoppy, what about our story? This is the adventure we call run sheep run It began on a warm spring afternoon in the San Dimas Valley The day had been quiet and peaceful in the riding easy Even our horses seem to be enjoying the change of pace and a good case of old-fashioned spring fever had nearly taken over As California and I approached the box out owned by an old friend of ours Matt Liggett We were just a short distance from the main ranch buildings when I saw something up ahead that caused me to call California to stop California pull up What's up, huh look at the crowd of men in the front of the box out. What do you make of it? Hey, you'll make sure to get company Andy. He has but I'm wondering if it's friendly company. Listen Hoppy that sounds like trouble sounds and looks like it. We better see what's up. Come on get up get up boy Kelly you there Kelly you seem to be the leader. I want to talk to you and stay away from that door all of you Come on, California. All right one side. We're going through. Come on. What's this all about Kelly? Matt's turn skunk copy. He sold us out. I don't believe it. What are you talking about? I'll tell you Matt's sold the north end of his range and all his water rights And that's all the water we got in this valley. He sold a Clint slagal. He what you heard me He sold a Clint slagal. Slagos a sheep man Sure he is and coming right now through the past with more woolies than you find in all New Mexico There's some mistake here. Kelly this isn't sheep country and slagos should know that even if Matt did sell What would slagal want it for I don't know that's his business all I know is Once those willies have got down on the flats and hit the pool in the springs We're done for won't matter to us then with a slagal made a mistake or not just a second Kelly One thing you'd better get through your head Match your friend. Why he's been the best friend any of you in this valley ever had if he sold a slagal You'll have an explanation and what's keeping them from giving it. We're here. We'll listen Look, wait a minute you come out here pouring the ground and belling and tossing your horns like this. What do you expect? Naturally Matt wouldn't feel much like coming Matt I'm glad you came out Kelly you've been given me some crazy talk about crazy talk coffee Straight talk would matter. It can't be that these people have been my friends for years Some of them been my friends for the best part of my life But I've sold them out happy. I've sold them out and ruined them And and there's nothing anyone can do about it When Hoppe first heard that elderly Matt Liggett pioneer ranchman had betrayed his friends by selling Sandimas Valley's only Water rights to the sheep man Clint slagal He refused to believe it but Matt himself confirmed the charge and now Hoppe stares at him Then slowly turns away to address the waiting crowd All right friends. I'd appreciate it if you'd leave this to me There's gonna be any trouble here, so you better clear out You too Kelly. I don't think you're in any frame of mind to talk to Matt. I'll see you later All right, if you say so hoppy, but it was anybody but you I'd tell you to go to blazes All right Matt inside but hoppy You don't seem to understand. I Assure you that there's nothing to discuss inside Well, you too, California sure Right Matt. Let's have it have What Matt maybe you can fool those fellas out there with this talk about selling them out But don't try to fool me that easy This family and the people in it mean more to you than anything else in the world So now well, how about having the truth? Oh You won't believe me hubby But I've told you the truth you actually mean to say that you sold your water right to a man-like slaggle that you did I still don't believe it well Maybe I didn't hoppy but It amounts to the same thing Sime Argent did times your former lady used to be After this happened. I naturally discharged him or rather. He knew I would and Never showed up again. I don't get this. What could Sime have to do with it? I had given him my power of attorney. Oh You see hoppy. I'm getting old. I Well, my judgment isn't always as As good as it should be What if someone to run the place for me? Sime had been with me for five years. I Thought I could trust him but when the chips were down you found you couldn't they? Yes, and the shims to blame for this why you've been blaming yourself. Well, I I gave him the power to do it, didn't I? Who else is responsible? I see what you mean? You made a mistake, but you didn't deliberately sell anyone out. There's a difference Have you tried to do anything about this? Have you talked with slaggle? I tried to hoppy, but he wouldn't see me I see. I heard the slaggle is coming through the past right now. I guess California night better look him up Come on California See you later Matt hoppy wait, what can you in California do our best and if that isn't good enough We'll have to do a little bit better Hold still you not-hitted son of Satan That'll hold you Pedro Manuel Keep a move and head him for the flats Felipe back to the past to keep a rustles blame credit is moving What's the matter with you sign slaggle on him out of here Look there. It was coming. Let's hop along Cassidy in a sidekick. They know me. I shut up Too bad they made a man out of you sign. He just wasted the material for a first-class rat I heard about this Cassidy ombre. I'd admire to meet him. Well, I won't get out take cover if you want, but don't go away You'll be around when Cassidy's gone again. I'll be around come on Oh Hello, what a sheep you got here. You must be Clint slaggle. I'm Clint slaggle. Who are you mean to say sign? Didn't tell you. I saw him clearing out when he saw it's coming All right, you're a hop along Cassidy. This is California Carlson What are you after you want jobs herding sheep? No, thanks. We don't eat mutton neither do I And you couldn't work for me even if you wanted to They just to let you know where you stand. Well, where do you stand the slaggle this family isn't for sheep any more than it is For mountain goats. What do you want in here for? I'm a business man Maybe it was to make me a little money. No doubt, but what's your angle slaggle? Well, since it's such a good idea, I'll let you in on it. I Own this end of the valley. I bought all the water rights there is Suppose I stay here. What's gonna happen to your ranch of friends? They'll go broke They'll have no place to water their cattle, right? So if I was them I'd buy me out again, and I wouldn't haggle too much over the price Oh, so that's your game is it a little extortion. How much are you asking today? 50,000 Land's going up though. So tomorrow it may be more fifty thousand. That's ridiculous, and you know it sure Well, what do you want to bet? I get it. I don't think the men here are fools It'd be fools not to buy and even if they wouldn't I intend to do everything I can to persuade them not to I don't scare easy Cassidy I hold the water right so the ranchers go bust That'll be kind of fun too But I think a cattle man ain't hardly polite for a well-bought up fella like me to say Suit yourself, but don't make any decisions. You'll regret. Come on, California. Let's get out of here. Come on Ah I'm afraid I made mr. Cassidy mad Sometimes a fool thing to do. Tell me something, Sam He said that even if the ranchers were willing to get together and buy their water back at my price We try to talk them out of it Did they listen to him? Listen to them It can't be told them they'd walk off a cliff blindfolded never asked why and he's dangerous to us. Huh plenty dangerous All right then my friend you have your orders what orders kill him California, huh? Don't look now, but I think we're being followed. I got a glimpse of a rider a couple of times We're a top of the hill any idea who I got an idea. It's our old friend the same Argent No use wasting time worrying about him though. We have to do is find a place to camp come on top But California a camp here you get on in the town and get back with these supplies Bacon flower coffee matches. That'll be all I guess right how long you think the trip will take you oh Two hours you reckon well make it as fast you can as soon as you're back the better right I'll get a go now. Come on boy. Get up. Get up Well topper old boy that time you had a rub down I guess But not half as hot as the one you're gonna have hoppy. Sorry. That's right hoppy No, no, no, get your hands away from him guns heist. I'm gonna keep him heist What is this time? This is just one of the events leading up to the funeral hoppy Your funeral all back to hop along Cassidy and the adventure called run sheep run It was several hours later that California Carlson dashed madly into the little town of Custer Nestling at the lower end of San Dimas Valley and rained up in a spiraling cloud of dust As he did so he lifted his voice in a young everybody you jump come on with me you and hoppy made champ, California Right over there carry better tell them polish to see right here house. They'll trample all the sign out You heard that boys wait for us Come on California. Let's see what we can find Hey here we are whoa boy whoa California that log over there. There's blood on it sure there is and that's one of the things I wanted to get to see And wait a second. Let's have a look around here a little certainly been a fight here a big one Yeah, but how would anybody grab hoppy off without a fight these hands? There's where they dragged him away over there. You can see his heel mark sure at least looks that way Even so we can't be sure wait There's this guy. Yeah, you sure there is Let me see you Yeah, yeah, there is all right. I was in such an all-fired hurry and missed him before California this tells the whole story if they hadn't got the best of him He would never have left his guns behind and if they hadn't killed him. They would have left him behind This proves it Hoppy did Somebody's gonna pay for this California, and it isn't gonna be long before we present the bill You said it was one of slagals men fall on you didn't you yeah? Yeah, I'm Argent it was him that sold out to slagal while he was still with Matt Liggett I reckon you know all about that but this time we know about it And I guess we also know that hoppy's body was taken away so we couldn't prove anything then it better be found We'll find it, but that won't make any difference assignment slagal They'll pay for this whether we find hoppy's body or not and no time wasted Come on man, we've got a job right to do let's get going I'll line up with you later Kelly first. I've got a job old moan to do any time We won't need any help on this job. All right boys. Let's get going. We'll follow that killer All right, you can come out now hoppy good I'd stayed down that hole full of brush much longer. I'd have been dead smothered to death. I Was listening California. You did fine not even one little lie Didn't have to tell nothing or just let Kelly look around and kind of jump to his own conclusions That rabbit blood and that love there sure look like the real thing. That was a good church We're sorry don't worry about him. He's still back in the brush tied up a good So now what do I do you know what to do and you'd better start doing it before killing his crowd Give up on that blind trail. I left them and decided to deal with slagal direct right I'll get started now fine and California. Yeah, when you find slagal be sure you talk it tough Remember from now on everything depends on you Wait a second mister you come back here. I've said my say You got anything to say you better make it fast. I'll do that How soon do you expect that bunch to get here Kelly and the others? I couldn't say it depends on a lot of things might be tomorrow might be in the next five minutes All you can be sure of it is that sooner or later. They will be here. All right, let them come They can't do anything. Hey, they wouldn't dare. That's a matter of opinion Pretty tough for you if you guessed wrong, wouldn't it be but Linsen would be against the law But it still happens now and again, but don't they hey they can't prove it I had anything to do with hoppy's killing it. Well, I'll tell you That's one of the things that's bad about fellas stepping out and taking the law into their own hands They don't always wait for proof, but they know you wanted to kill hoppy So what what can I do what I told you? Skeedaddle and you better get at it, but I can't I mean Well, I got money tied up here. I bought this land and the water, right? Well, if money means more to you than your neck, that's your business But maybe I could help out a little help me out you yeah I'll tell you now I get a little money not much of course You have to take some loss, but if you aim to save something out of this mess You got yourself in there like So I'm California. Yeah, sure sure did hoppy and talk to tough to just like you said and it worked out fine Good, and we'd better ride Yeah, top of here boy Hey, we're leaving time here. No, I fixed it so that in five minutes after we've left he can work himself loose Come on. Get up. Get up boy What an ass Hey, I want to see you mister. Get up. Hey, I'm gonna fool you You messed everything up the idiots the whole valley knows you killed Cassidy. I've had to sell out I'll be lucky if I get clear of this valley alive. I'd known you were such a Want to get this straight you sold out everything land and water rights I had to was my only chance to get anything at all back What did you sell to California Carlson, but we're wasting time. There'll be a posse here any minute now We gotta get out of here. Who's the fool now? Oh, what are you talking about? You've been tricked selling out to Carlson Don't you know that Cassidy's alive is what you heard me. He's alive Carlson knew it when he talked into selling to him. The whole thing was a put-up job between him and Cassidy You're local am I I ought to know where the Cassidy's alive or not. Look at me. Had me tied up I just got away, but I sent you after him. What happened? I Guess he outsmarted me too. I didn't know it's laughter was but they knew I was following them Pull a whiz around me California made as if he was going to town for supplies, but when I threw down on Cassidy there He was with a gun on my back He just circled around and laid for me. Hi, so they outsmarted us today What was that I told him to turn the wall is around we're going back. What's the use now? It's too late. Is it? I'll tell you something Simon We're going back and before we're through Cassidy's gonna be shedding tears for the day was born It's a gunfight tell me and his men to come up with Simon Slager We've taken too long. We shouldn't have stopped at Matt's place first. We gotta get there. Let's go I'll be in California. We're glad to see you. We got them skunks hold up back in those rocks. They killed Hey, hold it you're alive. Sure. I'm alive. I don't kill easy Wait a second one at a time. It's a long story most of it'll have to wait But if this was meant to be a necktie party you can forget about it No, you're trying to punish a man for a crime. He didn't commit that says maybe hoppy We're glad you're alive, but I'm not so sure we shouldn't go right ahead with this and wipe those skunks out They've taken our water away from us. Oh, they haven't That's another long story. We got it back, but it's California story. So he should be the one to tell you California you better tell them what happened they California, where is it? California California. Oh, yes, look at part Cassidy. We have it California is that true they got you over there He was talking they never even give me a chance to holler What's the idea slaggo, what do you expect to gain by this honey? Well What if you have just this either California signs it we blow his head off Back to hop along Cassidy and less leave this to me California, can you hear me? Sign that quit claim deed. Do you hear me sign it sign anything slaggle want you to Forget I'm not forgetting anything just do as I tell you do you understand that well Good sense Cassidy, but you're waiting to admit it hoppy. I guess you know what this means, don't you? It means slaggle takes over the whole valley after all it means we're ruined you'd rather California died And suppose you do what I suggested leave this to me and quit worrying about it Kelly, I want you to follow my orders exactly. I'm going over there where slaggle in California are I'll go over of my hands raised They'll be keeping their eyes on me. Thank you and some of your men could many surround them without them knowing it while I'm doing that I think so, but what could let you you'll learn that later slaggle. I'm coming over there. Don't fire at me I'll come over of my hands raised it to keep them raised If your eyes on him boys the first time he tries anything let him have I'm coming now anytime. Just don't think you can outsmart us. That's all California right around here hoppy Well slaggle, I suppose you think you've won this hand But how long do you think you can make your title of this land stick when we tell how you've got it about as long as you Could make your stick when I tell how you trick me out of it I reckon Anyhow this quit claim date will serve my purpose by the time any court throws me off this land your friends Cattle will have died for lack of water, so I still say they better buy me out at my figure Maybe they will let's see what they have to say. All right Kelly take over Take them away Kelly charge him with trespassing attempted murder anything you can think of we'll charge him with being sheepmen That's the worst of all won't get away with this Cassidy. I would have sold my title now I'll fight you through every court in the state or I get through with you and your friends here You won't even get started slaggle. Didn't I tell you tell me what you're a deed there to this land in the water It isn't worth the paper it's written on California had no right to sign it on the way over here. We stopped at the boxel and California transferred title back to Matt Ligget So you're finished slaggle Kelly Take him away There's no stopping hoppy when he sets out to help a friend Even gunslingers and crooks scatter like sheep when hoppy rides them down bringing an end to trickery and deceit and this story run Sheep run Don't miss hop along Cassidy's next thrilling tale of a princess who becomes a kidnapper and how hoppy becomes a prince when for a Short while hoppy meets his match Hop along Cassidy starring William Boyd is transcribed and produced in the West by Walter White jr Run sheep run was written by Gibson Scott Fox with original music under the personal direction of Albert Glasser All stories are based upon the characters created by Clarence E. Mulford. This is a Commodore production