 Here you are, poker chips. Compliment to Mayor Nard Lundy. Just wolf right over the El Dorado Saloon and hand to yourself into a fortune. Remember to vote. It's Nard Lundy's town. Let's keep it that way. Welcome to Boulder, sir. Baguson, here you are. Compliment to the mayor. Now why should the mayor give me three poker chips? Election time's coming in two weeks. Just the mayor's way of making sure you remember his name. Come vote inside. Vote? I can't vote. I don't even live here. I just came here to see my daughter and her husband. Good. You've got family here that's just the same as residence. Now don't forget to vote. It's Nard Lundy. I was figured Jeff Rose is full of pickle juice. I'm Captain Orrin Hayes, leader of the Texas Rangers. That man you just shot full of holes happens to be my son-in-law. Can you tell me where I can find his newspaper office? Yeah, around the corner there to the right. Why didn't you let us know you were coming? Well, I thought I'd surprise you. I haven't seen you since you were married. I've been retired from the Rangers now for some years. And you got lonesome. Well, a man just can't quit. Can't sit around and listen to your arteries, Hayes. I don't want some action. Travel. Help stir up the blood, but we're real happy to see you. And you stay as long as you please. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. Hey, looks like you've got quite a business going here. But tell me something, son, one of those wanted posters on you around town. Oh, those aren't wanted posters, Papa. Those are campaign posters. Jeff is a candidate for mayor. By the way, they're shooting his picture full of holes. I'd say they're not wanted. Mayor Lundy's a very clever opponent, Captain. Owns most of his town and runs it from his hell Dorado Saloon. Well, surely how are you? Sheila, my dear. Lovely as always. Well, how are you? Hello, coming on the stage a couple of minutes ago, Mayor. Old fellow says he used to be with the Texas Rangers. And Jeff Rose is his son-in-law. Well, if he's old, he shouldn't worry you, Clyde. And if he doesn't live here, he can't vote for Jeff, so he doesn't worry me. Hardly have you seen this new addition to the Sentinel? He's got your whole record in there. Mine too. Yours too, Clyde. All the facts and figures, the dates, all the graphs, the payoffs, all the illegal taxes. But he says I ain't a proper judge. He says I'm guilty of malfeasance. Whatever that is. You are a walking whiskey vat and you bought your Justice of the Peace office years ago from Charlie Reeves. But I've still got my office. Only because I keep you there don't forget that, Your Honor. Don't you just shut up, Amos. You know a smart man who's handy with words. He's a tough opponent. But when he starts to smear you with the truth, he is deadly. But if this paper ever gets to the governor's office, get the boys all together. Round up every copy of this that's in circulation. Buy him, steal him, take him, but get him! Tell him you're all wrong, Nard. You give that newspaper fellow too much room. Now you always got things done right. Oh, no, no, no, no, Clyde. I'm not the sort of man to use force when gentle persuasion will serve. Why don't you get your deputies together and pay yourself a little call on Mr. Rose? You sure make this laundry over the cold. Well, if it's a family wants, let's give it to them. I'll pitch in and help till we good. Relaxing is what I need. Small business, Sheriff? No, we're just a bunch of plain citizens. We come to tell you that we don't hold with your brand a mud-slinging, name-calling politics. We don't want you printing nothing more. Nothing. Now wait a minute, Sheriff. You can't interfere with the freedom of the press. You keep out of this, you morsehorn. Morsehorn? Listen, young fella, on your best day you couldn't carry mules in my outfit. We've got to give up. Lundy's too powerful. He's too dangerous. Maybe next time he'll order Sheriff Barnes to use his gun. That's exactly why he's got to be fought and beaten. Yeah, best thing for you to do is strap on your own gun five in his way. Captain Hayes, I know gunplay was necessary in the days when you were with the Texas Rangers, but if we're ever going to have progress in the West, we've got to learn to fight our battles with ideas and words. Son, looks like you can't run out of words. Well, maybe Hannah's right. Maybe I should give up. You know, a lot of people were glad to see me run against Lundy, but none of them had let the finger to help. I know a handful of men. Just three. Look, it's straight and out of Lundy and his gang in a hurry. Who's that, Captain? Fastest guns in the West. Finest rider. Top scouts. Crack man who served with me on the River Brosnan. Who brought law and order to the Lones Dye State. The pride of the Texas Rangers. First off, I'll send to Abilene for Nash Crawford. His gun was quicker than the flick of a cougar, faster than the flick of a fairy dog's tail. If he had a gun, Mr. He'll be dead before it clears their deck. Scrabble. Is that exactly the way you had to shoot out with sand bags? Well, of course, the Sloan would want to all cut it up with big guards and dinguses like this. Now, you fellas clean this up for your marshes. And this is the Texas Rangers. Isn't it, Grandpa? Well, it's a much smaller than McCourt 45, more like a hideout gun. What's a hideout gun? Come on over here and I'll tell you about it. Take a shell down there. Now, I recall, I was wintering in the bend on the San Sabre River east of Manhattan, you see. The captain sent me on a scout after a fella who was wanted for murder in a horse season. Well, boys, that's when I got my first taste of a hideout gun. You see? What was that crash I heard in here a minute ago? Oh, my fault, Ellie. It had a little accent with a lamp. I suppose the Texas Rangers just want another battle against overwhelming odds. Run long, boys. It's time for nap. Oh, Mom, Grandpa is just going to kill us to death. David, keep it, keep. Do like your marshes. Paula, I know you don't mean any harm, but you've got to stop filling the boys' heads full of those blood-curdling fairy tales about fighting horsey Indians. Fairy tales? Boy, them things really happen. Fact is, I ain't even told to kiss the bloodiest one yet. I'll send to Kansas City for Jason Fitch, the second best man with a gun and the finest scout in the Rangers. He has eyes like a hawk in the daytime, eyes like an owl at night. Captain, don't write after them two fellas. I know they're a mile off, but I can tell they're comanches. That big one is a chief. I can tell when the mark on his forehead. I see the tip of a feather sticking up behind a boulder way up there to the south. The feather of a scissor-tailed fight-catcher. There's another comanche beneath it. Now move to Redskins, bushwhackers. Oh, you must have been a marvelous scout, Mr. Pitch, to recognize all those terrible Indians so far away. Take ties like a needle, Mrs. Fletcher. I'm Mrs. Murphy. Oh, yes. You're Mrs. Murphy, not Mrs. Fletcher. Hey, you're a pretty little thing. Mr. Pitch, you're really much too bold at times. Once I had a shoot-out of three dudes over a woman like you. Mr. Pitch! Real catalog woman she was. Pretty little thing. Just like you. Mr. Pitch! Mr. Pitch! Mr. Pitch! Find your old woman, boy. This telegram just came for ya. Somebody's dead. You don't have a black border? I see it. You tell me what that says, Mrs. Murphy. I need my strong glasses for reading. It says, brazos. That's the old code word of our company. It means trouble. Scrap on your guns and hit the trail. What else does it say? It's a sad dress. Sully's mine on Feather Wash, south of Boulder, Nevada. Signed Captain Oran Hayes. Captain Oran Hayes. I got an office back in action. I got a line out for Nevada fast. Will you help me get back, Mr. Pitch? Can I help, Captain Hayes? Don't you feel up to it? Sure, I feel up to it. No, we're in way past it. Nevada's a long way from Kansas City. I haven't got no horse. Artillery. No money to make a trip if I dare. Maybe when I don't show up, the Captain will think I'm dead. You ought to be. Good morning. This is your house. I just delivered a telegram for you. Who in tarnation sent me a telegram? What did you say, Pa? Brazos! That's all, Brazos? No, there's an address here, too. Sully's mine on Feather Wash, south of Boulder, Nevada. It's signed Captain Oran Hayes. My old Captain from the Texas Rangers, Ellie. He needs me. He's calling me to rise again. It's trouble, shooting and fighting. Brazos! The old word. He always used to call us together. Well, it is a kind of reunion. I've been here since you've heard from Captain Hayes. Every man and I are out there coming running when you hear that word, Brazos. But your assets all broken up. It's spread over the whole country. Retired. No range of retires perpendicular. Well, it's an awful long wait in Nevada. Yeah, well, it was a five-piece down in Nueces. Passport Clark, and up the Devil's River. You know, on the Beaver Lake, they hit the kicker post. But we made it. How are you going to eat and sleep along the way? What were you going to do for money? Oh, I shaved a little. From what? From not spending it. Well, if your mind's made up, then I guess I can only kiss you goodbye and wish you good luck. Yes, sir. I guess throw this beer on the horse. What? We don't own a horse. I'll send for a gentleman, George Agnes. I called him gentleman because of his spotless character, his courtly manners, his fit and polished appearance. I'll lay out of this saloon for good. Dub, go on, Mack. I'm going to miss going in that slown of yours. You know when I get to liking a man, I freeze to him. Well, I'm freezing you out. Now, there's your cards. And don't try using that slippery deck again. Next place, you're liable to wind up full of holes. They thought you'd pull a little flim-flam and jiggery poker with the cards again, eh, George? Sure if I just build out an inside straight, barred square. I could've used this ace. The stooge for deduces wasn't wild. No, Mack didn't throw you out just for the exercise. That joke was on Mack. All I did was reaching my pistol pocket for my harmonica. Here, I'll play you a little piece. Uh, George, I think you'd best move on out of range. Now, why don't you go on home and get some sleep? I ain't got no room. Frank, I've been doing all my sleepin' in Mack's saloon, ain't ya'll? Oh, I could eat a bed, I could toss you in jail. What for? Well, for most anything, for inciting a riot, for littering up the streets. Now, come on, I want to put you to all that bother. Frank, I'll just find myself another saloon. George, you have used up every saloon in the whole Oklahoma territory. Well, it must be somebody buildin' a new one around here somewhere. George? George Agnew? No! I got a telegram for you, George. When the world would be sendin' me a telegram. And she'd just... Ah, bastards! Who's that man? I'm Walden. Well, now, that don't surprise me now. And who by? The Texas Rangers. The old captain wants me to come up the divide. You know how I gotta get me a broom-tailed fiddle-pudder and ride. George! Who takes all the food? Come back here! Yaw! Yaw! Brass! Yaw! Yellow towel! Leg it, you neck broom-tailed! The first time I ever seen one jackass ridein' another. Now, who you callin' a jackass? You old, moss-backed, full-witted, kettle-bellied... George! ...mash! Good to see you again. Did you answer the captain's call? Yes. See, he had real need of good fightin' men. But I don't know. Seen as how he called on you. You old coot. Who got the two cattle rustlers down to Bandera County that time? I did. I winged them for ya. George, you're lookin' a little poorly. Kinda scummy and goin' to Grass Belly. You look like you went her too good yourself. And who upped you up on that horse? You must be ninety-five if you were a day. Well, I reckon my gun ain't age none. I reckon that's what counts, Sergeant. And let's ride. Yeah! Brass house! Jason! Jason! Jason! Your dang know you're a sight for sore eyes. Well, your eyes must be mighty sore, Jason. Oh, sure, I know you anywhere, Nash. Red hair, straight as a ramrod, skinny waist like a girl's. Well, by jingles. The captain should've called up the best men of the old outfits. And the captain don't like to be kept waitin'. So let's move out. All you Texas Rangers, wherever you may be, I'll tell you what's of trouble that happened once to me. Our captain Ian Farmer's one dark and stormy night Before you reach the river, boys, you'll have yourself a fight. I'm calling Ian to come in. I heard him give the yell. I'm feelin' at that minute. No mother's something else. I hate to say this, sir. I know they were your best men. But I'm worried. What do you mean, son? They're a little old, aren't they? Yes, I guess they are. But then, maybe, so am I. My boy. A man never really sees himself. Till he looks at the friends he once knew. What are we gonna do, captain? Well, I'm certainly not gonna tell him how I feel. Sure, they're old, they haven't got much left. But they prove they're still Rangers by answering my call. All they need is something that needs them. Something that needs doing. I know that feeling, too. I just wish I hadn't let you get into this. You stop fretting, Jeff. We're gonna get you elected mayor. All right, all right. Sergeant, call assembly. Have you heard, you captain? Well, Ian, assemble your juggie and sprinkle horn. I must assemble. Well, assemble, then what? Can you assemble neat and proper, captain? All right, man, now, you know why I've called you all together. Yeah, to rest out some tin horn mayor and his full flesh and gang. I say leave us right in and clean them out tonight, captain. Hold it, Nash, hold it. See, Lundy has the support of a corrupt judge, gun-happy sheriff, plus all his deputy. Well, if there ain't more than 20 of them, captain, I'll ride in and get them myself. Hold it. Hold it, man. These couples through showdowns could be, well, quite a fight. We haven't been together at some time. Maybe we ought to sharpen up for a couple of days. You know, some of us might be just a little rusty. I ain't rusty, captain. Practice my draw most every day. I've been training a couple of young fellas down in Abilene. I guess you ain't heard, captain. I've been making a name for myself in that Oklahoma territory from one end to the other. You figure where these specks are slowing me down? Hey, so, guess holding me up sharp or another way? I can smell what a man's fixing to do. I can hear the sneeze of a flea. You can. All right, man, that's good. But we're wasting time. Election is only a week off. Jeff, you ride in town tonight? Tell Lundy he's got until tomorrow morning to clear out, along with his crooked friends. And if you don't take the warning, Captain Haynes and his rangers are going to ride in at dawn ready for a showdown. Oh, I am disappointed in you, Jeff. I thought you were strongly against violence and gun-fletting. I don't think they'll be any. I figure you'll go. Texas Rangers? They're a mean bunch. Maybe I ought to injuncle legal paper against them. Whereas the people of this dear town declare that all troublemakers looking to make sure... Why don't you say that for your next Supreme Court decision? Yeah, yeah. Don't finish your beer, will you? Well, thank you. Said that old fellow wouldn't worry about you not only eroding the town. Just a bluff. Jeff Rose would never sanction open warfare. You gonna do nothing about it? Just gonna sit there? Let them Rangers ride in free? Ex-Rangers Clive. They got no authority here. Sure, sure. Let them ride in free, but if any of them start making any trouble, you have got a sworn duty to put down any attempted gunplay on the streets of our fair town. Now you're talking, Nard. We'll shoot out on the main street. Captain Hayes of the Texas Rangers, sir. Did you receive my element? Captain, I just couldn't believe that you were serious. I have the greatest admiration for the reputation of the Rangers, but I do believe that you have no true military authority and certainly not here in the state of Nevada. Section four. All right, Judge. We are here as a private company of vigilantes, Mr. Mayor, to preserve law and order and to ensure an honest election. How would you propose to do that, sir? By seeing you and your associates out of this town now by force if necessary. Captain, as you see, we are unarmed. I'll give you one minute to give it up. We are a peaceable town of law and order. We do not want any bloodshed on our streets. Now, why can't we settle this obvious electioneering stunt in a sporting manner, eh? Why don't we have a shooting contest, the losers, to leave town? Now, you select your best marksman and fastest draw. Now, when I shout draw, go for your gun. Well, Captain. You wanted to see a draw. I figured you're going to camp first. I cannot draw you the best day you ever live, Sheriff. My son-in-law, you idiot. Captain, I'm afraid that you and your men have been the victims of some poor advice. Boulder is a friendly and peaceful town. Now, if you all just step inside to the Helderotto, I'll stand drinks all around. That makes sense to me. Line up. Retreat and reform. Yep, it's just like you always said, the West has changed. Things aren't what they used to be. Ha ha ha ha ha. And it was more than anyone else in this town has ever had the nerve to do. Thank you, Madam. Not Madam, Smith. This is Cassie McGuire. Cassie McGuire? The famous singer and dancer? Why, I want pay two dollars and two stones to see you perform. Don't, don't, I'll show you in a slung in toss and I couldn't get another person in that face person in that place that wanted to take a good look at you. How nice it is to run into old friends like this. Can I offer you all a drink? No, I don't think we should. Captain, you're going to turn down another drink? Well, Marylundie doesn't approve of any business coming into my place anyway. Well, in that case, Ms. McGuire, we accept your offer with pleasure. Good. Singer, answer, and you'll own us a little? Say, you're a pretty little thing. Well, I had the honor of serving a whole company of rangers before. I ain't been in the rangers' group quite as well, Cassie. I guess that's the claim to see when I draw down the sheriff out there. Well, it was a day when you were the fastest gun on the West, nice? Much obliged, Captain. But I reckon today I'm just a, well, I guess I'm just the biggest win big. You know, I didn't even get a shot off. You ain't alone, Sergeant. Only thing I've shot off in the past few years is my big mouth. Now, come on. I do want any of that kind of talk around here. I didn't invite you in here to hold awake. I just wanted you to know that there are some folks in this town who are mighty proud of what you all tried to do. Dirty game with a well-placed Lundy. Put the squeeze on a pretty little thing like you. I've been hanging on hoping to just to beat him in the election next week. And I'm going to keep hanging on until Lundy is plumb wore out or until he shoots me. And even then, they're going to have to pound me into a boot hill like a snake, because I'm just too stubborn to lie down. Me, ah. She'd have been some Texas Ranger. Ted, she's a teesnake. That's a lot of mad Irish on the prod. See, you know, a little petticoat like that keeps losing and fighting back. What's hailing us? You're right. We only lost the first scumbag. No fellow in the wrong can stand up again if fellow that's in the right keeps on coming. Oh, man. First of all, I want to tell you that I'm grateful for the way you responded to my call quickly and loyally. No questions asked. I appreciate that. But I want to apologize for doing it. You see, I'd forgotten that you'd retired honorably from the Rangers to set up new lives for yourself because you were, well, you were tired of guns and fighting. No, that ain't so, Captain. We just used up all the bad engines and the avillage in Texas. We just cleaned ourselves up a bit. And we didn't retire. We just ran out of something to do. No. No, there was a time when we could have set this town on its air. But we've got to face it. We're over the hill now. Me? Well, I'm just a witness, old blockhead. They bring you all the way out here on a wild goose chase. Captain, you all done speechmaking? Yes, I'm all done that, except anybody wants any help or money to get home. I ain't going home. Not yet. Not like I get done with what I come here to do. I ain't ever crawled home with the tail between my legs in my life. And I'm too old to take on any new bad habits like that now. Oh, nice. Now, Captain Luke, just set yourself down. Let me lose your spell, huh? Just a minute. You can't pull rank on me. You're only a first sergeant. I'm for an edge on you. Eight. That's all we got working for us now. Ain't that what you just said? Yeah. No. I get laughed at out there today. It's a feeling I ain't never had before. And I tell you, don't set easy with me. Well, you almost outlawed him, nice. All North gets a man that quick funeral. We've got to go along with what the captain said. Time's been tailing us, and it's overtook us. All right. So we are, I might hold it. A man ain't smoothly dead. Sometimes a man's dead when he ain't no use anymore. Yeah, I know what you mean. Look, we've got plenty of youth left in us. I've been told them up these years. And I think there's something around 275 years of fighting and setting this up that's put all together in a lump. We can whip this lump in his den if we just go at it right. Use the right artillery. What do we use? What do we use? We use our wits. Well, maybe they've gone rusty, too. But we wouldn't have come running up here like a bunch of young buckholes in the first place. It ain't so. We all come here running because we was needed. We've packed up bowie knives and our saddlebags and our coats. There's one thing we didn't pack in there. It's our wits. All right. All right, thanks, but the election is only a week off. What have you got in mind? Well, now, Captain, do you recall how we rounded up them tinhorn gamblers and chimney butte? Yeah. And how we bamboozled that big gang of common-shearer horse thieves on the border? Yeah. Treachery and deception. The old theory, divide and conquer. That's it. Get inside the enemy camp. No way it is vital without him knowing it. You know, this might work. It just might work here. I get an idea. It's horse-eye, bull-strong, and hog-tight. I got even with these hikers that 30 days or $30. I hate that one of the old moss-backs that rode into town today. That's the one I blew the hat off of. What's he up to, flip-flopping around like a war-lined mule in the windstorm? He'll probably come back to even up the score. Couldn't find his gun in the daylight. I'll go down to jail. You go across there and prod him with some of your legal talk. Well, now, hold on, Clyde. You're the wall man. He ain't got nothing against you. Now go on. Clyde, you one of those old rangers that rode in town today? Well, I reckon I can't call that hand. You looking for somebody? No, nobody in particular. Well, it appeared to me that you were tailing the sheriff. You look like one of the honest men around here. I don't suppose you're going to need love for the crooked lord in this town, huh? Well, maybe. Well, I'm tailing the sheriff right enough. But ain't such a good shot no more. I've got to get just the right distance in the right light and all, and sooner or later, I'll kill him. Mr. You happened to be talking to Judge Amos Polk, duly constituted the order of fowliness and unruly gunslinger strung up. Judge Polk? Well, now I'm glad it's you. You're a friend of Mayor Landy's, ain't you? Well, we are closely associated, yeah. Well, I've been hired by the mayor to do this job. Why, that's impossible. Oh, the mayor's a smart politician. He knows the sheriff ain't helping his election chances any. With the lawman and his gun, he's going to the mayor's record to look a whole lot cleaner. And he can pick himself a nice, shiny new sheriff. But Landy wouldn't, but why you? Well, I just threw in it, and now he blown right out. Landy won't have me around, and he won't owe me nothing. Kept a nice bundle already gotten from a pocket hand. It's a lie. Landy wouldn't do it. That old buzzer's loose between the ears. Maybe the old man's better than you think he is, Clyde. Maybe he just lets you out draw him today to get you off guard and make you get careless. I guess there's no way to say, Landy. He started something. Got him never enough to be real good. No, no, Clyde, no, no, no. I do not want you gunning down an old man like that. But he's off to get me. He told Amos. That's right. Oh, what are you so worried about? He already proves you could out draw him. He's tailing me. You've been tailed before? No, let me get him. I'll make a real easy for him. Get real close. Let him reach for it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Besides, he is no competition for you, Clyde. Anyway, the town has already left him out. Now, Clyde, they're on your side now. But if you kill him, they're going to turn against you. You should give them a nasty taste of them out right before election. You're willing to let him get me? Well, Clyde, let me put it to you this way. If you get him, I'm going to have to take that little star away from you and get me a more peace-loving sheriff. A call, Steve. Andre, I already got my last month's wages and half the next. The guards have never been so good to me. You're too many for me, fella. Pretty quite bad. Ain't natural. This is King High. I got a pair of these who live all four of mine. Get the bulge of me. You know, when you lose, don't you double your little dinky pie? Wait a minute. Open this, I recall. That's fact, double. You got show-openers here. What's the difference? I told you you had me beat. We were playing, but you didn't want show-openers. You didn't know where I got them. Easy. You did the shuffling and dealing. Yeah, and I cut. I don't hold up a good poker game over some picky little squabbles over the rules. But seven aces in one deck, a lot of aces. Maybe it's a bad deck. It might have good to you. Till now, man, I rigged this deck, Steve. One definitely on the ground and free in here. Very clever, George. I'm just glad that he didn't catch you making a hanky-panky with a card. Oh, they were easy marks. I got to put 10 aces in that deck. But I just didn't want to show up on talent. I hope all this flim flam works. But Lonnie knows we're still hanging around this town. He can't see us doing anything that will jeopardize his security. Well, he knows Max is still turning the night's serve. That don't bother him, none. He'd his eye. He's already seen a sample of my shooter. Well, maybe he's figuring that we're thinking on something. Yeah, thinking that one thing is bound to give the man a fix. He can't tax it, he can't stop it, and he can't even tell when anybody's doing it. Hey, this is going to work out just fine. And we still got three more days for it. And it's about time for me to go take another hard twist on the sheriff's tail. Reckon he sees me following him and he's asleep now. That is, if he's doing it, he's sleeping. What about Jason? He's saying it was a silent. Oh, yeah, he was right about now. I figure he ought to be setting old judge folk shoot tail on fire. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. What a generous man, Jason. Well, it ain't often a man gets the honor and the privilege of drinking with a famous judge. Wanted by the governor himself. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Well, I got a secret for you, Jason. I wasn't appointed by the governor. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I paid $10 for my office, two buffalo skins in the case of whiskey. No. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. That's a good one. Why didn't you buy the mare job? What did you want to be a judge for? Well, I wanted to be where I could do people the most good. And by golly, I was, too, because I wasn't in there two days, and I let 10 of my best friends out of jail. That's doing good. A man does good like that ought to get himself a medal. Shame, Marilani's fixing the dirty up. Such a fine reputation. Marilani, what's up, Jason? I just can't set steel for a thing like that. Tell you what, Your Honor, why don't you sell me your office and get out before he does it to you? I'll give you $100 for it. That's 1,000% profit. Oh, Marilani can't do that to me. He needs me. I make some mighty tricky decisions for him. Why, I even had a couple of fellas hung for him. I know it's hard for an honorable man like you to swallow, but Lundy's fixing to dump you just before the election. No. He's got to. The governor got a hold of a copy of Jeff Rose's paper. Well, I'm not going to take the blame for this all by myself. He's just as guilty as I am. That's what he's fixing to do. You're going to have a real house cleaning. Clean up this town. Show the folks that he's just an honorable upright man taken in by a couple of crooks like you and Sheriff Barnes. Barnes? Why, Lundy earned a gunny to kill him. Well, I guess he was a might more fond of you. Excuse me. Your boy, old Amos, get out. You try it, Nard. We're in this thing together. You're not going to dump me. It was one of the world he was screaming about. Nobody's going to dump you. No, you guys. Still, it might be kind of a good idea if you started thinking about retiring. You know, you could go out to California and take it easy. Well, you're not going to edge me out. I got all of my records hit away. And if I go down, I'm going to drag you with me. Ha, ha, ha. You hit him like a blast in a buck shot. Oh, Judge Pope is already eyeing hunting for grass. Ha, ha, ha. Not only three days before election, Lundy doesn't even seem disturbed. Well, there's one thing you can figure. He ain't dumb. Yeah, he ought to be feeling the boor under his blanket any time now. I'm a little concerned about Judge Pope and Sheriff Barnes. They're behaving in a most peculiar manner. I'm afraid somebody or something has gotten to them. The judge is running real scared by something that's bad. Yeah, I figured he'd share with just a little edgy about that old gunny tail in night and day. Oh, why don't you tell him, still? I want to know. Everyone he talks to and everywhere he goes. And Tucker, cover the judge the same way. And I figured the old man couldn't get me. Hired you to do the killing, huh? Now wait just one minute. I'll wait any longer. I'll be dead. But he's down and two to go. And I've been keeping an eye on his honor. And I've been keeping an eye on you, Mr. Well, both of you can just get. My orders to trail the judge's come right from the mayor himself. Lundy put you on me. That's funny. The mayor gave me the same job. You know, this is a mighty confusing town. You can't tell who's out to get who. Lundy wouldn't hire an old hammerhead like you. Not when he's got us. I don't know. Maybe I can out-shoot you. I got a hundred hard dollars, et cetera, can't I? Now you want to hand me up or pass the buck? I ain't got a hundred. Me neither. But I'd sure like to get yours, Mr. Well, just throw yourselves in the pot. I'll put up the hundred, and if you lose, you both can just get out of town. Let me out that hundred. Now hold on. What's the contest? Wing shooting for distance and accuracy in the dock. Wing shooting? Yeah. For what? See that flock of geese coming over? I want to get that bull goose. You boys just pick yourselves one out of the flock. I guess you boys got what they call a touch of night Maybe we ought to try something easier like free cushion or ricochet shooting. Yeah, we'll try it. Come on with me. You see that light and touch is living over there? I'm going to shoot through the door, shoot that light out. That bullet's going to bounce against that potbelly stove. Ricochet across the street. Hit that handle in front of the blacksmith shop. Ricochet across the street again. Hit that cowbell over that star. Come back toward me, and I'm going to catch that lead slug with my teeth. Yeah, baby, why are they good? You know, I was a mite bit off on that shot. I hadn't caught that bullet with my teeth. It might have passed by me and hit one of you boys right between the eyes. Now, you want to try your hands if you just want to get on your horses and ride. You know, they'll be riding. You boys ought to find good work back, geese. Of course, there ain't no cause for any real shooting. All my deputies are either dead or they left town. I ain't got no backup. You shot one of them yourself. Well, I figured somebody said that you figured. Somebody said, what is the matter with you, Clyde? Anyway, you just fallen apart? Some Clyde, you've fallen apart? Is this job gotten to be too big for you? Or maybe you just soon not be part of my new administration after I get reelected. Where's it come down, Your Honor? It's $50 now. Well, I'll take it, it'll pay the stage fare to Mexico. For good and valuable consideration here, paid over, I do hereby hand you the right and title honor and elements of my office. And what the Almighty has joined up, let no man monkey win. Hello? Hello. Hello? Hello? Hello. Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? I ask you, two days before election. But Lundy's still here. I reckon it's time to pay him a little visit. Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, come in, come in, come in. we're a little crowded in here but I'm sure we can squeeze you in what's your pleasure we're here to see you out of town oh dear I thought we'd settled all that foolishness you're through Lundy the judge and the sheriff just took off on the last stage well small loss matter of fact it allowed me to dispense some patronage after I'm elected a new blood matter of fact I must thank you for helping me to clean house why without your tin on judge and your gun happy sheriff people will begin to get the feel of what is like to be free yeah maybe the people will vote you out I believe the people will vote the way I recommend mm-hmm you can't scare men to vote and for you your gunman of left town you just ain't got no protection that is where you're wrong you know I was puzzled at first but then it suddenly occurred to me what you gentlemen were up to so I imported an entirely new staff of associates now I believe I must ask you to get out of town now by high noon it's a bluff gentlemen need to introduce you men happen to be the deadliest guns in the West today big red Connors little Billy Ford the Barton brothers got to give up it's no use only we almost had Lundy whipped this time we'll do it please Papa he said be out of town by high noon it's almost that time now things are a lot worse than they were when we started captain yeah if we can't back down now we want to support in the respect of all the townspeople and they're ready to vote for you you really believe your handful of old Rangers can make a stand against that gang of lawless cutthroat my men are setting up our first line of defense now this town will all remember the gunfight that Cassie's corral sounds about dead center here boys I had a shift all the way from the Ark in the old age don't you worry miss Cassie if we bust it we'll get you a bigger and better one from that fancy mail order house called monkey war and no more kids we certainly appreciate your help in the use of your establishments I'm only afraid it's going to suffer considerably can't suffer anymore it's already been suffering well I think you better be on your way over the general store good luck captain have their chance now let's run them out you think that'd be foolish enough to fight well this won't take long two or three you break in there tell them to get on their horses and ride they wouldn't catch you before he gets too far. The courage of captain Hayes and his valiant Texas Rangers this town can now look forward to the start of a new era as you're duly elected mayor I promise a new day that will last a long long time honest lawmen true justice in our court we may never be a big town but will be peaceable quiet and happy raising our children in an atmosphere free of gambling vice and corruption and to completely erase our soiled and tarnished past we'll even change the names on a lot of things you want me to help you up on that horse you old drewporn and you fellas come up wanted for hanging I'll be glad to try your case I'm a $50 judge now you know I'm proud of you boys best outfit a man ever held it up that goes for me too I hope you all come back real soon next time I'll do my spider dance boy I sure would like to be here Miss Cassie that next time. In the territory of Oklahoma I reckon the vice-president there is between you ought to come out somewhere near Kansas City down in Texas yeah they're only seven eight-year-old the demigrantians what will you train them for to be house broke well I reckon there's a few things I can still teach them like not making some of the food mistakes I've done it's always the way it is when a man starts handing out good advice he ain't up to set no more bad examples well now I ain't either you with no big battles in Oklahoma well I started a bunch of them they're never seen down there but I just wasn't there to finish you know Sergeant it must be nice to have your own home and family and what's your grandkids grow up I started got a family in Kansas City these old timers in this old folks home but you haven't ever enjoyed you get many places being a bit down that is it no thank you sergeant I'll just go back to Oklahoma and find myself in you know something that's how bad I feel I've got my own act back with the car today I just might get myself a lucky streak to go down I reckon I got enough to tell the folks back home to last out the rest of my time you know I've been accused of telling tall tales before but just waiting in this one well I guess we better be right now so long good luck dollars so long we'll get together again so long so long