 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 a u.s. Marshall and the smell of gun smoke Gun smoke starring William Conrad the story of the violence that moved west with young America Story of a man who moved with it Matt Dillon United States Marshall. Mr. Dillon. Yeah, what is it Chester? You know tiller Evans are the mule scanner. Yes, what about him? He's standing out there in the street Looks like he's about to head down Santa Fe trail with a big load of supplies. Well Well, I'm just wondering what a nice sweet girl like Mavis McLeod can be doing with a man like that You were jealous Chester. Oh, no, sir But tiller is such a mean ugly old bull. Oh Well, look at him look at that. What? Well, he just hit her mr. Dillon Slaps her right in the face. He did. I told you he was mean Well, that's a fine way to tell a girl. Goodbye. Yeah, look, he hit her again Oh, I hate a man that picked on women mr. Dillon. Oh poor little thing. She's crying I sure am glad we're doing something about this You when I get back Mavis Are really with you you understand? No tiller, don't tell her What do you put me for marshal Let go of her. This ain't no business is yours. I said let go of Okay I ain't hurting her none And my name is You see You got no right to mix in people's private business marshal This your wagon and mule stiller. Of course it is and get going Right now I'm going But if I wasn't in the hurry, I'd have this out with you right here And see you when I get back next week marshal Well, Mavis, you remember what I told you now Well, do you? What's going on here anyway? Mavis this beast's been after you again. Don't you call me names kitty? I'll fix you same as hers. I can't tell you from one of your mules tiller Leave him alone kitty You get up on that wagon box tell her now You will I get back He's been hurting you again, hasn't he Mavis Well, what are you doing with him if you hate him so much? He's a bully chester. She's afraid of him At least he'll be away for a few days now. I hope he never comes back when you come with me honey Thanks kitty. I'll make you some coffee Uh, come on chester poor gal you think old tiller's gonna start trouble when he gets back I don't care if he does chester now. I feel the same way Only he's a might too big for me What look there's somebody here Are you a marshal dillon sir? I am My name is marcus france. How do you do? Uh, this is chester proudfoot. Mr. Proudfoot mr. Proud Well, how do you do mr. France? I witnessed that scene in the street there marshal That man should be horsewhipped. He sure should Such a pretty girl. She's an awful nice girl too, mr. France. I'm sure she is The marshal I don't want to take up your time I thought it best we have a talk before I Go to work here. You're a stranger in town. I arrived this morning I'm from philadelphia marshal and I'm a gambler No They gamble much in philadelphia Men gamble everywhere, sir The weakness is universal I suppose Well, you can gamble here all you like as long as you don't want a crooked game That's precisely what I wanted to see you about marshal But it's not that I'm dishonest But I've often been accused of being so Sometimes makes for unpleasantness around here. It usually leads to gunplay. Yes, of course I can handle myself on that score. Mr. France. I never heard a gambler yet come out and admit He was a crook, but if he is sooner or later either he or somebody else winds up dead That's why I don't tolerate anything but an honest game in dodge You impugned my honor, sir He what never mind chester I guess what is it you want to tell me mr. France I am a gentleman marshal Now if you are you're about the first one that ever rode into this town But for the time being I'll believe you Thank you, sir, and don't be so touchy about your honor Just get you into trouble. I'm afraid I haven't explained myself marshal There are reasons why I've often been Accused of dishonest now like what? Bad loser will grasp at any straw to save face He'll even call the deal crooked. I've seen that happen. There are likely to be many losers in a game. I run Is that so that may sound like bragging marshal, but I possess great skill at cards Also, I'm extremely lucky I see now you may send a man to watch the deal if you like Perhaps mr. Proudfoot here. Oh sure. I'd be glad to know You run your game mr. France if it's crooked. I'll find out soon enough All right, but uh don't get the idea you're going to start shooting down every man that bothers you no matter how good you might be with a gun Do you include self-defense and justifiable homicide marshal? If it is self-defense But you take to killing people even in self-defense and I'll have to run you out of town Oh, hello matt Interesting hi doc Fellowes been trying to sell me a new horse matt. I thought you'd take a look at it for me with When you're through here. Oh sure doc. Uh, this is marcus france. Uh doc adams. I'm pleased to meet you doctor Doc will do Of course Where you from mister? Philadelphia, sir Not much sun there Sun well you look peaking I've had a long journey sir Well now when you get rested up, you come see me and I'll give you some good time One dollar a bottle mr. France. He gave me some I appreciate your interest doc. Perhaps I will call on you one day any time A few gentlemen will excuse me. Don't be going. Bye mr. France. Goodbye What's he doing? He's a gambler doc. Why? Oh, I don't know. He seemed sort of out of place around here. He says he's a gentleman Oh, maybe that's it Well, I've heard that easy talk before I will soon find out just what he really is Oh, I even think a restaurant like this could serve something besides beans or their meat. Wouldn't you now mad on us? No, you got potatoes doc. I'm sick of them too Once you get married doc, then you could eat fine Oh the last woman that wanted to marry me was a hog and hominy cook I don't think she ever heard of any other kind of food. Oh, didn't you ever take her out? Oh take her. Oh, man That was an Arkansas She didn't even wear shoes. You liar. No, no, no, no, no, I swear Her papi had a saying that every woman's entitled to a baby and a bonnet But shoes were never mentioned in their house You must have made a handsome couple. Oh, well, of course. I was somewhat younger then a lot younger I hope I was I was and good thing too. They lived in a place called rip shin thicket Rip shin thicket The court and that girl was a day's work man, believe me Doc, why don't you finish your supper? I'm not even listening to you. Oh, and she had a brother called spotted jack and he claimed he never slept in the bed his whole life Or took a bath. There must be something else we can talk about doc. Oh, man. Well, anything at all anything at all Well, what are you going to do about that gambler that marcus france? For example Well, I don't know yet doc. Well, he's been here for a week and he's already killed a man Have a self-defense on it But if it happens again He's through you think he's dealing honest matt. So far he is Oh, Dylan doc. Well jester jester. I've been over at the texas trail. Miss kitty asked me to find you Huh trouble. I don't know but she said it was really important Okay Oh, uh doc, uh You didn't tell me that arkansas girl's name. Oh, well, it's a funny thing matt. She never told me Hello kitty, you wanted to see me, huh? Sit down matt. All right It's about marcus france over there Oh He's gonna be killed matt What till her evanth is due back tomorrow Well, what's tiller got to do with it? You remember the day he left when you stopped him from slapping mavis around mavis You mean mavis and france. She says she's in love with him matt and she doesn't care who knows it Underneath she's scared to death Well, does france know about tiller? mavis told him Matt, I don't know what you think about him, but to me he's the most decent man i've met in a long time Well, he may be kitty But he's sure causing a lot of trouble Well tiller's gonna kill him. I know he is He got to stop it. Kitty. How did a nice girl like mavis get started with tiller in the first place? Oh, she didn't have much choice Big ape just moved in on her and took over She's awful young matt and pretty helpless. Although she and france are so much in love Why don't they get married? I've thought of that too So has mavis by the way Uh Maybe france isn't so honorable after all kitty. Ah, give him time. That's tomorrow isn't very far off Before I said you're cheating and i meant Don't mention call me a cheat. I just did didn't I stay here kitty. Yeah You better leave the game mr. You're cheating your tail and crooked cars. You got a gun mr. Now use it leave that gun where it is Now france. I warned you once you heard what he said marshal. I meant it too. He's dealing crooked cars Can you prove it mr. I don't have to prove it He's got over a hundred dollars of mine. I ain't want a hand at this table in an hour see marshal Just like I told you some men can't take losing Did you see him cheating mr. I didn't have to look at that pile of money You talk pretty loose for a man that doesn't have any more to go on than that Well, why don't you forget about it and get out of here forget about you heard me This game is closed for the rest of the night Well, just as you say marshal gentlemen the game is closed Oh france You know egging men into a draw and then calling itself defense is going to make your stay in dodge mighty brief I'll have to chance that marshal How many men have you killed because of that tender pride of yours? Well, it doesn't matter But there's something I would like to know What are you going to do about tiller evans? Oh, you've heard Yeah First time in my life marshal I love a woman And why don't you get her out of here while there's still time Run away from a fight tillers a pretty tough man. You mean you might kill me And where would that leave mavis? Sorry marshal I've got to stay You know france. I can't figure you at all. There's something wrong with you and I don't know what it is You'll find out marshal Soon enough we will return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment But first tomorrow afternoon on stage struck Mike wallace and cbs radio Cover the opening of the new Broadway musical the girl in pink tights It's star john mair charles goldner and others in the cast will be heard Stage struck on most of these same stations tomorrow afternoon Opening the girl in pink tights a promising newcomer full of sigmond romberg's music Now the second act of gun smoke. We long now mr. Dillon. Oh, what won't be long chester? Cowboy just told me he passed tiller evans a couple miles down the trail. He'd be driving into town directly Chester What do you think of marcus france? him Well, sir For a fact i'm duplicated What? Well, he seems like such a nice fellow, but he just won't do what he plain order Like get married with mavis mclod like she wants him to That'd stop old tiller And maybe the very least he could do is run off with it Mr. Dillon, I just hate to think what'll become of that little girl or tiller gets you Well one way or another chester there's about to be a killing And i gotta try to stop it. How you gonna do it? Well, there's a stage north in half an hour, but mr. Frantz won't go chester You know where mavis lives, don't you? Yes, sir. All right, go get her and put her on the stage I'll meet you there. Okay, mr. Yeah, you're gonna have to hurry Please come in would you care for a glass of whiskey? Uh, no, no, thank you very best money can buy France Tiller evans will be here shortly You'll be looking for me marshal not I free well any way it happens. There'll be a killing Once in or less in the world. I'm a lawman france not a preacher. Yes, of course Now marshal I have no quarrel with this man till Why don't you talk to him? Well, he's not the kind of a man you can talk to and put him in jail for disturbing the peace or something It'll be too late by the time the peace is disturbed France there's a stage leaving dodge in a few minutes. Is there marshal? Mavis is gonna be on it Why now if you're the gentleman you say you are You'll be on it with it You're making a mistake marshal. I've made mistakes before No, you're arguing with you is there? Now if you told me what's holding you back there might be Shall we say I never run from a fight? I don't question that By this time it's different. I don't believe that's your reason You say goodbye to mavis for me marshal No I've uh Just decided you're going with her I'm sorry. I'm not Careful marshal. I'm always careful. No Oh You shoot him mr. Dylan where's mavis chester? She's inside the coach. I'm keeping an eye on her All right, open the door chester frances going with her Marcus what happened he hasn't hurt mavis But he'll be out for a while yet. Why are you doing this marshal? Well, i'm a gambler too mavis And i'm taking a chance that man here are yours is What he says he is he's a fine man Well, goodbye mavis And good luck. All right driver. Yeah get this stage out of here door marshal hold on there Get going driver It's too light tell her you You've done this marshal now take it easy the tin horn Run off with my gal And you helped him she wanted to go nobody steals nothing from tiller evans I'll find him when I'll kill him Both of them know you won't Well I've got to kill you first, eh Why don't you go get drunk and forget about it tell her you helped him don't do it I'll do it You Chester yes, sir take care of this will you yes, sir Couple of you fellas give me a hand here. We'll drag you over at that top Beyond you and probably Is tiller a bad hurt now you'll be all right doc outside of Bring a little lonely mavis is going to be a little lonely too What marcus france did come to my office, man What are you talking about doc his lungs? That's why I came west I wouldn't give him over a couple of months at the most Maybe it's just isn't very lucky is she doc no Thanks to you at least they'll have what time there is He wouldn't have left with her any other way I guess marcus Really is a gentleman Gun smoke under the direction of norman mcdonnell stars william conrad as matt dillon u.s. Marshall Tonight's story was specially written for gun smoke by john meston with music composed and conducted by rex quarry Featured in the cast were laurence dobkin elinor cannon john daner and harry barterl Harley bearish chester howard mcnear is doc and georgia ellis is kitty Gun smoke has been selected by the armed forces radio service to be heard by our troops overseas Join us again next week as matt dillon u.s. Marshall fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the west in gun smoke Monday night cbs radio Suspense stars ronald reagan the drama is an unusual one titled Circumstantial terror in it a man is on trial for a killing he didn't commit and the guilty man is on the jury Tension mounts and mounts until the suspense is almost beyond belief Don't miss suspense monday night over most of these same stations george wall speaking Stay tuned now for gangbusters, which follows in a few minutes over most of these same stations For a more outstanding drama remember the luxe radio theater monday nights on the cbs radio network