 With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Huffleong Cassidy starring William Voight 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 at 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 Voight as Huffleong Cassidy and and declined as California What's our story this time offy? Well, it's one I call danger wears two faces Began when a friend of mine in South Texas asked me to help him get back a herd of Russell cattle California and I took the trail ourselves following the herd as it headed for the Mexican border through the Big Bend country a land of border outlaws and Trailing a herd of stolen beef there was as healthy as playing patty cake with an unhappy mountain lion We finally lost the trail in a rocky section, but pushed on in hopes of picking it up again Hoppy do we keep going? Sure? Why not? What'll we do if we find them take the herd back and turn the rustlers over the law of course? It was silly immediately. I don't know why I didn't think of that. I Well, great cross-eyed copperheads. Look what? Oh A man lying on the road. I know this country would bring us trouble Well, time to go home. Oh stop grumbling. Come on. That man may not be dead. Yeah, and his killers may be watching too Let's see Take a look at in California. I'll cover you sure sure Don't see no wound. Maybe it's sunstroke. I'll see his heart Poppy he's alive Certainly, I'm alive My name's Jasper. Oh, maybe I can tell you some tinware. My name is Cassidy, and we don't need any tinware I'm California Carlson. Howdy. Howdy like a new coffee pot. They're fine paying Oh, no, no, no, we're traveling life chasing rustlers Take your orders for coffins. I know an undertaker California was only fooling you Jasper. We're just riders Oh, if you're after Russell Stark, you want either Duke Spengler or little Jack Pargo They they run the two big gangs of Big Ben either way I take the loss and go home if I was you. Mm-hmm down here danger wears two faces, huh? Who do you work for me when I'm a tinware salesman my mules over there Poppy who will you look it's a grizzly wearing pants and holding a gun do as he says I ain't about argue with him gunner No gun. Lacey you explain this particular What makes you think so this gun in my hand for one thing good reason sure that's a swell reason It ain't enough I'll tell you. This is a Dokes road just like that. I just like that Who are you to watch your business? Why? Well, it's like this If I don't have no objections to your business, I may let you turn around and leave peaceable and if you do have Then I'll kill you both where you stand Well, in that case he Smith and I'm Jones and we're just a couple of wandering riders Ain't we happy? Yeah, let's go back Cal. I mean Smith Wait, wait, Lacey don't let him fool you. They're lawmen case and wrestlers Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story danger wears two faces trailing a herd of Russell cattle hoppy in California entered the outlaw infested Big Bend country of West Texas When a gunfighter named Lacey holds them up and demands to know their business Hoppy in California pretend to be wandering riders only to have Jasper a tinware salesman betray them to the threatening killer They told me so they see the names are really Cassidy and you dirty big mouth Shut up. It should be worth 50 bucks. They see now you you tell Duke to pay me 50. Won't you see? I'm a good friend here. That's why you make me say you'd sell Duke down the river just as quick as you did these Two umbrellas did Duke give you orders to shoot anybody trailing the herd shoot you I'm gonna give you a hand and find in it Duke Spengler's turned on us and he wants big Ben cleaned up a killers like little Jack Fargo and his gang So Spangler is on us now. Yeah Even got him a ranch Little Jack Fargo's man are the ones who hustle that herd you're after come on with me. I'll prove it to you There's a real grand There's a track to your herd reckon it's sold in Mexico by now, but Company's coming. Who are those men? Little Jack Fargo and his straw bosses if you can't pray hang on to your gun butts Hoppy look at the leader. He's no bigger than a minute. Who are you to strangers? Oh the clever type Maybe I ought to make you bleed a little you're too proud Fargo Those many years won't keep me from getting you if you reach for that gun what you're bracing me Me little Jack Fargo call it that I don't like being threatened. I Don't like braggarts, especially little one. There's an advantage in being little mr. Yeah I know you can hide under smaller rocks. You make a smaller target pop here. Look out Hold it all of you Ron Fargo gets a dead center You you heard a man Where's the herd you shoved across the River Fargo sold and what's it to you the money then? Where is it put on your saddlebag? No? You really want to make that choice? No, no wait All right, you win for now. You are the man toss your guns down easy You pay for this stranger if it takes every man I've got I'll see that you never leave Texas alive Hoppy why ain't we running now? We get the money you run Fargo's man will catch us sooner or later Huh, then they're what we're gonna do Lacey said Duke Spangler was trying to go on us But he wanted big Ben cleaned up. Well if he'll help maybe we can rid Texas a little Jack Fargo for good I'm Duke Spangler Lacey tells me you out grew out shot out talk and out lost little Jack Fargo in his toughest men Why didn't you wait for your party? Sorry? No posse. They're just the two of us just the two of you Yeah, I was hoping you'd lend a hand and fighting Fargo. Oh My this is priceless you see I was hoping your posse would do the same thing This is quite a pickle. You've gotten me into quite You're supposedly as big as Fargo. Why do you need a posse? Ah, but I'm only supposedly a big You see my friends when I turned honest I dismissed most of my old fighters in a rancher. I have no need of Gunhawks, but you do need to be rid of little Jack Fargo if you're honest. Yeah, that is nasty nasty tone Please don't use it. I Can assure you I'm only a cat eraser though the moment I wish I did have a few of my old comments After seeing Lacey Pogger with an unbacking you then you'll have to I must Join me at tea and I'll give you my decision Tea coffee, I can't balance this little cup You'd better the Duke may get mad and don't let his man her fool you Those white hands of his can handle a gun as well as a teacup. Hmm. You know that helps me a lot Drop my good cup and they bury you tomorrow Crumpet scone Maybe one of them little cake shower crumpet. No, this cake will do fine They decided what to do is banglin. Well as I see it the situation is essentially simple Big Ben has only one bandit gang to get rid of now sooner or later the law Did you notice my men writing in yeah about 20 or so all cowboys not gunslingers and Busy with round up and calf branding hardly equal to Pago's bunch You know then how is it Pago doesn't steal from you a Pago still thinks I am a bandit chief He believes my ranch is only a cover and that I have the army. I used to have My past reputation stands in good state now, but not us. I think I said but true Now then you will take the gold you stole from Pago and be off the ranch by dock. I'm throwing you to the world Another trumpet Still during all of your saddled in just a minute. Wow not leaving with the gold. I hope oh Why say say say go someplace besides this barn. Will you don't let my looks bother you all I want is the gold He wouldn't like that. Where is he? Tell me or I'll blast you well Well, he was over at the bunkhouse, but now He's right behind you what you're bluffing. No, he hasn't dropped your gun before I shoot some of the meanest out of your big fella No You wouldn't dare shoot me here Do could That ain't nice Oh Come on, mr. Fall Well getting tired What a thick head. I'll bet your fist is busted, but he'll sleep a while. Yeah, let's get her going Say weren't you with Pago this morning? Get back those saddle bags out to my horse walk with him with You taking us to Pago You want you out of the country fast, you know if I yell duke man that gets you Mm-hmm, and if I start playing corpse, I'm gonna have company. I was just a thought keep it that way There's my horse with the bags on him There all right now stand back and play it careful It wasn't your goal anyway Adios Was getting a hunch it wasn't oh watch that you mean But fix the YouTube pulling Ask for you sure get around for a tinware salesman if I were you I'd stay out of my sight before I remember the way You betrayed us this morning. You understand. Oh, sure. Sure. I was just asking and no offense. I'm sorry about this morning Excuse me Hoppy let's high-tail it we will right back to the river right back to the oh No, that's bar ghost territory. We got some investigating to do we'll take a duty or and come up along the riverbank But slow I want to check for tracks. Come on Hoppy we've checked five miles the riverbank ain't that enough almost Moonlight we wouldn't have missed the tracks of a big herd of cattle Well, those tracks we saw this morning are the only ones around it was our herding no question about that Maybe there's one thing is bothering me. I what what's that? Where moonlight on the rifle barrels. It's an ambush right for the river You go on too late if cargoes man were surrounded To hop along Cassidy and our story danger wears two faces After discovering that the Russell herd he was trailing had been sold in Mexico Hoppy took the gold payment from little Jack Pargo who admitted selling the herd but later One of Pargo's men stole the gold back then as Hoppy and California investigate further They are captured by Pargo's men in an ambush Now in a shack in Pargo's camp. You didn't get very far. Did you Cassidy miss because I was too smart? I sneak close enough to hear them say where they were going Pargo Hey, I got them for you be paid for it sneak I beat it Well, they ought to be worth a hundred dollars, but you know you wanted them very bad I never wanted anything so bad in my life, but get out of here Jasper you even smell like a traitor Oh, sure little Jack sure. I'm going I just wanted you to know how good a friend. I am That unwashed allows Now for you two you're gonna hate me worse than death Yeah, I broke his pride only a big man can take that why you No No, not yet First, where's my gold? No, it's stupid. I suppose you don't know you don't say any more on that gold is our insurance Take your own advice Whiskers, where's the gold gold? Uh, what gold? So All right, I'll give you some time to think but one way or the other you'll tell me Poppy I shouldn't you think you'll be back soon enough Hope the man who took the gold from us comes first. Oh, I think he and Lacey were both acting on their own Well, if Pargo finds out that one of his men took the gold he'll sure kill him That's why the thief will have to help us escape keep us from talking to Pargo Speaking of the boogeyman Come to help you Steve So we guess you start on these ropes my name is Brandon You know why I had to take that money you tell us Well, that was the payoff for several herds all of which Pargo lumped together and ran across the real grand I thought those herds all came from my territory, but and I may be wrong your territory What are you a range detective? It's pretty good guess. Yeah, I'm with a cattle man's association Working out of San Antonio Pago's hit the ranches around there pretty hard. I guess he can sell as many canals he can steal sure $10 a head across the real grand no questions asked Now if you're square and part of that money belongs to you you can claim it from our office There You're both free. Thanks Come on hoppy. Let's get out of here. Why why? Why such tail-eye? That's why I Hate to run from drugs. Let's take Pargo and his men. Well, you're insane beat it while you have a chance Give up Brandon when hoppy gets like this He's a worry to his friends and a delight to wonder how many men does Pargo have here and camp with him 14 His lieutenants are the toughest outlaws in Texas. Well, they think you're one of them You get them to come in here one at a time. Well, yes, I guess so The man even if we can take them all we'll never get out of big Ben with them Like Pago's men who wants to get out of big Ben? Look get us rope lots of it and a couple of guns or clubs will do a pair of coffins would be more in order Yeah, all right as soon as we get the ropes cut in the short length. We'll be ready you wait until we've taken Pargo he's coming back any time now once we have him you can tell the others that he wants them here check It ought to be a breeze Yeah a breeze listen, this is what we'll do Brandon you call the men in here one by one California as they walk in the door 13 now, you know, this is getting monotonous. I'm glad there's only one more of my arms tired Go on get him tied up. Sure. Sure. Bye now. I'm a darn dick Well, I got the last one outside. He was suspicious. So I Paul asked him a little Well, I got a hand it to you. It worked. Yeah, so far only now what we can't stay here long And if we ride towards town some of Pago's other men will spot us sure you can get the town all right alone California now take the prisoners over to Duke Spangler's ranch We can make it that far and Pago's men will dare search there if Spangler finds you he will massacre the lot You a local wait Hang on to your hat detective. I got an idea Why don't we make it a clean sweep with both Pago and Spangler? Oh No, can you round up some honest men in town for a posse? I can get your 50 all deathly afraid of Pago and Spangler Bring them to Spangler's place as quick as you can Maybe when they see Spangler Pago and their henchmen tied and helpless They'll they'll drop dead or they'll find courage enough to wipe out lawlessness and big bend without their leaders These outlaws will be easy to lick true, but you need an army to take Duke Spangler When I have one I got 15 prisoners. They'll be my army Crazy local just plain nuts These prisoners ain't gonna be no help. They'd better be or none of us will see morning You're crazy if you think I help if you help Pago you get a fair trial Don't and Duke Spangler a catch us all What'll your chances be with him? Oh, but you wouldn't do that why he killed me in cold blood. I was sure I could count on your cooperation pull up There's a light in the ranch house hoppy Duke's still up Bunkhouse we have to take first now listen close Pago You're in on this the prisoners stay tied But I'll pack them down one of the time and lay them in a circle around the ranch house What about them empty rifles you loaded in that extra horse put one of them each prisoner's arm in the dark Duke's men won't know they're tied up the moonlight will shine off the gun barrel Pago's untied and goes with us with an empty rifle. I'll bet just more bluff Only when we take the bunkhouse when we hit the ranch house Pago will carry loaded guns with us behind him We may need him to fight as well as bluff. That's great You know hoppy. There's times when I wish I'd taken up hog raisin like my papi warning me to Taking the bunkhouse was easy enough sure Eight men was sleeping, but where's the rest six or eight on them should be night riding or a flying camp Rest will be in that ranch house with Duke and Lacey. So now we try our bluff out and all of them Yeah, we got Pago's men all moved to circle the ranch house Pago, here's your guns hold them down at your side until we crash in the front door I'll cover you till then try to lift the guns Get the picture let's get on with it hoppy we can see from here through that window Duke and Lacey four men with them You take that side when the California will take the front door and good luck. Sure. Good luck to you You won't need it Just what if these stupid bluff don't work then we're in for one whale of a fight Pago quiet It's unlocked Shall we go in let's Drink up gentlemen Raise them Duke don't move Guns in the middle of the floor all of you Don't be stubborn Duke my men have your house surrounded toss the guns down and don't forget the one in your best pocket This is a predictor There's a wrong note somewhere Yes, this can't be your play Pago you'd have blasted us from the windows and talk later Take a look out the windows if you don't believe us. Oh, I don't my friend. I don't All right, then you throw those guns down and you die because Duke is playing tough No, you fools wait I see I must pay for my passing And your present ones Duke Lacey your guns I'll stick by dope. See we have no choice Lacey. That's the way it looks Duke Got you you little weasel watch it hoppy Mind Cassidy what a scrap that must have been Duke Pago Jasper and Lacey are done for And Lacey you took two gunloads to make him cash. Ah, they'd have stretched rope anyhow and Duke was still a wrestler Oh, but that couldn't be Only Pago's been crossing the real who can't a better scheme than selling Russell cattle in Mexico for $10 a head The way I figured he organized this ranch so he could hold the herds changed the brands and then later Send them to Abilene or Dodge Say he'd get three times the price in Abilene and he could play it honest Duke knew sooner later The law would wipe out the bandits a big band hoppy you think our herds and Dukes ranch there Yeah, he tried to steer his own Pago a little too forcefully Besides the cowboys were all carrying straight rods of iron when they came in running irons That was a giveaway. They were changing brands. Well, sure. No honest rancher would use running irons They're too slow They always have irons with their brand fixed on the end instead of drawing the brand All the cowboy has to do is stamp it on the height of the cow. That's right. Well, this should end big Ben's outlaw I'll say now you inspired the honest folks here by tomorrow There'll be a hundred men combing the brakes for crooks. That sounds like action. Maybe California and I could help Watch that. We're hoppy dog on it if you get me into one more fight I'm I'm gonna call off our partnership and do something peaceful I'll I'll take up a hog raisin, you know, like my pappy warning me to peaceful. Yeah, I'll bet you couldn't take it Go on call a hog. Sure. Sure Gravy, you're right lead me to that fight and hoppy I sure can't stand to hear myself do that again Oh Hoppy and California really had a scrap on their hands that time and so ends danger wears two faces In their next adventure hoppy easily proves that crooks are fools and it's a story. You won't want to miss It's called California or bust Apollon Cassidy starring William Boyd is transcribed and produced in the West by Walter white junior Danger wears two faces was written by Herb Bridham with original music onto the personal direction of Albert Blasser All stories are based upon the characters created by Clarence Mulford. This is a Commodore production