 Gunsmoke brought to you by L&M the modern cigarette that lets you get full Exciting flavor through the modern miracle of the pure white miracle tip live modern smoke L&M 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 US Marshall and the smell of gun smoke gun smoke starring William Conrad The transcribed story of the violence that moved west with young America and the story of a man who moved with it I'm that man Matt Dillon United States Marshall the first man they look for and the last they want to meet It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely Oh Goodness now if that sure don't beat all Odie Perkins coming down the street there with a mat on so thick you can feel it right through the window He's not a man. It got temperate easy. Well, he sure is now mr. Dillon. He's a dog on rail He's leaving a blue streak behind him. It's a gospel truth. Look. I can't be anything serious Marshall Dillon morning. Oh, hey Marshall I'm here to call on the power and protection of the law and all its majesty and might Well, that's a pretty tall order Odie You've got some reason for needing the law reason. I got reasons that go back as far as 15 years Marshall I want to swear out a complaint in junction a bench warrant Whatever it is it takes to get a certain low-life scum evicted from the premises run out of Dodge Banished from the territory and horse whip to boot if you can work it in somehow Well, what's a certain person down Odie to deserve that kind I think what he's done as much as what he is And I ought to know that along before this, but he sure had me fool You're not by any chance talking about I'm talking about brace McCoy. That's what I'm talking about I even hate to let his sneaking name soil my lips Yeah, but Odie you and brace have been partners as long as I can remember. Oh, not no more We ain't not since this morning Marshall I want him throw clean off the place now wait a second Odie as I recall you boys took up that homestead as joint tenants Huh, brace has got as much right there as you have well, oh sure Yeah, come in brace. We were just talking about I want to get a fella through it off of my brother And he Marshall and that's a fact you're referring the holy Perkins. That's the fellow Marshall But him and me ain't speaking and that's a fact your gold aren't took and we ain't not now or never I'll sign the papers now if you just read them up. I'll remind you Marshall I come here first fixing papers for Odie wouldn't be no use know how a little vomit can't write and that's a fact I can make as good acts as you can. I mean he can now wait a minute Just look at him Marshall. He ought to be shame to himself a great big blubber mouth It outweighs me twice again, and he comes in here sniveling for the law to help him out. Just a minute I'm gonna walk him good and that's a fact not while I'm wearing this here six gun You ain't gonna walk nobody. I mean Will you shut up both of you? Now who started all this ruckus? That's personal Marshall me. I'd rather not say Well, that's just fine For 15 years you've ridden together finally took up land together and all of a sudden you start Sidelining around with your hackles up ready to throw lead at one another. He won't even say why huh just get in particular Who I live with all I want him out of my house. I got this straight both of you You own that farm jointly, and I got no legal reason to throw either one of you off So until you settle your differences or sell out you're gonna make the best of it I already offered to buy him out I ain't budging and that's a fact all right if you can't settle it yourself. I'll settle it for you Chester Would you hand me those cards over there? Now as I recall you've got a fair to middle in the house out there and a mighty good barn Until you sell you got to stay on the place to take care of the stock all right Now one of you lives in the house and the other one in the barn, and you'll leave each other alone Is that completely clear? All right brace you cut first high card takes his choice All right, then that's good Ain't as good as a queen. All right. What's your choice? Oh the barn? It smells better McCoy. Oh, do you come around my house? Now break you in half. That's a fact step one foot in my barn I'll blast you full of holes now remember what I told you both of you you leave each other alone Get back out of my house I'll be going to my barn now marshal what's your blights? Why don't you stand in the breeze a little while older you might cool off a little well I declare if that don't beat all I Guess ain't nothing serious. 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I hear She's sort of lost since Ma Smalley went back east Hey, look she did most of the work on this costume. They like it Well, it doesn't look like that one took much so and kitty This is the kind where the stone's important Yeah, I guess a lot depends on How about having a drink with me, huh? Taste of the morning wind from the south and my heart beats the lark song What's that means I'll have a drink with it. Oh, okay. Oh way make it Bad yeah, what's the matter dog? The man I just drove in from up towards the flat and I passed the McCoy Perkins farm on the way Yeah, you better get out there man before those two kill each other. What do you mean? Why they got a confounded war going on one of them's barricaded in the barn the others hold up in the house and their fire and Bullets back and forth so fast. It sounds like the Battle of Shiloh. Oh, I Haven't heard from them for three days. I was hoping maybe they'd cooled off But now who rather didn't sound very cool when I came back. I'll get it Looks like you'll have to stretch out that lark song a little It's all right, okay some other time Jean-Mister Dylan, I never realized it was so far Doc wasn't putting on man about I gone if it don't sound like Shiloh blame fools you'd think they were old enough to have better sense Now that's just to dog on close for comfort. I'll comfort him right now Chesa I Am I'll give you just five seconds to get that door open and come out here now wait you hurt me Oh, this isn't the one it started just to take his gun and keep him You gonna open that door you want me to shoot it open All right, I'll take your gun brace and that's a fact. All right, come on out here I was only to bend myself muscle that scrawny little weasel started at all Don't you believe nothing brace says he was born alive, buddy Now I guess the only thing to do is to see if you two can manage to get along and separate jail cells I'm putting you both under arrest for disturbing the peace now wait just a minute. What do you mean ain't nobody around here Marshal Who's peace we disturb mine? Oh, come on. Let's go Ellen M is the modern cigarette that lets you get all the full exciting flavor of today's finest tobaccos No other cigarette you can buy plain or filter gives you the flavor that you get through the modern miracle of the L&M Miracle tip through the pure white miracle tip L&M tastes richer Smokes cleaner draws easier. So light up free up. Let your taste come alive Live modern smoke L&M make today your big red letter day and start to live the modern way He tied up there mr. Dillon Must be waiting for us in office. Yeah Monoduck just a cold off Yeah, I've got an hour to kill Matt. Just time to beat the socks off of you in a game of chess Boards all set up and well good. Let me take a look at my prisoners first. Who is it man? Oh the Perkins and Brace McCoy. Is that so? Yeah, I'll be right back. Oh morning boys Marshall Well, how about it? You about ready to stop feuding sure Brace will get himself off my property. I will I ain't even to budge Marshall, and that's a fact you kind of like it here Man can't go back on his principles. He ain't got no more principles in a hungry car. All right. That's enough You act like a couple of wet roosters. You can't even remember what the whole thing started about. I Remember I'll tell you what it started about Marshall It started because Brace didn't figure I was fancy in his viddles up enough to suit him for a whole week Marshall, he didn't fix nothing but flapjacks in the morning and how many grits at night with side meat in them Blurred side meat was sour belly no one fit to eat You know what he done Marshall when I put them grits on the table He threw them on the floor and prompt all over him with his boots on all it was fitting for I wouldn't prove it It's like that to the whole I seen many a day. You'd be glad for now. Wait a minute. Is this the truth? Is this what this whole thing's all about? But it ain't what it's about now not anymore it ain't Marshall no sir I come to realize I've been keeping a viper in my bosom be minding mistaken about a man Marshall and that's a fact yeah But you two thought well of each other for years It seems to me a friendship like that out of last over at least one fool argument brace McCoy ain't no friend of mine Not no more he ain't once I get out of this cell I'm gonna walk that little gopher 20 to his life right across the sights of my gun That's how I want all right boys. All right just settle back looks like you're gonna have plenty of time to think up names to go each other Marshall yeah, how long you aim to keep us in this miserable old Jiggle house? You get some sense They're valuable to each How they make it out man. Oh like a paratone cat stuck I don't know what I'm gonna do with them I can't keep them locked up forever for two nice fellas like them the short did turn mean all If you ask me they both probably aching to make up. Yeah I've been thinking along those same lines doc Seems to me they could have killed each other out there on the farm if they'd really been trying to course They could why they must have fired over a hundred rounds at each other Yeah, but if I let them out, they'll either kill each other by accident or kill somebody else Unless they could Chester is sure there's an Indian woman named summer doves and we're around town Kitty can tell you where she is go find her and get her over here as soon as you can we're all right, mr. Dillon Boys This is summer dog These are the two men I was telling you about summer dog the short skinny one is Odie Birkins and the fat one's Brace McCoy How do? Howdy, mr. Duff. I knew you man Summer dogs one of the best cooks and Ford County boys Small a totter huh so now she needs a place to live She'll work for her keep What are you getting at marshal well you boys got a place out there that you're not using that lean to against the barn It might be fixed up pretty comfortable Like I said summer doves and mighty fine cook all right I'd be proud to hire on miss summer dove marshal providing you fix it to keep that onry sidewinder away from my property I'll sidewinder you race you come within 20 yards of me. You better come as you all right boys hold its I Don't summer dove these are the two men. I thought you might like to work for her one up more likely one man Two men makes no difference All right, wait out in the office for me. We need me go boys If you can't come to any agreement it looks like there's only one way to settle this What you got there Mars your guns I figure you couldn't kill each other out there at the farm because you had too much cover But here it's different What are you doing marshal? I'm putting your guns on the floor of yourselves But neither one of you touch them now. I'm out of here. Oh now wait just a minute I don't like this marshal. That's a fact. There's nothing between you now, but an eight-foot corridor and open bars Now you get it subtle boys one way or the other I'll be in my office How'd I think that'll do it? No, mate duck Gone you man. Oh, that was a sneaky move. Yes, it was if I ever saw yeah, I was I swear I can't get over mr. Dillon odion brace walking out of here that away arm and arm like there hadn't never been no crossword between It's like duck said just to their anxious enough to make up all they needed was a push Well, you sure did take a big chance. So give them their guns back. Ah, they didn't want to kill each other Somebody just had to make them realize it. That's home. I Wasn't taking much chance. He sure wasn't Chester not the way he did it Chester you can write out there tomorrow and take these guns to him if you will and see if summer dogs Got ourselves settled out now. All right, Mr. John What'd you mean doc not the way he did it just that Chester Matt doesn't take any chances You don't call out taking a chance when they might have killed each other not with the blanks He made and putting their guns the black he made Bank sure like those actors use on the stage. Why? Of course, I figured what he was up to. He didn't fool me in it. Will you assure fool me mr. Dillon? Something here on pins and needles just waiting for the sound of death. Oh, you're an easy mark Chester You know doc I was pretty sure about those fellas all the time. You were Yeah Hey, you see that whiskey bottle out there, of course. I see it Why thanks doc in a moment our star William Conrad The world may indeed be shrinking and people abroad our next door neighbors But there's still a lot of misconception and confusion on both sides of the ocean between these new neighbors It's the kind of misconception and confusion that's cleared up best of all by personal contact the contact of letters for instance There are many men and women abroad who realize they get a false impression of our country from local sources They are eager to be in correspondence with individuals in this country They're sure that in the easy give and take of letters They'd find out what Americans are really like how they really work and live If you're interested in writing to one of those Europeans send your name with a stamped self-addressed envelope to letters abroad 45e 65th Street, New York, New York. That's letters abroad 45e 65th Street, New York, New York Include information about your age occupation and interests to help toward the selection of a suitable correspondent for you And now William Conrad You know there weren't too many formal burials on the frontier Usually the dead man was just wrapped in a saddle blanket and laid away on boot hill however next week Dodge City watches a formal burial while the coffin contains nothing but rocks and That was the West Gun smoke produced and directed by Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall The script was specially written for gun smoke by Les Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John Meston The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey Sound patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James Featured in the cast were Vic Perron, Barney Phillips and Peggy Ray Barley Bear is Chester, Howard Mcmere is Doc and Georgia Ellis is Kitty Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on gun smoke