 With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Apollon Cassidy starring William Boyd The ring of the Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West Apollon Cassidy the same hoppy you cheer in motion pictures and the same California You've laughed at a million times Raw courage and quick-shooting have built a legend around this famous hero Apollon is a name to be feared respected and admired For this great cowboy rides the trails of adventure and excitement William Boyd as Apollon Cassidy and and declined as California Here's hoppy now with another new story The women of windy Ridge we call this one and it happened in Western, Oklahoma in the narrow stretch that lies between Texas and Kansas We had no real business being there at all since we were on our way to a Kansas roundup But California had remembered that Liz McCoy lived in a place called windy Ridge Liz McCoy who can make the best beef stew west of Topiko So in windy Ridge, we went looking for liars and her beef stew But what we found there had nothing to do with food Before we rode into the little town You I'm getting sick and tired of this Wade. They tell me you haven't done a thing yet Why don't you let us alone Steve? You may be mayor of this town, but I'm sheriff of the county But you've had three hours on this job, and you've done nothing. What's the matter? She's a woman Steve. It ain't the same with women. It is when they're killers. I want her taken Wade I want her taken now and listen Steve. Liz has dynamite in that house, and she's promised to use it if we rush her What are you doing letting her buffalo you all right Steve hang around a minute? You'll see how it is Liz can you hear me? I'm giving you one last warning Liz Come on. We'd better get back across the street like she says Listen Wade. Shout out Steve. That woman isn't fooling here. Let's get in this doorway Getting dark. Maybe after a while she'll fall asleep. Not Liz McCoy. She never sleeps. I'm just the same. We'll wait You might even decide to give up Look Wade a couple of wadis stopping in front of Liz's place. I better warn him. Now wait Yeah, let's see what Liz does about it And a stranger so it won't matter Steve you've gone crazy Let one yap out of you and I'll wrap this gun around your head. You've gone crazy You've let this reform fight go to your brain. Hey look they're knocking on her door. I'm gonna you all going to do nothing That woman's a murderer And this is going to deliver her into our hands not if it means getting them fellas killed. Hey get back from that door Get back before you Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story the women of Wendy Ridge With california seeking out Liz McCoy who makes the best beef stew west of dupeca Hoppy has come to the town of wendy ridge, oklahoma But here as they're standing knocking at Liz McCoy's door A warning shout comes from across the street and a charge of dynamite explodes almost in their faces Hoppy come on. You all right? Yeah, I'm all right, but I wouldn't have been if somebody hadn't yelled. Who did that? I did Yeah, we'd better all get back out of the way. No telling what that woman will do next Hey look wade that explosion tangled up the whole front of her house Maybe it got Liz too and maybe it didn't we won't take any more chances. What's this all about? Who are you fellas? My name's wade. I'm sure of here that explosion. What Liz McCoy did that? She's holed up in there and we aim to get her out Yeah, wait a minute. Why is she holed up? Yeah, and why do you fellas aim to get her out? Liz McCoy happens to be a friend of our and she also happens to be in trouble The marshal of this place was stabbed to death this afternoon and it seems that Liz McCoy did it Liz McCoy Sheriff yeah, yeah, oh, you just ain't making sense. Liz McCoy wouldn't kill nobody I've known her for years and she just ain't that kind people change Anyway, the marshal's body is lying inside her house and she won't give herself up What happens if she gives herself up? She'll get a trial a fair trial Sure, it'll be a fair trial And what kind of people do you think we are? I don't know But if you're sure she'll have a fair trial, I'm willing to try going in for a talk with her And hold on now. She's liable to blast your head off. You get anywhere near Maybe but I'll take that chance and I'm taking it with you, hoppy All right. You want to take the chance Hey, you might try going in from the side from the top of that porch next door We'll try and keep her attention out here sounds like a good idea. Come on, california Dark in here. Wish there was a moon or something. I can't see a thing. I can see all right You don't climb back out that window. I'm gonna blow your heads off. Don't shoot liege. It's california california cars And hop along cast a lizz. We just want to help you Why you two aren't repuled cats. What are you doing here lizz? You're in trouble. We want to help you Hopping nobody can help me. What happened. You didn't kill the marshal, did you? Oh, I never killed nobody in my life, but that ain't gonna help me now Well, if you didn't kill him lizz give yourself up stand trial what be hanged for something. I didn't do not me All layers they don't hang women out here. That's where you're wrong california I've seen a woman hanged margie benjamin over to pascal's gulch the way things are in this town I don't have a chance Besides, I ain't gonna let her mock me sit there while i'm on trial a grinning at me Who are you talking about lizz? Why i'm talking about that dolly chester her in offensive feathers If it wasn't for dolly chester, I wouldn't be in this trouble lizz give yourself up and stand trial No, not me hoppy. I'd rather shoot it out here in my own place and die with my self-respect What is it that's wrong lizz? What's the cause of all this? Why they've gone crazy. That's what's wrong Crazy with reform and that woman's the cause of it Now get on out of here you two before their mothers try sneaking in here while i'm talking And you could tell that sheriff that i've got two shotguns waiting for them as i don't get with the dynamite What'd she say she doesn't think she'll get a fair trial What's behind all this sheriff? What was the cause of the marshal being killed? Now there's a reform movement on this town and there's already three men dead because of it Liz McCoy got into trouble because she wouldn't close her gambling place gambling place You mean lizz has been running one that's right and when trainer ordered her to close it she told him to go soak his head Who's dolly chester lizz said something about dolly chester being the cause of all the trouble I guess you could say she is It's dolly chester that's leading the reform movement And i can't stand here talking i've got to do something about getting lizz mccoy out of that house Wait a second sheriff Why don't you hold off a while? I've been thinking that if this dolly chester guaranteed lizz a fair trial lizz might give herself up Yeah, and who's gonna get dolly chester to do that? Not me or not any other man in this town I'll talk to her you mean you'll try Ain't a man in the world ever got anywhere talking to feathers and the same will go for you Yeah, where can I find her? I won't give you no trouble The biggest and best-looking house in town and she's the prettiest woman in these parts And if you think you can handle her you're a plumb loco I heard what you said to the sheriff back there About talking lizz mccoy into giving herself up It made me wonder what about Why you should want a medal in things that don't concern you lizz mccoy is a friend of mine And do you think you'll help her by giving her that kind of advice? How would you help her? I'm working on that I'm doing my best to get her out of town. That would make her seem guilty Should also help her to live longer You must be unaware of the bitterness there is in this town friend The reform movement they have going has incited a lot of people to hysteria The kind of hysteria that breeds lynch mobs. You speak as a man of education, but I don't know you I'm fur go a gambler I run a place called the blue emerald. I see Well, I appreciate your advice, but I think you're wrong I've never known anyone to help himself by going on the run If lizz mccoy stays in windy ridge, he may pay with her life I know that and lizz knows it lizz and I are in the same business And I always take care of my kind Suppose this dolly chester is willing to guarantee lizz mccoy a fair trial dolly chester will guarantee nothing to anyone And your interference will only confuse things It'll take gunplay for you to get lizz from under the nose of that sheriff He's tough and determined and he has determined men with him Well, you're a man of your own opinions friend So I must warn you to stay out of it and if I don't You may not see the end of this street. Then I guess I'd better go on my way alone Yes, perhaps you had Good night friend Hey you there Sorry, I'm not stopping you better stop Why aren't you good on moving targets? Stay out of this whoever you are. I'm telling you to stop Better change your business stranger. You're in a deadly trade. And this is one job. I'm gonna finish Barkram Where is he barkram? I'm here furgo You better come and get your gunman. I have business of my own with dolly chester You wanted to see me yes, I did Do you always stare like that? So that's why they called you feathers Who calls me that oh several people maybe the whole town Plumes and never have I seen them so delightfully displayed And what else did they tell you they told me there wasn't a man in the world who could handle you And I suppose you came here because of that to satisfy yourself as to whether they're right or wrong I came here because a friend of mine is in trouble Who are you the name is Cassidy? But my friends call me hoppy you're a stranger here Yes, I sort of get around But I want to talk about lizz mccoy I'm gonna ask you to help her Helper How by assuring her that you'll have a fair trial if she gives herself up And why should I do that? You're a woman Yes, I am Probably more woman than you've ever seen in your life for all of you're getting around And that's just the reason I won't help lizz mccoy Because the man she killed today was the man I was going to marry Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story the women of windy ridge Hoppy has been given a couple of hours in which to save the life of lizz mccoy an old friend of california's Lizz varicated in her home swear She's innocent of the killing of Brent trainer and won't give herself up unless she is guaranteed a fair trial by dolly chester Leader of the town's reform movement against gaming halls Hoppy has just made the request to dolly chester and the lady has just flatly refused him You know what it'll mean. Don't you you were saying no I suppose it could mean anything It means that lizz mccoy will blow herself up when the sheriff and his men move in And maybe she'll blow up one or two of the others with her. I don't see how that concerns me You know the more I talk to you the more I feel that nothing concerns you except those fancy feathers You're wearing now you're being impudent and I suppose that is being disloyal I suppose nobody even dares to be impudent to the queen of windy ridge Miss chester What you need is a good spanking. Oh And do you think you're man enough to give it to me? Yes, I think I am I guess you might be at that I guess you might Uh hoppy go back to your lizz mccoy Tell her I guarantee that you'll get a fair trial Well cassidy, I'm sure relieved and I'm much obliged here I've got that deputy of mine ready to take lizz mccoy over to reddington be safer for her there Safer for all of us sheriff. How would furgall figure in this? I don't know Blue emeralds just outside the town limits The only gambling place around that the mayor can't close up has furgall always been friendly with lizz mccoy Liz has always hated his insides and she's never been backward about telling him. What about this reform movement? What do you think of it? Cassidy, this is a raw country as people have to blow off steam somehow. Yeah bottle them up and you breathe trouble Yeah, you're right there sheriff Steve Graham was a good mayor until he started off on this campaign Now he's full of fever and so are the rest of the folks And the worst part of it is going to come when those trail herds from texas start moving through here next week With this no gambling no drinking fever. The folks are just waiting for him You're gonna see a bloody time Cassidy and bloody time was the gambling harmful. Well, not that I ever noticed Marshall always kept everything under control Who's that? I couldn't tell for sure under that lantern out there. I think it's my partner and the mayor Mayor can't be Hey, I thought you and my deputy were taking lizz mccoy over to reddington Not me Wade There was bail put up and judge Lawson said she could go free until the trial bail Of all the who put it up furgall He said she was his kind and he was going to help her and lizz wants to see you hoppy right away Over to her house. She said come even if it was late. Hey, oh that rips everything Come on Pete. We better start swearing in more deputies. We're gonna need them and cassidy If you and your pal are willing I'll start with you two That explosion sure tangled this place up seems kind of silly to be knocking on this door Hold on a second. Why didn't you hear that? What? I thought I heard voices and somebody sort of gasped or joked and the light just went out Come on. Let's get through these right timbers. Okay Might have been the easier if we'd have gone around the back way ain't no Back way house sets into the side of the hill hoppy. There's something wrong here. Wish there was more light. Yeah Well at least we're through that stuff Yeah This ought to be the front room. I walk dog on it. What's the matter when flatten my full face Take quiet a second Liz Liz are you here? Like being in a grave Like uh, oh What's the matter now? Push my face into cobwebs or something Hoppy ain't you gonna match. This is getting on my nerves way ahead of you. There's a lamp. We can light if I can get to it Gotta light another match Hey What was that? Could be more of those boards just falling and it could be somebody making them fall There now we got the lamp. Yeah. Yeah, that's better Let's see if Liz is in this other room. Yeah Well, well, well, I'll be golden Sitting in a chair fast asleep. I'm afraid it's going to be a long sleep, california. Take another look There's a knife buried in her chest If suicide I tell you that woman knew she'd be convicted of the marshals murder and she killed herself I don't agree with you, mr. Mayor. Liz. McCoy wasn't the type of woman to kill herself Whatever kind of problem she might have had. Oh, that's ridiculous. Anyone can kill themselves for any reason sure And I'm sure that's what our coroner's jury will say about it And with this over and done with we'll finish the business of cleaning up this town I'd say you've already finished it and maybe the town as well What do you mean by that steve? I think mr. Cassidy's right I think it's time to let up on our crusade You've been getting too upset over it steve Why I closed up all the gambling places in town. Don't you think that's enough with four people did? I think it's more than enough mr. Cassidy. Yes, mr. Chester Could I talk to you? Mind if I make it a little later right now? I'm heading for the county recorder's office Look do you have to go through every paper in the place can't that clerk help you? Quiet. The clerk's an old man. He doesn't see very well. I'm just about through anyway, right hoppy But I sure don't get it you will california because I think I've come up with the exact reason for all this trouble They've been having in windy ridge Cassidy Don't tell me you're one of the few people around here who can read. Hello furgo Yes, I can read it's a habit. I picked up when I was quite young Thinking of buying some property in the neighborhood not for a few years yet I still like to get around and see things I imagine you see a lot of things Cassidy Too many perhaps. I notice you're wearing a gun furgo. You didn't have it on yesterday No, I only strap it on when I feel there's the possibility of personal unpleasantness I see of course. I could take it off again if you were willing to leave town You might think about that my friend Yeah There goes bad in medicine hoppy a chunk of ice and probably chain lightning with a gun He wears it as though he's used to it, but we can't worry about that not now anyway So you came back hoppy. Didn't you think I would I hoped you would Because I I can't seem to get you out of my mind. Well, that could be a compliment It's meant to be and coming from a woman as beautiful as you are Well, I'm impressed. Do you like my house hoppy? I guess it's about the fanciest home I've ever been in Especially for a town like this. I chose this town deliberately hoppy I picked it out and came to it when it was just beginning I decided to make it my town because I wanted to grow with it And it is growing where the county seat now Soon, there'll be a railroad coming here. It's going to be a big town And I'm going to be the most important woman in it But a woman doesn't like to go her way alone Oh Hoppy stopped whirling your hat Just look at me How about trainer the marshal? Oh, that was never a particularly flaming affair At least uh not on your part. That's right From what I hear he had it pretty bad for you though Perhaps that's why I said I'd marry him. I really only wanted to be kind But with you hoppy trainer had it so bad for you that he didn't quite know What to do when he found out you were crooked When he found out I was What on earth are you talking about? I'm talking about the fact that you own a half interest in furgall's gambling hall I'm talking about how you engineered this so-called reform movement So all the town competition would be wiped out With furgall's place the only one left Because it's beyond the city limits wherever did you get such a fantastic idea? From a very factual source the county recorder's office You didn't have much time to lose did you most people out here can't read the recorder is an old man almost blind You weren't very likely to be caught But I guess the marshal caught on didn't he? But he loved you So he made the mistake of telling you he knew and you killed him. Liz McCoy killed him. He died in her home Liz McCoy would have used the gun She was that kind The knife was your touch dolly And you did the same thing to Liz to make it look like a guilty suicide Hoppy In a few years it won't matter But right now the town wouldn't like it if it knew about this No, it'd be a shame to have me get in trouble for it. Don't you think hoppy? Sort of a waste Well, you're a very beautiful woman and you have a lot on me Enough to keep me entirely in your control Entirely How about it hoppy? I don't think about it dolly But in the meantime, I'm going to walk you over to the sheriff's office and turn you in for murder You fool you insolent fool furgo. I'm here dolly. Don't move Cassidy Just keep those hands in that hat away from those holsters not giving me much of a break. Are you furgo? I never give anybody a break Cassidy. It's the way I do business. This were stud poker. You'd be high man But high card showing isn't always the best, is it? It is this time Cassidy Because you don't even get a chance to draw Now back to hop along Cassidy Take it easy hoppy. This leg's gonna lay you up for a while. How about dolly chester? We got her Cassidy and you know something. She's already squawking about getting a fair trial But how'd you happen to down furgo when he had to drop on you? I figured ahead of time if I'd be in the middle So I had a danger inside of my hat, but it almost wasn't big enough Well, you did a great job Cassidy The town already has its sense back and I'm not gonna have to worry about them texas trail riders But uh, how did you know hoppy? How'd you figure it was dolly chester? Did you ever know liz mccoy to keep a dirty house california church? No, she was about to clean this party alive Right, so when you were crawling around on her floor last night I didn't see how you could be pushing your face in the cobwebs like you said But I did figure it could be feathers with miss chester where and I'm as she sneaked by us in the dark She was feathers. Yeah. Well, I'll be golden Yes, sir. I'll be golden And that brings to a close the story of the women of windy ridge In hoppy's next story There is plenty of adventure and excitement and it carries the unusual title Right rope wrong neck Apollon Cassidy starring William Boyd is transcribed and produced in the west by Walter white jr The women of windy ridge was written by buckley angel with original music under the personal direction of albert glasser All stories are based upon the characters created by clarence emilford. This is a commodore production