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Man: Hurry, let's go. Come on.
You are not leaving.
Why won't you understand
that ihave to go where my husband goes?
I suppose that if...
Even if he jumped off a cliff,
you would have to follow him?
Yes.
You see, I love him very much.
Love!
And how much good will your love do you
- in the middle of a wilderness? - Mother, please don't try...
What kind of a frontier woman
do you think you will make?
You've never had to cook or wash
or keep house in your life.
Your father and I saw to that.
I can learn, mother.
And that husband of yours...
- Mother. - Yancey cravat.
That isn't even a name.
Itis my name now.
What is a lawyer going to do on a homestead?
Mother, please!
If only you'd let me say something.
If yancey says he can do it, he can.
I warned you when you married him...
A man you had only known 3 months...
That you'd live to regret it.
I will never regret it...
Not for one second.
I tell you there's never been anything like it
in the history of the world.
Imagine, a whole territory settled in one afternoon.
Whole cities springin' up in one hour.
Why, I'll bet you there's thousands of people
on that borderline right now, right today,
right this moment, just a-steamin' and a-waitin®
for that opening gun next week.
Now, can you imagine it?
Huh? C-c-can...
Can you just imagine it?
Look...
Here...
Here is the Oklahoma territory,
over 2 million acres of the finest land
a crow ever flew over.
And here...
See? It's all divided up into quarter sections.
Like that.
That's, um... now!
Here are the soldiers,
all lined up in a row.
Here they are, all lined up
to see that nobody gets into that territory
before they're supposed to.
Now, now, here...
Here come the settlers.
Here they come.
Thousands of them.
Thousands of them from all over,
and here... here you are, honey.
Here they come,
and they're just so anxious.
They're just starving for a piece of that land.
They're just starving for it.
Matter of fact, they'd fight for it.
They'd even die... die for it.
Well, how about that?
Charlie, hand me a few more
of those settlers, will you?
That's a boy.
And give some to the children, too, huh?
Oh, sabra.
Oh, my sabra.
Here, have yourself a settler, huh?
Mr. yancey!
Better not forget this, Mr. yancey.
You might need it one day.
Good-bye, father.
Good-bye, my dear.
I envy you.
All right.
Now remember what I told you.
Now a little tighter.
Both reins.
That's right.
And I'll follow you.
Yancey: You all ready?
Yes.
Good luck, darling.
Mother.
Good-bye.
Sabra: Yancey, it's getting
awfully lonesome back here.
We'll be stopping right up here ahead, honey.
Sabra:
That's very pretty.
Where did you learn that?
The old country.
What does it mean?
If... if god keeps me alive,
believe you me,
I will take care of no one but thee.
Oh, darling, how many times you walked towards me,
I looked at you and wanted you.
How many times you didn't even look at me,
and I wanted you.
Yes, sir, she sure looks good from here.
What are you laughing at?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Come on, let's dogtail it, huh?
Yah! Yah! Yah! Yah! Yah!
Sabra: What do you want?
She wants to know what we want.
What do we want?
Anybody wears anything as pretty as that...
Oh, ain't that pretty?
Get up.
I ought to shoot your ears off,
scaring my wife like that.
Cim.
Hey, what's the matter with you?
Don't you recognize me... The kid?
I recognized you.
Aw, cim, how was we supposed to know
it was your wife?
Somebody else's wife,
then everything'd been all right?
I'm sorry.
We didn't mean anything.
Well,
I guess there's no harm done.
How are you, boy?
Just great!
Who's this?
Wes!
I'm pudge Johnson's boy.
Remember hoss?
Yeah, don't tell me. This is what's his name,
um... Barry. Barry.
Ned Barry's boy, yeah.
Say, last time I saw this fella,
you know how big he was?
He was just about so high.
Hey, we heard you got killed
in a gunfight out in California, remember?
Honey, I used to work for this boy's daddy
as a ranch hand.
How nice!
Just devilmintin' around, huh?
Kinda ridin' around.
I used to ride the old bag line myself,
matter of fact, living off the old, uh,
hospitality of the south, as it were.
Well...
You had your breakfast yet?
No, we ain't ate yet.
Fine, fine. Honey?
Uh, you'd better lay a little more food
and cups and saucers and all that
'cause we're gonna have some guests for breakfast.
Now, boys, if you'd mind just turning around
and stepping over there while the little lady
gets out of the water, huh?
Right over there. That's right.
Now, the first one of you bindlestiffs
that looks around, you get the meat end
of this rifle right between the eyeballs.
All right, you can get out now, honey.
Get out?
If you stay in there,
you're gonna catch cold.
You want them to stay
and have breakfast with us?
Well, these are my friends.
Oh!
So, uh, we really got to be goin...
No foolin". We're late now.
Where we goin'?
Listen, ma'am,
uh, I'm awful sorry we, uh...
We discommode you.
I hope you won't hold no, uh...
Uh, you know, grievance against old cim.
I... l tell you,
I used to follow cimarron everywhere he went.
He spit on a stump,
I spit on astump.
And all I ever wanted was just to grow up
and be like him,
and so, uh, if I done anything at all,
uh, uh, anything to come between you and him-=-
uh... uh...
All right.
Skimmeroot!
Yay, boys!
Honey, I'm afraid you've hurt my friends' feelings.
I hurt their feelings?
I'm afraid you did. Come on.
You see, in the west, you never turn a man away
without a hot meal in his stomach.
Uh, it just isn't done.
Oh, well, you'll learn.
There we go.
There now.
Come on, now,
you're still not scared, are you?
No, I'm not scared.
I'm just frozen and cold.
Oh, dear.
And don't you dare talk to me again
until I tell you you can.
All right, I won't talk to you anymore,
not until you tell me.
Are you all right now?
No.
What happened?
What's the matter, you lose your horse?
Never had none.
Where you from?
Missouri.
Are you telling me you, uh...
You walked all the way from Missouri?
I guess so. I'm here.
Well, uh, suppose you get in out of the rain
and ride with us?
You wouldn't object to that, now, would you?
I wouldn't, but... Maybe you might.
I got my family with me.
We'll make room.
Yancey cravat.
Tom Wyatt.
Hi, Tom. This is my wife here, sabra.
Sabra, this is Tom Wyatt.
How do you do, Mr. Wyatt?
Nice to meet you.
That's my family.
Now, what was that you said
about, uh, making room?
Well, I said we could.
[ I guess we can. I... I guess.
Wyatt: Come on! We got a ride!
Let's get out of the rain.
Woman: Come on. Pa got a ride for us.
What is it, pa?
This is my wife, Mrs. Wyatt,
and this is my children Janet and...
You want to meet my children?
No, no, never mind for now, Tom.
Suppose you take this wagon.
Honey? Honey, listen.
You take my wagon,
and you children, half of you
get in the other wagon
and half of you get in this wagon.
All right?
Come on, get in.
Go get in this wagon
before this poor man change his mind.
Come on, now.
Which one is going which way?
It doesn't matter. Just so we're half and half.
Hold up there, boys.
Man, ain't that something?
Get 'em back to the line.
I guess we made it, Sarah.
I guess we did.
Soldier: Hey, you!
Hey, you can't stop there!
Hey... hey, yancey.
Hiya, ned, how are you, boy?
Fine, fine. Ma'am.
I haven't seen you since you were selling
Indian ponies to the cavalry.
Not in that business anymore?
Naw, I gave that up.
It's really something, isn't it?
Yeah, just one big headache to me,
trying to keep all them too-sooners out of there.
I sure hate to think about tomorrow.
Look at all of "em.
We haven't got enough land for one third of "em.
Gonna be an awful lot of mad and disappointed people,
to say nothing of the dead ones.
You mean all this land,
and there won't be enough?
No, no, honey. The land around here
ain't fit to raise goats on,
but over there,
right over there, just about,
oh, I'd say about 10 or 15 miles,
you never seen
such rich farming and grazing land.
That's the land we'll have to run for.
Man: Hey, I don't believe it!
I don't believe it!
Hey, ike, where you been?
Where you been?
Hey, you're all dressed up like a prune picker.
Have you seen Sam pegler?
There's 10,000 people down there,
and he's one of 'em.
Hey, wait till you meet old Sam.
He's really something.
He must be something.
Yancey won't stop talking about him.
Hey, ike, how about taking our picture, huh?
Children: Take my picture!
All right. All right.
We'll make a nice, big group shot.
All right, now watch the birdie.
My bird's kind of stringy.
How's yours, pretty?
Don't blame it on the bird.
Even butter's stringy to you
with those horrible, misfittin',
store-bought teeth.
Hey, there, Mike, you old frog sticker.
How you doin' there, boy?
Well, I'll be. Yancey.
Have you seen Sam pegler anywhere?
Not yet, but he'll be here.
Hey, ike, look who's here.
I seen him this afternoon.
How are ya, cim?
I'm fine.
Hi, grat. You didn't waste any time,
did ya, huh, boy?
Come and see me.
Yeah, I'll do that.
Where do you know all these people from?
You know everybody.
Oh, honey, they...
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Hey, cimarron!
Hey, yancey, how are ya?
Where ya been?
Where?
Who's that?
Oh, uh, it's nothing, honey.
They're sort of friends of mine.
You know.
Well, he could have wrote you at least.
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uh, well, I'll explain it all to you someday, dear.
Hyah!
Pins, I have pins!
Needles, calico!
Hamburg lace!
Hey, mister, mister. Come over here.
Have you any candy for the children?
Candy for the children? Plenty.
Here, children, help yourself.
There's all kinds candy there.
There's red and green and yellow
and licorice.
There's licorice down below.
Did youget it? Huh?
You look so young, madam.
How long have you been married?
2 weeks.
2 weeks?
Lady, the candy is on the house.
Wait a moment, mister.
No, listen, these are not our children.
It's all right.
Hey, Tom, that's pegler's wagon up ahead.
I'll see you there.
Come on, let's go.
Indians got as much right to be here
- as anybody else! - Sam pegler,
I want you to stay out of this fight.
Somebody's got to help him.
Oh, look at those fellers.
Oh, no, that's a terrible thing.
Go get the baby.
Man: Back to the reservation.
Send 'em back where they come from.
Wait a minute.
This fella's got as much right here
as you have.
You stay out of this, old man.
Stop it!
All right, break that fight up.
Separate those men.
All right, now.
What's this commotion all about?
This Indian's got just as much right
to be here as anybody else.
Let me have your papers.
Man: What are you stickin' your nose init for?
Soldier: Now, this man
has been legally registered,
and according to the law, he's got as much right
to make this land run in the morning as you have.
You heard what I said.
Now, go on. Get back to your wife.
The Indian stays.
Now, go on. Break this up.
Go on. Move along, everybody.
Go on. Move on.
I want to tell you something, old man.
You try to run that newspaper of yours up here
the same way you did down in Texas,
you're gonna get buried here.
And I don't care who your friends are.
Let's go, millis.
Man, you... you really are something, Sam.
You just can't keep out of trouble now, can you?
Well, now, why should I?
Why should you?
Honey, this is Sam pegler.
This is my wife sabra.
Your what? Well, ma'am, I'm pleased to meet ya.
Mavis, come look who's hooked himself a wife.
Oh! Oh, you poor girl.
What are you talkin"? Wait a minute now.
Don't you... just don't pay no attention to her
because, uh...
This is... this is Jess rickey.
How do you do, Mr. rickey?
You know what he is?
He's one of the best printers in the business.
When he's sober he is, that is.
Well. You know, the last time he smiled,
it caused an earthquake.
You done pretty good in that fight, boy.
How do you mean he did pretty good?
He almost got himself killed
risking his life for an Indian.
I'm sorry.
Now suppose we, uh,
give this fella a hand here
and get this wagon turned up.
Say, do you mind if we help you?
All right. Why don't you get on that side?
Uh, Sam pegler.
Yancey cravat.
Sol Levy.
Our wives.
Tom, suppose you go down to that end.
Tom Wyatt.
Jess rickey.
This is my wife.
All right, let's go. All together.
Why they call you cimarron?
Oh, it's along story.
'Cause he's mean and wild and crazy.
That's what the word means.
Oh, now you want to make her think
she married a wildcat or something?
She didn't marry any scat rabbit.
You know what you married?
A lunatic.
He don't know what he wants.
Oh, yes, I do.
Do you now? Do you?
Of course I do.
How many things you been already?
A gambler, a gunman, a lawyer,
and now you want to be a farmer.
Now, wait a minute now.
I don't want to be a farmer.
I want to be a rancher. That... that's different.
2 months and you'll be pulling your hair out
with both hands.
No, no. No, not... not this time.
No, this is the first time in my life
I've seen a piece of land, and I said,
"this is what I want."
More than anything, this is what I want.
And you know how long
I been dreamin' about that land?
You know how long?
Ever since I used to ride herd
through this country.
I used to lean down,
pick up a big handful of that earth
and smell it. It was so rich.
You know how you do?
It smelled so rich, you felt like you just...
A man could just throw out a handful of seeds
and a whole crop of corn'd sprout up...
Ten feet high.
That's what I want to do.
I want to... grow my own food
and raise my own cattle.
Now, just a minute.
There's only one thing wrong
with that little dream of yours.
Corn just don't pop up 10 feet tall.
No, it-it's got to have plowin'
and plantin' and weedin' and waterin',
and... and then along comes adrought
and ruins you.
And as for that fictional cattle...
All right. All right.
Say, you really are something,
young fella.
Well, come on, little lady.
We've got a rough day ahead.
I'll get out the bedroll.
Oh, ma'am, I... I don't want you to think
we meant nothin' by what we were sayin...
We were just joshing.
Oh, I know.
Oh, there... there is just one thing, though.
You see, we kinda raised that lunatic...
He's kind of like a son.
Well, we never had any children of our own,
and I was just thinking,
you being his wife and all,
maybe you could talk him into trying
the newspaper business...
It isn't so much for ourselves.
Well, wait a minute, mother,
that enters into it.
You see, a man hates to work
and have everything that he stood for
just disappear.
Kind of like to pass iton to somebody.
Yeah, you see, we... we need somebody
to leave things to and...
Sam, Sam, listen.
How many times have I...
You never give up, do ya?
How many times have I told you
I don't like the newspaper business?
I just don't like this business
of being a crusader all the time.
It's an embarrassing thing, you know.
Who's a crusade... I'm not a crusader!
Shh shh. You are, Sam.
You are a crusader.
Isn't that right? Every time
some unpopular cause comes along,
sure enough, old Sammy gets himself
right smack bang in the middle,
on the wrong side.
Sam: Well, somebody's got to.
Yancey: That's what I'm talking about.
That's exactly what I mean.
No, sir, you're not gonna catch me
spending my... spending my time?
Wasting my time behind a desk.
No, sir. You just look out there.
Look at all those people.
Isn't that a sight?
Every one of them... Every one of them
has some sort of a dream.
I mean, after all,
what's the use of any of us being here
if we're not chasing some sort of a...
Dream of some kind?
But there they are out there.
Good men, bad men, lawmen, gunmen,
horse thieves, wanted men,
men not wanted so much by anybody
or anything... anyplace.
But they've all got that dream
in their head.
They've all got that new life
they're hoping to lead sometime.
Mavis: And how many of them?
Four out of five ain't gonna make no life,
ain't gonna find no land, no nothing.
Good old mavis.
Ah, I don't know, Sam.
I don't know how you put up with her
all these years.
Well, somebody's got to.
I know. Come on, honey.
Good night. Good night, Sam.
Night.
Ah, mother.
Stand by.
Now you know you're welcome to use
one of my horses.
The way I ride,
I'd never be able to hold my own
against these boys.
Don't worry about it, honey.
We've come this far, didn't we?
I didn't come this far to get done out of my land.
Bye, pa.
I'll get my land somehow.
And what's gonna happen
if you miss that stagecoach?
Well, I'll worry about that when I come to it.
All right now,
suppose you... take this along,
just in case, huh?
Thanks... for everything.
Good luck, Tom.
Sarah: Come along, iddy bits.
Go back to the wagon now.
Hope you get your land.
Sarah: Go, go, go.
You just stay with your ma now.
How on earth are we ever gonna find you?
You all stay with the folks.
I'll find you.
Now say good-bye to daddy.
Children: Bye! Bye, daddy!
Yancey, can you see our land from here?
No, it's in that direction, though.
Way out there, there's a big grove of trees,
and there's this gully.
On the other side of the gully,
there's this... this big hill,
and on top of that hill is some of the finest
grazing land you ever saw.
Sam: You best come to town with us.
You mean that the town's already set up?
No, no, no. They have it, uh,
these certain sections plotted off
like town lots, is that right?
Yeah.
And all the rest is divided up into farms,
160 acres apiece.
Yeah!
And it's free.
All this wonderful land just here to take.
They're about ready.
I'm going to saddle up.
Well...
Huh? Oh.
What a foolish sight.
An old character like you
racing like atomcat.
Help me get this rheumatic old knight
on his wooden charger.
Take your hands off of me, both of ya.
Since when do I have to have help
gettin" up on a wagon?
Come on, sir Galahad.
Upsy-Daisy.
Ah!
Good luck. Thank you.
Take good care of that wildcat, sabra.
He won't be easy to tame.
I will.
Man: Hey, Dixie.
Where'd you get them pants?
Second man: Hey, Dixie. Whoo-hoo!
Hello, Dixie.
You racin' for land?
I already know the land I want.
Men: Hey, Dixie! Hey, Dixie!
Yancey, who is she?
Well, I gotta tell you all about that someday, honey.
Now, look, you stay back here
till the race gets started, all right?
Now you come on, iddy bits.
Get in that wagon.
Come on, get out of the way of them horses.
Get over there.
Get up there, Nellie.
Never mind about that thing.
Just get up.
1 got 2 hands, and I can't handle all of ya.
Well, we're off to the hunt.
Exciting, what?
Cecil, button your duster.
Yeah, or I'll button it for you.
I got money! I got money!
Man: Ok, get on the back if you can.
I paid. I gave them...
I gave the man up there the money.
Let me on!
Let me on here.
Get ready.
It's pa! I think it's pa!
He didn't make it!
Is pa hurt? Is pa hurt?
I'll... do it myself.
I've got to do it myself.
1got to do it myself.
Hey, soldiers, I crossed the line.
I crossed that line, didn't I?
I crossed that line.
I got my land.
Hyah!
Listen. Get him.
Help! Yancey!
This is my land now.
Well, how about that?
Yeah, how about that?
Yeah, the land is so rich out here,
all you gotta do is toss out a handful of seeds
and up pops a corn patch 10 feet tall.
Soi'mtold.
Now, come on, Dixie.
Don't come near me.
So help me,
I'd sooner put abullet through you than not.
You know, I think you would, too.
Yeah.
Yancey!
Yancey, did you get the land?
Well, I didn't exactly get the land I wanted, but, uh...
Well, I got to thinking...
After all, we're not farmers,
so what would we want... A farm for?
But...
It's not worth it.
What do you wind up with?
I'm a woman. Where are my children?
I'm a woman. Where's my house?
I'm a woman.
Where's my man?
You, my rheumatic old knight...
Who's gonna climb up on our wheezy old charger
and lead us into the thick of things?
What good is it without you?
Anything...
I'm lonesome.
Already I'm just plain lonesome.
Man: Hurry. Let's get these claims filed.
Second man: I've got mine.
Third man: Line up.
Line up to file claims for your land.
First come, first served.
Line up, but don't block the door.
Fourth man: Hurry up.
Uh, Jesse...
Suppose you stay
and help me run the paper?
You're sure you want todo it?
Somebody has to.
My, what a lot we've seen together, huh?
You and me and this...
This wicked old...
Well...
I wish you would change your mind
and stay with us.
No, Sam left a lot of things
he was fixin' to do,
and I might just as well get going.
Yancey, you're gettin' right smack
in the middle of things.
You'll only end up
gettin' yourself killed, too.
Good-bye.
Well, I better get myself situated.
Yeah, I guess we all better.
You know where to find me.
Miss...
Everything will be all right.
Honey, you stay here.
I have something to attend to.
Yancey.
Yancey, yancey, where are you going?
Before you know I'm gone, I'll be back.
Yancey, please. Don't go looking for trouble.
Honey, there's some things in this country
a man has to do, a woman just doesn't understand.
It's different here.
Suppose he kills you.
What's going to happen to me?
What can I do here all by myself?
Yancey, please.
Don't go looking for trouble, please.
Oh, please. You must help me, please.
I'm so aeraid.
I don't know what to do.
This place...
Is this where we're going to settle down
and raise a family?
Sabra, don't.
Oh, yancey, I'm so... please.
I hate to be afraid.
Sabra, please, it's my fault.
1so much want to make you happy.
I gotta take care of you more.
Just help me. Tell me what to do.
Have Patience with me.
Shh. Wait, darling. Wait, please.
Listen, I need you
far more than you need me.
You help me.
You help me, darling.
I just love you so much.
Ohh...
We just gotta be patient with each other, that's all.
Yes.
What are we going to do, hmm?
We're going to go home.
Yes.
Oh, no.
We came to stay, didn't we?
And we're going to stay.
No?
Sabra?
Sabra, over here.
Sabra?
How are you? When's the baby due?
Oh!
Come on!
Take him out there!
Come on!
Kid, don't!
I'm going to shoot the bottles out of his hand.
Let's take bets now. I've got five dollars!
I got $50 say you don't.
507?
We ain't seen $50
at one time in our lives.
Anyone could take all or a piece of it.
I'll take five!
I'll take two!
Just one thing.
I don't see any point in killing a white man.
Hey, Moses. Yeah, you.
Oris it Izzy?
If you are talking to me,
the name is sol...
Stand still!
Hold up your arms.
When I speak, you jump.
You hold up your arms,
or I'll cut you from end to end.
Let's shoot.
Hey, Moses,
don't you worry about a thing.
Kid: All right, everybody, clear out!
Clear out back there!
I gotta see what I'm shootin' at!
Good night in the morning!
You again, ma'am? I'm awful sorry.
You bunch of good-for-nothing loafers.
You ought to be ashamed of yourselves,
playing with guns.
They were shooting at sol.
Sabra, darling.
Take care of her, please.
Take a look, fellas!
Worth twice the price
to see his face when those bottles broke.
Oh, if I ever see a guy who was scared, he was it.
I never seen anything so funny in my life!
There you go, Joe.
Get your money, man.
You the one that did the shooting?
Well, now, look who's here.
What's the matter, you got no white-man friends?
I'm not gonna ask you again.
Was it you or wasn't it?
As a matter of fact, it wasn't,
but don't let that stop you.
I done it, cim. I was the one.
What, are you gonna write that up in your paper?
I tell ya, we'll really give you something to write about.
Won't we, fellas? Yeah.
Yeah.
What are you doing? I'm not a child anymore.
And you ain't no liquor-bellied
saddle tramp neither, like you're trying to be.
You think that's being tough?
You think that's being a man?
Oh, what are you doing?
You're treating me like a child.
I don't want you hanging around
with that crowd, you hear me?
I'm gonna get you a roomin a hotel
and give you a job on my newspaper,
starting right now.
Now, wait. Who do you think you are?
Your friend, for one thing!
You think your daddy would be proud of you,
the way you're gambling, spitting,
and drinking your life away?
But, cim, I ain't nothin...
You think I'm somethin', but I ain't.
I promised your father I'd look out for you.
What if I help you out,
send you back east to school?
Would you try to make something of yourself?
No, cim, I'm nothin'...
You better make up your mind, boy.
You go ahead. You go kill yourself
the way your daddy did.
Nobody's gonna care,
and nobody's gonna stop ya.
Do you know something?
I think if you really put your mind to it,
you could make something of yourself.
You hear me?
Maybe I have faith in you.
Well, don't.
Cim, just don't have faith in me.
Please don't have faith in me.
Just think it over.
You just think it over.
Hey, Wes! Hoss!
Hey, skimmeroot!
I'll see ya, cim.
Skimmeroot!
That Indian woman, what does she want?
Uh...
Honey, uh, there's a little something
I have to do.
It's, you know, I won't be very long.
Darling, supper's ready.
Well, suppose you keep it warm for me?
Before you know I'm gone, I'll be back.
Stay with her until I get back, Jesse.
All right, hurry up. Get him up there.
Back away.
Back off!
Mr. Jesse?
Mr. Jesse...
Please. Would you get sol to get Mrs. Wyatt?
Yancey hasn't come back yet.
Are you all right? I'm all right.
Are you sure?
Oh!
Let him hang.
He stole one my horses.
Now we wanna see the rest of the Indians watch him.
You heard what I said.
I heard you.
I was against it, yancey.
I told the Indian he wouldn't be safe here.
I didn't think they'd go this far.
Why isn't yancey back yet?
Ain't got no call to worry about yancey.
He'll take care of hisself.
I'm really scared of everything.
Well, why shouldn't you be?
Now, you drink this down.
Come on.
Pretty good whiskey.
Ain't gonna do you no harm.
It won't be as terrible as everybody says,
having a baby?
That one hurt, didn't it?
Just a little.
It's supposed to hurt a little
along about this time.
Here. Drink it.
More? Good for you.
Nothin" for you to do now but lie back and enjoy it.
What are they laughing so much?
What is there to laugh at at a time like this?
Don't you drink?
Not when I'm having a baby.
What are you so nervous?
You think you had 10 babies already,
you wouldn't be nervous.
Not nervous.
Just thirsty.
Cimarron?
What kind of a name is that?
Yancey insisted on it.
What if she's a girl baby?
A girl?
Yancey would send her right back!
I bet he would!
I can't have a girl.
No? Well, that's what I said,
and I got eight girls.
I got eight of 'em.
Gentlemen, you're fathers.
Yancey, what...
Shh. It's all right, baby.
It's all right.
Shh. There, now.
Oh, my darling.
Hey, Tom!
Hiya, yancey.
Hey, that's quite a contraption you got there.
Look anything like it oughta look?
Well, how ought it to look like?
Here's a picture in a magazine.
How about that?
You really done it, huh?
700 feet down now,
and I ain't found enough oil to grease a fiddle.
Yancey, for once, I'm afraid
I don't think too much of your advice.
I could've stuck those eastern dudes
with this whole useless farm at $25 an acre.
You wait a minute, Tom.
I figure those eastern dudes you talk about,
they're not gonna just give their money away.
If there's something they don't want
on top of this ground,
then there must be something down there underneath.
Yeah, but how far underneath?
I don't know how far down,
but if you strike water,
you'll still be ahead.
I'll strike China first.
Look, I'll tell ya
how you gotta figure it, Tom.
If you weren't sitting around digging for oil,
then what would you be doing, huh?
Nothin...
That's what I mean.
I'll see you, Tom.
So long, yancey.
Sarah: Come on in, Tom!
Oh, hush, woman.
You come on in now, Tom! Food's on the table!
- Howdy. - Hello, Sarah.
Will you come on in now?
Hush, woman!
Come on in now, Tom.
Oh, hush! Talk, talk, talk!
I swear, I think he's gone clean out of his head.
He don't do nothin' but stay out here with that thing,
whatever it is.
Meantime, the taters are rottin'in the ground.
Everybody's laughing at the fool.
Oh, hush, woman!
Will you come on in?
I'm gonna throw your chitlins to the hog.
You know what you can do with my chitlins?
Jesse: Hey, he sure has managed to keep hisself busy
these past few years, hasn't he?
You'd think they were hunting a mad dog or something.
Sabra: Why is it you always have to take
the wrong side of everything?
Every paper in the territory has run an editorial.
"The most dangerous public enemy
since Billy the kid."
"If the territory of Oklahoma
is ever going to be made a state,
these killers must be stopped."
Sabra...
Only you in the whole world could have the nerve...
You don't understand, sabra.
All I know, eight innocent people have been killed.
And how many banks have been robbed?
When I first knew that boy,
his father was one of the biggest landowners,
one of the biggest ranchers
in this whole territory, Jesse.
Then the government, they come along one day,
and they decide they're gonna just break up
all that grazing land,
and they give those ranchers three days...
Imagine that... three days to get rid of their herds.
Well, you know as well as ido,
the buyers, they take advantage
of a situation like this,
and in one day, this man loses everything
he spent all his life building up.
And you know what happened to him, sabra?
Do you know?
In 4 months,
he was shot for being a cattle rustler.
And now, supposing, just supposing, sabra,
you were eight or nine years old
like that boy was.
What do you suppose
a thing like that would do to you?
I didn't know that.
Terrible thing is,
I could've helped that boy.
I could've done something for him.
I don't know what, but I...
I just didn't bother. I didn't...
I didn't take the time.
If you hadn't been so stupid,
we could've had all the money...
What are you bringing that up for?
Ok, I made a mistake.
You won't listen to nobody, will ya?
All I know is,
every time I bring up the town of osage,
you change the subject on me.
That couldn't have anything to do with yancey cravat, could it?
I'm sick of you.
I'm sick of lookin' at you,
and I'm sick of hearing your voice,
and I'm sick of smelling you.
Go where you want, will you?
Just get away from me.
That's fine with me.
Hoss, you comin' with me?
I go with him.
That's good enough.
Wes!
All right.
You wanna get the train?
We'll get the train.
To tell you the truth,
I don't care no more what we do.
Come on, hoss.
Man: Hey, Dixie!
How are ya?
Hl, Dixie!
Pretty nice rig.
I'm looking for a lawyer.
Are you still a lawyer?
Uh, well, I...
I'm not much of one anymore, I'm afraid.
I don't need much of a one.
Right.
In that case, I'm your man.
Here. Would you like to sit down?
Well, now, what can I do for you?
Hurry up, yancey. We'll be late.
Honey, you mind running along?
I got a little business to attend to.
It'll just take a few minutes.
Would you mind? Um...
No, no. I'll wait for you.
Uh, honey? Honey...
Cimarron, you can go and play with Ruby in the yard,
but don't go out in the street.
Honey, uh...
Uh, do you mind if we have a little privacy?
It's, uh...
Well, it's customary, you know.
But I'm not listening. Who wants to listen?
You go right ahead. I don't want to listen.
Do you want to listen, Mr. Jesse?
Well, suppose we step outside, hmm?
Look, all I want is some legal papers.
I'm selling the farm.
Now, can you draw 'em up for me?
You're selling the farm?
Just answer me yes or no.
If you can draw 'em up, fine.
If you can't, I'll go someplace else.
Yes, of course I can take care of that for you.
Well, here's all the particulars.
You know, who's buying and for how much and all that.
And when you get 'em done,
just bring 'em out to the farm.
Would you believe
a human being could have such nerve?
She wants him to draw up the papers for the...
I think it's about time right now
that you tell me about this woman.
Well, there's nothing to tell.
They got him cornered at the depot.
They got the cherokee kid!
The cherokee kid gang!
Man: Watch out!
Hoss, come back here!
Cim! Cim, come back!
Cim!
We wouldn't have gotten in this mess.
I told you we shouldn't have come to osage.
All right, so I didn't figure it right.
But we gotta get out of here.
They'll be around us any minute.
Hey, the schoolhouse!
Yeah. They won't figure on shootin" us in there.
All right, all you kids get over in that corner!
Go on! Get over there!
No! No! Don't shoot!
Don't shoot! Are you crazy?!
There are children in the school.
My boy is in the schoolhouse!
Come on! Get over there!
Cover the window!
Hey, get down! Get on the floor!
Stay down, all of ya!
My boy's in there! Please get my boy!
Take it easy, Johnson.
There's a lot of other kids in there.
Yancey: Kid, I want to talk to you.
Keep out of this, cim. We don't want you in it!
Keep out of it!
Don't come any closer!
If you want to get these kids out of here alive,
then drop that rifle!
Drop it!
Now you get us our horses!
Sol, bring me their horses.
Hey, you bring 'em up to the door!
That's far enough.
Now we can get out of here.
Wes, what are you doin'?
Wes, don't.
Wes, leave that girl alone.
I'm comin® out with this kid in front of me!
You're not comin' out with any kid.
All right, you kids, get out of here, all of you!
Come on, move!
I told you not to have faith in me, didn't I?
Didn't 1?
Skimmeroot.
Woman: You girls like popcorn?
Popcorn? Here's popcorn balls.
Popcorn. I made it myself.
You like popcorn?
Here's Mrs. cravat.
She can tell you where yancey is.
Please leave me alone now.
Like I told you, you can read about it
in the next issue of the wigwam.
Now... now, you stay here.
I'll come back in a moment.
I'll just go change.
There you are.
Oh. Everybody's looking for you.
Reporters from New York are everyplace.
They want to get some pictures of you...
Receiving the checks.
I got them.
Here, darling, your reward money.
I don't take money for killing a man.
Then what was your reason for going in there?
I felt responsible.
What about your responsibility to us~?
You risk your life for everybody else,
for any hopeless cause that comes along,
but you tear up a check that could give cim
a little security for once.
You'd give our boy security
by killing another man's son?
Yancey, I'd give anything
to have kept you from going through what you did,
but it's done now,
and we might as well be practical, just for once.
Why don't you tear up our bills, too?
All of them! I don't care!
Why should I? Scrape the grubby ends together
day by day!
Go ahead, tear them up!
You wouldn't care if I took that money, huh?
How can I understand a man like you?
Don't you know that we have a child now?
Yes.
He needs some money for some education!
He needs some money for some advantages in life.
Oh, but what does that matter to you?
That was his money you tore up!
What? What is there in you that...
That hunger, whatever it is, to be there...
In the middle of any excitement?
You don't know the meaning of responsibility, do you?
What is it you want, sabra?
Did it ever occur to you that maybe you are wrong?
Now, just wait...
No, no! Everybody else is on the wrong side.
It's just that I don't know
what it is you want.
1 just want to be like everybody else.
Yes, all right, but perhaps you and I,
we just...
Maybe you didn't think of this.
Maybe you and I see things differently.
Yes, I guess we do.
You know something else?
I don't know. Maybe...
Maybe you picked yourself the wrong man.
And for you...
Ami the wrong woman?
I can't please you.
I just...
Can't please you, sabra.
Hey, son, I hope that someday
when you get to be a...
An old man,
you'll be able to tell your grandchildren
when this town became civilized.
You understand what I mean?
Yes, daddy.
Yes, and with the things
that are happening out there now just...
They just can't happen,
won't happen.
Now there's something else,
and this is even more important.
You listen to your mother,
because she's the only one
who makes sense around here.
You just don't doubt that for one minute,
no matter what any...
What anybody says to you.
Um, uh, let's make out we don't see her.
Now, look at our nice horse.
Look at our horse.
Yes, our horse.
Listen, we're gonna fix him up.
And I... 1 says to myself,
"if I can only get that land.
Oh, I've gotta get that land.
If I can get it,
then I'm sure that most of my problems,
they'll be...
Well, they'll be solved, you know,
some way."
Then I got to thinkin!
That even if I had gotten the land,
it wouldn't have solved
most of my problems at all.
Really, you know.
Depends on...
What your problems are, I guess.
Guess so.
Well, you got the land.
Didn't solve all of your problems,
I don't think. Did it?
It solved one thing, though.
It kept you from gettin' it.
Dixie.
Listen. Listen, now.
Did I ever tell you,
did I... didi ever sayto you
that, uh, we were gonna get married
and that we were gonna live here...
We were gonna live here together? Did ever?
No. =-l never did.
You never actually said you wouldn't, neither.
But I thought about you a lot,
a whole lot.
I love you.
No.
You came out here to bring the papers,
and you brought "em.
Thank you very much.
Just leave the bill on the table.
Little breeze feels kind of good, eh?
Skimmeroot!
Do you feel better now?
Yeah.
Never could resist
a little old hill to holler from.
Anytime you want to borrow my hill to holler from,
you just holler away.
As long as I got it.
Hey, do you do much?
Hollerin'?
Yeah. Or don't you need to?
Me? I'm done hollered out.
Any ideas?
Oh, yes.
Sure.
Got a lot of ideas.
A man just can't wear 2 hats.
No...
Not at the same time.
Well, what do you figure on doin' now, Dixie?
Oh, I... I don't know.
Go back to what I ran away from, I guess.
You know, there's not much else I can do.
Of course, uh, if 1 had a man...
Aw, come on, now.
Come on there.
You never tried real hard
to get a man, Dixie.
'Cause all you'd have to do
is just bat your eyelashes,
and you'd cause a stampede.
That's a fact.
Yeah.
You know, a man can always, uh...
Buy anew hat
if the one he's got don't, uh, don't fit him.
If he wants to.
Who do you think you're fooling? Yourself?
You're not fooling me.
I know you. I see all the signs.
You left me, and you're gonna leave her.
It's just a question of time.
And when you got those jumpin'-meemies of yours,
like you always do,
like I can see right now on your face,
there ain't no family, no conscience in this world
can hold you.
And you know it, don't you?
Tell me to my face I'm wrong.
Maybe you don't know me as well as you think.
Schoolmistress: Time for school, children.
Everybody in.
School's starting.
Last bell, children.
Inside.
I want Togo to school, daddy.
Oh, you do? It won't be long
till you'll be old enough to go to school.
And then you'll cryto stay home.
No. He's not gonna cry, are you, cim?
No, daddy.
No, you bet you're not. No.
Well, you look like
a real little lady, darlin...
You better hurry.
Don't want to start being late the first day.
Come on.
Well, I hope she does better than idid in school.
I was kicked out of class the first day
for hittin' the teacher on the head
with a hard-boiled egg.
I bet you did, too.
That's a fact.
Daddy, look. Huh?
They don't want me.
Man: School board's considered your request
on behalf of that Indian girl.
By unanimous decision your request has been denied.
Meeting's adjourned.
You don't expect me to keep quiet about this, do you?
You can do what you want, yancey.
Gotta tell you all you're gonna do
is make a lot of enemies for yourself.
The way I feel about this thing,
if you love the Indians so much,
you ought to make your livin' from the Indians.
You start printing a lot of nonsense about this,
and I'll pull out all my advertisements.
So will a lot of other people I know.
Man: That's right.
Good. Good.
Let's keep our children's blood pure
and their heads empty.
Jesse: Yancey! Yancey!
Yeah?
Telegram from the news service
just come in over at the depot.
What do we have here?
How 'bout that, huh?
Sabra, how about that?
"President Cleveland has just proclaimed
the opening of the cherokee strip
- September the 16th.” - The cherokee what?
6 million acres of land, 6 million.
Th... 1 mean, that little old puny run
we were on will just look like
a Sunday-school picnic.
What are you talking about?
Honey, uh, uh, honey, don't, uh,
please don't say no yet.
- No. - Please, honey.
I don't want to hear it.
Oh, come on, don't say no until...
I'm just simply not interested.
We've had a chance to maybe discuss it.
Darling, we can discuss it.
I'm not interested. Please, darling.
Please. Let's go.
And leave everything
just when we were beginning to get a little established?
For what reason go?
To start all over again with the dust and the mud
and the shooting in the street?
We have got a child now to be responsible for.
All right, I tell you what we'll do then.
All right, fine. We'll go, and we'll
sort of take a little vacation, maybe, huh?
What kind of a vacation is that?
Maybe go and look at it?
Honey, this is the most important...
This is the most important thing that's ever happened
in the whole history of the world,
I don't want to go!
And you won't even go and look at it?
And who's going to take care of cim and run the newspaper?
Well, all right.
All right, we'll take cim with us.
We'll take cim with us. And Jesse here,
Jesse's the one, he'll run the newspaper.
He's done it before.
I don't even want to discuss it.
And you get that crazy look out of your eyes.
We are not going!
And that's the end of it.
Well, I guess that's the end of it.
I guess. Huh?
Man: Come on, yancey.
We're all waitin' on you.
Are you sure you won't change your mind
and come with me?
All right, now, son,
you be real good to your mom, you hear?
Treat her real good, huh?
And I'll bring you something real nice.
Oh, come on, now. Don't look so sad.
Before you know I'm gone, I'll be back.
Make way! Make way!
Cim: I want to go with my daddy!
I want to go with my daddy!
No, no, no.
You get shoes for one of them,
you gotta get 'em for all of them.
And don't worry, sol. I'll pay ya.
When my oil well comes in, I'll pay you double.
Yeah, yeah. Take... take the shoes.
Thank you, sol.
Uh, bye, sol.
Bye.
- Bye, sabra. - Bye, Tom.
And now you.
I don't know, sabra.
You... you went to the bank,
and they wouldn't give you the money,
so now you come to me for it. Well...
What have you got to put up for security?
If I had something, I wouldn't have to come to you.
Now, listen, sabra.
Friendship is friendship,
and business is business.
If you haven't anything to put up for...
What's that?
Stem-winding clock?
I'll take the clock.
But t-that's a cheap watch.
You can buy one anywhere.
What are you talking about?
All my life,
I wanted a nice little clock like that.
You've got the loan. I've got the security.
It's adeal.
Close the door.
Where is it?
On the table.
Cim, it's for you.
For me?
Yes, yes.
Look. Look, Ruby.
It has my name on it.
It's a present to me from a...
Alaska!
And there's aletterin it, too.
I bet you anything in the world that your daddy's coming home.
I bet you anything.
Oh! What is it, a bearskin?
Oh! Yes.
A lovely bearskin.
Ooh.
It's alovely bearskin.
What am I supposed to do with that?
Now, don't be rude.
You know better than that.
It's not the gift. It's the thought that counts.
Now, be careful with the letter.
There must be aletter somewhere.
I don't see any letter.
Then it's in here.
Boy, he's big.
Cim: Boy, look at those teeth.
Oh, god, look at these claws.
Bet he was eight feet tall.
Reckon he could eat a man.
And please give my best to your husband
the next time you write to him.
Yes, I will. Thank you.
Do you expect him back soon?
Well, it's hard to say.
He's away on business, as you know,
and it's difficult
to foresee all the complications
when you're away on big business.
It must be really big
to keep a man away from home for five years.
Good evening.
Evening.
Sol.
I thought you were a masher.
I am.
Walk you home?
All right.
What do you care?
Let them talk.
I guess one more piece of gossip can't hurt me.
Me, I only wish it was true.
Sol.
Why don't you get married, hmm?
Is that a proposal?
It would be if 1 had any sense.
Ah, sense.
Already I'm finished.
Do you know what water is to fire?
That's what senseis to love.
Some people in love aren't crazy.
Love.
There's love,
and there's love.
Me, a woman might love,
but yancey, if... You'll excuse the expression,
there's a man you could love.
Hey, sol!
Oh.
Sol.
Thanks for the hat. I love it.
Isn't it alollapalooza?
I'll, uh, I'll see you later, huh?
Sol.
Well, listen. Women...
It all comes out in the wash.
How can a woman walk like that?
You think she'd be embarrassed.
Listen, you tell me every day
it pays to advertise.
Oh, no.
Sol? Hmm?
Can I ask you a favor?
You know, everything I've got.
Would you ask her, your friend...
No, don't...
You don't even know what I'm going to ask you.
What, ami stupid?
Does she know where yancey is, right? Right.
So she does know.
You have discussed it with her.
Please, sabra, don't ask for trouble.
So she does know.
Well, I'd better go and ask her myself.
Sabra! Sabra, you can't!
I bet you I can.
Sabra!
Why don't you come in here? It's quieter.
Sit down. Here?
Yeah. We can talk in here.
Well...
I had a very good reason all prepared,
an excuse for my being here,
but I don't think you'd believe me anyway.
That's good.
You seem to know me and how I operate.
You know, uh, you shouldn't get me confused
with them kind you read about in the storybooks,
you know, with a heart of gold?
If I had a heart of gold,
I'd have sold it long ago for twice what it's worth.
I guess you know essentially why I've come here.
I don't know nothin...
You want me to know something, you got to tell me straight.
I have reason to believe
that you know where my husband is.
And?
Naturally, I'd like you to tell me.
Where he is?
You're not making it any easier for me, are you?
Why should I?
Well...
I haven't heard from my husband...
I mean, I haven't heard from the man in two years.
I don't know whether he's dead or alive.
He ain't dead.
Did he write to you?
Oh, soit ain't just where he is,
you want to know if he wrote me, too.
Well, I don't think it's unnatural
that I'd be curious.
You women really puzzle me. What do you mean...
You so-called respectable women.
Don't you ever do anything or say anything
just because you want to,
not... not without worrying what people think?
I didn't know I was getting alecture, too.
Is it free?
I don't give nothing free.
Well, in that case, I'd better check the price
before you continue.
It might not be worth it to me.
Your husband's in Cuba, him and two buddies.
He joined the rough riders.
Thank you.
Is that all you want to know?
I'd like to know much more,
but I doubt if it's any of my business.
You really think that?
No! But I'm not going
to give you the satisfaction of asking.
You know, I have always wondered
how come a man like yancey
married a woman like you.
And I think
I'm beginning to understand it.
Do you know also why he left me?
Don't you?
Probably.
Well, I might as well tell you.
He didn't write me. His buddy Matt did.
That surprise you, my telling you that?
Very much.
Yeah,
kinda surprises me, too.
I doubt if I'd have told you
if the situation were reversed.
You know, I'd take him away from you
in one second ifi1 thought I could.
I'm glad you put it that way.
Oh, what a shame
you don't know the hold you've got on that man.
Oh, I'm not sure of that.
You know, all I keep thinking
is a saying I heard once
about the woman who is composed of three parts:
One part mother and one part companion
and one part...
You know...
That.
It's that third part that worries me,
and it's not because I wouldn't like to, either.
Well, I'll tell you something,
for what it's worth,
I wouldn't worry about that if I was you.
And I'm not exactly an amateur at spotting,
you know, who's got what.
You really mean that?
Yeah.
You know, that's about the nicest compliment
I've ever got.
Thank you. Good night.
Good night.
Good night. Thank you very much.
Good night.
Mrs. cravat!
Good evening, Mrs. lancey,
good evening, Mrs. kuye.
Well!
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j when Johnny comes marching home again j
hurrah, hurrah j
j da da da dum dum dum qj
go ahead, cim, find your daddy.
- Daddy! - Hurry up, Ruby!
Cim: Come on, Ruby, let's find daddy.
Daddy! Daddy, daddy!
"Welcome home, daddy!"
Sabra. Sabra, please don't be so stubborn.
The whole town
is going to be at the train to meet him.
It doesn't look nice.
I don't care how it looks.
Yancey cravat thinks he can just disappear
for five years without a single word
and then come back and find me at the station
waving a flag and carrying a welcome sign.
I don't know who he thinks he is anyway.
And how he even has the nerve to come back here,
no matter how many Spanish hills he ran up and down.
And if he thinks he can just calmly walk back into my life...
A person would have been crazy
to forgive an irresponsible, selfish...
And you? You stay right here.
Now, right here, and you don't move.
And you see what I'm going to tell him.
I want an audience.
I tell you...
Yancey's not on this end.
He ain't in there.
Well, he's gotta be.
Daddy's not on the train, uncle Jesse.
Daddy's not on the train!
All right, where is he?
He ain't on the train.
He... he didn't come back.
Sol: Are you sure?
That's him, all right. That's him all over.
You ought to have seen the faces of the committee.
Searched that train high and low.
No sign of him nowhere.
Why...
Why did...
Why did you come home?
You know, son, I... Know that I haven't been
very much of a daddy to you.
But I would like to make it up to you somehow,
if you let me.
I'd...
I'd like to make it up to both of you.
Well, you think you'll
give your old daddy another chance?
Hmm?
You know, you... You think you might
squeeze a little smile out for me?
I know I don't deserve one right now,
but perhaps you could give me
sort of an advance on one
you might decide to give me next week.
How about it, son?
Tom: Let me in!
Let me in!
It's Tom... it's Tom Wyatt.
Let me in! It's Tom Wyatt!
It's oil! Look at it,
smell it, taste it!
Oil! I hit oil!
I hit oil! Oil!
It's oil!
We're rich.
Yahoo!
Oh, no!
Well, there goes the money in the cookie jar.
Oh, my, what's so funny about that?
It's ok, mama, I'll go to college next year.
Jit is not eunny.
What do you think of all these statues, senator?
Wonderful.
Cost me $100,000 just to have them cleaned.
Sit down here, dear.
- May I help you? - Sabra.
Thank you, Tom.
Senator, here's one I got in Milan.
Call him senator.
Old windbag.
He couldn't senate my aunt Fanny.
Hors d'oeuvre, madam?
Where'd you get them from,
some little bitty midget?
When I was poor,
I used to have my sandwiches that were that thick.
But look at that.
Make half a dozen, six, seven sandwiches
out of one measly piece of bread.
- Hi, yancey. - Hey, Tom!
Tom! Folks!
Come here, Tom.
You want to hear something funny?
Say, you know why they put that Indian reservation
way out there where they did?
Because that ground...
Well, that ground was so useless,
they figured it was so worthless
that nobody would know what to do with it.
It'd just be useless.
Well, sir, those 2,000 Indians
squatting in their rags out there
are now just about the richest nation
in the whole world. Yes, sir,
they've discovered oil on the reservation.
How about that, huh?
Well, I call that divine Providence, huh, sabra?
Isn't that right, Tom?
It sure is. Wait'll they find out
I got it all sewed up.
I own every drop of oil out there.
Have a drink to my new oil field.
Come on, yancey,
I'll pour you some champagne.
No, thanks.
Come on, sabra.
Well, I just hope you're satisfied.
Every time I manage
to get us socially accepted again in this town,
you have to come along and do something again.
And you promised, too, didn't you?
If you did come, you would behave like a gentleman.
- Didn't you promise me? - Yes, yes.
What did Tom Wyatt do so terrible, huh?
He must have paid the Indians for the oil rights.
Nobody forced them to sell.
It's purely business, isn't it, hmm?
Well, I never thought of it quite that way.
I'm sure you didn't.
"Wyatt swindles Indians"?
Yancey, you're crazy.
You can't print this!
I told him I wouldn't run it off.
What's the point of having a newspaper
if you can't have some fun with it?
Dad's right, mother.
I'm not talking to you!
I'm talking to your father!
Now this is out-and-out libel!
We'll be ruined!
Jesse, I'm gonna tell you something.
You know all those Indians up there?
Do you know they're not gonna get 5 cents?
They're not gonna get one nickel
of all that oil money.
All those politicians and that Tom Wyatt.
Tom Wyatt, I tell ya.
But you can't prove it.
I know I can't. I know, sabra,
I... I...
I know that I can't prove it,
but I'm gonna tell... Son, I'm gonna tell...
They don't know that, you know...
Son, whenever you're dealing
with a bunch of crooks, know what you have to do,
I mean, if you know you're right?
Well, I'll tell ya.
You just stir up a great big fuss
like we're doing right now.
You know what happens to those crooks?
They just run. Yes, sir, they just run
just like a bunch of scared jackrabbits.
Yes, sir. I tell you
we're gonna get that Tom Wyatt out of there
and we're going to make
those Indians millionaires.
All right, give that a turn, will you, Jesse?
Turn her on.
That's it.
Yes, yes.
Look, Tom, I'm sorry.
I got my own skin to save.
Now, wait a minute, rollins.
How'd they get the news in Washington,
from some little cheap, small-town newspaper?
Washington? Every newspaper in the country
picked it up from the associated press.
Well, I ain't through yet.
You'll find there's more than one way
I can milk abullfrog.
Sabra: Yancey, look out!
Those crazy Indians.
What do they think, that they own the street?
Ah.
You'd think one of them would stop and help you
after all you've done for them.
Shh. All right, honey,
we'll just give her a little push
and we'll be in fine shape.
Fellas, would you mind giving me a hand here?
Well, I'd better walk.
I've got a civic club due in 10 minutes.
All right, dear. Here we go. Easy.
Jesse: Yancey?
- Yeah? - Yancey?
Yeah, what?
Congratulations.
Yeah, what for?
Ah, where is that durn thing?
Telegram just come in over at the office.
Thought maybe you'd like to see it.
They want you to come down to Washington,
get yourself appointed governor of the...
Oh, here it is... territory.
Well, how about that?
Must be pretty hard up for politicians
if they want to make you governor.
You're not joking there, boy.
Train leaves at 7:00 tonight.
I went around to check it for you.
Listen, Jesse, would you mind
not telling sabra about this for a while?
Why?
What do you mean why?
Maybe I don't want to be the governor.
I don't get along very good with politicians.
All I done was give you the telegram.
If you want to keep it from her,
that's your neck, not mine.
Well, I gotta get back.
Yeah.
Well, how about that?
What are you doing out here?
Just sitting out here?
I've got 23 women, they'll be here in a minute,
and you just sitting out here.
Mother...
You are supposed to be helping Jesse this afternoon.
What are you doing out here?
Did you make the salad?
You didn't make the salad?!
What are you doing? What are you wearing?
I've got the civic club due here in a minute!
Mother, it's a big Indian festival day today.
She told you about it a month ago.
What big Indian festival?
I've got 23 women that'll be here in a minute.
Did you make the pineapple and marshmallow salad
I told you to fix?
But you can't walk out and leave me like this!
Well, that... that settles it.
They've got to go.
I have put up with their insolence, with their arrogance,
even their endless brood of relatives.
But to ask me on a day like this...
You told them they could go. I heard you.
I don't like this, young man, I don't like it.
I promised I'd drive them
out to the festival.
I won't discuss it. You are not going.
If you can't keep away from that girl,
I'll simply have to get her out of the house.
Now, you go and do your work just for once,
or I'll have to talk to your father about it.
Oh.
Hello. But...
I'm Teresa gray fox. =I'm Sally crowfoot.
But she... she said...
Arita told us what to do.
I hope we've got everything the way you like it.
But marshmallow...
You... you think we got away... oh!
Oh, Sarah.
Looks like we're too early.
No, it's fine.
It's just that everybody else is a little late.
You just walk right in here.
Cim!
Hyah!
Yancey?
It's almost 3:00 in the morning.
What?
Did you wake me up to tell me that?
I want to go out and get cim.
He hasn't come home yet.
Oh, honey, leave the boy alone.
But it's almost 3:00 in the morning.
It's 3:00 in the morning, fine.
He's not a baby.
But I don't want him out there
with those Indians all the time.
I'm... I'm worried to death what's happening to that boy.
He's got no drive, no ambition at all.
And that girl, that Ruby,
I really think they're getting serious.
Well, if they are, that's just fine.
It shows he's got good taste.
Can't you see I'm worried?
Yancey...
We have got one son.
That's all we've got in this world,
and I see him drifting away from us day by day.
And it's my fault, both of us.
Oh, yancey, please,
we've got to do something about that boy.
Please, before it's too late.
- Please. - All right, all right.
You're really worried about him, aren't you?
You promised that you'd make up
for all the things you never did for him.
Well, now is the time. Please, yancey.
You see, we have got to find a way
to get him out of this town
into adifferent kind of environment entirely.
Now, I know we'll never be rich like everybody else,
but if we find money enough to... what's that?
Oh, my!
This could be the answer to everything.
You know what... what it could mean for the boy to...
To be the son of the governor?
Now, wait a minute.
It says they just want me
to come up and talk about it.
It doesn't say I've got it yet.
So you mean there's a chance you might not get it?
Oh, you women.
If you didn't have anything to worry about,
you'd worry about that.
And I'm so nervous.
Why? What have you got to be nerv...
How about that? Look here.
I guess I don't know how to act
among civilized people anymore.
You do.
Oh, look!
Yancey, look!
Mm-hmm.
We are invited to a party tonight!
Well, fine. That's fine.
Not a party, the party!
The congressional new year's Eve party.
Isn't that wonderful?
Anything else, sir?
Hmm? No.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, sir, and happy new year.
Happy new year to you, too.
Yancey, isn't that wonderful?
Yes, it is.
Sabra...
My sabra.
Happy new year, darling.
Happy new year.
Who are the Lou brothers?
Well, they're the, uh...
No, actually, no. There's only one man.
I think he's on the committee
that recommends me.
I'm not sure exactly.
What's he want to see you for right now?
Oh, beats me.
Oh, my goodness. What next here?
You think something's wrong?
Oh, I don't know if there's anything wrong or not.
I don't think so.
Tell you what I can do, though.
I can take a run upstairs
and find out what it's all about.
All right.
Suppose I do that while you, uh...
Put on your nice pretty party dress for tonight, huh?
How does that suit you?
Oh, you suit me fine.
You know something?
- Hmm? - Sabra,
you know, I got to thinking.
All that you've had to put up with from me,
being married to me all these years,
I don't know how you've...
I don't know how you've managed to do it.
You don't expect me to be noble
and deny it altogether?
I'll tell you something.
Tonight, being as it's new year's Eve,
I'm going to make a very special resolution.
You know what it is?
It's a resolution
that I'm going to try to make itup to you.
I want to try.
Hey, honey, I need a shave.
You promise me?
Aw, maybe I don't need a shave.
Yancey, would you really promise me?
Yeah. I know what you're going to say. Shh.
All right, I promise that tonight
I'll try to behave like a perfect gentleman.
I'll try.
Now, you go. You look fine,
but you can't go with a cigar.
Give it to me.
All right?
Don't be too long.
I won't.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
What? What, what, what?
Wait. Darling, I can't see. Turn around.
Honey, that's ok.
That's it. That's ok.
Ok.
Oh, we're going to be so happy.
Well, Mr. cravat, I'm Lou brothers.
Come on in, sir.
Happy new year to you.
It sure is a great honor to meet you, sir.
Oh, this is Mr. Walters.
Glad to know you.
Mr. self, Mr. greer,
and Mr. Hodges.
How do you do, sir?
You know, it's not often a man has a chance to meet
either a great newspaperman or a great American,
but here we have both right in the same person.
Yes, sir, and a great war hero, to boot.
It sure is getting deep in here.
Hl there, yancey, boy.
How was the trip?
Well, I didn't expect to see you here.
Well, that's the funny thing about this city.
Always expect the unexpected.
Yeah, so I see.
Everything all right?
Your room all right?
Oh, yeah, it's fine.
It's just fine.
Sit down. Why don't you make yourself at home?
All right.
This looks like we're getting ready
for an all-night poker session.
What are the stakes?
1 just wanted you to meet some of my friends,
some of the boys you'll be bumping into
once you get to be the governor.
Well, gentlemen, it's like the fella says.
What's good for oil is good for Oklahoma.
What's good for Oklahoma is good for the country.
What's good for the country, well, sir,
it's good for the whole wide world.
The man can't say "pass the sugar,"
without bringing tears to your eyes.
Is there anything special you'd liketo do or see
here in Washington, Mr. cravat?
I'd be more than happy to have my office
take care of the whole thing.
Uh, let me fill up your drink, governor.
Oh, hold on there, now, Tom.
I'm not the governor yet, you know.
It's just a little matter of signing your name.
Am I right, men?
If you say so, Tom.
The thing is, yancey,
you're talking to the committee right now.
Whoever we recommend will automatically get it.
Hey, are those real diamonds you got on there?
Yeah.
My, would you look at that? Two of them.
You know something,
when I see the way you've sprouted up, Tom,
my goodness. It's really something.
Yes, sir.
And I ain't forgotten my old friends, neither.
Just like I know they won't forget me.
What do you mean by that?
You sure squeeze a man
into laying it on the line, don't you?
Well, no, I wouldn't say that.
I'm just going to sort of try it out
and see what happens.
Well, uh...
Let me put it this way, yancey.
Ain't nobody gonna ask a man
to do anything out and out dishonest.
Of course not.
And at the same time,
a little cooperation...
No cooperation and no governor.
Is that it?
I guess that's about it.
I see.
It's good liquor you serve here.
Well, we'll see, Tom.
We'll see.
Happy new year, gentlemen.
- Happy new year. - Happy new year, yancey.
Oh, my!
I can't get over it.
1 just can't get over it!
My husband is going to be the governor,
and I'm dancing!
Oh, come. Let's dance again, please.
I want to swing around and around
and around and around.
Oh, yancey, I'm dizzy.
I was so afraid you'd disappoint me.
I didn't even want to think about it,
you're getting made governor,
because every time
I used to count on something,
I'd only get disappointed,
but this time... this time...
When I really didn't... Didn't think of it...
Oh, yancey, I want you to know
how grateful I am
for what you do for cim and me.
Yancey...
Sabra.
Sabra, there's something
I've got to tell you about.
I can't do it, sabra.
I can't. I'm sorry.
I know I promised them. I gave them my word,
and I'm going back on that word,
but I just can't go through with it.
I wanted to be governor for you and for cim
more than anything else in the whole world,
but I can't.
So that's the end of it?
I'm sorry I have to disappoint you
once more, my darling,
but I can't do it.
No.
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All right. That's the end of it!
Sabra.
What do you want me to say?
How am I going to go back and tell everybody
you didn't get it?
I keep on watching everybody getting
richer and richer.
We don't even have the money
to get our own son out of trouble!
You talk as though the only thing
we've got to do for our son
is give him a big enough bank account
and everything will be all right.
No, sabra, no.
We can't live his life for him, sabra,
and we can't expect him
to live our lives for us.
Yancey, I have forgiven you a lot.
More, really, than I should have,
but I'm telling you now,
if you disappoint us in this,
I'm through.
I'm just through!
Don't say that, sabra.
If you can't for your own son,
you are selfish.
Can't you ever do anything for anybody except yourself?
Don't say that. Don't say that, sabra.
Please don't.
Go on. Go on!
Go away from me!
Leave me alone forever!
But eight stories.
I know what I'm doing. We need it.
You what?
At least we will need it.
$200,000.
That's... that's a lot of money, sabra.
I mean, you want to expand, all right.
Build yourself a little building,
but that's a lot of money.
Didn't I always pay you back before?
Before. Before, before, before I loaned you $500, $600,
but $200,000...
What can you put up for security?
Tom: Real good dinner, sabra. I enjoyed it.
Sorry I have to rush off like this,
but you know how it is. Business before pleasure.
Will you listen to that old fool talk?
Tom: Oh, now, Sarah.
High muckety-muck talk. That's all that is. Just talk.
Ah, second childhood.
I'll second childhood you in about two minutes,
and you knowiit, too.
You know who I miss? I miss old yancey,
the ornery old son of a gun.
Remember the time he picked us up,
the day we were on our way to the starting line?
If we're going to go, let's go, you old tomcat.
Well, we'll be seeing you.
In a couple of months we get back from Paris, France.
Have a good trip.
- Bye, now. - Take care of yourself.
I will.
Hiya, boy!
- Good evening, Mr. Wyatt. - Hiya, Ruby.
Mrs. Wyatt.
Tom: My dear.
Hello, mother.
Tom: It was a good meal, wasn't it?
Mother, I've... Why didn't you call
and let me know you weren't coming home for dinner?
That's the least you could've done.
No? Let me know? You knew we had guests.
Dinner was arranged accordingly.
So impolite.
Mother.
Well?
Ruby and I have gotten married.
I know we should've told you before,
but I knew what your attitude would be.
Well...
What am I supposed to do now?
Am I supposed to kiss you
and tell you how happy I am?
No.
We're leaving tonight.
I've got a job.
It's in Oregon.
Mother.
We did want to say good-bye.
You needn't have bothered.
If you go, you go.
There's nothing to talk about.
If you want to throw your life away,
then you just go ahead and do it,
like your father did before you.
You want to go?
Then go.
Aha!
What are you doing here so late, huh?
We've been looking all over for you.
How are you, sabra?
We just came from your home and everyplace.
Oh, I've been trying to dream up
something special to say about
the anniversary issue tomorrow.
So far all I've got is a big fat blank.
Sabra, this is Jacob krubeckoff,
the famous sculptor.
I'm very honored.
How do you do, Mr. krubeckoff?
He's the best there is.
Half a million is nothing to ask
for his stuff.
He wouldn't even pick up a chisel
for a quarter of a million.
My work, I'm afraid, doesn't depress him
half as much as my price.
Oh, dear, Mr...
The thing is, sabra,
you know I'm building a university.
With all the children I've got,
it's cheaper to build one
than to send them all to college.
Well, anyhow, I hired Mr. krubeckoff here
something that stands for the Oklahoma pioneer.
And we got to talking and we all decided,
the whole committee,
that nobody stood for the spirit of the pioneer
like you did.
So that's how come we wanted Mr. krubeckoff
to kind of talk to you and all,
and we thought maybe you'd pose
and everything for him.
- Am I right, sol? - Yeah. Yes, yes.
You know, something nice,
like you and the little boy
in acovered wagon.
Something nice. Very simple.
But you are out of your mind.
I haven't decided yet
what should be the best to represent whatever it is,
the spirit, but, uh,
I would appreciate maybe you'd talk to me.
Talk.
I'm afraid they have given you
the wrong idea.
I was just sitting here thinking,
as a matter of fact, you know,
nothing really has turned out
the way I thought it would.
My son, he... that's my son...
My son, he had to run away to get married
to do what he wanted to do.
They won't live
in the same state with me.
He won't even write me a letter
once in a while.
And my husband...
This is my husband...
He had to run away, too.
I haven't heard from him
in about 10 years.
And... and the newspaper.
What's the newspaper?
The newspaper! Oh, my dear.
I've made it bigger, louder,
more profitable.
Yes, I have made it more profitable.
But it hasn't got the spirit it had
when my husband was here.
But, sabra, please. I mean, this whole thing is...
And that's what you want,
to symbolize the spirit
of the pioneer with me? Oh, Tom.
Oh, this is very sweet of you...
What sabra means is...
He knows what I mean, don't you?
Look, let's all go out
and have a cup of coffee.
I have no time. No. I'm sorry.
You've got the editorial?
No, I haven't got the editorial.
I'm trying to squeeze out
something... something at least,
so please forgive me.
Look, this will take five minutes.
The newspaper will not run away.
You will have a cup of coffee.
Oh, you might as well go ahead.
They've waited this long for the copy.
Coffee will make us all think.
You are out of your mind,
all of you. What's come...
What's come over you?
You know what I ought to run tomorrow
in place of the editorial?
I was just thinking about it before.
We just go down for a cup of coffee.
A wonderful woman told me once...
Remember her, sol, Jesse?
Her name was Mrs. pegler,
and she told me... It was on the day
her husband got killed in the land rush...
“It's not worth it," she told me.
"I'm a woman," she said.
"Where are my children?
I'm a woman," she said. "Where is my man?
It's not worth it," she said.
I'm beginning to think that she was...
You...
And you!
And you, too.
Congratulations, mother.
Oh, darling.
Congratulations.
Thank you. Oh.
I'm afraid two of your honored guests
are just a little sleepy.
You brought the children, too?
Yes. Where are they?
Over there.
Come with me.
Oh, arita, arita.
Oh, arita.
Oh, hello.
Hello.
- Hello. - Cim: Mother.
Oh!
Hi
Oh, do you remember when itold you
to stick with it?
Do you remember that day when I told you...
Oh, she wanted to give up,
and I told her,
"you stick with it, little lady."
Oh, you...
And she's made something.
You said...
No, no, no, no. Speech! Speech!
Speech! Speech!
Tom, you make a speech.
You are the speaker.
Speech.
Well, I feel...
I'm afraid I feel like a fraud standing here.
If it hadn't been for so many people
like Mrs. pegler,
there wouldn't have been an Oklahoma wigwam at all.
Hmm? And Jesse, who got us started,
and sol, who kept us going
through all the mean and ugly years,
both spiritually and financially. Oh, yes.
And most of all, you were looking
for the spirit of the pioneer.
Well, his spirit is here tonight.
God only knows where his ornery self is.
And you all know who I mean.
It's easy enough to drudge along and...
Clinging on to something somebody else has created,
and that's all I've done,
just to survive,
but the leaders, the true pioneers,
they are rare and hard to come by.
Sometimes even harder to understand.
And almost never appreciated untilit's too late.
But such a man was my husband...
No, I don't mean was. I mean is,
because every time I hear a sudden noise
or see an unexpected shadow, I hold my breath,
waiting for my yancey to burst in on me
and pick me up and...
And pick up the conversation
exactly where he left it 10 years ago.
Well, I hope he still can pick me up,
the weight I've put on.
Oh, my god!
Yancey: "My darling sabra,
I can just hear you now
accusing me of chasing excitement again,
but I feel sure America is bound to get into this thing
sooner or later,
and I had to get into it as soon as I could.
And don't ask me why.
I guess somebody's got to.
For 11 years, I've been trying to write
this letter to you.
When I think of all the things you've given me
and how little I've given you...
How does a man sayto a woman he loves
I apologize for loving you?"
Yancey: We just got to be patient with each other,
that's all.
Sabra: Yes, I just...
I just love you so much.
Oh.
What if it's a girl baby?
A girl? Yancey would send her right back!
I bet he would.
He's part of the history, a man like that.
We'll be proud of him.
Around and around and around and around.
Listen, I need you
far more than you need me.
You help me.
Yancey.
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