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distinguished stars Claire Trevor and Randolph Scott in Stagecoach.
The production which in the category of best picture of the year was nominated for the
1939 Academy Award.
Oh, come on, dork on it, messy, sandy, blacky, pull, your sons are guns, pull.
This is the story of a trip by Stagecoach in the early days of the West.
By Stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona to Lordsburg, Arizona.
A few miles today by car or train, an epic journey in those frontier days shortly after
the Civil War.
This is the story of those who drove and those who rode that Stagecoach from Tonto to Lordsburg
on this day.
It is mostly though the story of a bad man of the trail and a girl who thought she was
too bad to marry him.
Come on, you lazy critters, we'll never get to dry fork.
Back the way you've been croaking, I figure you're plumb scared of Geronimo and his Apaches.
Well, of course I'm scared of Geronimo, so are you.
And if we didn't have all these soldiers riding with us, I'd go right back to Tonto.
I've been thinking about you too, Curly.
Me, what for?
Well, it's right funny you trailing the ring, old kid.
I thought he was in the pen.
He was.
Busted out?
Yep, I hear that he was busting to get to Lordsburg to get even with the plumber boys.
But I aim to find the kid and put him back in the pen where he belongs.
Hey, ain't that a feller standing along the trail ahead?
Yep, seems to be, better slow down, buck.
Give me room to swing my gun.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, wonder who he is.
I don't remember no puncher being along this way.
You're a United States Marshal, Curly.
You ought to know him.
Hey, pull up careful.
He ain't got no horse.
He's carrying his saddle in one hand and holding a Winchester in the other.
Well, I'm sure glad he ain't Geronimo or the ring, old kid, that's all.
Give me room, buck.
It is a Ringo kid.
I'm sure glad it is.
What?
Hello, kid.
Ain't you from home?
You mean prison, don't you, Curly?
Well, I didn't expect you to be riding shotgun this trip, going to Lordsburg.
I figured you'd be in Lordsburg by this time.
Lame horse.
Got any room in the coach, buck?
Well, I reckon so, Ringo.
Then you got another passenger.
You're downright we have.
I'll take that Winchester, kid.
I ain't going to argue about it, Curly, but I just hate to part with a gun like this.
I guess you don't understand, Ringo.
You're under arrest.
Won't do you no good to monkey with that rifle, kid.
We got a cavalry escort coming up behind.
Well, what do you know?
I guess it's all right.
Here's the gun, Curly.
Thanks.
Now, just get in the coach and make yourself to home.
All right, come on, Charney.
Give me up there, Cogs.
Come on.
You say something, Curly?
Nope.
Oh, excuse me.
Well, why don't you say something?
A man gets nervous sitting here like a mummy thinking about Indians.
Go say something.
You've been talking all day without making no sense.
Well, dog, go on and hear something that makes sense.
You've been peeking down back into the coach and I've seen the Ringo kid making eyes at
Dallas, and she's making eyes at him.
That's rich.
The Ringo kid and Dallas the dance ball gal.
Some match.
He breaks out of jail and she gets kicked out of town.
Oh, my.
Can I help you down, Miss Dallas?
Pretty high step.
Thanks.
Oh, just a minute.
Yes?
I just wanted to thank you for smiling at me in the coach.
Smiling at you?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, well, that isn't anything.
Yes, it is to a fellow who's been in jail, it is.
Well, I appreciate it, Miss Dallas.
You see, the others, except Doc Boone, they were kind of upish, not that I blame them.
Oh, I guess they don't mean to be.
Oh, I guess not.
Only I, well, I noticed sort of that they acted kind of that way to you, too.
Oh, well, yes, I guess they did.
I didn't mean nothing by what I said.
If I said something that offends, I, well, I'm sorry.
I'm not offended.
I didn't get a chance to get acquainted with the folks on the stage.
You know who they are?
Yes.
That's Mrs. Mallory standing there.
She's on her way to join her husband, Captain Mallory of the cavalry.
You know Doc.
Mm-hmm.
And the man with the white hair in the little traveling bag is Mr. Gatewood, the banker
from Tonto.
The dark tall man is Hatfield, the gambler.
And the little wheezing man is Mr. Peacock.
He's a whiskey salesman.
Thanks.
I guess that covers everybody, except you.
Me?
Yeah, sure.
You're such a pretty gal to be traveling alone.
You counting on meeting a husband somewhere along the line?
Husband?
No, I hadn't.
No, I have no husband.
Good.
I feel better, Dallas.
Dallas, mind if I call you that?
No.
No, I don't mind.
Hey, you!
Ringo!
Come on in here where I can keep an eye on you.
Why, sure, Curly.
After you, ma'am.
Land sakes, what are you folks doing here?
Howdy, Maggie.
Where's the soldiers with Stametus?
Ain't no soldiers except those that come with you.
Billy and me didn't expect no stagecoach coming through with them Apaches raising cane.
We was just figuring on hitching up the buckboard and going into Tonto where it's safe.
You mean there are no troops here?
But my husband, Captain Mallory.
I was told he was here.
He was, dearie.
Got orders night before last to join the soldiers at Apache Wells.
Well, I guess we gotta turn back.
See here, you're the station agent.
This coach started for Lordsburg and it's your duty to get us there.
Mercy, mister.
I'm just an agent.
Ask the driver.
If the soldiers gotta go back, we all gotta go back.
Um, yes.
I think, that is, I feel, we should all go back.
I think we can get through all right, Curly.
Well, settle this by vote.
Folks, if we push on, we can be in Apache Wells by sundown.
Soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry and then it's only a hoot and
a holler into Lordsburg.
Oh, wait a minute.
We got four men can handle guns.
Five with you, Ringo.
Doc Boone can shoot if sober.
As far as slander, Curly.
By when I was in training in 61 to put down the rebellion in the south.
Later on, Doc.
Later on.
Now, Mrs. Mallory, I don't aim to put no lady into danger without your votes for it.
I've traveled all the way here from Virginia.
I'm determined to get to my husband.
I won't be separated any longer.
What's your vote, mister?
Where's your manners, Curly?
Ain't you gonna ask this lady first?
Huh?
Oh, well, what do you say?
What difference does it make?
What does it matter?
I demand that we go on.
I stand on my legal rights.
We'll count that as a vote.
What do you say, Hatfield?
To Lordsburg.
If Mrs. Mallory can go, I can.
In fact, it's my duty as a gentleman to protect her.
You, Doc?
Aye, sir.
I'm not only a philosopher, I'm also a fatalist.
Somewhere, sometime, there may be the right bullet or the wrong bottle waiting for Josiah
Boone.
Why worry where or when?
Yes or no.
Having this wisdom, sir, I have always courted danger.
During the late war, when I had the honor, sir, to serve the Union under our great President
Abraham Lincoln...
Do you wanna go back?
No!
Mr. Peacock, you.
But I, um, I would like to go, brother.
I want to reach the bosom of my dear family.
But I may never reach the bosom if we go on.
Uh, brother, I think it best we should go back to the bosom.
I mean, the soldiers.
May Ringo and Buck vote to go on and that settles it.
So you better all wash and have a bite to eat, folks.
Then we'll hit the trail again.
Good.
Set right in, folks.
It's hot and ready.
Another delay.
Boy, I'm hungry.
Boy, I could eat a coyote.
Later on.
Get out there and hitch up.
Here, Dallas, you're going down where no folks are sitting.
Take this chair right by Miss Mallory.
Oh, but I...
Well, thank you.
I think, Mrs. Mallory, you would find it cooler at the other end of the table near the window.
I'm sure I would.
Thank you, Mr. Hatfield.
I think I'd find it cooler there, too.
Well, it looks like I got the plague, don't it?
Oh, no.
No, it's not you.
Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society the same week.
I'm pretty dumb for sitting down with a lady like you.
Thanks again for being kind to me, not moving away like they did.
Oh, no.
Please.
You don't understand.
I...
Would you have the bread, ma'am?
Oh, Mrs. Mallory, are you ill?
No, it's just...
I'll be all right.
You're very kind.
Why?
In the world I live in, one doesn't often see a lady, Mrs. Mallory.
But they say you are a gambler.
Yes, my dear.
I guess I am.
Have you ever been to Virginia, Mr. Hatfield?
I had the honor of being in your father's regiment.
Oh?
But I don't seem to recall the name of Hatfield.
It's what I'm called now.
Everybody up!
Come on, folks.
Next stop, Apache Wells!
Oh, oh, baby, oh!
Apache Wells, hold out, folks.
We gotta change horses.
You yelled that the last time.
Well, Shooks, I know it.
I gotta yell something, don't I?
You want them to think we're stopping for Indians?
Get the folks to back, Chris, while we change horses.
We're pushing right through to Lordsburg.
Ay, you come without the soldiers?
Sure, we wasn't scared.
Never seen an Apache, did we, Curly?
Where's the cavalry, Chris?
Yeah, where is the soldier?
There is no soldiers.
The soldiers are gone.
My husband.
Where's Captain Mallory?
Where is he?
You his wife, I think.
Yes, where is he?
Did he go with his men?
Sí, señora.
A little, what you call it, scoundrel.
With the Apaches last night, the soldiers take Captain Mallory to Lordsburg.
I think he get hurt.
Hurt?
Bad.
Yes.
Mrs. Mallory, let me.
Oh, Mrs. Mallory, she's faint.
Ah, carrier should be all right.
Get some water, somebody.
Take her in, Curly, put her to bed.
To bed?
Well, we gotta get hitched and on the trail for Lordsburg.
What does that one say?
It's a good idea.
We're gonna get hitched.
We're gonna get hitched.
We're gonna get hitched.
We're gonna get hitched.
We're gonna get hitched.
We're gonna get hitched.
We're gonna get hitched.
Well, the trail for Lordsburg.
Put that woman to bed.
Yeah, Peacock, take this bottle of whiskey.
Got it with your life until I'm finished.
Here, I got the water, Curly.
Take the water in the kitchen with Dallas.
Boil it, boil plenty of it.
Boil it?
But, Doc, it's about 200 in the shade right now.
I said boil water.
Plenty of water.
Look, here you, sot, what are you trying to do?
I've got to get to Lordsburg.
You'll get to Lordsburg.
when that woman is fit to travel again.
Again? Well, what's the matter with her?
She's gonna have a baby.
Now, come on, help get me sober.
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In just a moment, we'll present the second part of Stagecoach.
But first, we want to thank United Artists and Walter Wanger
for making this story available.
You'll be interested to know that Walter Wanger's next production is Night in Paradise,
which can soon be seen in your local theater.
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And now, the House of Squib presents Part Two of Academy Award,
starring Claire Trevor as Dallas and Randolph Scott as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach.
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What was that?
Just an old coyote, Hatfield.
That was no coyote. Listen.
No, that wasn't no coyote.
Why? It's a baby.
Then that's enough of a card playing for me tonight.
Looks like Doc brought it off all right. Good boy, Doc.
Well?
It's a girl.
A girl? Well, three cheers for old Doc Boone.
Hup, hup!
Shh, shh, shh. Quiet. Mrs. Mallory must not be disturbed.
How is Mrs. Mallory?
She's gonna be all right.
Well, dog on. And I thought that little critter was a coyote howlin'.
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Who's there?
You oughtn't go too far, Miss Dallas.
The Patchers like to sneak up and pick off strays.
Oh.
I, uh, I watched you with that baby.
You look, well, nice.
Oh, uh, you a vistan in Lordsburg?
No, I, I have friends there.
Look, why don't you escape, Ringo? Why don't you escape?
I aim to, Miss Dallas, in Lordsburg.
Why Lordsburg? Why don't you get over the border?
My father and brother were shot down by the Plumbers.
I guess you don't know how it feels to lose your own folks that way.
My people were killed by the Indians.
I was just a kid.
There was a massacre in the Superstition Mountains.
Hmm. That's tough on a girl.
It's a hard country.
You have to live, no matter what happens.
Yeah, that's it.
Look, Dallas, you got no folks, neither have I.
Maybe I'm crazy to ask you, but...
Well, I still got a ranch across the border.
It's a nice place. Trees, grass, a house half built.
You see, I'm asking...
Well, what I mean is...
A man could live there. And a woman.
Oh, I guess I'm crazy being so, so close to you like this.
But you don't know me.
You don't know who I am, what I am.
I know all I want to know.
You're the kind of a girl a man wants to marry.
What you doing out here, kid?
Oh, it's you, Dallas.
You come along, kid. Stick close to the reservation.
Time we've been it down, too.
We've got to hit the trail come on in early.
Geronimo or no Geronimo!
Well, good morning, Dallas.
Oh, Doc.
Fine morning.
I hear you stayed up all night with my patient. Thanks.
I slept some in the rocker.
Hey, hoi, everybody up!
It's your breakfast, folks. The stagecoach is leaving on its last clamp.
Next stop, Lordsburg. Everybody up!
It's about time.
Oh, morning. Good morning.
I laid awake most of the night,
wondering what you'd have said if Curly hadn't busted in.
You didn't answer what I asked you last night.
Ringo, why don't you escape?
There's a horse out there on the corral.
Curly won't go after you.
He can't leave the passengers in this fix.
But I got to go to Lordsburg.
Won't you go to my ranch and wait for me?
Wait for a dead man?
You haven't got a chance and you know it.
It was three against one when the plumber swore you killed the foreman.
It'll be three against one in Lordsburg.
There's some things a man just can't run away from.
How can you talk about your life and my life when you're throwing him away?
What do you want me to do?
Would it make us any happier if Luke Plummer was dead?
One of his brothers would be after you with a gun. We'd never be safe.
I don't want that kind of life, Ringo.
I don't see what else I can do.
Go now. Get away.
Forget Lordsburg. Forget the Plumbers.
Make for the border and I'll come.
You mean that?
I do, I do.
Won't you come along with me?
I can't leave Mrs. Mallory and her baby.
I'll come to you from Lordsburg, I swear it.
I ought to have my rifle.
I got it for you last night.
Now go on, Ringo. Saddle up and ride.
Ride for the border.
Ringo, get him up.
Ringo, ride, ride. Don't stop now.
Get off that horse.
Why did you stop? You had a chance.
Curly couldn't have caught you.
I couldn't leave you now, Dallas.
Give me your hands, kid. I'm putting the irons on you this time.
You don't have to, Curly. I'm not running away.
I'll say you ain't.
Look at them hills.
Smoke signals.
Listen.
War drums.
Geronimo's Apaches.
Right. Waitin'.
Come on.
Oh, go on it, Curly.
Seems to me we're doing something mighty foolhardy.
Trying to run through these hills and them full of engines.
We don't know they are yet. Keep running.
Hey, come on.
Oh, run, you're going in. Run.
Hey, Curly, don't you think you ought to take the cuffs off Ringo?
He's mighty handy with a gun.
You drive them horses, I'll worry about the kid.
Right, all right.
Come on, boys. Hey, run.
Curly, look. There they are. Indians.
Shut up and drive them horses.
We gotta run for it now.
Oh, no.
Hold fast and play. I'm out of ammunition.
So am I, Doc. I've got three rounds.
Save him.
Dallas, haven't you got a smile for me?
Oh, sure, Ringo. Sure.
Thanks.
Ringo, bucks head, get out there and lead the horse.
Right. So long, Dallas.
Wait. Wait, Dr. Parrott.
Yeah, what, ma'am?
A muggle. A cavalry.
Let me see. She's right. Soldiers from Lordsburg.
Ringo! Oh, Ringo!
All out, folks. Lordsburg, last stop.
Hold it, Buck. You all right?
Sure, sure, Curly. Just a scratch. Whoa, girl. Whoa.
Now this is the end of the line.
Watch it, boys. Mrs. Mallory's a sick woman.
Get a stretcher. Take it easy.
We got a dead man in there, too.
Where's Mrs. Mallory?
She's all right.
Well, tell her her husband, Captain Mallory, is out of danger.
Tell the captain he ain't. He's a papa.
Well, so long, Dallas.
So long, boys.
Well, Curly, we're in Lordsburg.
Yeah, kid, this is it.
Could you spare me an hour?
Oh, I don't know, kid.
My well still goes, Curly. I'll be back in an hour.
All right, kid, I'll trust you.
Could I take my gun?
Sure, why not? It ain't loaded.
I borrowed three shells from Gatewood.
Three?
One for each of the plumber boys, huh?
Yes, Buck, one for each of them.
You're out on parole for an hour, Ringo.
That's all I want to know about it. One hour.
Wait, Dallas, ain't you walking the wrong way?
This way is the bad side of town, the dance halls and the...
Dallas, wait.
Let go. Let go of me.
I told you not to follow me.
But you can't go down there.
That's where I'm going.
I ask you to marry me.
I'll never forget you asked me, Ringo, at something.
See them scars? Handcuffs.
Scars wear off, Dallas.
I ain't gonna give you a chance to forget me.
No, please, Ringo, let me go now.
Señor, Señor Ringo, listen.
They are waiting around the turn of the road.
Thanks, amigo, thanks. I'll be ready.
No, Ringo, no.
Wait for me here, Dallas. Wait for me right here. I'll be back.
Ringo, come back. Come back.
Dog-horn it, Curly. I got corns on my driving seat.
Now we gotta sit on this buck barred. What for?
Shut up, Buck. We're waiting for Ringo.
That's gonna be some wait with them three plumber brothers allaying for him three against one.
Shut up.
She's waiting, ain't she?
Dallas? Well, heck, Curly, she's gotta wait.
She's in love.
Look, them shadders. Three of them.
I see them. The plumbers.
Them big shadders, Curly.
Shut up. I'm looking for the other shadder.
There it is. That's him, Curly. That tall shadder. Strange as an arrow.
Dallas.
What?
He said to wait.
Wait? Yeah. I'll be waiting forever now.
What chance would he have? What?
Ringo.
Oh, Ringo.
Hello, Dallas. I told you I'd be back for a little while.
Ringo, your arm, it's soaked with blood.
Get up here, Dallas, on this wagon. You gotta drive.
You mean she can stay with me a while, Curly?
Yeah, for a little while. Let her drive. You nurse that arm.
Thanks.
Got a good hold on them reins, Dallas?
Yes, Curly. I've got them.
All right, then.
Get down! Get down!
Now, what's the idea of making them horses run away?
Don't be so dumb, Buck.
Them nags won't stop till that buck board is over the border.
But you'll let Ringo get away.
Yeah, Buck. I guess I did it that.
Now, wasn't that disgraceful careless?
Why, Curly, you ain't such a bad hombre after all.
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Stagecoach was written for radio by Frank Wilson with an original musical score
composed and conducted by Leith Stevens.
Our producer director is Dee Engelbach.
Randolph Scott, whom you enjoyed as Ringo in today's performance,
can now be seen in RKO's Batman's Territory.
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