Gangsters of the Frontier (1944)

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Measurements: black-and-white film on its keyframes (0 of 483 shots judged colour), average shot 6.8s long, a frontal face detected in 18% of keyframes. Shots are detected automatically and each is represented by its midpoint frame.

Transcript

Machine transcription of the Archive copy's audio with Whisper large-v3-turbo (temperature 0); the model heard it as en. 409 segments kept, 284 dropped as the kind of hallucination the model produces over music and silence. Each timestamp links to the Archive's player at that second. This has not been checked against the film and can be wrong.

0:00 Space Party!
2:40 Oh, my God.
2:42 I'm
2:44 Oh, my God.
3:17 It's been all of five years, Tech, since you hung those guns up there.
3:21 Seems like only yesterday when you were sheriff of Red Rock.
3:24 And now you'll probably move out of your law office and be the next territorial governor.
3:29 Yes, sir.
3:30 For years, we've had peace.
3:32 and prosperity.
3:33 Ever since Tex here captured the Kern boys and sent them to prison.
3:37 You're not behind bars now.
3:40 We're here.
3:42 Keep your hands on top of the table. All of you.
3:50 You took these guns away from us once.
3:53 I wish they'd come away from you.
4:09 You're going to cash in, Texane.
4:11 And so is everybody else around here that don't do what we say.
4:15 From now on, we're ruling.
4:17 By right of might, I'm afraid you're wrong.

389 more segments

5:17 I'm out.
5:31 They ain't shooting at you, Homer. I'm the fiduciary.
5:55 I'm out.
6:56 Well... Well... Hey, Wyatt, you old Scalaway. See, how's all my friends at the ranger station? Well, fine, Penn, but they kind of miss you.
7:14 Hey, the remodel is coming this way.
7:16 I
7:27 Hey, what's that?
7:28 Homer?
7:29 Homer? Mm-hmm.
7:30 Homers panhandles carry a pigeon.
7:33 You see, Panhandle works for this telegraph company. Longs for Jane Deering.
7:37 Did belong to her before the Karen boys took over.
7:41 Well, if you're working for a telegraph company, what are you packing that thing around for?
7:45 Hey, looks like a message tied to his foot. It is. That's a call for help.
7:50 Panhandle doesn't trust this telegraph contraption he works for. He says it isn't practical. It'll never be a success. That's why he's keeping Homer. That's right.
7:58 Someday that telegraph's gonna break down.
8:01 then i'll send this page into the relay station to get help
8:06 Hey, that's my horse heading for the barn.
8:08 I'm going to go.
8:10 Oh, you want to try to make it? Yeah.
8:14 Off the back way.
8:16 Oh, fuck.
8:18 I'm going to go.
8:38 Where do you think you're going? In that telegraph office. Oh, no, you're not. Oh, yes, I am. That company belongs to me. Not anymore, I don't.
8:53 Oh!
9:03 I'm going to go to the next one.
9:10 Come on.
9:12 If he gets a chance to yell, we're sunk.
9:15 Let's give him the Texas shuttle.
9:30 He must have been mighty tired, Mr. Merrick. He went right to sleep.
9:34 Yeah.
9:35 I hope my wife is all right.
9:53 Oh, Mrs. Merritt, I'm so glad you're here. My husband and I were in town. We got separated.
9:58 Oh, don't worry. He'll be along soon.
10:01 Have you seen Tex?
10:03 Sam Turner was just behind.
10:05 The text got captured in town.
10:12 There you are.
10:14 You can't see nothing.
10:15 You can't hear nothing and you can't say nothing. Boy, you'd have been a wiser monkey if you'd have stayed out of here.
10:20 See, if one of them can know it's in here, it won't be long when we'll have them powered up like cordwood over there.
10:32 Hey, what do you suppose they're doing with all those prisoners?
10:34 Same as they did before. The last time the Kern gang took over this town, they grabbed off ranches.
10:39 cattle, crops, and even gold mines. I spent almost a year working for them in my own mine.
10:44 Well, I was there when Tex rounded him up.
10:47 And now they're doing the same thing again.
10:50 When Barton Rad escaped I was sent out to bring him in.
10:54 You've been following them a long way across the country, huh? Yeah, sir.
10:57 That's the first time I met up with him.
10:59 Now it's my job to put them back behind bars.
11:03 I'm a great believer in the strength of unit today.
11:07 I kind of feel we should handle this thing together.
11:10 It's a much bigger job than it was the last time when I did it alone. Now, look here, Dave. You do like Texas.
11:16 It ain't gonna do no good just hanging them guns back on the wall unless we round up every outlaw in this territory.
11:23 I'm agreed.
11:24 We'll work together. Fine. That makes four of us.
11:27 Hey, we're beginning to look like a crowd. Well, maybe we are a crowd, but we ain't big enough to attack that Kern gang.
11:37 I'm going to go.
11:45 They're coming in here to bed on their horses.
11:53 Oh.
11:53 I'm not.
11:57 That's that mountain canary Haines. I recognize his voice. Let's get it. By the glow of the...
12:06 candles.
12:07 like
12:08 All clear? Yeah.
12:16 Open the door and wait. All right.
12:18 - Good luck.
12:27 There's more coming. We can't get out for the horses. What are we going to do about it? We're not going to leave them. Come on.
12:33 Please remember me. Darling, I still love you.
12:43 Though I'm far away, darling, will you wait for me? All right, canary reach.
12:53 I'll be home someday. That's one voice that won't fool us again.
13:03 Did you kill him? No. There was nothing but a voice on a wax wheel, so I busted it.
13:07 Ah!
13:21 Pat!
13:24 Have you seen my husband?
13:27 He's safe, Mrs. Merritt.
13:29 He will be if I can figure some way of getting them out of that barn.
13:38 All right.
13:59 I thought you said you busted that thing. Well, I did. Still going.
14:11 Wait a minute.
14:13 That ain't no gramophone, that's him.
14:16 I
14:19 The Remember Me.
14:24 They're gone.
14:29 Oh, my God.
14:33 I'm
14:35 Darling, will you wait for me?
14:42 I'm
14:45 Soon the sun will shine again.
14:49 Clouds will drip away.
15:04 Oh, my God.
15:13 I'm going to go.
15:17 I'm sorry.
15:19 I
15:26 I
15:54 Hold on.
15:56 I'm I do you think you're going.
16:11 I'm not...
16:14 Brad Larkin and the hog tied him in the barn. And knocked off Torrin when we drove him out.
16:19 You know, I had a dead beat on that ranger. Oh.
16:23 And my gun, Miss Fard.
16:24 Who was with him? We got Frank Mara.
16:28 Well...
16:29 We didn't take these guns off the wall for nothing.
16:32 We'll teach them a lesson.
16:34 For every one of our boys, we'll get plenty of them.
16:38 I'm not.
16:40 I'm going to go.
17:05 What's up?
17:06 Ah!
17:08 Come on.
17:16 I
17:19 I
17:25 You better take a last look at your cabin, Harriet. You won't be seeing it for a long time.
17:42 Oh.
17:51 Uh-huh.
17:52 You saw what happened to your husband.
17:55 He got a bad case of lead poisoning. Caught it from the company he was keeping.
17:59 And that's what'll happen to the rest of the men around here, unless you persuade them to tell their men folks to work for us.
18:06 I'll tell them what to do.
18:28 Homer, I sure hope there's some folks at that relay station.
18:37 I'm going to go.
18:58 Like somebody's trying to talk to you.
19:18 Hey, I'd send you, Homer, if you could talk, but I'm saving you for a special call for help. I ain't gonna get caught in the woods with my socks down. Oh, Jim.
19:35 As long as you work for me, you men ain't got nothing to worry about.
19:39 You're going to be well paid.
19:41 I'm setting up a printing press right now to run off some new territorial money.
19:45 Now you can climb down.
19:51 I.
19:57 Oh, my God.
20:00 Why didn't you answer my call? I tried to, Panhandle, but you didn't hear me. Well, maybe I pulled out mistakes too soon. See, I saw them Kern boys kill Merritt. They had some others in the wagon. Looked like it was going to meet the same fate.
20:11 This ain't no use trailing, Dave. This ain't no one man's job.
20:16 Frankly, I don't know what else we can do.
20:18 Talk to a lot of ranchers, and they're all scared to death to join us. I don't understand this.
20:23 The ranchers seem to think the easiest way out is to work with the outlaws.
20:26 Well, some of the folks refused to work.
20:29 Shows everybody hasn't lost their fighting spirit. Maybe not, but when they quit, they lost their bread and butter.
20:34 Sometimes there are things that are more important than bread and butter. Just what, for instance? The right to think for yourself.
20:42 Do what you want to do.
20:45 After the Kern boys had their way... Yeah, why?
20:49 Well, you'd be working for them.
20:51 And if you tried to quit, they'd shoot you. Well, I'll make it better than you're out of here. I don't want to get shot.
20:57 Hey.
20:58 What am I worrying about? I ain't working for them.
21:01 Not yet.
21:03 What are we going to do, Texas?
21:04 Our forefathers decided that far some years ago.
21:09 This is a free country.
21:12 Where nobody can set themself up as absolute ruler,
21:17 and force other people to do their bidding. Them is my fan of us exactly.
21:22 Mine too, Tex.
21:23 That's what our kinfolks fought for.
21:26 And so will we.
21:27 You men are willing to fight for what is right because it's expected of you.
21:31 That's true.
21:32 Well, all right, why shouldn't it be true for women? It should.
21:36 And as our country grows,
21:39 More and more you'll find men and women.
21:42 marching and fighting.
21:44 Side by side.
21:49 It's really mad.
21:58 Panhandler's already told us what happened, Mrs. Merritt.
22:01 I don't suppose there's much we can say as a...
22:05 Yes, there is, Tex. Were those outlaws going to you?
22:09 We didn't have much time to say the proper words.
22:12 Ma, I thought maybe you'd...
22:27 There's gloom around the ranch house tonight. There's gloom in the old corral.
22:41 My heart is blue and so lonesome too. I said goodbye to my pal.
22:57 He's gone up the trail. His own yet heart is still. He's gone to join the heavenly path. And let's find a follow-up.
23:27 Open range ahead, his roundup days are no more. He'll sing his song to the happy throng that ride on the golden stone.
23:57 The trail, his oldest heart is still. He's gone to join the heavenly man, and then my love follow him.
24:26 My husband's taken the long trail. But we ain't. We're here to help you fight.
24:32 This will be a start, Mr. Wyatt.
24:35 Tuaresean.
24:36 Well,
24:38 I never heard of women, Rangers.
24:40 See, I had a pistol-packed grandma.
24:43 Ever heard of Joan of Arc?
24:44 For Molly Fincher, she did all right with her gun.
24:47 If men can carry guns to Mr. Wyatt, so can women.
24:50 You're right, Mrs. Merritt.
24:51 All right, I'll swear you in it.
24:53 Say, uh, where this battle starts, uh, how we gonna know friends from foe?
24:57 Put them in on Ranger outfits.
24:59 Then there won't be no mistake.
25:01 Starts wearing us in, Mr. White.
25:03 By the authority of the territorial governor.
25:05 I hereby declare created a body of the law to be known as the Territorial Rangers.
25:11 And by the same act, I herewith administer the oath of loyalty to you citizens who make up this first enlistment.
25:17 Do you solemnly swear to uphold the law and authority invested in you? I do. I do.
25:25 Oh, my God.
25:29 Hi, Rad.
25:30 What did you learn?
25:31 Well, one of the ranchers that's working with us told me they're having a meeting tonight.
25:35 But I can't find out where.
25:36 You do no good to me.
25:38 We got most of the men prisoners, and we outnumbered the rest of them two to one. Yeah, but they're forming a law enforcement body.
25:43 And they're going to use a telegraph line.
25:44 That line won't do him no good.
25:47 Don't run nowhere except at the mining camp.
25:49 When we were here before, Rad, we rode pony.
25:52 The telegraph's quicker.
25:53 That's why I didn't tear it down.
25:55 Jane Deering is going to operate it for us.
25:58 Better bring her in tomorrow.
26:03 Now, telegraph keys will be established at several of the ranches along the line.
26:07 You'll all be taught the simple code signal.
26:10 And when the hour arrives and the call comes through...
26:13 Ride to the relay station between Red Rock and Gold Mountain for final instruction.
26:24 Many of the citizens are joining up with us, but we're not waiting.
26:28 We're striking our first blow tonight.
26:32 Nobody works in the mines at night, so we can go ahead. All of you understand what to do.
26:38 We know what to do, but some of our friends are held prisoners.
26:41 Why not release them at the same time?
26:44 Well to do that now would cause a lot of them to be killed.
26:48 Follow the original plan.
26:52 Enough that tonight we keep the outlaws from stealing what belongs to us.
26:58 When the right time comes, we'll wipe them out.
27:01 Rogers.
27:03 You take your men and hit the long rock mine. And hit it hard.
27:15 Morgan?
27:18 You handle the pine tree digging.
27:25 Randolph.
27:27 You take the Silver Queen.
27:34 You take over the big four mines. Good luck.
27:37 I'm going to go.
27:47 We'll take the merit mine.
29:09 I'll open for Tim.
29:14 Ken?
29:15 and 10 back.
29:22 No gunshots.
29:28 How many car...
29:29 I'll take two.
29:33 I'll play these.
29:37 I
29:38 Did you hear something?
29:40 Hear what?
29:41 Sound like somebody prowling around outside.
29:44 Yeah.
29:45 Heh.
29:46 You know you always manage to throw the game every time I get up half-hand.
29:54 Okay.
29:55 Now, I heard somebody.
30:06 Oh, my God.
30:07 Okay.
30:09 I'm
30:10 Oh.
30:56 I'm going to go.
31:01 I'm going to go.
31:28 I'm going to go.
31:42 up
31:54 What they doing over at Lone Rock, running 24 hours? There ain't nobody working in the mines at night.
31:59 That didn't sound like shooting down the face of a tunnel to me.
32:10 We'd better get a hold of Shade and find out what's going on.
32:42 Robb!
32:43 All right.
32:43 Oh.
32:46 *Burps*
32:53 The main tunnel's blowed up.
32:54 Those explosions we heard must have been out of mines.
32:57 Well, what are we going to do now? We can't get our hands on no gold. It means we'll just have to work the men harder to clear out the settlement.
33:03 The worker tax hangs on that ranger where's fighting.
33:05 We'll take care of them. Then the rest of the armies around here, be eaten out of our hands.
33:10 Hey.
33:11 That's pretty good-looking money, if I do say so myself. On the next bunch we print, I want my picture on it. Hey, could we have some little bills made with my picture on it, too?
33:21 Lexus knows you're true, Ranger. You watch what's dire do, Ranger. Courage in the feet of your faithful mustangs be. Ride, Ranger, ride. Ride, Ranger, ride. From Red Rim for trim the sea, you have written history. Ride, Ranger, ride.
33:51 Thank you, everyone. Ride, Ranger, ride. Ride, Ranger, ride. You have hunked empty foe since a hundred years ago. Ride, Ranger, ride. For, oh, Ranger, who are gone, you are pledged to carry on. Ride, Ranger, ride.
34:21 We got them kind of close to town.
34:23 Jane, you better stay with Ms. Merritt for a while. All right. Panhandle will be there to look Al after you.
34:29 Dave and I have a little riding to do in the morning.
34:38 I'm not.
34:46 I'm going to go.
34:48 I'm not sure.
34:59 You know, Max, a surprise attack might turn the trick.
35:03 No harm in trying.
36:03 I'm going to go.
36:16 A signal for you to gather the ranchers will come over this key. Now, we've hooked up enough ranchers to get word to every man and woman when we need them.
36:23 and Jane has answered every one of our calls.
36:27 I'm going to go.
36:44 Well, if something ain't tired enough here...
36:50 What did I do with my flyers?
36:55 what
37:04 I'm going to go ahead and get some more questions.
37:29 How are you, Miss Mary? Just fine.
37:31 learning all about this here wire.
37:33 All hooked up, huh? Sure thing.
37:37 It's funny. She don't answer. Who don't answer?
37:41 Jane! Jane?
37:44 Oh, we thought she was here with you. No, she went to the relay station to make sure my messages was coming through.
37:56 I'll go.
38:08 I'm not sure.
38:23 I'm going to go.
38:35 We know you're gonna use a telegraph to call the ranchers together.
38:38 We brought you here to force their hands.
38:41 The ranger will call them now and they'll ride right into a trap.
38:50 I'm going to go.
39:07 I'm going to go.
39:17 I'm going to go.
39:24 Ain't no use in hanging around here. We might as well follow the boys.
39:35 I'm not.
39:51 *painful noises*
39:56 *crash*
40:13 *crash*
40:20 I'm not going to go.
40:24 I'm.
40:28 It's Jane, but there's something wrong.
40:30 She's having trouble getting her message through. Where is she?
40:33 I don't know.
40:56 I'm
41:06 Pretty smart, ain't ya?
41:11 Come on.
41:14 She's a prisoner at Red Rock. Said not to try to rescue her because it was a trap.
41:18 We ain't afraid of no traps.
41:20 This is a showdown. I'll get my group together. Good. I'll signal the latchers. The boys should be at the relay station now. I'll call them there.
41:50 I'm going to go.
42:03 Here, here, that's my private property.
42:13 Watch him and see that he doesn't land it.
42:15 He won't fix no war while I'm here.
42:19 Oh!
42:48 Wait a minute. What are you going to do? You're going to have me some fried pig. I'm hungry.
42:55 I like fried pigeon too.
43:02 Oh, I hate to do this to you, Homer, but I've got to ring your old neck. Your hand ain't going to hurt you much, though.
43:11 Oh, now, ain't that too bad. Get away. Get away.
43:18 I
43:23 You go get the bird and we'll both have fried pigeons. Yeah, but one pigeon ain't enough for both of us.
43:29 You ain't very hungry anyway, are you?
43:32 Well, not very.
43:36 Oh, my God.
43:43 Of course, Rex, you know, we're just acting on a hunch that something's happened to her. That's a pretty good hunch, don't you think?
43:52 Hey.
43:53 Look!
43:54 Poor Homer.
43:58 I
44:10 Well...
44:12 Ah...
44:13 Yes, sir. I'd...
44:15 Better clean my frying pan.
44:51 Oh, it sure takes you a long time to scrub a skillet.
44:55 Sanitation, my boy. Sanitation. I never heard of it.
44:58 Hurry up.
44:59 I'm hungry.
45:05 I'm going to go.
45:12 Tex, it might be best to let those outlaws think their plan is working perfectly.
45:17 I'm.
45:35 Come on.
45:38 Fox?
45:39 We're heading for Red Rock.
45:41 And I might as well tell you...
45:43 They're waiting for us.
45:52 I'm
46:03 Norton, the rancher on the west ridge got the signal. They're riding for Red Rocks.
46:07 Get most of these horses off the street, Brad.
46:09 We'll make it look as though we wasn't expecting them. You better place the men so we can pull lead into them from every direction.
46:35 Oh, come on. That's clean enough.
46:39 Yep, it sure is. So bright you can see yourself in it.
46:43 Ha ha!
46:44 You can, can't you?
46:46 Hey, I'm right pretty, ain't I?
46:48 Yeah.
46:50 But you can't see nothing but stars in this one.
46:59 Oh, my God.
47:02 Oh, my God.
47:05 Oh, my God.
47:08 All right.
47:10 What happened?
47:12 Hold on. Hold on.
47:55 Uh-uh.
48:00 Hey, hey, here's your first treasure, boys. Watch it.
48:04 Hey, you can quit playing parcel now, Homer. Go on home.
48:15 All right.
48:17 I'm going to go.
50:17 I'm out.
52:00 up
52:07 I'm
52:09 Ah!
52:14 Oh, my God.
52:35 Hey, you're out!
52:36 Sleep in peace, bud. Sleep in peace.
52:39 Hand handles!
52:41 I'm out.
52:48 Well, I'm so happy to see you, I can kiss you, Miss James.
52:54 Oh, Mother. Oh, Mother. Oh, God!
53:25 No.
53:28 Oh, uh, she's just a weak female. She needs a big, strong man like me to take care of her.
53:51 Come on.
53:55 Never a few men try to take over the rights of honest citizens.
53:58 They always fail. They sure do. Especially if the honest citizens helped them along a little with their failing.
54:07 So long as these two guns hang here...
54:10 Peace will reign in Red Rock Valley.

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