He Rides Tall

Synopsis: It's the last day on the job for Marshal Morg Rocklin who plans to get married. The new Marshal is due in town the next day. Unfortunately, a bunch of troublemakers are in town. Among them is rancher Joshua McCloud's no-good son who's bringing in a herd of cattle for sale. Immature, spoiled and quick tempered, the McCloud boy gets into an argument with his cowhands in the saloon and shoots one dead. The Marshal tries to arrest McCloud's son who draws on the lawman and gets killed. Postponing his wedding, the Marshal rides out to break the sad news to old rancher McCloud who has recently taken a young gold-digger wife. The old man drinks too much lately. The Marshal fears the worst for his meeting with the old rancher who doesn't yet know that his son was killed. To make matters worse, Bart Thorne, the McClouds' head ranch boss hates the Marshal and wants him dead.
 
IMDB:
6.0
TV-PG
Year:
1964
84 min
38 Views


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[Music]

Oh

[Music]

Oh

[Music]

You

you.

[Music]

Next time listen to me are you feel

you're gonna wear that gun stay outside

local custom go find yourself a nice

shitty place and cool off to come back

keep local custom in mind we'll get

along Morgan

Morgan do you think that you could be a

little extra careful today you're gonna

make me a widow before I'm a bride

don't worry Ellie I've lasted this long

I guess I'm good for the rest of the day

Ellie as a normal feminine viewpoint

mark the bride always wants a strong

healthy husband on her honeymoon

if I don't buy that buckboard there

isn't gonna be on him well get going you

looking for me I'm Ben Crowley Jill.

McLeod just drove in 500 head of beef

for you to buy Gill McLeod how's your

father boy I hear he got hurt while

don't you ever call me boy now you want

a dicker or what your father and I don't

dicker we make two-way deals fair both

ways your Foreman doesn't want me to see

the cattle yet I'm sure he wants to feed

them fatten him for a spell and our pens

you don't hear too good do you Crowley

I'm in charge here not my father not the

foreman

you want to look at the beef no I'll

forget it that's the way you want it

[Music]

Blacksmith I got a horse that needs a

shoe this is a customer talking

blacksmith a cash customer

thanks thorn every little bit helps more.

Rockland Abilene Dodge City and now here

what I've been worried about you

a lawman bills your kind of reputation

he don't live too long what are you

doing here

what honest work

you're looking at the present Foreman of

the Argonauts spread just drove in a

herd of cattle.

Argonaut that's Joshua McLeod's out

there he hired you Oh Oh Josh ain't that

very kind

he don't hold little mistake against a

man are you sent me to the pen Lord but

I served my time and got out for good

behavior

me good behavior old Josh must be hurt

worse than I heard how was he why still

in a wheelchair but it's getting better

getting better of course he couldn't

come on this cattle drive but his boy

did you hearin Tom it sure is I want to

tell you that that boy's a tonic to

himself poison to everybody else me up

your mind yet marshal well it looks like

it's in pretty fair condition you are

buying a buckboard fare

where you going it's brand new

almost almost how much you want for it

what do you want with a buck foot.

Oh take you 65 got yourself a deal I'll

pick it up in the morning no I'm I'm

quitting tomorrow quitting and getting

married leaving town

congratulations morg

that'll make us both happy you because

you have your own little woman by your

side and starting off on a nice new dull

life someplace else and me because uh I

ain't gonna partial to towns where you

ain't marshal.

Oh Oh II you just told me some awful

important I wish I knew what it was I

just want you to remember that tomorrow

we have a new marshal

a good one so whatever you've got up

your sleeve

don't try it here more you got a narrow

suspicious mind

it's a pity of the shame all right.

Charlie make your offer and make it good

the best I can do is $30 a head dog

crossed me for Tia heads to go on price

for cattle in good condition you've

driven that herd down to skin and bones

you're a liar dirty ahead I Drive on a.

Dodge Perth good crop only do well who's

here the fearless marshal Rockland gonna

try to take my gun away

I said try no I just don't want you to

use it that's all you better sit on that

temper of yours are you gonna get into

bad trouble I've spent enough years

listening to you

[Music]

Now you came in a ton of new business do

it but do it in a businesslike way I

don't want to hurt you let go you don't

like me and I don't like you

pushed me too far don't forget how much

I like your father

[Music]

Except your stick it off for Crawley cat

[Music]

Word for your father.

[Music]

Hey you man fixing to get drunk I'll go

down fast goes ahead and home soon as I

get you pay

you

lotta let me seems to me you men aren't

aware of a little rule we have around

here gentlemen we want you to be glad

that you came in here so all we ask is

that you check your guns House Rules

miss town rules

courtesy of marshal rock uh-huh what do

what the lady says men anything this

lady says you're not staying we'll have

to just meeting you miss of course I'm

oh I tell you it's a closure what a girl

like you does to a man like thank you I

can't see any way we can get to know

each other better until we first find

out each other's name mine's Bart or

mine's Ellie Daniels but I don't think

we're going to know each other much

better oh I know you're already spoken

for

hmm it's too much to expect any other

way spoken for an answered I answered

yes a man like that we got to lose at

cards well maybe he's out seeking his

fortune maybe he's out working a ranch

anyway maybe you'd get lonesome nights

waiting for I'm sorry but he's right

here in town tomorrow he's leaving but

I'm going with it more Rockland yeah mr.

thorne

the way I told it thorn you've been my.

Foreman for about six months even all

this time and here I've been thinking I

was your dad's Foreman he hard you I'm

firing it we split the difference does

one of the things seems to have slipped

your mind Maddie you can't fire me until

I sell your dad's chowder and that'll be

quite a spell I just sold I just paid

you I just fired you clear you sold him

did you hear that man he just sold the

cattle in their condition I'm fired and

I quit get out

thorne barkeep can a poor unemployed

fella have his gun back

you're a poor poor dad having you for a

son

wristy you men stay on not me

all right the rest of you just like Hank

we're through what do you got against

the organ at wrench mister you you're

what's wrong with you are gonna trench

all that's wrong with it you may be

human when you grow up you live that

long

give me my gun I'm leaving.

I'm riding back and tell you for just

what he's got in the way of a son and

you get home.

Oh JA shall be ready for you mad and

ready

one man in there with a gun marshal Gil.

MacLeod I know your gun kill you under

arrest

not me.

[Music]

[Music]

I'll take your other buddies Marshall.

Thanks

[Music]

Ork

well Josh will have to be informed but a

guilt any money I paid kill for the

cattle someone will have to write up

give it to old Josh yeah what I'm trying

to say is give the money to me and I'll

turn it into a bag draft then I'll write

an Odin set it along with the dry up to

old Josh you know a note explaining how.

Gill died and well how it wasn't your

fault it's one way to do it there's

another way

maura that new marshal beer lady mantle

whole thing not very clean but it's

another way out come or you gotta choose

one way or the other unless you want to

ride out and tell old Josh yourself

that'd be a foolproof way of getting

yourself killed I don't want to get

killed I don't want to even see the old

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Charles Irwin

Charles Irwin VC (1824 – 8 April 1873) was born in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. more…

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