Joe Kidd Page #3

We can cut your ears off

if you want.

I don't know him.

We can cut

somethin' else off, too.

Dile, hombre.

? Para qu quieres que te pegue?

He says, tell you anything.

Why get chopped up?

Chico, the only way you're gonna stay

alive is if you answer my questions.

You understand that?

I'm asking,

where is Luis Chama?

I don't know him!

Lamarr.

I came to hunt Chama,

not kill people in cold blood.

I don't have time

for court hearings.

If these people want to fight me,

I'll blow 'em straight to hell.

Anybody home?

Hello.

Well, well.

Look what I have found.

Evenin'.

Honey, I want

to ask you something.

You know a man

name of Luis Chama?

I know him.

- You see him lately?

- No.

- When was the last time?

- About a week ago.

Are you a friend?

- I see him when he goes by here.

- On his way to Arroyo Blanco?

You know where that is?

It's over the pass.

- I don't think he lives there anymore.

- We're friends.

We just want to stop in

and say "hello."

Is that why you have

all those guns?

This is a huntin' trip,

sweetheart.

You gotta have guns.

Ask her how come

she's got so many guns!

They belong to my

father and brother.

Where are they?

They went to see

a man about work.

Leave you here by yourself,

do they?

I don't mind being alone

for a few days.

Pretty girl like you

shouldn't be left alone.

Maybe we ought to camp here,

if she was to invite us.

- What's your name, honey?

- Helen Sanchez.

Helen, what

would you think...

if we stayed out here

with you tonight?

I think you're going to do

whatever you want.

They'd like

some more coffee.

- Have you told them yet?

- Nope.

Why not?

I didn't figure it was

any of their business really.

But you are with them.

Let's say

I made a poor judgment,

but I'm gonna have

to live with it for a while.

When I was in jail there in town,

there was a man named Naco.

He died two days ago.

He shouldn't

have come at me.

But you want Chama,

so you joined them.

Everybody wants Chama.

He's gonna get shot or hanged.

I think he realizes that now.

Some people would give their

lives for what they believe.

Do you understand that?

I guess so, if they want

something bad enough.

No. Even if there's no chance,

but to do it for others...

like a soldier

gives his life.

You don't know Luis Chama!

- Maybe you never met anybody like him.

- Maybe not.

Were you with him

when he came by my place?

Yes, I was there.

You want to kill me, too?

- A man named Emilio was with my horses.

- I remember him.

Ramon went back to see

if he was following us.

Ramon, huh?

Next stop,

Bandera Station.

- Isn't anything there but stock pens.

- Wanna bet?

- Mr. Harlan, where you been?

- Took our time...

to give you a chance to rest

from your train ride.

We expected

you'd be here waitin'.

We're here now, Eljay.

Yes, sir. Let's go!

We're ready.

All those guns

to kill one man.

Yeah.

If they find him.

They're all hidin'.

Call everybody out in the street.

All right!

Everybody out in the street!

Hold your fire.

They're way up in those rocks.

Chama?

You hit one of my men,

I'll kill ten

of your people!

Good morning, Padre.

Call all your people out here.

We're gonna hold services

here in the street.

Vengan aqui todos.

Bring 'em out,

out in the street!

Vengan tranquilos.

Vengan todos. No tengan miedo.

Vengan sin miedo.

Vengan tranquilos.

Roy?

Now, then,

I don't want to take up

much of your time.

I just want to say...

that we're gonna shoot

five of you if Luis Chama...

don't come down off his mountain

by sunup tomorrow morning!

If he don't show by noon,

we shoot five more.

Still doesn't show up

by supper time,

we put five more

against that wall.

Now the next day, if we have to,

we'll start all over again.

Son.

- ? Habla usted ingls?

- Si.

- Do you have a horse?

- I have a horse.

I want you to get on your horse

and go upstairs, there,

and ask Luis Chama

if he heard what I said,

in case he didn't

understand me.

- ? Comprende?

- Si, seor.

Padre, get 'em all

inside the church.

Vamos a la iglesia.

El resto espere en la iglesia

hasta que viene...

o todos estan muertos,

? Comprenden?

Repeat the whole sermon,

in case any of them

American citizens...

don't understand English.

! Oigan, arriba!

Si Luis Chama no baja

de la montaa para la maana...

vamos a matar

cinco de ustedes.

Si no viene

para mediodia,

mataremos

cinco mas.

Y en la tarde, lo mismo.

Maana lo mismo.

? Comprenden?

Stake out your men, Eljay.

Put the horses down at the other end

of town. Leave the saddles on.

Me and the little girl

will bunk in here.

Kidd, you're fired.

Take his gun, Mingo.

Put him in the church.

Look at him.

Without his gun he looks

like a big, dumb farm boy.

Go ahead, farm boy.

Take your pick.

I know it's

a crappy deal, buddy,

but that's all you got.

What's the matter?

You run out of nerve?

Go ahead, grab.

'Cause I'm gonna

blow your head off.

I said, make a grab.

Aaah!

Jesus!

That boy don't ever learn.

Well, the fun's over

and he's gone to church.

Tenemos que rezar mucho.

Are you thirsty?

- Yeah. What do you got there?

- Holy water.

I've drunk

just about everything else.

I might as well

have some holy water.

Today is the feast of

St. James, the apostle,

one of the first martyrs.

I will tell the people,

"Pray to him,

for his strength

and courage."

St. James was beheaded

rather than deny his faith.

You wouldn't have a gun around here,

would you, Padre?

Good time of day, Eljay.

Day's work's done,

man's waiting on a good supper.

Open the door, Mick.

- What about these people?

Are you gonna feed them?

- Feed 'em.

Roy, let him get some food

for these people in here.

! Seora, seora!

Dele comida para la gente.

Hey, Lamarr,

how're you feelin'?

That medicine

easing the pain any?

You just keep talkin'.

You'll be spittin' teeth

all night.

That's a high-priced waiter

you got there, Roy.

Ha, ha, ha.

You gonna eat all that?

- It's for the glutton outside.

- Oh, yeah.

How's he treatin' you?

We're going to get married.

What the hell do you think?

You wouldn't by any chance

have a loaded gun I could use,

would you?

Don't do anything foolish.

Wait for Luis.

I've been wondering about that.

The boy they sent out seems to be

having trouble finding his way back.

- He's hunting for Chama.

- Think so?

Luis is up there.

He knows, and he'll come.

With a gun or without one,

but he'll come.

I certainly do hope so.

If he doesn't,

he's gonna disappoint

an awful lot of people.

You don't blink soon,

your eyeballs will fall out.

Hey, how 'bout somebody else

comin' up here for a while?

You wanna take that,

Lamarr?

Why not?

Come on, Lamarr.

Let's get up here.

When this is over,

we finish it.

From the table where

they put the guns.

I don't even

know if it fires.

Don't worry.

It fires.

I have lived here

with my people 33 years.

and this morning,

I can't look in their faces.

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