Devil's Doorway Page #3

Synopsis: Lance Poole, an Indian who won a Medal of Honor fighting at Gettysburg, returns to his tribal lands intent on peaceful cattle ranching. But white sheep farmers want his fertile grass range and manage to turn the ostensibly civilized white population against the tribes, with tragic results.
Genre: Romance, Western
Director(s): Anthony Mann
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
APPROVED
Year:
1950
84 min
140 Views


You'd better back up

a little from the bar.

I think you better stand

back a little more.

You let them in saloon and the first thing

you know they wanna mix with them socially.

- Five.

- It's a nice head of hair, redskin.

It'll be good hanging from my belt.

Six.

You're a sick man, Mr. Coolan!

That's enough.

Give me that drink.

Have one on me!

What about this homesteading?

- We better find out about it.

- How?

See a lawyer.

Coolan is the only lawyer.

There must be another one someplace.

You bring the horses.

A. MASTERS

ATTORNEY AT LAW:

Come in!

How do you do?

- I'm looking for Masters, ma'am.

- I am Masters.

Lawyer?

Yes.

Excuse me, ma'am.

Come in.

I don't blame you for being surprised. Most

people are discovering A. Masters is a women.

Yes, ma'am.

Is there anything I can do for you?

My name is Broken Lance.

I am an Indian!

I see.

Please sit down.

- I wanna find out about home settling.

- I read the law. What is it you want to know?

- If I haven't got titled to my land, other

people can homestead without demanding me? - Yes.

Can I homestead my own land? Make the

law work for me instead of against me?

- That's what most people are doing.

- That's what I want to do.

- Will you take care it for me?

- Yes.

The first thing to do is

to prepare a statement.

- That's a bad cut.

- Yes, ma'am.

What do we say in this statement?

- You're over 21. Are you head of the family?

- No, ma'am.

- Not married. Are you a veteran?

- Three years.

- Organization?

- The third Pennsylvania. Cavalry.

Major battles?

Mechanicsville, Antietam, Gettysburg.

You've had your share.

- Any decorations?

- Congressional Medal of Honor.

You shouldn't have any trouble.

- Has your land be surveyed?

- No, ma'am.

That's the first thing. Since you can homestead only

65 ha. you want to file the land the house is on...

And on a big water hole.

It costs $ 10 to file a claim.

- How much for you?

- There's not much to this.

- Let's say $ 10.

- When will I know about this?

It will take a little time. I'll send a surveyor

out as soon as possible. - Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

Wait a minute.

I'll get some water to stop that bleeding.

No, thanks, ma'am. It will stop.

Mother, what do you think of

my first client?

I think you're crazy.

- I see that I don't need to tell you about

our confidential discussion. - No, I heard all.

I can't think of a better way of driving away

business than to take the case of an Indian!

You're probably right.

I thought about it.

Well for Heaven's sake, why did

you do it?! We got to be practical!

Father was the best lawyer I ever knew.

I always think how he'd handle the situation.

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Guy Trosper

Guy Trosper (March 27, 1911 – December 19, 1963) was an American screenwriter. He came to prominence in Hollywood because of his scripts for two baseball movies: The Stratton Story in 1949, a big hit for James Stewart, and The Pride of St. Louis in 1952, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. This led him into a highly fertile creative period, during which he wrote the screenplays for Elvis Presley's breakout hit Jailhouse Rock in 1957, the complex western One-Eyed Jacks in 1961, and Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, which he also produced. Trosper's last screenplay before his premature death was an adaptation of John le Carré's 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The film was released in 1965; Trosper (posthumously) and co-writer Paul Dehn received a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. more…

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