The Naked Spur Page #2

Synopsis: Howard Kemp is a bounty hunter who's been after killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. Along the way, Kemp is forced to take on a couple of partners, an old prospector named Jesse Tate and a dishonorably discharged Union soldier, Roy Anderson. When they learn that Vandergroat has a $5000 reward on his head, greed starts to take the better of them. Vandergroat takes every advantage of the situation sowing doubt between the two men at every opportunity finally convincing one of them to help him escape.
Genre: Thriller, Western
Director(s): Anthony Mann
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
PASSED
Year:
1953
91 min
234 Views


Now, why don't you

just do what i say?

Hey, you two!

It's all over!

Get him, ben!

[Gunshot]

Ha ha ha

ha ha!

Oh!

Ha ha ha

ha ha!

All right, ben.

Tie him up!

Let me go! Let me alone!

Let me alone!

Calm down, sweetheart,

we're not going to hang you.

I ain't fightin'

you no more, howie.

Not the three

of you, i ain't.

Who's she?

You remember

old frank patch, don't you, howie?

This here's

his daughter, lina.

I remember

an outlaw name of patch

lying dead

in front of a bank in abilene.

I don't remember

any talk about kinfolk.

He was

my father.

What's she

doing here with you?

I guess she don't

know nobody but me.

And i didn't figure on

seeing kansas again,

till now i didn't.

All right.

Get up.

Come on,

get up!

Here you are,

tate.

That settles us.

I'm much obliged to you.

Thanks.

Say, mr. Kemp,

now you got

two of them to handle,

maybe you're still

of a mind to hire up help.

This is my job.

I'll do it.

Make you feel

any better, sheriff,

you could make

me deputy. Official-like.

You ain't

letting on

like you was a sheriff

or something, are you, howie?

Why, sure he is.

Ain't he?

He told me he was

a peace officer.

I don't know why

you should do that.

No matter who gets me,

the reward still holds.

How's that?

Ain't you showed them

my picture, howie?

I seen a paper

saying you was wanted.

Nothing about

no reward.

Maybe he ain't got

a good copy like i have.

Is that what he showed you?

How much?

Says $5,000.

Why, you talk

like you knowed it all along.

Why else

would a man

tear off

the bottom of a poster?

I'm taking him back,

and i'm going

to do it alone.

You didn't

catch him alone.

You was going

round and round until you run into me.

You were hired to do

a job, and you were paid for it.

You ain't

gonna buy

my claim in this

for no $20.

What about him?

He done

the climbing, didn't he?

Could've gotten

killed, too.

Tell you what.

I'll settle

for a third.

How about you,

jesse?

Share and

share alike?

That's the way

it is,

unless you're of

a mind to kill us all.

Looks like you

got yourself a couple of partners, howie.

Aw, quit acting like

we was friends, you...

maybe we sat down

at the same card game once or twice,

but that don't mean

dirt to me now.

You shot a man in a back,

and i'm taking you in

to hang for it.

It

wasn't ben that killed that man.

It's him they're

paying the reward on.

Now, where are

your horses?

Back of

the rocks.

Lina's horse got

a belly full of disease. He can't travel.

He can't,

eh?

All right.

Come on, let's go.

Come on.

Easy, boy.

Easy.

Easy there,

boy.

All right, watch him.

Easy, boy,

easy.

He's really

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Sam Rolfe

Samuel Harris "Sam" Rolfe (February 18, 1924 – July 10, 1993) was an American screenwriter best known for creating (with Herb Meadow) the high rated CBS television series Have Gun – Will Travel, as well as his work on the 1960s NBC television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Eleventh Hour. more…

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