
Duel in the Sun
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- 1946
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(0.00 / 0 votes)Deep among the lonely
sun-baked hills of Texas...
the great and weather-beaten
stone still stands.
Squaw's Head Rock.
Time cannot change
its impassive face...
nor dim the legend
of the wild young lovers...
in the shadows of the rock.
For when the sun is low...
and the cold wind blows
across the desert...
there are those
of Indian blood...
who still speak
of Pearl Chavez...
the half-breed girl
from down along the border...
and of the laughing outlaw...
with whom she here kept
a final rendezvous...
never to be seen again.
And this is
what the legend says...
A flower known nowhere else...
grows from out
of the desperate crags...
where Pearl vanished...
Pearl, who was herself
a wild flower...
sprung from the hard clay,
quick to blossom...
and early to die.
Pearl.
Where's your ma?
She's in there, dancing.
Like mother, like daughter.
I'm commencing to think
I like the daughter better.
Let go!
You go away from me,
or I'll call my pa.
That renegade creole squaw-man?
That's a rich one.
I'll just raise you
fifty, Mr. Chavez.
Would you mind?
Mind what?
That weed.
I find it rather repulsive.
Pretty fancy gentleman,
ain't you, Mr. Chavez?
He's not so fancy
about his wife, if you ask me.
Look at her.
Quitting? Broke again?
Yes, gentlemen...
but there are
greater tragedies...
that I'm sure
you wouldn't understand.
Pa!
Pa, will you take me
in the Presidio?
I ain't never
been in there and...
What are you doing out here
at this hour anyway?
I was just dancing.
I've told your mother
repeatedly...
this street is no place
for a girl your age.
I didn't mean no harm.
It's my fault, child, not yours.
The sins of the fathers.
Go home now, dear.
I'll be back in a little while.
Don't! Stop!
No, Chavez! Don't!
Don't! Don't! I beg you! Don't!
Pa!
I plead no mitigating
circumstances.
They deserved to die,
as I deserve to die.
For I long since
killed a person...
much superior
to either of them... myself.
I gave my family's name...
to the woman
who became my wife.
And since I believe...
the punishment
should fit the crime...
I suggest that you hang me
by the neck until I am dead.
It's from Laura Belle.
Did I ever tell you about her?
She's my second cousin.
Yes, Laura Belle
is my second cousin...
but she was
more than that to me.
You see, once upon a time,
in a different age...
in a different age
and such a different world...
I was in love.
And wonderful to believe,
the lady was in love with me.
You mustn't look at me
as though that were impossible.
I was quite the looker
in my day and very dashing.
Perhaps a bit too dashing.
And that's why
this very wonderful girl...
who might have been your mother,
decided on security...
and gave herself in wedlock
to a wealthy yankee.
Better make it fast, Chavez.
You've only got
five minutes left.
No! No!
They can't.
They can't. I won't let them.
Better that it end.
Really it is.
Your mother and I
can't hurt you any longer.
Laura Belle wants
my little girl to go to her.
Yes, just a few more weeks...
and at last,
you'll have a home...
the mother you should have had.
No, you mustn't leave me.
You mustn't.
You've been a good child.
Through some miracle,
you're good...
and you're decent,
and you're strong.
And now you must prove
that you are strong.
You will do that for me,
won't you, darling?
No tears, no grief...
now or later.
Here. Keep this scarf.
Wear it sometimes.
Get her out of here, Chavez.
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