Last Train from Gun Hill Page #6

Synopsis: The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. Belden is sympathetic, until it transpires that one of the murderers is his own son Rick, whom he refuses to hand over. Morgan is determined to capture Rick and take him away by the 9.00 train; but he is trapped in the town alone, with Belden and all his men now looking to kill him.
Genre: Romance, Western
Director(s): John Sturges
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
APPROVED
Year:
1959
95 min
265 Views


Just like Jimmy, stubborn as a mule.

Next time you see Jimmy, say hello.

We seem to have a lot in common.

Maybe more than you know. He's dead.

They shot him down in the street.

Six, deuce, pair of fives...

...ten, three.

- You're high, Charlie.

- $5.

I'll call.

- Six. Where you going, Rick?

- I'll be back.

- He's fixing to get scratched again.

- Pair of tens.

- Can't a girl get some sleep?

- Sorry. Don't make any noise.

Rick, what are you doing up there?

Will you let him alone, Skag?

Come on, Rick! We're fixing to shoot

a little red dog. We need your money!

All right, everybody up.

Just keep away from those guns.

All right, on your feet.

All right, one at a time. In there.

Start moving.

Morgan, you must be out of your mind.

Get in there.

I need one of your jail cells

until train time, Sheriff.

The cells are all locked.

I wouldn't know where to find the keys.

Pretty bad bump you put on that

boy's head. Mr Belden ain't gonna like it.

He's got plenty of time to handle it.

Evening train ain't due for six hours.

You'll never get him on it.

You've been lucky so far, Morgan.

The tough part's still ahead.

You'll turn this into a shooting gallery!

Get out!

- I want a room.

- Not here. Mr Belden's the owner.

You're breaking the law!

I am the law.

Morgan's got your boy, Mr Belden.

Don't worry, I've never killed

an unarmed man in my life.

Or a woman.

He got him, Mr Belden.

He's up in that far room.

He jumped us. Rick was upstairs.

Morgan came down with him, out cold.

Cover the place.

Rick! Can you hear me?

Yeah, Pa!

- Are you all right?

- Yeah, Pa!

Matt!

- Matt! I wanna come up!

- You got something to say, say it!

I told you to leave town!

Are you tired of living or just plain crazy?

I've got 20 men down here!

You turn Rick loose!

You know the answer to that.

He's cuffed me to the bed!

- Matt, now, this is your last chance!

- You through?

All right. All right, you called the turn.

Do me a favour, will you? Try walking

in front of that window again.

Hey!

No!

Pa, make them stop! He's got the bed

in front of the window! Pa!

Hold it!

- Aren't you gonna do anything?

- Why don't we rush him?

- After all, he's only one man.

- That's my son up there.

That's better. Not so noisy.

You're a goner, Morgan.

I know my old man.

Only way you'll get out of here's in a box.

Just so long as I got you with me,

that's the main thing.

- He can't stay holed up.

- Sooner or later, he'll have to come out.

- Charlie!

- Yeah?

- Get Doc Rainey, huh? Where's Skag?

- He couldn't make it back.

Why don't he have sense and quit?

He don't stand a chance in hell.

Rushing him don't do no good.

- Where are the other men?

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James Poe

James Poe (October 4, 1921 – January 24, 1980) was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Around the World in 80 Days for which he jointly won an Academy Award in 1956, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Summer and Smoke, Lilies of the Field, and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably "Three Skeleton Key" and "The Present Tense", both of which starred Vincent Price. Poe was married to actress Barbara Steele from 1969 to 1978. more…

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