♪ [humming]
♪ Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp
♪ Brave, courageous,
and bold ♪
♪ Long live his fame
and long live his glory ♪
♪ And long may his
story be told ♪
♪ [humming]
[Narrator]
In Marshal Wyatt Earp's
long struggle
to tame Wichita,
there were two points
of controversy
which historians
of the Western frontier
have argued since .
Was Marshal Earp
justified in using
the famous
City Ordinance Number
to close crooked
gambling joints
and rowdy dance halls?
And why did he permit
Ben Thompson,
a notorious
gunfighter and k*ller,
to operate a gambling game
in Wichita
while Marshal Earp's
stormy cleanup campaign
was raging to a murderous
pitch of tensions and hatreds?
Come on,
bring 'em out of there.
Go on, there's plenty of bars
up the street.
You guys go that way
and get on down.
That all of them?
It's the last one
of them, Mr. Earp.
Unsanitary, you call it.
I wash my glasses as clean
as any place in this town.
You're just using
that public health ordinance
as a trick, and you're not
going to get away with it.
Come on, keep moving.
That's a great idea, Wyatt,
but you're gonna have all
of Douglas Avenue hating you.
That's
Judge Jewett's idea.
See, when the saloon
owners get too slick
for me to prove
crooked gambling,
why, he's
ordered me to proceed
under Ordinance .
It'll be a lot quicker.
Can you use it
against dance halls?
Yeah, I gotta close
one up the street.
The Dreamland joint?
Uh-huh. They've been
importing immigrant girls
and paying them
almost no wages.
Oh, but don't print that
in your newspaper.
They're kinda scared
to testify.
I understand.
"The Orient Saloon
and the Dreamland Dance Hall
"were closed today
as unsanitary by Marshal Earp.
"He was ordered
to take this action
by Dr. Andrew Fabrique,
City Health Officer."
Howdy, Marshal.
Hi, Mr. Finley.
I wasn't sure
you'd remember me.
Well, I've looked at you
over a g*n sight once or twice.
Uh, Mr. Murdock,
this is Jack Finley,
a friend of Ben Thompson's.
Well. Ben Thompson?
How is Ben these days?
Feels fine, thanks.
Oh, Marshal,
I know you and Ben
had several run-ins
over at Ellsworth,
but he don't bear you
no grudge, and if you--
Why should he?
Well, what I wanted to ask is
how do you feel about Ben?
You sore at Ben?
No.
Well, will it be all right
if he comes into Wichita?
Sure, long as he stays
out of trouble.
I mean, what Ben
wants to know is
he wants to buy
into a game here.
That's no business of mine
as long as he runs it honest.
Oh, Ben knows that,
and he'll run
straight as a string.
Is it all right
if I tell him you said?
Thank you, Mr. Earp.
Thank you very much.
I'll tell Ben.
Oh, he'll sure
be mighty pleased.
On the eve
of a cleanup campaign
that's going to cause you
a lot of trouble,
you say Ben Thompson
can come into town?
Ben and I have settled
our differences.
But he's a dangerous
gunslinger and a k*ller--
Also a pretty honest man.
Oh, come now, Wyatt.
Well, he's always
kept his word to me.
I never did hear of him
cheating at cards.
But you had a gunfight
with Thompson.
You sent his brother Bill
to prison for k*lling
Sheriff Whitney.
Now look, Mr. Murdock,
a man in my line of business--
well, he's got to let
his old quarrels die.
To be strictly honest
about it,
I, uh, I always did
like Ben Thompson.
That's good, Johnny, good.
Get down around
them cracks there,
and into
them little crevices.
Here, put some carbolic acid
in that scrub water.
And these glasses
I want 'em all dipped
in scalding water.
This place
is gonna be sanitary.
Dave.
Yes, sir.
Where's the roulette wheel?
Well, it was set crooked.
Dunphy's fixing it honest.
Good. No wonder
Wyatt closed this dump.
Well,
didn't Jack tell you?
No.
Earp and I are friends.
But he's the law
in this town.
I love Wyatt almost as much
as I love my brother Bill.
Yes, sir.
Go spread the word.
I'll have no talk
against Wyatt
from the men
who work for me
or the customers.
And another thing,
I thought I told you
to tell these men
how I stood with Wyatt.
Dave didn't know--
I'm sorry, Ben, but you told me
to check on all the opposition.
In the rush,
I might have missed a few.
All right.
What did you find out?
Plenty.
Now you men keep busy.
I want this place
spic-and-span.
And I never listened
to such mean talk.
Wyatt's gonna have
a small w*r on his hands.
Ain't nobody likes
that Ordinance Number .
Anyway, who can run
a clean place
in a town like Wichita
that's all dusty and muddy?
It just don't make sense.
It does to me.
I told Wyatt he couldn't make
that g*n-checking law stick
up in Ellsworth.
I was wrong.
And if he says this town's
gonna be sanitary,
he'll make it stick.
Well, anyway,
all the opposition say
that that Ordinance
is just an excuse
to give Wyatt the power
of let run or close up.
You against Wyatt?
Me? Oh, now, Ben, you--
I'm gonna tell you
a thing or two.
Now, Wyatt
could have k*lled me
in a fair draw
in a fair fight,
but he didn't.
Coulda had
my brother Bill hanged,
but he didn't.
Now Bill's up in the hospital
in Denver.
He's got a chance
to get well.
Well, you should have told us
about that before, Ben.
I don't spill things
until it's necessary.
But when I'm loyal to a man,
I go all the way.
Sure, Ben, sure.
Now,
just where do they talk
the meanest
about my friend Wyatt?
The Hotel Wichita Bar.
You got about an hour
to get the men ready.
Oh, Ben, trouble
our first night in town?
When I'm loyal to a man,
I go all the way.
Now I told you that.
Get going.
[Woman] Ben is my friend,
and I'm friends with Wyatt,
so I can see Wyatt
any time I like.
But, lady, lady,
you can't--
Oh, lady, lady.
I hate that word.
Oh.
Are-- Are you Wyatt,
the best friend
of Ben Thompson?
Well, I know him, yeah.
Like Ramón and Romulus.
Oh, it is beautiful.
What's your name?
I am Lolita Ryan.
More Lolita than Ryan, huh?
[laughs]
Well, what can I
do for you?
Oh, I think I am going to have
to hurt Ben's other girl.
You are his dearest friend.
You chase her out of town
for me, please?
You just better sit down.
Now let's get
one thing straight.
In the first place,
I'm not Ben's dearest friend.
In the second place, I let him
reopen the Orient Saloon
because he promised there
wouldn't be any trouble,
and that he'd run
an honest game.
And another thing, I can't mess
into Ben's private affairs,
so if he's running around
with another girl,
you're just gonna
have to settle it with him.
You will not chase her
out of town?
No.
Oh, but he doesn't
like her very much.
He only took up with her
because he thought I was
with my mom in San Antonio.
Well, you just go
tell that to Ben.
Oh, but I did, and he said
not to hurt this girl.
He say-- He say
you wouldn't like it.
What am I to do?
She's no good.
She's one of the biggest--
Wyatt, Ben Thompson
and his boys
are headed for
the Wichita Hotel Bar
with g*ns.
Go get Sam.
All right.
Miss Ryan, you control
your temper.
Well, but--
And you stay here,
understand?
SÃ.
And so any time
that you don't keep the joint
clean enough to suit
that big head,
he can close you?
Why, that's against
the Supreme Court.
Earp's got too big
for his britches this time.
He needs
cutting down to size.
Every man that is a man
in Wichita should start--
Hold it, Morrison.
Howdy, Ben.
I was just telling
the boys--
I heard what you said.
Does he speak
for the rest of you cowhands?
I sure do.
How about you, Ben?
You with us?
No.
Now any man that speaks
against Wyatt Earp
speaks against me,
and I'm closing
this place.
It ain't sanitary.
So everybody out. Come on.
Oh. They was cooking up
some devilment,
so I'm closing the place.
It ain't sanitary.
Look, Ben, when there's any
closing to do, I'll do it.
Now you and Finley
and the rest of the boys
know you're not supposed
to be wearing g*ns.
We under arrest?
All right, Wyatt.
Anything you say.
And the rest of you
go on back to your drinking.
Hold it. We're gonna wait
for the marshal.
Okay, let's go. Come on.
Wyatt.
Well, I don't aim
to criticize,
but I think you're being
a mite overconfident
about this sanitary business.
There's trouble cooking.
Yeah, well, you better
take care of your own trouble.
What do you mean?
A girl by the name
of Lolita Ryan came to see me.
Lolita. She shouldn't
come around bothering you.
Well, she did.
She threatened
one of your other girls.
Carolyn or Millie?
She didn't say.
You better calm her down.
All right.
I sure will, Wyatt.
And another thing.
You and I are friendly.
All right, that's fine.
But we can't act
too friendly,
or people might
misunderstand it.
I know.
You're the law,
and I'm Ben Thompson.
And we'll keep it that way.
Wyatt, I didn't
sh**t nobody back there
or take that saloon apart.
All I did was try
to be real nice.
And another thing,
about that judge
in the morning.
Don't you worry none.
If it's gonna embarrass you,
I'll just say
you and me don't even speak.
No,
just don't say anything.
All right. I'll pay the fines
for me and the boys,
and I won't even look at you.
, , .
There you are, Judge, $ .
There's something
about this matter
that bothers me,
Mr. Thompson.
I have a note here
from the owner
of the Hotel Wichita.
He says the trouble started
because you resented certain
remarks against Marshal Earp.
No, he's mistaken, Judge.
Well, how did
the trouble start?
Well, uh,
there were these
two cowhands.
and they was
telling it around
that my place
ain't sanitary.
So I said to Jack here,
I says,
"We better put a stop
to that false slander."
And, uh--
isn't that right, Jack?
Yes, sir, that's right.
That sounds plausible.
I couldn't believe that a man
like you would risk a fine
to defend Marshal Earp.
We ain't friendly.
But I will say this,
Your Honor.
I don't believe
that Marshal Earp
should be walking
around this town
without his deputies
the way he does.
There's a young
fool-head of a cowhand
out gunning for him
right now.
I can take care of myself.
All right, Wyatt.
You're the boss.
Morning, Judge.
Just a minute, Marshal Earp.
Yes, sir?
Is Thompson right about
some cowhand gunning for you?
[laughs]
Well, there usually is
a cowhand
who thinks he wants
to g*n me, Your Honor.
Well,
maybe you should have
at least one deputy
with you at all times.
I can't spare him.
We're spread too thin
as it is.
You just let Ben Thompson
worry about me.
Start for your g*n.
Go ahead, start,
why don't you?
Maybe you think
I won't sh**t, but I will.
You closed my brother's place.
You put him out of business,
and now I'm going--
[g*nsh*t]
I'm shot! I'm shot!
Oh, shut up, kid.
You ain't hurt bad.
Maybe next time
you'll believe me.
He wasn't gonna sh**t, Ben.
He was talking too much.
Doc Fabrique's office
is just across the street.
Go on over there.
I'm bleeding!
I'm bleeding!
Go on, get out.
Am I arrested again?
Ben, you're not supposed
to pack a g*n on the street.
That kid-- He was
gonna plug you.
Ben saved your life,
Marshal.
Look, Doc Fabrique is gonna
report a g*nsh*t wound.
I couldn't let you go
if I wanted to.
Oh, but, Marshal--
Shut up, Jack.
All right.
Let's go see the judge.
Where you going?
You weren't wearing no g*n.
And on your way over,
give this to Mayor Holt.
Yes, sir.
Well, what is it
this time?
A drunken kid tried
to g*n me, Your Honor,
and he shot him
in the arm.
Eh, Thompson warned you.
What's the charge?
Carrying g*ns in violation
of a city ordinance,
and careless discharge
of firearms.
What have you to say
to this, Mr. Thompson?
Well, I reckon Marshal Earp
was doing his duty.
Well, I don't.
A man saves your life, and you
arrest him for misdemeanor.
Did you ever hear
of gratitude, Marshal Earp?
Oh, don't scold him, Judge.
He--
I asked Marshal Earp
a question.
Well, sir, I, uh--
I recommend
that Ben Thompson
be let off this time
with a reprimand.
A reprimand?
If you haven't the decency
to thank Mr. Thompson,
I will.
This court expresses
its gratitude
for assistance
rendered Marshal Earp,
and dismisses his asinine
charges against you.
You and Thompson
aren't friendly,
yet he saves your life
at the risk of his own.
Greater love
hath no man than that.
You better learn some
common humanity, young fella.
Yes, sir.
Sure am sorry, Wyatt.
You played the hand
the way you saw it.
Well, what have you done
about this girl Lolita?
Lolita.
You know, I plumb
forgot about her.
When I heard that
that young Jim North was--
That's all over now. You just
take care of that girl.
Yes, sir. Right away, Wyatt,
believe me.
I'm going over to the hotel
and I want you to send word
over to me there
that she promised to behave.
I'll marry her. Anything.
Good.
Wait a minute.
You can'heb.You're alr.
Lolita don't know that.
That's bigamy!
Don't get sore. I--
I'm not sore.
It's just that I want you
to stop making trouble
around here, that's all.
Another thing,
don't go around saying
that you love me
like a brother.
If you're gonna say anything,
say that you hate me!
Okay, Wyatt. I will.
[splutters]
[knock on door]
[Woman] Mr. Earp. Mr. Earp,
let me in, please.
What's the matter?
Not so loud.
Mr. Earp, she's after me.
Shut the door.
Who's that? Come here.
[both shouting]
[crying]
Where'd she get you?
Here. It's bleeding.
I can feel it.
Let's get to Doc Fabrique's
office. And you stay here.
You're under arrest.
I told you I'd get her.
Let me go. You let me go!
Come on.
Ben's best friend. You take
sides with Millie Spencer.
Fine friend you are.
Marshal Earp,
what's all this?
Felonious as*ault,
Your Honor.
This is Lolita Ryan.
She cut a girl with a knife.
Oh, next time
I'll really cut her.
That'll do, young woman.
Other girl badly hurt?
Not too bad, sir.
According to Doctor Fabrique,
it's just a cut in the rib.
And where did
this affray take place?
Well--
In Wyatt's room
at the hotel, Judge.
Really?
Now wait a minute--
She's nothing
but a dyed-hair
blonde crybaby.
She ran into Wyatt's room
to make trouble with Ben and me.
Ben? Not Ben Thompson?
Yes, sir.
I told Wyatt last night he must
make Ben get rid of this girl.
But does he help? Oh, no.
Ben must be loco. He picks
a John Law for best friend.
Marshal Earp?
Yes, sir.
I was never
under the impression
that you and Thompson
were friendly.
Well, uh, we're--
fairly good friends.
[gasps]
He pretends to be
Ramón and Romulus with Ben.
He lets him come into Wichita
and open up the Orient Saloon.
But does he help him
get rid of Millie? Oh, no.
Look at me, Judge.
If you were Ben's true friend,
would you let Millie
make trouble?
I haven't seen Millie.
Well, she's one--
Silence.
Well, I guess we'll
have to lock her up.
Deputy.
Lock me up? For how long?
Until tonight. We have no place
for female prisoners to sleep.
Okay. You're a nice man.
You tell Ben Thompson
to get rid of that Millie.
And as for you--
Hmph!
That'll do.
Put her in the old courtroom
and ask Mrs. McGee
to keep an eye on her.
Yes, sir.
You take Millie.
You can have her!
Come on.
I can make a fair guess
as to what happened.
You gave Thompson a break,
and he kind of
latched on to you.
Yes, sir.
Well, it can't
go on, Wyatt.
I know it.
I'd explain matters
in a nice way,
and suggest
that he leave town.
Yeah, I guess that's the way
it's gonna have to be.
You don't seem
too happy about it.
I just can't order him
out of town, Judge.
I mean, well, he's clean
as far as the law's concerned.
But with his
great devotion to you,
he'll go as a personal favor,
won't he?
Yeah, I reckon he will.
I guess Ramón will just
have to part with Romulus.
[laughs]
Wyatt's outside.
Says he's got to talk
to you.
Did he look sore?
He didn't look too happy.
That Lolita. She ought
to be p*stol-whipped.
What am I gonna tell Wyatt?
Well, tell him I'm here.
I don't hide from my friends.
Oh, look, Ben,
lie to him just once.
Tell him you ordered Millie
and Lolita to get out of town.
This is the best gambling spot
we ever had.
I don't lie to my friends,
either.
Now you get out there
and tell him I'm here.
[knock on door]
Door's open.
I suppose you heard
what Lolita did to Millie, huh?
You got a right
to be sore, Wyatt.
Real sore.
Being sore
ain't the point.
The point is, it's liable
to keep on happening.
You want me to leave.
It'd be a big favor.
You just think it would.
I know it would.
Sit down.
Wyatt,
tomorrow's Sunday.
No rush.
That ain't what I mean.
You plan to go to church
in the morning or the evening?
I don't know. Why?
You aim to go at all?
Yeah.
Wear your g*ns.
Wear my g*ns to church.
Wear 'em tomorrow and watch
behind every bush and tree.
Look, Wyatt,
I'm leveling with you.
That dance hall crowd
has brought in two men
to bushwhack you.
Oh, that's just talk, Ben.
No, it ain't just talk.
Now that's what you said
when I told you about that
North kid gunning for you, too.
And I saved
your skin that time,
but you're too big-headed
to admit it.
You're big-headed
and you're stubborn,
and you got some fool idea
that you can
handle everything
all by yourself.
I've done all right so far.
So far.
And you're good
with a g*n, sure.
But you can't take on
all of Douglas Avenue
all by yourself,
and these men tomorrow--
they ain't gonna
give you a chance
for a stand-up gunfight.
They're gonna cut you down as
you walk on your way to church.
Now can't you get that
through your thick skull?
Would you mind
leaving on Monday?
All right.
All right.
I'll leave Monday,
and you go right ahead
and get your insides shot out,
and I won't give a hoot.
I won't even send no flowers.
Well, now you begin to sound
like the old Ben Thompson
I used to know.
I ain't your friend
and I never was.
Good.
So long, Ben.
Good-bye.
And have a nice,
long sleep on Boot Hill.
You and him have a row?
Yeah.
Say, that's great.
He try to ordeus
out of town?
Fat chance he's got
of making it stick.
He'll be dead tomorrow,
and I can stop it, too,
but I won't. I'm not even
gonna lift my little finger.
Let him--
let him die.
[ringing]
Wyatt, hold up.
Oh, good morning,
Mr. Murdock.
I see you've been
working late again, huh?
I just heard a wild sort
of a rumor that--
that worried me.
The bushwhacker talk, huh?
Yeah, an ambush somewhere
on this side of town.
Near church.
Well, if you knew about it,
where are your g*ns?
Mr. Murdock, I thank you
for the warning,
but, well, if I was
gonna look for a hole
every time some drunken cowhand
said he was gonna bushwhack me,
well, I'd have to crawl
underground like a prairie dog.
Yes, but--
Now you go on home
and get shaved.
I'll see you at church.
Listen--
See you later.
What if he wears his g*ns?
Won't do him any good
if he does wear 'em.
Get set. Here he comes.
Wyatt, get down!
[g*nf*re]
So long, Wyatt.
Be seeing you, pal.
Thanks, Ben.
♪ [vocalizing]
♪ Well, he cleaned up
the country ♪
♪ The old Wild West country
♪ He made law
and order prevail ♪
♪ And none can denq
♪ The legend of Wyatt
♪ Forever will live
on the trail ♪
♪ Wyatt Earp,
Wyatt Earp ♪
♪ Brave, courageous
and bold ♪
♪ Long live his fame
and long live his glory ♪
♪ And long may
his story be told ♪
♪ Long may his story
♪ Be
♪ Told
♪ [humming]
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