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[ All laughing ]
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♪♪ Oh, Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp ♪
♪ Brave, courageous and bold ♪
♪ Long live his fame
and long live his glory ♪
♪ And long may
his story be told ♪
♪ Hmm ♪♪
- Like all the mining
towns of the West,
Tombstone was a magnet
to men and women
from all over the world.
It had a large
foreign population,
a large segment
of which was Chinese.
Several hundred newly arrived
from China did not speak English
and found their
frontier life doubly hard.
It was inevitable that
this might mean trouble
for Wyatt Earp.
- They b*at me too.
I thought they'd never stop.
Now, they didn't have
no call to do that, Marshal.
I didn't put up
no resistance.
- Did you get a look?
- I didn't see nothin'!
I can't tell you was he
big or little or nothin'!
- Did you hear
anything?
- Not a sound.
It was like ghosts!
- I don't see nothin'
back here, Wyatt.
- Bring that lantern
over here.
What do ya
make of that?
- That's a funny
kind of ring.
Hey, that's Chinese writin'
on there, ain't it?
- It sure is. Now we
got something to go on.
- You think they
was Chinese?
- Well, that
doesn't seem likely.
Never have any trouble
with them, usually.
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna find out
where that ring came from.
- How you
gonna do that?
- Well, there's
one person in this town
that knows everything
there is to know
about every
Chinese living here.
- China Mary?
- That's right.
- Yeah, not only knows 'em,
but runs 'em like a queen!
But will she tell
ya anything?
- Why not?
- Well, Wyatt, you know
she's got her fingers
in a lot of things that
ain't exactly legal.
- All the more reason
why she doesn't want
any trouble with the law.
- No white men allowed!
- Wait! I wanna
see China Mary.
- No Mary.
- I'm Marshal Earp.
Now, you go tell her
I wanna see her.
- You wait.
- Marshal Earp,
is their trouble?
- You're one of Mary's
policemen, aren't ya?
- That's right!
I take care of things.
I help you.
- You usually do,
and I appreciate that.
So don't stop now.
- Something you want?
- I wanna see Mary.
- Mary very busy.
Can't I do?
- No. Now, you
go tell her.
- You come.
[ Men talking ]
Just friendly
game, all fine!
- Fan-tan?
- Like fan-tan,
oh yes. This way!
[ China Mary in Chinese ]
- Come in, Marshal.
You've never been here
before, have you, Marshal?
Usually you send for me.
- You have quite
a place here.
- Oh, it's not San
Francisco or Hong Kong.
You will take tea?
- No, thank you.
This isn't
a social visit.
[ In Chinese ]
- Have you, uh, ever seen
anything like that before?
- Perhaps. It is Chinese.
- But this ring.
- This ring is connected
with the trouble
that brings you here?
- Yes.
I found it next to a man
who had been robbed
and brutally beaten.
We've had quite
a bit of that lately.
The att*cks are so much alike,
it must be by the same men.
- And you think
they are Chinese?
- I don't know who they are.
- Well, Chinese jewelry
is widely sold!
- I thought this might
be a special ring,
with a character on it,
an insignia
or something.
- The character means "love."
It is a ring a man might give
a woman or a woman, a man.
- Well, that doesn't
tell me much.
But I have a hunch
they were Chinese.
- Why?
- Because of your eyes.
You won't look at me.
Mary, I found out
a long time ago
that the Chinese here
live in a world apart.
A lot goes on here that
the law and I don't,
well, we don't approve of.
But I couldn't begin to
stop it or to change it.
It's live and let live.
- That's the way it
has always been.
- I guess that's the way
it will be,
as long as you keep it here
within the walls.
If it spills out
into the street--
- It has always been enough
that you tell me, has it not?
- This time that
will not be enough.
You must turn
them over to me.
They have broken the law,
and they must
be punished.
- They will be,
in my way!
- I cannot agree to that.
- Then find
them yourself.
I will need the ring.
- Now I know why
they call you a queen.
- Hey there! Stop that!
What're ya doin'?
Here, you savate!
Help! Help!
Oh no, you don't!
I got ya by the
hair, you devil!
Help! Help!
- This man's dead.
- Just when I thought
it was all over!
- But now we know they're
Chinese that're doin' it.
- You saw one of 'em?
- Sure! I had a hold
of his queue.
- Could you
identify him?
- Well now, I might could,
Marshal, but I don't know.
- You'd
better know.
They're all of 'em
no good for nothin'
but to take a man's
job away from him!
I say we oughta
string 'em all up!
[ All agreeing ]
- Tucker, any man touches a
Chinese, he goes to jail.
Now, you leave
this to the law.
You men pick him up and take him
over to the coroner's office.
[ Speaking Chinese ]
- Sit down,
Mr. Earp.
I know why
you're here.
- Then you've
heard already, hmm?
I should have known you would.
Well, for the first time...
it wasn't enough just
to tell Mary about it.
- No one is perfect.
- This time it's serious.
For one thing, it's m*rder.
For another,
the townspeople know
that the attackers were Chinese.
You know what
that can mean.
- You think that Mary can no
longer control her people.
But I'm sure this was not done
by those who did the others.
- Why?
- I'm sure, that's all.
- Well, I'm not.
Maybe there's someone
who defies your authority.
And I wanna know who it is.
A tong maybe?
One of the companies?
Or just a group
of young rebels?
You won't tell
me who they are?
- I do not know.
But when I find out,
I will handle it myself.
- Already there is talk of
burnin' your people out.
A catastrophe,
not only for your people,
but for Tombstone.
- I'm still able to
handle it myself.
You will leave it to me.
- No, I can't.
If you won't tell me,
I'll find out another way.
- How?
- I think I know a way.
[ Coughing ]
[ Coughing ]
[ Fists punching ]
[ Panting ]
- I didn't get
'em, Wyatt.
It's like huntin' a
black cat in a barrel.
They just melted away.
I never seen 'em.
- Well, we got one
of 'em, anyway.
- Good!
- Come on!
- You tricked me!
You're policemen!
- Let's go.
Is he the one,
Mr. Ferguson?
- I don't know.
- All right.
- I'm sorry.
But I can't say it was
when I ain't sure.
- No, I'd rather have you be
that way than like Tucker,
ready to string up anybody
just 'cause their eyes
are a little different.
Thank you, anyway.
- Marshal, let me go!
You can't hold me!
- You att*cked me
and tried to rob me.
- Marshal, you are mistaken.
I was walking
along a dark street,
and I bumped
into somebody,
and I thought
I was being att*cked,
so I fought back.
That is all!
- And was that all the other
night, when the man d*ed?
- You cannot connect me
with those robberies!
Nor did I take money from you.
I think you
have no evidence.
- Don't be too cocky.
And don't underestimate the law.
You're in
trouble, my friend.
I just don't forget m*rder.
Now, you take some advice.
You talk.
Maybe you'll save yourself
from the worst of it.
[ Chuckling ]
- Hanging!
They'll probably do that
sooner or later, Marshal.
Trial or no trial!
m*rder or no m*rder!
I understood that
a long time ago.
- You wanna be a martyr, huh?
Well, I guess that's
partly due to your age.
A lot of wet-nosed boys
have ideas like that.
You wanna say something?
- No!
Nothing!
- Were they all boys like you?
Do you work for yourselves or
do you work for somebody else?
And why'd you do it?
Because of the money that
you got from robbing
or the fun that you
got from b*ating?
Did you do it for
hate or for greed?
- What do you think, Marshal?
- I think that money only
appeals to grown men,
but revenge...
that's for wet-nosed boys.
- Why, you--
- Let me see that ring.
Open your hand!
Where'd you get that?
Shotgun!
Take a look
at this.
Who gave it to you?
- Must've been
China Mary, Wyatt.
Maybe she gave
it back to him.
Unless, of course,
there's more than one.
- No, I doubt it.
This is handmade.
We'll find out soon
enough, anyway.
Open the door.
- Where're you
gonna take me?
- China Mary's!
- No, Marshal, no!
Don't take me there!
- Why? You think you're
gonna be sent back to China?
Don't worry, you won't get
off that easy this time.
- Marshal!
- I'm sorry to
disturb you again,
but do you
know this boy?
- Do you know
him, Marshal?
- I don't know his name,
but I know his profession.
He's a footpad,
thief and m*rder*r.
- His name is Li Kung,
and he is very young.
- He's not so young
that he doesn't know
it's wrong to
att*ck another man.
To rob, b*at
and k*ll him!
- Are you sure this boy
has done these things?
- Yes, I am.
- How can you be sure?
- Because I set a trap for him,
and he fell into it.
He made the mistake
of attacking me.
- You are very ingenious,
very brave!
- And very successful.
I caught this one,
but the other two got away.
I asked him who they were,
but he won't tell me.
- What will happen to them?
- They would stand
trial for m*rder.
- You can hardly expect
him to tell you.
- He'll talk if you tell him to.
- I haven't that power.
- I thought you were
the boss around here.
- Not with him
or his friends.
He does not
approve of me!
- Why should I? Are you
something to be proud of?
- Wait a minute!
- Do you know what she is
or what she does?
Where the money comes from
to buy these rich things?
You are a disgrace
to our people!
[ In Chinese ]
- Don't call me that!
I hate you! I want
nothing to do with you!
I will not live
as you have!
- I didn't want
it that way!
But do you know
what you are doing?
You bring
yourself to ruin!
- It is my life, and I
will live it as I want!
- No! It is the lives of the
others you command, also!
And more than that, the lives
of all us Chinese, perhaps!
Marshal Earp will tell
you of the talk!
The talk of
burning us out!
- They talk big, but they
are not that hard or strong!
- Oh, but you are
hard and strong, huh?
You're gonna wipe us all
out, here in Tombstone?
- If I could, I would!
For there are none of
you that I love!
- Isn't there
anyone you love?
- Take me back to
your jail, Marshal!
- Come on!
- You have no case
against him, have you?
- I'll build one.
- I doubt it.
He will never talk.
- At least with him in
jail the att*cks may stop,
if you're right that
he's the ring leader.
- Well, if it's learned
that he is in jail,
the talk will start!
Then you know what
that might mean!
- I know, and
I'll handle that.
- Can you, Marshal?
I've seen it in the
gold fields in California!
The mobs, the fires,
the hangings!
- Maybe I should
leave you here.
[ In Chinese ]
- I will repay you for
this someday, Marshal!
- What he needs
is to be turned over
somebody's knee and spanked!
- Perhaps.
Chinese parents are often too
indulgent of their children.
But that would've been a
long time ago for this one.
- I've never known you
to be soft before.
You gave him
back his ring. Why?
- He is so young.
- Are you going
to be soft now?
Or will you send
him back to China?
- I will decide.
- You said that
ring meant "love."
Could it be given
by a mother to her son?
- It could.
- Did you know
his mother?
- Yes. She had great
hope for him.
She worked very hard
to give him the things
she never had.
Everything he wished!
- Perhaps it
was too much.
- No, Marshal,
not enough.
She could not give
him his honor.
- Well...
I'll say goodbye.
- Do not hate me.
I could not help it.
But I promise you there
will be no more trouble.
On my honor!
- That's good
enough for me.
- Well, howdy!
- Howdy!
- Say, you're--
you're one of China Mary's
policemen, ain't ya?
Well, I guess everything
worked out all right.
We ain't had no trouble
in the last couple of weeks.
'Course, we still got an
unsolved m*rder on our books.
But that ain't the first
here in Tombstone.
What can I do for ya?
- Mr. Marshal
Earp, please.
- Oh, he ain't
here right now.
Any messages?
- You tell him
Mary send me.
He look out!
- Look out for what?
- Li Kung get loose!
Come to find
Marshal! k*ll him!
- k*ll him?
- You tell him, huh?
- That's for sure!
[ g*nsh*t ]
[ Moaning ]
- Do you know
who sh*t you?
You were going to k*ll me.
Why?
Why did you
wanna k*ll me?
- You were...
only one...
who knew about...
China...
Mary.
- That she was
your mother?
[ Gasping ]
♪ Singing in Chinese ♪
- Mary...
I don't suppose it's any use for
me to ask who k*lled Li Kung.
- Is it not better for
one foolish boy to die
than for all my people
to pay for him?
- Maybe it was
justifiable homicide.
I'll probably never
find out, anyway.
I hope I don't.
- The body will be
brought here, please.
- Yes.
This was the only
thing of value.
Would you see that
his mother gets it?
- Yes. Thank you.
♪♪ Well, he cleaned up
the country ♪
♪ The old Wild West country ♪
♪ He made law
and order prevail ♪
♪ And none can deny it,
the legend of Wyatt ♪
♪ Forever will live
on the trail ♪
♪ Oh, 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 ♪
♪ Hmm ♪♪