Gunsmoke: Lochinvar

Around God City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers. And that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved West with young America.

The story of a man who moved with it, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. Oh, what's your rush, Miss Kitty? Come on, sit down and have a beer with us, Kitty.

I love you, mad, but I just stepped off with some thread. I gotta get back to work. Some thread? That sounds pretty domestic for you, doesn't it? Well, but it's an occasion. I'm making a wedding dress.

Oh, no, Miss Kitty, not you. Oh, my, no. Well, that isn't for me, Chester. The worst life for artists in Nashville. It's gonna be beautiful. I say so myself well if I ever need a wedding dress made I'll sure come to you for I'll be here Matt let me know see you later boy so are kidding she's a fine girl

Mr. Dylan kitty oh yeah yeah she's great she's well look who's back in town Mr. Dylan yeah Frank Craig Frank I never expected you to come back I uh You know what to say to you.

You might say welcome home. Yeah, I might. At least you're honest, Marshall. Sure. Have you been for the last year? Out west? Wyoming'd be exact. Am I sympathy for the peace officers of Wyoming's? Man can change Marshall.

Grow up and get over his wildness and start to think about settling down. Some men can. Well, I'm one of them. I don't aim to cause any trouble, Marshall. Came back here to marry Otis and take her with me, that's all.

You heard from her since she left? She's pretty as ever. She'll pass. Her man and Dodge was crazy about her. She was my girl from start to finish. Things come change, Frank. She's still my girl, Marshall.

Ben Martin might differ with you. Ben Martin? Mm-hmm. That bullnecked plow boy? You never had a chance in... What are you saying, Marshall? You don't aim to cause any trouble you're saying, yet you just happened to roll into town three days before artists as due to marry Ben.

You claiming you didn't know about it, huh? Artists wrote me a farewell letter, Marshall. It doesn't make any difference. Like I said, she's still my girl. She's not marrying Ben or anybody else. Not while I'm alive.

And like I said, Frank, Ben may differ with you. I used to chase him home crying when we were kids. I don't think he'll chase that easy now. Ben took over the circle bar B.

He's got 25 boys riding for him. He's a big man around here. Swings a lot of weight. Marshall, I said I wasn't looking for trouble in a minute. I came back here to get artists, that's all.

If any man tries to stop me, I'll kill him. I'll see you, Marshall. Chester, see if you can find Ben Martin. Have you met me over at the jail office? I thought he was a thousand miles away, Marshal.

I didn't think he'd ever have a nerve to come back. Well, then the two of you are bound to run into each other, so I figured you'd better know about it. Mm-hmm. What's he expect, Marshal?

I just forgot him a week after he left town. Does he expect to force himself on him? Maybe, you know, Frank. Well, my money is a crazy half-wire saddle bum who should have been hung five years ago.

He says he's settled down, though, Ben. He's not going to settle down here. Look, Ben, I don't like killings. Now, hang on to that temporary yours. Sure, sure. I'll hang on to it, Marshall. Just as long as Frank Craig stays clear of me and stays away from my girl.

Otherwise, I tell you right now, Marshall. Is that you? Artis. We're here, Connie. Come on in. Someone said you were here at the jail. Evening, Mr. Villan. Miss Nash. I'm sorry if I interrupt with anything, But then you know who's in town?

Yeah, Frank Craig. That's what we were talking about, honey. He says he's come back for me. Take me away with him. What do you mean he says, Miss Nash? We came to the house a while ago and knew about Ben and me that we were gonna be married.

We came anyway. I sent him away. That does it for us. I told it, Ben. Now there's no harm in him just talking to her. Man's got a right to protect what's his, Marshal. Protection's my business, Ben.

And as long as I'm marshal here, it'll keep on being my business. On three days, you got a wedding coming up. I'd hate to see it ruined by killing. I have nothing against Frank Craig, Mr. Billin.

I wouldn't want him killed. Neither would I. Oh, good night, Miss Nash. Ben. All right. Think it over, Ben. Don't lose your head. Yeah, sure, Marshal. I'll think it over. How long are we gonna have to keep on riding herd on Frank Craig, Mr. Dylan?

Oh, just till he and Ben meet face to face and have their say, I guess. Ah, that Frank Craig sure is a fancy dresser. Silver spurs, red silk handkerchief, and yellow boots. Oh, well now, here's the Marshall, right on the job.

Hiya, Doc. Well, Matt, here we got ourselves a nice little killing coming up here. coming up. You hope we have you. Oh, no, it's not the fee. It's a romance in the thing. Yes. And then comes back in the West sees girl finds she's on the point of man. Chest up. Watch me for the play and keep me covered. I don't know what you mean.

Over there. Oh, Ben Martin and two of his boys that just came in. I'm gonna go over to the bar next to Craig. Keep your head up. Yes, Mr. Dylan. You better give me rude doc. How are you Frank? Yeah I saw him come in too. You've been standing over there watching me for two hours. Now you come up and speak. I fight my own

battles Marshall Frank the way I'm playing it there's not gonna be a battle. Well Ben it's nice to see you. Marshall I'd rather you would hear. I guess Yes, you know that. Yes, sure, I know that.

Don't worry, Ben. Dylan's neutral. That still gives you three to one odds. But more do you want. Frank, we don't need you in this town. You've gone for a year and we got along fine.

So if you climb on that horse of yours and ride out again, we'll still get along fine. A girl long, Ben. You haven't got a girl in Dodge City, Frank. Sure I have. And I want to thank you for looking out for her while I was away.

As far as she's concerned, you're still away. I might as well warn you, there are a couple of my boys on guard at her house armed with rifles. Bang? I never needed a guard to hold her.

If you come within 50 yards, they got orders to kill you. You'll be there from now until the wedding. No, yeah, that win. Well, Fred, that's been called off, Ben. You see, Artisan, I have other plans.

We got a wedding of our own coming up. Well, you dirty man! I'll feel the one of your draws he's drawn against me. I wouldn't draw on him, Marshall. I feel kind of sorry for him.

So help me, Martin. Shut up, Father. I'll have you. Now, you both had your say. And each knows how the other one stands. Well, here's my stand. If Ben wants to keep a guard at her house, it's alright with me.

You've had a fair warning, Frank. So stay away. I wish she would try to bother her. And on the other hand, Ben, Frank's got as much right to the run of the town as you or me or anybody else.

Sure, as long as decent citizens hide their valuables. You can't go by rumors, Ben. Nobody ever proved a case against him. You know that. A piece of stout rope would prove... I wouldn't try it, Ben.

If you and your boys want to drink, now go on over to the Longhorn. Stay out of the Texas Trail here from now on. You Frank stay clear the long one. Quite an optimist Marshall.

Yeah, maybe so. How do you leave him Ben? Yeah. I'll be seeing you Frank. Come on boy. Frank you've got nothing to gain here and everything to lose. Miss Nash has made a choice and whatever was between you once is water down the river.

Why don't you pull out? Because she's still my girl Matt. I know and she knows too. You wait and see. I'm going to move there to my king block a whole corner. But if I move here, you can move.

No, you don't, Chester. No, you don't. I'm playing Matt, not the both of you. Chester and I kind of run together, Doc. Enforcing the law. That's fine playing checkers. No. Matt. It's still your move.

Yeah, I know. Thanks, sister. Doc, your beat, let's call the game. Yeah, you sneak up to me. That's what you did to sneak up on me. Oh, well, that's all right. Sure is quite nice.

I figured one of them dudes would make a play before this. Yeah. And if we can get past Moon tomorrow with Ben and I, I'm going to be a little bit more interested in it.

Yeah, and if we can get past Moon tomorrow with Ben and artist married, now even Craig ought to know when he's beaten. Well, I don't know, Matt. He never did when he was here before.

I let him but I learned. Trying to get a girl to change her mind is one thing, but I don't know, married woman's another. You know, Mr. Dylan, it seems to me, Miss artist Nash is the one that could but have stopped all this.

If she'd just speak her mind out plain, they're what? Get out. What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you? They want you over at the express office right away. You too, Doc. What's wrong?

Hold up, Matt. Somebody shot the clerk. He's dying. Oh, yes. Let me through here, please. I'm sorry, Mr. One side, please. One side, please. I stand back. Now give us some room. Can you get through, Doc?

Hey, you're good. Yeah, Matt. I guess I can. Yeah. Mr. Chester, will you move them back? Make them stand back. Yes, Mr. D. Yes, let me have a look. I have to look back. There's a lot of bleeding matter. I don't know. I'll do it again.

It's a dinnin'. Easy enough, honey. You're gonna be alright. One man, Mr. Dinnin'. One man, I have to go over space. Red's your caricature. Oh, Red's your caricature. Oh, Frank Craig's the only man who's here.

I know. We will return for the second act of gun smoke in just a moment. But first, Tomorrow Night Vaughn Monroe and his musical company settled down for an evening's melody making at Duke University.

Eileen Woods is Vaughn's guest songbird. Band leader Vaughn, the moon maids and the moon men, join in playing and singing the top tunes of the week. Enjoy every bit of it tomorrow night on CBS Radio.

Now the second act of gun smoke. Maybe he's not gonna come back here. There's bed rolls here Chester.

All his belongings. Man doesn't leave his stuff in a roaming house unless he's planning to come back to it. You might have got to wind up after you shot that Kirk. Maybe just hit the saddle and let out.

No, not Frank. That's one thing about him. I've never seen him scared. You'll be here. sooner or later. I can't figure you're Mr. Dillon. You must have needed the money off of bad. Yeah, I guess so.

This hiding out in the dark gets on the manless nerves don't it? Yeah, it sure does. It helps us if we could just smoke it. Somebody's coming Mr. Dillon. Yeah, here. That's him, alright. Now watch it, Chester.

The Frank don't move. It's Matt Dillon. Huh. Thought it might be somebody else. Like the lunch, Chester. Yes, Mr. John. Frank, I understand you left the Texas Trail right after dark. Nobody's seen you since where you've been.

Just friendly conversation, Marshall, or is this official? It's official. Then I guess you won't answer that. I see you're still wearing that red silk handkerchief. Any reason why you shouldn't be? Marshall, what's it all about?

Murder if that express quirk dies I Asked you what's it all about? Where's the money Frank the way I seem to get it somebody held up the express office and shot the clerk You're accusing me I Didn't do it Marshall where you've been sorry Marshall you're under arrest Frank No, I'm afraid not

See, that would ruin all my plans. You better lay your gun on the table over there. I'm sorry, Marshall. Some other time, I got up for the plan. Grab him, Chester. Don't shoot, but grab it.

He went through the window, Mr. Gillen. Never mind, Chester. Grab a blanket. Let's get this fire out before it burns the whole place. Now, come off. That'll exist sour. In an hour, it'll all be over.

I'll kill you. I'd be a lot sure of that. If I had Frank Craig locked up in jail. No trace of him, huh? Not a sign. Don't forget about him, Matt. He could be halfway to Wyoming by now.

And I wish I could think so. I wonder what artist Nash is thinking about him? What business is she got thinking about him when she's gonna marry Ben in an hour? I'm afraid you'll just never understand women.

Well, who does? Frank Craig's a born drifter. He'll never settle down. His wild is a range cold. Never been broken, never will be. And sonar, a later he'll come home tight across his saddle. How any girl can get herself interested in the man like that beats me.

Not me, Max. I know exactly how a girl can get herself interested in a man like that. What? I'll see you at the wedding. I got a help artist, Beni Scranton. Morning, Miss Giddit. Morning, Doc.

Hey, good morning, Matt. You working up your courage? What for doc I'm not getting married How's the express clerk? Oh, he's bad. He's getting worse. I don't think he's gonna make it What about Frank Craig nothing? I'm not a sign. I think he's still around town somewhere. But we can feel it. Whoa doc

Doc look at that. Well look it and I'll pack a coat a borrow shirt green galaces and the pink so tight Oh, well, Chester, I haven't seen a get-up like that since I hold out of Boston.

Well, I figured it was only due respect to bride. Uh, well, where's your gun, Chester? Oh, goodness gracious, Mr. Dillon, you can't wear a gun to a wedding. I'll let this wedding, even the bridegroom's wearing a gun, Chester.

I'm wearing one and so are you, so you better go get it. Meet me at the church. Yes, little pretty, I wish I was married here myself. but I forget it Chester. Ben's got enough worries as it is. He sure does look fidgety. All right.

He's got reasons. Oh yeah sure kitty. Yes slide right in here. Here we go. I nearly beloved friends and neighbors. It is the privilege of all of us to be gathered here together in the sight of the Lord in the presence of one another for the purpose of uniting this man and this woman in the bond

the holy matrimony. It won't be long now, Mr. Dylan. Yeah, as soon as the better. Barbara, artist, Marge, Benjamin Martin. There is, I am sure, known only, that is the solemn and sacred nature of the great institution into which they are about to enter. I never heard all of it before.

And above the years still want to marry her Chester. the world beyond and above the decay and corruption of the flesh and the devil. Your manifest presence, as you come here together and the staking of others, in stank and hand, in hand, to have to have. He's just standing there, Mr. Dillon, just standing there and looking.

Slide up to the side aisle, Chester. Maybe we can get to him quietly without breaking up the meeting. I think so already broken up. I descended, Mr. Jones. Fell right on the floor. Yes. Come on, Chester. Pardon me.

Would you let me prove, please? I'm sorry, lady. One side, please. I'm sorry. He was right here by the door. Outside, Chester. Hello, sign, Elder. Matt did you find him not not yet been put that gun away you want to kill some bystander in the crowd there's only one man I want to kill I should have done it

three days ago yeah I know then what they do with Miss Nash and carried her into the minister's study at dirty law walking right into the church scared her out of her witch I'm also gentlemen oh over here Reverend Marshall a terrible thing it's happened he forced his way into my study pushed me out the door Craig

yes he had a horse tied behind the church he's gone and taken her with his Good not their mighty's good not save your breath then get your horse come on Chester let's ride Every did think we'd get back to time mr. Dillon I'm saddle sore and beat Yeah, Chester a hundred men hunting him and he slipped cast all of them. That's where I just can't figure it

Not a sign kitty some of the boys are still beating the riverbed soft, but I don't know Oh, yes, he kind of made fools of us, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, I guess so, Chester. Matt! What?

Any luck? Yeah, sure, Doc. Oh, bad. Yeah, mind you, man. That clerk died half all of a sudden. So now it's murder, Mr. Dillon? Yeah. Now it's murder. Now that boy. Well, it's gone to the office and got out on bullets and bullets.

What a good deal to lamp with you, Chester. Yes, you are. Here we are, me. Old at Matt. You two, Chester, don't move.

The only place nobody'd ever think of looking. Right here in the jail. Yeah. That's what we figured. How nice and nice. You seem to be in pretty fair shape for a kidnap victim. I'm not a victim of anything, Mr. Dillon.

unless it's my own foolishness. That's what most people would say, I guess. Maybe they're right. I only know this. When Frank came back to town, I knew then that it wasn't over and never would be.

I'm Frank's girl, Mr. Dylan. We're better or worse, right or wrong. I'm going with him to Wyoming. He's wanted on suspicion of murder, Miss Nash. He didn't do it. He couldn't have. He was with me when it happened.

What did you say? He said to pass Ben's guards and came to see me. That's why he wouldn't tell you where he'd been. He didn't want to get me in trouble. It's telling the truth, Marshall.

Yeah, maybe. Mr. Dillon, you might ask Ben Martin what happened to my red silk scarf. I missed it right after he came to see me that afternoon. Go on. He didn't do it for the money.

It's ruining me once and for all. If we were lying, we wouldn't have come here, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, it makes sense, all right, but Chester, who wrote up out there? Ben Martin, Mr. Dillon. I think he's coming in here.

Where's your horse, Frank? The corral back in the jail? All right, go out the back way. Get it and head for Wyoming. Take one of my extra horses and leave it at Bison and flat.

You can buy another horse from the Indians there. Matt, I don't know how we can ever thank you. Never mind, I just got going for it. Change my mind. And good luck to both of you.

Thanks, Mr. Dillon. Yeah, come on in Ben. Well, the light on. Figured you must be here. Any sign of him? What's the matter? The clerk died. Why'd you do it, Ben?

I don't know what you mean. Where's the red scarf you stole from this Nash? I gotta rest you for murder, Ben. I don't think so, Matt. I don't think I'm gonna let you do that.

You've seen me draw before, now you better give me your gun, Ben. Don't do it the hard way. What you call the hard way, Matt, may be the easiest way of all. So win or lose, I guess.

Something fell out of his pocket there. Yeah, his marriage license. Gun smoke under the direction of Norman McDonald's stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon US Marshall.

That story was specially written for gun smoke by Les Crutchfield, with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in the cast were Herb Ellis, Vivi Janis, Tom Tully, and Barney Phillips. Parley Bear is Chester, Howard McNier is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.

Join us again next week as Matt Dillon, US Marshal, fights to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in gun smoke. It's colorful as the western roundup and twice the fun.

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