Gunsmoke · October 7, 1956 · 24 min · 2,895 words
The transcript of “The Gambler”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast October 7, 1956. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gunsmoke plays Gunsmoke free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Gun Smoke. Brought to you by L&M, the modern cigarette that lets you get full, exciting flavor through the modern miracle of the pure white miracle tip. Live Modern Smoke L&M. Around Dodge 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.
Starring William Conrad, The France drug story of the violence that moved west with young America. And the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
The first man they looked for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely. What was he doing?
Are you eating already, Justin? No, sir. Oh, why not? Oh, I didn't like that scalford for no more credit. Oh, yeah, I heard that you were at Chuck Biesen's Pharaoh table again last night. All right, read me, sermon.
I deserve it. And I guess an empty belly will do you more good than a sermon. I'll tell you what you can think about that while I'm eating. And that's where I'm hidden right now.
All right, sure. But I think a sermon to do me good do, you know, all about the evil, the gambling. It kind of would lift me up, Mr. Dylan. The best one I ever heard was back in Prairie Falls.
Yeah, well, that's very interesting. This here, the circuit writer, was a real hell-firing brimstone. Or come right into the gambling hall. It didn't. Stood up on the table. He liked to got shot before he finished the first sentence.
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