The Rebel

If you'll take that thing out of my face.

Get over there by those rocks.

Listen, I don't know what you figure me for, but...

Get over there!

Just came in to get some water, that's all.

Now you get up there where they can see you!

Will you listen a sec?

Get up there!

Now you stand right there.

You, out there!

Can you see him, the rest of ya?

You think that's all you had to do?

Send one man in?

Well, you're cowards!

Come on!

Come on, all of you, the whole pack!

Cause that's what it's gonna take, the whole pack!

Hey, you don't look so good, man.

Que pasa, huh?

Hey, what is this, eh?

I no see him before.

Who are you?

What's this all about?

You don't know?

No, I don't know.

Hey.

Gracias.

Eh?

Give it to me.

Eh!

Eh!

Hey, it's gold.

Give it back to me.

Okay.

Okay.

Plenty time for tick tock, tick tock.

A man can die with a watch on, eh?

Shoot them all!

You rotten killers!

You no have sheep?

You no have reason to stay.

Oh, that one is nothing.

He'll be gone 10 miles like bobtail rabbit

by time we come back.

Or else...

Your watch, four chimes, four o'clock.

Alright, they'll be coming up around five.

Gives us an hour.

If you head for those buttes,

they'll take you back to your trail.

The two over with the peaks jutting out,

like a man hunched over.

I'll help you pack your burro.

Dawn, sometimes you can see it.

The pines up high, bending low in the wind.

Looks like they're whipping him.

If you're still here at dawn,

he'll stake you to an anthill.

Let him.

Let him?

Look, you better move out now.

It's a push as it is to been that sun to Guerida.

It'll boil a man's blood by noon.

Mesquite, sage and mesquite as far as you can see.

No water, no grass, no shade,

not even enough to cover a lizard.

What are you doing out here?

It's open range.

Well, they didn't seem to think so.

It's free, open range.

Good for nothing.

Look, what have you got...

Not for cattle, or sheep, or man,

or anything else.

Look, why don't you get out of here?

The other side of those hills

is about a three day walk, maybe four.

Plenty of grass, water.

You know what's up there, it's everything you need.

Dirty, lousy tramp coming in out of the dark.

You stay out here, why?

No reason you'd understand.

Out in the middle of nowhere, what for?

Dignity.

Human dignity.

You ever heard of the word?

No, you never did, you tramp.

Well, I'll tell you.

If you draw a line that far,

they push you no further.

Then what?

You fight!

For what?

What do you think I've been talking about?

Dignity!

Dignity.

Dignity.

A man fights for dignity, he lives it!

He doesn't bury himself in some God forsaken.

Go ahead, say it.

Alright.

Danton Ridge, lost about 30 men,

expected to lose 300.

Colonel Cochran, you ever know him?

No, I was with the Third Texas.

Lieutenant Waares, we'll be moving out at dawn.

We'll be taking Rutland, he told me.

Third and Fourth Regiment, Battalion A,

they'll reinforce the town when we move.

We'll come in from Batsville, across the bridge.

Lieutenant Waares, you and two other men,

you move out under dark.

You take the creek bed up to the junction.

Dawn, blow the bridge.

We followed that creek bed,

right into a nest of federal pickets.

And I thought...

What's God put in a man

that could tear each of us to pieces like this.

If this is all man is, then he ain't worth dying for.

No more than a hound,

so I told him, I said...

Rutland!

They're going to Rutland!

I watched them move out.

And those Feds, oh they were ready.

The bayonets shining.

Night came and went, and then we heard.

They didn't go for Rutland,

they took the Ridge instead.

I couldn't understand it, the Ridge?

But then it dawned on me.

My outfit never planned on taking Rutland,

it was Ridge all the time.

But if they can make those Feds believe it,

if they can send a man in there to be captured.

No, not just a man, an officer.

An officer who'd break under torture

and tell what he knew!

Any man would've broken.