Gunman's Walk

It'll be good to be getting away from the ranch a while.

Are you crazy?

I just want to make sure you can still talk. You didn't talk the last five miles.

Don't do that again.

Okay brother, continue.

Are we supposed to yell at each other?

Come on, come on I'm listening.

If that's all you have to tell me,

it was not worth it.

I often think of the mare we saw in the Autumn,

she's probably out there somewhere.

Shame I have missed my throw! The prettiest horse I ever saw.

Not the first time that you have missed.

I am weaker than Lee, or even than you.

What do you mean "same as me?"

I'm as strong as Lee,

if not stronger!

That's right, go ahead, break up your neck.

You speak their lingo pretty good.

My mother was sioux.

What do you know.

If you are around the reservation I will have to join the tribe.

Talk to my brother, he is in the corral.

I'm not so anxious.

Not unless I'm sure you have the right company.

What brings you strangers over here?

If I had known you stock that kind of merchandise over here.

Clee was not here recently.

What can I do for vou?

Say it to him, I have to do something else.

We are snort on manpower.

You over at the hackett ranch are shorthanded?

Father has dispatched 5,000 heads of cattle. There was a snortage of railroad wagons.

The men will not return in time... I see.

We thought you could help us out.

We'll see.

We have far too many horses in our territory, wild stallions and stry ones.

And you? Are you wild or stray?

3 weeks to c0llect them, one for selling them in town,

maybe that is what you are gonna do in Jackson city.

Me, I plan to have fun in the city,

clee

it really is a nice name,

is this a sioux name, sweetheart?

No! And I am not your darling!

Do not talk to her like that.

This is a halfbreed, right?

The school hasn't cnanged her skin c0lor.

Shut up.

Do not mind, he wants to make you angry.

Occasionally, I want to beat him.

Do not hesitate.

Sadly, he is stronger than me.

I prefer that,

my name is Davy hackett.

Yes, I know Mr. Avery said that you are one of the hacketts.

Yet who would have thought? A hackett not bearing a gun.

I am cfiile chouard

I thought it was "clee"?

My mother called me clee, my father was French,

I don't know which one I like better, cfiile or clee.

It's alright, you didn't call me honey.

Paul.

The hacketts need help with a horse drive.

This is David hackett, my brother Paul,

"black horse", "blue eagle".

They ask how mucn you pay,

doesn't matter, just don't spend all on overpriced snirts.

Leave us, squaw, this is mens' business.

When does the drive start?

When should we start?

Regarding wages

Tell Lee that we are prepared.

See you tomorrow.

You have until the end of the month to make good on the contracts.

We need the bulls snipped on time.

Johnson knows that I want 3,000 head.

When Tyler is back you can help him.

Okay, I'll take care of it.

Lee.

I can take care of it, if you want.

Oh no.

I am not ready to retire you yet.

Bob, you and me haven't missed a horse drive in 20 years.

You have to have a little fun once in a while.

These rides are not great at my age.

And you know why?

You do not have a couple of sons like that.

It's not enough for you, you always want to be ahead of them.

Any luck at the agency?

I hired three men.

Two and a half in fact, one was a half-breed.

Paul chouard?

- You know him? - Very good,

and how! This is the pest man/

- from the neighporhood. - Really?

You think so?

If you don't take my word for it, see for yourself.

I'll help, - no thanks.

Don't pay a foreman to rub down my sons' horses.

I have not asked him. But you agreed.

You know I hate asing for favors.

We must always be ready to pay it back douple or triple.

What should I do?

I said I don't want it to happen again.

Yes sir.

Don't you walk away from me when I'm talking to you.

If you let others doing things for you

they believe they are petter than you.

Yes sir.

You can stop calling me sir.

Come, get washed up, son.

If chouard is the pest horse catcner in the region,

Lee and ed will not let that stand.

They are pugging eacn other.

It's not gonna be easy for chouard out there.

Look what I found.

I had forgotten.

Forgotten?

No, I left it on purpose.

So wear it.

Okay, I put it on.

So when does the attack of the sioux begin?

You got rustlers riding the range?

You are not so big that I can't take my pelt to you.

Sorry.

I do not want to be cheeky, but I can snoot good enough.

In town, only the sheriff carries a gun.

I could see folks staring at us.

What for? Because they iook at us?

They watch us if it suits them.

What for?

I'll tell you why.

I want them to know it ain't their country anymore.

Just want to remind them that we got here first.

With this.

What do think would have happened if I hadn't had a gun.

And wouldn't have known how to use it.

Your so good with the gun, try it.

A little rusty, huh?

Come on, we'll chip off a pit of rust.

I neglected your training,

you take both?

No, one after the other.

Once more.

You weren't even close.

Watch your wrist, keep it lose.

Here, take this.

I'll go siowly. Observe me well.

Look at my gun, not the bottles,

- See what I mean? - Yes,

now that one, there.

Not again, work on your draw.

You could do petter when you were 15 years old,

what if I could, what's so important about it?

I shoot enough to kill a rattler or put a horse out of it's misery.

Yes, you can, if you stand up close enough.

Can you tell me what's so important about it?

I saw you standing in front of the mirror practlcing.

You want me to boot you the ...?

Do not blame him to train in front of a mirror.

Let's see how fast you are.

Okay.

I'll throw them one after the other.

Wait until I have thrown the second one.

But you got to get this one first.

Okay, go ahead.

Very good I

you think you can do any petter?

No I do not think so,

not on the bottles, but a man/

- who knows? - Of course...

Wait a bit.

I saw fast shooters lose their nerves.

There is a way to check.

For example, if

if everyone took one of the tin cans.

Holding it like this.

We step back and when Davy gives a signal we draw.

And fire?

Yes, on the tin can.

Never ever I even on the 5-liter cans.

I do not like to walk with two fingers less.

Look.

I will take the can and put it on the fence.

Crazy ideas, shooting a pox out of the hand of a man.

You don't think I can?

If it would have been anypody else

I would have hit you dead center.

Habit is a strong thing

and you need to learn how to respect a gun.

Knowing when to shoot is just as important as knowing how!

Come, let's eat.

The last meal before the rally, come, Davy,

Bob was right, this mestizo is excellent.

It smells like rain.

Do you.

You petter listen and take your ponchos from the coach.

The sky is clear.

Should not argue with women, mules and cooks.