Approved | 30min | Adventure, Western | TV Series (1957)
Surveyor George Washington aids a young woman whose land grant is threatened by a wicked innkeeper.
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: J. Benton Cheney
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Rodney Bunker
Surveyor George Washington aids a young woman whose land grant is threatened by a wicked innkeeper.
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: J. Benton Cheney
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Rodney Bunker
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00:00The immortal pen of James F. Cooper brings you thrilling tales of excitement, blazing
00:15action on the early American frontier, stirring adventures filled with the daring and courage
00:22of Hawkeye, first of the Long Rifles, and his blood brother, Chinguchkuk, last of the
00:30Mohicans.
00:31♪♪♪
01:01Oh, Laura, what is it?
01:17Indians.
01:18Where?
01:19There.
01:20And the bush is creeping towards us.
01:27Oh, Laura, you're imagining things again.
01:33I didn't this time, Sandy.
01:34I saw their head feathers.
01:35I did.
01:36I did.
01:37I thought the Indians around here were friendly.
01:38Friends sometimes turn hostile.
01:39Here.
01:40You take this.
01:41Oh, I know I should have stayed at home.
01:59We'll all be killed and scalped, and me with scarce enough hair on my head as it is.
02:11You see them, George?
02:20Yes.
02:21Oh, my sainted aunt.
02:22Follow me.
02:23There you are.
02:24Wild cattails.
02:25That was what you mistook for feathers.
02:26Come on, let's get back to the horses.
02:27Oh, no, Laura, not Indians again.
02:57When will you stop imagining?
03:04Drop that gun.
03:12What's the meaning of this outrage?
03:14I take it your name is Sandy Lee, ma'am.
03:16It is, but how did you know?
03:18And you're figuring on splitting up your land for a parcel of colonists you're bringing here?
03:21What if I am?
03:23You ain't gonna do it, ma'am.
03:24Well, of all the brazen effrontery.
03:26And who are you to tell me what I can or can't do with my holdings?
03:29Tim Grogan's the name.
03:31And it's not only me that's telling you it.
03:33Every one of us trappers here.
03:34Well, even wilderness trappers should have better manners than to speak to a lady in that fashion.
03:37And keep your mouth shut, young'un.
03:39We're the ones that settled this country at the risk of our lives.
03:41Tamed the wild redskin.
03:43And we're not gonna be pushed out by anybody.
03:45Whether you trappers leave or not is entirely your own affair.
03:49But this is my land.
03:51Through Pat and Grant from the crown to my late father.
03:53And I'll do with it as I please.
03:56Grant or no Grant.
03:58You and the others are heading back where you come from.
04:00I won't have you speaking to Mistress Lee that way, Grogan.
04:07That won't be necessary, Grogan.
04:13It seems to me you're being uncommon high-handed.
04:15Ordering an owner off her land.
04:17It's just as much our land.
04:19You're mad.
04:20We trappers fought to make it safe.
04:22Our dead are buried here.
04:24And no scrap of paper's gonna take it away from us.
04:26As squatters, it was never yours to lose.
04:29I think you'd better get your men and clear out of here.
04:36Stop!
04:37Fair fight.
04:38Stop there.
04:47No!
05:18Don't touch!
05:43I don't think you'll be interested in hanging around here all day.
05:46Take him with you.
05:57We owe you our deepest thanks, sir.
05:59You owe us nothing, ma'am.
06:00Glad we could be of service to you.
06:04What on earth is the matter with you now?
06:07That Indian.
06:08He keeps looking at me.
06:09He wants the scalp.
06:11Oh, stop it, you silly goose.
06:12Stop it.
06:13My companion, she's very frightened of Indians.
06:16Why, she has nothing to fear from Chingachgook.
06:19Chingachgook?
06:20Isn't that the name of the last chief of the Mohicans?
06:23It's a privilege to know you.
06:27And you, sir.
06:29My name is George Washington.
06:31Folks around here call me Hawkeye.
06:33This is Mistress Sandra Lee and her companion,
06:35Mistress Laura Dodson.
06:37Howdy, ma'am.
06:38It's a pleasure, ma'am.
06:39If you don't mind my asking,
06:41what's a party like yours doing out here alone,
06:43even if you do own the land?
06:44Well, I'm surveying the property for Mistress Lee,
06:46getting ready to open up the homesteads
06:48for the colonists still coming in.
06:49In time's short, Mr. Hawkeye.
06:51The first group are arriving in a very few days.
06:53Time's stopped, if white trapper go on warpath.
06:56Are we really in any danger?
06:58You saw, ma'am, those trappers are in an ugly mood.
07:01Well, they shan't frighten me.
07:03I came here to partition my land, and I will.
07:06White squaw speak brave words.
07:09But wise fox seek shelter if storm break.
07:12He's right, Sandy.
07:14You and Laura can't stay out here in the wilderness unprotected.
07:16I take Mr. Washington's advice, Mistress Lee.
07:19There's a settlement not far from here, Carrytown.
07:21A good idea.
07:23I can complete the survey while you and Laura rest at Carrytown.
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08:09Well?
08:11Grogan and his men are coming back into town.
08:13Be interesting to hear what they have to report.
08:16Slick as a whistle the way you got Grogan all steamed up
08:19against that Lee female,
08:21saying she'd force him and the other trappers to clear out.
08:24There's nothing like having a cat's paw
08:27to pull your chestnuts out of the fire, Chris.
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09:02Something go wrong, Grogan?
09:04Hawkeye. Just popped right out of the woods.
09:06Him and that Indian partner of his.
09:08I'm a little surprised at you, Grogan.
09:10I thought you trappers had stronger metal than that.
09:13Of course, if you want the settlers moving in
09:15and taking over your trapping territory...
09:17No, you know we don't want that, Mr. Brent.
09:19And we'll go to shoot him if we have to.
09:21But you're afraid of Hawkeye, is that it?
09:23Not of him. Or of no man.
09:31Grogan, you know my loyalty is on the trapper's side.
09:34And I'm going to help you.
09:36Now, just don't look around and play up
09:38no matter what I say or do.
09:41Well, I ought to have you horsewhipped, Grogan.
09:43Now, clear out of my settlement
09:45before I have you and the other trappers thrown into the locker.
09:47Now, look, here, Mr. Brent, you can't talk to me like that.
09:49I can and I will. And another thing, make any more trouble
09:52and I'll see you trappers starve before I buy any furs.
10:01Mr. Brent?
10:02My deepest thanks, sir, for what you just said.
10:04I'm Sandy Lee.
10:06Your servant, ma'am.
10:08And my regrets that I was unable to help.
10:10I only learnt now what those stupid fools tried to do.
10:13Rest assured, however, it won't happen again.
10:16You're very kind, sir.
10:17Not at all. There's room for everybody in this new land.
10:20And I'd deem it an honour, ma'am,
10:22if you'd accept my help in settling your colonists.
10:24Well, thanks, Mr. Brent.
10:26Just looking ahead to the future.
10:28You'll headquarter here, of course, at the inn.
10:30Allow me to be your escort, ma'am.
10:32Oh, you'll be joining us here, won't you?
10:34Never could get used to resting my head on linen at night, ma'am.
10:37But Chingachgook and I'll be around if you need us.
10:40Well, thank you again for everything.
11:03Well, I'll tell you to Hawkeye and Chingachgook.
11:05I'll be here.
11:06Oh, Tarble, Toby, Tarble.
11:08I hope you don't mind us talking while I keep on working.
11:10I promised I'd have this rifle fixed tonight for...
11:13No, I don't mind at all.
11:16What can you tell me about Calhoun Brent?
11:19Brent?
11:21Well, now, he practically owns the settlement.
11:25Lays down the laws.
11:27Has his own lock-up.
11:29And gives orders to the trappers, too.
11:31Nice gun, this.
11:33Come on, Toby, loosen up.
11:36Well, look at that, Mistress Lee.
11:38Nice gal.
11:39You speak with slippery tongue.
11:41You afraid of Brent?
11:43Me?
11:44You bet.
11:46That's why I ain't saying a word about me hearing the...
11:50Got Grogan and the trappers all riled up over something last night.
11:54Not a word.
11:56Mm-mm.
11:58Also, I ain't saying nothing about him declaring that once colonists moved in here,
12:04the trappers would have to move out.
12:08Nope.
12:09I'm keeping my mouth shut.
12:11Well, sorry you couldn't give us any information, Toby.
12:15Me, too.
12:16See ya.
12:17Yep.
12:18See ya.
12:29Where have you been?
12:33I've been checking up on Hawkeye.
12:35I don't think you fooled him one bit by play-acting with Grogan.
12:38Oh, why's that?
12:39He's been strolling around the settlement asking questions.
12:42About what?
12:43You and the trappers.
12:44Uh-huh.
12:45Is that all you've got to say?
12:47A bullet will do all the talking, if need be.
12:50I didn't build up this fur-trading empire to have it ruined by settlers.
12:53You want me to make certain by taking care of that Lee?
12:56I don't think that'll be necessary.
12:58I might persuade her to join me here when the Crown revokes her land settlement grant.
13:03Huh?
13:04She tells me that the land has to be colonized before this winter.
13:07Failure to do so means loss of the land.
13:10Then all we gotta do is send them colonists back to where they came from before they reach here.
13:20A runner just brought in word, Mr. Brent.
13:22A runner just brought in word, Mr. Brent.
13:24The first two wagons of settlers are going to reach the territory before nightfall.
13:27Does the town know about this?
13:29No, he was one of our men.
13:30He came straight to me.
13:31Good.
13:32Tell him to keep his mouth shut.
13:34Where are you going?
13:36Why, I thought I'd escort Mistress Lee and her companions out for a ride.
13:39I think it's time they got to know some of the country around here.
13:42But what about those settlers?
13:44Oh, those?
13:45I thought I'd leave that up to your judgment, Grogan.
13:47Yours and Chris's.
13:48All I ask is that they don't stay in the territory alive.
13:53The End
14:02You think Brent's behind all this?
14:04Everything we've learned points that way.
14:06But why?
14:07Well, he's got all the business from all the trappers in this whole territory.
14:10He's getting rich on it.
14:12A new settlement would put a stop to that.
14:14Well, what we do about Brent?
14:16First thing we'd better do is tell Washington and the ladies what we've learned.
14:20As long as he doesn't pull the wool over their eyes, we've still got a chance.
14:25You amaze me, Miss Lee.
14:27I do? How so?
14:29That a girl of your breeding and quality should concern herself with colonization.
14:33Oh, it was my father's dream.
14:35A dream he willed to me along with his patent grant.
14:38Just think of it.
14:40All this beautiful, fertile land will soon provide farms for simple people
14:45who ask nothing more than soil to till and the right to worship as they please.
14:50And Providence willing, they'll find a haven here.
15:09Must have been attacked by some Indians somewhere.
15:11We'd better head back to the settlement.
15:16Come on.
15:22Well, them settlers won't be back in a hurry.
15:24Watch him.
15:43Watch him.
15:54Watch him.
16:24Watch him.
16:49Before we came, you said the engines here were peaceful, ma'am.
16:52They are. I...
16:54Them heirs say different.
16:56We want no part of them.
16:58We're heading back.
17:00But you can't. Think what it'll do to the other colonists.
17:03Well, they'll turn back, too. That's for certain.
17:06Oh, but please.
17:08We're beholden to you, ma'am, for trying to help us,
17:11but there ain't no amount of land worth getting scalped for.
17:14We'd better be heading back, Miss Lee.
17:22Come on.
17:43Hawkeye, I thought you were back at the settlement.
17:46When we learned that you'd come out here, we figured to join you.
17:49That's lucky we did.
17:51These are the Indians that scared off your colonists.
17:54So you're in this, too, eh, Chris?
17:56Who put you up to it? Those trappers?
17:59That wasn't necessary, Brent. Why does it have to be the trappers?
18:02Isn't it obvious they're to blame?
18:05Maybe Chris has something to say about that.
18:13Well, I'm going to jail anyway.
18:15All right.
18:17It was Tim Grogan and the trappers.
18:22The End
18:39What? Hawkeye.
18:41Glad you joined me. Care for some refreshment of some kind?
18:44Oh, no thanks, Brent. Just wondered how you made out with Grogan and the trappers.
18:47They're in the jailhouse, quiet and peaceful, waiting trial.
18:50Kind of like lockin' the barn door after the horse is stolen, though.
18:53Oh, why's that?
18:55Well, those colonists that Miss Lee needs to settle the territory,
18:58I don't imagine they'll be too eager to return now.
19:01She doesn't have to worry about that anymore.
19:04Oh, why's that?
19:06Why, haven't you heard the news? There's two more wagon loads of them on the way.
19:09Is that so?
19:11That's what I heard. With Grogan and the others in jail, they won't run into any trouble.
19:15Oh, that's wonderful. I'm delighted to hear it.
19:19I think I'll go right over now and congratulate Miss Lee.
19:22Yeah, I knew you'd be glad to hear about it, Brent.
19:35I ought to kill you for this. Dry up.
19:38It was either you or Brent. I had to get Hawkeye off his trail.
19:42I hadn't figured on nothing like this.
19:44Me and the other trappers figured Brent was our friend.
19:47Now he's turned in against us.
19:49You're a smart one, you are. He was never with you.
19:53Brent looks after himself. And real good, too.
19:59There's work to be done, lads.
20:04What now?
20:05More colonists coming. They didn't learn their lesson the first time.
20:08This time I want them wiped out, everyone.
20:10That ain't for me. I don't hold with murder.
20:12Not for all the furs in the country.
20:14You'll hold still for more than you know, Groban.
20:24Ammunition and horses are outside.
20:26Take him with you. I want him left at the wagons as proof who was behind the massacre.
20:44I'll be back.
21:07Did everything work out as we planned?
21:09Better. Brent's going to lead the party himself.
21:11Let's show pale face who tried to kill them.
21:13It'll be all the proof any court of law will need.
21:15What about that settler Turner and his wagons?
21:18Me take care.
21:19Good. Let's not keep him waiting.
21:41Let's go.
22:11That's far enough. Let's drop him here.
22:41It's a trap!
23:02All right, Brent.
23:12Well, almost finished here now.
23:14The rest of your colonials can start moving in any day now, Sandy.
23:17Good. And there's nothing I like more than for you and Chingach Coop to be the first to homestead.
23:22Well, thanks for asking us, ma'am.
23:24But we'll leave the settling down to others.
23:26We'd better be moving on.
23:27Oh, I'm sorry. I'll miss you.
23:29I will too. I hope our paths will cross again.
23:32We'll be hearing of each other again, George.
23:34It's been a pleasure, ma'am.
23:36I'll never forget you, Hawkeye.
23:38Goodbye.
23:42I just wanted to thank you.
23:55What's the matter?
24:00Hawkeye.
24:03Maybe someday I take Squaw.
24:07Come on.
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24:41Last of the Mohicans.
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