Approved | 30min | Adventure, Western | TV Series (1957)
Lt. Briggs breaks the treaty by chasing an Indian beyond the recognized border. Led into an ambush he escapes but his militiamen are captured. Hawkeye and Chingachgook are assigned to escort him to his court-martial and probable hanging.
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: Robert B. Bailey, Hugh King
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Brian Smyth
Lt. Briggs breaks the treaty by chasing an Indian beyond the recognized border. Led into an ambush he escapes but his militiamen are captured. Hawkeye and Chingachgook are assigned to escort him to his court-martial and probable hanging.
Director: Sam Newfield
Writers: Robert B. Bailey, Hugh King
Stars: John Hart, Lon Chaney Jr., Brian Smyth
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00:00The immortal pen of James F. Cooper brings you thrilling tales of excitement, blazing
00:16action on the early American frontier, stirring adventures filled with the daring and courage
00:23of Hawkeye, first of the Long Rifles, and his blood brother, Chinguchkuk, last of the
00:32Mohicans.
00:33A little sneak at Oneida's.
00:50Well, I'm through being a walking target.
00:54Come on, men, we're going to fight back for a change.
00:57Lieutenant Briggs, we can't go past this boundary.
01:01We're treaty bound not to chase into Oneida territory.
01:04There's nothing in the treaty saying we have to say thank you for being sniped at.
01:07Lieutenant, that's militia, man.
01:09We got enough worries without disobeying a red coat colonel's orders.
01:13Just to remind you, Fiber, out here I'm in command, not Colonel Dillon.
01:17Now fan out and shoot on sight.
01:19Meaning no disrespect, Lieutenant, but that's an order you've got no right to give.
01:22All right, Fiber, since you seem to be thinking like a book soldier, stay here.
01:29Now, what about the rest of you?
01:50An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
01:55No mark in the tree's going to stop me.
01:57Even if I have to do it by myself.
02:02Well, what are we all standing here for?
02:04We can't let the lieutenant do all the work for us.
02:27There he is!
02:37There he is!
02:39Hey, devil!
02:47There.
02:49There.
03:19There.
03:25There.
03:34There.
03:39There.
03:41There.
03:48What have I done?
03:51What have I done?
04:11There.
04:24Regulations.
04:27That's all that's keeping me from hanging you.
04:29And it would be a fair example to all militia men.
04:32But hang you will when the commissioner general gets this report.
04:36Hawkeye.
04:38Colonel.
04:40Greetings, Chingaskook.
04:42What's this all about?
04:44The orderly said something about transporting a prisoner.
04:47I want you to take this man to the territorial capital.
04:50Well, since when have you stopped using your own guardhouse?
04:53Seems to me you could cool off a prisoner just as well right here.
04:56This young hothead will cool off with a rope around his neck.
04:59I trust the court-martial will concur with my report.
05:02What you been up to, son?
05:04Dereliction of duty is no matter to be taken lightly, Hawkeye.
05:07This man, a lieutenant in command of a patrol of the King's militia,
05:10by his own admission,
05:12violated our peace treaty with the Onedas.
05:14What I know of the Onedas,
05:16they're not very good at keeping treaties themselves.
05:19Oneda, smile in face, stab in back.
05:22The fact remains that we are not at war with them.
05:24Maybe you don't think so, Colonel.
05:26But as long as Kootenai's chief of the tribe,
05:28the Onedas will always be in the war path.
05:30Your opinion is of no consequence, Mr. Briggs.
05:33You will conduct the prisoner to the capital
05:35and deliver him to Colonel Quentin for trial.
05:37Colonel, it's not the kind of a job that I hanker for,
05:40delivering a man to the gallows.
05:42Couldn't you send some of your own troops?
05:44I can't spare any. We're on demand as it is.
05:47It's the same excuse you gave when you refused to march in and rescue my men.
05:50If I'd had regular soldiers in my patrol instead of militia,
05:53you'd have had a whole garrison after Kootenai.
05:55Your rashness cost us your patrol.
05:57I do not propose to lose this fort by acting in the same manner.
06:00Come on, Lieutenant. We'd better get started.
06:03Goodbye, Colonel.
06:05Goodbye, Hawkeye.
06:14You know, threatening yourself sick about those charges
06:16won't make them any less serious, Lieutenant.
06:18I'm not thinking to myself.
06:20It's my men.
06:22Just over that border, they're prisoners of the Onedas.
06:24Nothing being done to help them.
06:26Well, what makes you so certain they're still alive?
06:29A band of them that attacked us
06:31used their guns as clubs instead of shooting them.
06:33They sure wouldn't do that
06:35if they just wanted to lift a few scalps.
06:39Chingichgook,
06:41do you mind guarding the prisoner by yourself for a while?
06:44Where are you going, my brother?
06:46I'm going to do a little treaty violating myself.
06:59Come on!
07:01Come on!
07:03Come on!
07:05Come on!
07:07Come on!
07:09Come on!
07:11Come on!
07:13Come on!
07:15Come on!
07:17Whoo!
07:19Come on!
07:21Come on!
07:23Come on!
07:25Come on!
07:27Come on!
07:29Come on!
07:31Come on!
07:33Come on!
07:35I'm back.
07:37No torture prisoner now.
07:39Couldn't they ask
07:41for last time
07:43how many soldier in fort?
07:47Pale-faced not afraid die?
07:49Couldn't they know
07:51how make them want die?
07:53You say nothing.
07:55Maybe not need tongue.
07:59Couldn't they cut out?
08:01Wait till the word gets around
08:03to the other Indian nations
08:05what Kootenay's idea
08:07of a peace treaty means.
08:09You'll have a new name.
08:11Faceless one.
08:23Right.
08:25Not a trifle.
08:49You and Edith
08:51travel pretty far south
08:53on your raids once a year.
08:55Heard you went as far
08:57as the Father of Waters once.
08:59Me live for many years
09:01with Natchez tribe on shore,
09:03the Father of Great Waters.
09:05This is same wood
09:07they use for make prisoner,
09:09make talk.
09:13Natchez
09:15teach me how
09:17make brave
09:19Natchez
09:21teach good.
09:23No make Natchez torture.
09:25Get that tongue a wagon.
09:27Kootenay
09:29sell soldiers.
09:31They didn't look sold to me.
09:33What are they doing still in your village?
09:35White man come soon.
09:37Bring much wampum.
09:39You're lying.
09:41No white man's fool enough
09:43to buy soldiers.
09:45No lie.
09:47Kootenay
09:49with Ottawa.
09:51Ottawa buy many slave.
09:53Not care where come from.
09:55So Kootenay's messing around
09:57with white renegades in Ottawa.
09:59It's about time someone showed him
10:01he's getting a might too big
10:03for his britches.
10:05No talk more.
10:07You've talked enough.
10:09You want to prove to the colonel
10:11that he's wrong about you?
10:13Hawkeye hanging is unimportant to me
10:15He wants to save the men of your patrol
10:17and to stop Kootenay
10:19from getting the Onidas on the war path.
10:21Don't even stop to breathe.
10:23What about him?
10:25Him tied good.
10:27And you too?
10:29Kootenay is going to get paid a visit
10:31from a white renegade in Ottawa
10:33a little sooner than he expects.
10:45Look at the savage.
11:05Don't give him the satisfaction
11:07of seeing you break.
11:09Well, let's go.
11:11I hope the chief never met
11:13poor Ottawa brave named Attaka.
11:27Greetings Kootenay,
11:29great chief of the Onidas.
11:31I'm Joe Acker.
11:33This is Attaka of the Ottawas.
11:35Ottawa tribe
11:37send greetings.
11:39First time white man see Kootenay.
11:41How no name.
11:43All men of woods know name of Kootenay.
11:45Name of Kootenay on many tongues.
11:47Manner to smile.
11:49You give wampum,
11:51me give slave.
11:53That's what Attaka and I came here for.
11:55What is this,
11:57the famed Onida hospitality?
11:59To talk of bartering
12:01before the care and comfort of friends
12:03who have just made a long journey?
12:05White brother wish
12:07Kootenay over.
12:09You go in tipi,
12:11eat, rest.
12:13When sun hide face,
12:15then we barter.
12:21Dirty renegade.
12:39Well,
12:41we've got him fooled so far.
12:43When sun hide face,
12:45what we use for wampum?
12:47Potter and ball if we're long-winded enough
12:49with our bartering.
12:51We better start doing some praying
12:53as the lieutenant gets here with the colonel
12:55and the military before we run out of words.
13:09Appears like there's no time to say our prayers,
13:11let alone have them answered.
13:15Him Hawkeye,
13:17Chingagook,
13:19Mohican, not Ottawa.
13:21Got to hand it to you, Kurok.
13:23Never expected to see you here.
13:25Mohican, Thai good,
13:27like squaw.
13:31Kurok say,
13:33fort week,
13:35Mohican,
13:37fort week,
13:39not many soldier.
13:41While Hawkeye die,
13:43Oneida attack.
13:45You've got a treaty with the fort, Kootenay.
13:47You're supposed to be a man of your word.
13:49Kootenay man of word,
13:51prisoner break treaty.
13:53Come Oneida country,
13:55make war.
13:57That's not the way I heard it.
13:59They were out on a patrol.
14:01Your brave shot at them, tricked them into a trap.
14:03You don't keep your word, Kootenay.
14:05You speak with the tongue of a lion snake.
14:17But you've got to listen to me.
14:19My men, they're going to be sold
14:21as slaves.
14:23Hawkeye and Chingagook, they've gone.
14:25To their deaths, no doubt.
14:27Arrest him.
14:29Colonel, I didn't think this up.
14:31Hawkeye sent me to get you in the garrison.
14:33Kootenay's stirring up the Oneidas,
14:35and there's no telling when they'll hit the warpath.
14:37Briggs, I don't know how you escaped
14:39from Hawkeye and Chingagook,
14:41or what you expected to gain by coming back here.
14:43But let me tell you one thing.
14:45You're going to the gallows if I have to take you there myself.
14:47My neck's unimportant right now.
14:49It's my men,
14:51prisoners of the Oneidas,
14:53and the safety of this whole territory I'm worried about.
14:55The safety of this territory is my concern.
14:57And I need no advice from the likes of you.
14:59Take him to the guardhouse, Sergeant.
15:01Lock me in the guardhouse, even hang me if you want to.
15:03But hit the Oneidas first
15:05before they massacre the whole garrison.
15:19Guards! Guards! You got it!
15:21Ain't no use you asking me again, Lieutenant.
15:23You know the colonel won't see you.
15:25He gives me specific orders.
15:27He's got to. Them savages will be attacking any time now.
15:29I hope so. And in my book, a colonel's always right.
15:59Sound General Quartus!
16:03Let me out of here!
16:17Youngie's getting ready to leave fort.
16:21Couldn't he set trap
16:23like catch patrol before?
16:25We've got to try and warn the colonel.
16:27One sound, you die.
16:29Make Youngie's chief think
16:31only few warrior.
16:33Him come out,
16:35not go back.
16:39We will stay in tight formation
16:41until we make the woods.
16:43Then deploy and fire at will.
16:45They must be a small party or they would have attacked in force.
16:47Open the gates!
16:49Colonel, wait!
16:51You're just exposing yourself to a trap.
16:53The same kind of trap I rushed into.
16:55Quick, march!
16:59Colonel!
17:03Oh, I pray to heaven I'm wrong.
17:13Hold fire.
17:15We take more slaves for other ones.
17:17Fall back!
17:19Not fair!
17:21Kill all Youngies!
17:33Hold fire!
17:41Release Lieutenant Briggs
17:43and bring him to my quarters.
17:46If you're not valuable to Goodney,
17:48you'll be dead.
17:50Bring all white men.
17:52They make good shields.
18:04Shoot!
18:06Shoot!
18:08Shoot!
18:10Shoot!
18:12Shoot!
18:14Shoot!
18:16Shoot!
18:19Hold it!
18:21It's Hawkeye and Jingetsko.
18:23Open the gates!
18:30Untie us.
18:34Where's the colonel?
18:36He's wounded. He's placed me in command.
18:38There's just one chance in a million
18:40of not being overrun by those Anita's out there.
18:42Maybe saving the lives of those men.
18:44Anything you want in the fort is yours, Hawkeye.
18:46Maybe all I'll need is my bare hands.
18:55We stand in back.
18:57Soldiers in fort not shoot,
18:59kill own men.
19:02Goodney!
19:04What are you, a squad chief
19:06hiding behind real men?
19:12Goodney show Hawkeye
19:14who's squad chief
19:16when take Hawkeye's scalp.
19:18The other tribes will all laugh
19:20when they hear how two men with their hands tied
19:22got away from the Anita's.
19:24The Ottawa's will spit
19:26when they hear the name of
19:28Goodney, the rabbit-hearted chief
19:30who hides behind white men.
19:32Hawkeye brave
19:34hide in fort.
19:36Make fight with tongue.
19:38You come out.
19:40Goodney show how fight.
19:42I'll make a deal with you, Goodney.
19:44I'll meet you
19:46man to man, barehanded
19:48for the lives of those prisoners.
19:50So be it.
19:52Goodney lose fight
19:54three prisoners.
20:10This time, Hawkeye,
20:12I kill.
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22:09You, Anita's,
22:11stay on your own land.
22:13Live in peace.
22:15Now,
22:17me become Mohican again?
22:21Yeah.
22:29Anything more we can do for you before you leave, Hawkeye?
22:31Well, that's just what I was gonna ask you, Colonel.
22:33Well, now you mention it, there is one thing.
22:35You can tell the Commissioner General that I'm taking an extended leave.
22:38During my absence, I'm recommending one of his militiamen
22:40to take command of the garrison.
22:42I didn't know you were planning on a leave, Colonel.
22:44There are compensations for
22:46being nicked in battle.
22:48Methink me no name of militiaman.
22:50It's Lieutenant.
22:52No, Chinkage Cook.
22:54You're wrong.
22:56He's Captain Briggs now.
23:01Well, that's one decision you didn't make rashly, Colonel.
23:04Congratulations.
23:05Thanks, Hawkeye.
23:06We'll deliver your message.
23:07Thank you, Hawkeye.
23:08Goodbye, Colonel.
23:09Goodbye.
23:16Join us again at this same time next week
23:19for another of James Fenimore Cooper's
23:21gripping tales of the early American frontier.
23:24Another exciting adventure of Hawkeye
23:27and his blood brother, Chinkage Cook.
23:29Last of the Mohicans.
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