26min | Western, TV Series | Episode aired 29 October 1957
A member of the notorious Wild Bunch bandit gang escapes from Ranger Clint Travis' custody, resulting in his being fired. Furious, Travis sets out to take on the whole gang and salvage his career and reputation.
Director: Reg Browne
Writer: Buckley Angell
Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, Norma Ward
A member of the notorious Wild Bunch bandit gang escapes from Ranger Clint Travis' custody, resulting in his being fired. Furious, Travis sets out to take on the whole gang and salvage his career and reputation.
Director: Reg Browne
Writer: Buckley Angell
Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, Norma Ward
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00:00Saddle up! Saddle up! Saddle up! Saddle up! Saddle up!
00:09This is the story of 26 men who rode the Arizona Territory.
00:16High is the glory of 26 men whose courage helped to build the Territory.
00:2426 men who saddled up and then rode off to answer duty's call.
00:3126 men who lived to write again and fight for the rights and the liberty of all.
00:39This is the story of 26 men enforcing law within the Territory.
00:46Praise be the glory of 26 men who rode the Arizona Territory.
00:53Ride on! Ride on! Ride on!
01:0626 men, carefully chosen for their courage and ability, formed the Arizona Rangers.
01:11Fame and public acclaim was not their objective.
01:14This is perhaps why the story of these 26 men has never been told until now.
01:2526 Rangers to maintain the peace of an entire state.
01:29There were many who felt it couldn't be done.
01:32And several recent arrivals in Nogales were thoroughly in accord with this opinion.
01:37These men had made hundreds of headlines with their criminal exploits.
01:41They were known from the Dakotas to the Rio Grande as the Wild Bunch,
01:45and they specialized in train robbery.
01:50Unique in the annals of frontier lawlessness,
01:53most of them practiced fastidious taste, both in clothing and in women.
01:58Intelligent, well-organized, they professed contempt for the law in general
02:03and for the small company of Arizona Rangers in particular.
02:07On the 14th of June, 1901, they intended to prove this with a daring escapade.
02:1330 miles of riding for nothing, Captain.
02:16The rancher says he doesn't want to prosecute after all.
02:20Psych.
02:22Psych.
02:23Psych.
02:24Psych.
02:25Psych.
02:26Psych.
02:27Psych.
02:28Psych.
02:29Psych.
02:30Psych.
02:31Psych.
02:32Psych.
02:33Psych.
02:34Psych.
02:35Psych.
02:36Psych.
02:37Psych.
02:38Psych.
02:39Psych.
02:40Psych.
02:42Sorry, Captain, I didn't mean to interrupt.
02:44You don't have to go, Travis.
02:46All right, Miss Bender, let's get back to it.
02:48You say you're a schoolteacher.
02:50That's right. I'm a schoolteacher.
02:52Where did you teach?
02:53I was working in Bisbee.
02:55How long ago?
02:56Just a little while ago.
02:58We can check on that.
03:00Well, let's see. I guess it must have been four or five months ago.
03:04What have you been doing since?
03:06Traveling.
03:07On what you made as a schoolteacher, you were able to travel for four or five months?
03:11I saved up for it.
03:13But this morning you were arrested for shoplifting.
03:15I tell you, I wasn't shoplifting.
03:17I just took those things outside to see the color in the daylight.
03:21And was the daylight so much better halfway down the street?
03:25Now, Miss Bender, the shoplifting charge is between you and the local police.
03:31We're interested in these railroad timetables we found in your room.
03:35Why, you have timetables for every railroad in the West.
03:38How do you explain that?
03:39I told you. I've been traveling.
03:41People use timetables when they travel, don't they?
03:45What do you know about the hole-in-the-wall gang, Miss Bender?
03:48The what?
03:49They're also called the Wild Bunch, train robbers.
03:52I don't know anything about them.
03:54They travel high, wide, and fancy, and keep two or three pretty girls with them.
03:59Aren't you one of those girls, Miss Bender?
04:01Thank you for calling me pretty, but I'm not one of those girls.
04:06You ready, honey?
04:07You didn't really think you could keep me here, did you?
04:10You stay right where you are.
04:32Where's the man who just came in here?
04:35Where's the man who just came in here?
04:59Just disappeared and nobody knows where.
05:01How's the man I hit?
05:02Bullet in the thigh.
05:03Dunning and Peters moved him to the jail.
05:05Can he talk?
05:06No, he can.
05:07But he won't.
05:09He's one of the Wild Bunch.
05:10Got a poster on him.
05:11How about the girl?
05:12She's in a cell, too.
05:14Took nerve coming right into this office after her.
05:16If that girl was shoplifting, they must be pretty low on money.
05:19Right.
05:20They'll be pulling another train robbery fast, and in their own backyard.
05:23How about letting me handle this case?
05:25You're taking the girl up to Tucson.
05:33Why send me up there when the job is down here?
05:37Travis, the biggest problem we have in this case is lack of information.
05:40Nobody wants to tell us anything.
05:42These are thieving killers.
05:44The public seems to think they're a bunch of Robin Hoods.
05:46All right, so let me stay here and go after them.
05:48No.
05:49I want to draw the gang into another try of freeing the girl.
05:52Somebody in the outfit thinks a lot of her.
05:54And if you take her out of here, they'll come after her.
05:57And when they do,
05:59they move into a trap.
06:06Within the hour,
06:07the Nogales press was told that Mary Bender was being moved north
06:10under conditions of maximum security.
06:13Travel arrangements were to remain secret.
06:21Go ahead, Travis.
06:22We'll be covering you.
06:23Right.
06:25We're ready now.
06:27Anything you say, Ranger.
06:29Seems like you and your prisoners are going to be my only passengers, Mr. Travis.
06:32We planned it that way.
06:44Go!
06:45Yes!
06:58You're not afraid of me, are you?
07:00What's with that idea in your head?
07:02I sit over here, you sit over there.
07:05Why don't you sit back and relax, Miss Bender?
07:07It's going to be a long ride.
07:27Go!
07:57Go!
08:28Isn't he more bad?
08:30Beats that musty jail.
08:32Doesn't seem too bad to me.
08:58We're spending the night here.
09:00A hotel.
09:01How nice.
09:16You're being very kind to me.
09:18I thought I'd have to thank you.
09:20You're welcome.
09:21You're welcome.
09:22You're welcome.
09:23You're welcome.
09:24You're welcome.
09:25You're being very kind to me.
09:27I thought I'd have to spend the night in jail.
09:41Ranger?
09:42Yes?
09:44I'm beginning to realize what a fool I was to get into a mess like this.
09:48Everybody makes mistakes.
09:50Would you help me?
09:51How?
09:53Well, maybe after I get out of this,
09:56you might be able to help me get another teaching job.
10:00Maybe not teaching.
10:02Maybe some other kind of work.
10:05Anything.
10:06I might be able to do that.
10:09A lot of people know you.
10:11You're a ranger.
10:12People think a lot of rangers.
10:14They listen to you.
10:16If you want to try for a new start, I wouldn't turn you down.
10:19You will help me, then?
10:21If you're on the level.
10:22It'd be worth taking a chance on that, wouldn't it?
10:33What are you sneaking, double-crossing?
10:36I'll bring you back some supper.
10:49I was wondering where you'd be.
10:51Where's the girl?
10:52She's faved at me.
10:53I've got her handcuffed to a bed.
10:54Well, how's it going?
10:56I find her very enjoyable.
10:57Never mind about that.
10:58You've got a job to do.
10:59What time do you leave in the morning?
11:00Seven o'clock.
11:01Good.
11:02You better get yourself some dinner.
11:03I'll keep an eye on the girl till you get back.
11:21Anna, I've got the boot.
11:22No trouble.
11:45Take it easy.
11:46Easy, Travis.
11:47Easy.
11:48Easy.
11:49Easy.
11:50Mr. Travis, the doctor broke me all up inside.
11:54What started this?
11:56I don't know.
11:57I was sitting there eating.
11:59He lit on me like a buffalo stampede.
12:02Do you know them?
12:03I never saw them before in my life.
12:06Come on, Will.
12:07Get you to the doctor.
12:11This is a wonderful breakfast.
12:13Thank you, Mr. Travis.
12:15Thank the Arizona Rangers.
12:16They're paying for it.
12:17Now, why didn't you just let me think
12:18you were buying it for me?
12:20Don't you have any romance in your heart?
12:22Lady, as the city lawyers say, that's a leading question.
12:39I thought you'd want to know the stage is filling out
12:41in 10 minutes, Mr. Travis.
12:42Who are you?
12:43Name's Cremotti.
12:44I'm taking Muller's place.
12:46He won't be able to drive for a month.
12:48A little early, aren't you?
12:52I've got nine minutes to seven.
12:54We'll be ready.
13:17Help!
13:18Help!
13:47Oh.
13:48Oh.
14:08What's the trouble?
14:09This wheel's freezing at it.
14:10Why didn't you take care of that back in the way, son?
14:12This is not my regular run.
14:13a run mother told me everything is all right I figured he had no tiny grease in
14:17a coach father should be take
14:19a look at. What
14:27are you trying to do well I wasn't trying to run away I wouldn't be here would I
14:32just stick with me mind if I stay here while the driver fixes that we are I won't
14:36see places like this for quite
14:38a while if I end up behind bars why didn't you think of that before you got in this
14:41mess I should have had someone like you around. Suppose they don't put me in jail
14:47because they give me another chance I hope they do give you another chance when
14:51you help me find that job. Sure think about it you'll think about it.
14:59It's your beats all what a woman will do to get her own way now if you really want
15:03that job. I'm not going to get you.
15:11I. Will
15:15a kind of cute. I can't have
15:18a like this I have to take these clothes off and dry them now wait
15:22a minute. Will you tell me what else I can do I'll go behind those bushes you just
15:28stay here.
15:41You.
16:11You.
16:41You.
17:04Trapped to catch the and you take the risk of losing your bait in this case the
17:09bait was Mary Bender a prisoner who made good her escape from the Arizona Rangers
17:14within forty eight hours after being taken into custody made it did you think I
17:18wouldn't wear now back to Nogales the boys are still there you can hold up at
17:23Maggie Derwin's place.
17:39I do expect us to cover you when you're left on
17:45a half hour ahead of schedule he's supposed to be the driver one of the gang and I
17:48got to him I don't know what I don't belong to any guy you're under arrest anyway
17:52where's the girl Travis you got away some of her crowd must have picked her up.
18:10Twenty six men who saddled up and then rode off to answer duty's call.
18:18Twenty six men who lived to ride again and fight for the rights and the liberty of all.
18:25This is the story of twenty six men enforcing law within the territory.
18:33Captain Reining and his men returned to Nogales without their quarry the wild
18:38bunch was still at large and the Arizona Rangers had lost a prisoner.
19:00I'm going to bet that came back here why one thing they're cocky enough to do it
19:04and after what happened I figured I'd have the edge on.
19:09It looks like a lot of people around here willing to agree with them I want to stay
19:13on the case Captain I think you've been on the case too long I think we need some
19:16a little smarter on it suit yourself you're certainly letting everybody know what you
19:20think tomorrow you can draw the pay you've got coming to you you're finished with
19:23the Rangers.
19:38The.
19:56Well Ranger you couldn't swing it could you got up against some real operators and
20:02look what happened that's what did happen Mr.
20:06They made fools out of you that's what who told you now you'll never mind who told
20:12me I know they made fools not all of us just me.
20:18Didn't I tell you.
20:24Ranger you're lucky you're lucky you got back here with your shirt on.
20:33What are you laughing for I don't know if that thing is funny it's funny no matter
20:37what happens to. Ranger you can't be so bad after all.
20:44That can laugh at himself the way you do can't be so bad I'm not a ranger anymore
20:50what do you mean I got fired that's the way of it Mr I got fired you just call me
20:56call me Wally any man that can laugh at himself the way you can call me Wally.
21:03And you didn't feel unhappy because they fired you because you got lots of friends
21:07around here. You see you don't have to feel unhappy because they fired you I'm not
21:14unhappy Wally I can always go back to punching cow.
21:19Ain't this a wonderful fellow now he ain't crying at all he lost his job got nothing
21:25he ain't crying. I've still got one thing Wally when that girl got away she left
21:30her dress behind and I've got it. That gal's one of the wild bunch and you got her
21:35dress that's right oh don't believe it you want to see it I'll show it to you wait
21:40right now you just come with me Wally.
21:55Boy what do you know about that how'd you like to take it to Mary Bender Wally you
22:05mean you let me do that oh no you don't you ain't gonna make a stupid out of me I
22:12told you I wasn't a ranger anymore Wally oh no not me even if I did know where she
22:16was I guess it got a little dirty back there you shouldn't have let that dress get
22:21dirty how'd you like to take it to the laundry for Wally and just tell the man where
22:25to deliver it and when Mary Bender gets it all clean and nice it'll be because you did
22:29her a favor well now I don't mind doing that go ahead.
22:51.
23:21.
23:34And I want you in Tucson when that train arrives Harley it should be a big haul and
23:38we bring it off Cassidy said he would come down here with the rest of the bunch.
23:41.
23:47We've got to get out of town fast we're in for trouble if we don't trouble what kind
23:50of trouble they just sent my dress to me what dress the one I left when I ran away
23:54from the ranger it was just delivered to me that means they know where I'm staying you
23:57came right over here so they know where we're staying all right I made a mistake we
24:01can still get out of here we'd better do it fast.
24:05Well we've been wondering when you get here.
24:12.
24:30It's all yours. I'm sure it's all right better take
24:36a couple of days and rest up thanks but I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
24:41Yes I thought you fired me that was just part of my plan to trap the wild bunch you
24:46didn't take me seriously did you not seriously enough to come in after my pay.
24:52It's been there. You're too young to have much of a record maybe I could help
24:57somehow don't waste your time doing me any favors range. Suit yourself.
25:06.
25:12Hard as nails smart to she really fooled me when you were in good company.
25:18Delilah fool Samson to Delilah looked anything like Mary Bender I don't blame.
25:23I don't blame.
25:31This is the story of twenty six men who rode the Arizona Territory.
25:38High as the glory of twenty six men whose courage helped to build the territory.
25:46Twenty six men who saddled up and then rode off to answer duty's call.
25:54Twenty six men who lived to write again and fight for the rights and the liberty of all.
26:01This is the story of twenty six men enforcing law within the territory.
26:09Praise be the glory of twenty six men who rode the Arizona Territory.
26:16Ride on.
26:18Ride on.
26:20Ride on.
26:23Ride on.
26:25Ride on.