26min | Adventure, Family, Western | Episode aired 1959
Jonathan Banner discovers American soldiers on an expedition to find the source of the Mississippi River, which they hope is the natural border between the U.S. and Canada. Disappointed that it is not, a fight ensues over what should be the border, but Banner's party and the soldiers settle their differences after being forced to work together to escape quicksand.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Writers: Andy Lewis
Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Tom Harvey
Jonathan Banner discovers American soldiers on an expedition to find the source of the Mississippi River, which they hope is the natural border between the U.S. and Canada. Disappointed that it is not, a fight ensues over what should be the border, but Banner's party and the soldiers settle their differences after being forced to work together to escape quicksand.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Writers: Andy Lewis
Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Tom Harvey
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00:00Hudson's Bay, the saga of the great Hudson's Bay Fur Company, and of the brave men who
00:19traveled the untracked wilderness from Labrador to California, from Minnesota to Alaska, starring
00:29Barry Nelson as Jonathan Benner, Hudson's Bay man, with George Tobias as Pierre Falcone.
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01:17.
01:47Here you boys had a good season.
01:51Ah, none better, yeah.
01:52Isn't it, Johnny?
01:53Me and Harris got the best partnership north of Grand Portage.
01:57Why, that dirty sneaking Norwesterner.
02:00Get away from my woman.
02:03Get away from my woman!
02:33Cut it out! Break it up, all of you!
02:52I won't have nobody pushing my men around.
02:54What are you on, men who started it?
02:56I'm gonna finish it, too!
02:57Get him out of here. Let him cool off.
02:58Take him outside.
03:00There'll be other times, Hans.
03:10Well, you stopped that one quick.
03:12Let's hope it stays stopped.
03:29I'll leave him where he is, Johnny. You're too soft with these Nor'westers.
03:56Aren't you forgetting, McGraw, that there are guests for one night?
03:59Yeah, what I'm not forgetting is the trouble they give us the rest of the year.
04:03Oh, come on. Let's get going.
04:04Well, all right. Come on. Get up.
04:06Up you come.
04:56Come on.
05:26Yeah, it looks like Bill Martin's knife, all right.
05:39Yeah, with his initials burned in the handle.
05:43Somebody could have stolen it from among the others, but...
05:47I was on my way back to the camp when I heard about it.
05:49There he is.
05:53Harris.
05:57Was it Martin?
05:58All we know is that it was Martin's knife.
06:01It must have been him.
06:02All right, come along, Bruce.
06:04We'll go get him.
06:12Hold it.
06:14Looks as though Martin might have done it,
06:16but I'm not going to stand for any lynching parties.
06:18Now, nobody said anything about a lynching, Mr. Carson.
06:22I have authority as magistrate of this territory,
06:25and your man will get a fair trial.
06:27Fair trial?
06:28The way you think toward the Nor'west company men?
06:31You have my promise, Carson.
06:33Martin's going to have every chance to clear himself.
06:36I'll make a deal with you, Benner.
06:38Martin's probably up at our camp right now.
06:40I'll talk with him.
06:43If he doesn't give me a fair story,
06:46I'll turn him in to you in the morning.
06:49Morning?
06:50We're not waiting till morning.
06:52I'll take Carson's word for what he's asked.
06:54You better, you better.
06:55Because if you go after him tonight
06:57and start shooting without asking questions,
06:59you're going to have to fight all of us.
07:01It's all right, Carson.
07:03Pick up your guns and knives.
07:05Now, wait a minute.
07:06You're letting Martin get away.
07:08I agree with Johnny.
07:10Harris was like a brother to me,
07:12and I want to see his murderer hang,
07:14but even a Nor'wester's got a right to a fair trial.
07:17I look everywhere, Johnny, but poof, she vanished.
07:20Little dove?
07:21What did you expect?
07:23No Indian, male or female,
07:24is going to get dragged into a white man's killing
07:26if they can help it.
07:27Probably gone back to her people.
07:28Maybe so.
07:29We'll see if we can find her in the morning.
07:32She act like she don't know anything.
07:34Anyway, we'll try to talk to her again.
07:37Well, if you like to waste your time.
07:43There's a Nor'wester camp over there.
07:45They do not like the fires of welcome.
07:47Oh, they won't cover for Martin any more than we would.
07:49They don't want to deliberately hide a killer either.
07:51Well, they are good honest men, eh?
07:53Oh, mostly.
07:54Well, we don't bother them then, eh?
07:57No, we won't bother them.
07:59We'll just ask them a few questions.
08:13He ain't here.
08:15Where is he?
08:17I don't know.
08:18You mean he run away?
08:20All I know is he wasn't here when we got back last night
08:23and his horse is gone.
08:25Doesn't look good, Carson.
08:27Don't mean he did it.
08:29No, but he sure did.
08:32Well, let's go.
08:34Let's go.
08:35Let's go.
08:36Let's go.
08:37Let's go.
08:38Let's go.
08:39Let's go.
08:40Let's go.
08:41I don't know, but he's sure making it look as if he did.
09:12Let's go.
09:14Let's go.
09:15Let's go.
09:17Let's go.
09:18Let's go.
09:19Let's go.
09:20Let's go.
09:26This is mighty big country, Johnny, to find one man.
09:30Unless he'd do what I'd do if I weren't guilty.
09:33When I was a little boy, I had much pleasure in riddles.
09:36But now, I like only the answers.
09:38The answer is I'd try to find the only possible witness who might be able to clear me.
10:09I do not know a white man called Martin.
10:15Did any other white man come to find Little Dove?
10:19No.
10:22Do not know Little Dove.
10:24But she's a Cree from your own tribe.
10:27When Cree woman goes to white man, she belongs to no tribe.
10:33A man has been killed, Running Wolf.
10:35Now if you know where Little Dove is, tell us. She might be able to help us find the murderer.
10:40Cree does not walk between white man's quarrels.
11:05Come on, come on!
11:15Come on, come on!
11:23Come on!
11:35I didn't do it.
11:46Why'd you run away?
11:47What chance would I have of a fair trial with Hudson's bay men, especially that McGraw?
11:53And I don't knife people in the back.
11:55I didn't even know he was dead until I was told.
11:58So help me, I wasn't within five miles of the post when it happened.
12:02After the brawl, I got sick.
12:04Martin doesn't agree with me.
12:06And then I left and rode out.
12:08Alone?
12:09Anybody see you leave the post?
12:12I guess not.
12:13Well, then it's your word unsupported by witnesses.
12:16I'll have to take you in, Martin.
12:34Order!
12:35Order!
12:36Do you expect this tribunal to believe you were starting to run away and change your
12:43mind and were coming back?
12:45It's true.
12:46I decided the Indian girl might know something she hadn't told.
12:49Still, when you saw Banner and Pierre, you tried to get away from them.
12:53I...
12:54I...
12:55I got panicky.
12:56The jury has heard the prisoner's statement.
12:59Are you ready to pass judgment?
13:00All right.
13:01It looks bad, McGraw.
13:04Nobody saw him throw the knife.
13:06We ought to find the Indian girl before you call for a verdict.
13:10No, Banner.
13:11You know Indians.
13:12Harris was her man, all she had in the world.
13:16Why, if she knew who'd killed him, she'd want revenge, and she'd have told us.
13:20Suppose she knew, but she was afraid to say, and suppose that's the reason why she disappeared
13:24so fast.
13:25Ah, that's just guesswork, Banner.
13:27Maybe so.
13:28But we shouldn't overlook anything.
13:33Gentlemen of the jury, Harris was killed by the prisoner's knife.
13:37Now, we all heard him threaten, eh, sir?
13:41He was trying to get away when he was caught.
13:44Now, these are the facts against him.
13:47For him, we have only his statement, that he's innocent.
13:53Now, you may retire and consider the verdict.
13:55What's there to consider?
13:56He's guilty, eh, boys?
13:57Excellent job.
13:58Order, order.
13:59This is a magistrate's court, and I am running it.
14:30We just got word you caught Martin.
14:32We're going in to keep an eye on the trial.
14:34It's over, Carson.
14:36That quick?
14:38You promised me you'd get a full and fair hearing.
14:40Well, there's still one chance.
14:42When do they hang him?
14:44Usual time, sunset.
14:46But look, Carson, if you ride into town, there's gonna be shooting, and a lot of men are gonna
14:50be killed.
14:51They ain't gonna hang Martin until they've proved he's guilty, and proved it good.
14:54Johnny and me are for him.
14:56We think he is innocent.
14:57Listen, Johnny tried to tell you.
14:59He have an idea.
15:00Maybe we save Martin.
15:03Yeah, maybe.
15:05Come on.
15:07Here!
15:27Come on.
15:58Looks like my bright idea wasn't so bright after all.
16:02Johnny, maybe you are wrong, but you are right.
16:06That makes sense.
16:08You see, it is like I say.
16:10She couldn't go back to her own people, so she must come here to wear Harry's sleeve.
16:15Maybe she must, but she didn't.
16:17I better get back to town and try to head up Massacre.
16:20Hey, that's funny.
16:28We'll leave the necklace laying around.
16:31Little Dove, we know you're here.
16:36We won't harm you.
16:54You take her back.
16:55I want her right in the camp.
17:25Hey!
17:55Hey!
18:13You got something in mind, McGraw?
18:16You've got eyes.
18:18Yeah.
18:19And guns.
18:21Martin had a fair trial.
18:23Banner thinks he's innocent.
18:25Well, the jury didn't.
18:26Neither did the rest of us.
18:28You ain't gonna hang, McGraw.
18:33Not till sunset.
18:35We'll see about that, McGraw.
18:37At sunset.
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21:20That banner just likes getting on the wrong side, don't he?
21:33Wait.
21:34Hold it there!
21:35It wasn't Martin.
21:38Who was it?
21:42One of our men.
21:43I'll arrest them for the murder if you boys have no obsession with letting me.
21:47Let go of me.
22:10Bruce, I'm putting you under arrest for the murder of Asa Harris.
22:15Yeah? On what evidence?
22:19Here's bringing the evidence in.
22:44If she says I did it, then she's lying.
23:10Is she lying about the present she has with her?
23:13The ones you gave her? Trying to take her away from Harris?
23:43Give me that.
23:53All right, cut him down.
24:07Johnny, about Bruce, do you think they...
24:10Well, most likely, but he'll have a third trial before the Chief Magistrate.
24:15I can't help to think about Little Dove.
24:17She lose her man, the man who want to steal her.
24:20And now she is an outcast from her own tribe.
24:23I wouldn't let it worry me too much, Pierre.
24:26You mean maybe Martin?
24:29I mean pretty much Martin.
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