26min | Adventure, Family, Western | TV Episode
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon are sent on a special assignment from Fort Gannon to meet with Standing Bear. When the arrive, they meet Standing Bear's "adopted" daughter, blonde-haired blue-eyed Lucy Shepherd, who was orphaned at a young age and has grown up in the tribe, knowing nothing else.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Writers: Victor Arthur, Sidney J. Furie, Andy Lewis
Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Carol Starkman
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon are sent on a special assignment from Fort Gannon to meet with Standing Bear. When the arrive, they meet Standing Bear's "adopted" daughter, blonde-haired blue-eyed Lucy Shepherd, who was orphaned at a young age and has grown up in the tribe, knowing nothing else.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Writers: Victor Arthur, Sidney J. Furie, Andy Lewis
Stars: Barry Nelson, George Tobias, Carol Starkman
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00:00Hudson's Bay, the saga of the great Hudson's Bay Fur Company and of the brave men who traveled
00:18the untrekked wilderness from Labrador to California, from Minnesota to Alaska, starring
00:28Barry Nelson as Jonathan Banner, Hudson's Bay man.
00:43George Tobias as Pierre Falcone.
01:06It was late in the summer of 1824 when Pierre Falcone and I were ordered out from Fort Gannon
01:11on a special assignment.
01:20Well, there it is.
01:24Let's go in.
01:25Johnny.
01:26Yeah.
01:28That is Indian camp.
01:30I can see that.
01:32You know who the chief is?
01:33Standing Bear.
01:34Well, do you not remember that Standing Bear and his braves have killed more white men
01:38than any other Indians?
01:41The war's been over a long time, Pierre.
01:44Yeah, but Pierre Falcone does not forget.
01:48They killed a cousin of mine.
01:50Well, the whites killed many of their cousins.
01:53But they started the war.
01:55The whites moved into their hunting land.
01:57I don't care.
01:58I don't want to go there.
02:01So you're going to keep hating them for something that happened over 15 years ago?
02:06That's no good, eh?
02:08What do you think?
02:09I think sometimes Pierre Falcone is very foolish.
02:13Come on.
02:14You are one fine man.
02:15You know that?
02:16Come on.
02:39I speak to friends, Bear.
02:52You speak to friends, Standing Bear.
02:55Once we were enemies.
02:57Many summers have followed many winters since then.
03:00It is forgotten that we were enemies.
03:02You speak good words, Bear.
03:06That is why I sent for you.
03:09Come with me.
03:19Josiah.
03:26She has blue eyes, Johnny.
03:27So I say.
03:29When she was taken prisoner many moons ago, my heart was full of bitterness.
03:35It was in my heart to send her to the war.
03:38To the white man's heaven with her mother and father.
03:44But my heart changed.
03:48And I felt for her as my own.
03:53Josiah.
03:56Lucy in English.
03:59Lucy Shepard.
04:02Her parents were killed when she was about five.
04:06This is like a miracle, Johnny.
04:08We gave her up for dead when she was a little girl.
04:11I sent for you, Benner.
04:15To take Josiah back to her own people.
04:18My people here.
04:20We have decided.
04:22My home here.
04:24No longer.
04:25You will take her, Benner.
04:28To where?
04:30The family is dead.
04:32To a white man's settlement.
04:35If that is your wish.
04:36That is my wish.
04:43You will make ready.
04:51You will watch over her?
04:54I will.
04:58I go now.
05:00I do not want to look on her face.
05:01When she leaves.
05:10Johnny.
05:12What is this all about?
05:14He wants to give back something he stole.
05:18But she does not want to go.
05:21Looks that way, doesn't it?
05:23I don't understand why a white woman want to stay here.
05:28I don't understand why a white woman want to stay here.
05:32I don't understand why, standing there, I would let her go.
05:37Johnny.
05:39You and me, we don't understand much.
05:40Do you?
06:00Well, guys, it looks like Benner finally got himself a squaw.
06:03A good-looking one, too.
06:06Why, you dirty little heathen.
06:08I think you made a mistake, my friend.
06:10She's not dirty, and she's not a heathen, and she understands English.
06:14She could even understand an apology.
06:17Don't you think so, Pierre?
06:18Oh, yes, I think so.
06:20You're telling me to apologize to a ninja?
06:23Johnny tells you, and I tell you, too.
06:28Ain't worth having trouble about.
06:29Okay, I made a mistake.
06:32We accept your apology.
06:34Well, Mr. Benner.
06:37We weren't expecting you.
06:40Who's this?
06:42This is Lucy Shepard, Mrs. McGuire.
06:45Lucy Shepard?
06:47I'm afraid I don't approve of joking about serious matters, Mr. Benner.
06:53Nor do I, Mrs. McGuire.
06:55I'd like to talk to you in fact, McGuire.
06:58He's up country for a few days.
07:01Well, why don't we just step in, and I'll explain things to you.
07:04Well, it's just like somebody coming back from the dead.
07:11Sit down, girl.
07:12You don't have to act like a squaw any longer.
07:15You're a white woman.
07:16I do not want to be white woman.
07:23Well, I never expected to live long enough to hear anything like that.
07:28It's been a rather sudden change.
07:30Sudden or not, she ought to be down on her knees in gratitude.
07:34She hasn't got anything to be grateful for yet.
07:37Lucy, I think you ought to be wearing what the white women are wearing this season.
07:41That is, if Mrs. McGuire has any such thing among her trade goods.
07:44Standing Bear told me I must do what you say.
07:48Well, I could fit her out, Mr. Benner.
07:49But I think it's a waste of time unless she comes to her senses.
07:53If she wants to be a squaw, putting her in decent clothes,
07:55and being a white woman, that's what she ought to be.
07:58If she wants to be a squaw,
07:59putting her in decent clothes ain't going to change anything.
08:02I have seen ladies change very much when they change clothes.
08:05Lady?
08:07Indeed.
08:09And who is going to pay for a lot of clothes she doesn't even want?
08:13Oh, I think we could somehow manage that.
08:16Pierre?
08:23Wow.
08:28Come on, girl.
08:39I will unsaddle the horses.
08:45Well, who do you suppose that is?
08:47How do you do?
08:48Where's Factor McGuire?
08:50He's away.
08:51Oh.
08:53My name's Phipps of head office, assistant to the governor.
08:56Oh, yes, yes, I've heard of you.
08:58I'm Jonathan Benner.
09:01Benner, eh?
09:03I must say I've heard of you, too.
09:05A good deal.
09:06Oh, yes, yes, I've heard of you, too.
09:08Oh, yes, yes, I've heard of you, too.
09:10I must say I've heard of you, too.
09:12I must say I've heard of you, too.
09:14I must say I've heard of you, too.
09:16A good deal.
09:17I rather expected you to be a man nine feet tall and breathing fire,
09:22you know, a man of action and all that.
09:25Yeah, sure you haven't got me confused with Paul Bunyan.
09:28I haven't, but some of the chaps at headquarters seem to have.
09:33Well, Benner, look after my carriage for me, will you?
09:38I shall need quarters for a few days.
09:40I'm making a round of inspection for the governor.
09:43Yes, uh, Mrs. McGuire's inside, uh, sure.
09:46She'll take care of you.
09:47Very well.
09:57Johnny, you let them give you orders like a servant?
10:00Well, he outranks me in the company, doesn't he?
10:02Ah, an office clerk.
10:04Ah, yes, but a very big, important office clerk.
10:16I have to wear this?
10:23As far as I'm concerned, you don't have to wear anything
10:25except them Indian rags you came here in.
10:28Oh, that Jonathan Banner, trying to make a lady out of a savage
10:32that doesn't want to even be one.
10:46I say, Banner, I just heard about this girl you rescued from the Indians.
10:51Fine feather in your cap.
10:53Ah, we didn't, uh, rescue her, Mr. Phelps.
10:55Of course you did, for all practical purposes.
10:57Now tell me, uh, is she pleasant to look at?
11:01Oh, in my opinion.
11:03In mine, she is beautiful.
11:04Really?
11:07Banner, I want to take this girl back with me to Montreal.
11:11I want to introduce her to society.
11:13I think she'll be a sensation.
11:15Yes, well, I don't think she'd go as far as Montreal willingly.
11:20She's lived as an Indian so long,
11:21it's going to take her just a little while to accept our custom.
11:24Nonsense, nonsense, my dear chap.
11:26Blood will tell, you'll see.
11:28I knew the Shepherds, her father's people in England.
11:30A fine family.
11:35I say, she's a stunner.
11:39My dear Miss Shepherd, allow me to welcome you back
11:42to the society of civilized people.
11:45I do not know you.
11:46Oh, well, we'll soon put that right.
11:48Now, now, my dear, I shan't hurt you.
11:51Roger Phelps.
11:52Delighted to make your acquaintance.
11:57Young Eagle.
12:08Who is the white fool, Banner?
12:10Whoever your primitive friend is, Banner,
12:13I congratulate him on his English,
12:14but I take exception to his choice of words.
12:17The man who kisses the hand of a squaw is a fool.
12:20Yes.
12:23Young Eagle, I'm your friend.
12:26You have been my friend.
12:28Your father asked for us to come to his lodge.
12:32He sent Lucia with us.
12:34My father is a wise chief,
12:37but he has done wrong while I hunted Buffalo.
12:42That woman will be my squaw.
12:45I go with Young Eagle now.
12:47Not now.
12:49Standing Bear is still chief.
12:52It is his wish that Lucia see the life of the white woman.
12:56Learn if her white blood calls to her.
12:59I say he is wrong.
13:02I say she comes back to me.
13:05Well, it looks as if she wants to, Young Eagle, but...
13:07You're not going to give in to this fellow, are you, Banner?
13:09Until I have spoken longer to my father,
13:13Lucia stays here.
13:15I give no thought to this man.
13:18But if she is taken away to the white men's cities,
13:22I will bring a war party against you and your people.
13:38Well, Banner, I think we better keep Lucy here if we can, Mr. Phipps.
13:43You'd allow them to intimidate you?
13:45And not only you, but the company, all white men.
13:48I don't know anything about intimidated,
13:50but I do know there's no sense in causing Indian trouble
13:53over two young people who are in love, red or white.
13:56Love, the girl doesn't know what she's talking about.
13:59If it is your wish, I will go to White City with you.
14:03But a minute ago, you said you wanted to go with Young Eagle.
14:07There has been a change in my mind.
14:13Banner, it seems to me you've got a lot to learn about women.
14:24Well, Johnny, what do you think?
14:29Pierre, you want to tell me all you know about women?
14:32I can go this way and that way and this way.
14:46I cannot do it.
14:48Oh, well, if you're going to Montreal, you better learn.
14:50In the white men's cities, they dance like this all the time, don't they, Pierre?
14:54Oh, sure.
14:57I do not call this dancing.
14:59Well, I think we'd better just try it again, shall we?
15:04One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three.
15:06No, it is no good for you and me to be so close.
15:10What is this dancing?
15:13Might as well stop playing, Pierre.
15:15She does not want to learn to dance?
15:17I don't think so.
15:18Then how can she go to the white man's city?
15:21Well, I don't think she's going to be able to.
15:25I don't think so either.
15:27Very clever, Mr. Banner, but I'm afraid not quite clever enough.
15:32If you'll excuse me, would you like to try it with me?
15:36I'd try it.
15:37May we have some music, please?
15:39Johnny, go ahead.
15:41We may all learn something.
15:48Just relax, my dear.
15:49Let the music carry you on your way.
15:57That's it.
16:00You're doing splendidly.
16:07Don't you think Miss Lucy will be the toast of Montreal, Mr. Banner?
16:12If you insist on taking her away from here,
16:14I won't be responsible for what young Eagle will do.
16:17Young Eagle will do nothing, Mr. Banner.
16:20You're so sure.
16:21Young Eagle is fully aware that white man's justice is swift.
16:25You appear to be the only one taken in by his bluff.
16:29Mr. Phipps.
16:30Yes, Mr. Banner.
16:34I don't know what you're doing with the company.
16:36Keep talking about that, Mr. Banner,
16:38and I'll see to it personally that you don't have to worry about this company anymore.
16:41There's been peace around here for the last 15 years.
16:44It took a lot of hard work by a great many people to keep it that way.
16:47They remember the last uprising.
16:50Where were you, Mr. Phipps?
16:52Dancing a waltz at a fancy ball in Montreal?
16:54Just keep talking, Banner.
16:56Well, I've been with the company since I was a boy.
16:59It's the only thing I know.
17:00And I want you to know when you threaten me with a discharge,
17:02that means something to me.
17:03But I want you to know something else.
17:05I'm not going to just sit by and watch you or the governor himself start another war.
17:08Because I'm sick of death.
17:10I'm sick of blood.
17:12And I'm sick of fools like you.
17:15Johnny.
17:16I'm a charitable man, Mr. Banner.
17:19You just said enough to lose your position with the Hudson's Bay Company.
17:24However, I'll overlook it this evening.
17:27But any more outbursts and that'll be it.
17:30I hope I make myself clear.
17:31I shall retire now.
17:34I suggest you do the same, my dear.
17:36May I escort you to your room?
17:45Johnny.
17:46You could have been discharged.
17:48It's not over yet.
17:50Maybe young Eagle is just bluffing.
17:53Maybe.
17:55One man cannot make the world.
17:57That doesn't mean he shouldn't try, Pierre.
18:00You cannot change Mr. Phipps' mind.
18:02So is it worth losing your job?
18:04If I don't change Mr. Phipps' mind, people may lose their lives.
18:08What would you do if you were not working for the company?
18:12I don't know.
18:14You know something?
18:15I think I hate Mr. Phipps more than I hate any Indian.
18:18Hating is a waste of time, Pierre.
18:20Yeah, but maybe sometimes it is good to waste time.
18:25What are you going to do?
18:26The truth?
18:27What else?
18:30I don't know.
18:55Good morning, Mrs. McGuire.
19:09Oh, good morning, Mr. Phipps.
19:16Well, I'm all packed and ready to go.
19:18Good.
19:20I hope you have a very pleasant trip, Mr. Phipps.
19:24And by the way, you may tell your husband on his return
19:26that I shall be putting in a most favorable report regarding his post here.
19:29Why, thank you.
19:31And, uh, Miss Lucy, is she ready to go?
19:34Well, she should be.
19:36I don't know what's keeping that girl.
19:51She's just coming.
19:52Oh, uh, good.
19:54Um, I don't seem to have seen Mr. Banner this morning.
19:56I won't have a chance to say goodbye to him, will I?
19:58Uh, you may not.
19:59I, uh, I haven't seen him myself this morning.
20:01No, no doubt he's out somewhere doing something intrepid.
20:05Extraordinary fellow, isn't he?
20:06Such weird ideas about Indians.
20:10Ah, Miss Lucy.
20:12Good morning, and are you ready for our little trip to the bright lights of Montreal?
20:16Ready.
20:17And it's a beautiful day, isn't it, Mrs. McGuire?
20:20Indeed.
20:21Well, shall we go?
20:23Yes.
20:51So
21:08Open the gates, Mr. Banner.
21:21So
21:38Stand aside.
21:42You're not going anywhere.
21:44What do you think I am?
21:47I said stand aside.
21:51So
22:03You're through, Banner.
22:05Finished.
22:06When we're through with you, not even the Northwesterns will take you.
22:10You won't be able to hunt, trade, or anything.
22:12Do you understand?
22:13Oh, you're easy to understand, sir.
22:20So
22:38Yeah
22:51Oh, Indians!
22:58You see that, Phipps?
22:59You see that?
23:00Perhaps they're coming on a trading mission.
23:03They're coming on a trading mission, all right.
23:05You know what they want?
23:06You.
23:13You who take squad to white cities.
23:16You come.
23:17No one takes squad to white cities.
23:20Squad go, so brave will come and get her.
23:25My father wants you to stay with white men to see if the white blood calls to you.
23:32Now my father say you may come back if it is not so.
23:36It is not so.
23:39Then you come.
23:47Your scalp would be in my bag if you had taken squad from fort.
24:17You took a big chance, Johnny.
24:22Lucky.
24:24Very lucky.
24:48I owe you an apology, Mr. Bannon.
24:50I accept your apology, Mr. Phipps.
24:53Needless to say, you are still very much a part of the company.
24:56Thank you, sir.
24:57Well, I should be going.
25:00Goodbye.
25:00Goodbye.
25:03Oh, uh, Jonathan.
25:04Yes.
25:06If you should happen to come across another blonde-haired squaw,
25:09but one who is romantically free, you understand, give me a shout, won't you?
25:15Fascinating creatures.
25:17And they, uh, waltz just divinely.
25:27You know something, Johnny?
25:29You are right.
25:31What about?
25:32It would have been a waste of time to wait, Mr. Phipps.
25:35And you can't afford to waste any time, can you?
25:37No.