The Adventures Of Champion E2: Crossroad Trail (1955) - (Adventure, Western, TV Series) - video Dailymotion

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Not Rated | 26min | Adventure, Western, TV Series | Episode aired 30 September 1955    A young ranch hand nearly falls in with bad companions until Ricky is blinded from a fall sustained when fleeing the two men and needs his assistance.  Director: George Archainbaud  Writers: Eric Freiwald, Robert Schaefer   Stars: Champion, Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon

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00:00Champion the Wonder Horse, Champion the Wonder Horse.

00:11Like a streak of lightning flashing across the sky.

00:14Like a swiftest arrow whizzing from a bow.

00:18Like a mighty cannon ball he seems to fly.

00:22You'll hear about him everywhere you go.

00:25The time will come when everyone will know the name of Champion the Wonder Horse.

00:55Woof, woof, woof, woof.

00:59You won, Russell.

01:03There's the wild herd.

01:10And there's Champion.

01:15Whistle.

01:20Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof.

01:31Rubble's feeling extra good.

01:33Because he beat me up the hill.

01:35Hey, what's the matter Champ? Did I forget you care?

01:41Won't be getting any more for a while.

01:43Uncle Sandy's going away on business for a sec.

01:45Me and Rubble will be staying at Colonel Fenton's.

01:48That's what we came out here for.

01:50To say goodbye.

01:52Hey, that's no way to act.

01:54You can ride me back to the ranch.

01:57Woof, woof.

02:00Come on, Champ. Let's show Rubble how a real race is read.

02:25Hi, Rubble. Where's that nephew of mine?

02:35Rubble, taking shortcuts isn't a very fair way of winning a race.

02:40I call it cheating.

02:42Don't be too hard on him, Ricky.

02:44Plenty of humans take shortcuts that aren't fair.

02:46But you always told me that honesty is the best policy.

02:50It certainly is.

02:51I hope you'll always remember it too, Ricky.

02:54Well, come on. Let's get started.

02:55Sure, Uncle Sandy.

02:58Go on, Champ. I'll see you in a couple of days.

03:06Well, it looks like Champ doesn't want to leave you, Ricky.

03:09Come on, Champ. I'll be back.

03:38Looks like your wet nursing job's about to start, kid.

03:41Lay off.

03:46Well, I thought you two would never get here.

03:50How are you, Ricky?

03:51Fine, thank you, Colonel.

03:52I'll have my grandson show you where you're going to bust.

03:55Oh, George!

03:56Better hop to it, kid. Grandpappy's calling.

04:00Yeah, jump through the loop.

04:01You'll probably be docked another five dollars.

04:03George!

04:10I'll ride into town with you and bring the rig back, Sandy.

04:13Thanks, Colonel.

04:14Hiya, Josh.

04:15Hi.

04:17Take Ricky over to the bunkhouse and show him where he beds down.

04:20Come on, kid.

04:24You stay out of trouble now, Ricky.

04:26I will, Uncle Sandy. Come on.

04:30What am I going to do with Josh, Sandy?

04:32He's been like that for weeks.

04:34Raising a boy's a tough job.

04:36I've done my best ever since his folks died.

04:38And until a few weeks passed, I thought I was on the right track.

04:41But now, nothing I do seems right.

04:44He resents everything I say.

04:46Well, he's at the years between, Colonel.

04:48He's not a boy any longer, yet he's not quite a man.

04:50He's kind of a crossroad.

04:53Yeah, I reckon you're right, Sandy.

04:56But what's got me worried is which trail he's going to take.

05:00Oh, he'll take the right one.

05:02You've just got to give him a little room to spread his wings.

05:05He's stubborn, like his grandpa.

05:11This is going to be swell.

05:13You get to sleep in the bunkhouse all the time?

05:15Yeah, I have to.

05:17The old man wants me to learn the cattle business the hard way.

05:20He even docks my pay when I make a mistake.

05:22You mean the Colonel?

05:23Yeah.

05:25One of the wranglers can teach me a lot.

05:27And losing my pay will teach me even more.

05:29Well, you should be real proud of him.

05:31He's got about the richest bread in the valley.

05:33As far as I'm concerned, he can keep it.

05:35San Francisco sounds better to me.

05:37You going there?

05:39I might.

05:40Why?

05:41It seems to me your grandpa's kind of dependent on you here at the ranch.

05:44Nobody depends on me, kid.

05:46I just take orders, do what I'm told.

05:49Oh, you wouldn't understand.

05:50You're just a kid.

05:57Want to help me mend some fence?

05:59Sure.

06:03Champion!

06:08That's a good looking animal.

06:10Sure is.

06:13He must have followed me over here.

06:19Let's go.

06:37Told you to go on back to the herd, champ.

06:39Guess you wanted to see where I was going.

06:44Is this your horse, kid?

06:45Well, not exactly.

06:47Nobody owns champ.

06:48He's a mustang.

06:49Leads a wild herd in the valley.

06:51Ricky here's the only one he'll let in his back.

06:53This kid?

06:54There never was a horse I couldn't ride.

06:56I wouldn't try it, mister.

06:57Josh is telling the truth.

06:59Honest.

07:00Yeah?

07:01Well, watch this.

07:11Champ!

07:13Go on, champ!

07:14Go on!

07:21That horse is a killer.

07:22He is naughty, just like freedom.

07:24I tried to tell you.

07:25Thought you said there wasn't a horse living you couldn't ride, Bart.

07:28Maybe that's not true.

07:29Along with some of your other talk.

07:31I can do anything I said I could do.

07:33Including breaking that mustang.

07:35I'll show you.

07:43Do anything about our deal last night, kid?

07:45Hold it down.

07:46Ricky's inside.

07:47He might hear something.

07:48Sure, kid.

07:49Sure.

07:50You know, a deal like this won't wait forever.

07:52We can get a real buy on that Frisco gambling house if we act now.

07:56I know you told me.

07:57Your own business.

07:58Easy life, kid.

07:59And you've given the orders.

08:01Simple as turning the dial on the old man's safe.

08:04And robbing it.

08:06The money's gonna be yours someday anyhow, kid.

08:08What's the difference if you get it a little early?

08:10Being frank, I ain't gonna wait much longer.

08:14Morning.

08:16Opportunity knocks only once, kid.

08:18Remember that.

08:35What did he mean by that?

08:37Nothing.

08:38Never mind.

08:39Come on, we got a lot of work to do before lunch.

08:53There they are, Frank.

08:58There's that mustang.

09:09You sure you can whistle like that, kid?

09:11Sure tries.

09:16Keep it up.

09:17He's coming this way.

09:22Stay here and keep calling him.

09:38Keep it up, kid.

10:09Let's take him to Old Corral.

10:10We'll show Josh he can re-road.

10:20Have some apples, boys.

10:22Our plan don't have blueberries, but I'm fresh out.

10:24Oh, I know where there's a whole pile of them.

10:26I'll get it.

10:27I'll get it.

10:28I'll get it.

10:29I'll get it.

10:30I'll get it.

10:31I'll get it.

10:32I'll get it.

10:33I'll get it.

10:34I'll get it.

10:35I'll get it.

10:36I'll get it.

10:37Oh, I know where there's a whole patch of wild berries.

10:39I'll get some for you tomorrow.

10:41That be right nice of you, son.

10:45How'd everything go this morning, Josh?

10:47Same as usual.

10:49No change.

10:51Looks like we're going to have a good year.

10:55I want to go to San Francisco, Colonel.

10:57If you lend me the money, I'll pay you back.

10:59Can't we talk about that some other time?

11:01I want to talk about it now.

11:03I'm not trying to hold you back, Josh,

11:05but you're not old enough to go out on your own

11:07to make a trip like that.

11:09All I'm old enough to do is take orders, is that it?

11:11Josh, do this.

11:13Josh, don't do that.

11:15I can't decide anything by myself.

11:18But you're still a boy, Josh.

11:20You've got to learn to take orders before you start giving them.

11:23When you understand that, then you'll be a man.

11:26I was in San Francisco once, Josh.

11:28With Uncle Sandy.

11:30It's lots nicer here.

11:31Stay out of this.

11:32Josh, don't you talk to our guests that way.

11:35No sense trying to explain how I feel.

11:37I know how you feel, son.

11:38I felt the same way when I was your age.

11:41But you've got to learn your business first.

11:43Become a good rancher.

11:44Then you've got plenty of years to see the country.

11:47I want to see it now,

11:48not when I'm falling apart with old age.

11:55But I...

11:56I need you here, Josh.

11:58Don't that mean nothing?

12:01You don't need me.

12:02You don't need anybody.

12:11He didn't mean what he said, girl.

12:14I'm only trying to do what's best for him.

12:17But somehow I...

12:19I just can't figure it.

12:22Maybe I'm making a mistake.

12:25Everything will turn out all right, sir.

12:27I sure hope you're right, boy.

12:40What's the matter, boy?

12:50Jeff!

12:58Rebel, get the colonel, quick!

13:01Jeff!

13:03Jeff!

13:08Stop it! Leave him alone!

13:17I'll show this Mustang to his boss.

13:27Jeff!

13:33Run, Jeff! Run!

13:39I'll break your neck!

13:40Leave that boy alone!

13:45You see what that kid did?

13:47I saw enough to know that I don't want you working for me.

13:49Now you pack your gear and get out of here, both of you.

13:52We didn't break no laws.

13:53That horse is wild.

13:54There's no law letting me know what you did was wrong.

13:56Now I want you off my ranch before sundown.

13:58Now, Jeff!

13:59Both of you, go on!

14:05It's all right now, son.

14:07Looks like we both got our troubles today.

14:10You with a wild horse and me with a wild boy.

14:27Where are you two going?

14:29Frisco.

14:30And the money's going with us one way or another.

14:33What happened?

14:34The old man just fired us.

14:36Thinking time's over, Josh.

14:38Are we gonna get the money or are you?

14:41We gotta know now.

14:44All right, I'll get it.

14:46When?

14:47Well, I have to wait till he leaves the ranch.

14:49That'll be tomorrow afternoon when he goes to town to pick up Ricky's uncle.

14:52We'll meet you in the old abandoned mine in Sundown Canyon.

14:56What time does the old man go to town?

14:58Oh, around 2.30.

14:59Then you'd better show.

15:01I'll be there.

15:02We'll give you till 3.30.

15:04If you're not there by then, we'll be back to get the money ourselves.

15:07Well, I don't want anybody getting hurt.

15:09Nobody'll get hurt.

15:10As long as you show up to me.

15:22Harry's up there.

15:23Come on!

15:27Come on!

15:38I still don't think Josh will go through with it.

15:40Oh, quit worrying.

15:41If he doesn't steal the money, we will.

15:43I mean, it's easier this way.

15:45Lessen the clearance.

15:46Yeah, I guess you're right.

15:48Yeah, I'd like to see the colonel's face when he gets back and finds all that money gone.

15:52Yeah, and Josh along with it.

15:56He heard us.

16:26He won't be telling nobody nothing.

16:56I can't see!

17:12I can't see!

17:19I can't see!

17:22Ripple!

17:23Where are you, boy?

17:27Ribble?

17:36Ribble?

17:53Woof, woof, woof, woof!

18:15Jeff!

18:20Over here!

18:22Ribble!

18:25Good boy, Ribble!

18:27That's my champ!

18:31I'm blind, champ!

18:33I can't see!

18:36Woof, woof, woof, woof!

18:51Champ, we've got to stop Josh!

19:05I'm going to pick up Sandy and be right back.

19:08You take care of things while I'm gone, huh?

19:10Sure, Colonel.

19:13Josh!

19:20Ricky, what happened?

19:22I fell!

19:23Oh, you hurt bad?

19:25I hit my head!

19:27I can't see!

19:35Stay with her. Do what you can. I'll get the doctor and Sandy.

20:05Woof, woof, woof, woof!

20:22Josh!

20:24Don't do it, Josh!

20:26Don't do what?

20:27I heard those two men say they were going to take the Colonel's money.

20:31I started to run.

20:34That's when I fell.

20:36If you knew, how come you didn't tell the Colonel?

20:40He trusts you, Josh.

20:43So do I.

20:45I knew you wouldn't go through with it.

20:48The Colonel needs you.

20:51You said so.

20:55You said you never got to make a decision.

20:59Didn't you?

21:02Yeah.

21:04Well, you can make one.

21:06Now.

21:15Everything's going to be all right, boy. Ricky's going to be okay.

21:31All right, I guess. But those men, Josh.

21:34They'll be coming back here.

21:36What are you going to do?

21:38Nothing they can do, kid.

21:40Frank!

21:42Get the safe open, Josh.

21:44I won't do it.

21:45We made a deal, remember?

21:47The deal's off.

21:49I was a fool ever listening to your talk.

21:51You'll be a dead one if you don't do what we say.

21:53I'm giving the orders now.

21:55It took Ricky here to keep me from making one of the biggest mistakes of my life.

21:58Now get out of here!

21:59Not without the money.

22:20I've got no time for games, Josh. Open the safe.

22:22Don't, Josh!

22:29Come on.

23:00I think it would be better for the boy if I saw him alone.

23:03You can do more good going after that runaway cowboy.

23:29Stop!

23:35What's going on, champ?

23:36Down!

23:39Good boy.

23:42All right, get going.

24:00How is he, Doc?

24:02The boy had a bad fall, Sandy.

24:04The blindness is caused by retinal contusion, but...

24:08it's not too serious.

24:10As soon as the retinal swelling goes down, he'll see again fine.

24:13How long will that be?

24:15Oh, four or five days. Weak at the most.

24:17He's resting now.

24:19When he wakes up, I suggest you take him home.

24:26I'll be glad to help you, Sandy.

24:28Thanks, Josh.

24:50I'm all right, Rebel.

24:51Thanks to you and champ.

24:54So are you, aren't you, Josh?

24:56You bet I am, Ricky.

24:57And me and the colonel's going to San Francisco together.

25:00Yes, sir.

25:01For two whole weeks, soon as Roundup's over.

25:04Gee, that's swell.

25:08Want to race again, huh, Rebel?

25:10Okay, but no more shortcuts.

25:12Come on, champ.

25:26CHAMPION THE WONDER HORSE

25:56CHAMPION THE WONDER HORSE

The Adventures Of Champion E2: Crossroad Trail (1955) - (Adventure, Western, TV Series)

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