Frontier Doctor S1E5: The Apache Uprising (1958) - (Western, TV Series)_ - video Dailymotion

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30min | Western, TV Series | Episode aired 25 October 1958   Dr. Baxter attempts to effect a truce between residents of Rising Springs and their Apache neighbors.    Director: William Witney  Writer: Robert Creighton Williams  Stars: Rex Allen, Herb Butterfield, Anthony George

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00:00The Southwest, at the turn of the century, was all too often the story of valor and violence,

00:08seen through a hot haze of dust and gun smoke.

00:11But there was also another story, the story of a man whose deeds have largely gone unsung,

00:17though nonetheless heroic, a man who rode quietly in the vanguard of advancing civilization.

00:24Jack Salen stars as the frontier doctor.

00:38This is an Apache.

00:40This is a settler, and this, this is the land.

00:47The land coveted by two widely divergent cultures, the Apaches and the white man.

00:53Two peoples so far apart that neither believes they can exist in the presence of the other.

00:59And this is the result.

01:08And here's another result, just one of far, far too many for a lone doctor to handle.

01:19Hello, Doc. You look exhausted.

01:22I am.

01:24What are you going to do about this situation?

01:26The Apache trouble? I don't know. I just don't know.

01:30I suppose I'll end up by calling for troops again.

01:33All right, the troops stay a while and go back, then what?

01:36I know, I know, the same thing all over again.

01:40About like me prescribing a pill for a broken arm, isn't it?

01:43Look, Doc, you got no call to come busting in here and blaming me.

01:47Listen, you got some new notion I ain't tried yet.

01:50Ever think of a truce, an armistice, peace?

01:54Peace? With them savages?

01:58You better stick to pushing pills than leave me to what you got in mind.

02:07Well, it seems to me that the Apache hurts just as bad when he's hurt and dies just as dead when he's dead.

02:14It also seems to me that Chief Cayeta may have himself a little problem just the same as yours, Mayor.

02:20I'm falling in your dust, Doc, but I don't see so good.

02:24I don't see how I can approach Chief Cayeta with any peace talk.

02:28Before I had two words out, my scalp would be dripping blood in the moonlight.

02:34Let's see if we can't figure a way to keep you and your scalp in the same general location.

02:39For example, do you know a young Apache named Joe Fleetfoot?

02:43I've heard of him. He the one who went to Carlisle, got himself educated?

02:47That's right. He's going to marry the Chief's daughter, and the Chief likes him.

02:51Now, if I could have a little chat with Joe, and Joe talked it over with the Chief,

02:55would you be willing to meet the Chief and talk peace in some safe, neutral place?

03:01Maybe, Doc. Maybe I would.

03:04Only make that place awful neutral and awful safe.

03:08I know my hair's falling out, but I don't want to lose it all at once.

03:13I'll be back.

03:25I sent a message to Joe Fleetfoot asking him to meet me here.

03:28The manner of speaking, Joe had been my first patient long before I was a doctor.

03:33Back when we were kids and our early teens, I'd accidentally found him with his foot caught in a bear trap.

03:38When he saw me coming, a white boy, he took it for granted I was going to kill him.

03:43When instead I pried open the trap and banished his leg, he became my friend for life.

03:49Hello, Bill. You want to see me?

04:04Good to see you, Joe. It's been a long time, Bill.

04:07Joe, I want to talk to you about something. I suppose you know what it is.

04:13Sure. But I don't see how it would do any good, Bill.

04:17Our peoples hate one another. You and I both know that.

04:21I don't see what can stop a war to the finish.

04:23The finish is right, Joe. They're going to send for the troops, and this time it'll be a massacre.

04:28The end of the whole Apache nation.

04:34And there's no answer. A truce is an answer, for as long as it lasts.

04:40It's a truce right now, before anything else happens.

04:44Who would you get to talk, Peace?

04:46I've already talked to Mayor Fletcher, and he's willing.

04:49If you could talk to Chief Kaida, he'd listen to you, wouldn't he, Joe?

04:57I'll talk to him. And I'll talk hard and long and strong.

05:02I know you will, Joe.

05:23Joe must have talked very hard and long and strong,

05:26because the next day I escorted Mayor Fletcher and Joe brought Chief Kaida to a neutral spot.

05:31The two leaders met and talked for the first time.

05:34All right, Chief. And if I do my best to sit on the hotheads and troublemakers in town,

05:39and we've got plenty of them, you'll agree to stamp on your hatchet-happy young braves?

05:45If this peace is broken, it will not be by an Apache. I have spoken.

05:51And so we had peace. It was shaky and uncertain, to be sure.

05:57Still, it was a lot better than none at all. But could it be made to last?

06:20Take a look, Frank. Take a good look. Indians walking around town like they owned it.

06:26That's what I'm going to see the sheriff about. An Apache. A dirty, thieving crook.

06:31Yeah? Well, the sheriff ain't here right now, so I'm the deputy in charge. Make your complaint to me.

06:37Do you know a young Indian named Runnin' Bear?

06:40Yeah, when I see him. What's he done?

06:43Swiped a pair of my boots. They was all muddy and dirty, and I left them out on the porch. New ones.

06:49Runnin' Bear, yeah. He's a badden just like the rest of his tribe.

06:54Did you see him take your boots?

06:56No, I didn't rightly see him. But he was hanging around just before they disappeared. And you know Apaches.

07:04Hanging around, huh? Yeah, there's too many of them hanging around.

07:10I better go out and pick them up before the mayor puts in his two cents' worth.

07:14You'd better wait for the sheriff.

07:16Sheriff? Ha! They didn't make me a deputy for nothing.

07:24Get back here!

07:31Get her, sheek!

07:54Hello, Chief. Runnin' Bear around?

08:02The question must have a reason.

08:04Sure. He stole a pair of boots. I'm arresting him. I'm taking him in.

08:10Runnin' Bear was seen stealing?

08:12No. I got no eyewitnesses. But I'm taking him in on suspicion.

08:17The Apache way, huh?

08:19I got no eyewitnesses. But I'm taking him in on suspicion.

08:23The Apache way is not the same. No man is a thief unless observed while stealing.

08:30Chief, you know what this says? This says I'm the law. And Runnin' Bear goes back with me.

08:36The white man's law is for the white man. The Apache way is for the Apache.

08:42You may go back alone. In peace.

08:45I want Runnin' Bear and I want him here now.

08:49I want Runnin' Bear and I want him here now.

09:19No! No! Go! Go now!

09:50Joe, what's the trouble?

09:52Morningstar's been hurt. And the bleeding won't stop.

09:54Is your medicine man with her?

09:56Caesars and eagles can do nothing. Will you come, Bill?

09:59Wait till I get my bag.

10:06Bill, it may be dangerous for you. Morningstar was hurt by a white man.

10:20You bring him here?

10:23Among his people, he is a medicine man. It may be that his medicine will help Morningstar.

10:30This man is white. And you trust him?

10:35He has my trust.

10:37He has my trust.

10:39He has my trust.

10:41He has my trust.

10:43He has my trust.

10:45And you trust him?

10:47He has my trust.

10:50You give trust to all whites. You want peace with them.

10:54White man comes today to this village. Comes in safety.

10:58And now...

11:04You are our medicine man, Caesars and eagle.

11:06You are our wise man.

11:08Do you have the medicine to make Morningstar well?

11:11Do you have the wisdom to make her well?

11:13Can it be that our medicine man has more hatred than wisdom?

11:16Can it be that he will let Morningstar die rather than have a white man examine her?

11:28You may try your medicine.

11:44Morningstar

11:55Look! The bleeding stops!

12:01The blood is dark. It comes in pulse beats.

12:03That means it's an artery, not a vein.

12:06I don't believe the artery is cut in two, just pierced.

12:10I think I can sew it back together.

12:14No, no! It's bleeding again!

12:18Trouble with the tourniquet. When you stop the blood circulation, it endangers the lower arm.

12:22It has to be released periodically.

12:26Hold that right like that.

12:29Can you operate here?

12:30Not here.

12:32I have to hold that wound clamped open so I can work on the artery.

12:35That means getting her back to my office and getting her there fast.

12:39No. Morningstar stay here.

12:42My daughter would find death in the white man's village.

12:45Chief, that's the only way.

12:46I have spoken.

12:56See if you can get rid of him.

12:59Go up, please.

13:08Joe, she's going to die if we don't get her to town.

13:13Are you willing to help?

13:16Anything.

13:20I'll take the chief.

13:28Oh!

13:58Come on.

14:11Ha-ha!

14:13Get her! Get her!

14:23Look at her!

14:28Get her!

14:37Get her!

14:46You've got no call to talk like that.

14:48You're still alive and still jabbering out your hate.

14:51Me and Chief Cahito made ourselves an armistice.

14:54And I aim to preserve it.

14:56And there ain't any of you boys...

15:03It's Doc.

15:05Looks like he's got some Indians with him.

15:26All right.

15:47Tighten up on that tourniquet.

15:50Now loosen up on it a little.

16:04She's lost an awful lot of blood.

16:19Ah!

16:37The operation was a success.

16:39The patient died.

16:42But Bill, I thought you said...

16:44I didn't mean it literally, Joe.

16:46She's... She's lost so much blood.

16:49She's...

16:51She's sinking fast.

16:54There's just one thing.

16:56It's brand new in the medical journals.

16:58So far it's only theory.

17:00It's a method of replacing blood called transfusion.

17:05It just might...

17:08Might work.

17:10Come over here with me, Joe.

17:12Wait a minute. Bring a piece of cotton with some of her fresh blood on it.

17:15Aye.

17:22Roll your sleeve up.

17:46Come on.

18:11It's no use, Joe.

18:13Your blood don't match.

18:36I'll be all right.

18:43Matt!

18:53Matt, you idiot! You want to start a war!

19:02I won't talk.

19:13White Chief, all my warriors in big circle around your village.

19:17And I thought you wanted peace.

19:21I want peace.

19:23Your medicine man stole my daughter.

19:25My medicine man?

19:27Oh, you mean Bill Baxter, but...

19:29But I don't understand.

19:31Kaita give you till sun overhead

19:35to bring back my daughter.

19:37If she is with death, it is war.

19:40I have spoken.

19:59Amos, the whole town's surrounded.

20:01They'll massacre us.

20:03Yeah, I know, I know.

20:05Remember the doc just driving by in his buggy?

20:07Yeah, well, what about him?

20:09He had the Chief's daughter with him, that's who he had.

20:11If the Chief doesn't get him back...

20:13Well, you heard what he said.

20:15Me, I'm heading for the doc's house to find out what's what.

20:18Hank, you and Jeff scurry around town.

20:20I want every man able to walk to get his gun and get it loaded.

20:24The rest of you come with us.

20:30Now, listen, Joe.

20:32But we're going to try something that's never been done before as far as I know.

20:35It's our only chance, and it's her only chance.

20:38You still have my trust, Bill.

20:40Thanks, I hope it's deserved.

20:43Now, listen, you'll have to do just exactly as I say, do you understand?

20:47Get her on the couch right now.

20:58That's it, Joe. You got the vein.

21:05See any swelling under the skin?

21:08No.

21:09Good, that means the blood's flowing.

21:24We know you're in there, Doc.

21:26Come on, open up. We're taking that injured girl out of there.

21:31Stall him, Joe. Tell him I need just 15 minutes, no more.

21:34Open up, Doc, before I break the door down.

21:38Match, you got no call to destroy property without giving the docket.

21:42Hello, Joe.

21:43We got to take the chief's daughter back to him.

21:45It's that or war.

21:47You wait 15 minutes, not longer.

21:50I ain't giving you 15 seconds.

21:52We got to take that girl back before the whole town's wiped out.

21:54Now, out of my way, Injun.

21:56No, you don't.

21:58Say, whose side are you on, Amos?

22:00All right, come on, try to get in the windows.

22:02Come on, let's break this door down.

22:05There's a gun in the medicine cabinet. Get it for me.

22:22Open up, Doc. You got no right to risk a whole town for one Indian.

22:25Matt, give me a minute, just one minute.

22:29Hurry up, Doc.

22:30Open up or I'll break the door down.

22:35Open up.

22:42They barricaded themselves in the operating room.

22:44He tried to shoot me through the door.

22:47Doc, there's no use risking a whole town for one Indian.

22:50Come on out.

22:53What do we do, Amos?

22:54Maybe some of the boys can get in the back door.

23:05Hello, Joe.

23:07Bill.

23:09Look.

23:13Bill.

23:15We made it, Joe. We all made it.

23:17Now, if we can get her back to her dad in time.

23:29Get out of the way.

23:30Get out of the way.

23:32Doc, we only got two minutes left before they're going to attack.

24:00Go, go, go.

24:03Go, go, go.

24:25Here, Joe. Take her home.

24:28Bill, you come to the wedding.

24:31You bet I will.

24:58Doc, I got to hand it to you.

25:00When you know you're right, you don't listen to hotheads and old coots like me.

25:04Congratulations.

25:21Okay, Doc.

25:22That one's on the house.

25:24That one's on the house.

Frontier Doctor S1E5: The Apache Uprising (1958) - (Western, TV Series)_

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