- 5/14/2025
Lust for Gold
1949
1949
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00:00:00The End
00:00:30The End
00:01:00You're looking at Superstition Mountain, a barbaric pile of rock 40 miles long by 20 wide.
00:01:23The man is Floyd Buckley.
00:01:25He's going into this 800 square miles of sudden and violent death because he thinks it's just another mountain and because he's greedy for its treasure.
00:01:34Yeah, I said treasure.
00:01:36Gold.
00:01:3720 million dollars worth of precious yellow metal waiting to be found in America's most elusive mine, appropriately named the Lost Dutchman.
00:01:48It's simple to get to. The mountain, I mean. Just drive 36 miles due east from Phoenix, Arizona, and there she is. She looks easy from the outside. Inside, it's like Satan's private art gallery. Sculptured pagan granites unmellowed by time. Hidden and terrifying canyons and gorges.
00:02:06But if you'd like to pick up 20 million bucks and figure like Buckley there that a mountain's just a mountain, I'll show you where to look.
00:02:13But before you leave for Arizona, you ought to know that 21 men have been murdered grabbing for that dough.
00:02:19And hundreds more have died in other ways.
00:02:22You see, this is the true story of Superstition Mountain, the biography of a death trap.
00:02:32My name's Barry Storm. I was hurled into this story when I heard that shot.
00:02:37Up till then, I was just an ordinary guy with a reasonable curiosity about the Lost Dutchman mine.
00:02:43A curiosity I wish I'd never been born with.
00:02:45I hurried toward the sound of the report and hoped I'd find a hunter who'd maybe bag the deer.
00:02:52I found Floyd Buckley, sprawled and dead.
00:02:57His blood, life, and dreams spilling out on the unfriendly ground.
00:03:02When you find a dead man, you're supposed to call the police.
00:03:05I'm a good citizen. I set out to do what you're supposed to do.
00:03:08Fear and panic gave me a boost up over that ledge, and I began to run, not walk, to the nearest exit.
00:03:14Speed no longer meant anything to Buckley, but it did to me.
00:03:16I didn't want to be framed in the crosshairs of a telescopic sight and a high-powered rifle.
00:03:21I'd just gone in to look for gold.
00:03:23I didn't want to find lead from the business end of a killer's gun.
00:03:26It took me three days and 36 miles of tough hiking to put the sheriff from Florence, Arizona, into action.
00:03:43Identification bracelet.
00:03:44Wallet.
00:03:52Telegram.
00:03:55Lecturing in Los Angeles, September 30th.
00:03:58They're going to have to get a new speaker.
00:04:01That's all the personal effects.
00:04:04Let's go.
00:04:05Sit down, son.
00:04:25You say your name's Barry Storm.
00:04:28You're from Colorado, and you've been here only 10 days.
00:04:30You're no prospector, but you were up there when Buckley got shot.
00:04:36What were you doing in the mountain?
00:04:38Well, I know it sounds kind of bad, but I was following Buckley.
00:04:41You were what?
00:04:42Now, wait a minute.
00:04:43I didn't shoot him.
00:04:44I had a good reason to be up there.
00:04:46My grandfather was Jacob Waltz.
00:04:48Who?
00:04:48Jacob Waltz.
00:04:50The man who owned the lost Dutchman gold mine.
00:04:52The Dutchman, huh?
00:04:53That goes back to about 1880.
00:04:57He's supposed to have killed quite a few men in his time.
00:05:02That doesn't have anything to do with me.
00:05:04All I know is, when I was a kid, my mom heard about this mine her father was supposed to have found.
00:05:10I always figured someday I'd come down here.
00:05:12So you came down here.
00:05:13Go on.
00:05:14Well, I thought there might still be a buck laying around that had my name on it.
00:05:18First place I went to was a claims office in Phoenix.
00:05:20How do you spell that again?
00:05:21No, Waltz. W-A-L-Z. Jacob Waltz.
00:05:26Well, nobody with that name ever registered a claim here.
00:05:29This record goes clear back to 1870.
00:05:32But there must have been.
00:05:33Well, the lost Dutchman was supposed to be worth a fortune.
00:05:35He wouldn't just leave that money laying around.
00:05:37Maybe he never found a mine.
00:05:39Some people don't believe there ever was a lost Dutchman.
00:05:41Well, then again, some do.
00:05:43News had a story on it just this morning.
00:05:50There.
00:05:51This newspaper item was my first lead.
00:05:55I wanted to meet this guy who said he was going to find my grandfather's mine.
00:06:00Mr. Buckley, if you've got a minute, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions about this newspaper story.
00:06:04Certainly. I'm always glad to see the press.
00:06:05Oh, I am not a reporter.
00:06:07I'm just interested in you being so sure about locating that lost Dutchman.
00:06:10If you've read my books, you'd know I'm hardly the type to go out on the wild goose chase.
00:06:14You've got a map.
00:06:15Naturally, I have a map.
00:06:16One of the original Peraltas, in fact.
00:06:19Peralta?
00:06:19Yes, you see, the parole to mine I'm seeking in the lost Dutchman happen to be one and the same.
00:06:23Then it looks like you and I've got something in common.
00:06:27Yes.
00:06:27I happen to be Jacob Walter's grandson.
00:06:29Really?
00:06:30You mean the man who allegedly owned it?
00:06:33Hmm.
00:06:33That's very interesting, I'm sure.
00:06:35I never knew he left a family.
00:06:36I can prove it if I have to.
00:06:38That's why it might be good business to let me come along with you.
00:06:41Now, if you know how to use this man...
00:06:43I not only know how to use it, but I know where the marker is.
00:06:46And I know how to use that, too.
00:06:48But for your information, young man, I never go partners.
00:06:51Excuse me.
00:06:53He really brushed me off.
00:06:54I decided right then to follow him.
00:06:56When his car dropped him off at Apache Junction, I was waiting.
00:06:59I started tailing him then.
00:07:01But Buckley was too sharp.
00:07:02He lost me on the third day.
00:07:04I never caught up with him again.
00:07:05Not until after I heard the shot.
00:07:0630-30.
00:07:07Entered downward from behind.
00:07:10Hey.
00:07:11This must be the map he was talking about.
00:07:13It was in his wallet.
00:07:16Hey, something's been torn off the top of him.
00:07:18Maybe that's the way he got it.
00:07:19Maybe it had directions on it and he tore it off himself.
00:07:21Some fellows memorize directions so that nobody else can use their maps.
00:07:26Well, half the state has got indigestion from eating old maps.
00:07:32You've been staying in Phoenix, huh?
00:07:34Your things there?
00:07:35Well, it's some of them.
00:07:36Most everything I own is right on me.
00:07:38I put my bag in the bus depot after I checked out of the hotel.
00:07:42You haven't got a job.
00:07:44You say you're the Dutchman's grandson.
00:07:46You tail a guy you thought was holding out on you.
00:07:48He gets knocked off.
00:07:50Ray, you'd better take him out to the mountain tomorrow.
00:07:52Let him show you just how he spent those three days.
00:07:54Walter, you'd better go along with him.
00:07:56How long after the shot before you found him?
00:08:0710 to 15 minutes.
00:08:08Maybe longer.
00:08:09He was still warm.
00:08:10You didn't see anybody else?
00:08:13No.
00:08:15What were you plans as if Buckley had found the mine?
00:08:18Well, I don't know exactly, but I wouldn't have shot him.
00:08:24Well, I guess I didn't have any plans.
00:08:28That is, beyond hoping there might be a mine, I might have some legal rights to.
00:08:31Come on, Walter.
00:08:34Let's have a look at the other side of the canyon.
00:08:40What are you looking for now?
00:08:43Buckley was hit from behind.
00:08:45The killer was somewhere up there with that cliff.
00:08:48You were up over there.
00:08:50That take me off the hook?
00:08:52Maybe.
00:08:53Unless Buckley spun around before he fell.
00:08:56You see, three other guys have been knocked off in the same area.
00:09:00The head of Buckley.
00:09:01Before you even got here.
00:09:04That's a break in your favor.
00:09:07Buckley was the fourth?
00:09:08The fourth in the last two years.
00:09:11All right around here.
00:09:13And all by a 30-30.
00:09:16And if you look in the record book, you'll find out 20 men have died in this mountain since 1880.
00:09:23Well, I'm through.
00:09:25Let's get back to Patchy Junction and some cold beer.
00:09:29I was just thinking, this all adds up to something.
00:09:31Like what?
00:09:32Four guys murdered, all in the same area.
00:09:34All by a 30-30.
00:09:35All in the shadow of Weaver's Needle.
00:09:37So?
00:09:38The killer thinks he knows where the gold is.
00:09:41When it looked like the others might find it before he did, when they got too close, he knocked them off.
00:09:46So the jackpot must be somewhere as close, near that peak.
00:09:51Buckley, I bet he found it.
00:09:53Found what?
00:09:53The mine?
00:09:54No, the marker.
00:09:56He said he knew where the marker was and how to use it.
00:09:59Come on, I'll show you something.
00:10:01There's your marker.
00:10:09This is what Buckley meant?
00:10:11It's the only marker in this mountain.
00:10:13The rocks hammered in that old soiree cactus indicate three directions.
00:10:17But only the one pointing north leads anywhere, though, to some signs carving those rocks up there.
00:10:23It's quite a climb.
00:10:25Come on.
00:10:25There they are.
00:10:37What do they mean?
00:10:39Oro is a word for gold.
00:10:41The sunburst means the mine is near.
00:10:45This means 50 yards away in the direction the snake is pointing.
00:10:50The only trouble is nobody has ever been able to find anything but follow on those signs.
00:10:54Aren't they the real thing?
00:10:55Who knows?
00:10:56Who put them there?
00:10:57You suppose my grandfather?
00:10:58Ah, they're Spanish signs.
00:11:00Supposed to have been cut by the Peraltas.
00:11:02Peraltas?
00:11:03Buckley had a Peralta map.
00:11:04Had the name Manuel on it.
00:11:06There were three of them.
00:11:07Brothers.
00:11:08Manuel, Pedro, and Remo.
00:11:10They were the first to find gold in here a hundred years ago.
00:11:13There's an old Indian legend about them in this mountain, eh, Walter?
00:11:16They opened up several of the mines and then left.
00:11:19And then Pedro, the oldest brother, came back with a big expedition.
00:11:22Walter here, who's an Apache himself, has heard from his own people the story of what happened.
00:11:29After many nuisance raids by the Indians, Pedro Peralta decided to hide his gold.
00:11:34He selected the richest and most inaccessible mine of all as his storage placed.
00:11:38It was reached to a narrow, twisted, and almost hidden canyon that finally opened on to a tortuous runway.
00:11:46This runway was the only entrance to and the only exit from the fabulous mine located on the thin precipitous ledge below.
00:11:54While armed men stood guard, Pedro's miners led their animals to the dangerous ledge where the rough ore was separated from that which had been crushed.
00:12:04And the pure gold nuggets were hurriedly poured into sacks for storage in the hidden mine.
00:12:10Pedro sat just inside his mine and noted that he possessed some $20 million worth of gold.
00:12:16But fate had decreed a different kind of fortune for him.
00:12:19Fate and the Apache.
00:12:21Fate and the Apache.
00:12:51Cochise, the greatest of all Apache chiefs, watched the lightning-like attack.
00:13:08And when every Spaniard was finally killed, he ordered his warriors to close the mine.
00:13:16You see, the Spaniards had defiled a holy place when they came into superstition because to the Apaches, it was a sacred home of their thunder gods.
00:13:25It wasn't enough to just kill Pedro and his men, all traces of them and their work had to be erased, so the mine was completely closed and hidden.
00:13:35With that accomplished, Cochise and the Apaches felt their thunder gods were avenged and appeased.
00:13:43Every mine was closed so efficiently that they disappeared from view as though they'd never existed.
00:13:49And Pedro's $20 million worth of gold was buried inside the sacred mountain from which it had been taken.
00:13:56That's the legend, as the Apaches have told it for over a hundred years.
00:14:00The Apaches buried all that gold?
00:14:03Just like in Fort Knox.
00:14:05Well, didn't the other brothers, Remo or Manuel, ever come back?
00:14:08Well, they say Remo came back, but who knows?
00:14:11You know, I generally charge tourists ten bucks for telling that yarn.
00:14:16And that mine, where the gold is buried, that's the one my grandfather rediscovered.
00:14:20So they say.
00:14:21Well, let's push it along.
00:14:23Hey, Ray, wait a minute.
00:14:23Yep.
00:14:24Do I have to go out with you?
00:14:26I'd sort of like to stay in here a while longer.
00:14:29Oh, getting you too, huh?
00:14:31Gold happy.
00:14:33You know, every tourist I tell that yarn to has to stay in a little while longer, all trying to figure out them signs.
00:14:39Yeah, I'm something more than a tourist.
00:14:40I've got a family interest in that mine.
00:14:42Hmm.
00:14:43Well, it's all right with me.
00:14:45I'll leave you some grub.
00:14:47But remember, there's a killer loose in here.
00:14:49I'd hate to see you end up like Buckley.
00:14:53Coven's reminder about Buckley took some of the excitement out of me, but only for a minute.
00:14:58The deputy could think I was a fool if he wanted to, but I was determined to try my luck at putting the golden jigsaw together.
00:15:04For the next five days, I'd beat my brains out trying to make the Spanish treasure signs pay off.
00:15:14Fifty yards, they said.
00:15:15I went fifty yards in every direction, but straight up.
00:15:19If I'd had wings, I'd have tried that.
00:15:22I began to realize that this was no ordinary puzzle.
00:15:24I finally thought that maybe if I went over every foot of the area where the four men had been murdered, I might find something.
00:15:32How close I came, I didn't learn till a lot later.
00:15:35I didn't know I was being stalked, that for a moment I was a bullseye, a sitting duck, number five on the list.
00:15:42I just kept going, dreaming about being a millionaire.
00:15:46The only thing I learned was that the guy who'd murdered Buckley wasn't the only killer loose in superstition.
00:15:50The only thing I learned was that the guy who'd murdered Buckley was a man who'd murdered him.
00:16:20You don't relax right away.
00:16:22You sort of coast to a stop after a shock like that.
00:16:26I was almost afraid to look at my leg.
00:16:27I was sure he'd gotten me.
00:16:30He hadn't, but he came awful close.
00:16:34I finally started to breathe again
00:16:36and shook off the shroud of fear the rattler had thrown over me.
00:16:40I picked up my pack and started to get up.
00:16:42That's when I found it, buried in the ground.
00:16:46When I pulled rocks loose to throw at the snake,
00:16:48I'd uncovered a part of a rifle.
00:16:51Excitedly, I dug the rest of it out of the gravel.
00:16:53I didn't have any idea of what kind it was,
00:16:55but as I held it in my hands,
00:16:57I wanted to believe it had been my grandfather's,
00:17:00because if it was,
00:17:01it could mean I was close to the lost mine, to the gold.
00:17:05Call it fate, luck, it doesn't matter,
00:17:07but a rattlesnake that had tried to kill me
00:17:09had led me to this old weapon.
00:17:11At that moment, it seemed I could actually feel
00:17:14the presence of Jacob Waltz in the unfriendly canyon.
00:17:17Suddenly, it was more important to find out about this gun
00:17:19than it was to keep on searching for the mine.
00:17:21So I decided to leave the mountain and bring the gun to you.
00:17:24Would you know what kind it is?
00:17:26Looks like a Sharps,
00:17:27but we're interested in a .30-30.
00:17:29Yeah.
00:17:30Yeah, but if it is old enough,
00:17:31it could have been my grandfather's, couldn't it?
00:17:33I told you he had the bug.
00:17:35Let me see it.
00:17:37I think I got a Sharps here.
00:17:41A Sharps.
00:17:43Breach loader.
00:17:44.45-90 caliber.
00:17:46Lots of them around here in the 70s and 80s.
00:17:48That one killed a sheriff in 1875.
00:17:50You know, finding this where I did,
00:17:52I sort of thought I might be near his mine.
00:17:54Well, that is, if it was his gun.
00:17:56I never heard anybody say what kind of a weapon Walsh used.
00:17:59If it's so important for you to find out,
00:18:01you might try the Pioneer's home.
00:18:02Pioneer's home?
00:18:03Yeah, it's in Phoenix.
00:18:04Old folks' place.
00:18:06One of those old-timers might be able to tell you about this.
00:18:09And your grandfather, too.
00:18:10Yeah, they got nothing else to do up there but talk.
00:18:13Thanks.
00:18:13I think I'll pay them a visit.
00:18:14Mrs. Bannister might be able to help you.
00:18:27She spent her childhood in Florence Junction.
00:18:30She isn't easy to talk to.
00:18:32You promise not to upset her.
00:18:33No, I won't.
00:18:38Martha, this is Mr. Storm.
00:18:40He wants to ask you a few questions.
00:18:42You know, I don't like being bothered.
00:18:47You've got no right to bring people pestering me.
00:18:51It's about my grandfather.
00:18:52He lived here around 1886.
00:18:54I knew a lot of people who lived here.
00:18:56What was his name?
00:18:57Walsh.
00:18:58Jacob Walsh.
00:19:00I won't talk about him.
00:19:03Jacob Walsh was a mean, wicked man.
00:19:07And if you're his grandson, you're probably just like him.
00:19:10Did I hear you mention Jake Walsh?
00:19:13He was a real sidewinder, that man.
00:19:16What do you want to know about him?
00:19:17I'll be glad to tell you.
00:19:19You're always poking your nose in where you ain't wanted, Bill Bates.
00:19:23He didn't ask you.
00:19:24My name's Barry Storm.
00:19:26You see, Walsh was my...
00:19:27Checking up on old Jake, eh?
00:19:28Well, you've come to the right place, young fella.
00:19:30Now, if you want my opinion, I'm...
00:19:33I don't want anything from you.
00:19:36I'm the one who knows all about Jacob Walsh.
00:19:39See, I found this gun.
00:19:41You like guns, don't you?
00:19:44You probably go around scaring people with them, just like he did to me.
00:19:48When I was a girl in Florence Junction, he frightened me.
00:19:56What you doing, mister?
00:19:58Huh?
00:19:58What you doing?
00:20:00Why are you playing with that?
00:20:02Is that gun yours?
00:20:04It's brand new, ain't it?
00:20:05Ain't it, mister?
00:20:07Come here.
00:20:10You want to have some fun, huh?
00:20:12Put your finger in there.
00:20:17Pull.
00:20:19Yeah.
00:20:20Oh, no, no.
00:20:21Pull harder.
00:20:29I got buyers for two of our burros.
00:20:32Mexican fella and his partner.
00:20:33Well, here's your burros.
00:20:43You got them at a good price, too.
00:20:49Going to have a look for that lost Spanish gold?
00:20:52Yeah, I guessed right, didn't I?
00:20:54Everybody looks for it, but nobody ever finds it.
00:20:57I figure them engines hit it.
00:20:59Too good to hit it.
00:21:00What do you mean the engines hit it?
00:21:04That gold is hit forever.
00:21:07Want to sell back them burros or give you half what you paid for them?
00:21:11Well, maybe they ain't hit it good enough.
00:21:13Eh, Peralta?
00:21:15Silencio.
00:21:18Keep your mouth shut.
00:21:30If it's not, Peralta, it means anything to you, Dutchie.
00:21:37Be a dirty shame if they used to stumble onto something when we weren't there to see what it was.
00:21:42Yeah.
00:22:00They're making camp for the night.
00:22:10Yeah, it's about time.
00:22:12The fellas must be part mountain goat the way they've been hightailing.
00:22:15Go start a fire down in the gully there.
00:22:18Don't make any smoke.
00:22:22I'll go unload the burrow.
00:22:26Yeah, as soon as I play myself a game.
00:22:30Let's go.
00:22:54You know, I think you're right about them.
00:22:56They haven't even stopped to pan one of the streams.
00:23:00They know where they're going, all right.
00:23:02Sure they know where they're going.
00:23:04You oughta seen a way that Mexican jumped down the other fella's throat when he started to talk.
00:23:08You're dang right they know where they're going.
00:23:13Say, you're lucky I let you in on this.
00:23:17Yeah.
00:23:18You go down and build a fire.
00:23:19Don't make any smoke.
00:23:20Yeah.
00:23:21You go down and build a fire.
00:23:23Don't make any smoke.
00:23:28Yeah.
00:23:29Just turn up the ace of spades I can win this game.
00:23:41Well, they could be the ace of spades.
00:23:42Yeah.
00:23:43Yeah.
00:23:44I won that game.
00:23:45It was the set in this two fellers I ever seen.
00:23:46Suppose they sleep setting up that way.
00:23:47Yeah.
00:23:48The fire's going out.
00:23:49Darn ace of spades never shows up when I need it most.
00:23:50It eats me every dang game.
00:23:51Come on.
00:23:52Come on.
00:23:53Come on.
00:23:54Come on.
00:23:55Come on.
00:23:56Come on.
00:23:57Come on.
00:23:58Come on.
00:23:59Come on.
00:24:00Come on.
00:24:01Come on.
00:24:02Come on.
00:24:03Come on.
00:24:04I trick us.
00:24:17Them shat-bellied horsewugglers made me think you was sitting here.
00:24:21Come on.
00:24:22Oh, Tim, if you did, that's him.
00:24:27Come on.
00:24:29Invictus, them shat-bellied horsewugglers made us think you was sittin' here.
00:24:36They won't get away.
00:24:37We can pick up a trail.
00:24:39I figure they went this way. What do you think?
00:24:41Well, sure, sure, Dutchie. Sure.
00:24:43All right, go get the burro. Go on.
00:24:44The two who were following us.
00:24:58I wonder if they follow our trail.
00:25:01Nah, we'd have seen them two days before, if they had.
00:25:04Are you sure you know what you're doing?
00:25:07I found the marker and the signs.
00:25:10We won't have long to wait for the next sign now.
00:25:13See?
00:25:14The moon is just rising.
00:25:16I never heard of finding a mind by the light of the moon.
00:25:20It is 38 years to the day that my brothers and I were here.
00:25:27You won't forget our agreement.
00:25:30Huh?
00:25:30I am a Mexican.
00:25:31I cannot file a claim for this mind.
00:25:34I won't forget.
00:25:36I file a claim as an American citizen and I go 50-50.
00:25:39We must get to the ledge below.
00:25:41There's nothing here.
00:26:01It's been many years, but I'm sure this is the place.
00:26:03Maybe the old burro cellar is right.
00:26:06Maybe the engines did cover it up.
00:26:13We dig here.
00:26:14My old eggs are killing me.
00:26:29I'm getting too old to be traipsed around these mountains.
00:26:46When we go back, let's go to Phoenix instead of away at Florence Junction.
00:26:49What do you say, Dougie?
00:26:51You've never been to Phoenix, have you?
00:26:53A real live town.
00:26:56I remember once.
00:26:57I don't think so.
00:26:58I don't think so.
00:27:27I don't think so.
00:27:42Baby!
00:27:45Baby!
00:27:47Look at this gold sacks of it already mined.
00:28:14We've got a storehouse.
00:28:17Oh.
00:28:47I tell you, it's the richest gold all you've ever seen!
00:28:50Come on!
00:28:55It's gold!
00:28:58It's gold!
00:29:01It's gold!
00:29:03It's gold!
00:29:06It's gold!
00:29:08It's gold!
00:29:10It's gold!
00:29:12It's gold!
00:29:14It's gold!
00:29:16It's gold!
00:29:20Joe!
00:29:21What is it?
00:29:22The fellow found gold in superstition, Mrs. Thomas.
00:29:24Brung back nugget as big as your fist!
00:29:35It's gold!
00:29:37It's gold!
00:29:39It's gold!
00:29:41It's gold!
00:29:43It's gold!
00:29:45It's gold!
00:29:46It's gold!
00:29:47It's gold!
00:29:48It's gold!
00:29:49It's gold!
00:29:50It's gold!
00:29:51It's gold!
00:29:52It's gold!
00:29:53What's happening?
00:29:54Partons is weighing it now!
00:29:55Swing it now.
00:30:05Stranger, you've hit it rich.
00:30:08How much?
00:30:09That ore, I'd say, close to 40,000 a ton.
00:30:1240,000 a ton?
00:30:13That's bringing the California strike.
00:30:15How much?
00:30:1640,000 a ton!
00:30:18A bonanza!
00:30:1940!
00:30:20Can you imagine?
00:30:21We'll want to buy up every borough in town.
00:30:22Hurry!
00:30:2340,000?
00:30:23How much?
00:30:2440,000?
00:30:2540,000.
00:30:26It's over 40,000.
00:30:27It's way over 40,000.
00:30:29Nearly 50,000.
00:30:31How much for what I brought in?
00:30:33Yeah, might less than 300 pounds.
00:30:36I'll give you 5,000 for it.
00:30:38It's worth six.
00:30:39Refined, maybe.
00:30:40As it is, no.
00:30:41Let's see.
00:30:42You stop crowding me, will you?
00:30:45All right.
00:30:47All right, fine.
00:30:49What's your name?
00:30:50I have to have your name in this receipt.
00:30:59Walsh.
00:31:00Jacob Walsh.
00:31:00What's his name?
00:31:01He said his name was Jacob Walsh.
00:31:04Who is he?
00:31:04Jacob Walsh.
00:31:06Must be a Dutchman.
00:31:07Or a German.
00:31:08Yeah, that's what I said, a Dutchman.
00:31:11Jacob Walsh.
00:31:15Sign it.
00:31:15It's a receipt, State, and I paid you $5,000 for 297 and a half pounds of gold ore.
00:31:25You ain't paid me yet.
00:31:27I will.
00:31:28You've got to sign it.
00:31:30It's the law.
00:31:31Is he signing his name?
00:31:46Is he signing his name?
00:31:47I don't know.
00:31:48He isn't even signing his name.
00:31:50He can't even write his own name.
00:31:51He can't read nor write.
00:31:54How do you like that, Julia?
00:31:55A stupid foreigner that can't even read or write finds a million-dollar gold mine.
00:31:59And you get $11 a week clerking in a hardware store.
00:32:04You and your high school diploma.
00:32:11And $10.50 makes $5,000.
00:32:14You're sure going to file a claim, ain't you?
00:32:15I'd like to talk to you about a deal you might find interesting.
00:32:17Whereabouts is it, Strikes?
00:32:19You ain't going to file a claim, mister.
00:32:20Hey!
00:32:21Boy, you're really struck a place, huh?
00:32:23I'll bet that ore's worth more than Parson's shed.
00:32:26That corner's got some trouble.
00:32:28We got $5,000 just like a gem.
00:32:30That's fine.
00:32:31I got a good version.
00:32:33I got a good shot.
00:32:34I got a good shot.
00:32:34I got a good shot.
00:32:34That's fine.
00:32:35It's fine.
00:32:51Pete.
00:32:52Pete, where are you?
00:33:12Get off my bed.
00:33:14How many times must I tell you to stay out of my room unless you're invited?
00:33:17I've got a right to lie in your bed.
00:33:20I'm your husband.
00:33:22Come into the other room. I want to talk to you.
00:33:24Talk to me in here.
00:33:31Julia!
00:33:33That's right, Pete.
00:33:35Come in.
00:33:38All right.
00:33:39What do you want?
00:33:42Sedan.
00:33:49A man named Jacob Walsh has just arrived in town.
00:33:52I want to meet him.
00:33:54Why?
00:33:57He's discovered gold.
00:33:59What do you want to meet him for?
00:34:00I've got a right to know.
00:34:02Really?
00:34:03Well, I have a right to some things, too.
00:34:05Like being sick and tired of running a bakery.
00:34:07Now, wait a minute, Julia.
00:34:08You've had four years to do something about getting me out of here, Pete.
00:34:10I've had bad luck.
00:34:11I'm doing the best I can.
00:34:12Yes, you've done very well.
00:34:14Have you been able to keep a job?
00:34:16Have you replaced our savings?
00:34:18You so cleverly invested in grazing land no animal could live on.
00:34:22Have you, Pete?
00:34:22That wasn't my fault.
00:34:23I got swindled.
00:34:24No.
00:34:25I got swindled.
00:34:27So now you're going to bring that man here.
00:34:30Oh, no.
00:34:31I won't, Julia.
00:34:32Yes, you will.
00:34:34Still that unsolved murder in Milwaukee.
00:34:36All right.
00:34:41Good.
00:34:44Of course, he's not to know that I'm married to you.
00:34:50You are married to me.
00:34:51Yes, but he's not to know.
00:34:54You understand, Pete.
00:34:56What do you want of him?
00:34:58I'm not sure yet.
00:35:00But I am sure I'm not going to stay here and dry up like the other women in this filthy town.
00:35:04Look, I'll get a job driving the stage to Tucson or maybe mining up in Goldfield.
00:35:08Yes, yes.
00:35:09He's at Luke's Saloon now.
00:35:11Buy him drinks.
00:35:13Or whatever he wants.
00:35:15Just see that I made him Pete.
00:35:22Pete.
00:35:30There's some money on the floor.
00:35:34He's been here close to eight hours.
00:35:55How long can he go on?
00:35:56Hey!
00:35:58Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:01Come on, Walsh.
00:36:02Tell us where to.
00:36:02Yeah!
00:36:03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:06Why's this rigurig de bin?
00:36:10Very good, very good.
00:36:12How about buying you a drink, mister?
00:36:13I buy my own drinks.
00:36:15I could buy the whole place if I wanted to.
00:36:17Where'd you strike it rich, Nutsy?
00:36:18Come on, tell us.
00:36:19You want to hear about the mine, huh?
00:36:20Is there much of this high-grade ore, Walsh?
00:36:23That, that's nothing.
00:36:25Why, that's just some of the loose stuff I picked up on the outside.
00:36:29On the outside?
00:36:30Hey, Walsh, you mean on the outside?
00:36:32Yeah.
00:36:33On the inside of the mine, there's a vein of gold as thick as...
00:36:38as thick as her waist.
00:36:41Where is it?
00:36:42Come on, tell us.
00:36:42All right, I'll tell you.
00:36:49From the mine, you can see the old military trail.
00:36:52Yeah?
00:36:52Then it is in superstition.
00:36:53Yeah?
00:36:54But from the trail, you can't see the mine.
00:36:57You've been teasing and hoarsing us around all night, Walsh.
00:37:00Now you tell us where you struck it rich or shut up.
00:37:03Put up or shut up.
00:37:04That's telling you.
00:37:05Yeah, it's about time somebody told him off.
00:37:08Blow hard.
00:37:10Maybe I'll file a claim.
00:37:11What?
00:37:12Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
00:37:15Yeah, you'd know right where to look.
00:37:17That'd make it easy for you.
00:37:18Well, come on up and try to find it.
00:37:21I'll be waiting for you.
00:37:22I'll give you a real welcome.
00:37:24Hey!
00:37:28That's telling them, Walsh.
00:37:30How about buying you a drink?
00:37:31He told you before he can buy his own drinks.
00:37:33Come on, honey.
00:37:39Are you really a Dutchman, honey?
00:37:40I bet Elsie was a German.
00:37:42Was I right?
00:37:45In the Dutch?
00:37:47What, honey?
00:37:51Bring me a drink.
00:37:56Not enough of that Dutchman tonight.
00:37:58I bet you get awful lonesome up in the mountains all alone.
00:38:15It ain't natural for a man to be by himself all the time, honey.
00:38:18If you go back to your mind, maybe you ought to take a little company.
00:38:25Maybe like taking Lucille with you.
00:38:30Ow!
00:38:31You're just like all the rest.
00:38:32All you want is my gold.
00:38:33That's all any of you want.
00:38:34I don't want none of your gold, mister.
00:38:36Not tonight.
00:38:37Now get out of my place.
00:38:38You dirty!
00:38:39Stop it, Lucille.
00:38:40You heard me.
00:38:41Get out!
00:38:49All right.
00:38:50You won't let me stay in,
00:38:52then I won't let you come out.
00:38:56He's bluffing.
00:38:57Relax, boss.
00:39:01Another half minute, he'll fall on his face.
00:39:03You won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me stay in, then you won't let me
00:39:33Get out of here, you drunken!
00:40:03Come on, Jim, let's get him!
00:40:09Where'd he go?
00:40:11Well, there's a shirt man here.
00:40:13Come on, Jim, let's get him!
00:40:15Where'd he go?
00:40:17Well, there's a shirt man here.
00:40:33He disappeared, Julia.
00:40:35Shh, not so loud, Pete.
00:40:37I tried to bring him home.
00:40:39He's inside now, unconscious, passed out here on the street.
00:40:41Now, please don't come back until I send for you.
00:40:43Julia.
00:40:45Please.
00:40:47Good night, Pete.
00:41:03Well, at last.
00:41:19Good morning.
00:41:20How do you feel now?
00:41:25Here's some coffee.
00:41:27A fresh roll.
00:41:30You may wash up in there.
00:41:33You may walk with me.
00:41:35You may walk with me.
00:41:36Goodbye.
00:41:37Now that's bad.
00:41:38Dlatego for being a ding-y-y-y-man,
00:41:43thechosLike.
00:41:44I'll be white with myMusic.
00:41:46I'll be pointers across your cold inbox.
00:41:51Before.
00:41:52I want to end.
00:41:53I trust you anyone first.
00:41:56Friends will be great.
00:41:57I prosper now.
00:41:58You may not be great.
00:41:59Freem anytime, just set up in charge.
00:42:00Before.
00:42:01How did I get here?
00:42:24Oh, you were lying in the doorway of my shop.
00:42:28You were quite sick.
00:42:29I was drunk last night.
00:42:31Either way, I still couldn't leave you there.
00:42:33Why?
00:42:34Why?
00:42:35Because I felt sorry for you.
00:42:37What other reasons are there?
00:42:39How much do I owe you?
00:42:41Owe me?
00:42:42Yeah, yeah.
00:42:43Why, nothing.
00:42:44Very glad you're feeling better now.
00:42:49My name is Jacob Walsh.
00:42:51I'm glad to know you, Mr. Walsh.
00:42:52I'm Julia Thomas.
00:42:55You do not know who I am.
00:42:58No, should I?
00:42:59Everybody in town's talking about me.
00:43:02Oh, why?
00:43:03I found a bonanza.
00:43:05What?
00:43:06Gold.
00:43:07I found the richest gold mine in the world.
00:43:10Oh, well, that's nice.
00:43:12Would you like some more coffee?
00:43:14You have no interest?
00:43:15Should I have?
00:43:16Well, Mr. Walsh, I don't know anything about gold mines.
00:43:20I just know about baking and trying to run my little shop.
00:43:22Now, if you'll excuse me, I do have to get the baking done.
00:43:29You don't even want to know where my mine is.
00:43:31I wouldn't know a gold mine if I fell into one.
00:43:36I'm very much obliged to you.
00:43:38You're welcome.
00:43:39Dankeschön.
00:43:40Bitteschön.
00:43:50Wischenden Sie Deutsch?
00:43:52Ja.
00:43:53Meine Mutter warst Deutsch.
00:43:54Ja?
00:43:55Ja.
00:43:57May I call upon you sometime?
00:44:00Well, I...
00:44:01This evening.
00:44:03All right, if you wish.
00:44:04Excuse me.
00:44:08Here.
00:44:11Good morning, Mrs. Butler.
00:44:13How much are them?
00:44:15Twenty cents a dozen.
00:44:16That's outrageous.
00:44:18And them?
00:44:19The same.
00:44:20You ought to be ashamed charging such prices.
00:44:23But, Mrs. Butler, they're the lowest in town.
00:44:24Ever since that gold strike, everybody's charging four times what things it's worth,
00:44:28and you ain't no different.
00:44:29Criminals, all of you.
00:44:32Give me half a dozen of them.
00:44:34Very well.
00:44:36The freshest ones, mind you.
00:44:37All this stuff's been sold.
00:44:39What?
00:44:39It belongs to me.
00:44:40Well, you can't do it.
00:44:41And you get out.
00:44:42You can't talk to me.
00:44:42You get out.
00:44:43You get out.
00:44:43You get out and you stay out.
00:44:45Well.
00:44:49Hair bulls.
00:44:51You shouldn't have done that.
00:44:53She was one of my best customers.
00:44:55You let people talk to you that way.
00:44:58Well, when a woman has to support herself, it's necessary to endure many unpleasant things.
00:45:02I buy everything.
00:45:03Well, really, there's no...
00:45:05It's for sale.
00:45:06Yes.
00:45:06All right.
00:45:06I buy everything.
00:45:07You wrap it up.
00:45:08I take it with me.
00:45:09Everything.
00:45:10Here.
00:45:10Yeah.
00:45:24Hey.
00:45:25You like cookies?
00:45:27Yes, sir.
00:45:27Here.
00:45:29Oh.
00:45:30Here.
00:45:30All of it?
00:45:31Yeah.
00:45:32Here.
00:45:32Let's go.
00:46:02Let's go.
00:46:32Oh, please. Won't you come in?
00:46:46Oh, please. Won't you sit down?
00:47:02I'm much obliged to you for taking me in last night.
00:47:10Oh, it was nothing at all. I'm much obliged to you.
00:47:12Why?
00:47:13For the biggest day's business I've had since I came to Phoenix.
00:47:16I've sold out.
00:47:22Would you like to see the album?
00:47:24Yes, I... I mean, I would.
00:47:26I...
00:47:36This is my mother. My father.
00:47:40He died when I was seven.
00:47:42Ah.
00:47:43That was after they came from Germany.
00:47:44Oh.
00:47:45Oh, dear. Not that one.
00:47:47Where, where, where?
00:47:48Oh, no. I keep meaning to take it out of there.
00:47:51It's so embarrassing.
00:47:53Yeah. You grew up fine.
00:47:56Oh, well, let me see.
00:48:00I was, uh, born and raised in Milwaukee.
00:48:04This is the house we lived in.
00:48:06And, uh...
00:48:08This is my mother's uncle.
00:48:10He's in Dresden now.
00:48:12And this is, uh...
00:48:14When did you come here?
00:48:15Oh, about four years ago.
00:48:17Ah.
00:48:18Why?
00:48:19Why did you come here?
00:48:20Well, after my mother passed away, I...
00:48:22I just didn't want to stay there anymore.
00:48:24I thought this was as good a place as any
00:48:26for a woman to make her own way.
00:48:29Well...
00:48:31Now, this is...
00:48:36Here, Valls.
00:48:39Do you like music?
00:48:41Who doesn't like music?
00:48:43Ha, ha.
00:49:06Good night, Herr Valls.
00:49:18Good night.
00:49:23I'm sorry.
00:49:24Good night.
00:49:25No, please. Please, I...
00:49:27I didn't want to make you angry.
00:49:29It was just that you are so very, very beautiful.
00:49:32Good night, Herr Voss.
00:49:36Don't assume you can take liberties
00:49:38simply because I'm a businesswoman living alone.
00:49:41May I call upon you again?
00:49:43Good night.
00:49:46You may use this door.
00:49:48Please may I call upon you again?
00:49:50Well, I...
00:49:51Tomorrow.
00:49:53All right.
00:49:56Good night.
00:49:57Good night.
00:49:59Good night, Herr Voss.
00:50:23That's her husband sitting over there.
00:50:27You'd think that Dutchman had found out about him by this time.
00:50:30Walsh doesn't even know she's married.
00:50:32Folks are scared to tell him.
00:50:34Well, Walsh would shoot your head off if you said anything.
00:50:36How many trips has Walsh made to that mine since he met her?
00:50:39Five, maybe six.
00:50:40Next.
00:50:42Next.
00:50:45How long will it be?
00:50:46Oh.
00:50:49Well, let me see.
00:50:51I've got this gentleman here.
00:50:53And one, two, three...
00:50:55You have my place.
00:50:56You have my place.
00:51:01What's so funny?
00:51:06Huh?
00:51:08Give me a shave.
00:51:09Yes, sir.
00:51:11Just got back into town, eh?
00:51:14Only been gone five days.
00:51:16Who's that fellow?
00:51:18Hmm?
00:51:18Who is that fellow?
00:51:20Oh, uh, him?
00:51:21Yeah.
00:51:23Why, uh, you see, he's the fellow that, uh, that, uh, gave his place.
00:51:29Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:51:56Pete, what are you doing here?
00:51:59I told you not to come back unless I send for you.
00:52:02Everybody in town knows what's going on with him.
00:52:05And they're laughing at me.
00:52:06Stop acting like a child.
00:52:07Why did I do it? Why?
00:52:09Do what?
00:52:10Get up and run out of that barbershop like a scared rabbit, that's what.
00:52:13And all the time I wanted to...
00:52:15What are you so dressed up for?
00:52:17He said he'd be back today.
00:52:19And I don't want him to find you here, Pete.
00:52:21You've seen him nine or ten times. How much longer is this going to go on?
00:52:23What difference does it make?
00:52:24Julia, don't see him anymore.
00:52:26You're a fool.
00:52:27Yeah, you're the smart one.
00:52:30Only not as smart as you thought you were.
00:52:32Not smart enough to get any of his money.
00:52:34Not smart enough to find out where his mind is.
00:52:36Pete, I know what I'm doing.
00:52:38He'll be here any minute.
00:52:40You told him yet?
00:52:44Have you told him you're married?
00:52:47Is she somebody else's wife?
00:52:49Pete, I want you to leave.
00:52:52Somebody will tell him.
00:52:54Maybe somebody in the barbershop already told him.
00:52:57You'll find out.
00:52:58You'll find out you're after the same thing everybody else is after.
00:53:02Get out.
00:53:03Julia, I won't stand for you fooling around with that Dutchman.
00:53:06Let go of me.
00:53:07You're mushing my dress.
00:53:08Let loose of me.
00:53:10I'll stand for you when I want you, Pete.
00:53:12When I want you.
00:53:15That's him.
00:53:17Go out the back door.
00:53:18Go on.
00:53:19This is it.
00:53:24He pays off tonight or it's the last night.
00:53:27When I come back, they'll be through the front door, Julia.
00:53:28I'll be here.
00:53:51Oh, Jacob.
00:53:52Every time I see you, you are more beautiful.
00:54:01All the way to and from the mine, I keep practicing pretty speeches to say to you.
00:54:06And when I see you, I forget them.
00:54:11I forget them.
00:54:12Jacob, if people talked to you about me, about us.
00:54:28No one would dare.
00:54:29Why?
00:54:30There's something I must tell you.
00:54:32What is it?
00:54:33I should have told you a long time ago, but I suppose I'd never thought it'd be necessary.
00:54:44Jacob, I'm married.
00:54:47I have been for five years.
00:54:50I couldn't lie to you, not now.
00:54:56I don't love my husband.
00:54:58Now I know I never have.
00:55:00All I want is to be free of him.
00:55:01You don't care for him?
00:55:03No.
00:55:04I love you, Jacob.
00:55:06What's his name?
00:55:08Pete.
00:55:09Pete Thomas.
00:55:12Will he give you a divorce?
00:55:15Divorce?
00:55:16For money, will he give you a divorce?
00:55:19Well, I...
00:55:20I don't know.
00:55:23Here.
00:55:24Here's $2,000.
00:55:25We'll set a limit, say $5,000.
00:55:27Will that be enough for him?
00:55:29Perhaps.
00:55:30But he must sign a paper giving you a divorce.
00:55:34You see, I...
00:55:36I know about these things.
00:55:38I was married once myself.
00:55:40My wife divorced me.
00:55:42He took my daughter away from me.
00:55:43All because my wife didn't sign a paper.
00:55:46So he must sign that paper before he gets a penny of money.
00:55:49Now you understand that?
00:55:50Yes.
00:55:51Now will you make the arrangements?
00:55:53No, no, I'll do it myself.
00:55:54No.
00:55:54No, Jacob, I know I can.
00:55:56Good.
00:55:56When did he get back?
00:55:57Good.
00:55:58Good.
00:56:00Tonight?
00:56:01Tonight.
00:56:03What is it, Jacob?
00:56:05I'm going back to the mine tonight to get more money for us.
00:56:09Oh, I love you.
00:56:11I love you, Julian.
00:56:14And I want to marry you.
00:56:15Soon, there will be just you and I.
00:56:27Yes, Jacob.
00:56:29Just you and I.
00:56:34Hey, everybody!
00:56:36I just saw the Dutchman.
00:56:38He woke up old man Parsons.
00:56:40Made him open up his store so he could get his grub.
00:56:42Then I saw him head for the corral.
00:56:44He's on his way back to the mine.
00:56:45I don't know.
00:56:50Yes, go after him.
00:56:53Give me a drink.
00:56:54One for the road.
00:56:55You and your big mouth.
00:56:56You wreck our business.
00:56:57Well, we've got to find that mine.
00:57:00Hey.
00:57:02Hey.
00:57:04Come on, we go.
00:57:05Come on, wake up.
00:57:09Where is it?
00:57:09I want you to get my burrows ready.
00:57:11Oh, it's you.
00:57:14What for?
00:57:14You just got back.
00:57:17It ain't decent waking a man in the middle of night.
00:57:21Not for burrows.
00:57:22Hey, do you know a Pete Thomas?
00:57:28I ain't no gossip.
00:57:29I mind my own business.
00:57:31I didn't ask you for any gossip.
00:57:32I asked you if you knew him.
00:57:35Well, we say howdy when we meet.
00:57:39Ain't seen him much lately.
00:57:41He ain't use no animals for a spell.
00:57:44How long has he been here?
00:57:46Shucks, I don't know.
00:57:48Three, four years, I guess.
00:57:50Ever since him and his wife came here from Milwaukee.
00:57:52Well, I'll start rounding up them dang burrows for you now.
00:57:56I don't see why you can't wait till morning, though.
00:58:01Hey, there.
00:58:02Hey, there, fella.
00:58:03Huh.
00:58:04Where'd he go?
00:58:06Oh, he's getting old.
00:58:07Can't you remember him going?
00:58:08What?
00:58:08Corral, again.
00:58:10Hey, fella.
00:58:10Hey, Pete.
00:58:17It's safe to go home now.
00:58:20The Dutchman's gone.
00:58:21Well, Julia, did you have a nice evening?
00:58:44Did he pay off?
00:58:45Or do you have to see him just once more?
00:58:48Pete, I'm glad you're back.
00:58:51He gave me this.
00:58:52Two thousand dollars.
00:58:53And there'll be more.
00:58:55This is for you, Pete.
00:58:57And the rest that's coming.
00:58:59More than that, if you want it.
00:59:00I don't want his money.
00:59:01Do you understand?
00:59:02Let go of me, Pete, and listen.
00:59:03No, you listen to me for a change.
00:59:05You're through with him.
00:59:06And this time I'll make sure of it.
00:59:07Absolutely sure of it.
00:59:09What do you mean?
00:59:10When he comes back from the mine, he'll find me here.
00:59:12Where I belong.
00:59:14I'll tell him how you played him for a sucker.
00:59:16That you like all the rest, only worse.
00:59:17You pretend to be decent.
00:59:19I'll tell him the whole rotten story.
00:59:21From beginning to end.
00:59:23The whole story, Pete?
00:59:24Yes, including the murder.
00:59:27It won't matter if you turn me in.
00:59:29It won't matter at all.
00:59:31Because when I'm through with him, I'll have a second one to my credit.
00:59:34Jacob Walsh.
00:59:36Pete.
00:59:37Pete, you've got to listen to me.
00:59:39Try to buy me off, would he?
00:59:41Well, he can't do it.
00:59:43Wait a minute.
00:59:44Whose idea was this?
00:59:45Did he think it up all by himself?
00:59:48No, he didn't.
00:59:50It was my idea.
00:59:52All mine.
00:59:53I don't like those kind of ideas.
00:59:56I'll kill him before he gets out of town.
00:59:58Pete.
00:59:58Don't be silly.
01:00:01The only way I could get the money was to tell him you could be bought off.
01:00:04You're still my wife.
01:00:06Oh, Pete.
01:00:08I'm not lying to you.
01:00:11He thinks you'll give me a divorce for money.
01:00:14There was no other way of getting it.
01:00:19Don't you understand?
01:00:20Julia, could it be that it isn't just his gold you're interested in?
01:00:31That you've been lying to me?
01:00:33Could that be?
01:00:34Don't be a fool.
01:00:35Answer me.
01:00:36Are you in love with him?
01:00:37Oh.
01:00:38Answer me.
01:00:39I've told you over and over again.
01:00:41All I want is his gold.
01:00:43For us.
01:00:43I don't want anything from him.
01:00:46Not even his mind?
01:00:49Once I find out where it is, he'll be no problem to us.
01:00:52Julia, you aren't lying to me.
01:00:54No.
01:00:55No.
01:00:55You're really leaving tonight?
01:01:19Yeah, the guy said you're on the way back to the mine, Dutchie.
01:01:21Yeah, when you're leaving?
01:01:23Oh, what's the matter, Dutchie?
01:01:25Come on, Waltz.
01:01:29We're friends.
01:01:38You had enough now to kill a horse.
01:01:40Why don't you take your business somewhere else?
01:01:43Ain't they buying gold in Tucson or other places?
01:01:48Every time you leave Phoenix, you take half the town with you.
01:01:51Everybody trying to follow you and find out where that mine is.
01:01:54I'll bet there's a hundred of our customers waiting to follow you into that mountain right now.
01:01:59Take your gold and go to some other town.
01:02:01You'll ruin our business coming here.
01:02:03Get me a pencil and a piece of paper.
01:02:10Get me a pencil and a piece of paper.
01:02:10There's Weaver's need.
01:02:12There's Weaver's Needle, there's the runway.
01:02:42That's the ledge about 200 yards from the cactus marker. Mine's just below that.
01:02:46I see.
01:02:47I'm not coming back to Phoenix.
01:02:49What?
01:02:50Too many people following me out of town. Crowds getting bigger all the time, getting harder to lose on the trail.
01:02:55So we'll meet somewhere else. Doesn't make any difference where.
01:02:57But, Jacob, I thought...
01:02:59You can get a divorce anywhere. You can leave your husband the same way my wife left me.
01:03:04Is there anything wrong with that?
01:03:06No, only I...
01:03:07Of course, if you didn't mean what you said about us.
01:03:10If you lied.
01:03:11Oh, no.
01:03:14I did mean it, Jacob. I did.
01:03:16There's no sense giving him any money. I thought it over.
01:03:19Please, can't I go with you now?
01:03:21I'd never be able to lose those people on the trail if you were along with me.
01:03:23Jacob, you're so strange.
01:03:25Will you meet me at the minor, won't you?
01:03:27Yes, of course I'll meet you.
01:03:28But it may take me two or three extra days because of the crowd that'll be following.
01:03:31You'll be there ahead of me.
01:03:32Yes, I'll be waiting at the minor for you.
01:03:34What did you want? What did you come back for?
01:03:45Oh, nothing. Just to see me again.
01:03:46Finding on running out of me, Julia?
01:03:55Oh, no, Pete. You know I wouldn't go without you.
01:03:59I do now. And I know something else. You're in love with him.
01:04:03You've been lying to me about that, too.
01:04:04But we're going to the mine together.
01:04:07They're going to be there when I kill him.
01:04:10You understand?
01:04:34Let me see that map again.
01:04:48There's Weaver's Needle. We're almost there.
01:04:51And I can hardly wait.
01:05:04There's Weaver's Needle.
01:05:34This is it. This is the runway he told you about.
01:05:43Yes.
01:05:44What if he's here?
01:05:46He said it to take him two or three extra days.
01:05:48Anyway, he expects me.
01:05:49If he is here, you get him out where I can see him.
01:06:04I can't see him.
01:06:05I can't see him.
01:06:06I can't see him.
01:06:07I can't see him.
01:06:08Jacob!
01:06:09Jacob!
01:06:10Jacob!
01:06:11Jacob!
01:06:20Pete!
01:06:21Pete, come on down.
01:06:22It's all right. He's not here.
01:06:23Look at it, Junior. Just look at it.
01:06:24Oh, I see why he always got back to town so soon.
01:06:26All he had to do was pick it up.
01:06:30Pete.
01:06:31It's worth millions.
01:06:32Bring the boroughs down here.
01:06:33The runway we came down is the only way on or off this ledge.
01:06:40Well, go on. He was so anxious to be ready for him.
01:06:42Yeah. You're right.
01:07:12You're right.
01:07:19Julia!
01:07:20They're gone! Everything's gone!
01:07:22What?
01:07:23Our supplies! The food! The water! Everything! It's gone!
01:07:29Maybe the boroughs just wandered away.
01:07:31No, they were tired of. He's already here. He knows.
01:07:35Call to him. Get him out in the open. Go on.
01:07:42Jacob!
01:07:45Where are you?
01:07:47Jacob!
01:08:05Jacob!
01:08:11Jacob!
01:08:12Jacob!
01:08:13I didn't want to bring him!
01:08:14I didn't want to, Jacob!
01:08:42I didn't want to bring him out!
01:09:12Jacob.
01:09:37Jacob, listen to me.
01:09:41I didn't want to bring him. He made me do it.
01:09:44Please, darling, help me.
01:09:46Quick before he finds out I'm gone.
01:09:49Oh, please, Jacob.
01:09:57You fool!
01:10:11Get away from me!
01:10:18Get away from me!
01:10:25Get away from me!
01:10:31I'm not going to die.
01:10:34I'm not going to die.
01:10:36I'm not going to die.
01:10:40I'm not going to die.
01:10:45I'm not going to die.
01:10:56I'm not going to die.
01:11:01I'm not going to die!
01:11:03All right, what are you waiting for?
01:11:24Get it over with.
01:11:33Pete, Pete, ask him for water.
01:11:57Go on.
01:11:59Pete.
01:12:03Get it over with.
01:12:33Get it over with.
01:13:03Pete.
01:13:05Pete.
01:13:08Pete.
01:13:09Pete.
01:13:10Pete.
01:13:12Pete.
01:13:13Oh, my God.
01:13:43You want her?
01:13:51Take her!
01:13:55You can have her!
01:14:00Nobody wants you.
01:14:04From the beginning, it was her idea.
01:14:08I don't want your gold.
01:14:09I never did.
01:14:11You want her?
01:14:11Take her!
01:14:12You can have her!
01:14:12Take her!
01:14:26You see, Jacob, I've gotten rid of him.
01:14:29I killed him for you.
01:14:31How do you know I wasn't lying to you?
01:14:38It's all over.
01:14:40It's just you and me now, Jacob.
01:14:42Remember?
01:14:43Remember?
01:14:43Just like you wanted it.
01:14:52Jacob, you love me.
01:14:54You said you did.
01:14:56We can be married now, just like you said.
01:15:02I wasn't lying to you, Jacob.
01:15:05He forced me to bring him with me.
01:15:07I didn't want to.
01:15:08Jacob, you've got to believe me.
01:15:09Jacob, you've got to believe me.
01:15:14You've got to.
01:15:15I proved I loved you when I killed him.
01:15:18Jacob, I wanted you.
01:15:19I loved you.
01:15:23Please help me.
01:15:27Jacob, I want you.
01:15:28I want you.
01:15:28Jacob, I want you.
01:15:36Jacob, I want you.
01:15:37All you want to do is my gold.
01:15:42Well, now you got it.
01:15:44You got it!
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01:17:52It's about Sunday.
01:17:55Hiya. Did you find your mine yet?
01:17:57Nope. Well, I'm on my way back to superstition right now.
01:18:00You'd better be careful. There's still a killer up there.
01:18:02I got nothing to lose except my life.
01:18:10The sky clouded up, and the wind tried to blow a scare into me...
01:18:13...as I made my way back to the treasure signs.
01:18:17Three days later, the clouds got out of the sky and into my brain.
01:18:22I got lost.
01:18:24I couldn't even find the canyon where I'd uncovered the old gun.
01:18:27Like an idiot, I fumbled in and out of one gorge after another...
01:18:31...pushing along with no more sense or reason than if I'd been on a treadmill.
01:18:35I knew I had to locate the rock called Weaver's Needle...
01:18:38...before I could even start looking for the lost mine.
01:18:41Then, with sheer blind luck, I walked right into it.
01:18:45Here was a spot I'd found the gun, killed the rattlesnake.
01:18:48And I had my starting point.
01:18:50A short distance away, I found a cliff from which I could see the old military trail.
01:18:55Jacob Waltz had said that from his mind he could see the trail...
01:18:58...but from the trail, nobody could see the mine.
01:19:00I set out to prove he'd told the truth.
01:19:03Now, I'm a guy who gets dizzy just standing on a high curb.
01:19:07But even when the ground dropped out from under me like a deceitful friend...
01:19:12...I kept scrambling along the cliffside, keeping the trail in sight.
01:19:16When you're sick with gold fever, you have no patience with caution.
01:19:19All you think about is getting your hooks into that glittering pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
01:19:24I followed the edge of that cliff, staying within view of the trail for the next three days.
01:19:29My fever began to go down as discouragement set in...
01:19:33...and I was about ready to give up and go home when suddenly I came on a wide ledge.
01:19:38Gradually it dawned on me that here the trail was in sight...
01:19:41...but that a mine couldn't be seen from below.
01:19:43Then I found the map, the strange map carved in a stone.
01:19:47This was something I hadn't expected.
01:19:49I got as excited as a poker player filling an inside straight flush.
01:19:53They looked like old Spanish markings, a sort of master map of the region.
01:19:57But the doodles didn't make any sense to me because I didn't know how to read them.
01:20:01Then I found that hole and realized it had been drilled into the rock for some reason.
01:20:06I didn't have any idea what the reason could be...
01:20:08...but I picked up a stick and began probing to try and find out.
01:20:12I peered along the stick, but its direction pointed out nothing I hadn't seen before.
01:20:17Then I discovered, though it looked like just a single hole on the outside...
01:20:22...there were actually several on the inside.
01:20:24My second look didn't lead any place either.
01:20:26But the third started bells ringing in my head.
01:20:29It pointed my eyes at a strange kind of peak.
01:20:32A startling rock formation with a window in its top.
01:20:35I felt as if Santa Claus had just climbed down my chimney.
01:20:39I began making tracks for that peak.
01:20:43As I clawed and climbed my way toward the window above...
01:20:46...one thought kept repeating itself.
01:20:48Nobody, not Ray Coven, the Sheriff, Bill Bates...
01:20:52...nobody had ever mentioned the weird map cut in the rocks.
01:20:55Or this peak that had been pointed out by the stick in the hole.
01:20:58I'd discovered these things all by myself.
01:21:01What I knew was top secret, private knowledge for Barry Storm.
01:21:06I felt sure that at last, finally, I was on the express road to the Lost Dutchman...
01:21:11...to my grandfather's fabulous mine...
01:21:14...where I'd find lumps of gold piled up like rubble.
01:21:18I was so dreamy, I figured all I had to do was crawl through that window...
01:21:21...and the mine was on the other side.
01:21:24But there wasn't any mine. There was nothing.
01:21:26I figured I'd crawl behind another eight ball.
01:21:29Then I realized this arch was man-made. It did add up to something.
01:21:33And when I saw my shadow on the valley floor, I knew this window was the key to the goal.
01:21:38My whole future was in that square of light below.
01:21:41I raced back to the wall map to fix its location in my mind...
01:21:44...then get started on that last lap to fame and fortune.
01:21:48But something had changed. It wasn't like I'd left it.
01:21:53Looking for this?
01:21:57Ray, what are you doing here?
01:21:59Looking for you.
01:22:00Ray, I got it. I found a window cut in the rock.
01:22:03It's a sort of a light sign.
01:22:05It casts a shadow that points to a spot where the gold may be buried.
01:22:09And the spot is...
01:22:10Go on.
01:22:15Of course, it may not mean anything at all.
01:22:19What'd you come back for?
01:22:21Another murder.
01:22:26Drop your gun belt.
01:22:30You shut up fast when you thought you found something, didn't you?
01:22:37You don't want a partner, neither do I.
01:22:41You'll kill Buckley.
01:22:43I've been looking for that gold for 20 years, Storm.
01:22:45If anybody's gonna get it, it's gonna be me.
01:22:47You're right about that light sign.
01:22:50And some night it's gonna show me where the gold is.
01:22:53Turn around.
01:23:01Start walking.
01:23:06We'll send a posse in after you in a couple of weeks.
01:23:08No murder here.
01:23:09Your bones will show you just died of a bad fall.
01:23:14Keep walking.
01:23:15Keep walking.
01:23:16Right to the end.
01:23:45Keep walking.
01:23:47Keep walking.
01:23:48Keep walking.
01:23:49Keep walking.
01:23:50What a bubble.
01:23:52And now...
01:23:53We'll get a good idea.
01:23:55That's great.
01:23:56You're ready.
01:23:57I'm ready.
01:23:58Let's go.
01:23:59Let's go.
01:24:00Let's go.
01:24:01Let's go.
01:24:02What a bubble.
01:24:03Let's go.
01:24:04What a bubble.
01:24:05Let's go.
01:24:06Let's go.
01:24:07Please, come on.
01:24:08What a bubble.
01:24:09Come on.
01:24:39Come on.
01:25:09Come on.
01:25:39Come on.
01:25:51Colvin makes victim number 21.
01:25:53Good thing Walter trailed you.
01:25:54You'd still be explaining this.
01:25:57Too bad he didn't get up in time to help you.
01:26:00But why were you having me tailed?
01:26:02I wasn't.
01:26:03I was after Ray.
01:26:05It wasn't any accident I sent Walter with you the first time.
01:26:08Ray had a funny habit of being out of the office whenever these murders happened.
01:26:13And he was always so fast locating the bodies.
01:26:16I stayed behind the first time after Colvin told me to go back.
01:26:19When I saw Ray's gun about to shoot you, I knew he was the killer.
01:26:23Then you've been using me for a clay pigeon.
01:26:26Kind of.
01:26:27I couldn't arrest my own deputy just on knowing.
01:26:30I had to prove Colvin was the murderer.
01:26:33That's why I was waiting for you to go in again.
01:26:34I knew if you got too close he'd have to make a pass at you.
01:26:39Well, let's get going.
01:26:41I want to be out of here before dark.
01:26:42I'm not going with you.
01:26:46I got a date up there tonight.
01:26:47My little company?
01:27:02Would it be kind of interesting watching a man just dig up $20 million?
01:27:08All I'm waiting for is that full moon.
01:27:11When it comes through that window, it'll light up the patch of ground where I'm to dig.
01:27:15That's all I'll need.
01:27:29Look at it.
01:27:33I'm standing right in the center of it.
01:27:35Right here.
01:27:37This is where I dig.
01:27:38My grandfather's gold.
01:27:46$20 million bucks worth.
01:27:57It's moved.
01:27:59It was here, that square light.
01:28:01Now it's there.
01:28:01You hadn't figured on that, huh, Storm?
01:28:10You forgot the moon and earth keep moving.
01:28:14At this rate, you're going to have to dig up the whole mountain, meet a bulldozer.
01:28:18That earthquake changed things, too.
01:28:21That's why Ray Coven never found the mine.
01:28:24That's why you'll never find it.
01:28:25That's right.
01:28:27If it is the moon that'll point out that gold, it'll only do it once a year.
01:28:31And the anniversary of the night the Peraldas made that sign.
01:28:35That's a catch.
01:28:36When was that sign made?
01:28:38What night?
01:28:39What hour?
01:28:40What moment?
01:28:42If I could figure that out, I'd hit the jackpot.
01:28:45And if you did, this county would need a new sheriff.
01:28:47Because I'd be right there digging with you.
01:28:50Come on, let's go.
01:28:50Well, that's the story, as far as I'm concerned.
01:28:55The whole biography of Superstition Mountain won't be finished till somebody takes that gold away from her.
01:29:01The treasure signs, the marker, the light sign, they're all genuine.
01:29:06Maybe you can figure out that strange map carved in the stone.
01:29:11I've got a hunch it holds the key to the fortune.
01:29:14Anyway, everything's all there in the mountain.
01:29:16And if you're interested, you might like to know that any citizen of the United States has the legal right to search for gold.
01:29:23And you don't have to pay anybody for the privilege.
01:29:26If you should find Superstition's treasure, the state of Arizona and the government of the United States will recognize your claim to it.
01:29:33Like I said at the beginning, if you'd like to pick up $20 million, I'll show you where to look.
01:29:39Well, I've shown you.
01:29:41I'll show you where to look.
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