The Red Pony (1949) is a touching coming-of-age drama based on the beloved novella by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Set in rural California, the film tells the story of a young boy named Tom who learns about life, responsibility, and loss after he's given a red pony to care for.
Directed by Lewis Milestone, with a screenplay by Steinbeck himself and a beautiful score by Aaron Copland, this film is a heartfelt portrayal of childhood and growth, capturing both the beauty and hardship of farm life.
Directed by Lewis Milestone, with a screenplay by Steinbeck himself and a beautiful score by Aaron Copland, this film is a heartfelt portrayal of childhood and growth, capturing both the beauty and hardship of farm life.
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00:00:00In Central California, many small ranches,
00:00:30sit in the hollows of the skirts of the Coast Range Mountains.
00:00:34Some, the remnants of old and gradually disintegrating homesteads.
00:00:39Some, the remains of Spanish grass.
00:00:42To one of them, in the foothills to the west of Salinas Valley,
00:00:46the dawn comes, as it comes to a thousand others.
00:00:49To one of those and others.
00:01:19To one of those and others.
00:01:49To one of those and others.
00:02:19To one of those and others.
00:02:49To one of those and others.
00:02:51To one of those and others.
00:03:17Rosie.
00:03:21Rosie.
00:03:51Rosie.
00:04:07Steady, Rosie.
00:04:09Steady now.
00:04:14Now you'll drop a fine coat.
00:04:21Steady now.
00:04:45Remember your ears, Tom.
00:04:47You're not clean just because you're wet.
00:04:52Go on.
00:05:05Sit down, Fred, I'll do that.
00:05:22Morning, ma'am.
00:05:24Good morning, Billy.
00:05:26Well, we sure got a good day for it, Mr. Tifflin.
00:05:28Sit down, sit down, Billy.
00:05:37Got the cows ready to go?
00:05:39In the lower corral.
00:05:40I could just as well take them in alone.
00:05:42Sure you could.
00:05:43You could take the auction in alone, too.
00:05:46But a man needs company,
00:05:47and I'd rather you had mine than the kind you pick up in town.
00:05:51Besides, your throat gets pretty dry.
00:05:57We'll start right after breakfast.
00:06:15May I go, sir? I gotta take this to Billy.
00:06:22Is that boy doing his schoolwork the way he should?
00:06:25He's growing up the way he should.
00:06:27Is he?
00:06:28He spends too much time with Billy Buck.
00:06:30That won't hurt him.
00:06:31Billy's making a good rancher out of him.
00:06:34He's more to life than ranching.
00:06:36You'll have to convince Tom of that.
00:06:38And you.
00:06:39And your father.
00:06:42Can I help you any with the horses?
00:06:44Can I hold them for you?
00:06:46What's the matter with tying them up to the corral fence,
00:06:48like I said?
00:06:49What's the matter with tying them up to the corral fence,
00:06:51like I always do?
00:06:53All right, maybe you can help me some.
00:06:56Billy.
00:06:57Billy, would you lend me the clipping?
00:06:59What do you want it for?
00:07:01Well, I told the kids our Rosie won the stock horse final in Sacramento,
00:07:04and they just laughed.
00:07:06Jinks Ingalls laughed first.
00:07:08But I've got the clipping to prove it.
00:07:09They said they didn't see the clipping.
00:07:11Ah, you just come with me.
00:07:19Come on.
00:07:37Who's that lady?
00:07:38No, that's my cousin.
00:07:41Who's she?
00:07:43She's my cousin, too.
00:07:45I thought you said she was your cousin.
00:07:49Well, we're a big family.
00:08:03Now they'll believe it.
00:08:20I gotta believe you got both of them.
00:08:23Now you take care of this clipping.
00:08:25Don't go opening and closing it too much.
00:08:28Wear it out.
00:08:31Ah, you kids.
00:08:32Stand on your heads and walk around on your hands and knees too much.
00:08:38There.
00:08:50Alice.
00:08:53I'm up here, Fred.
00:08:55In father's room.
00:09:05This button's off.
00:09:07In a minute.
00:09:20Let it be, Fred.
00:09:21You know he can tell when anything's touched.
00:09:24He'll probably be in today.
00:09:26I guess I've had as much rest as I can expect.
00:09:29It's a good two weeks since I've had to listen to those stories of his.
00:09:33He's an old man.
00:09:35He talks about the things he remembers best.
00:09:38You talk yourself sometimes.
00:09:41Sure I do, but he only talks about one thing.
00:09:44Indians. Indians and crossing the plain.
00:09:46That's what.
00:09:47You get out of here, Mr. Big Britches.
00:09:49Go on now. It's time you started to school.
00:09:57Goodbye, Billy.
00:10:00Come on, Chuck.
00:10:17Come on, Chuck.
00:11:17Tom!
00:11:19Hi, Tom!
00:11:21Tom!
00:11:23Tom!
00:11:25Hi, Tom!
00:11:39Hi, Tom.
00:11:40Did you get it?
00:11:41Did I get what?
00:11:42The slippy.
00:11:43Sure, it's in the ribbon too.
00:11:44Let's see it if you've got it.
00:11:47Well, let's see it.
00:11:48You promise?
00:11:49Let's see it.
00:11:50How about it?
00:11:51Yeah, how about letting us see it?
00:11:53Where's the clip?
00:11:54Let's see it!
00:11:55I don't think he's really got it.
00:12:03All right.
00:12:04I'll show it to you.
00:12:06I don't want to open it too often.
00:12:08It wears out, Billy.
00:12:10I'll show it to you.
00:12:12I'll show it to you.
00:12:14I'll show it to you.
00:12:15I won't open it too often.
00:12:16It wears out, Billy says.
00:12:18You know, Billy's bred her.
00:12:19She's going to have a coat.
00:12:21Maybe he might give the coat to me.
00:12:23Did Billy say he would?
00:12:25Well, not exactly.
00:12:27Then how do you know he will?
00:12:28I didn't say he will.
00:12:29I said maybe he will.
00:12:30Maybe's ain't getting.
00:12:32It's costing $25 dollars just to breed her.
00:12:34That coat would be worth at least $150 dollars.
00:12:38Do you think he'd give you $150 dollars?
00:12:41No.
00:12:42Why do you think he'd give you a $150 coat?
00:12:45Yeah, what makes you think that?
00:12:47Well, he might.
00:12:48Mights ain't gettins.
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00:13:10I'm just going to get some wood.
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00:18:59I used to get so hungry every night, couldn't hardly let the meat get done.
00:19:02I could eat five pound of buffalo every night.
00:19:06Everybody could. Sit down, Alice. Grub's fine.
00:19:10Moving around does it, I guess.
00:19:12My father was a government packer.
00:19:15Used to help him when I was a kid.
00:19:17The two of us could just about clear up a deer hand.
00:19:20I knew your father, Billy.
00:19:21Good man.
00:19:23Used to call him Mule Tail Buck.
00:19:26Never did know why, except he packed mules.
00:19:29You ought to know if he had a tail, Billy.
00:19:32No, that's why they call him that, because he packed mules.
00:19:35I remember one time we run out of meat.
00:19:39Thank you, Alice.
00:19:40There was no buffalo, no deer, no antelope, not even rabbits.
00:19:43Hunters couldn't even shoot a coyote.
00:19:45Thank you, Alice.
00:19:48That was the time for the leader to be on the watch.
00:19:50I was the leader. Kept my eyes open then, you know why?
00:19:59Well, I'll tell you why.
00:20:02Just a minute, the people begin to get hungry.
00:20:05They'd up and slaughter their team oxen. Do you believe that?
00:20:29The leader of the party had to keep them from doing that.
00:20:32And I was the leader.
00:20:34You better eat. The rest of us are about ready for our pudding.
00:20:37Well, I am a little hungry at that.
00:20:40Yep, I was the leader.
00:20:42I'll tell you some interesting things later.
00:20:44I wonder, did I tell you about the time the coyotes drove off the 35 horses of ours?
00:20:50Yes, you did.
00:20:52And I wonder, did I tell you about the time the coyotes drove off the 35 horses of ours?
00:20:57I kind of think you did. Wasn't it just before you got up to the Tahoe country?
00:21:02Yes, that's right. Yes, I did tell you.
00:21:05Well, anyway, you told it hundreds of times.
00:21:11Of course, we'd like to hear it again.
00:21:14Tell about the Indians and the horses.
00:21:17I want to see you after supper.
00:21:19Did I ever tell you how I wanted the wagons to carry along iron plates?
00:21:28No, you didn't, Grandfather.
00:21:30What did you want to use the iron plates for?
00:21:32Well, you see, when the Indians attack, we always put the wagons in a circle.
00:21:38I figured that if we put iron plates down to get behind...
00:21:41Well, Mr. Big Britches, are you coming?
00:21:44I figured that if we put iron plates down to get behind...
00:21:47Well, Mr. Big Britches, are you coming?
00:22:00Now, if those plates had holes in them,
00:22:03the men could stand them in front of the wheels and they'd be protected.
00:22:08Well, I guess I'd better go. They might need me.
00:22:13I've got an old powder horn and a cap and ball pistol out in the bunkhouse.
00:22:16Did I ever show them to you?
00:22:18Billy, that reminds me of a pistol I had when I was leading the people across.
00:22:22It was a...
00:22:24Whatever happened to that pistol?
00:22:26Maybe you'd better tell it when you go down to the bunkhouse.
00:22:28Billy has to go.
00:22:29Thank you, ma'am. Good night.
00:22:44Mine?
00:22:45Yours.
00:22:47He needs a good currying.
00:22:49And if I ever hear of you not feeding him or leaving his stall dirty,
00:22:52I'll sell him off in a minute.
00:22:59Well, I guess he can bite, all right.
00:23:03I guess he can bite, all right.
00:23:06I guess he can bite, all right.
00:23:08I guess he can bite, all right.
00:23:10I guess he can bite, all right.
00:23:12I guess he can bite, all right.
00:23:19And no more Indians, Mr. Bigbridges.
00:23:26Mine.
00:23:27Sure.
00:23:29That is, if you look out for him and break him right like your father said.
00:23:32Of course, he's pretty young. He couldn't bear your weight for some time.
00:23:35But you'll tell me what to do, won't you, Billy?
00:23:37Grandpa says you know everything about horses.
00:23:40I'm half-horse myself.
00:23:42You know, my ma died when I was born.
00:23:44Me and my old man didn't have any cows around,
00:23:46so they mostly gave me mare's milk.
00:23:48I'm half-horse, and horses know it.
00:23:51Don't you, little fella?
00:23:52You do like I tell you, you'll have the best horse in the country.
00:23:56When do you think I can ride him?
00:23:59Well, you're not very heavy around...
00:24:01oh, say, Thanksgiving, maybe?
00:24:05Uh, there isn't a saddle?
00:24:07Oh, I forgot. Come on.
00:24:12Of course, it's just a show saddle.
00:24:14It's not practical for the brush.
00:24:16It was cheap at the sale.
00:24:18A show saddle?
00:24:20From a circus?
00:24:22I guess you could call it kind of a circus show.
00:24:27It'll look pretty on him.
00:24:38If he hasn't a name already,
00:24:40I think I'll call him Gavilan Mountains.
00:24:42Ah, that's a little bit long for a calling name.
00:24:45Why don't you just call him Gavilan?
00:24:47That means more.
00:24:48That'd be a good name.
00:24:51You know, if you'll, uh...
00:24:53collect tail hairs, I might find time to make your hair rope.
00:24:56You could use it for a hackamore.
00:24:58Oh, sure. I'd train him for a hackamore.
00:25:01You wouldn't use a bit on a good horse like this.
00:25:04Could I lead him to school, do you think?
00:25:06To show the kids?
00:25:07What are you talking about?
00:25:08That pony isn't even hauler broke yet.
00:25:10Almost had to drag him here.
00:25:15I could bring the kids to see him here.
00:25:19It would be even better if they saw him here.
00:25:34Hey!
00:25:58Golly.
00:26:00Tom, you and me been friends for a long time.
00:26:03Maybe you want me to help you with him.
00:26:05Well, sometimes you can.
00:26:06But it's not a good thing to have too many people fooling around a horse.
00:26:09It's liable to get him all mixed up.
00:26:11I wouldn't fool around him.
00:26:13Let me curry him a little.
00:26:15He's been curried.
00:26:17I curried all that out of him this morning.
00:26:21Look out for his heels.
00:26:22He can kick and he can bite.
00:26:24He doesn't look like a mean one.
00:26:26Oh, he isn't mean.
00:26:27He's just got a lot of spirit.
00:26:29Why, when he janked this morning,
00:26:30he buried his nose clear up to the nostrils in the water trough.
00:26:33That's a good horse that does that.
00:26:43You're gonna brush the hide right off him.
00:26:46It's just a little place I missed.
00:26:48Why don't you braid his mane and tail?
00:26:50I will sometime.
00:26:51Some other time.
00:27:00What are you doing out here so early?
00:27:02Well, I couldn't sleep anymore.
00:27:06You've got to tell me what to do.
00:27:08This pony's growing up.
00:27:10I've got to teach him now or it'll be too late.
00:27:12Well, I've got my chores to do first.
00:27:15He'll be too old by then.
00:27:17All right, Billy.
00:27:18I'll wait if you say to wait.
00:27:21Now the first thing is to haul her, Bricky.
00:27:24That's hardest because it's first.
00:27:26We'll put the short hauler on her.
00:27:28What'll I do?
00:27:29You bring the carrot?
00:27:30You don't take a carrot.
00:27:32I don't take a carrot.
00:27:34You don't take a carrot.
00:27:36You don't take a carrot.
00:27:37That's right, you don't take a carrot.
00:27:39You don't take a carrot.
00:27:41You don't take a carrot.
00:27:42What do you mean?
00:27:43I want you to hold him so he can't see you.
00:27:45I don't want to see him.
00:27:47Now, you do that.
00:27:48Did you bring the carrot?
00:27:50It's fine.
00:27:52Now you coax him with the carrot and pull on the lead.
00:27:54He'll get the idea.
00:27:56Keep talking to him. He'll get the idea.
00:27:58Patience is the big thing.
00:28:00We don't want to force break him.
00:28:02That takes out the spirit.
00:28:04You know, a horse's got to understand the same as a man's got to understand.
00:28:07Let's get started.
00:28:19Good morning, Mary Ann.
00:28:21Good morning. Tom must have slept in the barn last night.
00:28:23He might as well have.
00:28:25Come on, Gavilan.
00:28:27Come on, Gavilan.
00:28:29Come on, Gavilan.
00:28:33Please, Gavilan.
00:28:35Come on. See, I got a carrot for you.
00:28:38Come on.
00:28:40Please.
00:28:42Look, Gavilan.
00:28:44See?
00:28:49Breakfast will be ready soon, Billy.
00:28:56Fred, you'll burn your hands again.
00:28:58Sit down. I'll do it.
00:29:03Alice, I thought I'd take a little time each day
00:29:06to show Tom some things about the pony.
00:29:09Well, I gave it to him.
00:29:11I thought I should be the one to...
00:29:14Please, I started breaking Gavilan today.
00:29:18Grandpa says nobody knows more about horses than Billy.
00:29:21Do they, Billy?
00:29:24Grandpa says that Billy can talk to horses.
00:29:27He says they can understand him.
00:29:29I don't know how.
00:29:31Billy has enough chores to do.
00:29:33He has no time to go play with you.
00:29:36It won't take much of Billy's time.
00:29:39He's got to learn. He might as well learn right.
00:29:42Sit down, Billy.
00:29:45Grandpa says...
00:29:46Where is Grandpa, anyway?
00:29:48He's keeping everybody waiting for breakfast.
00:29:50He's still up in his room.
00:29:53He'll be a good half hour fussing.
00:29:56Well, he likes to take his time.
00:29:59You know how he polishes up his shoes
00:30:02and brushes off his clothes.
00:30:04I don't know.
00:30:06He likes it that way.
00:30:08Of course, a man who led a wagon train across the plains,
00:30:11it's like a man to care how long he keeps his daughter at the stove.
00:30:15He has to be very careful how he looks
00:30:17because he led a wagon train across the plains.
00:30:21Don't do that, Fred.
00:30:23Please don't talk that way.
00:30:25Well, how many times do I have to listen to that story
00:30:27of the 35 horses, the iron plates?
00:30:30I've heard him tell how he led that bunch of people
00:30:32across the plains a thousand times.
00:30:35That time's done.
00:30:37Why can't he forget it now it's done?
00:30:39Why does he have to tell about it over and over?
00:30:41He came across the plains.
00:30:43All right, now it's finished.
00:30:46Nobody wants to hear about it over and over and over.
00:31:00Morning.
00:31:02Morning.
00:31:12Did you hear what I said?
00:31:26I don't know what got into me, sir.
00:31:28I didn't mean it.
00:31:30I was just trying to be funny, I guess.
00:31:34Oh, I'm just trying to get right side up, huh?
00:31:36I'm not being mad.
00:31:38I don't mind what you said.
00:31:41It might be true.
00:31:45I wouldn't mind that.
00:31:47It's not true.
00:31:51I guess I'm just not feeling very well this morning.
00:31:55I'm sorry I said any of it.
00:31:57No, no, don't be sorry.
00:32:00Old man just don't see things sometimes.
00:32:04Maybe you're right.
00:32:06Crossing's finished, maybe it ought to be forgotten now it's done.
00:32:23I'm going to work.
00:32:25You take your time, Billy.
00:32:33Excuse me, ma'am.
00:32:35Excuse me, ma'am.
00:32:53Won't you tell any more stories now, Grandfather?
00:32:56Huh?
00:32:58Of course I will. I'll tell them.
00:33:00But only when I'm certain people want to hear them.
00:33:04That's the trouble.
00:33:06I never made sure.
00:33:08I like to hear them, sir.
00:33:11Of course you do. Sure, you're a little boy.
00:33:14It was a job for men.
00:33:16Now only little boys want to hear about it.
00:33:20Now that you're back, you ought to come on a mouse hunt with me.
00:33:23I'll wait outside for you, sir.
00:33:25You can use my stick for those mice.
00:33:28I'll go make another one.
00:33:30May I, ma'am?
00:33:33Yes, ma'am.
00:33:49Father?
00:33:51Better not keep the boy waiting.
00:34:04It's going to be hard staying here, if you didn't like the dew.
00:34:09So the crossing wasn't worth doing.
00:35:04If you'd like to tell a story, Grandpa, I'll listen.
00:35:10Oh, I'll...
00:35:13I'll tell those stories, but they aren't what I want to tell.
00:35:17I know how I want people to feel when I tell them.
00:35:21It wasn't the Indians that was important,
00:35:23nor adventures, nor land.
00:35:25It wasn't even getting out here.
00:35:27It was us.
00:35:29It wasn't the land.
00:35:31It wasn't even getting out here.
00:35:33It was a whole bunch of people made into one big crawling beast.
00:35:39It was Westerin.
00:35:42And Westerin.
00:35:44Where every man there wanted something for himself,
00:35:47but the big beast that was all of them wanted only Westerin.
00:35:52We carried life out here.
00:35:54Set it down and planted it the way ants carry eggs,
00:35:57but the Westerin was big as God.
00:36:00And the slow steps that made up the movement piled up,
00:36:04and piled up until the continent was crossed.
00:36:09Then we come down to the sea and it was done.
00:36:16That's what I ought to be telling instead of the stories.
00:36:19Stories ain't what I want to say.
00:36:23Maybe I could lead the people someday.
00:36:26No, there's no place to go.
00:36:28There's an ocean to stop you.
00:36:31There's a line of old men along the shore hating the ocean
00:36:34because it stopped them.
00:36:36In boats I might, sir.
00:36:38No, Thomas, there's no place to go.
00:36:40Every place is taken.
00:36:43That isn't the worst.
00:36:45No, that isn't the worst.
00:36:48Westerin has died out of the people.
00:36:51Westerin isn't a hunger anymore.
00:36:55It's finished.
00:36:57Your father's right.
00:36:59It's all done.
00:37:02If you would like a glass of lemonade, I could make it for you.
00:37:05No, I don't. I don't.
00:37:09Yes, it would be nice to drink a glass of lemonade.
00:37:13It would be nice.
00:37:16Oh, Billy!
00:37:24Billy!
00:37:28I don't like lemonade anyway.
00:37:46I've been thinking about that homecoming week, Alice.
00:37:49I would like for us to go to San Jose.
00:37:54We could catch the afternoon train.
00:37:58Homecoming won't be for another week.
00:38:00Well, we could visit my folks, look around a bit.
00:38:04You could do some shopping.
00:38:06I'd like that.
00:38:08I'd like that.
00:38:10What's the matter?
00:38:12Don't run away, Fred.
00:38:15I'm not running away.
00:38:17In your mind, you are.
00:38:24In your mind, you've been running back to San Jose
00:38:26ever since we've been ranching here.
00:38:31I'm not running away.
00:38:33I'm not running away.
00:38:35I'm not running away.
00:38:37I'm not running away.
00:38:39I'm not running away.
00:38:53Alice.
00:38:55I didn't mean what I said about your father.
00:38:58I know it's not father.
00:39:10Fred, you're hurt.
00:39:15You're hurt because you feel people here
00:39:17look upon you as a stranger.
00:39:21Well, they do.
00:39:24I don't suppose there's a man in this whole county
00:39:26who knows my father.
00:39:28I don't suppose there's a man in this whole county
00:39:30who knows my father.
00:39:32I don't suppose there's a man in this whole county
00:39:34who knows my father.
00:39:36I don't suppose there's a man in this whole county
00:39:38who knows my first name.
00:39:40It's Mr. Tifflin, this Mr. Tifflin, that never Fred.
00:39:43Everywhere I go, it's Mr. Tifflin.
00:39:45After all these years, I'm still a stranger.
00:39:47That's true.
00:39:49But are you sure it isn't the way you want it?
00:39:53Do I want to be a stranger to my own son?
00:39:56Are you?
00:39:57I think so.
00:40:01Maybe you should go to San Jose.
00:40:04Maybe you can think things out clearer there.
00:40:07You mean, you won't come?
00:40:10No.
00:40:12Someone has to watch things.
00:40:17Maybe you're right.
00:40:20Maybe I'd better go alone.
00:40:23Get a whip and he'll follow.
00:40:25Pull his tail!
00:40:26Push him!
00:40:27Light a fire under him.
00:40:30Wait till I get a stick.
00:40:32I'll make him move.
00:40:34Yeah!
00:40:35Yeah!
00:40:36Yeah!
00:40:37Yeah!
00:40:38Yeah!
00:40:39Yeah!
00:40:40Yeah!
00:40:41Yeah!
00:40:42Yeah!
00:40:43Yeah!
00:40:44Yeah!
00:40:45Yeah!
00:40:46Yeah!
00:40:47Yeah!
00:40:48Yeah!
00:40:49Yeah!
00:40:50Yeah!
00:40:51Yeah!
00:40:59Tom, come here.
00:41:04Your dad's calling.
00:41:05I'll take him around for you till you get back.
00:41:07No.
00:41:08I told you before.
00:41:09Too many people fooling around the horse get him mixed up.
00:41:12You can open the gate for me.
00:41:22I'm going up to San Jose.
00:41:24You going too, ma'am?
00:41:25No, Tom, I'm staying.
00:41:26I'm taking your father to the train.
00:41:28See that you don't let the pony get in the way of your chores.
00:41:31Or your school leader.
00:41:33If you do, I'll have to take you in hand when I get back.
00:41:35Yes, sir.
00:41:52Let's go.
00:41:54That beast don't sound quite right, Alice.
00:42:21Sounds thin.
00:42:23It is.
00:42:25Excuse me, you and Frank used to play that four-handed, didn't you?
00:42:31Oh, it was louder that way.
00:42:45Grandfather, sir, how do you spell chrysanthemum?
00:42:48Quite a nice flower.
00:42:53What is?
00:42:54Chrysanthemum.
00:42:55I know it is, but how do you spell it?
00:42:58Your father's the one who ought to help you with your lessons.
00:43:02When is father coming home, ma'am?
00:43:06Soon.
00:43:07How do you spell chrysanthemum?
00:43:09C-H-R-Y-S-A-N-T-H-E-M-U-M.
00:43:16C-H-R-R...
00:43:23Don't you think you ought to learn to use a dictionary instead of asking people questions?
00:43:27Father says it's good to ask questions.
00:43:30I never used a dictionary when he was home.
00:43:33You're tired. Go to bed.
00:43:35Must I, ma'am?
00:43:37Do you want to do more lessons?
00:43:39Good night, ma'am.
00:43:46Really, father.
00:43:48You're right, Alice. You're right.
00:43:50Here I am, nearing the end of my life, and there's nothing I do,
00:43:55and nothing I have done that I don't know could be done better.
00:43:59But I don't do anything about it.
00:44:07Alice, how did you spell chrysanthemum?
00:44:11Why don't you go out and sit with Billy?
00:44:15Good night, ma'am.
00:44:30Grandfather, sir.
00:44:32What do you want?
00:44:34I'm going to work gaveline for Billy in the morning.
00:44:36Would you like to come and see?
00:44:38What for?
00:44:40Well, nobody's seen me work him on the long halter yet.
00:44:44Oh, yes, I see. Sure, I'll come down.
00:44:47Just let me know. I'll come down.
00:45:07Grandfather.
00:45:10Grandfather, get up.
00:45:13Get up, grandfather.
00:45:15What are you whispering about?
00:45:17Shh. Wake up, mother.
00:45:20What time is it?
00:45:22Going on six.
00:45:25Don't look like six.
00:45:27Well, it's ten minutes after five.
00:45:30Five? You get out of here before I shoot you.
00:45:33You promised.
00:45:35I'm going to wake Billy up.
00:45:41No!
00:45:49All right, bring him along, Tom.
00:45:59Don't open the door, Billy. I want to show you something.
00:46:05Go on, gaveline.
00:46:08I taught him to do that.
00:46:27Well, he did a good job.
00:46:29I don't know about that door opener, though.
00:46:31Might get out sometime when you want him in.
00:46:34Smart pony.
00:46:36All right, let's see how far you've gone with that long shank.
00:46:39Whoa!
00:46:41Come on, gaveline.
00:46:51Get up.
00:46:53Go on. Come on.
00:47:07Whoa!
00:47:30Well, that was a good one.
00:47:33Well, that's good.
00:47:35He likes it. You can tell he likes it.
00:47:38See how the ears are forward?
00:47:40When he's mad, his ears stick back.
00:47:42And when he's scared, his ears are out sideways.
00:47:45You can tell just how he feels about everything by the way his ears are.
00:47:48Even when he's mad.
00:47:50You're learning, aren't you, Tom?
00:47:52Sometimes he laughs. He just sits back and laughs.
00:47:55When he bit me on the seat of the pants, he laughed.
00:47:58And when he stamped on my foot, he laughed.
00:48:00Well, you're getting him pretty well under control.
00:48:02He's awful good on that long line.
00:48:04He's almost too good.
00:48:06Getting to be almost like trick pony.
00:48:08I don't like trick horses.
00:48:10Takes all the dignity out of a horse, make him do tricks.
00:48:13Gets to be almost like an actor.
00:48:15No dignity.
00:48:17No character of his own.
00:48:19You've got to teach him control.
00:48:21That's not a trick.
00:48:23That looks like tricks to me.
00:48:25Hadn't you better be getting him used to the saddle pretty soon?
00:48:28Can I saddle him up now?
00:48:30You'd better hurry. Your mother's already rung for breakfast.
00:48:36When's Mr. Teflon coming back?
00:48:38Hmm? Oh...
00:48:40I don't know.
00:48:45Here, now. Let's see that.
00:48:48There.
00:48:50Hey!
00:48:52You didn't cinch that tight enough.
00:48:54It was good and tight.
00:48:56I put my hand under it, and it was good and tight.
00:48:59Looks like he's learned more than you have.
00:49:02He took a good, deep breath while you were cinching him.
00:49:05And just as soon as you stopped, he just let her out.
00:49:08You've got to at least be as smart as the horse, you know.
00:49:11That's right.
00:49:13When are you going to ride him, Thomas?
00:49:15Thanksgiving.
00:49:17Thanksgiving morning.
00:49:27Stop raining.
00:49:29Yeah.
00:49:31Maybe I'd better let Gavilan out into the corral before I go to school.
00:49:35Tom?
00:49:39I guess I forgot it, ma'am.
00:49:41If you forget it once more, I'll let you go without it.
00:49:44Don't let him near that pony, Billy. He'll be late for school again.
00:49:47Yes, ma'am.
00:49:52I'll let him out for you, Tom. It'll be good for him.
00:49:55But if it comes out to rain...
00:49:57It's not likely to rain anymore today. It's rained itself out.
00:50:00If it comes on to rain, a little rain won't hurt a horse.
00:50:02Well, if it does come on to rain, you'll put him in, won't you, Billy?
00:50:05I'm scared he might get a cold.
00:50:07And Thanksgiving's only a week off.
00:50:09Oh, sure. I'll watch out for him.
00:50:11But it won't rain anymore today.
00:50:13But, Billy...
00:50:15Go on to school. You'll be late.
00:50:26Hey, Billy! Don't forget to keep him in if it rains!
00:50:29I told you it's not going to rain!
00:50:55I told you it's not going to rain!
00:51:26I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
00:51:32and to the republic for which it stands,
00:51:35one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
00:51:43I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
00:51:48and to the republic for which it stands,
00:51:51one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
00:52:08Thomas Tifflin.
00:52:16Thomas, do you hear me?
00:52:18Yes, ma'am.
00:52:19Are you asleep?
00:52:21Yes, ma'am.
00:52:22You don't hear me even now.
00:52:24I do, ma'am.
00:52:25Well, then answer me when I speak to you.
00:52:27Now go to the board and add those figures.
00:52:31Yes, ma'am.
00:52:49Oh, my God!
00:53:20Billy!
00:53:22Come up and give me a hand with the sink pump!
00:53:49Thomas!
00:53:51What's the matter with you?
00:54:19Douglas!
00:54:49Douglas!
00:55:05You said you'd put him in.
00:55:07I did put him in.
00:55:08Well, he was out.
00:55:10I did put him in.
00:55:12You said it wouldn't rain.
00:55:14It's hard to tell this time of the year.
00:55:16You can't always tell exactly.
00:55:18It wouldn't rain.
00:55:19He got so through.
00:55:21Oh, a little rain never hurt a horse.
00:55:30Well, they don't look too chipper.
00:55:33He's got a little fever.
00:55:34We'll get that out of him.
00:55:36You run in the house and get a kettle of hot water.
00:55:38I'll get him some warm mash.
00:55:40We'll rub him down and blanket him.
00:55:41He'll be all right.
00:55:44Well, go on.
00:55:49What are you doing home so early?
00:55:51I was worried about the pony.
00:55:53You cut school?
00:55:54Where's your lunch pail?
00:55:56I left it.
00:55:57What will your father say when he finds out you played hooky
00:56:00because you were afraid the pony might get wet?
00:56:02How do you think you'll ever learn anything
00:56:04if you do things like that?
00:56:06You're getting too thoughtless.
00:56:08Maybe a little punishment will help you learn.
00:56:10Maybe you'd better not ride that pony for another month.
00:56:13Maybe then you won't have to go to school.
00:56:15Maybe you'd better not ride that pony for another month.
00:56:17Maybe then you won't cut school just because you worry a little bit.
00:56:23Where's that kettle of hot water, Tom?
00:56:26Well, the pony got out of some way and got wet, ma'am.
00:56:28I thought I'd make him up some hot mash.
00:56:30A horse isn't a lap dog, Billy.
00:56:32Don't you think you're coddling that pony too much?
00:56:34Well, he's got kind of a cough, Mrs. Tiffin.
00:56:36Suppose he has. You know what to do.
00:56:39Yes, ma'am.
00:56:46You'd better sit down here, young man.
00:56:49You haven't been paying any attention to school lately.
00:56:52I think it's time we checked up on you.
00:56:54I'd like to hear you read.
00:57:01The elephant is the largest animal we see in the jungle.
00:57:06His home is in the jungle.
00:57:09His home is in India.
00:57:12And there he is used for many kinds of work.
00:57:24Why don't you put him to bed?
00:57:26I did.
00:57:28What do you think you're doing?
00:57:31I sent you to bed hours ago.
00:57:34Billy's going to steam the pony.
00:57:36He's awful sick.
00:57:38You'll be sick yourself if you don't quit hopping in and out of bed.
00:57:41Put that kettle back where you got it.
00:57:43Your mother told you, Billy can take care of your pony.
00:57:51Tom.
00:57:55Run along. Take care of your pony.
00:58:01I'm glad you did that, Alice.
00:58:03A boy's right to take care of his own horse.
00:58:06A boy's right to take care of his own horse.
00:58:24Good evening, Alice.
00:58:25Good evening.
00:58:28San Jose.
00:58:33That'll be 35 cents, please.
00:58:46Alice.
00:58:52I caught the first train out after I got your wire.
00:58:57Fred.
00:58:59I had to send for you.
00:59:01Tom's pony's very sick.
00:59:03And if Billy can't get him well,
00:59:05I wish you were here.
00:59:09Morning, Mr. Tifflin.
00:59:12Hello, Alice.
00:59:17If anything happens, we can always get him another horse.
00:59:30Don't you remember your first pony?
00:59:32I never had a pony.
00:59:36Tom will be glad to see you.
00:59:38I've missed him.
00:59:41We expected you home sooner.
00:59:43I spoke to my brother, Dean.
00:59:45His business is humming.
00:59:47He asked me to come in with him.
01:00:06Alice.
01:00:09Does Tom know you sent for me?
01:00:11No, I didn't think it wise to tell him.
01:00:14He's guessed why I'm here.
01:00:16Yes.
01:00:20Hello, Dad.
01:00:21Hello, son.
01:00:24Want me to do the chores?
01:00:26No.
01:00:28I've got a lot of work to do.
01:00:30I've got a lot of work to do.
01:00:32Want me to do the chores?
01:00:34No.
01:00:35Better see to your horse.
01:00:37Come on.
01:01:02I think Billy needs your help.
01:01:07Okay.
01:01:23I should have fixed this fence before I left.
01:01:37Is he going to get well?
01:01:40Feel that.
01:01:44When that lump gets bigger, I'll open it and then he'll be better.
01:01:47What's the matter with him?
01:01:50Strangles.
01:01:52Strangles?
01:01:53Don't you worry about that. I'll pull him out of that.
01:01:56I've seen horses get well when they were worse than this.
01:01:59Don't you worry about that. I'll pull him out of that.
01:02:01I've seen horses get well when they were worse than this.
01:02:29I've seen horses get well when they were worse than this.
01:03:00How is he?
01:03:02Oh, pretty good.
01:03:06I'm going to open up that lump and then he'll be better.
01:03:29I'm going to open up that lump and then he'll be better.
01:03:41Now he'll feel better.
01:03:43That poison makes him awful sick.
01:03:45He's still awful sick.
01:03:48Yes, he is.
01:03:50If that had worse than to get well, I'll pull him through.
01:03:55I know you will, Billy.
01:03:58You say you will.
01:04:02You stay with him.
01:04:04I've got something to do. I'll be right back.
01:04:23Who is it?
01:04:27It's me, Billy.
01:04:29Well, come in then.
01:04:37That's a nice collection you've got there, sir.
01:04:39Oh, yeah.
01:04:41See that in there?
01:04:43You know what that dirt is?
01:04:45Blood.
01:04:47What kind of blood?
01:04:49Blood.
01:04:52I don't want to talk about it. What do you want? Sit down.
01:04:57No, no, not there.
01:04:59In the camps, Billy, one thing a man dare do, sit on another man's bed.
01:05:03That thing was almost like holy.
01:05:06Sit over there.
01:05:10No, no, leave her where she is.
01:05:13I'd kind of like to talk...
01:05:18It's about the pony, ma'am.
01:05:20I did put that pony in the barn that day when it was raining.
01:05:23He got out somehow. I don't know exactly how.
01:05:26Well?
01:05:28Well, Tom, he doesn't believe I put that pony in.
01:05:31What difference does that make?
01:05:33Whether he believes it or not, if you did.
01:05:36Well, I just don't like him not believing it.
01:05:39The pony's bad. I just opened that lump.
01:05:42Scrangled, certainly.
01:05:44Yeah. Getting so he can't hardly breathe.
01:05:48Well, you steamed him and you opened the lump.
01:05:52Now if he gets any worse, there's only one thing else.
01:05:56You'll have to make a hole in his windpipe so he can breathe.
01:06:00Yeah, I know.
01:06:02Did you ever do it?
01:06:03Yeah, a couple times.
01:06:05Well, that's all you can do.
01:06:07When do you think you'll have to?
01:06:09Well, I thought I'd wait till tomorrow.
01:06:11He might get better. I wouldn't have to do it, maybe.
01:06:14If you have to, that's everything you can do.
01:06:17Then either he gets well or he don't get well.
01:06:20It's out of your hands.
01:06:23See, I know that.
01:06:25I just wanted to know if somebody else knew it.
01:06:36Bill is not himself.
01:06:39He's not a man to be in doubt.
01:06:41Well, he's finding out that there's some things even he can't do.
01:06:46Well, fix that chair.
01:06:50I'll fix it.
01:06:52I'll fix it.
01:07:19Billy, he's worse.
01:07:21There's only one thing left to do, Tom.
01:07:23Something you won't want to see.
01:07:25You're not going to shoot him?
01:07:27No.
01:07:28No, I'm going to make a little hole in his windpipe and put this tube through it so he can breathe.
01:07:34You sure you've got to do it?
01:07:36I'm sure.
01:07:37You can help me if it won't make you sick, that is.
01:07:41I'll help.
01:07:43You run along to the barn. I'll be right there.
01:07:51Okay.
01:08:14Where have you been?
01:08:17He's worse, isn't he, Billy?
01:08:19He'll be all right.
01:08:23You couldn't wait a little while?
01:08:25Can't you wait just a little while?
01:08:28What for?
01:08:33Better to do it right now.
01:08:41Now I know where you've been.
01:08:46He's worse.
01:08:47Yes, sir.
01:08:48I told you there's only one thing left.
01:08:50When did you?
01:08:52Oh, uh...
01:08:54Billy, come see me yesterday.
01:09:02Anytime you're ready, Billy.
01:09:05Well, Billy's right, son.
01:09:07We've got to do it.
01:09:10You still want to stay?
01:09:13Yes.
01:09:24Hand me the razor, Tom.
01:09:26Sterilize that knife.
01:09:42And wash that tube off.
01:10:08Beautiful birdhouse. Sit down.
01:10:13Come in, Billy. Sit down.
01:10:18Oh, hello, Billy. How is he?
01:10:20He wouldn't die?
01:10:22Well, it doesn't look like there's much chance.
01:10:25Of course, there is a chance.
01:10:27Don't you think we ought to get Tom out of there?
01:10:30You think we ought to let him stay around and see it?
01:10:34I don't know.
01:10:36But we can't protect him.
01:10:38I was wondering about it myself.
01:10:40What's good to see and not to see,
01:10:42and think and not to think.
01:10:46And it kind of seems to me it's better to see everything
01:10:50and think everything.
01:10:52Sure.
01:10:54You can't know life unless you see death.
01:10:56It's all part of one thing.
01:10:58We can't protect him from it.
01:11:00It's all part of one thing.
01:11:02Might as well learn about it now.
01:11:10Tom! Tom!
01:11:28Hey, Tom!
01:11:30Hi, Tom!
01:11:36We thought we'd come over to see the ponies.
01:11:38Where are you all?
01:11:40Fine. Came to see you ride him.
01:11:43You are going to ride him, aren't you?
01:11:45Yes. Yes, I am.
01:11:47Well, let's have a look at him.
01:11:49Come on, gang.
01:11:51No.
01:11:52Well, why not?
01:11:53We came all the way over to look at him.
01:11:55Well, you see, we took him into town to get shot.
01:11:58When did you?
01:12:00Well, he isn't back yet.
01:12:02Oh.
01:12:04I'll bet your father sold him.
01:12:06What? That pony there down getting shoes.
01:12:08I'll bet he sold him.
01:12:12You get on off the place.
01:12:14I don't want you here.
01:12:16Go on now. Get off here.
01:12:18I won't have anyone calling me a liar.
01:12:20I don't know what's the matter with you.
01:12:22I don't know what you got to get so mad about.
01:12:25Let's get out of here.
01:12:27Come on.
01:12:36Let's get out of here.
01:13:06Come on.
01:13:36Come on.
01:13:50Gavilan!
01:13:52Gavilan!
01:14:06Gavilan!
01:14:36Gavilan!
01:15:06Gavilan!
01:15:36Gavilan!
01:16:07Tom!
01:16:09The buzzard didn't kill your pony. Don't you know that?
01:16:14Of course he knows it.
01:16:16Use your head, man. Can't you see how he'd feel about it?
01:16:27I know how it is.
01:16:30Are you hurt?
01:16:33You know, Tom, I'm going to give you Rosie's coat.
01:16:39She ought to have a good coat.
01:16:42It'll be a big horse, you know.
01:16:48Studs of thoroughbred.
01:16:51Used to race some.
01:16:53Pretty good, too.
01:16:56It ought to be a good coat.
01:17:02Now, the best thing about getting a coat so young is you can...
01:17:06You can just grow up with it and you...
01:17:33Pony's dead.
01:17:38Tom.
01:17:40He let him die.
01:17:56Hi, Tom!
01:17:59Hey, kids! It's Tom!
01:18:02Tom!
01:18:08Hello, Tom.
01:18:10Hi, Tom.
01:18:13Is your father going to get you another pony?
01:18:15I don't want another pony.
01:18:17You mean you don't want another pony?
01:18:19I could have a horse if I want.
01:18:21How?
01:18:23Billy Buck will give me his new coat if I want it.
01:18:25But I don't.
01:18:27Are you going to start that again?
01:18:29Billy Buck's only going to give him his own coat.
01:18:32He's not going to give him a coat worth $100.
01:18:35I bet Billy Buck's going to give him a railroad train.
01:18:38Sure, Billy Buck's going to give him a whole circus.
01:18:40But he don't want it.
01:18:42He's getting to be an awful liar.
01:18:45He's getting to be a terrible liar.
01:18:48Come on, kids.
01:19:02Go away, Rosie.
01:19:33Go on home, Rosie.
01:19:35Go on, get away from here.
01:19:37Go on, get away from here.
01:20:01Come on, Rosie.
01:20:08Go on home, Rosie.
01:20:17Hello, Tom.
01:20:20I want Rosie's coat.
01:20:22I told you you could have it.
01:20:24I mean, I really want it.
01:20:26Well, you can have it.
01:20:28I don't want it.
01:20:30I don't want it.
01:20:32I don't want it.
01:20:35I mean, I really want it.
01:20:37All right.
01:20:39And I want to be there when it gets born.
01:20:42No reason why you shouldn't be.
01:21:04Rosie!
01:21:25Rosie!
01:21:30Rosie!
01:21:32Rosie!
01:21:49Rosie!
01:22:02Rosie!
01:22:14What's Billy doing calling his mare in the middle of the night?
01:22:17I don't know. Rosie must be about ready.
01:22:19I thought I'd go down and see.
01:22:22Well, Alice, now that I'm up, I wouldn't mind a cup of coffee.
01:22:26I'll make some.
01:22:33Well, is she ready, Billy?
01:22:35Yes.
01:22:37You got out just about in time, didn't you?
01:22:41I had a dream.
01:22:43A dream the coat was turned wrong.
01:22:45You don't believe in dreams, do you, Billy?
01:22:49No, but my father believed in them.
01:22:52You know, he dreamed one time of his own,
01:22:54and he said,
01:22:56I'm going to have a baby,
01:22:58and he said,
01:23:00you know, he dreamed one time his horse slipped
01:23:02and fell over a cliff with him, and it did.
01:23:04Next day.
01:23:06Killed him.
01:23:15Well, what's that for?
01:23:18Got to get that boy a coat.
01:23:21You wouldn't kill your mare to get the coat, would you?
01:23:25Got to get that boy a coat.
01:23:27You'd be crazy, you got a good mare there.
01:23:30You don't know what kind of coat it would be.
01:23:35Got to get that boy a coat.
01:23:42Well, I think you're crazy,
01:23:44but suit yourself, it's your mare.
01:23:57What are you doing here?
01:23:59You said you'd call me.
01:24:01I said I'd call you, and I will when the time comes.
01:24:05Is she all right, do you think?
01:24:07Oh, sure, I think so.
01:24:10You won't let anything happen, Billy, will you?
01:24:12Will you get back to bed and stop worrying this mare?
01:24:14She's got enough to do without you worrying her.
01:24:16But I only thought I'd come and see.
01:24:18I waked up.
01:24:20You didn't.
01:24:22You didn't.
01:24:24I only thought I'd come and see. I waked up.
01:24:27Okay, get back to bed.
01:24:30I don't want you bothering.
01:24:32You said I'd get you a good coat, and I will.
01:24:34Now you run along, I'll take care of everything.
01:24:37But the pony died.
01:24:55Coffee ready?
01:24:56In a minute.
01:24:57What's the matter, anything wrong?
01:24:59Well, Billy says...
01:25:00Oh, Fred, sorry we woke you.
01:25:02There was no need for you to get up.
01:25:04Billy says after what happened to that pony,
01:25:06he's just got to get the boy a coat,
01:25:08even if he has to kill the mare.
01:25:09He shouldn't do that.
01:25:11Well, Billy feels that he and Tom
01:25:12have been pulling in different directions.
01:25:14He's right, you can't get anywhere that way.
01:25:20One...
01:25:22Two...
01:25:23I remember when I was leading the people across...
01:25:26Three...
01:25:27There was a whole big bunch of them
01:25:28wanting to go to the south.
01:25:30Now the rest of them wanted to go to the north.
01:25:33Well, I soon straightened that out.
01:25:38Donner party broke up the same way.
01:25:40Now those that went to the south, they got...
01:25:43They got through.
01:25:47Those that went to the north, they...
01:25:51Well, they...
01:25:53Just ate each other up.
01:25:55That's good coffee, Alice.
01:25:57I'll drink that in my room.
01:26:07I hope Tom gets his coat without any trouble.
01:26:16It's time things got straightened out around here.
01:26:18High time.
01:26:20I suppose you were anxious to get to San Jose.
01:26:25No, Alice, I'm home. I'm staying home.
01:26:35Are you sure you're home?
01:26:37Yes.
01:26:40I thought things over in San Jose
01:26:42and I've thought them over since I got back here.
01:26:46It isn't...
01:26:48It isn't who you are that makes you a stranger.
01:26:52It's why you think you're a stranger that makes you one.
01:26:56I was a stranger in San Jose.
01:27:00Welcome home, Fred.
01:27:12Let me out!
01:27:14I'll get that knife if I have to shave your brains off.
01:27:16I won't give you the knife!
01:27:20Billy! He took my knife.
01:27:22You want to kill Rosie!
01:27:23I may need it for my mare.
01:27:24He wants to kill Rosie! Don't let him! Stop him!
01:27:27Stop him!
01:27:28Don't let him! Stop him!
01:27:30Come back here!
01:27:32He wants to kill Rosie!
01:27:35You're not going to kill Rosie!
01:27:37I won't let you!
01:27:38I don't want your coat! I don't want your coat!
01:27:41Leave her alone! I'll tell...
01:27:46I'll tell her.
01:28:16Let's go!