WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 In just a moment, Suspense with Burt Lancaster. 00:05.000 --> 00:08.000 You just sit down and make yourself at home, Doc. 00:08.000 --> 00:09.000 Mary! Yes? 00:09.000 --> 00:11.000 Look who's here, Doc Lewis. 00:11.000 --> 00:12.000 Oh my goodness, who's sick? 00:12.000 --> 00:17.000 Oh golly, can't a poor doctor make a simple social visit like ordinary folks? 00:17.000 --> 00:26.000 I just finished my last call, so I stopped by to steal Hap's easy chair, relax and listen to the auto light suspense show. 00:26.000 --> 00:27.000 Well, sit right down. 00:27.000 --> 00:31.000 My car and I have had a tough day. We have to keep in shape too, you know. 00:31.000 --> 00:35.000 I suppose you've got a sure fire prescription for keeping your car in shape, Doc. 00:35.000 --> 00:42.000 Oh, you bet. Auto light resistor spark plugs, auto light batteries and auto light ignition systems. 00:42.000 --> 00:45.000 I wish every case was as easy as that one. 00:45.000 --> 00:51.000 Well, you sound like Frank Martin. Is your prescription for tired doctors the auto light suspense show? 00:51.000 --> 00:57.000 Oh, yes, again. Let's listen. 01:05.000 --> 01:08.000 Suspense. 01:11.000 --> 01:19.000 Auto light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations bring you Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrills. 01:19.000 --> 01:27.000 Starring tonight, Mr. Bert Lancaster in Anton Leder's production of The Big Shot by Brett Halliday. 01:27.000 --> 01:32.000 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 01:36.000 --> 01:42.000 You've got to be tough to be a big shot, especially when you're cursed with yellow curly hair and a pretty baby face. 01:42.000 --> 01:47.000 I learned about that early when I was a kid and the other kids started razzing. 01:47.000 --> 01:52.000 I learned that if you bounced a brick off somebody's head, the razzing stopped and you were somebody. 01:52.000 --> 01:56.000 It was a very profitable lesson, which paid off as I grew up. 01:56.000 --> 02:02.000 And I found it pays dividends whether you're on East 10th Street or down in Mexico. 02:02.000 --> 02:05.000 Martin, Charlie Martin. Yeah, yeah. 02:05.000 --> 02:08.000 Well, welcome to Mexico. Well, thanks. You're Quinn, I suppose. 02:08.000 --> 02:10.000 Right. Glad to meet you. Same here. 02:10.000 --> 02:14.000 Well, it's lucky you were the only American on the bus or I'd never have recognized you. 02:14.000 --> 02:20.000 No? No. Collins wrote he was sending a young fellow out just from engineering school, but I didn't expect that. 02:20.000 --> 02:25.000 Listen, Quinn, never mind my looks. You asked for a mining engineer and you got one. Any complaints? 02:25.000 --> 02:29.000 Well, of course. Well, if there are, you can pay me off my guarantee and I'll get back on that bus. 02:29.000 --> 02:34.000 Now, wait a minute, Martin. I didn't mean to offend you. I got no complaints as long as you can do the job. 02:34.000 --> 02:38.000 I can do the job. Yes, I guess maybe you can. 02:38.000 --> 02:42.000 Now, how about a drink? Sure. Right over here at the corner. 02:42.000 --> 02:47.000 In Mexico, there's always a bottle of tequila not too far away. That's one thing makes it attractive. 02:47.000 --> 02:52.000 Must be the only thing then. Oh, I don't know. Some of us like it down here. 02:52.000 --> 02:55.000 Is that so? Why'd you come then? 02:55.000 --> 03:00.000 That's easy. They told me there was money in it. Yeah. Yeah, there is. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 In here. 03:02.000 --> 03:12.000 Ah, bienvenidos, señores. Que quieren ustedes? 03:12.000 --> 03:16.000 Dos tequilas, por favor. Dos tequilas, si. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 I hope you like tequila, Martin. It's about all they have around here. 03:19.000 --> 03:24.000 It'll do. Are all the bartenders like that? No, no, that's Lolita. Her father owns the place. 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 She ought to be plenty good for business. You're so. 03:27.000 --> 03:34.000 Say, your stuff is all arrived. Last box of equipment came in last night, so you can start setting up the mill as soon as we get back. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 Don't worry, I'll get it up. I'm not worried, but time is important. 03:38.000 --> 03:43.000 Dos tequilas, señores. Si, gracias, Lolita. Yeah. Thanks, beautiful. 03:43.000 --> 03:48.000 Be beautiful? Si, baby. That's you. From top to bottom. 03:48.000 --> 03:53.000 Is okay, señor? Is plenty okay, baby. Plenty. 03:53.000 --> 03:56.000 Gracias, señor. Gracias. 03:56.000 --> 04:02.000 Maybe I'm going to like Mexico after all. Look, Martin, I don't know how much Collins told you about the setup. 04:02.000 --> 04:05.000 Not much. Said there was a chance for some money and plus a little excitement. 04:05.000 --> 04:11.000 He didn't tell you there might be more than excitement. Jail, maybe, or worse. 04:11.000 --> 04:18.000 He mentioned it. Oh. Okay, then. You understand that we've got a tequilas proposition on our hands. 04:18.000 --> 04:23.000 We've got to be careful, especially with these people. If they knew what we were planning. 04:23.000 --> 04:28.000 Okay, what are we planning? We struck a rich vein of gold quartz in the remote mountains about 20 miles from here. 04:28.000 --> 04:32.000 I've got my crew mining as fast as we can before anybody around here finds out about it. So? 04:32.000 --> 04:37.000 The tough part comes in getting it out of the country. There's a wave of Mexico for Mexicans right now, 04:37.000 --> 04:43.000 and if we haul the ore out to the regular stamping mill in town, the government will confiscate most of the gold. 04:43.000 --> 04:47.000 I see. So you bring me in to set up a small stamping mill at the mine and mill the ore there. 04:47.000 --> 04:53.000 Right. We figure that in the next month we can sluice out maybe a half million dollars worth of free gold, 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 then get out quick before anybody gets wise. 04:55.000 --> 05:01.000 Half a million dollars? Yes, but we'll still have to smuggle it out of the country. It's going to be a tough job. 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 Kid stuff. Yeah, it's not just the law we've got to worry about. 05:05.000 --> 05:10.000 Well, what else? The leader? Sure. These people would inform us if they found out, 05:10.000 --> 05:14.000 but they wouldn't tell the government. They'd tell some bandit gang around in the hills somewhere. 05:14.000 --> 05:17.000 Bandits. I suppose they got a Robin Hood down here, too. 05:17.000 --> 05:21.000 Okay, Morton, maybe you'll learn. Well, at that a half a million would tempt anybody. 05:21.000 --> 05:26.000 And a 20th of that is your share. Maybe 25,000. That's not hey. 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 Senor. Careful, Morton. Senor. 05:28.000 --> 05:32.000 Senor. Quiero ustedes otra vez? No, no, gracias. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 Cuanto? Un peso. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Gracias, senor. Hello, leader. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 Sí, senor. You understand comprender English? 05:42.000 --> 05:47.000 Sí, senor. I speak Inglés muy good. Oh, so I see. 05:47.000 --> 05:51.000 Never mind, baby. A little is enough. Your old man never give you any time off? 05:51.000 --> 05:53.000 ¿Qué, senor? No comprendo. 05:53.000 --> 05:56.000 Well, let's put it another way. Are you doing anything Saturday night? 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 Wait a minute, Morton. I do not make any dates. 05:58.000 --> 06:02.000 Why not? A guy can't work all the time, especially with stuff like this around. 06:02.000 --> 06:05.000 You don't expect me to stay up there. Be quiet, you fool. 06:05.000 --> 06:09.000 Okay. Never mind, beautiful. See you later. Comprende? 06:09.000 --> 06:13.000 Sí, senor. See you later. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 Yeah, you get the idea. 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 Hasta luego. 06:16.000 --> 06:18.000 Look, Morton, I warned you. Be careful. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 I'm a big boy. I can take care of myself and her. 06:20.000 --> 06:23.000 Just remember, there's a half a million involved. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Yeah, half a million. 06:25.000 --> 06:29.000 Maybe, all together, for the company. 25,000 for you. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 Half a million dollars. Listen, Morton. 06:31.000 --> 06:35.000 And 25,000 for me. That's not enough for you? 06:35.000 --> 06:36.000 It'll do for a start. 06:36.000 --> 06:39.000 You think you're a pretty big shot, don't you, Morton? 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 And you don't like it, is that it? 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 I don't like you. 06:43.000 --> 06:45.000 That boss is still out there. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 And you could get another engineer down here in maybe six weeks. 06:48.000 --> 06:52.000 Something tells me I ought to take you up on that, but I don't have to like you. 06:52.000 --> 06:55.000 As long as you do your job and stay out of trouble. 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 Okay, then let's leave it at that. 06:56.000 --> 07:06.000 Whatever happens, it won't be me who'll have any regrets. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 The setup was just like Quinn said. 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 Except that the ore was even richer than I'd expected. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 There was a pile of it already mined, and I put them into work right away assembling the stamping mill. 07:15.000 --> 07:17.000 You know, hard rock miners are funny. 07:17.000 --> 07:21.000 They hate being bossed by an engineer who's learned all his mining out of books. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 And they didn't like it either that I was getting a bigger share of the net than they were. 07:24.000 --> 07:28.000 And of course, to add that, my looks, the yellow hair, and the baby face. 07:28.000 --> 07:33.000 I knew that sooner or later I'd have to show them that they couldn't draw any wrong conclusions from my face. 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 Well, it didn't take long for the showdown to come. 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 Come on, Hank, let's knock off. Charles is ready. 07:40.000 --> 07:42.000 Wait a minute, Logan. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 Yeah? 07:43.000 --> 07:44.000 That sluice is not tight. 07:44.000 --> 07:46.000 You better get down there and tighten up those bolts. 07:46.000 --> 07:48.000 You can wait till tomorrow. Charles is ready. 07:48.000 --> 07:51.000 I said get down there and tighten up those bolts. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 Who's going to make me? A dude engineer? 07:53.000 --> 07:54.000 Oh, yeah. 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 My, you measly little... 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 Yeah, but you're not tough enough, little man. 08:03.000 --> 08:05.000 Leave me, will you? 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 Look out. Look out. You're too close to the gully. 08:09.000 --> 08:10.000 Morton, look out. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Morton, you knocked him over the cliff. He went down on the gully. 08:15.000 --> 08:16.000 I saw him. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.000 Hurry up. Get down there, man. He's probably hurt bad. 08:18.000 --> 08:20.000 Must have fallen 30 feet. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 Morton, where are you going? 08:21.000 --> 08:23.000 Somebody said supper was ready. 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 You didn't have to do that. You didn't have to knock him over the cliff. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 Yeah, I only asked for it. 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 But you didn't have to fight like that, like you meant to kill him. 08:29.000 --> 08:31.000 They wouldn't take orders, and I had to show them. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.000 OK, Morton. 08:32.000 --> 08:33.000 Quinn. Hey, Quinn. 08:33.000 --> 08:34.000 Yeah? 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 He's dead. His neck's broke. 08:36.000 --> 08:40.000 So, you got to show us all how tough you are, don't you, Morton? 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Even if it amounts to murder. 08:42.000 --> 08:50.000 If nobody else wants any supper, I do. 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It's a tough world. 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 You gotta be tougher than the next guy. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 I was tougher than Joe Logan, that's all. 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 I beat him in a fair fight. 11:21.000 --> 11:25.000 If he slipped and fell over that cliff, well, it's just too bad. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 While they buried him, I ate my supper. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 After that, I had no more trouble with the men. 11:30.000 --> 11:35.000 The first Saturday that everything was running smoothly, I went up to Quinn's tent. 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 Quinn! 11:36.000 --> 11:38.000 Yeah? Oh, come in, Morton. 11:38.000 --> 11:41.000 We're just looking over the take so far. What's your guess? 11:41.000 --> 11:42.000 Maybe a hundred thousand? 11:42.000 --> 11:46.000 Yes, maybe. We'll pull at least two hundred and fifty. 11:46.000 --> 11:48.000 We'll get that half a million, don't you worry. 11:48.000 --> 11:49.000 If nobody bothers us. 11:49.000 --> 11:51.000 Ah, don't be so jumpy. Nobody's gonna bother us. 11:51.000 --> 11:52.000 Ah, hope not. 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 Say, Morton, I gotta admit you've done a whale of a job so far. 11:56.000 --> 11:57.000 Forget it. 11:57.000 --> 12:00.000 Don't worry, Morton. I don't like you any better. 12:00.000 --> 12:03.000 But I can appreciate it when a man knows his job and does it well. 12:03.000 --> 12:06.000 Okay, okay. Look, I'm going into town. You want any supplies? 12:06.000 --> 12:09.000 I'm sending Andy in for him. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 Well, there's no use of the two of us going. 12:11.000 --> 12:13.000 Morton, I'm the boss here. 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 Are you? 12:13.000 --> 12:14.000 Yes. 12:14.000 --> 12:18.000 You told me as long as I did the job, that was all you cared about. 12:18.000 --> 12:19.000 That's right. 12:19.000 --> 12:22.000 Okay, I've done the job. It'll take the crew two days to catch up. 12:22.000 --> 12:24.000 I'm going to town. 12:24.000 --> 12:27.000 I'll tell Andy you'll get the supplies. 12:37.000 --> 12:40.000 Here, dear. More tequila? 12:40.000 --> 12:43.000 Si, si, baby. Come here. 12:43.000 --> 12:48.000 Senor charm. 12:49.000 --> 12:50.000 Love me, baby? 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 Oh, here I'll see you, kid. 12:53.000 --> 12:56.000 I have never met one like you. 12:56.000 --> 13:00.000 Like those double, baby. Your sensation. 13:00.000 --> 13:02.000 You'd knock them dead in the States. 13:02.000 --> 13:04.000 I'd like to take you back there. 13:04.000 --> 13:07.000 I'd like you to dress you up in fancy clothes with diamonds in your hair. 13:07.000 --> 13:10.000 Diamonds? Oh, senor, you must be very rich. 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 Not yet, not yet. But give me time. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 It's very interesting. Tell me more, querido. 13:15.000 --> 13:18.000 Later, baby, later. Right now, let's blow this joint. 13:18.000 --> 13:23.000 But, senor Charlie, is it not you must go back to wherever you go? 13:23.000 --> 13:26.000 Ah, they can do without me for a while. I like it here better. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 Okay? 13:29.000 --> 13:31.000 Okay, senor. 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 ¡Cállate del chico! ¡Cállate del chico! 13:33.000 --> 13:35.000 ¡Vaya, vaya! ¡Ándale! 13:35.000 --> 13:37.000 Well, what was that? What did the kid say? 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 It's nothing, senor Charlie. It's a game they play. 13:40.000 --> 13:43.000 Well, what'd he say? He say, ¡Veware el chico! 13:43.000 --> 13:45.000 Oh, who's el chico? 13:45.000 --> 13:48.000 It's nobody, senor. You must not mind. 13:48.000 --> 13:50.000 Sounds like a Mexican goblin or something. 13:50.000 --> 13:53.000 El chico is, they say, a bandido. 13:53.000 --> 13:56.000 He not like Americanos. He rob, kill them. 13:56.000 --> 14:00.000 They see me with Americanos, they say, ¡Veware el chico! 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 It's a game. I get it. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 He's the Mexican equivalent of Superman, eh? 14:04.000 --> 14:06.000 An imaginary Robin Hood and a sombrero. 14:06.000 --> 14:08.000 Oh, no comprendo, senor. 14:08.000 --> 14:10.000 Well, never mind, baby. Forget the fairy tales. 14:10.000 --> 14:12.000 That kid ought to be home in bed anyway 14:12.000 --> 14:13.000 instead of running around a saloon. 14:13.000 --> 14:14.000 He's my little brother. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 Oh, I get it now. 14:16.000 --> 14:18.000 This is the family game to scare off the Americanos, eh? 14:18.000 --> 14:20.000 No, no, senor. 14:20.000 --> 14:22.000 Well, I don't scare easily, baby. 14:22.000 --> 14:23.000 I don't scare at all. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 Ah, bueno. 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 No, sorry, I... 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 Say. 14:29.000 --> 14:30.000 ¿Qué? 14:30.000 --> 14:32.000 What is the matter, senor Charlie? 14:32.000 --> 14:33.000 Nothing, baby, nothing. 14:33.000 --> 14:36.000 I just had a great idea, that's all. 14:36.000 --> 14:38.000 Thank your little brother for me, baby. 14:38.000 --> 14:41.000 He's just given me a great idea. 14:46.000 --> 14:49.000 Yeah, a great idea. 14:49.000 --> 14:51.000 For a long time I've been thinking, 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 why just 25,000? 14:53.000 --> 14:55.000 Why not the whole half a million? 14:55.000 --> 14:59.000 There's something wonderful about those little bags of free gold, you know? 14:59.000 --> 15:00.000 They're so negotiable. 15:00.000 --> 15:02.000 You don't have to exchange them for anything else 15:02.000 --> 15:04.000 before you can get the cash. 15:04.000 --> 15:07.000 With a half a million and a liter, 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 life could be beautiful. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 And now the plan was shaping up in my mind. 15:11.000 --> 15:14.000 I started putting it into effect as soon as I got back to the camp. 15:14.000 --> 15:16.000 Quinn was waiting there for me as I rode up, 15:16.000 --> 15:18.000 and I could see he was boiling. 15:20.000 --> 15:21.000 Where in thunder have you been? 15:21.000 --> 15:23.000 You were due back two days ago. 15:23.000 --> 15:24.000 Ah, I got drunk. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 I didn't feel like hitting the trail this morning. 15:26.000 --> 15:27.000 Oh, just like that. 15:27.000 --> 15:28.000 Take it or leave it. 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 Well, that's it. 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 I don't blame a man for getting drunk. 15:32.000 --> 15:33.000 Once. 15:33.000 --> 15:36.000 But I'll send somebody else in for supplies next week. 15:36.000 --> 15:37.000 I'm going in. 15:37.000 --> 15:38.000 I got a date next Saturday night. 15:38.000 --> 15:40.000 Listen, Morton, I told you... 15:40.000 --> 15:41.000 You don't want to fire me now? 15:41.000 --> 15:43.000 You got anybody else that can keep the mill going? 15:43.000 --> 15:44.000 I haven't and you know it. 15:44.000 --> 15:46.000 All right, then. Let's get to work. 15:46.000 --> 15:48.000 Morton, maybe we'd better speed up a little, too. 15:48.000 --> 15:49.000 Why? 15:49.000 --> 15:51.000 Well, they're talking in town about this El Chico. 15:51.000 --> 15:52.000 El Chico? 15:52.000 --> 15:55.000 Yeah, Bandito thinks he's going to run all the Americanos out of Mexico. 15:55.000 --> 15:56.000 He's making war on the Americans. 15:56.000 --> 15:57.000 He's been raising cane up north. 15:57.000 --> 15:58.000 Up north? 15:58.000 --> 15:59.000 Yeah. 15:59.000 --> 16:01.000 The talk in town was that he's heading down this way. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 I was afraid of something like that. 16:03.000 --> 16:05.000 You'd better tell me about it, Morton. 16:05.000 --> 16:06.000 Tell me all about it. 16:11.000 --> 16:12.000 It was a cinch. 16:12.000 --> 16:15.000 From the very first he swallowed it all. 16:15.000 --> 16:17.000 By the next Saturday, he was begging me to go back to town. 16:17.000 --> 16:19.000 Keep my ears open. Find out all I could. 16:19.000 --> 16:22.000 Of course, I heard plenty. 16:22.000 --> 16:25.000 Then Quinn was hurrying the men, trying to figure out a way we could get out. 16:25.000 --> 16:29.000 But the way I told him, El Chico had complete control of the province of the north 16:29.000 --> 16:30.000 and blocked our way back to the states. 16:30.000 --> 16:32.000 The only other way was across the mountains to the west, 16:32.000 --> 16:34.000 and they were impassable without native guides. 16:34.000 --> 16:36.000 Now, he knew that, but I reminded him. 16:36.000 --> 16:39.000 And then the next time I went into town, I brought back the map. 16:39.000 --> 16:45.000 A greasy, crumpled, dog-eared pencil map, scrawled on butcher paper. 16:45.000 --> 16:47.000 It was a masterpiece. It should have been. 16:47.000 --> 16:49.000 It took me a whole night to draw it. 16:49.000 --> 16:52.000 And it showed an old wagon road going out over the mountains to the coast. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 I told Quinn I bought it from an old Mexican. 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 It was the prelude for my trump card. 16:57.000 --> 17:00.000 Okay. Map looks genuine, all right. 17:00.000 --> 17:04.000 And if it is, that road can't be more than 10 miles due west of here. 17:04.000 --> 17:07.000 I figure less than that. Straight over there in that low pass. 17:07.000 --> 17:08.000 My golly, I think you're right. 17:08.000 --> 17:12.000 Sure. All we gotta do is to get across this one. This one canyon right here. 17:12.000 --> 17:17.000 And how do you figure we'd do that? With wings? It's 300 feet deep and 100 wide. 17:17.000 --> 17:18.000 No, it's easy. 17:18.000 --> 17:21.000 Yeah? That tequila you've been swilling in town's got you goofy. 17:21.000 --> 17:23.000 I wanna throw a bridge across. 17:23.000 --> 17:28.000 I love the way you say that. Like, why not have another flapjack for breakfast? 17:28.000 --> 17:32.000 Look, I'm an engineer, remember? I'll put a bridge across there in three days. 17:32.000 --> 17:36.000 Morton, you do that and I'll take back everything I ever said about you. 17:43.000 --> 17:46.000 The next morning I tied a 200-foot-length rope around my waist. 17:46.000 --> 17:48.000 Took a pulley with me and started down to the bottom. 17:48.000 --> 17:51.000 It took me all day to make it up to the other side. 17:51.000 --> 17:55.000 I tied the pulley to a jack pine and pulled the rope through tight and tied it off. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 And then I came back hand over hand. 17:57.000 --> 18:02.000 After that it was simple to finish the slickest suspension bridge you ever laid eyes on. 18:02.000 --> 18:05.000 Plenty strong enough to hold all our men and mules fully loaded. 18:05.000 --> 18:07.000 It was so good that even Quinn had the grace to admit it. 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 I gotta hand it to you, Morton. 18:09.000 --> 18:13.000 I've seen a lot of engineers that can work things out on paper, but not many that can do the job themselves. 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 Thanks. 18:14.000 --> 18:17.000 What do you say we take a look over there tomorrow for that road? 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 No need to. I'll take a little walk the day I ran the cable across. 18:20.000 --> 18:22.000 The road's there, all right. Just where the map shows it. 18:22.000 --> 18:26.000 Oh. All right, if you found it, I guess that takes care of that. 18:26.000 --> 18:27.000 Sure. We're all set. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 Thanks to you. 18:29.000 --> 18:32.000 I guess I owe you an apology, Morton. 18:32.000 --> 18:36.000 Maybe we all owe our lives to you. 18:42.000 --> 18:48.000 That's the only time before or after that I had a qualm when he said that. 18:48.000 --> 18:51.000 But you gotta be tough. I couldn't forget that. 18:51.000 --> 18:53.000 It was too late now to back out. Everything was ready. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 We were all set to leave on short notice. 18:55.000 --> 18:59.000 Quinn wrote a letter to Collins in the States telling him to meet us on the coast with a boat. 18:59.000 --> 19:02.000 Quinn gave me the letter to mail in town. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 But of course, I never mailed it. 19:04.000 --> 19:07.000 I spent my time in town getting the necessary mules and the gear. 19:07.000 --> 19:08.000 And then I went to Lolita. 19:08.000 --> 19:11.000 Querido mio. I have missed you. 19:11.000 --> 19:14.000 Well, it's the last time you'll have to miss me, baby. 19:14.000 --> 19:17.000 This is it. The diamonds, the fancy clothes, all of it. Yours. 19:17.000 --> 19:20.000 Mine? Querido, you are rich now? 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 By this time tomorrow we'll both be rich. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 With more gold than we'll know what to do with for the rest of our lives. 19:24.000 --> 19:26.000 Gold? You have found much gold? 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 Si. And it's ours, thanks to El Chico. 19:28.000 --> 19:29.000 El Chico? What? 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 Remember, beware, El Chico, the game you played with your brother? 19:32.000 --> 19:33.000 Oh, si. 19:33.000 --> 19:36.000 Well, that's what gave me the idea. And it worked perfectly. 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 We'll have to thank El Chico if we ever run into him. 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Oh, I do not think that will happen. 19:41.000 --> 19:45.000 After all, El Chico is only in a game. Remember? 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 Well, never mind the games now, baby. We've got work to do. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 Now, get some clothes, but keep it light. 19:49.000 --> 19:54.000 We'll plot here at midnight. And tomorrow, tomorrow we're rich. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 Oh, there, alto. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 We are here, already, querido? 20:05.000 --> 20:08.000 No, but you stay here with the mules while I go in the camp with Quinn's train. 20:08.000 --> 20:10.000 It'll be dawn in an hour, then you start up. 20:10.000 --> 20:11.000 Si. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 And remember, raise as much dust as you can. It's part of the plan. 20:13.000 --> 20:14.000 Si. 20:14.000 --> 20:16.000 By the time you get there, everything will be ready. Comprende? 20:16.000 --> 20:19.000 Si, si, querido. You are sure there will be no mistake? 20:19.000 --> 20:22.000 Not with me running this clam-bake, honey. Now give me a kiss. 20:23.000 --> 20:26.000 And a girl. Hostile awake, baby. 20:26.000 --> 20:27.000 Good luck, querido. 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 But I wasn't depending on luck. 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 You don't need luck when you got everything figured. 20:31.000 --> 20:36.000 If I knew an elitore and I would be on our way back to the States with a trunk full of that yellow stuff. 20:36.000 --> 20:37.000 And the men? 20:37.000 --> 20:41.000 Man, I didn't even give them a thought. Not even Quinn. Dumb lugs. 20:41.000 --> 20:45.000 Too stupid to reach for what they wanted. They deserved whatever life handed them. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Just before I rounded the last bend in the camp, I stopped the pack. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.000 It's awful quiet in the mountains just before dawn. 20:53.000 --> 20:55.000 I took a deep breath and... 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 Quinn! Quinn! 20:57.000 --> 21:01.000 Get going, you magic cuckers. Try to look like you've been running for 20 miles. 21:01.000 --> 21:03.000 Quinn! No, Quinn! 21:03.000 --> 21:04.000 Who is it? 21:04.000 --> 21:06.000 What, is that you? What is it? What's the matter? 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Alta. 21:08.000 --> 21:12.000 Ah, we'll have to get out in a hurry. El Chico's on his way here with 20 men. 21:12.000 --> 21:13.000 He'll be here in two hours. 21:13.000 --> 21:14.000 How'd he find out about us? 21:14.000 --> 21:17.000 Oh, it's all my fault. I was a fool to trust the leader. 21:17.000 --> 21:20.000 I thought she was okay. She sent word to El Chico about the gold. 21:20.000 --> 21:23.000 You blaster, did he? And I told you to keep your mouth shut. 21:23.000 --> 21:26.000 I know, I know. You can kick me anywhere I've been kicking myself all the way up here. 21:26.000 --> 21:27.000 I'd like to kill you. 21:27.000 --> 21:28.000 Well, I wouldn't blame you, Quinn. 21:28.000 --> 21:30.000 All right, men, get those mules back. We're getting out. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 The gold first. Two saddlebags for each mule. 21:33.000 --> 21:37.000 I work like a demon alongside the men, getting the stuff packed. 21:37.000 --> 21:41.000 And then just as the last mule was getting his diamond hitch, I grabbed Quinn's arm. 21:41.000 --> 21:42.000 What do you want? 21:42.000 --> 21:44.000 Quinn, I've been thinking. I've got to do something. 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 Looks to me like you've done enough. 21:46.000 --> 21:49.000 Don't you see? It's my fault. It's up to me to do something now. 21:49.000 --> 21:53.000 This is no time to beat your breast. We're getting out. Getting out of here as fast as we can. 21:53.000 --> 21:56.000 No, no, look, look, I got an idea. You've got to let me square myself. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 Make it snappy. We can't waste time. 21:58.000 --> 22:02.000 Well, listen, I placed a dynamite charge under the eyeballs at this side of the bridge. 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 Uh-huh. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 Now, I'll stay on this side and wait till you're safely across. 22:05.000 --> 22:07.000 Then blow the bolts clean so there'll be no trace left. 22:07.000 --> 22:08.000 I see. 22:08.000 --> 22:10.000 You cut the cables on the other side with a hacksaw, 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 and the whole bridge will drop to the bottom where the brush will hide it. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 You'll be out of sight when El Chico comes. 22:15.000 --> 22:17.000 And I'll tell him you've outslicked him, gone north. 22:17.000 --> 22:19.000 He'll wait several days riding after you before he realizes the truth, 22:19.000 --> 22:21.000 and by that time, you'll be safe on the coast. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 What about you? 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 Well, I don't matter. 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 This wouldn't have happened if I had shut my mouth off. 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 Come on, you fellas get going. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 No, it's we'll stick together. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 Cutting the cables on the far side's a good idea. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 You'll lose a day going back to where you can cross the canyon. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 But a day is not enough. 22:34.000 --> 22:35.000 His horses will catch your moves. 22:35.000 --> 22:37.000 We've got to destroy every sign of the bridge 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 and make him think you've gone the other way. 22:39.000 --> 22:40.000 I'm staying. 22:40.000 --> 22:41.000 I don't know. 22:41.000 --> 22:43.000 That's the only way, Quinn. 22:43.000 --> 22:44.000 Look, look. 22:44.000 --> 22:45.000 You can see the dust cloud over there on the trail. 22:45.000 --> 22:46.000 He's coming. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 You haven't got much time to get out of sight. 22:48.000 --> 22:49.000 All right, Morton. 22:49.000 --> 22:50.000 Maybe I was wrong about you. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Let me shake your hand. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 Good luck. 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 Good luck. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 That's all the guys like Quinn can think about. 22:58.000 --> 23:01.000 They don't understand a man who's tough enough to make his own luck. 23:01.000 --> 23:03.000 All of them lined up and they shook my hand. 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 They all hated me since I came on the job. 23:05.000 --> 23:07.000 Now they were shaking my hand. 23:07.000 --> 23:08.000 And in a minute... 23:08.000 --> 23:10.000 Ha ha ha. 23:10.000 --> 23:11.000 The lead mule started. 23:11.000 --> 23:14.000 Soon they were all strung out on that long swaying bridge. 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 Quinn stayed till last, spacing them out. 23:16.000 --> 23:19.000 I waved to him and waited for him to step out on the bridge. 23:19.000 --> 23:21.000 My hand inched toward the plunger. 23:21.000 --> 23:24.000 Then the stupid fool started back toward me. 23:24.000 --> 23:27.000 Go on, Quinn, hurry. 23:27.000 --> 23:28.000 There's no time. 23:28.000 --> 23:29.000 I can catch up with him. 23:29.000 --> 23:31.000 Listen, I've been thinking, Morton. 23:31.000 --> 23:34.000 Sunday, while you were in town, I looked around for that road. 23:34.000 --> 23:35.000 I couldn't find it. 23:35.000 --> 23:36.000 It's there. All right. 23:36.000 --> 23:38.000 You'll find it. Hurry, Quinn. 23:38.000 --> 23:39.000 Maybe so. 23:39.000 --> 23:41.000 But I was just thinking. 23:41.000 --> 23:43.000 Why'd you plant the dynamite under this end of the bridge? 23:43.000 --> 23:44.000 Well, I... 23:44.000 --> 23:47.000 Why couldn't you have strung wires and blown it out from the other side? 23:47.000 --> 23:48.000 I just didn't. 23:48.000 --> 23:49.000 I made a mistake. 23:49.000 --> 23:50.000 All right, I'll take the consequences. 23:50.000 --> 23:51.000 You can still do it, Morton. 23:51.000 --> 23:52.000 We've got plenty of wire. 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 No need for you to fall into El Chico's hands. 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 Go on, you fool. 23:55.000 --> 23:56.000 Go on. 23:56.000 --> 23:57.000 In a minute, it'll be too late. 23:57.000 --> 23:58.000 Too late for what, Morton? 23:58.000 --> 23:59.000 Look at that dust. 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 He's coming. 24:00.000 --> 24:01.000 You know what I think? 24:01.000 --> 24:05.000 I think El Chico isn't anywhere within 500 miles up here. 24:05.000 --> 24:06.000 What? 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 I think you plan to blow up this bridge with the men on it, 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 drop us all at the bottom where you could pick up the pieces. 24:10.000 --> 24:11.000 Get away, Quinn. 24:11.000 --> 24:12.000 You can't stop me now. 24:12.000 --> 24:13.000 I'll take care of you later. 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 Get away from that bludgeon. 24:14.000 --> 24:15.000 Stop it. 24:15.000 --> 24:17.000 Morton, get your hand off that. 24:17.000 --> 24:18.000 Stop it. 24:18.000 --> 24:36.000 The concussion had my head railing for a few seconds. 24:36.000 --> 24:41.000 When the landscapes went back into focus, I could see the bridge was gone. 24:41.000 --> 24:44.000 The bridge and the men and the mules. 24:44.000 --> 24:47.000 But I couldn't seem to figure out what happened. 24:47.000 --> 24:53.000 Quinn lay beside me, very still, and I could see blood. 24:53.000 --> 24:54.000 How did... 24:54.000 --> 24:57.000 I seem to remember hearing a shout. 24:57.000 --> 25:00.000 But where did it come from? 25:00.000 --> 25:01.000 Charlie? 25:01.000 --> 25:02.000 Señor Charlie? 25:02.000 --> 25:03.000 Lolita! 25:03.000 --> 25:04.000 You did it! 25:04.000 --> 25:05.000 You shot him! 25:05.000 --> 25:06.000 You're wonderful! 25:06.000 --> 25:07.000 We did it, baby. 25:07.000 --> 25:08.000 We did it! 25:08.000 --> 25:09.000 Look it down there. 25:09.000 --> 25:10.000 A half a million bucks, baby. 25:10.000 --> 25:11.000 Three million pesos in gold. 25:11.000 --> 25:18.000 And all we gotta do is go down and pick it up. 25:18.000 --> 25:21.000 It's indeed a good job, señor. 25:21.000 --> 25:30.000 I stared stupidly at the little man in the big sombrero who stepped out of the manzanita 25:30.000 --> 25:32.000 and grinned at me. 25:32.000 --> 25:35.000 A smoking revolver dangled from one hairy paw. 25:35.000 --> 25:37.000 And the other... 25:37.000 --> 25:40.000 The other was pulling Lolita toward him. 25:40.000 --> 25:41.000 My Lolita. 25:41.000 --> 25:46.000 She put her arms around him and kissed him in a way that she never kissed me. 25:46.000 --> 25:49.000 We will pick up your gold for you, señor. 25:49.000 --> 25:53.000 You are a very smart man, señor Charlie. 25:53.000 --> 25:56.000 I should like to be your friend. 25:56.000 --> 25:57.000 Except... 25:57.000 --> 26:00.000 You are gringo. 26:00.000 --> 26:29.000 And you mistake to make the love to the sweetheart of El Chico. 26:29.000 --> 26:32.000 Thank you, Burt Lancaster, for a splendid performance. 26:32.000 --> 26:35.000 Mr. Lancaster will return in just a moment. 26:35.000 --> 26:41.000 D-D-D-Doc, what do you do for an acute case of goose pimples, huh? 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