:53:00
- It was all a mistake.
- A mistake, eh?
:53:03
You promised me
you wouldn't get into trouble.
:53:06
Shucks, Wade,
I really wasn't in trouble.
:53:09
You're the sort
who doesn't get into trouble...
:53:11
...until they nail the lid down
on your coffin.
:53:14
What's that?
:53:21
"Pure Prairie League of Dodge City."
:53:27
Wait till I tell Tex about this.
:53:33
Don't tell Tex.
:53:37
Gentlemen, what's this all about?
:53:39
You all look as though
you lost a dollar and found a dime.
:53:42
Go ahead and tell him, doctor.
:53:44
We've invited you here this afternoon
with a special purpose.
:53:47
We want you to help us
clean up our city.
:53:50
Our police officers
have not been equal to the job.
:53:53
They've either got killed or run out
of town. Won't you take the job?
:53:57
Gentlemen, I certainly appreciate
your confidence in me...
:54:01
...but I'm afraid a position like that
isn't in my line.
:54:04
You're asking me to turn policeman.
:54:06
I have as much qualifications for that
as teaching the ballet.
:54:09
You seemed qualified
the other day in the plaza.
:54:12
I had to get that hardhead
out of there.
:54:14
Any one of you
would've done the same. No.
:54:17
We know what we're asking
and the chances you'd be taking...
:54:20
...but it's come to a showdown,
who's gonna run Dodge?
:54:24
We or Surrett? We're inviting peaceful
immigration here.
:54:27
Family men with women and children...
:54:29
...and we meet them with
what's called "Hell Street."
:54:32
I can appreciate
everything you say.
:54:35
As far as I'm concerned,
it can't be done.
:54:37
I'm in the cattle business.
That demands all my time.
:54:40
- I'm sorry.
- I wish you'd think it over, my boy.
:54:43
- We need you.
- You're asking the wrong man.
:54:46
He isn't interested
in the lives of innocent people.
:54:49
Why should he care
what happens to you?
:54:51
Your struggle to make a living
in a decent city.
:54:54
Dodge City needs a man
with a sense of public pride...
:54:57
...and the courage to back it up
fighting men of equal skill.