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Paladin is hired to defend an Armenian maiden's honor, but it soon appears that she may not be the one in need of looking after.
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00:00I rode out here to bring you back, and that's what I'm going to do.
00:18Don't reach for that weapon.
00:21Guns are my business.
00:30Dancing Girl Missing, Soma Valley's Armenian colony today sadly canceled its annual wine festival.
00:59Reason, the festival's principal dancer is reported to have eloped with a passing cowboy.
01:03Although the girl's father, Samuel Abizanian, has offered $1,000 for her return,
01:08local authorities point out that she is of age, and they have no jurisdiction in the matter.
01:12Thank you, eh boy.
01:18Mr. Paladin, you going away again already?
01:24Hey boy, I haven't had any good shish kebab in years, rice pilaf, paklava, Armenian cooking,
01:33eh boy, Armenian people, among the world's finest.
01:36Now, I'll be back two weeks from tonight, and on that night, I'd like tickets for the
01:40Ballet Russe, my usual box, and you may keep the change.
02:00Samuel.
02:02Abizanian.
02:04Soma Valley, California.
02:15Good winter cheer, Samuel.
02:24Come on, Samuel.
02:25You taste it, huh?
02:26Come on, you make opinion for us.
02:28Huh?
02:29Good vintage here, Samuel.
02:39Ah, come on, Samuel, huh?
02:41You taste it, huh?
02:42Come on, you make opinion for us.
02:52Sadness, I taste.
02:54Must we mourn forever?
02:56We have other daughters.
02:58Coming to your ear, a woman, is a blow from my fist.
03:01Do I produce daughters for every passing stranger?
03:04Do I beget children to populate foreign villages?
03:07Come, one of the scholars, prepare me an answer.
03:11Some will.
03:14Another one.
03:16Silence.
03:17Silence!
03:18Is wine not being made by sheep?
03:21Is his flock without a leader?
03:23Out!
03:24Do we disregard hospitality?
03:27You want to lose another daughter, woman?
03:30Out!
03:32My name is Paladin.
03:33A name is of no importance.
03:36Like the other one, on an animal carrying weapons.
03:40A Turk!
03:41A leader of Turks!
03:44Hide the young women in the hills!
03:46Drive the goats off to the hills!
03:49Bury the...
03:50Paladin?
03:51Wow!
03:52What is the excitement?
03:53Where is our hospitality?
03:54I have a certificate!
03:55This girl of ours.
03:56Even though it danced at the warm men's hearts, a lamb, a mouse, an innocent mouse.
03:58They were seen to kiss the night before.
03:59Next comes my fist to your ear.
04:00If our Helen was seen to kiss them, it was a matter of force.
04:02It was not reported so.
04:03Place no faith in reports.
04:04Marriage to a mortal man has shielded you from evil.
04:05I have traveled.
04:06Once in Fresno I have seen...
04:07Away!
04:08You would shake in fear at the things I have seen!
04:09And how does a mortal man see so much?
04:13A mouse!
04:14A mouse!
04:15A mouse!
04:16An innocent mouse!
04:17A mouse!
04:18A ninnocent mouse!
04:19They were seen to kiss the night before!
04:20Next comes my fist to your ear.
04:21If our Helen was seen to kiss them it was a matter of force.
04:22It was not reported so.
04:23Place no faith in reports.
04:24Marriage to a mortal man has shielded you from evil!
04:26I have traveled.
04:27Once in Fresno I have seen...
04:29Away!
04:30You would shake in fear at the things I have seen!
04:33And how does a mortal man see so much?
04:37Have you ever seen a snake transfix a mouse with its eye?
04:51This O'Reilly is just such a reptile.
04:54You can overtake them.
04:56It'll be two days hard ride, and I'll try and persuade her to come back,
05:00but I expect to be paid whether I succeed or fail.
05:03Both of them. There must be a marriage.
05:06A marriage?
05:06They've been gone four days and nights.
05:09There is still such a thing as honor.
05:12Forgy, Gorkin, we have an agreement.
05:19Now, the question of price.
05:24I'm a poor man.
05:26I have a few acres, a few poor, bad vines.
05:31But Abazanian is generous.
05:34You cry you only want to do this for friendship.
05:36You protest, you wish only to serve justice.
05:40Never.
05:42Although it ruins me for this simple task, I will pay you $200.
05:46Well, the price we originally agreed on was $1,000.
05:50But since you assure me that this man is dangerous, I must ask you $2,000.
06:00Have no faith in my description.
06:02I am a poor farmer.
06:04No, my friend, you're a traveled man.
06:08On my knees each night, I will send you my prayers.
06:11For the rest of your days, my gratitude.
06:14And $500, my latest offer.
06:16You have a thousand acres, vines with rich grapes, sheep, goats.
06:23But for friendship, $1,500.
06:30I have no faith in stories of wealth.
06:33I live above my station.
06:35But what can I do?
06:37My own foolishness traps me.
06:39You will have the prayers of an entire colony.
06:42The thanks of a ruined man, an $800.
06:45Absolutely, I must sell my whole farm for $1 more.
06:48What can I do?
06:50Such generosity.
06:54$1,200.
06:55$900 in a diet of grape leaves for my children.
06:58$1,000.
06:59Done.
07:00My friend, you bargain like a Armenian.
07:04This one is no Kurdish farmer.
07:09I set the time in Van.
07:11The old country.
07:12I was fortunate to have an acre left, eh?
07:15Still the bargain.
07:16Foggy, my friend, a drink of fire.
07:19Most men want swallow, perhaps two.
07:22But the bazanians, watch.
07:26Enough.
07:27Please.
07:46Please.
07:46Please.
07:46Please.
07:47Please.
07:47Please.
07:47Please.
07:47Please.
07:48Please.
07:49Please.
07:49Please.
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07:53Please.
07:54Please.
07:54Please.
07:55Please.
07:56Please.
07:56Please.
07:57Please.
07:57Please.
07:57It's all right enough.
08:21Ah!
08:22This is a man!
08:24Bravo!
08:25Go, my friend, bring me back my daughter!
08:29There's a man, huh?
08:31Oh, Mr. Paladin!
08:33Your hat!
08:52Jimmy, wait for me!
09:22Why don't you leave me alone?
09:25You do not love me.
09:27You doggone right I don't.
09:28I've been telling you that every step of the last 200 miles.
09:31Look, man, people just ain't gonna believe you followed me.
09:34I don't like to be chased.
09:36It makes me nervous.
09:38I am sorry.
09:41I am so tired.
09:43You help me down, huh?
09:45No tricks.
09:48All right.
09:51Now look, look, you see?
10:03You see?
10:04You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
10:06Doggone it.
10:07Ashamed?
10:08Yes.
10:09Is it so bad that I love you?
10:11You are so tall, so...
10:13You would not believe this.
10:16When I was a little girl, I would dream of a man who would ride to my father's house.
10:21It was you.
10:22I am a second generation, an American.
10:25I have rides.
10:26Is it so bad to feel love?
10:27To be honest?
10:28To say to the whole world, I love you?
10:33Well, look, ma'am, I didn't say you wasn't a good girl.
10:39It's just that...
10:41Well, I ain't ready to get married yet.
10:44You let me dance for you?
10:46I change your mind, huh?
10:48You so much as move an elbow, and I'll pull this hat down right over my head.
10:52You are afraid of me?
10:54I've got feelings.
10:55Inside me, I...
10:56Look, ma'am.
10:57I'm a man.
10:58And there's a tornado inside me.
11:00And if ever gets loosed, it might tear both of us apart.
11:03A tornado?
11:04Huh.
11:05Sir Vizanian, my name is Paladin.
11:06Your father employed me to bring you back.
11:07Oh, am I glad to hear that.
11:08Both of you, Mr. O'Reilly.
11:09Don't reach for that weapon, sir.
11:10No, sir.
11:11No, sir.
11:12No, sir.
11:13No, sir.
11:14No, sir.
11:15No, sir.
11:16No, sir.
11:17No, sir.
11:18No, sir.
11:19No, sir.
11:20No, sir.
11:21No, sir.
11:22No, O'Reilly.
11:23Don't reach for that weapon, son.
11:24Gun's in my business.
11:25Well, where I go and who I go with ain't.
11:29I didn't even see you move your hand.
11:31I've been riding hard for two days.
11:33If we're going to talk, I'd much rather it would be over food than guns.
11:52You see what I'm trying to explain?
11:59See, a man likes to feel comfortable with his woman.
12:03Well, now take this gal.
12:05How old are you, Jimmy?
12:07Mister, you can talk to you red in the face, but I ain't going to go back with you two.
12:12Well, it's probably just as well.
12:14A really good girl wouldn't have ridden trail alone with you.
12:17Now, you take that back.
12:18She's just as good as she can be.
12:20That's quite a reaction.
12:21A poet might suspect love.
12:24Now, you take that back, too.
12:26Wait a minute, Jimmy.
12:28I'm not using force.
12:30Well, I am.
12:32And if I can't lick you, mister, okay, then I'll go back free and well.
12:36Uncle, can I help you, Jimmy?
12:39Jimmy, you're pushing me.
12:40Oh, if you'd just stand still a minute.
12:42Now, miss, it may make you feel a little better to know that Jimmy's coming back with us.
12:50Oh, Jimmy.
12:51I'm going back, all right, but don't get any ideas.
12:54You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
13:12First we get the marriage out of the way, then the festival, huh?
13:20Food, drink, dancing, and such dancing will delight your heart, my friend.
13:26Drink.
13:27Hey, you could drink, too, but I waste good wine on you.
13:31Well, you're so all-fired smart, huh?
13:33Well, maybe you know wine, mister, but you sure don't know ranching.
13:37If you're so all-fired smart, how come you ain't got a herd of cattle bringing you in money off of land and feed you just throwing away?
13:44You tell me, Abazhanian, how to manage land?
13:49A child now advises Abazhanian?
13:51This here child was running a thousand-acre spread when he was 19 and making money out of feeding cattle.
13:56Cattle, cattle, Abazhanian is no, no, no, cowboy.
14:00You don't have to be a cowboy to know that good beef out here draws how much?
14:04Eight to ten cents a pound.
14:06It's of no importance.
14:08Somewhere, eighty dollars in one little animal.
14:11Pay no attention to it.
14:13Where would you graze the cattle?
14:15Oh, this canyon pasture is just going to waste.
14:18Pay no attention to it.
14:20How would you fatten the animals?
14:22Use that grass you're burning off and the great mashings you're throwing away.
14:27Pay no attention to it.
14:29That's good advice.
14:31What does a nester know about raising cattle?
14:33What is a nester?
14:37Well, a nester.
14:38Never mind.
14:39It is an insult.
14:40You would insult a man who could tear your bleeding heart from your body with his bare hands.
14:45Would it not I need your life for the wedding?
14:48That's a kid's game.
14:49Not the way we play it.
14:50Go out and attend us.
14:51Explain to the foreigner.
14:53There's any of these coals that kept red hot.
14:54There's no need for anyone to be burned.
14:55If one player says enough, the other releases him at that point.
14:56I don't know.
14:57I don't know.
14:58I don't know.
14:59You ready?
15:00Go.
15:01Yes, I won't.
15:02Go.
15:03I'm not going.
15:04Get out of here.
15:05Go to the dog.
15:06Go in.
15:07I don't know.
15:08You ready?
15:09Go.
15:10Go in.
15:11Go.
15:12I'm not going to go.
15:13I'm not going to go.
15:14Go out.
15:17I'm not going to.
15:18I'm going to go.
15:19I'm not going to go out and reach out.
15:20Go.
15:22Go.
15:23Go out.
15:24Go.
15:27Go
15:31This one will scream like a child. Yeah, we'll see about that
15:39Do not wish to burn you boy say enough go to blazes
15:48Just release his hand Jimmy game's over not by a darn sight so you asked for it
15:57I
16:10Game draw. Hi, he's strong boy. Hey Samuel. He accepts pain like a man
16:16Yeah, you're gonna talk to her some good points
16:20Ah
16:24It's time to dress him with a wedding
16:33Mr.. Palin and these people I've got a right to tear off all my clothes and then throw me in here
16:38Even a barbellium base for his own marriage, and I told you I just married her to protect her reputation
16:43That don't mean I touched her before or that I won't touch her after just remember you can take a horse to watch
16:53It's the first time I ever took a bat in the middle of week
16:57There's a woman at the start of all great things or so says the French poet Lamartine
17:03Women heaven's best gift the most delightful of God's creatures Shelley
17:08But
17:14We are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living
17:21What's that?
17:23Oil boy for fragrance you'd add it into your skin very very pleasant
17:28I'll do no such thing that stuff smells sweet enough to catch flies. Well, it's a custom
17:34Well ain't I got a right to a few customers my own
17:39All men who avoid female society have gross taste thackeray
18:00Thank you
18:04All righty look at this
18:06Dolmah, paklava, ismir kebab, rice pilaf, kesh kek, shish kebab
18:11Now it isn't often even seafood like that you better try some
18:14No, I I gotta be moving along
18:17Well, an intelligent man doesn't ride off into the night hungry
18:20I tell you I ain't staying here
18:22Well nobody's keeping you
18:24Well nobody's keeping you
18:33Bye O'Reilly
18:38Oh gonad I can't leave without saying goodbye to that girl
18:41I mean after all I just married her didn't I
18:43It's only a formality as you yourself said you can lead a horse to water but
18:51How come you so anxious to get rid of me all of a sudden
18:54All day you've been telling me what nice folks these people are
18:57Well you obviously have no affection for that girl and under the circumstances I think perhaps it's better if you don't see her dance
19:03I mean a young boy like you inexperienced
19:06Oh
19:07Dog
19:08You think a little thing like that
19:11Well she can dance her fool head off
19:13I'll be so busy at this food over here I won't even notice
19:29They got some pretty good cooks here I gotta admit that
19:31Among the world's finest
19:32Well I ain't never said they wasn't
19:34I mean just cause they don't do things like my people that don't mean they ain't real down to earth folks too
19:38I mean just cause this Abidjanian girl gets me
19:42Well
19:45Doggone it
19:46Women don't chase men
19:48Now what I'm trying to say is is a man don't want a wife that chases her
19:53This Helen man
19:55If I had to live with her
19:58I wouldn't know what she'd try next
20:01Look Mr. Paladin
20:03Just watching her makes me nervous
20:05I mean my stomach starts to
20:08Do flip-flops and
20:10And my knees start banging together
20:12Well
20:13Doggone it
20:14I just feel downright miserable
20:16Well a man wants to feel calm and comfortable
20:20With a woman
20:21Don't he?
20:22Well there's a time for that too
20:24Well
20:26It's time I was gone
20:28Ancient Armenia was at the crossroads of the world
20:31The origin of her dances is lost in antiquity
20:34A flavor of Greece, Persia, perhaps even of Minoa
20:37But those dances O'Reilly are a language
20:40The most compelling, understandable, universal language of mankind
20:46Well maybe so but
20:48I'm interested in it
20:50I fancy you
20:51I fancy you
20:52Thank you
20:53Thank you
20:56Thank you
20:58Yes
21:00Oh
21:01Oh
21:03Yes
21:06Oh
21:08Oh
21:10Oh
21:11Oh
21:13Oh
21:15Oh
21:18Three times since the wedding you moved to your home.
21:48Three times he moved to live, now I find him still here.
21:57Perhaps he likes the food.
21:59Perhaps.
22:01Well, far enough, perhaps he makes a good boy.
22:05I'm a liberal man if he wants to live with my daughter.
22:09Is there some difficulty?
22:11Well, it's customary at this time to speak of the dowry.
22:15You're mad if you think of...
22:17No dowry, no son-in-law, your own custom, Abijanian.
22:20I spit on custom.
22:22You think I would pay so much as a goat to mix blood with him?
22:25And I reply, you speak of the Kurdish farmers.
22:28Besides Abijanian, the Kurds are scholars wearing silk coats and speaking seven languages.
22:35You would let your daughter bring to her marriage her bedding and her clothing.
22:42Such generosity should be written on the side of Mount Ararat for all to see.
22:47Perhaps I could spare a goat for milk.
22:50And I reply, that besides Abijanian, the poorest Arab in a mud hut is a calip dispensing gifts of amber and silver.
23:01Beside Abijanian, the serpent becomes an animal of stature and dignity.
23:05The toad...
23:06And perhaps I could afford an acre of vines, but no more, I'm a poor man.
23:10But the toad assumes a beauty.
23:13An acre of vines, come Georgie Gorkin, let her spread the news of such generosity.
23:21An acre of vines.
23:23A messenger to the old country, a runner to the next town.
23:26This man is a poet.
23:28I wish you had bargained for my wife.
23:31And the children.
23:32We will scatter flowers in Lake Gotchka in your honor.
23:36Five acres of vines and two of trees.
23:38Ten and five, with a house.
23:40Fifty sheep, ten goats, six carrying milk.
23:43Agreed, agreed.
23:44Stop.
23:45You're ruining a poor old man.
23:47You, you want to see your own father-in-law destroyed?
23:51Jimmy.
23:53Oh, she's beautiful.
23:58Fifteen acres, a house, fifty sheep, and ten goats, six carrying milk.
24:04For a son who sees a dancer after she's gone.
24:07Attend him.
24:08Take him to his bride.
24:10Come on, Texas boy.
24:12At least he knows cattle.
24:14Eighty dollars an animal.
24:15It's good business.
24:16But they have other problems.
24:17They have four daughters.
24:18I hope boy is running his blood.
24:20His parents had five sons.
24:21Mmm.
24:22A busy day, Mr. Paladin.
24:23But a good one.
24:24Perhaps a mogi for luck.
24:25And for a grandson.
24:26Mr. Abijanian.
24:27Mr. Abijanian.
24:28That would be a pleasure.
24:29Mr. Abijanian.
24:30Mr. Abijanian.
24:31That would be a pleasure.
24:32Bye.
24:33Bye.
24:34Bye.
24:35Bye.
24:36Bye.
24:37Bye.
24:38Bye.
24:39Bye.
24:40Bye.
24:41Bye.
24:42A gun will travel reach the card of a man.
24:46A gun will travel reach the card of a man.
24:49A gun will travel reach the card of a man.
24:52I've gone.
25:05A gun will travel, reads the card of a man, a knight without armor in a savage land, his vast gun for hire heats the calling wind, a soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.
25:35Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
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