"**" "(Jim) Nice looking country, huh?" "That's the ranch I work on in Texas." "One of the biggest cattle spreads in the west." "Or rather, that's what it looked like ten years ago." "Today, it looks like this, after the population explosion, which is one of the reasons why I'm not there anymore." "But instead of heading West, I headed East, to East Africa." "An English rancher in Kenya made arrangements with my boss for a loan out of my services as foreman and where I go, my hazer and team-tying buddy," "John Henry, goes, too." "My ancestors were pioneers and his were what you might call anti-pioneers." "We weren't too sure what we were getting into, but, well, it sounded like a paid vacation, with fringe benefits." "The English rancher was as good as his word and there he was waiting for us." "Well, obviously, you're the cowboys." "How'd you guess?" "My name's Hayes." "Jim Sinclair, nice to know you." "How do you do?" "John Henry." "Glad to see you." "Good flight?" "Well, the trip was a little long, but the champagne was great." "Hey, no monocle." "No tomahawk." "You've got the wrong generation, that's my father." "Well, my plane's right here, let's go, eh?" "Oh, oh!" "Could you help me?" "Sure." "Thank you very much." "It's always happening, it's the catch or something." "You live here?" "Yes, my father works at the British embassy." "Nairobi 2-3-3-3." "Oh." "Thank you very much." "Don't mention it." "Goodbye." "Oh, here." "Oh!" "Thank you." "I don't know how he does it." "Wherever he goes, there's action." "Beautiful country." "(motor revving)" "Hey, what's that?" "Snow on the equator?" "That's Mount Kenya." "She's over 17,000 feet." "You know, spread out down there from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic and nearly 50 independent countries, colonies and territories." "Well, where are the wild animals?" "I haven't seen any of those yet." "There's a small herd of elephants, just a family." "Those are cape buffalo, the largest and most dangerous of the cow family." "Must be close to a thousand of them, following their leader in their typical wedge formation." "There's a good herd of eland with some zebra mixed in." "You'll hear more about them later." "Just like our plains back home." "Yes, this is grassland we don't want turned into dustbowls." "Rather like yours out west." "What do our dustbowls have to do with it?" "You'll find out." "We're over my ranch now." "Hey, no gates, no fences." "There are some cattle ranches up on the highlands, but no fences." "Now, what you see below to the northern horizon is mine." "Going down." "Cutting horses." "How do you like them?" "Flew them over from America." "Well, you've gone through a lot of trouble." "Necessary trouble." "The deal was for us to rope and herd for you for the summer, right?" "Right." "Well, I don't see any cattle." "I mean, where are the animals we're supposed to rope and herd?" "You've just seen some of them." "It figured." "You mean we're gonna rope wild animals?" "Well, not the elephant and rhino, just some of the other animals I want to domesticate." "Now, there, the pen's over there." "See, they're just building it." "That pen's for eland and that one's for the smaller antelopes, kudu, topi, hartebeests." "That ones for the zebras, and the one next door to it, the wildebeests." "And after you sort of get the hang of it," "I've got a space for a few buffalo." "Oh." "Game ranching, that's what I'm after." "Yeah, well, I was wondering what you call it." "You probably don't know this, but if the overgrazing of domestic cattle is allowed to continue," "Africa is gonna turn into desert." "I'll have your bags brought to your room." "But first I want you to meet the rest of the family." "Over there on the veranda sitting on the short wave set is Pili Pili." "Chirping." "This is Pajama Tops." "And that's Get Off the Couch, and that's You Too." "Pajama Top strolled in here one day and sort of adopted us." "As a matter of fact, he became so domesticated, he really gave me the whole idea." "I've seen you work with animals before, you know." "Oh, where was that?" "In Canada, during the war," "I was training there with the RAF." "I saw you roping at the Calgary stampede." "I reckon you can handle just about anything on four legs." "You didn't win that buckle in a poker game, did you?" "You were world champion cowboy two years on the trot." "You've done some checking." "We got a great chance here, Jim." "If we can make wild animals part of the economy, domesticate and tame them, we're guaranteeing they won't become extinct." "Of course, there are gonna be one or two little problems." "The hardcore cattle ranchers aren't exactly going to like it." "Another range war?" "Well, I hope it doesn't come to that." "Of course, the first item on the program is to capture some of the characters." "Mr. Bekker, Mr. Bekker!" "Cowboy (foreign language)" "The bloody fool is going ahead." "Look, Mr. Bekker!" "The cowboys!" "Their brave!" "Hatari!" "Sampson, shut up!" "(lasso whooshing." "Heel!" "Hey, we got him!" "Stretch him out!" "Unless they're stopped, all my cattle could have wild animal diseases." "I would be wiped out." "How are you going to stop them, Mr. Bekker?" "Turk, when you have an empire at stake, you get inventive." "Just you let me know where they are at all times." "(speaking a foreign language)" "Get the boxes off, boys." "Well." "They asked for it." "Sampson, are you in?" "Yes!" "Come on, come on, get the lead out." "Watch it, John Henry!" "Hang on to her." "Are you sure John Wayne started this way?" "Hey, maybe we should talk this thing over, huh?" "Now you know what you're up against, eh?" "Beautiful animals, aren't they?" "Yeah, gorgeous." "Look, you didn't mention this wild animal stuff in your letters." "Would you have come?" "He would." "And he owes me money." "Never mind, boys." "Plenty more where that one came from." "Well, thanks a lot." "Let's take a ride." "I want to show you what I'm trying to do is necessary." "See that?" "Man-made desert, followed by erosion and famine." "Overgrazed." "There just isn't enough rain." "Domestic cattle move like sardines, eat the grass, pulverize the ground and the volcanic dust." "But wild animals can eat anything and travel to water fast." "European cattle are skinny." "Wild animals are in great shape off the same land." "Now, to save the country from that, we've got to make the switch from cattle ranching to game ranching." "Convinced?" "Well, I still value my skin, but I'm convinced." "It's not going to be as easy to convince the Maasai." "Looks like one of their manyattas down there." "They must have moved higher up the mountain to get nearer to the source of water." "Shall we go up and take a look?" "Why not?" "(airplane roaring)" "They're strange people." "Complex, proud." "Dancing and singing one minute, fighting the next." "Cattle are their status symbol." "They use them to barter with instead of money." "So?" "They're protein-poor." "Game ranching could support them and the whole population." "Yeah, well, their spears are showing." "Hmm?" "(chuckling) No, no, we're friends." "Rafiki." "They move on and off my land whenever they need water or game." "If we can make the switch, the land will come back." "Green, luscious, beautiful." "Yeah." "Oh, I know that look." "How do you like that?" "He found one out in the middle of nowhere." "That's Fay Carter." "She works with the Maasai under a government grant, travels from village to village." "She's a nurse and ecologist." "Yeah, well from here, she looks like a girl." "Find your own." "Oh, where, where?" "Hey." "Hmm?" "What do you think?" "(yelling in a foreign language)" "(gun shots blasting)" "(yelling and whooping)" "Look, if you don't fly this thing, I will, and I don't know how." "Let's get out of here." "Here, take this..." "I'll get the girl." "Hey, Jim!" "Don't go down there!" "(yelling, guns blasting)" "(engine revving)" "Come on!" "Let go!" "You wanna get yourself killed?" "All they want is the cattle." "Let go!" "Come on!" "(horse whinnying)" "Let go, put me down." "I told you they were only after the cattle." "(engine roaring)" "(guns blasting)" "You stupid interfering idiot." "Mr. Hayes, you know perfectly well" "I would have been safe with the Maasai, but I'm not at all sure I'm safe here." "Just keep your belt on, lady." "I'll get the Kenyan rivals on the blur." "First, let's beat 'em up a bit." "Hey, who are those guys?" "Professional bandits." "They're paid to hit and run, steal cattle." "Here we go." "Look, I'm Jim Sinclair from America and this is John Henry, he's from America... too." "Oh, come on, let's be friends." "Rafiki?" "Rafiki?" "Can't win 'em all." "Let's sweep them out." "Hold tight." "(yelling and whooping)" "(chanting in a foreign language)" "Jim to ranch house, over." "Chirping" "Jim to ranch house, over." "Hayes here." "Go ahead, Jim." "We spotted a good herd at last." "Few woodland mixed in." "Oh, five miles due south of here." "Super." "I'll be out with a cross box." "See you right now." "The wind's right." "This time we got it." "Slow and easy." "Mr. Bekker!" "Don't shoot." "Please, don't shoot." "The cowboys... or the animals?" "(gunshots blasting, horse whinnying))" "Sampson, lower the tailgate." "Easy." "Karl Bekker." "Figured." "The name mean something to you, eh?" "Yeah, from what I've heard, this is your style." "You want to see my hunting license?" "And you're the cowboys." "Jim Sinclair and his ever-faithful Indian companion." "You look intelligent enough." "How did that crazy bloody Englishman get you all the way up here, eh?" "Africa's overrun with silver-tongued saviors and Hayes is the worst." "His harebrained scheme doesn't stand a chance." "It'll fall under its own worthless weight." "And if it doesn't, why, you'll give it a little push, huh, Mr. Bekker?" "No." "A big push." "I suppose Hayes has also been telling you that it's my cattle that are ruining the land." "Well, I tell you that it's his wild animals that can destroy the whole cattle industry." "20 years ago I was wiped out by east coast fever brought in by wild animals." "I had to shoot them all out, and now Hayes wants to breed disease!" "Over 5,000 dead and a small fortune in crowns in buildings." "Do you think I'm gonna throw away everything" "I've sweated a lifetime for?" "Times change." "Not in Africa." "It's still the law of the jungle and I'll fight for what's mine." "You tell Hayes... if he goes ahead with his plan and one of my herd comes out with anything, it's war." "Sampson, let's load it." "Give us a hand, eh?" "I'll give the boy a hand." "Mr. Bekker, next time you spook anything we're trying to rope," "I'll give you a hand... right in the teeth." "You're crazy, man." "You better believe it." "Sampson, are you in?" "Yeah!" "I see you met my neighbor." "Isn't this your land?" "No." "Public land, open range." "He's within his rights." "He's got permission to kill, I have license to capture." "Bekker shot twice." "Maybe one of them is wounded." "Let's try to find him." "(lion growling)" "(woodland groaning)" "Just a baby." "(speaking a foreign language)" "All right, buddy, all right." "How bad is it?" "The right leg is broken." "Peter will fix it." "He's a magician." "Bekker's still within his rights leaving him to die?" "Tell him he won't have to wait long." "We've got visitors." "(growling)" "They smell fresh blood." "Easy kill." "Well, they're coming closer." "Now what?" "Use that." "But shoot over the old boy, not at him." "No reason to sting him with that pea shooter." "He might turn quite nasty." "Just let him know we have a gun." "(gun shot blasting)" "(roaring)" "Okay, Tommy, okay." "It's a bit of a nightmare out here, isn't it?" "(lion roaring)" "Not this one, Buster." "(elephant roaring)" "Boy, they sure are bigger than I thought they were." "You didn't think we'd get this close to them, did you?" "Come on!" "Come on!" "(eland snorting)" "Well, what's with you?" "You look like you just roped your first animal." "That's the way I feel." "Like I've gone back about five million years." "What do you mean?" "I feel the way the first man must have felt when he captured the granddaddy of all cattle." "Take the present." "How's your Swahili?" "How's your judo?" "Well, maybe we could shoot over their heads like with the lion, huh?" "(speaking a foreign language)" "It's all right, they don't want to cut you up, just the eland." "Fresh from America, you don't recognize the look of hunger." "Well, they've got their own goats and cattle." "Why don't they eat them if they're so hungry?" "Perhaps one day they will, when their animals are no longer symbols of wealth, and Fay and I are working towards that day, but it's gonna take time." "You want to kill this eland for its head and horns, the trophy that you roped in Africa." "Well, that's highly commendable." "Give the meat to the Africans, they expect it, but I want specimens." "The contents of this Eland's stomach will tell me what it feeds on, the foliage and minerals that it needs." "Just a cotton-picking minute." "We didn't rope that guy just to see him get cut up." "Now, if there's any experimenting to be done, we'll do it with a live eland." "He's going into a corral." "Well, it was a little too cold in the plain the other day for conversation, but I think it's about time, lady, that you understood that we're not looking for trophies." "Now, would you explain that to them?" "Yes, I'll explain... to you, not to these hungry people." "To them, a wild animal is to be eaten, not to be put into a corral like your cattle." "Try." "Try a little harder." "(speaking a foreign language)" "The American wants it for a pet." "Can't you get it through your head?" "This is for tomorrow, not just today." "Now, we happen to be looking beyond one animal to large herds that would feed, not just a handful of Maasai, but vast populations." "Now, do you get that message?" "(speaking a foreign language)" "Rafiki." "Rafiki." "(jeep engine revving)" "A little soft talk and a gentle touch and maybe you can tame her down, huh?" "She needs a little bit more than a gentle touch." "Huh, baby?" "(chuckling)" "(flamingos fluttering)" "Holy mackerel..." "What are those?" "They're called flamingos." "Flamingos." "There must be a thousand of them." "Probably a million." "I guess ten million." "(galloping)" "Go on, heel her!" "That's it." "Okay, wrap her up." "Watch it, she may be tricky, too." "Now we got her mesmerized, just calm as a kitten." "Yeah, some kitten." "Easy, baby." "But she is a beauty." "You've really got it, mascara eyes." "Beauty, you're just what we've been looking for." "Ease your horse in." "She really is a beauty." "They've quieted down quite a bit." "Worth the ride, wasn't it?" "Well, if this works, you really got something." "Yeah, good baiting stock." "You know, eland breed when they're 18 months old and throw cows nine months later." "That's as good as domestic cattle." "Hey." "Progress, huh?" "Tea time." "How about a beer?" "Sounds great." "You know, I'm beginning to like your English customs." "Hey, is that a brush fire?" "Hey, Peter, give me the glasses." "(whooping and hollering)" "Looks as if they're moving." "They're burning their old manyatta." "Disease is so prevalent, it's a pretty good idea." "What about Florence Nightengale, is she moving with them?" "Who?" "Oh, Fay." "Yes, she's studying them." "What about the noble doctor?" "Well, he's studying wild animals and the Maasai." "And Fay and the doctor are studying each other, right?" "He's a man of many interests." "Oh, yes." "Wild animals, Maasai, Fay." "You know, for an Indian, you talk too much." "They're not leaving." "They're heading this way." "Yes, it's the draught." "Their water hole's dried up and their sheep and cattle are turning more of the land into desert." "I expect they'll rebuild by my water hole." "You mean you'll let them ruin more of your land?" "They're hungry." "What would you do?" "I'd help them rebuild." "(singing in a foreign language)" "Lend a hand?" "We could use some muscle." "What are they singing?" ""Arambib."" "A slogan of a new nation." "Swahili for "let's all pull together."" "They sure do." "Well, the huts must be up and the fires lighted before nightfall, or the evil spirits can get in." "Mmm." "Modern touch..." "Lightning rod." "Lightning ever strike around here?" "No lightning." "It's to keep the evil spirits from descending." "You have a lot to learn about Africa." "I've learned so much already." "Beautiful country, beautiful people." "Another thing you have to learn." "Dr. Copp and I are going to be married." "(Peter) Jim!" "Jim!" "One of the gazelle, it's dying!" "(Fay) Bring your medical kit, hurry!" "We'd better change the cast, put on something lighter." "Get the circulation down here." "I tried everything, but she won't eat, and if she doesn't eat, she'll die." "Whoa, take it easy." "That didn't hurt, did it?" "There, good girl." "You know, I think we'd be doing her a kindness if we put her out of her misery." "Perhaps." "All right, Fay, I'll make her a balsa splint." "You know, he always says what he thinks." "Usually, he's right." "A doctor shouldn't get too involved with his patients." "Does that go for nurses?" "**" "What you thinking about?" "What are you thinking about?" "I was..." "I was just thinking about that female eland with the mascara eyes." "You know, we sure made that old bull mighty happy." "Is that what you're thinking about?" "I didn't think so." "**" "Come on, baby." "There." "Come on, try to eat." "You must eat something." "Try." "Please." "Common thought?" "Yeah." "The nurse can't get involved?" "She shouldn't." "At night." "Maybe he'll take some milk." "Come on, boy..." "come on." "Come on, try it." "Well, you tried." "Hugo was right." "We should have left her out there in the wild." "She'd be dead by now instead of dragging on pathetically like this." "You two don't agree with Hayes either, huh?" "No, we don't." "You know, not too long ago, the Eskimos and Blackfoot Indians of Alaska were starving and then our government brought over a few head of reindeer from Siberia." "Now they have huge herds that are their staple diet." "Yes, and a few domestic rabbits from England, got out of hand and nearly ate up Australia." "Rabbits are rabbits." "They get out of hand." "Yes, but each continent has to work out its own natural balance." "The interactions between living things and..." "The interaction between living things and..." "And our natural environment." "Come on." "You'll help him, won't you?" "You'll help him." "There." "That did it." "He'll live!" "Competition brings out the best in man, huh, Tommy?" "(Hugo) Cowboy." "Even the animals in Africa respect territorial rights." "**" "(whinnying)" "(snorting)" "Watch out, Jim!" "**" "Come on, boys!" "Come on!" "(Hayes) All right, settle down, fellas, settle down." "Come on!" "That's our best bag of gazelle yet." "I'd like to take a look at Beauty." "She's been behaving kind of funny." "Yeah?" "Hello, Beauty." "She looks all right." "What about her eyes?" "They look fine." "Mr. Oyandi." "That means inspection sooner than I expected." "Hey, isn't that Bekker with them?" "All right." "Close them down." "Just a moment, Bekker." "Yesterday, I had to shoot 20 of my cattle because of your animal diseases." "East coast fever." "Mr. Bekker, this is an inspection, not a judgment." "Hello, Hayes." "Hello, Mr. Oyondi." "Hello." "This is Jim Sinclair and John Henry from America." "Mr. Oyondi's our game commissioner." "Cut the courtesies and close them down before I lose more cattle." "Every one of these disease spreaders should be shot." "Sampson, get my flyweight." "Mr. Hayes, Kenya is interested in your game ranching theory, all Africa is, but our problem..." "But I had to shoot 20 of my cattle." "I piled them up and burned them." "I hope you all smelled the stench." "Mr. Hayes, our problem is that Karl Bekker and his vet did discover east coast fever in one of his herd and had to destroy them." "East coast fever is a tick-borne disease." "Wild animals are immune from it." "But wild animals can carry ticks to domestic animals." "Of course they can." "The vet, the game department, are here to check your animals." "And if there is east coast fever?" "They'll have to be destroyed, your operation closed down." "I see." "All right, run the tests." "Jim, you better start with the eland and Beauty here." "A rope won't be necessary, Beauty's tamed down." "(Bekker) Dr. Copp." "What do you think of raising meat for the tables of the world in a zoo?" "Domesticated animals were wild once, you know." "I want to hear what Dr. Copp says." "Well, in my opinion, it could be a mistake to go flat out for game ranching until it's been completely researched." "You don't interfere until you have full reports." "By the time we get those reports, half the wild animals could be wiped out." "And a good job, too." "You've done your share, haven't you, Bekker?" "Gentlemen..." "Mr. Oyondi," "I'd say she hasn't got east coast fever." "What has she got, then?" "I'd say she's in calf." "Hey, Beauty's gonna be a mother." "So what's all this excitement about a wild animal?" "They drop calves all over Africa." "She's gonna give us our first domesticated calf." "Jim, how about that?" "(Jim) I think it's great, I really do." "(Oyandi) Tell me, gentlemen, how long are you going to be with us?" "Until September 1st." "Fall roundup back home, we have our old jobs waiting for us." "Less than a month." "You and your cowboys have a lot of work ahead of you." "All right, I'll give you until September 1st when I'll be back to see the pens are filled." "Bye." "Goodbye." "Goodbye, Mr. Oyondi." "Thank you." "So he gave them the go-ahead." "A vote against you is something like an insult, isn't it, Mr. Bekker?" "A lot can happen between now and September the first." "Come on, Sampson." "Fay." "Beauty." "Come on." "I've got something for you." "Good girl." "Fay, let's get back to work, shall we?" "I'll be coming in a minute." "Yes, all right." "**" "Sampson, are you in?" "Yes!" "**" "(door opening)" "What are you doing here?" "I have to talk to you because you are from America." "You work for Bekker, don't you?" "I just ran away." "When you go back to America, take me with you." "That's why you came through the window, to get to America?" "I didn't want Mr. Bekker to see." "He can be a very hard man." "Yeah." "Should I go out the window and come through the door?" "What's your name?" "Sampson." "What?" "Sampson!" "Hiya, Sampson." "I'm Jim Sinclair." "Cowboy Jim Sinclair." "And I'm John Henry." "You're a strange cowboy." "Well, I'm a savage." "Savage John Henry." "I have two names, too." "Sampson Anditi." "I'm Kikuyu tribe." "Navajo tribe." "Texas tribe." "And why do you want to go to America?" "I have to go to America, to learn." "What's wrong with here?" "Yeah, how come you're not in school right now?" "School is 20 miles away." "I tried to run, but it's too far." "Please take me to America, I want to be an engineer." "Where's your family?" "I have no family." "It's beautiful." "Must be worth a lot of money." "Where did you get it?" "Oh, from the school of hard knocks." "School of hard knocks?" "Is that a good school?" "It's one of the best." "Come on, tiger." "(mooing)" "Come on." "You can still change your mind." "Please don't take me in." "Sampson." "(knocking)" "(Bekker) Come in." "So, you've brought him back, eh?" "That's right." "Brought him back alive." "Been trying to talk you into taking him to America, eh?" "With all the Americans that come here, it's the same thing." "White hunters, tourists." "Did you give him any money?" "No." "Well, you got more sense than I thought you had." "Most of them do." "Anyway, Sinclair, you're wasting your time." "He's a charming little thief and a cunning little opportunist who justifies his thievery with this money-for-school malarkey." "Well, you ran away just once too often." "Sampson, you've lost a good home." "No, he hasn't." "He just found one." "All right, you take him." "Hayes will take him on just the way he took on the Maasai, but I warn you, Sinclair." "Don't trust Sampson." "Don't trust any of them." "And the Maasai, they're the worst." "They're the ones that are ruining the pastureland." "They should have died of the draught." "Seems like I've heard that story before." "The only good ones are the dead ones." "Just like your trophies." "One of the best collections of trophies in the country." "And him?" "He was the hardest to bring down." "What a bloody fool I was." "Only wounded him with the first shot and he charged." "There's nothing more dangerous in this world than a wounded rhino." "But I dropped him four yards away, with a brain shot." "Good rhino horns are hard to come by nowadays." "They're protected in the parks, speared by the Maasai and pampered by the conservationists like Hayes." "Look at that." "I'm going to fight for that and every farmer in the country will be behind me." "Now look at him." "Do you think that animal looks as if it wants to be domesticated?" "It no longer looks, Bekker." "It's just like you, dead from the neck up." "(door slamming shut)" "What are they after tomorrow?" "Giraffe." "Giraffe, eh?" "Thank you." "Forget it." "Tell me, is there a meat market around here?" "What kind of meat do you want?" "We're gonna buy the biggest steer you ever saw." "(dancing and singing)" "Hardworking witch doctor." "Native healer..." "Dr. Ninga." "Last month he danced for food to end a famine and tonight the famine ended." "And you thought you were the big shot." "You were under a spell and didn't even know it." "(dancing and singing)" "Now he's dancing for rain to end the draught." "(chanting)" "Yeah, well, I wish him a lot of luck." "Well, he does quite a lot of good, really." "Calming fears, relieving anxieties." "Interpreting disturbing dreams." "They tell me that in America, the psychiatrist couch is quite a big thing." "I'm just a country boy, but in Texas, we use a couch for courting." "Oh, do you..." "I see." "You will offend him if you don't drink it, you are a guest." "Hombi, a native beer." "We know the contents, but wish we didn't." "Good stuff, huh?" "(refusing in a foreign language)" "(coughing)" "(laughing)" "Yeah, well, that stuff seems to give them a lift." "(singing)" "I see Sampson's with you now." "Uh-huh." "You'll spoil him, of course." "You're only here for the summer." "You don't care what happens after you leave." "Is that what you really believe?" "What should I believe?" "(Sampson) Jim, Jim, Cowboy Jim!" "You know, Sampson, you're just exactly the person" "I want to see right at this moment." "Good, because I've been telling everybody how you fast draw and shoot." "Bang, bang, they all want to see you." "They even paid me to see you." "They have, huh?" "(yawning)" "Yeah, well, you see, actually, we don't do any of that fast draw stuff anymore." "I mean, times have changed, all the bad guys are dead." "They are?" "Yeah, they're all on television." "Go on, give them a show." "Aw, come on, Dead-eye, show us your stuff." "How much did you charge them?" "Five cents apiece." "Okay, have the Rockettes move back." "(cheering)" "(speaking in a foreign language)" "Okay, okay, come on, friend." "What?" "We're gonna play a little game of William Tell and you're gonna be my assistant." "Oh no, you're not." "Look, act brave." "You're representing your whole tribe." "May I?" "Thank you." "Stand right there." "What do you want me to do with this?" "Stick it in your mouth, it might shut you up." "Hey..." "You don't mind if I turn sideways." "I'll be using blanks." "Now, when I shoot, you let it drop." "Oh." "Come here, Sampson." "You stand right over there, hmm?" "That's it." "I want you to hold your hands apart like that, huh?" "Yeah, that's it." "Now, whenever you feel like it, you clap your hands together real fast, like that." "What I'm gonna try and do is draw and fire before you can clap your hands together..." "I hope." "You ready?" "Ready." "Wah!" "Look there, folks, a hole right through the middle, the hard way!" "(astonished cheers)" "(singing)" "(playing African music)" "(shaker rattling)" "(singing Indian style)" "(thunder blasting)" "Hey, how did you do that?" "I don't know, I thought I was doing a war dance." "Come on, we might as well have a community shower." "(John Henry) Hey." "Do you think this country's as large as Texas?" "Are you kidding?" "Texas, the whole United States, Britain, Europe," "China'd fit right into it." "Oh, come on." "No, it's true." "Yeah?" "Well, how would you know?" "Well, I used to have a very attractive geography teacher." "Hey, there's a truck over there." "It's Bekker." "Bekker?" "What's he up to?" "He's running down a giraffe." "You get Hayes on the horn." "Right." "You be ready to bring him in." "Good!" "Not yet!" "I'll get you closer." "All right..." "Now!" "You bloody fool, you missed him!" "Come on, laddie, I want this, again, again!" "Bekker, pull over!" "Pull over, Bekker!" "Pull over, Bekker, you hear me!" "Bekker, stop!" "Pull over!" "Stop!" "Keep steady now!" "Are you ready?" "What are you trying to do, kill me?" "What were you trying to do with those giraffe?" "I've got capture rights, so I just took him out." "Bekker, why would you suddenly want to capture instead of kill?" "Meaning?" "What's that?" "That's none of your business." "You wouldn't be trying to spread east coast fever to our herds with this, would you?" "(grunting)" "Blood, Bekker... this time it's yours." "Jim, don't look now." "Well, what do you say now, General Custer?" "What he should have said." "Let's get the heck out of here." "Well, you gave him a hand and in the teeth, now what?" "Bekker has capture license, he's within his rights." "It'd be choosing the wrong battlefield." "Yep, like the battle of Little Big Horn." "Why are you always throwing that up to me?" "Well, it's the only one we won." "**" "Can you hang onto him?" "I can't let go!" "This one's for Bekker the hard way." "There are only six more days to go." "You think we'll make it?" "**" "**" "**" "Well, little buddy, there's always a first time for everything." "Come on." "**" "They got one!" "Heel!" "Hang into him, Indian!" "Now you got him, hold him!" "Well, you're ugly as sin, but you sure look beautiful to me." "(mooing)" "**" "Hey, Beauty." "Come on, Beauty, come on." "Well, old buddy, we did it." "Yeah, how about that?" "**" "Oh, come on." "It's your move." "What are you thinking about?" "I think it will pass inspection." "It will be a victory." "And you will be a big part of it." "Then why don't I feel victorious?" "Because the boys are leaving." "Perhaps... yes." "That must be it." "Come on." "Hey, you got my beer." "Give it to me." "Chirping" "**" "Grown, hasn't he?" "He gets fed a lot, nights." "You're leaving tomorrow." "Inspection is first thing in the morning," "I think we'll pass it." "That just about wraps everything up." "That's good." "Yeah, great." "Fay." "Come to America with me." "I came to say goodbye." "It's a bridal gift from the Maasai." "The woman who wears it can't be carried off by the lion." "If the lion backs away, it must work, mustn't it?" "Fay, I'm asking you to come to America." "Come to America and live happily ever after?" "Is it as simple as that?" "Well, I love it here." "We had everything planned before you came out here." "I want you to know that when Hugo and I are married, we have our lives carefully scheduled." "What are your plans?" "Come to America and live happily ever after." "End of plan." "The perfect solution." "Well, I wish you'd never left America!" "Fay!" "You may not know it, but here in Africa, we have a balance of nature." "You are upsetting the whole thing." "Am I really upsetting the whole balance?" "Yes, completely." "But not completely enough, huh?" "**" "You know, lady, you're not easy to understand." "I know." "Are you really leaving?" "First thing in the morning." "You're going to America without me?" "Look, Sampson." "They're building new schools here all the time." "Your turn'll come." "I have to get to America, John Henry." "You understand." "Sampson, once you get there, you might not like it." "Why not?" "Well, it's not easy in America." "Aren't you proud of your country?" "Yes." "Yes, I'm proud of my country." "That's why I want you to grow up here, so you'll be proud of your country." "It's not easy for me in Africa." "It's not easy for an Indian in America at times." "Sampson." "Going to America is no solution for you." "I want you to stay here and work hard so one day you'll be as proud of being African as I am for being American." "You understand?" "Hey, tiger." "Come here." "We always can't have what we want." "And we have to accept that." "I think it's-it's time you became a man." "How do you say the words "to be brave"?" "Hodari." "Hodari." "Be brave, okay, tiger?" "Jim." "A couple of characters outside want to see you." "(speaking in a foreign language)" "The whole tribe are here with presents for you, Jim." "They've come to say thank you and goodbye." "You know how important their animals are to them." "It's a tribute." "One I've never seen before." "(speaking a foreign language)" "He says they've laid on a big celebration for you." "They want you to come to their manyatta." "Great, a party." "Let's break out the pombi punch." "Come on, Jim, it's your party." "I'll be there." "(chanting)" "(drums playing)" "**" "You're gonna be a mother any day now, huh?" "I guess I'll miss that." "I'll miss all of you." "Now you be a good girl." "Take care of yourself." "(singing)" "They don't want to come out." "Take your bloody hat and beat them out!" "(singing)" "**" "The animals are out." "You go tell the others." "**" "(singing)" "**" "Hello, Beauty." "Come on, old girl." "We're going home." "(tiger roaring)" "(horse whinnying)" "Buckle, buckle!" "Don't die on me." "You're all I've got." "**" "(Hayes) Jim, where are you?" "They're waiting for the guest..." "Where is he?" "I don't know." "His gun is gone." "I brought it back!" "I took the buckle, but I brought it back!" "All right, Sampson, all right." "Now tell us what happened." "The animals have gone." "Jim's gone, too." "**" "**" "(tiger growling)" "**" "Fay, look." "I found some combretum in the stomach of this zebra." "Look, there's a man out there who may be dying, but all you can think about is your microscope." "Darling, look, please." "The Maasai have been out all night." "They're the best trackers in the world, you'll agree." "And now they're going out again, with Hayes, John Henry, Peter and the hands." "They've got horses, jeeps, why, they've even got an aeroplane." "Now, what on earth can we do that they can't?" "So come on." "Let's try and get some work done, shall we?" "Please." "Pass me some slides." "I couldn't look at another slide." "Very well." "Are you telling me to go?" "How can I stop you now?" "It isn't just a man, is it?" "It's Jim." "And it's your decision." "(horn honking)" "Wait, wait for me!" "Hold the truck!" "Peter!" "Hey, wait for me!" "(elephant roaring)" "Fay!" "Take me with you." "All right, get in." "Now, Maasai, take the jungle, my boys'll take the planes." "(speaking a foreign language)" "Peter!" "Get back to the house and stay by the radio!" "(motor revving)" "John Henry!" "Take me with you." "Please take me with you!" "No, I'm sorry, Sampson." "I think you better stay here and hold down the fort." "**" "(Jim's voice) Hodari." "Be brave, okay, tiger?" "I think it's time you became a man, Sampson." "John Henry to Buck Hayes." "John Henry to Buck Hayes, over." "Hayes here." "I'm at the first checkpoint." "The Maasai found Jim's horse." "No Jim." "From what the horse looks like, if Jim's alive, he's in trouble." "All right, stay there, I'll circle the area." "(airplane engine roaring)" "(roaring)" "(vultures cawing)" "There's Jim." "Down in the clearing." "It is Jim!" "But he's in pretty bad shape." "Can we land?" "Not in that stuff." "And John Henry's miles away." "Hayes to first checkpoint." "John Henry here, over." "We've located Jim, repeat, we've located Jim, but I can't land and I'm short on petrol." "Tell the Maasai to take you across the Red Valley to the Gap." "Got it." "Jim!" "Sampson?" "Look out!" "Get behind a tree!" "Go on!" "(rhino snorting)" "Rhino, here!" "Here, rhino!" "Sampson!" "Get back!" "Here, rhino!" "Rhino, here!" "Rhino, here, boy!" "Rhino!" "Hey!" "Rhino, hey, rhino!" "Rhino, here!" "Here, rhino!" "Rhino, hey!" "Hey!" "Rhino!" "He won't let us alone." "All right, I'm gonna try and wrap him up." "Sampson, you do as I tell you and stay there." "You hear me?" "Yes!" "Sampson, I told you to stay back there!" "Go on!" "(tree trunk creaking)" "Hurry, quick!" "He's brave!" "Hodari!" "You've got to be kidding." "Chirping" "Hayes here." "You have..." "Good." "Fay, they've got him." "What?" "He's what?" "What is it?" "Wait a minute." "You're joking!" "What happened?" "The pens are all empty?" "What scared them?" "Lion?" "Lion can't open gates or run off on rubber tires." "Come on, I'll show you." "(Hayes) The whole lot gone." "They didn't break out, the pens were opened." "Look here, tracks." "Tracks of a man, someone drove them out." "Jim!" "Come here!" "Jim's back!" "Jim, are you all right?" "How do I look?" "You look pretty good to me." "Did you see any of the animals?" "A few." "But they're scattered all over." "How long will it take to get them all back again?" "That took us six weeks in the first place." "Who did it?" "I got a good idea." "Yeah." "Jim, I can see something!" "Look over there!" "Over there." "I don't believe it." "**" "Peter, get all the hands." "Put out food and fresh water." "Yes, sir." "Fay, can you get the Maasai to help." "I'll get them." "Jim, they're coming home." "Let's go bring 'em in." "Peter, get those trucks out of there!" "(speaking a foreign language)" "All right, get the gates open!" "Come on, let's go!" "(speaking a foreign language)" "The Maasai are here." "(speaking a foreign language)" "More!" "More!" "Take cover, take cover." "**" "The eland are first." "That's good." "They're steady." "And here are the zebras." "**" "If they don't break back, we should get most of them." "**" "Are those ours?" "Well, they are now." "**" "They're going in." "Shh, quiet, everybody, quiet." "(gunshots blasting)" "(whinnying)" "Lend me your gun!" "Bekker, pull over!" "Pull over, Bekker!" "(gunshot blasting)" "(grunting)" "Oh!" "Enough!" "Not enough!" "I got a couple of good reasons for staying in Africa, and you're one of them, Bekker!" "You're gonna help me round up every one of those animals." "Hey, Jim!" "The animals are coming back." "Wrap him up and bring him in." "Close the gates!" "We've got 'em!" "They're all in." "I still don't believe it." "Incredible, isn't it?" "I mean, we didn't have to herd them at all." "They all came home by themselves." "Return from pasture." "Hey, Jim!" "They're all in." "Come and look." "How's that for wild animals?" "Wild animals no more." "This proves a lot." "Look, Jim." "Beauty is back." "You know, you need a nurse." "I need more than that." "(Hayes) Come on, boys, now into the bus." "Come on, boys." "Grab a hold." "Come on, you all need a pen." "(boys yelling)" "Come along." "Thank you." "Sampson!" "Now go on, that's what you said you wanted." "Sampson." "Time to go to school." "**" "Go get 'em, tiger." "(chuckling)" "All set, Sampson?" "Thanks for the school bus." "Take it away." "Okay, okay." "But only until I teach somebody how to drive this thing." "Bright new bus, bright new future." "Well, speaking of the future, how about coming to Africa with me?" "Do you mean it?" "Uh-huh." "Cowboy quit too slow." "(laughing)" "It's nothing." "(laughing)" "(boys shouting)" "**"