"[MUSIC PLAYING]" "[SINGING]" "Hello, Buck." "Hi, Gene." "Take it easy a while, Champ, we're going to get a little rest." "Hello, Gene." "Hello, Pat." "All set to win the race today?" "Well, I'm all set to drive it." "I don't know whether I'm set to win it or not." "If you was riding Champ, you'd sure win it." "Yeah." "I could win a race myself if I could ride Champ." "If you could ride him." "With a bit like this I could sure ride him." "You try using a bit like that on Champ and I'll have to use it on you." "Can't say I'd blame you." "You wouldn't want a bit like that in your mouth, would you, Champ?" "Who you after this time, Pat?" "SHERIFF PAT:" "Had a break upstate." "Lost three men." "Guy by the name of Reagan, Charlie Lewis, Jake Fargo." "Know them?" "They look like pretty bad hombres." "Yeah, I know Fargo." "It was my dad who sent him away." "Your dad did." "20 years ago." "Then maybe if your dad sent him away, you ought to help me put him back again." "Maybe I will." "Right now, I got a race to drive." "Well, I'm rooting for you." "Good luck." "Thanks." "I'll see you over at the starting line in about 10 minutes, boys." "MAN:" "OK, chief." "GENE AUTRY:" "Hi, men." "Hello, Gene." "Say, you better gallop down to the Junction Cafe." "Matt Kimbrough's is beating you time." "Yeah, the last thing we seen, it was holding hands." "Thank, fellas, I'll look into the situation." "Here you are, Mr. Kimbrough." "The best cup of coffee in the house." "And you're the best-dressed waitress in town, Lily." "And the least dressed, too." "This is what they used to wear in the old days, long before we ever heard of Canyon Junction." "Wish I'd have heard of it sooner." "Sugar, sugar?" "Thanks, Lily." "Gene." "Hello, Lily." "Look, isn't It pache?" "Matt give it to me." "Hi, Matt." "Gene." "I wanted to ask you to go to the dance tonight, but, ah," "I guess I'm a little late." "See you some other time." "See you on the starting line, Matt." "Sure, Gene." "Good luck to you." "In the race, I mean." "Gene, how do you know I won't go with you to the dance tonight." "You didn't even ask me." "Wait a minute, Lily, I asked you." "And I asked you now." "And I just decided to go with whoever wins the race this afternoon." "If you win it, I go with you." "If Gene wins it, I go with Gene." "You forgot something, Lily." "There's three coaches in this race." "Suppose Tex Rollins wins?" "I had a date with Tex." "Hold them steady, boys." "Stay in line." "LILY:" "Gene!" "Good luck." "Get ready." "Get set." "Go!" "All right, that's three." "That's all we need." "Listen to all that yelling." "There must be 1,000 people over there." "Over there, not here." "Come on." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Whoa, boy." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Come on." "Come." "Come, come." "Come on, augh." "Ha." "Back." "No other horse on the place, Jake." "I'll ride this one if I have to kill it." "Whoa." "Here, try this bit." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Whoa." "All right." "Get it on him." "GENE AUTRY:" "You get yourself all wet," "Matt, you won't be able to go to the dance." "Ha, ha, ha, ha." "Can't stop for a drink now, we got to win this race." "Come on, let's get in there." "You got him, Jake?" "I got him." "Let's got out of here." "We'll head for that ghost town, eh, Jake?" "Yeah." "What's the shortest way, Jake?" "The longest way, stupid, get on your horse." "Sure, Jake, sure, sure." "GENE AUTRY:" "Ha!" "Ha, ha!" "Ha!" "Ha, ha." "Ha, ha." "Ha." "Come on." "GENE AUTRY:" "Ha, ha, ha." "Ha." "Ha, come on!" "Move over." "Come on, Tex." "Knock him off the road." "I got a date tonight." "Ha." "Ha." "Try that again and I'll cut you out of the race." "MATT KIMBROUGH:" "Tex, you cost me a date." "Hiya, Gene." "I hear you lost the race." "You can pick up the marbles, Matt." "You win." "You can pick me and Tex up, too." "We got to have a lift back to town." "MATT KIMBROUGH:" "A lift?" "Ha, ha, ha." "What do you mean, a lift?" "Gene, you've cracked up." "How's it going to look, you riding into town on the winner's coach." "It'll look like you're the winner." "And I am, brother, I sure am." "I'll tell Lily you're sorry you couldn't make the dance." "Hey, wait a minute, Matt." "I can't walk back to town." "Not on this." "That's the best news I've heard in years." "He, he, he." "You can't walk on it, you can't dance on it." "Say, ah, might rain tonight, Gene." "In case you get cold, wear this." "Listen, Matt." "In case you get lonesome, Gene, that ghost town's only a few miles over here." "I here tell those ghost shake a mean rumba." "Ha, ha, ha!" "Oh, I almost forgot something." "Here." "Yehaw!" "(SINGING) I'm dancing tonight with Lily." "Around and around and around." "And Lily is such a dilly." "The sweetest girl that I found." "Hello there." "Hello." "Well, hello there." "I can hear you, Mr. Hanlon." "I'm not Hanlon." "Autry." "Oh, I... excuse me." "I guess I was half dreaming." "Good place for it." "Won't you sit down?" "Thanks." "What happened to your leg?" "It's my ankle." "I was driving in that stage coach race." "Lost a wheel about three miles from here." "And you walked here?" "I limped here." "Let's get that boot off." "Too bad I don't have my first aid kit with me." "I usually carry one." "Might hurt a little." "I hate to put you through all this trouble, Miss Lambert." "You know me?" "Ruth Lambert?" "Sure." "You teach school at the junction." "I've seen you in town." "I've seen you there, too." "Usually, you're with Lily Shannon." "I'd of been out with her tonight if it hadn't have been for this." "Miss Shannon's attractive." "You must be very disappointed." "Well, you can't win every time." "May I ask why you're way out here?" "Oh, I often ride out here on Saturdays." "It's lonely, but I like it." "When I first came in, you thought I was somebody else." "Hanlon?" "Thanks a lot, Miss Lambert." "Guess I better get my boot back on if I'm ever going to get it on." "Feel better?" "Lots." "When do you figure on riding back to town?" "Now, I guess." "It'll be dark pretty soon." "When you get back, would you mind having somebody bring my horse Champ out to me?" "I'll do better than that." "My horse will be glad to take both of us." "All right?" "Thanks again." "You know, Miss Lambert, you shouldn't ride out here." "Not alone." "Three convicts escaped from prison yesterday." "They could be heading this way." "But I'm not afraid." "The ghosts of Mourner's Flat will look out for me." "My horse." "He's gone." "Probably strayed off someplace." "I'll find him for you." "But I left him tied right to that post." "He took it." "Big Tim Hanlon took my horse." "Miss Lambert, Big Tim Hanlon's grave is right up the street." "You wouldn't understand." "The horse probably strayed out in the country to get some grass." "You better wait inside." "Might take a while." "Hey, you." "How about passing out some of that grub?" "Sure." "Get down here a sec." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Get over there." "Get over there." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Where's your horse, grandpa?" "I'll trade you this one for it." "Ain't got me a horse." "Always go for all by my own self." "They call me Loco John." "Ha." "He admits it." "Hey, ain't that Gene Autry's horse?" "Now you wouldn't accuse me of being a horse thief, would you, grandpa?" "Well, why no." "No, sir." "Maybe, ah... maybe you bought him, huh?" "That's right." "Maybe I did." "And does this smell good." "Bacon and beans." "Sure use a lot of that." "Pop, got a couple extra plates?" "Hey, ain't I seen you someplace afore?" "Maybe, I get around a lot." "Yeah." "I'll get them plates." "I know who you are." "You're Jack Fargo." "Oh, now don't get your dander up, Dad." "Drop your gun belt, Jake." "You all better drop your gun belts." "Now let's talk this over, Dad." "No use getting excited." "Why don't you have some coffee." "Charlie, watch this old guy." "Come on, Reagan." "Whoa." "Whoa." "There's his tracks." "I wondered if something might have happened to you." "Well, I circled the town." "That horse of yours must have headed for home on the double." "I wonder why he took it?" "He did take my horse." "That's why you couldn't find it." "Big Tim Hanlon took my horse, but... but why?" "Miss Lambert, in all my life I've never heard of a ghost that steals horses." "Well, what can we do now?" "We can't walk back to town." "At least you can't, not with that bad ankle." "I found a place up the street." "An old hay barn." "You'll be comfortable here." "With my ghost?" "I won't need the blankets." "The fella who gave it to me will be here tomorrow." "He'll give us a lift back to the junction." "You'll sure he'll come back?" "Sure he'll be here." "He's going to the dance tonight." "He'll be here tomorrow to tell me how late he stayed out and how much fun he had." "With Lily Shannon?" "She means a lot to you, doesn't she?" "Means a lot when a smart guy tries to beat my time." "You sure that's all it means?" "That's all." "Gene?" "Do you hear music?" "Listen." "Wait here." "I'll be right back." "I'll go with you." "I'm not afraid of ghosts either." "Gene..." "That proves it." "Somebody's prowling around this town." "And it's not Big Tim Hanlon's ghost." "Gene." "He wants us to come in here." "It's a table set for two." "It's for us." "It's crazy." "It doesn't make sense." "He knew we'd be hungry." "He got dinner ready." "There's an old prospector up at the rim of the canyon just beyond here." "His name's Loco John." "He arranged this." "There you are." "All the horses you want." "Take your pick." "I'll still take the one with the saddle." "Unless you want to ride bareback." "Saddle all you want?" "I'll take the horse, too, if he's got sense enough to stop." "I'd like to get this straight, Ruth." "You say you've talked to the ghost of Big Tim Hanlon?" "Several times." "When was the first time?" "It was my very first visit to the ghost town." "Of course, I'd read history of Mourner's Flats, and about the Bonanza King." "His life and the background of this town fascinated me." "As soon as I got the job teaching school in Canyon Junction, I rode out here." "It was just like in the book." "Just as I had imagined." "Of course, it was all empty of life now." "A forgotten place." "But I could picture it the way it used to be." "I stopped by the old cemetery and there was his grave." "Big Tim Hanlon's grave." "I could see him as he used to be, when he was the Bonanza King." "A big, tall, fine-looking man, very sure of himself." "Boss of the town, and of his own destiny." "It seemed hard to believe that he was dead." "That day, all alone here, I went into the old Bonanza." "It was late afternoon." "I guess I stayed pretty late, living there in the past." "It got dark and I lit an old candle." "I don't know how long I sat there." "I thought at the time I might have dozed off to sleep." "I could see this place like it was, filled with people and music." "Men talking about gold and silver." "About big strikes and grub stakes." "BIG TIM HANLON:" "Don't be afraid, young lady." "Who is it?" "BIG TIM HANLON:" "I'm Big Tim Hanlon, the man who once owned this town." "You're welcome here." "I'm glad you came." "RUTH LAMBERT:" "I knew I hadn't been dreaming." "I had heard a voice." "A pleasant voice, speaking to me from somewhere in the shadows." "I didn't hear the voice again." "That's all he said." "The first time, I mean." "But you have heard it since?" "Often." "I've been coming out here every Saturday." "And in the evening, he talks to me from the shadows." "What about?" "He knew I was lonely." "He wanted to help me." "GENE AUTRY:" "Did he?" "I think he has already." "I told him about seeing a man in Canyon Junction, a stranger." "And about falling in love with him." "But this man, this stranger, was in love with someone else." "But we didn't always talk about me." "I'm not that selfish." "He told me quite a bit about himself." "But you never actually saw him." "I don't know, Gene." "I don't know." "LOCO JOHN:" "Mr. Hanlon." "Mr. Hanlon." "Big Tim." "That's no ghost." "Sounded like it came from the street." "LOCO JOHN:" "Mr. Hanlon." "Who are you?" "Gene Autry of the Flying A. And this is Miss Lambert, from the Junction." "Yeah." "I know you, Gene." "I know you, too." "School teacher." "He, he." "About time you were starting to go home." "We have no horses." "Yeah, I know." "I know who stole them, too." "Least ways, I know who stole your horse, Gene." "I was Jake Fargo." "He's busted himself out of jail." "You must be mistaken, John." "You probably saw a horse that looked like Champ." "He, heh, heh, heh, heh." "Eh, you mean to say I wouldn't know Champ when I saw him?" "Listen, son, I knew Champ when he was just a wee little colt." "And I knew his sire before him." "And I knew the horse that sired his sire before him." "Well, heh, heh, I've got to set myself down and rest a might." "Oh, my feet hurt." "Which was was Fargo heading with Champ?" "Heh, heh... he wasn't headed nowhere with Champ." "He was heading after him." "Champ broke loose out to my camp." "Then he'll go back home." "Yeah, he would, unless Fargo shot him." "You know why I wouldn't put nothing past that critter?" "He'd shoot a horse just as quick as he'd shoot a man." "I read about Jake Fargo in my book." "He robbed a stagecoach 20 years ago." "It was a gold shipment from the Lost Widow mine." "Tim Hanlon's mine." "It was a shipment of the silver dollars." "From Big Tim's Bonanza." "Yeah, Gene is right, Miss." "He was just a little shaver in them days, but his pa was Marshall." "And Steve took right out after them fellers." "He got the money back." "Ha, ha." "Same day." "No, no, you're wrong, John." "As I remember it, my dad never did get Big Tim's money back." "It was about $30,000." "In those days, the stage line ran right along the rim of the canyon, between here and the junction." "Every Monday morning, they carried the weekend profits from Hanlon's Bonanza to the stage bank." "They carried it in an old gunny sack kicked under the driver's seat." "Three men found out about the old gunny sack." "Jake Fargo, Charlie Lewis and Cash Collins." "All right, hand it over." "Not the mail bag, the gunny sack." "That afternoon, my dad was talking to Big Tim about the holdup when Fargo walked in." "Collins and Lewis were with him." "They didn't know the driver had lived to identify him until my dad drew his gun." "Fargo and his men shot their way out of town and headed back to the rim of the canyon." "My dad had a posse organized and took out after them." "Dad was riding a horse called Wonder." "Looks a lot like my horse Champ." "He ought to." "Wonder was Champ's granddad." "With my dad on Wonder, that was a hard riding combination." "Fargo and his men found that out." "I'll buy everybody a new hat if they're not headed for Mourner's Bend." "I'm taking the drop." "If you guys are too chicken, you can try and outrun the posse." "[GUNSHOTS]" "Ho." "This is where we split up." "Emerson, take half the boys and check the south bank." "The rest of you check the north." "Which way do you think Fargo's headed?" "Well, he can't go north and he can't go south." "There's only one place he can go." "Warners Rocks." "Which way are you going, Steve?" "I'll stay here and see they don't double back." "JAKE FARGO:" "All right." "Get dried out as fast as you can." "We don't want to spend any more time than we have to." "CASH COLLINS: [INAUDIBLE] getaway, Jake." "You picked a fine time to go swimming." "JAKE FARGO:" "Now we'll just sit by the fire and get dried out." "Once you get through looking at your rifle, take a look at mine, will you?" "CASH COLLINS:" "Sure, Jake, sure." "There's something up there." "Take it easy." "Like this." "It's only a little shale." "Gopher, maybe." "Take it easy." "That's right." "Take it easy." "Drop your guns." "You too, Collins." "I'll get you, Steve." "Next time." "Next time, maybe." "Not this time." "10 years." "15." "It won't make any difference." "30 years or 40 years." "We're going to be a couple of old men, Jake." "That's the way it went, John." "When my dad made the arrest, they'd already ditched the $30,000, and wouldn't talk." "So Big Tim Hanlon never did get his money back." "Say, by the way, ah, speaking of Hanlon, when you walked into town a while ago, you called his name." "Why?" "You must have been hearing things." "Where'd Ruth go?" "I don't know." "Ruth?" "Hey Ruth." "Ruth." "Ruth." "John." "John." "Ruth." "John." "Ruth." "Here I am, Gene." "You haven't said a word to me." "Are you fascinated or just amazed?" "I'm speechless." "Where'd you get that outfit?" "From Big Tim Hanlon." "I saw him, Gene." "Where?" "Right up there on the balcony." "I came back from the street, looked up and saw him standing there." "He spoke to me." "Was he real?" "Very real." "He told me about a room upstairs." "A secret closest with an old turnkey." "This dress was in the truck." "It belonged to a woman Tim Hanlon once loved." "An actress named Belle Travers." "He gave her this dress a quarter of a century ago." "And now he's given it to you." "He said, if I wore it tonight, I'd have more appeal to a man." "So the ghost wants you to have appeal for him." "He didn't mean it for himself." "Well, where is he?" "What happened to him?" "He just disappeared." "I walked up the stairs." "He vanished." "He said we should go on with dinner." "He said you and I..." "He said you and I what?" "He said you and I might still be hungry." "I am." "He left a phonograph record on the table." "He said you might put it on and sing it." "He said an awful lot to be a ghost." "He said you sing very well." "How does he know I can sing?" "Why this record was only made a few years ago." "Hanlon's been dead 20." "Should we question it?" "No, we shouldn't question the ghost." "And we shouldn't disappoint him." "You and your ghost." "[SINGING]" "[HORSE WHINNY]" "It's Champ." "Put out the candles." "CHARLIE LEWIS:" "Drop it, cowboy." "Jake, come in." "JAKE FARGO:" "Get the dame." "Who else is there beside you and the dame?" "Nobody unless it's a ghost." "Wise guy, huh." "What are you doing here in a ghost town?" "Having dinner with a lady." "He ain't so dumb." "All right, start talking." "Hey, who are you?" "The fella you stole that horse from." "Well, how do you like that." "A slap happy old prospector told us about you." "You're old Steve Autry's son." "I got a score to settle with Steve." "Sure wish he was here now." "He'd like to be here, I assure you that." "Maybe you'd like to try to fill his shoes." "Maybe I can settle my score with you later." "All right." "Keep them both here." "I'll be back soon as I pick up our jackpot." "How do you know he won't run out?" "You trust him?" "Trust him?" "With what?" "$30,000." "That's the loot Fargo got from that stagecoach 20 years ago." "It was never found." "That's what you came back for, isn't it?" "Suppose he might?" "I don't think so." "Everything all right?" "It is now." "What's the matter?" "It's gone." "Cash Collins died in stir." "Who else know about it?" "Nobody." "Unless..." "Did you get it?" "Some thieving son cleaned us out." "And I think I know whose son it was." "You didn't come here for dinner with no dame." "You came here for that dough." "Where is it, cowboy?" "JAKE FARGO:" "Who threw it?" "You were looking straight at us." "One of the same pouches, all right." "Silver's all dated 20 years ago." "It's from the coach, all right." "There's just one thing." "We're about 30,000 cartwheels short." "Where is it?" "I don't know." "Ask the ghost." "I'll ask the guy who threw it." "Where is he?" "How do I know?" "Who is he?" "Big Tim Hanlon." "Lady, don't kid me." "Tim Hanlon's dead." "He died after the Lost Widow mine was flooded while he was bringing some pumps to pump it dry." "We heard about it in stir." "Listen, the guy who threw that bag can also throw slugs." "I don't like the idea of just standing around waiting to be potted." "All right." "You and Charlie take a look around." "Wait a minute." "Why do it the hard way?" "Maybe we can have some help from the little lady." "Just a minute." "Take your hands off of her." "The spot you're in, cowboy, you better keep out of this." "Let him talk if he wants to." "You know, Autry, the more I look at you, the more I see your old man." "I'll hold your guns." "Do a thorough job of it." "It'll be a pleasure." "It's up to you, cowboy." "We want the rest of that dough and we want to know who threw the bag on the table." "Gene!" "Watch Fargo." "BIG TIM HANLON:" "Fargo." "Hey, Fargo." "Who called me?" "Well, not me, Jake." "Honest." "BIG TIM HANLON:" "It's me, Fargo." "Big Tim Hanlon." "I'm right outside with your $30,000." "Why don't you come and get it?" "It's him." "I'll remember that voice if I love to be 100." "Of course it's him." "BIG TIM HANLON:" "What's the matter, Fargo?" "Afraid of ghosts?" "Ah, come on with me both of you." "Gene." "Look Jake." "There's somebody in the old opera house." "Yeah." "Stay with the horses." "Don't leave them for a second." "Sure, Jake." "Big Tim drew them outside so we can escape." "We've got to hurry, Gene." "BIG TIM HANLON:" "Not there." "This way." "They left a man outside to guard the horses." "Better come this way." "Don't doubt your sanity." "I'm real." "I hope you're real enough to loan me a gun." "If I had a gun, Autry, I'd have stopped that fight long ago in another way." "Old Loco John's across the street in the Bonanza." "He drew them over there to search." "When they finish their search and left, we'd be in the Bonanza." "With a guard out there?" "We don't have to cross the street." "There's a tunnel goes under it." "Right through here." "It's an old mine shaft that I had converted to my own use about 30 years ago." "As the Bonanza King, I had enemies as well as friends." "I couldn't begin to tell you the many reasons I had for using that tunnel." "And I couldn't tell you of a better reason than this one." "Well, come on." "Quick." "Watch your step." "Did you find him?" "I'll bet 10 to one he's been in there all the time." "You got a gun, John?" "No." "They took them off me when they chased me off my claim." "[HORSE WHINNY]" "My rifle's on Champ's saddle." "I got an idea." "I'll go back through that tunnel and into the hotel." "Then I'll sneak around behind that guard." "Oh, forget it, John." "Forget it." "Make him listen to me, Gene." "It's just like that story you told me when your Dad caught Fargo the first time." "I could pull the same trick." "Make that guard look the other way." "Then I'll sneak up and cut Champion lose." "You can call him." "And [INAUDIBLE]." "No, John." "It's my horse and my dad's stunt." "If anybody does it, I will." "But only as the last resort." "Shut up, you." "Quiet down there." "You haven't told us why you're playing ghost." "That's an explanation I really owe to Ruth." "And an apology." "When I first played ghost and talk to you out of the shadows, it was partly for fun." "And partly just to talk to somebody." "The reason I kept it up, well, I was afraid you might not come here again if knew I was a living man playing a game." "You must have enjoyed the game, Mr. Hanlon." "I probably gave you a lot of laughs." "No, no, no, that's not true." "I was lonely." "The only company I ever had was when Loco John came here about once a month to bring me provisions." "John..." "All I want is just one little nip, Mr. Hanlon." "Anything worth nipping was taken out of here long ago." "You still haven't told us why you're..." "Why I'm not dead?" "Why I'm not under that tombstone in the old churchyard?" "The question's not out of order." "I was just a kid at the time." "I went to your funeral." "When my Lost Widow mine was flooded," "I tried to rescue one of my crew." "But I found he was dead." "That gave me an idea." "He was just about my build, his face was disfigured beyond recognition." "So I changed clothes with a dead man, went out through an escape shaft and went to Mexico." "They buried that miner right here in this town under the name of Big Tim Hanlon." "That's the funeral you attended, Gene." "You saw a chance to disappear and did." "Why?" "Business reasons." "I made too much money here in Mourner's Flat." "And I spent too much." "There was a young actress, looked a lot like Ruth." "Not as nice as Ruth." "Her name was Belle Travers." "Ruth's wearing a dress I once got her." "I also got her an apartment house in San Francisco, a stable of race horses, put her in a play on Broadway." "Play failed me, so did the mines around here." "So did Belle." "I came back here a few months ago to look for that $30,000 that Jake Fargo stole from me." "I knew it was hidden here somewhere." "I found it the three days ago." "And you didn't clear out with it?" "No, I hung around waiting for Saturday to say goodbye to Ruth." "You in love with her, Tim?" "I'm too old, Gene, much too old." "Besides, Ruth is in love with you." "Tim!" "When you walked into town, that was a break." "So I set the table for two over at the hotel." "Ah, as Cupid, I was going strong until Jake Fargo came along." "But don't you worry about that." "Between all of us, we can..." "John." "John." "I'll bet that loco old fool went across the street after all." "I wouldn't want to take your bet." "Gene, where are you going?" "Through the tunnel." "If I go out the front, the light will be behind them." "That old man made a crazy play." "Don't try to cover him, Gene." "Stay here with Ruth." "Thanks, John." "Thanks for the trap." "[GUNSHOTS]" "If we lose those horses, we're sunk." "Get!" "Take them home, boy." "Get out of here." "Snag those horses." "I'll stop Autry." "Whoa." "[GUNSHOTS]" "Here, take it easy." "You see him?" "No." "Either he's got our dough or that dame's got it." "How we going to smoke him out?" "I don't know." "You just said how." "Smoke him out." "Keep me covered." "[GUNSHOTS]" "If that don't smoke him out, nothing will." "That wind will carry the fire right down to the stable." "Watch your head." "So far, the fire's all on the other side of the street." "But Gene... where..." "He must be in the stable." "I see gun flashes from the hay loft." "That fire's burning towards the stable, too." "Keep out of sight, Ruth." "I'm going to get us some guns." "Here." "Fire these out of one of those windows." "Make as much noise as you can." "That's coming from the hotel." "Well, it can't be just the dame." "Not doing all that shooting." "Give me some slugs." "I'm putting it out myself." "Then I'm getting out of here." "They've quit." "And your man's gone after them." "Now maybe you'd better go after your man." "I can't." "Somebody stole my horse." "Sure." "I did." "Come on, we'll get it." "Autry." "I've been thinking about this for 20 years, sitting in a cell dreaming about it." "Waiting for 20 years to see old Steve Autry standing up in front of me with his hands like that." "Let's see you take it, Steve." "GENE AUTRY:" "Champ!" "Champ!" "Hey!" "Ho." "Ho." "Easy, Champ." "Yeah." "I guess this is the first time Cupid ever had to play horse thief." "But I did get you and Gene stranded together, didn't I?" "Do you really think he'll be all right?" "Why, of course he will." "That young fella's so much like his father that for a while tonight I almost thought he was Steve Autry." "On your way, woman." "You've got a date with a man." "Are you going to stay here?" "I'm afraid not." "They burned me out." "Don't you worry about me, Ruth." "I'll find another ghost town." "With $30,000, I could even buy one." "Goodbye, my dear." "Good luck." "Goodbye." "Mr. Hanlon... thanks for being such a good ghost." "That's me." "Big Tim Hanlon, the good ghost." "The good ghost." "Are you all right, Gene?" "Fine." "What happened to the other one?" "Did he get away?" "Champ took care of him." "Where'd you find your horse?" "Bog Tim Hanlon." "It was like I said, he took my horse so that we could..." "It's the first time I ever wanted to thank a horse thief." "He went away, Gene, to find another ghost town." "Look what happened to Mourner's Flat." "I wonder if Big Tim really existed." "Anyhow, Canyon Junction still stands." "There's plenty of time to make the dance." "They last until early in the morning." "You mean, you still want to keep your date with Lily Shannon?" "Now who said anything about Lily Shannon?" "But you're all dressed for the occasion." "Yes sir, I'm taking the belle of Mourner's Flats to the dance." "Well, will I... will I have time to fix my hair?" "You will if we don't spend it all standing here talking." "[SINGING]"