The.Last.Command.1955 Movie Subtitles

3 00:01:48,775 --> 00:01:51,570 In the 1830's, that part of the young Mexican, 4 00:01:51,570 --> 00:01:55,157 Republic north of the Rio Grande, an area of more than three 5 00:01:55,157 --> 00:01:59,036 hundred thousand square miles was a province known as Texas. 6 00:01:59,536 --> 00:02:03,498 An almost limitless land. Populated by tribes of native 7 00:02:03,498 --> 00:02:06,418 Indians and a scattering of Mexican citizens. 8 00:02:06,793 --> 00:02:11,048 From the north and east had come others. Settlers who took up lands 9 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:14,468 granted them by the Mexican government in an effort to speed 10 00:02:14,509 --> 00:02:18,472 the development of the new territory. But like to all new 11 00:02:18,472 --> 00:02:22,059 people in a new raw land, problems arose. 12 00:03:58,697 --> 00:04:00,991 It ain't been done in any such fashion. 13 00:04:01,116 --> 00:04:02,784 It's foolishness, I tell you. 14 00:04:03,034 --> 00:04:05,829 And you're fools if you think you can take the law into your own hands. 15 00:04:05,871 --> 00:04:09,166 If you're scared say so, but don't call us fools. 16 00:04:10,751 --> 00:04:12,753 Let's wait till we know what we're doing. 17 00:04:13,003 --> 00:04:14,045 Let's have reason. 18 00:04:14,087 --> 00:04:15,922 We've g***t our rights guaranteed to us. 19 00:04:16,006 --> 00:04:19,217 By who? By that double crossing Mexican President Santa Anna? 20 00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:20,969 I'm getting mighty sick a losing 21 00:04:20,969 --> 00:04:22,763 neighbors in the dead of night and the next thing you know 22 00:04:22,763 --> 00:04:25,140 they're stuck in some stinking Mexican jail. 23 00:04:25,849 --> 00:04:29,186 Better lower our voices. Mexicans have listeners all around us. 24 00:04:40,322 --> 00:04:42,616 They've arrested Mr. Travis. Took him over to the Military commander's place. 25 00:04:42,616 --> 00:04:43,825 Seven cavalry men. 26 00:04:43,867 --> 00:04:45,994 You see. I've been telling you. 27 00:04:46,286 --> 00:04:46,870 You're fools! 28 00:04:46,870 --> 00:04:49,539 I told you not to call us fools anymore. 29 00:04:49,706 --> 00:04:50,707 Let's show him. 30 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:53,460 Like you to let him be for a moment. 31 00:04:53,835 --> 00:04:54,836 Seems to me, 32 00:04:55,253 --> 00:04:57,339 a man has a right to say what he thinks. 33 00:04:58,590 --> 00:04:59,591 I'd like to hear more. 34 00:05:00,008 --> 00:05:01,009 Who are you? 35 00:05:01,676 --> 00:05:03,386 - Like to hear more who you are. - I'm Jim Bowie. 36 00:05:09,434 --> 00:05:10,435 Thank you Sir. 37 00:05:11,728 --> 00:05:14,731 If a man makes a living selling perfectly legitimate merchandise, 38 00:05:15,273 --> 00:05:16,274 they think he's a traitor. 39 00:05:17,317 --> 00:05:18,401 Won't listen to sense. 40 00:05:19,486 --> 00:05:22,113 I'm a businessman, therefore suspect. 41 00:05:22,489 --> 00:05:23,490 Of what? 42 00:05:25,158 --> 00:05:26,243 I'll say good day. 43 00:05:27,369 --> 00:05:28,370 Thank you again. 44 00:05:36,294 --> 00:05:37,796 So we'll see. 45 00:05:39,881 --> 00:05:42,509 Mr. Bowie, I'm Jeb Lacey. 46 00:05:43,051 --> 00:05:44,052 How are you? 47 00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:47,222 I'd like to say it's a pleasure to meet you, Sir. 48 00:05:47,973 --> 00:05:48,974 It is, huh? 49 00:05:50,976 --> 00:05:52,894 Perhaps I can tell you anything you like to know. 50 00:05:54,437 --> 00:05:55,438 All right tell me. 51 00:05:56,565 --> 00:05:57,566 What Sir? 52 00:05:59,067 --> 00:06:02,237 Well what's going on? Why there's nobody on the street? 53 00:06:02,445 --> 00:06:04,948 The place is locked up tight, everybody in here of one mind. 54 00:06:05,448 --> 00:06:07,993 Well, I don't understand everything it's about, Sir, 55 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:10,245 Our people need a better deal from the Mexicans. 56 00:06:10,579 --> 00:06:12,747 They've been treating us like we have no rights at all. 57 00:06:13,081 --> 00:06:15,709 Mr. William Travis, he's a lawyer from South Carolina. 58 00:06:15,750 --> 00:06:17,127 Real bright, knows the law good. 59 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:19,588 Well, Mr. Travis has been kind of our spokesman. 60 00:06:20,255 --> 00:06:23,049 I guess he talked too loud because the military commander arrested him. 61 00:06:23,842 --> 00:06:25,302 Juan Bradburn, that'd be. 62 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:26,761 You know him? 63 00:06:27,304 --> 00:06:28,305 Sort of. 64 00:06:29,848 --> 00:06:34,603 Without knowing much more about it I'm inclined to be on lawyer Travis' side. 65 00:06:43,194 --> 00:06:44,195 Watch that. 66 00:06:54,831 --> 00:06:56,041 Just keep walking. 67 00:06:56,458 --> 00:06:57,167 But Señor. 68 00:06:57,208 --> 00:06:58,710 I know exactly where you're going. 69 00:06:59,044 --> 00:07:01,296 You'll be pleased to know I'm going right along with you. 70 00:07:08,845 --> 00:07:09,888 Que pasa? 71 00:07:12,098 --> 00:07:13,099 Señor Bowie. 72 00:07:14,893 --> 00:07:15,894 Jim Bowie. 73 00:07:16,895 --> 00:07:18,271 What are you doing here? 74 00:07:18,355 --> 00:07:19,981 I came to do you a favor, Colonel. 75 00:07:20,190 --> 00:07:21,775 Brought you a little present, too. 76 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:24,861 He's not very pretty, and he doesn't smell too good, but... 77 00:07:25,070 --> 00:07:26,529 he's yours, all yours. 78 00:07:26,571 --> 00:07:29,616 What do I want with him, a man I never saw in my life before. 79 00:07:30,617 --> 00:07:33,244 Juan, I've known you for a long time. 80 00:07:33,620 --> 00:07:36,164 Long before you were a big important military governor. 81 00:07:36,456 --> 00:07:38,333 And I know how you operate. 82 00:07:38,917 --> 00:07:41,002 I do not operate was stupid idiots. 83 00:07:41,419 --> 00:07:43,463 Who are so obvious, they get themselves in trouble. 84 00:07:44,422 --> 00:07:46,466 Seems to me you're in a little trouble yourself. 85 00:07:47,258 --> 00:07:48,259 Me? 86 00:07:48,301 --> 00:07:51,638 How would you like it if Santa Anna heard that you couldn't manage your own problems? 87 00:07:51,846 --> 00:07:53,640 The Texans were getting hot under the collar because 88 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,183 you've been playing too rough with them. 89 00:07:55,392 --> 00:07:57,435 That you planted spies all around them. 90 00:07:57,435 --> 00:07:59,437 That you made a mistake that a child wouldn't make. 91 00:07:59,646 --> 00:08:03,692 Arresting that lawyer Travis, sending him to Mexico City tomorrow. 92 00:08:03,817 --> 00:08:07,862 He's a revolutionary, a traitor, a big talker who stirred up the people. 93 00:08:08,738 --> 00:08:10,657 President Santa Anna would be pleased. 94 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:13,368 Not when he hears it the way I'll tell him. 95 00:08:17,414 --> 00:08:19,416 What is it you can suggest I do? 96 00:08:20,667 --> 00:08:24,838 - I'll give you back your agent, - I do not want that bumbling Jackass. 97 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:26,256 I'll give you back your agent. 98 00:08:26,589 --> 00:08:28,800 If you don't take him, I'll turn him over to the Texans. 99 00:08:29,134 --> 00:08:30,844 And that wouldn't be good for you, Colonel. 100 00:08:31,928 --> 00:08:33,596 In return what must I give to you? 101 00:08:36,933 --> 00:08:37,934 Travis. 102 00:08:55,618 --> 00:08:57,120 And that is why I thank you for coming. 103 00:08:58,705 --> 00:09:01,499 Whatever else we determine here tonight the first order for 104 00:09:01,499 --> 00:09:04,252 decision is how we shall inhibit Juan Bradburn, 105 00:09:04,669 --> 00:09:06,129 from sending William Travis to the... 106 00:09:06,171 --> 00:09:07,797 That won't be necessary. 107 00:09:10,258 --> 00:09:12,052 I've brought my rescuer with me. 108 00:09:12,093 --> 00:09:14,387 Señor Travis, what a pleasure to see you free again. 109 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:15,680 Señor Bowie. 110 00:09:16,056 --> 00:09:17,474 I did not know you were in Anawack. 111 00:09:17,474 --> 00:09:19,100 Glad to see you Señor de Quesada. 112 00:09:19,225 --> 00:09:21,519 What is this Señor Travis says about his rescue? 113 00:09:21,519 --> 00:09:23,354 I still don't know what happened. 114 00:09:23,396 --> 00:09:26,232 Bradburn came to me with Jim Bowie, and said a mistake had been made. 115 00:09:26,357 --> 00:09:27,859 Oh, Juan Bradburn. 116 00:09:28,151 --> 00:09:29,611 He's a very impetuous man. 117 00:09:29,652 --> 00:09:31,404 I kinda told him that myself. 118 00:09:31,529 --> 00:09:32,530 Hello, Jim. 119 00:09:33,281 --> 00:09:35,784 Gentlemen, an old friend, James Bowie. 120 00:09:36,242 --> 00:09:38,536 One of our biggest landowners and a friend of all Texans. 121 00:09:40,163 --> 00:09:41,998 Señor Radin. 122 00:09:44,084 --> 00:09:46,753 I ah, I know most of these men I don't wanna interfere. 123 00:09:47,045 --> 00:09:48,254 I'll just take a seat if I may. 124 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:49,798 Gentlemen, please. 125 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:54,177 To those of you who do not know me well, 126 00:09:56,262 --> 00:09:59,099 and who may wonder why I have thrown in my lot with you colonists. 127 00:09:59,974 --> 00:10:02,227 I would like to say that I have received reports, 128 00:10:03,061 --> 00:10:05,063 deeply troubling reports from my people 129 00:10:06,147 --> 00:10:07,440 my relatives in Mexico. 130 00:10:09,192 --> 00:10:11,903 But the president General Santa Anna is moving quickly 131 00:10:11,903 --> 00:10:13,196 towards despotic powers 132 00:10:14,739 --> 00:10:18,743 and we, my people do not wish to return to any form of despotism. 133 00:10:19,911 --> 00:10:22,997 Either here in Texas or in any other part of Mexico. 134 00:10:23,665 --> 00:10:24,791 Now Señor Travis. 135 00:10:28,461 --> 00:10:29,462 Gentleman. 136 00:10:31,047 --> 00:10:34,801 Four months ago this group sent to Mexico City our good friend. 137 00:10:34,801 --> 00:10:38,972 Mr. Stephen Austin. with a petition stating our requests 138 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:40,932 for certain governmental reforms....