Millions of Americans tuned in to watch Bonanza, one of NBC’s Western television shows, from 1959 to 1973. Ward Hawkins wrote The Infernal Machine, which debuted on television on April 22, 1961. Additionally, Republic Studios stalwart William Witney directed the episode.

Hoss Cartwright’s friend Daniel Pettibone (Eddie Ryder) invented a horseless carriage called “The Infernal Machine.” When Hoss tries to get funding for Dan’s invention, everyone except a city slicker named Throckmorton (Willard Waterman) turns him down. The townspeople began to follow suit after hearing the slick stranger investing money in the carriage. However, in the end, Throckmorton flees town with the cash, leaving Hoss and Daniel holding the bag.

June Kenney plays Robin, and Nora Hayden plays Big Red.

Read The Infernal Machine‘s plot, including some interesting trivia, or watch the full episode below.

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Main Cast

The Infernal Machine, the second season’s twenty-ninth episode, features the following cast members:

• Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright
• Pernell Roberts as Adam Cartwright (credit only)
• Dan Blocker as Eric ‘Hoss’ Cartwright
• Michael Landon as Joseph ‘Little Joe’ Cartwright
• Eddie Ryder as Daniel Pettibone
• June Kenney as Robin Pettibone
• Nora Hayden as Big Red
• George Kennedy as Peter Long
• Willard Waterman as Cyrus K. Throckmorton
• Vaughn Taylor as Horace Ogleby
• Ken Mayer as Jeb
• Shug Fisher as Jeff
• Rickey Kelman as 1st Boy
• Richard Correll as 2nd Boy
• Fred Aldrich as Townsman (uncredited)
• John Barton as Townsman (uncredited)
• Danny Borzage as Townsman (uncredited)
• Chet Brandenburg as Townsman (uncredited)
• John Breen as Townsman (uncredited)
• Stewart East as Townsman (uncredited)
• Betty Endicott as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
• Fred Fisher as Townsman (uncredited)
• Joe Garcio as Townsman (uncredited)
• Jack Gordon as Townsman (uncredited)
• Herman Hack as Townsman (uncredited)
• Chuck Hamilton as Townsman (uncredited)
• Michael Jeffers as Townsman (uncredited)
• Ethan Laidlaw as Townsman (uncredited)
• Martha Manor as Saloon Girl (uncredited)
• Maurice Marks as Townsman (uncredited)
• John Rice as Townsman (uncredited)
• Cosmo Sardo as Bartender (uncredited)
• Ray Spiker as Townsman (uncredited)
• Chalky Williams as Townsman (uncredited)

Full Story Line for The Infernal Machine

Hoss returns to the Ponderosa with a machine, along with his new-found friend, Daniel Pettibone, and his wife, Robin. Hoss introduces Dan as an inventor, presenting one of his inventions: a mini-horseless carriage.

Robin speaks for his husband, who has trouble talking to strangers because of his profession and inventions. She explains that the carriage moves through an internal combustion engine, a principle her husband improved for modern use. Joe thinks it’s too little, so Hoss tells him it’s a model for something big enough for people to ride.

Hoss assists his “partners” in their room. Once he returns to the living room, Ben and Joe doubt Hoss’s choices. Ben thinks the wagon is impractical as it cannot go for long travels or haul freight. However, Hoss insists on believing in the wagon’s usefulness. Still, Ben and Joe couldn’t have faith in the invention. Regardless, Hoss is determined to go to Virginia City with Daniel to seek funding to build a full-size horseless carriage. Before he leaves, Ben invests $100 while Joe puts in $50. Hoss hesitates to accept, but Ben explains they have faith in Hoss.

Hoss and Dan demonstrate the model of the horseless wagon to the people in Virginia City. Most people were skeptical, especially since Dan couldn’t talk for himself. However, a mysterious man suddenly invested $1000 in the Pettibone Power Wagon Company, introducing himself as Cyrus K. Throckmorton and his associate, Mr. Peter Long. He is a broker and investment counselor known in New York, London, and Paris. Throckmorton arrived in Virginia City to invest funds for Eastern capital. Apart from investing, he offers a guiding hand to Hoss and Dan after learning Dan doesn’t have any financial manager. His smooth talking impressed Hoss and Dan, who excitedly took his offer.

Throckmorton invites Big Red, a saloon girl, into their hotel room to offer her a job as a private secretary, which she immediately accepts.

With Throckmorton’s smooth sales talk, the locals begin to invest their shares. Meanwhile, Red and Pete announce they’re getting married.

As Dan, Robin, and Hoss take a picture with the wagon, Red enters, looking for his soon-to-be-groom, who’s missing. Red found Pete and Throckmorton gone from their room with their stuff, including the money the locals invested for Dan’s invention.

The sheriff organized a posse to look for Pete and Throckmorton all over the country. Meanwhile, Hoss tells Dan he has to be in jail in the meantime to protect himself from the angered townspeople.

Red received a letter from Pete, asking her to sneak out of town and meet him close to Burton Falls at old Perkins place. Hoss allowed her to join him as he pursued the two, only if she dropped the rifle she was holding.

Hoss and Red arrive at the place where Pete and Throckmorton are staying. Throckmorton throws the dough he kneads to stop Hoss from firing his gun. Hoss still managed to shoot, spreading flour all over the place. Hoss and Pete fight, while Red and Throckmorton fight for the money’s briefcase. The stone lids exploding stopped their scuffle for a moment, but they continued right after.

Although holding a gun, Throckmorton failed to shoot his friend. Hoss couldn’t understand how Throckmorton chose to steal the money instead of staying with the Pettibone Power Wagon Company. All Throckmorton can say is that he’s dishonest.

Red and Hoss return to the town pub with the money they stole. They expected the townspeople to be happy, but everyone was downhearted. Oglesby tells Hoss that the pressure from the town may have caused Dan’s heart to fail, causing his death. Hoss believes Dan didn’t die of fright. Still, it was sad news for everybody. The people in town who invested in the company chose to give the money to Robin. On the other hand, Throckmorton encourages Pete to continue the marriage, delighting both Pete and Red.

Full Script and Dialogue of The Infernal Machine

[Music]
that sounds like
us wanting a wagon you left on a horse
you know my brother you can leave on a
horse and come on a boat
yeah it's him all right he's got company
with him
oh lady company well someone we know
there's a fella with him and uh
and uh what yo wow come on
hey meet some friends of mine this is
daniel pettibone his wife robbie
oh i i i don't believe i've heard haas
mentioned the name daniel
pettibone before hey i just met him
today myself well they found him
stranded up by jackson ridge
oh well jackson's reach is a our place
from anywhere
yeah well we were trying to reach
virginia city and uh
when we got up there and there was no
road or anything so uh
oh well you you must be very tired of
the police
yeah wait a minute before you do
anything else something i want to show
you come here dad show him come on
dad here's an inventor paul well you see
this it'll just about pop your head off
we're gonna water quickly
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fight
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what do you think paul you ever seen the
beat of that no sir i never did
it wasn't what makes it go
my husband doesn't mean to be rude he
has trouble talking to strangers
especially about his work he's been
laughed at so much
yeah you have no trouble talking to me
he like talked my arm off
well you're the exception you're very
likable and very easy to know
i'll try to answer your question the
thing that makes it go is an internal
combustion engine
and then he invented that huh oh not
exactly
the principle of an internal combustion
engine's been known a long time
a man named samuel brown sold and built
it a of one in england 30 years ago
like this nothing like this my husband's
invented many improvements
things far advanced even for modern
times
this fuel for example it's a
distillation of scottish shell
an electric spark ignites this
uh this fuel and much much else besides
you understand all right
oh you don't have to understand it to
see it's the biggest thing that ever
happened
it was kind of little to me oh joe it's
a model
ferment you you make a bigger and how
big
oh you know about big enough to sit in
sit in sure that burns you got to sit in
it before you can ride in it
what do you mean riding it yeah bernie
joe that's what it's all about
this thing's a self-powered wagon you
sit in it and you ride it
you don't even have to have horses for
it look i'll explain it all to you later
oh don't let it been feeling too good
well i'm gonna put him and his wife up
in that spare bedroom
come on robin you know
man's got to take care of his partners
us sir
did you say partners yeah
that's what i said paul partners
good night sir and thank you
here we go again
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uh
doggone paul i want to get something
straight once and for
step right up neighbor come on
what you see before your bulging
eyeballs are a collection of mechanical
miracles
designed to make a poor man rich and a
rich man richer hold on just one moment
a little
don't forget that you have bought in
your time some of these mechanical
miracles too
huh did i ever buy anything like this
that's a perpetual motion machine
[Music]
how about this look at this goodie
that is a magic box
now you see open it up and you put a
little lead inside a little
magic powder you cook it
and silver comes out the bottom
you didn't think this this gold witcher
was such a bad idea when i bought it
yeah you can't deny that little joe i
can remember your very words finding
gold with that would be as easy as
falling into a web all right
all right so i made a mistake once
but did i ever in my entire life
buy anything like this
it was supposed to shoot around corners
it
don't work no better than the rest of
that junk i bought it all i know that
but what's that supposed to prove
joe down his wife up there they're
they're honest folk they ain't crooks
that
that that power wagon is a real thing ah
sauce i go along with you about those
folks upstairs
i believe they're honest too but
is this thing practical practical
anything you write in practical in it
you build a full-size room and you could
go almost any place
come on all right you build a full-size
one of those and i'll find myself any
tired
worn-out old nag and i'll beat you to
virginia city by a day and a half
maybe you cut down but but well you're
taking you
you get some good roads and roads can
you rope a steer with that thing
no can you hit six of these together and
then haul freight
all right oh what are you going to do
with it oh dad gummy i'm all mixed up
now this afternoon when i sat up there
on the tailgate of old donald's wagon it
it was as clear to me as a nose on my
face
and you can't see it now hmm yeah paul i
can see it but i can't explain it to you
you
you want facts and figures and
everything proved out ahead of time you
just can't always prove things out ahead
of time sometimes you you got to just
have faith
and you go ahead and do something then
when you get it done you point to it and
say now there
that's what i mean i can't have faith in
a silly looking thing like that
i i couldn't either well that's up to
you
tell you how much faith i got in it go
to virginia city with donald
i'm gonna help him get money together
we're gonna build a full size one
you don't have to do a doggone thing you
don't have to put one
drop of sweat in it or one thin dime
i'll put 100 in it
i'll put 50 in it
if you ain't got no faith in it we have
faith in you
and if you believe so much in this
contraption
maybe there is something to it we'll
back you all the way
with money muscle or guns
[Music]
you are now witnessing the first
public demonstration of the
the penny bomb power wagon uh
we are prepared to offer you a share in
this
i always wait later later i kind of got
ahead of myself for a minute something
else i'm supposed to say first
ah mr pettibone here and me we're gonna
construct
a prototype here in virginia city
later we will manufacture full-sized
power wagons
for sale wait that that comes in oh yeah
uh
uh shares in the petty bomb power wagon
company are
for sale at ten dollars a share
well now that's my kind of contraction
knows right where it's gone
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clear back you better give him room i
think he's going to be coming out of
here
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four to half shares of that petty bone
power wagon i've been trying to get rid
of him for two days
hey for her that gun it big red that's
mighty sweet of you and you're not gonna
be sorry neither are you here
folks i ain't much at making speeches
but if you'll all step in there at the
bar i'll stand to drinks
[Applause]
oh no we ain't that blasted well dog on
it jeff you seen it come in here of its
own
ain't no better use for that gold same
is throwing it away would you throw it
away on booze
booze that's what i dug it for why
all right boys all right all right let's
bring it up we're gonna
outside you go i'll stomp a mud hole in
your way to drive
[Laughter]
how are you doing i'm fine you think you
better stop them before somebody gets
hurt hurt them dude
paddle there will hides as tough as an
alligator they do that every day you get
to keep limber
look here you go over here and sit down
take it easy
you just sit right here i'll take care
of that in here
what about it mr ogilvie you'll buy in
no sir
i'm not putting any of my money in a
contraption like that what do you mean
contraption what's wrong with it
it's a slick trick suckabay
i don't trust that man a man over there
you don't trust happens to be a very
good friend of mine mr ovalby
you can't scare me horse cart right
we've all known you long enough to know
you're honest
how long you know him long enough to
know he's as honest as i am
and i heap smarter he can do more things
by monday noon and you can in a week
if he's a smart why can't he do his own
talking well
i work with all him brains that's about
all he can handle besides he's got a big
dumb partner to do his talking fart
well this contraption can do all you
claim
why'd you come to virginia city you
could finance it a lot quicker in san
francisco
i'll tell you why he came to virginia
city the doctors made him leave san
francisco that's why
he ain't well he's got pains here in his
chest and it hurts him worse when
somebody's crowding
anything else just one thing there's a
man who's been selling the good folks of
virginia city merchandise of all kinds
for over 15 years
i say any man who invests good money in
this infernal machine is a fool
them sir you must name me a fool
for herewith i pledge one thousand
dollars to the petty born power wagon
company
i'll be sodding half of the blackberry
vine well
mr rich i'm uh cyrus k
throckmorton my dear and uh that is my
associate mr peter long
howdy folks never heard of you
which is not surprising i only arrived
in your fair city yesterday
i am a broker and investment counselor
known in the financial centers of new
york london
and paris here to invest funds for
eastern capital
and now sir if you would introduce me to
this
genius who invented this mechanical
marvel
yes sir this this here is daniel
pettibone truly a great honor sir a man
of your capabilities is rare indeed
i'd like also to meet your business
manager
uh well uh they ain't nobody but just me
and daniel here i sort of figured on
learning the business the end of the
week
well and understandable errors uh what a
grievous one
the financial world is a teeming jungle
to the uninitiated
strewn with many pitfalls
let me think
there is a slight possibility i may be
able to extend a
guiding hand golly
i would deem it a privilege indeed an
honor
to contribute my time and uh not
inconsiderable experience in financial
matters to this enterprise
as a service to the community and now
let us have a closer look at this
machine
that mr oglesby calls an infernal
machine
beautiful little thing isn't it
[Laughter]
like i said we're buying in
like i said we're buying it
[Music]
[Applause]
stand back i'm gonna kill him
[Music]
now let's see what we have here
now that's nice ah blue and gold that
should appeal to the natives
i've never seen nothing so pertinent all
my days
she likes something out in a dream yes
yes my boy beautiful indeed
and i have one for almost any endeavor
you care to name
forest lands gold mine dance hall
i'll bet she ain't no dancehall cause
she wants to be
a lady like that she ain't always got a
choice
yes i think this will do nicely thing of
rare beauty
we should have no difficulty in selling
several thousand of these to the good
people of virginia city
you ain't gonna sell big red none there
to everyone an equal opportunity my boy
however the first order of business is
to have some of these printed up
i should say um 2 000 to begin with
who's that it's me big red oh
just a moment my dear
mr throckmorton
you said you wanted to talk to me come
in my dear come right in
everybody's so happy you're gonna handle
the business end of the petty bone power
wagon company
really i wouldn't have missed it for the
world
misread i
oh you run along now mr long and take
care of the printing
have it printed up just like that run
along my boy
now my dear how would you like to enter
into an association with uh mr long and
myself say as
a private secretary perhaps gee
it's what i'd like to do more than
anything else yes yes
my dear this is going to be the biggest
thing that ever happened to virginia
city
now run along and we'll discuss salary
at our earliest opportunity
out out you hear the printer
now my dear i believe it's safe for you
to leave
thank you
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i can't see anything except a lot of
fire and smoke hey that's horse cart
right over the back seat
yeah i do now and there's jeff and
[ __ ] by the fire
kids must know haas pretty well if you
can recognize him like that
what are they doing in there mr petty
bomb well sonny they're trying to make a
casting
it's the ninth time we've tried well how
do you make a casting
well you take some irons eh and you melt
it
and you pour it into a mold now that
mold is a
shape of something you want to make now
when that iron cools off it hardens you
take away your mold
and what you got left there is the
casting what do they do with it
you make an engine if it comes out right
well i bet your hoss can make it come
out right
i've seen him pick up a whole horse
this is more like picking up an elephant
but what if he can't do it
well he can't do it we just can't build
a power wagon but don't you worry about
it that horse is pretty stubborn
stubborn and capable darling look what i
have
mr throckmorton had the made up isn't it
darling
he's going to give one to everyone who
buy stock in the company
you boys like one of these we sure would
what is it it's a crank
used to crank the pettibone power wagon
you take this part of it
and you put it in the front part of the
engine and you
crank it you turn it and pretty soon the
engine starts
how do you feel darling oh i feel great
just great come on
come on don't overdo not now
not when everything is going so
wonderful
hey
i'm better right before that gasket call
[Music]
okay take her easy we sure don't want to
lose this one
set him down easier
here [ __ ] you get over here
[Music]
watch your step over there
all right boys just just a little bit
now just a little
easy easy easy a little more
buy lower now give a little more
well it seems to have settled a little
better this time huh yeah
at least it didn't rile up that means
anything
uh we're whooped if it don't work this
time we've tried just about everything
come on let's get that up
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[Applause]
[Music]
you just don't know what all this means
to me working for mr throckmorton and mr
long
golly and all these new ideas he has yes
he does things pretty pretty fast
oh don't worry reg you'll do fine well i
don't know
well you know i never worked anywhere
outside of saloon
i mean all of a sudden being a lady
being a lady is a state of mind and i
think you are always a lady
i'm so happy i think i'm gonna cry
oh come on now don't do that this is no
time for tears
miss pettibone i'm just busting i gotta
tell somebody
tell what
pete and i i mean uh pete and me is
really you and mr long
i think that's just wonderful aren't you
just placed to pieces
well i'm more scared than anything
whatever for well i don't know about
getting married
gee for the rest of my life and
everything
if my marriage should end tomorrow i'd
still call it the most precious thing in
all my life
there it's my wedding veil i've always
kept it with me i want you to wear it at
your wedding
let me help you
and now ladies and gentlemen
[Music]
i give you the marvelous penny bone
power wagon
ladies and gentlemen i see doubt in some
of your faces i even see rejection
in some but stay let me breathe a breath
of life
into this vision listen to me
look around you
what do you see some will say only
shacks
i say open your eyes i see tall chimneys
and enormous buildings with huge
furnaces that spout
streams of molten metal where strong men
pour and cast and there
there at the end of the street i see a
many windowed factory
where lathes hum and drills spin where
capital craftsmen
fashion gleaming parts out of raw steel
and there massive and dramatic
there stands the assembly plant
an endless belt moves there past each
man
where in his turn he adds a wheel a seat
a mud guard until finally
the pettibone power wagon rolls from
that line
a finished product shining and
powerful some of you may ask
what do we need with a power wagon and
some may say
no machine will ever take the place of
man's most loyal friend the horse
but i predict that this machine will
travel in excess of 50 miles
not in a day my friends no not in half a
day
but in the short space of one single
hour
you you and you all of you
will have the chance to share in this
glorious future
that you may certainly prosper that you
possibly may even grow rich that
is not important far more important that
you can say to your children's children
i was there i stepped forward
i said i demand
my right to share
i think
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[Applause]
i better get out there and get me some
of these stocks before they're all gone
anytime horizon will be puts a nickel
into anything you bet he's figuring on
getting a dollar back
[Applause]
[Music]
give me two hundred dollars worth you
sure didn't look pretty
i feel pretty dressed up like this
working for mr throckmorton
and guess what hoss what
[Music]
you tell him darling oh well
neither one of you have to say that me
to figure out what you're up to i'll bet
you
dollars to donuts you're figuring on
getting hitched ain't you
and i'll tell you what i'm going to do
for a wedding present i'm going to give
you the first
genuine petty bone power wagon
[Applause]
[Music]
this is the birdie now up here watch up
here
still very quiet
that burn it right where they could be
they're near a half hour late already
it takes a while for the bride to get
dressed toss hoss why don't you sit down
here let me get a picture of you in the
petty bone power wagon so i can have it
i want to take you wrong yeah yeah
is this all right for you sir that's
wonderful you better put a bigger plate
in that camera if you expect to get
us
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well he ain't here either is he pete i
thought he was with you
well he ate he's gone come on what do
you mean golf i mean gone that's what i
mean
he was supposed to come get me but i got
tired waiting so i went up to his room
and you know what i found my pet in that
rock morton had packed up and pulled
out and they took all that money with
them
come on
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well how'd he miss petable i'm sorry to
bother but i need to talk to donald is
he
heard enough to talk of course come in
hans
hi darryl hi haas
robin here is the original model of the
fuss budget
any news i missed the throttle morton
definitely no use in us
fooling ourselves that old scoundrel and
pete do they
they took that money they had no
intentions of bringing it back
the sheriff trying to find him oh yeah
yeah
sheriff and everybody else in town they
got apostates been all over the country
daniel you uh you ever been in jail
no i never been in jail
it ain't really so bad when you got good
grub and
sheriff coffee's got the best grub in
town
am i going to jail but why horace
ogilvie's got
half the town stirred up over that that
money it's gone
roy coffee thought it might be a good
idea if
donald came down and sat a spell in the
jailhouse
just as a guest you understand not not
as a prisoner you can lock the door from
inside and keep the key yourself
i'm ready let's uh let's go
i'll be back
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look at that eight times
eight times that casting came out and
busted
wouldn't you know it this time it's as
solid as a dog
that means we could have finished
building this whole rig
daniel said there were nothing tougher
than making that their casting
and you ought to go out and try to raise
some more money that would be tougher
yeah i guess you're right stand in jail
and no money
boss you figure you can finish building
this hit contraption ah no
[ __ ] i didn't even know what was doing
when donald's here telling us how
maybe we ought to get drunk drunk
drunk i'd get up a lynch party and hang
horse ogles be higher than
a hawk's nest oh if you got no call to
work up everybody again down
dad never took his money yeah it will
always be in the pocketbook and showing
off hurts him
yeah damn big red
i'm your friend big red you ain't got no
call to point that gun at me
i pointed at you i just want you to come
with me
or two to burton falls and when we get
there i'm gonna shoot a hole right
through mr pete long
pete is that where pete's at right near
there
i got this letter from him him and
throckmorton are hiding out close to
burton falls just waiting for the law to
quit looking for him
he wants me to sneak out of town and
meet him up there me
he thinks i'm a crook too why the dirty
skunk
i may be a floozy but i'm an honest
floozy you're a dog going right you are
they're staying at the old perkins place
dab burn it no wonder we missed them
who'd have figured they'd have gone the
grounds are close by we kept riding
right on by them
old thoughts more than smart as a fox
yeah but his partner ain't
old pete couldn't take a lick to begin
with and then after he fell in love with
big red here he just went plum simple
no offense big red don't make no
difference
i'm gonna shoot a hole right through him
anyway no now big red i i don't know
nothing about that but
if you can ride a horse you're welcome
come along with me but this gun's got to
stay
let's go come on
[Music]
i don't blame you for covering up this
that blame
casting [ __ ] it ain't no good to us
now i ain't covering that i'm
uncovering this hey i put that in there
for an emergency
when that big redhead come in here
without their shotgun
that makes this an emergency
all right
you know what this is tar
these are feathers tyrant feathers for
you you're thieving swindler
we'll paint you if we have to wait a
year
here's something else for you something
the stockholders wanted us to give back
to you
yeah it's too soon
it's too soon then i'm ready
[Music]
there are other ladies equally fair why
eat your heart away for one
there ain't but one like big red
i sure wish she'd show up
any reason to suppose she might show up
no no none i could think of
she might get lucky or something and run
into us
ah marvelous good beans
enough bread to last us for several
weeks
a modest share of 25 000 your cup should
be full to overflowing my boy
i'd rather have big bread
you hear horses no
just wedding bells
all right boys just hold it right where
you are
well hoss red what an unexpected
pleasure
you're just in time for an evening
repast oh honey
i was afraid you didn't get my letter
letter what letter
why you ungrateful snake in the grass
don't look to me for no sympathy
you dirty black skunk you two ain't just
about the worst reprobates i ever seen
living out here in this comfortable
cabin and
cooking beans
underwear
[Music]
a poor little damn pettibone sits in
that jailhouse
dan's in jail what'd he steal
nothing he got blamed for what you stole
you still got that money ain't he
that money is a sacred trust we're
guarding it with our lives
every penny of it is right there under
the bed
in that police
[Music]
charge to the barricades attack
hit him with something
[Music]
give me that give me that gun
[Music]
oh
[Music]
hmm
[Music]
hey them stolen this could hurt yeah
[Music]
looks like it's about over
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
where's that gun oh
sweetie pie sweetie boy
you killed him
big red pete's all right he went through
that wall head first
big red
okay how come you didn't shoot me that
gun loaded won't shoot
it'll shoot
[Music]
it's a weakness i had since i was a boy
i never could shoot a friend
[Music]
what i can't figure out is and why you
wanted to take that money in the first
place
if you wanted to get rich you could you
could have stayed with a pettibone power
wagon company and got 10 times right
there just like you said
why did you have to steal
[Music]
because i'm dishonest
all right you two stand right there for
the bar stay put
here it is boys there were plenty of it
and there's mr throckmartin to tell you
how sorry him and pete are for trying to
run off with it
well yeah
what's wrong with everybody i'm bringing
your money back do you
i reckon it's my place to tell your
horse i fixed up a mess of tar and
feathers threatened
dan pettibone with him doc says his
heart failed him
he passed away
he died
[Music]
is miss aesthetic could happen anytime
oz
yeah i reckon i knew that
but i'll guarantee you one thing
then pettibone didn't die fright
he wasn't scared of nobody
that don't make the news no better
though does it
[Music]
he's a good little fella
ah
[Music]
at least we got all the money back
i take it kindly if you give the widow
pettibone
the money i invested that's
that's a lot of money mr oakley not
enough
not nearly enough
well come on jeff let's get back to the
mine
jiggery didn't you fellas gonna take
yours
ah we don't want it don't need it
come on yeah
we'd spend it on booze anyway
and i tried to steal from them
you know my boy i'm an unmitigated
scoundrel i shall ask the judge for 20
years
you know horse peter
never wanted to steal that money all he
ever wanted to do was to marry big red
there
it's all he still wants to do
marriage did anybody say
marriage i did
hansi bunsey sweetie boy
you know i wonder if the sheriff could
put
pete's bill on my tab mr throckmartin
i'll do everything in my power
to see that you get your wish
[Music]
much of that that uh scotty shield
much of it left
a couple of drops
can't get over a pretty old big red
looking here brand new wedding dress
oh pete was a spruce of a brand new
tattoo
you know i can't get over those people
letting trunk morton and heath go
scotch-free because i'm stealing that
money well
paul they didn't really steal it they
they were in charge of the money and
they
everybody figures they just took a ride
with it and then bring it back
yeah oh didn't didn't dan have any plans
for this thing
yeah his missus took him back east
weather
said that folks just wasn't ready for it
yet
we'll save them for their boy
i didn't know they had a boy they ain't
now
come the middle of june
[Music]
that burn it i still say it worked

Behind the Scenes of The Infernal Machine

Willard Waterman played the blowhard character, Cyrus Throckmorton. The name and spirit pay homage to Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, who Willard portrayed on the radio from 1950 to 1957. He also played the character on television in 1955 through a short series. “The Great Gildersleeve” was the title for both the radio and television show.

Germans invented guns that could shoot around corners during World War II. However, they did not serve their purpose that well.

The view from the bar shows the painting of the other side of the street. At one point, the actors’ shadows can be visible.

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