1961 - RAWHIDE: – Incident Before Black Pass

Dir.: Ted Post
Written by: Arthur Rowe and Don Moore
Prod.: Charles Marquis Warren

Pete Nolan: Sheb Wooley
Rowdy Yates: Clint Eastwood
Gil Favor: Eric Fleming
White Eyes: Zachary Scott
Annko: Leonard Nimoy 
Satanga: Dennis Cross
Stone: Robert Armstrong
Jenny Stone: Kathy Downs
Jim Quince: Steve Raines

 On their way looking out for new grazing grounds for their animals Pete and Rowdy encounter an Indian Lady who falls off her horse. To help her they approach (and she moves away) only to find out it has been a trap. They are caught by the Indians. The trails boss, Gil Favor, and another cowboy, Jim, discover that they have been taken away. As both come back to the herd, soldiers are waiting for them. The Lieutenant introduces himself and the fourth cavalry and greets Gil. They came out to warn them of Whiteeyes, an Indian chief who has escaped from custody. 

He is known to have enough Indians around to wipe out all Whites from the area – if he feels like it. Jim informs Gil that Whiteeyes is half white and around killing anybody he can. In the Indian camp Rowdy and the other cowboy are bound to logs and Whiteeyes, the chief, is a dying man. He does not want his people to fight and die. Annko opposes him. He wants to fight the whiteskins until the last one will be dead. This is why Whiteeyes does not appoint him to be his successor. 

I will fight

Two Kiowas approach the cowboys' camp at night and offer to talk. In fear, Gypsy, one of the cowboys, shoots at them and wounds one. As Gil offers to talk, the unharmed Kiowa takes his wounded friend away. More Kiowas approach peacefully, led by Whiteseyes, who hardly can walk, but who is supported by his wife. Whiteeyes has to call Annko back, because he approaches the cowboys in controlled anger about the shooting of his brother, who had to tried to talk peacefully with them. Whiteeyes tries to make a deal: The life of the two men for help to get him to the Black Pass. He wants to die in the area where he was born. Satanga is to go with him, both amongst the cowboys so that the army won't search for them there. 

Once he reachs Black Pass, he will send Satanga back in order to free the hostages. He wants his brother and his sister to proclaim him white. Annko softly tries to take the sign of chief from Whiteeyes for leadership, but Whiteeyes prevents him to become chief and leaves with Satanga. One of the cowboys is afraid to be killed and leaves his colleagues riding away. In the Indian camp Annko mourns. His brother has been shot because he tried to talk peacefully with the cowboys and now he is dead. He approaches Rowdy and tells him that Tekano will not see another sunrise or another sunset. When Rowdy asks who Tekano was, Annko tells him that he was his brother. "I am sorry," Rowdy says – and means it. Only to earn sarcasm from Annko: "A white man is sorry that an Indian is dead? ... The spirit of my dead brother thanks you," he responds drawing his knife. 

Tekano will not see another sunrise	Tekano was my brother	The spirit of my dead brother thanks you

Just before he kills him, Annko is stopped by Whiteeyes' wife. She knows that her husband would keep his promise to send the men back alive if he makes it to Black Pass with the help of the cowboys. Convincing him that he might come back, she saves the lives of the two cowboys- admitting to both that she could kill them by herself, after what the Whites have done to her husband. Riding away from the trail, the cowboy who had left is met by people from Mr. Stone – a man who wants to find Whiteeyes. He finds out from him that Whiteeyes is traveling with the herd and sends for his wife: "If anyone has the right to see Whiteeyes, it is her," he tells his people and sends for her before pursuing the cowboys. 

Stone tells his wife that he finally has found Whiteeyes. "I could not get hold of him in prison, neither when he was held by the army," he tells her. Covering her face she does not want to see him, but her husband insists that Whiteeyes will see her. When they reach the herd, Favor prevents them from searching the wagon and Stone forces his wife to show them her scared face and leaves - promising to be back. After Stone left, Favor talks to Whiteeyes. Both know Stone would be back soon with more men or the cavallerie. They can hide Whiteeyes, but not Satanga. Favor promises Whiteeyes and Satanga to bring Whiteeyes to Black Pass if Satanga brings his people the message to free Pete and Rowdy.

As Satanga returns to the camp, Annko does not wish to follow the order. He kills Satanga and states: "If Ntatain (name of honor for Whiteeyes) would have ordered us to fight, I would have fought. If he had ordered to burn the white man, I would have burned him. These are not orders of a chief. Since this day on I am chief. Since this day we will be men and not frightened dogs." The chief's wife rides out to Favor and informs him that Annko has killed Satanga and made himself chief. And that he plans to get all the other tribes together. This moment Stone and his men are coming together with the cavalry. Whiteeyes' wife hides in the bushes near to the herd. 

Having heard the news Whiteeyes decides to give up his plan to get to Black Pass. He intends to go back to his people. "To save my men?" Favor asks. "To save mine," Whiteeyes replies. The Lieutenant arranges for all the cowboys to line up so that Mrs. Stone can identify if Whiteeyes was amongst them. Taking a good look at all she recognizes him, but assures the lieutenant that none of them is Whiteeyes. In the wagon Stone asks his wife why she did not identify Whiteeyes – he has noticed that she had remembered him. Now she tells him that the men on her farm had raided Whiteeyes' village, killed the women and destroyed all. When Whiteeyes had come to them, a fight arose which caused the house to catch fire. It was Whiteeyes who has pulled her out and saved her life. 

On his way to the Kiowa village Whiteeyes becomes weaker and weaker. Falling off his horse he is rested in the lap of his wife. "Take me back to my people," he requests. "To Black pass?" Favor asks. "No, to the Kiowas," are his lasts words. With the dead chief bound onto his horse, Favor and the chief's wife reach the Kiowa's village. "You must be a fool coming here after you have killed the chief," Annko tells Favor, who tries to speak on behalf of the chief, showing the medallion the chief wore as sign of leadership. But Annko draws a knife announcing: "Amongst the Kiowas a man must win the right to speak." A knife fight starts and Favor wins. Now Annko submits and frees the hostages, while Favor brings the chief's words to the Kiowas: To go back to the reservation and live in piece. All leave and are going to choose a new chief.