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"The
Kid With the Map" (episode of "The Roy
Rogers Show")
Date released:
1952
Directed by: Robert G. Walker
Starring: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Dorothy Crider, Denver
Pyle, Chief Yowlachie
Alfalfa portrays: Clyde Stockton, a young man who has one-half
of his father's treasure map. Bad guys want the other half.
Alfalfa's screen time: 9:02
Line of dialogue spoken by Alfalfa:
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"The
Kid With the Map" and images © Shokus Video
Alfalfa
with Dale Evans in "The Kid With the Map"
Alfalfa plays Clyde, a young man whose missing
father left a buried treasure somewhere in the valley. Alfalfa has
one-half of the treasure map; a trollop-like woman named Mame, Alfalfa's
stepmother, has the other half.
 
Alfalfa
asks Nash (and Westin) to leave him alone. Dale
looks on. Click both images to enlarge.
Alfalfa comes into the Eureka Cafe for a cheese
sandwich (hold the soap) and some milk when two shady-looking characters,
names of Nash and Westin, sit down next to him. Although they claim
to be his uncles, Alfalfa tells them to scram; he knows what they're
after (we will soon find out that the two men were sent by Mame
to get Alfalfa's half of the map.) Roy Rogers enters the Eureka
in the nick of time. After a brawl with Roy, the two guys leave
the Eureka. During the fight, Alfalfa sneaks out with his sandwich,
and slips his half of the treasure map into the saddlebag of Roy's
horse for safekeeping. Alfalfa then rides into the valley, where
the two tough guys catch up with him just as he is finishing his
cheese sandwich. Alfalfa sees them approach, and begins to flee
when the two men tell him to cool his heels.
Alfalfa
enjoys a cheese sandwich just before getting
accosted by a couple of bad guys. Watch out for soap, Alfie!
Nash [played by a young, clean-shaven Denver Pyle]:
Take it easy, kid, you got us all wrong. We just wanna talk to you.
Alfalfa: Yeah, I know, you guys
want my half of the treasure map. Mame sent you to get it.
Nash: Mame? Kid, we don't like your stepmother any more than
you do.
Westin: No, that's what we wanted to talk to you about, Clyde.
We know where Mame is. We can get her half of the treasure map anytime.
Maybe the three of us can do business.
Nash: Whaddya say, kid? We split the treasure between us.
Alfalfa [laughs]:
Look you guys—I've been around a little since I left home.
And I ain't dumb enough to be taken in by two cheap crooks.
Nash: If that's the way you feel about it, we'll just
take your half of the treasure map!
Alfalfa: You'll try,
you mean [starts getting manhandled by Nash and Westin] Now look!
You think I'm dumb enough to be carrying around something with me
like that? It's hid...hidden where you'll never find it!
Westin: Come on, where is it!
Alfalfa: I hid it in the saddlebag
of Roy Rogers' horse, try and get it from him!
Nash: Why, you little—[decks
Alfalfa to the ground].
Again, Roy arrives
on the scene just in time. After Roy and Alfalfa (mostly Roy) restore
order, Alfalfa tells Roy the whole story. They all go back to town
to Mame's saloon. Mame looks like she could headline a prequel to
"Whatever Happened To Baby Jane". Turns out Mame has remarried,
to a man named Briggs, who is half-owner of the saloon. Briggs,
unlike his wife, seems cooperative, and agrees to bring his wife's
half of the map to the Eureka Cafe in an hour in exchange for Roy
not bringing charges against Nash and Westin.
Above:
Roy and Alfalfa agree to Briggs' proposal concerning
the map. Later, Briggs and Mame deliver the second half of
the map to Alfalfa at the Eureka Cafe. Click bottom two
images to enlarge.
But
Briggs is just as crooked as Mame. He hints to Dale Evans that she
should keep both halves of the map in the Eureka's safe, but after
Briggs and Mame leave, Roy says that
he plans on keeping it in a different location. Sure enough, that
night Westin and Nash crack the safe in the Eureka, but of course
come back empty-handed.
The rest of the episode sees Mame, Briggs, Nash, and Westin rough
up Roy's friend Indian Tom (played by Chief Yowlachie) to get him
to spill the beans about a local legend concerning the whereabouts
of the treasure. But Roy, Dale, Alfalfa, and Pat Brady find the
treasure first (after they see that the chest is jammed with gold,
Alfalfa exclaims, "I feel just like the Captain Kidd!")
Next comes a series of dramatic twists and turns, with the treasure
exchanging hands back and forth until eventually the jeep that Briggs
and Mame have stolen from Pat Brady flips over while in a chase
with Roy, atop Trigger.
 
Alfalfa
finds his father's treasure with Roy and Dale's help.
Click both images to enlarge.
The close of the episode sees Alfalfa back
at the Eureka with Roy, Dale, Indian Tom, and Pat Brady. Alfalfa
wants to divvy up the treasure with all his new friends.
"The Kid With the Map" was the second
of two episodes of "The Roy Rogers Show" in which Alfalfa
appeared (some sources list a third Alfalfa appearance, "Treasure
of Howling Dog Canyon", but this is merely an alternate name
for "Kid With the Map".) Alfalfa's Clyde is an earnest
if somewhat helpless young man, totally guileless despite his protests
to Westin and Nash that he's "been around a little since he
left home". About two-thirds of the way through the episode,
we learn that Alfalfa's father has in fact been killed over the
whereabouts of the treasure (which, incidentally, most of the actors,
including Alfalfa, pronounce as "traysure"...) After Alfalfa
hears the news, he slumps down in anguish, and is consoled by Dale
(see below).
"Indian Tom" is played by Chief
Yowlachie (real name: Daniel Simmons). Chief Yowlachie was born
in 1891 on the Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington State. He
made his first film in 1925, and appeared in almost seventy motion
pictures until his death in 1966. Among the characters he played
throughout his career were Biting Wolf, Iron Eyes, Big Chief Hi-Octane,
Harry Willowtree, Running Elk, and the King of the Rock People.
He appeared perhaps most notably as "Little Horse" in
"Annie Get Your Gun".
A
grateful Alfalfa tries to split the treasure with Indian Tom,
played by Chief Yowlachie (a.k.a. Daniel Simmons).
An almost unrecognizable Denver Pyle also
appears as Nash, one of the men contracted by Alfalfa's tarty stepmother
to get Alfalfa's half of the map. Roughly a decade later, Pyle would
appear memorably as the Darling family patriarch in several episodes
of "The Andy Griffith Show".
Left
to right: Denver Pyle, Alfalfa, Roy Rogers.
Below: Closing credits from "The Kid With the Map"
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