Build a movie plot around this: What were Cole and the outlaws going for? sheriff's ranch
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The movie opens with the credits rolling over the visual of two uniformed U.S. Army officers driving a horse-drawn Army wagon up a remote and rocky road in what appears to be the Old West. The audio is Roger Miller (King of the Road) singing the beginning of The Ballad of Waterhole #3: The Code of the West (Lyrics by Robert Wells). Miller never appears in the movie except in voice-over. He will sing a verse or two of the ballad throughout the movie to narrate and punctuate the action.'I'll tell you a story that's never been toldOf rapin and killin and government gold.The place: Arizona; the year 84.Sit back and I'll tell you some more.'A thirty-year captain just earning his payWas moving a shipment of bullion that dayWhile men without honor were waiting to testThe unwritten Code of the West.'Its the Code of the West: you must honor your neighbors.The Code of the West, to your own self be true.The Code of the West, you must do unto others,Do unto others before they do it unto you.'The story is about the theft of 100 pounds of U.S. Army gold--an inside job pulled off by Sgt. Henry J. Foggers (Claude Akins), assigned to guard the gold, and his co-conspirators, Doc Quinlen (Roy Jenson), the mastermind of the caper, and Hilb (Timothy Carey), a billy-goat-bearded ruffian.The wagons destination is an Army warehouse. We see it arrive from a point of view inside a shoe parlor located next door to the warehouse. The shoemaker, Ben Akajanian (Harry Davis), is working on the sole of a cowboy boot, when we see that a gun barrel protruding from the rear curtain of the shop is trained on him. A voice says, 'Time to close up shop, shoemaker,' and Ben nervously moves to the door and shuts it, momentarily making eye contact with the Army officer, Captain Shipley (James Whitmore), who has got down from the wagon and is preparing to move the gold to the warehouse. Ben pulls down the shades of the shoe shop's windows.The inside thief, Sgt. Foggers, and his accomplices have built a tunnel from the shoe parlor to the Army...