Hour of the Gun (1967)
James Garner: Wyatt Earp
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Quotes
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Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Well, you got the first gun for your posse.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : Did you hear the part about "no funds available"?
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : I hear the Chamber of Commerce has put up $20,000 reward money.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : For arrest and conviction, not dead or alive. Not your style, Doc.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : For that kind of money, I can be as law abiding as, ah, you are.
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Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : You gonna be all right?
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Except for a slight dying spell.
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[the mortally wounded Morgan Earp whispers in Wyatt's ear]
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : What did he say?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : When we were kids, we used to argue about whether when you were dying, your whole life flashed in front of you or not. He said, "It ain't so, Wyatt."
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Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : A man's life... for fifty dollars. I'm gonna give you a chance to make another fifty dolars.
Andy Warshaw : I don't want such a chance.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : My men will stay back. I'm gonna count one, two, three. You can draw on two - I'll wait to three. If you get me, my boys won't bother you.
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County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : You're under arrest.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : For what?
County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : Murder
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : Not today, tomorrow or ever. You have no jurisdiction in the city of Tombstone. Even if you did you couldn't make it stick.
Frank Stilwell : We got enough men behind us to make it stick.
[Doc cocks his shotgun]
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Stilwell, if you so much as turn your head towards those men, you'll be laying in the horse manure with your friends.
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[the murder charges against Clanton's gang have been thrown out]
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : I don't want to hear a word out of you.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : I'm just educating myself. I've never been on the right side of the law before. I want to see how much good it does you when you are.
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[Wyatt re-introduces Doc to the Tucson sheriff]
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : You know Doc Holliday. Sherm McMasters.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : You were the arresting officer when I shot Long Nose Ernie here in '74.
Tucson Sheriff Sherman McMasters : That's right.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Good to see you.
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Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : I don't care about the rules anymore. I'm not that much of a hypocrite.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : The whole thing is hypocrisy. The rules they tack on today that unless you're wearing that badge or a soldier's uniform, you can't kill. But they're the only rules there are. They are more important to you than you think. Play it that way, Wyatt, or you'll destroy yourself.
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Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : You got some kind of plan?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : I have.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : Want to tell me about it?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : We take whoever gets in our way.
Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday : You call that a plan?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : You got a better one?
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Horace Sullivan : Just a moment, Your Honor. I should like to reexamine the defendant.
Horace Sullivan : [as Earp sits in the witness chair] Wyatt, did malice move you against the Clanton group?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : No.
Horace Sullivan : Would you tell the court what did?
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : The Clanton group was armed and made threats of death and violence against us. It was our duty as sworn peace officers to disarm and arrest them. I would disarm and arrest General Ulysses S. Grant if he appeared on the streets of Tombstone under those circumstances.
County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : Wyatt, I told you before you went down to the corral that I had met with the Clanton group and they agreed to leave town peaceably.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : Bryan, you take bribes. You're a thief, a liar, and a disgrace to your office. I wouldn't take your word if you swore to it on your mother's grave.
County Sheriff Jimmy Bryan : You'll live to regret that.
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[first lines]
[The Earps and Doc Holliday approach the O.K. Corral]
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : Ike Clanton, Andy Warshaw, Latigo, Curly Joe Brocious... Who's in the corral, Virg?
Marshal Virgil Earp : Billy Clanton and the McLowerys.
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John P. Clum : Wyatt, the law won't work when part of it is ignored because everyone is either bought off or terrified.
Wyatt Earp (Tombstone city marshal : Then I'll enforce the part that does work!