The Brass Legend (1956)

Hugh O'Brian: Sheriff Wade Addams

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Clay Gipson : How's that, Wade? Hit him every time!

  Sheriff Wade Addams : Well, your marksmanship: not bad; but your speed, not so good. That's because you're wastin' a lot of time slappin' leather. You're wearin' your gunbelt a little too high. That's it, lower it a little. You gotta have your wrist just so it's about touchin' your gun handle. That's about right. Now watch... you watch his eyes, never his hands.

  [Addams puts a hole right between the eyes of Tris Hatten's wanted poster] 

• Sheriff Wade Addams : A wasted shot cost many a fellow his life. Now, speed's important, but you gotta hit what you're aimin' at, too, you know.

• Clay Gipson : Do you really think Tris Hatten's dead?

  Sheriff Wade Addams : He's supposed to be, according to the legend. Of course, that legend's as phony as a brass good piece. It's the worst kind of killer that would shoot a man in the back just as soon as look at him. I kinda hope he's dead.

• Millie Street : I wish I were a man for just an hour. I wish I were a man!

  [Millie throws her drink in Wade's face] 

  Sheriff Wade Addams : I wish you were, too, Millie.

• [Hatten learns that a 12-year-old boy was responsible for his arrest] 

  Tris Hatten : You don't think I look like the type that would go around shootin' little kids, do you?

  Sheriff Wade Addams : You're the type that would shoot butterflies if you thought you could hit 'em.

• Sheriff Wade Addams : There's a few punchin' jobs open.

  George Barlow : We don't like nursemaidin' cows. Hard on the hands.

  Earl Barlow : Never did like rope burns.

  Sheriff Wade Addams : Well, on the hands they're not so bad, but on *other* parts of the body, they'd be kind of irritating.

• Carl Barlow : We're three to your one, Sheriff.

  [Wade guns down two of the Barlow boys] 

  Sheriff Wade Addams : Odds change fast, Barlow.

• Sheriff Wade Addams : Did he shoot Clay?

  Millie Street : That's right. Just like Hatten's going to shoot you. You're not going up against a guy like poor little Shorty.

  Sheriff Wade Addams : Millie, be out of town by the time I get back.

  Millie Street : You ain't comin' back!

• Sheriff Wade Addams : You hit bad?

  Tris Hatten : Ain't going to live to get hung. You call that bad?

• [last lines] 

  Clay Gipson : Wade, you got him!

  Sheriff Wade Addams : We'll talk about that later.

  [Clay's pony whinnies] 

  Sheriff Wade Addams : You'll be riding him again soon.