The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (TV Series)

Wyatt's Decision (1959)

Hugh O'Brian: Wyatt Earp

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Quotes 

• Wyatt Earp : Well, Miss Clanton, you're a strange mixture. Your father is just about everything that's wrong with Tombstone and this part of Pima County. He's a rustler and a killer.

  Emma Clanton : Stop it!

  Wyatt Earp : You can't make up your mind if you're a sure enough Clanton and a you're just a girl who happened to be born a Clanton.

• Judge Griskam : And you, Deputy, you better just be a little more careful after this. Mr. Clanton and his cowboys are good, honest citizens. Just member that, sonny boy.

  [Wyatt throws the contents of an ink well in Judge Griskam's face] 

  Judge Griskam : Sheriff, I charge this man with bodily assault!

  Sheriff Charlie Shibell : You arrest him, Judge.

  Wyatt Earp : I wish you'd do that.

• Wyatt Earp : Shouldn't the Clantons be arrested?

  Sheriff Charlie Shibell : Not by Fred White, no. He's only a fair hand with a gun. Here's a deputy's star. If you want to arrest them, pin it on.

  Wyatt Earp : Sheriff, all I want to do is leave Tombstone.

  Sheriff Charlie Shibell : All right. I'll get a posse and escort you to Benson.

  Wyatt Earp : No, sir. I don't need a posse.

  Sheriff Charlie Shibell : That's the only way you'll get to the railroad alive.

  Wyatt Earp : I can't do that and you know it. Sheriff, you're dealin' from the bottom of the deck.

  Sheriff Charlie Shibell : Yes I am! The Citizens' Safety Counsel here needs good young peace officers. You're young and you're good.

• [last lines] 

  Doc Holliday : I'll help you, Wyatt, but I'll never wear a star.

  Wyatt Earp : You don't have to wear the star. I'll deputize you only when there's trouble.

  Doc Holliday : Me a Johnny Law?

  Wyatt Earp : That's right, but you don't have to wear the star. You can keep it in your pocket.

  Doc Holliday : If anybody called me Deputy Holliday, I'd kill him. Why the very sound of it just about...

  Emma Clanton : Marshal Earp! Papa wants to know if you're leavin' town by sundown.

  Wyatt Earp : Well, you tell him no, Miss Emma.

  Emma Clanton : You're a fool. Do you want to leave in a coffin?

  Wyatt Earp : I haven't ordered one.

  Emma Clanton : Oh. And as for you, Doctor Holliday, you keep associatin' with him and you'll get it, too.

  Doc Holliday : [to Wyatt]  The star, please. You can just drop it in my pocket.