High Noon (1952)
Gary Cooper: Marshal Will Kane
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Quotes
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[when his Deputy Sheriff, his last hope of help, deserts him]
Will : Go on home to your kids, Herb.
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Will : I've got to, that's the whole thing.
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Will : Don't shove me Harv. I'm tired of being shoved.
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Will : Stay at the hotel until it's over.
Amy : No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait! I won't do it!
Will : Amy!
Amy : I mean it! If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train when it leaves here.
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Will : [initially leaving town] This is crazy, I don't even have any guns.
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[Johnny peers from the back room into Marshal Kane's office. He sees the marshal slumped over at his desk. Muffled sobs can be heard coming from Kane. The marshal hears Johnny come in and looks up at him]
Will : What do you want?
Johnny - Town Boy : I found them, all but Mr Henderson.
Will : I found him, thanks.
Johnny - Town Boy : You're welcome. Marshal, let me fight with you. I ain't afraid.
Will : No.
Johnny - Town Boy : Please, let me, Marshal!
Will : You're a kid! You're a baby!
Johnny - Town Boy : I'm sixteen! I can handle a gun, too!
Will : You're fourteen. What do you wanna lie for?
Johnny - Town Boy : I'm big for my age! Please, Marshal!
Will : Well, you're big for your age, but no, go on, get out of here.
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Will : [Sees a teenage boy loafing near a storefront] Johnny, why aren't you in church?
Johnny - Town Boy : Why aren't you?
[Will raises his hand as if to slap the boy for being disrespectful]
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Will : Hey, Charlie. You can go home now.
[Charlie, a tall, gangly, unkempt young man, lumbers out of the jail cell, hungover]
Charlie - Drunk in Jail : Thanks, Marshal! Sure appreciate it, certainly do. You don't happen to know if the saloon's open?
Will : I said, go home, Charlie.
[He shoves Charlie's jacket and bowler hat into his arms]
Charlie - Drunk in Jail : Yes, sir.
[Charlie darts out the jail door]
