Coroner Creek (1948)
George Macready: Younger Miles
Quotes
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Younger Miles : When I pay a man, I expect him to be loyal enough to keep his mouth shut.
Chris Denning : And if you don't pay him?
Younger Miles : He still gets paid, some other way.
Chris Denning : [Speaking to a man in the bar, loud enough for everyone to hear] Hey, you there. You know Mrs. Miles? I took her home last night. She was drunk. Dead drunk.
[the others in the saloon begin to clear away]
Sheriff O'Hea : [Walking in the door] Hi, everybody. I'm serving notice on all you evildoers to make yourself scarce, because the majesty of the law has just arrived. Well, just in time!
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Ernie Combs : Why'd you let him get away with it?
Younger Miles : He wanted me to draw. I wonder why.
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Younger Miles : We can't afford to hunt him down ourselves. It ain't legal.
Frank Yordy : Say, that wouldn't stop you, Mr. Miles.
Younger Miles : Yordy, someday somebody's going to poke your tongue down your throat.
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Tip Henry : He said he'd come back every night and shoot up the place until I moved or got killed. And he said to tell you that he wouldn't need any Indians to help him do the job.
Younger Miles : What did you say about Indians?
Tip Henry : I don't savvy the Indian part. Did you know Danning from someplace else?
Younger Miles : [Miles picks up a pair of spurs from the table and slashes Henry across the face] That'll teach you not to walk out on me, you yellow back!
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Younger Miles : [Miles catches his wife drinking again] I warned you, Abbie!
Abbie Miles : I'm in my own home!
[Miles slaps her and walks out just as Abbie's father walks in]
Sheriff O'Hea : Has that ever happened before, Abbie?
[She shakes her head and cries]
Sheriff O'Hea : When you were a little girl, I couldn't bring myself to lay a hand on you, even to spank you, no matter how wild you got. I never thought I'd live to see the day my girl got slapped and I did nothing about it.
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Younger Miles : If you expect me to sit around and watch you tear down everything I've built up, you're crazier than I think. I've worked hard to get where I am... and done everything a man can do. I've lied, cheated and stolen. I've even killed to build this set-up I've got now. And I'm not going to let any man destroy it. Least of all you.
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Younger Miles : I'm Younger Miles. Ernie says you can't make up your mind about working for me.
Chris Denning : That's what I told him.
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Sheriff O'Hea : How's that lovely daughter of mine, Miles?
Younger Miles : Abbie's fine, Sheriff. We were just talking about her.