The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)

Harry Morgan: Art Croft

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• [last lines] 

  Art Croft : Where are we goin'?

  Gil Carter : He said he wanted his wife to get this letter, didn't he? Said there was nobody to look after the kids, didn't he?

  [they both mount and ride out of town] 

• [Carter and Croft are out with the posse] 

  Gil Carter : Doin' this in the middle of the night's crazy.

  Art Croft : Thought you liked excitement?

  Gil Carter : I got nothin' particular against hangin' a murderin' rustler; it's just I don't like doin' it in the dark. There's always some crazy fool who'll lose his head and start hangin' everybody in sight.

  Art Croft : Us?

  Gil Carter : Funnier things have happened.

  Art Croft : Well, we didn't have to come.

  Gil Carter : Look kinda funny if we hadn't, wouldn't it?

• Gil Carter : [Gil and Art discuss their uneasiness about certain members of the posse]  Besides, I like to pick my own bosses.

  Art Croft : Whether we picked 'em or not, we sure got 'em.

  Gil Carter : That's what I don't like. That Smith, and Bartlett, shootin' off their mouths... Farnley... and that renegade, Tetley, struttin' around in his uniform pretending he's so much. He never even *saw* the South until after the war, and then only long enough to marry that kid's mother and get run outta the place by her folks.

  Art Croft : I figured there was somethin' fishy about him, dressin' up like that.

  Gil Carter : For sure. Why'd ya suppose he'd be livin' in this neck o' the woods if he didn't have something to hide?

• Art Croft : [talking about Gil Carter]  Whenever he gets low in spirits or confused in his mind, he doesn't feel right until he's had a fight. It doesn't matter whether he wins or not. He feels fine again afterwards.

• Gil Carter : Say, what is there to do in this town anyway?

  Art Croft : Well, unless you want to get in line and woo Drew's daughter...

  Art Croft : We don't.

  Darby : The only other unmarried woman I know is 82, blind and a Paiute. That leaves you five choices: eat, sleep, drink, play poker, or fight. Or you can shoot some pool. I got a new table in the back room.