El Dorado (1966)

Christopher George: Nelse McLeod

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• Bart Jason : [Thornton is trying to distract McLeod outside of Jason's saloon]  Didn't expect to see you here, Mr. Thornton.

  Cole : Hello, McLeod.

  Bart Jason : I said...

  Nelse McLeod : My show, Jason. Hi, Thornton.

  Cole : There's a little question... unanswered between us.

  Nelse McLeod : Which one of us is best?

  Cole : That's right.

  Nelse McLeod : I don't think we're gonna find out the answer to that question.

  Cole : No?

  Nelse McLeod : No. Your gun hand's no good.

  Cole : You just give me time to get down off of this wagon and we'll find out.

  Nelse McLeod : Why should I give you any time?

  Cole : Call it professional courtesy.

  Bart Jason : Don't listen to him. Why should you give him time?

  Nelse McLeod : Curiosity, Jason.

  Cole : [Bull blows his bugle, and when McLeod turns around, Thornton dives off the wagon and mortally wounds McLeod with a hidden gun]  McLeod?

  Nelse McLeod : You didn't give me any chance at all, did you?

  Cole : No, I didn't. You're too good to give a chance to.

  Nelse McLeod : Yeah. I let a one-armed man take me.

• Milt : You've got a lot of faith in me, don't ya, Nelse?

  Nelse McLeod : Faith can move mountains, Milt, but it can't beat a faster draw. There's only three men I know with his kind of speed. One's dead. The other's me. And the third is Cole Thornton.

  Cole : There's a fourth.

  Nelse McLeod : Which one are you?

  Cole : I'm Thornton.

  [Milt withdraws] 

  Nelse McLeod : Aren't you glad you didn't try, Milt? Pick up your guns, both of you, real easy.

  Cole : Like he said, real easy.

• Nelse McLeod : [referring to Harrah]  Understand he used to be pretty good with a gun.

  Cole : Not just *pretty* good, McLeod. He's the...

  Nelse McLeod : The fourth man you were telling me about.

• Nelse McLeod : Can you use a gun?

  Mississippi : Well, if I could I'd be using one. Good evening.

  Cole : Just minute, Mississippi.

  Mississippi : Would you mind telling me why you have such a great passion for my company?

• Bart Jason : You just going to sit there, Mcleod?

  Nelse McLeod : [Facing down Mississippi's sawed-off shotgun]  ... Well there really isn't very much I can do right now, is there, Jason?