Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

Walter Brennan: Pa Danby

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• Joe Danby : Pa, you always told me there wasn't a jail been built that could hold a Danby.

  Pa Danby : Well, now they've built one!

  Joe Danby : Aww.

  Pa Danby : You'll have to stay here for a couple of days.

  Joe Danby : But we run this town.

  Pa Danby : I gotta throw in with that sheriff that you don't exactly dazzle nobody with your intelligence.

• Pa Danby : There's always some tramp that's good with a gun that can be hired.

  Luke Danby : Yeah, but you always said that the Danbys fight their own battles.

  Pa Danby : Well, maybe I was talkin' 'bout another branch of the family.

• [Jake comes in the sheriff's office] 

  Pa Danby : What's he supposed to be?

  Jason McCullough : Well, that's my deputy.

  Pa Danby : Why last week he was shovelin' horse... he was workin' in the stable.

  Jason McCullough : Well, he's been promoted.

• [Pa Danby has just come from a meeting where Jason McCullough stumped him by sticking his finger in the barrel of Pa's pistol] 

  Tom Danby : He stuck his finger in the end of your *what?*

  Pa Danby : Will you shut up? Everybody'll be lookin'!

• Tom Danby : Pa, you been touchin' up your hair again?

  Pa Danby : Whadda ya mean, AGAIN?

  Tom Danby : Nothin'. It just looks better in spots, that's all.

  Pa Danby : Whadda ya mean, SPOTS?

• Pa Danby : Now I'm gonna take a little trip tomorrow and I want you two to behave yourselves while I'm gone. I don't want nobody to make no martyr out of this here sheriff.

  Tom Danby : What's a martyr?

  Pa Danby : Oh, I'm sorry. They didn't use words like that in the third grade, did they?

  Tom Danby : Well, how would I know? I didn't get that far.

• Pa Danby : If that gun had gone off, it'd have blowed right up in my face.

  Jason McCullough : Now it wouldn't have done my finger a hell of a lot of good either, would it? What can I do for you, Mr. Danby?

• Jason McCullough : Well, it seems Joe murdered a man this afternoon.

  Pa Danby : The way I hear'd it, he killed a man in a fair gunfight.

  Jason McCullough : I was standing right there.

  Pa Danby : You was standin' right where?

  Jason McCullough : In the saloon when Joe killed him.

  Pa Danby : Well, now that was real smart of him, weren't it?

  Jason McCullough : I've been around Joe all afternoon and I haven't seen him do one smart thing yet.

• Pa Danby : I don't want nobody to make no martyr out of this here sheriff.

  Tom Danby : What's a martyr?

  Pa Danby : Oh, I'm sorry. They didn't use words like that in the third grade, did they?

  Tom Danby : How would I know? I didn't get that far.

• Pa Danby : Now, this is my saddle and I'm taking it with me.

  Jake : I know it ain't mine, so go ahead.