Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

Jack Elam: Jake

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• [last lines] 

  Jake : Now the way this story ends... is that they get married and he goes on to become governor of the state. Never gets to Australia, but he keeps readin' a lot of books about it. I get to be sheriff of this town... and then I go on to become one of the most beloved characters in Western folklore.

• [Jason is coaching Jake how to shoot better] 

  Jake : How come nobody ever heard of you? I mean, a man that can shoot like you do and draw as fast as you can... how come you ain't got a reputation?

  Jason McCullough : What would I want with a reputation? That's a good way to get yourself killed.

• Jake : You want me to tell Joe Danby that he's under arrest for murder? What're you gonna do after he kills me?

  Jason McCullough : Then I'll arrest him for both murders.

• Jason McCullough : It seems like you spent a lot of time with horses.

  Jake : One end or the other. Of course, I come about it natural. My daddy stole horses for a living. They hung him.

• Jake : Well, I did odd jobs... for one thing, I was a Orr holder at Madame Horse's, uh, horse holder at Madame Orr's House.

• Jason McCullough : Well, do you see anything?

  Jake : No. What are we lookin' for?

  Jason McCullough : What are we lookin' for? We're lookin' for nuggets, a vein, the mother lode!

  Jake : What's the mother lode?

  Jason McCullough : I'm beginning to get the horrible feelin' you know even less about gold mining than I do, Jake.

  Jake : Course I don't know anything about gold mining!

  Jason McCullough : Well, what do you think I brought you along for? I thought everyone around here knew about mining.

  Jake : Well I don't! I might be able to give you a few tips about shoveling horse... working around the stable, but I don't know nothing about huntin' gold.

• [after Pa Danby leaves the sheriff's office] 

  Jason McCullough : You know... he strikes me as bein' a lonely man.

  Jake : Lonely? Danby? Why he's a mean, no-good, lowdown bushwhacker!

  Jason McCullough : Well, there you see? No wonder he's lonely.

• Jason McCullough : How's Joe?

  Jake : Oh, he figures he's going to be out of here and we're going to be dead about this time tomorrow.

  Jason McCullough : Did he seem to feel any sorrow over the fact that we might all be killed?

  Jake : No, it's more like he planned to dance and spit all over our graves.

  Jason McCullough : Sounds like Joe.

• Jason McCullough : Jake, how would you like the job as my deputy?

  Jake : I'd hate it! Even if I lived through it, I'd hate it!

• Jason McCullough : But the mayor seemed to think that my qualifications suited the job perfectly.

  Jake : Well, he'd have thought that if you were blind in both eyes and crippled in both legs.

  Jason McCullough : l think you've got the situation pegged, Jake.

• Jake : I was raised up in Indiana.

  Jason McCullough : Well, that could be either good or bad.

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

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

• Jason McCullough : Pretty sloppy shootin,' Jake.

  Jake : Well, I was in a hurry to save your life. I wasn't tryin' to group my shots.

  Jason McCullough : If you'd have been standing five feet further away, you'd have missed him entirely.