High Plains Drifter (1973)
Walter Barnes: Sheriff Sam Shaw
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Quotes
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Sheriff Dan Shaw : Well, I been needin' to talk with you; now's as good a time as any.
The Stranger : What about?
Sheriff Dan Shaw : Billy Borders.
The Stranger : Don't know the man.
Sheriff Dan Shaw : Well, you missed your chance; you shot him yesterday.
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Sheriff Dan Shaw : [after the Stranger blows up the hotel and shoots four men] What the hell happened?
The Stranger : Somebody left the door open and the wrong dogs came home.
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Sheriff Dan Shaw : Billy, he wasn't a loved man. He didn't have much personality and what he did have was all bad.
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Mayor Jason Hobart : I don't know if we shouldn't mark the grave somehow, Dan?
Sheriff Dan Shaw : I don't see any need. It ain't likely anybody is gonna cry over them anyhow.
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Lutie Naylor : [the stranger has bought a round for the house] Let's see, one round for the house plus the smoke; that comes to about eight dollars and fifty cents.
Sheriff Dan Shaw : [chuckling] There's no charge Lutie; you were at the meeting, anything he wants.
Lutie Naylor : I didn't know that mean free whiskey!
Sheriff Dan Shaw : Everybody's got to put something in the kitty.
The Stranger : [Reaches over a takes off Shaw's badge and pins it on Mordecai] 'Bout time this town had a new sheriff.
Mordacai : I'm the new sheriff!
[looks around the saloon]
Mordacai : I'm the new sheriff!
Mayor Jason Hobart : [laughing] I'm sorry, Dan; but you should have seen the look on your face when he took off your badge and pinned it on the runt.
Mordacai : I'm not a runt anymore; I'm the new sheriff!
The Stranger : [reaches over and takes off the mayor's hat and puts it on Mordecai] And the mayor. Any objections?
Mayor Jason Hobart : Uh, no.