Cimarron Strip (TV Series)

The Roarer (1967)

Randy Boone: Francis

Quotes 

• Sergeant Bill Disher : Hey. Hey! What do you think you're doin'?

  Francis Wilde : I think you're a great storyteller, Sergeant, and I think a lot of my readers will be mighty interested in reading about your friend.

  Sergeant Bill Disher : My friend. My friend is not a curiosity to tickle the sweet imaginings of some sweet-smelling corset salesman in a barber chair. You want to write about Little Tom, well, you write about the way Little Tom died. Certainly it was an Apache tommyhawk. Certainly it was a Sioux arrow. Certainly it was a bullet fired over a game of chance or a prairie fire or, at the very least, a kick from a wild white Arabian. Oh no, my little Pekinese, to bring down Tom it took a length of covered wire and a railroad track.

• Marshal Jim Crown : You all right?

  Francis Wilde : Yeah! Cub reporter holds own against cavalry immortal.

• Francis Wilde : You know, you're going to wound my feelings one day. I can sense it coming on.

  Dulcey Coopersmith : Oh, no no. Now listen, you're a different kind. You dash off here and you dash off there and something exciting is always happening behind your back and it drives you to distraction. But me, I'm very different, because all I really need is one tiny little room, just as long as it's clean and sunny... and all mine.

• [Francis fires a warning shot over the head of the escaping Sergeant Disher] 

  Sergeant Bill Disher : You'll never hit me that way, boy.

  Francis Wilde : That was a warning!

  Sergeant Bill Disher : A warnin'? Oh, you'll have to do better than that. Tricky Jim would have warned me with a bullet through the belt buckle.

  MacGregor : And that's where the next one will go!

  Sergeant Bill Disher : Ah, that's good, MacGregor. You're the cold-blooded one. The steel of Scotland is in ya.

  MacGregor : You come down here, or I'll introduce a little lead into your system!

  Sergeant Bill Disher : Ha! Here's me heart. Make it a quick, clean shot. I know you wouldn't want me to suffer.

• MacGregor : Stop! Or I'll shoot!

  Francis Wilde : Stop or I'll shoot!

  MacGregor : [disgustedly]  I just said that!