Gunsmoke (TV Series)

Hack Prine (1956)

James Arness: Matt Dillon

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [while Matt Dillon walks through Boot Hill cemetery outside Dodge City, Kansas, the audience hears his thoughts] 

  Matt Dillon : Out here I remind myself how violence ends. Buried in the rim of a nation, the edge of a wild frontier. Some of these Boot Hill men are the victims of aimless slaughter. The rest, I killed myself. I'm a lawman, United States Marshall. The law comes hard to the frontier. Men like these didn't want it. And more men, still alive, there in Dodge City, they don't want it. They're the drifters, the killers, and the spoilers. And they have to be met. It's a chancy job; makes a man watchful and a little lonely. But somebody has to do it.

  [Dillon walks back to Dodge City]