Tombstone Territory (TV Series)

The Assassin (1958)

Larry Pennell: Bill Doolin

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Quotes 

• Bill Doolin : Is Mrs. Doolin here?

  Nellie Cashman : Why you must be Bill Doolin. Hello, I'm so glad to know you. Katie has spoken of you so often.

  Bill Doolin : Is she here?

  Nellie Cashman : Why, no she isn't. I think she left with that friend of yours... the man who brought the message that you wouldn't be on the one o'clock stage.

  Bill Doolin : I was on the stage and I sent no message!

• William Clinton : My boy, Ab, is up on a murder charge. They say he killed a man. Oh, he did it, but he isn't going to hang. They've only got one witness - the sheriff - and if he doesn't get to court, they've got no case. I want you to see that the sheriff doesn't testify.

  Bill Doolin : I'm not doing your dirty work.

  William Clinton : Maybe I didn't make it clear. It'll be your wife or the sheriff - one or the other.

• Bill Doolin : Why me? Why not him?

  William Clinton : This is a job for a man, not a boy.

  Joe Clinton : What do you mean? I can take care of that sheriff!

  William Clinton : Have you seen those graves out on Boot Hill? A lot of 'em are filled with men who thought they were better than the sheriff.

• Sheriff Clay Hollister : [indicating William Clinton]  Can you identify him as the man who plotted the whole thing?

  [Doolin nods, bends to sign the criminal complain and reconsiders] 

  Bill Doolin : Nah. I've been to jail. I can't be responsible for putting a man behind bars, no matter what he's tried to do to me.

  Sheriff Clay Hollister : Maybe it doesn't matter. He's got a conscience.