Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
Anne Jackson: Belle Nops
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Quotes
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Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : This here is the chest from the stagecoach robbery and Dingus Magee estimates there may be as much as a million dolars in gold and silver pieces inside.
Belle Nops : Well, the money ain't rightly ours, is it?
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : Finders keepers. That's the Code of the West, ain't it?
Belle Nops : Gimme that crowbar!
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Belle Nops : Where in the hell have you been?
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : At the jail taking care of my outlaw.
Belle Nops : I didn't make you Sheriff to take care of your outlaw, but to protect my girls here.
[indicates her bordello]
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : Is somebody threatening them?
Belle Nops : The Army is threatening them!
Charles Stuart : The Army is threatening to move out.
Belle Nops : And ruin every industry in Yerke's Hole... especially mine!
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : Why would the Army move?
Rev. Green : To go where the Indians are! That's what they come out west for - to fight Indians.
Belle Nops : What we need is a good massacre.
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : There ain't nothing but tamed Indians around here, Belle.
Belle Nops : Well, stir 'em up!
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : How?
Belle Nops : Break a treaty! Speak with forked tongue! How the hell should I know? I never started an uprising before!
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Belle Nops : [hands Hoke a badge] Here. You're the new sheriff.
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : Maybe I oughta be sworn in or something.
Belle Nops : Raise your right hand. Swear.
Herkimer 'Hoke' Birdsill : To hell with Dingus Magee!
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Belle Nops : These army drills are hard on the girls.
China Poppy : Soldiers hard on, too.
Belle Nops : You can say *that* again.
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Belle Nops : Just what is this I hear about the Army pullin' out?
Brig. Gen. George : Off to the wars, Belle. An Indian named Sitting Bull has gone off on the warpath up here in the Montana territory.
[pointing at a map]
Brig. Gen. George : If I can get to this river before General Custer does, I could be a very famous man someday.
Belle Nops : [squinting, reading the map] Little Big Horny?
Brig. Gen. George : Horn.
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Belle Nops : General, send your men after him.
Brig. Gen. George : My men are all with whores in combat, Belle.
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Belle Nops : [after her bordello catches fire] My cathouse!... My cathouse!... My cathouse is burning!
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Belle Nops : Who took it?
Dingus Billy Magee : Hoke took it.