High Plains Drifter (1973)

Walter Barnes: Sheriff Sam Shaw

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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.

• 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.

• Sheriff Dan Shaw : Billy, he wasn't a loved man. He didn't have much personality and what he did have was all bad.

• 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.

• 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.