The Shootist (1976)
Harry Morgan: Marshall Thibido
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Quotes
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Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : The day they lay you away, what I'll do on your grave won't pass for flowers.
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Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : To put it in a nutshell, you've plum wore us out.
John Bernard Books : Put it in a nutshell? You couldn't put it in a barrel without a bottom. You're the longest winded bastard I've ever known.
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Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : How are you feeling? A little more poorly everyday?
John Bernard Books : You have a streak of kindness a mile wide.
Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : That I do.
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Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : Now, I checked my bulletins before I come over and didn't find nothing I can hold you for, but I want you out of town - directly, today.
John Bernard Books : Maybe I'm not so inclined.
Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : The, by God, I will incline you. I can badge as many men as I need. We'll smoke you out or carry you out feet first, so you say which, Mr. Gunman. It's your funeral.
John Bernard Books : Soon, yes.
Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : Huh?
John Bernard Books : I can't go.
Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : Can't?
John Bernard Books : I'm going to die right here in this room.
Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : Heh! That's too thin.
John Bernard Books : I wish you were right. Would you believe Doc Hostetler? That's his verdict.
Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : You don't say? You don't sa - goddamn! Whoo! Whooee! I tell you the damn truth, when I come through that door, I was scared. 'Cause I know what a man like you is capable of. I wondered who'd get my job, if the council would give my wife a pension and if it would snow the day they put me under. Whooee! Excuse me if I don't pull a long face. I can't.
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Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : You wouldn't gun down a police officer.
John Bernard Books : What'd stop me? Fear of dying?
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Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : Did you read about the shooting the night before last at the Metropole?
John Bernard Books : No.
Carson City Marshal Walter Thibido : Whoee! That was some shooting. Pulford, he's the faro dealer, got off one round under fire. Straight through the heart., and it measured 84 feet 3 inches. Maybe I'll just send him here, let him deal you a little faro.