Tombstone (1993)

Stephen Lang: Ike Clanton

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• Curly Bill : [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table]  Wyatt Earp, huh? I heard of you.

  Ike Clanton : Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here. Savvy?

  Wyatt Earp : I'm retired.

  Curly Bill : Good. That's real good.

  Ike Clanton : Yeah, that's good, Mr. Law Dog, 'cause law just don't go around here.

  Wyatt Earp : I heard you the first time.

  [flips a card] 

  Wyatt Earp : Winner to the King, five hundred dollars.

  Curly Bill : Shut up, Ike.

  Johnny Ringo : [Ringo steps up to Doc]  And you must be Doc Holliday.

  Doc Holliday : That's the rumor.

  Johnny Ringo : You retired too?

  Doc Holliday : Not me. I'm in my prime.

  Johnny Ringo : Yeah, you look it.

  Doc Holliday : And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?

  Kate : You don't even know him.

  Doc Holliday : Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him.

  Wyatt Earp : [to Ringo]  He's drunk.

  Doc Holliday : In vino veritas.

  ["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"] 

  Johnny Ringo : Age quod agis.

  ["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"] 

  Doc Holliday : Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.

  ["The Jew Apella may believe it, not I" meaning: "I don't believe drinking is what I do best."] 

  Johnny Ringo : [pats his gun]  Eventus stultorum magister.

  ["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"] 

  Doc Holliday : [gives a Cheshire cat smile]  In pace requiescat.

  ["Rest in peace" meaning: "It's your funeral!"] 

  Tombstone Marshal Fred White : Come on boys. We don't want any trouble in here. Not in any language.

  Doc Holliday : Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man. Now I really hate him.

• Wyatt Earp : All right, Clanton... you called down the thunder, well now you've got it! You see that?

  [pulls open his coat, revealing a badge] 

  Wyatt Earp : It says United States Marshal!

  Ike Clanton : [terrified, pleading]  Wyatt, please, I...

  Wyatt Earp : [referring to Stilwell, laying dead]  Take a good look at him, Ike... 'cause that's how you're gonna end up!

  [shoves Ike down roughly with his boot] 

  Wyatt Earp : The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it!

  [lets Ike up to run for his life] 

  Wyatt Earp : So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the law's comin'!

  [shouts] 

  Wyatt Earp : You tell 'em I'M coming... and hell's coming with me, you hear?...

  [louder] 

  Wyatt Earp : Hell's coming with me!

• Ike Clanton : What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky.

  Doc Holliday : Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!

• Frank Stillwell : [Stillwell and Ike are planning to ambush the Earps at the train station]  That's Virgil there with the women.

  Ike Clanton : He's mine, understand?

  Frank Stillwell : [Cocking his rifle]  Hey Mattie! Where's Wyatt?

  Wyatt Earp : Right behind you, Stillwell.

  [Shoots Stillwell as he turns around] 

• Ike Clanton : [asking about Doc]  What's wrong with him?

  Milt Joyce (owner : Lunger.

  Ike Clanton : [to Doc]  Yeah, well I hope you die.

• Johnny Ringo : [Ringo is trying to get McMasters to rejoin the Cowboys]  So, there's nothin' I can say to get you to come back?

  Sherman McMasters : Not after what you done. Not after shootin' at the Earp's women.

  Johnny Ringo : All right then, I guess you can just get back on your horse and ride back down there to your new friends.

  Ike Clanton : [placing a shotgun to McMaster's head]  Hey. I just got one question; how're you planning on gettin' back down there?