The Texan (TV Series)

The Hemp Tree (1958)

Rory Calhoun: Bill Longley

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Quotes 

• [a posse pursuing a bank robber halts at the Mexican border] 

  Sheriff Ike Masters : We can't cross into Mexico.

  Bill Longley : He did.

  Ben Cushman : Oh, come on, let's take a chance.

  Max Bowen : Hold on, Ben. You heard Ike - we got no right to cross the border.

  Bill Longley : Neither did my eight thousand.

• Bill Longley : [to Nick]  You offered to buy me a drink a while ago; I'll take it. Looks like we're in for a long talk and my throat needs lubricating.

• Ben Cushman : Well, let's stop beating around the bush. We came to get young Ahern.

  Bill Longley : Well, comin' and gettin' are two different things, Mr. Cushman.

• Sam Chase : What are we waitin' for? I've got the rope!

  Bill Longley : Then put it back, 'cause you're not going to use it.

• Gus Phelan : Come on, boys, this ain't no debatin' society!

  Bill Longley : And it ain't no hangin' society.

• [last lines] 

  Sheriff Ike Masters : Mr. Longley, I want to thank you for preventin' us from doing something wrong yesterday. Would you mind telling me how you caught onto Max Bowen?

  Bill Longley : Well, first of all, Bowen was a little too anxious to shoot somebody. The banker was killed with a right-hand gun... Nick's left-handed.