The Texan (TV Series)

The Troubled Town (1958)

Rory Calhoun: Bill Longley

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Bill leaves his horse at the livery stable] 

  Bill Longley : I'll be after him in the morning - early.

  Wild Jack Hastings : That'll cost you a dollar, Mr. Longley.

• Bill Longley : Aren't you Jack Hastings - Wild Jack Hastings?

  Wild Jack Hastings : I used to be. Now I...

  Bill Longley : You're lucky.

  [gesturing with an arm whose hand has been amputated] 

  Wild Jack Hastings : You got a funny way of lookin' at things, Mr. Longley. Ned Buntline, he once wrote a dime novel about me. Now I - now I sweep out stables to keep from starvin'.

  Bill Longley : He wrote about Hickok - Bill's dead. So's King Fisher, Ben Thompson, Sam Bass - they're all gone. I still say you're lucky.

• Johnny Kaler : What's it take to make you fight, Mr. Longley?

  Bill Longley : A man.