Ride the High Country
1962
Steve Judd: All I want is to enter my house justified.
Elsa Knudsen: My father says there's only right and wrong - good and evil. Nothing in between. It isn't that simple, is it? Steve Judd: No, it isn't. It should be, but it isn't.
Abner Sampson: The only law up there is too drunk to hit the ground with his hat.
Luther Sampson: The day of the Forty-niner is gone. The day of the steady businessman has arrived.
Steve Judd: I'm not paying him ten dollars a day to go mooning after a girl whose father is getting ready to hind end him with a load of buckshot.
Elsa Knudsen: Mr Longtree was a perfect gentleman. Sylvus Hammond: How come? Something wrong with him?
The Hammond Brothers - Sylvus: First drink is best, East or West.
Billy Hammond: You know, Elder, I hate to get married with one of my brothers smellin' bad enough to gag a dog off a Gut Wagon.
Judge Tolliver: You know, a good marriage has a kind of simple glory about it. A good marriage is a rare animal, hard to find - almost impossible to keep.
Elder Hammond: You can't take a wife away from her husband on his wedding night. Judge Tolliver: Clear case of breaking and entering. Elder Hammond: Elsa's legally married to Billy. Right, Judge? Judge Tolliver: I now pr'nounce you man 'n wife... and, don't you forget it.
Steve Judd: I was drunk - sicker than a dog.
Elder Hammond: I got *him*.
Steve Judd: I want to know if you red-necked peckerwoods are too chicken-gutted to finish this thing in the open.
Steve Judd: I don't want them to see this. I'll go it alone.
Gil Westrum: Don't worry about. about anything. I'll take care of it, just like you would have. Steve Judd: Hell, I know that. I always did... You just forgot it for a while, that's all.