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Great moments in the written word...-Hang 'Em High-

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Ed Begley..........."Captain Wilson"
Charles McGraw........."Sheriff Calhoun"
Ned Romero............."Charlie Blackfoot"
Russell Thorsen........"Maddow"
*Jonathan Lippe........."Tommy"
L.Q. Jones............."Loomis"


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Captain Wilson: "Now that makes three mistakes we made:
The money, we hung an innocent man, and we didn't finish the job.

We can't undo the first two, but we can still finish the job."


Sheriff Calhoun: "I didn't hear that, Captain Wilson. I didn't hear none of it. I'm riding back to Red Creek. Are you coming with me?"

Captain Wilson: "Charlie. You've been with me better than five years."

Charlie Blackfoot: "Good years, Captain. Maybe if it was my land I was fighting to hold...No, Captain. If that marshal wants Charlie Blackfoot, he's gonna have to find him."

Maddow: "Sorry, Captain Wilson."

Captain Wilson: "Maddow, you're damn near my age. You wouldn't last six months in that jail."

Maddow: "I don't intend to try to. I can still ride pretty good."

Captain Wilson: "You can shoot even better."

Maddow: "I'm sorry, Captain."

Captain Wilson: "Maddow, he'll come after you. He'll keep coming. You'll be nothing but an animal, an animal running scared."

Maddow: "Sorry, Captain."

Captain Wilson: "How about you two? You sure? Tommy?"

Tommy: "It was wrong to hang that man."

Captain Wilson: "We all know it now."

Tommy: "I was hoping we could square it with him. My wife, she was kinda hoping it, too."

Captain Wilson: "Loomis?"

Loomis: "I'm 37, 38. I don't rightly know for sure. I started drifting when I was just a kid. These last few years working for you, it's the first home I ever knew. I've saved a few dollars, thinking of finding myself a woman, staking out a few acres of my own, when this come up."

Captain Wilson: "You mean, when I brought it up."

Loomis: "You didn't force me to ride with you, Captain. I thought we was doing the right thing. We was. Hanging the wrong man don't change that."

Captain Wilson: "Five years, even 10, you two can survive it and still come out to live some kind of life."

Loomis: "What kind, Captain? I been a free man. It's the only kind of life I know."

Tommy: "My wife Thelma, she's a young woman. She wants kids and a family. Even if I asked her to wait for me, even if she said she would, I couldn't be sure."

Captain Wilson: "Let's ride, gentlemen."

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-Hang 'Em High- (1968)

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*[He (Jonathan Goldsmith) is best known for appearing in television commercials for Dos Equis beer, from 2006 to 2016, as the character The Most Interesting Man in the World.]

 

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