The Haunted Mine (1946)

Johnny Mack Brown: Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie

Quotes 

• [seeing Nevada standing over Blackie's body] 

  Dan McLeod : Did you plug him?

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Naw, he's been dead all the time. His throat's cut. There's no doubt about it - there's a fiendish killer running loose in this Territory.

• [Sandy forces a couple of Twining's henchmen ahead of him at gunpoint] 

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Sandy, looks like you got a pretty good collection of hardware there. How many escaped?

  Marshal Sandy Hopkins : Well, that's accordin' to how you interpret "escaped". Several of 'em have given up the ghost already.

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Speakin' of ghosts, there's one we have to rout out.

  Marshal Sandy Hopkins : He's routed already. Seems like he was the barber in that town when it was boomin'. His son got killed in that mine.

• Chief Marshal : If I wasn't all snared up with work here, this is one job I'd handle myself.

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : It must be serious.

  Chief Marshal : To me personally, very - that's why I picked you and Sandy to handle the assignment. Did you ever hear of Buckeye?

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Why, yes. If I recall it's over in the Indian Lodge territory - a ghost town.

  Chief Marshal : A ghost town with a haunted mine.

• [after reading the bill of sale for the Sweetwater Mine] 

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Well, it sounds legal enough.

  Blackie : It won't do you any good.

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : It won't do your boss any good, either, unless he can record it... so I think I'll keep it.

  Meade : Say, what's the deal?

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Maybe a partnership. Tell your boss to look me up. I'll talk business with him.

  Blackie : We can always get another deed from Mrs. Durant.

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : [referring to Dan]  Then why are you kickin' this boy around? You tell your boss I'll be at the Sweetwater Mine around sundown.

  Dan McLeod : You're all a bunch of crooks.

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : The question is who's the smartest.

• [first lines] 

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Hello, Chief.

  Chief Marshal : How are you, Nevada? Sit down.

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Thank you.

  Chief Marshal : If you had wings, I'd have said you flew here.

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Well, your telegram said it was urgent.

• [last lines] 

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Oh, ah, by the way, I'm a little behind on my fishing. What about that vacation I've got coming up?

  Chief Marshal : Well, let's see. I, uh... .

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Thanks, Chief. I'll see ya when I get back.

• [Nevada sticks a gun in Blackie's back and relieves him of the bill of sale to the Sweetwater Mine] 

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : Don't move. Don't make a sound.

  Blackie : You'll never get away with this.

  Marshal Nevada Jack McKenzie : The ghost of Sweetwater Mine can get away with anything... including cutting a few throats.