Jesse James vs. the Daltons (1954)

Brett King: Joe Branch

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Father Kerrigan : Stranger, it's not safe down there! There's a lynching going on.

  Joe Branch : It won't the first one I've seen.

• Joe Branch : Virgil Spanner doesn't think Jesse James is dead.

  Kate Manning : Why Jesse James died more than ten years ago. There's a marker on his grave.

  Joe Branch : Some say he's dead, but there are others, like Spanner...

  Kate Manning : And if he is alive?

  Joe Branch : I'll find him.

• Joe Branch : You know, you're one of the few that hasn't heard about Joe Branch. Most everyone else thinks Jesse James was my father. I have to know.

• Joe Branch : You know, now I can see why Frank Bayliss thought it was worth a chance.

  Kate Manning : [defiantly]  Well?

  Joe Branch : No... that's not the way I want to get paid off.

• [Joe returns the robbery loot to the railroad president] 

  Joe Branch : Here's your money. If the Daltons got it, you wouldn't be getting it back now and a lot of good men would be shot up.

  Father Kerrigan : Mr. Branch didn't want to overtax St. Peter.

• Kate Manning : Joe, I'm afraid.

  Joe Branch : You almost got lynched in Coffeyville. This shouldn't bother you.

• [last lines] 

  Father Kerrigan : Well, it's about time you two got here.

  Joe Branch : Yes, but things have changed, Father.

  Kate Manning : The sheriff told me Corey Bayliss cleared my name.

  Father Kerrigan : You came here just to tell me that?

  Joe Branch : No sir, we came to be married.

  Father Kerrigan : Young man, you just saved yourself a whale of a sermon.