Gene Autry credited as playing...
Gene Autry
- [after tying Gene to a chair, Mary and Larry prepare to flee an approaching posse]
- Gene Autry: Hey, wait a minute! Get me out of this steer's necktie and I'll help cloud your trail.
- Larry Evans: Why should we trust you?
- Gene Autry: Why, Ed's ghost would haunt me if I let them hang the wrong man.
- Sheriff Cramer: I'll take your six-shooter.
- Gene Autry: Now look here, Cramer...
- Sheriff Cramer: Just to make sure you mind your own business. I don't wear this badge for fun, you know.
- Dave Randall: Quit stalling. Where's Larry Evans?
- Gene Autry: Say, that reminds me, Randall. Weren't you in that dice game when Norton was killed.
- Dave Randall: That's right. So were Harper and Mason.
- Jake Harper: Now, Gene, you don't think one of us daylighted Ed?
- Gene Autry: Just gonna make some java. Care to join me?
- Sheriff Cramer: Not me - your coffee'd throw a horseshoe. Hope I don't see you in jail.
- Gene Autry: Say, by the way, if you didn't plug Norton, how come he was killed with your gun?
- Larry Evans: I ran out of dough and I put in my gun to stay in the game.
- Gene Autry: Like this one?
- Larry Evans: Yeah. I *had* a pair of 'em.
- Gene Autry: You were out to make yourself a reputation, weren't you? You certainly did. It's too bad - that sort of dime-store hero went out with Billy the Kid.
- [Gene lays his handkerchief on the ground]
- Larry Evans: What are you doin'?
- Gene Autry: Puttin' my ear to the ground. It's an old Indian scout trick. Silk picks up sound... Wagon comin'.
- Gene Autry: Get out of those clothes!
- Larry Evans: What?
- Gene Autry: You heard me. Chuck the duds and get in the creek!
- Larry Evans: In the creek? But it's ice water! You wanna give me pneumonia?
- Gene Autry: Yeah, but you'll catch lead poisoning if they catch you in that gray check shirt, riding a palomino.
- Sheriff Cramer: Gene, I'd like to borrow that pistol from you if you don't mind.
- Gene Autry: Now look here, Sheriff...
- Sheriff Cramer: It might go off accidental-like and hurt somebody.
- Gene Autry: All right. Remember that's two you owe me.
- Sheriff Cramer: I'm keepin' count.
- Sheriff Cramer: Gene, I'll take...
- [points to Gene's gunbelt]
- Gene Autry: All right... I know.
- Sheriff Cramer: The ladies say they're not comfortable to dance with.
- Larry Evans: I'm givin' you a chance, Autry.
- Gene Autry: Why you cheap imitation of a leather-slapper. I oughta turn you over to Cramer just to teach you a lesson.
- Larry Evans: Draw or I'll plug ya.
- Gene Autry: Give me that cap pistol before I use it to part your hair!
- Gene Autry: Jim, somebody wants this ranch... wants it bad enough to commit murder. Now what could be here that would pay a man enough to risk his neck for it.
- Jim Hedge: Nothin'.
- Gene Autry: Hold on now, Jim...
- Jim Hedge: I don't haveta. I been over this country hundreds of times.
- Mary Evans: No gold?
- Jim Hedge: Ohhh, maybe enough to fill your tooth.
- Larry Evans: No silver?
- Jim Hedge: Welll, might find enough to plate a watch.
- Gene Autry: You sure there's nothing here?
- Jim Hedge: Are you crazy in the head? I've been prospecting these parts ever since the Apaches were takin' potshots at everything that was movin'...
- [chuckles]
- Jim Hedge: That is, everything but coyotes. It's bad luck to shoot your own relatives.
- Gene Autry: Jim, I want you to take Larry and keep him under cover until you hear from me.
- Larry Evans: Oh, I couldn't ask Mr. Hedges to take a risk like that.
- Jim Hedge: You didn't!
- [points to Gene]
- Jim Hedge: He did.
- [Sheriff Cramer fires at the murderer who attempts to escape on Gene's horse]
- Gene Autry: Hold it, Sheriff!
- Sheriff Cramer: But he's got your horse!
- Gene Autry: That's his hard luck.
- [Gene whistles and Champion wheels and returns the killer to the posse]
- Sheriff Cramer: What the sam hill is going on here?
- Gene Autry: We were playing "post office".
- Sheriff Cramer: But that's a kid's game.
- Gene Autry: Not the way we play it.